Xu Cheng never expected that just when he was still hesitating to give up "The Journey of Laughter" and start a new one, the investors and director of "The Journey of Laughter" had already reached an agreement first and finally gave up on Xu Cheng.
Directly started the project of "Journey of Laughter 2".
The IP of "The Journey of Laughter" naturally has nothing to do with Xu Cheng. He is just a small actor in the first film. People can throw it away if they want.
Aren't they just actors? With a high-quality big IP, any number of young actors can be popular, so why should they keep supporting your Xu Cheng's stinky feet?
Therefore, this time, Xu Chenglian was no longer qualified to continue talking to the other party. After all, relatively speaking, if there is no such superstar, the investors and the director team are the leading roles in a film.
Such a change even made Xu Chengdu confused for a moment.
How did things become like this? Obviously, everyone had talked about it before, and the investors' attitude towards him has always been quite mild, and Xu Cheng is really important in the film "The Journey of Laughter", almost quite
He is a soul-like existence, and now you just want to kick him?
"Hehe...hehehe..." After Xu Cheng learned the truth of the matter, he could only sneer helplessly.
It seems that Chen Feng is right, starting a new business, starting a new business is his only way out.
Therefore, after being extremely disappointed, Xu Cheng did not go to quarrel with the people on "The Journey of Laughter" anymore. The matter had already developed to this point, and any quarrel would be of no use.
The only thing he can do is to start over immediately, make his own movie, and win "The Journey of Laughter 2"!
Only then could he finally calm down the bad breath in his heart.
As a result, Xu Cheng quickly devoted himself to the production of new films.
He actually already has preliminary ideas for the new film.
It is a brand-new story that also takes place on a journey. Although the film type and mode are somewhat similar to "The Journey of Laughter" and can be reluctantly classified as a series, in fact, if only his new film ideas are used,
A new movie with no problems at all.
And now that they have broken away from the mentality of "The Journey of Laughter", Xu Cheng and his own studio team are more free and bold when writing scripts, and the stories they write have become more exciting and funny, and more commercial.
change.
Perhaps because of the stimulation, in just one week, Xu Cheng and several screenwriters from his studio created the first version of the script for the new movie.
After carefully reading the script several times, Xu Cheng was very satisfied.
However, the script was available, but Xu Cheng's own studio no longer had sufficient funds to run the project independently, so in the end he sent a copy of the script to Chen Feng with some trepidation.
If Chen Feng can like this script, there may be hope!
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When Chen Feng received the script from Xu Cheng, he and An Ruohua had just gone to watch the newly introduced foreign blockbuster "Super Spy"!
The movie is indeed very good-looking, and its box office performance is also very good. A few days after its release, it can still maintain a box office performance of about 100 million every day, and its reputation online and in real life is also good.
Although it is not as dazzling as "The Wandering Earth", in general, "The Spy" can be regarded as an excellent blockbuster.
Moreover, the quality of several movies released at the same time as "The Spy" is relatively poor.
In particular, there are two Chinese-language movies that look very childish when compared to "Super Spy".
Chen Feng also had to lament that on the whole, Chinese-language films are indeed far behind others.
There are even some films that cannot even achieve the most basic rationality. The quality of the films is worrying, let alone the artistic and commercial qualities.
In fact, many people can see that Chinese-language films do seem to lack relatively pure genre films.
For example, there are science fiction films like "The Wandering Earth", but apart from this one, there is no other one available.
Another example is "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Race", which are pure drama comedies. In fact, they are rare.
Chinese-language films are often more oriented toward the director's personal style. Even commercial films often lack the pure genre model.
Since Chen Feng appeared, although this situation has improved somewhat, there is still no clear boundary on the whole.
Therefore, many works seem a little weak when faced with pure foreign genre films like "The Spy", and the two sides do not seem to be on the same level at all.
Many people know that these foreign blockbusters are very good-looking, but why are they good-looking? Why are they so good-looking?
Because people have accumulated so much experience in the filming process of this type of film, even in a similar film, the protagonist appears in the first few minutes, the heroine appears in the first few minutes, there is a turning point in the first few minutes, changes occur, and then in the third minute
How many minutes to start the reversal, how many minutes to arrange the final boss battle, etc... These things can be accurate to minutes or even seconds.
In terms of plot framework and character portrayal, the routines of this type of film are already very mature, and are very close to the audience's viewing habits. Therefore, such a work can attract people's attention very well, and the box office will not be too bad no matter what.
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Of course, there are some talented directors who can innovate and make breakthroughs in various ways, but generally there won’t be any big changes in the core elements of genre films.
But now, what Chinese-language films lack is this pure genre routine, and even many people working in the film and television industry do not yet have this awareness.
Chen Feng has also discovered this problem after watching many movies. However, it is very difficult to change this phenomenon. He has tried hard, but it seems that it is not enough.
At this moment, Xu Cheng sent over his movie script.
Chen Feng immediately read it carefully.
After reading the story in the new script, Chen Feng smiled slightly. Sure enough, wasn't this the movie in his dream world?
Overall, the character setting and plot structure of Xu Chengxin's script are very similar to the "囧" in the dream world. Except for some small details, there are almost no differences.
It seems that Xu Cheng’s trip to Thailand was indeed very meaningful.
Chen Feng thought for a while, and then added a few very funny little details in "囧囧" based on Xu Cheng's script. These jokes were more interesting than those originally set by Xu Cheng.
Under Chen Feng's revision, Xu Cheng's script became more and more similar to "囧" in the dream world.
In the end, Chen Feng simply changed the movie title of the script "The Laughing Journey to Thailand" directly to "Thailand".
As for the word "囧", it has actually existed in this world for a long time, but it has not become popular yet.