Chapter 763 Movies are an art, making movies is a business
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After carefully reading the recent work results submitted by the "Painted Skin" special effects production team in charge of Swordsman, Du Caige turned around and asked Liu Zifei, "What do you think?"
Liu Zifei glanced at the swordsman executive next to her, and said with a smile, "What else can I do? This is not the first time we have cooperated, and I already know their strength."
"I just want to ask you, are you satisfied with the strength of this domestic industry's number one, and whether it has met your requirements."
"No. 1 in the industry, it's not the number one that is blown out, but the number one recognized by everyone. Of course, the quality is impeccable. It's not much different from Hollywood's top special effects. I'm naturally satisfied." Liu Zifei He smiled and held a sentence.
The senior executive with a technical background was all red and couldn't hide his excitement.
It's nothing to be praised by Liu Zifei.
However, he was appraised as "No. 1 in the industry" by the sixth richest man in Dahua, an internationally renowned director, artist, and major shareholder of the company, which made him shudder with excitement.
Of course, on the surface, he still couldn’t accept everything he ordered, so he had to say modestly: “No, what is number one in the industry is because of the face of our peers. We still have a lot to work on!”
"Of course we have to work hard. It is always more difficult to stay number one than to catch up. The difficulty is that everyone's mentality is easy to relax, stagnate, and complacent." Du Caige also warned a few words with the air of a major shareholder, and said, "Let this team The person in charge came over and we communicated with him.”
The post-production cost of "Painted Skin" is very high, and the special effects account for a large part, with a budget of more than 80 million.
Such a big business, "Swords and Swords" naturally have enough attention.
Even though they have been very busy recently, because several projects are being followed up at the same time, including "Tang Detective 2" and "Charlotte Annoyance", etc., but the focus must still be on "Painted Skin".
The most energy is given, the production team has the most elite soldiers, and the team leader is still a deputy director.
Because Du Caige promised them that if the special effects of these films satisfy him, especially "Painted Skin", if they can achieve world-class standards, then they will win orders for several masterpieces from Time Warner.
This news made "Sword, Light and Sword Shadow" feel bloody from the management to the technical staff.
What the management sees is that the company is getting bigger and stronger,
hope of making money.
What technicians see is the prospect of being recognized by the world as "you are the best, and you are the best".
Although the essence of the motivation is different, they are indeed powerful motivations.
Next, Du Caige, Liu Zifei, and the deputy director of the "Painted Skin" special effects team sat down for a meeting. Liu Zifei made new demands, and the deputy director gave feedback: can it be done, and to what extent.
Du Caige is in the middle to reconcile.
The reason why it is a reconciliation rather than an instruction is because "Painted Skin" is Liu Zifei's film after all, and he must respect Liu Zifei's ideas.
He will make the final check, but he must grasp this degree well.
When it comes to making art, there can only be one voice.
If there are too many voices, the work will become a stitch monster.
For "Painted Skin", he provided the script and ideas, but it was Liu Zifei who directed the filming on the spot.
So he hopes to complete the post-production according to Liu Zifei's ideas as much as possible.
Unless it is really difficult for Liu Zifei to take on the big job, he will take over in an all-round way and do post-processing according to his own ideas.
But so far, Liu Zifei is doing pretty well.
Therefore, he only needs to "reconcile", but does not need and should not give "instructions".
The deputy director of "Bright Sword and Shadow" is a boring gourd, a technical expert, and a geek type.
Obviously sharing the same room with a beautiful director and one of the richest people in the Great Hua Country, but they never leave work.
After the exchange of work, he saw that it was all right, so he got up and said goodbye directly, without thinking of exchanging pleasantries or flirting with each other.
"He just has such a character, don't take it for granted!" Liu Zifei smiled and explained for him, worried that Du Caige would have an opinion on him.
"I won't let those who do things honestly suffer," Du Caige asked her. "According to the scheduled schedule, I'm a little behind. Can you speed up?"
Liu Zifei hesitated to speak.
"Very difficult?" Du Caige sighed softly, "I can understand. But please help me!"
Liu Zifei bit her lip and looked at him, with a smile that was not a smile, "You man! Why don't you say that you are an investor and a boss, and you ask me to speed up the progress, so that's all."
Du Caige smiled, "Is it necessary to say that? Who am I, you still don't know? I have cooperated so many times."
"You're a studio tyrant."
"And a true film artist."
Liu Zifei said: "You know, I'm actually quite conflicted. This is my first film, and I want to make it as perfect as possible. Can you understand?"
She shook her head, "Forget it, so what if you understand? I still remember what you said. Movies are an art, and making movies is a business."
Speaking of this, she seemed to have vented her emotions, paused for a moment, and then said with a smile: "OK, I can finish it on schedule."
"Thank you for your hard work." Du Caige also breathed a sigh of relief.
In his plan, "painted skin" must be a very crucial part.
Only the combination of big investment, a female director, and the first film of one's favorite disciple can arouse enough interest from the audience and get enough attention in a very short publicity cycle.
Then go to affect the layout.
Coupled with the new works of "Tang Detective 2" and "Charlotte Annoyance", two directors who have proven themselves, work together to create an airtight environment.
In particular, "Tang Detective 2" seems to be a sequel to a big IP, and the market appeal of this kind of work is beyond doubt.
You Shen Jinsong want to launder money?
I see that you are under the attack of these few films, why did you get the filming!
If you can't get the film, I'll see what you use to launder money!
At that time, in order to complete the task of money laundering, only 20% of the films are scheduled, and 95% or even 100% of the attendance rate must be blown, otherwise the box office data will not be so high.
At that time, I didn't need to go to the supervision department, they took the initiative to come to the door.
Liu Zifei smiled: "Why am I working so hard? You just worked so hard recently. I know you're not only staring at the movie 'Painted Skin', there are several movies that adopt this model, right?"
"Meng Zhaolong and Yu Shan are also like this. While filming, they send the material here for post-processing. They all have to watch on the set, and you are the only one who checks the post-processing here. At the same time, you are responsible After so many movies, you are probably too busy to sleep, right?" Liu Zifei glanced at Du Caige's thick dark circles.
"More or less, I still have a little time to sleep." Du Caige admitted.
"Why are you working so hard? Are you still short of money?" Liu Zifei didn't know all of Du Caige's plans.
Du Caige answered irrelevantly and said, "It's fine to finish this section, it's fine."
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"What is he doing?" Selena trimmed her extremely fair and delicate hands with small nail clippers.
Schneider held the e-reader, stared at it intently, and replied without raising his head: "I don't know."
"It's not good for us," Selena's voice was a little lazy. She is a woman with the beauty of a movie star. Whenever she speaks with a lazy and sexy voice, men will always approach her unconsciously, " The above said that we are to assist Shen, and also let us monitor and investigate him secretly. Now that Thomas and Rick are by his side, helping him with things and supervising him, we can just go and investigate secretly."
But in Schneider's eyes, the e-book is obviously better than Serina, he still didn't raise his head, and said in a flat tone, "Then you go and investigate him."
"Why don't you go?" Selena laughed angrily.
This uncouth, rude German!
"I don't want to go. I can easily earn money by reading books, why should I do thankless things." Schneider was really calm, and he flipped through the books at a normal speed.
Selena waved the nail clippers, as if she wanted to cut off his head with the nail clippers, "Do you know something?"
"I do not know anything."
"Then what do you mean?"
"What's the point of investigating a dead man?"
Selena was really taken aback, "You mean?"
"I didn't say anything."
Selena lowered her head thoughtfully, "The tools are worn out, should I change them?"
There was a bit of melancholy in her voice, "Then how long can we use a tool like ours?"
Schneider ignored it.
Selena asked again: "Did you observe any signs? Or did someone say something to you?"
Schneider ignored her.
Selena angrily picked up the pillow beside her and threw it at Schneider.
Schneider avoided it in time as if he had eyes on the top of his head, then raised his head and glanced at Selina calmly: "I have seen Zhou, and I have seen it several times. He is leading a team of people."
"Which week?" Selena frowned.
All of a sudden, she shivered as if she saw a terrifying scene, and asked hesitantly, "That week?"
Schneider nodded.
"My God!" Selena let out a low sigh from her throat, with deep fear in her eyes, "How many times have you seen him? He has always been by our side? Why?"
"What do you say?"
Selena shook her head violently, as if she was about to struggle out of a nightmare, "He's in charge of cleaning up the aftermath? Schneider, he doesn't want us to clean it up too!"
"Who knows." Schneider said lightly, and continued to look down at the e-book.