Seclusion in the Entertainment Industry

Xu Cheng never expected that just when he was still hesitating to give up "The Journey of Laughter" and start a new venture, the investors and director of "The Journey of Laughter" had already reached an agreement first and finally gave up on Xu Cheng. The project of "The Journey of Laughter 2" was started directly.

The IP of "The Journey of Laughter" naturally has nothing to do with Xu Cheng. He is just a small actor in the first film. People can throw it away if they want.

Isn't he just an actor? With a high-quality big IP, any young actor can be popular, so why should you keep supporting your Xu Cheng's stinky feet?

Therefore, this time, Xu Chenglian was no longer qualified to continue talking to the other party. After all, relatively speaking, if there is no such superstar, the investors and director team are the leading roles in a film.

Such a change even made Xu Chengdu confused for a moment.

How did things come to this? Obviously, everyone had talked about it before, and the investors' attitude towards him has always been quite gentle. Moreover, Xu Cheng is really important in the film "The Journey of Laughter", almost like a soul figure. Just kick him now?

"Haha...hehehe..." After Xu Cheng learned the truth of the matter, he could only sneer helplessly.

It seems that Chen Feng is right, starting a new business, starting a new business is his only way out.

Therefore, after being extremely disappointed, Xu Cheng did not go to the people on "The Journey of Laughter" to argue. The matter had already developed to this point, and any arguing was of no use.

The only thing he can do is to start anew immediately, make his own movie, and win "The Journey of Laughter 2"!

Only then could he finally calm down the bad breath in his heart.

As a result, Xu Cheng quickly devoted himself to the production of new films.

He actually already has preliminary ideas for the new film.

It is a brand-new story that also takes place on a journey. Although it is somewhat similar to "The Journey of Laughter" in terms of film type and mode, it can be reluctantly classified as a series, but in fact, if his new film creativity is used alone, A new movie, no problems at all.

And now that they have broken away from the mentality of "The Journey of Laughter", Xu Cheng and his own studio team are more free and bold when writing scripts, and the stories they write have become more exciting, funny, and more commercial. change.

Perhaps because of the stimulation, in just one week, Xu Cheng and several screenwriters from his studio created the first version of the script for the new movie.

After carefully reading the script several times, Xu Cheng was very satisfied.

However, the script was available, but Xu Cheng's own studio no longer had sufficient funds to run the project independently, so in the end he sent a copy of the script to Chen Feng with some trepidation.

If Chen Feng can like this script, there may be hope!

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When Chen Feng received Xu Cheng's script, he and An Ruohua had just gone to watch the newly introduced foreign blockbuster "Super Spy"!

The film is indeed very good-looking, and its box office performance is also very good. A few days after its release, it can still maintain a box office performance of about 100 million per day, and its reputation online and in real life is also good.

Although it is not as dazzling as "The Wandering Earth", in general, "The Spy" can be regarded as an excellent blockbuster.

Moreover, the quality of several movies released at the same time as "The Spy" is relatively poor.

In particular, there are two Chinese-language movies that look very childish when compared to "Super Spy".

Chen Feng also had to sigh,

On the whole, Chinese-language films are indeed lagging far behind others.

There are even some films that cannot even achieve the minimum rationality. The quality of the films is worrying, let alone the artistic and commercial qualities.

In fact, many people can see that Chinese-language films do seem to lack relatively pure genre films.

For example, there are science fiction films like "The Wandering Earth", but apart from this one, there is no other one at all.

Another example is pure drama-comedies such as "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Race", which are actually very rare.

Chinese-language films are often more oriented toward the director's personal style. Even commercial films often lack the pure genre model.

Although this situation has improved somewhat since Chen Feng appeared, there is still no clear boundary on the whole.

Therefore, many works seem a little weak when faced with pure foreign genre films like "The Spy", and the two sides do not seem to be on the same level at all.

Many people know that these foreign blockbusters are very good-looking, but why are they so good-looking? Why does it look good?

Because people have accumulated so much experience in the filming process of this type of film, even in a similar film, the protagonist appears in the first few minutes, the heroine appears in the first few minutes, there is a turning point in the first few minutes, changes occur, and then in the third minute How many minutes to start the reversal, how many minutes to arrange the final boss battle, etc... These things can be accurate to minutes or even seconds.

In terms of plot framework and character portrayal, the routines of this type of film are already very mature, and are very close to the audience's viewing habits. Therefore, such a work can attract people's attention very well, and the box office will not be too bad no matter what. .

Of course, there are some talented directors who can innovate and make breakthroughs in various ways, but generally there won’t be any big changes in the core elements of genre films.

But now, what Chinese-language films lack is this pure genre routine, and even many people working in the film and television industry do not yet have this awareness.

Chen Feng has discovered this problem after watching many movies. However, it is very difficult to change this phenomenon. He has tried hard to do it, but it seems that it is not enough.

At this moment, Xu Cheng sent over his movie script.

Chen Feng immediately read it carefully.

After reading the story in the new script, Chen Feng smiled slightly. Sure enough, wasn't this the movie in his dream world?

Overall, the character setting and plot structure of Xu Chengxin's script are very similar to the "囧" in the dream world. Except for some small details, there are almost no differences.

It seems that Xu Cheng’s trip to Thailand was indeed very meaningful.

Chen Feng thought for a while, and then added a few very funny little details in "囧囧" based on Xu Cheng's script. These jokes were more interesting than those originally set by Xu Cheng.

Under Chen Feng's revision, Xu Cheng's script became more and more similar to "囧" in the dream world.

In the end, Chen Feng simply changed the movie title of the script "The Laughing Journey to Thailand" directly to "Thailand".

As for the word "囧", this word has actually existed in this world for a long time, but it has not become popular yet.