This actor needs more money

Looking at each other and smiling, Xu Haofeng and Ding Xiu both had their own agendas.

What Xu Haofeng wanted was Ding Xiu's investment.

If you’re not a director, you don’t know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive. As a director, what you lack most is funds. Without funds, you can’t do anything. You can’t hire actors or rent equipment.

In fact, Xu Haofeng had not looked for investors before finding Ding Xiu, but they did not invest in him.

A director who has only made one film is unconvincing, especially a director who has failed at the box office.

In the eyes of investors, if you want money, just show your past achievements. If you don't have achievements, there is no need to talk.

Xu Haofeng, who was asked about it at the time, said heartbreakingly: "I am a new director, where will the results come from? If you give me money, I will get results if I make the film."

The investor said: "We only look at the results. How about you introduce the cast of You and see how many big names there are, and then we can discuss whether we can invest."

Xu Haofeng roared: "You have to give me money so that I can find actors. Please tell me the number, otherwise where will I find actors?"

Investor: "You don't have actors, how dare we invest in you?"

Xu Haofeng: "I need money to hire actors."

Investors: "We will give money based on the cast."

Xu Haofeng: "WQNMDGB."

This is a fucking endless cycle.

Investors depend on performance, but he is a new director and has directed only one movie ten years ago. That movie was still a big hit and the box office was not ideal.

If I don’t have results, people won’t invest in me, but if you don’t invest in me, how can I achieve results?

OK, let’s look at the cast next. At this stage, Xu Haofeng wants to scold her. If you don’t give me anything, what can I do to impress the actors?

You ask me actors, I say Chow Yun-fa, Andy Lau, Ding Xiu, Li Lienjie, Cheng Long, when the time comes, call them over, can you fucking give them money?

It’s not how much money you give me, how many things I do.

If I have ten million, I will spend five million to hire actors. At this stage, I will try to hire the best cost-effective actors.

You don’t give me money or promises. When I negotiate with the actor, you won’t get any money from me. What should I do?

In fact, Xu Haofeng also understands that it’s not that investors don’t want to give money, and it’s not that they can’t inject funds in advance. The premise is that they have to intervene in the crew’s affairs, including casting, filming, post-production and release.

To put it bluntly, it depends on whether the director wants to make money standing or kneeling.

Making money by standing up means having box office results and being able to hire big names to help. In this case, investors don't have to shout, they just rush to invest money one by one.

Making money on your knees means that your director is just a wage earner, responsible for the filming, and the rest is left to the capital to handle, including which actors to hire, how to shoot, and how to sign contracts with the actors.

Afterwards, if the box office results are good, the director will send you a red envelope. Everyone will be happy. You have fulfilled your artistic dream of shooting, and others have also fulfilled their purpose of making money.

But Xu Haofeng didn't want to make money on his knees.

That's why investors pressed him step by step, asking him for box office results and a cast. If he couldn't produce it, he would naturally be ridiculed.

In the end, he was helpless and went to find Ding Xiu, but he failed to hire anyone. Fortunately, Ding Xiu invested several million in him and was able to save money and not hire big names, so he was able to film the drama.

After this battle, Xu Haofeng understood the importance of investment. He made a bet with Ding Xiu and handed over the investment for the next drama to Ding Xiu.

At that time, he will no longer make movies worth four to five million yuan. He will only need ten million yuan to start, and he will hire a few celebrities.

You stand on the bridge and look at the scenery, and the people watching the scenery are watching you upstairs.

Ding Xiu had the same idea. He needed a good screenwriter.

Qin Chao Entertainment and he are not short of money, and even if they have money, they are not short of actors. What they are short of is good scripts, and good scripts require good screenwriters.

If you look at the movies of the 1990s, the scenes and props are very simple, and 90% of the actors have never attended an acting academy. They started filming in three months in a training class.

But it is such a combination that has produced movies with a box office of tens of millions.

Take Lin Zhengying's zombie movies as an example. Many scenes only have one courtyard, and some are even shot in a hotel or a building. The framing is not too simple.

After so many years, I still enjoy watching old movies again, and they are not outdated at all.

The big reason is that the script is good.

The plot is interesting, the characters are three-dimensional and unique, and everyone can laugh out loud even though they know it is fake.

What Qin Chao Entertainment lacks most right now is good screenwriters.

In Ding Xiu's opinion, a good screenwriter is even more important than a good director.

There are still a few more films of Xiuchundao, and next he wants Xu Haofeng to join in and come up with a good script, so this bet must be made.

"Ding Xiu, long time no see."

While Ding Xiu and Xu Haofeng were chatting, Mr. Yu Chenghui walked over with a short gun in his hand.

After not seeing him for a few years, his white beard has grown again, his hair is also gray, and his energy and energy have dropped drastically. He is completely different from when we first met him on the set of Swordsman ten years ago.

"Teacher Yu, I haven't seen you for a long time. Your body is still so strong. When did you have time to do two moves?"

"I can't pass it. My body and bones are weak, and my fists are too weak for my young strength. I can't beat you either. Your world is yours now."

Yu Chenghui is modest, unlike before where she wanted to differentiate herself from Ding Xiu as soon as they met.

In fact, he still wants to fight, but he knows his own situation well. He majors in swordsmanship and practices foreign martial arts. The younger he is, the stronger he becomes, and the older he gets, the worse he declines.

It's okay to deal with ordinary people, but it's difficult to deal with masters like Ding Xiu.

Ten years ago, he was defeated by Ding Xiu with a Japanese sword technique. Now Ding Xiu is thirty, in his prime. He is seventy, and the loess is buried up to his chest. Only those who can beat him can be ghosts.

He didn't want Ding Xiu to give in and let him use a few tricks.

Even if he survives a few moves, it would still be a shame for him, so the best result is not to fight.

Ding Xiu said with a smile: "The main purpose of practicing martial arts is to strengthen the body. Once the body is healthy, everything else is useless..."

He didn't understand before why those who have practiced martial arts for many years said that practicing martial arts is for physical fitness.

When you get older and have money, who still fights and kills, of course you start to enjoy it.

The other one is really invincible. He has no opponent and doesn’t want to fight again.

Ding Xiu is feeling overwhelmed at the moment and doesn't take action easily. He usually only fights with two bodyguards at most. There is no need to fight people outside. It's just like playing monkey, performing for the audience.

His martial arts does not require the audience's approval.

Listening to the conversation between the two, Song Yang exclaimed that he had learned something.

After all, he was a boss, but he was different. He was very sophisticated in his ways. He thought that the meeting between Ding Xiu and Yu Chenghui would inevitably lead to a fight between dragons and tigers.

After all, one is a swordsman and the other is the best in the entertainment industry, no one else.

There is no room for two tigers in one mountain. Civilization is not the best, military strength is not the second. It is normal to have a fight.

As a result, there was no war, not even any smoke. Both sides were given steps and face, and they chatted happily.

Ding Xiu stayed on the set for a long time. In addition to chatting with Xu Haofeng and Yu Chenghui, he also gave instructions on the martial arts performances of the actors on the set.

It’s just clear guidance.

Well, just correct a few actions and then praise them and that's it.

When he was young, he would have taught them step by step how to hold the knife, how to swing the knife, and how to chop with the Qi family knife.

For now, forget it.

Xu Haofeng's martial arts style is really unflattering, it's like a dancing master.

But he also had his own theory, saying that the martial arts of the old era were just like this. There was no internal strength, no climbing over walls, only skills and some techniques for exerting force.

He wants to use this movie to restore real martial arts.

Ding Xiu didn't even want to hit him.

The martial arts competition in the old days would be much simpler if it were like this. In fact, a real master can fight one against ten. Especially in the army, those who play with spears and halberds are the masters.

With a good horse at the hip and hundreds of people behind him, it is no joke to go in and out of a camp of thousands of people.

In the evening, he had dinner and a drink with Xu Haofeng. The next day, Ding Xiu returned to Peiping and continued the preliminary preparations for the embroidered spring knife.

In July, Xiuchundao held a press conference to announce the cast and makeup photos.

On the poster, Ding Xiu is in the C position, wearing a flying fish suit with an embroidered spring knife on his waist. On both sides are his eldest brother and his third brother, Wang Qianyuan and Song Yang respectively.

Behind her were Liu Sisi in red and Nie Yuan standing with a spear.

In addition to young people, the crew also invited veteran actors to help out.

Wanwan actor Jin Shijie.

It's not easy to take down this old man.

Jin Shijie is a leading figure in the Wanwan acting community. He has been in the theater for thirty years since his debut. He has been stationed on the drama stage all year round. He has profound acting skills and can act like anything he wants.

Don't give up for five buckets of rice easily.

This time I bowed out entirely because I just started a new family last year.

Married a young and beautiful wife.

It is normal for a single person to have enough food for the whole family to not be hungry. If he just feeds himself, he can work in a factory to make screws or serve dishes and wash dishes in a restaurant without starving to death.

But having a family is different.

If you don’t eat something good yourself, why don’t you let your wife eat it?

Beautiful clothes, cosmetics, bags, lipstick, everyone who has been there knows how damaging these things are to women.

No, it forces all the veteran actors to make movies and TV series.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to support a family with a salary of several thousand yuan a month just acting in dramas.

All joking aside, Ding Xiu didn't mean to ridicule people. On the contrary, he respected such people very much.

Even though he is capable of making more money, he still wants his wife and children to endure hardships along with him. That would be embarrassing, just for the sake of bullshit art.

Let the whole family pay for one person's art and endure hardships. Is it necessary to persist in this kind of art?

Being able to put aside your status and do things you don't want to do in order to support your family is a real man.

Of course, Ding Xiu would also admire him if he could support his family without having to put down his body.

Closer to home, at the launch conference, Ding Xiu answered reporters' questions for the first time as a director.

"Director Ding, what made you change like this and give up your identity as an actor to become a director?"

"I want to try something different. Also, I have not given up my identity as an actor. I am still the leading actor in this drama."

"Then do you have confidence in yourself?"

"certainly."

"I'm talking about directing ability."

"My answer is that this movie will not fail just because I am the director. On the contrary, because I am the director, I will have more control over the filming rhythm, martial arts style, and casting... In short, I will not let everyone down."

As an actor, who doesn’t have a dream of being a director?

I have acted a lot, and I have often encountered a situation, that is, one day I will meet a director, and I feel that his directing is not as good as mine.

Ding Xiu is no exception.

Another advantage of being a director yourself is that you have strong control and can control many things.

If you are just an actor, you won't be able to get involved in many things on the crew, even if you are the male lead.

Sometimes when faced with investors forcing people to change the script, or in order to save time, it is obvious that the negative one will be the best, but they just don’t. As the leading actor, you have no choice at all.

Ding Xiu is an investor in this drama, taking on the role of both the male lead and executive director.

He can pat his chest and say that during the shooting process, every shot can be shot to perfection.

If you can't get the effect you want, just keep shooting. A scene can be shot in three days, five days, ten days and a half, or even a month.

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"Ding Xiu has also changed his career to become a director. I don't know how the box office will be and whether the film will be watchable."

"The last person to do this was Wu Jing. The box office was okay. I look forward to another wave."

"Ding Xiu is very good at martial arts, and this time he is filming a martial arts film. I believe he will not disappoint us. Just sit back and wait."

"I have read the novel Xiuchundao. If I want to say that I understand it better, no one knows it better than Ding Xiu. I hope he can restore the world of swords and shadows and capture the chivalrous spirit of the little man."

"Haha, cats and dogs are making movies these days."

"When did the threshold for directors get so low? Anyone can become a director."

"Seeing him building a tall building, watching him entertaining guests, watching his building collapse."

A person's name is like a tree's shadow. Ding Xiu became a director for the first time. Some people supported it while others criticized it. Some film critics and directors were all very angry.

Some directors did not curse, but they also liked several articles criticizing Ding Xiu. Because of this, the director was on the trending search topic that day, and finally said that his hand slipped.

Ding Xiu's blood pressure went up when he saw it, and he immediately posted it on Weibo. He didn't get used to it at all. After posting it, Aite scolded him the most.

Don't blame him for his high blood pressure. Most of the people who scolded him were his peers.

On the contrary, netizens are very supportive and sensible. Before the movie is released, they have nothing to criticize.

On the contrary, it is certain directors, screenwriters, and film critics who criticize the most. They really agree with that sentence, colleagues are enemies.

I just scolded them, but they didn't dare to name them one by one, and they were so arrogant.

Ding Xiu was puzzled. The plate in the domestic film and television market was so big that one family couldn't even finish it. He didn't touch other people's cakes. Besides, netizens didn't like to watch the things made by rubbish directors. They didn't deserve to be treated as such. There is no way his opponent would be in conflict and have a conflict of interest.

"I wish Xiu Chun Dao a good start."

After scolding the Internet, Ding Xiu successfully booted up.

On the day of the opening ceremony, he took all the staff and actors to worship God and offer incense.

Originally, he didn't believe in this, but when he thought about tens of millions spent, he might as well bow down.

Although he is very good at criticizing people online, he actually has no confidence in the box office.

It's just that I can't stand how others feel about themselves, so I just scold them back.