Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 491 A Brand New Subject

At the Beijing airport, Chenglong and his party got into the nanny car of the bright era and set off for the Shangri-La Hotel.

Thinking of the verbal agreement with Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi when he was at the Beijing Film Festival last year, Cheng Long felt that all this was very interesting.

Originally, the type of film he was considering cooperating with was roughly an action film, coupled with his unique comedy elements, but unexpectedly, it was rejected by Tang Jili.

Tang Jili is also right. Whether it is his pure action elements, mixed police elements, or gunfight elements supplemented with condiments, these things are leftovers from foreign games. Using this kind of film to conquer overseas movie fans is somewhat underestimating the aesthetic level of foreigners.

Tang Jili was his golden partner for decades, and he was sent to Hollywood in one fell swoop. Tang Jili's suggestion had a great influence on him, so he gave up the idea of ​​going back to the old way, and then followed Tang Jili's advice. A suggestion for a science fiction film made in the diary.

"Domestic sci-fi is a blank market, while foreign sci-fi is on the rise. If you want to return to the top, maybe you can take this new route for you. While following the trend of the global market, you can also give your overseas fans a fresh look. Feeling, the probability of success is at least much higher than following your old path."

These are the original words of Tang Jili, and he agreed after careful consideration, and completely accepted Tang Jili's suggestion to create a sci-fi film tailored for him.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, he had a meal at Chu Xuan's house. After everyone had a chat, he originally thought that the final sci-fi would probably be similar to Hollywood-style sci-fi.

Either dig deep into the special effects, or dig into the characters, or dig into the scene...

He had anticipated this, and also expected it, and wanted to see what kind of story his old buddy could come up with.

But what he didn't expect was that when he and Chu Xuan received the email from Tang Jili some time ago, the story and setting in it surprised him.

Even though he has been well-known in Hollywood for many years and has seen so many movies of all kinds with his eyes, the story structure and story setting in Tang Ji also made him use the word amazing.

He believes that the sci-fi story and setting constructed in Tang Ji is a brand new existence even in Hollywood, and it is a completely innovative subject even in Hollywood.

And science fiction?It's all about brains and creativity.

At that moment, he seemed to see the hope of making a comeback in Hollywood, and he was very excited.

Therefore, he deliberately rearranged the next schedule with the crew of "The King of Kung Fu" and took the time to come to the capital.

Although I had a conversation with Chu Xuan on the phone some time ago, and Chu Xuan also expressed his and Concubine Liu Yi's liking for this story, but it is related to the cooperation of a blockbuster film, so it is better to meet and chat in person.

Moreover, according to Tang Jili's budget, the 1.5 million investment initially negotiated during the Chinese New Year seems to be insufficient, and this needs to be negotiated again.

Because of this, Mr. Du from Yinghuang also came with him.

"Big brother."

In the box of Shangri-La Hotel, the waiter who was waiting at the door opened the door. As soon as Cheng Long looked inside, he heard a familiar voice.

"Xuanzi."

Chenglong was full of smiles, and gave a bear hug to the welcoming Chu Xuan.

"Director Tang, President Du."

Chu Xuan and Chenglong separated, and greeted Tang Jili and Mr. Du respectively.

The two smiled and nodded, shook hands with Chu Xuan and greeted back, followed Chu Xuan and Cheng Long into the box.

There were three other people in the box, Wang Jinhua, Liu Yi and Han Sanping.

After exchanging pleasantries, the two sides sat down on their chairs.

The waiter poured tea for everyone, Wang Jinhua, Han Sanping, and Mr. Du chatted with each other, and Tang Jili also talked to Liu Yi. Chenglong turned his head to look at Chu Xuan next to him: "Cissy went to the United States for further training?"

"Make preparations before further study in advance." Chu Xuan said.

Chenglong nodded, and joked: "Every time I see you are together, this time you are alone, I am not used to it just now."

Chu Xuan reached out and turned the turntable on the round table, and grabbed a handful of melon seeds: "Brother, you are not the first person to say that. After Sissy went to America, every friend said that when they saw me."

Chenglong also reached out and grabbed a handful of melon seeds: "This shows that you both exist at the same time, and they are so deeply rooted in everyone's eyes."

Chu Xuan smiled slightly, knocked on the melon seeds and didn't answer.

The waiter poured tea for the people who had just arrived, quietly retreated and closed the door.

Chenglong knocked the melon seeds, raised his legs, and said, "What do you think of the story?"

"Very good, Director Tang's brain is blown." Chu Xuan praised without thinking.

It was said that Tang Jili stopped communicating with Liu Yi, and Wang Jinhua, Han Sanping and President Du also stopped talking.

"Then what do you like most about this story?" Tang Jili asked with a smile.

"I like all of them." Chu Xuan said, looking at Tang Ji, he thought he was flattering, and he added: "Director Tang, really, this is a very novel story, including the setting."

"Indeed, it's very novel." Han Sanping agreed, taking a sip of tea with his teacup.

This movie is a planned cooperation project between Brilliant Times and Yinghuang. If it can reach the level of overseas release, Yinghuang has the channels and resources for overseas releases, so it doesn't need much help from him and Huaying.

It stands to reason that he doesn't need to participate in today's dinner.

However, some time ago, I received news from Chu Xuan and Wang Jinhua that the investment budget was estimated to be insufficient.

If this project is confirmed to cooperate, in order to strengthen the level of film production, and to ensure the follow-up overseas distribution and publicity, both parties have the idea of ​​letting Huaying Group be the third investment producer.

Therefore, he came to this dinner today.

When we got together at Chu Xuan's house to discuss science fiction during the Chinese New Year, he had the same idea as Cheng Long, thinking that the stories constructed in Tang Ji were at most similar to the existing Hollywood science fiction.

But after seeing the email sent to him from Chu Xuan, he also felt surprised.

The science fiction stories in Tang Ji are a very novel subject matter.

"Let's talk about it." Wang Jinhua crossed her hands on the table, looked at Chu Xuan on the left, Han Sanping on the right, and Tang Jili on the opposite side.

There are many things in the company, and with Chu Xuan handling this matter, she can handle other things at ease.

So, until now, she didn't know what the story in Tang Ji was about. She only knew that when Chu Xuan mentioned this matter in the office, she said yes repeatedly.

When I came to this dinner today, and heard Chu Xuan and Han Sanping's praises, she also became curious.

Before the food was served, she also wanted to know more about it.

"Sister, then listen carefully, if you can't turn your head, you might not be able to understand." Chu Xuan put the melon seeds in his hand on the table, patted his hands to clean up the crumbs of the melon seeds, and prepared to speak for Wang Jinhua.

Hearing what Chu Xuan said, the people present couldn't help being amused, but Chu Xuan was telling the truth. This story is just told by mouth. If you don't understand the logical relationship, you may not understand it.

"Come on, tell me." Wang Jinhua looked at Chu Xuan cheerfully, "Sister's logic is fine."

Chu Xuan smiled slightly, lowered his eyebrows and stroked his thoughts.

The people present either cracked melon seeds to eat peanuts and fruits, or picked up cups of tea, or raised their legs and hugged their hands. They all fell silent, ready to listen to Chu Xuan's storytelling.

After a while, Chu Xuan raised his eyebrows and said, "The story happened in 2030, but the starting point of the story was in 1640 during the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties."

"Ah?" Wang Jinhua was slightly astonished, and then smiled: "So amazing? Such a long time span? It also involves ancient times?"

Chu Xuan said: "After all, it is science fiction, so the historical background should be roughly fictionalized."

Wang Jinhua nodded, signaling Chu Xuan to continue.

"In 1640, alien civilizations descended on our planet, but they didn't show their mountains or dews. After learning about our human civilization, they began to enslave humans silently and became the puppets and labor force of alien civilizations until now in 2030. time and space."

Time and space now? ...Wang Jinhua raised her eyebrows and nodded slowly.

"During this period, in order to curb the development of human beings, alien civilizations disrupted and regressed human technology, staying in the ancient times without guns."

Are humans an ancient civilization?Since aliens have the ability to disrupt and stop human technology, does that mean that alien civilization is a super technological civilization?

In other words, ancient civilization VS technological civilization?
If this is the case, then this brain hole is really a bit big, Wang Jinhua was very surprised, and gradually became excited.

"Also during this period, in order to further curb the development of the remaining human beings and improve their own technological development, the alien civilization occupied and monopolized all the energy and mineral resources in the world, etc. Once the remnants of human beings are found, they massacre and destroy them."

"So, now in 2030, except for the N technological steel cities built by alien civilizations imitating ancient times at that time, most of the rest of the world is wasteland."

"Waste soil?" Wang Jinhua blinked.

The word wasteland was new, but she also knew it had something to do with the thematic element of the end of the world.

Moreover, she got the word "Rebel Army" from Chu Xuan's mouth, so she probably guessed the main line of the story.

"A sci-fi doomsday theme?" she asked.

"For the remaining human beings, this background is equivalent to the doomsday." Chu Xuan said: "But it's not limited to this. The place where human beings live is a doomsday-like wasteland, and the cities of alien civilizations are technological, but not ours. The modernization of science and technology belongs to the science and technology of alien civilizations.”

"Such a background setting is a bit like cyberpunk in Hollywood."

"But this cyberpunk is not a foreign cyberpunk, but a kind of cyberpunk from China."

"Because the remaining human science and technology level is ancient, and it is the ancient Chinese country, so it is mixed with certain Chinese cultural elements."

"For example, the way of fighting, swords, guns, halberds, etc."

Wang Jinhua was stunned, raised her left hand to rest her chin, and asked in doubt: "Swords, guns, halberds and technological civilization?"

Others use guns, you use knives, guns, sticks, and halberds, can you win this fight?

Or is this movie defined by Tang Jili as a pure cool movie?

Seeing Wang Jinhua's expression in Tang Ji, I understood the doubts in her heart, and said eloquently: "Aliens have wisdom, and we humans also have wisdom. After hundreds of years, they can always steal something from us."

"The sword, gun, stick and halberd that Chu Xuan mentioned are not ordinary swords, guns, sticks and halberds, they are similar to..."

Tang Jili thought about it, thinking about how to explain it.

Chenglong knocked a melon seed, and took over the conversation: "Superman, Spiderman, you know? In Lao Tang's setting, getting a weapon is just like Superman, it is very powerful, which is equivalent to getting a supernatural power."

"Oh~ I understand a little bit." Wang Jinhua nodded slowly, but the next moment she had doubts: "The human civilization can create such powerful weapons to fight against aliens, so why are they still living in the wasteland? Is this the setting?" What is the problem?"

Chu Xuan looked at Wang Jinhua: "In a life-threatening environment for hundreds of years, any intelligent individual only thinks about how to save his life and resist. How can he have the energy to improve his living standards? I don't know when he will What's the use of doing things that have nothing to do with defense and attack if you're killed by aliens any moment?"

Seeing that Wang Jinhua was still puzzled, Chu Xuan continued to explain: "Simply put, human beings' technological development has been diverted by alien civilizations, resulting in human living standards still staying at the ancient times, but the level of cold weapons is very strong, otherwise It was wiped out by alien civilization long ago.”

"Only cold weapons?" Wang Jinhua raised his eyebrows.

Chenglong swept the melon seed shells on the table into the trash can with his hands, and said: "The starting point of the story is in ancient times, and the fighting methods in ancient times were mainly cold weapons. People at that time learned some melting and manufacturing techniques from alien civilizations. , in order to resist alien civilizations, thus forging their own cold weapons to become stronger, and then slowly passed down to this day.”

"However, human beings are deeply invaded by alien civilizations. In this case, everyone is the first to save their lives. Who cares about the development of daily life, so even today in the story line, the living standards of human beings are still at the ancient stage. .”

Chenglong looked at Wang Jinhua: "This logic is not a problem."

In order to make Wang Jinhua understand more clearly, Tang Ji said again: "You know "The Lord of the Rings". But each of them can use magic, and the human combat setting in my story is similar to that of "The Lord of the Rings."

Wang Jinhua nodded thoughtfully: "I seem to understand."

After a pause, she took a sip of tea and said, "That is to say, this story is an action movie against the background of science fiction, wasteland, cyberpunk and other elements, and the fighting style is more like ancient Chinese kung fu with cold weapons."

"It can be understood in this way." Chu Xuan nodded.

"What about the aliens? With laser guns?" Wang Jinhua asked curiously.

Tang Jili smiled and shook his head: "The scene of fighting with cold weapons and high-tech weapons is too strange. I denied it from the beginning. Aliens have aliens' fighting methods, and they are also close-up. The technological equipment is very high-end, and it is difficult to explain clearly in words, you should go to the company and read the content of Xiaoxuan's email to understand."

"Okay." Wang Jinhua nodded, Tang Ji had already said so, and she didn't ask this topic any more.

She looked at Chu Xuan, and changed the subject: "I understand the background and the main elements, so what is the main line? You say you can't understand it if you can't turn your head, but I haven't felt it yet."

Hearing Wang Jinhua's joke, everyone couldn't help laughing.

Chu Xuan couldn't help but picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, then put down the teacup and said, "In 2030, the rebels got a message that the alien civilization created a device that can travel through time and space, and they want to travel back to the past to kill Chenglong." Brother."

"Brother Chenglong is the leader of the rebel army. He has been fighting guerrilla warfare with alien civilizations. The alien civilizations have been unable to find him, so there is such an opening."

"The process is that Sissy, Brother Chenglong and I traveled back to the past with people from alien civilizations, stopped this conspiracy, and changed our identities, so that the three of us became the ones who helped alien civilizations create space-time devices. a conscious puppet labor force."

"As a result, we finally stole the space-time device."

"Then, back to the present time and space, we travel back to the past with energy weapons, which is 1640, and want to use powerful weapons to kill the alien civilization that has just arrived, so as to change the future."

"As a result, the leader of the alien civilization was only seriously injured."

"Then, we return to the present time and space, because we have changed the past, the alien leader in the present time and space hundreds of years later is facing death due to serious injuries at that time, but he will be healed in the future, so we are preparing to launch a general attack. "

"As a result, millions of humans rushed to the huge city where the alien leader was."

"That's why Director Tang named this story "Soldiers Are Coming to the City."

"Soldiers approaching the city?" Wang Jinhua's mouth turned up, and her smile grew stronger: "It's interesting, I've never heard of such a story structure, and I've never seen it before. It's so fresh."

Han Sanping nodded slightly, and said to Wang Jinhua: "Combined with the background of the story, and the contrast between human living standards and combat levels, and our kung fu movements, I think all the elements of Director Tang's story are perfect from the beginning to the end. Brand new, there is no such theme in the current film and television industry, and there is no such theme in the world."

Chenglong nodded: "So when I saw this story structure, I was also amazed. This is equivalent to creating a new story framework."

"Is this amazing?" Tang Jili said at the right time, with a smile in his tone: "This is the first wasteland version. I still want to make a technology development version and a future world version. Where is this?"

"It's still a series of movies?!" Chu Xuan said in surprise, Tang Jili had such an idea, which was really beyond his expectation.

"It's hidden so deep? I don't even know." Chenglong pointed to Tang Jili.

Hearing what Tang Jili said, everyone looked at Tang Jili in unison, all with a curious attitude, wanting to hear Tang Jili's thoughts.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and a waiter opened the door, and everyone stopped communicating for a while.

(End of this chapter)