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Chapter 147 Filming "Train to Busan"

On August 2004, 8, under Cao Qing's continuous efforts, the relevant departments of Huaguo finally expressed their approval for the new version of the script of the movie "Travel to Busan". The two sides finally reached a consensus on this issue.

At this time, a full month has passed since Cao Qing received the filming task of "Travel to Busan" from the system.

In this month, even though Cao Qing has completely mobilized all his high-level connections in the film and television industry for this purpose, and has made several tea meetings and chats with several leaders of relevant departments, but Cao Qing's "Train to Busan" The movie script is still full of hardships, and I don’t know how many times it has been revised.

In the end, in order to achieve the goal of the curve, Cao Qing even designed the movie "Travel to Busan" as a Chinese-Korean co-production movie, and put all the story content in "Train to Busan" in Korea without any involvement After arriving in China, it was finally possible to finally resolve the release issue of the movie "Train to Busan" in the mainland.

Of course, the A-level director authority given to Cao Qing by the system must also play a key role. Otherwise, even if Cao Qing's status in Huaguo's film and television industry is already extremely high, it is still impossible to deal with the relevant departments with only one director. It's all done in a month.

Moreover, for the movie "Train to Busan", the relevant French departments also have requirements.

First of all, according to their regulations, the background of the movie "Train to Busan" must not be set in Huaguo.

Secondly, when the movie "Train to Busan" was screened in mainland China, many bloody scenes in the movie had to be modified and blurred.

Thirdly, not only must the film not involve political issues, but it must also undergo strict revisions by relevant departments when it is submitted for review. It must be as bloodless, political, and inappropriate as possible.

In order to meet these three requirements, Cao Qing had to keep the filming location of "Train to Busan" in Seoul, South Korea, just like the original film, and at the same time, try to delete some of the content that satirized the Korean government.

As for the bloody and unsuitable treatment methods required by the relevant departments of Huaguo, Cao Qing also chose to accept them all.

For Cao Qing, who is eager to complete the task and be promoted to an S-level legendary director, as long as the movie "Travel to Busan" can be released in mainland China, the mainland version of "Train to Busan" movie must be castrated, anyway. The overseas version of the film is still complete.

"Travel to Busan" must have these deletions in the mainland. Even if Cao Qing has the A-level director authority of the system, he still cannot be unscrupulous. Although he often uses curves to achieve things, he has always been a law-abiding citizen. Never intentionally touch the red line.

And after Cao Qing finally reached a deal with the relevant departments, Tengda Film and Television Entertainment finally began to release news about Cao Qing's seventh film "Train to Busan" to the outside world.

As soon as the news came out, no matter whether it was the domestic news media, insiders in the film and television industry, or the ordinary domestic audience, they couldn't help being surprised by Cao Qing's choice.

Zombie movies, this kind of film and television drama theme that is super easy to be banned at first sight, they never thought that one day they would be able to watch them in mainland movie theaters. Those insiders in the Chinese entertainment industry know it, and even the people who eat melons all over the country know it too.

For this reason, the melon-eating people all over the country suddenly became excited. The emergence of domestic zombie films made them wonder for a while whether the relevant departments' taboos on certain aspects of domestic films are about to start to relax. , Has the selection range of domestic films in terms of themes already begun to expand?

However, even though there was a lot of noise on the Internet about the relaxation of domestic film themes, the relevant parties still did not respond to this, which made some people who eat melons and some new directors couldn't help being happy in vain.

And just when the group of them were extremely excited, Cao Qing himself, who single-handedly caused this big Internet discussion, was seriously photographed by several magazine photographers in a studio full of lighting equipment. Constantly adjusting various poses for taking pictures.

In order to create heat for his new movie "Train to Busan" and at the same time bring benefits to his company, Cao Qing was interviewed by several popular magazines and accepted the endorsement of several big companies in advertising.

"Okay, Mr. Cao, your movement is very good, just keep it like this, and we're done after shooting this movement."

"Yes, very good, cool!"

At three o'clock in the afternoon, in the studio, with the continuous sound of shutter clicks, Cao Qing finally finished his entire shooting process, which made him waste most of the day.

If it weren't for the high expectations for the movie "Train to Busan", and because Cao Qing himself was very interested in improving his international reputation and box office appeal through the following magazine interviews, Cao Qing would not be willing to waste most of the day. Make various poses.

In fact, several magazines who came to interview him at one time are quite famous, and almost all of them are famous in the world, especially there are photographers from "Time" magazine, so they are very concerned about "Train to Busan". "Cao Qing, who performed well at the box office after its release in North America, is quite cooperative in all her actions today.

Moreover, in these few interviews, Cao Qing not only seriously explained the type of "Train to Busan" movie he planned to shoot and its taboos, but also made a formal response to the discussions of those melon-eating netizens on the Internet. , At the same time, it also vaguely told the audience how difficult it is to shoot a taboo-themed movie.

Half a month later, on the cover photo of Time Magazine, Cao Qing appeared in North America with a very handsome appearance.

After the news spread to China, Tenda Film and Television Entertainment, which was preparing to go public, suddenly received great news, and various listing work was carried out more quickly.

However, in the eyes of most people in the Huaguo film and television circle, it is quite normal for Cao Qing to become the cover character of "Time" this time. After all, Cao Qing's current position in the Huaguo film and television circle has firmly ranked No.1. In fact, he is also very young and handsome. Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that he appeared on the cover of "Time" magazine. This is just a thing that will happen sooner or later.

On the contrary, if Cao Qing has not been invited by Time magazine, it would be considered abnormal, and it can even be said that he was underestimated and bullied by the American side.

On this point, Cao Qing shares the same opinion as most people in the film and television industry. He didn't feel too much joy about becoming the cover character of "Time" magazine.

His only feeling about being on the cover of Time magazine is that his popularity in North America seems to have increased a lot, which can be seen from the influence points on the system panel.

This increase in influence points will be very beneficial to the box office of his seventh film "Train to Busan", which will definitely land in North America. Cao Qing is very pleased about this.

In mid-August 2004, just a few days after the interview with Time Magazine, Cao Qing started to return to work again.

However, Cao Qing, who has been making movies for several years, is already used to this kind of thing.

He has long been used to taking a short vacation for himself after each filming, and then starting to prepare for the next film as soon as the short vacation is over. This working habit even makes him feel fulfilled.

After all, after six or seven years of filming, he is not used to taking long vacations, which would make him feel empty.

Compared with all kinds of enjoyment, only work is the true love in his heart.

It was in his energetic state. , The preparatory process of the crew of "Travel to Busan" is going very fast.

Unlike Cao Qing when he first became a director, not only was he not well-known at the time, but he also had no company support behind him, so it became quite troublesome and difficult to find some suitable crew members and film actors.

But today's Cao Qing is not only the director with the highest status and the best box office performance in Huaguo, but also the Tengda Film and Television Entertainment Company behind him is currently one of the big players in the entertainment industry.

Except for the fact that the number of contracted actors is a little less and they are mainly taking the elite route, they are no different from Huayi Brothers in all other aspects. The quality of movies and TV shows far exceeds that of Huayi, and the company has a lot of first-line stars in movies and TV shows.

As the boss of such a powerful film and television company, Cao Qing has too many film and television resources that he can use to make a movie.

Under the operation of the huge network of Tenda Company, since Cao Qing announced the preparation of the crew in mid-August, in just half a month, all the actors and staff needed for the film crew of "Travel to Busan" have all been ready. up.

In this regard, after Cao Qing issued a statement on September 9, Li Lei, editor-in-chief of the "Beijing Daily" who has always had a good relationship with Cao Qing, directly described this with a headline.

"The energetic workaholic Cao Qing has eight kidneys!" This guy came up with this title.

However, this guy obviously did not get the essence of the shocking part of UC in later generations. If Cao Qing had written this title himself, it would have been: "Shocking! The famous director Cao Qing actually has 8 kidneys!" This is how this report came to be. The attractiveness to those who eat melons will obviously be greatly improved.

But "Jingcheng Daily" is still a serious media after all, and Li Lei, the editor-in-chief of "Jingcheng Daily", although he is boring, is still quite serious on the surface. Let alone this kind of unscrupulous writing method, he will definitely not be able to handle it. Even if it came out, it would probably be laughed at by the other newspapers, so although Cao Qing felt so in his heart, he never mentioned it to his old acquaintance.

However, as a serious media, the "Jingcheng Daily" can't do this kind of thing, but the rest of the small media can't do it. Their small media dare to do anything for traffic and newspaper purchases.

So shortly after the "Beijing Daily" published the news, regarding Cao Qing's fast-moving crew preparation method, a small entertainment lace newspaper gave this matter a very misleading and stimulating headline: "Exuberant energy It’s still Fast Gunner, about director Cao Qing.”

In this way, throughout the first half of September 2004, probably because there was no exciting news in the entertainment industry, the people on the Internet were arguing about whether Cao Qing was energetic or a fast shooter. Stopped, it lasted for nearly a week before the temperature slowly dropped.

Cao Qing did not pay too much attention to these discussions on the Internet. After successfully obtaining the physical fitness of boxing champion Ali in his semi-peak period, Cao Qing was quite confident in conveying knowledge and was not afraid of anyone's discussion.

Moreover, the debate between those who eat melons on the Internet and his loyal fans, in the final analysis, is still very beneficial to the promotion of the movie "Train to Busan". This kind of enthusiasm that others spend money to hype, Cao Qing, I am telling the truth There is absolutely no reason to refuse.

However, although Cao Qing did not prohibit netizens from discussing this matter, he did not disclose too much information about the zombie movie "Train to Busan" to the media and netizens.

As for the mysterious veil shrouded in "Train to Busan", a Chinese taboo-themed movie, Cao Qing plans to keep it half-hidden until the movie is released, trying to make fans who care about the movie online understand it. The film maintains attention throughout.

Cao Qing has always studied deeply in how to arouse the audience's interest.

(End of this chapter)