Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 134 Chu-Han Filming Begins

"Lucy".

A single-female lead movie starring Black Widow, with elements of science fiction, fantasy, religion, and theology.

Many people say that this movie is not a pure science fiction movie, as it contains too much mixed content and is a bit confusing.

In the second half of the movie, the heroine managed to travel through time and went back to who knows how many years ago to "enlighten" a monkey, allowing it to develop to a higher level of intelligence, and finally evolve into humans generation by generation.

In any case, one thing is certain: this is a very popular commercial film.

Zhou Mo remembered that when this movie was in post-production in its previous life, its special effects were created by "Industrial Madness", the official visual effects team of "Transformers".

Similarly, if Zhou Moruo wants to replicate Luc Besson's performance in "Lucy" in this lifetime, when filming in the future, he should either contact a top film special effects company to do the post-production.

Or rely on your own team to produce special effects.

The question is whether Zhou Mo has a special effects team?

The answer is not yet, but soon.

Because since the "Chu and Han" project was launched, he received a notification from the system.

[This optimization target: The script content of "Legend of the Hongmen Banquet (Chu-Han)"]

[Optimization Reward: A Complete Special Effects Company]

According to the convention that "system products must be high-quality", the level of this film company may not be as good as those well-known international top special effects companies, but it should have no problem completing the post-production of "Lucy".

In early April, Zhou Mo, who had completely finished all the work at hand, came to the crew of "Chu and Han".

Two days before the crew officially started running.

Early in the morning, Zhou Mo saw He Rundong working as a blacksmith with his upper body naked.

The tinkling sound kept coming.

Beside him were Huang Xiaoming, Duan Yihong, and Zhang Yi who were watching nearby.

Whenever He Rundong clamped the red-hot iron tools with pliers and put them into cold water, making a "hissing" sound, a group of male comrades would cheer in unison.

"handsome!"

"Brother Dong is awesome."

"Let me fix it too."

Qin Lan and Liu Yifei are having breakfast.

Da Tiantian is not here, she went to be a friendly guest on "Lost in Thailand".

By the way, spend a few days in Sawadika.

Zhou Mo asked her if she needed to bring more people, and Da Tiantian replied that she didn't.

Her family has already made arrangements for her.

Zhou Mo passed by a circle formed by a group of male actors and reminded them, "Don't let anything go wrong. If something does happen, the crew will have to earn your insurance money."

After saying that, he took the breakfast and walked to a small room.

Chen Daoming was already sitting in the room with a newspaper in his hand.

Judging from his condition, he should have just finished breakfast.

"Hey, Emperor Gaozu of Han, what are you looking at so intently so early in the morning?" Zhou Mo made a joke.

Chen Daoming spread the newspaper on the table.

"What else could it be? Look at your great Director Zhou's amazing performance a while ago. He stopped the verbal war between the two places with just one sentence."

Zhou Mo took a look at the contents of the newspaper.

The content is that some time ago, at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, a group of Hong Kong filmmakers talked about the future of Chinese-language films and the entire domestic film market.

Among them, a group of old guys headed by Chen Kexin jumped out to speak, saying that in order to fight against the invasion of Hollywood movies, it is necessary to adopt a cooperation method between the two places, and because of the former glory of Hong Kong's film industry, it will be directed by Hong Kong's directors. The mainland film and television industry started late, developed slowly, and lacked high-end talents, so the mainland only needs to provide funds.

As soon as the news came out, there was a barrage of criticism from the mainland.

Many people in the industry think that these people have no shame at all.

Zhou Mo posted a status update that night.

The content is Chen Kexin's movie "Wu Xia", which grossed 1.7 million yuan.

There is a sentence attached.

Just two words.

"That's it?"

Once the news was released, it was forwarded, liked and supported by countless people inside and outside the industry.

"Well said. Hong Kong Film has been making bad movies for more than a year or two. "Wuxia" and "Red Cliff"... They are all squandering our money."

"Damn, Let the Bullets Fly is still at the top of the box office charts, and Chen Kexin is so arrogant that he doesn't know who he is anymore, right?"

"Have you explained the Straw Hat matter clearly? How dare you jump out?"

With the recognition of netizens, the number of new users of Lizhan increased several times in just two or three days.

The only thing that surprised Zhou Mo was that "Guan Yunchang" was among the movies criticized by netizens.

Zhuang Wenqiang was also scolded.

This guy found Zhou Mo with a feeling of grievance: "Director Zhou, I really didn't make any money, I just didn't shoot it well..."

He spent a full half hour proving something to Zhou Mo.

My friend really didn't spend money carelessly.

My friend is just too bad at making historical movies. …

"Hey, it's been a long time since then, it's not worth mentioning." Zhou Mo waved his hand: "Besides, you know that many people said that my speech destroyed unity."

Chen Daoming said seriously: "Director Zhou, you don't need to care about that group of people. Anyway, I, Chen Daoming, always support this kind of thing with both hands. If Director Zhou speaks out again next time, add me as one."

Zhou Mo was not surprised by Chen Daoming's words.

Although this person has always played some gentle roles on the screen.

For example, Gu Weijun.

In fact, he has a very bad temper.

Apart from the incident when Xiaobailong was beaten that year, this person was the first to speak out.

In the previous life, there was a little cannon who asked people to dance, and Chen Daoming was the only one who spoke up to stop him among the people at the table.

It can only be said that as a leader in the domestic film and television industry, Chen Daoming does have a chivalrous spirit.

"That's settled. I will definitely look for you in the future."

"no problem."

Chen Daoming smiled and said, "After all, we can't let Director Zhou bear such great pressure alone. We old guys haven't retired yet."

He mentioned one thing: "I remember that later Chen Kexin said that he wanted to compete with Director Zhou in movies?"

Zhou Mo nodded.

Of course, the film festival incident would not end as simply as Zhou Mo leaving after criticizing him. Perhaps it was because Chen Kexin was "targeted" by Zhou Mo twice in a row.

This time, he didn't say "no comment".

Instead, he announced loudly that the movie "The Guillotine" produced by him will also join the competition for the New Year's Day box office at the end of this year.

Including "The Guillotines", this is already the third movie that will compete with Zhou Mo at the end of the year.

"Big Shanghai" by Du Qifeng.

"The King's Feast" by Rikutaro.

If we add "1942", which we don't know if it will become the enemy's small cannon, we can make up a complete mahjong table.

In this regard, Chen Daoming asked: "Does Director Zhou feel a lot of pressure? After all, he is facing a group of directors chasing and blocking him."

"Absolutely not."

Zhou Mo was very calm: "Too many lice don't itch, too much debt doesn't worry, just a few rotten fish and shrimps, not enough for me to beat with one hand."

According to the situation in his previous life, at the end of 2012, there was only one movie in the film industry that Zhou Mo really took seriously.

That is Lost in Thailand.

But the current situation is that even "Lost in Thailand" was invested by him, and he also served as a producer.

To some extent, "Lost in Thailand" can also be considered his movie.

The two kings and four twos are in his hands.

Why should others fight him?

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Zhou Mo's confident reaction infected Chen Daoming, who said with some emotion: "Young people are still very motivated. Even I was a little nervous when I heard that our film would compete with so many directors a few days ago."

Zhou Mo was satisfied with Chen Daoming's word "we".

He glanced at Chen Daoming and said with a smile: "Teacher Chen, I didn't expect you to be nervous too."

"After all, it's a big movie with a 200 million investment."

Chen Daoming was not embarrassed to say that he was nervous. At his level, he could say whatever he wanted most of the time.

"Besides, ever since I saw Director Zhou's script for Chu and Han, I realized that something went wrong with the filming of The Legend of Chu and Han."

"Oh?" Zhou Mo was a little curious.

"The plot of The Legend of Chu and Han is a bit dragged out." Chen Daoming sighed: "Besides that, I found that the Liu Bang I portrayed before was a bit... elegant."

Zhou Mo raised his eyebrows.

"Teacher Chen feels that your previous shots of Liu Bang were not popular enough?"

He also thought that Chen Daoming had always been very confident in his role as Liu Bang.

In the past, the portrayal of Liu Bang in "The Legend of Chu and Han" was the most controversial topic among the audience.

Many viewers believe that Chen Daoming is not playing the role of Liu Bang in "Records of the Grand Historian", who was born in an ordinary family, had a heroic character but a flexible bottom line, but is a re-edition of Kangxi.

Chen Daoming nodded: "This is also what I discovered in the later stages of filming The Legend of Chu and Han. When I read the script before, I habitually brought in some of the feelings I had when I played Kangxi. It was not until I was halfway through the performance that I slowly found the 'rogue' feeling that was unique to Liu Bang. Unfortunately, it was too late to change it at that time."

When Zhou Mo heard this, he was secretly delighted.

In fact, he also felt that Chen Daoming's portrayal of Liu Bang in "The Legend of Chu and Han" was a bit too pretentious.

The Liu Bang he wanted to portray in "Chu and Han" this time is a more "slippery" character.

Gifted.

But more cunning
However, Chen Daoming's Liu Bang actually deviated from his original plan.

In addition, actors of Chen Daoming's level often have a certain pattern when acting in movies.

Moreover, this pattern is subconscious and difficult to detect and change.

Chen Daoming's pattern is that once he plays the role of a royal relative, he finds it particularly easy to act well.

(End of this chapter)