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Chapter 1. The Highest Price Wins

The countryside of Jinmen, on the set of the movie "Huo Yuanjia (Prequel)".

Han Lan took advantage of her makeup time to sit down and drink a glass of water, then listened to her assistant Fang Qiaorui come forward to report new news about the company.

After hearing this, I was stunned for a moment: "Frog nibbling? Bean seller?"

He has been awake for more than a year, so he naturally knows about these two restaurants. You can basically see them when walking on the street. They are often next to or opposite the frogs, and diagonally opposite is the bean seller.

The historical trajectory of this world has shifted at certain points. The domestic catering industry, especially the fast food industry, has been riding the rapid development of the urban economy. The industry is very prosperous. At first, it was imitating foreign brands, and then gradually

has seized the domestic fast food market with a variety of affordable products that are more in line with Chinese people's eating habits. Of course, this is also inseparable from the support of relevant policies.

In short, in China, when people mention fast food, these two are the first ones they think of.

Han Lan has actually eaten at both restaurants. I can’t say which one is better and which one is worse. I can only say that each has its own merits.

However, eating frogs is more popular among young people because it is mostly fried and spicy food. In addition, for some time it has been inexplicably popular that "eating frogs is cool".

"Do they all want me to represent them? What prices were quoted?" Han Lan asked.

"The original offer for Frogs was 150 million, but Mr. Han didn't agree. Later, when he saw the bean seller coming, he gritted his teeth and offered 200 million, but Mr. Han still didn't agree and said he needed to ask for your opinion."

"And the current quotation offered by the bean seller is 250 million, which is higher than that of Frog, but Mr. Han said that Frog's side may continue to increase the price."

"The requirements of both companies are a one-year exclusive catering endorsement and the commercial authorization of "Soy Milk and Fried Tiao". In particular, they need you to help them shoot a new advertising video for promotion." Fang Qiaoruihui reported.

"Is the endorsement fee so high? Are fast food sellers so rich now?" Han Lan was indeed a little surprised.

Even excluding the authorization of "Soy Milk and Fried Sticks", the endorsement fee is obviously higher than Fuji's 100 million. However, Fuji's price was last year. If you want to renew the contract this year, the price is probably not low.

Chinese celebrities in this world are indeed very easy to make money.

"Han Shuai, do you have any ideas? Which one you prefer?" Fang Qiaorui asked.

"Me? Of course the one with the highest price gets it." Han Lan does not reject this kind of commercial endorsement.

He is indeed very busy during this period, but it is no problem to squeeze out some time to shoot an advertisement.

Commercial endorsements are not very time-consuming. Most of them just take a few makeup photos, shoot one or two advertisements a year, and participate in a new product launch conference. The rest does not require the celebrity to do it himself, even the scarf is left to

A dedicated team operates it on your behalf.

Moreover, the maximum number of advertisements and the maximum number of makeup photos each year are clearly written into the contract. It is impossible to shoot posters and advertisements all year round.

It's not so much an endorsement as it is a portrait + name license.

After receiving Han Lan's reply, Fang Qiaorui did not say any more, nodded and sent a message back to the company.

Han Lan put on her makeup and went back to filming.

What we are filming now is a martial arts scene. After Cheng Xiaotian died, Chen Zhen pulled a cart of coffins to the door of Huo's house to challenge Huo Yuanjia, and wanted to kill Huo Yuanjia to avenge his master.

In line with the principle of a kung fu movie from beginning to end, a brief fight between the two is also arranged here.

Chen Zhen is played by Fan Wenlong, who Han Lan returned from filming "Huo Yuanjia". There is also a stuntman Fan Wenqiang who also plays Liu Zhensheng, another apprentice of Huo Yuanjia.

Both characters have a lot of scenes in the movie. It can be said that this is the movie with the most scenes since they started filming.

And the remuneration offered to them by this movie also made them so excited that they didn't sleep all night.

For such a movie, the shooting period was up to three months, and the final salary distributed to them was more than what they had earned as an extra in a year!

Most importantly, they saw hope!

A hope of becoming popular and becoming a big star!

Therefore, the two of them were very serious when filming, trying hard to show Han Lan what they had learned in the training class during this period.

They know that their future is in Han Lan's hands.

Martial arts scenes are their specialty, so they basically do it all the same way. The same goes for today's scene. They had practiced the routines in advance, so the filming was very smooth.

Han Lan knows that the selling point of kung fu movies at this stage is still the fierce fighting, so the martial arts scenes in this movie are more exciting than the previous ones.

The last part was about punching to the flesh, now it is punching into the flesh.

Moreover, various underhanded moves of traditional martial arts are also released. Compared with the previous film, it is no longer restricted by moves and pursues a more realistic sense of actual combat.

In order to make this movie well, the action director went to consult some old martial arts masters and asked them about their fights in the ring when they were young. He also spent a lot of trouble to obtain some precious black and white images.

The actual combat in the video is definitely not as flashy or exciting as the movie, and Han Lan has to watch it with him and help explain it so that he can understand the power of these moves.

In addition, we have to rewind the tape back and forth, slowing down and slowing down again, so that we can understand which parts of their fights were deliberate traps, which parts were just tricks, and which parts were instinctive reactions and muscle memory.

Director Qi Shan also gathers with them every night to watch these actual combat images over and over again, drawing various storyboards as a reference. It is definitely impossible to copy, even if it is completely copied into the movie, fans will basically be disappointed if it is released later.

I can't understand it, I can't feel the excitement.

So they are actually looking for a violent aesthetic that is infinitely close to actual combat but looks more exciting than actual combat.

"Han Shuai, the scenes at the Huo family's old house have been filmed here. Next, we have to reshoot the ring scene with Cheng Xiaotian. This fight is a bit bloody. I don't think it will pass the review."

Producer Lao Kong couldn't help but frown while looking at some action scenes and various annotations drawn by the action director.

The producer of Tomahawk Entertainment doesn't care about the specific matters of film shooting. He mainly cares about logistics. However, he is also responsible for the submission of the film, so he couldn't help but come over and remind him. He was very afraid that these people would be crazy about making movies.

Now, I don’t care about anything just to have fun filming, and I’ll be damned if the movie doesn’t get released later.

"It's okay, just cut out the bloody parts. We have considered this when designing the action, so there will be no impact after cutting. These shots will be reserved for the overseas version. Foreigners like to watch this

kind."

Lao Kong nodded, feeling a little emotional in his heart.

I didn’t expect that when they make movies now, they start to consider overseas versions in advance.

In the past, after the filming was completed, I was still not sure whether it could be released overseas, so I basically wouldn't consider such a thing.

In fact, most domestic films are like this at present. Overseas markets have never been a factor for them to consider. Anyway, even if the film goes out, they won't make much money, so why bother?

But in fact, a truly global hit movie needs to take into account the cultures and restrictions of different countries. Just like a movie from a lighthouse country, if it wants to be released in China, it often has to be filmed first
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