Chapter 281 Are you trying to get into my mentality on purpose? ! (Ask for monthly ticket)
"So it's the time travel that's more popular now?"
"..."
After explaining the story structure of "The Beginning" to Liu Yun for more than ten minutes, Li Youzhi finally came up with an understanding of "time travel" that was about to be eliminated by the market. Li Youzhi was a little speechless.
Just now at the fitness center, when Li Youzhi received suggestions from netizens, he was thinking about what kind of work he should use to satisfy people's suggestions.
After thinking about it, he felt that with his current conditions, only the "divine drama" "The Beginning" could perfectly complete the current tasks.
First of all, this is a science fiction drama. Although it is not hard science fiction, the overall structure of the drama is very clever. In this time and space, there is no similar drama in the domestic film and television market.
Secondly, this is an idol drama. There is an element of love in it, but love is not the main theme.
As an actor or an audience, Li Youzhi actually doesn't like works that have a lot of romantic elements.
Especially now that all kinds of idol dramas and ancient puppet dramas are rampant, those bloody scenes where the male and female protagonists fall in love are more outrageous than science fiction.
Urban themes are hardest hit.
There are many idol dramas that are disguised as professional dramas. In the dramas, the male protagonist and female protagonist are paired with a female partner, and even the villain is in love.
The career aspect is not shown at all. The screenwriter and director will not write the story if they don’t include the love story.
Li Youzhi knows people who have fun very well. Don't look at these guys clamoring for a sweet love. But if it were shot like a normal idol drama, no dog would even watch it.
After all... Brother Zhi's good looks now can't support the audience to follow a drama based on his good looks.
Maybe I can try it in the future when my appearance reaches 100 points. Now Zhi Ge is still walking on the road to Zhileng, so it is definitely not possible.
Taking into account various factors such as "The Beginning" being relatively simple to shoot and relatively low in production costs, and positioning itself as a low-cost boutique drama, when he walked out of the fitness center, Li Youzhi had already roughly determined that this drama would be the drama of this year's Waguang Culture. A sealed work.
The most important reason why it is said to be roughly certain...is still about money.
The current balance in the company's account is more than two million. Taking into account the "Natu" licensing fee that CCTV will allocate soon, as well as this month's "Super Hero" account split, the funds that can be used are only about three million.
This fund is obviously not enough to push "The Beginning" to the level in his memory.
The filming of the drama "The Beginning" was simple, but it was still quite expensive.
Not to mention anything else, those scenes in the play where the car explodes in a failed cycle cost about 1 million - then a real car must be used!
Even if it is a scrapped car, refurbishing it and refurbishing it will still cost hundreds of thousands.
Poverty is the real reason why Brother Zhi had to explain to Liu Yun, an elderly uncle, what "time loop" is and what "infinite flow" is.
In this time and space, there are no film and television works like "Groundhog Day" or "Source Code", and Li Youzhi cannot use the popular Infinite Flow novels as an example for Liu Yun.
It's really difficult to explain the concept clearly.
"Brother Liu, it's not what you think. You can simply understand it as... the protagonist is trapped in this period of time and keeps repeating it. As long as he fails, he will return to the starting point of time. Until they successfully prevented the car from exploding.
Now, let me give you an example; just like a traffic accident suddenly happened in front of you, and then you were affected and died. But when you think you are going to die, you suddenly open your eyes and find that time has returned to the moment when I called you just now. You need to resolve this crisis and avoid this car accident within this limited time. As long as you fail, you will be back to the moment you answered the phone. Understand? "
Hearing what Li Youzhi said, Liu Yun on the phone hissed - he understood a little bit.
"Xiao Zhi, I think you should make the script first, and then send it to me for a look...the art forms you are doing are too new, let's read the script and talk, okay?"
have to,
After hearing what Liu Yun said, Li Youzhi completely gave up on talking about concepts and hung up the phone directly.
Turn on the computer, face the Word you just created, and fuck hard.
The story line of "The Beginning" is actually very clear.
It roughly tells the story of a young man and woman, game architect "Xiao Heyun" and college student "Li Shiqing", who came back from the dead after a bus explosion and were trapped in a time loop. In order to avoid this explosion, the two began to fight side by side, investigating every link in the car step by step, looking for the truth about the explosion, and finally trying to prevent the explosion and get rid of the cycle of stories.
It’s easy to say, but quite difficult to build;
Unlike Li Youzhi's other previous works, the drama "The Beginning" is very logical. Each time loop is the process of the hero and heroine moving towards the truth.
So it took more than two hours for Li Youzhi to finally sort out the script of "The Beginning".
After confirming that there were no problems, he registered the script.
Seeing that it was already ten o'clock, he quickly opened Liu Yun's mailbox and sent the script.
At this time, Liu Yun had returned home.
These days, the revenue of "Secret and Great" has not met the company's expectations. As the company's strategic project to embrace online dramas and transform into the Internet era, the failure of "Secret" has made the company's senior management a little nervous.
Looking at Liu Yun, who had worked overtime for several days and had just returned home and studied the script with his laptop in hand, Liu Yun's wife Wang Ru tugged at the carefully prepared sling shirt.
Putting a glass of warm milk on the desk, she put her white hands on Liu Yun's shoulders.
"Brother, just take a rest. You are not the only one in the company. If we can get into the board of directors, we can get in. Even if we can't get in, you have been a director in the company for more than ten years. How can Brother Zheng still treat you badly?"
Staring at the script on the computer screen, Liu Yun waved to his wife and lit a cigarette.
Seeing Liu Yun's concentration, Wang Ru stamped her feet fiercely, and after causing a tremor of flowers, she returned to the bedroom angrily.
Lying on the empty big bed, looking at the empty pillow on the other side, Wang Ru wrinkled her nose.
A forty-year-old man is of no use at all!
With the resentment of a thirty-year-old wolf, after tossing and turning for a while, she gradually fell into sleep.
I don’t know how long it took.
A sudden burst of crazy screams suddenly woke her up from her sleep.
Wang Ru, who was forced to turn on the phone, opened the door and heard a burst of hearty laughter in the study.
"It's useless. Why are you so upset at night?"
Rubbing her hazy sleepy eyes, Wang Ruzhuo pulled on her slippers and trotted open the study door.
As soon as she opened the door, she was hit by the smoke in the room and wrinkled her nose.
Before she could continue to complain, a big cold hand picked her up.
"ah!"
"daughter in law……"
Hearing that greeting and looking at the face in front of him with bloodshot eyes and the smell of tobacco and tea in his breath, Wang Ru bit her lip gently and her cheeks turned red.
Glancing at the fading night outside the window, she slapped the man who looked excited and held her tightly in his arms angrily.
"What are you doing? The neighbors are all sleeping...what time is it?"
"hey-hey……"
Facing his shy wife, Liu Yun grinned.
"Do you know what unlimited flow is?"
?
Wang Ru's brows gradually furrowed as she looked at Liu Yun, who was holding her waist while talking about the concept of the script.
At this moment, the small universe completely exploded.
…
"Brother Zheng, do you know what unlimited flow is?"
The next day.
Qiangsheng Film and Television Group, Chairman’s Office.
Looking at the purple slap mark on Liu Yun's face, Tu Zheng frowned.
"What the hell were you doing with Xiaoru yesterday? Why did you put on your face?"
After rubbing his pale face, Liu Yun grinned and waved to Tu Zheng.
"Brother Zheng, do you know what unlimited online dramas are?"
"Unlimited streaming... I'm going to be called a bully when I go out now. I know what no cash flow means! What a fool. If I touch online dramas again in the future, I'll be like a dog!"
In the past few days, due to the failure of the transformation, the management did not earn as much as the actors, and Tu Zheng was ridiculed by the industry.
It was my first time to cooperate with a top star like Bai Shen, but I ended up trusting the other party's traffic too much and offered a Yang Bailao-style contract.
The basic salary of 400,000 yuan, plus a 5% commission was a big pitfall, and Tu Zheng was now severely allergic to the terms web drama and top-notch movies.
The allergy symptom is that whenever I look in the mirror, I feel like my head is really big!
"Lao Liu, don't mention web dramas to me. Hurry up and think about a whole movie to make a profit. The project "Secret" has ruined my reputation all my life. From now on, all projects of our company will refuse traffic. Stars, damn it!”
Taking a deep breath, Tu Zheng waved his hand, expressing that he had no interest in the web drama.
Seeing his attitude, Liu Yun smiled and handed a printed script in front of him.
"I think we can still save a little bit and try again in the field of online dramas!"
Um?
Picking up the script and opening it, Tu Zheng frowned when he saw the name of the playwright clearly written "Li Youzhi".
"This guy? He doesn't make really good war dramas and spy dramas, so why does he start an idol drama and science fiction? Lao Liu, are you interested in this book?"
Liu Yun nodded.
"I read this script last night. The theme is very novel and the conflict is well constructed. Although I have never done this kind of subject before, I think it is worth trying! We worked on "Secret" before, but the idea was actually wrong. Today's young people not only like popular stars, they also like novel stories. The reason why the market for war movies and spy movies continues to shrink is because young people don't like to watch them. If this is the case, what are we doing? Why don’t you take a bigger step?”
Hearing what Liu Yun said, Tu Zheng silently tapped the script with his finger.
"How to cooperate specifically?"
"I called the guy when I came here in the morning. He meant that we would each pay half of the production cost and the profits would be split equally. But he has to be the leading actor, and as for the salary..."
Having said this, Liu Yun grinned and looked at Tu Zheng who was in deep thought.
"Basic remuneration of 400,000 per episode, plus 5% commission."
provoke!
Hearing this condition, Tu Zheng was shocked.
Damn you
That bastard Bai Shen just cheated on me, what a stinky brat you are, why are you here to beat me up?
What the hell is the difference between this and the will-o'-the-wisp boy who deceived his daughter and then came to his house to steal Moutai and sell it?
After hearing the price offered by Li Youzhi, Tu Zheng's newly established mentality exploded!