Chapter 529 Smashed! Smashed!
I believe many people are curious about two things.
First, do actors know that they are acting in a bad movie?
Second, how do these bad movies make money?
Let’s talk about the first question first.
For those little fresh-faced little flowers, it is actually difficult for them to have a clear understanding of the quality of the film they are shooting during the filming process.
There are two reasons for this situation.
First, their own professional level is not enough, which leads to insufficient appreciation level. Moreover, in most cases, when filming, people really feel from the bottom of their hearts that they performed well.
The second and biggest reason is that the viewing angle is blocked.
You must know that shooting is divided into scenes and scenes. The order does not necessarily follow the main film, and not all the content of the shooting will be edited into the main film.
As a result, the actor's perspective can only be focused on himself, and he has no idea about the performance of other actors who have no opposite roles with him, and his understanding of the overall situation is naturally limited.
Would it be better for those actors and experienced actors with high professional level?
Neither.
The reason is still the same, the viewing angle is limited.
Furthermore, in addition to the perspective issue, there is also a subject matter issue. Many veteran actors have familiar subject matter areas. If they leave the familiar areas, their judgment ability will plummet.
Just like the veteran actors in China, it can be said that no one has the ability to judge "science fiction themes" during the filming process.
The only person who can truly judge whether a film crashes or not during the filming process is the director, because the director controls the overall situation.
But there is a saying that goes like this: You can live in an abalone house for a long time without smelling its smell.
If there are too many "stinky fish and rotten shrimps" in a crew who are not good at business, and they are filming, the director will be easily influenced and will not see the problem.
In the same way, if a director makes those "bad movies" all day long and works with those "stinky fish and bad shrimps" all day long, then he will slowly lose the corresponding control ability.
However, even so, directors with a certain level of skill can actually realize at a certain point whether their film is a failure or not, and they don't have to wait until the finished film is made to know whether it is a failure or not.
Just like when Zhang Yimou was filming "The Great Wall", he realized that his film collapsed only halfway through filming.
But as a director and the backbone of the entire crew, he couldn't show it, because as soon as he showed such emotions, the crew would immediately think of a problem.
With a large team of thousands of people, hundreds of millions of investments, and the crew's hearts are broken, then "The Great Wall" is really hopeless. It may even face the problem of not being able to finish the film even though the budget has been spent. trouble.
So, he could only bite the bullet and pretend everything was fine and continue filming. Even after it was released, in order to give the audience confidence, they had to continue to be tough.
A similar situation has now happened to Zheng Yu, the director of "New Paradise·Wangxian 2".
At this time, the filming of "New Paradise·Wangxian 2" has come to an end and has entered the post-production process.
At this point in time, Zheng Yu, who specially watched "Wangxian 1" again, finally realized that "Wangxian 2" was failed by him.
And it completely collapsed.
First of all, convince Huadao. Originally, Fuhuadao inherited the "legacy" of "New Paradise·Wangxian 1", and there really shouldn't be any problems.
But the actors and actresses, big and small, who have been stuffed into this "hot IP" by the company's shareholders to gain popularity and show their faces all have their own little plans.
Who doesn’t want to be ugly, who doesn’t want to show her forehead, who doesn’t want this or that; you come here to ask for a favor today, and tomorrow she comes to act coquettishly.
Now, Zheng Yu suddenly discovered that Fu Hua Dao, who was originally very good-looking, now has the flavor of an ancient puppet show, which is far from the level of "Wangxian 1".
Not only that, but it’s also because there are too many actors who have been thrust into the spotlight. Some actors can’t speak long lines, so they can’t arrange long shots;
Some actors feel that The left side of my face looks better, so I had to consider shooting the left side of his face.
Some actors think that soft light from the front can make their face flatter and more beautiful, so when photographing her, they can only use light from this position.
Anyone who has shot a video knows that lighting is the core of the picture quality. This cannot be arranged according to the requirements of the plot, so can the filmed things still be viewed?
What’s even more terrible is that Luo Shuquan, the male protagonist of "Wangxian 2", is now one of the shareholders of Huahai, and he is also a so-called Beiying teacher.
With the blessing of his dual identity, Luo Shuquan has a lot of demands. He would like to give some opinions here today and some ideas there tomorrow, as if not doing so would not reflect his level.
The acting skills of the heroine Wang Yuruo are not enough to support her to perform like Lu Qinyao in "Wangxian 1".
Zheng Yu also had to compromise with Wang Yuruo's acting skills to compromise part of the plot that was difficult to handle, because her emotions were not up to par, and the acting was counterproductive.
In short, Zheng Yu did not know how many "small requests" he agreed to and how many "small compromises" he made during the filming process.
And these changes, which initially seemed like small changes at the time, finally came together to make the film look terrifying in pieces.
Collapse!
The whole thing is broken!
The service is broken, the picture is broken, the plot is broken, the actors are broken, and we still don’t know if the special effects will break in the later period, but Zheng Yu’s mentality has already broken.
The one who collapsed with him was Chu Yunpeng, the production director who was called over by him.
"No, Old Zheng, Zheng Yu! This is "New Paradise·Wangxian"!" Chu Yunpeng leaned forward when he spoke, his eyes widened, the veins on his forehead popped out, and his voice sounded like It's like it's squeezed out of the throat.
As the production director and the actual producer of "New Paradise·Wangxian 2", his biggest job is to manage the budget and logistics. stop. Now, seeing that the film is about to be finalized and entering post-production, and then waiting for the finished film to be produced to make a lot of money, Zheng Yu told himself that the film might collapse.
How could Chu Yunpeng accept this for a while?
He couldn't accept it, and Zheng Yu couldn't accept it.
In Zheng Yu’s view, there is definitely a market for Chinese science fiction films, and it is huge. However, there are currently only a few science fiction-themed movies and TV series in China.
It can even be said that all the works that can be named on the market are Xu Xiyu's works.
Because of Xu Xiyu’s several successes, a lot of capital wants to invest in science fiction themes. However, due to the lack of relevant talents, they don’t know where to invest.
Under such circumstances, if I can achieve some results in "science fiction themes", it is very likely that my director career will reach a peak.
It’s a mess.
My sci-fi debut might be a flop.
What’s even more horrifying is that the movie I made that failed happened to be the sequel to “New Paradise·Wangxian”, an IP that was well received both at home and abroad.
Thinking of this, Zheng Yu’s hair hung down in front of his forehead, and he said to Chu Yunpeng as if he had lost his soul: "Old Chu, you said that such a good IP as "Wangxian" was given to me. If the film fails, what will the industry think of me? ”
"Don't worry about what the industry thinks of you. First consider what the company's leaders think of us! Do you know how much money was invested in this film? If it loses money, we all have to pack up and get out!"
" Get out? Ha!" Zheng Yu laughed bitterly.
Then he continued half-deadly: "It's better to get out. Now I'm worried that when the bosses in the industry see us in the future, they will say that we can even make a loss on Xu Xiyu's project, which shows how poor our ability is. "
"..." Chu Yunpeng was choked by these words.
Yes, even Xu Xiyu’s films were made at a loss. This can be regarded as making history. After all, Xu Xiyu has done more than a dozen projects since his debut, all of which were profitable, and basically Make big money.
Even "The Beginning", which was voluntarily removed from the shelves, recovered its cost abroad and with the heroine Gulishati.
I and Zheng Yu made a loss on a project like "Wangxian 2" that was instantly profitable. Isn't this a sign of abandonment in the industry?
Thinking of this, Chu Yunpeng said directly: "Old Zheng, you are the director, this film is a failure, what does it have to do with me? Don't blame me."
"This The fact that the movie crashed had nothing to do with me, it was mainly Luo Shuquan!" Zheng Yu also started to find reasons to shirk responsibility.
I must not bear the reputation of "even Xu Xiyu's films are bad". This reputation is really bad!
So, without waiting for Chu Yunpeng to reply, he continued: "You said that Luo Shuquan is not very good at cooking and likes to teach others how to cook; the acting actor also likes to change the show, which is obvious to him. ? !
And that Wang Yuruo, I don’t even want to say that, damn, she’s not good at it, she’s very arrogant. There are so many demands all day long? Isn’t she Mao Gaojun’s lover? She really thinks of herself as the boss’s wife!”
Chu Yunpeng was furious when he heard Zheng Yu mentioning Wang Yuruo. It was Wang Yuruo who had so many demands on the life of the crew, and in the end it fell to the production crew to satisfy her.
So, he ridiculed: "I heard that our teacher Wang asked Mr. Mao and Mr. Qi to become comrades. They regarded themselves as double boss ladies.
She also wanted to Compared with Lu Qinyao, bah! She didn’t go to the monitor to see how she acted. How can she compare with Lu Qinyao! She can’t even compare with Gu Lixiati!”
The two of us just said something to each other and I cursed each other.
After scolding him for more than half an hour, the anger in his heart finally subsided.
After getting over their addiction, the two had to face the problem of filming collapse.
Chu Yunpeng dealt with money after all, so he had a more flexible mind. After thinking for a while, he said: "Old Zheng, how about we find a way to persuade Mr. Zhang to open the secondary market."< br>
The so-called secondary market is one of the channels through which "bad movies" make money.
The specifics are very complicated, but to explain it simply, it is to make the income rights of "New Paradise·Wangxian 2" into equity packages and resell them.
Many dramas starring Xiao Xianrou and Xiaohua do this. The actual investment may be only 50 million, and the crew takes this 50 million to start filming.
The producer split the 50 million rights and interests and sold them to other companies at a higher price.
In other words, the show has not been finished filming yet, but the producer has already recouped the cost and made money.
After other companies buy it, the total so-called cost may reach 100 million. They will also dismantle it and sell it, and they will just sell it all the way until it is sold to ordinary individual investors. .
These individual investors are highly overlapping with groups such as "micro-business" and "capital disk".
Finally, the cost of a film that originally cost only 50 million may become 300 million, 500 million or something like that if it is circulated in the market.
Some people may have been exposed to such investment projects, with tiers of 35,000 and 80,000, and then got scammed.
There are many short dramas now that follow this model. They first promote the short drama to make money, and then sell "rights packages". This is basically a trap.
Because projects that can really make money at a glance are kept in their own hands and cannot be resold, just like "New Paradise·Wangxian 2".
But ordinary individual investors don’t understand this. They will only be fooled by those who sell equity packages and say: Which star, which director, which platform has given S-level promotion resources and so on.
Based on the above situation.
Chu Yunpeng felt that if Zhang Jianbai could agree to him selling the rights package of "New Paradise·Wangxian 2". Even if half of it is sold, the show will probably make back its original investment, and the rest will be pure profit.
"Old Zheng, think about it, Xu Xiyu is in the limelight now, and there is no one more popular than him now. Moreover, the previous results of "New Paradise·Wangxian 1" are obvious to all.
As long as we focus on promoting the concept of "Xu Xiyu's work" and emphasize the previous achievements of "Wangxian 1", the rights package of "Wangxian 2" will definitely be rushed for. "
(End of this chapter)