You made me a superstar

Chapter 400 Classic Movie!

After carefully reading the script draft of the movie "A History of American Gangsters", Zhou Yang couldn't help but marvel at Zheng Jun's talent.

The original film of "American Gangster History" is a very typical film with a time-space interlaced structure. The draft script uses flashbacks, interludes, and sequences to describe the events that happened in the United States from the 20s to the 60s through dialogues, stories, and presentations. Especially the understanding of the culture of the United States during that period was so penetrating that Zhou Yang couldn't help suspecting that the author who wrote the draft script of "A History of American Gangsters" was an out-and-out Native American scholar...

However, the draft script of "A History of American Gangsters" is not perfect. The narration of the events is perfect, but the more perfect things are, the more cumbersome and lengthy the story is.
It's okay to shoot a TV series, but if you really want to move this story to the big screen, you may not be able to finish filming in [-] hours...

In addition to the more verbose narrative than "Once Upon a Time in America", the insignificant side plots are also quite cumbersome. Zhou Yang's first feeling after watching "American Gangster History" is that Zheng Jun paid too much attention to the so-called art, but forgot the film itself. Although the trade-off is very down-to-earth, the theme of the whole movie is a little lacking.

In two days.

Zhou Yang turned off his mobile phone, cut off all communication tools with the outside world, locked himself in the small room of SKY company, carefully read various materials, and thought about the plots of "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​deep in his memory...

Two years ago, Zhou Yang didn't know much about movies. After watching the commentary of "Once Upon a Time in America", he didn't care about some detailed scenes in it.

But two years later, when Zhou Yang recalled the scenes of "Once Upon a Time in America", he felt more and more that this movie was a classic, and even regretted why he didn't watch the movie from beginning to end.

Part of the script draft of "American Gangster History" was deleted by Zhou Yang, and the classic plot of "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​in memory was added, and it integrated childhood friendship, love, loss, greed, violence, the passage of time, and the breakdown of relationships. Themes such as American criminal gangs in the past, and sublimated these themes one by one through the plot.

"call!"

The morning sun in Los Angeles shone on Zhou Yang's desk.

Zhou Yang, who hadn't adjusted his jet lag yet, stayed up all night, and he didn't feel tired, but rather energetic.

He carefully reviewed the draft of "History of American Gangsters" and his revised draft, and the printer printed out more than a dozen pages of revised content.

He is not talented, in fact, he modified it on the basis of "Once Upon a Time in America", carefully searched the memory in his mind, and after confirming that he could no longer make any modifications and improvements, he Only then did he let out a long sigh of relief, as if he had finished something, he was extremely happy.

He stood up from the office chair, stretched himself, and opened the door after eating something.

"Mr. Zhou!"

door...

Zheng Jun had been waiting for a long time. When he saw Zhou Yang coming out, he immediately stood up excitedly, and began to speak incoherently: "We, it exploded! It exploded, it exploded!"

walkway.

Zheng Jun's voice was so loud that Zhou Yang's eardrums trembled continuously.

"What exploded?"

""The Departed" exploded! The box office is 600 million US dollars, which is higher than "Chain Saw"! Mr. Zhou, I did it... Yes, I did it... Mr. Zhou, I can do it..."

Zheng Jun shouted excitedly, then tremblingly handed a large stack of box office data to Zhou Yang, he stared at Zhou Yang closely, his eyes were full of anticipation, vaguely, as if a flame was burning in it, Emit a fiery light.

Debut in my 20s!

With a passion, he wanted to prove his level in the film industry and take the film to overseas exhibitions, but he committed a taboo and was banned.

Youth is no longer, dreams are shattered, and even once impoverished, relying on selling scripts to barely survive.

But the setbacks in life did not knock down this fanatical filmmaker. The flame in his heart was not only not extinguished, but became brighter after repeated blows.

He is too eager to succeed once!

Even if the success is extremely short-lived, even if it is just dust in this great era, it will be blown away by the wind at any time!
At the entrance of the aisle, the half-haired man cheered happily, like a child.

After a long time without getting a response from Zhou Yang, his excited expression suddenly turned into a little panic, the smile on his face gradually stiffened, and then he began to become embarrassed.

Immediately afterwards, the aisle became silent, Zhou Yang just looked at him silently...

His heart suddenly began to sink a little, as if a darkness swept his body again, and finally he was engulfed in the darkness and couldn't extricate himself.

An investment of 1000 million US dollars, after all, is not a small amount, Mr. Zhou himself did not have such a large investment, I am afraid...

Suddenly this idea appeared in my mind, and when this idea appeared, I couldn't suppress it instantly.

He lowered his head subconsciously.

"I changed the script a little bit, you can see if it works..."

"If you think it's okay, shoot like this, if you don't think it's okay, then shoot according to your idea..."

"1000 million US dollars, please tell the finance department, I will approve a note for you, how much should you pay for "The Departed Walker", not a penny less!"

"..."

At this moment, Zhou Yang's voice came into his mind.

He was shocked, and then raised his head in disbelief, only to see Zhou Yang showing a smile.

The smile was exceptionally gentle, like a ray of warm sun in winter, which made him very warm!
Afterwards, Zhou Yang printed out the revised "History of American Gangsters" and handed it to him.

He watched the revised version of "A History of American Gangsters" for the first time, and the more he watched it, the more pleasantly surprised he became, and the more he watched it, the more excited he became!
His script draft is just a concept in the movie, a story, many details in it need to be refined repeatedly, need to be refined and analyzed over and over again and trade-offs, but Zhou Yang has refined this story, and even sorted out the whole script. Clearly, he has completely reached his ideal state...

Time passed little by little.

He carefully read the script from the beginning to the end...

After reading it, my pupils shrank suddenly, and then my eyes widened. I felt goosebumps on my skin, and my scalp was numb!

"This……"

"Mr. Zhou, if this movie is really made like this, it will definitely become an old American classic movie, not inferior to the classic movie "New York 1920"!"

"Yes, absolutely!"

"I can assure you..."

"Mr. Zhou, I didn't expect you to be so powerful. You have such a deep understanding of Lao Mei's era and the art of movies..."

"I will definitely shoot well, give me some time, and I will read the script carefully..."

Zheng Jun panted heavily, his voice trembling, echoing at the entrance of the corridor over and over again.

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"Superman 2" is in full swing.

Fifty-three million, this is a milestone for Huaxia Film, and it is another peak of James Lee's career.

James Lee was naturally happy.

But it was limited to being happy, not as exciting as other people imagined.

"More than 100 years ago, my ancestors had their own colony in this place, and everyone knelt before us..."

"More than 100 years later, I am just doing the same thing as my ancestors, but in a different field, that's all..."

After the assistant excitedly told James Li the box office data of "Superman 2" on the second day, he sat on the chair in the presidential suite of the Yanjing Hotel, overlooking the whole Yanjing, and then took out the Huaxia entertainment circle The directors showed a bit of a smile on their faces for their various pursuits of this "lecture".

This year……

Perhaps it was because of Zhou Yang's sudden birth, or the operation of relevant departments in China, that the box office of Hollywood movies in China was not very satisfactory.

After the appearance of "The Grand Master", there is a vague tendency to rival Hollywood movies...

This made many Hollywood directors feel ashamed, and "Interstellar" director Robert Jr. was ridiculed by all Hollywood colleagues, thinking that his movie was simply discrediting Hollywood, and the embarrassment was thrown to China.

Director Robert Jr. was even ridiculed for suffering from depression at one point.

Originally, "Superman 2" was going to be released in mid-September.

However, seeing the sudden emergence of the movie "Infernal Affairs", and the director of "Men in Black" Cheers actually changed the schedule in order not to compete with "Infernal Affairs" at the box office, a large number of old American movie websites mocked Cheers, Some people even took the rhythm and said that when Hollywood movies lost their supposed dominance in China, James Lee couldn't sit still instantly. He thought of his ancestors and the Chinese movies of today...

then!

He adjusted the schedule of "Superman 2" to August to compete with "Infernal Affairs".

In fact...

The effect is really good.

"Mr. James, we are about to return home..."

"Going back to China? I'm really reluctant. Many directors in Huaxia have a kind of crazy worship for us. I stayed in Huaxia, just like a slave owner back then... Maybe there will be a sense of gap when I return to the United States. ..."

in the room.

He sighed.

He really enjoys the feeling of superiority in Huaxia.

No matter where they go, they are always shouting and hugging, talking about movies casually, no matter how unnutritious things are, these directors can always find the most profound movie philosophy, and then they are sought after and regarded as classics...

The assistant laughed.

Before he could say anything else, he heard the phone vibrate, and then the assistant received a movie message from Lao Mei.

After receiving the message, the assistant's expression was very exciting.

"Mr. James, the box office of our "Superman 2" in the United States does not seem to meet expectations..."

"Ok?"

The smile on James Lee's face gradually froze, and then he glanced at the assistant suspiciously.

"And the word-of-mouth on the Tomato Movie website has been surpassed by "The Departed"..." The assistant turned on the computer, and then murmured in disbelief: "Christian and Black Senator Olsen are working on this movie. for publicity..."

(End of this chapter)