At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 859 "Dear" (44)

The award-winning films have one thing in common: dramas of poverty!

The so-called poverty drama refers to putting people on trial in a desperate situation, showing the absurdity, profundity, rebellion, paradox, complexity, etc. of human nature...

Most of these dramas are realism, and the core is that life is a torrent rolling forward. The little people are engulfed forward, struggling to maintain the last bit of decency, but the more they struggle, the more embarrassing they become. In the end, they are completely defeated, without a trace of decency and calmness. .

Mostly marginal characters are depicted!

This edge refers to the edge of vision, the edge of resources and rights, not the edge of the number of people - if we really want to count by the number of people, what kind of edge is a few hundred million poor people?Rich people with less than tens of millions are called marginal!
However, Shen Xudong really couldn't think of a good script.

——If there is a good script that is unforgettable, he would have taken it out long ago.

Oh, he knows "Three Billboards" and "Blind Universe", the problem is that these two movies are not suitable for Chen Hao either!
It's annoying...

But Chen Hao is obviously not in a hurry, she is more interested in Wendi Deng...

To be honest, Shen Xudong admires Deng Wendi, a legendary woman with means, ambition and luck, who crawled out from the bottom to be an inspirational model.

Step by step, when the mistress got the green card, she later poured wine on Murdoch, and then married him. The most amazing thing is that she actually artificially inseminated the property...

If this was a man, he would have been touted as an inspirational emperor long ago!
However, she is really incapable of...

In addition to being able to tease people, there is nothing good in other fields.

Murkdo has built a platform for her, and she has left nothing on this platform, except romantic anecdotes!

As for making movies, in addition to "Snowflake and the Secret Fan", there is also a "Journey of a Thousand Miles", which is an adaptation of Lang Lang's autobiography.

But "A Journey of a Thousand Miles" is much more difficult than "Snowflake and Secret Fan" - no distribution company can be found!

Sony, which originally planned to release it, finally gave up and directly stated: there is no plan to release the film yet.

Didn't like this movie!

Oh, and the movie didn't make it in the end...

As for "Wolverine 2", well, what to say... probably a good action movie, but definitely not a good X-Men solo movie!

In addition, what did Shen Xudong think of: "According to the setting, in "Wolverine 2", Logan's wife's height is about the same as him, that is...about 1 meters, you are a lot worse!"

"I don't even want to act in a superhero movie." Chen Hao waved his hand: "Joseph told me that superhero movies are also considered a mainstream commercial resource in Hollywood, and many Oscar-level actors want to star in... Foreigners like me Definitely no chance!"

"It mainly depends on the role requirements. What if the role is Asian..."

"...There are no Asian superheroes...even if there are, they are villains!"

"Oh, you also know Fu Manchu?"

"...Of course I know..."

After chatting for a while, Shen Xudong suddenly remembered a movie - "Dear"...

He immediately told this matter to Chen Hao, and when the latter heard it, he immediately asked: "The theme of fighting abduction?"

"Correct!"

"I play the mother who lost her child?"

"No, you play the role of a rural woman who adopts a child..."

Shen Xudong analyzed Li Hongqin's image again.

Li Hongqin is not only a hateful wife of a human trafficker, but also a great and persistent mother image. In order to get her daughter back, she fought hard with reason and even committed herself to her fellow migrant workers...

"Her husband is a human trafficker. In her mind, her husband is the sky and the child is her life. Therefore, her husband told him that he gave birth to the two dolls with other women in Shenzhen and asked her to raise them. Hongqin took the two dolls." The doll was raised as her own flesh and blood... until the child's biological parents came to find the child, she still did not want to believe that her husband did such a thing."

"... Then... according to what you say, Li Hongqin is also very pitiful!"

"Well, pitiful and hateful!"

Speaking of this, Shen Xudong thought of something: "...Oh, this story has a prototype!"

"prototype?"

"The Peng Gaofeng case... You can take a look. Your character is called Gao Yongxia, but she is not pregnant... But this character is not interesting. She reported the case on her own initiative..."

"Where are you from?"

"Xuzhou..."

Chen Hao nodded: "Xuzhou..."

"What's wrong? What do you know?"

"I heard that they often buy..."

Shen Xudong interrupted her: "You said you heard about it, but there is nothing confirmed!"

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The Shanghai International Film Festival is still going on, the press conferences of major films, the release conferences of various companies, and various receptions are staged on the west side of the Huangpu River in turn...

Shen Xudong has already left!
He flew directly to the United States to participate in the casting of "The Martian"...

Accompanying us are Zhong Lifang, Fan Bingbing...

Fan Bingbing is quite capable—mainly because "The Martian" has a great prospect, which has attracted an investment of 3000 million US dollars from Evergrande Film and Television!

Very good, anyway, Evergrande is rich, investing in movies is better than building a house!
As for Zhong Lifang, she brought "Thug in a Suit", "Slaying the Wolf 2" and... "Bruce Lee and Ip Man" to release!

In the past few years, American companies have rarely bought Chinese-language films for distribution, and Golden Harvest has only the "Crime City" series that can be released in the United States - a small-scale release, and the combined box office of the two films has exceeded tens of millions of dollars...

"Thug in a Suit" sold well in Cannes, but the North American copyright was not negotiated - the asking price was too low, and Golden Harvest was unwilling to sell it!

Shen Xudong introduced Lions Gate, New Line and Sony Classics...

Zhong Lifang was chatting with Fan Bingbing: ""Hunting" is also selling well in Hong Kong. It has been released for two weeks, and the box office has reached 600 million Hong Kong dollars!"

"...The box office of 600 million Hong Kong dollars is not bad?"

"...In the past two years, it has been difficult for purely mainland movies to sell well in Hong Kong..."

"Then I think "A Little Thing of First Love" is still selling well?"

"...that's the exception..." After a pause, Zhong Lifang explained: "Historical themes and action movies are okay, but other genres are not. "Flying Swords of the Dragon Gate" only sold for less than 600 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong, "Jinling Thirteen" Hairpin also sold for 900 million Hong Kong dollars!"

Fan Bingbing immediately asked: "Then which of the movies I participated in is the best-selling movie in Hong Kong?"

""New Shaolin Temple", sold in Hong Kong for 2300 million Hong Kong dollars..."

"Isn't it Shinjuku Incident?"

""The Shinjuku Incident" sold well in the first week, 900 million Hong Kong dollars. Everyone thinks that this movie is at least 3000 million... Then the public boycott of Jackie Chan broke out, and "The Shinjuku Incident" collapsed immediately..."

This is true. In the eyes of the Hong Kong media, Jackie Chan is a Hong Kong traitor!

"Then what was your highest-grossing movie last year?"

""Crime City 2", the box office in Asia is 1.12 million US dollars!"

"I mean the Hong Kong market..."

Zhong Lifang thought for a while and said, "It should be "Emperor Han Zhaolie", which sold for 3700 million Hong Kong dollars..."

"... so popular?"

"The theme of the Three Kingdoms has always been very popular in Hong Kong..."

After chatting for a while, Fan Bingbing looked at Shen Xudong, who was watching the video with headphones on, and gave him a push: "Xudong..."

"What... what's wrong?"

Shen Xudong took off his earphones.

"Are you going to the bathroom?"

"I didn't." Just as he was about to shake his head, Shen Xudong noticed that Fan Xiaopang's expression seemed to mean something, and quickly changed his words: "...Let's go!"

(End of this chapter)