Entertainment tycoon who started out as a director

To be precise, it is a damp smell that has been living in the basement for a long time without good ventilation and lighting conditions.

Sniffing his nose and smelling his own scent, Zhang Guoli smiled.

"That semi-basement is really not easy to live in."

"Too humid."

"There are also cockroaches, which makes me a little uncomfortable as a person who often lives in the north."

"But it's still acceptable." Zhang Guoli made a gesture of spreading his hands. "No matter how difficult it is, it won't be as difficult as the ice blast. I'm ready to sacrifice."

"Open-minded!" Gu Ming smiled and gave a thumbs up.

After worshiping the gods, Gu Ming took everyone to be interviewed by reporters.

"Director Gu, why did you make another Chinese-language literary film?" a reporter asked, "You have already won the three highest awards in Europe. You should not make more Hollywood films to try to get the Oscar you lack. Best director?"

"Or do you think this film has the potential to win the Oscar for Best Director?"

"Haha." Of course Gu Ming would not answer directly and said yes.

He knows too well that as long as he dares to say so, these people will remember that he will use this film to win the Oscar for Best Director.

If word of mouth spreads, it will become a Chinese-language film that is about to capture the Oscars.

Gu Ming knew that the higher the praise, the worse the fall.

Besides, awards are not about reporting box office targets. You can't be 100% sure about how much your film can earn at the box office, so being modest doesn't hurt.

"My goal is to get a nomination, no matter what award it is, it would be great if I can get a nomination."

"As for why I don't make movies in Hollywood..."

"It's very simple. I am a Chinese. I always remember that my roots are in China. Therefore, there is no need for a reason to make Chinese films. That is what I should do."

"As for why I made artistic films, I have made a lot of commercial films, so I wanted to change my taste."

"Director Gu, you said before that the box office of "Those Years" could exceed 100 million. You made a bet with my colleagues about this. In the end, you won. Director Gu, can you estimate the box office of this movie? What do you think of this movie? How much box office can the movie make?”

"If you can get over 50 million, it's a victory."

"Are you a bit modest?" The reporter joked with a smile, "The total domestic box office has increased so much. Director Gu, your movie, even if it is a literary film, can at least exceed 100 million in box office, right?"

"That's what you said." Gu Ming smiled and did not explain.

Gu Ming doesn't have high hopes for the domestic box office. Fifty million is his goal.

The box office of a movie must take into account the social environment at that time.

A movie like "Parasite" that talks about class would not have a high box office in this era when the economy was not yet very developed and the nation lacked self-confidence.

Unless it can win an Oscar as a Chinese-language film, in that case, this gimmick should attract a lot of people to watch it.

Otherwise, who would be willing to watch such a depressing and heart-wrenching film, except for the die-hard fans of literary and artistic film lovers?

I'm so miserable in real life. How can I still feel uncomfortable when I spend money to buy tickets and watch a movie? That’s not spending money to buy suffering.

In addition to some people who feel this way, Gu Ming can also imagine that there are also people who feel that it is hypocritical.

In the movie, a family of four has a place to live in a big city, even if it's a semi-basement, doesn't it still have windows?

All four people in the family also have cell phones.

In the eyes of many people today, this may not be considered poor.

It's much poorer than here.

You have to go several kilometers to get water, and primary school students have to travel across mountains and rivers to study.

With such a comparison, some people will definitely find it difficult to substitute for the film.

no way. Times are different. Even if the domestic film "I'm Not the God of Medicine", which later received both word-of-mouth and box office success, is now available, it may not have much box office success.

At the very least, those patients must be able to afford pirated medicines that cost 500 yuan a bottle.

How many people can only earn 500 yuan a month?

"Director Gu..."

The reporters continued to ask questions one by one, pulling Gu Ming out of his thoughts and continued to answer questions.

We had to deal with it for an hour before we arranged for security to drive away the reporters who were still lingering.

Then, Gu Ming walked into the basement where a poor family lived.

Called Cao Yu over.

Pointing to the basement window.

The window is not much higher than the ground outside, with four grids, as many as the number of members in a poor family. There is also a security window installed specifically for filming.

The small rectangular grids formed by the security windows look like a prison.

"When you take pictures later, aim at this window, place the socks on the left third of the lens, and then slowly move the camera down to capture Deng Chao."

"Come on, Deng Chao, you sit here, playing with your phone and connecting to WiFi."

"The light is the light I wrote about before, the light with a cyan moist feeling."

"Okay, get ready to start shooting."

The first scene was almost all done in this small basement.

The poor man's son couldn't connect to WiFi, so he had a conversation with his sister, mother and father, and introduced all four of them.

Then, after the poor man's son raised his phone and searched almost to the ceiling, he finally found the signal.

It's just this place with signal that's a bit bad.

It's in the toilet.

The toilet must be at least half a meter above the floor.

And because this is a semi-basement, the poor man's son can only squat down to connect to the signal.

Finding that the other party had found a signal, the poor man's daughter also walked up with her mobile phone.

The two of them squatted in front of the toilet and played with their mobile phones. In order to maintain balance, the son put his left hand on the toilet seat.

"Cao Yu, use a medium telephoto to compress the space. Don't shoot the feet at the bottom of the lens, leaving a dozen centimeters of space above the head."

Let Deng Chao and Song Tie keep their posture of being with the toilet and looking greedily at their mobile phones. After talking to Cao Yu, they filmed the next scene.

The family took on a job, folding pizza boxes.

The clerk comes to collect the boxes and the door opens.

The eyes of the family of four fell on the clerk.

Just in the narrow aisle, four people stood from near to far.

And this position is also the order in which the four people will work when they enter a wealthy family.

The son is at the end, holding on to a thick stack of pizza boxes placed against the wall, followed by the daughter, then the father, and the wife standing at the door communicating with the clerk.

"Okay, let's take a look at the camera first!"

"Song Tie, go a little to the right." Directing Song Tie to move, Gu Ming was also talking to Cao Yu, the photographer, about his thoughts. I want vertical lines to separate the four people. The mother and daughter are The first door frame, daughter and son is the second door frame towards the wall, son and father past the pizza box and bookshelf. "

"Lines, especially vertical lines, you have to pay special attention to. This is what we will use a lot in this film." (End of Chapter)