Lu Chuan spent 8 years feeling regretful

“Lu Chuan spent 8 years flatly regretting ”It is one of the important plots in the latest popular TV series. This drama has attracted the attention of a large number of viewers and has also achieved considerable success in terms of plot and actor performance. It can be calledA successful masterpiece.Lu Chuan spent 8 years in peace. Regret is a topic of great concern recently. Let’s talk about this topic today.

In the five years after the film - 749 Bureau - was completed, the then-actor Li Chen once thought that things had changed - which was a euphemism for the film not being released - and he even forgotI have also participated in such a movie. Two years ago, I saw a public account writing about disappearing movies. I flipped through it and saw - 749 Bureau -, and then I remembered that there was such a movie.“He almost forgot that he had made this movie.

There are many people in this circle who have the same idea as Li Chen.Many people think this show is going to fail.

The director of 《749 Bureau》 is Lu Chuan, who has disappeared from public view in recent years.In the past few years before the film was completed, apart from collecting debts from the employer and looking for project cooperation, Lu Chuan rarely took the initiative to contact the outside world. Failure to complete the film was an original sin for the film director, and I felt ashamed of myself.If I can't help it, I won't go out.” Lu Chuan felt that this matter was his own responsibility. If he hadn't carefully considered the show at the time, the current situation would not have happened.

Since the movie - 749 Bureau - started filming in Chongqing in October 2018, Lu Chuan has fallen into an unprecedented financial crisis.At that time, he insisted on his own feeling that the film would be successful. Therefore, he did not listen to the producer Han Sanping and wait until 85“ of the budget was invested before starting the film. Instead, he started filming when only 30” was received.Beijing is on.At that time, their budget for the entire film was 350 million.

Lu Chuan has been preparing for the movie since 2016.This is an ambitious plan - a science fiction blockbuster with Hollywood industry-level visual effects.However, there was no precedent for domestic films at the time, and AI technology to assist film and television had not yet appeared. Lu Chuan could only realize his creative vision through a series of extremely cumbersome processes such as storyboarding, previewing, and re-molding.ization, coupled with the continuous overthrow and reconstruction of the worldview, the preparation time for this film was extended to two years.

From 2016 to 2018, when the film and television industry was booming, many domestic movies with box office sales of over 1 billion, 2 billion or even 3 billion have been produced.

Looking at the great market.Lu Chuan felt that at that time, there was money everywhere, big brothers everywhere, and everything was in a good logic.“ And 4 of their 6 investors are listed companies, which makes Lu Chuan feel at ease, as the money that has signed the agreement is in his pocket.At that time, he always thought that he would definitely succeed, but an accident happened suddenly.

In the month when Lu Chuan started filming, the State Administration of Taxation issued a notice deploying work to standardize taxation order in the film and television industry.For a time, companies were hit by thunderstorms one after another, and the capital that was once a hot wave ebbed rapidly.What affected Lu Chuan was that the investments that were supposed to be credited to the crew's accounts had been delayed.

There is no turning back when the bow is drawn.Lu Chuan could only look for money while filming and streamline the team to reduce costs. The first to go were the five Hollywood giants in art, photography, props, etc. who had an average weekly salary of 20,000 US dollars. Later, he streamlined the filming team andThe cost of food and accommodation was reduced... and at the same time, the money from myself and the company was put into the crew.In Li Chen's impression, the director at that time never had neat hair.It can be seen how tired and stressed Lu Chuan was at that time.

By the time filming wrapped in July 2019, the crew had been reduced to more than 300 people, living in hotels with an average cost of 100 yuan per person per day.

However, funding for the film’s most expensive post-production visual effects has not yet been secured.

At a dinner after the completion of the project in 2019, Han Sanping encouraged Lu Chuan to take over the project and use your own methods to secure the funding for the project.”Lu Chuan said that he had advanced a lot of money, and Han Sanping pat“” Lu Chuan's thigh. “The advanced money counts as your investment. Only if you invest, will everyone believe in you and think that you are a shareholder.”At the same time, Lu Chuan's right thigh was also slapped hard by Wang Zhonglei.

For many years after that, Lu Chuan felt that he had been deceived by these two pats on the thigh.

Taking on a movie means taking on all its financial problems, making up for all the financial gaps, and shouldering all the legal risks that originally belonged to the major shareholders.

It was Lu Chuan's most anxious period at the time. Not only was there no money for the project, but the film's release was delayed, triggering five lawsuits involving more than 25 million yuan in arrears.

“ Our family is a family of scholars, and no matter how poor our tutor is, we are not allowed to borrow money from others - we have never owed money or had to file a lawsuit.”Lu Chuan said that when he suddenly faced these problems, he felt particularly desperate and helpless.

Lu Chuan prides himself on being a business idiot in the past. His hiring logic is to hire whomever he likes and has good connections with. He doesn’t know what things he needs to take care of as a founder. I think professionals take care of professional things.Handing it over to the company is the biggest major.“

Therefore, in the era of surging film and television capital, his company was managed by friends. He invested in several entrepreneurs and projects of young directors. However, he did not see the legendary hundred-fold return. Most of the investments did not even cost the principal.Didn't get a point back.

For this reason, Lu Chuan suffered from insomnia for a long time. The financial hole was too big. A small goal was an abyss that I could not cross at that time.”

At the end of 2019, Lu Chuan was invited to study for an MBA.“Hitting your children on a rainy day is just idle time.”So Lu Chuan became a rare director student in business schools.It was also there that Lu Chuan heard the words KPI for the first time.

“Like a mouse falling into a rice vat”, Lu Chuan felt that the business school course had opened his eyes.Lu Chuan turned on the “Plug and Play” mode. After the break after class on corporate human resources management, he walked out of the classroom and called the company's HR and asked the other party to fire an executive. That was his good friend in the company.I have been working for 7 years and have never signed a single contract.But Lu Chuan no longer accepts “hard work”, he wants to see “credit”.

Lu Chuan is determined to rectify the company. He wants it to fulfill its mission-to complete 749 rounds.

Starting from 2020, film director Lu Chuan is determined to start filming commercials.This is the fastest monetization channel he can think of.“Survival logic, if I can give you enough advertising money to rub my back, I can do it too.”

Since that year, Lu Chuan has been filming advertisements everywhere with his back on his back. He shot eleven advertisements in 2020 alone. Every month, his advertisements appear in WeChat Moments. People in the industry say that Lu Chuan is crazy about grabbing money..“ At that time, the rumors about him in the industry were at their peak. He and the movie 749 Games would often become topics at other people's dinner tables. Of course, most of them were not optimistic about it.

Jia Kai is one of the few people who firmly believes that Lu Chuan can complete the 749 games.She is the chairman of Huawen Image Group and an early investor in 749 Bureau. Later, she learned about the progress of the film through messages from Lu Chuan from time to time.

About four years ago, the two met at a film festival. Lu Chuan told Jia Hui, "Don't worry, I will definitely finish this film. I won't make other films until it is finished."”Jia Cai felt that this sentence“ had the feeling of spending a lot of money.This is indeed the case. During the most difficult three years, Lu Chuan made all the money he could by filming commercials, appearing in variety shows, filming TV series and Winter Olympics documentaries, except for movies.

At the beginning of this year, a TV series filmed by Lu Chuan was completed. He repeatedly calculated the funds on hand and found that when the production fee for the series arrived, the money in the company's small pool of funds was exactly the same as his - 749 Bureau --'s finished film budget was even.At that moment, he felt that the dark cloud above his head was gone.

In March this year, Li Chen received a notice from Bureau 749 for re-shooting. At the re-shoot scene, he met Lu Chuan again, whose hair was not even neat. The other person held an iPad and showed him the post-production of the film.Generally speaking, look at how I made this shot, which team I hired to make it, how I made that shot, and what else needs to be done now.”Then he said, “I haven’t done anything in the past two years. If I make some money, I will do something. If I make some money, I will do something.” Hearing these words made Li Chen's nose sore.

In the past two years, especially this year when it was certain that the film would be completed, Lu Chuan no longer remained silent when he heard rumors about himself and the film.“I have become very brave in the past two years. I will call you if you don't know.” Shame is a trivial matter, "When you are responsible for the life and death of an organization... We are a business, and you can't smear behind your back at will, because we don't owe anyone anything, it's others who owe us, do we have any responsibility? If any director can't invest 1/3 of a project, can he complete it? And we are doing this with advance funds, not investment.No one can say these things, this is my bottom line."

On April 22, the 749th round of re-shooting was completed. Lu Chuan posted on Weibo that he had no regrets. He had been dragging this ship for eight years and it could finally dock.%After 8 years of hard work, Lu Chuan finally got rid of the thorn in his heart. He successfully defeated the negotiators who had been denying him all these years and put his mistakes in the negotiator's face.

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