my time as a director

"To be honest, after reading the script at the time, with so many classic lines, such as the narration of the scene just now, I feel that you are more like a writer than a director." Xu Zheng said with emotion.

Li Qian smiled, "After becoming a writer, do you still return to the job of being a director in the end?"

"Ah this..."

Xu Zheng couldn't help laughing, the writer came back to be a director, who did he think he was satirizing.

Li Qian shook his head, "In fact, these lines are all used to promote the plot, like the monologue in the scene just now, it was said by the rude captain who had an artistic dream in the sea before, the storm came, the ship capsized, and the captain was seriously injured To die, to comfort the protagonist, no matter what happens, you have to let it go in the end and choose to accept it.

Also, an old man died in a nursing home, and the protagonist was very sad. The old man who taught the protagonist the piano comforted him and said that we are destined to lose the one we love, otherwise how would we know how important he is in our lives.

These few lines affected the protagonist, so he chose to accept what had happened and look forward, accepting his father. After accepting it, he was also influenced by his father. Grow up and choose to leave. "

"I didn't realize there was such a function when I read the script." Xu Zheng was a little surprised, and then sighed, "I said before, why did I feel that the movie span is too long and the plot is a bit fragmented. It turns out that everything is connected. Yes, the lines are connected in series without occupying space, this design is too delicate."

As we chatted, I felt more and more how powerful Li Qian was. This movie was much more exciting than I thought before.

After exchanging pleasantries for a while, Xu Zheng also got down to business.

"Director Li, in the future, the movie APP will be the sole agent for Thai囧's online ticket sales, should you reconsider?"

Li Qian also knew what Xu Zhenglai wanted to say, he had received a call from Du Yang before, and he said with a smile, "Brother Zheng thinks that you will lose the box office of other users of Meituan and Glava?"

Xu Zheng also directly said, "Thailand is not irreplaceable, nor is it indispensable. Private ordering is also a comedy, and online ticket purchases are not the only way to purchase tickets. I am a little worried. This will not only If it fails to attract users of other software, it will force users who buy tickets online to go back to the cinema."

"Brother Zheng is wrong."

Li Qian shook his head with a smile, "In my opinion, audiences who are used to buying tickets online will not buy tickets offline anymore. For this group of people, buying tickets online is the only way.

Moreover, for the Lunar New Year show, the Thai drama is also irreplaceable. The audience may not watch the private order or Police Story 2013, but they will definitely watch the Thai drama. I have this confidence. "

"..."

What else can Xu Zheng say, could it be that he has no confidence in himself and admits to being cowardly?

"There's nothing to worry about customizing this film. Ma's comedy is no longer up to date, and it's destined to be eliminated by the times." Li Qian said again.

"How to say?" Xu Zheng's focus was suddenly drawn away. For a comedian and director, Ma's comedy cannot be avoided, and it has become the benchmark of domestic comedy in the past ten years.

Li Qian spread his hands, "Obviously, although this film satirizes the officials who are as black as crows in the world, Fan Wei's domineering appearance makes people see the arrogance of a villain.

In this play, Ma Xiaogang doesn’t sympathize with anyone. In his eyes, the upper and lower classes of society, apart from the differences in ranks, lead to different positions, but the essence is that they are completely dirty and complicit. Take comfort in comedy.

Unlike Party A and Party B, it satirizes the society and is not lacking in sarcasm, but overall it still maintains a cunning and kind citizen mentality, which is more tender. Private ordering did not achieve this, it is estimated that it was [-] Er's failure made him feel resentful.

Comedy, if it’s not funny, it’s over, it’s the lowest level of comedy, it can’t even be called comedy, it can only be called funny.

Thai囧 is different, it takes two paths of emotion and humor. Husband and wife, father and daughter, friends, business rivals, all have emotional lines, which endow the movie with a more tender side. Apart from being funny, it also has a touch of touch. This kind of movie is a big killer, at least one billion box office. "

A bottom of one billion?

Xu Zheng is still thinking about the difference between private ordering and Party A and Party B. Huayang has already done a small-scale screening, and he knows the general content of the movie, and he has long known that the movie is to help others realize their dreams.

However, in the end, all thoughts were held back by Li Qian's sentence of one billion box office.

There was even more excitement and uncertainty in the eyes looking at Li Qian, "Can Thai Jill really reach a billion?"

If it was someone else, then Xu Zheng would take it as a good word, but Xu Zheng believed what Li Qian said.

"Of course, Thai Jiong will never have any rivals at the box office." Li Qian said very firmly.

The three best Mesozoic comedians in the mainland are funny enough, warm enough, and not outdated. In this Internet age, none of them can play.

The Ghost Blowing Lantern that Xu Zheng is preparing is probably not enough for Thai Jiong to play together. The advantage of comedy is too great.

With a bottom line of one billion, Xu Zheng left a little blissfully, and no longer worried about whether the monopoly of online ticketing by movies in the future would have an impact on the box office.

After Xu Zheng left, Li Qian called Du Yang, and the plan remained the same.

With the development of the mobile Internet in front of us, people will rely more and more on mobile phones. In the future, everything may be done through mobile phones.

Including shopping, grocery shopping, eating in restaurants, going to work, studying, traveling, traveling and so on.

Buying tickets online is so convenient, and even if you don't want to book tickets in advance, you have to.

Others have assigned a good seat, if you are late, you can only sit on the sidelines.

This is the same as QQ and WeChat. Even if you like to use MSN, you must not give up and use QQ and WeChat, because everyone is using them, and you have to communicate and contact them.

Buying tickets online will inevitably become the mainstream. It has little to do with whether people want to use it or not.

If more than 80 movie tickets are purchased through mobile phone software, the platform may be able to counteract movie theaters. This possible impact is undoubtedly very important to film practitioners.

Therefore, Li Qian is still very concerned about this. Once he found that Glava pursues experience and does not pay attention to market share, he immediately abandoned it and built an APP himself.

But to compete with Glava, Meituan, Dabao Movies, and QQ Movies, it must be tricky. After all, it came late and there are no regular users.

Therefore, it is still necessary to use the core competitiveness of the film itself.

For the audience, it doesn’t matter which one they buy on the ticket-buying app, so monopolizing movie tickets will not have any negative impact.

Of course, the more important thing is that Thai Jiong itself is excellent, and there are not enough opponents in the Lunar New Year file.

......

The New Year's Eve is approaching, and as the first to appear on the stage, Thailand has already started publicity.

Xu Zheng, Huang Bo, and Wang Baoqiang are the three major comedians, who are famous for their previous works on Journey, and Xu Zheng gained a lot of favor in I Am Not the God of Medicine, and immediately became the most popular movie at the moment.

November is also passing quickly, and Li Qian's filming is still in Shanghai, and he has been filming the plots in the nursing home.

The movie itself is a bit of a running account, quite boring, and has higher requirements for quality, so Li Qian shot very slowly. Even the old people in the nursing home are all veterans of the Shanghai Theater.

On Sunday, November 11th, ten days before the film's release, the official Weibo of Thai囧 announced that it will open a large-scale nationwide pre-sale in advance on December 24th.

The future movie Weibo also announced, and during these seven days, pre-order the movie tickets of Lost in Thailand, enjoy certain discounts, first come first served, the number is limited.

Pre-sale in advance and discounts, which can't help but make the industry think about it.

"Could it be that the quality of Thai Jiong is not good?"

Thinking of this, the major companies couldn't help but get a little excited.

Otherwise, it would be too late to raise the price of a hit movie, and the price would be raised before watching Zhang Weiping.

Only things with poor quality will drop in price. This is a consensus in any industry, and good things will always only increase in price.

Thai Jiong's move was undoubtedly of poor quality. Li Qian was worried that the box office would repeat the same mistakes as other winds, so he decided to lower the price to attract people to buy tickets.