novelraw Chapter 39 Harvest
Chapter 39 Harvest
"Holy crap, everyone, look at how Jackie Chan and Shen Qing are sparring at the premiere of 'The Myth'!"
"What's wrong?"
"Absolutely amazing! The two of them countered each other's moves, and the pace kept getting faster and faster. They fought for several minutes straight, it was incredibly cool, and it's one of the best fight scenes that could be included in a movie."
"Really? Did you rehearse beforehand?"
"It's definitely true. Jackie Chan made a move at the beginning, and Shen Qing caught it with a very graceful posture. Jackie Chan was even stunned for a moment, completely not expecting Shen Qing to catch it like that. So this time it must have been an impromptu performance."
"Is it really that good-looking?"
"Aside from being a little weak in terms of strength, since you can't really hurt someone, everything else is extremely strong."
"Then I'll really go and take a look."
"Just finished watching it, all I can say is awesome! I thought Shen Qing's 'Taken' was just good at action choreography and fast editing, but I didn't expect him to actually have some real talent."
"Didn't Shen Qing's kung fu skills already become an open secret? Didn't you see his performance during the promotion of 'Taken'?"
"Haven't they always said that Shen Qing designed all the action sequences in 'Taken' himself?"
"Okay, I really didn't know before!"
"I initially thought it was just fans bragging."
"I can't take it anymore, I'm going to watch the video again. It feels like the twins in 'Twin Dragons,' their chemistry is just too good. Their on-the-spot performance is so synchronized."
"The next generation of action stars after Jackie Chan and Lee Seung-hwa might really depend on Shen Qing."
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After returning from the premiere of "The Myth", Shen Qing continued to work on the pre-production of "Ip Man".
The female lead has been chosen; it's Yan Danchen.
Everyone agreed that Shen Qing and she had the best chemistry and looked like a married couple when they stood together, so Shen Qing readily agreed and chose her.
As time went on, roles were finalized and contracts were signed one by one.
Shen Qing plays Ip Man.
Yan Danchen plays Zhang Yongcheng.
Hou Yong plays Zhou Qingquan.
Hiroyuki Ikeuchi plays Miura.
Chen Zhihui plays Jinshan Zhao.
Dong Zhihua plays Master Liao.
Wu Yue was obsessed with martial arts.
Yu Hewei plays Li Zhao.
……
The film will be shot in Shanghai and Guangzhou, with filming scheduled to begin in mid-October.
Also, the movie "Taken" was officially taken off the screens recently.
The final box office in mainland China was 1.25 million yuan, but the production company actually received more than 4000 million yuan. This is the amount left after the distributor took their share of the distribution fees.
Shen Qing held a 44% share and received over 1800 million yuan.
The overseas copyrights sold for $1800 million, and Shen Qing also had a 44% share, which was about $790 million, or roughly $6400 million.
The bulk of their revenue comes from overseas copyright income!
The film's North American box office ultimately settled at $6140 million, while its overseas box office exceeded $8000 million. Although this is far less than the original version's performance, it is still an extremely impressive achievement for a Chinese-language film.
As the female lead in "Taken", Fan Bingbing naturally reaped a huge benefit, and her status rose at a visible speed.
But what can one be satisfied with in terms of status, popularity, and financial benefits?
The more you have, the more you want; the more you have, the more you want.
No matter how successful Fan Bingbing has been lately, how influential she is, or how much money she makes, the more attentive and considerate she is to Shen Qing.
She is not only grateful for the boost to her status brought by "Taken 1", but also hopes that "Taken 2" will allow her to reach a higher level.
night.
After using all her skills to finally please Shen Qing, she cautiously spoke up.
"With Taken being such a hit, shouldn't we capitalize on that success? What if it's been too long and the audience has forgotten the story? So, there will be a sequel, right?"
"Why is everyone so concerned about the sequel? I've received so many calls these past two days, all asking about it. Even President Han has mentioned it twice."
"Look?! What did I tell you?! This movie is so popular, it's even become a hit overseas. Everyone's saying you made tens of millions, almost a hundred million, from this one film. How could a movie that makes so much money not have a sequel!"
"Alright then, I'll take some time to organize my thoughts on the sequel, so I won't keep getting asked about it."
Upon hearing this, Fan Bingbing showered him with kisses on the face.
Shen Qing hugged him and laughed, "It's going to be a sequel, so you can continue to solidify your title of 'international soldier' and prevent people from saying you're just imitating others."
"Those people are just jealous, I hate them so much. I didn't hire anyone to market 'International Soldier' myself."
Since "Taken" topped the North American box office for a week, some people have been calling Fan Bingbing "International Bing," a title clearly derived from Zhang Ziyi's "International Zhang."
At first, Fan Bingbing was quite happy, as it showed that she had international influence and was one step closer to becoming an international superstar. However, some people started saying that she was just imitating others.
"Don't worry, Taken 2 will definitely be filmed, and it shouldn't be delayed for too long. It's just that there are some plot points I haven't figured out yet."
"What part of the plot haven't you figured out? Want me to give you some advice?"
"It's easiest to write your character as a pretty face, and the project can start anytime. But now I have an idea, which is to make your character more interesting and not just a pretty face. That's a bit more difficult and will definitely take more time."
"Really? Then take your time thinking about it, and ignore those people who are pressuring you." She suddenly started to whine, "Please, you must write it according to the latter idea."
Shen Qing couldn't see her face clearly in the darkness, but judging from her urgent tone, she was truly excited.
"I'll try my best, but writing it this way is indeed very difficult."
"Please, please write it this way, I'll do whatever you want."
"You said it yourself."
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The original "Taken 2" actually had many highlights in its plot, otherwise it wouldn't have achieved a box office of $3.76 million.
The biggest highlight is the way the male lead's daughter positions the grenade.
The male protagonist and his wife are captured by the villain's men at the market. They are blindfolded and taken to a secluded corner where they are locked up. The male protagonist uses a countdown and directional judgment to determine the distance between their location and where they were captured.
They contacted their daughter through a hidden communication device, urging her to hide in the embassy, but the daughter insisted on going to rescue her parents.
The male protagonist then instructs his daughter to use a grenade to locate their imprisonment.
Draw a circle on the map with the market as the origin and the distance determined by the countdown as the radius.
Then, draw a circle with the hotel as the center and the estimated distance from the hotel to the location of the detention center as the radius.
The intersection of the two circles is where the protagonist is imprisoned.
Unfortunately, the protagonist misjudged the distance from the hotel to the location where he was imprisoned, and the two circles did not intersect.
Then the male protagonist had his daughter use a grenade to locate the location. The sound of the grenade exploding reached the male protagonist's ears for a few seconds, allowing him to estimate a more precise distance. He then drew a circle, which this time had two intersection points. By eliminating one of them, the daughter found the true location of her captured parents.
The subsequent plot, involving throwing grenades to determine if the distance is being narrowed, also has its highlights.
The beginning needs to be changed.
After all, he had already changed the story of the father saving his daughter in the first movie to the husband saving his wife.
The original plot was that the villainous family that was killed in the first movie came to seek revenge, but Shen Qing intentionally changed the cause of this story as well.
The initial idea is that the male protagonist accompanies his wife, with whom he has reconciled, on a trip to Southeast Asia to complete their unfinished travel plans. With him personally accompanying her, everything should be fine.
Then, while the male protagonist was in the restroom, a little girl came to her urgently for help. She felt sorry for the girl and followed her. It turned out that the little girl was being controlled by a criminal who wanted to lure her to a secluded place.
Just as the female protagonist was about to fall into a trap, the little girl who was luring her suddenly warned her. The female protagonist became alert and ran away in time, but she also noticed that the little girl was being beaten by the people controlling her because of the warning.
She meets up with the male protagonist and explains what just happened. Since calling the police was unsuccessful, the male protagonist decides to go and rescue the girl himself. Although the female protagonist is worried, she understands that if the little girl hadn't suddenly had a change of heart and warned them, the consequences would have been unimaginable, so she agrees.
In order not to become a burden to the male lead, the female lead went to the hotel to wait for him to return.
Then the male protagonist is accidentally captured and uses a hidden communicator to contact the female protagonist, asking her to ask her friends back home for help. But it's too late, as the criminals are already preparing to kill him.
The female protagonist decides to go and rescue the enemy herself, and then uses the original grenade positioning setting.
In this way, the female lead is no longer just a pretty face.