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Chapter 82 "Black Hole Frequency" is renamed "Signal"

When Zhang Jingyan heard that Chen Jingxing said that she relied on the support of her colleagues, she felt a little complicated. She quickly said: "Okay, Director Chen, you are the best. Where is the script? I have to go back and report to Mr. Ren immediately after reading it."

She came to read the script today. As long as there were no major problems with the script, Huanshi.com was determined to invest money in it with her eyes closed.

It's been half a month since the Spring Festival season started, and the cumulative box office of "The World" is less than 200 million. Moreover, the film schedule of "The World" is the fastest among the four giants in the Spring Festival period, with half of it left.

I'm afraid I won't even receive 50 million in a month.

Although Huanshi.com can still recover its costs and even make some profits, it is afraid of comparison in everything. Compared with the nearly 10 times the revenue of "Fatal Identity", there is simply a gap between heaven and earth.

You must know that "The World of Joy" is a Spring Festival movie and has to compete with the other three blockbusters. The publicity and distribution expenses are spread out like water.

The cost of 50 million is a water mark for "Fatal Identity", but it is a real figure for "The World". It is not uncommon for Spring Festival movies to have higher publicity and distribution costs than production costs.

This makes Huanshi.com pay more attention to DreamWorks' next movies. Huanshi.com has urged it several times before, asking when DreamWorks' next project will be approved, but it has always said that it is not ready. As a result, Chen Jingxing has just revealed

After hearing the news, Zhang Jingyan rushed over in a hurry.

Zhang Jingyan watched Chen Jingxing take out two scripts from the drawer... uh, two?

Chen Jingxing responded affirmatively to the question in Zhang Jingyan's eyes: "They are two scripts. To be precise, these two projects will be launched at almost the same time."

"Do you want to shoot at the same time? Or do you want to shoot one of the scripts for another director?"

The difference is that "Black Hole Frequency" is a radio station, "The Man from Another World" and "The Call" are telephones, "The Signal" is a radio walkie-talkie, and "The Mirage" is a television.

Although Chen Jingxing also feels that the script "Signal" is more audience-friendly than "Fatal Identity", he was extremely excited to hear the affirmation from Zhang Jingyan, a senior film and television drama procurement manager who has "read countless films".

Even though Zhang Jingyan had great confidence in Chen Jingxing, she was still surprised by the script of "The Signal". In terms of story and creativity, it was no worse than "Fatal Identity". Fortunately, the script was significantly higher in commercial terms.

Telephones don’t work either. In 2015, where else could there be a landline besides work? This is a bit inconsistent. Of course, mobile phones also don’t work. It is impossible to have a mobile phone that was used from 1998 to 2015.

For example, the Hong Kong drama "Chasing the Evil from Another Life"

Chen Jingxing looked at Zhang Jingyan who was already immersed in the script and smiled. The two movies he was going to make were called "Black Hole Frequency" and "Source Code" in his previous life.

Chen Jingxing shook his head: "One of the movies may require more preparation work, so although it starts at about the same time, it can be shot one after another. After the previous movie is finished, I will seamlessly join the other crew.

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After a long time, Zhang Jingyan put down the script in her hand.

Moreover, amateur radio is strictly controlled in China, and operators must pass an examination and obtain a license before they can use radio stations.

But in China, it declined before it flourished. What’s more, the original story is from 1969 to 1999. There were no mobile phones in 1969, and mobile phones were not popular in 1999. There were not so many electronic devices that interfered, and the electromagnetic environment was relatively clean.

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British movie "Call Out"

This is also a relatively incongruous choice. My father is a firefighter, so it is quite reasonable to have a wireless walkie-talkie. After my father died saving people in the fire, his family kept the walkie-talkie he left behind, which is also very reasonable.

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Zhang Jingyan received two scripts, one with "Signal" written on it and one with "Source Code" written on it.

etc.

Good guy, the sci-fi feeling is coming!

Spanish movie "Mirage"

When Chen Jingxing tried to move the story of "Black Hole Frequency" to China, he found that the key core of transmitting information across time and space-shortwave radio stations was quite inconsistent.

Chen Jingxing said in interviews and premieres that the future of Chinese-language genre films is bright and that suspense films also have spring.

The translation of "Black Hole Frequency" itself is quite confusing, because the film has nothing to do with black holes at all, and the translation of "Sunspot Frequency" is almost the same.

Various considerations forced Chen Jingxing to give up the radio station setting.

When translating "Black Hole Frequency" into Chinese, Chen Jingxing thought for a long time and decided to change the name to "Signal".

As for Chen Jingxing's Chinese version, the time and space background is from 1998 to 2015. It was fine in 1998 and there were not many electronic devices, but the electromagnetic environment in 2015 was much worse. It was just LCD monitors and electric vehicle charging.

The harmonic interference caused by the spectrum leakage of the transmitter can basically make it impossible to receive anything at 40 meters. If there is a power cat in the community, there will be no living space for amateur radio enthusiasts.

That leaves only portable wireless walkie-talkies.

The TV is not impossible. For example, the old TV is not thrown away but placed in a locker. But once the father and son meet across time and space through the TV, don't they immediately know each other's identities? There is no point in the film from the end.

The dramatic process from stranger to suspicion to anger to father and son recognition.

Zhang Jingyan's expression was a little surprised. No matter how it was shot, Chen Jingxing put two scripts on the table at the same time, which meant that Huanshi.com was given the opportunity to invest in two consecutive movies. As for whether the quality of the script would be unsatisfactory, Zhang Jingyan did not consider it.

However, Zhang Jingyan has been cooperating with Chen Jingxing since Huixing, and Zhang Jingyan's confidence in Chen Jingxing is inexplicably firm.

Korean drama "Signal"

If you watch "Black Hole Frequency" and then watch the above movies and TV series, you will definitely have a strong sense of déjà vu.

She had just finished watching "The Signal" and not "Source Code" yet. The script of the movie is actually not very thick and she could finish it in less than an hour.

Chen Jingxing asked with a smile: "How is it?"

Hearing what Zhang Jingyan said, Chen Jingxing and Xu Wenshen laughed as they knew each other.

"Black Hole Frequency" was a movie made in 2000 in a previous life. It created a genre and many classic film and television dramas were born under its influence.

The HAM circle in Europe and the United States has experienced a process from its budding, mature peak to its decline.

"This movie will definitely surpass Fatal Identity at the box office!" Zhang Jingyan categorically praised.

The other translated title "Frequency of Life and Death" is also pretty good, but I still feel it is not as concise as "The Signal" and is more in line with some of the changes he made to the movie.

But he knows that the box office ceiling for suspense movies in China is really not high. Maybe in four or five years, "Fatal Identity" will still be the box office champion of serious suspense movies in China. In the previous life, Chinese filmmakers were integrated

Only comedy elements can break through this shackles.

Suspense movie? The future is not bright.

Comedy and suspense films are the ones that really have a bright future.

History has proven that only suspense films that add comedy, love or family elements can win a larger market.

(End of chapter)