CEE started with Nortel lecturers

Chapter 305: I don’t look like a playboy?

The broadcast effect of this issue of "Qi Pa Shuo" was quite good, especially the exchanges between Gu Zhongyu and several debaters, which caused a lot of discussion. Many advertisers were attracted by this and offered to sponsor the championship. name.

This show is finally on the normal development track.

Gu Zhongyu has been quite calm these days. They are all doing things in the company. For example, the TV series "Descendants of the Sun" that he filmed with Zeng Meiren has received a license and is expected to be broadcast soon.

Gu Zhongyu still has high expectations for this drama. If the localization can be successful, he will produce many classic cold dramas in the future. Don't be too happy to pick up the wool of Bangzi. Who asked you to keep stealing from us!

Zhang Yishan and Wang Zhi's "Remaining Sin" has also completed post-production. The management of online dramas these days is still relatively loose. Gu Zhongyu watched the film and found that not much was cut. Most of the essence of the original work was retained. The production There is less violence in the game to prevent it from being removed from the shelves during the Great Harmony Period.

It is also a police drama. If you look at the later "Hurry Up", it rarely exaggerated violence or vulgar scenes, and it was still successful. Although the styles of the two dramas are different, the success points are similar.

They are both refreshing ways of portraying characters. "Yu Zui" describes a deviant undercover male protagonist, and "Hurry" depicts the evolution of a villain from an honest person to a gangster.

The last police and gangster film to be made in this way was "Escape", in which the main character was based on Brother Qiang, the famous thief of the century.

In fact, looking at it now, the production of that drama is quite rough. The characters are obviously from Xiangjiang, but in fact, there are not many Xiangjiang people in the production team. Whether it is the way of persuasion or the temperament of the characters, the strong local flavor, looking at the mainland Don't feel too heavy.

Therefore, I didn’t even think about this drama becoming a star. It was even planned to be broadcast on a county-level TV station at the beginning, so as to make money back.

But the audience at that time had never seen this type of police film, and it was so enjoyable to see the villain as the first point of view!

So the show became popular all of a sudden, and Brother Hao's money-making remarks became a mantra for many people.

But that's it. In order to prevent others from following suit, the relevant departments later strictly controlled TV series with villains as the perspective. It was quite a surprise that "Hurry" was successfully broadcast.

Nowadays, the review requirements for this type of film and television dramas are getting higher and higher year by year. Generally speaking, the requirements for such police and criminal films and anti-narcotics films are at least absolute positive energy and three-dimensional integrity. Not only do you have to watch every word in the drama, but you also have to review the actors. own quality.

In addition, it is also necessary to review whether the actors' actions are up to standard, whether they are standardized, whether they will spread bad ideas to the audience, etc. Therefore, it is difficult to pass the censorship, and many films will be filtered out, resulting in fewer police dramas.

The same is true for movies. No, there is a person in front of Gu Zhongyu who is always stuck because of movies, complaining to Gu Zhongyu!

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"What have you been up to lately, Director Ning? You're always missing."

In the living room of Zongheng Entertainment, Gu Zhongyu was sitting with Ning Hao and Huang Bo drinking tea, while Bai Bin was boiling water for them. Maybe it was because he was getting older and his interest in tea had gradually exceeded that of wine.

No, labor and wages are only thirty!

"Why should I be busy? That movie "No Man's Land" almost killed me!" Ning Hao drank the tea in his cup in a depressed tone, and Huang Bo also sighed.

Ning Hao and Gu Zhongyu have also known each other for a long time. Gu Zhongyu invested in his famous movie "Crazy Stone". The small production with a cost of 300 million won a box office of 2300 million, becoming a dark horse in the mainland film market at that time. This movie has many clues. The narrative black crime comedy pioneered the genre of Chinese cinema and became a landmark work that has been doing well over the years.

Later, the two collaborated on "Crazy Racing", which was also a great success. Although Ning Hao never joined Zongheng and chose to set up his own studio, the relationship between the two has been good over the years.

"Then the movie can be released?"

"Tentatively scheduled for December, md, I almost don't recognize the deleted ones. If I touch this kind of subject in the future, I will be a dog!"

The subject matter of this movie is actually very remote. It is a northwest road movie. Many people have never heard of this type of movie before, so I have to say that the filming of this movie was actually a very difficult one. A bold attempt.

At that time, Ning Hao had actually become famous with the two movies "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Racing", and he could have continued to develop with the help of the continuation of these two movies.

But at that time, he directly abandoned this shortcut, and instead decided to film "No Man's Land", which was destined to have a rough fate. At that time, he put a lot of effort into filming this film, and even invited Huang Bo, Xu Zheng Waiting for a talented actor to star in this movie, but what everyone didn't expect was that after the filming was completed, the movie failed to pass the review at all.

Ning Hao's "No Man's Land" was actually filmed and successfully completed as early as 2009. However, it was not broadcast as soon as possible. Instead, it was banned for four years until 2013. , it was successfully released and appeared in front of the audience.

Although Gu Zhongyu had watched "No Man's Land" in his previous life, he had no chance to meet Ning Hao at that time, so he was curious and asked him what specific places had been deleted and changed?

Huang Bo replied: "As for the killer I played, the one who beat the male and female protagonists to death with a hammer in the film and was hammered to death by the son of the boss of Ye Paris in the end has no plot, no close-ups and bloody scenes. This one is gone. It’s actually quite normal for it to be deleted.”

Ning Hao added: "I deleted a lot of dialogues and scenes, changed the plot of the second policeman's death, and then asked Yu Nan to reshoot the ending, so that she could find the job she wanted, in a dance studio To teach children to dance, I paid for the 500,000 yuan for reshoots myself!"

"It takes four years to delete just a few places?"

"The main reason is that the person in charge didn't point it out! Anyway, they said there were problems and needed to be corrected. How do I know where to change? I can only fiddle with it one shot at a time. After submitting it for review, I took a long time to reply. But it took so long. .”

Gu Zhongyu nodded. Indeed, it was no problem to ask for deletion, but the relevant departments would always dismiss people if they had any questions. He had suffered from this in the past when making movies. Because it was not appropriate to always ask his elder brother for help with such trivial matters, basically You can only solve it yourself.

Later, I got the hang of it, and my passing rate became higher and higher.

"Because the real problem with this movie is that the content it shows is too profound and dark. If there is really a problem with the movie, I'm afraid the whole movie is a problem, so it keeps you stuck."

"No Man's Land" shows a society without legal and moral constraints.

Moreover, as a crime film, in addition to people's weak moral concepts, the presence of righteous forces such as the police is also very weak, and it even has the style of early American westerns.

And this is why this film is called the first western film in China, because what this film shows is not the development of society, nor is it a comedy in general, but the theme of the evil of human nature.

Such a topic may indeed yield very in-depth content.

However, from the perspective of the market and the scale of the review, it is difficult for such themes to perform well in the market, and the review will inevitably be stepped up.

In fact, the film was not successfully revised in the end. It was Ning Hao who begged Han Sanye to let the reviewer let him go, saying that he would not do it again.

Ning Hao picked up a cigarette and was about to light it. After thinking about it, he put it under his nose, smelled it, clamped it to his ear and said. "It's too late to know now. Speaking of boss, you called me and Hiroko here today, isn't it just to provide us with scientific knowledge?"

Gu Zhongyu chuckled: "You lost so much in "No Man's Land", don't you want to make up for it?"

"Mr. Gu, please stop pretending. Director Ning hasn't had a good night's sleep during this period. He's just waiting for your call!" Huang Bo knew that Gu Zhongyu must have a new movie for them to collaborate with.

"Oh! Ning Hao can't sleep well at night. Brother Bo, you actually understand so clearly. Our relationship is unusual. Are you jealous, sister-in-law?"

Ning Hao rolled his eyes at Gu Zhongyu: "It's not over yet, is it? I know you have something, so hurry up!"

So Gu Zhongyu turned around and opened the drawer, took out one of the scripts from the pile, and threw it in front of Ning Hao's eyes. It was "Blissful" that he had written long ago.

Ning Hao opened the book and read it happily. In fact, he had long been looking forward to working with Gu Zhongyu again. Especially in the past two years, this guy has continued to produce great works, all of which he wrote, acted and received rave reviews. Guo Fan and Chen Sicheng The two new directors were praised by him, and now it was his turn to be rich and wealthy.

Ning Hao read the script very quickly. Before Gu Zhongyu finished his second cup of tea, he put down his notebook: "Road comedy?"

"Well, how does it feel?"

There were six screenwriters for the original version of "Blissful". Ning Hao didn't finish the script before filming started. He just thought of it and added it to it during the filming. This is Wong Kar-Wai's behavior!

It's okay to change the plot temporarily, but if there is no complete script when the movie starts, Gu Zhongyu will regard it as a stupid act!

So Gu Zhongyu sorted out the rhythm a little to make the plot smoother.

Ning Hao handed the notebook to Huang Bo and asked: "Except for the PTSD when seeing the word "road", everything else is fine. Mr. Gu, why are you so interested in comedy now?"

"Isn't it true that the market for comedy films has been getting better and better in recent years? Of my two films last year, "Ball Lightning", which had a larger investment, did not earn as much as the comedy "Like You", and I happened to be short of money recently. , so I thought about making some comedy movies to earn more money.”

Ning Hao and Huang Bo nodded. Indeed, the market for comedy films is not small now. The box office of "囧囧" has made those film and television companies look stupid. They are now looking for directors and actors all over the world who can make comedies. The two of them have been harassed a lot during this time.

"I didn't expect that Mr. Gu would also be short of money, so this role of Geng Hao was prepared for me!"

Huang Bo hadn't finished reading the book yet, but he just noticed that in the character introduction, Geng Hao, a second-hand audio store owner and a has-been singer, knew that this character must be his.

When he was in junior high school, Huang Bo began to perform in song and dance halls. Although due to his appearance and image problems, he only guided and planned behind the scenes most of the time.

And at that time, Huang Bo also wrote a song for Aaron Kwok, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, but unfortunately the song was rejected.

The character of this frustrated and outdated singer is simply a portrayal of Huang Bo when he was young. He even felt that Gu Zhongyu designed this character for himself.

"It has to be you, Huang Bo! Then who will play the role of Hao Yi, the playboy and the master of picking up girls?"

Gu Zhongyu pointed at himself.

"you?"

"What? I can't play the role of a pick-up artist? I don't look like a playboy?" Gu Zhongyu swaggered on the sofa and crossed his legs, looking like he would be better than me.

For him, playing this kind of role means acting in his true self, lying down and swimming in his comfort zone!

Ning Hao sneered and said jokingly: "There's no need to act, it's natural. Mr. Gu, just remember to restrain your performance and don't make our movie into a 18-ban movie."

"You're slandering my reputation again. I've already written down the preliminary casting for this movie, but the female lead Kang Xiaoyu hasn't been decided yet. Do you have any good candidates?"

Gu Zhongyu didn't like the original actor Yuan Quan very much, so he wanted to replace him with someone else.

The character of Kang Xiaoyu is actually worth pondering. She seems to be a free and easy artistic young woman who seems to be silly and doesn't care about anything. She represents some people who have been brainwashed by the Internet: they have desires but dare not admit it, they want to be, but they have to be established.

In fact, she is no different from many women you and I have met in life.

Even the type of men she likes has never changed. Whether it is Xia Yu in real life or Li Chen in the movie, they are both a bit rustic and modern mature men with an image, including their similar temperaments and eyebrows.

The only thing that's wrong is: she cheated.

Before marriage: I like Geng Hao's talent.

After marriage: You have changed and become vulgar (if you weren’t vulgar, would you live by eating dirt and drinking air?)

Then she cheated on me with a man who was romantic, sentimental (big, good at work), and knew how to enjoy life (rich, handsome).

This is also the reason why Heart of Flowers Road does not have a high rating on Douban, because this movie poked holes in the hearts of Douban Kang Xiaoyu people.

Therefore, playing such a role is actually quite challenging. If you are not careful, the actor herself can easily be disliked by the audience, so you must find an actress who looks beautiful enough, but also makes people unable to bear to criticize her.

"How about Shu Qi?" Huang Bo suggested.

Gu Zhongyu immediately shook his head like a rattle. Just kidding, that big-mouthed one is almost the same size as me. She doesn’t meet the aesthetic point of the majority of LSPs at all. I don’t know why so many directors like to use her as the heroine.

(End of this chapter)