Chapter 24 (1/2)
Just as Hao Yun was looking at the system task, in an apartment far away from the Fifth Ring Road in Shangjing, a middle-aged man was also sitting in front of his desk, staring at a blank manuscript and the ”dead line” circled on the calendar.
It's been a week since he moved to a small black house in the suburbs.
However, the script outline of the new film still has no idea, and the nearer and nearer dead line almost forces him to the corner.
In fact, as a director, you don't have to worry about scripts.
After all, this thing is just like the screenwriters all over the street.
With his reputation in the industry, no one has any doubt that as long as he is willing to let go and lower the standard, a large number of screenwriters will be happy to send their scripts to him, even if it doesn't matter if they don't need money. As long as the chief screenwriter can be signed when the film is announced, his next script will sell a little better.
However, for those who send door-to-door garbage, the field is naturally dismissive.
As a famous director, his films can only be the best of the best.
If there is no ready-made script that can catch his eye, he will definitely not make do with it. He would rather write an outline himself and then throw it to a familiar professional screenwriter to edit and change it now until he is satisfied with it and nods.
However, this process is too painful.
Especially recently, he didn't have any inspiration, and he didn't come up with an idea that satisfied him.
But you can't just sit there.
Not to mention that he still owes the loan from the bank, and the gambling agreement with the investor also forces him to speed up the progress.
If he wants to keep control of the company, he has to come up with a blockbuster with a box office of more than 50 million this year to persuade investors who question his shooting style and commercial value.
”... no inspiration at all.”
Holding his head in pain, the field stood up from his chair and took out his mobile phone to call his old friend.
”Come and drink with me.”
I heard that there was wine, and the answer on the other end of the phone was very simple.
”Over there?”
”My house in the suburbs.”
About an hour later, the doorbell rang.
Push the chair to stand up in the field, casually approved a coat, then went to the porch to open the door.
The door opened and his old friend LV Fusheng, a professor of music at Yanda, who mainly studied piano and guzheng, appeared at the door. They met in the production group at the beginning, and because they fell in love with each other, they became familiar at first sight. He also arranged many episodes in the field movies.
”I was in class just now, and I was delayed by traffic jam on the way here. I hope I'm not late,” said LV Fusheng with a smile as he put on his slippers and walked into the living room? Have you got something in your new play? ”
”Don't mention it, it's not done,” he said, shaking his head as he took out two bottles of aged wine from the wine cabinet and sat down beside the tea table
LV Fusheng squinted at him.
”Do you have time to drink?”
”It's not that I don't have any inspiration. I'm drowning my worries by drinking.” To his full on a cup, a stuffy field, was a hot grin, but still forced himself to swallow.
Unable to bear to see his old friend in such pain, LV Fusheng sighed, took a sip, put down the cup and said.
”Can you tell me something?”
The field thought about it, half squinted and said.
”The background is ancient times, troubled times, and then the theme... A period of envious love!”
”Well, you can directly tell me that the costume romance is over, and you have to add envy to others,” Lao Lu sneered, sipped his wine and continued, ”and then what?”
”No more.”
”Ah?” LV Fusheng stared at his old friend in disbelief. ”You've been shut up for a week, and you've made these words?”
The field explained with a bitter smile.
”You are also a creative person. You should understand the feeling of exhaustion of inspiration. And I didn't just create these words. I used several big paper baskets just for the draft paper... ”
After staring at his old friend for a long time, LV Fusheng seemed to understand something and finally sighed.
”I see what you mean... You want to make a movie that can surpass swordsman, right?”
Lao Tian nodded silently.
”Well... If I can't do it, they will force me to do Xiake 2.”
”Swordsman” is the peak of Laotian's work. It is the first martial arts film in the history of Xia's film, in which the two words ”chivalrous” and ”rivers and lakes” are interpreted incisively and vividly. It is also the first epic work in the history of Xia's film, in which Romanticism and personal heroism are combined into one, and the word-of-mouth and box office are both popular.
Before that, Xia Guo's martial arts movies were either too personal heroism or too romantic color and atmosphere.
Many well-known film critics comment on Xiake, which is more like a poem about the world than a movie.
No matter the audience holding popcorn or the old scholar wearing glasses, they can understand their own ”Chivalry” and ”rivers and lakes”, and are moved by the characters in the play and the magnificent times.
It can be said that ”knight errant” not only opened the precedent in many fields, but also brought Xia's martial arts films to a new height.
This film has brought great success to his career, but on the other hand, it also has a deep brand on him.
When people mention his name, they think of the movie knight errant.
After that, although he also made several films, none of them can surpass his debut works in box office and word-of-mouth.
Coming out is the peak, which is obviously not what an ambitious director expects.
Later, the field has been trying to get rid of the mark of ”knight errant” and try to make innovation on the basis of the original, but the audience and investors do not seem to buy it.