You made me a superstar

Chapter 398

Although it is rarely shown on the bright side, most Hollywood directors come to China with a sense of superiority.

It seems to come to the barren land with a layer of inexplicable brilliance, using cool special effects and magical skills to amaze a group of Chinese movie fans who have never seen the world, and are crazy about it.

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James Lee has this kind of mentality.

"Oh, my God, I'm so scared, my legs are still weak!"

"The feeling of the bullet shooting through the screen was so realistic, I couldn't help but block it with my hand..."

"The picture of Superman flying in outer space with a rocket on his shoulders is so shocking, damn it, it makes my scalp go numb!"

"An epic sci-fi blockbuster. Really, foreign movies are enjoyable. Hey, domestic movies are always like this. When will our Chinese movies have such blockbusters?"

"Ten years from now!"

"It may not be there in ten years, look at this technology..."

"..."

The plot of this movie follows the predecessor "Superman 1". The special effects in it alone cost 8000 million U.S. dollars. Among the more than 1400 special effects shots, including Superman flying into the deep sea, passing through a burning tunnel, and recreating the scene that helped the baseball field A series of shots such as the forced landing of the Boeing 777 achieving a soft landing can be said to be one of the most expensive special effects blockbusters in Hollywood...

After the premiere of "Superman 2", the young movie fans were very excited. After walking out of the cinema, they repeatedly talked with their partners about how they felt watching the movie. …

The eyes of those directors are extremely complicated, as if a brand new door is opening in front of them, some people are disappointed, some people surround James Lee with admiration and say all kinds of flattering words, some people mutter to themselves, as if shocked I don't know what to say, I thought "Superman 1" was already the pinnacle of Hollywood special effects blockbusters, but no one would have thought that the special effects in "Superman 2" were even more shocking than "Superman 1". After wearing 3D glasses, Everyone seems to have come to another world...

Django was also blown away by the special effects in Superman 2.

But compared to Cao Bangguo who has been warmly following James Lee and chatting about the evening lecture, he has always maintained complicated emotions.

The appearance of "Superman 2" is destined to be a catastrophe for Chinese movies.

Whether it is "Infernal Affairs" or his "Night Walker", they will all be affected by this hero...

"This is Mr. Milanke, one of the special effects team of "Superman 2", Xiao Jiang, I will make an appointment with you later, you two have a good chat."

"Okay, thank you Uncle Cao..."

Leaving the screening hall and coming to the reception hall of the China Film Association, a group of directors chatted about various topics around the "Superman 2" team. Cao Bangguo deliberately pulled Django when he was in a trance, and then Pointing to the blond young man not far away, he patted Django on the shoulder.

Django nodded, and the words "Teach the barbarians to master their skills to control the barbarians" echoed in his heart.

But for some reason, I felt a sense of inexplicable humiliation in my heart, especially when I saw Feng Minrui, the president of the China Film Association, when he saw James Lee, he had a little expectant smile on his face. Has a hint of flattering meaning.

A year ago, he was actually very adaptable to this kind of occasion. Even when he was filming "Mechanical Man", he wanted to kneel down and lick these foreigners.

And now...

I don't know if I watched "Things About That Rabbit That Year" a few days ago, and I don't know if I was influenced by the song "My Motherland", and I always feel quite ironic in my heart.

However, after thinking about it carefully, he didn't feel that Cao Bangguo and others were wrong.

There is a gap between Chinese movies and Hollywood movies, isn't there?
Treating them well now is not flattery, nor flattery...

Even so, it is to learn from them...

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United States.

Los Angeles.

Director Christian is really fucked up.

When I met Christian, he was preparing to shoot "The Lamb". After "Saw" was finished, he was still preparing to shoot "The Lamb". Now even the American version of "Infernal Affairs" has finished filming the film "Lamb". Halfway through filming, and because of the actor's problem, it was temporarily stranded...

The American version of "Infernal Affairs" is called "The Departed".

Yes, it is the Hong Kong version of "Infernal Affairs". The plot of the movie is roughly the same as "Infernal Affairs", and even the screenwriter has Zhou Yang's name in it.

But after Zhou Yang watched the full version of "The Departed Walker", he didn't know how to evaluate this "The Departed Walker".

"Infernal Affairs" is quite oriental Buddhist, and every line of dialogue and content is full of the unique oriental ideological realm.

The spirit of the character needs to be upgraded.He wants to be able to do things that normal people can't do, but the overall is more reserved, and people need to understand his realm carefully and feel the charm of this movie.

However, "The Departed" expresses the thinking of Westerners, and the emotional expression of the characters should be more realistic...

There was surprise, there was frustration, there was anger, there was panic...

In fact, if we really want to talk about the difference, Zhou Yang found that the American version of "The Departed" is more unrestrained, or more emotional, than Zhou Yang's filming, completely abandoning the implicit feeling of "Infernal Affairs".

"Infernal Affairs" is more of a literary film, while "The Infernal Walker" is more of an out-and-out American police film...

In particular, the occasional swear words in the lines, and the conflict between the black brother and the white police detective, have subtly risen to a mainstream flavor again.

"Tomorrow "The Departed" will be released in North America..."

"Not only will it take over the filming of "Infernal Affairs", but it will also have more promotional resources, especially the FBI police officers, who are willing to cooperate with the promotion of "Infernal Affairs"..."

"..."

Zheng Jun eloquently introduced the situation of "The Departed Walker" in front of Zhou Yang.

Zhou Yang listened to Zheng Jun's introduction of the movie "The Departed", and nodded.

The memory gradually became clearer.

When I met Zheng Jun for the first time, Zheng Jun was humble, strong, and restrained, as if his edges and corners had been smoothed by life, like an inconspicuous stone on the side of the road.

But now, standing in the most conspicuous position of the conference table, he has become extraordinarily confident and expounded his idea of ​​shooting "The Departed".

I have to admit that Zheng Jun is very talented and has a deep understanding of Laomei's culture. For the same plot, Zhou Yang's filming and Zheng Jun's filming are simply two different concepts.

One is in the sky, and many old American audiences have headaches watching it.

One is on the ground, very down-to-earth, especially in the description of each segment, the current situation of the old beauty is vividly realistic.

"The Departed" is definitely more marketable in Laomei than "Infernal Affairs".

After the introduction of "The Departed", Zheng Jun began to talk about his ambitions in Laomei's future...

It seems that after the filming of "The Departed Walker", a certain nerve in his body was completely touched, and he kept saying in front of Zhou Yang that his new movie wanted to make an old-fashioned gangster movie, and told Zhou Yang some of his love for gangsters. The idea and concept of the film.

"I want to make an old American gangster film from the 20th century, from the 60s to the [-]s... mainly about the history of gangsters in this period, and the stories of the rise of some low-level people..."

"If possible, I hope this movie is an epic gangster movie that depicts the human conflicts of friendship and rivalry, loyalty and betrayal..."

"Mr. Zhou, no matter how much box office "The Departed" has, as one of the directors, I don't want a penny. I hope you can support me to make this movie. I am very eager. I can even say that this is a kind of The longing of the soul..."

"This is the outline of my script. Although the investment in the film may be huge, I guarantee that the film will not lose money! If it loses money... I am willing to sign a ten-year or even 20-year contract with you to pay off the debt..."

"..."

In the meeting room of SKY company.

Zheng Jun's eyes were full of longing, and his whole body was crazy like a madman.

He handed the script outline to Zhou Yang, his hands were shaking constantly, and Zhou Yang could obviously feel a little sweat on his palms.

Quite like a desperate gambler.

"I'll look at the outline first."

Zhou Yang didn't agree, but took over the outline of "A History of the American Gangster" and started to read it.

Jung Joon's scripts are always so pleasing to the eye...

Like the previous "Mine Bottom", although it is an outline, every character and every storyboard is extremely detailed, and even the time period when the main characters appear is clearly written.

But maybe because of cultural differences, or because Zheng Jun wrote the outline so detailed that it hurts the brain, Zhou Yang really didn't have much sense of substitution for the outline of the movie "History of American Gangsters". After reading it, he looked up at Zheng Jun, and after hesitating for a while, he looked at Zheng Jun's expectant eyes, but he couldn't bear to refuse in his heart.

"How much to invest?"

"$1000 million..."

"How many?"

"1000 million US dollars." Zheng Jun continued, and after he finished speaking, the light in his eyes became more and more fiery.

1000 million U.S. dollars, equivalent to nearly 8000 million yuan.

After Zhou Yang heard this figure, his heart froze for a moment, and he felt terrified. All the films he has made so far have never had such a high investment.

The huge conference room suddenly became silent.

Then, he glanced down at "A History of the American Gangster" and looked at the script outline of the film again.

Looking at it, Zhou Yang always felt a little inexplicably familiar...

Vaguely, another movie came to mind, and that movie was called "Once Upon a Time in America".

This movie was very famous in the original world, but because of some editing reasons, an investment of 4000 million dollars was exchanged for several million dollars at the box office, and it hit the street to the extreme. It entered the history of old American movies and was regarded as one of the milestone movies of old American classics...

The introduction of Zhou Yang's movie, and I have seen the commentary of the movie, but I have not seen the full version of the movie.

The full version is too long, a full four hours...

He was really impatient to watch.

But after reading "A History of American Gangsters", the general context and core selling points of "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​emerged in Zhou Yang's mind...

"How about this, give me your script, and I'll change it a little bit. After the revision, if you think it's suitable, then shoot it! Well, it's not a revision, it's just adding something to your script outline. You Do you think it's okay?"

"Yes, yes, that's great. In fact, there are some things I don't understand here. Mr. Zhou, I just can ask you..." Zheng Jun nodded excitedly, his face became flushed, as if he was taking drugs average.

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"Has the box office of "Infernal Affairs" come out on the [-]th?"

"Out……"

"How many?"

"2000 million... It's not ideal, the impact of "Superman 2" is too great!"

"Does Mr. Zhou know?"

"I don't know, Mr. Zhou's phone has been disconnected..."

"..."

China.

Huaxing Entertainment.

After Wang Jing and Xu Mei got the box office of "Infernal Affairs" on the [-]th day, they fell silent for a moment.

(End of this chapter)