Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 829: Let’s release the important news first (4k)

"Hey, play is play, people are people, how can you confuse them? You can't say that if I play some lunatics, I will really become a lunatic, right?" Da Tiantian softly complained about Zhou Mo's lack of understanding of romance.

Zhou Mo raised his eyebrows, seeming a little surprised by Da Tiantian's words.

"Oh? I remember that when you were filming, you were angry, upset, and even cried because Zhao Shan was betrayed many times and parted ways with the person he chose?"

Da Tiantian argued: "I am an experientialist. What's wrong with experientialists getting more into the role when filming?"

Zhou Mo chuckled, "Then you have to experience more. Anyway, Zhao Shan will encounter more things in the future. She will have to experience betrayal and separation, not to mention the deaths of disciples and the decline of people's livelihood. She will have to witness these tragedies. You should experience them one by one."

Da Tiantian stopped talking this time, her face looking a little bitter.

She said she was shooting this video for experience, and it wasn't really an excuse.

She does sometimes feel like she has become a character in the script, with her moods constantly changing as the plot progresses.

The advantage of this is that her acting skills have steadily improved over the years, and now she no longer needs to spend at least two and a half hours a day asking Zhou Mo to break down the plot for her and teach her every move and expression like she did when she was filming "Love Is Not Blind".

The downside is that she occasionally experiences huge mood swings due to the role she plays in the play.

This fluctuation is not limited to her own role, other people's roles may also fluctuate.

That's what happened just now.

Logically speaking, Wang Mang, as the number one villain in the movie "Eastern Han Dynasty",
"By the way, you just said there will be more tragedies to come. Can you give me an example?"

"No need to give examples. The entire Three Kingdoms is full of tragedies. And you know the plan. There are three movies in total, and you have to participate in all three movies..."

When Da Tiantian heard what Zhou Mo said, she instantly felt uncomfortable.

She remembered clearly that Zhou Mo once told her that the entire "Three Kingdoms" trilogy unfolded on one theme -

Regret.

When Cao Cao was young, he wanted to be the General Who Conquers the West of the Han Dynasty. Unfortunately, he ended up "using the emperor to command the princes".

Liu Bei wanted to restore the Han Dynasty, but the fire in Yiling burned down his future, which was a pity.

Zhuge Liang wanted to "restore the Han Dynasty and return to the old capital", but he ended up resembling himself, which is even more regrettable.

So many regrets ultimately constitute the entire plot line of "Three Kingdoms".

Thinking of this, a question suddenly popped up in Da Tiantian's mind: "Wait, I remember you said you wanted the Three Kingdoms trilogy to directly hit the 10 billion box office?

If the entire film revolves around the topic of 'regret', even if it is well made, it will probably not make 10 billion at the box office."

Zhou Mo waved his hands, indicating that it was not a big deal.

"I have already thought of a way to circumvent the problem you mentioned... As long as we don't put the highlights and regrets of a single protagonist in one movie, for example, Cao Cao's regrets can be put in the Wu Kingdom plot, and Zhou Yu's regrets can be put in the Shu Kingdom plot...

The audience's experience will change as the main perspective changes.

When watching the Wei Kingdom line, the audience will put themselves in Cao Cao's perspective. If they see Cao Cao being defeated, they will be in a bad mood and will not buy tickets.

But if I put Cao Cao's defeat on the Wu line, the Battle of Red Cliff, the audience's perspective will definitely be on Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang, and then there will be no problem if Cao Cao loses again..."

Just as Zhou Mo was explaining his ideas to Da Tiantian, the movie was nearing its end.

After Liu Xiu's death, the screen gradually turned black, but no audience member started a conversation at this moment, and no one applauded.

Everyone knows that Zhou Mo will insert the beginning of the next chapter at the end of the movie.

This is already a common practice for this IP.

Sure enough, about ten seconds later, the screen regained color, and a figure wearing a yellow Taoist robe and with disheveled hair appeared in the middle of the screen.

Judging from the content on the screen, the figure seemed to be standing on a slope at the moment. His body was straight, like a pine tree. Below him were groups of ragged civilians, men, women, young and old, all looking at this man with admiration.

The eyes of the people who were waiting for the plot lit up and they guessed the identity of this person in an instant.

A great teacher.

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The next second, the yellow figure suddenly raised his arms, holding a sword in one hand and talisman paper in the other. As his arms swung, lightning and thunder flashed in the sky and strong winds blew.

Then, passionate music sounded, and a classic quote that has been passed down for more than a thousand years reached the ears of the audience:

"The blue sky is dead, the yellow sky should be established, and in the year of Jiazi, the world will be blessed!"

"The poor man Zhang Jiao asks the big man to die!"

What the hell!

It ignited.

In just two sentences, the theater, which was still lingering in the afterglow of "Zhao Shan and Liu Xiu parted ways", suddenly became excited.

"Oh my, this shot is so cool. I have to ask Director Zhou for this scene when I get back." Deng Chao suddenly said.

He looked at the figure on the screen with his back to the crowd, and only one word came to his mind:

Handsome!
There is a saying that being handsome is not necessarily very specific, sometimes it is just a feeling.

This sentence is very appropriate now.

In Deng Chao's eyes, the scene on the current screen obviously has no particularly rigorous arrangement and no foreshadowing, but it can make people remember it at a glance and is very touching.

As soon as he finished speaking, several people around Deng Chao nodded at the same time.

"Brother Chao, please send me a copy when you get it."

"I also want!"

“I want to make a video like this when I go back.”

Da Tiantian listened to the noises around her and suddenly smiled.

"I guess a lot of people are wondering who plays Zhang Jiao now, and this question will probably become a hot topic later. Do you think we should announce the actor who played Zhang Jiao?"

Zhou Mo thought for a moment and replied hesitantly, "Let's wait and see how the audition for the role of 'Zhang Jue' goes."

This part about Zhang Jue was filmed when he played the role of the Great Sage.

This situation occurred because this plot was originally a sudden idea of ​​Zhou Mo, but later he couldn't find a suitable person to play the role of the Great Sage Teacher for a while, so Zhou Mo simply took on the role himself.

Who knew that after filming, we found that the effect was extremely good, much better than other happy plots prepared before, such as Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing and the Battle of Guandu.

Therefore, this paragraph was finally chosen as the "next episode preview" of "Eastern Han Dynasty".

However, after watching this plot in advance, Da Tiantian insisted on letting Zhou Mo play the role of the wise and virtuous teacher, and she had a good reason. "You haven't played many costume roles before, this is a good opportunity."
"This version of Zhang Jiao was written by you. You know him best, so it is definitely you who is most suitable for him."
"'Cang Tian' is the source of Zhao Shan's power. Zhang Jue sent 'Cang Tian' away. I don't want anyone else to play this role..."

Zhou Mo knew that the fundamental reason why Da Tiantian said so much was that she wanted to "teach" Zhou Mo, because in the original script, there was a setting where Zhang Jiao asked Da Tiantian for advice.

In the past, when filming, it was always Zhou Mo who taught Da Tiantian. Now that she finally sees an opportunity, Da Tiantian will certainly not give up easily.

Even if it's just a plot in the script.

At this moment, Da Tiantian started to persuade Zhou Mo again.

"Listen, listen, how many people in the theater are praising your acting skills right now, saying that they would buy tickets to Three Kingdoms just to see Zhang Jiao. Do you have the heart to let the audience down?"

Zhou Mo was a little helpless: "Zhang Jiao doesn't have many plots, he's not even an important supporting role."

Da Tiantian: "Not much, but important. I remember you wrote that Zhang Jiao has two key points in the movie, one is 'Destroying the Heavens' and the other is 'The Great Man Goes to Die'. With these two points, how can you say Zhang Jiao is not important?"

Zhou Mo defended himself, "It is important, but it is only important in terms of the plot and the role..."

Before he could finish his words, Da Tiantian interrupted him and said, "Look, even you said it's very important in the plot, don't you trust others to play such an important role? Just accept your fate. Only a screenwriter like you can play this role well!"

After that, Da Tiantian simply ignored him and stood up on the spot, not giving Zhou Mo a chance to speak again.

At this moment, the movie has finished playing and it is time for the creators to go on stage for interviews.

Zhou Mo was so confused by Da Tiantian's "art of war" that he shook his head helplessly, stood up and walked towards the stage.

After a while, the applause in the theater ended, and Zhou Mo and others stood on the stage.

Xie Nan looked at Zhou Mo beside him with obvious admiration in his eyes.

As a "family member", she learned from Da Tiantian that "Zhang Jiao was played by Zhou Mo".

Da Tiantian even specially shot a video for her, in which Zhou Mo was wearing the Taoist robe of the Great Sage Master and trying various postures in the room.

When she watched the video, she thought Zhou Mo's action was very funny. Combined with Zhou Mo's deliberately lowered voice in order to recite the lines, it gave her a very childish feeling, just like when she was a student, reciting lines to the computer, but was embarrassed when her parents found out.

But I didn’t expect that when the film came out, the effect would be so good.

"Okay, thank you very much, Director Zhou, and the other members of our "Eastern Han" crew for bringing us such an excellent work..."

"Thank you for the compliment, host..."

After the polite words, Xie Nan's first question was the one that the audience was most concerned about:
"Just at the end of "Eastern Han Dynasty", I would like to ask Director Zhou, will the next movie in our series be "Three Kingdoms"? "

There is no doubt that at this point in time, the topic that everyone is most concerned about is of course the next series of movies.

As the saying goes, what has happened has passed. No matter how good "Eastern Han Dynasty" is, they have seen it and that's it. If they want to study it, they can study it slowly in the future.

But the next series is about how many chances will be created, how many Manés, how many resources.

This is the primary issue regarding their future.

Looking at the guests below the stage who were obviously much more focused after Xie Nan asked the question, Zhou Mo smiled slightly and nodded on the spot.

"Yes, the next node of this series is "Three Kingdoms"."

Wow.

A burst of noise quickly broke out in the audience. Although everyone was prepared, no one could be 100% sure without getting an answer from the real person.

Now that the real boss has spoken, the heavy stone in their hearts has finally fallen.

"However, the host just mentioned a number that I need to correct. It's not a movie."

Ok?
The noise in the audience seemed to disappear completely in an instant, and everyone stared at Zhou Mo, guessing what he meant by his words.

Not a movie...

Is it possible? !

A bizarre idea popped up in someone's mind, but the idea was too exaggerated, so after looking left and right, they quickly retracted their gaze and set their eyes on Zhou Mo again, anxiously waiting for Zhou Mo's answer.

On the stage, Xie Nan smiled, further stirring the audience's emotions: "Director Zhou, can you explain in detail what you mean?"

Zhou Mo nodded and gave the final answer.

"According to the plan, Shanhe Company will adopt a continuous shooting method in the future and shoot all three movies about the Three Kingdoms era at once!"

call--

It was like a gust of wind blowing in the cinema, and many people changed their expressions because of this sentence.

At this moment, no matter whether it was the guests who came to watch the movie or the reporters who came to interview, they were all shocked by Zhou Mo's words.

Three movies, shot consecutively.

What a big deal.

However, Zhou Mo obviously did not give them a chance to ease up, and soon dropped several bombshell news during the question and answer session with Xie Nan.

"The cost of shooting three movies in a row is quite high."

"It's indeed a lot. According to the plan, Shanhe Company will use a budget of 1 billion to make these three films in the Three Kingdoms series."

"Director Zhou is shooting three movies in a row. I'm afraid it will take quite a while."

"Fortunately, I will only shoot one. I will find other directors to shoot the other two. I can tell you that we have already confirmed the director of the other one. It is Director Zhang EMO."

"Is Director Zhang coming too? The cast is really luxurious... With such a luxurious director cast, can I ask Director Zhou if the cast has been finalized?"

As soon as Xie Nan finished speaking, there was a burst of noise in the audience again.

Many viewers were fidgety because of her question.

That's the Three Kingdoms, which is basically the No. 1 topic in the field of history. And it's also owned by Shanhe Company. If anyone can get a role in it...
To say that the benefits are huge is an understatement, to exaggerate a bit we can even say that it is enough to last a lifetime!

But in a split second, everyone remembered that Shanhe Company liked to appoint people in advance.

Over the years, they have appealed, complained, and even sent out internet trolls to attack them, but Shanhe Company has never paid any attention, always doing its own thing and never changing.

Their guess for this time's "Three Kingdoms" is similar, and many roles should have been decided.

Now they just hope that Zhou Mo can be kind enough to release more characters.

Just let them have something to eat.

(End of this chapter)