Director’s Legend

Leaving the smoky conference room, Shao Shuaijun took a deep breath. In view of the good cooperative relationship between Lionsgate Films, Huayi Brothers and Shao Shuaijun, although "Painted Skin" did not cooperate with Lionsgate Films, it still rented Lionsgate Films. office for editing and meetings.

Wang Zhonglei and Shao Shuaijun walked to the top of the building, breathed the fresh air, looked at the blue sea, and suddenly felt bright.

"Brother Lei, should I tell you what's going on?"

"You should have guessed it?"

"I want to hear you say it carefully. I don't want to misunderstand others."

Wang Zhonglei lit another cigarette, and leaned on the fence on the top of the building: "I remember Huang Qunfei, the chief assistant of China Film Import and Export Company who was behind the scenes and supported Gao Linbao. I doubt it, and I don't even need to doubt it. I know it's him." The movement of hands and feet, this time is considered to be defeated by him, he is quite useless. But he can run well on the first day of the junior high school, but he can't run fifteenth, and he pays attention to coming and going in everything."

"Huang Qunfei is in Zhongying, which mountain is behind it?"

"Who else is there, that Jiao Dashi who fights with Han Sanye, who is completely illiterate, can play the trick of big fish eating small fish, and doesn't know how to do the market at all. You don't know, once Han San I was talking about a movie with Zhang Yimou. Jiao Dashi pretended to understand, and exaggerated Yimou’s good director, showing his skill in the subtleties. We couldn’t hold back our laughter. That movie was clearly directed by Jia Zhangke. What do you mean? This kind of person doesn't know anything about movies, so how can he control China Film Group."

"Being able to fight against Mr. Han, it seems that this person knows how to behave, and he can get along better than people like us who understand movies but don't know how to behave." Shao Shuaijun said contemptuously.

Wang Zhonglei stomped out the cigarette butt. He snorted coldly: "No matter how good he is at being a human being, he is still just a tiger on the top of a mountain like China Film Group. It's fine to occupy his own mountain, but he actually interfered indiscriminately. "Painted Skin" was co-produced by Han Sanye. He can fight with Han Sanye, but It shouldn’t have hurt us. If he didn’t knock off one of his arms this time, he really thought that China Film Group could cover the sky with one hand in the film industry.”

"What are you going to do, Brother Lei?"

"It's not urgent. You can take your time to find opportunities. After all, you can't let Jiao Dashi get complacent." Wang Zhonglei waved his hand. Watching the seabirds flying in the sky. "It's not because you were unhappy about the "Source Code" incident. When this kind of incident fell on anyone's head, everyone panicked. To be honest, what happened last time. I also felt uncomfortable. I feel sorry for the army. Son of you."

Shao Shuaijun grinned and said, "Learn a lesson and gain wisdom. That incident had a great impact on me, but it has been more than half a year, and I have forgotten it! Brother Lei, don't forget it. I am now my own boss. , I also know that you were in a difficult situation at the beginning, so I really didn't care."

"You don't care, I do. I've been looking for a chance to treat you to dinner and apologize. I haven't found it. It's all embarrassing for the elders. If it weren't for today's incident, I would still have to hold it in my heart. I didn't say anything, I'll treat you tonight."

"Okay, I will definitely go."

I chatted with Wang Zhonglei about my innermost feelings. The two people are equal now, there is a gap but they also have some similar feelings. In contact with people, three points of truth and seven points of acting on the spot.

Back in the editing room, Shao Shuaijun shook his head amusedly. He didn't know how sincere Wang Zhonglei was, and he didn't even know how sincere his own response was.

But, life, that's it.

Throwing away the noisy emotions in his mind, Shao Shuaijun immersed himself in the fine cutting again. The post-production of a movie, especially this kind of film, requires many complicated steps. The first thing is to pick out the most perfect film for each shot from a pile of films, and then make a rough cut.

After the rough cut, there will be a general plot segment, from which a segment can be selected and produced to become a promotional film and a promotional outline, which will be used for publicity in the market and to lobby distributors and theaters. This period can also be called a formal cut, in which the director expresses his ideas.

Then there is the soundtrack and song selection. Of course, this stage does not necessarily have to be after editing, just like "Painted Skin" is filming and soundtracking, and even before the filming starts, there is the theme song "Painting Heart".

The production of special effects is more complicated. Some are proofreading screens, which need to be carried out synchronously with editing, and some are lens inlays, which need to leave space during editing. The special effects of "Painted Skin" are also inlaid, not the overall special effects, otherwise it will not be able to beat more than one billion yuan.

The special effects of which Hollywood blockbuster does not burn hundreds of millions of RMB.

Shao Shuaijun's work now belongs to the editing of the finished film, which is generally divided into the director's cut version and the professional cut version. Shao Shuaijun did not agree to hire a professional editor, but edited himself. This is something only a confident director dares to do. After all, the authorities are obsessed with onlookers, and the director sometimes cuts movies that don't meet the audience's taste. Fortunately, Shao Shuaijun's movies are all cut by himself, and investors can rest assured of his taste.

But he himself was very sad about cutting. It was extremely painful for him to cut 145 minutes into 120 minutes without losing the effect of the movie. Fortunately, Qian Yongqiang would come to comfort him from time to time, so that he would not be too depressed.

Originally, he could still edit leisurely, but now that there is a pirated version, it is very likely that North America will also release it in advance, so he has to go all out to cut the most perfect version in the shortest possible time, and then send it to To dub and synthesize the audio track, and finally make a copy of the film.

The next day, news came from the domestic side that the plan for an early release was agreed. In North America, Mira Company also unexpectedly agreed. It turned out that "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest" directed by Cameron, the king of the world, was officially confirmed to be released in July after a long post-production.

This is tantamount to a major earthquake for all movies.

In addition to the blockbuster "Superman Returns", which was also released at the end of June, Mira Company did not think that under the attack of these two films, "Painted Skin" could get satisfactory results, so it chose to back down.

Therefore, Shao Shuaijun needed to devote himself to editing without sleeping or eating.

...

At this time, the domestic Internet has exploded. The most anticipated domestic blockbuster this year has been pirated. On the first day, the pirated video had more than one million clicks, and then it directly reached three million on the second day. This was in 2006, when the Internet was not popular.

Afterwards, the six investors immediately called the police, and at the same time reached an agreement with Du Niang, Gu Ye, and Yahoo to block the search of the video, and all the portal websites also canceled the playback of the pirated video one by one. It's a pity that there is no real-name system now, so a batch was banned here, and netizens uploaded another batch over there.

"Painted Skin has been pirated, the plot has been leaked, the largest production in China, and the box office is worrying!"

Blood red headlines appeared on the front pages of major newspapers.

"500 million copies of "Painted Skin" were pirated, exposing the shoddy production of the big production, and Shao Shuaijun may bring another "The Promise"!"——"Nandu Entertainment Weekly" immediately published a supplementary issue, and published an article by a person named Bao Lingao. (To be continued..)

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