Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 764 Take Your Time and Wait for Them to Make a Move

after an hour.

The movie is about to start.

While the lights were still on, Da Tiantian took a look at the entire screening room.

"You're right. There are indeed fewer people here today, but there are quite a few media people here."

Zhou Mo nodded.

"Normal. Whether it's because of the deep impression Director Bi left on everyone last time, or because of the obvious direction of this "Life Search", it's entirely predictable that some people won't come. But it doesn't matter if these people don't come, as long as some people in charge are willing to come."

While Zhou Mo was speaking, he raised his chin towards a certain direction of the theater.

Da Tiantian looked over and saw some familiar faces.

There are people from China Film Group and also from Radio, Film and Television.

Their arrival basically means that "Life Search" will not be taken off the shelves for such a simple reason as being reported.

"Is this the person you are calling, or the one the beautiful lady is calling?"

"neither."

Da Tiantian was obviously stunned, then reacted.

"You mean the person Director Bi called?"

"OK."

"Didn't you talk to Director Bi a while ago and say that you wouldn't include his friends anymore?"

"I didn't call on those friends to help, but I didn't say I didn't call on the people who can really take charge. Director Bi is not a fool. After suffering a loss once, he should at least make some progress."

Da Tiantian coughed lightly.

She really thought Director Bi was a little dull before.

The two didn't talk for a while, and the movie began.

Overall, the film was shot throughout according to the course of events shown without too much adaptation.

Despite this, Da Tiantian still cried her eyes out after watching the movie.

“It’s so uncomfortable.”

Da Tiantian finally wiped away her tears and muttered something in a stuttering voice.

The whole movie is less than two hours long, and you get the same feeling after watching it all.

pain.

From beginning to end, the protagonist of the movie and his family are struggling to survive.

During this period, they also had resentment, complaints, and cursing.

But from beginning to end, both the protagonist and his relatives were actively seeking treatment.

In particular, the protagonist himself specially wrote down the process of his treatment and posted it online to share his experience with netizens for guidance or warning.

But it was a person who tried so hard to survive that finally came to the end.

He clearly wanted to live and help others so much.

He is only 21 years old and his future has just begun.

But, in the end, it's all over.

This feeling of powerlessness, this feeling of being held down by the disease, is heartbreaking and makes people extremely sad.

Next to Da Tiantian, Zhou Mo's expression was also very serious.

Although he had actually watched the finished film many times before.

But watching it on a small screen feels completely different than watching it on a big screen.

Watching it alone or with a group of people in a theater gives completely different feelings.

Zhou Mo's eyes subconsciously swept across the entire theater, and there were far more crying audiences than just Da Tiantian beside him.

When Da Tiantian's mood had almost recovered, Zhou Mo patted her shoulder, gave a signal, and the two went backstage together.

The subsequent interview session can also be heard backstage.

That was Director Bi’s special show.

This is the monologue he participated in during this shoot.

Zhou Mo didn't check too much on how he would perform this time, it depends on him.

Whether he can completely reverse his reputation depends entirely on his own performance.

More than an hour passed.

Just when Zhou Mo was talking to the company employees and instructing them on what to do next.

The crew members of "Life Retrieval" came to the backstage one after another.

After Zhou Mo finished the call, a group of people greeted him.

"Hello, Director Zhou."

"Long time no see, Director Zhou."

"Thank you for your hard work." Zhou Mo waved to everyone and glanced towards the door again: "Aren't Jia Nu and Bi Dao back yet?"

Qin Zhuo explained: "As soon as the interview ended, they were surrounded by reporters. It will probably take them a while to come back."

Zhou Mo nodded and gave a thumbs up to Qin Zhuo and Liao Fan.

"You two, this performance is really good. It makes me want to cry."

This time they play the roles of Wei's parents.

Tan Zhuo smiled.

"If Director Zhou wants to cry, it means that I haven't cried yet, which means my skills are not good enough. I still need to practice."

Liao Fan waved his hand.

"I don't have the same worries as you. I am already very satisfied if I can make Director Zhou want to cry."

"Why, are you saying that Director Zhou has a heart of stone and won't cry?"

"You're starting to wrongly accuse people, aren't you?"

"Could it be that you didn't mean that?"

Zhou Mo saw the two of them fighting back and forth, neither willing to give in, and smiled helplessly. These two people are really...

I heard that they often complained about each other when they were on the crew.

I didn't expect it is still like this now.

"Okay, you two. I didn't cry just because I've seen it so many times. Many people in the theater who saw it for the first time cried their eyes out. This is enough to show that your acting is good enough, so good that it touched people deeply."

When everyone heard this, they showed varying degrees of joy on their faces.

When everyone had calmed down, Zhou Mo coughed lightly again.

"Now let's talk business. Everyone knows the situation of our movie, so I won't say much. In the subsequent cycles, we will definitely encounter many situations. Don't be nervous when you encounter them, especially those friends who have not cooperated with Shanhe Company in the past.

Think about the simulation we did before. The crew has already taken all the situations into consideration for everyone. Just give a normal answer and the rest will be handled by our own company.”

When Zhou Mo said this, he was actually giving the crew members a shot of adrenaline.

This is something Han Jianv specifically asked Zhou Mo to do before the movie was released.

For some people, aiming the sword at a thousand degrees is indeed not an easy task.

How to make everyone feel at ease after filming the movie and then promoting it is something that this group of directors, producers, and production companies need to consider.

Among the crowd, only Zhou Mo's words could make everyone completely relieved.

As expected, many people felt much calmer after listening to what Zhou Mo said.

After solving the emotional problems of the crew, Zhou Mo painted another delicious pie for the crew members.

"The situation is still the same. The bonuses will be settled after the movie is released. In addition, because the subject matter of this movie is quite special, the company will also give everyone an additional subsidy."

After this series of combined punches, the spirits of all the crew members were even quite high.

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Zhou Mo did not stay any longer.

Next, we need to fully cope with the rhythm that the next movie may encounter.

That night.

There are more and more comments about "Life Search" on the Internet.

"It feels good unexpectedly, better than I expected."

"I cried after watching it. I really don't want to watch it a second time. It's too painful."

"No, you're telling me this is a movie that Director Bi participated in filming? Are you kidding? Does he have the ability to do this?"

Judging from the Little Blue Book, the response to "Life Search" this time was quite good, with the vast majority of viewers saying that the quality of the film exceeded their expectations and was extremely touching.

"It seems that your plan to use Director Bi to lower audience expectations was successful." Da Tiantian said.

Zhou Mo shook his head.

"You can't count it that way. Although the reviews are good right now, there are still a large number of viewers who won't go to the movie because of Director Bi. These viewers won't comment at all."

In the Little Blue Book software, the evaluation of a movie by users who bought tickets has higher weight than that by users who did not buy tickets.

The advantage of doing this is that it can limit the practice of ticket-buying and make movie reviews more realistic.

The downside is that this mechanism may highlight films that are critically acclaimed but not commercially successful.

At first glance, the score is very high, so high that it can go down in film history.

Looking at the number of moviegoers, there were only a few of each type, and it might not even break five digits.

In order to solve this problem, Little Blue Book has changed its strategy many times.

For example, redesigning user weights, increasing the weight of those who watch movies for a long time, adding a personal evaluation system for film crew actors, and thus affecting the film's ratings, etc.

However, it can only alleviate the situation but cannot cure it.

This is the case right now.

Judging from the audience's response, the movie "Life Search" has received quite high reviews.

But box office figures showed that moviegoers were even lower than the company expected.

On the first day of the movie's release, the actual number of viewers was lower than the expected number, which was the first time for Shanhe Company.

In the past, Shanhe Company's moviegoer attendance in the first few days has always been higher than expected.

This is the result of Shanhe Company's continuous launch of excellent works and accumulation of excellent reputation.

This time, we can only say that the double buff of art film + Director Bi's appearance made Zhou Mo experience a feeling that was not as good as he expected.

"Then what should we do? Continue to increase publicity?" Da Tiantian asked.

Zhou Mo shook his head.

"There is no need for that. The publicity is already close to saturation, and increasing the publicity will not bring much improvement."

"Life Search" has invested a lot of resources in publicity.

After the premiere, all major media outlets gave it all the coverage it deserved and used all the resources it could.

"So, maintain the status quo?"

"Wait until the target makes a move. That will be a good time to really promote it."

"Oh……"

Datiantian nodded and understood what Zhou Mo meant.

For the next three days, Zhou Mo basically stayed in the company every day looking at the publicity and data.

In terms of box office, the box office of "Life Search" in the first three days was not bad, but it was definitely not good either.

Over three days, that’s an average of a little over 30 million per day.

The crew is still promoting the film, but both the movement and attention are visibly less.

Zhou Mo was not in a hurry.

In three days, the positive reviews of "Life Search" increased visibly, and the box office was getting higher day by day, achieving reverse growth every day, which shows that the good reputation of the movie is spreading and more and more people are recognizing this movie.

Time comes to the fourth day.

Early in the morning.

As soon as I entered the company, I received a call from an employee in the publicity department.

"Director Zhou, there are rumors about our movie on the Internet."

(End of this chapter)