Chapter 457 Half-Step Boss (Part 2)

Author: Fried Daikin

Chapter 457 Half-Step Boss (Part 2)

The purpose of movie promotion is to expand awareness and let the audience know that such a movie is released!

However, domestic movie promotion has another intention: to show it to theaters.

Otherwise, the theater will not schedule movies for you!

Later, another item was added: deliberately avoiding actors who are annoying to the audience. For example, in the promotion of "The Spirit of Dragon and Horse", if you only read the promotion, you would not know that the heroine is Liu Haocun;

And..."Hachi the Dog".

Feng Xiaogang is really embarrassed. The film crew mainly promoted the little local dog in the movie, not Feng Xiaogang...

Back to the subject, this time the promotion of "The Detective of the Republic of China" was enhanced with variety show promotion, and the three leading actors all went to "Happy Camp"...

After all, "Basecamp" has high ratings, which has direct benefits for publicity.

However, as a screenwriter and planner, Shen Xudong must also participate in publicity.

"Although there are no blockbusters in April, the odds are stacked here... Therefore, we must mobilize the audience into the theater as much as possible..."

"Well, just try your best."

Huang Bin didn't know what he thought of: "It's a pity that "The Detective of the Republic of China" did not use Hong Kong actors, otherwise, the copyright would have been sold..."

"It's not necessary... It costs more than 10 million. If you use Hong Kong actors, the cost will be increased by at least 30%." After a pause, Shen Xudong continued: "Besides, Jiahe also said that they will try to distribute it!"

After all, "The Detective" is a series. Shen Xudong still has ideas about the box office in Southeast Asia. Why don't he give it a try? What if it works?

"Hong Kong movies have laid a solid foundation. Gangster movies, action movies, martial arts movies...the three major genres are sweeping across Southeast Asia. What we have to do is follow these three genres..."

While Shen Xudong was playing, his cell phone rang...it was Chen Musheng.

"...No, I am here mainly to continue our cooperation with Jiahe!"

"I'll see Huang Baiming later..."

"Then I can't go see Johnnie To, right?"

"...Okay, tomorrow night."

After hanging up the phone, he said to Huang Bin: "Let's go!"

Huang Bin nodded and the two of them stood up...

…

Besides Huang Baiming, Shen Xudong couldn't think of a second collaborator!

There are only a few Hong Kong directors who can still be successful today...

First of all, exclude Johnnie To - if you offend Johnnie To, you are offending his entire group!

Wang Jing and Cheng Tian are very close, and in the past few years, Wang Jing has made a lot of bad movies during his exploration period...

Other people have also paid homage to Shantou. For example, the trio of Zhuang Wenqiang, Mak Siu-fai and Liu Weiqiang have joined Bona.

Only Huang Baiming still has some energy left.

Besides, "Ip Man" still relies on him to organize the plot...

As for screenwriting work…

Let’s leave it to his son Huang Ziheng!

To be honest, apart from the plot of the first part of the "Ip Man" series, there are some highlights, but the subsequent parts are all just a running story!

Each plot is worse than the other, but the action scenes are better than the last!

Routine-style plot: The sense of humiliation is constantly superimposed and accumulated, and the audience is constantly involved in the humiliation, forming a continuous emotional depression. By the way, there is also the strongest Chinese besides Ip Man who tries to clear up the humiliation but is defeated again. So A new and higher value of humiliation was performed, and the emotional depression reached the breaking point. Then Ip Man came on the stage. He had a slight advantage in the draw. He was gradually losing the favor due to injuries. He found the opportunity to counterattack with Mingmen, and pinned his opponent to the ground for a while without expression. Hammer... In the end, the emotions are released and the humiliation seems to be washed away.

Since the first part of the "Ip Man" series, every ultimate opponent will always set the competition into an open competition out of "unconvinced" or "look down upon", so the fight to the death has become the Olympics. Inequality at other levels is erased, and everything returns to the purest competition.

But it’s just a hit…

Why was the first one okay?

The first part is about figuring out the routine and then establishing the routine, so it still has some rough edges that are less mature and less greasy, and some rougher edges that are more life-like.

The characters have a clearer growth curve, and several supporting characters are also better completed.

However, the psychological preparation is relatively insufficient, that is, the process of superimposing and accumulating the sense of humiliation mentioned above is rather sloppy.

Therefore, the final climax also seemed sloppy - Ip Man won quickly after receiving two punches.

In fact, the entire movie, although it goes through one-on-one, one-on-one, group battles, indoor, outdoor, bare-handed, and weaponry, is a crushing game from beginning to end without exception.

Of course, I didn’t plan to do so many parts at the beginning.

Shen Xudong's positioning of "Ip Man" is very clear - to make money.

In this regard, Huang Baiming has more experience than him.

…

Huang Baiming is the director whose career was suspended in 1995 - "Wolf Kisses Horror Night", trying to combine strange case stories with comedy themes to open up a new film creation model.

Unfortunately, there is an inherent gap between serious mystery themes and comedy expressions.

Even Jackie Chan, the overlord of Hong Kong films at the time, had to give up his comedy performance when filming "Crime".

It can be seen that it is not easy to combine the two elements of mystery and comedy.

In the end, "Wolf Kissed Horror Night" only reported 3.9 million Hong Kong dollars, and its reputation was even worse...

Huang Baiming suspended his directing career for 7 years.

From 1995 to 2002, although Huang Baiming participated in the filming of many film works as a screenwriter and producer, he never created any works as a director.

In 2002, I filmed a movie called "Brotherhood," which also failed miserably at the box office...

With the rise of the mainland market, Huang Baiming certainly has ideas.

He chose action movies and tried his hand at "Dragon Tiger Gate" and "The Fuse", both of which had Donnie Yen as the leading male lead.

Now I am looking for a distribution company in the Mainland.

In the original time and space, his choice was Bona Pictures, and later he cooperated with Huayi and Enlight Media respectively...

Shen Xudong came with sincerity - buy it out directly!

Gao Fenfen gave a bottom line of 30 million!

Two movies!

Therefore, Shen Xudong is very serious... Huang Baiming came to see him with the idea of ​​​​negotiation...

Then...I felt what high-end game is!

Huang Baiming did not talk to him at all, but invited him to a nightclub to experience Hong Kong's nightlife.

…

What is business?

Talking about things while eating?

It's too low. The so-called business negotiation is about business.

In Huang Baiming's opinion, Shen Xudong is very similar to him. They are both screenwriters and now run their own companies, and they both like beautiful women...

The news that Shen Xudong likes beautiful women is actually a rumor that Shen Xudong left a dozen on the yacht last year.

None of us are serious people!

It’s easier to handle if you’re not a serious person…

Although in Huang Baiming's view, Shen Xudong is not a big boss, he has full potential and can be considered a half-step boss.

arrange!

Isn't she just a young model...

Shen Xudong once again practiced his true nature as a man based on the idea of ​​​​doing as the Romans do in the countryside...

Art is not divided into regions, so we need to communicate frequently and don’t be stingy...

It should be noted that the relationship between people is based on mutual communication.

It was almost ten o'clock the next day before he got out of bed.

When he went downstairs, Huang Bin was already waiting for him in the lobby: "Boss Huang invited us to have dinner together at noon."

"…OK."
Chapter completed!