Actor without ambition

Chapter 322 Zhang Yimou Joins

The movie "The Witch" is a suspenseful science fiction action movie in Bangzi Kingdom.And it's not fictional, the movie really has suspense, sci-fi and action, and even these three elements are well combined in this movie.

This is a very good-looking movie, but it cannot be said that there are no shortcomings. The shortcoming of the movie "The Witch" is that there are too many literary dramas, or the foreplay is too long and long-winded.It will reduce people's sense of watching the movie, and even if they don't know the content behind it, people who watch this movie may feel bored in the first half of the movie, and then stop watching the movie directly.

The problem of "The Witch 2" is even more serious. It not only magnifies all the problems of the first part, but also makes a lot of messy branches that seem to have no meaning at all.

The two films in the Witch series, generally speaking, the problem with "The Witch" is that the text and drama are lengthy, there are too many foreshadowings, the dialogue is invalid, and the nonsense is endless.The problem with "The Witch 2" is that the literary drama is more lengthy, with more foreshadowing, more ineffective dialogue, and more nonsense...

However, if the literary part is properly handled, some foreshadowings should be kept as concise as possible, and all invalid dialogue and nonsense will be removed, the Witch series will also be a very good film series.

But now, Zhang Yuxuan wanted to make the movie "The Witch", so he naturally needed to avoid these problems.

Of course, for the script, Zhang Yuxuan still only provided the outline. As for the specific content, it was still handed over to the scriptwriting department of the studio.

After all, the reason why Zhang Yuxuan established the screenwriting department and spent money to support these screenwriters was to allow them to perfect the script for himself.

As for the script of "The Witch", Zhang Yuxuan handed over the main line to the screenwriting department very early on, so the script had already been written years ago, and it was also approved by Zhang Yuxuan.

This is why Li Ling said that after the New Year, he will make this movie first.

As for "The Unknown", many people say that this movie is imitating Ning Hao's movies. Indeed, there are some shadows of Ning Hao's crazy series of movies in this movie, but most of the movies are like this. In fact, many movies , can find similar shadows from other movies.It’s like writing a novel. For novels of the same type, it always seems that the plot or other things are similar or similar.

But in any case, the movie "The Nobody" is indeed a good movie. Although there are some problems to some extent, they are all harmless.

And when it comes to "The Unknown", I have to mention the director of this movie, Rao Xiaozhi. To be precise, Zhang Yuxuan thought of the director Rao Xiaozhi because of "The Unknown", and then Zhang Yuxuan wanted to pull this director to himself from the studio.

After all, the current Rao Xiaozhi is not well-known, nor can he be said to be a successful director. If he wants to recruit him, it should not be difficult.

And Li Ling is the person responsible for recruiting Rao Xiaozhi.

"Why didn't you tell me before that Rao Xiaozhi and Li Erniao established the Spring Studio together." Li Ling, who went to recruit Rao Xiaozhi, complained to Zhang Yuxuan after returning.

"Huh? Rao Xiaozhi and Li Erniao established the Spring Studio together?" Zhang Yuxuan was stunned.

"That's right, the two are still in a cooperative relationship." Li Ling nodded.

"So, it's impossible for this Rao Xiaozhi to be recruited?" Zhang Yuxuan's expression was a little subtle, Li Erniao?He doesn't seem to be as active as before. To be precise, Li Erniao's active time was actually after he took over two Jin Yong dramas with Zhang Big Beard, and then relying on soft rice to make him popular His status and status continued to rise, but later, his popularity slowly declined, and later, he would even quit the entertainment industry and start a business—of course, he didn't have that brain, and he almost paid for what he did.

And now, Li Erniao doesn't seem to have announced his withdrawal from the entertainment industry.

"No, Rao Xiaozhi has agreed to come to our studio." Li Ling turned and smiled.

"Ah? Didn't he set up a studio with Li Erniao?" Zhang Yuxuan couldn't help asking.

"Here I have to mention Li Erniao's operation. Li Erniao may think that Rao Xiaozhi is not capable and has not made a particularly popular movie. He thinks that Rao Xiaozhi is not worth so much money, so he started a series of operations. After taking over Zhongshu Holdings, whose main business is the integration and operation of cultural and artistic resources, Rao Xiaozhi’s shares in the studio were diluted infinitely. Rao Xiaozhi already had the idea of ​​leaving Spring Studio, so after receiving my invitation, he He readily agreed to join our studio." Li Bai explained with a smile.

"...Then you were serious before, I thought poaching failed."

"Just kidding with you. By the way, director Zhang Yimou's side is almost done." When Li Ling said this, his eyes lit up.

"Director Zhang Yimou? Really?" Zhang Yuxuan's eyes also lit up.

"Well, I have secretly helped director Zhang Yimou register for his child. Director Zhang Yimou is very grateful to us, and because of this, director Zhang Yimou has a lot of opinions on Zhang Weiping, because Zhang Weiping I promised to let him handle the child's affairs, but he never dealt with it at all. Repeated delays, now the children should go to school, and there are no two serious tigers." Li Ling shook his head, a little speechless talking.

"Well, registering a child's household registration is a bit difficult for ordinary people, but for people like Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping, it's not a problem at all." Zhang Yuxuan couldn't help but said.

"It's really not a problem, even if you have a little money, you can get things done with a little manipulation. Unfortunately, Zhang Weiping seems to think that this may be Zhang Yimou's handle, so he has been holding back." Li Ling As he spoke, a sneer flashed in his eyes.She couldn't help mocking Zhang Weiping in her heart, but couldn't help ridiculing Zhang Yimou too.

After all, a great director like Zhang Yimou seems to be out of touch with otherworldly things. He only knows how to make movies, and he seems to know nothing else. He can't even do such simple things.

"Anyway, the relationship between director Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping is getting worse and worse, especially what we collected before. In the movie "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", Zhang Weiping played with yin and yang contracts, adding and subtracting advertisements at will. The information about the cost of entry was also handed over to Director Zhang Yimou. Therefore, Director Zhang Yimou himself began to pay attention to the movie "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" that Zhang Yimou planned to shoot this year. For the part of placing advertisements, Director Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping began to conflict again. At most, after the filming of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", director Zhang Yimou will definitely part ways with Zhang Weiping, and the two may even break up if the filming is not finished. Of course, If you are lucky, the two of you may break up before the movie is shot. At that time, we can even directly intervene and get the movie. So next, I will focus most of my energy on Director Zhang Yimou." Li Ling explained to Zhang Yuxuan.

"Well. I understand. I'll trouble you next." Zhang Yuxuan nodded with a smile, and his eyes were a little eager to try, and he drew Zhang Yimou to his side. This is really going to be posted—— um, okay , Zhang Yuxuan has already posted it, it should be said, like a tiger with wings?Not quite right, icing on the cake?Well, it's more appropriate to add wings to a tiger.

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"The director of the movie "The Witch", I think Du Qifeng on the side of Xiangjiang is very suitable. He has not only shot a lot of classic works, among which "Three Heroes of the East" filmed in 93 is also similar to our "Witch" very similar in style.”

When the studio focused on the movie "The Witch", the director of the movie "The Witch" was naturally the focus of Zhang Yuxuan and the others.

For these domestic directors, how should I put it, at present, the directors who are suitable for shooting the movie "Witch" are more suitable directors from Xiangjiang.

After all, the Xiangjiang entertainment industry has developed for so many years and has a large number of excellent directors.

"Du Qifeng, indeed, his strength is indeed good, and a film of the style of "The Witch" is indeed able to hold. However, Du Qifeng may not accept this film. After all, Xiangjiang's artists and directors have gone north all these years, but Du Qifeng has no sign of wanting to develop in our mainland at all. We need to consider a backup candidate."

"Backup candidates? Chen Kexin, Chen Jiashang, and Li Rengang are also suitable. However, there is another aspect that needs to be considered." Someone in the studio looked at Zhang Yuxuan with strange eyes.

Looking at the eyes of these people, Zhang Yuxuan was a little puzzled.

"Boss, you have been rejecting the Xiangjiang entertainment circle before, and you are unwilling to go to Xiangjiang, and you are unwilling to participate in Xiangjiang's movies, and even if possible, you are unwilling to cooperate with Xiangjiang's actors. While you are blocking the Xiangjiang entertainment circle, Xiangjiang entertainment The circle is also rejecting you. So do you think they will accept your movie?" Someone responded to Zhang Yuxuan's suspicious gaze.

"Um, I didn't ban the Xiangjiang entertainment industry either. Didn't I cooperate with director Xu Ke last year to shoot "Flying Swords of the Dragon Gate"?" Zhang Yuxuan couldn't help but quibble.

"However, you rejected some of the films shot in Xiangjiang, and even the boss of "Night Question 2". And your speech at the Hong Kong Film Awards before, these are almost signs of your personal rejection of Xiangjiang entertainment circle. Among them, Huang Bai Ming, you have rejected him more than once, but because of his position in this circle—"

"...Try it first, send an invitation first, if you can please move, please, if you don't want to, then change to someone else. After all, there are many directors in the mainland. Although they may not be as mature as Xiangjiang's directors, they are still It may not be worse than them." Zhang Yuxuan had no choice but to say: "If it's really not possible, let Lu Yang go."

Although Zhang Yuxuan was helpless, he still didn't think there was anything wrong with rejecting Huang Baiming and Wang Jing at the beginning.If you can't cooperate, you can't cooperate, and it's not uncommon.

"Lu Yang?" The people in the studio looked at each other.

Lu Yang worked with Zhang Yuxuan before and made the movie "Great Wish" which was a great success.

Later, Lu Yang said that he wanted to make a martial arts drama, but it seemed that due to some reasons, it was not made. Instead, he made a movie called "Cinema for the Blind", which has a good reputation.But the movies he made are completely irrelevant to suspense, science fiction and action movies.

"Lu Yang's strength is not bad." Zhang Yuxuan explained in this way, but at the same time, he wanted to sign some powerful directors more and more.

Other people's studios are fine.The main problem is that the actors receive and shoot the film and so on.

But in Zhang Yuxuan's studio, the work was busier and more complicated. Even the director had to think carefully about it. Who asked Zhang Yuxuan's studio to produce movies.

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No accident, Xiangjiang's directors like Du Qifeng and the others really rejected the invitation from Zhang Yuxuan's studio.Why is it that when I was looking for a director for a movie, I went to Xiangjiang again.

Zhang Yuxuan couldn't help rolling his eyes when he heard this response.

To be honest, before Zhang Yuxuan crossed over, he was an ordinary person who didn't pay much attention to the entertainment industry, and there were at least a few movie directors. At this time, he was a little worried.If he paid enough attention to the entertainment industry before traveling, he would know who will become a great director in the future, so he can directly pull people into the studio.

Thinking about it this way, Zhang Yuxuan couldn't help shaking his head even more.

He remembers a lot of movies, such as "I'm Not the God of Medicine", "The Wandering Earth" and so on.Then, he can remember who the main characters in these movies are.But the director—sorry, he watched movies before, so he really didn't pay much attention to the director.

But just when Zhang Yuxuan wanted to hand over the film "The Witch" to Lu Yang to direct, Li Ling came back.

Not only did Li Ling come back, but he also brought good news.

Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping had a complete falling out.

The two fell out completely because of the advertisement placement problem of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins".

You must know that "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" was a movie during the Anti-Japanese War, and the main theme of the whole movie is grief.However, Zhang Weiping wanted to place advertisements in it, and there were still a lot of advertisements.

Before "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", Zhang Weiping had placed a lot of advertisements, but this time, Zhang Weiping went too far and asked for more advertisements. There were dozens of advertisements, large and small.

In addition to advertising placement, Zhang Weiping also once again intervened in the script.

Zhang Weiping actually strongly asked Zhang Yimou to arrange a boat scene for the foreigner John Miller in the movie "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins".

So, all kinds of factors were superimposed together, and Zhang Yimou exploded.

Then, Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping got into a particularly stiff fight.

Originally planned to shoot the movie "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", but now I'm stuck somewhere.

Zhang Weiping said: "Zhang Yimou, if you want to shoot, just follow what I said. You add these advertisements for me, and then I will also shoot this boat scene. Otherwise, you don't want to shoot the movie." '

As for Zhang Yimou, he also dropped his hat on the ground: "If you don't shoot, you won't shoot. If you don't let me shoot, I won't shoot." '

So, the crew that had just been set up was left hanging there.

When Zhang Yuxuan heard the news, he was so happy that he didn't know what to say.

Although "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" is stuck here, and there is no way to continue filming, it will indeed make people feel regretful. After all, this is indeed a very good movie. Now that the movie is difficult to produce, Zhang Yuxuan can only laugh out with a heavy expression. sound.

Well, it's mainly about Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping's quarrel.

The two of them broke up, Zhang Yimou might become his man, no wonder Zhang Yuxuan was unhappy.

Two days later, Zhang Yimou was invited to Zhang Yuxuan's studio.

When Zhang Yimou came here and saw Zhang Yuxuan, the first thing he did was to express his gratitude to Zhang Yuxuan for his help in getting his child registered.

Then, it was Li Ling who spoke and gave Zhang Yimou conditions, wanting to invite Zhang Yimou to join Zhang Yuxuan's studio.

Zhang Yimou is an honest person, and he is not very good at talking about interests.

This is also why Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping have been able to cooperate for so many years. It is obvious that Zhang Weiping is getting more and more excessive, but Zhang Yimou retreats again and again, until Li Ling tells Zhang Weiping that Zhang Weiping does not give his child a hukou, in order to manipulate him. Come out, so that Zhang Yimou wants to break up with Zhang Weiping.

By the way, Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping have cooperated for so many years, and Zhang Weiping established New Picture Entertainment Company, but Zhang Yimou does not have a single share of New Picture Entertainment Company.

Not even Zhang Yimou can be regarded as the director of New Picture Entertainment.

Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou looked like they were partners in the same company, but in fact, Zhang Yimou only got a director's salary for the movies he made, and almost nothing else.

New Picture Entertainment made money from investing in movies, which belonged to Zhang Weiping. New Picture went public, and its market value continued to rise relying on Zhang Yimou. It doesn't matter.

Just like this, Zhang Yimou has been working with Zhang Weiping for so many years.

Moreover, it is said that Zhang Weiping still owed Zhang Yimou's film director's remuneration.

So honest people like Zhang Yimou, Zhang Yuxuan and Li Ling couldn't bear to give Zhang Yimou too harsh conditions.

"Director Zhang, how about this, Zhang Yuxuan's studio will be upgraded to a film and television company next, and then, the company will pay you to open a 'Zhang Yimou studio' and then take part of the studio's shares. In the future, if you want to make movies, would you like to If not, you can also invest in it directly, and after opening a studio, in terms of paying taxes..." Zhang Yuxuan said to Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Yimou blinked and looked a little naive: "Zhang Yimou's studio? Is it the same as your Zhang Yuxuan's studio?"

"This depends on your own needs..."

(End of this chapter)