Looking at each other, Xu Haofeng and Ding Xiu both had their own ulterior motives.
Xu Haofeng’s plan is Ding Xiu’s investment.
If you are not in charge of the company, you don’t know that the food, food, oil and salt are expensive. As a director, what you lack the most is funds. You can’t do anything without funds. You can’t hire an actor or rent equipment.
In fact, before looking for Ding Xiu, Xu Haofeng had found investors, but they didn't invest in him.
The director who has only filmed one drama is not convincing, especially the director who has failed the box office.
In the eyes of investors, if you want money, you can use your past grades, and you will not be able to negotiate if you don’t have any grades.
Xu Haofeng, who was asked at the time, said heartbrokenly: "I am a new director, where did I get the results? If you give me money, I will get results after I shoot it."
The investor said: "We only look at the results. Otherwise, you can introduce the cast and see how many big names there are, and then we will discuss whether we can invest."
Xu Haofeng roared: "You have to give me money so I can go to find an actor. Please tell me the difference, otherwise where will I go to find an actor."
Investor: "If you don't have an actor, how dare we invest in you?"
Xu Haofeng: "I want money to hire an actor."
Investor: "We have to look at the cast before we can pay."
Xu Haofeng: "WQNMDGB."
This is a fucking cycle.
Investors need to look at the results, but he is a new director, so he directed a drama, which happened ten years ago. That drama is still a big upset and the box office is not ideal.
If you don’t have any results, people won’t invest, but if you don’t invest, how can I get results?
OK, let’s look at the cast next. In this part, Xu Haofeng wants to curse himself. He doesn’t give me anything, so what can I use to impress the actors?
You ask me the actors, I say Zhou Runfa, Liu Dehua, Ding Xiu, Li Lianjie, Cheng Long, when the time comes, can you give the money?
It’s not just how much money you give me and how much I do.
I will spend 5 million to hire actors for ten million, and try to ask for the best cost-effective one at this stage.
You don’t give me money or promises. I’ll talk about the actors at that time. What should I do if you don’t lose anything on your side?
In fact, Xu Haofeng also understands that the investors do not want to give money, nor do they cannot inject funds in advance, as long as they have to intervene in crew affairs and participate in casting, shooting, post-production and release.
To put it bluntly, it depends on whether the director wants to make money while standing or kneeling to make money.
Making money while standing means having box office results and can invite big names to help. In this case, investors don’t have to shout, and they all rushed up to invest money one by one.
To make money on your knees means that you are just a working person, just be responsible for filming. The rest are left to capital to operate, including what actors to hire, how to shoot, and how to sign a contract with the actors.
After the box office results are good, I will send you a red envelope to the director. Everyone will be happy. You have completed your artistic dream of shooting and others will also achieve the purpose of making money.
But Xu Haofeng didn't want to make money while kneeling down.
That's why investors pressed forward step by step, asking him for box office results and asking him for cast, but he couldn't produce it, so he would naturally be ridiculed.
Finally, he was forced to go to Ding Xiu, but he didn't invite anyone to invite him. Fortunately, Ding Xiu invested millions of dollars to save money and could barely shoot the movie without hiring a big shot.
After this battle, Xu Haofeng understood the importance of investment. He would bet with Ding Xiu, and the investment that won the next play was handed over to Ding Xiu.
By then, he will not make another four or five million movie, and he will have to start with 10 million, so he will invite a few more celebrities.
You stand on the bridge and look at the scenery, and the people who look at the scenery are watching you upstairs.
Ding Xiu thought the same thing, he needed a good screenwriter.
Qin Chao Entertainment has no shortage of money, and even if he has money, he will not lack actors. What he lacks is good scripts, and a good script needs a good screenwriter.
Looking at movies from the 1990s, the scene props are so simple that 90% of the actors have never attended the performance academy and they have come out to film in three months in the training class.
But it was just such a combination that made movies with box office of tens of millions.
Take Lin Zhengying's zombie films for example. Many scenes have only one yard, and some are even filmed in a hotel or a building. The scene is simply too simple.
After many years, I still watched the old movies with great interest and no time left.
The big reason is that the script is good.
The plot is interesting, the characters have three-dimensional and personalities. Even though they know they are fake, everyone can laugh.
What Qin Chao Entertainment lacks most now is good screenwriters.
In Ding Xiu's opinion, a good screenwriter is even more important than a good director.
There are still several movies of the Embroidered Chundao. Next, he wants Xu Haofeng to join in and get a good script, so this bet must be made.
"Ding Xiu, long time no see."
While Ding Xiu was chatting with Xu Haofeng, Mr. Yu Chenghui walked over with a short gun in his hand.
After not seeing each other for a few years, his white beard grew again, his hair was gray, and his spirit was greatly reduced. It looked exactly the same as when he first met on the Swordsman's Lake crew ten years ago.
"Teacher Yu, long time no see, I'm still so strong. When will I have time to have two moves?"
"I can't pass it anymore, my body is not good, I'm afraid of being strong at a young age, and I can't beat you. Now it's your world."
Yu Chenghui is humble, unlike before when he wanted to distinguish himself from Ding Xiu as soon as he met.
In fact, he still wanted to fight, but he knew his own situation. He majored in swordsmanship and practiced external kung fu. The younger he was, the more he was, the more he was, the worse he was.
It’s okay to deal with ordinary people, but it’s difficult to deal with a master like Ding Xiu.
Ten years ago, he was defeated by Ding Xiu with a Japanese sword technique. Now Ding Xiu is thirty years old, and he is in his prime. He is 70 years old and has buried the loess in his chest. Only then can he be beaten will there be ghosts.
He didn't want Ding Xiu to let him go, so he let him do a few moves.
That way, even if you hold on for a few moves, it would be a shame for him, so the best result is not to fight.
Ding Xiu smiled and said, "Practicing martial arts mainly involves strengthening the body. If you are healthy, everything else is weak..."
He didn't understand why those who have practiced martial arts for many years said that practicing martial arts is to strengthen the body.
When you get older and rich, whoever fights and kills, of course you will start to enjoy it.
Another one is really invincible, there is no opponent, and I don’t want to fight anymore.
Ding Xiu is now so cold that he doesn't take action easily. At most, he usually fights with two bodyguards. There is no need to fight with people outside. It's like playing a monkey, performing for the audience to see.
His martial arts do not require audience recognition.
Listening to the conversation between the two, Song Yang exclaimed that he had learned it.
After all, it’s a big boss, but it’s different. He thought that Ding Xiu and Yu Chenghui would inevitably have a fight.
After all, one is the Sword Saint, and the other is the most capable person in the entertainment industry, no one is there.
There is no tolerance for two tigers in a mountain, no literature is the first, no martial arts are the second. It is normal to fight when you see it.
As a result, there was no war, and there was no smoke at all. Both sides gave the steps, gave face, and had a happy chat.
Ding Xiu stayed in the crew for a long time. In addition to chatting with Xu Haofeng and Yu Chenghui, he also gave instructions on the crew's martial arts performances.
It's an open guidance.
Well, correct a few moves and then praise it and it's done.
When he was young, he would have taught them how to hold and swing the knife step by step, and how to chop the Qi family's knife.
Now, forget it.
Xu Haofeng's martial arts style is really not satisfactory, it looks like a dance master.
But he also had his own theory, saying that the martial arts of the old era were like this, without internal strength, without flying eaves and walls, all he had was skills and some skills to exert force.
He wants to use this movie to restore real martial arts.
Ding Xiu didn't want to hit him.
The martial arts competition in the old era was much easier. In fact, a real master can fight ten, especially in the army, those who play spears and halberds are masters.
It is no joke that you are cooperating with a good horse under your crotch, carrying hundreds of people behind you. It is not a joke to enter and exit seven times in a camp of thousands of people.
In the evening, I had a meal with Xu Haofeng and had a drink. The next day, Ding Xiu returned to Peking and continued the preliminary preparations for the embroidered spring sword.
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 a spring knife embroidered on his waist, and on both sides are the eldest brother and the third brother, Wang Qianyuan and Song Yang.
Behind her was Liu Sisi in red, and Nie Yuan with a spear standing.
In addition to young people, the crew also invited veteran actors to help.
Wanwan actor Jin Shijie.
It is not easy to take down this old man.
Jin Shijie is a master of the performance industry in Wanwan. He has debuted for 30 years and has been stationed on the drama stage for many years. He has a deep acting skills and looks like whatever he plays.
Don't easily bow your waist for five dou of rice.
This time I bowed my back entirely because I just started a new family last year.
Married a young and beautiful wife.
A family of whole families are not hungry. This is normal for a bachelor. If you just support yourself, you can’t starve to the factory and work on the plates and wash dishes in the restaurant.
But it’s different with a family.
Don’t you eat something good yourself, and won’t let your wife eat it?
Anyone who has experienced it knows how much these things are lethal to women.
This has forced all the old actors to make movies and TV series.
Otherwise, if you only act in a drama, it would be difficult to support your family if you had a salary of several thousand yuan a month.
No matter how joking is, Ding Xiu has no intention of mocking people. On the contrary, he respects such people very much.
It is embarrassing to have the ability to make more money, but to have your wife and children suffer with you, which is a shameful thing, for the sake of bullshit art.
Is it necessary to stick to this kind of art to let the whole family pay for his own art and suffer?
A real man is able to put down his posture and do things he doesn't want to do to support his family.
Of course, Ding Xiu admired his family if he didn't have to put down his figure.
Back to the topic, Ding Xiu answered reporters' questions as a director for the first time at the launch conference.
"Director Ding, what made you change this way, give up your identity as an actor and become a director?"
"I want to try something different, and I correct it. I have not given up my actor status. I am still the starring actor in this drama."
"Then do you have confidence in yourself?"
"certainly."
“I’m talking about directorial ability.”
"I answered that this movie will not fail just because the director is me. On the contrary, because I am a director, I will more control the shooting rhythm, martial arts style, and casting... in short, it will not disappoint everyone."
As an actor, who doesn’t have a director dreams of being a director?
I have acted a lot, and I often encounter a situation where I will meet a director one day and think that his director is not as good as me.
Ding Xiu is no exception.
Another advantage of being a director by yourself is that you have strong control and can control a lot of things.
If it is just an actor, many things in the crew cannot be interrupted, even the male lead.
Sometimes when facing investors forcibly messing up people, modifying scripts, or in order to save time, it is obvious that NG can be the best shot, but they just don’t NG. As the starring actor, you have no way to do it.
Ding Xiu is an investor in this drama, taking into account both the male lead and the executive director.
He could pat his chest and say that during the shooting, every piece could be photographed to the most perfect.
If you can't shoot the desired effect, you will keep shooting. There is no problem in shooting a scene for three days, five days, ten days and half a month, or even one month.
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"Ding Xiu has also changed his career to be a director. I don't know how the box office is, and can I watch the things I shoot."
"The last person who did this was Wu Jing. The box office was pretty good, so I look forward to it."
"Ding Xiu himself is very good at martial arts, and this time he is filming a martial arts film. I believe he will not disappoint us. Let's wait."
"I have read the novel "Empression of the Chundao" and I want to know it. No one knows it better than Ding Xiu. I hope he can restore the sword and sword world and capture the chivalrous spirit of a small person."
"Haha, what kind of cats and dogs are really here to make movies these days."
"When is the threshold for directors so low, anyone can be the one."
"Seeing him from the tall building, seeing his banquet, seeing his building collapsed."
The name of a person, the shadow of a tree, Ding Xiu was the first time he was a director, some supporters and some scolded him, and some film critics and directors all showed off their sarcastic spirit.
Some directors did not scold people, but also liked several articles scolding Ding Xiu, because the director was on the hot search that day and finally said that his hand had slipped.
He raised his blood pressure when Ding Xiu looked up, and immediately outputted it on Weibo, but he didn't spoil it at all. After outputting, he even called the one who scolded him the most fiercely.
It’s not his high blood pressure, but most of the people who scold him are colleagues.
On the contrary, netizens are very supportive and rational. Before the movie was released, they had nothing to scold.
On the contrary, some directors, screenwriters, and film critics scolded them the most. As expected, they really mean that their peers are enemies.
They scolded each other, and they didn't dare to name or scold the gods, which was sarcastic.
Ding Xiu was puzzled. The plates in the domestic film and television market were so big that the family couldn't finish them, and he didn't touch other people's cakes. Besides, the things that were shot by the garbage directors themselves didn't like to watch, and they didn't deserve it.
Your opponent will never be in conflict or have conflicts of interest.
"I wish you a good start to the Embroidered Spring Knife."
After scolding the Internet, Ding Xiu started the computer smoothly.
On the day of the opening ceremony, he brought all the staff and actors to worship God and burn incense.
He originally didn't believe in this trick, but when he thought that tens of millions of dollars had been spent, why would he have paid a visit?
Although he is awesome to criticize people online, he is actually not sure about the box office.
I just can't stand others' connotations and just scold me.