After some struggle, Lin Xiaoling tried to make changes.

Of course, she didn't think about making comedy movies, but planned to make a love movie to cater to the tastes of young audiences.

Romance movies are between business and art, and can be made very literary or commercial.

It depends on how the director grasps it.

The ending of such movies is very important. Generally speaking, if the male and female protagonists don’t end up together, they tend to be artistic. If they have a happy ending, they are commercial films.

However, this boundary is very vague, and it can only be said that each person has his own opinions.

"Brother, I heard that you have discussed remakes of TV series with Director Zhao. I want to remake "Enjoy the End". This TV series has an audience base, and the box office of the movie should be good." Lin Xiaoling suggested.

"Enjoy the End" is a drama produced by the Beijing TV Art Center in 1993, with only eight episodes.

The main actors are Wang Zhiwen, Jiang Shan and Liu Bei. Although it was a short story, it caused a lot of sensation at that time.

Especially among young people, the lines in the play are talked about by everyone and become a buzzword.

This is the first romance drama in China. Lin Xiaoling thinks it is suitable for remakes into a romantic movie with literary temperament.

"You are robbing Brother Zhao's job. Do you want to use the original actors? They are not cheap now." Lin Zixuan considered.

The director of "Eating Endlessness" is Zhao Baogang, but Zhao Baogang has always focused on TV series and is not very interested in making movies.

Let’s talk about the actors. When Wang Zhiwen and Jiang Shan were not very famous when they filmed this drama, the pay was very low, only a few hundred yuan per episode.

Now that it is a remake of a movie, Wang Zhiwen's pay is at least 800,000 yuan. The pay of actors has increased so fast in recent years.

"I want to find a young actor to make a low-cost romance film." Lin Xiaoling replied.

This is a good choice. Young actors are not paid well. "Eating Endless" is an indoor drama that tells the love entanglement between a young man and a woman. A two million investment is enough.

Moreover, love-themed movies are never out of date. With the audience base of TV series, profitability is not a problem.

But it is not the time to maximize the benefits of the remake.

"Have you ever thought about it? This TV series has only been six years, and it has not settled enough in the minds of the audience. Your remake now is equivalent to early consumption." Lin Zixuan reminded.

Remakes of classics are extremely common in the film and television industry, mainly to make money by using the audience's nostalgia mentality.

What the audience watches is not movies, but memories of youth in those years, which is a kind of sentiment.

But nostalgia also has a deadline.

Taking "Enjoy the End" as an example, six years are too short to allow this TV series to settle into the hearts of the audience, or the audience has not grown to the point where they need nostalgia.

The young people at that time are still young people now, and have not entered middle age, so why not talk about nostalgia?

Perhaps the audience will go to the theater to watch the name "Enjoy the End", but the effect will never be very good.

A remake of a classic decade is a time node.

At the age of twenty, the audience at the age of thirty ten years later, started a family and started a business. In the busy work and cumbersome family life, they hoped to obtain temporary relief.

Nostalgia is the best way to get rid of it.

I went to the theater to watch a movie drama I had watched when I was young, and recalled the frivolity of my youth and the dream of pursuing my pursuit, and felt a lot of emotion.

Nostalgia is like fine wine, the older it becomes, the more fragrant it becomes.

However, it can't be too long. It's best for ten to twenty years, otherwise the audience will forget it, and that's meaningless.

"That's it, then I'll find another remake of TV series that has been around for a longer time. How about "Desire"?" Lin Xiaoling thought.

"You are so brave, you dare to touch this drama." Lin Zixuan said in surprise.

If "Enjoy the End" has caused a lot of sensation in China, the audience is mainly young people, and "Desire" is a national focus, regardless of age.

Ninety percent of the ratings are not something to say. Hundreds of millions of viewers have watched this drama, which is the collective nostalgia of the people across the country.

Once the filming is not good, it is secondary to destroying the classics, and it will definitely bring overwhelming scolding.

It takes a lot of courage to remake this drama, and even Lin Zixuan will not touch it easily.

"Of course I know the influence of this TV series. I don't want to remake it, but make a sequel." Lin Xiaoling explained, "The audience must want to know the follow-up news about Liu Huifang's family. Ten years have passed, how are Liu Huifang and Song Dacheng? What is that child named Xiaofang doing?"

"You mean shooting the story of 1999?" Lin Zixuan thought.

"This is like "Going Home". 1980 represents the past, 1997 is the present, and "Desire" tells the story of the 1980s. I want to tell the story of their family in the 1990s." Lin Xiaoling said.

A story from the 90s?

Liu Huifang was laid off and started to operate individually. Song Dacheng contracted the factory and became the factory director. Wang Hu was born and started to do business. Xiaofang went to college...

This series of thoughts flashed through Lin Zixuan's mind.

It would be interesting to integrate the fate of these people with this great era of reform and opening up, and to tell the changes in society through their life changes.

"Desire" is an open-ended finale, and the audience has always cared about the fate of the characters in the play.

Many viewers have proposed to shoot a sequel, and the Beijing TV Art Center has discussed this matter, mainly because there is no good book, and no one is willing to touch this matter.

Without a good book, the actor didn't want to destroy his image, so he just dragged it down.

Nearly ten years have passed, and the accumulation of almost all. At the turn of the century, if the movie version of "Desire" could be released two thousand years ago, there is no need to mention its influence.

There is no need to promote it at all, the media will report it spontaneously.

"You have to think about it. Once the news spreads, you will be under a lot of pressure." Lin Zixuan persuaded.

Although shooting sequels is a little less risky than remakes, if they are not filmed well, they will also be under a lot of pressure.

However, the benefits are self-evident. As long as the filming is OK, the audience will buy it. The box office is not a problem. As the director Lin Xiaoling, she will become the focus of the media and be well-known to the audience.

In the past, Lin Xiaoling made art films, but even if she won a grand prize, she was only famous in the circle.

"Or why I'd better remake "Enjoy the End"?" Lin Xiaoling retreated.

She just suddenly had the idea of ​​remake "Desire". Looking back, she was a little uneasy and she felt unsure.

"You, it's only three minutes of popularity." Lin Zixuan said speechlessly, "Let's do it, make the script first. If the script is good, let's shoot it. If there is no good one, forget it. Then consider remake "Enjoy the End". You can't just think about success in making a movie, but you must also dare to take risks."
Chapter completed!