Chapter 488: Inside and Outside the Play

They suppressed their inner surprise and continued watching, and then they discovered that "The Five Tigers of the City" was not a "TV series" as they had originally thought, but a "TV movie" - to put it simply, it was a relatively low-cost movie shot with film techniques and creative thinking, and its carrier was not the big screen of a cinema, but the small screen of a TV.

Because there is not much content in this document, except for the general information of the whole movie and a small summary of the content, Su Yun briefly explained to them: Although "Five Tigers of Law and Order" is a TV movie on the surface, it is a "commercial blockbuster" in Hollywood.

Converted into the investment amount in Hong Kong, the production cost of each episode of "Five Tigers of the City" is actually not small. And because of the length, the total investment amount is not much lower than the average level of large-scale movies.

After hearing this, the last bit of psychological gap in Leon and Toby's hearts disappeared without a trace.

To put it bluntly, the reason why the two of them were "dissatisfied" with "The Five Tigers of Law and Order" was that they had set too high expectations in the beginning, which led to a psychological gap when they got the movie, and then they behaved as they did before.

In fact, this movie is already a very good opportunity for them now.

What's more, the Spider-Man they have been dreaming of, the very first live-action version was the TV series "The Amazing Spider-Man" starring Nicholas Hammond, which was first broadcast by CBS in 1977. And because of its popularity, it was later adapted into a TV movie and released under the name of "Spider-Man"... In this way, it can even be said that Toby's starting point was higher than the first live-action Spider-Man, as he started directly from a TV movie.

Moreover, this "Five Tigers of the City" is the work of the Kung Fu King Lu Shaolong who returned after many years. Not to mention the master-disciple relationship between Su Yun and Lu Shaolong, the subject matter and the leading actors alone will definitely attract a certain amount of attention and resources. Having a supporting role with a name and a part in such a TV movie is definitely more promising than playing a minor role in a small-budget movie.

Especially Toby's most "role" role at present is a passerby who serves as a human background board when the protagonist goes to the game hall in a low-budget road movie...

Besides, it is always said that Hong Kong movies require small investments, but that is just the general rule. If they really want to invest money, they can do it, and it is far better than all the crudely churned, low-budget movies in this circle - after all, Hong Kong also has a unique regional production industry system and talent pool. Although they are not as wealthy as the old companies in Hollywood, they can at least make a complete and up-to-date movie.

As for the role that Su Yun wanted Toby to play, it was an American high school student who became a disciple of Lu Shaolong's character because he liked Chinese Kung Fu and learned Kung Fu from Lu Shaolong's character.

Obviously, this is a role that is tailor-made for American teenagers in order to gain ratings here, and is "easy to identify with".

This not only conforms to Lu Shaolong's teaching principle of "teaching everyone without distinction", but also relies on this role to boost the ratings in North America. When "Grave Robbers" was first released, many young people who were fascinated by the Far East followed the protagonist's example and went to various antique shops in Chinatowns to try their luck and see if they could encounter an "adventure"...

After confirming that Toby had signed his name on the contract, Su Yun called an assistant through the internal phone to take the two away from the office. At the same time, she dialed a long series of numbers and called Lu Shaolong's home to tell him that she had found a suitable actor for the role of "American High School Apprentice".

Lu Shaolong was very happy to hear the news. He told the audience about his trip back to China to look for actors for the "Chinese Young Apprentice" role. He was also very satisfied with the young actor he had chosen: "The child is called Wu Xing. Last year, he won the national martial arts championship in boxing, spear, sword, and sparring. He is a child with great potential and a bright future..."

Su Yun nodded repeatedly after hearing this: Good guys, they have dug up two future box office bombs. The sales of videotapes of "Five Tigers of the City" are expected to be long-lasting and endless.

Especially after the release of the three classic Spider-Man films starring Toby, and Wu Xingwei's record-breaking patriotic and science fiction films, coupled with Lu Shaolong, who was once a box office bomb and an epoch-making phenomenon, it has simply included decades of movie memories for the three generations of the future...

It is always difficult to communicate clearly and fully over the phone. Su Yun simply reviewed the work at hand, said goodbye to Lu Shaolong, hung up the phone, and buried her head in her desk again, trying to make those important decisions and directions as soon as possible.

Although a lot of brokerage company matters can be pushed onto Ovitz, she is still one of the core R&D personnel at Apple and Microsoft, even though her shares have been diluted a lot. The research teams are still waiting for her to make decisions and participate in deciding the development plans for the next few years.

Because they found in the open and secret struggles over the years that only Su Yun could always accurately choose the most suitable and convenient path among many options, the research teams of the two companies are increasingly agreeing with Su Yun's choice, and even a little "waiting" for her to choose a path, and then investing all the accumulated strength and resources into it...

It’s not that they don’t want to use their own brains, it’s simply that they really can’t afford the cost and time of trial and error!

Especially according to some "terrifying" calculations, if Su Yun cannot accurately choose the most suitable and convenient option among many options every time; then they can only try in a dispersed manner, disperse their strength and resources, and spend more manpower and material resources to distinguish right from wrong, causing the world's technological level to be at least ten years behind the current level!

If Su Yun had not been so impossible to pry open, and had not been so lucky as to be blessed by heaven, coupled with her tenacious vitality that was like a wildfire that could not be extinguished and would spring up again with the spring breeze, according to the American character of crossing the river and destroying the bridge, she would have been kicked away long ago.

However, on the contrary, after their absence, Su Yun might be able to lead her team back to her homeland and start over; but if they were without Su Yun, they would have to spend more manpower and resources on trial and error research and development, slowing down the team's progress.

As a last resort, Su Yun, who had diluted his shares, took part of the profit share of various new products by "investing in technology"...

If she hadn't made some money from this, would her film "Kyushu Stories 1: Old Dreams of the Ancient Country" have been able to achieve both box office success and good reputation?

Isn't it that huge amounts of money were spent on making every aspect from actors to props to photography perfect, making it a film with both commercial and artistic flavor, and in the end it forcibly broke through the barriers of language and culture, went global, and reaped box office numbers around the world?

The promotion and publicity methods in particular are first-rate: Su Yun and his team never force all the audience to understand the metaphors in "Kyushu Past 1: Ancient Country Old Dream". Just looking at the love, hatred, and vengeance of the anthropomorphic characters of various countries on the surface is "enough" - after transforming the vast historical records into love, hatred, and vengeance wrapped in joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, just looking at those grievances and emotions can reach the hearts of the audience.

Many people who used to think that Su Yun was always wasting her talent by turning ideas that are obviously very meaningful into something so simple that even elementary school students can understand it, now began to notice and once again resent the power of Su Yun's method - because it can most affect the cognition of minors.

When minors place the protagonist "Zhong Yao" in a position of pitiful and lovable person who strives to fight hardships and revive local glory, except for those "smart kids" who will change their views later, these minors will easily follow the views left by the movie when they grow up, and associate "Zhong Yao" with "China", thus inherently having a great liking for everything about China.

Just like their entertainment works, they always put themselves on the side of justice, and through the ideological influence of film and television, they create a paradise in the eyes of foreigners, which is always full of sunshine, beaches and laughter.

Relying on the foundation of being one of the two most powerful countries in the world, their plan of "using entertainment to conquer the mind" is so good and unique that no one else can copy it.

Until Su Yun drastically eliminated all unfavorable factors, and then used personification to turn "big" into "small" and then use "small" to view "big", combined with the long recorded history of ancient China, to create "Zhong Yao", a character (guo) (jia) that makes people feel both pity and love.

The last film, "A Story of Kyushu 1: Old Dreams of the Ancient Country", was released at the end of 1990. It has been a hot topic since its release, even though Su Yun was busy with other work. And the next film, "A Story of Kyushu 2: Forging Ahead", will it be another Christmas box office bomb with "private goods"?

The key point is that the second part of "Nine Provinces Past" will definitely write about the years of mutual support between "Zhong Yao" and the northern boy Ivan. Even if the old love is gone, those years are still deep in the minds of the current generation of main force... Adding this point, the box office in the Soviet Union and mainland China may come up with an incredibly astonishing number!

Maybe...

We can also take this opportunity to recall the "sweet friendship" of the past and reconcile the two countries again -

If this is really the case, they must do something here!

It was not easy to pull China over from there by taking advantage of the "emotional discord" between China and the Soviet Union, and they absolutely cannot be allowed to "reconcile"!

The later generations described this record as "two big men fighting for the beauty from the East", which is exactly the same both in the play and outside the play.

Therefore, it is absolutely true that stories come from life.