On May 12th, the third day the crew of "Captain China" came to the military camp, Teacher Wu Gang joined the crew.
Still in the same suburb, a military jeep brought him, accompanied by a little girl assistant carrying a small box.
He smiled and nodded at Lin Juan, "Well, Director Lin, I'm not late, am I?"
The two shook hands, Lin Juan smiled and shook his head: "It's not too late."
Lin Juan has a certain amount of respect for the two teachers. They are both really old artists.
"Oh, such grandeur." He looked at the five hundred soldiers wearing Eighth Route Army uniforms and admired them.
Lin Juan smiled and said nothing.
"When is my show coming?"
"Next game."
"Okay, then I'm going to change clothes first. Where is our clothing truck?"
With that said, Wu Gang waved to teacher Li Youbin and said, "We'll talk later. I'll go change clothes first."
"Go ahead and just..."
…
Today's scene is Commander Peng giving a speech to the new recruits.
He put on a commander's uniform and looked majestic.
Start shooting directly.
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"Thank you for your hard work, comrades!" Commander Peng stood majestically on the stage. The recruits in the audience looked at him in awe and admiration, and there was silence.
"From the moment you cross the Yalu River, you enter the battlefield!"
"Is there anyone who doesn't know why we are fighting this war? Why are we helping North Korea fight the Americans?"
Lin Juan looked solemnly at the close-up of Teacher Wu Gang in the screen, and Teacher Wu Gang acted on the spot.
It was originally a lecture, but he turned it into an interaction.
The soldiers looked hesitant, not knowing whether to say anything.
The director didn’t arrange it!
In the silence, Teacher Wu Gang was very steady. He said loudly: "I'll tell you!"
"Because crossing here is our country! If they take over all of North Korea, their planes and artillery may enter our territory at any time! Our country will always be in danger!"
"We are not only helping others, but also protecting our own country!"
"We Chinese live our lives peacefully and rely on our own hands for everything, but there are always people who don't want us to live a good life!"
"Then what do we do?"
Wu Gang asked the audience if someone was infected by this atmosphere, scratched their necks and shouted: "Fuck you!"
"Yes! Fuck him!" Wu Gang's voice became firmer!
"We must completely crush their wolfish ambitions!"
"The Americans are very powerful, and their equipment is very advanced, but what are we afraid of? If we don't have it, let them grab it! We are backed by 50 million people!"
"We want to tell them! The time when a few cannons on our borders can rule us is over!"
"We Chinese people must stand up!!"
"Whoever they are! How powerful they are!"
"We must drive them all back to their hometowns! Tell them that every inch of our country is inviolable!"
"Even if it's with our blood!"
"Everything!"
Wu Gang waved his hand and clenched his fists, with a firm face, fully displaying the demeanor of a commander scolding Fang Qiu.
There was no way a group of hard-blooded soldiers could bear this. They didn’t care whether they were filming or not. They just scratched their heads and shouted: “Down with the invaders!”
"Long live the Chinese people!!"
"Drive them back to their hometown!!"
"Swear to defend the country to the death!"
"..."
Lin Juan looked at the scene in the camera, his eyes a little moist.
At this moment, he seemed to see the martyrs of that era appearing in front of him through time and space.
Protect our country and us with steely determination.
It's just that their flesh and blood bodies are not steel, so they couldn't come back and stayed on the battlefield forever.
"Okay, click." Lin Juan wiped away his tears, picked up the walkie-talkie with a smile and said.
I decided to be a Chinese in my next life.
Lin Juan got up and walked to the set, and had to arrange a few shots to shoot again.
…
While Lin Juan was filming in the front, several investors in "Captain China" couldn't sit still when they saw the almost unanimous negative voices on the Internet.
What the hell is this? How come there are so many negative voices from netizens?
So I’m not guaranteed compensation?
Oops! I’m so excited!
When I first saw the rocket-like box office of "Journey to the Center of the Earth", I immediately followed others and tried to give Lin Juan money. Why didn't I expect that military movies were not popular?
And I don’t know if this guy is reliable or not…
The more I thought about it, the more unreliable it became. Finally, someone couldn't help it anymore and called another investor: "Hey, Mr. Chen, something is wrong with this situation."
"Then what can we do? The contract is signed."
"It's still tens of millions anyway. If the box office is only 200 to 300 million..."
"Oh, I've already invested. Isn't there good news online?"
"That's a small number of people. The more I think about it, the more unreliable it becomes. People only praise their own director, but we still get along like this."
"Besides, could a young director film the events of the era of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea? I felt something was wrong when I signed the contract..."
Being disturbed by this investor, the other investors began to murmur inwardly, and then some chose not to be moved. Others came together to find Li Lan and said that they would sell the contract to her...
Li Lan doesn't talk nonsense, and takes everything he's told without missing a beat.
Then she discussed it with Lin Juan and her husband, and simply found someone who didn't come, and bought back all the investment quota.
Lin Juan's total investment in "Journey to the Center of the Earth" including foreign box office and copyright sharing is almost over 120 million. This time, he invested all of it, equal to Chen Guang's investment amount, each accounting for 50%.
The news about the divestment this time has further reduced fans' confidence in the film.
Investors know the inside story! Even if they are not optimistic about it, why are you optimistic about it?
People who were originally not optimistic about it have become more energetic. Now, the few people online who were optimistic about it have almost completely disappeared.
"Let me just say it, there is no market for war movies in China!"
"I heard that Lin Juan invested all the income from the previous play, but he also refused to listen to advice."
"No matter what, I remain neutral until the movie comes out."
"Investors have withdrawn their capital, why are you still talking about it?"
"It's cold, it's cold..."
Unanimously bearish!
Lin Juan, on the other hand, remained silent and turned a blind eye to the comments from the outside world.
If he were a person who listened to advice, he wouldn't be able to do the hard thing of using his mobile phone to make movies and sell them.
He knows what he wants to do. If the so-called routine and common sense conflict with what he wants to do,
Then break it.
He was sitting in front of the monitor. On the set, Li Youbin was yelling at the troops: "Damn it, let me follow the 40th Army? How can we fight with them?"
"Ask them to send me the new recruits! I'll wait here for them all day!"