Chapter 26 Section VI

A nobleman showed up, thank God, on the matter of filming, his old man sent me envoys one after another, counting, there was a class in total, and he was the director of Beijing Forbidden City Film Company at that time. Zhang Heping, the general manager, asked me to meet.Zhang Heping has a characteristic. He does what he does and loves what he does. He used to be an audiovisual producer and released two TV dramas by Wang Shuo, "Love You Is Not Discussed" and "Excellent". ", the venue was packed during the performance.At that time, he happened to be going all out to catch movies. The Forbidden City Film Company had just been established, and as soon as he got started, he successfully released "The Days of Leaving Lei Feng", which became famous all over the country.Zhang Heping is a producer who has a strong grasp of the main theme and the market. He has been following my movements for many years.

As soon as we met, he said: I have to fish it out for you and work. This sentence sounds exactly the same as what Han Sanping said to me, as if they had discussed it in advance. Zhang Heping said: Some things, you have a good idea, you can let it go first, and then shoot when the time is right, don't compete with yourself.Let's make a New Year's film for the "Forbidden City", I believe it will definitely bring the movie market a hit. I know that the video he said was released later refers to the later filming.I told him about "Heart Hotter Than Fire". After hearing my story, Zhang Heping immediately expressed that the "Forbidden City" is willing to invest in this new year film jointly with Beijing Film Studio.He read the script in one go that night, and called the next day, saying: Adjust the script well, let's do it.

The subsequent work was carried out very efficiently. On the one hand, the script was quickly reported to the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee; People read the script, hold discussions, let the manager of the movie theater say that the audience will be interested in those plots, and repeatedly demonstrate its market prospects.Like Lao Guan of Capital Cinema, Liu Yan of Beijing Youth Palace, Lao Nan of Dahua Cinema, Gao Jun, Zhuo Shunguo, Wang Zhu, and Wei Jian of New Film Federation.They were all buddies who had been with me since then. In their eyes, I was not a "big shot" at all, but an object of their criticism.

Especially Wang Zhu, she never said that my film is good, and she was very concerned when it was released and screened. When Zhang Heping learned that the comrades in the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee were worried about the script, she called Minister Long Xinmin who was in a meeting in Shanxi overnight, and did a lot of explaining work on the script.After getting approval from the Propaganda Department to start the project, Zhang Heping approached me. He asked: Do you have confidence? I said: Yes. He said: Since you have this confidence, how about not getting paid?We can give you a ratio, according to the market efficiency of the film, the higher the box office, the more you will get.

I didn't expect that Zhang Heping would use this method to join me in the army, but at that time I had no choice, and I was eager to make a movie, thinking that even if I didn't make money, I would not be wronged, and I would enjoy it. I signed the contract and opened a new page. Before starting the machine, Zhang Heping visited Taiwan with a delegation. While waiting for a connecting flight at Hong Kong Airport, he had a sudden idea and immediately called my mobile phone. He said excitedly: Just now, I thought of a title "Party A and Party B", what do you think? I thought about it and thought it was the right way. "Party A and Party B" seems to be said every day in modern life. Once it becomes the name of a movie, it immediately feels very unique. Not only is it unique, but it also produces other richer meanings.We both laughed on the phone.