Chapter 10 Movie!

Wu Yuan's courtyard, main house.

On the messy table, there is a bottle of cold Beibingyang soda.

Next to the Beibingyang soda, there is a copy of "Viewpoint" magazine from Huaxia News Agency.

On the cover of the magazine, there is a thin man with a few tufts of yellow hair.

"Top Ten Film and Television Figures - Film and Television Tycoon Deng Jianguo!"

Below the cover, there is a line of blood-red characters printed "Kill goats, protect the capital!"

Don't get me wrong, there is no connection between the two.

This "Kill goats, protect the capital!" is a statement made by a famous media this year, saying that the sandstorm problem in the capital is all due to the fact that there are too many goats, which have eaten up all the vegetation, resulting in such a big sandstorm.

Don't laugh, this slogan is very popular this year, and it once made the herdsmen in the northwest crazy.

As for the cover character Deng Jianguo, he is a tough guy. In 1997, he invested in "Anti-Corruption Storm" and "Kangxi's Secret Visits 1 and 2", and earned 110 million yuan from advertising patches.

Later, he would invest in TV series such as "The Talented Scholar Ji Xiaolan", "The Way of the Dragon", "The Princess Is Getting Married", and "Kangxi's Secret Visits 3", and made a lot of money.

With his boldness in investing in TV series, he was named the top ten influential figures in the film and television industry this year!

These days, TV series are indeed more profitable than movies, and they are more popular.

But all this has nothing to do with Wu Yuan.

At this time, he was sitting at the corner of the table, holding his forehead with one hand and writing and drawing on the notebook with a pen in the other hand. From time to time, his brows were furrowed, and he was very distressed.

Since the summer vacation from school, Wu Yuan has locked himself in his house, not leaving the house, and thinking about his first movie.

The notebook in front of him was filled with the outline of the script.

This is a movie with a very complicated script. Wu Yuan wrote 11 pages of the outline of the script alone, and he had just started to write the specific details of the characters.

There is no way, who called this movie "The Night the Comet Came".

"The Night the Comet Came", this movie is considered a famous movie in Wu Yuan's dream.

It's not because of how high the box office of this movie is, nor because of how classic this movie is.

But because the production cost of this movie is as low as 50,000 US dollars!

The reason why Wu Yuan chose this movie as his first work is because this movie does not burn money but burns brains!

Only eight actors are needed, plus a small western-style building as the shooting location, and it can be shot in a week!

This kind of "suspense science fiction film" that can be shot in a small space without frequent transitions and shooting everywhere, and the script is also very profound, seems to be a small pattern, but is very hard, is too suitable as a debut work.

On a seemingly ordinary night, a comet will pass by the earth, and eight young men and women who are having a party accidentally open the infinite box of quantum paradox.

Countless parallel time and space intersect on this night, and a series of bizarre events unfold.

It does not need to rely on big scenes and special effects, but only relies on the story itself, using a lot of foreshadowing dialogues and details to build a suspenseful and brain-burning fantasy story for the audience.

This movie has been well received since its release, and is hailed as one of the most outstanding suspense science fiction films of the year. It often appears in the inventory video of low-cost suspense science fiction films.

In fact, before "The Night the Comet Came", there was another ultra-low-cost science fiction movie that was also confined to one scene and shot mainly with conversations.

"This Man From Earth"

However, this movie was not considered by Wu Yuan at all.

No one really believes the press release that this movie has a global box office of 350 million US dollars?

No way? No way? No way?

In fact, this movie was not even released in theaters. It was sold in DVD form, and the market response was just so-so.

As a result, for some reason, on the Chinese Internet, this movie was inexplicably passed off as a masterpiece, and was also given the title of "global box office of 350 million US dollars".

To be honest, the movie uses the protagonist's mouth to output all discussions about philosophy, science, theology and the history of Western social development.

If Wu Yuan really made this movie, it would not be a hit regardless of whether it was adapted for localization or not.

"The Night the Comet Came" is different. This movie tells a fantasy story of "parallel time and space accidentally intertwined", which is very suspenseful and interesting!

People from any country and any cultural background can understand this movie as long as they watch it carefully, without having to accept the conflict of culture and values.

The only pity is that this movie is a pure newcomer's work, more like an experimental work.

The handheld camera was shaky and casual throughout the filming of the movie, and the picture composition was not rigorous. The effect of the film was more like a long vlog, which reduced the commercial atmosphere of the movie to zero.

Moreover, the first ten minutes of the movie are too scattered and boring. Although there are many foreshadowings in the first ten minutes of chat, it is really difficult for the audience to survive these ten minutes, until the comet passes and the parallel time and space begin to intersect.

If it wants to be more commercially valuable, Wu Yuan must slim down the movie and adjust the shooting techniques.

This is a high-end game!

Fortunately, Wu Yuan feels that he can do it.

Wu Yuan, who has worked in the industry for 20 years and has seen countless domestic and international films, thinks he can still handle the storyboard of a single scene.

Moreover, the shooting techniques of film cameras and digital DVs are really different. Directors who come from the academy have a sense of sophistication when playing with the lens.

As for the localized modifications and the scattered plot in the first ten minutes of the script, it is not very troublesome to modify them.

Because the original film is a movie without a script, the director only tells the actors the identities of the actors, their relationships and some basic settings, and then lets the actors play by themselves.

So in terms of lines, except for some key lines that must be said, many other lines are improvised by the actors, which makes many lines too long.

What Wu Yuan has to do is to simplify the lines and refine a large number of lines with too long word structures.

Without changing the core plot, make the actors' lines more concise and clear, directly point to the story, and then add more suspense and conflict points to reduce the boringness of the movie and increase the tension and excitement.

After such a revision, I don’t say whether this movie can become a box office dark horse, but Wu Yuan believes that it should be no problem to sell the finished film for a generous copyright fee and adaptation fee.

Yes, Wu Yuan never thought that this movie would rely on domestic box office to make a lot of money.

He made this movie for the world’s three major fantasy film festivals!

Are you kidding?

Is there a market for mainland movies in 2000?

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" only had a box office of 15 million!

Why do the fifth and sixth generation directors in China love to take their films to various European film festivals every year?

Is it really all for the realization of their artistic ambitions?

Bullshit!

That’s because the opening of major European film festivals is also a grand film trade fair, and film buyers from all over the world gather together!

Everyone is rushing to sell films!

Foreigners buy movies in US dollars!

A film distributor sells for tens of thousands of dollars, and he can recover his costs by selling to three or five companies. If he sells to more than ten companies, he will make a lot of money!

Moreover, the money does not need to be shared with the theaters, and the producers make pure profits!

As for the domestic box office, it will only serve as icing on the cake!

In this day and age, it is absolutely impossible to make a movie without selling copyrights and relying solely on the mainland market!

Of course, Wu Yuan did not want to give up the mainland box office market.

After spending ten days revising the script of "The Night the Comet Came", Wu Yuan finally went out, took the script back to school, and found the director of the directing department.

Now if a movie wants to be approved and released in China, it must be under the name of a state-owned film studio.

At this time, Wu Yuan's identity as a student of the Film Academy will be of great use!

A small guess.

Why did the sixth generation directors always like to shoot underground movies that the General Administration did not approve during the ten-year film winter from 1994 to 2004?

Isn't it because they don't care about the domestic box office results, and it doesn't matter whether it is released in China or not.

As long as the movie can be sold in Europe, it doesn't matter if the General Administration thinks the content is not good, as long as Europeans like to watch it!

Wait another ten years, when the domestic box office market picks up, will these sixth-generation directors still make movies that fail to pass the censorship?

Then they will all try to make movies that can pass the censorship!

Because the few dollars earned from selling movies in Europe at that time can't even compare to a fraction of the mainland film market!

Everyone has to fight for a piece of the domestic market cake.

Ahem, this is just a one-sided view, just to make you laugh, the truth is definitely not that simple.