Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 167: Da Tiantian No. and the Four Girls
Time quickly came to the end of September.

The flames of war in gear eleven have completely ignited.

The two who fought the most fiercely, of course, were Fat Bing and Zhang Ziyi.

Before the filming, Zhang Ziyi promoted the movie and specially brought Xiao Sa out at a press conference. The two showed their affection in front of the camera.

It's a pity that the seductive glances are shown to a blind man.

The audience did not appreciate this.

Many people mocked Zhang Ziyi's past "beach incident".

In contrast, Pang Bing’s promotional method is much simpler.

Just promote the movie, don't do anything weird.

After the first day box office figures came out, the first day box office of "Double Exposure" exceeded 9 million and was close to 10 million, while the first day box office of "Dangerous Liaisons" was less than 7 million.

In this round, Fat Bing won a great victory.

"What do you call this wave? When the clam and the oyster fight, the fisherman gains."

Zhou Mo's publicity department issued an order to start the final wave of publicity for "When a Man Falls in Love".

He chose this time deliberately.

It is just to wait until Pang Bing and Zhang Ziyi decide the winner, and then "Love" will come out to reap the rewards.

Three love movies in one schedule.

As a rule of thumb, after watching the film again, the audience will definitely be able to distinguish the before and after.

"Zhou Mo, isn't it a bit unfair for us to do this? Sister Qiaoqiao even went out of her way to promote us at the premiere." Da Tiantian's words sounded silly.

Zhou Mo glanced at her.

This silly girl.

What time is it, and you are still thinking about others.

"Don't worry, Pang Bing won't mind these. Not to mention that she never thought of competing with us, for Pang Bing, the winner of a movie will not affect her status, but if she can beat Zhang Ziyi, she will make a fortune. I guess, "Iron Man 3" should find Pang Bing after this schedule."

"So there is this deeper meaning." Da Tiantian suddenly realized.

Zhou Mo nodded and gave some advice, "So, at the premiere this afternoon, during the interview session after the movie is over, you can invite Fan Qiaoqiao to say a few more words. She will definitely praise you without thinking."

Da Tiantian hummed twice, indicating that she had taken note of it.

The time comes in the afternoon.

Zhou Mo and Da Tiantian sat in the corner.

A touch of sweet little hands.

My palms are full of sweat.

"nervous?"

"Yeah, a little excited."

"I'm not excited, why are you excited?" Zhou Mo joked.

"Screw you."

Da Tiantian tried to pinch Zhou Mo's palm hard, but failed several times because of the sweat left on the latter's hand.

In a fit of rage, he simply picked up Zhou Mo's hand, put it in his mouth and took a light bite.

"Pah, so salty."

Zhou Mo chuckled and said, "You said that yourself. I didn't do anything. So you might as well stop calling me Da Tiantian and call me Da Yanyan instead."

In the darkness, Da Tiantian gave Zhou Mo a blank look and then leaned on him.

"This is the first time you're not around when I'm filming a movie."

Zhou Mo waved his hand: "It doesn't matter, there will be more and more opportunities like this in the future."

Da Tiantian: ...

"Do you want to die!"

"Are you still nervous?"

"I'm not nervous anymore. Now I just want to bite you."

Zhou Mo smiled and felt the feeling of Da Tiantian's little canine teeth rubbing against his fingertips.

Hehehe smiled.

"Don't worry, I have confidence in my script."

Meanwhile, the movie just started.

Zhou Mo and Da Tiantian stopped playing and looked at the screen.

Although I have seen the finished film before, the feeling between the big screen and the small screen is a world apart.

Zhou Mo also wanted to see what the sweet version of the innocent girl was like.

After a moment, looking at Da Tiantian on the screen, whose eyes were often filled with fear but who forced herself to be strong and tried to communicate with the male protagonist, Zhou Mo nodded with satisfaction.

In any case, this sweet dessert has completely met his expectations.

Compared to the original version where the heroine always has a slight feeling of "Although my father owes money, the hero comes to collect the debt and shows me a favor, but I still have some conditions to put forward", Da Tiantian's version of the performance is much softer.

She went from being afraid at first to being concerned later.

She would do things for the male protagonist within her ability, help him mend his clothes, and after knowing his work, she would pray for him.

At the same time, she is also working hard to make money, trying to reduce the male protagonist's burden.

Because she already knew that the male protagonist forgave her debt, which did not mean that she did not have to pay it back.

Instead, the male protagonist took on the debt alone.

Gradually, two lonely hearts touched each other.

The two fell in love.

Just when their lives were getting on track, things took a sharp turn for the worse.

The male protagonist was cheated of money by the gang leader and beaten up.

The heroine waited at the marriage registration office for a whole day, but never saw her other half.

At night, the heroine saw the hero covered in blood and asked him the reason.

In order to prevent the heroine from worrying about him, the hero concealed his illness and instead spoke harshly to her, trying to drive his lover away.

After the heroine left, the hero was arrested and imprisoned because of a conflict with someone.

A few years later.

The hero is released after serving his sentence, but his time is running out.

The heroine has her own job, but remains single.

Here, Zhou Mo changed the plot of the heroine's blind date and deliberately exaggerated the heroine's singleness.

Like the male protagonist, she also can't let go.

Finally, by chance, the heroine found the hero lying on the side of the road with blood all over his face. The truth came out, and the heroine accompanied the hero for the last time.

Looking at the screen, Da Tiantian’s face was full of tears, and she was crying so heartbreakingly.

Zhou Mo nodded with satisfaction.

There are many movies that are 99% good in the beginning, but fail to hold up at the very end, which ruins the final emotion of the movie and causes subsequent box office problems.

But Da Tiantian didn’t do that.

Her crying scene successfully followed up Sun Honglei's previous monologue.

"Love" is secure.

It's time for the interview.

As Zhou Mo expected, Fan Qiaoqiao praised the movie and Da Tiantian highly, and said that the person with the best performance in romance movies in China is Da Tiantian.

And I am optimistic about the subsequent performance of "Love".

Fan Qiaoqiao's words are very insightful.

The word "achievement" can be referred to as the quality of the script, the acting skills of the actors, or the box office of the movie.

It can be put on anyway.

So far, "33 Days" has a box office of 400 million, which is indeed the best result in China.

These words not only praised Da Tiantian, but also definitely did not offend anyone else.

After Fan Qiaoqiao finished his speech, the host called Zhou Mo again.

"When a Man Falls in Love" is not as star-studded as "The Swordsman of the Qi Family", and needs Zhou Mo to support the show.

"Director Zhou, as the screenwriter of this drama, we can see many plots that are commonly used in TV dramas in the past, such as fighting, imprisonment, and cancer. I would like to ask if you felt that these plots were a bit...old-fashioned?"

Zhou Mo picked up the microphone and said: "'When a Man Falls in Love' is a typical love movie, which is basically not mixed with any other movie elements. Under such circumstances, it is inevitable that the movie story will be repetitive.

But I think the core of a movie is to tell a good story. As long as the story is told well and the old-fashioned content can move people and resonate with them, the movie will be successful.”

After talking about the movie, he added another sentence.

"Of course, I'm talking about making a movie. You can't take my words as wisdom in real life. Putting old wine in new bottles will easily make your girlfriend angry."

As soon as he finished speaking, a laugh broke out in the screening room.

Many people realized that Zhou Mo was talking about an artist under Huayi some time ago, who would give his girlfriend a heart-shaped stone every time he fell in love.

Later, when the artist’s new girlfriend posted on Weibo to show off her “gift”, her ex-girlfriend came to her and said that she also had one.

It is also "unique".

Another corner of the cinema.

The three beauties from "Legend of Sword and Fairy" plus Liu Yifei, the four of them sat together again.

At this moment, four people were whispering.

"Sissi, what do you think of this movie?"

Liu Yifei was very panicked. She felt like she was going to be beheaded again.

Three days ago, her other movie "Tongquetai" was released.

The box office on the first day was 9.5 million.

It didn’t break eight figures.

Now, after watching "When a Man Loves", I feel that based on the quality of this movie, it should be no problem to make 20 million on the first day.

“It’s pretty good. I feel it’s much better than Dangerous Liaisons and Double Exposure.”

It is impossible to compare yourself.

There is no way I can compare myself in this life.

Liu Yifei is very aware of herself.

I will never mention "Men in Love" again, so as not to become a target.

Let them fight each other in a few steps.

The rival of my "Tongquetai" is "Tai Chi 1".

As both are historical movies, she doesn’t believe that the combination of herself and Huang Silang can be worse than that of Dabaobei and Liang Jiahui!
Liu Yifei's words made the other people emotional.

Yang Mi sighed.

"My film 'Da Wu Dang' also flopped. It was so tragic."

Because of the existence of "The Swordsman of the Qi Family", this life's "Da Wudang" was filmed some time later and was not released until September.

The final box office is estimated to be less than 50 million.

Tang Yan: "I'm not as good as you. I don't even have any other movies except "The Qi Family Blade", and I have to make micro movies myself."

The same people from the end of the world, why do they know each other when they meet.

The three of them looked at each other, and a common thought flashed through their minds.

In the future, I must hold on to Zhou Mo's thighs.

On the side, Liu Shishi didn't dare to speak.

Of the four, her path is the only one that is currently secure.

"Huashan" has been reported.

Therefore, it is better not to provoke the others.

Liu Shishi changed the subject: "I even think the level of this movie is higher than Love Is Not Blind."

"It should be the actors' problem. Brother Hong Lei's acting skills are definitely better than Lei Jiayin's at that time. Tiantian's acting skills have also improved compared to two years ago." Tang Yan analyzed.

"What about the box office? How much do you think it will be?" This is what Yang Mi is most concerned about.

The other three women shook their heads and did not give an answer.

"The quality of the film is very good, but after all, it was not directed by Director Zhou, and the overall tone is too sad to be evaluated."

On the other side, Zhou Mo and Da Tiantian finished the interview.

Da Tiantian also asked this question.

"Zhou Mo, how do you think the results are?"

"Two hundred million, maybe fifty million at most." Zhou Mo gave a rough range.

"Ah? So little?" Da Tiantian was a little dissatisfied.

Zhou Mo smiled and gave her a slap on the head: "You are still not satisfied with 200 million. If Zhang Ziyi and Pang Bing knew this number, they would probably laugh in their sleep."

"But when we were filming 33 Days, we made million yuan."

"But our movie has a death. Naturally, audiences want a happy ending. Death and the like will get higher reviews, but it will also reduce the box office."

Da Tiantian was somewhat helpless and jokingly complained:
"If I had known, I would have changed the script to have a perfect ending!"

(End of this chapter)