Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2213, the beginning of martial arts movies

Bai Baoting took a car and came to the film crew of Shengshi Pictures to see the filming of the movie "Jianghu Swordsman" that he invested in.

The movie "Jianghu Swordsman" is a theme and script that Bai Baoting personally finalized. The content of the story is very simple. It tells the story of a group of vicious bandits entrenched on a mountain in a certain area.

These bandits killed, burned, looted, oppressed the good, and committed all kinds of evil. The local people have always dared not speak out, and could only swallow their anger.

Until the arrival of a swordsman with superb martial arts skills, this chivalrous man with a strong sense of justice, with the three-foot Qingfeng sword in his hand, single-handedly picked out the entire bandit house, punishing evil and promoting good, punishing rape and eliminating evil. story.

Of course, in this process, there are naturally some private affairs between children and the like, so that this story is very full and mellow. Love has been the most desirable thing since ancient times.

The stories and scripts of this kind of old plots are already rotten in later generations, and at a certain point, a casual writer can write a lot of them.

But for this period, such a story is still very fresh, especially when it is presented in the form of a movie, it is bound to become a hit.

Bai Baoting firmly believed in this point. Of course, the reason why he made a movie like "Jianghu Swordsman" was because his funds were really limited, and he couldn't compare with Daming Films, so he didn't dare to shoot large-scale historical movies at all. theme movie.

That's a huge investment.

Among other things, the number of actors required is huge. A scene involving tens of thousands of people can't be supported without thousands of people. After all, it is still an era without special effects for movies.

Hiring a few thousand actors, even temporary ones, at Daming's current salary level, would cost at least a few thousand taels of silver, and if the filming took a long time, the figure would skyrocket.

The filming can be completed in a few days, and a few thousand taels is almost enough, but this is simply impossible. A movie will take a few months to shoot casually, so tens of thousands of taels of silver have been thrown in at once.

In addition, there are costumes, props, scenes, etc., all of which cost money.

Bai Baoting simply couldn't afford it.

But shooting martial arts movies is different. Find a cottage and hire one or two hundred people is enough to shoot a movie. The investment is small, and the content of the shooting is not complicated. You don’t need to pay attention to anything, and you can finish it easily. .

What he wants now is speed, and strives for an early release, and strives to release the film in Beijing and Tianjin by the end of this year, so as to earn back the money invested.

On the shooting scene of "The Swordsman of the Rivers and Lakes", there is a handsome knight in white clothes holding a long sword. It was selected from professional martial arts experts, and they had extremely good martial arts skills.

At the same time, the people who played the bandits seemed to be people with martial arts skills. They were all apprentices invited by the crew from a martial arts master, and even their master was still providing martial arts guidance.

After all, what kind of action is in line with the actual battle, and at the same time can show the wonderful places from the perspective of the movie, so that it can attract consumers more and make people enjoy watching.

The battle continued and became intense. In the end, the bandits in Evil Huzhai pulled the knight's beloved woman out as a hostage, and demanded that the knight's beloved be captured without a fight. In order not to drag down his beloved, the knight's beloved woman resolutely chose to slam into the knife's edge.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, relying on a set of handsome light skills, the knight not only successfully rescued his beloved woman, but also solved the last few big bandits along the way, ushering in the finale in the most perfect way.

"it is good!"

"Perfect!"

Accompanied by the director's applause, the filming of this film can be regarded as completed, despite the unfamiliarity from the beginning, stumbling, and repeated repetitions.

But in the end, the filming of this movie was completed, and the trust of the owner Bai Baoting was fulfilled.

"Great!"

Bai Baoting, who came to the scene, saw that the filming was finished, and shouted happily, and all his employees immediately saluted Bai Baoting.

"I'm still worried about whether you guys can finish filming on time."

"Now that the filming is over, I feel relieved."

"Record more movies as soon as possible. We will release them during the New Year holidays. It will definitely become a hit!"

Bai Baoting also quickly gave instructions to these employees of his firm.

During the Chinese New Year, people in Daming almost have a half-month long vacation. After a year of hard work, the spending power of Ming people during the Chinese New Year is very scary.

I have time and money. Movies released during the Chinese New Year are definitely more profitable than movies released in normal times. You must know that stadiums, theaters, racetracks, casinos, etc. in the Beijing-Tianjin area during the Chinese New Year are extremely popular. The business is extremely prosperous and lively, and it is the most profitable time of the year.

Bai Baoting returned to the capital in a hurry with the finished filming of "Swordsman of the Rivers and Lakes", and then started to contact the various stadiums, hoping to show his movie in the stadiums.

However, there is no way for the stadium to agree to cooperate with Bai Baoting, because Daming Films has already released three films during the Chinese New Year.

With the popularity and sales of the first movie, these stadiums signed a cooperation agreement with Daming Films without hesitation. At the same time, during the Chinese New Year, the football games here in the stadium were also very frequent and intensive. Collaborate here.

This made Bai Baoting very anxious. If there is no way to show it in a large stadium, it will be difficult to find some places to show the movie.

This made Bai Baoting anxious, and in the end he had no choice but to cooperate with some schools. During the Chinese New Year, the schools were already on holiday.

In general schools, there are also many classrooms and large playgrounds. In the classrooms, as long as the windows are covered, they can be used to show movies during the day just like at night.

And because it's in the classroom, it's warmer and more comfortable than in an open area, so you won't be half dead cold after watching a movie.

After signing an agreement with some schools to split the entrance fee by half, Bai Baoting also successfully obtained the right to use some schools in the Beijing-Tianjin area during the Chinese New Year.

"Listen to me."

"Every group will go to the streets and alleys of the capital, carry this brand, and promote advertisements. We must try our best to let as many people know about our movie "Jianghu Swordsman" and let everyone know, even during the daytime. You can also watch a movie."

As for the promotion of the movie, Bai Baoting naturally has no money to advertise in the newspapers, so he can only let the buddies and employees of his firm divide into groups of three or five, and carry advertisements and promotional banners made of cloth in the Beijing-Tianjin area The streets and alleys are constantly doing publicity.

"Good news, good news!"

"The new movie "Jianghu Swordsman" will be released soon, and the new movie will be released soon."

"You don't need to watch movies in the cold wind, and you don't need to be able to watch movies at night. You can watch movies during the day, and you can watch movies in the classroom."

"Attention, attention, new movie coming out, new movie coming out!"

In the streets and alleys of the Beijing-Tianjin area, the people employed by Saatchi Films kept yelling in the streets and alleys, because they were wearing uniform vests, carrying propaganda banners, and they kept holding big iron horns along the way. Shouting, it also attracted a lot of people's attention for a while.

"Is there a new movie coming out?"

"Swordsman? What kind of movie is this?"

"I don't know, and it also said that you can watch this movie during the day, is it true?"

"We can just go and watch it later. I've watched Huo Qubing's Great Destruction of the Huns several times, and I'm already tired of watching it. Finally, there is a new movie released."

"Isn't that right, the stadium also said that there are new movies coming out, and there are three movies at once. I heard that all the tickets are sold out now."

"Let's go and see this rivers and lakes swordsman first. Hearing the name is quite new, and we can also go and see it during the day."

"Yes, yes, let's go and take a look together later, let's go and take a look together."

The effect of publicity is obviously still very good.

Especially for the young and old in the capital, in the past few months, everyone has been deeply attracted by novelty things like movies.

But there is only one movie that is played over and over again. Many people have watched it several times, and they have long wanted to watch new movies.

Now I heard that there are finally new movies released, whether it is the three movies of Daming Films, or this new movie of Baibaoting Shengshi Films, it can meet the needs of young and old in Beijing and Tianjin for new movies at once.

Therefore, these films have attracted everyone's attention since the promotion was just started, and everyone is looking forward to the release of these films.

(End of this chapter)