Chapter 26 A Perfect Match
Hearing this name, Su Yun couldn't help but sigh in his heart at the mystery of the world.
The reason why she gave the script to Zhao at first was that she was afraid that the songs would be stolen, so she removed two interludes just in case. But the script she gave to Xu Gujie later was because she was using it herself, so both interludes were included, making it a complete script.
Xu Gujie took a fancy to the Cantonese song "Li Wan Qian Xiao" and planned to sing it himself, while another Mandarin song "Tian Mi Mi" that matched it was thought of by Xu Gujie and he was preparing to contact Deng Niyun to sing it. This was truly God's will.
And the most coincidental thing is that Deng Niyun not only wanted to make a movie at this time, but also urgently needed some outstanding original songs. With the added bonus of "Sweet Honey", the success rate of this invitation should be very high.
Sure enough, good news soon came back from Taiwan.
Deng Niyun is very satisfied with this song: her record company is very stingy and is reluctant to spend money to tailor a new song of high quality for her. Instead, it lets her keep covering and adapting old songs, and use these classic covers to release records and go on tour to make money.
Now she is still young and her singing is sweet and fresh, so people enjoy listening to her songs. When she gets older, if she can only sing covers and doesn't have her own classic songs, she will sooner or later become outdated.
Now, not only does she have a good song to sing but she can also get paid for the movie. When the movie is released, she can also save some publicity costs. Why not?
While the Xu brothers were confirming the heroine, Su Yun was also busy. On one hand, she called Zhao Yinyin and Zhao Xiashi, and on the other hand, she ran to the Azalea Tea Restaurant to ask people. At breakfast time, she waited for Zhou Yuanfa who came to deliver the goods.
"What?! You want me to make a movie?!" Zhou Yuanfa was stunned, "But I'm very busy with work..."
"It is expected to take seven days to shoot, with a daily wage of 100. If the shooting is not completed by the deadline and overtime is required, it will also be 100 a day. Do you want to come?" Su Yun said calmly.
"When? I'll ask my boss for leave right away!" Zhou Yuanfa replied immediately.
Although he was very busy with work to support his family...but, what she gave him was really too much!
More than 300 points a month and 100 points a day with extra money for overtime. As long as you are not stupid, you will know which one to choose!
What's more, maybe I'll have a chance to enter the entertainment industry in the future... It's said that the money in the entertainment industry is easy to make.
Satisfied, Su Yun held the three contracts for main and supporting roles, and went to Jiahe to ask the Xu brothers to find two older actors with good acting skills.
So she soon got two names: Hu Xiu and Luo Xian.
"Hu Xiu was known as 'Dancing King Xiu' when he was filming movies. Although he has switched to the TV industry in recent years, he still makes guest appearances in movies. His appearance and temperament are very similar to the father of the heroine you set. Luo Xian is a mixed-race girl with Indian ancestry. She was gorgeous when she was young, and her appearance is similar to that of the third female character you chose, Zhao Yinyin. Of course, the most important thing is that both of them are well-known in the industry for their professionalism and good acting skills." Xu Guwen explained.
Su Yun was very satisfied with this: Uncle Xiu and Mrs. Long, in her era, you could often see them in classic Hong Kong films, and their acting skills have stood the test of time.
"Now that the actors and other things are ready, let's start shooting as soon as possible. We have worked so hard to get the Lantern Festival schedule." Su Yun finally made the decision.
The craziest thing was the Hong Kong film industry in its early years. It only took seven days from filming to release a movie, which was known in history as "Seven Days Fresh".
However, considering that they still had to negotiate the time and some details with Deng Niyun, Su Yun still asked the Xu brothers to arrange their time as much as possible - if Su Yun's proposal did not sound a bit greedy in the eyes of others, if the filming started on the 27th of this year, it would probably be able to catch up with the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, when most people start working after the New Year holiday...
Arranging it for the Lantern Festival can at least be considered a "half-month fresh" move. Firstly, this year's Lantern Festival happens to fall on a Saturday, so both children and adults basically have a day off; secondly, it also allows Su Yun to set aside some time for herself so that she can use some tricks to convince Xu Guwen to hand over the film to her for post-production.
In this era where people still don’t understand how important lighting, filters, color grading and other things are, the dark and yellowish color of the picture is secondary. The most disappointing thing is that no matter how good-looking the actors are, their skin color is the same as if they had dug coal from a black coal kiln!
Movies are originally the art of light and shadow. Haven’t you seen how many beauties in old movies have been adjusted by the masters of later generations using a full range of post-production software, and have become lovable at first sight after only being appreciated after a careful look!
On February 16, a Friday afternoon, Hong Jialan, a fifth grade student at Sham Shui Po Government Primary School, waved goodbye to her friends and walked home alone with her schoolbag on her back.
On her way home, she had to pass through several sparsely populated alleys, and the place was a mixed crowd. From time to time, middle school students would block the way on the alley and rob elementary school students of their money, so usually her mother Che Meishuang would pick her up after get off work.
But today is her mother's birthday, and her mother's nasty boss wants her to work overtime. After hearing from the teacher who answered the phone that she would be late, she wanted to go home early by herself and give her mother a surprise.
Moreover, she secretly broke her beloved piggy bank last night, intending to use the pocket money she had saved over the past few months to buy a warm scarf for her mother.
Thinking of her mother wearing a scarf, Hong Jialan moved her schoolbag from her back to her chest, unzipped it, took a look at the amount inside and confirmed that it was enough to pay. Then she smiled foolishly and quickened her pace, intending to take a shortcut to the clothing store that sold scarves.
"Hey, little sister, are you out shopping alone?" Suddenly, a nonchalant voice sounded from behind.
Hong Jialan was startled and turned her head with horror, just in time to see two high school students who were much taller than her, wearing the uniforms of a famous scoundrel school nearby, looking at her with a smile.
"What do you want to do?!" Hong Jialan was terrified and subconsciously hugged her schoolbag tightly.
"Isn't this obvious? We brothers are a little short of money, and we want to borrow some money from you, little sister." The two middle school students laughed out loud.
"No, this money is for buying a birthday present for my mother!" Hong Jialan shook her head desperately, and then she felt someone pulling her braid.
"That's perfect! You must have brought a lot of money with you. Hand it over!" the taller middle school student shouted fiercely.
Hong Jialan endured the pain from her braid and refused with tears in her eyes: "No! I will never give it to you!"
While resisting the beatings and scolding from two middle school students and holding her schoolbag tightly in her arms, Hong Jialan suddenly saw several people passing by at the street intersection.
Those are the naughty and annoying kids in their class. They often enjoy pulling girls' hair, dirtying other people's clothes with crayons, playing tricks with plastic knives and disturbing other people's studies, and playing pranks everywhere!
A few days ago, she and the other girls complained to the teacher about them and asked them to do duty for a week. It was impossible for them to come to save her...
Apparently, those elementary school students also noticed this.
After looking at each other with complicated expressions, the boys took out the plastic swords they usually used to dress up as heroes from their schoolbags and rushed forward with great momentum.
"Let you bully the weak by taking advantage of your strength! Let you bully the weak by taking advantage of your strength!" The lethality of a group of little boys of this age with "weapons" should not be underestimated. Although they are more than a head shorter than the two middle school students, the quality of the two middle school students is clearly not comparable to the number of seven or eight fifth-grade elementary school students. They were beaten and fled away in a few strokes.
"Thank you so much..." Hong Jialan, still in shock, thanked weakly while holding her schoolbag.
"You're welcome. This is what we in Xiwu Middle School should do!" Several boys looked at each other and said this in unison. Then they couldn't help laughing out loud, "Hahaha... This feels really good!"
"I never thought that after watching TV yesterday, we could do what was on TV today! Hahaha!"
Hong Jialan was confused by this, but when the boys escorted her to the clothing store, she finally found out from the conversation why these naughty and annoying stars changed their gender.
"That gg is so good, it's said to be a promotional video for a movie that will be released tomorrow. We have decided to ask our parents to take us to the cinema to watch it tomorrow!" A group of boys said with great joy, "Usually we watch adults fighting and being heroes on TV, but it turns out that we little kids can also be heroes and punish evildoers!"
"That's right. Adults always say that we little kids only know how to watch cartoons and fight with us for the remote control all day long. Now we have a movie to watch!"
"I'm tired of watching those romantic movies with my sister. The two of us would just cry and cry and we wouldn't know what we were crying about. It was ridiculous!"
After buying the scarf and being escorted home, Hong Jialan turned on the TV and watched the good-looking gg on Hong Kong Channel that the boys talked about.
Because schools in Hong Kong finish classes earlier in the afternoon, usually after four o'clock, Jade Channel and Hong Kong Channel start to use some children's programs and cartoons to grab the ratings during this time.
So Su Yun put the promotional video No. 1 for children in the afternoon when the premium was relatively low, and the promotional video No. 2 for adult audiences in the prime time in the evening when the premium was expensive.
Firstly, it can save a lot of advertising costs, and secondly, it has a clear positioning and can be used by all sizes.
As for Hong Kong TV, which was contacted through Wu Yunyi's father who works at Liying, it was even more straightforward: No matter how long we have known each other, as long as you are an opponent of Zhao and TBB, then we are friends!
Watching the girls group led by Su Yun and the boys group led by Zhou Xingyi on TV playing pranks on each other but appearing friendly on the surface, Hong Jialan, who had a deep understanding of the situation, couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Moreover, the picture here is much brighter than the TV or movies I usually watch. Everyone looks so fair and healthy, and the colors are so bright and touching, unlike the dark and yellowish pictures on other movies and TV shows nowadays...
In a blink of an eye, the scene changes, and the group of girls are bullied by a scary-looking old lady and a beautiful but fierce older sister, and are tortured pitifully on the stage.
"These two people are so bad!" Hong Jialan couldn't help but curse angrily.
Afterwards, the boys saw the girls being bullied, so they united to help rescue them. They asked the girls to change into beautiful clothes, transform themselves, and defeat the scary grandma and the fierce big sister!
The male audience saw the passion of the police who punished the evildoers regardless of past grudges, but the female audience, including Hong Jialan, saw——
"Their transformed clothes are so pretty!"
"I wish I had one too!"
"I also want to transform, wear a beautiful dress, and defeat those bad older sisters!"
Thinking of the beautiful older sister who had taken her father away, Hong Jialan couldn't help but wipe away her tears secretly.
"Lanlan, what happened? Why are your eyes red?" After returning home, Che Meishuang saw her daughter's red eyes and couldn't help but ask.
"I'm fine, just a little scared..." Hong Jialan told Che Meishuang what happened in the afternoon.
"Silly girl, you really scared your mother to death!" Che Meishuang hugged Hong Jialan in fear and fumbled around to make sure that she was not injured, then she relaxed a little.
"Don't think too much. How about we eat cake and watch TV tonight?" Che Meishuang held the scarf with emotion and touched Hong Jialan's little head.
"Yes!" Hong Jialan picked up the cake.
Che Meishuang smiled with relief. Just as she was about to use the remote control to switch the TV channel to the English channel Pearl Channel under TBB, the Hong Kong Channel, which was broadcasting a TV series, skipped a scene and started playing GG again.
A gentle and elegant but ordinary-dressed young handsome man was walking down the street with a beautiful girl in an intimate manner.
When the audience saw that the girl really liked a branded dress but did not say it explicitly, but instead suggested buying a cheap silver ring as an engagement ring, many of them fell in love with the beautiful girl.
What a wonderful girl! Not only did she not mind the young man being poor and having a daughter, she also considered everything for him.
Afterwards, when the young man went outside to buy snacks for the big and small, the beautiful girl went out and made a phone call. With a sinister smile, she said to the person on the other end of the phone that she had received news that the stocks in the young man's hands would rise sharply soon. As long as she took the opportunity to catch him, she would soon be the wife of a millionaire!
"So you're after my dad's money!" The little girl on the other end of the phone heard the truth and stared at the beautiful girl in disbelief.
Isn't this little girl the prettiest one among the girls who transformed before? And this pretty big sister is also the vicious bad woman before!
Hong Jialan immediately became interested.
"So what? He won't believe what you say!" The beautiful girl poked the little girl's forehead hard. "Wait until I become your mother... I will educate you well! Hahahaha!"
Seeing this, Che Meishuang looked at her daughter with even more fear: In this world, every stepmother and every stepfather is there. Fortunately, when she got divorced, she insisted on keeping her daughter by her side no matter how hard it was.
Otherwise, even if she has gotten through it now, she won't be able to get her good daughter back.
However, what was even more unexpected was that after being bullied by the beautiful girl, the little girl took the opportunity when the beautiful girl went back to choose a ring to put in a coin and make a phone call: "Dad is getting engaged to a bad woman, quickly settle your business and come over to my place!"
Then, the scene shifted to a luxurious banquet.
A little girl in a pretty dress walked into the hall in high spirits, holding the hand of a pretty woman.
At this time, a young man in a well-dressed suit and a beautiful girl in a dress were greeting the guests one by one.
After inadvertently looking up and seeing the beautiful woman, the young man couldn't help but mutter to himself: "Wife..."
However, the beautiful woman was like a light cloud, disappearing into the crowd in an instant.
The young man dropped the wine glass in his hand silently, and then he hurriedly walked into the crowd, as if he wanted to catch up with that beautiful light cloud -
The picture gradually blurred, and the luxurious scene turned into thousands of gorgeous lights and shadows, and the subtitles slowly emerged.
"It turns out that all encounters in this world are reunions after a long separation..."
"We are a perfect match, made in pairs. I'm going to make an appointment with you on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month!"