Chapter 386 Injured
"At the moment of life and death, all we have to do is to immediately release our left hand and press the magazine buckle with our right hand to let the magazine land."
"Everyone should remember that you have a few bullets in your gun. When the last bullet is in the chamber, you should quickly find a cover to change the magazine. This is very important, because once you forget this, the outcome will definitely not be too good, and the same is true for an actor."
Xu Rong did not explain the specific reason. If he explained, he would lose the effect he should have. While saying lines while memorizing bullets during the filming process, the actor's mental tension will be very tense, and his emotions will be similar to those when using real guns.
At this time, a strange scene also happened on the set. Xu Rong held the gun in both hands, and while doing slow motion, he explained the key points of emergency replacement of magazines. Almost all the actors and staff of the crew spontaneously formed a large circle around him.
Both men and women seem to have a considerable degree of curiosity about guns, although the two are interested in different points due to gender differences.
Seeing Xu Rong's confidence and calmness when he explained, Zhong Hanliang whispered to Lin Ce beside him: "He seems to be very familiar with guns?"
"I don't know much about this, but there were people who came to make trouble in the past few days. The 1.9-meter-old man brought more than 20 people. Wu Tingye said that the man was polite when he saw Xu Rongte."
Sun Honglei and others not far away were also a little confused when they heard this. Compared to the Hong Kong people in the crew who were a little afraid of Xu Rong, they knew more about Xu Rong. Xu Rongsheng grew up in the mainland and had no special experience. He shouldn't have understood this.
But Xu Rong was so confident that they couldn't help but wonder if he had really had such an unknown period of time as a soldier king in the Middle East or Africa.
"Also, remember that before every use, be sure to make sure that the gun in your hand is safe."
Hearing Xu Rong's words, the mainland actors looked confused. After a moment of stunned silence, many people from Hong Kong looked at each other and determined their guesses.
The biggest difference between guns in the mainland and Hong Kong is that the "prop gun" used in Hong Kong filming is difficult to enter.
"Okay, let's practice for a while."
After Xu Rong finished the explanation, Du Qifeng looked at the actors in the crew who were stumbling but extremely curious to practice. His brows slowly frowned, looked at Xu Rong who was standing on the side holding his arms, and said, "Xu Rong, how long does it take for you to practice changing magazines?"
Xu Rong thought for a while, shook her head gently, and said, "I can't tell you this, but I actually went to play at the beginning and spent time with my friends. Later, I felt that I might be able to use it for filming, so I took a little snack. You insisted on asking me how long I had practiced, but I couldn't tell you."
When Du Qifeng heard this, he affirmed his guess. Although the rest of the crew had just started practicing, he had already seen some clues. Xu Rong's movements gave him a smooth beauty. The actors who were practicing at the moment had slow movements, but their limbs were stiff. Some even had to pull out the spare magazine for a long time because of their fat figure.
He always felt that the fluency in Xu Rong's movements was absolutely impossible to achieve through one or two days of assault training. He had to lay the foundation for daily physical exercises.
Du Qifeng lit a cigarette and said, "I read the news. You have predicted that the mainland market will reach 300 billion in the future. Are you serious?"
"Hahaha."
Xu Rong was stunned when she heard this, turned her head and stared at Du Qifeng almost incredible, and said, "Director Du, I feel like you are joking with me!"
"There are 1.4 billion people in the three regions of the Taiwan Strait, even if 400 million people watch movies, how much do you think the box office alone will get?"
Du Qifeng smiled and said, "The market is not an algorithm like yours."
Xu Rong certainly understood that his algorithm was too taken for granted, but the Chinese system and cultural genes of hard work, imitation and innovation determine that it is difficult to be restricted by the middle-income trap. Once this threshold is exceeded, it is only a matter of time before 300 billion yuan is passed, and said: "You may not believe it. I am going to invest in a movie or TV series, with an investment of about 200 million to 300 million yuan. A TV station has already bought it for 600 million yuan."
Du Qifeng raised the smoke to his mouth and stopped in the air. The skin on his face almost fell into complete stagnation, and he just stared at Xu Rong blankly.
TV drama?
Six hundred million?
What about cheating?!
When Xu Rong heard the 500 million offer from his old friend Hua Ming, he always joked about Hua Ming because he set a 500 million price at the beginning to not sell the exclusive broadcast rights.
But after Huaming greeted him two days ago, he officially contacted Jin Fangfang, and he realized that Southern TV seemed to be no joke.
Since "The Unknown Strike of the Yangcheng" in 2007, Southern TV has never been ambiguous as long as it can get the play rights of the plays he starred in.
Even if you can't get the first round, you will try your best to win the second and third rounds.
But since the start of this year, the "Secret Wave of the Yangcheng City", "Louching", "Before the Dawn", and "A Beautiful Time of a Wife" was broadcasted 16 hours a day without interruption, and after squeezing CCTV to win the second place in the market share rankings, it was as if it had discovered the wealth code, and it was simply out of control.
After a year of trial and effort, Southern TV has now explored a set of its own unique playback logic, "Xu Rong + playback mode", which means that while purchasing new films, the plays starring Xu Rong are constantly played throughout the year.
In order to avoid malicious competition among peers and follow the example, Southern TV has almost swallowed up the role of starring Xu Rong through various channels since the beginning of the year, and participated in all film and television dramas within five years.
Even the "The Qing Dynasty Fengyun" starring Xu Rong was sold to LeTV by the producer at a bargain price, and was also tried by Huaming at a high price.
Although the result was not satisfactory, Huaming didn't care much about it, because after testing, he found that "The Ming Dynasty 1566", "Crazy Guandong", "Landing", "Before the Dawn", "The Beautiful Times of the Wife" and "Bright Sword", which Xu Rong has few scenes, seem to have a unique magic, that is, every time he is broadcast, the ratings will not be too low.
And occasionally, miracles happen.
Every once in a while, Southern TV always inexplicably ushers in a small peak in viewership.
There is no rule at all. Sometimes it may be "Ming Dynasty 1566", sometimes it may be "Before Dawn", and sometimes it may even be "The Devourer of the Devotion" with mixed praise and criticism.
Later, after several analysis, domestic media and TV stations came to an astonishing conclusion that the ratings of Southern TV station suddenly rose, mainly because of the large number of domestic bad dramas during that period.
Nowadays, the viewership rate of Southern TV has become a barometer of the quality of dramas on major domestic platforms. Once Southern TV's ratings rise, there is only one reason, and other platforms broadcast all bad dramas.
But he was always ridiculed by his colleagues, and Hua Ming was a little embarrassed, so he was going to do two big deals.
The first thing is that he quietly bought the copyright of "Survival Migrant Workers" and tried to unblock Xu Rong's debut work.
The result was not as expected. After nearly a year of running around and public relations, the difficulty of unblocking "Military Workers" was far beyond his estimate.
The second thing is to swallow the five-year broadcasting rights of "No War in Peking" that is being filmed.
Unlike the rumors that the first round of broadcasting rights were won, what Huaming wanted was to buy out the broadcasting rights of "Beiping" for five or even ten years!
Because judging from the fact that "Luxing", "Before Dawn" and "The Beautiful Times of Daughter-in-law" can still achieve good ratings, some of the scripts selected by Xu Rong have the possibility of becoming classics.
Moreover, he carefully studied that Xu Rong's output of classics is not random. Good scripts and good peers are a must. As for whether there is a good director, it is actually not that important.
Huge customers bully shops, and Huge shops bully customers. Now Xu Rong is always the biggest "customer" in every drama. Once the filming is difficult to meet his expectations, even if he will not take as fierce measures as Jiang Wen, he will fundamentally allow his time to be wasted.
Beijing TV station focused heavily on winning the "Indelible Number", while Southern TV prepared to "No War in Peking".
Facing Du Qifeng's surprised gaze, Xu Rong shook his head gently and said, "Three trillion? It's just our phased goal. Let's put it this way, I estimate that in ten years, the Chinese film market will reach at least one trillion."
"At present, I think our goals are completely consistent, right?" Du Qifeng nodded gently, touched for a while, and suddenly smiled, "If "Drug War" failed to achieve the expected results, I should not come to the mainland again within five years. Your development should be greatly affected, right?"
Xu Rong didn't say anything. When Du Qifeng asked this sentence, he didn't expect him to answer, but was expressing another meaning.
Before he could speak, Du Qifeng sighed: "In the movie industry, box office cures all diseases. No matter how many difficulties and disputes occur during the filming period, as long as the box office is ideal, those difficulties will be precious in the aftermath, but if the box office is not ideal, the happiest you will be when you film, and how uncomfortable you will be at that time."
After thinking about it for a while, Xu Rong made a statement about Du Qifeng's hint and said, "In fact, the problem of guns is also very big. Whose pistol is making a 'da da da' sound?!"
"I asked Lao Zhao to spend some money these two days to make some real guys, so everyone can practice in the past few days."
“Time is really fast.”
Xu Rong also looked worried and suggested: "Why don't you do this? Take a group to shoot so many unimportant outdoor scenes. Let another group shoot, so we will concentrate on shooting key scenes."
"Who will come?"
"Luo Jinfu?"
Du Qifeng and Xu Rong looked at each other and both smiled.
That night, when Du Qifeng announced that Zheng Zhaoqiang would be the director of Group B, Zheng Zhaoqiang, who had just played the role of the handheld camera a while ago, could not hide his surprise on his face, and slowly turned his head to look at Du Qifeng.
Then, his eyes quickly floated to Xu Rong, who was holding his arms and frowning.
He suddenly felt absurd because a few days ago, Xu Rong told him that he would give him the opportunity to direct alone.
He thought Xu Rong would invite him to shoot a low-cost movie, but he never expected that the opportunity would come so quickly and so incredible that he was the director of Group B?!
Although the decision on how to shoot, what to shoot, and whether the material is used or not is in use, from another perspective, this is also Du Qifeng's step-by-step teaching him how to make a movie.
Zheng Zhaoqiang's eyes turned back and forth on the two of them several times, and finally fell on Xu Rong again.
A new generation is changing to an old one.
Although it has been a few days since the filming started again, the crew is not peaceful. Du Qifeng changed his previous style of turning a blind eye. Not to mention sand in his eyes, he wished he could no longer accommodate a neutrino impurity.
Most of the crew used to be with Du Qifeng for a while. Although they have not made a lot of money with the decline of Hong Kong movies in recent years, the small money has never been apart.
I finally waited for a fat sheep, and I thought it was an opportunity to make a fortune, but this was better. Even the coins had to be pulled off the big guy's ribs.
He heard about Xu Rong's promise to "one festival to make up for ten", and also understood Du Qifeng's strong desire to make a splash, because if he missed this village, there would never be a second store that would allow him to shoot so unscrupulously.
Whether it is scale or financial support.
Because whether it is Hairun Pictures, which has just been established or Xu Rong, who has just entered the film market, is in urgent need of a successful test of himself, but in comparison, Du Qifeng is more eager than the two.
A movie market worth 300 billion or even trillion will be a step slower than a loss of hundreds of millions!
He didn't think Du Qifeng had done anything wrong. He might have done more decisively than Du Qifeng. Once he succeeded, it would be easy to even pull up ten more groups.
But if the north fails, these brothers will not be able to turn to others like Luo Jinfu and Zheng Baorui.
Successful people never lack follow, and losers always despise them.
But from his own feelings, he felt that Du Qifeng had done something too much. We never dared to stop our elder brother from eating meat, but when our elder brother was eating meat, we could not take it away.
Cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents. Now Du Qifeng's life-saving cost savings is tantamount to killing parents.
As for the future?
I can’t make money now, can you still count on the future?
After the meeting, Zheng Zhaoqiang went to Xu Rong's room and sat for about half an hour.
The two of them didn't talk about anything else, they only talked about some things that needed to be paid attention to when living in the capital and the settlement of some personnel.
Zheng Zhaoqiang is different from Zheng Baorui and Luo Jinfu. Nearly half of the people in the entire group are considered Zheng Zhaoqiang's people.
After seeing off Zheng Zhaoqiang, Xu Rong suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. In addition, Zheng Zhaoqiang and Luo Jinfu, the studio's nominal directors are nearly ten. The remaining five are from Beijing Film Academy and are all recommended by teachers from the school, but they all face a problem, and they have no works to show off.
But he was not worried, he was just buying horse bones with a wealth of money.
Chapter completed!