270. How are bad films made?
Fang Xiang was overwhelmed during this period.
His wife took the child back to her parents' home, but he wanted to pick him up, but now he has a bad debt and has invested all his wealth in this movie. However, the movie is so unattended that no one cares about it.
It’s not that no one cares about it, but the other party is just a price to buy waste, and the highest price is to give him a buyout of 3 million yuan. Moreover, the other party even offered such a price for face. How could he accept it? This little money is not enough for him to pay off his debts.
Fang Xiang was extremely desperate for a while. In fact, his situation was not a desperate situation. As long as he went back to film TV series, the debts could still be paid off, but he was unwilling to accept it.
But what if you are unwilling to give up?
He went to many distribution companies and participated in film festivals, but it was useless and he spent a lot of money, but no one was optimistic about the movie.
Fang Xiang also found many friends in the circle and asked them to read their works, but in the end, they all shook their heads.
He couldn't find a distribution company for the movie, so he also tried to talk to the video website, but after the other party watched the same thing, he was all interested.
In fact, Fang Xiang has not tried re-editing, but the result is still...
At this moment, Fang Xiang received a call from his old friend Xu Cang, asking him to take the video to Xingmeng.
This gave Fang Xiang great hope. Fang Xiang was very envious of Xu Cang. Xu Cang's previous situation was not much better than him. However, Xu Cang could let go of his inferiority and did not hesitate to be his deputy to Wang Yifan, and finally got what he wanted.
Wang Yifan has never failed since his debut. Although Wang Yifan is not a top director in China, he is definitely a magical director. His deputy Wang Yue, Li Mingjuan, and even Xu Cang are now popular directors.
When I came to the building where Xingmeng Entertainment was located, Fang Xiang saw Xu Cang waiting there.
"Old Xu, thank you!" Fang Xiang held Xu Cang's hand, shook it hard, and said seriously.
Xu Cang shook his head and said, "I'm just helping to say something. I can't give you a guarantee of what will happen. So you thanked too early."
"No matter what, I still have to thank you!" Fang Xiang said stubbornly.
"Okay, let's go. I'll take you to see Director Wang Yifan." Xu Cang shook his head and said.
"Actually, Director Wang wanted me to help recommend a director who is good at fairy dramas. I thought of you, but the main thing is to watch movies, because if you can't get out of this movie..." Xu Cang shook his head.
He didn't continue, but Fang Xiang understood what Xu Cang meant.
No matter what, this is my last chance. If Wang Yifan can watch his movie, it will be easy to say, but if Wang Yifan doesn't like him and is helpless, then Fang thought would have to give up this movie. He also had to let go of this movie and help Wang Yifan film the drama steadily.
"Director Wang, this is director Fang Xiang, Fang Xiang, this is director Wang Yifan." Xu Cang introduced.
"Director Fang, lucky to meet."
"Hello, Director Wang."
"Director Fang brought his new work? Let's go to the screening room." Wang Yifan said with a smile.
Fang Xiang nodded and followed Wang Yifan to the screening room with Xu Cang, handed over his copy to the staff in the screening room, and then the three of them sat in the screening room, preparing to watch Fang Xiang's movie that was rejected by countless people.
The name of the movie is "Kidnapping". To be honest, in Wang Yifan's opinion, the name of this movie failed first.
However, this is just a little bit of detail, mainly looking at the plot, Wang Yifan is particularly curious.
The movie begins to play.
The beginning of the film is kidnapping. The girl was kidnapped by a kidnapper on her way home from get off work. The kidnapper asked the girl's father and the chairman of a listed company for a ransom of 30 million yuan, otherwise the vote would be torn.
How to say it? There are still plots, but some of them do not meet the market positioning.
Why? Because the plot then changed and began to focus on the main line of killing the kidnapped girl and the girl's father. The so-called father and son cannot become a father and son without hatred, but in fact, the same is true for father and daughter.
When I was a child, my daughter was my father's close-fitting little cotton jacket, but as my daughter grew older, the obedient and caring little cotton jacket disappeared. The rebellious daughter and father turned against each other and resolutely moved out of the house and became self-reliant.
These plots are normal, after all, father and daughter, but as a result, the plot is too long, which makes Wang Yifan feel that this fucking theme is still a kidnapped.
The following plot can only be described as a reciprocity. His father raised money everywhere. He did not dare to call the police for his daughter, but the police found clues and came to him.
Then, the ransom was paid for the first time, because the police were discovered, the ransom failed, and the price was one of the daughter's hands.
Before paying the ransom for the second time, the father asked to talk to his daughter, but the daughter said something that only the father and daughter understood and revealed the information. Based on this information, the police finally found the kidnapper's place, and then successfully rescued the hostages. The father and daughter met again, and survived the disaster, hugged each other and cried.
The movie ends!
To be honest, Wang Yifan was a little confused when he saw it.
Generally speaking, movies require a theme, kidnapping cases, either highlight the reasoning of the police solving the case, advancing it layer by layer, or highlighting the wit of the father or daughter. After all, it is a kidnapping case, and it is in the name of kidnapping, so the kidnapping incident must be a mistake.
But this film is a bit confusing and reasoning, but it is not. Instead, it is used to express the emotions between the daughter and the father in large quantities. If you want to act like a father-daughter relationship, why use this kind of criminal theme?
There is a father-daughter relationship, but what exactly should the audience watch the movie?
Of course, the movie is not so bad. The main reason is that it is too mediocre. Wang Yifan outlined it in his mind and finally shook his head. There is no way. If such a movie is modified by him, he probably can only push it back.
Because the plot design really has no highlights.
At this time, Xu Cang frowned and asked, "Lao Fang, have you edited it again?"
Fang Xiang actually no longer had any expectations at this time, because during the movie watching, Wang Yifan kept shaking his head, obviously he could imagine his feelings about this movie.
Hearing Xu Cang's words, Fang Xiang nodded and said, "Yes, not only did I re-edit, but I also took a lot of shots. But now it seems, hey!"
"Yes, I think the previous version is better than this version. Moreover, if you change it like this, wouldn't it be like changing the plot of the entire movie again?" Xu Cang was also surprised. He had watched the previous version, which was completely different from this version.
It is not even an exaggeration to say that it is a very different place.
"The last version of yours was love, and this version turned into father-daughter love. Lao Fang, what did you think?" Xu Cang was also a little confused by Fang Xiang.
Wang Yifan was even more stunned: "Love turns into father-daughter family affection?"
Chapter completed!