Chapter 462 I Just Like You So Long-winded and Boring
The Spring Festival is approaching, and the war scenes of "Return to Youth" have also ended, so Li Qian gave the crew a half-month holiday and will resume work after the Lantern Festival.
It has been nearly four months since filming started on October 8th. This shooting cycle is long enough for any movie.
There are many transitions and the fragmented plot has very high requirements for the actors' performances and the overall situation, which is much higher than that of normal commercial films. Each plot is enough to be expanded into a micro-movie.
After one hundred days of filming, Li Qian was tired and it was time to take a rest.
After returning to Beijing, I went to the Digital Field Branch to check it out. In the past 100 days, the post-production character CG special effects have not stopped, and almost a quarter of it was completed.
This is a delicate job, not technically difficult, but complicated, which means domestic labor is cheap.
Fortunately, there weren't many special effects in the war scenes. After all, it was shot on location, not in a studio, so there weren't many places where special effects were needed.
After returning to the capital, I went to the company first.
The Lunar New Year period has passed, there are no movies released by the company during the Spring Festival period, and there are no major events in other aspects, so there are not many things that need to be dealt with by Li Qian.
"囧" still failed to break through the 1.5 billion mark, so it just missed the mark.
However, this box office is enough to make up for the failure of "Waiting for the Wind". What's more, "Police Story 2013" has a box office of over 500 million and made a small profit.
Overall, Future Pictures was very successful in the past year.
The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and the company has also held an internal annual meeting. It has been preparing for it for a long time, and we are just waiting for the big boss Li Qian to come.
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel on the East Fourth Ring Road is where the bustling Future Pictures Annual Conference is held.
As a film and television company, although the company does not have many artists, it is still no problem to sing and dance.
Whether it's singing or dancing, cross talk, duet, whatever talents you have, you can take turns to show them off on the stage.
The boys basically sang, and the actresses sang and danced equally.
Liu Xing actually came to Duan Pili, and he danced quite well, and many female employees in the company were screaming behind him.
Li Qian smiled and said, "I didn't realize that Liu Xing, who is so frizzy, can dance quite well."
Xu Zheng also laughed, "Not to mention, it's really good. This guy looks like a monkey. I'm afraid he'll act like a monkey."
"Director Li, Director Xu, and Liu Xing even won the championship in "Dance Forest"."
Yang Zhi, who was sitting in the back seat, explained in a low voice.
"Yang Zhi, you are born in the year of the Monkey, right? You and Liu Xing will go well together. One looks like a monkey and the other is a monkey." Xu Zheng said with a strange smile.
This joke immediately made Yang Zhi a little embarrassed. They have played siblings for several years. Since they were admitted to film school at the same time, in the eyes of the outside world, siblings have become classmates. This change has caused many people to make fun of them.
"Ha ha..."
Everyone couldn't help laughing.
Liu Xing, who was on the stage, also finished dancing and came off the stage. Seeing that they were all laughing, she couldn't help but feel a little proud.
"Director Li, my dancing is okay."
Li Qian nodded, "That's good. Everyone praised you just now."
"Hehe..." Liu Xing sat back happily.
"Boss, it's my turn." Peng Yuchang stood up and was about to go on stage.
"Are you going to dance too?"
"I sing."
"What song is it?"
""st dance", Wu Bai's song."
It's rare for people of this age to sing Wu Bai's songs, but Peng Yuchang looked impressive and affectionate after he took the stage.
So I closed your eyes for now
My expectations float in the darkness
...
After singing a song, Peng Yuchang came down from the stage to take credit, waiting expectantly for the praise.
"How about it boss?"
"It's not bad, it's half the level of Five Hundred."
"No, no... I'm still far away." Peng Yuchang became quite reserved and modest.
At half the level of Wu Bai, this evaluation is very high. It seems that Li Qian likes this little fellow very much.
Xu Zheng didn't even say the words he was complaining about.
However, Zhao Liying, who was at the next table, said, "Half of five hundred, wouldn't that be two hundred and five? Haha..." As she said this, she couldn't help but laugh.
Everyone was stunned. After thinking about it carefully, it turned out that Li Qian had meant something, and they immediately started laughing too.
The laughter of the crowd made Peng Yuchang feel a little embarrassed. He glanced at Li Qian with a resentful look on his face and did not dare to refute anything. He sat down in his seat obediently.
These young actors were basically ridiculed and joked about, but the annual meeting was very lively and full of laughter.
On the contrary, after Huang Bo, Wang Baoqiang, and Deng Chao performed, there were fewer jokes. That is to say, Tong Liya wanted to induce Deng Chao to do a pole dance, but he refused to do it.
As the big boss, Li Qian also went on stage to give a speech, encouraged him, and handed out hundreds of big red envelopes. After that, everyone ate, drank, and chatted. It was a very ordinary banquet.
While chatting, Xu Zheng became concerned about comedy in his field, "Director Li, I heard Deng Chao say that "The Truman Show" is going to have a sequel?"
Li Qian nodded, "Yes, but I didn't shoot it. Director Zhou wanted to shoot it, and I gave him some ideas."
"Director Zhou Xingchi wants to film?" Xu Zheng was stunned. This is the first time a major director has filmed someone else's sequel.
"The sequel won't be a tragedy, right?" Ning Hao was also curious. It wouldn't make much sense to make this sequel into a comedy, not to mention that Zhou Xingchi has to film it.
"It's a tragedy." Li Qian gave an overview of Zhou Xingchi's original script, as well as the ending he changed.
Ning Hao thought about it for a while and said, "This is the opposite of "The Truman Show". After the glory, I fell into depression and lost myself. Finally, I returned to the studio and wanted to return to my original life."
"Isn't it just another ending of "The Truman Show"? Even if I know it's fake, I'm still willing to stay in it."
"Have you come full circle and experienced severe beatings from society?"
"It's quite interesting. A superstar who is famous all over the world and is known to two to three billion people around the world has strong business capabilities. How can he be arranged to be in a reasonable state of decline?"
"Just making up dirty stuff and throwing dirty water, it's the same old routine."
"But with so much capital surrounding Truman, everything black can be washed away into white."
Everyone started discussing together, and Xu Zheng asked again, "In this case, the whole movie is just a satire. It lacks all kinds of positive emotional scenes and warmth. I'm afraid the box office will not be very satisfactory."
"It's meaningless to talk about box office now. The filming hasn't started yet. We won't know until we finish filming and see the finished film."
Li Qian shook his head. Generally speaking, comedies that can be a hit are usually divided into two types.
The first one is like "囧囧", which can make people laugh and express various emotions, and it is also positive and tender.
Another type of comedy is satire, which Ma Xiaogang is good at, satirizing some current hot events.
Simple satire is not enough, it is all negative stuff. Even if it is funny, it will only sell well and will not become a hit.
A hit movie must either have the ultimate audio-visual effect, or it must be a movie that can touch the audience's inner emotions, and it must be positive.
Looking at the history of film all over the world, there are very few exceptions.
Li Qian has no idea what the sequel to "The Truman Show" can be like, and he has no intention of participating in it. It would be enough not to make it to the level of "The New King of Comedy".
They also talked about their respective movies, and also talked about the upcoming Spring Festival release.
“Which movie do you think will be the box office champion during the Spring Festival this time, between ‘Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven’ and ‘Omen’?”
""Omen", they have been promoting "God of Gamblers 3", after all, it is about feelings."
"Isn't the screening of "Omen" a comedy? It's a comedy with the gimmick of "God of Gamblers", and it's a good start. Moreover, in one of the trailers, Fa Ge appears as the God of Gamblers."
"I think "Havoc in Heaven" should be bigger. At least 1,000 people out of 1,000 people have watched "Journey to the West", and it is suitable for all ages. It is perfect for the Spring Festival."
"All of them are IP-based movies. For this type of movie, it all depends on whose IP is more famous."
"Speaking of IP, isn't there another show called "Where Are We Going, Dad?" This variety show was very popular before."
"Variety shows can be made into movies. Previously, "The Voice" failed at the box office. I really don't want to give up."
"Well, there are more and more weird movies, and there are fewer and fewer purely original movies."
"Isn't there an investment in "Omen" from the little king of Omen? The one who runs the theater can still afford the money of the movie. Is there any ghost in it?"
"You mean Xian Qian?"
"That little Du Wang is nicknamed Xi Mi Hua. I guess his purpose is to collect money."
"Bernard probably wouldn't do such a thing, and it's too obvious."
.....
The conversation went too far, the topic was a bit sensitive, and Li Qian interrupted their conversation.
"Okay, okay, don't care what others do. But in the future, as the industry grows bigger and bigger, this industry will definitely be watched. When Mi Lijian was auctioning the digital field, he bumped into Che Feng's man with white gloves and
Li Ming walks together."
"Who is Che Feng?" Xu Zheng asked curiously.
"A capitalist, relying on his father-in-law to get to the position. This is not the point. The key is that even the special effects company has capital. Although I don't know how they want to operate, but in the future you will encounter whether it is investment, financing, cooperation, or giving away shares for free.
You guys are all very thoughtful, don’t be fooled, you can’t beat the capitalists in this regard.”
.......
After the annual meeting, everyone went back to their respective houses to disperse. Li Qian accompanied Tong Liya to the cinema to watch a movie.
The movie chosen by Tong Liya is "Bear Bears: Treasure Hunt".
When he entered the screening room and saw that most of them were parents with their children, Li Qian was speechless.
"This movie...how did you remember to watch "Bear Bears"?"
Tong Liya stuffed a piece of popcorn into Li Qian's mouth, squinted her eyes and smiled, "The box office of "Pleasant Goat" seems to be average, and "Bear Infested" is quite popular."
Now that you're here, make peace with it and find your innocence again.
The movie is quite funny, anyway, these two idiots, Xiong Daxiong Er, and Bald Qiang made the children laugh non-stop.
A little kid in front yelled that he needed to pee, and his mother had to take him to the bathroom.
As a result, the little kid asked his mother to pause the TV first, but her mother said it was a movie and could not be paused.
That child refused to go to the toilet and kept holding it in there.
Li Qian, who was in the back row, watched the little kid in front of him twisting and turning on his seat to hold in his urine, and then stared intently at the two stupid bears on the big screen, just staring at him.
"What are you looking at?" Tong Liya looked over, puzzled.
"I'll see when he can't hold it in any longer." Li Qian whispered.
"puff......"
Tong Liya grabbed the Coca-Cola at hand angrily and stuffed the sucking monster into Li Qian's mouth, "Look at other people's children making a fool of themselves, drink more water and hold it in."
After pushing the Coke to Li Qian, Tong Liya also started to look at the big screen from time to time, and then glanced at the little kid in front of her. She felt as uncomfortable as sitting on the chair, but refused to go to the toilet.
However, until the end of the movie, neither of them waited until the child couldn't hold it in any longer, and his mother quickly carried him out as soon as the movie was over.
Pity!
"The children are gone, and you are still here gloating about others' misfortune. How can you be so bad?" Tong Liya said.
"I'm not gloating, I just want to see how attractive this movie is."
Li Qian spread his hands, "It turns out that this is a movie that can make a child hold back his urine for an hour. It is indeed wonderful. It will probably replace the "Pleasant Goat" series in the Spring Festival."
"You didn't even look at it for long." Tong Liya said, "Don't lie to me."
"Listen to my analysis. Children are more accustomed to simple entertainment modes. It is difficult to retain children's attention with slightly more complex storylines. In "Pleasant Goat", such as time travel and space exploration, etc.
The unconstrained design imagination seems to enrich the interest of the story, but in fact it also makes the audience in a state of continuous loss.
But "The Bear" is different. It is more civilian-oriented. The plot is much simpler and less intelligent than "Pleasant Goat", and it is easier for children to accept.
Moreover, as a parent, I definitely hope that my children can benefit from watching movies and TV. Although the two opposing parties in "Pleasant Goat" can still work together to survive the disaster at a critical moment, when the disaster passes, the wolf and the sheep
The sheep will still stand on the opposite side.
In short, the opposition between wolves and sheep is based on eating and being eaten, which is set according to the laws of nature. Therefore, no matter how the story develops, it will not be possible without changing the image of the two enemies.
Avoid the occurrence of violent factors.
But "Bear Bear" is different. Bald Qiang's goal is to cut down trees, while Bear Big Bear II's goal is to protect the forest. The themes of the two animations are fundamentally different.
In addition, Bald Qiang’s character arc is obvious. He cuts down trees to supplement his family income. He also has a gentle and emotional side. He has a relationship with the two bears that is both enemy and friend. Although he is sometimes angry, he has never done anything to really hurt them.
The story of "Bear Bears" is full of positive energy from the starting point. Children are more willing to accept it, and parents are also willing to let their children watch it.
The box office also illustrates this point. In the past, the "Pleasant Goat" series had no rivals. Every year when it was released during the Spring Festival, the box office could exceed 100 million. This year, after two weeks of release, the box office was less than 80 million.
"Bear Bears" has almost reached 190 million in two weeks, and the Spring Festival has not come yet, so it is no problem to get 250 million, maybe it can reach 300 million."
At this time, she was already pretty good at cinemas. Tong Liya just held her head and watched Li Qian talk a lot.
"Why are you looking at me? Let's go?" Li Qian finally finished his analysis.
"It's been so many years, and you're still so long-winded and boring." Tong Liya was complaining, but her eyes were shining as she stared at Li Qian seriously.
Li Qian shrugged, "It's obviously you who chased me."
"I just like how boring you are." Tong Liya smiled, showing two pear dimples and small tiger teeth at the corners of her mouth.