Chapter 0016 A Script
Two days later in the evening, Guan Shirt, who had returned home, sat down wearily on a chair in the study.
He had only just returned from a few old friends, and after discussing the matter for a while, they hadn't been able to find any good ideas.
As for the group of editors in the company, not to mention, the scripts they came up with made him want to cry.
Of course, this also has something to do with the fact that the two good screenwriters were poached by Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers.
Was it really that hard to make a movie?
Guan Shirt frowned, his eyes swept across the desk without thinking, but he was surprised to find a stack of papers neatly placed on the desk, with five big words written in regular regular script on the top of the first page.
"Table Wrong Seven Days of Love".
What does it mean?
What is it?
Guan Shirt picked up this stack of bound papers in surprise, and found that it was actually quite thick, with at least a hundred pages.
Letting go of the second page, inside was the same neatly written text.
"The story takes place on Lantau Island, which is remote from the city. Yang Naidong is a married woman who is 30 years old this year, she and her husband, who owns a company, live inside a single two-story house on Lantau Island, and their weekday life consists of buying groceries and cooking, but all of a sudden, one day, she realized that her husband had disappeared ......"
Guan Shirt looked at it casually at first, but as he watched, he became interested and looked more and more closely.
His brow furrowed every now and then, and every now and then he smiled in the sun.
By the time he saw the end of the story, Li Du was at the pier preparing to return to Hong Kong Island, while Yang Naidong rode a small motorcycle to see him off, the two of them were separated by a dozen meters, but waved goodbye as if they were separated by the end of the world, that kind of sadness of parting really imprinted on Guan Shirt's heart all of a sudden.
The story ends here.
Rao Guan shirt is accustomed to seeing the end of the tragedy, and this is not a tragedy, just two people who should not be together, back to their own lives, but Guan shirt heart is still a gas is difficult to calm.
But such a story, but let him close his eyes when, is still a long time to reminisce, inside the sadness and joy, the final hard to part, but had to separate the elegance, all let Guan shirt as if experiencing some.
Back to God, Guan shirt took a sip of tea, only to realize that he read, just ten pages of the story, the rest of a large part of the story did not read.
Turning over another page, Guan Shirt realized that it was actually the presentation details of the storyline.
"The first paragraph of the scenario begins with Li Du, who works as a parking lot security guard, showing his bad luck by suddenly falling down in fear and rolling into the parking lot when he encounters a car that turns a corner and brakes sharply. However, Lido himself will not feel it, and it is necessary to use slightly exaggerated expressions and actions to convey an effect that is both laughable and unlucky."
"The second segment of the scenario, Yang Naidong in a long white dress picking out flowers inside a flower store, focuses on expressing Yang Naidong's leisure and relaxation, and the overwhelm she feels when she encounters her husband running off with his mistress later on, creating a stark contrast."
"In the third segment of the scenario, Li Du shifts to being a gold store security guard. Holding a gun in front of the gold store, he sees a beautiful woman waiting for someone there, so he circles around her. Unexpectedly, this beautiful woman is a bait, and while Li Du is focusing on showing himself, two men suddenly rush out from around the corner and beat him up violently with clubs and sticks, and then snatch away his gun. Note: Although there are no security guards hanging around outside with guns like this in Hong Kong, it makes for a better comedic effect."
"......"
Guan Shirt read on paragraph by paragraph, realizing that above this detailed performance, all the plots that should be shot were simply written out.
Not only the plot development, character dialog, but also the psychological expressions were all shown.
This is a bit like the foreign popular split camera, if the director wants to shoot, directly according to this, and the effect is absolutely good.
There were a few pages at the end, and when Guan Shirt looked at them again, they were the exterior, interior, and furnishings of a white villa.
Guan Shirt, who had read the story, recognized it at once, this was the villa where the most episodes happened.
With this reference, all one had to do was to rent the villa and dress it up accordingly, and it would be a perfect shooting location for the movie!
Putting down the script, Guan Shirt's mind spun rapidly.
According to the plot of "Seven Days of Love in the Wrong Table", to shoot such a scene, at most a dozen people would be able to satisfy the needs of the entire movie, and even the ones who really drove the plot forward were just the male and female protagonists.
It wasn't difficult to shoot, as most of the time was spent in and around the villa on Lantau Island, so not much money was spent on anything else.
The biggest expenses were the actors' and actresses' salaries, the rental of the villa, and the filming costs.
Guan Shirt opened a few years of film companies, this is well aware of, a little estimate, the movie at least 100,000 will be able to take, the most is only 200,000.
Now the company has half a million dollars in the company, to produce such a movie, it is completely more than enough.
No, no need to take that short-sighted person's money!
This movie was a bit of a looker, and could all be put together on its own, so that all the money earned would be one's own, not bothering to let this amateur make more money as well!
Now the investors, more and more impetuous, but also everywhere to make things difficult for themselves, if I had known this, in the first place, do not have to find someone else to invest in! -Thinking so, Guan Shirt blissfully forgot, he did not think, there will be such a small production of a good script waiting for him.
Of course, he hadn't thought about that at all now, and was thinking about the production and distribution of the movie.
The difficulty was the question of how to release it in theaters.
If there was only one large theater line like Shaw's in earlier years, I'm afraid Guan Shirt could only go to those scattered theaters because Shaw's they only showed their own movies.
But now with Golden Harvest coming out of nowhere, Golden Harvest Cinemas welcomes films from other studios to be screened. Although the underwriting fees and so on are higher, at least it's an honorable way out, and as long as the film is good, it can earn money.
Is "Seven Days to a Wrong Table" a good script?
Of course it is!
It was filled with laughs at all times, even though emotions were the most important factor, making Guan Shirt laugh several times, not to mention those ordinary viewers.
If the production cost was 150,000, then with the underwriting fees to the theaters, distribution fees, printing fees, and so on and so forth, it was estimated that the cost should be around 300,000 dollars.
Without other people's investment, 300,000 yuan to squeeze a little bit of their own around, borrow a little bit, or completely can.
As long as the box office of "Seven Days of Love in the Wrong Table" can exceed $600,000, then it can earn money.
Last year's box office champion was Hair Money Chill, with 5.06 million dollars, and the 41st place was A SIR Poisoned Tiger, with around 808,000 dollars.
According to Guan Shirt has watched so many years of movies, acting so many years of movies, "the table wrong seven days of love" is certainly better than "A SIR poison queen tiger", not dare to say on the 2 million box office, but 1.5 million should still be able to punch a little bit, at least at least the box office is also in the 1 million or more.
In this way, he can make at least 30-40 million, if you are lucky, maybe 70-80 million are possible.
You know, last year, he worked hard on the movie, but he only earned more than 150,000 ah!
Now that a single movie could bring in two or three times that amount, or even more, it really stirred his mood!
Drinking a few more mouthfuls of tea, Guan Shirt forced himself to calm down.
It was only at this moment that it occurred to him, whose script was this "Seven Days of Love in the Wrong Table"? Why was it in front of him?
Suddenly a little flustered, he hurriedly rushed out, grabbed the script and ran into his room, "Wife, wife, was it you who put the script on my desk? Where did you find it? How many movie studios has this script been submitted to?"
Zhang Bingqian, who was putting on her face mask, was puzzled, "What are you talking about? What script? I don't know."
"You didn't put it there?" Guan Xiang was even more surprised, "Seven Days of Love in the Wrong Table! You don't know this script?"
"Of course I don't know it, it's not like I'm exposed to these things now." Zhang Bingqian said with amusement.
"Look at this, look at ...... this, if this isn't you, who else could it be?"
Guan Shirt shoved the script into Zhang Bingqian's hand, looking a bit anxious.
Zhang Bingqian took the script, casually flipped it, and her face changed a little, "This ......"
"What's this?" Guan Shirt asked.
"This script is good?" Zhang Bingqian looked up and asked.
"Nonsense! Absolutely first-rate good script! It can make a lot of money!!!" Guan Shirt ripped open his tie and said, "It's sitting on my desk, I just read it over, not only does it have a detailed plot, there's also subplots, and there's also a scene painting design ...... It's totally a movie ah! As long as people who are familiar with a little bit of movie, they can shoot it according to the script! I've never seen a Hong Kong screenwriter write a script so seriously!"
Seeing that Guan Shirt was so distraught, Zhang Bingqian could only be honest, "I really didn't put this script together, but I recognize who wrote this word."
"Who?"
"Didn't Yin Jun stay at our house some time ago? He did write a few songs for his daughter, you know that, right?"
"I know."
"The names of the tunes, and some of the notes, are very similar to the handwriting of this script."
"Really!?"
In the midst of Guan Shirt's surprise, she was a little disbelieving, "Jun can write a script? This, how is this possible!?"
"If you ask me, who am I going to ask?" Zhang Bingqian spread her hands, "There's only a few of us in this family, and since it's not you and me, you should ask your baby girl! This matter is definitely related to her."
"Good!"
Without thinking, Guan Shirt grabbed the script and rushed out, knocking on the door of her daughter's room, Guan Zhilin, who had already fallen asleep, opened the door with hazy eyes.
Seeing her father with a red face, Guan Zhilin blanked her big beautiful eyes, "Daddy, what are you doing?"
"Jia Hui, did you give me this script? Did Jun write it?" Guan Shirt asked in a trembling voice as she waved the script around.
"Oh, this script ah ......"
Guan Zhi Lin's eyes got focus, and with such a pause, Guan Shirt's heartbeat jumped, deeply afraid that her hopes would be dashed.
"Yeah, it's from Jun's brother, how about it?" Guan Zhi Lin smiled and nodded, "I read it, it seems to be pretty good, it's just that the ending is so boring!"
"Hey, you girl! What do you know, it's called good!"
Guan Shirt was so happy that she gently knocked her daughter's head, "By the way, did Jun-chan really write this script himself? Did he give it to anyone else?"
"Of course Brother Jun wrote it." Guan Zhi Lin was instantly upset, "It was people who said that daddy was struggling to find a script recently, so he wrote one for you, a script just for you! Didn't I tell you and Mommy in the car before, that Brother Jun was writing stories when he had nothing else to do, and Mommy even laughed at him!"
"Good! Good! Great!"
Confirming that this was the script that Yin Jun had written for himself, Guan Shirt was so excited that he was almost floating, and he didn't care about anything else.
Leaping over and giving his daughter a kiss on the cheek, Guan Shirt then ran back to his room with a laugh.
"Bugger~~"
Guan Zhirin wiped her cheeks, but looking at how happy daddy was, she also knew that this script must be excellent.
It would be so nice to be able to do Daddy a favor~~
Thinking of this, a bright smile bloomed on Miss Guan's face.
My Jun brother, never lets me down!