Hollywood: Great Directors Starting with Saw

"Then thank you, Kevin."

Zhang Yimou also accepted Kevin's kindness.

"But what to shoot, I don't have any ideas now, Kevin, do you have any suggestions?"

"I once heard that what is national is the world."

"Today, I send this sentence to you."

"As a director who didn't grow up in a European or American cultural environment, I feel that if you set your goal on imitating Hollywood films, then you basically can't compare to American film directors."

"What you should do is to dig into the local culture and find the kind of points in the mainland culture, regardless of borders, that can attract everyone."

The specific Kevin can only be said here, after all, this road, Kevin is also trying.

Tsui Hark's understanding of fairy tale culture and how to combine it with Hollywood movies are all things Kevin is trying to try.

The previous Shushan movie, with the skin of Xian Xia, is still the routine of Hollywood commercial films inside, so it has achieved good results.

Although Shushan World is still playing this set, in the movie, it is mixed with more Tsui Hark's private goods.

He wants to introduce the element of fairy tales into Hollywood step by step.

Of course, you can't get too mysterious right away.

At the very least, some elements of Xian Xia need to be deeply understood by Americans.

For example, if in a Hollywood movie, an American suddenly says the word magic weapon, other Americans naturally cannot understand this concept.

And the movie is so much time, it is impossible to free up the picture to explain to the audience.

This kind of concept that Americans can't understand is not too much in fairy tale movies.

Therefore, if you want Xian Xia culture to catch fire in the United States, first of all, Tsui Hark must explain some Xian Xia elements to American audiences step by step through various movies.

At the very least, when the concept of cultivation into an immortal and a magic weapon appears in the movie, it cannot be understood by the American audience.

Kevin still remembers that after the web novel went to sea, it caused a sensation in the small circle of overseas, and some people were addicted, just like the reaction of mainland readers when the web novel first appeared.

There has also been hype on the Internet about the export of web novels.

In fact, online literature is at most only popular in some small circles overseas, and it is impossible to make a big fire.

Light one yuan god, one cultivation immortal.

It takes Americans to spend a lot of energy to understand the meaning, and from the perspective of the consequences of American-style liberal education, fairy culture is destined to be a small circle culture.

What Kevin and Tsui Hark are doing now is to turn this small circle culture into a mass one.

The various elements in it are explained to the audience through a step-by-step movie.

Until when, American audiences, after watching a complete fairy tale movie without any obstacles, this shows that this cultural invasion has been successful.

At that time, American audiences are bound to pay for various fairy tale movies.

As for why Kevin is so sure that they will pay, the reason is simple.

The hallmark of American high society is the suit, tie, and these things themselves are inherited from Britain.

Americans, from the bottom of their hearts, have a yearning for British culture, something with historical heritage.

To put it bluntly, it is what is lacking, what is envious, what is liked.

That is, the mainland at a certain time, too humiliated, led to being looked down upon.

But any orthodox dynasty before the Ming Dynasty, in any era, is enough to be the envy of foreign countries.

Any dynasty that occupies the mainland is eventually infected by the mainland culture and integrated into a part of the continental civilization, which is the charm of the continental culture.

Even if Kevin is now an American, this does not prevent him from identifying with mainland culture.

Anyway, the Americans do not pay attention to anything patriotic or the like.

They are a federal state in their own right, and each state has different laws, and it can almost be said that each state is a country.

The integrity of a country, let's not mention anything else, at least the law should be consistent.

This is a truth that the mainland has known since Qin Shi Huang.

That is, the same text as the book, the truth of the car track.

Such a United States, although temporarily occupying the title of the world's number one country, but Kevin is not optimistic about him at all.

Of course, this does not prevent Kevin from making money now.

With his identity, no matter how the form changes, he can't suffer anyway.

"Digging into local culture?"

"Director Kevin, can you make it clearer?"

"Director Tsui Hark's Shushan, have you seen it?"

Zhang Yimou nodded, he and Kevin knew each other because of this movie.

"This movie was shot based on the works of the owner of the Huanzhu Building, some of the content of the legend of the swordsman of Shushan."

"Isn't this culture unique to the mainland?"

"There is another element, and that is kung fu."

"Since Bruce Lee showed people kung fu, knowing kung fu has become a label for mainlanders."

"These are all elements you can dig into."

Under Kevin's suggestion, Zhang Yimou thoughtfully said:

"Xian Xia, and Kung Fu..."

"Isn't this martial arts?"

Zhang Yimou's eyes suddenly lit up and he muttered in his mouth.

He suddenly thought of the element of martial arts.

Xian Xia he does not understand, kung fu he is no stranger.

From martial arts to kung fu, among the elements that Americans can understand a little, discover the elements that Americans love, which is his goal.

Zhang Yimou looked at Kevin and thanked him again.

Kevin has made it very clear that only from the perspective of the special culture of martial arts can we better make movies that are popular with the world.

As for the specifics, it depends on his follow-up research.

Kevin on the side, listening to Zhang Yimou's self-talk, was also a little stunned.

It was actually linked to martial arts, which is really...

Seems pretty good.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, who has won an Oscar, isn't it an American love movie wearing martial arts skin.

Cultural export comes step by step.

Bruce Lee, exporting the concept of traditional kung fu.

Tsui Hark, on the other hand, exported the Xian Xia culture.

Now Zhang Yimou makes up for the martial arts culture, which is simply, wonderful!

Kevin also discovered after realizing it, and unintentionally, actually closed this loophole.

At the same time, he also suddenly had the idea to go to Hong Kong and discuss with Mr. Jin Yong about the English copyright of his martial arts novels.

Cultural propaganda should be carried out from multiple angles.

Moreover, if this kind of copyright is bought, it may not be at a loss.

The future Netflix has fallen into his hands.

Compared with a simple video website, what Kevin wants to do more is to make Netflix have both the original advantages of Netflix.