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According to Xiao Liu's suggestion, after posting on the official website to seek directors to cooperate in making movies, many directors indeed sent their resumes or left their contact information to Fat Cat Studio. Xiao Liu and Juzi conducted the first round of screening and selected those who had just graduated from university. Those who have no filming experience are not excluded.

In various online articles, we usually encounter similar situations. Most of the time, the male protagonist has a keen eye for gold and chooses an unknown college graduate or even a professional student, and then produces a work that is so awesome that it is sought after by the entire entertainment industry. Moreover, this The little transparent director followed the male protagonist wholeheartedly and was not swayed by financial gain. He followed the male protagonist's footsteps and made the film step by step towards success. This kind of article seems very enjoyable, but it is too unrealistic and lowers IQ.

Is this a gamble for Fat Cat Studio’s entire fortune, and will it be handed over to a young man who knows nothing about it? Anyway, Xia Haoyang didn't consider himself the hero of a time-travel novel, and he didn't want to go to the street or film school to try his luck in finding a young director. The kind of film school where you casually walk around, spot a young man, and say to him: "Brother, I think you have amazing bones and unparalleled talent. Nowadays, there are no talents. Come on, I will give you million yuan to make a movie. From now on, you He knows how to ride a smooth river, and he is proud of the crowd." Such a story is not suitable for Xia Haoyang, the protagonist of this article.

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"Thank you, Xiao Liu, let me take a look." Xia Haoyang took several printed director resumes.

Xia Haoyang held several resumes in his hand and looked at them. Tang Wanqi was also curious and secretly stretched out her head to look around. As soon as Xia Haoyang turned around, Tang Wanqi immediately retracted her head, feeling a little embarrassed.

"This is not confidential information. Just take a look and give it to you." Xia Haoyang smiled.

"Xin Yukun, won the Best Director at the 1984th FIRST Youth Film Festival in 170. His representative works include "The Maze of the Heart" shot for 170 million yuan and the film "The Burst of Silence". I have seen "The Maze of the Heart" and it is very good. This director is very powerful. He can produce such a great work with only million, so Haoyang should choose him." Tang Wanqi said while looking at the first resume in hand.

"Haha, at the very least you should read everyone's resumes before talking. It's not that Director Xin is not good, but he should at least give others a chance to compete." Xia Haoyang smiled.

"Oh." Tang Wanqi also carefully read the information of several other candidate directors. After all, as a heroine, of course she hopes that the director she works with is the type that she can get along with easily. But when she read the resumes one by one: "I feel like every one of them is excellent. I don't know who to choose. What should I do?" Tang Wanqi said blankly.

"Hahaha, that's right. Xiao Liu and Ju Zi are very picky, and the candidates are all good. Although we are the employer, this choice is two-way, and these directors will also have their own ideas. According to the requirements, maybe people don’t like our work and are unwilling to take it? So, the number of people is not large anyway, we will meet them all once, and then we will let them shoot whoever they think is compatible with them." Xia Haoyang said with a smile.

In the next week, Xia Haoyang met with several directors who were shortlisted by Xiao Liu and Juzi. From Xia Haoyang's point of view, once the director is confirmed, it means the start of the film. In terms of time, the sooner the filming starts, the better. Well, for this reason, several directors on the shortlist can only regretfully lose the selection, because they have projects in hand for the time being. The fastest will take three months, and the slowest may take a year before they have time to take over the filming of his hand. This drama made Xia Haoyang hesitate.

"Fat man, well-known directors are like this. They have no shortage of projects or scripts. They are all responsible for filming. Needless to say, director Xin Yukun's ability. The online drama he is currently filming is expected to be completed in three months, and then he can take over To shoot our drama, we first set up the crew, confirm the actors, find the venue, and get familiar with the script. This actually takes time, and then we wait for Director Xin to join the crew for a while before starting operations. This pace is no problem, and we are not rushing it. It's worth waiting for Director Xin for three months." Ju Zi was trying to persuade Xia Haoyang.

"Let me think about it some more." Xia Haoyang said hesitantly, holding the list of directors in his hand.

"Okay, you think about it." Juzi left Xia Haoyang's office.

The few directors on hand are pretty good in terms of qualifications and abilities, but they currently have projects in progress, and they need Xia Haoyang to wait, and Xia Haoyang invested 8000 million to make a movie, which sounds like a lot, but in the film and television industry this is A real small production. Although there are precedents for small-production films to become popular, such as last year's hit movie "Desperate", which cost 38 million and had a box office of billion, such a movie may not be seen in several years.

"So Beautiful" that Xia Haoyang wants to shoot is just a music-themed movie. Musical movies are a niche in the industry. They cannot win box office like commercial films, and it is difficult to win awards like literary and artistic films. They are in a rather embarrassing position. Location. "So Beautiful" was only a film with 170 million viewers in the original South Korea. South Korea does not count the box office amount but the number of moviegoers. Popular movies start at 500 million, and popular movies are more than 100 million. Movies with million viewers are just passing movies that can barely recoup their investment.

在这里可以看几个数字作为对比：2001年的《我的野蛮女友》488万人次；2008年的《超速绯闻》800万人次；2011年的《熔炉》466万人次；2013年的《七号房的礼物》1400万人次；2019年的《寄生虫》1010万人次；而距离夏浩洋穿越来为止南高丽观影人数最高的电影是2014年的《鸣梁海战》1700万人次；而整个南高丽上千万观影人次的电影有28部之多。

Comparing these figures, we know that "So Beautiful", which has only one-tenth of the highest number of moviegoers, is not a popular or well-known film in South Korea. According to Xia Haoyang's own estimation, if the investment can be controlled at million, it may be able to The investment is barely recouped. If we really invest million, it is estimated that the cost will not be recouped. Why shoot if you don’t necessarily make money? The reason is simple: I like it!

"So Beautiful" is Xia Haoyang's favorite movie. He likes the story, some of the music in the movie, and the heroine Han Xiaozhou, so he wrote this script and planned to film it. He is so willful. , but after negotiating with several promising young and emerging directors, I felt that several directors were actually not interested in this script.

For example, Director Xin, who was unanimously favored by everyone, was actually not unwilling to wait for three months, but because he was unwilling to make this film. During the negotiations, Director Xin’s idea was to highlight the oppression of the times and reflect the bumpy fate of several young singers. In this way If the film is closer to a literary film, it might win awards, so Director Xin would be willing to take over. But Xia Haoyang didn't want to film the so-called bumpy fate in an overly sensational way. He just wanted to show the life of the singers of that era and the music of that era in a movie. The script itself lacked dramatic conflicts and reflected ordinary life.

Differences in concepts are the reason why Xia Haoyang and several directors may not be able to negotiate harmoniously, and then his external tone becomes "I don't have time for the moment, I will shoot this movie when I have time" and so on. Because Xia Haoyang was the only one who discussed this matter, and no one else in the company knew the specific details, Xia Haoyang didn't bother to explain. It can be regarded as the other director saving face for Xia Haoyang, and all Chinese people need face. You can't just say: This is a rubbish script, it won't make any money, and by then the box office won't be able to recoup the cost. I won't do it. Whoever wants to film it will film it.

Xia Haoyang continued to look at the information of several directors in his hand. One of the female directors, Yao Ting, and Liu Chang, who had never been able to meet him, came into Xia Haoyang's field of vision. Director Yao Ting is a woman, so maybe she can accept Xia Haoyang's concept for this film. Director Liu is known for being good at shooting fragmented life scenes. Xia Haoyang has placed hope on these two directors.

"Xiao Liu, please contact Director Liu Chang and Director Yao Ting to see if we can meet. As long as they have time and the location can be designated by them, I can also make a trip to their city." Xia Haoyang told him in the office Xiao Liu at the front desk called.

"Okay, I understand." Xiao Liu has always been capable, rarely asking unnecessary questions, and can always handle the things you tell him very well.

After making the call, Xia Haoyang stood up from the office chair, stretched, and walked to the recording studio. Tang Wanqi was recording a song in the studio at this time, and what she recorded was one of the episodes of "So Beautiful", a movie Production hasn't started yet, and the director hasn't been confirmed yet, but the production of the song has already begun. But today is just the first trial recording to see if Wanqi can do the job. If not, she will switch to Tara, so Xia Haoyang also wanted to cheer Wanqi up and try it out to see how it works.

The song recorded by Tang Wanqi is called "Now I Begin to Forget", which was also sung by the heroine Han Xiaozhou in the original film. It is a fresh and refreshing folk song with a soothing rhythm. It does not have any high notes or requires special singing skills. It is a very simple song. Musical, but very nice. It was precisely because this song was not difficult that Xia Haoyang thought it would be okay to let Tang Wanqi try it.