Legendary Hollywood Director

Hollywood, in the conference room of the Paramount headquarters, the former Lehman has been here many times, and he is familiar with the road and finds a seat.

It's just that there were only a few people sitting in Nuoda's space. Except for Lehman, it was Shirley Lansing and an executive from the marketing department and the production department. It was not too lively.

Of course, in fact, there is no need for too many people to participate in the discussion. With the current reputation and achievements of Lehman, there is no need for the board of directors to doubt it, and naturally no other irrelevant people can intervene.

Ryman sat in his seat, while the others were flipping through the script for the new play.

After all, even if you believe in Lehmann's strength, you need to review the entire shooting plan, and the basis of the project is of course what kind of story to tell, and how the audience of the story can estimate the shooting risk in order to decide the amount of investment and the preference of resources. How many.

As for the plot of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, it's actually quite simple and old-fashioned.

A couple who have been married for five or six years, have been living a life without turbulence, and then have a marital crisis. They all feel that marriage is a grave, so that the psychiatrist can not solve the gap between the two, and then the two suddenly have a problem. He was frequently attacked by killers, and he saved the danger many times, only to realize that he had never understood his lover's past...

Is it cliché? conventional.

There are not 100 or 90 works similar to the marriage crisis.

But even so, Mrs. \u0026 Mrs. Smith is a little new from past works - if there is nothing to watch, this work Ryman will not come out.

That is, the identities of the two protagonists are quite strange. The two retired legendary killers did not know each other's identities at first, so they concealed them...

Everyone, what do you think of this work? Do you need to change it?

Seeing that several people were thinking after reading the script, Lehman took the initiative to raise the issue of his views on the script.

It's very interesting, and some scenes are very comical just by imagining them. The director of the production department said first.

Of course, the deep meaning in his words is whether the plot is simple.

I want to ask what is the main selling point of this work? the marketing director asked doubtfully from his own position.

The essence of this script is still an action-type story theme, and the most representative of today's action films is Jack Cheng (Jackie Chan is now in Hollywood, and he is still prosperous, and his salary is approaching the $20 million mark. , more popular than most Hollywood movie stars) and special action movies such as 007, Bourne Bourne, Mission Impossible. But most of the action themes, as long as the story can be simplified, it should be simple Move closer, because action scenes take up a lot of space to describe, and the corresponding narrative shots have to give in, as everyone knows.

Shirley Lansing nodded.

Is it necessary to prioritize the filming? With more action, less narrative, otherwise it will be procrastinated - this is also the reason why there are very few characters and scene transitions in Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

In this movie, I want to move closer to the kind of witty action of Jack Cheng, so there are many jokes and contrasts deliberately arranged in it, such as sleeping together in bed for so long, and the lover still hiding his true identity. It was arranged as a arsenal. The two thought that the other side would not know about it. As a result, after a quarrel, they took out their weapons from the gaps in the toilet and kitchen storage compartments, and shot them... This strong sense of disobedience is the biggest part of the film. The selling point, as for the story, is to serve the identity of the two killers, so it should be as simple as possible but logical. - Lehman's request for the screenwriter is to give this kind of violation from the account of the event to the design of the daily dialogue lines. feasibility.

If I really want to talk about the shortcomings, this story has no depth and is not good to watch.

Xiaoxiao is over, the box office is unlikely to explode, but the profit risk is still very low, because action movies similar to comedies have a wide audience base, and they are deliberate and deliberate, and the traces are large, which is also a problem, but in any case , does not affect the overall development.

Several of them listened carefully and thoughtfully.

Shirley Lansing said, So what do you think the movie's box office expectations will be?

100 million locally, 300 million globally. - Well, this is still a low level. The previous movie created a box office data of 470 million, but what if there is a mistake in the face?

It is not as good as the expected value to give a low point, and the situation will be shown at that time.

Of course, there are 300 million in the world, which is already a very good goal. At least, Paramount is very satisfied.

After all, there was no film that achieved such a box office last year, it can be said to be very embarrassing...

Later, Lehman added: The shooting method of this film is completely different from that of traditional action films. The fighting tends to be fierce and cool. In short, it is to make the audience watch both refreshing and funny. It is best to find someone who is suitable for this kind of film. type of director.

Shirley Lansing heard another meaning from Lyman's words, and quickly said, You mean you won't be the director of this movie?

Well, I'm not suitable. - This is bullshit of course, but with the audience popularity that Lehman has accumulated so far, he will not accept such a work that is too popcorn - I feel embarrassed to admit that it is my own when I shoot it. That kind, as far as the identities of the male and female protagonists are set, it's not bad, and the rest of the plot is not as good as an action movie full of Jackie Chan's style - if you replace Jackie Chan with a white man, you won't be rejected by Hollywood, it will definitely be more popular, not just An absolute action star in Southeast Asia.

You know, even so, Jackie Chan has made a breakthrough in the ubiquitous environment of discrimination in Hollywood by relying on the madness of his life.

In that sentence, the plot is simple and it seems that one person can act, but do you dare to fight for your life?

Those dangerous scenes, jumping from a building, climbing a plane, he really did it, not using a stand-in or a camera cut, but actually doing it once, if it doesn't work, just do it twice, dancing at the gate of hell again and again, Only people have the status they have today - many people have a bad opinion of him, it can only be said that his personal morality is bad, his professional attitude is not black, and his bullshit is really nothing in Hollywood...

Of course, this is not to say that Mr. and Mrs. Smith Lehmann wants Jackie Chan to play - appreciation is for appreciation, and it is better to mix interests.

Not to mention that his remuneration does not match his appeal, he started it rashly. The project Mrs. and Mrs. Smith may not necessarily sell as well as in his previous life - white people marrying as a couple is called political correctness. Sets, even black people can't do it, it's easy to arouse the audience's rebellious psychology.

After all, how the lighthouse country is boasting about freedom and equality, that kind of arrogant and naked social exclusion is still everywhere...

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