Pokémon's Lord of Fear

Chapter 390: The No. Scholar in a Bad Movie
After returning to the company, Teng Shu handed the editing work of "Sherlock Holmes 3" to the post-production department. Editing a TV series is relatively easier, at least it is not very difficult and it is more convenient to handle. Although there are some details that need to be controlled by Teng Shu, Teng Shu did not plan to do anything else during this period, so staying in the company is just right to deal with it.

"Boss, Team Rocket has been suppressed by the league and is now having a hard time breathing. However, it is said that under the leadership of a senior official, they have moved into a darker place to recuperate." Zoroark came over and handed Teng Shu a document. Teng Shu took a look at it. It said that Team Rocket has basically been disbanded at this moment. After all, Team Rocket's boss Osaka Sakaki has been arrested.

Senior cadre Apollo surrendered himself, and also implicated a large number of middle and low-level cadres. As for ordinary members, it was difficult for them to survive under the encirclement of the alliance, so Team Rocket was in chaos at the moment. The interrogation of Sakaki by the alliance and his subsequent detention were all proceeding in an orderly manner.

In order to prevent the remaining members of the Rockets from having evil intentions, the league sent out a special team to protect Sakaki and prevent him from being taken away. Those guys are all retired or resigned champions, and although they are a bit older, they still retain championship-level strength.

Teng Shu felt that unless the Rockets had Mewtwo, they should not even think about taking Sakaki away from this lineup. It was absolutely impossible, even if they asked people from other leagues to handle it, after all, these people were all champions.

In the past, Teng Shu was very curious about what kind of life these champions in the Pokémon League led. After all, a long time has passed since the establishment of the Pokémon League, and countless champions have been born in such a long time, so theoretically there should be quite a few champions.

And now Teng Shu's guess has indeed been proved, there are indeed many champions, or even a lot. After these people retired, they were not idle, but accepted the league's employment and became the league's combat force. So in the final analysis, the fact that the villains in the animation can cause trouble only means that the league does not want to deal with them.

If the league gets serious, none of these guys will be able to escape.

"Even if Team Rocket becomes a third-rate force in the future, there will still be new dark organizations emerging." Teng Shu put the report aside. He didn't pay much attention to the affairs of Team Rocket. After all, he knew very well that given the current state of human society, it was impossible to eliminate the dark forces.

Where there is light there is darkness. Everyone has a dark side in their heart to a greater or lesser extent. The difference is that some people can control themselves, while others cannot, and thus fall into darkness and start to do evil.

Teng Shu even suspected that the alliance itself knew about the existence of these dark organizations, but the reason why they sometimes ignored it was to create a unified dark force to rule and govern other small forces and restrain them, which could also make the region relatively stable.

But it’s hard to say. After all, this approach seems a bit outrageous to Teng Shu.

After all, the Rockets have done something evil. One can only say that the league either has other more important things to deal with, or that these champions just want to live an ordinary life after retirement and don't want to care about the miserable lives of other people. Otherwise, it is really hard to explain.

"By the way, boss, isn't our company expanding recently?" Zoroark remembered something and said with a strange look on his face. Teng Shu was stunned for a moment after hearing it, and then nodded. It was indeed true. Of course he knew this. It was even his money that allowed the company to start operating, expand, and become increasingly large.

But why did Zoroark suddenly say this? Teng Shu was a little confused, and just when Teng Shu was thinking, Zoroark also handed over a new file. Teng Shu took it and found that it was a director's file. The name of this director was also very interesting. The other party was called Huang Feng, a very strange name even in the Pokémon world.

"What's wrong?" Teng Shu took a look at the director's file. It was nothing special. He had been shooting commercials and short films most of the time after his debut. His most famous work was a short film called "Fruit Trees Under the Tornado", which won the Best Short Film Narrative Award. It was quite interesting, but there couldn't be many such people in the company. It could only be said that they were everywhere.

Geniuses are also divided into levels. Some geniuses are geniuses in one region, some are geniuses in several regions, and some geniuses are superior to other geniuses.

This director may be a genius in the eyes of others, but in Ghost Pictures, he becomes an ordinary person, an insignificant ordinary person.

"This director...he has a screenwriter friend working with him, and during this period of time they wrote a script...ah, it's just that this script is rather weird, I don't think very highly of it." Zoroark said with a strange expression, while Teng Shu had already focused his attention on the other side, he was currently looking at the script in his hand.

Sharknado

Teng Shu rubbed his eyes. He admitted that he was a little confused when he saw the name of the script. He even suspected that he had read it wrong. After all, the name was too strange and very familiar. At this moment, Teng Shu even suspected that the other party was a time traveler. This made Teng Shu open the script in his hand and take a closer look.

[One day, a tornado of a huge scale, the largest in the history of the alliance, swept through an ordinary seaside city, and this tornado swept up a large number of megalodon sharks living in the sea.]

?

Teng Shu slowly typed out a question mark. The more he watched this plot, the more familiar it looked. Apart from the various sharks that turned into Pokémon like Megalodon, and Megalodon's unevolved form, the Toothfish, most of the plot was similar to the silly movie in his previous life.

The film industry is full of all kinds of movies. Some movies are well-made and have outstanding acting skills. People enjoy watching them and have a refreshing feeling. They may even have the unique experience of participating in the movie. This is also the goal pursued by most directors. Their goal is to make a movie that will go down in history.

But as the saying goes, everyone's joys and sorrows are different, not everyone can make an outstanding movie that will go down in history. Most people may make very ordinary movies, and after watching them, you will lose the impression of them after a few days. However, the market is flooded with a large number of such movies, and only outstanding movies can stand out and gain recognition from the market and the audience.

Therefore, this has also led to the fact that most directors with pursuits and ambitions are engaged in a crazy internal competition. You shoot stories, I shoot connotations. Some movies cannot even be released because they are full of criticism of social phenomena and propaganda of ideas. Anyway, they are the type that after watching them, the entire crew will be sent to jail and eat the government's food.

There are also many directors who focus on special effects and stars. You hire top-tier stars, I hire superstars. Your actors are paid 50 million, and my salary starts at 100 million. Don’t ask if it’s worth it. Anyway, the money is paid, and then the fans will be made to make a lot of money. This has also led to a very chaotic film market. Everyone has a lot of ideas and thoughts, making the world a mess. Under such circumstances, there is a group of people who are the mudslides in the clear stream of the film industry. They don’t roll over, don’t pay high salaries, and even hire strangers who no one knows. The scripts are also shoddy.

The typical example here is all kinds of online movies. The coal bosses in the movies have only one requirement when selecting cast members, and that is that the heroine must have an internet celebrity face and a turbulent bosom. These people don't care about the integrity of the plot and the acting skills of the actors at all, and they equally kill every innocent audience who clicks in to watch.

This kind of movie is generally called a bad movie.

However, as the saying goes, there are top talents in every field. Even if it is a bad movie, there are people who have brought out the best in this field, the best in art, and the best in novelty.

Sharknado is the best among them.

Shelter Pictures is a magical film and television company. When other film and television companies are busy shooting big productions to make money, only Shelter Pictures is working and has never turned back on the road of bad films. It has produced many eye-catching films, such as Sharknado and Atlantic Rim.

There are even series such as "One Piece" that imitates Pirates of the Caribbean and "Transformers" that imitates Transformers, which are all works of this company. Among them, this company is most famous for its copycat works. Basically, whatever is popular in the market, they will quickly remake a copycat film and then openly take advantage of the popularity.

Teng Shu was also curious at first, how could such a company make a profit? After all, these big productions are very expensive. Later, Teng Shu looked at it and realized that he was too naive. This company did not have any big productions at all. The special effects were so rubbish that they looked like they were made by beginners. The only requirement was that they were cheap enough, but because their selling prices were not high, they could often make money, which was outrageous.

However, despite the fact that there have been many bad movies, the Sharknado series is still very profitable and even caused nationwide discussion before it was released, probably because the plot of the story is completely illogical.

When Teng Shu is shooting a movie, he still needs to use some logic. If it is Sherlock Holmes, he has to pay attention to details. But Sharknado is different. After all, how can sharks survive without swimming after leaving the sea? It is still a question, but people don't care at all. Anyway, the setting is set like this.

You don't agree? Take the photo yourself.

Shelter Films has grown in this wild way, creating a group of viewers who don't read the titles carefully.

At this moment, Teng Shu saw the plot of Sharknado in the script in his hand, but when he thought of Mr. Kirk, who was similar to Hitchcock, and his other work "Rear Window", Teng Shu felt relieved. Although the Pokémon world is not the world of the previous life, for some reason, some classic works have been projected over, so it is reasonable that there is Sharknado.

"This script." Teng Shu's mouth twitched. He didn't know what to say. After all, this script was too weird. Although it could be filmed, it was hard to say what would happen after filming. It might also affect the reputation of Ghost Pictures.

Teng Shu still cares a lot about word of mouth. So far, none of the movies produced by Ghost Pictures have received particularly low ratings. Sharknado, although silly, probably won't receive a very high rating, unless...
Teng Shu had an idea. Ghost Company would not work, but when the time comes, he could name the production "Lingyou Company" and there shouldn't be any problem. As for the future, interesting sand sculpture movies like this one would all be produced by Lingyou Company. Ghost Company would still adhere to its own boutique route, and Teng Shu also planned to carefully select all subsequent scripts.

This also helped Teng Shu solve a problem, which was the filming of "Tomie: Unlimited".

The reason why Teng Shu did not choose to film Tomie but chose to film Inner Dimension, was because he was worried that the filming of Tomie would lead to a drop in the ratings. Although Inner Dimension is also a horror film, it does incorporate some psychological factors, so for this time, Teng Shu even planned to directly invite a specialized psychology professor to guide the filming.

"You can make this movie, but it cannot be under the name of our company. You should register a subsidiary company now and name it Lingyou Company, and then use this company to produce it." Teng Shu made up his mind. It was rather tiring to keep shooting high-quality movies. It was also quite interesting to shoot some bad movies occasionally. Although Teng Shu did not plan to shoot it himself, he could let his subordinates in the company shoot it.

"Eh? Okay, boss." Zoroark was a little surprised, but still nodded in agreement. Since Teng Shu said so, it would just do it.

Teng Shu looked at the script in his hand. He planned to see how the market reacted. If the market response was good and it could make money, he could also launch a sequel like 23456 and make a lot of money.

After all, the investment cost of Sharknado is not very high. If it becomes popular, the profit will be really amazing.

"These movies have a kind of beauty that is like playing Go, where you accidentally place the pieces on the board and are directly judged as the loser." Teng Shu sighed, then put away the script. The investment requirement for this script was not high, he could just pay for it himself. Teng Shu also planned to see what the return rate of this movie could be, and once the box office came out, he could start attracting advertisements.

By then we can build a few more hospitals.

Teng Shu touched his chin and said, speaking of the hospital, it seemed that his hospital has been completed and we can go over and take a look.

(End of this chapter)