This actor wants to pay more

Chapter 397
Looking at each other and smiling, Xu Haofeng and Ding Xiu both have their own ghosts.

What Xu Hao wanted was Ding Xiu's investment.

If you are not in charge, you don't know that daily necessities are expensive. As a director, the most lacking thing is funds. Without funds, you can't do anything, you can't hire actors, and you can't afford to rent equipment.

In fact, before finding Ding Xiu, it's not that Xu Haofeng had never looked for investors, but they didn't invest in him.

A director who has only made one film is not convincing, especially a director who hits the box office.

In the eyes of investors, if you want money, you can get it out of your past achievements.

Xu Haofeng, who was asked at the time, said heartbreakingly: "I am a new director, where did the achievements come from? If you give me money, I will have achievements if I shoot it."

The investor said: "We only look at the results. How about you introduce your cast and see how many big stars there are, and we can discuss whether we can invest."

Xu Haofeng roared: "You have to give me money before I can find an actor, let me tell you how high or low I am, otherwise where can I find an actor."

Investor: "You don't have actors, how dare we invest in you?"

Xu Haofeng: "I need money to hire actors."

Investor: "We need to see the cast before we pay."

Xu Haofeng: "WQNMDGB."

It's a fucking loop.

Investors depend on performance, but he is a new director, and he has only directed one movie, ten years ago. That movie was still a big upset, and the box office was not ideal.

If there is no achievement, people will not invest in it, but if you don’t invest in me, how can I achieve results?
OK, let's look at the cast next, Xu Haofeng wants to scold her mother in this part, you don't give me anything, what can I use to impress the actors.

You ask me about actors, I say Zhou Runfa, Liu Dehua, Ding Xiu, Li Lianjie, Cheng Long, when the time comes to call people over, can you fucking give me money?

It's not how much money you give me, how many things I do.

If I have 1000 million, I will spend 500 million to hire actors. At this stage, try to hire the best cost-effective actors.

You don't give me money, and you don't give me a promise. I'll talk about the actors when the time comes, and you don't want to pull anything out. What should I do?
In fact, Xu Haofeng also understands that it's not that the investors don't want to give money, nor can they inject funds in advance.

To put it bluntly, it depends on whether the director wants to make money standing up or kneeling down.

Standing to make money means having box office results, and being able to invite big names to help out. In this case, investors don't need to shout, and rush forward to invest money one by one.

Kneeling to make money means that your director is just a wage earner, just take charge of the filming, and leave the rest to the capital, including which actors to hire, how to shoot, and how to sign contracts with actors.

Afterwards, the box office results are good, and I will send you a red envelope to the director. Everyone is happy. You have fulfilled your artistic dream of filming, and they have also fulfilled their goal of making money.

But Xu Haofeng didn't want to make money on his knees.

That's why the investors pressed him step by step, asking him for the box office results and the cast, but if he couldn't get it out, he would naturally be ridiculed.

In the end, he was forced to have no choice but to go to find Ding Xiu, but he didn't invite anyone. Fortunately, Ding Xiu invested several million in him to save money, and he barely hired big names, so he was able to film this movie.

After this battle, Xu Haofeng understood the importance of investment, so he made a bet with Ding Xiu, and if he won, he would hand over the investment for the next play to Ding Xiu.

At that time, he will no longer make 500 million movies, and he will have to start with 1000 million anyway, and he will hire a few more coffee.

You stand on the bridge and look at the scenery, and people who look at the scenery look at you upstairs.

Ding Xiu thought the same, he needs a good screenwriter.

Qin Chao Entertainment and him are not short of money, and they are not short of actors when they are rich. What they lack is a good script, and a good script needs a good screenwriter.

Looking at the movies of the 90s, the scene props are quite simple, 90.00% of the actors have never been to acting school, and they came out to film after three months of training.

But it is such a combination that has made movies with tens of millions of box office.

Take Lin Zhengying's zombie films as an example, many scenes are shot in only one courtyard, and some are even shot in a hotel or a building. The framing is not too simple.

After many years, I took out the old movies again, and I still watched them with gusto, not outdated at all.

A big reason is that the script is good.

The plot is interesting, the characters are three-dimensional and have personality, knowing that it is fake, everyone can watch it and laugh.

What Qin Chao Entertainment lacks the most right now is a good screenwriter.

In Ding Xiu's opinion, a good screenwriter is even more important than a good director.

There are still a few more Xiuchun Dao, and next he wants Xu Haofeng to join in and make a good script, so this bet must be made.

"Ding Xiu, long time no see."

While Ding Xiu was chatting with Xu Haofeng, Mr. Yu Chenghui walked over with a pistol in his hand.

I haven't seen him for a few years, but his white beard has grown again, his hair is also gray, and his spirit has dropped drastically. He looks completely different from when we first met him ten years ago in the production team of Swordsman.

"Teacher Yu, long time no see, your body is still so tough, when will you have time to do two tricks?"

"I can't pass, my body is weak, I'm afraid I'm too young to punch, I can't beat you, now it's your world."

Yu Chenghui is modest, unlike before when he wanted to compete with Ding Xiu when they met.

In fact, he still wants to fight, but he is aware of his own situation. He majors in swordsmanship, and the martial arts he practices outside the family, the younger he is, the more fierce he is, and the older he is, the worse he will decline.

It's okay to deal with ordinary people, but not enough to deal with experts like Ding Xiu.

Ten years ago, he was defeated by Ding Xiu's Japanese sword technique. Now Ding Xiu is thirty, he is in his prime, and he is seventy, and the loess is buried in his chest.

He didn't want Ding Xiu to let him go, so he asked him to do a few tricks.

It would be a shame to him even if he lasted a few moves, so the best result is not to fight.

Ding Xiu smiled and said: "The main purpose of practicing martial arts is to strengthen the body. Once the body is healthy, everything else is empty..."

In the past, he didn't understand why those who practiced martial arts for many years said that they practiced martial arts to strengthen their bodies.

When you are old and rich, who still fights and kills, of course you start to enjoy it.

Another one is really invincible, there is no opponent, and I don't want to fight anymore.

Right now, Ding Xiu is too cold at the top, so he doesn't take action easily. He usually fights with two bodyguards at most. There is no need to fight with people outside. It's like playing a monkey, performing for the audience.

His martial arts don't need the approval of the audience.

Listening to the conversation between the two, Song Yang shouted that he got it.

After all, he is a big brother, but it is different, people are so sophisticated, he thought that the meeting between Ding Xiu and Yu Chenghui would inevitably lead to a fight between dragons and tigers.

After all, one is the Juggernaut, and the other is the best fighter in the entertainment industry, there is no one.

There can be no two tigers in one mountain, Wen Wu is the first, and Wu is the second. It is normal to see a fight.

As a result, there was no war, and there was not even a little gunpowder smoke. Both sides gave a step, gave face, and chatted happily.

Ding Xiu stayed in the crew for a long time, besides chatting with Xu Haofeng and Yu Chenghui, he also pointed out the martial arts performance of the crew members.

It's just a hint.

Well, correct a few movements, and then it's over with a compliment.

If it were young, he would have taught them how to hold a knife, how to swing a knife, and how to chop with a Qi family knife.

Well, forget it now.

Xu Haofeng's martial arts style is really not flattering, it's like a great dancer.

However, he still has his own theory, saying that the martial arts of the old era were like this, without internal strength, without flying over the wall, and only with skills and some force-exerting skills.

He wants to use this movie to restore real martial arts.

Ding Xiu didn't even want to hit him.

If the martial arts contests in the old days were really like this, it would be much simpler. In fact, a real master can fight ten against one, especially in the army, those who play with long spears and halberds are the masters.

With a good horse under the crotch and hundreds of people behind it, it is not a joke to go in and out seven times in a camp of thousands of people.

In the evening, I had dinner with Xu Haofeng and had a drink. The next day, Ding Xiu returned to Beiping to continue the preliminary preparations for the Xiuchun Knife.

In July, Xiu Chundao held a press conference to announce the cast and makeup photos.

On the poster, the person in C is Ding Xiu, wearing a flying fish suit with spring knives embroidered on his waist, flanked by his eldest brother and third younger brother, namely Wang Qianyuan and Song Yang.

Behind her was Liu Sisi in red, and Nie Yuan standing with a spear.

In addition to young people, the crew also invited old actors to help out.

Wanwan actor Jin Shijie.

It is not easy to take down this old man.

Jin Shijie is a leading figure in Wanwan's performance industry. He has debuted for 30 years and has been stationed on the drama stage all the year round. He has profound acting skills and looks like what he plays.

Don't bend down for five buckets of rice easily.

This time, the reason for bending the waist is entirely because I just formed a new family last year.

Married a young and beautiful wife.

It is normal for a bachelor to eat enough and the whole family is not hungry. If you just feed yourself, you will not die of starvation when you go to the factory to make screws, or serve the dishes in the restaurant.

But having a family is different.

If you don't eat something good yourself, why don't you let your wife eat it?

Beautiful clothes, cosmetics, bags, lipsticks, everyone who has been here knows how harmful these things are to women.

No, the old actors are forced to make movies and TV series.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to support the family with a salary of several thousand dollars a month.

A joke is a joke, Ding Xiu didn't mean to mock people, on the contrary, he respected such people very much.

Obviously capable of earning more money, but wanting your wife and children to endure hardships with you, that would be shameful, for the sake of bullshit art.

Let the whole family pay for his own art and suffer hardships. Is there any need to persist in this kind of art?
A man who can let go of his body and do things he doesn't want to do to support his family is a real man.

Of course, Ding Xiu would also admire him if he could support his family without putting down his figure.

Closer to home, at the opening press conference, Ding Xiu answered reporters' questions for the first time as a director.

"Director Ding, what made you change this way, give up your identity as an actor and become a director?"

"I want to try something different, and to correct myself, I have not given up my role as an actor, and I am still the lead actor in this drama."

"Then do you have confidence in yourself?"

"of course."

"I'm talking about directing ability."

"My answer is also that this movie will not fail because I am the director. On the contrary, because I am the director, I will control the shooting rhythm, martial arts style, and casting... In short, I will not let everyone down."

As an actor, who hasn't dreamed of being a director.

I have acted a lot, and I have encountered a situation many times, that is, one day I will meet a director and feel that his director is not as good as mine.

Ding Xiu is no exception.

Another advantage of being a director is that you have strong control and can control many things.

If it's just an actor, there are many things in the crew that can't be discussed, even if it's the male lead.

Sometimes when investors force people to change the script, or to save time, it is obvious that the NG one is the best, but they just don’t NG. As the leading actor, you have nothing to do.

Ding Xiu is the investor of this drama, taking into account the status of the male number one and the executive director.

He can pat his chest and say that during the shooting process, every piece can be shot to perfection.

If you can’t get the desired effect, you keep shooting. It’s okay to shoot a scene for three days or five days, ten days and a half a month, or even a month.

……

"Ding Xiu has also changed careers to be a director. I don't know how the box office is and whether the filmed things can be seen."

"The last person who did this was Wu Jing, the box office is not bad, I look forward to a wave."

"Ding Xiu himself is good at martial arts, and this time he is shooting a martial arts movie. I believe he will not let us down. Let's just wait."

"I've read Xiu Chun Dao's novels, and if I say I understand it, no one understands it better than Ding Xiu. I hope he can restore the world of swords and swords, and capture the chivalrous spirit of small people."

"Heh, cats and dogs really come to make movies these days."

"When did the threshold for directors get so low, anyone can be a director."

"Seeing him building a tall building, seeing him entertaining guests, seeing his building collapse."

The name of the person, the shadow of the tree, Ding Xiu was the first time to be a director, some people supported it and some scolded him, some film critics and directors all came out with yin and yang.

A few directors didn't swear, but they also liked several articles that scolded Ding Xiu, because that director was also on the trending search that day, and finally said it was a slippery hand.

Ding Xiu's blood pressure went up, and he immediately exported to Weibo, not at all used to it, and Ait was the one who scolded him the most.

Don't blame him for having high blood pressure. Most of the people who scolded him were colleagues.

On the contrary, netizens are very supportive and rational, and they have nothing to criticize before the movie is released.

On the contrary, some directors, screenwriters, and film critics scolded them the most, and as expected, colleagues are enemies.

If you scold, you will scold, and each of them dare not name them, pointing at Sang and scolding Huai, they are yin and yang.

Ding Xiu was puzzled. The domestic film and television market is so big that one family can't finish it all. He didn't touch other people's cakes. Besides, netizens don't like to watch the movies made by trash directors. They don't deserve to be One's own opponent, how can there be no offense, there is a conflict of interest.

"I wish Xiuchun Knife a good start."

After scolding on the Internet, Ding Xiu started the machine smoothly.

On the day of the opening ceremony, he brought all the staff and actors to worship God and offer incense.

Originally, he didn't believe in this, but when he thought that tens of millions had been lost, he might as well pray.

Don't look at him being a badass on the Internet, in fact, he has no confidence in the box office.

It's just that I can't understand others' connotation of myself, and I just scold back.

(End of this chapter)