Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 610 Assembly Line Movie
Zhou Meisen expressed his position.

"If that's the case, then I also value Huang Zhizhong."

Li Lu also agreed.

"Me too. These two have been partners for a long time. If we are filming a movie, I think it will save a lot of effort."

Seeing this, Zhou Mo immediately expressed his opinion.

"Okay, if that's the case, then let's choose Huang Zhizhong."

After the actor for Hou Liangping was decided, the subsequent auditions became easy.

All the main characters have been interviewed, and the only ones left are little Karami.

Zhou Mo sent a message to all the actors who passed the audition, asking them not to leave in a hurry and to wait until the clothing sizes were adjusted.

The move was to make clothes for them.

In the previous life, the crew of "The Name" was visibly poor.

The clothes worn by important characters in the film were of very poor quality, leaving Zhang Zhijian with no choice but to buy one out of his own pocket.

Now, "In the Name" has been handed over to Shanhe Company.

Of course, all clothing is prepared by the company and is made to the highest standards and quality.

Shanhe Company's clothing factory initially cooperated with Feng Shaofeng's father and specialized in custom-made products.

Later, the system rewarded Zhou Mo with a clothing factory.

The technology, equipment, staff and everything else are all top-notch.

Men, women, young and old, ancient and modern.

There are three religions and nine streams, all kinds of things.

Everything is available.

As soon as the actor's size came out, the costume factory started work immediately and it was basically completed in two days.

And this is the speed of ancient costumes, modern costumes will only be faster.

"We can try to develop a clothing production line for anti-corruption and anti-crime dramas. There will be a lot of such dramas in the future." Zhou Mo suddenly thought.

It is foreseeable that after the broadcast of "In the Name", a number of related projects will appear on the market.

These plays will require a large number of related costumes.

For actors, they wear costumes for several hours a day, or even more than ten hours, so of course they would like to wear them as nicely as possible.

Anyway, no matter how expensive a set of clothes is, it’s only about 18,000 yuan, which is not as much as the money spent on maintenance.

Just a few sets of clothes, just a few sprinkles of water.

Zhou Mo's goal is to expand his clothing clientele as much as possible based on the film and television industry.

After explaining everything.

It was already evening.

Just as Zhou Mo was about to go back to his room, he ran into a group of people waiting at the door.

Sun Honglei, Duan Yihong, Zhang Yi...

This group of people has a characteristic:
These are all actors who failed in this audition.

A large group of people stood at the door, talking to each other in low voices.

Hearing the noise, many heads turned at once.

"Hey, you are all here. Sorry I am late. Please wait a while." Zhou Mo greeted.

Sun Honglei spoke first.

"We just arrived a while ago and were just discussing where to eat tonight."

"What are we discussing? I've already booked a room. Let's just go." Zhou Mo waved his hand and led the way out.

The others followed immediately.

"Director Zhou is treating us today, so I have to eat more."

"Me too. I haven't had dinner with Director Zhou for a long time."

"Let alone Director Zhou, we haven't eaten together for a long time."

A dozen people were chatting and laughing along the way.

Zhou Mo heard what they were talking about and smiled and shook his head.

It's really hard for these people.

After one hour.

Inside the hotel.

The waiters served all the dishes and closed the door when they left.

"Okay, don't be polite, it's time to eat and drink. Many of you have been busy all day and probably haven't eaten much."

As soon as he finished speaking, someone stood up and wanted to toast.

Zhou Mo stopped immediately and extended his hand to let him sit down.

"Sit down, sit down, we are all family, there is no need to be polite...

I have called everyone here this time, and I think you all understand why, so I will get straight to the point.

Everyone here has basically worked with me in the past, so it’s easy for me to talk about many things.”

Everyone sat where they were and listened to Zhou Mo's speech.

"You are all veterans in the entertainment industry. Except for a few, such as Brother Wu, the others have more or less encountered bottlenecks in their development."

Sun Honglei nodded.

"Some people are no longer popular, some people can't get good resources, and can't enter the so-called circle."

Zhang Yi felt sympathetic.

“For others, it’s the lack of commercial achievements.”

Duan Yihong sighed endlessly.

“There are also people who can’t get into the film industry.”

Zhu Yilong rubbed his temple. "So, let's talk about this matter today."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's eyes lit up.

Seeing this, Zhou Mo knew that the cooking was almost done.

“First of all, let me make it clear that I can’t arrange your personal career development for all of you. I can’t do that.

What I can do is that whenever our company has a hot enough project, our company will try to reproduce at least one movie of the same type in the future, changing some of the content, including the personnel, background, etc., and producing it in a nearly assembly line-like manner. "

Halfway through his explanation, Zhou Mo felt that what he said might be a bit abstract, so he gave an example.

“For example, everyone knows how well Wu Ge’s Crime City performed.

Many people think that this movie is rare and unique, and it will be difficult for such a movie to appear in the future.

But I tell you, that’s not the case.

This movie is replicable because its main plot, conflicts and highlights are all repeatable.

We only need to change some of the settings, such as changing kimchi to cherry blossoms, to Sawadee Ka, to the Golden Triangle, and to noodles, etc.

The protagonist changes from a muscular Tyrannosaurus to a loyal elder brother, a cautious leader, a king of survival, and so on.

The villain changed from a gangster to a bevel, to a shrimp rice, to a shameless criminal and a swindler.

The main plot is simply: I am here for conquest, morality, and damn fairness.

After I have said all this, a movie has actually been completed. Do you think this kind of movie is worth watching?"

The eyes of the people around the dinner table had been brightening as Zhou Mo described.

After Zhou Mo finished speaking, he nodded impatiently.

"Yes, very much."

"After listening to Director Zhou, I really want to watch it."

Sun Honglei asked, "Director Zhou, is this the film-making model that you told us about before, which can be produced on an assembly line?"

Zhou Mo nodded.

He waited for the discussion in the room to end, then tapped the table twice with his knuckles.

“As I said before, many audiences go to the cinema just to relax happily and feel the pleasure of dopamine secretion.

They don't want to understand or care about any of the various ideologies, spirits, and connotations.

Their goal is to pay for the ticket, have fun, watch the show, and leave.

The reason why I say this type of movie is an assembly line movie is because this type of movie can indeed be mass-produced, and as long as the core excitement is grasped, the box office will not be bad.

But assembly line does not mean shoddy work. The key point of assembly line is high efficiency, which does not require the so-called ten years of hard work. "

Speaking of this, Zhou Mo gave another example.

“For example, regarding the InterContinental Hotel series, you may have heard about the data of the movie JW that was released in America a few days ago.

The final box office is locked in at US$400 million, and it will be released in other places later. InterContinental Hotel is actually an assembly line movie, but the quality is poor, there is no such thing.

You can imagine, if "Criminal Metropolis" is also turned into a series of movies similar to InterContinental Hotel, how many people can play the leading role? How much box office can it bring in? "

Everyone in the room was breathing noticeably heavier.

Even Jiang Wu was gasping for breath.

Zhang Yi looked at Jiang Wu with some curiosity.

"Teacher Jiang, why do you react like this?"

Jiang Wu waved his hand.

"Look at your reactions. If I don't take a breath, wouldn't it be a bit uncooperative?"

Zhang Yi: …

Zhou Mo ignored the two funny guys and gave everyone some time to digest the information before speaking.

“I will send the project to you later. If anyone is interested, please contact my assistant.

Now, besides these, do you have any other questions?"

Today's meal is actually Zhou Mo calling on old friends with whom he had worked before to reach some new cooperation.

Mianyang Xing, who had been sitting quietly in his original seat without saying a word, asked.

"Director Zhou, I have a question. Will this kind of assembly line production cause audiences to become aesthetically fatigued?"

As soon as he asked this question, M Lu M beside him nodded subconsciously.

Zhou Mo and Sun Honglei smiled at the same time.

Sun Honglei spoke first: "Don't worry, it won't happen. The market has a high tolerance for entertainment products. The root cause of aesthetic fatigue is the poor quality of the work, not the same type of work. Just like Director Zhou said, as long as the main content is grasped, everything will be fine."

Zhou Mo explained to M Lu M.

"In fact, due to cost and production reasons, our domestic film market's ability to absorb commercial films far exceeds the imagination of ordinary people.

Not to mention just a few movies, even if there are a few more, or even a dozen movies of the same type, our market can fully sustain it.

Our country's pursuit of successful commercial films is far from reaching its peak.

Once a popular movie appears, many other companies will immediately try to launch projects for such movies, and the market will be considered saturated.

Currently, only the TV drama market has reached this level, but the film market is still far behind.”

The above words are actually the reason why Zhou Mo wants to make a "assembly line" movie.

It is true that people have a high demand for good entertainment products, and it is also true that they have high patience.

Otherwise, "Fast and Furious" wouldn't have reached the tenth film.

From sports cars to airplanes to spaceships.

The content is not just old wine in new bottles, but it can be considered as putty.

But it still sells well.

Given the exaggerated number of domestic viewers, the drama and the film market are still a long way from being saturated.

But even under such conditions, a large number of filmmakers in the past were able to make the audience impotent on screen.

The total box office of the movie has been shrinking again and again.

(End of this chapter)