Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 827 The character's personality collapsed? How is it possible?
In the blink of an eye, it was already February 4th.

Tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year, a family get-together and a movie will be released.

Logically speaking, at this time, Zhou Mo and Da Tiantian should be staying in the crew, anxiously preparing for the premiere.

These two people were indeed doing this in the morning.

But after lunch, Da Tiantian suddenly had an idea and wanted to go to her own cinema to take a look and feel the New Year atmosphere.

Zhou Mo had no objection, so he and Da Tiantian disguised themselves and ran to the cinema in a leisurely manner.

After entering the mall, Da Tiantian subconsciously wanted to take off her scarf. However, before her hand touched the scarf, her right hand was held down by Zhou Mo.

"My sweet lady, have you forgotten that we are entering the mall secretly this time? We don't want to be conspicuous. If we are recognized in the room, you and I will never leave this place today."

Da Tiantian also reacted. She had just entered the mall and felt a little hot due to the warm air from the central air-conditioning, so she forgot where she was.

Feeling a little awkward, Da Tiantian tightened her hat and said, "Then shall we go to the rooftop now?"

"Ah."

In such a large shopping mall, cinemas are usually on the top floor. Zhou Mo and Da Tiantian took the elevator upstairs.

Da Tiantian doesn’t like taking the sightseeing elevator, she prefers taking the ordinary elevator, saying that it feels good to go back and forth.

When going from the third floor to the fourth floor, Da Tiantian suddenly pointed at the protective net outside the elevator, which was pulled up to prevent accidents. "When I was a child, I actually had some thoughts. For example, if I fell from the top floor, could these protective nets stop me?"

Zhou Mo actually had similar thoughts. During Christmas, he wanted to buy the gift boxes on top of the big trees in the shopping mall. He didn't know whether there were real gifts inside or just foam.

"I don't know if the net can stop anyone, but I know someone knows."

"Who?"

"Cheng Long, he not only knows the support strength of the net, he may also know which 'path' is faster to take down from a tall building."

Da Tiantian couldn't help laughing and gently pushed Zhou Mo: "You only know how to make fun of Brother Long. He was also risking his life at that time."

"I'm not kidding. This is what he said himself. He would talk about his past filming experiences. I heard it so many times that I naturally remembered it."

As he spoke, Zhou Mo gestured to Da Tiantian.

"Take this mall where we are for example. If Brother Long were to film a movie, at least he would have to add dozens of wires in the middle, and put a bunch of lights on each wire, so that when he jumps down while pulling the wires, there would be sparks and lightning all the way, which would have a great visual effect and also serve as a protection.

In addition, you can also get some larger, very tough flags, so that he can fall directly on the flags. "

Da Tiantian thought about Zhou Mo's description and found it to be true.

"You really know Brother Long's scene arrangement very well... To be honest, are you the only one who has ever thought of shooting a movie this way?"

Zhou Mo hummed, "Isn't this certain? When I was a kid, there were only two people in this kind of action movie that I could never forget after watching it once. One was Cheng Long and the other was Tom Cruise. These two really risked their lives to act in the movie. It's outrageous."

Da Tiantian raised her eyebrows: "Don't you dislike Tom Cruise? Because of some things between him and that sect."

A few years ago, before Zhou Mo shot "World of Warcraft: Frostmourne", Tom Cruise invited him to shoot "Mission Impossible", and stated in the media that he believed Zhou Mo was one of the best action movie directors in the world.

But later Zhou Mowan declined and focused on making his own movie.

Zhou Mo explained: "I think his obsession with that aspect does not conflict with my belief that his movies are awesome. In any case, he is one of the most successful actors in the world, and that cannot be denied.

What's more, he is now in his 50s, almost 60, and he is still shooting Mission Impossible himself, and the thrills are getting more and more exaggerated, which can prove his professionalism. "

Da Tiantian actually likes action movies very much, because they look really exciting. When she heard Zhou Mo talking about the age of action actors, her brows slightly frowned.

"Brother Long is getting old now. I saw him in an interview before, and he said that he would reduce the action in the future, otherwise his body couldn't take it..." Da Tiantian said halfway, and suddenly seemed to remember something, looking at Zhou Mo: "When you mentioned that Brother Long has more than one movie, you said it in a very reasonable way. Are you going to go back and design the same action design for Brother Long in the movie set in Hong Kong as in New Police Story?"

Back then, Cheng Long's jump in the Hong Kong Bank Building in "New Police Story" became a classic scene in the entire film history.

But "New Police Story" was filmed in 04. Cheng Long was years old that year and was still at the end of his prime. He took a life-threatening leap and narrowly escaped death.

This year is the 19th year. After another 15 years, Cheng Long is almost 70 years old and can no longer withstand the hardship.

Zhou Mo said with amusement: "What are you thinking? I'm not an ancient landlord who asked a man in his sixties to jump off a building. I just saw some scenes and was inspired by them."

Da Tiantian did not believe Zhou Mo's words immediately. Instead, she asked Zhou Mo to give her a guarantee before she felt relieved.

It's not that she wants to be so serious, she doesn't believe Zhou Mo.

But she understood that both Zhou Mo and Cheng Long had a certain impulse to be "drama maniacs". When filming the new version of "Police Story" a few years ago, they had already agreed to make the final chase scene a little easier to minimize the possibility of injuries to crew members.

The two of them agreed to it at the time, but who knew that when they got to the shooting site, Cheng Long was not satisfied with the arrangement like this, so he decided to increase the speed a bit?
When Zhou Mo heard this, instead of organizing the conversation, he immediately said, "Brother Long, just go ahead, I'll follow you and take the photo!"

The two of them hit it off right away, and they drove the motorcycle and car very fast, having a lot of fun taking pictures.

The moment Da Tiantian got the news, she was so scared that she broke out in a cold sweat and sat in the chair for a long time without saying a word.

Whenever he thought of this incident, Da Tiantian always had an urge to beat Zhou Mo's head off.

Let you race!
Let you risk your life!

After gently pinching Zhou Mo, Da Tiantian whispered to him, "I don't care what other plans you have for the action scenes, but if you drive the car yourself like before, I will lift up your head!"

Zhou Mo didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He didn't know how Da Tiantian had managed to bring up this topic.

But the guarantee still needs to be made.

"I promise I won't. I know how to protect myself now..."

As they were talking, they unknowingly walked to the cinema on the top floor.

The layout of this cinema is nice, with the atmosphere of the New Year everywhere, small lanterns, Chinese knots... the New Year atmosphere is quite obvious.

At the entrance of the ticket office, posters of various movies were placed under lights.

The one at the forefront, of course, is the upright poster of "Eastern Han Dynasty".

In the composition of the poster, Zhao Shan, played by Da Tiantian, is in a suspended posture, staying at the highest point, with Liu Xiu and Wang Mang pointing their swords at each other in the middle; below and around him are characters such as Emperor Gengshi and Yin Lihua.

Da Tiantian took a closer look at the poster and frowned slightly.

"Why are you using this poster? It doesn't show the character's characteristics at all."

Zhou Mo smiled: "Which poster do you think is more suitable?"

Da Tiantian said without hesitation: "Of course it's the one with 'Meteor Falling from the Sky'. That poster is the most shocking and full of tension."

The poster that Da Tiantian mentioned is a promotional picture released by the crew after the third promotional video of "Eastern Han Dynasty" was released.

"Meteorites fall from the sky."

The content is that Zhao Shan pulled a meteorite from the nine heavens to attack Wang Mang. Most of the propaganda picture was occupied by Zhao Shan's meteorite, and Wang Mang only had a small part, and the soldiers under Wang Mang were only a small group.

Zhou Mo smiled and took out his phone: "Okay, then I will call all the cinemas and ask them to change their posters. No matter what, their bosses cannot be wronged."

Da Tiantian grabbed Zhou Mo's arm.

"Never mind... the current poster is actually pretty good."

After watching the "Poster", Da Tiantian looked at several posters of other movies one after another. She was surprised to find that in terms of order, "The Wandering Earth" was already ranked before "The New King of Comedy".

“How much are the films of ‘Wandering’ and ‘The King of Comedy’ taking now?”

Zhou Mo thought about it and said, "The percentage of Wandering is about 17% now, and the percentage of New King of Comedy is only 13%."

“It really exceeds.”

"It surpassed the target three days ago. The pre-sale data of The Wandering Earth has been growing rapidly in the past few days. Many passers-by are very interested in The Wandering Earth. It can be said that if it weren't for our presence this year, The Wandering Earth would have been able to get 20% of the screenings from the beginning."

In this life, "Wandering" wanders far more than in the previous life. It has a very high starting point, which will save time in any case compared to the subsequent explosion of popularity after gaining a good reputation.

The Spring Festival holiday is only a few days. Some viewers return home on New Year’s Eve and may leave again on the seventh or even the fifth day.

If we miss the time before the Spring Festival when the crowds are most concentrated, even if the word of mouth improves later, the lost box office revenue cannot be made up. Based on the current status of "The Wandering Earth", Zhou Mo feels that the first appearance of the little broken ball has a good chance of hitting the 5 billion mark.

Da Tiantian had already finished observing the layout of the cinema. She sat on a chair in the corner with a cup of milk tea, quietly listening to the conversation between several young people not far away.

"What do you want to watch tonight? Eastern Han or Alien?"

"That still needs some thought, of course it's The Wandering Earth!"

"Fuck you... I mean, Eastern Han or Aliens, choose one, and stop using pigeons, docks, and French fries."

"But I really want to watch "Wandering". I'm the first science fiction college student in the village, so I have to support him anyway."

"Okay, let's watch "Wandering" first, and then "Eastern Han Dynasty"."

"You don't watch Alien anymore?"

"I wasn't really interested in Alien in the first place. You chose Alien because you said you liked science fiction. Now that you're saying you want to watch Nomadland, there's no need for you to watch Alien anymore."

"Thank you……"

Similar conversations occurred more than once at the ticket office.

Da Tiantian listened until the whole cup of milk tea was finished, then she looked up at Zhou Mo and found that there were three empty plastic bottles of milk tea and three empty sausage skewers at his feet, and a half-empty popcorn bucket in his arms.

Seeing Da Tiantian looking at him, Zhou Mo handed her the popcorn bucket.

"Are you eating?"

Da Tiantian: "...Didn't you have enough for lunch?"

"I'm full, but he wanted this popcorn so much that I couldn't help it." Zhou Mo said casually, and complained about Da Tiantian: "On the contrary, you, a cup of milk tea is not even one liter, and you drank it for dozens of minutes."

"What do you know? I just need to hold a tool in my hand." Da Tiantian corrected.

He stood up and walked towards the trash can.

"Let's go."

"Will you sit for a while?"

"No, the crew is already urging me to come back, and I have work to do in the afternoon. Besides, if I stay in the mall for too long, my identity might be exposed."

Da Tiantian didn't hesitate at all and pulled Zhou Mo towards the elevator.

After the two men came out of the mall, the assistant was already waiting on the roadside. After the two troublesome bosses got in the car, he stepped on the accelerator and rushed to the cinema.

According to the original plan, after noon today, the two bosses should have rested for a while in the crew and then took a car directly to the cinema.

Who knew that these two people would just run outside, and run for more than an hour.

As an assistant, she had to cover for the two bosses on the set, and also had to urge the two bosses to return to the set in a roundabout way...

Who told her to earn this money?

On the way, Zhou Mo asked Da Tiantian: "You just listened for a long time, how much information did you hear in total?"

Da Tiantian ate popcorn in the bucket and said, "In 20 minutes, there were seven or eight groups of people, and five of them had people watching Eastern Han. The largest number of people watched Eastern Coast."

"What about 'Vagabond' and 'Alien'?"

"Not much. There was one less person in Alien, maybe one or two people."

Just as he finished speaking, a message popped up in Zhou Mo's hand.

Sent from Guo Fan, wishing "Eastern Han Dynasty" a great success.

"Speaking of Cao Cao, here comes Cao Cao." Zhou Mo also replied with a similar message.

A moment later, the two arrived at the cinema.

Deng Chao and others were waiting at the scene. When they saw Zhou Mo, they immediately came forward and said with concern in their tone: "Director Zhou, have you finished dealing with the company's affairs?"

Zhou Mo was startled, but quickly reacted: "It's not a big problem, it will be dealt with soon... Sorry for taking up everyone's time."

"Hey, it's nothing. As long as it doesn't affect the company's business."

……

Two hours later, the plot of "Eastern Han Dynasty" advances to the Battle of Kunyang.

In the cinema, the audience stared at the screen intently, waiting for the famous scenes in the promotional video to arrive.

Although most of the people present had watched the promotional video of "Eastern Han Dynasty" over and over again and knew the whole process of the "meteorite falling from the sky" by heart, the same content naturally had a different feeling when it was transferred from the small screen to the big screen.

At this moment, Zhao Shan and Wang Mang were fighting in the sky.

Zhao Shan's whole body was wrapped in thunder. At this moment, she was like a real god, surrounded by thunder all over her body. Every time she waved her hand, a ray of thunder was drawn down from the sky by her and finally hit Wang Mang hard.

Wang Mang was not to be outdone. The thick black fog on his body seemed to have life. It was always able to accurately greet the oncoming thunder and swallow it. Although a part of the black fog would disappear after each swallowing of thunder, the black fog on Wang Mang's body seemed endless and could not be consumed at all.

In terms of combat effectiveness, it is of course Zhao Shanqiang.

From the very beginning of the battle, Zhao Shan was suppressing Wang Mang and making him unable to fight back from beginning to end.

However, Wang Mang did not think of defeating Zhao Shan head-on. He just wanted to drag out the battle in the sky until the war on the ground was over and Liu Xiu was defeated by his army, and all Zhao Shan’s previous support would be in vain.

This is also the solution that the "immortals" have come up with over the past few hundred years when dealing with Zhao Shan.

Zhao Shan controls the power of "immortals and mortals are forever separated". The characteristics of this power make it impossible for Zhao Shan to directly participate in the competition in the human world. Instead, he can only achieve his goals by supporting agents.

Therefore, when facing Zhao Shan, the immortals always seek not to kill him, but only to avoid death.

Anyway, as long as her agent is killed, Zhao Shan's actions can be fundamentally stopped.

Seeing that he was only a few steps away from success, Wang Mang could no longer contain his pride and began to show off the power of his method.

"Princess of the Qin Dynasty, please stop wasting your energy. The black mist on my body is connected to the lives of millions of soldiers under my command. It is inexhaustible. As long as I have one soldier alive, you will not be able to successfully break my black mist..."

When this line came out, many viewers frowned.

They understood the meaning of this sentence:
Wang Mang hinted to Zhao Shan that his life was connected with hundreds of thousands of soldiers. If he wanted to get rid of him completely, he must first take action against his soldiers.

Judging from the results of the Battle of Kunyang, the meteorite did hit the position of Wang Mang's soldiers and caused huge casualties.

There is no doubt that this meteorite was definitely not brought by Wang Mang, he did not have that ability.

Only Zhao Shan has the ability to attract meteorites.

But if it was really Zhao Shan who summoned the meteorite to smash the barracks of Wang Mang's men in order to defeat Wang Mang, then her character would collapse.

After the portrayal of the two films "Chu and Han" and "The Great Wall", Zhao Shan's character image has been determined. As the protector of mortals, he will never take the initiative to attack innocent mortals.

As the core of the film series, if Zhao Shan’s character collapses, the value of the entire IP will also collapse.

When the audience thought of this, the confusion in their eyes became more obvious.

its not right.

Given Zhou Mo's personality, it would be impossible for him to arrange such a plot for Zhao Shan in the movie unless he had a brain cramp and wrote the plot with his toes.

So……

Is there a reversal?

When some quick-reacting viewers thought of this, the confusion in their eyes gradually turned into anticipation.

They really wanted to see how Zhou Mo would arrange the next plot.

(End of this chapter)