Chapter 117 Preliminary preparations
"The Veteran" is an action movie, with many fighting scenes in it.
Since there is a fighting scene, you will definitely need action guidance.
Chen Lin has no research on martial arts. The only thing that the whole family has to do with martial arts is her deceased grandmother. She likes to play Tai Chi if she has something to do.
Therefore, a professional action guidance is needed.
Many people may be surprised at what is the difference between martial arts guidance and action guidance.
I don’t know much, I only know that most of the time, the movement guidance and martial arts guidance are not separated, and it is normal to have two positions.
During the golden age of HK movies, action movies became popular, which also prompted the professionalization of action guidance.
In the early days, there were Li Xiaolong, Yuan Heping, Liu Jialiang, and by the way, Chen Xiaodong.
After the 1980s, HK action movies were basically monopolized by the Cheng Family Class and the Hong Family Class, and Tang Jili, Yuan Bing, Yuan Kui, and Uncle Zhengying occasionally showed their faces.
Later, another bullet from Donnie appeared, and he was doing well!
In the 21st century, many HK directors went north, and action coaches followed suit to the internal film industry.
Just like the natural sense of superiority of director HK, HK's action directors look down on mainlanders. Except for a few big directors who can do it, others don't listen to what others say.
Moreover, when making moves, mainlanders are not allowed to approach, for fear that they will be learned!
When filming "The World Without Thieves", the action guide I asked was Jiang Daohai, HK. He relied on his knowledge of his own and had many conflicts with Mr. Feng. It was from that day that Mr. Feng no longer cooperated with the HK team.
"Assembly" he found Park Joo-chi, a Korean.
And HK martial arts guidance is expensive!
With so many restrictions, I won’t look for you anymore!
Ning Hao's "Golden Robbery" uses Liang Jiyong, the action guide of Bangziguo, and Director Feng's "Assembly Call" uses Park Joo-Ten, the action guide of Bangziguo.
Even Taiwan, who has always admired HK action movies, uses Korean action guidance in the films they shoot.
For example, Liang Jiyong, the action guide of "Seedek Bale", was Shen Zaiyuan, and Liang Jiyong, the action guide of "艋舺" was also Liang Jiyong!
The reason is very simple, save money, obedient, and easy to communicate!
Compared with HK's long-famous action guides, Koreans are obviously far inferior to their status, so they are very modest and will design actions according to the director's malicious intentions, unlike HK's martial arts guilds who will give you various guidance!
Please, I came to you because I followed my command. You guys are going to the set to be domineering to the director. What does it mean?
In fact, Chen Lin initially considered the family class because of his reputation. In addition, the movie "The Veteran" is an action comedy, and the family class's specialty is. Besides, it is good to sell the big brother to make a face!
I didn't expect to be so greedy, 12 million!
"Sister Xiaoping, please contact Zheng Douhong for me. He should be willing to serve as the action guide for this movie."
Chen Lin thought about it and proposed a name.
"Zheng Douhong?"
Li Xiaoping has never heard of such a person.
"Korean action guidance is quite famous in the Korean film industry!"
Zheng Douhong, the action guide for the original "Veter".
This person who likes action movies should know that he is the action guide of several famous Korean movies.
"Tai Chi Flag Flying", "Uncle", "The Heyday of Bad Guys", "New World", etc.
His team can be said to be a Korean family class.
“How much is the offer?”
"The Veteran of Chinatown" Li Xiaoping still has the responsibility of supervising the producer.
In fact, Chen Lin doesn’t waste much money when filming a movie.
Li Xiaoping has already read the script this time. It is very good, but the scale is a bit large, so the plot is probably changed to Thailand's Chinatown.
As a result, although the investment has increased a lot, who made the director stand in the corner?
However, if you can, she will save as much as possible, otherwise she will directly agree to the requirements of starting a family class.
"1.5 million, up to 2.8 million, absolutely no more!"
Chen Lin thought for a while and gave a fair price.
It's almost 300 million won.
...
The new film is titled "Chinatown Veteran", invested by three companies: Light, China Film and Huayi.
In fact, the script of the movie "The Veteran of Chinatown" does not have many highlights. The reason why these three companies are willing to bet on Shen Lin is that they value him the most.
The script review has been completed, which means that "Chinatown Veteran" can be launched at any time, but before that, the three companies need to discuss the issue of good interests.
The others are false, and commercial interests are the basis for cooperation in several aspects.
After nearly a week of disputes, the three companies finally reached an agreement on investment allocation. The production cost budget for the film is 68 million, with China Film and Huayi each accounting for 15 million of the investments, while Light accounts for the largest investment of 38 million.
The right to issue was also handed over to Light.
Chen Lin is also very concerned about his own film investment issues. Of course, he is more concerned about his own directorial reward for this drama!
Of course, Chen Lin is no longer a newcomer. Although he is not very much in terms of money, he should fight for himself, so he should still fight for it!
After some bargaining, the final conclusion was still a step-by-step share agreement.
The so-called step-by-step sharing means that the higher the box office, the higher the sharing that Chen Lin can get.
It can be divided up to 15%. Of course, the condition is that the box office score reaches 5 billion, which is slightly equal to zero.
...
In the conference room, Chen Lin looked around.
In the past two movies, Chen Lin used a team and said hello in advance. The facts also proved that he would have a better income and future. After the invitation was issued for this filming, many behind-the-scenes personnel, such as lighting, props, sets, art directors, etc., which are more familiar to the cooperation, were almost at the fastest level.
"Lao Song, I think the ones in Bangkok are more suitable for the several locations you suggested."
There is nothing we can do about this. The entire Southeast Asia’s attitude towards Chinese is not friendly, and only Bangkok is relatively open-minded.
Moreover, the Thai government even promised that if the crew chores hired locals, they would provide the crew with about 80 people to assist in the filming.
In fact, this is not difficult to understand. Thailand, which has relatively difficult economics, needs thousands of jobs that the crew may bring.
"Zheng Douhong" Chen Lin said to the martial arts coach Zheng Douhong, "You make arrangements as soon as possible. I need the actors to enter the training state one month in advance."
There are many fighting movements in the movie. For ordinary people, these movements are difficult to perform, and the actors need to train in advance to achieve the effect.
Next, other people who have read the script will also put forward their own opinions. In fact, today's meeting is an approximate process for preliminary preparation, and there are many problems that need to be solved!
"By the way, Chen Lin."
Li Xiaoping, who hadn't spoken, asked, "Have you ever thought about the specific release date of the video?"
Chapter completed!