I'm not just a director

Chapter 238 Press Conference

Wu Ershan has a rare pragmatic spirit.

Be passionate about the goal, accurately judge the direction, be neither humble nor overbearing to the reality, and face the problem head-on.

Regarding this point, in his own words, he is relatively calm.

It is precisely this pragmatic spirit that allows his commercial films to achieve the unity of artistry and commerciality in catering to the public.

Basically, it also allowed him to achieve the rhythm of a movie breaking [-] million.

Of course, it’s still too early to say these things, and now Wuershan can only be said to be relatively famous in the advertising circle.

He is still far from being a real film director, and it will take time for him to grow.

And the most important thing is to have a movie for him.

Accelerating the growth of a director is to let him keep making films and hone his film skills and tactics in actual combat.

This is exactly what Jiang Pei'an possesses and why Wu Ershan is so excited.

If he had enough funds, he wouldn't have been in the advertising circle for so long.

Wu Ershan couldn't refuse the olive branch offered by Jiang Pei'an.

"Okay, I'll be your executive director."

Without any hesitation, Wu Ershan looked at Jiang Pei'an and said seriously.

Jiang Pei'an laughed and said:
"I knew Director Wu would make the right choice, so you should hand over the work of the studio first.

After processing, report to my company, and I will ask someone to go through the relevant procedures for you. "

Jiang Pei'an took out a business card and handed it to Wu Ershan and said slowly.

Wu Ershan took the business card seriously and said:

"The studio's advertising business hasn't been much recently, and I'll come find you when it's done."

"Okay, let's do this first, Wu Dao, happy cooperation."

Jiang Pei'an stretched out his hand and smiled.

"Pleasant to work with."

……

After discussing some details with Wu Ershan, Jiang Pei'an left.

Wuershan couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and shared the good news with everyone when he returned to the studio.

The employees of the studio were also happy that Wuershan was favored by Jiang Pei'an.

After all, this is Jiang Pei'an, a famous director in the country, two days ago it was rumored that he snatched an actor from Zhang Yimou.

To be favored by this kind of director, even to invite him in person, everyone in the studio knows that director Wu is lucky!

"Director Wu, you have left, what should we do with our studio? Should we just shut it down?"

Apart from being happy, some friends also raised their own questions.

Making movies has always been Wuershan's dream, and everyone knows this.

But people's energy is limited. Shooting commercials and movies at the same time will only please both parties.

Hearing Dalong's words, Wu Ershan waved his hand and said:

"That's not the case, our advertising business is still the same, Dalong, you have been with me for a few years, and you have almost learned the shooting skills.

Advertising is an industry that requires creativity, and most of the shooting is to let the creativity come true and be recognized by Party A.

I'm sure you're all fine with that."

Wu Ershan's studio is not big, with a total of six people.

One is responsible for screenwriting creativity, one is a photographer, and the other two are post-processing and colorists, as well as business BD.

In addition to him as the director, although the big dragon in his mouth is a screenwriter's creativity, under the deliberate training of Wu Ershan, he has been able to play his own role.

At this stage, everyone’s requirements for advertisements are actually not high, as long as they can make Party A nod, plus good creativity and tall pictures.

If the usual shooting is too busy, the shooting or creative part will be outsourced to other companies.

That's why Wu Ershan agreed to go to Jiang Pei'an's crew without any worries.

"Director Wu, can I, can I do it?"

Dalong asked with some lack of confidence.

"Don't worry, it's okay, I know your ability."

Wu Ershan encouraged with a smile.

Having said all of this, there is nothing the studio partners can do about it no matter how reluctant they are.

Everyone knows that director Wu wants to make a movie, and now that this opportunity is in front of him, it can't stop him from heading for a better future.

After Wu Ershan comforted his little friend, he also took out the script Jiang Pei'an gave him to read.

He is a graduate of the Directing Department of Nortel. Although he is an advertising director, he has read many scripts by famous directors when he was in school.

Jiang Pei'an's script gave him a very different feeling.

Both the camera scheduling and the rhythm of the storytelling gave him a feeling of deja vu.

After thinking for a while, he realized that this is the script pattern of a typical Hollywood commercial blockbuster.

Especially the thick stack, looking at the settings that make people's scalp tingle, it's amazing.

Some people write storyboards, which can make people feel as enjoyable as watching a movie.

Some people's scripts follow the abstract stream of consciousness, and the storyboards are drawn like ghosts.

Well, speaking of this, I have to pull Lao Jiang out for a walk.

Wu Ershan opened the storyboard script while looking at the plot setting table.

Such two-phase confirmation gave him the feeling of seeing the light through the clouds and mists.

"What a lot of work this is, it's amazing."

Thinking of the scene when he met Jiang Pei'an today, Wu Ershan sighed.

Some people are born to eat this bowl of rice. This has nothing to do with age or gender, and is inseparable from talent.

……

After Jiang Pei'an returned to the company, he took out the script of "Inception" and read it over and over again.

It keeps drawing on the names of Cheng Long and Li Lianjie.

Cheng Long's side has already confirmed the role, although Li Lianjie's side has been waiting and watching.

But Jiang Pei'an is confident to take it down, the only headache now is how to arrange the roles of Li Lianjie and Cheng Long.

These two are equivalent to a double-edged sword. If they are used well, the box office will rise, and all parties are happy.

But if the arrangement is not proper, it will definitely arouse the infinite anger of the fans of both sides, and may even offend these two.

Thinking of this, Jiang Pei'an wrote down the name of "The King of Kung Fu" in his notebook.

"The King of Kung Fu" can be said to be the most topical domestic film of the year
Cheng Long and Li Lianjie, two well-known kung fu superstars, are co-starring in a movie for the first time.

The co-starring of these two kung fu superstars earned the film enough gimmicks at the time.

Everyone is looking forward to the peak confrontation between these two kung fu superstars, and movie fans have high expectations for the movie.

Both Cheng Long and Li Lianjie are the protagonists in the movie.

Of course, it can also be said that these two are the golden supporting roles in the play.

After all, as long as the audience is not blind, they all know that the protagonist is the American boy.

At that time, the film crew worked hard to take care of these two superstars.

Not only are the scenes and roles equal, but even the fight between the two in the play did not end in a winner.

I have to say that the producers really did their best.

However, after the film was released, the word-of-mouth was not satisfactory. Many fans expressed their disappointment and complained constantly on the Internet.

At that time, the Douban score dropped to 5.3 points.

The domestic box office of "The King of Kung Fu" is only 1.88 million yuan, and the global box office is 8.8 million yuan.

Its high production cost (7000 million U.S. dollars) plus post-production publicity costs and so on.

As a result, the film not only failed to recover the cost, but also lost a lot.

It was complained by many netizens that it was a movie that even Chenglong and Li Lianjie could not save.

The failure of "The King of Kung Fu" is not the focus of Jiang Pei'an.

What he really wants to analyze is the roles and role distribution of Li Lianjie and Cheng Long in this movie.

"Two mentor-like characters...if they were placed in "Inception"..."

Jiang Pei'an flipped through the biography of the characters, and finally locked the two into the "outpost" and "pretender" in the protagonist group.

The outpost is the assistant of the protagonist, who is on the front line and is responsible for the preparatory work such as data collection and information exploration.

And in the dream, he is responsible for helping the protagonist to clean up various unexpected difficulties.

The pretender is also the protagonist's assistant, who can pretend to be any shape in the dream.

Responsible for pretending to be a special person in the dream (usually someone close to the target person)

In order to better influence the target person from the subconscious level.

The roles of these two roles are almost the same, and both belong to the protagonist group, there is only a slight difference in the roles of the two roles.

However, Jiang Pei'an still needs to make some adjustments to this point, trying to make the two people's appearance time and roles as close as possible.

"Well, okay, let's adjust the roles of the two characters first, and then notify them."

Jiang Pei'an picked up the script and started the restoration work.

"I have done this. If the fans of the two families quarrel after the movie is released, then I will not care about it."

Jiang Pei'an rubbed his head and muttered to himself...

Three days later, Cheng Long and Li Lianjie both received a revised script.

After the two of them finished watching, Cheng Long was the first to say that there was no problem.

He knew that Jiang Pei'an had also sent an invitation to Lianjie, and this statement naturally showed that he knew that Lianjie might also play the role.

Li Lianjie responded a little later, but he also expressed that he could accept it, and offered to say that his salary could be the same as Cheng Long.

But he may have joined the group later, even later than Zhang Ziyi.

Jiang Pei'an had already expected this before, but it didn't matter, the filming of his scenes could be postponed.

At the same time, all the auditions for supporting roles in "Inception" have also come to an end.

The completion of this last link also marks the completion of the preliminary casting work of "Inception".

China Film Group also issued an announcement that it will hold a press conference next Monday, announcing that "Inception" will be officially approved as a project, and will start filming soon.

This paper announcement directly caused the outside world to boil.

Jiang Pei'an's new movie is finally about to start shooting.

Does that mean those rumors are true?
Cheng Long will play, and the four major roles in "Heroes" will also play?
And this kind of statement became more and more outrageous, and some people even went to interview the "Hero" crew in person.

The result, of course, was a closed door.

However, Jiang Pei'an himself appeared on the forum and took the initiative to talk about this matter:
"Everyone, stop harassing Director Zhang. It's not as outrageous as what you've said. If I poach all four leading actors, Director Zhang will still fight for me. There are only two if there are not four."

Just... two?
When the public saw Jiang Pei'an's words, everyone was stunned.

What you said is quite aggrieved, Director Zhang really should look for you desperately!
The four main characters are filming well in Hengdian, but you just took two of them away in the past.

How dare you bully the elderly Zhang Dao!

But everyone was also curious about which two actors Jiang Pei'an chose.

According to the revelations at the time, only Zhang Manyu, Liang Chaowei, Li Lianjie, and Zhang Ziyi were in Hengdian.

As for Chen Daoming and Zhen Zidan, this one is still on the Great Gobi.

Zhang Ziyi must have made up her mind, after all, some time ago, there were rumors about her nose and eyes.

Who is the remaining one?

Tony Leung?
Zhang Manyu?
Li Lianjie?
It's all possible, after all, these four acting skills are very good.

With only the information that "Inception" is a science fiction film, everyone thinks that anyone is possible.

Every celebrity has its own fan base and audience, and these three are no exception.

Therefore, the fans of the three are leaning on their favorite artists, cheering and shouting.

Among them, the fans of Liang Chaowei and Zhang Manyu worked hard.

"Why do people think it can't be Lianjie? I think he is very likely.

Director Jiang's last movie was also a sci-fi movie, and the male lead also had a lot of action scenes. Li Lianjie, the Kung Fu Emperor, must be the first choice. "

"The people upstairs are stupid, didn't it break out earlier that Brother Cheng Long would also participate in the performance.

Under such circumstances, do you think Director Jiang still dares to invite Li Lianjie? He is not afraid that these two will fight in the crew! "

"That is, Cheng Long and Li Lianjie have been together for so many years, have you ever seen them cooperate?
The director must be awesome to control these two, not to mention that these two are stars.

What kind of immortal plot do you think can make these two characters exist reasonably, dual male protagonists?Isn't the box office a scam? "

"That's all I'm going to say today. Cheng Long and Li Lianjie have one and can only choose one, and Brother Cheng Long is the most likely. After all, he revealed very early on that he wanted to star in Director Jiang's new movie."

"Fart, Cheng Long is very well-known, but he has been acting in comedy kung fu movies, I don't think it fits with science fiction, Li Lianjie is very suitable!"

"Sci-fi movies can't have comedy plots? No more dog barking upstairs!"

……

"It's so noisy outside, you kid still have the mind to drink tea with me?"

Han Shanping watched Jiang Pei'an drinking tea leisurely, and smiled wryly.

"It's noisy, there are so many people who are so popular before the filming started, we saved a lot of marketing expenses."

Jiang Pei'an crossed his legs and said.

Han Shanping smiled and asked:

"This matter is developing so fast and violently, is it because your kid is behind it?"

Jiang Pei'an nodded and said:
"It's not fueling the flames, it's just randomly posting a few key incitement posts."

The teasing posts Jiang Pei'an mentioned probably took advantage of Cheng Long's and Li Lianjie's fans' support for their respective idols.

Stepping on a handful, this kind of method commonly used in later generations, is unexpectedly easy to use now.

The main reason is that the fan groups on both sides are huge and evenly matched. Otherwise, for any star, its fans would not have such a strong fighting power...

"Hehe, I knew it."

Han Shanping looked like I saw through you.

"It's a marketing tool."

Jiang Pei'an said something with a smile.

Jiang Pei'an is looking forward to the topic of this press conference when the actors are announced, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a big earthquake in the film industry!

(End of this chapter)