Chapter 1758 In Line with Their Respective Characteristics

When he returned home, Yin Jun couldn't help but laugh.

Because the three of them were a little uneasy, fearing that Yin Jun would give them a movie similar to "Carmen".

We can't say that "Carmen" is bad. In fact, its box office across Asia has already exceeded 200 million Hong Kong dollars. Especially in the Baodao area, the box office is almost 70 million Hong Kong dollars, which is absolutely incredible.

Moreover, "Carmen" has a very good reputation. Many film critics like it and feel that it captures something that is not in this impetuous era and makes people think about something while watching it.

But the final net profit of "Carmen" is probably only about 20 million Hong Kong dollars. Not to mention those blockbusters that easily earn 3.5 billion Hong Kong dollars in profits, even the box office profits of Ann Hui An-wah's literary films are not comparable.

However, Yin Jun does not dislike that Jiahe, Xinyicheng and Yongsheng only like commercial films.

Whether they can survive the impact of Hollywood is a question. How can they have the energy to make art films on a large scale?

Besides, it’s not like New Art City hasn’t done anything. A few literary young and middle-aged men make three to five artistic films every year.

In the past three years, many awards from the Golden Horse Awards and the Academy Awards have been won by New Art City, so even if these movies did not make much money, Lei Juekun did not make a fuss.

But after all, literary films are not the mainstream of modern movies, at least in Hong Kong now.

Only commercial films that can make money can best reassure film companies.

Isn’t that an old saying?

If you have a solid storehouse, you will know etiquette; if you have enough food and clothing, you will know honor and disgrace.

Only when they have completely established themselves in the market will they begin to pursue artistic achievements. That will be the best time to walk on two feet.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for us to see literary films by great directors such as Wang Jiawei, Xu Anhua, and Zhang Wanting in the previous life.

Of course, because the peak period of Hong Kong movies is too short, those such as "Love in a Fallen City", "Ruan Lingyu", "In the Mood for Love", "City of Glass", "Sweet Honey"...etc. Great movies that we don’t see too many of.

If Xiangjiang Film's peak period lasts for another ten years, there will be ten times more outstanding literary films mentioned above!

What Yin Jun wants to do for them now is to lay a solid foundation.

An excellent movie that can be made into a series of five or six movies is what they need most at the moment, and it will also become their signature.

Just like the previous "Mr. Zombie", "Dragon Tiger Boys", "Five Lucky Stars" and so on.

But there is still something different.

Nowadays, the development of movies is very fast, the speed of upgrading is also fast, and the competition will become more and more fierce. Therefore, if you give ordinary movies, they will definitely not be able to become their treasures, and they will not be able to be proud in the market.

So what the boy is planning to give now is a truly top-notch, super-excellent series of movies.

If Sister Le knew about it, she would definitely scold Yin Jun for being a prodigal. He would not let himself produce such a good movie, but give it to others.

But the overall prosperity of a film market definitely does not depend on one film company.

Isn't it true that the strength of Hollywood lies in the fact that its seven major groups are competing for their own uniqueness but also cooperating with each other?

If it were just one company, do you think they would have any problems?

Without even one opponent worthy of vigilance, a film company that seeks defeat alone will surely eventually perish.

Just like Shaw Brothers in Xiangjiang before.

Isn’t it that the overly rigid system and the overly self-centered thinking are the result of their twenty or thirty years of self-centeredness?

If Mr. Lu hadn't had a plane crash back then, and D&M had continued to compete with Shaw Brothers, do you think Shaw Brothers would have ended up as miserable as it does today?

Come back to the present.

Yin Jun deliberately took out a few scripts from the safe.

Compared with the past when I wrote whatever came to my mind and filled up a dozen notebooks, now teenagers classify their scripts very carefully.

For example, these scripts can be turned into series.

Being able to become a series means that on the one hand, the effect of the first episode is very good, and on the other hand, it also has a high profit-making effect.

It's just that Hollywood and the Hong Kong film industry are similar. After the second and third episodes of a series, they usually become more and more outrageous, and then ruin the entire series.

This is the case for "Home Alone" currently being filmed by Louis Koo in the United States.

And the same goes for "The Best Partner" mentioned earlier.

Of course, it is not that Americans have not found the reasons, nor have they not made progress.

For example, those comic book hero movies 30 years later, their series were very successful.

In addition to becoming more and more prominent in special effects, these comic hero movies are also supported by plots when they are first made, rather than re-inventing the plot after seeing it become a hit.

The movie scripts Yin Jun found were all successful movies in American history.

But based on the memory of the previous life, the young man also made a lot of modifications.

The foreshadowing started from the first episode, and then it echoed from beginning to end. At least the plot was understandable, and then there was a feeling of "Wow, that's how it is, it's awesome."

Looking at the scripts on the table, Yin Jun pondered for a while and found three of them.

In fact, a movie like "American Pie" is quite suitable for filming in Hong Kong, because it has no complicated plot, no special requirements, and no support from acting skills. It relies entirely on a group of young people to express youth. trouble.

But considering that this is the 1980s, the atmosphere in Hong Kong is far from being as open as it was 20 years later, not even in the United States.

If a campus comedy like "American Pie" were produced now, the x-color dialogue, hints and jokes would make people feel a little embarrassed.

Therefore, the movies Yin Jun chooses are still in line with public aesthetics and are more suitable in any era.

The script given to Jiahe was called "Play to Kill", and the other translated title was "Wild Things".

This is a suspenseful thriller movie with very distinctive characteristics. It is described as a "brain-burning movie" by later generations.

What's new and special about "Play It All" is that the plot keeps reversing and reversing. Until the last moment, you don't know who the real criminal is or what the outcome will be.

In the 1980s, there were still very few movies of this type. In addition, two beauties starred in it, which made it even more topical and enjoyable.

The box office of its first movie in the United States was not very high, but subsequent video tapes and peripheral rights sold very well, so a total of 4 movies were released one after another.

Yin Jun added another episode based on the fourth part. This was written based on the characteristics and suspense of the previous episodes. In Yin Jun's opinion, it is definitely better than the middle three episodes. It's a perfect ending.

The reason why this series of movies was given to Golden Harvest is because Golden Harvest already has a lot of popular action movies and comedy movies, and it needs some very stylish movies to enrich its camp.

In addition, Yin Jun is currently exploring the sale of video tapes and peripheral rights and interests in Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and other places, so the long-term benefits and influence of "Play to Death" will definitely be very good.

The series of movies for New Art City is called "Pig Head Walking on the Street", which is a typical comedy movie.

Many people may not be familiar with this movie, because although it is funny and interesting, it is not well-known.

But when it comes to the heavy-flavored comedy movie that imitated "Pig's Head" five years after its release, everyone will definitely know about it.

That’s The Hangover!

"The Hangover" is an upgraded version of "Pig's Head", which is more exaggerated and crazy, so it became very popular.

But Yin Jun didn't like it that much, because many of the plots in it didn't seem to be in line with Eastern people's thinking.

"Pig's Head on the Street" is much gentler. It shows the interesting things that happened between two good friends on the way to find a burger called White Castle. It is something that even children can watch with gusto.

It was able to arouse good responses in 2004 and earn a lot of profits and reputation for New Line Cinema, let alone 20 years ago now.

This kind of pure comedy trilogy is more suitable for New Art City, which is good at comedy, and they can also master this type of genre well.

In the end, it was given to Yongsheng Film Company, and Yin Jun chose it more directly.

What does Yongsheng lack most?

It’s about making big hits and selling movies so that they can make more money to develop themselves.

Therefore, a movie like "Meet the Father-in-Law", which has a huge reputation, is very good at the box office, and is a typical movie that uses small things to make a big impact, is very suitable for them.

Although the original version of "Meet the Father-in-law" is a typical American movie.

The values ​​​​conveyed in it, the comedy jokes, etc. are all American, but Yin Jun is fully capable of changing this movie into a combination of China and America.

He designed his future son-in-law to be an American working in Xiangjiang, and his father-in-law was a rich farmer living in the countryside of Tin Shui Wai.

Such conflicts of gorgeous customs, conflicts of values ​​caused by different ages, conflicts of various understandings caused by different living eras... This is much more interesting than the original version.

Yin Jun wrote a few jokes himself, and then gave them to the writers of Qilin Culture to fill in hundreds of jokes in each episode. Finally, he selected about 30 jokes, which is guaranteed to have an average of one joke every three minutes, and Most of them can be understood by both Easterners and Westerners.

For the new version of "Meet the Father-in-Law", Yin Jun wrote a total of 4 scripts, which ran through the four stages of pre-marriage, marriage, pregnancy and childbirth.

That is to say, the writers of Qilin Culture, who had been repeatedly "tortured" by Yin Jun for five or six years, were able to fill in the content of these scripts. If it were anyone else, they probably wouldn't be able to do it.

And Yong Sheng, who has received the "Meet the Father-in-law" tetralogy, will definitely get their own flagship movie series.

If it is developed well, the global box office results of a total of 1 billion US dollars will not be a problem!