Huayu started as a lecturer at Beijing Film Academy

This episode of "Strange Talk" was broadcasted quite well, especially the confrontation between Gu Zhongyu and several debaters, which aroused a lot of discussion. Many advertisers were attracted by it and proposed to sponsor it.

This program is finally on the normal development track.

Gu Zhongyu has been quite calm these days. It's all about the company. For example, the TV series "Descendants of the Sun" he filmed with Zeng Meiren has obtained a license and is expected to be broadcast soon.

Gu Zhongyu still has expectations for this drama. If this localization can be successful, he will make many classic winter dramas later. Don't be too happy to get the wool of Bangzi. Who told you to keep stealing from us!

And Zhang Yishan and Wang Zhi's "Yu Zui" has also completed post-production. The management of online dramas is still relatively loose these days. Gu Zhongyu watched the film and found that not much was cut. Most of the essence of the original work was retained, and there was less violence in the production, so as not to be removed from the shelves in the future when the Great Harmony Period comes.

The same is a police drama. If you look at the later "Kuang Biao", there is little violence or vulgar scenes, and it has also achieved success. Although the styles of the two dramas are different, the points of success are similar.

Both belong to the refreshing way of characterization. "Yu Zui" describes a rebellious undercover male protagonist, and "Kuang Biao" filmed the process of an honest man evolving into a gangster boss.

The last police drama that was filmed in this way was "Escape from the Wings", and the prototype of the protagonist was Brother Qiang, the famous century thief.

In fact, looking at it now, the production of that drama is quite rough. Obviously, the characters are all from Hong Kong, but in fact, there are few Hong Kong people in the production team. Whether it is the costumes or the temperament of the characters, the strong rural flavor, the mainland feeling is too strong.

So this drama did not think about being broadcast on satellite TV. At the beginning, it was even planned to be broadcast on county-level TV stations, as long as it could make a profit.

But the audience at that time had never seen this type of police drama, which was actually based on the villain as the first perspective, which was exciting!

So the drama became popular all of a sudden, and Brother Hao's money-making remarks became a catchphrase for many people.

But that's it. In order to prevent others from imitating, the relevant departments later strictly controlled TV dramas with villains as the perspective. It was quite unexpected that "Kuang Biao" could be broadcast smoothly.

Now the review requirements for this type of film and television dramas are getting higher and higher every year. Generally, the requirements for such police and gangster films and drug-trafficking films are at least absolute positive energy and positive values. Not only must you look at every word in the drama, but you must also review the actors' own qualities.

In addition, it is also necessary to review whether the actors' actions meet the standards, whether they are standardized, and whether they will spread bad ideas to the audience. So it is difficult to pass the review, and many films will be filtered out, resulting in fewer police and gangster dramas.

The same is true for movies. Look, there is a person who is always stuck in the movie, and he is complaining to Gu Zhongyu!

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"What are you busy with recently, Director Ning? I don't see you all the time."

In the reception room of Zongheng Entertainment, Gu Zhongyu was sitting with Ning Hao and Huang Bo drinking tea, while Bai Bin was boiling water for them. Maybe he was really old, and his interest in tea had gradually surpassed that of wine.

No, I'm only thirty!

"What else could he be busy with? That movie "No Man's Land" almost killed me!" Ning Hao drank the tea in his cup in a depressed mood, and Huang Bo also sighed.

Ning Hao and Gu Zhongyu are also old acquaintances. His famous movie "Crazy Stone" was invested by Gu Zhongyu. The small production with a cost of 3 million yuan achieved a box office of 23 million yuan, becoming a dark horse in the mainland film market at that time. This black crime comedy with multiple narrative threads opened up the genre of Chinese films and became a milestone work. It has been good over the years.

Later, the two collaborated on "Crazy Racing", which was also a great success. Although Ning Hao has never joined Zongheng, but chose to set up his own studio, the relationship between the two has been good over the years.

"Then can the movie be released?"

"Tentatively scheduled for December, md, I almost don't recognize it after deleting so much, I'll be a dog if I touch this kind of subject matter again!"

The subject matter of this movie is actually very remote, it is a northwest road movie. Before, many people had never heard of this type of movie, so it has to be said that the filming of this movie is actually a very bold attempt.

At that time, Ning Hao had actually become popular with the two movies "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Racing", and he could have continued to develop with the continuation of these two movies.

But at that time, he directly abandoned this shortcut and decided to shoot "No Man's Land", which was destined to have a bumpy fate. At that time, he invested a lot of effort in shooting this movie, and even invited Huang Bo, Xu Zheng and other powerful actors to star in this movie, but what no one expected was that after the shooting was completed, the movie could not pass the review at all.

Ning Hao's "No Man's Land" was actually filmed and successfully completed as early as 2009, but it was not broadcast as soon as possible afterwards. Instead, it was banned for four years. It was not until 2013 that it was successfully released and appeared in front of the audience.

Although Gu Zhongyu had seen "No Man's Land" in his previous life, he did not have the opportunity to meet Ning Hao at that time, so he curiously asked him what specific parts were deleted and modified?

Huang Bo replied: "As for the killer I played, the one who beat the male and female protagonists to a bloody pulp and was finally killed by the son of the boss of Night Paris with a hammer was gone. The close-up and bloody shots were gone. It was normal for this to be deleted."

Ning Hao added: "A lot of my dialogues and shots were deleted. The plot of the second policeman's death was changed, and then Yu Nan was asked to reshoot the ending, so that she found the job she wanted and taught children to dance in a dance studio. The 500,000 yuan for the reshoot was all paid by myself!"

"It took four years to delete and modify just a few places?"

"The main reason is that the person in charge didn't specify it! Anyway, he said there were problems to be changed. How do I know where to change? I can only toss one shot at a time. After submitting it for review, it took a long time to reply. It took so long."

Gu Zhongyu nodded. Indeed, it was no problem to ask for deletions and modifications, but the relevant departments always dismissed people with a question. He had suffered a lot of this when making movies before, because it was not appropriate to always ask the big brother for help for such a small matter, and basically he could only solve it himself.

Later, I got the hang of it, and the approval rate got higher and higher.

"Because the real problem with your movie is that the content it shows is too profound and dark. If you really say that the movie has problems, I'm afraid the whole movie has problems, so it keeps blocking you."

"No Man's Land" shows a society without legal and moral constraints.

Moreover, as a crime film, in addition to people's weak moral concepts, the presence of justice forces such as the police is also very weak, and it even has the style of early American westerns.

This is also the reason why this film is called the first western in China, because this film does not show the development of society, nor is it a comedy under normal circumstances, but is based on the theme of human evil.

Such a theme may indeed dig out very profound content.

However, from the perspective of the market and the scale of the review, such a subject matter is difficult to play too well in the market, and it is bound to be increased in the review.

In fact, the film was not successfully modified in the end, but Ning Hao asked Han Sanye to let him go and said that it would not happen again.

Ning Hao picked up a cigarette and was about to light it. After thinking for a while, he put it under his nose and sniffed it, then put it on his ear and said.

"It's too late to know now. By the way, boss, you called me and Bo Zi here today, not just to teach us about the review, right?"

Gu Zhongyu smiled and said, "You lost so much on "No Man's Land", don't you want to make up for it?"

"Boss Gu, don't keep us in suspense. Director Ning hasn't slept well during this period, just waiting for your call!" Huang Bo knew that Gu Zhongyu must have a new movie to cooperate with them.

"Wow! Ning Hao couldn't sleep well at night. Brother Bo, you know so much about me. We have a special relationship. Is my sister-in-law jealous?"

Ning Hao rolled his eyes at Gu Zhongyu: "You're not done yet? I know you have something. Hurry up!"

So Gu Zhongyu turned around and opened the drawer. He took out a script from a pile and threw it in front of Ning Hao. It was the "Heart Flower" that had been written long ago.

Ning Hao opened the book with joy and read it. In fact, he had been looking forward to working with Gu Zhongyu again. Especially in the past two years, this kid has produced many excellent works, all of which were written and performed by himself and were well received by the audience. He praised the two new directors Guo Fan and Chen Sicheng. Now it's his turn to be rich and powerful.

Ning Hao read the script very quickly. Before Gu Zhongyu finished his second cup of tea, he put down the book: "Road comedy?"

"Well, how do you feel?"

The original version of "Heart Flower" was written by six people. Ning Hao did not complete the script before filming. He added scenes one by one during the filming. What kind of behavior is Wong Kar-wai!

It is understandable to change the plot temporarily, but if there is no complete script when the filming starts, Gu Zhongyu will regard it as a stupid behavior!

So Gu Zhongyu sorted out the rhythm a little to make the plot smoother.

Ning Hao handed the script to Huang Bo and asked, "Except for the PTSD I felt when I saw the word 'highway', everything else is fine. Why are you so interested in comedy now, Mr. Gu?"

"Hasn't the market for comedy films been getting better and better in recent years? The two films I made last year, the bigger investment 'Ball Lightning' didn't make as much as the comedy 'Like You'. I just happened to be short of money recently, so I thought about making some comedies to make more money."

Ning Hao and Huang Bo nodded. Indeed, the comedy market is not small now. The box office of 'Lost in Thailand' has stunned those film and television companies. Now they are looking for directors and actors who can make comedies all over the world. The two of them have been harassed a lot during this period.

"I didn't expect that Mr. Gu would also be short of money. Then the role of Geng Hao is prepared for me!"

Huang Bo hadn't finished reading the script yet. He just noticed that the second-hand audio store owner and the out-of-date singer Geng Hao in the character introduction knew that this role must be his.

When he was in junior high school, Huang Bo started to perform in dance halls. Although due to his appearance and image, he was mostly behind the scenes to provide guidance and planning.

And at that time, Huang Bo also wrote a song for Aaron Kwok, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, but unfortunately the song was rejected.

This frustrated and outdated singer is simply a portrayal of Huang Bo when he was young. He even felt that Gu Zhongyu designed this role for him.

"It has to be you, Huang Bo! Then who will play the playboy, the pick-up artist Hao Yi?"

Gu Zhongyu pointed at himself.

"You?"

"Why? I can't play the pick-up artist? Don't I look like a playboy?" Gu Zhongyu swaggered on the sofa and crossed his legs, looking like no one else could do it better than him.

For him, playing this kind of role is just acting in his true colors, swimming in his comfort zone!

Ning Hao sneered and said jokingly, "Then you don't need to act, it's natural. Mr. Gu, remember to be more restrained in your performance and don't make our movie into an 18+ movie."

"You're defiling my reputation again. I've already written down the preliminary casting for this movie here, but the heroine Kang Xiaoyu hasn't been decided yet. Do you have any good candidates?"

Gu Zhongyu didn't like the original actress Yuan Quan very much, so he thought of changing someone else.

The role of Kang Xiaoyu is actually worth pondering. She looks silly and carefree, a free and easy literary young woman who doesn't care about anything. She represents some people who have been brainwashed online: they have desires but dare not admit them, they want to be, but they have to stand up.

In fact, she is no different from many women you and I have met in life.

Even the type of men she likes has never changed. Whether it is Xia Yu in real life or Li Chen in the movie, they are both modern mature men with a bit of rusticity and image, including their temperament and eyebrows.

The only thing that is out of the ordinary is: she cheated.

Before marriage: I like Geng Hao's talent.

After marriage: You have changed, become vulgar (If you are not vulgar, you live by eating dirt and drinking air?)

Then you cheated on a romantic and sentimental man (big penis and good sex) who knows how to enjoy life (rich and handsome).

This is also the reason why the score of Heart Flower Road is not high on Douban, because this movie touched the hearts of Kang Xiaoyu on Douban.

So it is actually quite challenging to play such a role. If you are not careful, the actor himself will be easily disliked by the audience, so you must find an actress who looks beautiful enough but makes people reluctant to blame.

"How about Shu Qi?" Huang Bo suggested.

Gu Zhongyu immediately shook his head like a rattle. Just kidding, that mouth is almost as big as mine. It is not in the aesthetic point of the majority of LSPs at all. I don’t know why so many directors like to use her as the heroine.