Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 265 There is no worst, only worse
Zhou Mo's speech at the roadshow finally made the bosses and directors who were envious of the special effects technology breathe a sigh of relief.

Just be willing to cooperate.

But then another problem arises.

How high a level of special effects technology can be used? Can it be as good as that of "Lucy"?
Many people do not have hope for the answer to this question.

It is common in the film industry for technology to be sold at a discount.

A large number of domestic teams cooperated with Hollywood special effects companies. They paid the money and signed the contracts, but the level of special effects did not meet expectations.

Many bosses and directors actually didn't have any hope.

I just habitually arranged for someone to ask again at the "Lucy" roadshow the next day.

Who would have thought that Zhou Mo's answer would make many people drop their jaws in surprise.

"You asked if I could use the same level of special effects as in Lucy? Of course I could. Since I have decided to market the technology, I will not be secretive.

Of course, there are conditions for getting a contract.”

Reporter: “What conditions?”

"You have to pay more."

On the stage, Zhou Mo's smile was particularly friendly.

……

That night.

The data of "Lucy" has just been released.

Fifty-four million.

Rated 8.1.

Da Tiantian was ecstatic. She rolled on the bed and howled, "Fifty million, fifty million! I am the queen. I shine with confidence..."

Zhou Mo looked at her and saw that she was only wearing two thin vests and shorts. After thinking for a while, he turned on the camera and recorded it.

There is no need to release the video.

Just take a look for yourself.

But if you make the audio, you can secretly use it as your wake-up ringtone in the future.

After going crazy for ten minutes, Da Tiantian's energy finally wore off and she lay on the bed, gasping for breath.

"Are you happy?"

"hold head high!"

"Will there be a party?"

"No!"

"Oh? Aren't you usually the one who likes to clamor to watch the banquet at this time? You are the only protagonist this time, why is it so abnormal?" Zhou Mo was a little curious.

"hold on."

Da Tiantian's eyes sparkled with wisdom: "One day's box office doesn't mean anything. What if the audience just came to support you because of your face? Wait a little longer, at least wait for three days, and then celebrate when the box office stabilizes. This time I want to make others speechless."

Having said that, Da Tiantian has actually already started dreaming sweet dreams in her heart.

The box office on the first day exceeded 50 million. If food and accommodation are included, the final box office will exceed 600 million.

Even 700 million is not impossible.

Seven hundred million.

Thinking of this number, a silly smile unconsciously appeared on Da Tiantian's lips.

A movie starring a female lead, with a box office of 700 million.

This is an achievement that many female stars find difficult to achieve even after many years of debut.

And she, Da Tiantian, will most likely reach this goal by 2013.

What a brilliant achievement!
What a dazzling light!

With this, she, Tiantian, has basically realized her original dream of entering the entertainment industry and becoming a famous movie star after "Lucy".

Thinking of this, Da Tiantian suddenly turned around and glanced at Zhou Mo.

Now that there are achievements, rewards must be given.

She is a sweet princess who always repays favors.

The biggest contributor to "Lucy" is undoubtedly Zhou Mo.

"What should I give him as a reward..." Da Tiantian rubbed her chin subconsciously, and her movements were exactly the same as Zhou Mo's usual habit of thinking about things.

She herself didn't even notice that many of her little habits had become the same as Zhou Mo's.

After a moment, Da Tiantian's eyes lit up.

Have it.

She remembered that Zhou Mo had said before that he wanted to live in a courtyard house and experience life there, so she might as well give him a courtyard house.

It just so happened that she had another house under her name, and she had rarely been there in the past.

It’s not very expensive anyway.

It just so happened that he had given away several houses before, and Zhou Mo was probably tired of receiving them.

A courtyard house is just right.

Behind him, Zhou Mo had finished filming.

He glanced at his phone, as if he had suddenly seen a new world, and suddenly said: "Tiantian, are you sure you don't want to hold a party?"

Da Tiantian shook her head.

It just so happens that the property processing will take some time, so let’s celebrate together later.

"Didn't you say to wait a little longer? What's wrong?"

"If you don't celebrate, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains will."

"celebrate?"

Da Tiantian was stunned: "They had a high box office on the first day?"

"Yes, fifty million."

“How could that be? Didn’t people say that ‘Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains’ was a bad movie? A first-day box office of 50 million can’t be called a bad movie.” Da Tiantian was a little incredulous.

After she reacted, she stared at Zhou Mo in shock, her eyes changing continuously. Within just a few seconds, Zhou Mo understood three meanings from the girl's changing eyes.

Did you flip over?

Hahaha, is there going to be a day when you, Zhou Mo, fail?
Why don’t you say anything... Did something really happen?
Zhou Mo said helplessly: "Tiantian, do you really want to see me fall over?"

Da Tiantian: "Not really... I'm just a little curious... Hehehe, cough, yes, I'm just curious."

Zhou Mo took a deep breath and said, "Next time when you express your curiosity, can you please cover the corners of your mouth?"

"...I'll try my best." Da Tiantian finally controlled her facial expression and noticed that Zhou Mo didn't look disappointed from beginning to end, so she reacted.

"Could there be some other situation? Did they cheat with tickets? Or steal the box office revenue?"

"That's not the case."

"It's not ticket fraud, nor is it stealing the box office? So what's going on?"

“They were rated very poorly.”

"The rating is very low? How low can it be?" Da Tiantian took the phone from Zhou Mo.

In her opinion, a popular commercial film should score more than seven points. If the quality is poor, the score will drop to more than six points.

As for movies with a score of more than five points, they can already be called bad movies.

However, considering the earth-shattering and soul-stirring script of "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains", Da Tiantian initially guessed that it was around four o'clock.

But when she saw the box office of "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains", she was still shocked.

2.3. "This is too low." Da Tiantian was a little surprised: "I have watched movies for so many years, but I have never seen such a low score. This should be the lowest score in the Chinese film industry."

Zhou Mo reminded her.

"Don't jump to conclusions yet, wait and see."

See again?

Da Tiantian lowered her head and was surprised to find that in the half minute she was talking, the rating of "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" had dropped from 2.3 to 2.2.

“Can it be lowered?”

"Well, this score is probably due to the fact that the lowest score on these movie rating websites is two points. Otherwise, it would be even lower."

"Then your Little Blue Book also has a movie rating system, right? And I remember setting it to zero points. How many points does Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains have in the Little Blue Book?"

Zhou Mo also just realized that he had deliberately cancelled the minimum guarantee mechanism of the Little Blue Book film review system.

Open the little blue book.

Found "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains".

next second.

The score of 0.6 almost blinded Zhou Mo and Da Tiantian’s titanium dog eyes.

"As expected, the guys on Tieba are still straightforward." Zhou Mo said silently.

"I don't think that's right."

"How to say?"

"According to the temper of the guys on the forum, 0.6 points for this movie is still too high." Da Tiantian spoke with the tone of an old driver who has been hanging around in the forums for many years.

Zhou Mo analyzed rationally: "Your analysis is actually correct. I guess the crew of Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains bought the Water General."

He just took a quick glance at the comment section and saw that the format of several comments was obviously a template.

Da Tiantian also saw it and turned to look at Zhou Mo.

"To be honest, the gap between the ratings and the box office is a bit too outrageous."

"It's not so bad. The publicity for Dwelling in the Mountain was too big. Liu Dehua, Tong Dawei, and Kurosawa are all famous. In addition, when the director was promoting the film, he directly hyped it up as a stream of consciousness and a creative genre. The audience would take a look even out of curiosity.

But at the same time, because of their publicity, they attracted too many passers-by, which led to the film's score being like this. Otherwise, it might not have gotten this score."

Although from Zhou Mo's perspective, "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" is undoubtedly a completely bad movie.

But human XP is so varied, and if "Mountain Dwelling Picture" hadn't attracted so many people, maybe we could have found a few people with strange systems who liked it.

"By the way, you just said that Director Sun of 'Mountain Dwelling' is going to hold a banquet? Their ratings are so low, and they still dare to hold a banquet?" Da Tiantian was a little unable to understand this move.

How dare they hold a banquet when the reputation of the movie is like this?

This is not just popping champagne at halftime, but drinking poison right from the start.

"This is not what I said. This was posted by Director Sun himself. Moreover, he not only posted it on Weibo, but also on various platforms, as if he was afraid that others would not see his celebration." Zhou Mo was once again deeply shocked by Director Sun's ability to make things happen.

Every time when he thought Director Sun was doomed, the other party would make him brighten up.

I just don’t know how Brother Hua is doing.

It must be very hard to have a director like that around and be treated as a "close friend" all the time.

……

at the same time.

The crew of "Mountain Dwelling".

Andy Lau is trying hard to persuade Director Sun not to hold the banquet. He has always insisted that for the audience, there must be at least one of the quality of the work and the attitude of the actors.

There is no need to say much about the quality of "Mountain Dwelling Picture" now.

Just a bunch of replies.

Then we should show enough humility to the audience.

This will at least help save some impression points.

So that the reputation will not fall below the trust line.

"Director, I don't think we should rush the banquet. After all, this is only our first day, and we still have a long roadshow to go. If we celebrate now, it might affect our reputation."

Liu Dehua's words quickly resonated with others.

Everyone showed off their talents and racked their brains to persuade Director Sun.

Director Sun sat at the table, listened to everyone's words with a smile, and waved his hand.

“I know that you are all anxious after seeing the ratings of our movie, but don’t be anxious… After all, the ratings are just a reaction to the movie. Don’t forget that our first-day box office of 50 million is also a reaction.

If low ratings are evidence of a poor film performance, then the first-day box office results simply prove that our film is very good.

In the final analysis, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains is a commercial film, and everyone wants to achieve both critical acclaim and box office success, but these two things are often not achieved at the same time...

I know that my words may not carry enough weight since this is my first time directing a movie, but didn’t Director Zhou Mo once say that good commercial films often don’t get high ratings, because they are too highbrow to be accepted by the general public, and commercial films should be broadened...right, Andy Lau?"

When Liu Dehua was cueed, his mouth twitched. He nodded subconsciously, but he reacted immediately.

wipe.

You also know that Director Zhou said that you can't have both ratings and box office.

But the problem is that Director Zhou said you can't have both, that is, the score is over 7 points and the box office has exceeded 1 billion, what is your score?
2.3!

Is this also called you can't have both?
This is not the case at all.

"But Director Zhou also said..." Liu Dehua wanted to finish his words, but Director Sun didn't give him a chance at all. Before Liu Dehua could finish a few words, he immediately said:

"If I have to choose one, I would rather choose box office success."

Liu Dehua: …

tired.

Destroyed.

Really.

On the other hand, the mentality of the main creators did calm down after Director Sun’s explanation.

Although they still have some concerns in their hearts, most actors make movies to make money.

As for the evaluation, as long as you can make money, it doesn’t matter if the evaluation is low.

the other side.

Director Sun is still producing.

“In addition, I believe you all know that our Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains is completely different from previous commercial films. It is a completely new subject matter.

In the past, when new films and new themes first came out, they were bound to be questioned to some extent, but this kind of questioning is only temporary. As long as our box office is maintained, the ratings will naturally rise! "Director Sun gave the crew another shot of adrenaline.

"Oh, Director Sun, do you mean that we still have a chance to turn our reputation around in the future?"

Director Sun smiled slightly and held up three fingers.

"Three days, just three days, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains will gain both fame and fortune, so don't worry, let's drink to our heart's content!"

After a series of operations, Director Sun successfully reversed the decadent mental state of the crew and even improved the morale.

Only Andy Lau and Tong Darkwei were still communicating with each other.

Tong: "Brother Hua, I'm panicking now."

Hua: "Don't look at me, I'm even more panicked."

Tong: "Then what should we do?"

What?

Liu Dehua looked up silently.

Let's contact Director Zhou tomorrow and do the interview as soon as possible, so that we can be less affected...

(End of this chapter)