I'm the director, I'm not bad

Chapter 373 371. I really tried my best.

After returning home from dinner and seeing the two children, Xu Zhi first gave him a big gift.

Nothing.

Two jade pendants.

There is also a bit of tacky gold inlaid jade.

It's just that jade is a serious Hetian jade.

Xu Xin doesn't understand jade... In fact, there are simply too many things he doesn't understand.And Xu Zhi didn't understand, this jade was recommended by his friend in Shanghai.Bought it for a small price of 100 million.

And when Xu Xin talked about the price... the two brothers are all the same way.

Don't need to understand, don't need to understand.

Is Guan Yu even Hetian jade or not Hetian jade?
Once the money is in place, things will definitely be the same.

What's more... It's better than the meaning, two round gourds.

This is a lucky gourd prepared by his uncle for the two children.

As for the etiquette, it is a matter of the old man's generation.

He doesn't need to pay.

As for the gift, Xu Xin accepted it.But the uncle would not recognize him even if he was beaten to death, at most he would recognize an uncle.

The two were originally the same year and the same month.

Since I was a child, I have been fighting over who is the big and who is the young, so there is no reason to admit defeat at this time.

And eating with Xu Zhi is the benefit of this.

No need to drink.

He was born with an allergy to alcohol, and his body was like boiled prawns in a cup.Therefore, Yang Dalin made a table of home-cooked dishes from Yanjing people, and asked him to try it no matter how many times he came to Yanjing, he would never be able to taste the freshness of local home-cooked dishes fried by local people.

At the dinner table, Xu Xin brought up Wen Zhang's affairs.

Yang Mi has no interest in Kobe.

She can't get her husband's obsession with autographed balls and the like.

After all, she is also the one who is being asked to sign.

What's more, since her husband was insane during the Olympic Games, he asked the wheel to sign [-] or [-] signatures, and she sent them to the director's team in boxes and boxes...

Anything related to signing can no longer make her feel any waves.

However, for Xu Xin's perfunctory words about finding a low-budget movie, Yang Mi directly nodded in agreement.

Then said:

"wait for me."

Putting down her chopsticks and leaving the table, in less than 3 minutes, she walked over with a document that was still warm with ink:
"Here, there is really a low-cost script."

She handed the document to Xu Zhi.

Xu Xin also came over.

Turning to the first page and seeing the name at the top, he raised his head in surprise:
""33 Days of Broken Relationship"? Didn't you just buy the copyright for this novel?"

"Yes."

Yang Mi nodded:
"Remember what we talked about when we first got married, did you say that the future must be the popularization of online novels and film adaptations?"

"Can not remember."

Xu Xin shook his head seriously:

"I said?"

"That's right, it's true. What are you talking about fairy tales, ancient costume idol dramas..."

Yang Mi was a little speechless.

Why don't you even remember what you said?

but it does not matter.

I just remember.

She pointed to the script and continued:

"Including "The Legend of Zhen Huan" and the few books I bought recently, these have been their tasks since they recruited the screenwriter team.

After I bought it, I started to edit it.

It was corrected the day before confinement, this is the first edition, I looked at it, and the big frame has basically been finalized, which is quite interesting.Then I asked the company to make a budget.

Not counting the actor's salary, it's only 500 million?That's about it.

The novel "33 Days of Broken Relationship" is super popular on Douban, and its popularity is really not low, and it has also been published. It is very popular among urban white-collar workers today.After all, some of the things in it are actually commonplace in the workplace and are closely related.

Let’s not mention Wen Zhang, Xu Zhi, if you want to make a low-budget movie, you might as well try this one.

After all, no matter what, firstly, it doesn’t have much investment, and secondly, the popularity of its novels is there... I think as long as it is not too bad, it should not be a problem to pay back. "

"Only 500 million?"

Yang Mi's explanation has the same meaning to Xu Zhi.

Just this little money?
Can it work?
Xu Xin rolled his eyes:
"You haven't counted your salary yet. How much is Wen Zhang's salary?"

"Ah, how high is it?"

Xu Zhi said something casually, then roughly flipped through it, and nodded:
"Okay, then I'll let the people in the company take a look when I go back, and have a trial... what the director said..."

"Don't look at me."

Xu Xin rolled his eyes:
"I still want to bring a baby, please do me a favor, can you let me go?"

"Why are you useless at the critical moment?"

Xu Zhi was a little dissatisfied.

But Xu Xin was not tied up by force.

Take one step at a time.

Not urgent.

You can go to the battlefield at any time, but at least one gun is in your hand first.

After a meal, Xu Xin helped his father-in-law and mother-in-law to pick up the bowls, and Yang Mi also fed the two children.

Throw your daughter and son next to your parents and two dogs...

She washed the fruit in a desperate manner, and came to the screening room at home, proudly holding the fruit plate:
"Dude, do you want a CD? Singapore, India, Malaysia, and small animals!"

And when she came in, Xu Xin, who had been waiting for a long time, rolled his eyes and immediately pressed the play button of the video.

It's vulgar enough.

Soon, a few large characters slowly appeared at the beginning of a silhouette-like painting:

""Three Shots Surprise""

"The clothes for going to the scene tomorrow are ready for you."

After Yang Mi finished speaking, Xu Xin responded.

"Ah."

And Xu Zhi muttered next to him:
"Director Zhang's first work after the Olympic Games, I have to watch it carefully this time..."

Xu Xin also had this in mind.

Moreover, his mind may be more complicated.

After seeing Shen Xiaoyang's acting skills, although he didn't have any hope for this film...but at least it was made by the old man.

No matter how bad it is, at least, it should be a qualified answer sheet, right?
It's not like there's nothing... right... right?right?

After all, it was taken by the old man.

And soon the screen changed, and the shots of Shen Xiaoyang and Yan Ni appeared.

A Persian wielding a knife appeared in the picture...

The picture of the Persian wielding a knife is particularly beautiful, and the capture of the lens between inches makes people know at a glance that it was taken by the old man.

Especially the scene where CG special effects are used to make the knife cut the head of a tube of chopsticks in an instant.

In a daze, Xu Xin thought he had seen "House of Flying Daggers".

The same is the gorgeous costumes as embellished colors, and the same is the transition between fast and slow shots...

His heart suddenly became more at ease.

Well, sure enough.

An old man is still an old man.

Even if you don't like this movie, just focus on this style... As long as this movie is done step by step, even if Shen Xiaoyang's acting skills are second to none, with people like Yan Ni and Ni Dahong supporting the scene, you can't go wrong.

This is his impression in the first 1 minute of the movie.

Immediately afterwards, after the Persians danced with knives, the story entered the dialogue stage.

It seems that these people are a caravan, specializing in selling strange things.

Moreover, the performances of these people are quite exaggerated.

Xu Xin pondered for a while, and guessed... This is the style of absurd comedy that the old man wants to do?
I always feel like I haven't learned the essence.

There are shadows of Errenzhuan everywhere in the lines and dialogues.

Maybe people in the Northeast will laugh when they see it.

But as a native of Shaanxi, Errenzhuan is also good in Shaanxi...or for those audiences who don't watch Errenzhuan, it is a bit unacceptable.

Some things in it are really incomprehensible.

What "MUST DIE" is translated into "the horse dies quickly", or what kind of humorous jokes are particularly funny about bargaining, he really can't get it.

but it does not matter.

At least so far, both the story and the shots of "Three Shots" are above the passing line.

Just wait for the sequel to unfold.

As he was thinking, suddenly, "Three Guns" collapsed.

"Move times, move times, move times, move times..."

After the curtain was lifted, the dancer who was riding a cannon on her crotch, wearing a saree-like skirt, began to dance in front of the cannon to the sound of dynamic music.

"..."

"..."

"..."

In an instant, Xu Xin seemed to be shot into the soul by a cannon in the camera...

To apply the most popular Internet buzzwords in the past two years:

"I was shocked by the thunder."

You said that the plot of guns appeared in the three shots, he can bear it.

After all, things like flintlock guns appeared very early in the history of the Chinese dynasty.

Gunpowder was earlier.

You said there was a cannon...

He can bear it too.

It's comedy anyway.

You say there is a Persian businessman who speaks thief 6 in Mandarin, and a proprietress who can bargain with "ONE TWO THREE FOUR"... that's fine.

Comedy of the absurd.

How he can understand.

But when the cannon, the dancer, and DISCO dance music appeared, and a group of people were dancing there...Xu Xin knew...

Why don't you mention the follow-up plot, just hit the lightning strike at the opening, the old man will definitely be scolded.

Cannon, being ridden on the crotch by a dancing girl.

This implied that he didn't even need to think about it, he guessed what it was metaphorizing.

Of course, it may also be my own heart. Others think it is normal, but I feel something is wrong.

But it was not the background music, and it came from an unknown speaker, and even the characters in the story broke the fourth wall and started dancing directly...

Xu Xin really couldn't accept it.

This……

what?

Thinking of this, he unconsciously turned his head to look at his wife.

Coincidentally.

Yang Mi was also looking at him.

And the emotions in the eyes of the two are the same.

"what is this?"

After thinking about it, Xu Xin didn't say anything.

Instead, continue to look down.

Watching and watching, when Zhao Benshan appeared, he was relieved.

call……

Okay.

With Mr. Benshan present, the painting style of this play can be HOLD all of a sudden.

Even Shen Xiaoyang, it doesn't matter what kind of duo the buck-toothed fat man and that duck egg are.

As soon as he appears...

All of a sudden, the style of the whole drama was right.

It even gave Xu Xin an illusion that even if a Transformer appeared next, he seemed to be able to accept it.

After all, in the sketch king Zhao Benshan... you will never lack surprises and jokes.

And the short scene of eating noodles in an inn, from the dialogue, to the expression, to the humorous way that both tastes and tastes... made Xu Xin's confidence in this drama aroused.

But this confidence collapsed again as the plot deepened.

Ni Dahong playing S, M, Yan Ni's exaggerated expression...Shen Xiaoyang's pretentious acting like a duet...

Xu Xin's mental journey is actually very obvious.

"(ω)" from the beginning.

To see the dancer's "(O_o)??".

"(*^▽^*)" appeared in Zhao Benshan.

In (^_)☆ which expected Zhao Benshan CARRY all the audience.

When Zhao Benshan couldn't be seen, the story started to become strange "o(^｀)o".

And "!!!∑(Дノ)" when I realized that the old man seemed to have completely messed up.

To the last "ヽ(ー_ー)ノ" after watching...

And when the ending song appeared, looking back at the whole movie, he couldn't help turning his head to look at the other two.

Xu Zhi: ⊙(◇)?

Yang Mi: "(￣ェ￣;)"

"..."

"..."

"..."

Silent, speechless, speechless.

moment.

"Three...three golds."

"what?"

"You... tell me a little bit. This level of appreciation... is not enough. I don't understand it a bit. What is this film... about?"

Listening to Xu Zhi's tone of doubting life...

"Uh……"

Xu Xin opened his mouth.

Turning his head to ask for help, he generally looked at Yang Mi.

Until the end of the story, Yang Mi, who was trying to find some reversal and two points, opened her mouth...

"I'm going to see the child."

Then she slipped away.

Slip fast.

After she left, Xu Xin took out a cigarette from his pocket.

After lighting it, he took a deep breath to calm down.

His mind is full of songs that are still playing on the TV:

"Don't be crazy about brother uh~"

"Brother is just a biography An Anan ~ say~~~~"

……

"What did Director Zhang say?"

In the middle of the night, Yang Mi couldn't wait to ask her elder brother who came back from outside.

Just now, after sending Xu Zhi away, Xu Xin returned to the bed and began to toss and turn, unable to sleep.

He greeted her with his mobile phone, and said to go out and call the old man.

The children are asleep, so they must not play in the house.

So, after he came back, Yang Mi wanted to know what her brother and Director Zhang had talked about.

What do you think about this film...

But Xu Xin just shook his head slightly:

"I didn't fight."

"...Didn't fight? Then why have you been outside for so long?"

"I'm thinking about one thing. The old man's art appreciation level is much higher than mine... He didn't know why this film was made like this. So... the reason why he can show it to me is obviously that he has accepted it. Yes wrong?"

"... But the price is too much, right? This is his first film after the Olympics. Do you know how many fans outside have expectations for this film?"

A look of worry appeared on Yang Mi's face.

"Let's not talk about the audience, even I was looking forward to the news of this film... Later, when you brought back his film in Zhangye as a warning to Zhang Weiping, I fantasized about it.

That's Director Zhang.Anyway, it's not too ugly to shoot...

I thought House of Flying Daggers sucked... so I only watched it once.But even if it is only once, I firmly believe that my art appreciation level must not reach the level of understanding this movie.I think it's bad, that's mine... and I never thought of finding the reason on his old man.But now..."

"..."

Xu Xin knew what she wanted to express.

Moreover, he believes that fans who like Zhang Yimou may more or less have this mentality when encountering movies like "House of Flying Daggers".

"It's my own fault that I can't understand this movie."

"I think it sucks because I don't appreciate it enough."

"It's impossible for Director Zhang to make a bad movie..."

Although some mean to follow blindly.

but……

A chief performance director who can sort out such a big Olympic Games in an orderly manner, and finally dedicated to the world... It can almost be said that it surpasses all previous Olympic opening ceremonies...

He has lived up to the expectations of so many people and has never disappointed.

How could it be possible to stumble in this small movie?
impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
But now...

When the facts are in the face...

Not to mention that Yang Mi couldn't accept it.

Even Xu Xin, who knew early on that the film might explode, couldn't accept it.

No matter how you blow it up...it won't be such a virtue, right?

In the words of Guo Degang...

"This is too vulgar."

That's all there is to it.

Even the old man admitted that the disc given to Xu Xin was the release version of "Three Guns" on the 10th.

that……

Things are beyond repair.

What else can I do?

Xu Xin didn't know either.

After thinking about it, he said:
"Go to sleep. See Director Zhang tomorrow, and I'll ask again... It's useless to say anything now."

"……Um."

Yang Mi nodded and turned off the night light.

In the darkness, Xu Xin went to bed.

lie flat.

Looking at the dark ceiling with both eyes, his mind was speechless.

And at this moment, a hand under the blanket touched the back of his hand.

It is logical to clasp fingers with him.

"elder brother."

In the darkness came the gentle call of his wife.

"Ok?"

"It's actually pretty good..."

"what?"

"Think about it, even Director Zhang has made bad movies... You can feel at ease even if your future works will be bad."

"..."

The corner of Xu Xin's mouth twitched.

"I thank you."

"Hee hee~ Alright, go to sleep. You have to be busy tomorrow."

"Ah."

This time, he closed his eyes.

Holding his wife's hand, he slowly fell asleep.

……

The next day, early in the morning, Xu Xin went downstairs to the old man's house together.

In fact, he doesn't need to pick up Zhang Yimou today.

But after watching "Three Shots", he had to pick it up.

And when he got downstairs, Zhang Yimou and Zhang Mo were already waiting.

Seeing Xu Xin's car, the two got into the car directly.

This time, Zhang Mo sat in the back, and Zhang Yimou sat in the co-pilot.

The first thing you say when you get in the car is:

"I made a bet with her last night. I said you must get up early tomorrow. She still doesn't believe it..."

"..."

Xu Xin was speechless, turned his head to look at Zhang Mo, and said:
"What should I do?"

"What do you mean?"

Zhang Yimou asked Xu Xin to drive first while signaling to Xu Xin.

Xu Xinxin said that you have reached this time...

"Then tonight's premiere..."

"Tonight is not the premiere, but a press conference held by Yanjing TV."

"Isn't that also a live broadcast?"

"It's a live broadcast, but no movies. It's just a promotional event..."

As he spoke, he turned his head to observe Xu Xin's expression.

"I know what you're going to say...Let me ask you, aside from the acting skills, have I understood the whole story?"

"...Understood. The proprietress was sold to Mazi and was abused by Mazi all day long. Finally, she couldn't take it anymore and bought a gun to kill Mazi. Mazi found out and wanted to arrest Zhang San and kill the proprietress. As a result, Zhang San was black and killed first. Mazi, but when his murder was discovered, he could only continue to kill. In the end, everyone died..."

"What about the imagery? How about it?"

"The solitary smoke in the desert is straight, and the sun is setting in the long river. Your film should be shot in the style of a western oil painting. It is great with Zhangye's superb scenery."

"But it's still not that good, is it?"

Zhang Yimou said this, but Xu Xin didn't know how to answer it.

Seeing his silence, Zhang Yimou said:
"But I really tried my best."

Xu Xin finally felt an indescribable sense of exhaustion from this sentence.

"This script was copied mechanically without localization. It is an immature script, too many details have not been controlled. But he wants to make money... I know the one thing I want to do most now What is it?"

"what?"

"I hope it will fail miserably at the box office. Word-of-mouth has plummeted since it was released. With an investment of 7000 million yuan, it is best not to have a total box office of more than 1000 million yuan. This way... at least the audience will not lose the 35 yuan in vain."

"But... this is just an unrealistic fantasy. Don't mention anything else, everyone is looking forward to what kind of surprise you will bring them after the Olympics. Just for this enthusiasm... the box office will not be short. Even It might even sell well.”

Xu Xin's words also silenced Zhang Yimou.

moment.

"Actually, that's fine..."

Zhang Yimou said this out of the blue.

"An Olympic Games, I am too high. I just use this video to go down the slope and let this fire down..."

Speaking of which, he paused.

Turning to look at Xu Xin:

"I comforted myself with these words, because after it was released... I could foresee that it must be a mountain of curses like a tsunami. So I comforted myself in advance, you don't want to learn, this is self-deception."

Xu Xinxin said that you, an old man, know that you are deceiving yourself.

But now the arrow is on the string and has to be launched.

It's useless to say anything.

On December 12th, the day of the national premiere of "Three Shots" has already been fixed.

In the past few days, a publicity campaign in full swing is about to start.

And this publicity is in charge of Zhang Weiping, the old man can only go to the platform as a vase.

It's too late to say anything.

What?

Nothing to do.

"Three Guns" will not have any other end for Xu Xin.

The old man takes money... No, the new picture takes money, and then the old man waits to be scolded.

This is the only ending.

Thinking of this... Xu Xin couldn't help but speak again:
"How about...really, can you come to me? I will give you a budget of [-] million... no, [-] million a year, and I will prepare it for you at the beginning of the year. You can shoot whatever you want , you don’t need to look at anyone’s face. Just pick the stories you’re interested in, the ones you like, the ones you want to have fun with…you can do whatever you want. Let’s not get angry, okay?”

"Why? Show off that you're rich?"

Zhang Yimou was suddenly happy.

The kind that can't bear it.

"You have this money, why don't you take care of your own business... Didn't you also get this money from your family? You are already a father, why are you still so naive?"

"It's not that I'm naive, I want to spend money, can't I? Look at me now... I smoke cigarettes, wine and family products, drive hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the clothes on my body are bought for me by Yang Mi herself... I don't have any consumption. Can you just treat me as a waste of money? Let's not play with other people... Can you just treat it as a prestige for our company?"

"Ha~"

Facing Xu Xin's pleading again.

Zhang Yimou smiled lightly, and seemed to be in a much better mood.

But he still said it... also after he said it, he already knew the answer, but he still couldn't help but have a little expectation in Xu Xin's answer from the bottom of his heart:

"Okay, let's drive."

"..."

(End of this chapter)