New Age Artists

Chapter 598 Breakup
Shen Santong was attacked by public opinion, and even his Weibo account was overwhelmed.

[Inception talks about how much we have done for Southeast Asia, saving them from two financial crises, and the Rome of Southeast Asian countries. All the cooperation and initiatives have become a joke.]

【At this point, public opinion and public sentiment have changed.】

[When will Shen Santong come out to apologize? What the hell is your movie Lost in Thailand about? Also, what is the army for?]

[Some people ask what they are after. In fact, when you sit by the pond, every fish you catch will be puzzled. They are not the fattest, the dumbest, or the tastiest, so why am I so unlucky? They don't want to believe that it is just their bad luck and the environment is so dangerous.]

[Yes, make fewer Wolf Warrior movies and do more practical things. ]

[Even if they are far away, we will punish them. If they are close, let’s just forget about it. 】

Some netizens pointed out that both "Lost in Thailand" and "Inception" have described the magical realism of Siam.

It doesn't matter under the emotion.

The night is dark.

Shen Santong sorted out the shooting materials as usual, and it was already very late.

He Weiyi, the person in charge of Weibo, waited in the crew for quite some time, secretly observing Shen Santong. Seeing that he looked normal, he asked tentatively, "Director Shen, do you want to restrict him? This is too outrageous. What does this have to do with you?"

"Let them talk." Shen Santong still answered the same question and asked him, "Are you angry?"

He Weiyi said: "Of course I am angry, I wish I could destroy them."

Shen Santong said: "You are angry, I am angry, we are all angry. What's the big deal if I get angry a little?"

He Weiyi asked, "We can't just let our emotions run wild, right?"

"Have the relevant parties asked you to cool down?"

"Only some extreme cases are dealt with, and there is no limit on the others."

"Follow this." Shen Santong gave further instructions: "We will not deal with this matter, but we will limit the number of people who are recommended to travel there."

After He Weiyi left, Shen Santong summoned the assistant in charge of Deep Sea Culture and instructed, "Give a verbal warning to the artists under your company not to post photos of their trip to Siam on public platforms. Don't post them in the future."

Shen Santong does his own thing well.

Through this phenomenal film, the contribution of the University of Tokyo to Southeast Asia and Asia will be presented and a certain consensus will be formed.

The media and culture express the country's contribution to the world in a popular way, starting with a simple sentence: Tokyo University is the world's economic engine.

When being bitten back, in addition to the anger floating on the outside, there is also grievance and resentment on the inside, which gives one a moral and ethical advantage.

In this way, the handling and disposal actions can naturally be more aggressive, and no one can say anything.

This not only concerns the parties involved, but also all those working abroad, all those who may go abroad, and those who may go abroad in the future, and those whose relatives and friends may go abroad. It is related to the interests of almost everyone.

The interests are closely related, and it is "human nature" to take it seriously. Those who deconstruct it and go against "common sense" are either psychologically distorted or their "common sense" is different from that of the mainland.

Continue filming "Zhu Xian".

In terms of plot, for the trilogy, Shen Santong followed the feeling of reading the book.

The first part is about Zhang Xiaofan's growth, which is exciting at first but sad later. At the end, in the first battle between good and evil, the truth of the bloody case in Cao Miao Village that has troubled him for many years is revealed. Zhang Xiaofan is heartbroken and angry, and Daoxuan wants to kill him with the sword of Zhu Xian. Bi Yao uses the love spell to block the sword of Zhu Xian for him, and his soul flies away.

The character of Zhang Xiaofan is good, he upgrades his pretentiousness, pretends to be a pig to eat the tiger, an ordinary boy who amazes everyone again and again. Then comes the emotional drama, all the emotions must be brought out in the death of Bi Yao, so the early foreshadowing is very important.

The second part is extremely cool and full of style.

After the Qingyun Incident, Zhang Xiaofan joined the Ghost King Sect, using the alias "Ghost Li". From a simple village boy, he became cold, bloodthirsty, and decisive. After the Ghost King taught him two volumes of his heavenly book, he practiced day and night for ten years, and his Taoism improved by leaps and bounds, achieving great success in Buddhism, Taoism, and magic.

He obtained the knowledge of all his life including military tactics, strategies and decision-making from the leader of Ghost King Sect, Wan Renwang, and became the deputy leader of Ghost King Sect.

Gui Li, who was hated by everyone, was also a demon giant that everyone in the cultivation world feared. The red demon eye of the elder of the Blood Refining Hall was crushed by the magic hand, and dozens of Blood Refining Hall disciples were killed with a wave of his hand.

While killing countless people, he remained affectionate and traveled all over the country looking for a way to save Bi Yao.

As Gui Li, he meets old acquaintances, including Lu Xueqi, Zeng Shushu, and Lin Jingyu.
I want to buy some osmanthus flowers and put them in the wine, but it ends up not being the same as when I was young. Things and people are no longer the same.

There is a small climax when Jiansha Cangsong is killed. He is planned to be the second small monster, and the big monster is the beast god.

Gui Li met and rescued Xiaobai, the nine-tailed fox who was imprisoned for stealing the Xuanhuojian. The two sneaked into Miaojiang to seek a way to revive Biyao.

After much difficulty, they found the great wizard from Miaojiang, but unfortunately the wizard was exhausted and the resurrection spell did not succeed.

During this period, the beast demons in southern Xinjiang began to march northward in large numbers, devastating the world. People from both the righteous and the evil attacked the Beast God in the Demon Cave. Gui Li and Lu Xueqi worked together to overcome many hardships and finally defeated the Beast God.

Under the night sky of Miaojiang, the two of them didn't care about tomorrow, forgot the worldly ties, and embraced each other gently.

The third part is about fighting the Ghost King.

The Ghost King ignored everyone's lives and refined the Four Spirits Blood Formation. Later, when the Four Spirits Blood Formation was completed, it caused the collapse of Fox Mountain.

Since then, Biyao's body has disappeared and her whereabouts are unknown, leaving only a corner of her green clothes.

Zhang Xiaofan was devastated by this, but he regained his spirits with the care of Lu Xueqi and the beatings and scoldings of Xiaobai. Summoned by the ancient sword Zhu Xian, he came to Huanyue Cave and became the new owner of the Zhu Xian sword. He also learned the fifth volume of the Heavenly Book.

In the second war between good and evil, he killed the Ghost King and saved the people of the world.

After being separated from Lu Xueqi, he returned to Cao Miao Village and the two finally reunited.

In the final ending, Baguio will reappear.

A green silhouette is left in the wind chimes, giving an open ending.

There are three stories in the series, and the second and third ones were just suspended. Shen Santong only filmed the first one, and was the producer for the last two. He made a good start and there was no need to shoot three parts in a row like "Lost on Journey".

In the battle for the National Day holiday, Shen Santong put his knowledge into practice.

I learned a lot about film production from "Painted Skin" and "White Snake".

It's considered a lightning avoidance.

The characters in "Painted Skin" are extremely ugly, the mixed scenes are very cottagey, and the aunt played by Yan Ni holds a peach wood staff in her hand.

Regardless of the quality of the special effects, the props don't match the style and are irrelevant.

Not only is there a mahogany staff, but also an invisibility cloak that prevents invisibility, a golden owl, and a "magic ring".

"Painted Wall" is based on Pu Songling's work "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", but it does not contain any of the essence of ancient style.

"White Snake" was not much better. Shen Santong suspected that all the money was used to pay Jet Li's salary, and the special effects were not polished.

The special effects were not used correctly and were abused to an outrageous degree. It still has the same old problem of being terribly fake.

A group of people stood in front of a fake scene and fought each other, just like a stage play.

The white snake and the green snake dragged their long tails, and there was no motion capture. It was very scary to see them crawling on the ground.

"Zhu Xian" is just the opposite of these two dramas. When preparing for the film, Shen Santong required it to be authentic and have a sense of texture. The magic weapons and costumes must have the beauty of traditional costumes and have an ancient charm.

In a blink of an eye, October passed and it was November.

Zhang Weiping's negotiations with the cinema chain have come to an end. He wants to negotiate a 50% share of "The Flowers of War".

This is a treatment only available to the Santong Entertainment Locomotive Label, and Zhang Weiping believes that he can also do it.

Big stores bully customers, and big customers bully stores. Eight or nine years ago, Zhang Weiping was the boss of cinema chains, and he promoted the reform of cinema chains.

The problem is that times have changed.

You didn’t accomplish anything in your previous life. In this life, Santong Entertainment is rising, Hollywood is striding in, and the cinema chains have two major box office pillars. What do you, Zhang Weiping, mean?
There were contributions back then, but no one would give up the real money. However, Shen Santong said hello, and Yu Dong did not shout "We will never increase the share of "Dragon Gate Flying Dagger"" to please the theaters.

On increasing the share, we reached a tacit understanding with "The Flowers of War" and agreed on a 45% share.

The reason why Shen Santong intervened was that the share increase to 45% would be beneficial to the development of the industry.

The share of the Dongda production company is too low. In the past, the infrastructure of cinemas was relatively poor. In order to promote the development of cinemas, it is understandable that the box office sharing ratio was tilted towards cinema chains. Now that cinema chains have developed to a certain scale, it is too unfair to do so.

The revenue share of Dongda Film and Television Company is almost the lowest in the world, and the producers still have to pay for publicity and marketing. The pressure to recoup their investment is too great.

Bernard did not hinder the profit-sharing negotiations, nor did he evade, aiming to release the film on the same day as The Flowers of War.

The drama "Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate" is produced by Santong Entertainment. The technology is more mature than its predecessor and the cost control is also very good.

Jet Li's actual pay for the film was 50 million, but it was announced to the public that it was 90 million.

Li Lianjie is old, and Shen Santong is not the main controller, but he has invested money himself, the amount of 70 to 80 million, and would rather use Wu Jing than Li Lianjie.

Netflix is ​​already producing original content, and the video rental market was a thing of ten or twenty years ago. Jet Li is not worth the price.

Shen Santong didn't even want to give 50 million. In order to maintain Li Lianjie's status, he had to sign a confidentiality agreement. In other words, he was not the main controller. If he was the main controller of Santong Entertainment, there would be no need to use him.

The tension between the two major dramas "Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate" and "The Flowers of War" is getting stronger and stronger.

A villa in BJ.

"Is he crazy?" Zhang Weiping was shocked.

I didn’t expect Yu Donglai to be serious.

It's true that the two have had a grudge against each other for a long time, but it's crazy that they were released on the same day.

He dares to scold anyone and acts very stupid, but he is a smart man after all. When he meets someone who doesn't care about his life, he can't help but get anxious.

If big productions collide, both sides will suffer.

Withdraw?

Zhang Weiping couldn't accept it.

This is Zhang Yimou's movie, it can't lose to Xu Ke's movie.

Besides, where would the film go if it was withdrawn? The Spring Festival period is the private domain of Santong Entertainment. Last year, Santong Entertainment released two dramas, and this year it still has two major dramas, so there is no chance to steal the show.

If it is a small production, it may not be a bad idea to follow the production of Santong Entertainment and reap the benefits, but "The Flowers of War" is not the case.

A small pond cannot produce a real dragon; big productions require a big market.

Zhang Weiping wanted to find someone to mediate, but after thinking about it, he realized that the only person who was qualified and capable of mediating was Shen Santong.

Soon, Zhang Weiping found that he could not meet Shen Santong, and through normal channels he could only communicate with the head of the film department of Santong Entertainment.

However, Zhang Weiping had a solution. He took Zhang Yimou and Nini to the crew of "Zhu Xian" in the name of visiting the set.

In art, there is no superiority or inferiority. When visiting a studio, don't hit a smiling person.

Zhang Yimou was not very happy as he had been having some unpleasant arguments with Zhang Weiping recently.

When Shen Santong learned that Zhang Weiping and his group were coming, he asked Chen Chexi, "Why is he here with me?"

"It's about the schedule." Chen Chexi suggested: "There's a rift between Lao Mouzi and Zhang Weiping, why don't we try to poach him?"

Shen Santong refused without a second thought: "We are not the same kind of people."

to the place.

Zhang Weiping and his group waited for several hours before they saw Shen Santong.

They were polite and bought a lot of milk tea and coffee. Shen Santong said, "I'm sorry, I just finished a show."

"Director Shen, this is Nini. We have been training together for three years." Zhang Weiping first introduced Nini to Shen Santong since he knew his hobby.

"Director Zhang, Producer Zhang, Nini, I know, she's very beautiful, everyone, please take a seat." Shen Santong exchanged a few pleasantries and then said directly, "If I'm not mistaken, you guys are not here just to visit the set today, but to watch the release of "Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate" and "The Flowers of War"?"

"Yes." Zhang Weiping did not hide anything, knowing that Shen Santong had limited time: "There is no need to make it like this, we are all here for Chinese-language films."

"I think it's good." Shen Santong had no intention of being polite. Now, there was no need for him to hide anything. He just said what he thought.

Zhang Weiping was stunned for a moment, then blurted out, "What's good?"

Shen Santong looked at him and said calmly, "It was my request that the release dates of "Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate" and "The Flowers of War" collide with each other, and this is also the situation I want to see."

Zhang Weiping was stunned and didn't say anything. He was thinking about the meaning of this sentence.

Shen Santong is not easy to offend, as he is much more powerful than Yu Dong.

Someone who can really kill him.

Zhang Yimou didn't care. He didn't make much money from his cooperation with Zhang Weiping. He was strong without desire. He couldn't help but frowned: "What do you mean?"

Nini only felt that the scene was eerily quiet, but Shen Santong's expression remained unchanged. Under his gentle appearance, he seemed to have an invincible spirit.

"Let me be clear. The original novel is disgusting enough to make me sick, and the movie you made with your usual style, Zhang Yimou, makes me vomit even more." Shen Santong called him by his name, and said bluntly, "I am worried that the scene will be ugly, otherwise I would do it myself."

Zhang Yimou's face immediately turned red. He was scolded by the young man Shen Santong, and his body trembled: "Shen Santong, do you have such a big opinion of me? Do you really think you can cover the sky with one hand?"

"Of course I can." Shen Santong said as a matter of course: "You know, I can do it now. Otherwise, why are you here?"

Zhang Yimou's breathing stagnated.

Zhang Weiping looked unhappy, but said nothing.

Nini bit the straw, not daring to make any sound, and even stopped breathing.

"That's it." Shen Santong left.

It’s not that he has no emotional intelligence, but he has to do so. "The Flowers of War" is not much inferior to "Red River".

If there are more dramas like this, no one will have a job.

Zhang Weiping couldn't help but get anxious when he saw that he was about to leave. Shen Santong really had the ability to cover up the truth, and it was a private enterprise, so no one could say anything.

This is not a question of mutual destruction with "Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate". The question now is whether Shen Santong will personally take action against it?

Very realistic, can't beat it.

The investment amount for "The Flowers of War" was not as much as previously reported, but it was still not small.

"Director Shen, can you please ask why?" Zhang Weiping probably guessed something.

Shen Santong said: "As a director, I consciously or unconsciously eat the shit of external ideology. I act as a slave and lackey of external narrative."

He glanced at Zhang Weiping again and said, "You are not much better. If you raise a dog, you should at least give it dog food and bones. Didn't they give it to you? You don't need it. Calling it a dog is an insult to the dog."

Then he looked at Zhang Yimou and said, "You are not a good person. Learn from Feng Xiaogang and how to play the game with Huayi. Being a slave is fine, but how much money have you made?"

Nini was numb, she was numb and wished she were deaf.

Zhang Weiping's face had turned ashen, and there was a hint of murderous intent in his eyes.

Zhang Yimou's face flushed red, and he was shaking with anger. After a second or a century, he finally uttered a syllable: "You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you are talking nonsense!"

(End of this chapter)