I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 451 Another one? (33)

"Another one? Who will invest in it?"

"I can invest. If that doesn't work, I can get China Film Group and Tengxun..."

As he spoke, Shen Liang took out his cell phone and dialed the number...

Ten minutes later, he hung up: "They said that if it's an action movie, the cost can be controlled below 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars, and you can shoot it at will!"

Zhen Zidan was surprised: "Just take pictures?"

Shen Liang shrugged: "Their idea is that if they can't get it in theaters, they can just put it on streaming media. They won't lose money anyway!"

When Chen Musheng heard that Shen Liang had solved even the most important investment problem, he hurriedly asked, "Do you have any ideas?"

“…Shootout is unlikely to be filmed…”

Oh, Chen Musheng originally planned to shoot a movie about Mexican drug lords and Hong Kong police, and he also went to scout the location, but due to the huge production cost, the filming of the movie had to be put on hold...

This project is called "Fire Fight"...

The plot is actually an upgraded version of "Raging Fire"...

This project is definitely not suitable!
Filming in Mexico? Are you kidding?
"I have an idea," Shen Liang said about the plot: "A brother who wants to save his sister from the hands of organ traffickers, and a thug who comes to avenge his brother's murder. The encounter between these two ruthless characters makes this a thrilling fighting journey..."

A typical story of gangsters robbing each other!

In fact, Shen Liang’s creative source was “Save Me from Evil”…

A Korean action movie that left a slight impression after 2020.

……

After "Parasite" won the Oscar, the Korean film market was completely opened up...

Then it collapsed directly!
Apart from Hollywood, movies all over the world have to make back their investment in the short term by walking on two legs. One is to be released in theaters and rely on box office revenue; the other is to sell distribution rights to film producers in other countries in Cannes, Venice, and Berlin. This is the difference between the three major film festivals and the Oscars. They are not only about awarding awards and establishing authority, but also a trading platform.

Korean films initially took one path.

It is commercialized and relies on the local market, so local development and protection are done relatively well, and the box office champion can even reach tens of millions of people...

The movie-watching habit has been well cultivated, but the ceiling of the Korean film market is too low, and there is no ability to distribute films abroad. Therefore, it is difficult for Korean films to make a big breakthrough after the release of "Myeongryang" in 2014, which set a record.

It wasn't until 2019 that the opportunity to change the model emerged.

"Parasite" won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year, and then swept the most important Oscars for the first time, and the copyright sales reached a new high.

——Before, there were Park Chan-wook, Hong Sang-soo, Kim Ki-duk, Lee Chang-dong and others who made a comfortable living by selling copyrights, but none of them were as awesome as "Parasite"!
The success of "Parasite" has shown Korean filmmakers a way out: selling to Europe and the United States, especially North America. The best result is that the film can be released and sell well in the North American market. If that doesn't work, it would also be good to use the Oscars or Golden Globes to sell the copyright.

Then, the first movies started to follow Parasite’s lead…

At the same time, "Parasite" won an Oscar. What does this mean? It means that Korean films are number one in the world, so the market was opened up!
And then, it collapsed!

In 2016, the peak year of the Korean film industry, the annual film output reached 373 films, of which 303 were screened in theaters, and eight of the top ten box office titles were Korean films.

By 2020, the annual output will be less than 80 films!
why?
Because they are not making money - in the whole year of 2020, less than eight movies recovered their costs.

There are people who do business that will get them killed, but no one does business that will lose them money.

After several years of this, by 2023, no Korean capital was willing to invest in Korean films. The films now shown in Korean theaters are all pre-production backlogs, and investment in new films has almost been frozen.

Data shows that in 23, the number of investments per year was less than 20, not even a fraction of that in 16.

There is no way. There are only about two Korean local films released every month, and there is no way for these two films to make a profit...

In the whole year of 23 years, I heard that only four movies made back their investment, "Criminal City 3", "Seoul Spring", "Smuggling" and "Concrete Utopia"...

Even worse than Hong Kong movies!
Under this premise, do we still expect them to make a great action movie?
"Save Me from Evil" has a very routine plot. A professional killer with excellent skills kills a group of gangsters alone and successfully rescues the child.

The only difference is that the villain setting...

The main story is basically the same as "SPL 2", except that a hidden plot of a killer showdown has been added, and the central idea is about redemption.

Shen Liang...can't think of any new tricks.

The plot is already very complete, but he deleted a lot of minor details to make the story a little more compact.

……

Shen Liang simply gave a brief summary of the plot...

Chen Musheng glanced at Ling Weijun, who asked back, "Will it be too much like SPL 2?"

"Then add some suspense... To avenge my brother, I need to find the murderer, and add some clues to find the murderer..."

"How do we end this?"

"Both of them are dead...Neither of them is righteous..."

Chen Musheng didn't really want to repeat himself, so he asked, "Nothing else?"

Shen Liang hesitated for a moment, then said, "Last year I read a novel called "Beasts Clawing at Straws"... a Japanese mystery novel..."

"Beasts Clawing at Straws", the protagonists are housewife Mina, policeman Ryosuke and a part-time worker.

Mui Nei is in huge debt and has been subjected to brutal domestic violence from her husband for a long time. She lives in hell every day. With nowhere else to go, she starts to pick up customers in nightclubs. A young man who is obsessed with Mui Nei proposes to kill her abusive husband, and the two run away.

Policeman Ryosuke was deceived by a beautiful woman and ended up owing a huge debt to the underworld. He had no choice but to look for money to fill the hole. Suddenly, the police found a body that was suspected to be the beautiful woman, and Ryosuke was very afraid that it could be traced back to him;

When a worker was cleaning the bathhouse, he suddenly found a bag of unclaimed cash in the cabinet, a full 100 million yen. This money could greatly improve his poor life, but unknown risks are also gradually approaching...

A mysterious woman, Choi Young-hee, linked the fate of these three people together and completely changed it.

After listening to Shen Liang's story, Chen Musheng immediately became interested: "This story itself is quite interesting and is very suitable for making a multi-line narrative..."

Shen Liang sighed: "But it's not an action movie..."

Benny Chan: "You don't have to make action movies..."

Shen Liang was unhappy: "Not shooting an action movie? Then what are all these brothers for?"

If it wasn't to help his brothers make a living, would Shen Liang have made another film?
After the filming of "Raging Fire", I will go back to the mainland directly, even if I have to be quarantined for 14 days...

Then let’s isolate ourselves!
He will take protective measures, and it is impossible for him to end up like Lao Hu. During the quarantine period, the seeds were sown successfully...

(End of this chapter)