Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 649 What's the use of live streaming? (24)

Can "Detective Chinatown" beat "The Mermaid"?
It's highly unlikely to work...

The original "Detective Chinatown" relied on word of mouth to eventually gross 8.3 million yuan at the box office.

This time, with Shen Yan's help...

It should have at least an additional 5 million in box office revenue!
But The Mermaid's box office exceeded 30 billion.

Defeating "The Mermaid" will be quite difficult...

However, the Oscar nominations for "La La Land" should have already been announced by the time the film was released during the Spring Festival.

It will definitely help "Detective Chinatown"!

In addition, the cast includes Xiao Shenyang, Allen, Wei Xiang, Song Xiaobao, and Qiao Shan as the five-person thief gang; Sha Yi is cast as Huang Landeng; and Xiao Yang is cast as Kuntai…

With a basically all-star lineup and the support of Wanda, they should be a force to be reckoned with!
By the way, Shen Yan plays Qin Feng, so the character needs to be changed. He can't be a 17-year-old prodigy stuttering boy anymore; he has to be 22, a college graduate who wants to be a private investigator, but private investigators aren't allowed in China…

So he was very upset, and then his grandmother let him go abroad for a trip.

……

Filming continues this afternoon; there's a long night shoot today, probably until 2 AM…

The next three days all involved night shooting.

There was no other way; Shen Yan had to go to the United States to attend the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, a trip that would take at least five days.

Because the Critics' Choice Awards will follow, and the BAFTA Awards will be presented on February 6th…

The delayed filming schedule definitely needs to be made up for.

Lu Han and Wu Fanfan have been incredibly popular online lately…

The term "little fresh meat" has also become very popular!
The term "little fresh meat" originated from the female entertainers in Japanese national dramas, describing young male entertainers with fair and rosy skin, as tempting as fresh salmon. Later, it gradually became a synonym for young and handsome male idols.

Around 2015, especially with the return of some young male actors like the four members of EXO to China, and the airing of TV dramas such as "Swords of Legends" and "The Lost Tomb," young male idols began to receive widespread attention. Furthermore, the promotion by various variety shows and the return of EXO's Chinese members to develop their careers in China further accelerated the rise of the young male idol culture.

That's right, EXO became incredibly popular...

This adjective originally had nothing to do with Shen Yan—he's not in the heartthrob circle!

But he is indeed young and handsome – Li Yifeng, born in 87, is considered young and handsome, and Shen Yan, born in 88, is of course young and handsome too!
The various ranking lists and fan communities are in a difficult position because no matter how you calculate it, Shen Yan is overwhelmingly superior—except for the number of Weibo comments, where Lu Han is undoubtedly number one, with one of his Weibo posts receiving over 100 million comments!

But on other levels, whether it's business resources, the number of endorsements, box office success of works, or even the popularity of songs…

He was number one in everything!
Including his Weibo followers—he now has over 5000 million Weibo followers.

Let's just exclude him from the statistics on young, attractive male celebrities and online traffic...

After all, he is capital.

Then, every time he goes live, a bunch of other fans will come and spam his name, wanting Shen Yan to use their brother's name.

Shen Yan tried his best not to look at these names... "This is our 'Major Events in Life' crew... We have to work overtime tonight, so I probably won't have time to go back and do a live stream for you. I'll just show you the legendary film crew!"

Shen Yan, holding his phone, immediately started a live stream: "...'Life's Big Events' isn't a large team; all the staff combined are less than 200 people..."

"This film is a realistic drama. With a well-developed script and proper preparation, a two-month shooting period is sufficient!"

"A typical large group has at least 800 people!"

“We all eat boxed lunches… sometimes we get extra meals because we're filming in Changsha, and my grandma often comes over with her local chef to help cook some dishes…”

"Of course there are unspoken rules in film crews. The simplest one is, who gets to handle the boxed lunch business? The director? You're dreaming. The director isn't even in the running! Neither am I!"
You see, when filming on location, the crew is unfamiliar with the area, so they can't do without the help of local filming companies. They're like the invisible crew of this production; they know the local environment well and can effectively solve various filming problems. For example, sometimes we need to close roads for filming, and then you have to find someone to help you apply for it. Ordinary people can't get it done; you have to find influential locals… Even if you're short of actors, they can help you get everyone ready.

As friends, they helped the production team a great deal without asking for a penny. The production team must repay this kindness properly.

"Well, we can't just give him the money directly, so we'll just contract out the boxed lunch business to him..."

"Sponsoring boxed lunches is definitely big business. A small film crew can buy a nice car, and a big film crew can buy a house..."

"Do the math yourself. The boxed lunches we eat are mostly around 50 yuan each, but the actual cost is probably less than 20 yuan... We eat three meals a day, and each meal requires 300 boxed lunches. We can earn at least 20,000 yuan a day... Over two months, that's a million!"

“We’ve calculated it carefully. At least you can tell that the boxed meals cost a lot of money… Look, there’s beef, shrimp, ribs, and fish… Sometimes we even make crayfish… More than 40 kinds of dishes are rotated. If you were in Hengdian, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between a 50 yuan boxed meal and a 20 yuan one!”

“Normally, it’s rare for actresses and actors to get involved in movies because the filming schedule is very tight. ‘Life’s Big Events’ is scheduled for release on April 24th next year, which means that all the work has to be completed by mid-March… two months for post-production, so filming has to be finished by January… We start filming at the end of December, so we definitely need to race against time…”

"We shoot for at least 12 hours a day, there's no time for flirting. The director is lucky if he gets 4 hours of sleep a day!"

"The unspoken rules and promotions you're talking about usually happen in lower-level production crews... Larger crews have important projects, so it's unlikely to happen there, and everyone's watching..."

After chatting for a while, Shen Yan left the lounge: "I'm going to find Brother Qiao Shan and Sister Wan Qian to rehearse the scene we're going to film later..."

"We definitely need to rehearse, so we can get it right in one take later..."

"I don't need to bring a script. I usually just read the script, and if the script is logically sound, I can memorize most of the lines after reading it twice... I'm just afraid of scripts that don't make sense..."

"So, I generally don't take on outside roles... I guess it's a way of being responsible to myself!"

"By the way, 'Whiplash' is released tomorrow, everyone can go support it. This movie is very... extreme. I read the script and only got one sentence: 'Be the greatest, or nothing.' And then I voted for it!"

"It's the process of a novice becoming a master... It's very brutal... Sometimes, what are we pursuing: worldly success or our own dreams? To stand out, you often need to work tirelessly, be obsessive, and even crazy."

"A very cruel film, but very unique..."

After recommending "Whiplash," Shen Yan found Qiao Shan and then closed the live stream: "I'm logging off now, let's chat again next time!"

Qiao Shan was a little confused: "...I often see your live streams..."

"and then?"

"I don't understand. We're already Golden Lion Award winners, why do we still need to do live streams?"

"...I work in film, and films need to be realistic...I need to understand what netizens are thinking..."

(End of this chapter)