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Chapter 429 Pulling Investments

"The Pianist on the Sea" tells the story of an abandoned baby named "1900", who became acquainted with the piano on an ocean liner and finally became a legendary piano master.

In 1900, on the Virginia luxury cruise ship, an orphan was abandoned in the first-class cabin, raised by the sailors on the ship, and named 1900.

Time flies by, and 1900 grows up slowly, showing the extraordinary piano talent of learning without a teacher, and performing piano in the band on the ship.

Everyone who heard him play was deeply moved.

Jazz, the originator of jazz, heard about 1900's superb skills, so he went on a boat to compete with him, but in the end he left sadly.

Everyone felt that when 1900 set foot on land, his piano sound would amaze the world and become the greatest pianist in the world.

But it is a pity that all these brilliance happened at sea, and 1900 never wanted to set foot on land.

Until one day, he fell in love with a girl, and his feelings flowed on the keyboard. Between love and ideal choices, he fell into a dilemma...

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In the previous life, the Douban score of "The Pianist on the Sea" was surprisingly high, reaching 9.5 points at the highest point, and nearly a million people rated it, even if it was an average of 9.2 points.

From the perspective of later generations, this movie is advanced.

The philosophy expressed in the film is in line with the aesthetics of Chinese people, but in the eyes of American film critics of that era, the film as a whole showed strong nihilism, escapism from reality, and did not conform to the mainstream values ​​of Europeans and Americans at that time, so the film is not popular. people like it.

For this reason, no matter how good the rest of the film is, it is difficult for the judges to vote. Therefore, on the North American Rotten Tomatoes film review website, the satisfaction rate of "Sea Pianist" is less than 45%.

But in fact, the soundtrack and scenery of "Sea Pianist" are very good, and it should be nominated for any Oscar now.

In summary, this movie is equivalent to the foreign version of "House of Flying Daggers"——

Chinese think its plot is childish and its pictures are contrived, but Europeans and Americans think it is very romantic and beautiful, and because of this, it has won many foreign language film awards, and even Oscar was nominated.

The reason why Liao Yuan chose this movie to lead the battle instead of making a great war movie like "The Pianist" is because of the cost issue, and the second is that the content of "The Pianist" is too tragic and sensitive. When it comes to China, various political factors are also quite sensitive and do not conform to the current values ​​of the people.

Therefore, "The Pianist on the Sea" is currently the best choice, and it can be regarded as echoing with "The Unspeakable Secret". After all, there is also a classic piano fight in the "Secret" movie.

The story of "The Pianist on the Sea" is generally plain, but the scene of fighting the piano is cited as a classic, which has influenced countless movie scenes in later generations.

However, it is undeniable that although "The Pianist on the Sea" can be regarded as a movie that harvests "leeks", the basic public may not necessarily buy it, so it has a certain degree of rushing factors.

Fortunately, the production cost of this movie is relatively low, all you need to do is rent an old luxury cruise ship. As for the actors, Liao Yuan still needs to be crony, and he is going to move the original cast of the previous movie "The Untold Secret". Then invite a few veteran actors from the entertainment industry, and everything can be prepared.

Just do it, Liao Yuan immediately asked Chen Muen to prepare for the plenary meeting.

At the meeting, after Liao Yuan announced the plan, Tian Xingde was the first to express his agreement with both hands, and of course the others had no objection, after all, there had been precedents before:

"The Unspeakable Secret" was a great success at home and abroad, with a domestic box office of 7.3 million yuan. It was screened one after another and received great acclaim in the entire Asian region, especially in Japan and South Korea, where it was screened continuously. The number of daily viewers exceeded 70, and it became the most popular foreign language film in Japan and South Korea of ​​the year. Liao Yuan also relied on this film He has shown his face in Southeast Asia, and his appearance rate among civilians is quite high.

It can be said that Liao Yuan is now in the forefront of the fame of artists in Southeast Asia.

Therefore, with this precedent, everyone will not have too much worry about this new literary film, so they immediately started the project establishment and recruitment, with a total investment plan of about 5000 million yuan. The production company is fully responsible for all projects.

Since Xinyuan merged into the Liao Group, it has long been hungry and thirsty, and it wants to shine in the group, so when it heard that this film was starred by the original cast of "The Unspeakable Secret", it immediately became active .

Soon, Xinyuan Productions began to recruit actors based on the character script written by the big boss.

It took nearly a month to complete the recruitment of actors.

There are a total of 45 official actors, large and small, and 75 staff members.

At this time, the coordinator discovered a serious problem. If the film was produced according to the requirements of the boss, in addition to the hundreds of actors and staff, the crew would not only have a 165-meter-long Russian decommissioned boat, It also needs to recruit more than 2500 extras and nearly [-] sets of actor costumes.

This is a huge project, and its complexity is more than ten times that of "The Unspeakable Secret".

In addition, according to the requirements of the script, the crew will also set up locations in coastal ports of various countries near China.

After such a calculation, the total investment of the entire film is estimated to exceed [-] million yuan, or even much higher.

This made the coordinators of the Singapore dollar production dumbfounded, which is far from the total investment of 5000 million required by the boss!

For a while, the coordinator felt troubled, and he immediately informed his superiors of the situation. Chang Houjian, the current manager of Xinyuan, realized the seriousness of the situation, and rushed to send the statistics to Liao Yuan.

Liao Yuan also fell silent when he saw the dense numbers on the form.

Chang Houjian smiled and said: "Mr. Liao, I personally think that we should shoot the second part of "The Unspeakable Secret", which is the sequel. You know, the entire Southeast Asian region is looking forward to this, especially in Korea. , "The Untold Secret" has a very high status in the hearts of young people, so the sequel of this movie is still very marketable, and the investment is very small, but the rate of return is extremely high..."

"As for "The Pianist on the Sea", I roughly read the script. Although I think it is good, but the investment is a bit high. Singapore has never been involved in many large-scale productions with an investment of hundreds of millions before. Let them practice first, make some low-cost movies first, and gradually accumulate experience."

Liao Yuan frowned, and it took a long time before he opened his mouth and said: ""The Unspeakable Secret" is over, it is a perfect ending, any additions seem superfluous, so don't mention the sequel anymore, as for "Sea Pianist" , now that the project has been approved, it must start shooting, and it is not worth making a fuss if it exceeds the expected investment number, can it be that we have been around for so many years, and we still can't attract investment at this time?"

Chang Houjian scratched his head, but he looked like a helpless child in front of Liao Yuan in his 40s, he said with a smile: "I am relieved with your words, and I will arrange people to do it according to the reality of the script. Advertising tender."

Making movies is of course for making money. Liao Yuan is not opposed to the placement of advertisements. Of course, apart from placement of advertisements, Liao Yuan is also planning to invite some local tyrants to invest in this movie together to diversify investment risks.

But what Liao Yuan didn't expect was that as soon as this news appeared to the outside world, it caused a sensation in the market.

Not only the showbiz and advertising circles, but also bigwigs in finance and other fields have entrusted people to make contacts. The most surprising thing is that when the news spread overseas, the entire Asian investment circle took action. Lu Xianxian waved checks one after another, crossed mountains and seas, and came to the gate of the Liao Group.
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Thanks to Shan Qingying and Shuxiong for their rewards
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