The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 351 Substitution (two-in-one)

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"Pass."

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After the scene ended, Lu Yuan called up the replay behind the monitor.

The photographer gave a few seconds of close-up of "Love Is Not Blind". When Wang Baoqiang blurted out a sentence, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and he looked like shit after a breakup, he grinned.

Regardless of whether other people understand it or not, he understands it anyway, and the girl Xianyu who is lying dead at home probably understands it too.

Indeed, as Xu Zheng said last night, he and Wang Baoqiang have their own characteristics, but together they are surprisingly harmonious and complement each other.

"People on the Road" is actually about a story of mutual redemption.

The two men experienced a journey of twists and turns together, experiencing joy and embarrassment, and finally gained the true meaning of each other's lives.

Wang Baoqiang's honest, honest, gentle and kind-hearted character, and Xu Zheng's shrewd calculations, the hidden thorn in the mud, produced a wonderful chemical reaction.

This strong personality difference, paired with humorous lines and ups and downs of the plot, is full of laughter.

"Baoqiang, you are really suitable for comedy." He knocked the frying pan on the other person's body and sighed sincerely.

Comedy is a very rigorous science. It may seem funny at first, but it is actually very serious.

This guy has a harmless appearance and is very friendly. He actually has an advantage and can easily resonate with the audience.

Wang Baoqiang disagreed. He spread his hands, curled up his right leg, and made an independent gesture like a golden rooster. He raised his chin slightly and said, "I want to make a kung fu movie and become a kung fu superstar. I will invite you to guest star when the time comes."

Lu Yuan looked at him and his posture looked familiar, as if he had seen him before somewhere.

After careful recollection, I discovered that it turned out to be a tribute to Jet Li, and it was exactly the same as the moves in the movie Fang Shiyu.

As for whether he can become a kung fu superstar, he thinks it is unlikely. Today's market is different from that of the 1990s.

But he didn't try to explain either.

There is a saying that the world is not yet settled, and you and I are both cows and horses. Oh no, the world is not yet settled, and we are both dark horses. We always have to have dreams.

Perhaps because of his appearance, Li Lianjie's movements looked heroic and majestic.

This guy is otherwise, with his small eyes narrowed and his mouth pursed, with the corners of his mouth a little crooked, giving off an inexplicable look of perversity and cruelty.

Quite arrogant, quite domineering, and quite unworthy of a beating.

"Got an idea?"

"Not yet." Wang Baoqiang's answer was quite straightforward.

Lu Yuan: "."

He nodded in agreement. Since his debut, he has never made a serious movie, all of which are guest appearances.

Suddenly he thought of his girlfriend who was sitting at home eating papayas endlessly, trying to make up for her innate deficiencies, and said: "Okay, even if I don't have time, I promise to find you a heroic beater."

"Who?" Wang Baoqiang was curious. There are not many actresses with beautiful movements in China.

"You'll know when the time comes." This guy made a riddle mysteriously.

While the two were chatting, a strange man waved at the platform. He had short hair, fair skin, and black-rimmed glasses, gesturing to answer the phone.

Wang Baoqiang was so impatient that he didn't even have time to explain. He just patted him on the shoulder and rushed out.

Xu Zheng wore the coat from the play and approached with a tea cup. The two were caught off guard and bumped into each other.

"Baoqiang, why are you throwing yourself into my arms? I don't like men!"

"Hahaha, I'm sorry, I'll go there first and talk about it when I get back."

"Get out of here." Xu Zheng cursed.

Lu Yuan found it quite interesting. He pursed his lips in the direction of the platform and asked, "Who is that tall guy?"

He was indeed quite tall, he estimated to be 1.8 meters tall. Wang Baoqiang stood in front of the person, a full head shorter than the other person.

"His agent." Xu Zheng glanced at him without thinking.

Lu Yuanyuan frowned, with a strange expression, and asked, "Why, is there a contradiction?"

This kind of thing is not surprising in the film crew. For the sake of their own artists' roles, roles, etc., managers of various companies will often make bad appearances with all their teeth and claws.

"That's not true. How can there be any contradiction in a small investment of 700 million." Xu Zheng shook his head, opened the cup and blew on it, and said: "I am a person who looks at the edges of his eyes, mainly his eyes. I don't like it very much. Of course, this Just my gut feeling.”

After hearing what he said, Lu Yuan once again set his sights on Chaowang Baoqiang's agent.

Intuition is a subconscious judgment based on past experience and knowledge. The sensitivity and accuracy vary from person to person, and no one can say clearly.

For example, when he first met Wang Baoqiang's girlfriend Ma Rong, he didn't like her from the bottom of his heart.

I always felt that the girl looked like a bad person and was disgusting for no reason. This feeling was completely groundless.

Opposite him, Wang Baoqiang held his cell phone and nodded. He looked at it twice, turned around and asked, "By the way, when do you plan to release "The Journey"?"

"Early June."

"It's such a rush. We've just entered the summer vacation and students haven't even had a holiday." Lu Yuan was puzzled.

"With a small cost, there is no other way. In July, Feng Xiaogang's "Tangshan Earthquake" was released, in September, Zhang Yimou's "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", and in December, the Spring Festival movie was even more impressive. Chen Kaicuan's "The Orphan of Zhao" and Jiang Wen's "Let the Bullets Fly" and "If You Are the One 7" by Feng Xiaogang."

Xu Zheng spread his hands and felt helpless: "What do you think we should do with a small cast like us? If we collide with a blockbuster film, we will probably eat up all the films."

"Aren't you the same? "33 Days of Love" avoids them and is scheduled to be released in November."

Having said this, he couldn't help but be curious: "The investment amount for "33 Days of Love" is also not large. How will it be promoted in the future?"

The weather was so cold, it didn't look like spring at all. The wind was blowing, and Lu Yuan stood there for a while, as if his feet were frozen.

He stamped his feet and said: "Similar to "People on the Road", it mainly takes place online, on social platforms such as Weibo and Renren."

Due to limited funds, "33 Days of Love" is destined to be unable to be promoted through all channels, and offline tabloids and other means will be reduced accordingly.

Therefore, he and Teng Huatao decided to find another way to tie up Singles' Day.

At the same time, online marketing is adopted, focusing on the theme of "broken love" to accurately target young audience groups.

In today's film market, publicity and the entire marketing process have increasingly emphasized accuracy and purpose. We are no longer in the era of playing with the tactic of writing a mountain of words and a sea of ​​words.

The results of last year's "Overheard" are already very telling. The film was only in the distribution stage and was purposefully placed in several media outlets to attack the concept and launch a publicity strategy that catered to the current "crisis theory" and "no one is reliable".

That's why the film unexpectedly earned nearly 100 million in box office. This successful strategy can be replicated, and Lu Yuan knew it.

"33 Days Out of Love" follows suit, focusing on the word "out of love".

The two talked nonsense for a while, and Wang Baoqiang ran back huffing and puffing, as if he had eaten candied fruit, and explained with a smile: "It was my wife just now. She said she missed me and wanted to hear my voice, hahaha."

He smiled proudly, showing his big white teeth.

Lu Yuan was most annoyed by people showing affection in front of him. He curled his lips and kicked the gravel on the enclave, hitting the railroad track with a "clang" sound.

Xu Zheng did the same thing. He simply turned around and looked to the other side, looking out of sight and ignoring him at all.

The laughter stopped suddenly, and Wang Baoqiang was embarrassed and sighed in vain: "Actually, my agent was not optimistic about this drama at first and suggested that I not take it."

"There is such a thing." Lu Yuan was surprised. Could it be that after many years of working in the industry, his vision for selecting dramas has not improved at all?

"Yeah, I was wondering at the time, so I asked him why he wasn't optimistic about it."

"How did he answer?"

"He said the play had too many flaws."

"more specific."

Wang Baoqiang rubbed his hands, rearranged the hat on his head, and said, "For example, Li Chenggong is a small boss with good financial conditions. Why did he buy an economy class ticket?"

"Li Chenggong is strict with his subordinates. He is a black-hearted capitalist. It is not impossible for his subordinates to secretly retaliate, including the economy class at the beginning and the fake train tickets later. This line can explain it." Xu Zheng interrupted, And express your understanding.

Wang Baoqiang agreed with his face and said: "Yes, I answered the same way at the time, but my agent asked again, where is Niu Geng? Why did Niu Geng, a milkman, get on the plane? Given his financial conditions, he chose to fly. , basically impossible.”

Xu Zheng opened his mouth and was speechless, because what he said was indeed reasonable.

"I had the same expression as you, and then Song Ji said that the audience will be critical. There is a problem with the logic, and they will definitely regard it as a bad film after it is released."

Only then did Lu Yuan find out that the tall male manager was called Song Ji.

At this time, Zhang Xinyi, who played the role of a female teacher in the play, came down from the platform, saw the three old men standing near the railway track, and nodded repeatedly.

When she walked away, Wang Baoqiang looked at the other party's figure and said: "And the role she played, why are so many orphans raised by this woman? What about those welfare institutions? Also, her boyfriend passed away and she was injured. Didn't she receive relevant compensation for her appearance? She raised so many children by herself, so there was no interference from relevant agencies?"

Lu Yuan recalled the fragments in the script.

It's about Li Chenggong and Niu Geng who met a disfigured woman on the road. She knelt on the ground and begged passers-by for money. She wanted to save her daughter who was undergoing surgery.

Li Chenggong knew at a glance that this was a liar's trick, but Niu Geng, who also came from a poor background, couldn't walk.

He had a falling out with Li Chenggong and chose to believe that the woman was not a liar. He gave her all his savings and believed that she would return the money within two hours.

The burdock stood on the roadside waiting until dark.

Later, facing Li Chenggong's ridicule, the simple Niu Geng only replied with one sentence, but it was super heartwarming: "It's better to lie. It means that no one is sick, and it's better if no one is sick."

Simple kindness.

By chance, they met the female liar again on their way back and chased her all the way to her home.

Unexpectedly, there were actually a group of children in rags there, as well as a little girl who had just undergone surgery, with gauze covering her eyes and an intravenous drip on her hand.

The two understood the cause and effect. It turned out that the woman and her boyfriend were teachers in a primary school, and their students were all orphans.

Her boyfriend died in a car accident while helping a student buy oil paints, and she was also injured and disfigured.

But her sense of responsibility for her children was still there, so she had no choice but to cheat.

Li Chenggong immediately secretly left his money to them.

"You are an unprofessional agent. You are deliberately trying to find fault, and your vision is not very good."

Lu Yuan glanced at him and began to explain: ""The Journey" is a comedy film. Comedy itself is a thing that makes people happy both physically and mentally. Its main task is to make people laugh. In order to make the audience laugh so hard that they can't help but laugh. , giving them an excuse to vent after being suppressed by reality for a long time.”

Xu Zheng was full of praise and said: "This is the truth. Look at Zhou Xinchi in Xiangjiang. Most of his comedies are nonsensical and funny, and their logic cannot stand up to scrutiny. But in the midst of laughter and curses, his films can always satirize social reality and trigger resonated with the audience and hit high box office."

Wang Baoqiang thought for a while, and then asked, "What is comedy? Doesn't comedy require logic?"

Xu Zheng was silent.

Lu Yuan was also silent, thinking for a long time, and then said in an uncertain tone: "I think comedy should be a kind of disadvantage, but also the audience's sense of superiority."

The two of them didn't understand and stared at him blankly.

He organized his words, recalled the books he had read, and slowly explained: "Early years ago, Chen Peisi once said that all comedies have a tragic core.

In his view, the tragic core of comedy is the most critical thing that governs all comedies and all human laughter.

Only with the existence of differences, that is, the existence of advantages and disadvantages, right and wrong, high and low, high and low, etc., can people have the opportunity to laugh.

The reason why people laugh is actually a manifestation of their sense of superiority.

And where does the sense of superiority come from?

I am good and you are not good, I am you but not you, I am good but you are not, I am good but you are not good, I am not good to you

The principle of comedy is to constantly build this difference.

The difference is usually the punchline.

Sadness is the cause, laughter is the effect. Comedy is torturing oneself in exchange for the joy of others, and using one's own low profile to arouse the other person's sense of superiority.

If you want to make people laugh, one party must hand over a certain sense of superiority, and the other party must also receive enough sense of superiority.

To create a sense of superiority gap between the two parties, the status of the two parties must be unequal, and one party must suffer and pay.

In film and television dramas, the audience has not experienced the various embarrassments that the characters are experiencing, but they can empathize with them, so they smile knowingly.

In Zhao Benshan's sketches, the difference is often the small person taking advantage of information asymmetry to play with the big person. Bystanders can see clearly, and the sense of superiority comes."

"What about the logic?" Wang Baoqiang was confused and shocked, and asked again.

Lu Yuan's mouth was dry as he spoke, and he was about to find a way to leave. He caught a glimpse of the staff running over and said, "I'll make a list of books to send to you when I go back. You can think about it slowly by yourself. I won't say no for a while." clear."

"Give me one too." Xu Zheng handed the tea cup to the assistant. When he turned around, he said again: "Baoqiang, your agent's vision is indeed not very good. After this movie is released, if the box office is good, Just change it to another, so as not to screen out good scripts in the future."

Wang Baoqiang showed his trademark smile and said nothing.

"Everyone remains quiet."

"Three shots in seven scenes."

"Action!"

(End of this chapter)