It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 1272 A day of good luck! The savior of the market officially appears!

"Chen...Chen...Chen...Director Chen?!"

When the "angry" Meng Ziyi puffed up her cheeks and turned around to see who was asking her for milk tea, she immediately turned into a little stutterer.

She really never expected that there would be such a big Buddha in the crew!

If she had known that Chen Fei would come, she would never have organized the card game today. She would definitely pretend to be a good child and hide in the corner without saying a word.

Now, I’ve been caught red-handed by the big boss of the investment company!

What should I do?

"Help me...save me...save me..."

Meng Ziyi turned her head with a stiff face, and wanted to ask for help from her three "card-playing sisters".

But at this time, Zhang Tianai, Ding Xiaoying and Zhang Yishang had already turned into "telephone poles", standing there with their heads down and not saying a word.

Chen Fei, Liu Yifei, Chen Long...

What the hell is this lineup?

They were obviously here to visit the set... Oh, no, they were here to inspect the work, but the three of them were actually playing cards here secretly, and were caught red-handed.

Finished!

It's completely useless!
However, just when several people were "wailing" in their hearts, Liu Yifei's laughter suddenly rang out: "You are Sister Meng, right? I quite like watching your variety show, the "Supernova Games".

I remember that you seemed to fall in the 50-meter sprint and ended up taking last place. Also, in the high reach test, you and a little girl named Zhu Xuxuan took last place and second to last place respectively. Am I right?"

After listening to Liu Yifei's words, Meng Ziyi was completely confused!

What the hell?
How could such a great actress watch a variety show like "Supernova Games"?
And the most important thing is that people still remember her, a little-known celebrity!

For a moment, a thought called "I stood up" suddenly echoed in Meng Ziyi's heart, making her wonder if this little-known celebrity like me has become famous?

But soon, she realized that she couldn't have such thoughts.

Because at this moment, Fade Chen was staring at her!

"Yes, you remember correctly, my performance in that sports meet was indeed not very good..." Meng Ziyi scratched his head, smiled awkwardly, then grabbed the money on the table and ran out: "I'll go buy milk tea first!"

Seeing her running away, Liu Yifei looked at Chen Fei with a smile, "It's all your fault. You scared the little girl away."

Fade Chen shrugged. "She was just too nervous. I didn't say anything. If you win money, you should treat us to milk tea. Isn't that natural?"

This is how filming works. The atmosphere in some crews is very tense, but in others the atmosphere is very relaxed.

The atmosphere is tense, like in Chen Kai's crew. The actors are not allowed to laugh or joke when they are not working, and everyone has to be very serious.

But the atmosphere on a crew film is very relaxed, so things are relatively casual.

As long as the actors can do their own work, it is completely fine for a few people to play mahjong or cards when they are bored.

For example, the crew of "Changjin Lake".

With so many veteran actors gathered together, it is inevitable that some of them will feel itchy and will naturally get together to play mahjong after work.

Even Chen Fei would sometimes join in and play a few rounds.

Therefore, he didn't mind at all about Meng Ziyi and the others playing mahjong.

It's lunch time now, what's wrong with playing cards?
"Zhang Tianai, do you know where Xu Ke and Zhang Ruoyun are? Let's stop by the crew to take a look."

"Yes, it's over there."

Zhang Tianai, who was lowering his head and dared not say a word, heard Chen Fei calling his name, and quickly raised his head and pointed to the RV parking area in the distance.

The actors and directors were resting in their respective RVs at the moment. The four of them didn't want to sleep, so they hid in a secluded place to play cards.

But I never expected that I would be caught!
"Oh, ok, thank you, you guys continue playing."

After Chen Fei finished speaking, he took Liu Yifei, Chen Long and others and went straight to the crew's rest area.

At this time, Zhang Tianai, Ding Xiaoying and Zhang Yishang, who watched them leave, all breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, the leader didn't say anything, otherwise, they would probably be criticized today...

But at this moment, Ding Xiaoying suddenly discovered the key point, "Tian Ai? You know Director Chen? How did he know your name?"

Zhang Yishang also reacted and stared at Zhang Tianai with his big eyes.

"me?"

Zhang Tianai was stunned for a moment, and his memory suddenly went back to 2006.

That year was when she just made her debut, playing a palace maid in the movie "Curse of the Golden Flower" directed by Zhang Yimou.

Later, she was chosen to be Gong Li's stand-in for a scene of folding clothes, thus officially starting her acting career.

Chen Fei happened to be visiting the crew at that time. He chatted with her for a few minutes and asked her name.

That's it.

She really didn't expect that Chen Fei only asked her name at that time and remembered her firmly!
She doesn't think it's because she is naturally beautiful.

After all, no matter how beautiful she is, how can she compare with Liu Yifei?
So there is only one reason, Chen Fei simply has a good memory.

However, she was a little cunning, so she naturally wouldn't say it directly, "We are a little familiar with each other. After all, I have cooperated with Feiyue Films on some projects..."

Naturally, these words attracted exclamations from the two "card partners"!

No wonder she could play the second female lead role like "Nangong Pushe", it turns out she had "connections"!
In comparison, Meng Ziyi is more naive.

Because when she bought the milk tea and nervously handed it to Chen Fei and Liu Yifei who were chatting with Xu Ke and others, she turned around again and fled!
"Sister Meng? What's wrong with you? Why did you run away from such a good opportunity to make friends with a great director?"

"Huh?" Hearing the jokes from his poker partner, Meng Ziyi's eyes widened, he raised his hand, and pointed at himself in disbelief, "Who am I? And I'm making friends with a big director? How can I be worthy of that?"

Ding Xiaoying: …

Zhang Yisang: …

Zhang Tianai: You can’t even use your chances!
Because they had to catch a flight to the next filming location in the evening, Chen Fei and his friends did not stay in the "Snow Sword" crew for too long.

After staying for about half an hour, the group prepared to leave.

"Thank you for the milk tea. I'll treat you next time."

Before leaving, Fade Chen greeted Meng Ziyi with a smile, scaring the girl so much that she almost jumped up on the spot!

"Bye, Sister Meng." Liu Yifei also waved at her.

Chen Long followed suit and smiled at the little girl who looked unfamiliar but seemed to have a nice personality.

After this set of operations, Meng Ziyi was covered in sweat and his calves began to shake uncontrollably.

If outsiders saw this, they would think she had some powerful background.

But the fact is, even though she has played many roles, she is still a relatively unknown star!
Although she became popular after the release of "The Untamed" last year.

But what she took over was not some hot traffic, but a large wave of black and red traffic. It was so miserable!
"Meng Ziyi?"

"Hey!"

Director Song Xiaofei's voice suddenly rang out from the set, startling her again.

"Hurry up and put on your makeup. We'll be filming your scene this afternoon. Since Director Chen and Producer Liu think so highly of you, then act well and don't let us down."

"Oh, huh???"

Blinking his two pairs of innocent big eyes, Meng Ziyi looked completely confused.

What is this all about?

I was just caught by the big boss while playing mahjong secretly, how come the big boss is optimistic about me?

Unfortunately, her IQ wasn't enough to figure this out.

So, she finally categorized it all into:
"Today is my lucky day! I'm making a lot of money!"

……

Chen Fei's work for the next period of time is to promote the film, visit the sets, and check the progress of various projects. In addition to "Snow Swordsman", he also visited the crew of "The Son-in-law" and the crew of "My Hometown and Me" which Zhang Yimou is currently in charge of.

Although this is a cooperative project between China Film Group and Beijing Western Film Group, no one has stipulated that he cannot visit the set, right?
Since I came here on the way, I might as well go and take a look.

Could it be possible that Jiao Hongfen and Song Ge would come all the way here to drive them away?
It’s just that it would have been fine if he hadn’t visited the set, but after he did, he was totally confused.

"You mean, this movie will probably be finished in late September, and then it will be officially released in domestic theaters on October 9st of this year?"

"That's right." After listening to Chen Fei's words, Zhang Yimou nodded affirmatively.

He has already reached a follow-up cooperation agreement with China Film Group.

After completing the "My Hometown and Me" project, he will immediately work with China Film Group to start "Above the Cliff".

"It's getting more and more outrageous. Are mainstream movies really treated as products on an assembly line?"

Fade Chen shook his head helplessly.

He had heard that the film "The Battle at Lake Changjin" that Guan Hu and Feng Xiaogang were currently filming would also be released in October this year.

This means that the total time from filming to post-production to release of the two films is no more than 4 months!

This is simply outrageous. It's outrageous to the extreme!

Such a huge investment, such a large project, and such a large scale were actually turned into assembly line production.

“Can the quality of the film be guaranteed?”

When Chen Fei asked this question, Zhang Yimou suddenly fell silent.

After a moment, he sighed and said, "I can only make sure that there are no problems with the project I'm working on. As for the rest, I can't do anything about it."

He is already over 70 years old. No matter how energetic he is, he cannot compare with young people.

With such a large project and such a tight schedule, even though he is the chief director, how could he possibly take care of everything?

So, we can only leave it to fate!
"Alas." After leaving the crew of "My Hometown and Me" and returning to the hotel, Chen Long said pessimistically: "If this continues, this mainstream theme movie will be ruined sooner or later."

Although movies are also a type of commodity, the quality requirements they have are not comparable to those of assembly line products.

After all, this is about filming people, not objects. It would be strange if the actors could meet the requirements if they were asked to produce a film in such a short time.

"No way." Chen Fei shrugged and said, "Everyone wants to make quick money in a short period of time, isn't that the case?"

Chen Long frowned in confusion, "Although China Film Group's projects have box office performance requirements, they shouldn't be so exaggerated, right?

"Eight Hundred", "My Hometown and Me", "King Kong River", pushing so many mainstream themes into theaters within a short period of time, isn't this destroying the market?"

Chen Long is not just an actor, he is also a mature director, producer and investor.

Therefore, he really found it difficult to understand China Film's operations.

Chen Fei thought for a moment, and suddenly something occurred to him, "What if it is based on personal political mission needs?"

"..."

Apart from silence, Chen Long was speechless.

……

Time passes day by day, and all work is carried out in an orderly manner.

There were quite a few new movies released in August, but unfortunately, none of them made over 8 million yuan at the box office.

Not to mention breaking 5000 million, it hasn’t even broken million!
As of August 8, the highest-grossing film was still "Bad Boys for Life" with 20 million.

This is outrageous.

So much so that many people in the film and television industry have begun to doubt whether "The Eight Hundred" and "Boundary Breaker", which will be released tomorrow, can really earn enough box office to break even?

"What's your estimated box office performance?"

Although the two films were unable to hold their premiere ceremonies due to the impact of the epidemic, Wang Changtian had participated in the previous previews.

Therefore, when he called Chen Fei to ask this question, he actually had an estimated answer in his mind.

"What do you think?" At this time, Chen Fei, who had just returned home, was making tea for himself.

He planned to go to bed later, at least until the midnight show officially started and take a look at the comprehensive scheduling of major theaters.

"Based on your box office appeal and the quality of your film, the key extension is definitely necessary..." Wang Changtian analyzed it and finally came up with a number: "About 20 billion."

Chen Fei laughed and joked, "Haha, you seem to have a lot of confidence in me."

"Your box office appeal is unmatched by most people. Plus, there haven't been any blockbusters during this pandemic, with only The Boundary Breaker and The Eight Hundred competing against each other. Two billion is a sure thing."

"Okay, then I'll lend you my good words."

Chen Fei responded happily, but he had bigger ambitions in his heart!
20 million?
This result is not his goal.

With the research during this period and the many roadshows and publicity achievements, he has inexplicably gained great confidence in this year's summer vacation season.

Only by doubling the number of 20 billion can he at least reach the goal he has in mind.

This is not his bragging.

After all, in his previous life, he vaguely remembered that "Eight Hundred" had a box office revenue of over 30 billion yuan without any competitors during the same period!

Based on this, isn't it time for "Boundary Breaker" to have a great success?
The time soon came to 12 o'clock.

When Huo Qigang sent him the data that the screening share reached 71.3%, Chen Fei returned to the bedroom quite satisfied, hugged his fragrant wife and fell asleep.

After sleeping for a while, it was already noon!

When he woke up at around 11 o'clock the next day, Chen Fei opened Weibo and saw that the discussion about "Boundary Breaker" and "Eight Hundred" had already made it to the top of Weibo's hot search headlines.

"Without further ado, brothers, I only have one thing to say about "Boundary Breakers": 'The most awesome adventure film in Chinese film history'!"

"Combining ecological environment with extreme challenges? Holy shit! This story is so damn grandiose that I feel like I'm not worthy of reading it."

"This kind of awesome movie should be released worldwide, so that foreigners can see how awesome adventure movies we Chinese can make are!"

"The whole process was filmed live, so I just want to ask you whether you are awesome or not?"

"Awesome visual effects, top-notch story, various extreme challenges, gorgeous and realistic, this is the route to leave a name in film history!"

"Fuck! I couldn't handle it. It was too fucking exciting. I took off my 3D glasses several times. If you are afraid of heights or are timid, don't watch the lMAX-3D version. You won't be able to handle it."

Looking around, "Boundary Breaker" has a stellar reputation.

The amazing visual effects, the perfect combination of special effects, and the grand story foundation... all combine to form an excellent top-notch action/adventure movie.

On the other hand, the reputation of "Eight Hundred" showed a slight polarization trend.

"When the movie ended, the whole audience was silent, as if all the audience were still immersed in the tragic atmosphere and hadn't come back to their senses. What a good movie! Definitely a good one!"

"Over the past six months, such a large-scale film with a sense of family and country has really boosted the spirits of the Chinese people who have experienced the epidemic and floods."

"How should I put it? No matter what expectations you have when watching this movie, you will feel that it is still lacking something. It is a bit reluctant to give it a high score, and it is hard to give it a bad review. In summary, this is a "hard work" movie."

"Well, if you want to film the main theme, just shoot it well. Why add all that greasy and unnecessary sentimentality? I really don't understand."

"Who am I? Where are you? What are they doing? Why didn't Huang Xiaoming die first? What is Yao Chen doing here? Is that Liu Xiaoqing holding the morphine? Is she playing the role of the Fire Phoenix?"

"It's okay to be sentimental, but can't you at least tell the complete story? I'm speechless."

It is inevitable that there will be comparisons between movies released at the same time.

A top commercial action-adventure film, a main-theme movie that sells sentimentality and crazy sensationalism, there is actually nothing comparable to this thing from beginning to end.

Because the screening schedule given by the theaters is very real, it can truly reflect the gap between the two films and the market's attitude towards the two films.

After a night, when the time came to August 8, the scene that shocked the entire film industry appeared!

"Boundary Breakers", first day box office: 2.77 million.

"The Eight Hundred", first day box office: 9237 million.

When these two strings of numbers appear, many people have only one thought in their minds:
"The savior has finally appeared!"

(End of this chapter)