I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 805 Departure
Well, the main thing is that Shen Liang doesn’t really want to take on any other roles…

Han Yan has his own producer.

By the way, let me tell you something. Because Shake the Sun and Boonie Bears are distributed by the same company, and Boonie Bears is a well-known "must-have" during the Spring Festival.
Therefore, when the film was first scheduled, the producer was extremely tough and demanded that the cinema give 12% of the screening time to Shake the Sun and 10% to Boonie Bears before they would give the film keys...

——The film company thinks that the box office of "Shaking the Sun" is at least 20 billion, which is not enough for the general schedule...

Of course, the plan for a bundled release fell through.

Then, "Shaking the Sun", a movie that was released during the Spring Festival and had an extremely inappropriate subject matter, flopped, and it had nothing to do with its own quality.

Is it necessary to watch a "terminal illness movie" during the Chinese New Year?
This movie should obviously be released during the Qingming Festival or the Dragon Boat Festival, but why has it to be released during the Spring Festival to bring bad luck?
This shows the arrogance of the publisher!

Every Chinese person knows that the most taboo thing during Chinese New Year is this!
Are you pretending to be a foreign guest here?

I heard that during the Spring Festival period, the production company of "Shaking the Sun" kept harassing all theaters by phone, demanding that they schedule at least two screenings. Some theaters gave them face and scheduled the screenings, while others did not. The production company was furious and blacklisted all the theaters that did not schedule the screenings. No subsequent ticket subsidies would be given and the movie would only be sold at the original price.

Then the main control of the distribution of "Kowloon Walled City: The Siege" and "The Negotiation Expert" could not hold up, and the blacklist was removed again...

——If your target audience tends to be young people, don’t release it during the Spring Festival!

……

In fact, the theme of putting people and children of different social income levels in the same environment and creating a chemical reaction has always been a popular theme in film and television works!
This is true for many idol dramas, typical examples being "It Started with a Kiss" and "Meteor Garden". In "Meteor Garden", Shancai, who comes from the lower-middle class of society, establishes friendship, achieves complementarity and grows through communicating in a dignified manner with the top but wealthy young masters.

In "Itazura na Kiss", Xiangqin, who also comes from the lower-middle class of society, works hard and goes through many things with the school celebrity Naoki to form a family.

The Bao Family is just the opposite...

He is critical and sarcastic!
Back to Lao Fu, when he learned that Shen Liang was interested in "Bao's Father and Son", he was very touched: "'Bao's Father and Son' is very meaningful. Nowadays, many people take out huge loans to buy good school district houses and mix in high-end circles... On the surface, it is for the good of the children, but in fact it is still utilitarian education!"

Shen Liang: "Then according to you, what is the purpose of education?"

"Building personality! For example, let students know how to be polite and honest, and become well-educated people."

Jiao Fenhong shook his head: "In fact, this part of education is already dead in name only. After all, the college entrance examination does not test these contents...Nowadays, parents put all their hopes on their children, without considering their children's actual situation at all. They hope that their children can achieve social class soaring through education - soaring, not a simple leap."

"What do you think?"

Shen Liang took out his own script outline: "I think it can be combined with studying abroad and online fraud... Xiao Bao failed the college entrance examination and wanted to study abroad. Lao Bao sold his house to raise enough tuition. When he arrived abroad, he met a group of bad friends and became addicted to drugs. He kept asking his family for money. In the end, he had no choice but to borrow high-interest loans from the local gang. Under the threat of the gang, he embarked on the abyss of drug trafficking to support his drug addiction. Finally, he was caught by the customs... The ending was that he was sentenced to death!"

"Wouldn't it be too tragic..."

"This story is a tragedy of life!"

“That’s cruel too…”

"It's okay, Lao Bao asked Shen Teng to play..."

Hearing this, Lao Fu nodded: "...He is suitable to play Lao Bao...You play Xiao Bao?"

Shen Liang quickly shook his head: "I'm almost thirty, I can't act, I definitely can't act!"

"Who are you going to look for?"

"Hu Xianxu... As for the director, I discussed it with Yan Fei and Peng Damu, and they are very interested."

Yan Fei and Peng Damo are very famous comedy directors!
In the early years, before Shen Teng appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, they followed their teacher to write scripts for the Spring Festival Gala skits. Cai Ming's "Dream Home" and "Graduate Family" were both created by them! Therefore, "My Hometown and Me" asked them to direct the last unit "Magic Brush Ma Liang"!
But they are not from the traditional Beijing Film Academy or Central Academy of Drama, and they have not paid the pledge of allegiance - to make a profound comedy.

Therefore, the traditional film industry believes that the comedies produced by these two people are low-quality comedies and a cultural tragedy.

Even open criticism!

I originally thought that netizens would be like those in social circles, where once something is said, everyone will agree with it.

Unfortunately, the circle will indulge you, but netizens will not. After the illusion was exposed, the old cadres used the classic operation: pretending that their account was hacked...

Oh, back to "Bao's Father and Son", Lao Fu nodded: "Okay, let's do it!"

Jiao Fenhong thought for a moment and added: "Don't be too critical of the education system..."

"Don't worry, we understand!"

Lao Fu changed the subject: "Can "Silent Killing" exceed 1 billion?"

Shen Liang nodded: "About the same. The popularity on Douyin is not bad, at least 15 billion. If the response is good, I estimate that billion is possible!"

"Why don't American blockbusters sell well anymore?"

"It's not good anymore... They're too politically correct. They even cast a black lead in The Little Mermaid!"

“Is political correctness so important?”

"...I don't know," Shen Liang shrugged. "It doesn't matter if she's black or not, at least she has to be pretty... I can't stand finding an ugly girl!"

“…The heroine of Transformers was also a black man!”

"Have you seen it?"

“I saw the trailer…”

……

Hollywood is getting worse and worse. In a nutshell: Hollywood's backward cultural stories cannot satisfy the advanced cultural tastes of the Chinese people!

This year's "Fast & Furious 10" and "Transformers: Rise of the Power Rangers" both performed poorly in mainland China.

Even including Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible 7: Deadly Reckoning (Part )"...

Mission Impossible, after the expansion of the mainland market, all the movies are big sellers. The last movie Mission Impossible 6 grossed 12.45 billion...

As a result, the seventh film’s box office in mainland China didn’t even reach 3.5 million!
In this situation, Jia Zhangke believes that "they cannot accept a more diverse film and cultural market, which also indicates the abnormality of the Chinese film market"...

Tsk tsk, a master is a master!
However, you have been making movies all your life, and none of them were a box office hit. How can you have the confidence to evaluate the film market?
Ahem...

After leaving Xiaoxitian Film Archive, Shen Liang went back home and rested for a night. The next day, he flew to Hungary...

The filming location of "Alien: Death Stranding" is in Budapest, Hungary, or to be more precise: Origo Studios.

Hungary's tax refund system has attracted many Hollywood movies to come here for filming. Most importantly, Hungary itself has a film base and a complete industrial chain in terms of set building and post-production!
(End of this chapter)