I'm the director, I'm not bad

The phone hangs up.

Yang Mi shrugged her shoulders to her husband:

"About my schedule, maybe you want to turn around?

It's normal to think about it, Zhang Ziyi has exploded into such a virtue now, I guess Shanghai Film and Television also knows the big head, right? "

"Then you don't want to act anymore?"

"I"

The original sentence "I don't want to act" has come to my lips.

Yang Mi, whose nose still seemed to be dripping with sweat, glanced at her husband. She suddenly sighed:
"Well I know you like this story. You'd even want to get it yourself if you could, wouldn't you?"

".Ok."

Xu Xin nodded:
"There are many things that can be unfolded in this script, but each of these things that can be unfolded can be hidden in the story. It belongs to the kind of story that is more refined and more flavorful. I still want you to act."

Yang Mi frowned:
"That's not so humble." It's not the same as being humble.

After hearing her cognition, Xu Xin expressed his thoughts while lighting a cigarette:
"My idea is actually quite simple, let's not mention the so-called "star" effect.Simply, I judge each script from the perspective of a director. This script, in the broad sense of all the literary works I have come into contact with, can be given to the film, and it can be ranked in the top five.When I saw this story myself, I felt happy when I saw Liexin. It was like meeting a peerless beauty. "

"But I think the tone of the story is quite slow."

"It is because of the slowness that it has a taste. Of course, this is also my personal feeling. Maybe Wang Jiawei's filming is not the case. But let's not mention these, as far as the definition of an actor is concerned, in my mind, There is a picture between you and this story. Do you understand?
Its artistry lies in the taste and texture of the character Gong Er in the story as a whole.She is much better than Ye Wen's character.

She is alive, Ye Man is the witness, and she is the witness.

If you come to play Gong Er, then the story is true to me.A real Gong Er, with the identity of a witness, slowly narrated this martial arts past.

Although different people deduce different versions, but at least for me
And the main reason why I have always liked it so much is also because... I think it is a movie that can make you be remembered by everyone.Let's say "The Wind" and "The Secret".Maybe in another five years, many people will forget the plot.

But this story... five years, ten years, or even 20 years, your interpretation of her... I think it will be remembered in everyone's heart.

For an actor, this is a rare thing. "

He spoke with sincerity.And really tell the truth.

He trusts his instincts as a director.

It wouldn't be too bad for any director to shoot this story.

Because the tone of the whole story is determined by the direction of the script.

The wife and the story really fit together.

The story is also really good.

Of course, no matter whether the film is made or not, some people will definitely say that it is a bad film or that it does not meet their own tastes.

But what about this thing.

The business along the way shocked the customers all the way.

According to what my wife said, all heroes are "high to high"
Go", it may be boring to watch this film.But if you can calm down and carefully evaluate the texture revealed in the script, no matter how the movie is made, the script itself must be qualified.

Nor did he find it humbling.

Wang Jiawei's artistic achievement is something that no one can deny no matter how much he dislikes it.

Every director has a different style, and they must have their own reasons for gaining so many fans with this style.

It is not difficult for Xu Xin to admit that others are excellent.

And my wife's acting skills don't mean that every second, every second, every second.

She still has a lot of room for improvement.

This kind of room for improvement requires actors to try more different types of roles, enrich their own hearts, and climb up little by little.

When climbing up, the most indispensable thing is a humble heart.

When you feel "it's mine" or "I'm not rare", then it's not far from getting lost.

A good story, a good director, and a good actor are mutually accomplished.

How do you say that? .
A pity for others?

It seems to say so.

Don't say that anyone can handle the role of "Gong Er" well.There is one in a million.

In case the performance is a mess, other people may just scold Zhu Jiawei for making a bad movie.

But for Xu Xin, he really loves the script.It's like when you had the opportunity to save a child, but it's a reason to regret it because you missed it.

Although Xu Xin's thoughts were not stated clearly, Yang Mi felt the taste of expectation from her husband's words.

That.
After thinking about it, she sighed helplessly:

"Ugh."

At the beginning, it was your old man who said "this character is very interesting", and I was the one who took the trouble.

Then let's start from the beginning.

If you want me to act, then I will act.

Who made me love you.

"Then I'll talk about it when my brother comes to see me. He said he will come to see me in a few days."

After she finished speaking, she wiped the sweat off her face:

"I'm going to take a shower."

"Ok.

The New Year's Day in 2010 is actually quite nonsense.

Because it's Friday, January 1st.

and then. ． ． ． ． ．

3 days of statutory holidays.

The 2nd is Saturday,

The 3rd is Sunday.

The three-day vacation is no different from taking a weekend.During the three days of New Year's Day, the couple lived quite peacefully.Quite a calm taste.

On January 1th, after the New Year's Day holiday, all units resumed normal work.

It was on this day that Xu Xin received a call.

"Hi, Director Xu, hello. This is CCTV's "Documentary Project Plan Collection Team", and I am Luo Ming, the team leader.

Hearing this address, Xu Xin was taken aback.Immediately afterwards, he cheered up:

"Well, hello Team Leader Luo, I'm Director Xu Xin."

"Hello, Director Xu. That's it. I called to talk to you about the project related to the documentary "A Bite of China" you submitted. Do you have time tomorrow?"

"tomorrow?"

"Yes, January 1th."

"Yes, I have time tomorrow. Shall we have an interview?"

"Yes, we like the proposal you provided very much, so we would like to discuss with you about the establishment of the proposal.

"Okay, then, Team Leader Luo, tell me I'll go there sometime. Is it at CCTV?"

"Yes. How about... 9:[-] tomorrow morning?"

"no problem."

Xu Xin readily agreed.

Fang Xiu said before that these documentaries are planned as the opening project of 2010, and the results of whether they are passed or not will be produced after New Year's Day.

I didn't expect it to come so fast.

He actually got the news just after the first day of New Year's Day.After hanging up the phone, Yang Mi, who was listening all the time, asked:

"What about the documentary? Are you going to start filming?"

"It's passed. But it's hard to say when it will be filmed."

"What about the hawthorn tree?"

"Keep shooting. This
Although this documentary is made by me, it doesn't mean that I have to shoot it myself.I'm not a director of photography.. More often I'm the person in control, making a shooting plan, everyone goes to shoot, and I'll control the general direction after I get it back.

You don’t have to do everything yourself~”

While talking, Xu Xin stood up: "I'm going to the study."

"okay."

Inside the study.

He once again took out the "Bite of the Tongue" plan that was much thicker than when he submitted the plan.

In all honesty, Xu Xin really felt that he was quite busy.

Starting from "The Hawthorn Tree" and getting the news from Lao Fang that CCTV was going to make a documentary, he seemed to be idle every day, but in fact he didn't miss any of these jobs.

"The Hawthorn Tree" sometimes got stuck, so he changed his mind to work on "The Bite of the Tongue".

After "A Bite of the Tongue" had no inspiration, he started working on "The Hawthorn Tree".

Then after getting the book "Sunspot" from his literary consultant Lu Haibo, in order to adapt it into the story script he wanted, he was still sorting out the overall story direction.

And after all these things are done, there is still work to be done on "Transaction".

These tasks are all done in his head, and he has to do it all by himself.

Ordinary people really can't do this.
When the original "Bite of the Tongue" was submitted to CCTV, the proposal was only about ten pages long.

But now, even the materials and the preparation work are almost turned into an exercise book now.

The content inside is also varied and has everything.It was all added and deleted by him bit by bit.

I dare not say that it is particularly mature. After all, documentaries are the same as movies, and there are quite a lot of details that need to be brainstormed.

But at least the main idea is there.

And the core soul of the whole idea is "eating".

Use "eating" to explore the cultural and national roots of the Chinese people.

Chai, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea are common things for ordinary people.See the truth in the ordinary.

This is a story he wants to "see".

1 month 5 number.

CCTV.

In the small conference room of the "Charm Records" column group.

When Xu Xin arrived, there were already ten people in the conference room.

Come personally.

Maybe it's the "celebrity effect"?
When he was led by the clerk into the entire big office, he received a lot of attention.

And entered the meeting room, looking at these people, he quickly said politely:
"Sorry for being late."

"Haha, Director Xu, welcome.

A dark-faced elder brother in his forties was the first to greet him.

"I'm Luo Ming."

Seeing the Lord, Xu Xin smiled and held hands with him:
"Hi Team Leader Luo, I'm Xu Xin."

"Come, come, sit down and talk. Director Xu, please." "Don't dare, Team Leader Luo is too polite."

Xu Xin hurriedly gave a humility.

When he was in the Olympics before, he had a lot of dealings with people from CCTV, so he was not nervous or timid.

Everyone is here to talk about things, not to build relationships.

Normal communication is fine.

But the atmosphere is quite formal.

Not to mention anything else, just looking at the teacups, manuscript paper, and writing pens placed in the positions marked with a caliper in front of my desk, I know that this is also a continuation of the meeting within the system.

After Xu Xin took his seat, Luo Ming said:

"Since Director Xu is here, let's start today's meeting, everyone applauds!

Amid clattering applause, Xu Xin got up again, bowed and sat down again.

Luo Ming continued:

"Director Xu, the purpose of inviting you here today is to discuss the project approval of the documentary film "A Bite of Heaven".

"Um."

Xu Xin nodded

Responded:
"Did my plan pass our review?"

"Yes, it has been passed. We want to hear Director Xu's thoughts on shooting."

"it is good."

Xu Xin took out the stack of manuscripts from his bag.

But it was not opened, but handed over to the recorder behind him:
"Please make a copy for me."

"Okay, Director Xu."

The recorder nodded and took the document and walked away quickly.Then Xu Xin said:
"Actually, the shooting idea of ​​this documentary is very simple. It is to use the behavior of "eating" to explore our cultural roots."

He began to talk about his shooting concept.

Although the entire concept has been described in writing in the proposal, some things are still clearer through my own dictation.

It is also convenient for everyone to ask questions.

Xu Xin made this statement for about 20 minutes.

The core point of view is summed up, which is actually the last paragraph of Xu Xin:

"The purpose of the entire documentary is to show the rich experience accumulated by the Chinese people in food, the vastly different food habits and unique taste aesthetics, and the oriental life values ​​raised to the level of survival wisdom. I have finished my statement, thank you all."

When the statement was concluded with these words, the eyes of everyone present today were completely lit up.

this idea
Ok.

Although at first glance this sentence sounds a bit stereotyped.

But heavy shape and heavy meaning.

The ideological realm of the entire documentary was raised at once.

Surprise occupied most of the emotions in Luo Ming's eyes at this moment.

Looking at Xu Xin who was seated, he thought for a while and asked:

"Then how does Director Xu plan to demonstrate these values?"

"Every episode, a core."

Xu Xin put down his teacup and said unhurriedly:
"For example, when I created the episodes of "Time", my inspiration was the poem "Nostalgia" by Yu Guangzhong. The taste of hometown is the yearning that every wanderer dreams about when he is away from home, and the sense of taste to distinguish the surrounding environment Password. It is also the most important consolation for their hometown.

The so-called "food and sex" means that people of different classes, cultures, and regions cannot do without "eating". Through the link of "eating", we can see how farmers produce crops and cooks. Production, how diners taste. This entire closed-loop process is the best embodiment of our country's thousands of years of reproduction, migration and survival.

Farm cuisine, local cuisine, trendy cuisine, Hakka cuisine. Our cuisine, the gang of chefs, and even diners from the north and the south for the same
Different taste pursuits of food, these are people who bring our whole country.”

When he said this, he made a gesture of grasping and squeezing with both hands:

"The process of coming together. This is the core idea of ​​​​the entire creation of "A Bite of Tongue". We want to show everyone the food flavors of different regions in the surface phenomenon.

Let some people with a narrower vision realize that apart from the living soil they are familiar with, we still have so many delicacies that can make him feel the urge to eat.

But at the inner level, we embrace all rivers and rivers through "eating", and integrate the thousands of years of history of nations, countries, and civilizations to reproduce.

"What about the theme of the story? Is it a straightforward description of food? Or"

asked another.

"No, it is to record the stories of ordinary people."

"Director Xu is going to shoot in person?"

"Of course not. Our country is so big, let's not say too much, just shoot according to the season, it will take three to five years to say nothing. I can ask questions, but we can't let me be a sheep to die Bar?"

"Hahaha, that's definitely not possible."

A joke made the atmosphere in the conference room quite relaxed.

"I heard that we plan to hire an external film crew this time, aren't we?

Right? "

Hearing his words, Luo Ming nodded:
"That's right. This time we are all soliciting plans from the outside in a unified manner. The shooting team also adopts a "project system". The standards for the total budget items, personnel, board and lodging are all based on competitive bidding.
Unification is under the control of Taili, but the shooting progress is carried out by the project team. "

The implication is that on the basis of the "big frame", the filming process is not restricted by the system and should be freer.

Of course, this freedom is also relative.

The final content of the program is still under their own control.

"That's it. If this documentary is going to be filmed, then when I form a team and act as the director, I will assign the episode directors in the team to take the project materials prepared in advance to shoot. After filming, I will make it myself. control."

Xu Xin's words are also reasonable.

After all, Xu Xin's idea of ​​this food documentary is to shoot according to the season, so some things may be filmed in the south in a certain season, but the north has already missed it.

Then, the people in the meeting room explained the formation of the team and the refinement of some positions in the documentary, and then began to discuss
Into the highlight of the documentary.

That is budget.

This kind of documentary is remembered by years, and it is a big profit for people to chew on horses.

In Xu Xin's vision, he will make six to seven episodes of documentaries, at least with a budget of around 100 million for each episode.

It sounds absurd at first.

This is not a movie, and there is no such thing as star salary, how can it be so much?
But in fact, it costs money to make movies and documentaries.

The first is artificial.

Externally hired directors are not directors within the system. They are paid a dead salary, whether they work for a month or not.

First of all, the director must consider the issue of labor costs.

Directors, cinematography, theater management, etc., these people are a fee.

What kind of hotel to stay on a business trip, what kind of car to rent, is another expense.

The most important thing is the equipment.This time it was a project system, and CCTV only paid for it, and all equipment and equipment were set up by the documentary directors who won the bid.

Also includes soundtrack, editing, packaging, post-production and more.A series of links are all piled up with money.

Moreover, the schedule has been set, and the calculation will start after joining the team.

Under the subcontracting team model adopted by Xu Xin, the director team for each episode, including some professional consultants, is said to be 15 to 20 people.

These people are based on a monthly salary of 5000 yuan per person, and they will pay [-] yuan a month.

If it is filmed for one year, it will be 120 million.

Therefore, the budget he gave for an episode of "100 million" has already taken into account that this is a public project and does not belong to the compression limit of private investment.

To put it bluntly, with the Olympic Games in advance, Xu Xin knows how much money the "public" will grant.

结果
When they heard his offer, all the people present, including Luo Ming, were speechless.

"Director Xu, we will be partners soon, so we will not lie to you. The truth is, seven episodes, one million yuan per episode, a total of 100 million yuan in production costs, we can't give that much.

"."

The corner of Xu Xin's mouth twitched.

"Is that much more? Each of the BBC documentaries is well-prepared. Each of these seven-episode documentaries should be about 50 minutes long as expected, and the budget of 700 million is already too low. gone."

He originally thought that 100 million yuan for an episode was too low to be lower.

But how do you hear this meaning? Do you want to press down?

And hearing his words, Luo Ming shook his head slightly:

"We are just starting out and we are definitely incomparable to a big channel like the BBC.

".Then what's our budget?"

"One episode is around 65."

"65...42 35, 450...[-] million!????"

Xu Xin was instantly stunned.

People say that it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

What do you think of me?
Don't talk about being a smart girl.
Do you think of me as some kind of Doraemon?
Feed mud into the belly of the chicken

And let the chicken pull out a golden egg for you? ? ?

Compared with you, the Olympic Organizing Committee is considered generous!His eyes were full of absurdity.

And Luo Ming also knew that this request was indeed a bit...too forceful.

But still explained:

"Director Xu, it's not that we are stingy, but that the total budget of the station is limited. To be honest, there are five projects that we have our eyes on in the same period. And the total budget for this project outsourcing bidding documentary is only 500 million. Director Xu, "A Bite of the Tongue" has taken up one-third of our project budget for this year."

The implication: We are really full of sincerity.And after he finished speaking, a middle-aged man next to him also nodded:

"That's right, Director Xu. What we also pay attention to is crossing the river by feeling the stones. First, single-point experiments, practice and summarizing experience, and then large-scale promotion. This is the first fire, and we must use it within a limited time. It needs to be hot."

".what."

Xu Xin couldn't help laughing bitterly:
"Leaders, do you know? The 100 million yuan I said for one episode is still the production cost of a single episode without counting my personal labor costs."

"."

"."

The whole room fell silent again.

What can they say?
There is only so much money. In the first year, everyone got it and crossed the river by feeling the stones. There was not much money in the first place.

If you consider your labor costs, then the production cost might directly exceed tens of millions.

Wouldn't it be impossible to make other films?But what Xu Xin said was also true.

In fact, his goal in "Bite of Tongue" was not to make money, and he didn't even think about making money at the beginning.

He planned to win a Starlight Award, and then after he graduated from graduate school and stayed in school, he would logically start to transform these resources from the Olympics to the World Expo and so on, and turn them into nourishment for his improvement.

Qualifications are so important.

People who don't need shit are useless.But those who need it want it even if they beg their grandparents to tell their grandma.

It's fine if he doesn't take this path, so he can honestly become a director and make money at the box office.

But now that I have decided to go this way, sometimes it is

"You have to do it for nothing."What is it called?This is called general knowledge.

Practical and willing to work and understand the general situation, with a spirit of dedication to the collective.

It is a very, very beautiful and extremely important quality.

But the problem is
I don't even want money anymore, I just work for nothing.You can't make me pay back, can you?A budget of 60 for one episode?
Where can I find you such a group of monsters and ghosts? After thinking about it, he said:
"I don't need to talk about my labor fee, but Team Leader Luo, can you add more, can you? One million yuan per episode, you can ask around, it's really the price of cabbage!"

"Director Xu, we have already considered 450 million for you! Five documentaries! The total budget is only 500 million!"

"No. Adding another 450 million is the same as zero.

"We can provide you with the equipment, okay?"

Originally a well-thought-out meeting with lofty aspirations, the documentary project establishment meeting to explore the deep cultivation of civilization in the Celestial Dynasty suddenly turned into a dish in just a few sentences.

Market bargaining.

All of a sudden it dropped down.But neither side can help.

On the one hand, 450 million rounded up is approximately equal to zero. It is better not to give.

On the one hand, one-third of the budget has already been taken out, and it is held in front of you pitifully and told you: overcome difficulties if there are difficulties, and overcome difficulties if there are no difficulties.

Neither side can take the other, and this originally pleasant discussion has turned into an inseparable tug-of-war.

Also no one.