Chapter 282: Rivals

After spending so much time making so many nets, it's time to take them out and go fishing.

The release schedule of a movie has always been a very mysterious thing. Choosing a release schedule for a movie is as important as choosing the location of a glass counter for a cake that is about to be sold to people: if you choose a suitable location, then you can achieve good sales; if you choose the wrong location, then it is very likely to sit on the bench until it is taken off the shelves.

As for how to choose this position, it is not generally recognized that the best position is a good position. Instead, you need to combine everything about yourself, fully understand yourself, and then choose the most suitable "position" based on various factors.

After all, having a popular release date doesn’t guarantee a hit movie. A good movie chooses the wrong release date and ends up being mediocre, while a popcorn movie happens to hit a hot spot and becomes a huge hit at a certain time. These are all things that happen in the real world.

For example, Su Yun had repeatedly suggested to Spielberg that "Jaws" be released during the summer vacation period, which was considered by everyone to be a niche period at the time, but was particularly suitable for families to watch movies together when they were not traveling. Not only did it successfully create a phenomenal legend of a niche movie sub-type, it also successfully revitalized the summer vacation period as a new popular golden period.

As the saying goes, small hits depend on support, big hits depend on luck.

To achieve a phenomenal result, the right time, right place and right people are all essential.

Su Yun's earlier film Brewster's Billions, which was launched at the right time, is also a typical example of taking advantage of the situation. First, after it was shown in theaters, it reaped the box office data from a large number of ethnic minorities and most of the lower-middle class audiences. Later, when the news came out that a Chinese-American councilman in Cerritos, California, ran for mayor and won, it triggered a new wave of movie and video sales.

This time, Su Yun went even further and released two films in the summer vacation that could be described as having different styles.

Er Dongxing looked at the two posters on the wall of the cinema, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought about which one to watch first.

The poster on the left is a very "literary" movie called "The Rooftop Postman". The deformed high-rise buildings and tiny human figures complement each other, together with the twilight tones of the sky and the chaotic background, interweaving into a weird yet harmonious look. The carnival-like struggle atmosphere of the future wasteland where one must do one's best to live in the present even if born at the end of the world is most in line with the taste of people like him who like "deep" movies.

The poster on the right has a college campus background like many youth movies. A blonde girl in a pink suit is walking in the center of the picture with a big smile on her face. Her smile is as bright, warm and sweet as the sun. It is a very typical American blonde girl look.

However, as we can gather from the movie title "Legally Blonde", this is probably a story about a template character breaking stereotypes and achieving success. It is the most typical popcorn movie. You don't even need to use your brain to watch the whole thing, just having fun is enough.

Logically speaking, the film type of "Sister Exorcist" invited by Su Yun is similar to "Legally Blonde". If he wants to understand the content of his next work as soon as possible, watching "Legally Blonde" first is the safest way...

Feeling helpless that his dreams and hobbies had to succumb to reality, Er Dongxing was about to go to the ticket window to buy tickets for "Legally Blonde" when he suddenly saw a familiar-looking plump figure through the gap in his sunglasses.

"Miss, please help me get two tickets for Legally Blonde! Couples seats, please!" The plump figure leaned towards the ticket window, holding a woman with medium-length curly hair that many housewives like to iron nowadays.

As old enemies for many years, Er Dongxing immediately confirmed the identities of the two people in front of him: his old enemy Wang Zheng, with whom he had been fighting for many years, and Wang Zheng's wife Wang Tai.

It was indeed an injustice - Wang Zheng, the slightly plump guy who was now showing signs of rapid development, was an old neighbor like him when he was a child, living with his parents in the dormitory of Zhao's Studio.

However, because Wang Zheng liked his second brother Jiang Dawei since he was a child, and thought that Jiang Dawei was extremely handsome in the three movies "The Bodyguard", "Fist" and "Revenge", he named Jiang Dawei as his idol in his youth and the male star he most wanted to work with when he grew up. He often waited for Jiang Dawei at the door of his house to express his love for him.

However, the second brother Jiang Dawei felt that the two had completely different styles, so he didn't want to pay any attention to him. So Wang Zheng, who failed to seduce the second brother, "saved the country in a roundabout way" and specifically found himself as the younger brother to fight with, and vented all the grievances he suffered from his brother on his younger brother...

With a brother who is a role model in martial arts films, Er Dongxing is naturally not someone to be bullied, so the two of them have been bickering with each other since they were young, and they often stage real-life PKs - later, when they were older and it was not convenient for them to fight in front of others, they would go up and laugh at each other whenever they got the chance.

"You watch these comedies again? There's no nutrition in them. No wonder the things you write and shoot are like this." Er Dongxing saw Mrs. Wang go to the nearby grocery store to buy snacks and drinks, so he decisively went up to Wang Zheng and fired, "I really don't understand some people who are obviously capable of shooting some good things, but just don't want to put their heart into it. They copy some bad plots and shoot some bad movies to deceive the audience..."

"The public's aesthetic tastes are all about relaxing things. Who wants to spend money to suffer in a cinema after working a day?" Wang Zheng looked up at him with a smile, "I finally asked someone to help me take care of my daughter, so when I drag my wife out to see a movie, naturally I want to watch something relaxing and happy..."

"It's not like some people who are alone. Even if they want to bow down to five buckets of rice, there is no one around to help them. Oh, it's really 'Yin Gong'!" In the common saying, "Yin Gong" actually means "Yin Gong" The omission of the word "无气公" means that superstitious people in the old days believed that what a person did while alive would follow the person's death to the underworld, and then the merits and demerits would be recorded according to the good and bad things.

If you do good things, you have "yin gong", and if you do bad things, you have "no yin gong". Therefore, the original meaning of the word "no yin gong" is to commit evil. Later, with the evolution of spoken language, it extended to the meaning of pitiful and desolate. ——However, nowadays most of them are used to insult and ridicule others for their pitiful current situation.

Er Dongxing frowned: "What gossip have you heard?"

"There's no need to ask around. Mary Sue has invited me to be the director of 'Exorcist Sister', and your second brother will also be making a cameo appearance with Dillon - wow, seeing this lineup, I didn't even need to read the script and agreed right away." Wang Zheng approached with an air of a good brother, "I heard that you're one of the male leads in it? I'd really like to see what you've accomplished over the years..."

"The results are none of your business. I haven't agreed to take this movie yet." Er Dongxing frowned even more tightly.

"Oh, that's great. I actually don't really want to film you. To be honest, it's hard to take care of a 'little treasure' like you who lacks a sense of security." Wang Zheng clapped his hands: The reason why Er Dongxing wanted to switch from being a top-tier actor to being a behind-the-scenes director is because he feels that an actor is a passive character who cannot control himself and can only be manipulated by others. Therefore, he prefers to be a behind-the-scenes director who has a higher sense of security and can control the direction of the story and the fate of the characters in his own hands.

At present, Er Dongxing is not the Hong Kong circle's powerful talker who can scold his girlfriend and his artists until they cry, so he is too lazy to pay attention to Wang Zheng, his old enemy who is particularly willing to make sarcastic remarks. He silently lowered his head, walked to the ticket window, paid for a ticket for "The Rooftop Postman".

"Take a closer look. You like this tone anyway." Wang Zheng was carrying his wife who had bought two large bags of snacks and drinks. After nodding and talking to his wife, he took out a bottle of orange juice from the bag and said, "Here, it suits you very well. Take it - 'poor' juice."

In Cantonese, the characters for "橙" (orange) and "慘" (misfortune) have similar pronunciations, and people with a strong lazy accent often pronounce them incorrectly. However, Wang Zheng is one of the few college students of this generation - so this must have been a deliberate mispronunciation to mock him!

"What's so miserable about it? You'll be miserable enough on your own!" Er Dongxing turned around and glared at him, "People like you who entered the marriage grave early don't understand the passionate summer of us single nobles..."

"Really? Then I wish you a hot summer as a single noble every year in the future." Wang Zheng felt that he had nothing to worry about with his wife at hand, so he tried his best to mock this long-time enemy and single dog.

"Just wait, I just don't want to. If I wanted, all the girls in Hong Kong would be waiting for me to pick!" Er Dongxing was getting angry and embarrassed as he was repeatedly attacked by his long-time enemies for being single.

"Forget it, you're not even qualified to be a judge on Miss Hong Kong. You still want to have all the girls in Hong Kong waiting for you to choose..." Wang Zheng waved his hand, "You don't even dare to film a love scene!"

"Who said I don't dare to shoot? Just wait, as soon as Mary Sue comes back, I will take her movie contract and then I will specifically go against you, a vulgar director!" After saying this, Er Dongxing walked up the stairs to the screening room on the second floor without looking back.

Watching Er Dongxing hurried upstairs, Wang Zheng found an excuse to let his wife go in first, then went to the public phone booth and made a call: "Hello? Mary? Yes, it's me, Wang Zheng!"

"I've followed your instructions and used provocation to motivate Xiaobao. When he goes to watch the movie, I'll arrange for Miss Zhang to approach him... OK, OK, absolutely no problem. Don't worry about me. They will definitely understand each other's difficulties..."

Su Yun smiled on the other end of the phone: "Thank you for your hard work. I'll discuss the details when I return to Hong Kong. You should first deal with Er Dongxing and Zhang Wanyu, the "happy enemies". I will arrange the other two movie couples."

"It's not hard at all. It's a rare opportunity you give me, not only to work with Jiang Dawei, but also to direct a movie of this investment level. On the other hand, I should thank you!" Wang Zheng said as he leaned over to take a look at the second floor. Sure enough, he saw Zhang Wanyu, who was stood up by her friend, walking up the stairs to the second floor angrily with the movie ticket in her hand.