Chapter 880: Five times the protein of beef

Hao Yun and An Xiaoxi both attended the premiere of “Crazy Racing”.

The script, director and actors of this movie have nothing to do with Hao Yun, but he and An Xiaoxi are mainly investors.

Their Anhao Film and Television invested 15%, Heidou Media invested 10%, and Aunt Liu invested 10%, which makes a total of 35%.

Hao Yun and An Xiaoxi are a pair of blankets – just like a pair of rice.

Whenever there is a red carpet, they usually appear at the same time, including the premiere red carpet.

Moreover, they wore couple outfits today.

The blue and white porcelain style couple suits are the same for men and women and are new works of Chen Guanxi’s trendy brand.

Hao Yun tried his best to advertise for his brother.

Hao Yun’s outfit was conventional; his personal style was usually rather cold and hard, but this time he looked a bit feminine.

After An Xiaoxi put it on, he looked very heroic.

If it weren’t for the height difference, these two would feel like buddies.

Many people don’t know that they are the kind of buddies who sleep together.

Although nothing happened last night, we slept in each other’s arms, which is warmer in the winter.

“Wow, you earned more than me last year, at least 300 million. Everyone says Jay Chou is at the top of the list, but I think he is far behind you.” Liu Furong started to flatter Hao Yun as soon as he saw him.

This guy was still earning a film salary of 100,000 Hong Kong dollars a few years ago, but now his annual income is calculated in billions.

Outsiders may not know how much Hao Yun earns.

People in the circle like Liu Furong can make a rough guess with just a simple calculation.

Album sales at home and abroad, concerts, ringtones, endorsements, appearance fees, film remuneration, novel royalties, film and television investment…

“How could it be that much? You know I invest in movies, but my share is usually not high.” Hao Yun denied repeatedly.

No matter how I calculate, I can’t get the result of 300 million.

Many of his endorsements expired and were not renewed, he only held four concerts, and a lot of the royalties were donated.

With the popularity of online songs in the past two years, his ringtones have not been selling well.

As for film and television investment, this is indeed the bulk of his income, including the TV series “The Battle of Changsha”, and the movies “Little Forest: Spring”, “Back to 20”, and “Painted Skin”…

But even if a movie has a net box office revenue of 1.5 million, the producer can only get 10 million. If he gets 1500%, that’s 20 million, and if he gets 3000%, that’s only million.

The combined profits from several movies are less than 200 million, and it has to be split again with An Xiaoxi 70% to 30%.

Where did he get his total income of 300 million?

However, when Hao Yun was being humble, he was also somewhat proud in his heart. If he didn’t have 300 million, 200 million would definitely be no problem.

A rural kid with an annual income of 200 million, is he a winner in life?

“In fact, you can get a higher percentage. You are losing too much now.”

Liu Furong said this because he regarded Hao Yun as his own talent.

He could understand Hao Yun’s previous mentality. He didn’t dare to eat alone for fear of being targeted by his peers.

But now Hao Yun is already a leader in the industry in terms of both resource channels and personal connections, and he no longer has to rely on others for his livelihood.

“There’s nothing I can do, we are all old friends.” Hao Yun said helplessly.

As they were talking, several bosses from production companies came over.

Hei Dou, An Hao, Aunt Liu, Liu Furong, Jiang Wen, Ying Huang, Bernard, Aunt Hua, and China Film all participated in this movie. It is definitely a hodgepodge.

Hao Yun sat downstairs, watching Ning Hao and others promoting the movie and revealing some interesting stories about the filming.

At first, this movie was called “Silver Medal Racing Driver”. As the name suggests, it tells the story of a silver medal racing driver.

Because of the “suggestions” from investors, it became “Crazy Racing”.

Ning Hao clearly stated that it was Hao Yun who made this suggestion, and he felt that it had certain similarities with “Crazy Stone”.

Today’s premiere was very heavy-mouthed, with a group of people on the stage talking excitedly about the scene where Jiu Kong eats a cockroach.

In order to deeply portray the brutality of the “Graduate Entrance Examination Duo”, the crew members gathered around the fire to chat at night, each showing off their talents and bringing out the cruelest torture methods in their minds.

Some were asked to sit on electric heaters, some had their feet licked by dogs, and some had disinfectant poured into their mouths.

Finally, Ning Hao made a slight improvement to Huang Bo’s method of “eating flies” and decided to “eat cockroaches”.

The cockroaches are not props, they are real southern giant cockroaches.

Five times the protein of beef!
Perhaps out of sympathy for Jiukong being beaten up, Ning Hao was unexpectedly considerate to Jiukong this time. In order to let Jiukong taste fresh and delicious cockroaches, he specially instructed the crew to go from street to street and buy cockroaches from villagers’ homes.

It has to be big, powerful, and preferably able to fly.

From one dollar per cockroach at the beginning to five dollars per cockroach two days later, the price of cockroaches increased as Jiu Kong watched. By the end of the filming, there were no qualified cockroaches within a two-kilometer radius. Not only did Jiu Kong have to endure cockroaches crawling in his throat, but the crew also disliked the “too strong smell” and his mouth smelled like cockroaches when he opened it.

It’s so miserable.

Today, those guys who played the Taiwanese gang also came.

This time, Gao Jie, the “professional big brother of Hey Bang”, played the second in command, while the big brother was Rong Xiang who had always been his younger brother.

However, Ning Hao said that these people in the Taiwan Hey Gang are not extremely vicious.

Wang Shuangbao is the real villain.

If you have no impression of this actor, you can review “Blind Shaft”.

He played the emotionless mine killer.

After you finish reading this, you have to make sure whether he has a hammer in his hand before you dare to walk in front of him.

Wang Shuangbao and another actor named Baduo formed the “Graduate School Exam Duo”. In addition, there was a cemetery seller and a policeman…

There are many characters in this movie, each one is uglier than the other.

Frankly speaking, Hao Yun had not seen the edited version of the film, but looking at these ugly actors, he was full of expectations for the film.

After some interaction, we started watching the movie.

Unfortunately, there were too many people at the scene, and Hao Yun and An Xiaoxi were the usual focus.

As long as there is a little light, there will probably be a lot of media wanting to see what little movements the two of them make, such as Hao Yun touching An Xiaoxi’s thigh and putting his arm around her waist, or An Xiaoxi lying on Hao Yun’s legs, or the two of them holding hands while watching each other.

At this time, you must be extra honest, so just watch the movie honestly.

Like “Crazy Stone”, this film adopts a multi-line narrative structure.

The film begins with Geng Hao’s line.

In a cycling competition, racer Geng Hao accidentally won second place because his opponent fell. Then he was deceived by the unscrupulous businessman Li Fala and drank unknown drugs, which caused a positive urine test and he was banned for life.

His master was so angry that he collapsed and became paralyzed. Later, he saw Li Fala on TV and wanted to take revenge on her. In a rage, he stood up and accidentally fell down the stairs and died.

The story begins to overlap with a new story line here. Geng Hao goes to the racetrack to ask Li Fala for money because he has no money to bury his master. On the other side, the Wanwan Hey Gang and the Siamese drug dealers are trading here. Li Fala calls the police because he does not want to give money to Geng Hao and is beaten by him.

The plot line of the transaction between Wulong Gang and Dupin adds a strong absurd color to the film.

Four members of the Wulong Gang came to the mainland with the intention of conducting a drug deal with the Siamese gang leader Chachai, but they moved into a temple on the outskirts of the city to save costs.

They hid the books in their bicycles in an attempt to evade customs inspection.

However, the transaction process was full of surprises and humor.

In order to evade the police, the Wulong Gang mistakenly hid Dupin in Li Fala’s car and changed into his clothes.

While escaping, Chachai was unfortunately kidnapped by the killer duo who mistook him for Li Fala.

In a series of chaos, Chachai was frozen to death in the carriage, while Dong Hai, the boss of the Wulong Gang, got fake US dollars in the transaction.

This dramatic book transaction, with its absurd process and unexpected ending, has become an indispensable highlight in the movie.

There is also a story line in which Li Fala bribes a killer (a postgraduate entrance examination duo) to kill his wife.
Then there are two poor policemen who are determined to find a big case and make a contribution.

Several lines intersect for the first time at the racetrack, and the story begins to unfold on a large scale. Various people emerge one after another, and are connected together by chance to engage in repeated confrontations.

There are a lot of misunderstandings and coincidences in the film, which connect each line appropriately and make each group of people fit in perfectly.

Every time they collide, it reaches a climax, until finally they merge together as a whole, forming a spectacular scene of a hundred flowers blooming.

There are also many foreshadowings, such as the lighter that appears many times.

When Hey Bang first appeared, he suspected that the crew had stolen his money and had a gunfight with the people on the ship. Hey Bang member Ajie shot into the cabin, and because it was dark inside, he simply lit his lighter and threw it in for lighting. This seemingly insignificant detail was directly related to his later fate.

Later, he continued to do so at Li Fala’s house. Because of a gas leak in Li Fala’s house, this cool habit caused the house to explode and cost him his life.

If there hadn’t been the foreshadowing on the boat, his action of throwing the lighter at Li Fala’s house would have been very abrupt.

Of course, Hao Yun thinks the most outstanding part of this movie is the lines.

It is said that seven screenwriters were invited to work together on it.

Ning Hao also set up a “script reading” model, allowing the actors to think about their lines as well.

“You’re full of jingles. Do you want to take the postgraduate entrance exam?!”

“I’ll tell you what it means to do what you do and love what you do.”

“You don’t want to marry my sister, but I want to marry your sister!”

“Brother-in-law, if we do this, won’t we end up doing evil and then getting hurt?”

“Without money, the sunlight you get is second-hand.”

“Rude! The local gang is so rude!”

……

Although the movie is very funny, it is not superficially funny, and it even has some tragic elements.

It shows the struggle and persistence of an ordinary person through a wonderful plot.

It is not only a film full of absurd elements and black humor, but also a work with profound connotations and philosophical thinking.

After watching the movie, it was exactly noon.

The crew of “Crazy Racing” was extremely poor, but Black Bean Media still invited the main creators to have a meal together.

Hao Yun joined them as the producer.

Having dinner with a group of ugly guys, Hao Yun didn’t have any difficulty swallowing the food. He actually quite liked the atmosphere between them.

“Crazy Racing” can be said to be a movie about a group of small supporting characters who are unlikely to become the protagonists. Everyone has his or her own highlight moment, thus supporting an excellent movie.

When Hao Yun announced that if the box office of this movie could exceed 100 million yuan, he would hold a celebration banquet and give out red envelopes, these people cheered heartily.

In fact, Hao Yun wanted to say that even if the box office was only 50 million, he would give some rewards to these people who worked so hard to act.

But saying that doesn’t seem very auspicious.

It seems as if “Crazy Racing” has no chance of hitting 100 million at the box office.

Although there were several movies that grossed over 100 million yuan last year, there are actually only a handful of directors in the mainland who have grossed over 100 million yuan. If Ning Hao can gross over 100 million yuan, he will be considered one of the big directors.

There is no need to talk about Hao Yun, his current standard is 500 million.

Maybe in the future it will hit one billion.

(End of this chapter)