423. Chapter 423 - Scene 423
Why did Jiuzhadao, who had no experience in director, make the filming of "Those Years" so successful? One of the most important reasons is that the actors are in a particularly pure state in the movie, and no one is too hard and desperately trying to show themselves.
When the filming of the movie Jiubadao was filmed, the outside world thought it was just a test work by a writer, so the actors did not regard the movie as their own tool to become famous, and the crew maintained a simple and beautiful atmosphere as in the movie.
If you were filming by yourself, with the weight of the three words Li Xiaole in the film industry, no matter whether you are a professional actor or not, as long as you come to the crew, you will probably have the utilitarian mentality of becoming a big star this time. This is very dangerous, and it will destroy the clear feeling of this movie...
Compared to a group of extremely smart actors, he needs to be a group of young and sincere fools.
Thinking of this, Li Xiaole frowned and turned on the computer, began to think hard, and countless brain cells were running at high speed. If Lei Ting was watching his flickering eyes at this moment, she would definitely say that he was "the belly of bad water began to evaporate again..."
What Li Xiaole wants to do now is very simple. He wants to destroy everyone's expectations for this work and eliminate and invisible pressure from outside public opinion. If the follow-up expectations of "Sedek Barre"'s huge success are suppressed to "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years", this movie will be ruined.
Just as he dragged the mouse meaninglessly, an interview article about Wang Qun popped up on the computer screen, which was a slander for the news bureau to give him more than 100 million yuan in rewards to shoot small topics.
Hey~? This person is just right to use it. After thinking about the resources he can call, Li Xiaole smiled and slowly built a plan to harm others and benefit himself. He immediately picked up his mobile phone and called Liu Chengjun, editor-in-chief of Taipei United Daily News. Since Wei Desheng opened a column at United Daily News, this newspaper with the top three sales in Taiwan has become Black Pearl's most iron media partner in Taiwan.
"Editor Liu, are you free now?" Li Xiaole said straight to the point: "There is something you need to help."
"No, Director Li, what do you need to care for?" Liu Chengjun, who was in the office, was very excited when he received a call from Li Xiaole. In the past, "Sedek Barre" triggered this public opinion war filled with smoke, the United Daily News chose to stand firmly on Li Xiaole's side. The result of a 17.9% increase in sales proved that this decision was extremely wise.
"That's right. I'm filming a new drama and planning to do a negative marketing..." Li Xiaole roughly explained the matter. In fact, with his current status in the Chinese film industry, he doesn't need to play these little tricks in publicity anymore. But since he wants to calm the actors' minds, it's not just to deceive Ha Ji-won alone, but to create an illusion that everyone believes.
Now everyone knows that he has been criticized by theaters in Taiwan in public opinion, and the News Bureau, who supports him behind him, hopes that he will shoot big productions. If the outside world knows that he has made more than 100 million from the News Bureau and does not intend to invest a penny, and even hasn't written a segmented script for shooting, I'm afraid he will think that he has broken his relationship with the News Bureau and is ready to make a quick money before leaving Taiwan...
Of course, the wonderful thing about this is that some details are real. He is indeed leaving Taiwan. Moreover, the movie "Those Years" has a suspicion of taking advantage of the theme to the shooting method. All shooting and post-production can be completed within 2 months.
These things may not deceive senior media people like Liu Chengjun, but for ordinary audiences, this logic is very convincing. This negative public opinion will greatly reduce the expectations of participating actors for this work, which is the effect Li Xiaole wants.
"No problem, I know what to do, but Director Li... This may annoy the Administrative News Bureau..." Liu Chengjun felt that this was not difficult, but he didn't understand why Li Xiaole was doing this.
"Why are the Administrative News Bureau angry? Didn't this news be given to you by Wang Qun and the others?" Li Xiaole smiled softly. Since Wang Qun clearly wanted to fight him, it would be a good idea to outsiders.
"I understand..." Liu Chengjun nodded and agreed, feeling that Li Xiaole was much more insidious than he thought... It was really pitiful compared to Wang Qun.
A week later, the Taipei United Daily News published a large number of news about Li Fengkuan’s new work that the majority of movie fans were concerned about.
"Li Fengkuan's new work announced that he will work with Jiubadao to shoot the high school romance drama "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years"!!"
This is the headline of the entertainment section of the United Daily News. They published an exclusive interview with Li Xiaole as scheduled. Shortly after this issue of the newspaper was launched, this exclusive interview report appeared on the Internet and was quickly reprinted everywhere. It was originally discussed by the forum on the public opinion war between "Sedek Barre" and it was hotly discussed.
After all, "Seedek Barre" was just painted offline in Taiwan, and the total box office in Taiwan received a record box office of 863 million. Li Xiaole is now in popularity, and many movie fans are looking forward to his new work.
Of course, there are many fans who hate the movie "Sedek Barre", and they have also accumulated enough saliva to launch the next wave of offensive against Li Xiaole's new work.
Those who are following Li Xiaole now know the news. He is going to shoot a campus romance film called "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years". The content is a childish and simple love story. By the way, the cost of making this movie is... only NT$50 million, which is less than one-tenth of the cost of "Sedek Barre". Isn't this a bit shabby...
However, the media's focus is not on his film investment itself, but on Li Xiaole's unprecedented efforts, not raising a penny by himself. He even allocated most of the rewards from the News Bureau to his deputy director Wei Desheng to film another romance art film called "Cape Seven".
Campus romance drama? Li Xiaole said that he had high expectations for this movie. What is the definition of a very high... The love theme of high school students only has two directions, either taboo themes, teacher-student love, suicide, and youth confusion, this extreme type that is easy to win awards, but Li Xiaole has denied it in the interview, so now there is only...youth idol film left...
OK... Now Taiwan's youth idol drama is on the rise, and the low-cost idol movie "Initial D" has won 58 million in Taiwan. The movie starring youth idols seems to be very risky, but why do they look so similar to those Hong Kong directors who come to mainland Taiwan to cheat money...
What's even more terrible is that under this interview, there was a leaked article as if it was cooperating: "A person familiar with the matter revealed that because Li Xiaole rejected the proposal of the Administrative News Bureau for a new film and insisted on not shooting the war theme, it led to serious disagreements with the News Bureau. It is reported that Li Xiaole was already discouraged and prepared to leave Taiwan...
However, the project deadline for the 120 million yuan release bonus of the News Bureau is at the end of this year, so Li Xiaole had to squander these bonuses in just three months, which led to the birth of "Cape Seven" with an investment of 70 million yuan and "The Girls We Chased Together"..."
The entertainment media have not had time to comment, but discussions on the news online have begun.
"To be honest, this situation is really ridiculous. It is obviously a cross-strait cooperation, and the News Bureau insists on defining the theme for Li Fengkuan. How can art be so rigid? No wonder Li Fengkuan is angry and makes such a youth idol film that is purely profitable for business..."
This comment is already polite. Many comments directly mock Li Xiaole: "Probably the director was so sensitive that he was driven crazy when he filmed "Sedek Barre", so he didn't dare to touch any sensitive shots. He just made an idol drama that caters to those boys and girls. But this guy studied in a high school in the mainland and a university in South Korea, but came to Taiwan to shoot a local idol theme... I bet that the heroine in this movie was either leukemia or a car accident, or the hero was a wealthy young man!"
"Forget it, Li Xiaole must have made some money to leave this time. Look at how you usually scold, now they won't play with you Taiwanese guys, let you entertain yourself on the smile island. You don't care about Li Xiaole, we are rare in the mainland. It's also your fault that Li Xiaole uses idol dramas to ruin you."
At this moment, in Val's Xia, Los Angeles, thousands of miles away, thousands of miles away, the world's most famous movie star Tom Cruise was frowning and listening to his partner Paula Wagner reading this negative report by Li Xiaole.
"It seems that our acquisition of United Mi's competitors is not easy... Maybe we don't have to worry about that difficult Asian chick..." Paula Wagner, the middle-aged brown-haired beauty, smiled with a relaxed expression.
During this period, everyone in the outside world knew about the fall of Tom Cruise and Paramount. It was a necessary step to acquire United American company under MGM. However, unexpectedly, when everything was going well, a Chinese company called Black Pearl suddenly broke out halfway. The female representative named Lei Ting actually put huge pressure on them in the acquisition.
Tom Cruise and the others had to investigate the background of Black Pearl Company, and they happened to see the recent negative news about Li Xiaole, the core character of Black Pearl. After several investigations, Paula Wagner confirmed that the funds for Black Pearl Company to acquire Lianmei are still a little short of money. If Li Xiaole's movie at the end of the year fails this time, even if Lei Ting can reach an agreement with MGM, they will not be able to provide enough money to take over Lianmei tomorrow.
"I don't think Black Pearl Company will stop..." Tom Cruise held his chin with both hands, a hint of worry appeared in his charming dark green eyes, and turned his hand over the computer screen: "Paula, come and take a look at this."
Why did Jiuzhadao, who had no experience in director, make the filming of "Those Years" so successful? One of the most important reasons is that the actors are in a particularly pure state in the movie, and no one is too hard and desperately trying to show themselves.
When the filming of the movie Jiubadao was filmed, the outside world thought it was just a test work by a writer, so the actors did not regard the movie as their own tool to become famous, and the crew maintained a simple and beautiful atmosphere as in the movie.
If you were filming by yourself, with the weight of the three words Li Xiaole in the film industry, no matter whether you are a professional actor or not, as long as you come to the crew, you will probably have the utilitarian mentality of becoming a big star this time. This is very dangerous, and it will destroy the clear feeling of this movie...
Compared to a group of extremely smart actors, he needs to be a group of young and sincere fools.
Thinking of this, Li Xiaole frowned and turned on the computer, began to think hard, and countless brain cells were running at high speed. If Lei Ting was watching his flickering eyes at this moment, she would definitely say that he was "the belly of bad water began to evaporate again..."
What Li Xiaole wants to do now is very simple. He wants to destroy everyone's expectations for this work and eliminate and invisible pressure from outside public opinion. If the follow-up expectations of "Sedek Barre"'s huge success are suppressed to "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years", this movie will be ruined.
Just as he dragged the mouse meaninglessly, an interview article about Wang Qun popped up on the computer screen, which was a slander for the news bureau to give him more than 100 million yuan in rewards to shoot small topics.
Hey~? This person is just right to use it. After thinking about the resources he can call, Li Xiaole smiled and slowly built a plan to harm others and benefit himself. He immediately picked up his mobile phone and called Liu Chengjun, editor-in-chief of Taipei United Daily News. Since Wei Desheng opened a column at United Daily News, this newspaper with the top three sales in Taiwan has become Black Pearl's most iron media partner in Taiwan.
"Editor Liu, are you free now?" Li Xiaole said straight to the point: "There is something you need to help."
"No, Director Li, what do you need to care for?" Liu Chengjun, who was in the office, was very excited when he received a call from Li Xiaole. In the past, "Sedek Barre" triggered this public opinion war filled with smoke, the United Daily News chose to stand firmly on Li Xiaole's side. The result of a 17.9% increase in sales proved that this decision was extremely wise.
"That's right. I'm filming a new drama and planning to do a negative marketing..." Li Xiaole roughly explained the matter. In fact, with his current status in the Chinese film industry, he doesn't need to play these little tricks in publicity anymore. But since he wants to calm the actors' minds, it's not just to deceive Ha Ji-won alone, but to create an illusion that everyone believes.
Now everyone knows that he has been criticized by theaters in Taiwan in public opinion, and the News Bureau, who supports him behind him, hopes that he will shoot big productions. If the outside world knows that he has made more than 100 million from the News Bureau and does not intend to invest a penny, and even hasn't written a segmented script for shooting, I'm afraid he will think that he has broken his relationship with the News Bureau and is ready to make a quick money before leaving Taiwan...
Of course, the wonderful thing about this is that some details are real. He is indeed leaving Taiwan. Moreover, the movie "Those Years" has a suspicion of taking advantage of the theme to the shooting method. All shooting and post-production can be completed within 2 months.
These things may not deceive senior media people like Liu Chengjun, but for ordinary audiences, this logic is very convincing. This negative public opinion will greatly reduce the expectations of participating actors for this work, which is the effect Li Xiaole wants.
"No problem, I know what to do, but Director Li... This may annoy the Administrative News Bureau..." Liu Chengjun felt that this was not difficult, but he didn't understand why Li Xiaole was doing this.
"Why are the Administrative News Bureau angry? Didn't this news be given to you by Wang Qun and the others?" Li Xiaole smiled softly. Since Wang Qun clearly wanted to fight him, it would be a good idea to outsiders.
"I understand..." Liu Chengjun nodded and agreed, feeling that Li Xiaole was much more insidious than he thought... It was really pitiful compared to Wang Qun.
A week later, the Taipei United Daily News published a large number of news about Li Fengkuan’s new work that the majority of movie fans were concerned about.
"Li Fengkuan's new work announced that he will work with Jiubadao to shoot the high school romance drama "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years"!!"
This is the headline of the entertainment section of the United Daily News. They published an exclusive interview with Li Xiaole as scheduled. Shortly after this issue of the newspaper was launched, this exclusive interview report appeared on the Internet and was quickly reprinted everywhere. It was originally discussed by the forum on the public opinion war between "Sedek Barre" and it was hotly discussed.
After all, "Seedek Barre" was just painted offline in Taiwan, and the total box office in Taiwan received a record box office of 863 million. Li Xiaole is now in popularity, and many movie fans are looking forward to his new work.
Of course, there are many fans who hate the movie "Sedek Barre", and they have also accumulated enough saliva to launch the next wave of offensive against Li Xiaole's new work.
Those who are following Li Xiaole now know the news. He is going to shoot a campus romance film called "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years". The content is a childish and simple love story. By the way, the cost of making this movie is... only NT$50 million, which is less than one-tenth of the cost of "Sedek Barre". Isn't this a bit shabby...
However, the media's focus is not on his film investment itself, but on Li Xiaole's unprecedented efforts, not raising a penny by himself. He even allocated most of the rewards from the News Bureau to his deputy director Wei Desheng to film another romance art film called "Cape Seven".
Campus romance drama? Li Xiaole said that he had high expectations for this movie. What is the definition of a very high... The love theme of high school students only has two directions, either taboo themes, teacher-student love, suicide, and youth confusion, this extreme type that is easy to win awards, but Li Xiaole has denied it in the interview, so now there is only...youth idol film left...
OK... Now Taiwan's youth idol drama is on the rise, and the low-cost idol movie "Initial D" has won 58 million in Taiwan. The movie starring youth idols seems to be very risky, but why do they look so similar to those Hong Kong directors who come to mainland Taiwan to cheat money...
What's even more terrible is that under this interview, there was a leaked article as if it was cooperating: "A person familiar with the matter revealed that because Li Xiaole rejected the proposal of the Administrative News Bureau for a new film and insisted on not shooting the war theme, it led to serious disagreements with the News Bureau. It is reported that Li Xiaole was already discouraged and prepared to leave Taiwan...
However, the project deadline for the 120 million yuan release bonus of the News Bureau is at the end of this year, so Li Xiaole had to squander these bonuses in just three months, which led to the birth of "Cape Seven" with an investment of 70 million yuan and "The Girls We Chased Together"..."
The entertainment media have not had time to comment, but discussions on the news online have begun.
"To be honest, this situation is really ridiculous. It is obviously a cross-strait cooperation, and the News Bureau insists on defining the theme for Li Fengkuan. How can art be so rigid? No wonder Li Fengkuan is angry and makes such a youth idol film that is purely profitable for business..."
This comment is already polite. Many comments directly mock Li Xiaole: "Probably the director was so sensitive that he was driven crazy when he filmed "Sedek Barre", so he didn't dare to touch any sensitive shots. He just made an idol drama that caters to those boys and girls. But this guy studied in a high school in the mainland and a university in South Korea, but came to Taiwan to shoot a local idol theme... I bet that the heroine in this movie was either leukemia or a car accident, or the hero was a wealthy young man!"
"Forget it, Li Xiaole must have made some money to leave this time. Look at how you usually scold, now they won't play with you Taiwanese guys, let you entertain yourself on the smile island. You don't care about Li Xiaole, we are rare in the mainland. It's also your fault that Li Xiaole uses idol dramas to ruin you."
At this moment, in Val's Xia, Los Angeles, thousands of miles away, thousands of miles away, the world's most famous movie star Tom Cruise was frowning and listening to his partner Paula Wagner reading this negative report by Li Xiaole.
"It seems that our acquisition of United Mi's competitors is not easy... Maybe we don't have to worry about that difficult Asian chick..." Paula Wagner, the middle-aged brown-haired beauty, smiled with a relaxed expression.
During this period, everyone in the outside world knew about the fall of Tom Cruise and Paramount. It was a necessary step to acquire United American company under MGM. However, unexpectedly, when everything was going well, a Chinese company called Black Pearl suddenly broke out halfway. The female representative named Lei Ting actually put huge pressure on them in the acquisition.
Tom Cruise and the others had to investigate the background of Black Pearl Company, and they happened to see the recent negative news about Li Xiaole, the core character of Black Pearl. After several investigations, Paula Wagner confirmed that the funds for Black Pearl Company to acquire Lianmei are still a little short of money. If Li Xiaole's movie at the end of the year fails this time, even if Lei Ting can reach an agreement with MGM, they will not be able to provide enough money to take over Lianmei tomorrow.
Chapter completed!