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Chapter 284 Things are changing

By the way, who should we look for as the male supporting role?
Huang Ze touched his chin.

There don't seem to be many male stars.

Liang Jiahui is too old, and Stephen Chow may not do it. For him, whose films have already become big hits, it is faster to make money by making movies in Hong Kong Island, one movie a month or so, and each movie can earn millions. Why would he go out and play a supporting role?
Then there will be no one available in Xinghai!
Huang Ze made another call, "Sign Hu Jun."

After giving this task, Huang Ze hung up.

The other party is unlikely to refuse.

First of all, the salary is not at the same level, and the opportunities are not at the same level. If you don't want to come, then you can just slowly gain experience.

Secondly, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was his first film, which was a blessing in disguise.

The most important thing is that he probably doesn't dare to offend himself.

This is indeed the case. On the same day, Huang Ze received a call from Hu Jun, who expressed his gratitude and said that he was willing to join Xinghai and that it was his honor and so on.

I'm just short of saying, "If you don't abandon me, I'm willing to take you as my adoptive father."

……

After it was confirmed that the next big-budget production of Xinghai would be Final Destination, Huang Ze, the best original (copycat) screenwriter, naturally began his life of dedication.

This movie seems like there is a person who foresaw that a plane was going to crash, and then saved a bunch of people, and then a bunch of people were accidentally killed one by one.

But a horror movie has to look like a horror movie.

The creation of a horror atmosphere requires special design.

For example, hints about how each person will die in advance.

Not only will it make the film more atmospheric, but it will also make movie fans exclaim at the rich details after watching it, and then go buy a ticket to watch it, or purchase its video product.

After writing the script, Huang Ze presented some of the more important clips in the form of a storyboard script.

"What are you drawing?"

Gong Xing saw that Huang Ze seemed to be painting. Although she knew that he was most likely drawing storyboards, as a person who was also fond of painting, she still walked over curiously and her eyes fell on Huang Ze's paintings.

Take a look.

She subconsciously exclaimed "Ah!"

The picture showed a woman lying on the ground covered in blood. She was trying to reach a towel, which was placed on a knife rack with several knives.

The knife was in a box.

It doesn't look solid.

"It's so dangerous. What happens next is that she reaches for the towel, and the knife flips over and pierces her body."

"Congratulations, you can answer the questions quickly!" Huang Ze laughed, "That's the way to achieve such a clever effect."

"Another extreme coincidence?" Gong Xing raised his eyebrows. "Let me guess, is there a reason why she is lying on the ground injured? Did she experience a series of coincidences?"

"uh-huh!"

Huang Ze nodded, took out the previous footage, flipped through it one by one, and explained, "She wanted to drink hot water first, but she was frightened and threw the hot water away. She took wine from the refrigerator instead and added a few ice cubes. The alternation of hot and cold caused a crack in the cup."

"But she didn't notice it, and when she went to get something from the computer, the wine leaked all the way and landed in the back cover of the computer, causing an explosion. She was pierced in the neck by the debris."

"The sparks from the computer followed the trace of alcohol on the ground and ignited the stove."

"She reached out to grab the towel to save herself, and then what you said happened. The towel knocked over the knife rack, and a knife fell right into his abdomen."

"What else?" Gong Xing asked curiously, "What's the follow-up to igniting the stove?"

"The protagonist predicts the danger and runs over, then the stove explodes, a chair falls over, and the back of the chair hits the handle of the knife, driving the knife completely into the poor woman's body." "What does this tell us?"

"So, the whole movie is just an accident like this?"

"It can't be called an accident, it's a design." Huang Ze took out the script and pointed at the title, "The Design of the God of Death."

"So." Gong Yu raised his eyebrows and looked at Huang Ze with a smile, "You are the God of Death?"

"..."

"If you look at it from another perspective, perhaps you can say that." Huang Ze laughed.

While Huang Ze was immersed in drawing the storyboards for "Final Destination" and was also planning who from his regular team to take to North America to prepare for "Speed", ATV's "Legend of White Snake" was just about to be aired.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

"A thousand years of waiting."

"Wait a moment..."

After the opening song ends, a forest appears and a shepherd boy saves the white snake.

After just one glance, the Hong Kong audience felt that something was wrong.

But I can't tell exactly what's wrong.

Until the words "a thousand years later" appeared on the TV.

The next second, a frightening scene from childhood appeared.

Amidst the lightning and thunder, Bai Suzhen, played by Zhao Yazhi, shed her skin and turned into a human form.

With the financial support of Huang Zeken, the special effects of the first act are much stronger. It is no longer the fake-looking white snake suit in the original film.

Moreover, the opening scene was not actually chosen to be Qingcheng Mountain, but Jiuzhaigou, which is also in Sichuan Province.

The landscape of Jiuzhaigou is top-notch in China.

Not to mention the plastic cloth landscapes in Hong Kong TV dramas.

There is absolutely a world of difference.

When seeing this, many Hong Kong audiences’ eyes lit up.

"Oh my god, where was this taken? What a beautiful place, much more beautiful than the mountains and rivers we have visited before, it is simply a fairyland."

"I can guarantee that this was definitely not filmed in Hong Kong Island. It's so cool."

"Qingcheng Mountain, right?" said his wife. "It's sung in there, Bai Suzhen under Qingcheng Mountain, that must be it."

"Let's go travel to Qingcheng Mountain this summer."

The scene changes and we arrive in the south of the Yangtze River, where willows are swaying on the banks and the spring smoke is intoxicating.

The thousand-mile long dike, the Qingming Shanghe Tu Film and Television City, the beautiful scenery, the beautiful women, and the fact that the story of "The Legend of White Snake" has been passed down for thousands of years, from generation to generation, appealing to all ages and genders, and it has almost no audience appeal. That night, almost all viewers who had watched "The Legend of the New White Snake" would not choose to change channels and watch TVB.

Thinking of the contrast between the two scenes, I just feel like I need to refresh my eyes.

……

The gap between ATV and TVB is not that big now.

Especially the prime time during weekdays in the evening, because Huang Ze attached enough importance to it before, several projects were mostly given to the prime time. On average, it has reached 4.5 for ATV and 5.5 for TVB, and there is not much difference in attracting the audience.

As soon as "The New White Snake" was released, it paid for newspaper publicity, and with the spontaneous promotion by the audience on the previous day, by Friday, it had surpassed TVB with a same-day audience share of 7 to 3. It was a case of the tide turning.

(End of this chapter)