For Yi Feiyang, this Christmas will definitely not be easy.
Filming requires investors, a crew, a photographer, a makeup artist, a lighting engineer... a director, a leading actor and actress, and of course supporting actors and extras!
It works like Henry the Elephant's previous adult movies, it's simple, the photographer works part-time as the director, a bed, then a couple of men and women, or a bunch of men and women, 3p, 4p, 5, 6p!
After a set of procedures, it only takes one day to complete the shooting.
But it’s different now, we have to shoot “blockbusters”.
Although the total investment for this "blockbuster" is only 300,000 US dollars, in the field of adult films where the investment is only 7,000 to 8,000 US dollars, it is already a "blockbuster"!
Henry the Elephant has never done such a "blockbuster", so all power is given to Yi Feiyang, whom he trusts immensely.
However, when Yi Feiyang was driving with all his strength, Henry the Elephant patted him on the shoulder and cheered him up.
"Dear Yi, I know you are good at filming, so I have to work hard for you! Can our top company produce a classic drama? Can I be remembered for this drama after my death?
Come on, all this is up to you!"
In fact, during this period, Yi Feiyang also learned something about why Henry the Elephant stalked him to help.
In addition to Henry the Elephant's wish to complete the filming of classics before his death, another reason is that during this period, his top brand was severely challenged by his peers.
Especially those companies that are jealous of the huge profits in this industry and want to suppress the top companies at all costs.
Henry the elephant is angry about this. He is not dead yet. These guys are here to ruin the place. This is unbearable!
He urgently needs a drama to prove his status as the boss of this industry.
People are all selfish!
Not to mention the bosses of these underground film companies!
Yi Feiyang doesn't care about these personal grudges and Jianghu love and hatred.
Now, he is only interested in those eight movie theaters, and when he becomes interested in this movie, he just wants to use some method to make the movie more exciting and beautiful, and then buy those eight movie theaters according to the contract to build his own movie theater.
line system.
As long as you have your own theater chain, you can turn yourself from a small, unsophisticated company into a large, well-equipped company without looking at the opinions of other companies, integrating production, copying, distribution, and screening, and truly achieve skyrocketing success!
However, Henry the Elephant emphasized one point in the end, "Yi, as stated in our contract, you cannot use too much of the resources of your Fantasy Pictures to shoot this movie, yes. It cannot be used! Except for the one named Big Bird Lucci.
Apart from actors, for other roles, you can only use our top people, do you understand what I mean?"
Of course Yi Feiyang understands what he means. After all, this is to make Top famous and build a "chastity arch" for Henry the Elephant... Compared to the shitty porn movies he shot before, this movie is definitely chaste enough... instead of giving him
Fantasy Pictures became famous.
Now that I am the director, Rabbit Bill is the assistant director, Big Bird Lucci is the male lead, and other characters are hired by people from Fantasy Pictures, this movie has truly become a dream production rather than a top-notch production.
Henry the Elephant didn't want to go to all the trouble to make a wedding dress for others. In order to eliminate this possibility, he issued a ban on Yi Feiyang. In short, only by using top's resources for everything can we prove that this drama is produced by top!
Yi Feiyang readily accepted the request made by Henry the Elephant. In fact, he had already planned that Big Bird Luchi would be the male lead of the drama, and Stormi would be the female lead. As for the supporting roles, Yi Feiyang
Feiyang will openly recruit in top companies.
Top Company followed Yi Feiyang's suggestion and issued a recruitment notice, asking all the actors under its company, including those who were extras, to line up and publicly participate in interviews at the company's gate.
In fact, whether you can recruit good actors or not, the pay must not be careless, not to mention that you are engaged in underground movies. People come out to hang out, sell their youth, and sell their bodies for these things.
Therefore, in this scene, Henry the Elephant is rare and generous in telling everyone that a good supporting actor can get at least US$3,000 in salary!
This price is definitely a big temptation compared to the remuneration of only a few hundred dollars per scene when shooting adult films in other underground companies.
Early the next morning, two tables were set up in the top company conference room. Yi Feiyang and Rabbit Bill were at the back, and in front was a row of underground actors who came to apply for jobs.
The queue was very long, and Yi Feiyang was surprised that there were so many people working in adult movies.
I originally thought that those filming this kind of scenes would basically be handsome guys and pretty girls, but that is not the case. American adult audiences have very mixed tastes. Therefore, in addition to strong men and makeup-smeared women, there are also some older men and aunts who are applying for the job.
Yi Feiyang was shocked to see it.
"What do they do?"
"Oh, playing the male and female protagonists in adult films as parents, lawn mowers, priests, nuns, or school teachers!" Rabbit Bill is very familiar with this industry.
Yi Feiyang sighed: It’s true, every line has its own splendor!
…
A few hours later.
"Yawn! Boss, there are too many people here. We have only recruited less than a quarter so far. Your requirements are too high. I think it's enough as long as they are about the same." Rabbit Bill rubbed his temples and asked Yi
Feiyang complained.
"You know what the heck, a big reason for the success of a movie comes from the actors in it. If the actors don't perform well, go to hell!" Yi Feiyang glared at Beer.
Henry the Elephant, who secretly came over for the "incognito private interview", heard it from behind and couldn't help but nod his head, saying to himself, "This Chinese Yi really has something up his sleeve. Look, how professional he is!"
…
After a busy morning, Yi Feiyang felt both happy and worried. What he was happy about was that these underground actors were eager to act in such "blockbusters" (perhaps because they often shoot small-production adult films), and they would not be like those in Hollywood.
The actors introduced by the Screen Actors Guild are just as picky. They just stand in front of you honestly and perform accordingly according to your instructions.
What worries Yi Feiyang is that all the actors have obvious stage performance styles. Watching them perform, you will feel that they are acting in a drama or sketch, not a movie.
This was also the performance style of underground films during this period.
A bit pretentious, a bit deliberately artificial, they feel that they are performing, rather than integrating with the role they want to play from the heart. They don't know how to perform life authentically, they only know that, just like in the past,
The hero and heroine are rolling around on the bed, while they themselves are pretending to be passers-by, A, B, C and D.
…
"Next!" Rabbit Bill shouted next to Yi Feiyang, and a well-dressed old man with thin hair stood in front of him.
His hair is really sparse, but these few hairs are neatly taken care of by him and are firmly stuck to his scalp, making the whole head look smooth and bright.
On the whole, although this old man is not handsome in appearance, he pays great attention to appearance. But as soon as he walks, his secret is revealed. He is limping. It turns out that he is a lame!
The lame man walked very funny. People around him laughed at him, saying that such a cripple wanted to make a movie. They laughed at him and ridiculed him. Some people even whistled at him.
"Boss, do you want to pass directly?" Rabbit Bill whispered against Yi Feiyang's ear.
Yi Feiyang ignored him and instead focused on the old man. It could be seen that he seemed to be used to being ridiculed and ridiculed, and his face looked a little numb and indifferent.
"Old man, what's your name?" Yi Feiyang smiled.
The old man crossed his hands, bowed respectfully to Yi Feiyang, and then said in a very respectful tone, "Hello, Mr. Director, my name is Abraham, I am of Arab descent. I am very happy to apply here this time."
"Do you know what movie we're going to make?"
"Yes, sir, I know that what you are planning to shoot is an adult film."
"Then you should know that people your age are generally not cast in these types of movies."
"Yes, sir, as you said, I have been rejected many times."
"Then why are you still applying for the job?"
"Because I like acting." Abraham said very solemnly.
"Unfortunately, I am a cripple, so many film crews will not want me because I will be a burden. But, I really like acting. When I was a child, I liked watching movies and imitating the dialogues of the characters and imitating them.
His behavior..." Abraham said very sincerely.
"Then what role are you planning to apply for this time?" Yi Feiyang looked at the old man with such a pious attitude and couldn't help but ask.
"Any role is fine, as long as you can give me one line... Yes, just one line is enough! Then I can fulfill my dream of being an actor! I can go back and tell my old woman, God, I have a line.
You can see me talking in the play..."
"Your wife? But, can she accept you taking part in adult films?"
"It's okay, sir." A trace of bitterness appeared on Abraham's face, "She is already dead, so she will never mind what scenes I film."
Sadly!
Yi Feiyang's mood suddenly darkened.
The people who were pointing at Abraham suddenly became quiet.
The whole atmosphere around seemed a little weird.
Everyone looked at the poor old man named Abraham with strange eyes.
Could it be that he has any other touching stories?
Otherwise, how could a man persist until now just for the hope of getting a line in a drama?! (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
