Chapter 1041 Take Care of Your Own People
There are an endless stream of commercial film directors in Xiangjiang, but you can't say that the directors in Baodao are all artistic.
At least not Li An. This person is really good at movies, very thoughtful and creative. That’s why he has unprecedentedly won two Oscars for Best Director as a Chinese. He is the pride of Chinese filmmakers around the world.
However, Li An was not trained by Baodao. He should be a very orthodox American director. His ideas, his thinking, and his directing methods are all American-style.
Except for him, who is Chinese, the rest are all from the United States. Even the people in Baodao don't regard him as their director. They only say that he is the pride of Baodao and the pride of the Chinese people.
However, there is another person who can represent the Baodao film industry.
That is Zhu Yanping.
This director, known as "Treasure Island King", is famous for his comedy films and is also famous for his efficient filmmaking.
Since 1978, he has made an average of four movies a year, a number that even Fatty Wang cannot achieve.
Of course, the films made by Zhu Yanping also have mixed reputations. He can make good films and he can make bad ones. This is the same as Wang Jing.
Yin Jun didn't know about Zhu Yanping at first. It wasn't until he was a teenager that the city channel watching the TV station in the orphanage played a movie for three consecutive episodes on a winter night, bringing Yin Jun and a group of children together. After laughing so hard that my stomach ached, this deep impression made Yin Jun come back to care about everything about this movie when he grew up.
The name of this movie is
"Good Boy".
Although it is not famous now, in the 1980s, it was a movie that represented Treasure Island and became popular throughout Asia.
Even after entering the mainland several years later, the children in the mainland are still watching it with gusto and are obsessed with it.
The main story it tells is that three children who grew up in the mountains secretly ran out without telling their grandfather and went to the city to find their grandmother, which triggered a series of hilarious encounters.
Even after many years, Yin Jun still remembers the names of the three little protagonists in it: A Guo, Xiao Hu and Xiao Pang. He also still remembers the song "Good boy, good boy, they call me..."
It caused such a big sensation when it was broadcast in the mainland in the 1990s. You can imagine how classic "Good Boy" is.
In fact, a series of movies starring Hao Shaowen and Shi Xiaolong in the future will be an extension of the story category of "Good Boy".
Having said that, although this is a Baodao version of the movie, Yin Jun does not intend to find Zhu Yanping to film it.
Firstly, Zhu Yanping has just entered the film industry, and the movie in his previous life was only filmed in 1986; secondly, Wang Jing is his own man, and Yin Jun must of course focus on cultivating Wang Jing.
As for the actors, they could find a group of cute little kids from Baodao to star in it. This would be in line with Baodao’s market-oriented idea, and it would be an interaction with Baodao fans, letting them know that they value them.
After the script was written, Yin Jun was not ready to join the crew of "Good Boy".
Yin Jun was going to ask Fatty Wen to be the producer, and he was also responsible for going to Baodao to cast the actors. Wang Jing was specifically responsible for the filming.
Anyway, Wang Jing has not become the king of bad movies in recent years, but he has refined his shooting speed and is a good go-getter.
As for the fact that Wang Jing has never expressed his intention to join Qilin Movies, although he used the reason that he was from Shaw Brothers and his father was in TVB, so he could not be so rebellious, Yin Jun already knew how Wang Jing played in later generations. As someone who works among major film companies, of course she understands that she wants to maintain her independence and have the right to have both sides.
It doesn't matter.
For example, in a place as powerful as Hollywood, the director does not belong to any company. If the director and the company are separated, there will be more choices for each other.
Besides, Yin Jun has classic movies in his hands. A director can make a movie, but a movie can also make a director. Once you see a good movie, you don't have to worry about good directors not coming one after another.
"Good Boy" is aimed at the Baodao market, but it is a big hit all over Asia. This kind of cute baby movie has its own market early, so Yin Jun is not worried about being popular only in Baodao and other places. There is no way to sell it.
As for the second part targeting the entire Asian market, it is naturally impossible to show too strong regional characteristics. Even if it were to be, it would have to be a story that happened in Xiangjiang, an international city full of urban colors.
After thinking about this movie for a long time, Yin Jun chose "Happy Ghost" as his target.
"Happy Ghost" is Huang Baiming's famous work and a super classic in the 1980s. This movie combines elements such as ghosts, cities, youth, etc. It may be a bit cheesy, but if you watch it 30 years later, you will still be able to watch it with relish. The energetic kind.
The first episode of "Happy Ghost" not only sold more than 17 million at the box office, making Huang Baiming famous in one fell swoop, but also more importantly, it launched the first youth girl group-Happy Girls. Several girls packed up and sang and danced the youthful dance, which has been very popular in Asia for several years.
The Happy Girls girl group was actually the first girl group in Hong Kong, which was ten or twenty years earlier than Twins, She, etc. in the future.
It's just that the Hong Kong music scene at that time lacked the understanding of this packaging group and the accurate understanding of young girl groups. Therefore, the Happy Girl group only prospered for a few years and then disbanded without any disturbance.
But it's different when it's in Yin Jun's hands. The Happy Girls group will definitely shine even brighter!
Many people think that "Happy Ghost" was created by Huang Baiming, but it is not.
Its prototype is a middle school drama program "Zhu Xiucai". After seeing it, Huang Baiming found it very interesting, so he bought it and adapted it himself, which became the "Happy Ghost" movie we saw.
Huang Baiming probably bought it around 1983. It is only now in 1981. Yin Jun has already sent someone to find out that there is no drama called "Zhu Xiucai" in the middle school in Xiangjiang, so there is no need to worry about conflicts.
Of course, the script is already written by Yin Jun, so the protagonist of "Happy Ghost" is definitely not Huang Baiming.
Yin Jun wouldn't care if Huang Baiming switched jobs to start his own career, but he would definitely not take care of him anymore. For whatever benefit, actors in his own company should be given priority.
Just some time ago, Huang Bogao told Yin Jun that Tan Yonglin was still very interested in acting. After producing a new album here and actively preparing for the concert at the end of the year, Tan Yonglin wanted to star in a company movie.
Tan Yonglin made the request at this time because he had the confidence.
At the Baodao Golden Horse Awards that ended on October 30, Tan Yonglin's "If I Were Real" starring last year won him the honor of Golden Horse Best Actor in one fell swoop.
For a time, the entertainment industry in Xiangjiang was in a sensation, and they all praised Tan Yonglin as the pride of Xiangjiang.
In fact, Tam Wing-lin's acting skills are already good. If he hadn't concentrated on singing and then running his own company, his achievements in movies would not be worse than many others, at least much better than Andy Lau.
The current Tan Yonglin happens to be in the era of great development of entertainment in Xiangjiang. In his previous life, he starred in dozens of movies in these seven or eight years, not to mention that he is now signed to Kirin Records and is under the Yin Jun banner. As an artist, his heart becomes even hotter.
Who doesn't want to be a super star like Zhou Runfa?
Who wouldn’t want to be a popular fried chicken like Fei Xiang who became famous overnight?
Who wouldn’t want to go to the Cannes Film Festival in Europe and get the supreme honor?
Therefore, Tan Yonglin found Huang Bogao and made a request to Yin Jun.
Yin Jun agreed to Huang Bogao on the spot and prepare a movie for Tan Yonglin next year.
After all, he is the winner of the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor. If you, Qilin Films, don't even give him a movie to star in, it is really underestimating him, and it will also make Tan Yonglin feel cold.
Coincidentally, when Yin Jun was thinking about the character Zhu Xiucai in "Happy Ghost", the figure of Tan Yonglin flashed in his mind.
In terms of appearance and influence, Tan Yonglin is more than ten times better than Huang Baiming. Moreover, Tan Yonglin himself has a kindred spirit and looks handsome and elegant, so he is very suitable for this role.
As for the five girls inside, who are members of the future Happy Girls group, they are also very simple.
Wen Bixia must be counted, she will be the most important heroine in "Happy Ghost", and she will also be the main character in the Happy Girls group in the future.
This is not Yin Jun's random allocation, but Wen Bixia had already told Yin Jun that she wanted to sing.
It just so happens that this young and beautiful combination is suitable for her first step of development. If possible, she can go solo in the future. If not, she can just quit.
Zeng Huaqian also needs to be counted as one, and Zhou Haimei also needs to be counted as one.
The most beautiful sweet girl in the original version, Li Lizhen, Yin Jun happened to see her childish smile in an advertisement this year, so she also wanted to join.
For the last spot, Yin Jun plans to give it to Li Saifeng, a girl who started working as a young actress on ATV last year.
Let’s not talk about Li Saifeng’s later corrupt private life, but at this age, she is the sweetest and most beautiful person.
And because she is going to take the route of beating girls in the future, she can start to train her from now on, lest among the female beating stars in Xiangjiang, after Hui Ying becomes famous, only Yang Ziqiong will be left to support the appearance.
These five girls put together will basically be the most beautiful combination in Xiangjiang in the next 30 or even 50 years. Unless Yin Jun combines Zhou Huimin, Li Jiaxin, and Guan Zhilin into a combination, there will be no one. Which group can be like the Happy Girls group, with such incredible beauties joining them?
For the last one, which was to be a movie for all Asia, Yin Jun chose "The Sky Cannon", also known as "Lethal Weapon".
Many people know "Hunting Cannon" because in "Hunting Cannon 4", Jet Li played an unprecedented role as a bad guy.
But in fact, "Hunting Cannon" is very famous all over the world.
In 2016, Mel Gibson returned after ten years of lurking with "Hacksaw Ridge", which made people sigh, but few people remember that it was with the "Hacksaw Ridge" series that Mel Gibson became a world-class actor. Superstar.
One of the reasons for choosing "The Sky Cannon" is that Eddie Murphy is coming back after spending the New Year in the United States, and it just so happens that this drama can make him catch up.
However, the role of the 50-year-old black police detective who is about to retire will naturally have to be modified, including the blonde who falls to her death as soon as she comes out. She also has to be modified to be the daughter of Eddie Murphy's captain in the military.
Of course, Mel Gibson was the most popular in the previous life of "The Sky Cannon". This is related to the setting of the black police detective. With such an old partner, how could he be given more roles?
But Yin Jun's version of "The Sky Cannon" naturally cannot be too biased towards one character. The future Eddie Murphy is a face of Qilin Films in Hollywood and a set benchmark, so the roles of the two police detectives, It must be as important as the role.
As for the remaining Mel Gibson character... Yin Jun naturally has a certain idea in his heart!
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