Thinking of this, he made up his mind and said: "I will take the role, and you will be responsible for negotiating the details."
"As for investing within 100 million, you can test it out with Fatty Yu. If the conditions are right, you can consider it. If it doesn't work, forget it."
"Understood." Kong Xue smiled and nodded. He also meant the same thing. Such a big project may not be possible in two years. It would be a pity to miss out on the opportunity to participate.
We must explore Fatty Yu's tone. Since he has actively invited Su Ze to participate in the show, he has a bargaining chip in his hand.
Partial cash investment, plus Suze's film remuneration plus Kanazawa's publicity channels...
You are qualified to play together!
Looking at Kong Xue's excited back, Su Ze smiled, who is willing to miss out on a big project when it comes to investors?
Anyway, there is no shortage of money now. At worst, you can spend tens of millions to have fun. It can be regarded as accumulating experience in large projects. Both Kong Xue and the team can benefit a lot.
Resource sharing has become the norm. For projects with an investment of over 100 million, it is rare for one company to be alone. Upstream investment, midstream distribution and promotion, downstream filming and production...
Giants, theaters, distribution, publicity...
Even the director, actors, team...
As long as there is strength, everyone wants to get a share of the pie.
Look at Hollywood, the top actors are paid in cash plus box office dividends, and the ones at the top of the pyramid can easily get 20 million US dollars plus 10% of the global box office. This is called confidence.
So compared to others, Asian actors are still younger brothers.
Domestic film remuneration can be negotiated, but box office dividends are difficult to obtain. As long as you don't participate in investment, it is basically impossible to get a share of the profits just by acting.
The rules of the game are just like this, and cannot be changed by a few people. Of course, Su Ze doesn't want to change. He just acts steadily and does well without investing money, and he can feel at ease and get paid by others.
If you want to get dividends, invest real money, and use other people's money to eliminate disasters.
What's more, with the development of Kanazawa today, pure cash investment is no longer the only competitiveness. Box office appeal and publicity capabilities are sometimes more useful than throwing money.
Don't worry about this. I called Fatty Yu personally and agreed to take over Wu Wanli. The other party was very happy and negotiated a contract immediately.
Asking Shishi to collect various historical materials, Su Ze could only describe it in two words after reading it:
Tragic!
There were too many specific examples, but the ones that moved Su Ze the most were a few photos, in which soldiers looked like they were frozen into ice.
The soldiers had lived in the south for a long time, causing most of them to suffer from severe frostbite after entering the Changjin Lake area. At that time, as many as 30,000 soldiers in the Ninth Corps suffered from frostbite, and more than 4,000 died of frostbite alone.
The most touching thing is undoubtedly the Ice Wither Company. In order to occupy the strategically important Huangcaoling 1081 Highland, all the officers and soldiers of the company were frozen into ice withers.
For several days and nights in the severe cold of minus 40 degrees Celsius, with no access to hot food, he lurked in the icy snow and still maintained his shooting posture when he died.
"One Sword Dominates"
Even the enemy soldiers stood in awe when they saw him and took off their hats to show their respect.
Under the extreme difficulties of backward firepower and equipment and serious non-combat attrition, the Ninth Corps used surprise attack tactics to quietly concentrate on designated combat positions.
Cleverly using the mountainous terrain to cut the enemy into four parts, and finally annihilating the Polar Bear Regiment, it can be called a mythical textbook battle.
"I remember that two years ago Fatty Yu ambitiously invested in Roland Emmerich's Battle of Midway. The global box office seemed to be only 1.3 billion US dollars?"
Shishi put down the information and analyzed: "At that time, I heard that a full 80 million US dollars were wasted. Are you planning to avenge the shame this time?"
"Yes, yes, I think I've seen that movie." Xiaotong interjected: "I think it's pretty good."
Su Ze put down the book and took a sip of tea: "Nowadays, the main people entering the cinema are those born in the 1990s and 2000s. We were born in a peaceful era. Who has really seen a war?"
"Those traditional wars that are open and closed with an elitist perspective have long been out!"
Fortunately, the screenwriter Lan Xiaolong is not stupid. The script definitely does not include any old clichés like the enemy is ferocious and cunning, our generals are strategizing, and soldiers and their lovers part ways.
What he is best at is creating the image of a flesh-and-blood warrior. He likes to see the big from the small, as evidenced by the soldiers' assault on my regiment.
Wu Wanli, who I will play, looks slovenly, ignorant and stubborn, determined to go to the battlefield.
The eldest brother Wu Baili died in the battle, and the second brother Wu Qianli, played by Wu Jing, could not let the last single member of the Wu family die. As a result...
"Brother Ze, Tsui Hark and Lin Chaoxian are fine, but why do you have to find Cheng Kaige?"
Seeing Xiaotong complaining, Su Ze laughed and said: "Director Cheng Da's biggest problem is that he likes personal expression too much, but he is also too vague and even mystical. He often makes things look like well-packaged things, you know."
"But as long as you shoot it realistically, you will still have a good level, otherwise you won't be able to shoot Farewell My Concubine."
Seeing Xiaotong's face full of disbelief, she could only shake her head helplessly. It's useless to talk about this kind of thing. What the audience sees is the final result.
It can only be said that Director Cheng Da has been a little too stretched in the past few years.
For the time being, Su Ze's confidence and expectations still come from screenwriter Lan Xiaolong, and of course Lin Chaoxian's experience in war scenes, as well as Old Monster Xu's overall strength.
Fatty Yu is not stupid. He has already paid 80 million US dollars in tuition fees. How can he have no confidence to dare to make a comeback?
Rather than saying it is Changjin Lake, the core is actually the Seventh Company of Steel. No matter the characters or the rhythm, it has the familiar flavor from that year.
As long as the internal flavor remains unchanged, the audience will definitely pay for it!
Don't talk about anything else, just look at the character names. Wu Jing's seventh company commander is called Wu Qianli?
Wu corresponds to the march, and is closely related to the army. A thousand miles can be said to be a journey of a thousand miles, and the journey is long. It can also be said to be a horse with a thousand li, and the future is bright.
The recruit he plays is named Wu Wanli, which is reminiscent of the Long March. It shows that his team has experienced hundreds of battles, inherits and continues the excellent fighting tradition, and also shows that he and his comrades will become the steel wall that defends the motherland.
Hundreds of miles, thousands of miles, ten thousand miles...
The corpse was returned after being wrapped in horse leather, and the three brothers had a blood relationship and a spiritual inheritance relationship.
There are heroes in the Jiang Shang Dynasty, and each of them leads the way for decades!
In addition, Su Ze is very interested in big war scenes. Although the battle in Changsha is also a war scene, it is basically a small fight with no special effects in the later stage.
This time is different. Fatty Yu is patting his chest and boasting about more than 70,000 extras, hundreds of tactical designs, and fifty of the world's top special effects teams...
real or fake?
After all, this is a major production of war special effects, so I don’t have high expectations for Su Ze in the literary drama. As long as the character can stand upright and the audience has a sense of empathy, it’s all nonsense.
Those who have never been on the battlefield will never understand the cruelty of war. How can you be immersed in it just by watching a two-hour movie?
Take a shower and go to sleep!
Su Ze didn't have high expectations when he took the role. The attraction was Tsui Hark and Lin Chaoxian, as well as Wu Jing, Duan Yihong and Hu Jun, a few veteran actors. What was left?