Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 699 Extreme Challenge Special

When Lin Yoona heard Jeon Do-yeon's praise, her face turned red with excitement.

For people of her generation in the entertainment industry, Jeon Do-yeon's existence is the legendary top actress, without a doubt the best.

It is unimaginable to be praised like this.

Lin Yoona paused for several seconds before quickly waving her hands.

"The success of the movie is thanks to Director Zhou and his team. I just got lucky..."

"Don't belittle yourself. No one is more suitable for the role than you." Zhou Mo laughed at the side. He looked at Jeon Do-yeon and joked, "Your words left my translator speechless. What if the filming of the movie is delayed?"

"Then I will compensate Director Zhou with a movie." Jeon Do-yeon smiled happily.

After the greetings, Zhou Mo directly arranged for Lin Yuna to start work.

In the past few years that Lin Yoona has lived in China, her Chinese proficiency has reached the same level as her native language.

In addition, I met Zhou Mo every now and then, so I was very familiar with his usage habits.

I tried it in two scenes in a row and the results were quite good.

After two scenes.

The time came to six o'clock in the evening.

Zhou Mo hesitated for a few seconds and gave up the idea of ​​continuing filming.

"No more filming today. Let's go out for dinner later. Today is my treat."

"Director Zhou is awesome!"

The four drove to the hotel.

On the way, Zhou Mo and Li Zhengzai were bragging in the front seat.

In the back seat, Jeon Do-yeon and Lim Yoona chatted about topics such as makeup, career, and works.

"Yoona, what are you busy with lately?"

"Yes, Brother Honglei and I, Sun Honglei, are working on the film "Hunting Crime" which is set on the border between Myanmar and Yunnan. It is expected to be released in the middle of the year."

"Hunting Crime" is a genre film modeled after "Crime City".

The general process is that a group of people with "special talents" enter a new environment (Myanmar) and are somewhat incompatible with the local people due to culture and customs.

Later, by chance, the protagonists ran into some messy and evil things in the local area. The protagonists who emphasized the "dark order" took action, overthrew the messy groups, and re-established a new order in the local area, which was welcomed by ordinary people there.

One of the few differences between "Crime City" and "Crime Hunter" is that the background of "Crime Hunter" has changed.

From kimchi to Myanmar.

The background location has changed, so the villain must naturally change as well.

Kimchi is the Diagonal Gang, and Burma is the trafficking gang.

"It sounds like there isn't much of a difference." After listening to Yoona's introduction, Jeon Do-yeon found that the two movies were extremely similar.

Lin Yuner glanced at Zhou Mo through the rearview mirror and found that he was always smiling, so she said to Jeon Do-yeon, "There is really no difference, but there doesn't need to be a big difference. Movies like "The Crime Hunter" are originally created for the audience to create a visual experience. It doesn't need too much connotation, let alone too many changes. If the audience is happy watching it, the purpose of the movie will be achieved."

"Well said. Isn't the goal of commercial films to satisfy the audience?" Lee Jung-jae suddenly said.

He is the kind of actor who acts in both art and commercial films, and performs well in both.

Then, he asked Zhou Mo: "Director Zhou, I remember that the box office of "Crime City" a few years ago should have been more than 10 billion RMB, and "Criminal Hunter" should be higher than that."

Zhou Mo said "hmm".

"Almost. If we just go by the box office, it shouldn't be worse than 'Criminal Metropolis'."

When Jeon Do-yeon heard the figure of more than one billion RMB, her breathing unconsciously quickened.

Although she has won many awards in the past, most of them were art films and low-budget works.

In terms of the box office performance of commercial films, her performance is actually not that good.

Looking at her box office record in the film industry, there are basically three situations: a small profit, barely breaking even, or a certain loss.

There are basically no truly blockbuster movies.

This is why the Korean media sometimes puts Kim Hye-soo and Son Ye-jin ahead of her when talking about domestic film actors.

These two people's box office appeal is indeed stronger than hers.

For Jeon Do-yeon, although she prefers art films, it does not mean that she does not hope to achieve good results in commercial films.

Thinking of this, Jeon Do-yeon made up her mind. She had agreed to the contract that Zhou Mo had proposed before.

"John Wick 3".

After a while.

The group arrived at the hotel.

When going to the bathroom, Lin Yuner asked Zhou Mo for credit: "Director Zhou, I followed your request and steered the topic towards income. I did a good job, didn't I?"

Zhou Mo applauded her and said, "Well done, I'll give you two big chicken legs as a reward."

Lin Yuna covered her mouth and laughed.

Zhou Mo reminded him, "Yun'er, you don't need to cover your mouth when you smile. With your looks, even a crocodile would be a cute crocodile."

“Isn’t that still a crocodile?”

“I didn’t deny it.”

"..."

……

It's February.

The filming of "The Blue House" is more than half completed.

Zhou Mo's former translator, after a week of recuperation, gradually recovered and was ready to return to work.

As soon as I entered the set, I found that my former student was standing next to Director Zhou.

Seeing how well Director Zhou and Lin Yuner cooperated, the translator suddenly panicked.

He felt like he might lose his job.

Soon, it was proven that he was right to panic.

Seeing someone coming, Zhou Mo pointed at Lin Yuner and said to him: "Thanks to the good students you taught, otherwise I would have been delayed a lot of things during this period of time."

"Then Director Zhou, next I will..."

"Go and have fun." Zhou Mo waved his hand and said, "Get well soon. Your salary and bonus will remain the same during this period. Let Yuner take over your job."

The translator let out a sigh of relief.

It turns out it's just a vacation, that's fine.

It seems that this disease is just right.

The translator looked at Lin Yuna with gratitude.

"Then I'll go back, Director Zhou. If you have any questions, please call me again."

"Easy to say."

That night, when Zhou Mo was sorting out documents, Lin Yuna suddenly walked into the office.

"Director Zhou, you asked me to remind you to watch Extreme Challenge tonight."

"here we go?"

"Five minutes left."

"Okay, I'll be right over."

Zhou Mo packed up the information.

Tonight, Liu Shishi and Tang Yan also participated in the special episode of "Extreme Challenge".

These two people called several times in the past few days, repeatedly urging Zhou Mo to watch this episode.

Because this episode contains their amazing wisdom.

After packing up, Zhou Mo went to the living room.

The time is just right.

The show started, Zhou Mo looked at the guests clearly and was suddenly stunned.

"Eh? Yoona, you're also participating in this show?"

Lin Yuna nodded: "Yes, Honglei saw that I was also there, so he simply let me join in, and the program team also agreed."

(End of this chapter)