Chapter 216 Xu Kai is playing rogue (Please subscribe!)
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"The position of China's top director is about to change hands?
——The new generation director Yu Qingyun directly challenges China's top director Zhang! "
"Whether Blood Labyrinth or The Outcast loses at the domestic box office, the director will donate 100 million yuan to charity. Does Zhang dare to accept the challenge raised by Yu Qingyun?"
"The president of the China Red Affairs Association, Chen Lan, highly praised Director Yu Qingyun's support for China's philanthropy, calling him the hope of China's philanthropy."
"Is it the arrogance of youth, or is it the fearlessness of a newborn calf, or is it because of something to rely on? I am beginning to look forward to the young director Yu Qingyun and his "Ten Miles of Foreign Lands."
"I've noticed that rumors about Yu Qingyun, Zhu Bing and Yang Xindong have been everywhere recently, saying that Yu Qingyun is not worthy of Zhu Bing or Yang Xindong. However, I think the opposite is true. Birds fly high when they follow phoenixes, and people are ambitious when they are with virtuous people. It is very likely that Zhu Bing and Yang Xindong are willing to be with Yu Qingyun because of his character, vision and personal charm."
"I hope Zhang can accept the challenge. As the saying goes, 'Don't forget your original intention, and you will succeed.' Having a grateful heart to 'give back to society' is the courage, responsibility and accomplishment of a public figure."
"This world belongs to you, and to us, but ultimately it belongs to the young. Young director Yu Qingyun, you are a very good young man, I am optimistic about you."
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Zhang never expected that he would be set up because of a careless remark he made! 100 million! This was in 2009, 100 million was definitely an astronomical figure, a huge sum of money that ordinary people dare not even think about! Let’s put it this way, over the years, every movie Zhang made made a lot of money, but in the end, he only got tens of millions of dollars for each movie. He had to make several movies to earn 100 million!
What if Zhang doesn't accept the challenge?
People might say that Zhang, China's top director, is not worthy of his reputation because he is afraid of a new director.
That would be fine, but the problem is that at this critical moment when "Blood Labyrinth" is about to be released, if Zhang does not dare to accept the challenge, especially since the stakes of this bet are to be donated to charity organizations, it will inevitably greatly affect the box office of "Blood Labyrinth".
And that's not all. If Zhang doesn't respond, he will completely lose the hearts of the audience. By then, no matter how good his movies are, no one will go to the cinema to watch them or spend money to support him. Then his box office appeal as China's number one director will probably be gone.
And Zhang should accept the challenge.
If he wins, Zhang will get nothing, and even those who benefit from it may not be grateful to him - those people will only be grateful to Xu Kai who caused this incident.
If he loses, Zhang will not only lose his reputation, but also 100 million yuan. Those who benefit from it will not be grateful to him either - those people will only be grateful to Xu Kai who caused this incident.
The problem is, this won't do much good for the box office of "Blood Labyrinth" - considering Zhang's reputation as the top director in China, how could he miss this little bit of popularity? More importantly, even if this does help the box office of "Blood Labyrinth", it has nothing to do with Zhang - he earns a base salary plus a commission, so he can make a stable income.
In this case, why would Zhang risk his own wealth and reputation for the benefit of a large number of people? It can be said that this matter is really not beneficial to Zhang at all.
Zhang was so depressed that he even yelled at Xu Kai at home: "You mad dog, why did you have to bite me? I jumped into the well with your child in my arms? Do you really want to step on me to get to the top?"
Xu Kai's purpose is obvious to everyone.
Anyone who is not a fool can see that Xu Kai's move is nothing more than an attempt to tie himself to Zhang, and to tie the upcoming "Ten Miles of Foreign Concessions" and the upcoming "Blood Labyrinth" together, using the fame of Zhang and "Blood Labyrinth" to elevate the fame of Xu Kai and "Ten Miles of Foreign Concessions".
How does the saying go? A piece of straw thrown on the street is garbage, but if tied to a cabbage, it can be sold at the price of cabbage, and if tied to a hairy crab, it can be sold at the price of a hairy crab.
Now, Xu Kai and the straw "Shiliyangchang" are just garbage that can be found everywhere on the street, but he insists on tying it together with Zhang and "Blood Labyrinth", the expensive hairy crab, and insists on selling it at the price of hairy crab.
Do you think Zhang was angry? The most important thing was that Xu Kai was clearly being a hooligan, but no one said anything to him. In fact, everyone was praising him.
Why? That's because no matter what the outcome of this bet is, the winner will be China's charity, and the loser will just be a director.
Let me put it this way.
Big stars and big directors can earn tens of millions for making a movie. Top directors like Zhang can earn tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, for a movie.
How much money can an average person earn in his lifetime?
Okay, let’s not talk about ordinary people, let’s talk about scientists.
Scientists devote their youth to the country and to all mankind. They deserve our admiration. The value they create is far greater than that of big stars and big directors. How much money do they earn in their lifetime? The key is, weren't these so-called big stars and big directors just low-class actors in ancient times? What contributions have they made to the country and to mankind? Why do they earn so much? You earn money, so what's wrong with giving some of it to charity? Don't forget that the money you earn is all the money of us ordinary people. What's wrong with giving some of it to those in need?
In addition to these, many people, especially young people, also liked Xu Kai because of his courage.
Let me ask you, in 2009, how many people dared to bet 100 million for charity?
Moreover, the person Xu Kai was challenging was China's number one director!
Just because of Xu Kai's courage, those who said Xu Kai was not worthy of Zhu Bing or Yang Xindong on the Internet all stopped talking.
At the same time, "Ten Miles of Foreign Lands" also received unprecedented attention in the history of Chinese cinema.
Three days later, Zhang officially announced on his personal social media platform: Come and fight, boy!
It is not difficult to see Zhang's anger from these four short words.
This is actually understandable. After all, Zhang was forced to fight, so how could he not be angry?
To be honest, Zhang actually didn't want to make this bet with Xu Kai, this scoundrel.
The first reason is, of course, that there is no benefit in winning, but if you lose you will lose 100 million.
The key point is that Zhang didn't tell anyone that he actually lacked confidence in the movie "Blood Labyrinth".
Because of last year's Olympic Games, Zhang hasn't made a film for more than three years.
As a result, the company of Zhang and his old partner Zhang Ping has not had any income for three years.
Zhang Ping, who was anxious to make money, was almost going red with anxiety.
Zhang also felt that he had let his old partner down, so he listened to Zhang Ping's advice and made the movie "Blood Labyrinth".
But soon after the film project was launched, Zhang discovered that Zhang Ping had changed.
In the past, Zhang Ping didn't care about the filming of the movie or how much money Zhang spent, and he just focused on external distribution.
But now Zhang Ping wants to control everything, including actors, scripts, and even the specific filming.
In order to make "Blood Labyrinth" profitable, Zhang Ping repeatedly lobbied Zhang to use Shen Yang, the comedian who became popular on the Spring Festival Gala last year, as the leading actor, and brought in a large number of comedians to perform in "Blood Labyrinth".
Zhang Ping believes that many middle-aged and elderly people like to watch these comedians, and they have great box office appeal among them.
Moreover, these comedians are cheap. The combined pay of all of them is still not as much as the pay of a top-tier first-line star.
In a word, this "Blood Labyrinth" has nothing to do with Zhang's previous relatively high-brow artistic style.
In other words, the movie "Blood Labyrinth" was actually no longer led by Zhang, but by Zhang Ping.
How could Zhang have confidence in such a movie? But Zhang had been forced into a desperate situation by Xu Kai.
The key point is that Zhang Ping was very confident in Zhang and the film "Blood Labyrinth" he led. Therefore, in this situation where he would definitely lose a lot if he did not fight back, Zhang Ping urged Zhang to gamble with Xu Kai, and said that if Zhang lost, the producer of "Blood Labyrinth" would pay half of the 100 million to Zhang...
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(End of this chapter)
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