Huayu: Hard fight against Zhang Weiping at the beginning

Chapter 330: Year-end Review
As for Zhang Chen, he doesn't think that a small company cannot produce "Twilight".

Summit Entertainment is not a big company, it was only established in 93, but its "Twilight" is the second most popular film adapted from a novel after Warner's "Harry Potter".

If Summit Entertainment can do it, why can’t I!

By the way, when I think of “Twilight”, I think of another successful work of Peak – “The Hurt Locker”.

"The Hurt Locker" is also a seriously underrated film, and it is one that is worth picking up at a bargain price.

Forget it, let’s talk about this later.

The car soon arrived at the film and television production company called "Cube".

Diane had made contact in advance, so they met Tommy, the head of the company.

Tommy is an old man in his sixties with all white hair, but he looks very energetic.

"Hello, Zhang. Diane should have told me everything about my situation. To be honest, if I wasn't in urgent need of money, I wouldn't have sold my company."

Tommy must be a person who has a passion for movies. It can be seen that he makes movies not just to make money.

Tommy took Zhang Chen around the company and enjoyed the attention.

Everyone knows that the boss wants to sell the company, and everyone also knows that this person is here to buy the company. No one knows what kind of person the future boss will be, or whether he will be easy to get along with.

Zhang Chen took a quick look and found that there were not many people in the company, only about forty or fifty, but they had all the necessary facilities.

Diane is right, this is a film company, not just a studio.

Zhang Chen talked with the people in the technical department and found that their technology was pretty good and the staff was relatively stable.

I looked at their previous works again and they are not bad. The reason they are not well-known is that there are too many companies like them.

After saying goodbye, I followed Diane to two other houses.

After looking at all three, the two returned to the car. Diane said, "What do you think, boss? Do you think any of them are good? If not, I can keep looking..."

Zhang Chen paused, and finally said: "Let's take the 'Cube'. Check their debt and personnel situation. If there is no problem, we will buy it."

Diane seemed very excited, especially when she noticed that Zhang Chen had just said 'we' instead of 'I'.

"Okay, boss. I will focus on checking this 'Cube' in the next two days..."

Zhang Chen once told her that the focus of his career was in China.

Although I don't understand why the boss doesn't come to the more advanced Hollywood for development, but insists on sticking to the small Chinese market, this is not a bad thing after all.

Zhang Chen is the boss in name, but he is out of reach and has no say in the American company.

Since leaving DreamWorks, she never thought she could run a company on her own.

"By the way, remember to register these scripts for me. These are the works I prepared to make our company famous."

Zhang Chen also handed over a file bag, and Diane took it in her hand. She had never felt that this thing was so important as at this moment.

In the next few days, Zhang Chen appeared on the set of "A Quiet Place" and met Fan Binbin and Jason.

"Thank God, it's finally starting~"

Jason came up and gave Zhang Chen a hug. This was not the first time they had worked together, so they were very familiar with each other.

After Jason left, Fan Binbin also came up to hug him, staring at Zhang Chen with her beautiful eyes.

She heard that Zhang Chen had arranged a role for Gao Yuanyuan during this period.

It's only been a few days since I kept an eye on him, and a new woman appeared around him.

A Quiet Place is launched~
The filming of this movie was actually very simple, with only a few scenes and even fewer actors.

Compared to Hollywood productions, the cost of this entire series is very low.

Apart from a few special effects shots of the monsters, it cost almost nothing.

In fact, strictly speaking, the plot of "A Quiet Place" is a bit too thin and cannot support a 90-minute movie.

But the reason why it is not noticeable in the original work is because the director grasped the atmosphere very well.

There are no dialogues in the entire film, and it is basically all in silent repression, which makes it easy for people to empathize with the film.

It is said that in later generations, people were afraid to even eat popcorn when watching movies, for fear of making noises.

This shows how well the atmosphere is created.

Zhang Chen is not planning to make any changes in this regard. The way of expression, atmosphere, music and so on will remain based on the original work.

The only difference is that Zhang Chen further prepared for some of the points in the original work that were widely criticized.

The first thing to be affected is the heroine's pregnancy.

Many viewers were confused and wondered why she couldn't control herself and had to get pregnant in such a situation.

Is there no place to buy condoms?
Or will you die if you don't do that?
I will love you till I die~
I really want to love you till I die~
Here Zhang Chen deliberately added a paragraph of explanation, saying that the heroine was pregnant before the monsters invaded, which makes sense. The second issue is about the monsters' armor.

Many viewers were confused. If the monster could be killed with just one shot, how could it almost wipe out humanity?

This original work actually expresses this, but it is not expressed so thoroughly.

The monster's shell is very hard and ordinary bullets cannot penetrate it.

The reason why the heroine in the movie was able to kill the monster so easily with one shot was because after the monster was attacked by the frequency of the hearing aid, the armor on its ear opened, which was equivalent to directly exposing its most vulnerable brain to the outside.

In this case, it makes sense that the protagonist kills the monster with one shot.

As for normal times, monsters are agile and it is difficult to aim, and it is even more difficult to accurately hit the ears under the armor.

The last flaw is, since the sound of water can cover up human voices, why don’t the protagonist and his family move to live near the waterfall?

This is actually easy to explain.

Although the sound of water can cover up human voices, it is actually more likely to attract monsters. Compared to the house where they live, the probability of monsters appearing near the waterfall is higher.

There was a waterfall in the original novel, but it was not explained, which led to many viewers complaining and thinking that the screenwriter was an idiot.

Zhang Chen specifically added this explanation to the waterfall scene, and I believe that there won’t be so many people criticizing him then.

After doing all this, I feel that his version of "A Quiet Place" should be much better.

……

In the blink of an eye, it is November and the domestic promotion of "The Promise" has begun.

The most tragic one is Chen Kexin. He accepted Zhang Chen's suggestion and wanted to move the release date of "If Love" to November to avoid "The Promise".

But I don’t know why China Film Corporation didn’t agree.

It's not something that can be changed easily. It requires approval, and in theory, it needs the consent of China Film Corporation.

Chen Kexin used her connections everywhere to try to change the schedule, but ultimately failed.

It’s still the same month as “The Promise”.

……

At the same time, at the end of the year, the media also began to take stock.

In their words, 2005 is known as the 'first year of film, television and music'.

In terms of movies, there are "The Accidental Detective", "Seven Swords", "The Myth", and "Taken". In November, there is Zhang Yimou's "A One Man's Journey", and in December there are "A Moment of Love" and "The Promise".

There are even more TV series:
"The Emperor of Han Wu" was CCTV's opening drama of 2005. It was launched on CCTV-1 on January 2 and achieved a 4.49% audience rating when it was first broadcast, with a peak of 7%.

"Drawing Sword" was a 2005 tribute drama to the 60th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. It became unprecedentedly popular as soon as it was broadcast, with ratings exceeding 2% in 8 weeks and a peak of 11.42%.

After Home With Kids was first aired in 05, it achieved extremely high ratings on local TV stations across the country, almost always ranking in the top three.

"The Legend of Sword and Fairy" is the pioneering work of mainland fairy tale dramas, and it is almost also the pinnacle.

It was first broadcast in Taiwan Province and was introduced to Chongqing TV and Shanghai TV a few days later. In just a few days, it achieved an average viewership rating of 11.3%.

The TV series "The Judge Advocate of the Song Dynasty" was first broadcast on CCTV in May 2005. In just two weeks, the average ratings reached 5%. What a concept! The "News Broadcast" that dominated the screen only had 7.85%.

"The Lotus Lantern" dominated the screen as soon as it was launched on CCTV-2005 in October 10, with an average viewership of 5.4% and a peak of 9.1%, becoming the ratings champion of the year.

The music is even more like a fight between gods:

Han Hong's "Heavenly Road" brought the heavenly sounds from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In KTV, the only song that could compete with it is probably Shin Band's "Love Until Death".

JJ Lin used the song "A Thousand Years Later" to tell a sci-fi love story that "transcends time and space". The following year, JJ made his debut on the Spring Festival Gala, and this song was voted the champion of the "Most Popular Singing Program" by the people across the country.

Guang Liang transformed into an angel in "Fairy Tale" and brought a divine song that dominated the charts for a year.

Pan Shuai was still singing "Can't Help Falling in Love". It was said that this song was originally a duet between Chunchun and Pan Shuai, but later, considering that Chunchun's voice was not suitable for singing love songs, they found Xianzi.

Jay Chou, who loves drinking milk tea and not releasing songs, played Chopin's "Nocturne" that year.

"I Just Love You" by "The Godfather of R&B" David Tao tops all the charts, and his signature "David-style affection" is revealed as soon as he opens his mouth.

The "Godfather of Love Songs" Zhou Chuanxiong also brought one of his representative works "Lonely Sandbar" that year.

Unpopular singer Stefanie Sun brought her perfect "The First Day", a song co-written by Mayday and F.I.R.

That year, Ella hadn’t grown her hair long yet, Selina was still a sweet and lovely princess, and Hebe was shy and reserved. The three girls sang their common wish: “I Don’t Want to Grow Up”.

Eason also released the song "Fukua" that year, which could drive people crazy.

What’s more, there is the nationwide popular "Super Girl", and the six songs provided by Zhang Chen are also on the list.

(End of this chapter)