The superstar starts from the creation camp

Chapter 185 Those Years.

Li Mu took it over and saw that it was actually a script.

After about a quarter of an hour, Li Mu closed the script and smiled at Director Yang, "Are you planning to make a movie?"

Director Yang nodded solemnly.

Speaking of it, although the film and television industry looks like a circle, it is actually two systems. Movies and TV are also completely two types of carriers. To put it simply, TV dramas do not need to be charged after all. Members, and movies not only have to pay for tickets, but also undertake very important social tasks.

Therefore, whether it is a film director or a film actor, psychologically, they have certain advantages over those who are mixed in the TV drama circle.

Li Mu once heard a joke in the industry about two actors meeting and saying hello, actor A asked actor B: "What have you been doing lately?"

"Hey, let's eat together."

"Oh, acting in a TV series."

"how about you?"

"Me? I'm doing art." This is talking about acting in movies.

Speaking of which, this joke only came about after the development of the mainland film and television industry. After all, before Xiangjiang, movie actors were paid far more than TV drama actors. It can be said to have both fame and fortune. The name also sharpened his head to develop into a movie actor.

But it’s different in the mainland. The land is vast and the resources are abundant. The long-term impact of TV dramas is higher than that of movies, and the income of TV dramas is not less than that of movies. Often some TV drama actors can get tens of millions of remuneration, while movie actors can get such high remuneration. It can be said to be rare.

And due to the different media, the small screen of TV dramas does limit the creativity of creators. It is normal for Director Yang to want to cross this threshold to shoot movies.

Speaking of TV dramas and movies, there are not many who can really cross this threshold. For example, the well-known director Zhao Baogang is definitely a master in the TV drama industry. The director’s debut film "Untouchable" was also full of confidence at the beginning. , and shouted the slogan of 5000 million box office, but the total box office was only [-] million, which was a miserable loss. Later, I could only return to the field I was familiar with and continue filming TV dramas.

"The script is not bad, but it's a bit too dark. Director Yang, to be honest, children of our generation rarely have similar painful experiences. Is your movie a bit too artistic?" Li Mu actually said It's already very cryptic, and this script gives Li Mu the feeling that he is moaning without illness.

Some so-called art films are purely for the sake of abuse. In fact, neither the director nor the screenwriter has similar experience, nor have they gone deep into life to investigate. How can things imagining out of thin air impress the audience?

In the end, what was produced was not recognized by the audience, and they began to say that art films had no box office and that the theaters would not arrange films.

In fact, it makes sense. Most of the current audience are post-[-]s and post-[-]s. They are tolerant enough to various art forms. If the box office of movies is not good, or you are just shooting art, you are rushing to win awards. Then don't pay attention to the box office. It's obviously a bad film, but you want to put money on your face. What art film?It's really shameless to return the audience this year.

Director Yang hesitated for a moment. In fact, the script was quite good in her opinion, but Li Mu's previous success stories are there. Since he said there was a problem, he should be right.

Li Mu thought for a while: "Director Yang, why don't you put this script in my place first, I'll make some revisions in the past few days, and then submit it to the screenwriting team for evaluation. If it passes, the project can go through the process. "

When she heard that Li Mu wanted to change her script, Director Yang was really reluctant, but she had no choice but to let Li Mu be her boss, so she could only nod reluctantly. Of course, she also knew that her first play was aimed at the box office. Yes, it would be great to have Li Mu to help her check it out.

After Director Yang left, Li Mu was in a bit of trouble again. Director Yang's script was a campus youth movie, but it was full of all kinds of bloody polygamy, as well as various plots of abortion and cuckolds. Doubt, did I go to a fake high school?Why are there no such exciting plots?Studying and studying all day long?
When it comes to campus youth movies, the first thing that comes to mind must be [The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years]. This movie is also an autobiographical novel from the director [Nine Swords]. Even the protagonist [Ke Jingteng] All his real names.

Of course, the background of this movie is set in Baodao, and Li Mu needs to carry out a comprehensive background transformation, otherwise it will easily give people a feeling of inexplicable.

After dinner, Li Mu sat at the dining table and continued to revise the script. Wang Ziwen came over curiously and found that he was not writing a novel.

So he gently moved the stool, and obediently sat on the side to peek.

Li Mu didn't care, and the script was changed by less than a third until ten o'clock in the evening.

As soon as she stopped, Wang Ziwen leaned her head over and asked with a smile, "Tell me, is this Shen Jiayi set up according to the prototype of this lady? Did you covet this lady's beauty when you were in high school?"

"Small sample, you don't look pretty, but you think it's pretty." Li Mu laughed and cursed, and then was "beaten" by Wang Ziwen.

After the frolicking, Wang Ziwen hugged Li Mu's arm and pouted, "It doesn't matter, anyway, Shen Jiayi is me, so I changed all the buttons and WeChat signatures."

Well, Li Mu couldn't laugh or cry. Doesn't this girl know that after the movie is released, changing the signature to Shen Jiayi will become a trend?

It took Li Mu three days to revise the script, and changed the part of the plot where Ke Jingteng held a free fighting competition for Shen Jiayi to confessing his love to her at the school's college entrance examination swearing-in meeting, and before Shen Jiayi could react, Ke Jingteng was beaten by the teacher Taking him away, Ke Jingteng thought that Shen Jiayi didn't like him, and Shen Jiayi also felt that Ke Jingteng's approach was naive, and the two eventually drifted apart.

After receiving Li Mu's script, it took Director Yang almost half an hour to read it, almost watching it word for word.

"Mr. Li, isn't this script a bit too bland?"

Regarding Director Yang's suspicion, Li Mu really can't refute it. Compared with the previous plot, it is of course much more bland, but isn't the main theme of campus youth movies bland and nostalgic?

"Director Yang, you can submit this script to the marketing department for evaluation. Don't say that the script was revised by me. According to the evaluation report given by the marketing department, we will shoot it if it works. If it doesn't work, we will shoot your original one. Sample?"

Director Yang thought for a while: "Okay, this method is good."

Unsurprisingly, the final evaluation report given by the marketing department is that the script revised by Li Mu is very marketable in the current mainstream movie-watching age group.

"Okay, then I'll leave it to the screenwriter team to complete the details. By the way, boss, what about the protagonist of this movie? Should we still use our own people?" Director Yang asked.

Li Mu thought for a while and shook his head, "Let's use Chen Xuan as the male lead. He hasn't accepted a role recently. The female lead Jiang Yinyue doesn't quite match Li Miaomiao's temperament. Let's recruit outside."

Shi Ran on the side suggested, "I have someone to choose."

"Who?"

"How is Shen Meng?"

Director Yang didn't have much impression of the company's three new debut girls, but after seeing Shen Meng's photo, he immediately made a decision: "This girl is pretty good, she looks like the girl next door."

"The image is quite suitable, but Shen Meng has no filming experience at all, can she really be competent?" Li Mu was a little worried.

Let Shen Meng be the heroine of a movie all of a sudden, not because she is worried that she will affect the box office, but because if she does not meet the expectations of the audience, the audience will not care whether you are filming for the first time or not, and the pressure of public opinion may be overwhelming. crush her.

The reason why Li Mu didn't think of Shen Meng immediately was because he subconsciously felt that the timing was not ripe enough.

Director Yang patted his chest and said, "Boss, don't worry, it's my specialty to train actors, and her temperament is too similar to Shen Jiayi, she is acting in her true colors, there is nothing to worry about."

Li Mu was persuaded, nodded and said: "Okay, since that's the case, let Huang Zilan play the role of Shen Jiayi's best friend. One goose is chased away, and two geese are also let go."

"Haha~~~~You." Director Yang was annoyed and funny by what Li Mu said, and left the office contentedly with the script.

But Shi Ran looked at Li Mu with some doubts: "You have arranged for these two girls, what about Liu Qinmei? Why don't you ask the screenwriter team to design a supporting role for her?"

Li Mu waved his hand: "It's not necessary, I'll just prepare a song for her to go out of the country as the ending song, but let Xia Yu watch this movie, after all, Director Yang is making a movie for the first time."

"Are you planning to give up completely?" Shi Ran said with a smile.

Li Mu stretched his waist: "Before, there was really no way, but now that the company is on the right track, we have to leave room for them to display their talents."

Soon, the script was finalized and submitted for review, and the news of the casting was quickly exposed in the circle. This time it was even crazier than in the previous [A Chinese Journey to the West]. The tradition of Muzi Studio.

However, the enthusiasm of various entertainment companies in the circle has not diminished. The previous explosion of "A Chinese Journey to the West" has also led to the popularity of a large number of supporting roles in the drama, such as Chun Shisan Niang, Er Dang Jia, and Bodhi. What is more interesting is that, The player who plays the role of the Bull Demon King is still a popular character, but he is not popular in person. After all, he has transformed into such a virtue that no one can remember his appearance.

Of course, for a campus youth film with an investment of 2000 million, it is naturally impossible for some big-name stars to play supporting roles. Meng and Huang Zilan actually became number two and three.

"Are we still not accepting external investment for this movie?" Shi Ran is also in a state of distress now. Every time a project with Li Mu's participation is approved, countless related investment companies come to him.

Li Mu thought for a while: "If you have theater resources, you might as well give up 20.00% of the share."

"That's over there with Huayi."

"We can't hang ourselves on a single tree. We can let Huayi participate in the investment together, and the share should be within 20.00%. This drama will not be a big hit, so it shouldn't have much impact."

(End of this chapter)