Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 112 Foreign Enemies Attack
It was early February.

With the withdrawal of "John Wick" from theaters, the 2012 Lunar New Year holiday season has come to an end.

But this does not mean that the film market will enter a cooling-off period.

Because the next schedule: the Spring Festival schedule has quietly approached the audience.

The 2012 Spring Festival movie season was not very lively.

There are no big directors.

There are no big productions.

The only thing that caught Zhou Mo's attention was a movie called "The Time and Space Rescue".

Released quietly.

Another silent failure.

someday.

Da Tiantian saw Zhou Mo watching "The Rescue" and asked curiously: "Zhou Mo, why are you watching such a crappy movie?"

Zhou Mo looked weird: "Tiantian, you said this movie is a bad movie?"

"Is not it?"

When Da Tiantian heard Zhou Mo's question, she doubted herself for the first time and said, "That's not right. The script of this movie was sent to our company before. They wanted to invest in it, but I rejected it after reading it. The heroine in the movie is a pure love-brained person. As a princess, she quickly fell in love with someone after someone said she was pretty.

I can't imagine what kind of mental state the screenwriter of this movie was in when he wrote the script.

The most important thing is that the director of this movie, Lam Tsai Chung, actually wanted to invite me to play his leading female role, but I rejected him at the time.

Are you kidding me? How could I agree to such a weird request of asking people to invest and star in a bad movie at the same time? I am not a fool!"

Da Tiantian was very angry.

She actually knew Lam Tsai Chung.

"Chinese Paladin III" was very popular back then, and she was deeply impressed by the role of Mau Mau played by Lam Tsai Chung.

So at the beginning, when Lam Tsai Chung came to the door and expressed his hope to get investment, Da Tiantian specially entertained him.

Then, she was blinded by the script of "The Chronicles of Time".

Not to mention the messy plot setting.

The characters of the male and female protagonists are also a mess.

So, when Da Tiantian heard that Lam Tsai Chung invited her to play the leading female role.

Da Tiantian got angry on the spot.

I treat you as a friend, and you want me to star in a bad movie?

Or the heroine?
So, she directly rejected the movie and didn't even let Zhou Mo read the script.

Zhou Mo: ...

Too many flaws.

I didn't know what to say for a moment.

"By the way, have you seen the news released by the Film Bureau a few days ago? It said that the Rabbit and the Eagle reached an agreement on a bilateral memorandum of understanding on WTO film-related issues..."

Zhou Mo nodded.

"Of course I heard about it. The Film Bureau called me to attend the meeting this afternoon."

Da Tiantian felt a little strange when she saw Zhou Mo's calm expression.

"Why do I feel like you're not panicking at all? Foreign blockbusters are about to come in droves, and the domestic film market will definitely be affected by that."

"Just come in, there's no point in panicking. We small fry can't change the general trend anyway, so just accept it."

Zhou Mo spread his hands: "Besides, even if I want to make a new movie this year, the earliest it will be released will be at the end of the year. Before that, other directors will have been baptized by foreign films. It's still a long way to go for me."

"Hey, so you were planning to let others explore the way so that you can take advantage of the situation later."

Da Tiantian stretched out a scallion-white finger and pointed at Zhou Mo's cheek: "But don't forget, my "When a Man Falls in Love" is scheduled to be released before October. Can you bear to watch me being destroyed by a foreign blockbuster?"

"Then what do you want to do?" Zhou Mo asked in cooperation.

"Why don't you take the photo?" Da Tiantian showed her fox tail.

She still only trusts Zhou Mo.

But Zhou Mo could only disappoint her this time.

Zhou Mo filmed "Love Is Not Blind" on the one hand to get resources and let the rich woman Da Tiantian work for him, and on the other hand because love movies have a high bottom line and are easy to achieve results.

The performance of "Love Broken" did not disappoint him.

The box office of 400 million established his position in the film industry.

Therefore, in the short term, Zhou Mo really has no intention of making another romance movie.

It is difficult to break through itself in terms of box office or subject matter.

After all, although romance movies are easy to make, their limits are also obvious.

"Tiantian, I really don't want to make another love movie."

Zhou Mo looked at Da Tiantian's disappointed look and consoled her, "But you don't have to worry too much. In fact, when "When a Man Falls in Love" is released, the foreign blockbusters you know may not affect your new movie."

Da Tiantian: "What do you mean?"

"Two reasons." Zhou Mo stretched out two fingers.

"On the one hand, foreign blockbusters are not necessarily excellent. There are good and bad movies from any place, and you may not come across those blockbusters."

"That makes sense. What about the other one?"

"On the other hand, as a romantic film, When a Man Falls in Love only has a limited audience, so there is no need to compare it with those blockbusters. In fact, it is highly unlikely that people will regard you as a competitor."

Da Tiantian: ...

Reason told her that Zhou Mo was right.

But what's going on with this feeling of not knowing whether to be happy or sad?

……

in the afternoon.

Zhou Mo took a car to the Film Bureau.

With Ren Zhonglun.

In the car, Ren Zhonglun and Zhou Mo were chatting about matters related to "Victory is Justice".

The drama will premiere in a while.

"Director Zhou, I still need you to pay more attention to the publicity."

"No problem. The video has been prepared a long time ago and will be broadcast on the website in the next two days."

As Da Tiantian starred in an urban drama again after a few years, Zhou Mo also put a lot of effort into promoting it.

Previously, many of the movie promotional videos that Lizhan had taken on were actually not made by him.

The company has developed now, so there is no need for him, the boss, to take action all the time.

The site relies on its own team and a group of creative UP hosts.

It is sufficient to meet the publicity needs of most film and television works on the market.

But this time, he personally took action again to promote Victory.

He made another mashup.

"Love Is Not Blind" and "Victory is Justice" were edited together.

The two plays were adapted into one story.

Da Tiantian and Guo Jingfei knew each other because of their profession as lawyers, but eventually broke up after constant quarrels.

The name of the video is:
《So this is the reason for your breakup? 》

As for the cover, it is not a still from "Victory".

Instead, it is a still from the "breakup" scene of Da Tiantian and Guo Jingfei in "Love Is Not Blind".

After seeing it, Ren Zhonglun exclaimed that it was awesome.

"Director Zhou, you are such a genius. You actually edited these two works together. The idea is so ingenious."

Zhou Mo waved his hands, thinking that this was nothing.

He was just standing on the shoulders of giants.

The real talented ones are the netizens.

In his previous life, he had even seen a mashup of "Chen Peisi and Lin Daiyu".

Arrived at the Film Bureau.

The seat in the room had already been prepared.

The two separated.

Ren Zhonglun was sitting in the first row, next to him were Han Sanping and several other big names who often appeared on TV.

Han Sanping saw Zhou Mo from afar, greeted him, and made a gesture.

Indicated that I would meet him after the meeting.

Zhou Mo nodded and walked to his seat.

His position is slightly behind.

When you sit down, the seats next to you are mostly empty.

He and Ren Zhonglun arrived earlier.

After a while, people started to sit down next to me one after another. They all looked exhausted and their faces did not look very good.

It seems that after receiving the news, everyone is worried about the future situation.

　I've been typing so much these past two days that I've become confused.

　　I type very slowly, please forgive me.

　　I just realized today that I skipped 012.

　　awkward.

　　I'll resume comments after some time. I really can't take care of it these two days.

　　Please forgive me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)