Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 105 Results
That evening, news about John Wick: Chapter 11 was all over the media.

“Wang Jing: Director Zhou’s level has surpassed mine. I saw that the box office of John Wick: Chapter 11 broke 500 million.”

“Huang Xiaoming: The movie is more exciting than I could have imagined.”

"Jiang Wen: I want to make a movie with Zhou Mo next time."

"Yang Mi: If I have the opportunity to star in Director Zhou's movie in the future, I will do it even if it doesn't cost me any money!"

That night.

Countless people tossed and turned, unable to sleep, waiting for the latest news about "John Wick: Chapter 8".

Zhou Mo slept well.

He had been forced to drink some wine, and when he returned to his room he felt refreshed and even wrote part of the script.

Until he could no longer open his eyes, he lay down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

Early the next morning, Zhou Mo just woke up and found that his computer was still on.

He took a closer look, then pressed the delete key on his computer.

I drank too much last night.

What are the things written?

"If someone sees this, they might think I'm the moderator's author!"

Just as I finished deleting, I heard a quick but gentle knock on the door.

open the door.

It turned out to be brothers Zhang Jin and Wu Jing.

However, the two of them were not as excited as Zhou Mo had guessed, but instead felt a little disappointed.

Zhou Mo's heart skipped a beat.

Why do these two door gods react like this?
Could it be that he had miscalculated and the movie performed poorly?
"Director Zhou, the rating of our movie is out." Zhang Jin lowered his head.

Zhou Mo's mentality was also a little unstable: "What's wrong, the score is very low?"

Wu Jing nodded.

Zhou Mo frowned.

how is this possible.

Whether it is the memories of his previous life or the reports he spent money to make at the station in this life, it can be proved that there is no doubt that netizens love movies like "John Wick" very much.

How come the rating is so low?

"how many?"

"Only 8.6." Wu Jing said slowly.

Zhou Mo: ...

After a long time, he finally uttered a curse word.

tell!
非！
"Is 8.6 very low? Is it me, Zhou Mo, who can't lift the knife anymore, or are you two getting carried away? Are you trying to scare me? You two better not sleep too deeply tonight."

Zhang Jin and Wu Jing burst into laughter upon seeing this.

The two of them had a sudden idea this morning and wanted to join forces to scare Zhou Mo.

"Director Zhou, it turns out you also doubt yourself. I thought you were 100% confident in "John Wick" and that it would definitely achieve good results." Wu Jing said.

After working with Zhou Mo for a month, he also found that Zhou Mo was quite easy-going in his daily life.

I don't get too angry when I hear some jokes that are not serious.

"Nonsense, I'm not a god, how can there never be problems? I get nervous every time before a movie is released, and the market changes every day. No one knows what tomorrow will be like, and no one knows when they will be abandoned."

Hearing this, Zhang Jin and Wu Jing nodded in approval.

Both of them were once popular but were abandoned by the market.

The most important thing is that both of them have experienced an era of great change.

It is the process in which market preferences gradually change from "tough guy" to "beautiful type".

Zhang Jin sighed: "Alas, I was also a fresh meat in the beginning, but the market didn't want my type. Instead, they liked tough guys. After I finally became a tough guy, the market started to like fresh meat again."

Wu Jing agreed very much.

When he played Ah Fei in "The Flying Dagger of Li", the market generally liked the Lao Jiao type, but now the situation is reversed.

Zhou Mo attacked Wu Jing mercilessly, "Brother Jing, don't compare yourself with Brother Jin. Although Brother Jin is no longer popular after filming "Water Moon Cave", he met Sister Fen. You have become obscure and no one loves you."

Wu Jing:......

Heartbroken.

Zhang Jin casually mentioned: "But speaking of which, Director Zhou, the first-day score of John Wick is indeed much worse than our last time shooting New World. I remember that the opening score of New World was 9.6."

Wu Jing was shocked: "So many!"

He hadn't paid attention to the initial ratings for New World.

When I heard the score of 9.6 for the first time, I admired Zhou Mo even more.

"Director Zhou, you are so awesome."

Zhou Mo waved his hand: "Don't be so surprised. John Wick and New World are not the same kind of movies. The latter is based on the plot, so it is normal for the score to be high. John Wick is different. The whole process is just about one word: cool. Such a movie will not perform badly, but the score will definitely not be too high.

In fact, the score of 8.6 was beyond my imagination. For me, I would be satisfied if the film scored just over points at the beginning. Now this score is more for my reputation.”

"But if the score is lowered a bit, wouldn't it be lowered to more than seven?"

Zhang Jin was a little confused.

He also knew that the initial ratings of the film were somewhat distorted.

But he found that Zhou Mo didn't seem to be particularly worried about the drop in scores.

“It’s fine if it’s lowered. In fact, in my opinion, a normal commercial movie, including a so-called popcorn movie, should maintain a score of more than 7 points.

If the score is lower than this, it means there are definitely some problems with the content.

If the score is high, it does not necessarily mean that the movie is more popular. Instead, it is more likely that the movie is too high-brow and has too small an audience.

And seven points is more, not more, not less, just right.”

When Wu Jing heard this, he seemed to be thinking about something.

He used to be one of those who pursued high scores, but now after listening to Zhou Mo's explanation, he found that there might be some problems with his previous thinking.

Simply improving the artistry of commercial films will not necessarily enhance the quality of the work, but may instead make the film look neither fish nor fowl.

The first thing a commercial film should do is to meet the audience’s aesthetic requirements.

Zhou Mo didn't care about the two people's reactions. He waved his hand and said, "Let's not talk about the score. Let's talk about you two. What crime did you commit for scaring me this time?"

Zhang Jinxian raised his hand: "I am willing to accept the punishment. Just punish me to be an actor and make movies for Director Zhou forever in this life!"

Wu Jing followed closely behind.

"Me too!"

Zhou Mo laughed and scolded: "You two want beauty, but I, the director, have a lot of stars to take care of. It's a waste of resources to just make a movie for you two."

The three of them went downstairs to eat.

Zhou Mo explained the next tasks to Zhang Jin and Wu Jing.

Let them cooperate with the company to shoot some promotional videos in the afternoon.

Zhou Mo specifically reminded: "Make sure to highlight the action of reloading the pistol."

Zhang Jin exclaimed, "Director Zhou, your idea is really novel. I never thought that just changing the bullet could be the core of a movie's promotion."

For a long time, one of the points that audiences often complain about in commercial gun battle films is that the weapons of both the protagonist and the villain in the movie are like the Golden Desert Eagle in the main god space, with unlimited bullets.

The protagonist holds a small pistol and can shoot hundreds of bullets from beginning to end without any process of changing bullets.

But "John Wick" is different. The protagonist not only knows how to change bullets, but the action of changing bullets is also very cool.

Of course Zhou Mo would not miss this publicity highlight.

He had already prepared the relevant video in advance.

The name is "Replacing Cancer".

Just wait until the company starts promoting it and then send the video out from the website.

On the other side, Wu Jing took out a small notebook and kept taking notes.

He wanted to record every good idea he got from Zhou Mo and use them in his own movies in the future.

Zhou Mo didn't mind, instead he encouraged him to record.

After all, the more Wu Jing learns now, the higher the level of "Wolf Warrior" will be when he shoots it in the future, and the more successful the movie will be.

As an investor of Wolf Warriors, the more money he makes.

'I am such a kind person!'

Zhou Mo felt emotional.

……

After dinner, Zhang and Wu took a car back to the company.

Zhou Mo returned to his room to continue writing the script.

Just got halfway through.

Da Tiantian rushed to the hotel.

"Zhou Mo, the first day box office results are out."

"How many?"

"Forty-four million, it's even higher than the performance of New World." Da Tiantian was very happy: "Zhou Mo, do you think it's possible for John Wick to break 600 million?"

Zhou Mo shook his head.

"Not necessarily. It depends on the subsequent performance."

Da Tiantian was curious: "Why, do you think that the subsequent performance of "Fast and Furious" may not be as good as "New World"?"

"of course."

　Chapter two
　　
　
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