"Ha, I finally don't have to eat sand. It's really beautiful here..." Lin Xiaohua stood on the bamboo roster, turned around carefully, and said with excitement. She had already put on a beautiful costume and looked from a distance from the lake. She was as charming as a fairy in Lingbo.

The scenes of "A Chinese Odyssey" in the desert have ended, so the crew moved to the Shahu Lake in Yinchuan. Compared to watching the moon-long yellow sand, the continuous reed marsh here makes people feel refreshed.

The weather is too cold, otherwise it would be very comfortable to take a bath in such a clear lake water, but at this time Li Xiaohu was afraid that someone would accidentally fall into the water, especially the heroine Lin Xiaohua, who was standing on the bamboo tray.

"Xiaohua, wait until you are alone on the bamboo stairs, be sure to pay attention to safety. When you row the bamboo pole, just do it. Someone in front of you will use a rope to pull the bamboo stairs to move. If the bamboo pole is accidentally inserted into the mud, just let it go. Don't think about pulling it out, as it will easily capsize," Li Xiaohu told me worriedly before the shooting started.

"I will be careful, director..." Lin Xiaohua answered with a smile, and looked at the beautiful scenery in front of her with curiosity, but she didn't know that she was the most beautiful scenery in everyone's eyes.

"All departments have paid attention, check it for the last time, and prepare to start shooting immediately..." Li Xiaohu lifted the small loudspeaker in his hand and shouted: "Especially for the safety team, keep more gods..."

Lin Xiaohua is a child who grew up by the sea, but he can't swim. Moreover, it's winter now. Although the lake is not frozen, the water of the lake must be biting cold. Even those who can swim will most likely not be able to climb up after falling down, so safe work is particularly important.

"Photographer, today you will be able to play freely. You must take pictures of the beautiful and take pictures of Fairy Fairy..." Li Xiaohu shouted to the photographer again.

"Ok..." The photographer was hung in the air and reached out and gestured with an OK gesture.

Many directors only provide the desired effects to the photographer, and the rest depends on the photographer to perform themselves, but it is different in Li Xiaohu's crew. He is like a dictator, and he is often limited to the lens very seriously, because the picture has long been in his head, and the photographer is a puppet, and he has little room to perform. He can only operate the camera according to Li Xiaohu's instructions and capture the fixed picture.

Today, Li Xiaohu finally gave power and asked the photographer to conceive the picture by himself. He only asked for the effect to be beautiful enough.

The filming is now starting with the scene where Fairy Zixia debuted for the first time at the opening of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

Amid the picturesque reed marsh, a fairy who fell into the mortal world, stepped on bamboo stairs and held a bamboo pole, and slid leisurely across the lake.

This scene could have been very beautiful and gave people a great visual impact. Unfortunately, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in his previous life did not have that feeling, so Li Xiaohu naturally had to pick up the missing ones.

The initial budgets of the two films "A Chinese Odyssey" totaled 60 million yuan. In addition to the actors' pay, there are mainly some of them that require computer special effects, and this part of the cost accounts for more than 60% of the total budget funds.

"A Chinese Odyssey" is a mythical drama. Although the fight scenes in it are basically flying around with steel wires and cannot use computer special effects. However, there are still some scenes, such as when the Bull Demon King appears, he is extremely large in size and one foot is larger than a house, which requires special photography technology.

The special photography technology is not that expensive. After that, Sun Wukong appeared on the stage with the colorful somersault cloud. In the end, Sun Wukong fought against the Bull Demon King, and the banana fan flew the entire city to the sun. If you want to do such a big scene, it will cost a lot.

The total investment in "A Chinese Odyssey" in his previous life was HK$60 million, but Stephen Chow's pay alone accounted for a large part of it. Other directors, supporting roles, etc. are also very big names and have high pay, so in fact, the funds spent on film production are not sufficient, so many special effects are made roughly.

Of course, there were also technical reasons at that time, and there were not many decent special effects teams in 95 Hong Kong.

It is now 1998, and the special effects technology has matured a lot compared to 1995, and the cost of making special effects has also decreased. However, in order to achieve perfection, Li Xiaohu spent more on special effects production.

With the actual shooting, the original budget was added one more and more, and spending money like Li Xiaohu at all costs, the final cost of "A Chinese Odyssey" is probably over 100 million.

If Li Xiaohu himself was not the boss, I was afraid that few investors would let him do this. Even though Chang Qingwen and Li Xiaoshan were very confident in Li Xiaohu, they would sometimes feel frightened when they looked at Li Xiaohu's spending money.

In terms of domestic box office sharing model, movies with an investment of 100 million must have a final box office of at least 250 million to ensure that they do not lose money.

This has not included the promotional funds. In fact, while the crew was filming intensely, Chang Qingwen was constantly promoting the release. The investment in publicity alone had reached nearly 20 million.

Now even Li Xiaohu himself feels a little pressure. Even though the film market in the mainland is relatively prosperous now, movies with a box office of 250 million are still not very common, and most of them are kung fu films of Hard Bridge Horse.

Although "A Chinese Odyssey" is very classic, it has its predecessors after all. The fighting style is very different from the mainstream Hard Bridge Horse Kung Fu movies today. Li Xiaohu is really not sure what the box office will be. All he can do is to make the movie perfectly.

"Hu Zi, I think this last kiss scene cannot be done with misaligned shooting techniques. I decided to sacrifice myself and give my first kiss on the screen..." During the shooting, Zhang Xiaoming held the script and discussed with Li Xiaohu seriously.

"Get out, aren't you just trying to take advantage of Xiaohua? I'm considering whether this kissing scene between Qin Xianglin and Zhu Bajie is going to be added..." Li Xiaohu glanced at Zhang Xiaoming with contempt.

"Ahem, why am I so dirty? I'm not all for the box office considerations," Zhang Xiaoming said embarrassedly.

"Didn't you always like Big Bo Girls? Why did you suddenly become jealous of Xiaodai? She doesn't fit your aesthetic habits..." Li Xiaohu looked at Zhang Xiaoming strangely.

"Uh, everyone has a love for beauty. I found that my aesthetic view in the past was seriously distorted, so now I need to correct it. Hu Zi, for the lifelong blessing of my brother, shouldn't you help me match it?" Zhang Xiaoming shrank his shoulders and said with a despicable look on his face.

"Die me far away. Lin Xiaohua, I plan to train her to become the head of the pure jade girl. Use your evil thoughts to defile Xiaohua's purity. If you dare to take her attention, don't blame your buddy for betrothing you to 'Zhu Bajie'," Li Xiaohu knew that his deskmate was not a good bird, so how could he meet his dirty request?

What's more, Li Xiaohu himself has a strange affection for Lin Xiaohua. Even though he already has something to do, he reminded himself several times not to be moved by Lin Xiaohua. But if Lin Xiaohua really falls in love with other boys, I'm afraid Li Xiaohu will still feel sour.

Zhang Xiaoming's dirty request would only make Li Xiaohu sound the first-level security guard, treat this guy as a pervert, and be isolated five meters away from Lin Xiaohua forever.
Chapter completed!