China Entertainment's My Artistic Career

Chapter 178 Deletion
From seven o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock the next morning, He Hua woke up.

However, because he slept for too long and was too tired before, after waking up, he only felt that he had no energy in his whole body, and his muscles felt a little sore when he moved.

I called my girlfriend's name a few times but got no response.

He Hua sat up and leaned against the bed, only to find the small card on the table. He picked it up and looked at it. On it, Liu Yifei told him that he had activities and might not be back until night, and told him to rest at home.

Putting down the card, He Hua picked up the A4 paper and looked at it again. Well, it was the script of "Lost Orphan" written by himself.

He Hua picked it up and re-examined his revised script of "Lonely Orphaned".

During this month's journey, He Hua has experienced a lot and gained a lot of insights and understandings of his own.

At the same time, I also re-read the original movie no less than twenty times before finally creating this new script.

The original work has three story lines: Lei Zekuan played by Andy Lau looking for a son, Zeng Shuai played by Jing Boran looking for relatives, and Wu Junru played by a trafficker who kidnaps a little girl.

Of these three clues, the first two are mixed together, and it is still possible to tell the past, but the latter story basically has nothing to do with the main plot.

He Hua understands the meaning of the director setting up this plot:
First of all, the traffickers abducted a girl, who was not welcomed by buyers, and was used to satirize the patriarchal concept in society;

Secondly, although the trafficker was arrested and the child was rescued later, the disheartened mother chose to commit suicide by jumping off the bridge at the same time, which will make many viewers more sympathetic to the cruel family of "trafficked children".

In the end, the director wanted to use this tragedy to create a conflict with Zeng Shuai's happy ending, presenting another kind of pain.

The director's idea is very good, but it's a pity that the handling is too chaotic, which leads to the unbalanced structure of the film and makes people bored to watch.

So after thinking about it again and again, He Hua still decided to delete this story line.

There is another problem with this film. The name of the film is "Lost Orphan", and the prototype is Guo Gangtang, who is also looking for a son. So shouldn't the main line of the story be about looking for a son?

Why put a lot of space on helping Zeng Shuai find his parents?
It's not that there is a problem with this plot, but that the whole story is a little bit upside down.

Now that the story line of the human traffickers is about to be removed, He Hua fills in more things that Guo Gangtang encountered on the road.

In addition, He Hua, the character played by Jing Boran in the play, has also been changed. After all, this character has a real prototype, and it was only in 2012 that he found his parents with the help of volunteers and the public security department.

He Hua changed this role to a rebellious teenager with a hard mouth and a soft heart.

Because he did not have a household registration, he was unable to go to college after high school. Under the arrangement of his adoptive father, he learned the skills of repairing cars from a motorcycle repair shop master at the entrance of the village.

When I met Lei Zekuan, I even taunted him: "If you have this skill, why did you go early? At that time, if you were careful, you wouldn't lose the child!"

In the later relationship, Lei Zekuan said: "Maybe they have been working hard to find you." It aroused the young man's heart that seemed to have accepted his fate.

mouth said:

"I want to get an ID card, without this thing, there is no future"

"I'm here to live a life like a normal person."

"If I don't look for them, I won't be able to register." After all, the young man embarked on the road of finding relatives.

Finally, when he found his parents, he finally shed his hard shell and revealed the softness in his heart.

This is how the character is alive.

Then slightly cut out some romantic scenes of Andy and Jing Boran playing with water and washing dishes, and added some dialogue.

This makes the structure of the story more clear and reasonable.

It's just that the 90-minute story may seem a bit scattered, but it doesn't matter, this itself is a movie that requires the audience to calm down and enjoy it slowly.

After breakfast, He Hua passed the script to Huang Lan and asked her to arrange a project evaluation and budget.

Then He Hua considered the issue of actors in the notebook:
The first is the play eye Lei Zekuan.

Excluding Hua Tsai, although he played well and brought great popularity to the original work, the Hong Kong and Taiwan accent that he spoke was really uncomfortable, and the same is true for Liang Jiahui.

Then He Hua began to recall male actors over the age of 35 in his mind:
Guo Gangtang lost his child when he was 24 years old. Two years later, he embarked on the journey to find his son. Ten years later, he is now 10 years old. In addition, he runs around outside day and night, eating and sleeping in the open, so he is more conspicuous than his peers. old.

Although makeup can solve the problem of appearance, the eyes that have experienced the world cannot be painted.

Names appeared in the notebook one by one, and then were erased

Ge You, Chen Daoming, Li Xuejian, Fan Wei, Zhao Benshan, Zhang Hanyu, Zhang Jiayi, Wang Zhiwen, Wang Jinsong, Duan Yihong, Guo Tao, Yu Hewei, Huang Bo, Liao Fan, Ning Li,.
Whether he is popular now or a late bloomer in the future, as long as he has good acting skills and strength, He Hua will write about it.

It's just that... By the way, there is also Zhang Guoli, how can I forget about him, his performance in "The Founding of a Country" is really amazing.

Then the image is more in line with the image of ordinary people in He Hua's heart:

Li Xuejian, Fan Wei, Zhao Benshan, Guo Tao, Yu Hewei, Huang Bo, Ning Li, Zhang Guoli,

It’s just that for the first three, teacher Li Xuejian rides a motorcycle, which doesn’t feel right; the two teachers, Fan Wei and Zhao Benshan, do match in image, but they are too comedic, and it would be bad to make this film nondescript.

The rest of these people can send an invitation, yes, you can also send an invitation to Zhang Yi, and see if he can perform that kind of taste now.

Then there is Zeng Shuai.

This role has quite high requirements for an actor. On the one hand, the actor should not be too old, and must have that youthful feeling; Show that emotional change from time to time.

But this is really not a difficult task for He Hua, Youhua Entertainment can only be said to be unique in the entertainment industry in terms of reserves of young actors.

He Hua immediately filled in a few names: Huang Xuan, Zhang Ruoyun, and Zhu Yilong.

The last one is because He Hua recently watched "Life Events" starring him, and the acting is really good. Not to mention, the source of inspiration for He Hua's new Zeng Shuai is Mo Sanmei.

I just don't know how much success he has in the future now.

Time is slowly approaching the end of October.
On October 10th, it was drizzling.

The rain came suddenly, and it was very cool. The sun was hiding behind the thin clouds, shining faintly, leaving only a light gray circular mark.

He Hua rested at home for three days before driving to the company.

As soon as she sat down in the office, Huang Lan came over with the project report.

"How did you come up with this subject?"

Ever since reading the script that He Hua sent her, Huang Lan has had some headaches. Movies with realistic themes have always been unpopular in the market. What's more, although the movie market is getting better year by year, there are still very few people making money. part.

Audiences prefer to watch movies that are funny, big-budget, grand-scene, and star-studded.

So when she saw it, she knew that this movie had no money, far inferior to "Those Years".

It can be seen that He Hua has been out for a month, and the movie is definitely going to be shot. Now he is thinking about how to attract more investment.

"Sissy recommended it. Her fans asked her for help. She thought it would be better to make it into a movie for more people to see."

Huang Lan really wanted to say something: the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics.

But now that the script is out, it’s useless to say anything.Huang Lan handed the project report in her hand to He Hua:

"According to what you said, shooting in many places in Quanzhou, Fujian, and Sichuan. Everything else is fine. The most expensive part is the transition."

During the month of wandering around Fujian, He Hua decided on the location he wanted to shoot.

I have to say that the tea garden mountain road and the seaside road in Fujian are really suitable for shooting road movies. The feeling of being connected by mountains and rivers is really great.

As for the cable bridge and bamboo forest in Sichuan, He Hua didn't think it needed to spend so much money, so he directly collected photos from netizens on Weibo, so that people could go over to see if they were suitable, and bring a large army there if they could use them.

It shouldn't cost much.

He Hua turned to the end and looked at the budget made by the finance department. It was 200 million, okay, it should be enough.

Huang Lan saw that He Hua had almost read it, so she suggested carefully:
"Should we pull the light in this time and ask them to reserve a schedule in advance."

"Ah, I don't know how long I'll be shooting."

"It doesn't matter. I'll let them leave enough time. How about scheduling it for next summer? There are still 8.9 months left."

"That's fine."

He Hua estimated that it would take 2-3 months to shoot, with another month for preparation and one month for post-production, and it would be out in at most 6 months. There was enough time, so he agreed.

Seeing He Hua's agreement, Huang Lan was a little relieved, as long as she didn't let her family go.

After talking about "Lost Orphans", Huang Lan began to report the progress of other projects:

“《浮沉》被东方卫视、江苏卫视、AH卫视以及广东卫视四家以单集180万的价格拿下了首轮播放权，30集总价是5400万，将会在11月10号开播。”

"Floating" was filmed in late August, and the post-production was completed in mid-September. He Hua just passed the review two days after he came back.

This price is definitely a bit inflated, but the results of the previous work are there, and the purchasing directors of those TV stations are thinking carefully about making bids that this show might be a hit. No one wants to give up. After all, they also have performance requirements. of.

As a result, Youhua Entertainment made a fortune again.

With an investment of 300 million yuan, nearly 600 million yuan was recorded in the advertising placement before production. Adding the current 5400 million yuan, it has already earned 4700 million yuan. Youhua Entertainment accounts for 70% of the share, which can be divided into nearly 3200 million yuan. Ten thousand.

There are still two or three rounds to come, and it is indeed profitable, much higher than the return on investment of "Awakening Age".

"The third round of "Age of Awakening" was also sold, selling nearly 2000 million copies."

"Just tell me how much we can earn from this show?"

All these data were in Huang Lan's mind, and she came right out of her mouth:
"The current total revenue is about 1.9 million, and the return on investment is 1.4. The four-wheel and online copyrights are still there. In the future, we will cooperate with other companies to develop peripherals for this drama and strive to increase the return on investment to more than 2."

It sounds scary that the number is close to 400 million. In fact, it is divided among a dozen companies, and Youhua Entertainment only accounts for one-eighth of it, which is about [-] million.

"OK, good."

No need to use your brain, He Hua expressed his satisfaction.

After talking about the income, He Hua asked about the progress of the two projects he mentioned before he left.

""The Exquisite Ancient City" is almost finished. Mr. Gu Yan read the script and asked some small questions. They are revising, "Number""

Huang Lan hesitated to speak.

"What's the matter? It's not going well?"

"That's not true, it's just." Huang Lan didn't know what to say, and finally decided to tell the truth: "That Xu Jizhou is talking about another project with another company."

"?" He Hua asked with question marks all over his head: "No way?"

Seeing Huang Lan nodding seriously, He Hua frowned:

"What does he mean? He doesn't want to take this project anymore? It shouldn't be, the contract has been signed."

Huang Lan saw that he couldn't get what she wanted, so she was straightforward:
"He just can't wait for the company's reputation and his reputation to increase his worth."

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Faced with this mysterious operation, He Hua was really speechless.

In fact, in the future, Xu Jizhou's operations after the broadcast of "Hurricane" are even more speechless. First, he praised the connotation and attacked the comments of the lead actor Zhang Yi, which caused Zhang Yi to fall into a storm of public opinion; he even refused to mention Zhang Yi's name during the promotion; I paid so much for your show, but the art director agreed in advance will not be given after filming. Is this reasonable?

After a long silence, He Hua said:
"Keep watching. If it doesn't affect the production of the TV series, then forget it. If it does, give me a warning first and then talk about the contract."

After all, he is an alumnus of Chinese opera, so He Hua didn't want to make too much embarrassment.

"Okay." Huang Lan couldn't help it, her boss was good everywhere, but he wasn't aggressive enough.

As soon as Huang Lan finished her work report and left, Yu Yang hurried over to take her place.

When the leader comes back, he must show his face in front of him, or the leader will really forget about you.

Seeing Yu Yang coming in, He Hua smiled and asked:

"How about the lighthouse? Is the cooperation with Lantian smooth? Are there any difficulties in the lives of colleagues in the beautiful country?"

Although they had communicated by phone before, Yu Yang still made a detailed report to He Hua:

"...In addition to completing the task of "Crazy Zootopia", we are also working on "White Snake: Origin". I think we can start another project."

"The three projects are carried out at the same time, which is more efficient and can better control costs"

He Hua shook his head and did not accept his suggestion: "Don't worry, we are still groping and learning. If we have free time, let them go and see how they do it, or that sentence, the future"

"Survival of the fittest, I understand that the company has been recruiting excellent talents for elimination." Yu Yang echoed He Hua's words.

"Okay, just understand, take your time, animated movies are a long-term investment, don't worry." He Hua comforted.

There is no way, now it is equivalent to using Youhua's power to support the lighthouse animation, Yu Yang is under a lot of pressure.

(End of this chapter)