Chapter 4 Isn’t film art?
What kind of movie is Whiplash?
It tells the story of a 19-year-old drummer from a music school who becomes an elite jazz drummer under the extreme pressure and criticism of his strict teacher.

The two protagonists collide with extremes, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to be beaten, one constantly whips his students in perverted ways, and the other is like a possessed person who just wants to become the best drummer.

"If jade is not polished, it will not be made into a useful object; if one is not crazy, he will not be able to live." This is the first impression that "Whiplash" gives people. The former has an obvious inspirational element, while the latter represents a part of the film's noir.

It looks like an inspirational movie, but it is definitely not an inspirational movie.

It is better to say that it is an extremely crazy movie, in which a person completes a transformation under tremendous pressure.

"I would rather die in my thirties or forties for the sake of music, lose my family, become an alcoholic and crazy, and be remembered by people, than be rich and live a peaceful life but be unknown to people!"

This line from the protagonist directly summarizes the tone of the movie.

The ultimate enthusiasm and crazy blood!

This is a movie about a man who becomes crazy because of music.

When it comes to script selection, the first thing Bai Youlou does is to rule out films that are purely for the box office.

With his current fame, even if he were to make a movie like "The Wandering Earth", he would probably have to go through a period of "baptism" first.

The aroma of wine is not afraid of the deep alley?

This is not necessarily true in the entertainment industry.

Otherwise, why is the promotion and marketing of many projects so important?

The publicity and promotion costs of some movies are even higher than the production costs.

Just go for the art film route first.

Art films have their own way of making money. Generally, those that win awards at some major film festivals or receive good responses can recover their costs or even make a fortune just by selling the copyrights, as long as the production costs are not too outrageous.

If the film is released again under those circumstances, how well it performs at the box office will really depend on fate.

It's all profit.

This is how many art films survive commercially, rather than making them just for the sake of winning awards or gaining fame.

Of course, Bai Youlou also has high expectations for the box office, but that is another plan.

After finishing the script, he also wrote something else.
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Lao Zhou spent some time reading the script, and then the look in his eyes when he looked at Bai Youlou seemed strange, as if he was looking at a monster.

He was wondering how this guy could write his own script.

Now I realize that it is indeed crazy!

The movie scripts I was writing were also going crazy.

It fits his current situation very well.

reasonable.

However, the quality of the script also made Lao Zhou amazed.

He looked at Bai Youlou who had gone "crazy", and then looked at the script in his hand.

Then I thought about the 50,000 yuan that had been deposited into my bank card, and suddenly I felt a surge of pride.

"I'll go crazy with you too!"

Bai Youlou was not excited at all. It would be strange if a movie script that received six Oscar nominations and a bunch of other awards did not move people.

But their makeshift team certainly can't make a movie on the spot.

Moreover, the several million that Bai Youlou has may not be enough, and he may have to find a way to attract more investment.

"How about this, you find a way to attract investment, and if you can get one million, you will get a commission of 150,000." "Wait?!" Lao Zhou immediately interrupted Bai Youlou, not because he was so pure, but just confused, "Isn't that too much?"

"You bring in one million, and spend 400,000 on making the movie. I'll get 450,000, and you'll get 150,000. That's reasonable."

Lao Zhou was silent.

Isn’t film an art?
It would be fine if Bai Youlou came up with a script for a Category IV film, and everyone would go out to make money without any shame. There is nothing wrong with being a businessman.

But he has come up with such an awesome book, and he still thinks about making money first
It's just weird.

The two images are a bit too contradictory, but they appear so vividly on Bai Youlou alone.

Anyway, Lao Zhou asked himself if he could write such an awesome script when he was the other person's age. He would have wanted to spend all the money he had earned from buying condoms on the movie, let alone find ways to smuggle the money.

He seemed like a madman in the last second, with the feeling of an artistic lunatic to the fullest, and was pulled back to the materialistic reality in the next second.

Old Zhou couldn't accept it and slammed the table angrily, "Fuck, are you really Bai Youlou? Give that stupid boy back to me!"

Bai Youlou: ???

He didn't say anything at first. He reached out and shook out two cigarettes from Lao Zhou's cigarette box, gave one to the other party and put it back into his pocket.

pat~
Light the cigarette and take a deep breath.

"You're as disgusting as a fag right now!"
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Register a company, establish a project, file the script, and obtain a filming permit
No matter whether it is Lao Zhou or Bai Youlou, they are very active when doing these things.

After all, it's just a makeshift team of two people, and it's really hard for them to come up with any lengthy and ineffective operations.

Although everything is difficult at the beginning, the two of them got started quickly, but the progress slowed down afterwards.

As for some subsequent "miscellaneous tasks", Lao Zhou took on all of them. After all, Bai Youlou had paid him his salary in advance, so he had to demonstrate his value.

But people can't be completely idle, otherwise their body functions and brain will deteriorate. Patrick knows to call SpongeBob to catch jellyfish together when he has nothing to do.

Bai Youlou actually wanted to raise funds for the crew himself. After all, there was only so much money. If he could PUA some hot-blooded idiots, that would of course be great. Maybe he could save a lot of money.

This type of people are not uncommon in the entertainment industry. It is quite ironic and funny. There is always no shortage of "fools" in the world of Vanity Fair who truly yearn for art.

Bai Youlou was also such a person in his previous life.

But just as he was about to pack up and go out, he was stopped by Lao Zhou.

The reason is simple. Given his current situation, it would be better for him not to go.

No matter what the game is or how you save up, as long as Bai Youlou appears, it will definitely have a counterproductive effect, at least that's the case at this stage.

Although the online discussion about his scandal has become less heated, it is still there.

The "plain language" he came up with is spreading across the entire Internet at a very fast speed. Even some netizens who have not paid attention to his affairs can now casually quote him. This is the real destructive power of hot memes.

It is almost predictable that the heroine is going to become the most famous "slut" in the entertainment industry in recent years, and Bai Youlou, this "stinking shit", has successfully taken revenge.

But he, Bai, is still the bastard who seduced the eldest sister-in-law, and both sides are hurt.

Fortunately, he is in the entertainment industry. If he was in the underworld, he would have been stabbed and pierced.

Therefore, Bai Youlou did not object to Lao Zhou's statement. He did have the attribute of "driving away customers" now.

I might as well just stay at home and perfect the storyboards, and then secretly make a budget and become a hands-off boss.

Well, let’s also see if Lao Zhou will trick him.

Bai Youlou always likes to assume the worst of others. He has a dirty heart and naturally thinks bad of others.

(End of this chapter)