Started as an independent producer in 1988

Chapter 295 I want to be psychedelic!

[Chen Shih-ping's final film! Uncharted is about to set sail! ]

[Super big production, Uncharted: Daughter of the Dragon, with an investment of over 100 million, is recruiting actors from all over Asia! 】

[Uncharted character information is released, and casting auditions are about to begin! ]

[Peking University Digital Special Effects Laboratory joins in to create new digital special effects. 】

In the newsstand in the early morning, new newspapers of the day were displayed.

Chen Shiping's new film was mentioned in all the newspapers.

At the same time, media across Asia also announced that Chen Shiping was recruiting actors for a new movie.

It is basically the same as what is boasted in China, but in terms of investment, China only said that it was over 100 million yuan, without giving the specific figure. The same is said abroad.

But foreign media automatically added the units.

Over 100 million US dollars
From the perspective of the Japanese media, it can't be over 100 million yen, right?
That’s only a few dollars!
The same goes for Korean media, over 100 million won?

That was filmed in "Roadside Puddles: Taking My Daughter to Play in the Water"

Anyway, everyone thought it was worth over 100 million US dollars, and the news even spread to Europe and the United States.

There are only a few awesome commercial directors in the world, and only a few of them can make over 100 million US dollars at the box office.

Chen Shiping could earn tens of millions of dollars at the box office in Asia every time, and True Lies almost broke 100 million.

Later, including movies from Europe and the United States, most of the box office revenue was close to 100 million US dollars.

This is a pure Chinese-language movie, which is simply incredible to Europeans and Americans.

They even thought about how exaggerated the box office would be if Chen Shiping made a European or American movie.

Many Hollywood directors have higher box office than Chen Shiping, but no one dares to say that they are better than Chen Shiping.

It's just that the European and American markets are larger, and their films cannot beat Chen Shiping's films in Asia.

Anyway, ever since Chen Shiping made the blockbuster film, Hollywood movies have never won in Asia.

At Paramount Pictures, in the Titanic studio, Cameron also saw the news.

He ate his sandwich and watched the news with interest.

He has always been paying attention to Chen Shiping.

He thinks Chen Shiping is one of the few all-round filmmakers in the world!

That’s also not accurate, he’s still a successful politician.

Several professional film magazines in Europe and the United States have analyzed the changes in the Asian film market and finally found that all the changes are related to Chen Shiping.

Asia is basically all developing countries, and it is not easy to achieve a film market of tens of millions of dollars in such a region.

Even Paramount failed to capture the entire Asian market.

Among dozens of countries in Asia, Paramount is able to release its films in only a few.

Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia, India, Thailand, South Korea, Pakistan, Cambodia, China.

One missing and we'll have ten, but we can't make it all.

The Big Ship was also released in these countries, and no other Asian countries were able to enter.

However, this is also the main source of ticket sales for the Asian film market. Apart from these places, only the Iranian film market is pretty good.

The film market is closely related to the country's stable economic development.

After eating the sandwich in his hand, Cameron looked at the movie information disclosed in the newspaper and began to reverse engineer Chen Shiping's script in his mind.

Slowly, he constructed a complete script in his mind and couldn't help feeling excited.

This seems like a really good script!

However, such a movie requires powerful digital special effects, and Cameron is not very optimistic that Chen Shiping can make it.

Nowhere else in the world except Hollywood can such special effects be produced.

"What a pity." Cameron put down the newspaper and stood up to start today's shooting.

Another day in the water.

It was late at night in China at this time, and the light in Chen Shiping's study was still on.

The desk is covered with various drawings.

Character modeling, scene design, prop design, etc.

The art department provided many plans, and even the design of a single character had several drawings.

Chen Shiping was quite satisfied with all the designs except the flag design.

The Ming Dynasty did not have a national flag. To be more precise, there was no national flag in any dynasty before the Qing Dynasty.

All under heaven belongs to the king. Only foreign and small countries have things like national flags.

The Ming Dynasty has never been a concept of a country. If it were a country, it would be the same as those vassal states.

However, all Ming Dynasty ships going out to sea would fly the Sun and Moon Flag. This is not the concept of a national flag, but just to tell others that we are from the Ming Dynasty, and those who are blind should get away!

The sun and moon flag given by the art department is too ordinary, a sun and moon flag with a yellow background and a red sun.

This doesn't look very domineering, Chen Shiping thinks it can be changed.

Since it is a magical epic blockbuster, it should not follow history completely and enrich the Sun and Moon Flag.

To highlight the selling point of the Dragon's Daughter.

The dragon flag is raised!

However, you cannot have dragon patterns on clothes, that’s against the rules!

Only one princess in the Ming Dynasty could wear the dragon robe!
That is Zhu Yuanzhang’s sister, Princess Cao!

Chen Shiping did not dare to violate the rules on this point, otherwise he would be scolded to death by domestic audiences.

Chen Shiping looked through the design drawings and put away the ones that he liked. He would take them to the factory tomorrow and start production right away.

The design of the flying fish costume is quite cool, but it’s a pity that it doesn’t have the embroidered spring sword.

However, the flying fish costume designed by the art department is a red robe, which they say is the same as in history, but the red is too bright and not domineering enough.

Chen Shiping thinks this needs to be changed!
The color is fine as long as it does not violate the rules.

A movie must have magical imagination, but also have aspects that can stand up to the audience's scrutiny.

After Chen Shiping finished his work and reviewed all the design drawings, he went to bed.

His daughter and wife were already asleep. Chen Shiping tiptoed onto the bed, looked sideways at his wife and children, and decided to go to bed early tomorrow!
The next morning, Chen Shiping went to the factory.

Such a large production requires time and patience, and all work must be done meticulously.

Chen Shiping was busy grasping the general direction, and there were naturally people dedicated to taking care of the small details.

At this time, the outside world was also heatedly discussing Chen Shiping's last film.

On the campus of the Central Academy of Drama, many students are sighing.

"Director Chen lives next to the Central Academy of Drama, and I've never seen him come here."

"Of course. I heard that they went to Beijing Film Academy to select several people."

"It's useless to come. I won't be able to film in my freshman and sophomore years. It has nothing to do with me anyway."

"That's Chen Shiping's play! The school will definitely show it!"

"That's right, Chang's mother also said that as long as it's directed by Chen Shiping or Zhang Yimou, you can go and shoot the movie!" "But they have to come!"

"If they don't come, then we can go! What's there to be afraid of with an audition!"

The students of the Central Academy of Drama are still young, so they are naturally bold and willing to make efforts to seize opportunities.

Even if it's just a small role!
The protagonist only dares to think about it in his dreams.

At this time, many performing arts schools, as well as actors from song and dance troupes and drama troupes at the Shanghai Theatre Academy and Beijing Film Academy are gearing up!

Especially some actors in the drama troupe, they all knew that the drama was coming to an end.

Television is becoming more and more popular!
China has been the world's number one in television production for several consecutive years!
Everyone goes to watch TV series, who is still here to watch a play?

Look at "Autumn in My Heart", which swept across Asia. Even if you sing for your whole life, you will never have the chance to become popular in Asia.

Even becoming popular all over the country depends on luck!

However, two days later, theater troupes from all over the country received requests for co-production from the Beijing Film Studio.

A large number of martial artists are needed to play the roles of the Imperial Guards and Embroidered Uniform Guards!

At the same time, thirty beautiful warriors and female warriors must be selected as the princess' guards!

You should look good without makeup, not with makeup on!

And also
At the same time, Chen Shiping also asked the factory's orchestra to think about adding a piece of opera singing to the movie!

Just like in Thor 3, when Thor fights, the exclusive BGM will play. The music is very exciting and raises the rhythm of the movie to several levels.

However, the rhythm of pure opera singing is not that fast, so it still needs to be modified.

Chen Shiping asked the orchestra to find Mr. Xu Jingqing.

He wanted the same feeling as Yun Gong Xun Yin, but in a more psychedelic style!
Chen Shiping did not place his hopes only on Mr. Xu Jingqing, but also contacted Dou Wei and the princess.

Dou Wei and the princess after her transformation are both pretty good, so it should be good for them to do this kind of psychedelic rock.

The princess’ new album this year is a combination of rock and psychedelic, and it sounds very exciting.

Chen Shiping thinks that "Fuzo" is the best album by Wang Fei.

Making a movie is such a hassle!
When competing with big ships, music can’t lose!
Titanic: My Heart Remains So Classic!
Celine Dion is so awesome!
Among the current domestic female singers, apart from Princess Chen, it is really hard to find anyone comparable to Celine Dion.

The main reason is that the princess’ current style is very similar to what Chen Shiping wants!

In a courtyard next to the Lama Temple, the princess and Dou Wei were lying on the kang, listening to songs and flipping through magazines in their hands.

The princess suddenly asked, "Chen Shiping asked you to write a song. What do you think?"

"No." Dou Wei said briefly.

The princess was not surprised at all. Let alone Chen Shiping, as long as he didn't want to write, even the Lord would be of no use.

However, Dou Wei can be willful, but the princess cannot. She wants to write, but Dou Wei doesn't want to write, so she can only go to Zhang Yadong.

On the other side of the capital, Mr. Xu Jingqing was wearing glasses and reading the script given to him by Chen Shiping.

If you want to write a suitable theme song, you must read the script.

Mr. Xu Jingqing was a little confused after reading the script. The script had a big imagination and he didn't quite understand it.

Watch it again!
After reading it again, Mr. Xu Jingqing almost understood the meaning of the script.

But I always feel like something is missing, the story of the script doesn’t seem complete!

Mr. Xu Jingqing thought for a while at home, put on his coat and hat, and took the bus to Beijing Film Studio.

He has to ask about the script in person, otherwise he can't write this song!

And I have to ask clearly, is it an interlude or a theme song?

If it's an interlude, I can't write it now. I have to wait until the movie is finished and then write it based on the movie. That would be the most appropriate.

The rhythm of the movie cannot be disrupted for a song.

As a composer, Xu Jingqing has his own ethics and knows that film and television songs are meant to serve the plot and images.

Chen Shiping didn't expect that Mr. Xu Jingqing would come here specially.

Chen Shiping felt embarrassed to come here in such a cold weather.

"I'm sorry to make you come here in such a cold day. Please sit here and warm yourself by the heater. I'll pour you a cup of tea." Chen Shiping greeted with a smile.

Xu Jingqing said politely: "Don't bother, I'll just come over and talk to you."

"You don't deserve this. Just sit down."

Seeing that Chen Shiping respected him so much, Xu Jingqing stood there holding his hat, feeling a little uncomfortable.

Chen Shiping was the director of the Beijing Film Studio and also a great writer and director. He was several times better than any director he had worked with.

But there are really few people who respect themselves so much.

It wasn't because of the word "you" or because he wanted to pour me tea, but because he cared about whether I was cold as soon as we met and let me sit next to the heater.

Such attentiveness is a true respect. If it were someone else, they would just be polite and that would be it.

Xu Jingqing watched Chen Shiping make tea, stood there hesitating for a while, and then sat down.

The warmth from the heater behind him made him relax quickly and the coldness in his body was dispelled.

Chen Shiping placed the teacup in front of him and said with a smile, "Teacher Xu, do you have any questions for me?"

Xu Jingqing nodded and said, "I was thinking about asking about the script. By the way, is this song an interlude or a theme song?"

"I want this to be an interlude, as the soundtrack for the fighting scenes. It should be dynamic and have psychedelic elements, and electronic music would be best."

Chen Shiping paused, looked at him and said, "Wait for me a moment. I'll show you another script. It's the plot outline of the second part. You'll understand it if you read the two scripts together!"

Xu Jingqing nodded, and was also curious about the outline of the second part.

It didn't take long for Xu Jingqing to finish reading the script and he almost understood the whole story.

The name of the second part is "Uncharted: Wrath of the Dragon", which has completely opened up the world view of the movie and is no longer limited to the fight with pirates at sea.

The second part will be a real war! An unprecedented huge war!
A westward expedition on the sea and on land!
In order to consolidate its position as the overlord of the Celestial Empire, the Ming Dynasty showed its sharp dragon claws and anger to the world!

Xu Jingqing was a little excited and couldn't help but say: "This script has a really good imagination and a grand scale!"

Chen Shiping smiled and said, "They were all written by the young people in the literature department."

Xu Jingqing nodded and said, "Well written!"

But he didn't know how to write a song, so he looked at Chen Shiping and asked, "Can I see the costumes and character makeup?"

"I don't have the character costumes and makeup yet, but you can take a copy of the design back for reference."

Chen Shiping stood up and dialed the internal line to ask the art department to print another color copy.

It was delivered soon by the art department.

"Please keep these things. Don't lose them. If they are exposed, we will have to redo them all."

Chen Shiping handed the item over with a smile, and Xu Jingqing took it carefully and said, "Don't worry, I guarantee there won't be any problems!"

Xu Jingqing hesitated for a moment and said, "Why don't I just watch it at the factory and not take it out? If something goes wrong, I can't afford it."

Chen Shiping smiled and said, "I definitely trust you, don't worry, just take it home and read it slowly.

If there is anything you don’t understand, just call me and I’ll come find you!”

Xu Jingqing couldn't help but say, "Thank you so much for the factory's trust!"

(End of this chapter)