China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 137 Timing, scary revelations, genius director

Women are very sensitive a lot of the time, especially when it comes to a guy they like.

Therefore, when Liu Yifei saw Yang Mi's revealing clothes as soon as she entered the door, she would naturally feel displeased instinctively, and perhaps there was some element of secret vigilance, but she didn't show it too much on the face.Should I greet Yang Mi or greet her, should I reminisce about the old days or reminisce about the old days, Liu Yifei still has this point, but the relationship between the two is unlikely to return to the past.

And what about Yang Mi?As soon as she was about to show off her full professionalism, she met Liu Yifei's eyes head-on. At first she felt a little embarrassed, but she immediately felt relieved.

It's okay to break up, if you have to do something that may hurt Liu Yifei in the future, the psychological burden is not that big.

Li Mu chatted briefly with Yang Mi, Wang Baoqiang and others, and the signing of the contract was completely settled. At the same time, the start time of "On the Journey" was confirmed, which will be next month.

Li Mu doesn't want to see Wang Baoqiang's girlfriend Ma Rong, but he doesn't show it on the surface.She is now Baoqiang's girlfriend, and the two have a very good relationship. In a sense, Li Mu doesn't like her in person because he doesn't like Baoqiang in person.

Besides, Li Mu is not God, and at the same time, he has no interest in interfering too much in other people's lives.

Firstly, even if Baoqiang marries another woman, it might not be so good; secondly, Li Mu is also thinking, if he finds Baoqiang before time travel and tells him that he is about to time travel, now he has a change. If there is a chance of marriage, will Baoqiang ask Li Mu to prevent him from marrying Ma Rong?
Maybe, because it really hurts; but also maybe not, because if he doesn't marry Ma Rong, what will happen to his current couple of children?disappear?
……

As the official start of the movie "The Doomsday Collapse" is getting closer, Li Mu is also taking the time to arrange the company's work priorities for the next stage.

Three days later, Li Mu met a management talent who was recommended by a headhunting company and specialized in comics in a coffee shop in Beijing.

Man Wu Manga will be published in China and the United States separately, and "Pacific Rim" and "Frozen" will be serialized in China and the United States respectively. With Liu Siying's talent and energy, there is no way to take care of Huashang Media and Man Wu Manga at the same time. work.

The person recommended by the headhunting company was named Tu Dalong. After meeting Li Mu, he felt that he was quite satisfied, so the matter was settled.

In addition to looking for intermediary companies to recommend talents, Li Mu also personally went to other large companies to recruit talents.

For example, Shen Li, who is in charge of Baidu LBS and one of the core managers of Baidu O2O.Of course, her status in Baidu is not that high now, so Li Mu easily poached her over by flickering and absolutely favorable conditions.

In the original history, Shen Li would eventually be poached to Meituan by Wang Xing in September 2014 and become one of the core executives of Meituan——one of the senior vice presidents. Two persons in charge.

After joining Meituan, Shen Li changed her position many times, and finally took charge of Maoyan Films and made great achievements.

Li Mu, who has worked in the film and television industry for half his life, knows the extreme importance of distribution to a movie, and Maoyan is such a weapon for movie distribution. It's in your own hands.

Therefore, Li Mu began to set up the third company under his name-Maoyan Films.

In a sense, now is also an opportune time to develop online movie ticketing.

Although the first online movie ticketing website in China was established as early as 2005, its business development has been very slow. Until 2009, the proportion of domestic online ticket purchases only accounted for 2% of the total, and the turning point came in 2010. Year.

In January 2010, the movie "Avatar" was officially launched in the mainland, and soon there was a hot scene where tickets were hard to find. At that time, some newspapers even published exaggerated news that buying movie tickets was difficult to buy Spring Festival travel train tickets.

It was also from this time that the audience found that buying tickets on a third-party platform was not only the original price, and there was no need to queue up, they could also choose seats online, which was very convenient.

Taking advantage of the hard-to-get tickets for "Avatar", the number of registered users of online ticketing software began to increase sharply.

Now that he knew that there was an opportunity, Li Mu had to make arrangements in advance, and the Shen Li he had painstakingly dug out was Li Mu's person in charge of preparing for the future Maoyan movie.

After completing the establishment of the leadership team of the two new companies under his name, Li Mu, Cheng Long, Yang Ziqiong, Liu Yifei and other film creators went to the United States.

At the end of June 2008, the movie "Doomsday Collapse" was officially launched in the United States.

……

Time flies, and soon came to July 2008, 7. At this time, the crew of "The Doomsday Collapse" is in the United States for intense filming.

At the same time, a very important film in the history of world cinema - "Batman: The Dark Knight" directed by Nolan officially premiered in New York!
With a premiere scale of 4366 theaters, The Dark Knight won the crown of the largest film release in American film history.

The box office on the first day was 6785 million US dollars, the undisputed first-day champion of American film history.

The three-day box office in the first weekend was 1.55 million US dollars, the first weekend in American film history.

IMDb ranked first, with a score of 9.7, making it beat the classic movie "The Godfather".

With a 94% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the commercial film is finally proud of the film critics.

The box office broke 18 million US dollars in 4 days of release, and "Batman: The Dark Knight" once again set a new record in film history.

The box office totaled 24 million US dollars in 4.415 days of release, and it successfully ranked among the top three highest-grossing films in American film history.

Douban scored 9.2. Although "Batman: The Dark Knight" failed to be released in China, it was regarded as a masterpiece by many Chinese fans.

The movie world was shocked and the crowd was boiling. These things should have nothing to do with Li Mu, but as "Batman: The Dark Knight" swept the world, it inevitably affected Li Mu himself.

As the most internationally influential director in China, one or two words can even be removed; as an international director who has always been known as a talented director, Li Mu has boosted the confidence of domestic movie fans in domestic films, and also It is inevitable to be compared with other big directors in Hollywood.

Compared with James Cameron and Spielberg, it is definitely not qualified enough, but it is more reliable than Nolan, who is also known as a talented director.

Director Nolan's previous famous films include "Memory Fragments", "White Night", "Fatal Magic" and "Batman Begins".

Among them, "Memento" has a global box office of 3970 million US dollars, "White Night" and "Fatal Magic" have a global box office of about 1 million US dollars, and the highest box office is "Batman Begins", with a global box office of 3.7 million US dollars.

And Li Mu's three films with the most international influence - "Taken" is 2.8 million US dollars; "Assassin" is 3.55 million US dollars; "Super Body" is 3.6 million US dollars.
Although Li Mu's highest-grossing work "Super Body" is not as good as Nolan's highest-grossing "Batman Begins", the gap between the two is not that big, and the difference in global box office is only 1000 million US dollars.

And the most important thing is that the total box office of Li Mu's works has clearly surpassed Director Nolan's.

Therefore, when domestic movie fans were arguing about who is stronger between the two, netizens who support Li Mu's stronger will have a greater advantage.

Even if there are die-hard fans of director Nolan who overwhelm Li Mu with the performance of a single work, Li Mu fans are speechless with three Hugo awards, 6000 million best-selling author, and original works. .

The "Batman" series shot by Nolan has so many fans around the world, and in the end it only surpassed Li Mu's purely original works by a mere US$1000 million in box office. What is there to say?

Is it true that Huaxia directors are discriminated against internationally?

Li Lianhua didn't have much international influence before, and she was of the yellow race. This disadvantage is quite obvious, isn't it true?
But even so, the box office of "Super Body" directed by Li Mu is only 1000 million US dollars lower than that of "Batman Begins", so is it still worth fighting for?

What an obvious thing, director Nolan is indeed very strong, but compared with our native Chinese director Li Mu, there is still a certain gap!
Although Nolan's fans were still unconvinced, they had to admit that Li Mu was really strong.

Then the second installment of Nolan's Batman trilogy finally officially hits theaters.

Moreover, it created ten new box office records as soon as it was released, and countless professional organizations even predicted that the final global box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" has a high probability of breaking the $10 billion mark!
The box office reputation doubled, and the global box office exceeded 10 billion!
May I ask what Li Mu wants to compare?

The global box office of all Li Mu's films combined is barely worth US$10 billion, and a film directed by Nolan is worth US$10 billion!
Now Li Mu's fans are really not easy to refute, because the dark knight is too fierce.

Could it be said that "Inception" directed by Li Mu, which has not yet been released, and "Apocalypse", which has just started, can compete with "Batman: The Dark Knight"?
What about dreaming?
Even Li Mu's hardcore fans dare not think so. Everyone thinks that "Inception" and "Doomsday Collapse" can earn 4 million US dollars in the global box office. It's over.

In a sense, the $10 billion global box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is a mountain that Li Mu can hardly overcome in his life.

In the end, most of Li Mu's fans could only use the fact that "Batman" has a very large number of fans around the world to find some ground.

Does the Dark Knight's awesomeness mean Nolan's awesomeness?Not necessarily, without the popularity of Batman, Nolan can get this box office result?
But after all, there is still some lack of confidence.

At this time, some people finally began to pay attention to the screenwriter column of the movie "Batman: The Dark Knight", and then everyone found a very familiar name in the screenwriter column-Li Mu!
After Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, and David S. Goyer, you need to click the More button to see it on Douban.com.

Everyone's first reaction was to be dumbfounded.

Director Li Mu and Batman?The two are not next to each other at all!
"Is Douban coming to Auntie?"

"No way? Unless my aunt is also contagious. I just checked, and Mtime also has it."

"I went to look at the information on the external website. There is indeed LiMu in the screenwriter column. Is this a problem with the domestic translation?"

"The idiot translator didn't run away for playing bad jokes. LiMu is Li Mu? Couldn't it be Limu?"

"Okay, it might be Zhao Guo's General Li Mu!"

Nolan's fans couldn't help but ridicule, while Li Mu's fans called on everyone not to get excited, and waited for proof before talking about it, while starting to collect various information.

Then finally a staff member of the crew of "Super Body" came forward and broke the news.

"Everyone, stop arguing, I am a staff member of the "Super Body" crew, and everyone in the "Super Body" crew knows this matter-yes, there should be Lee in the screenwriter of "Batman: The Dark Knight" Director Mu's name!"

Then, no matter whether it was Nolan's fans or Li Mu's fans, everyone gathered under the whistleblower's post. After finally confirming that this person had really worked in the "Super Body" crew, everyone was anxiously waiting for an answer .

"Actually, let's not mention how mysterious this matter is. I remember that the crew was filming at the time, and suddenly I heard that a director named Nolan came to see Director Li. Later, I heard that this director named Nolan took a fancy to Li. I heard that the price for the film adaptation rights of a novel directed by him, namely "Inception", is very high."

"However, Director Li himself is a great director, and "Inception" is one of Director Li's favorite works. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is Director Li's child. How could he sell the adaptation rights to other directors? ? But director Nolan really likes the story of "Inception" too much, so—what do you think Nolan did?"

Countless netizens began to refresh the webpage non-stop and waited for the host to update. Finally, after more than ten minutes, the host appeared again.

"Then the most shocking scene came. Of course, I was not there at the time, and I heard people say it."

"I heard that Director Nolan at the time directly took out a part of the storyboard manuscript of "Inception", and confidently told Director Li that he, Nolan, was the best person to make this "Inception". As for the director, even if Li Mu is the original author of the novel, when it comes to who can better express the novel, director Li Mu is still not as suitable as him."

"I heard that Director Li's face was quite embarrassing at the time, even with a hint of shame. "Inception" is Director Li's own original novel, and no one can deny this. Of course, my novel is my favorite novel. I understand, but Director Nolan said at the time that he was the best director for this novel. Nolan’s statement somewhat underestimated Director Li, right? But why did Director Li Mu feel ashamed at the time? He didn’t copy the novel, What's more, he didn't copy Nolan's, so what can he feel guilty about?"

"Then there is only one conclusion, and that is, the storyboard draft of "Inception" drawn by Director Nolan really shocked Director Li Mu. Director Li Mu thought of himself as the original author of the story, and he was deeply impressed by his work. His understanding is not as good as that of an outsider, of course he should be ashamed. Only this kind of explanation is logical and makes sense."

After breaking the news here, Nolan's fans are boiling.

"Look, what am I talking about? Director Nolan is even better! Li Mu wrote the novel himself, but Director Nolan drew the most amazing storyboard draft. Even Li Mu himself felt ashamed, you guys What can these Li Mu fans have to contend with? I admit that Director Li Mu is indeed very good, but compared to Director Nolan, he is still not as good as he is."

"Nolan is amazing, so what if you are the original author of the novel? I threw a stack of storyboards directly in the face, and then said loudly to you: I know your work best, and I will be the director!"

"Fuck, Li Mu didn't sell the copyright in the end? Why does it feel like the layout is too small?"

"Not only did it not sell, but I even arranged for my girlfriend to play the heroine! Such an awesome story may be ruined by Li Mu's small pattern."

"Li Mu should have gained applause as the screenwriter of "Inception", but unfortunately the plot is too small and he has to use his identity as the director of "Inception" to ruin the work."

Then just when Li Mu's fans were thinking about how to refute, the person who broke the news spoke again.

"Then you guess what Director Li Mu did? It's against the sky, let me tell you! He directly asked someone to find a pen and paper, and then told Director Nolan that he really liked Nolan's "Batman: The Mystery of the Shadow" , and said that when he was bored, he would reasonably infer the plot of the second Batman series based on the plot of the first Batman series."

"Then Director Li Mu, in front of everyone and in front of Director Nolan, began to draw the storyboard draft of the second part of the Batman series that had not yet started filming at that time, that is, "Batman" that is currently being screened. Hero: The Dark Knight. And how many storyboards of "Inception" brought by Director Nolan at that time, and how many storyboards he inferred for "Batman: The Dark Knight" was drawn by Director Li Mu on the spot, And guess what?"

"It is said that after Director Nolan read the manuscript deduced by Director Li Mu, his entire face immediately turned into a pig liver color. Needless to say, Director Li Mu's manuscript must have scared Nolan to death. Or he guessed right. The director's script is either better than what Director Nolan wants to shoot. In short, Director Nolan is completely overwhelmed."

"How many days and weeks did he think about when he drew the manuscript of "Inception"? And director Li Mu? He drew it directly on the spot! Director Nolan had the plot of the novel as a reference, and Li Mu directly inferred Nolan from the first plot of Batman. Lan is going to make the second part. So it’s useless to say who is better?”

"Anyway, I heard that Director Nolan has been in regular contact with Director Li Mu since then. It is said that the two will study the plot of "Batman: The Dark Knight" together and how to produce the desired effect——Li Director Mu's name is now written on the film's information!"

As soon as this breaking news came out, the entire Chinese Internet world was completely boiled, and even those netizens who had never watched any of Nolan's works were actively discussing it.

In fact, the content of this revelation is a bit too fantasy.

Can you infer the plot of the second part after watching the first part?Did you draw several storyboards on the spot?

Novels dare not write like this!

"The story is well written, but no one really believes it, right?"

"Okay, I got it, Li Mu is not a human being, but a god! Is this the head office?"

"The higher you hold, the harder you fall. Remember not to be a mythical idol."

"How about drawing a storyboard draft on the spot?! Anyone who has really drawn a storyboard knows how nonsense it is!"

"Li Mu is the best, director Li Mu is number one in the world, Li Mu and Cameron Spielberg are equally famous—no, director Li Mu is better than Cameron Spielberg! Is this the head office?"

"That's right, director Li Mu's next movie has a global box office of 1000 billion US dollars, right?"

"Too lazy to refute, just a fake look."

"A very starting plot."

There was a lot of noise on the Chinese Internet, and then it successfully spread to the Internet.

When Director Nolan participated in the film promotion, a reporter from Huaxia directly asked Nolan about the fact that Huaxia director Li Mu was on the screenwriter list of the film.

After the reporter briefly recounted the so-called revelations on the Internet, Director Nolan replied:

"Director Li Mu's talent is amazing. I also thought it was incredible at the time. He suddenly drew a storyboard draft on the spot, and many contents of the storyboard draft coincided with the ideas in my mind. Some of them were even better than my own. The idea that I came up with after thinking hard for a long time is even more amazing. Director Li Mu is the hero of this "Batman: The Dark Knight". Help, the two of us have a secret agreement that he will be one of the writers of "Batman: The Dark Knight", and I will also appear in the screenwriter list of "Inception."

The content of the interview was sent back to China, and the entire Huaxia Internet was instantly detonated:
"Oh my god, Nolan directly endorsed it. Director Li Mu is just so awesome!"

"Damn it, thank goodness I didn't directly scold you idiot, otherwise I would really be an idiot!"

"Director Li Mu is amazing!"

"It's really awesome. Can you believe that you can directly guess the plot of Batman's second movie after watching the first one?"

"Genius, Director Li Mu is definitely a genius."

"What do you say?!"

"As a fan of Tianxian, what I want to say now is that Tianxian is willing to take the initiative to pursue Li Mu, and is willing to steal a kiss from Director Li at the premiere. There is a reason for all these. How can anyone be gentle and courteous when facing such a genius? let?"

"I'll give Li Mu ten years, and I'll give you a Cameron Spielberg-level director!"

"Suddenly looking forward to "Inception"?"

……

The time soon came to the beginning of August 2008. At this time, the filming progress of the movie "The Doomsday Collapse" was nearly halfway, and Li Mu also officially announced that the crew would take a temporary 8-day vacation.

Yes, the crew is going to stop!
There is no way not to stop.

Because Li Mu, Liu Yifei, Cheng Long and others are all going back to Beijing to watch the Olympic opening ceremony live.All the main crew members had to leave, and the crew had no choice but to suspend work temporarily.

　Thanks to "boring middle-aged man" for the reward
　
(End of this chapter)