Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

Shinji Aimi's previous filming budgets were very tight, and he would be wary of spending any more money, fearing that it would affect the final filming of the film.

Therefore, his mentality at this time still maintained his previous cautious thoughts, spending less if he could, and saving as much as he could.

But for Lin Daoqiu, for the sake of improving the quality of the movie, spending more money is not a problem at all for him.

"What's the clothing budget given by Shochiku?"

Lin Daoqiu didn't have time to look at those things before, so he asked casually.

Shinji Aimi quickly took out the budget sheet and found the pre-arranged clothing budget.

"The suggestion given by Shochiku is five million yen."

When Lin Daoqiu heard this, he turned back to look at Prime Minister Shinji with a surprised expression.

"Five million yen includes all the costumes of all the characters in the crew? What kind of good clothes can this produce? Increase the budget to 100 million yen."

"One... one... one hundred million yen?"

Shinji Soimi looked at Lin Daoqiu in shock. He had never thought that the costume budget for a movie would be 100 million yen. This was too extravagant.

100 million yen is enough for him to make a movie, and it is also a well-made movie.

But here in Lin Daoqiu it is only used to make clothes. Can this money be spent like this?

"Mr. Lin, is the clothing budget of 100 million yen too much? What do you think about reducing it a little?"

Shinji Aimi has never been so generous. He is worried that if too much budget is allocated to the clothing budget, it will shrink in other areas.

"Just follow my instructions. Just remember to do more. I want to use the best clothes to present the highest visual enjoyment. Money is not an issue. The issue is how to spend the money well."

Lin Daoqiu naturally would not give in in this regard. He was already used to Qian Gang being arbitrary, so Lin Daoqiu was naturally unlikely to listen to Xiang Mi Shen'er's suggestions.

The surprise of Tomio Kuriyama next to him was not much different from that of Shinji Soyomi. After all, film directors here in Neon have always been very poor in making films. Even great directors like Akira Kurosawa had no money to make movies in their later years.

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Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of Shakespeare's classic "King Lear" was only able to raise the funds needed for filming with the help of George Lucas and Francis Coppola.

The film cost over US$10 million and was Neon's largest investment at the time.

In order to achieve the magnificent effect, the film used more than 30,000 cast and crew members, 15,000 war horses, and burned down three castles built for the filming.

And in order to visually achieve the effect of a raging fire when the castle is burning, the wood used to build the castle was carefully selected and imported from abroad by Akira Kurosawa. But even so, it only cost more than 10 million US dollars, converted into

The Japanese yen at that time was about 2.4 billion, and 1 U.S. dollar was exchanged for 240 yen.

And the film "Onmyoji" that Lin Daoqiu is going to shoot is said to require an investment of tens of billions of yen.

At this time, the exchange rate of Japanese yen to US dollars has reached 125 yen per US dollar, which has almost doubled in value, and the total investment has reached 80 million US dollars.

However, Lin Daoqiu plans to make "Onmyoji" into three parts: upper, middle and lower parts. One part will cost more than 20 million US dollars, so it is not an exaggeration.

"Mr. Lin is right. Just follow Mr. Lin's instructions."

When Kuriyama Tomio saw what Prime Minister Shinji wanted to say, he quickly spoke to stop him from continuing.

After all, Lin Daoqiu is the one who spends the money, not his Xiang Mi Shinji. People can spend whatever they want. Does he need to take care of it?

Don't look at how much investment Lin Daoqiu put into making the movies "Godzilla" and "1992". Compared with those "Onmyoji", this movie can be said to be several times worse.

And in the end, all those movies made a lot of money. Naturally, Kuriyama Tomio didn't doubt whether Lin Daoqiu's movie would be a hit. He felt that the only thing that mattered was how much money he could make in the end.

After all, compared to them, Lin Daoqiu is a world-renowned movie tycoon. His movies are for the whole world, which is very different from them who can only film in Neon.

When Prime Minister Shinji heard what Kuriyama Tomio said, he couldn't continue to insist on it. After all, he was only the assistant director, but Lin Daoqiu was not only the director but also the producer and supervisor.

Basically, he alone has the final say on how to shoot "Onmyoji", and others can only assist.

If he makes Lin Daoqiu unhappy, Shinji Somi is worried that it will be difficult for him to learn the knowledge of filmmaking from the other party's hands.

Soon Shinji Soimi went down to ask someone to rearrange the clothing budget, and he had to go back to the designers to discuss how to make the clothing.

I don’t know who the arrogant person was, but he told me that the costume budget for “Onmyoji” was 100 million yen.

All of a sudden, media reporters reported the incident one after another, and even TV programs began to discuss the incident.

A certain TV program invited several directors and film practitioners to discuss the topic of "Onmyoji", and the host brought up this topic at the beginning of the program.

"As expected, it's Mr. Lin. The costume budget for one play is 100 million yen, which is really amazing."

"Who says otherwise? For those of us who used to make movies, 100 million yen was enough for us to make a movie. And even now, 100 million yen can still make a good quality movie."

When the host heard what the directors said, he looked at each other in shock, as if he had no idea that the production cost of a movie was so low.

"I also heard that the crew of "Onmyoji" plans to build a safe city in Taiqin Film Village. It is said that construction has already started."

They were quite bullshit, and these things were just conjectures. After all, everyone felt that Lin Daoqiu had surrounded part of Taiqin Film Village for construction work in order to build a safe city.

"If it were anyone else, I wouldn't believe this kind of thing, but this movie is Mr. Lin's movie. I think it's not a big deal to build a safe city. It's normal."

In the neon movie circle, Lin Daoqiu can be said to be a god-like figure. No matter what he does, he is always right. There is no such thing as a mistake that will happen to Lin Daoqiu.

The news slowly came together, pushing Lin Daoqiu's influence in Neon to a peak. Some TV stations even directly crowned Lin Daoqiu the title of movie emperor.

And when Lin Daoqiu heard the title given to him by the other party, he just laughed it off and did not express any opinion.

Chapter 2064 Movie Emperor