Hollywood Hunter - Chapter 1549: : Teach bad

“People’s imagination is very scarce. For example, in Hollywood, as outsiders, you may think that Hollywood is full of flowers, but if you understand it deeply, you will find that Hollywood is just going around for a hundred years.”

Still in the underground theater, the screening of “Wormhole” ended, Simon continued to hold Zhu Momo in his arms, and said to Ren Jingxi: “Too far away, just talk about “Star Wars” in the last two decades. When it succeeded, a large number of science fiction films appeared. “The Godfather” succeeded, and a large number of gangster films appeared. “Field Platoon” succeeded, and a large number of Vietnam War films appeared…”

Before Simon finished speaking, Zhu Momo in his arms naughty said: “Simon, you succeeded, but unfortunately no group of Simon Westeros appeared.”

Simon kissed the girl’s neck and continued to say to Ren Jingxi: “Anyway, do you know what this means?”

Ren Jingxi thought for a while and said, “It’s important to develop new types, right? Simon, you said.”

“No,” Simon shook his head and didn’t sell too much, then said: “Actually, I just said that human imagination is very scarce. Before “Star Wars”, there were no science fiction movies? Before “The Godfather”, Are there no gangster movies? Are there no war movies before “Field Platoon”?”

Ren Jingxi understood a little bit, but still couldn’t grasp the key.

Simon quickly continued: “What I mean is that all the types of movies that humans can imagine, in fact, whether it is Hollywood or the once very prosperous European film market, they have all done it. The difference may only be silent to sound and Technological advancements such as black and white to color. Then there is China, because all types of people have already explored, so China does not need to repeat this exploration, you only need to study, then imitate, and then transform into your own things.”

Zhu Momo interrupted again: “Simon, are you encouraging plagiarism?”

Simon bit the girl’s slender neck slightly punishingly this time, before looking at Ren Jingxi again: “You don’t have the kind of mental disorder Momo just said?”

Ren Jingxi smiled and shook his head: “No.”

“Very good,” Simon said: “The greatest advantage of human beings is that we have a strong learning ability. The so-called learning is to transform the knowledge accumulated by the predecessors into our own. In this world, we can achieve this level. Furthermore, there are very few people who realize innovation. Therefore, it is enough for most people to maximize their learning. Of course, in the industrial field, a group of people create another internal combustion engine that is exactly the same from one internal combustion engine. Question. But the film and television industry still needs some changes to some extent. It just so happens that this kind of change is not difficult compared to the industrial field.”

“I always feel,” said Mo Wuling, who was sitting on the other side of Ren Jingxi: “Simon, you are teaching Jingxi to do bad things.”

“I’m enlightening,” Simon said, giving birth to an index finger in the past: “God’s hand, let you understand the world.”

Seeing Simon’s action, Ren Jingxi smiled, and he also stretched out a finger very cooperatively and touched the man’s fingertip.

Everyone smiled, with some envy.

Zhu Momo also wanted to be enlightened, stretched out a slender index finger, but Simon gestured to open his mouth to bite, ah smiled and retracted.

Mo Wuling couldn’t help but speak, with a small snack in his heart, and wanted to change the subject: “Simon, what do you think of the movie just now?”

“It’s great, low-cost, and it’s very good to be able to do this,” Simon said: “Next, the key is marketing. If it can do well, the box office of 30-50 million may not be a problem.”

“Can there be so much?” Ren Jingxi himself was a little surprised: “I think, if I can sell 20 million, I am very satisfied, and the cost is only 2 million.”

“It depends on whether you have the courage to spend 5 million or even more to do marketing,” Simon said: “The Chinese film market is not mature enough, so it is more prone to dark horses, because many things are uncertain. For example, you just did this. Saying that the cost of 2 million is a publicity point. An outstanding young filmmaker finally raised a cost of 2 million after working hard to make his first feature film. First of all, it is a very inspirational story.”

Jill, who was sitting behind, interjected: “It’s like Simon’s “Run Lola” back then.”

“Yes,” Simon nodded and said with a smile: “Although I was not as bumpy as the outside world in filming “Lola Run”, what the audience needs is a story. Besides, this is a very innovative film. Although the idea of ​​time is very common around the world, it is innovation in China. Finally, the film itself is also very interesting. Did you feel impatient during the viewing process just now?”

The girls around shook their heads together.

Simon said: “This is the most successful part of the film. The rhythm is well controlled and it is done in one go. I have told people around me more than once that this is actually my most respected commercial film. The audience can’t feel the two hours of time lapse. After the heartfelt, when the subtitles rose, I realized that two hours had passed. According to my experience over the years, all films with this quality are often very successful commercially.”

Teacher Yu in the front row said, “This kind of thing, Simon, depends on luck, right?”

“Luck, the script in the early stage, the ability of the main creative, and there are many things involved,” Simon did not deny it, saying: “However, there are actually certain rescue methods in the later stage, which are trial screenings, management screenings, film critics screenings, and random audiences. Try it out and so on, then make changes.”

Jill in the back row said, “Simon, you are teaching Jingxi to do bad things again.”

Everyone here obviously knows what Jill is referring to.

After all, if you understand the inside story of the film and television industry a little bit, you can know a lot of cases where Hollywood studios cut classic films of director XX into **** and failed, such as the most typical “Once Upon a Time in America”.

Seeing that the girls are all clear, Simon didn’t have much to say to explain Jill’s words, and said directly: “The problem is that projects that are completely let go to the director, if you want to count them, there are also very many failed cases. As for Hollywood, if you go deeper. Among them, you will find that there are very few projects that have not been interfered by the studio. The key is a balance problem. First of all, the senior who intervenes in the editing, you must understand the film, you let a lawyer or an accountant do the job, If they intervene indiscriminately, the possibility of failure is of course very high, but if you know the film yourself and also understand how to balance business and art, you can do this job well.”

I wish Momo shook his head: “It’s not easy.”

This echoes the discussion about the development of the Chinese film market before watching the movie.

Simon smiled. This time he didn’t respond. Instead, he stood up holding the girl and said to the others: “Let’s rest early. Momo and I will take a bath in the east swimming pool and discuss some life ideals by the way.”

Zhu Momo chuckled and was taken out of the seat. When he reached the door, he grabbed the man’s arm and looked towards this side: “There is a fox, Jill, you guys come too, I can’t stand him alone.”

Saying that he has gone out.

The atmosphere in the projection hall was a little weird for a moment. Li Youhu got up first, smiling, and directly pulled up Teacher Yu next to him: “Let’s go too.”

Teacher Yu half pushed.

Jill Pekert even got up, and also pulled Zhao Anni up, and in a blink of an eye, only Ren Jingxi and Mo Wuling were left.

Ren Jingxi quickly lowered his head and memorized some words the man had just said in his notebook. After a while, he raised his head, glanced at the good girlfriends beside him, and curled his mouth: “Or, let’s go too?”

Mo Wuling rolled his eyes.

If there is no Momo over there…well, no, even if there is, it can’t.

So he got up: “I’m going back to the upper yard first.”

Ren Jingxi closed the notebook and held Mo Wuling’s arm: “I think it’s best to go up with you, lest you get lost and run in the wrong place.”

“You just got lost.”

“I don’t need an excuse to get lost.”

“…”

The next day is November 23.

Tuesday.

Simon is still in Beijing. At the same time, this is also a very special day for China.

Simon did not know exactly when it was, but this time, on November 23, 1999, China and the United States formally signed a bilateral agreement on China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), declaring that the biggest obstacle to China’s entry into the WTO has been successfully crossed. pass.

Of course, after that, things will not be easy.

After all, after finalizing a bilateral agreement with the United States in 1999, it was not until 2001 that China completely settled all WTO members and formally joined the WTO.

Compared with these major events, Simon’s schedule here is still very easy.

I didn’t get up until 7 o’clock in the morning. After all, it was winter. The reason for staying in bed was very legitimate.

Go to Jinshu in the morning.

The projects that were confirmed last time are advancing very quickly. In addition, this time is the same as last night. Watch another sample.

“Tong Tianpu” is not a Mongolian director. Although Simon is more interested, the Jinshu side currently focuses more on the two pillars, Zhang Guoshi and Feng Pants. The new film, still a Feng’s comedy, is called “Break Down”. It is still from the book of the writer Wang Da. It tells the story of a small clothing store owner trying to find ways to balance the source of the situation between two women.

The core is the irony of some current social phenomena in China.

Furthermore, this is a film made entirely of butterflies.

The film quality of the Feng Wang combination is very guaranteed. What’s more, the current director Feng Da has not yet reached the state of becoming more and more angry and young. He is still down-to-earth, coupled with the rapid recovery of the current market, and the Lunar New Year file at the beginning of next year. I have a lot of hope for a 100 million yuan box office.

After watching the film, at the luncheon dinner, in addition to the senior officials of the Jinshu department and some big names in the circle, Simon also saw Old Monster Xu who came over from Hong Kong specially.

At the dinner, I discussed the story of “The Dragon King of Di Renjie” in person.

Simon also didn’t keep it, and talked about some of the highlights of the previous version in his memory and everyone sitting there. Then, of course, it was the performance of Old Monster Xu.

Regarding the actors, Simon also expressed his opinion directly in front of Old Monster Xu, trying to use the mainland side as much as possible, in line with Simon’s last proposed idea of ​​cultivating mainland professional film talents.

As for the Hong Kong side, it is still the same sentence, Simon has no prejudice, but feels that the accent over there is not suitable for the ancient costumes of the mainland style.

The more I talked, the more I didn’t forget about the style.

In the previous “Di Renjie” series, Simon can’t stand Wu Zetian’s shape the most. Anyway, it must not be Karina Liu this time. What Wu Zetian should have is a kind of empress style. For someone, Simon sees more She is a bitter woman who can only be said to be mean from her face to her personality.

There is also styling.

Some people may refer to some pictures of ladies and say it is very restorative, but in the 1990s “Tang Minghuang”, “Wu Zetian” and other Tang Dynasty TV dramas, look at those styles, it is called a beautiful, beautiful and beautiful, and it is also restored. It is also recorded in the pictures of ladies. After all, in different periods, different regions and even different painters, there are actually different Tang Dynasty women’s shapes.

Why choose the ugly and weird one?

Simon couldn’t stand it anyway, and since he could intervene, he would never allow this to happen again.

After lunch, there are some routine schedules again, until after three o’clock in the afternoon, Simon rushed to the airport and flew to Shanghai.

A gathering of the human society was arranged here in the evening.

Still eating, drinking and having fun.

By the way, I watched a performance by the girls from the Guofeng Art Troupe.

Recently, it is the first Shanghai International Arts Festival, which mainly focuses on traditional operas and dramas from all over the world. The Guofeng Art Troupe was invited to come here at the end of October.

After the two themes of “The Book of Songs” and “Tang Yun”, Simon did not arrange specific goals for the Guofeng Art Troupe.

Well, men like the new and dislike the old instinct.

Although I still watch it occasionally, and the girls also spend a lot of money to raise them, but they are not as interested as they were at the beginning.

Therefore, more arrangements are made by the small team of Guofeng Art Troupe. Including accepting the invitation of the Shanghai International Art Festival this time, it was also a decision made by this side alone. Shirley, who has become the head of the art troupe, personally led the team.

We socialized into the night last night, and woke up in the building at No.18 on the Bund the next day.

Surrounded by one big and one small, Shirley and Miu Miu.

Although she is not yet the age to eat the little girl, she felt like she could teach Nizi some things she should know last night. Well, it’s actually a natural thing, and then it’s a natural thing.

After having breakfast, this trip to China also came to an end.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, of course, I still have to rush back to Los Angeles to accompany the women and children. However, it is expected that it will come again during the Chinese New Year. After the Spring Festival with Lin Su’s mother and son, Chen Qing’s side, this time Simon could not be partial.