Xiangjiang old events [entertainment circle]

As the movie with the largest investment in Hollywood history before "Titanic", this "Future Water World" has a combination of big investment + action superstars, but the production cost is estimated to be nearly 2 million and more A behemoth with a cost of 2 million yuan was announced on the Internet.

However, the gap between the input and output of this film is so large that it attracts the attention of the world, and it makes Universal Pictures, which has high hopes for it, jump into the sea: according to the accounting system, the box office must at least meet the production cost 3 times the amount of money needed to make a profit, and the final box office results of this movie are not even 1 million yuan...

In an overly realistic place like Hollywood, with this cost and this achievement, no matter how good your work is, it will become a nightmare that everyone fears and avoids.

Although Xiangjiang also has a director who pursues artistic effects, he repeatedly delayed and overruns during the filming period, and finally produced a work that swept the awards season... However, no matter how large the investment of Xiangjiang Films is, it cannot compare with Hollywood.

Moreover, the director who is very popular with awards but not liked by investors also succeeded in creating a momentary "good talk" of "the director accepts the award on stage, and the investor receives the infusion in the hospital"...

Converting this phenomenon, it is understandable that Universal Pictures would have such thoughts—of course, as the leading actor of "Future Water World", Kevin Costner also changed from As famous as Schwarzenegger, the position of an action superstar has fallen, and it has fallen directly from "as long as investors hear his name, he will pay you without reading the script" to "as long as investors hear his name, no matter what you watch." If you don’t read the script, you won’t be paid.”…

As a fan of sci-fi movies, Su Yun has undoubtedly watched "Future Water World": To judge whether this movie is a bad movie or not, one has to start from the corresponding angle.

According to the comparison of production cost and box office figures, this "Future Water World" is definitely a big bad movie that lost money to become a Hollywood nightmare, and can easily rank among the top three in the world's film loss rankings; Conceptually, this has to be regarded as a wasteland punk style film with advanced consciousness and an environmental core, and the quality can even be regarded as quite excellent.

So in Su Yun's view, the movie "Future Water World" is not a bad movie of the century, but a "failed" movie born in the wrong era.

After all, in the current era when the world is desperately developing the economy, and no one knows how to talk about the factors and impacts of global warming, the four words "environmental awareness" are often playing against the cow.

Su Yun's "Artificial Intelligence", which is emerging in Hollywood, is also a metaphor for the issue of environmental protection, but it does not put it on the bright side. Harm after destruction-so in Kubrick's view, "Artificial Intelligence" is a rare film in which he tried to balance the balance of business and art.

And more importantly, there is a very important selling point in "Artificial Intelligence": the young actor "Mary Sue" who was still a human cub and was so tall that he claimed to be able to cross racial boundaries.

That pair of teary eyes staring at the mother and longing for maternal love, I don't know how many people cried.

Coincidentally, there is also a small actor in "Future Water World", but the overly realistic environment creates a monotonous and boring visual effect. In a sea of ​​disheveled characters, no matter how good-looking the actor looks, there is nothing pleasing to the eye On the contrary, it makes people feel uncomfortable both physically and psychologically.

After all, "Future Water World" is a post-apocalyptic wasteland style in which the sea level rises after the two poles melt, floods submerge all the land, and human civilization seriously regresses. The stories in the apocalypse are always mixed with a little warmth and cruelty; while "Artificial Intelligence" this On the other side, it is a futuristic sci-fi style in which human civilization survives before the sea level completely submerges the land.

With the script and a lot of related documents, Su Yun explained her thoughts with Kevin Costner and the Universal staff who came along: "The content of the story that the movie wants to express can be complicated or uncomplicated. , but the most important thing is how to mobilize the emotions of the audience..."

Facing Su Yun's "box office elixir", and Su Yun's words were obviously meant to increase the box office, the Universal employees who came along couldn't help but nodded: It is worthy of being able to mix in Hollywood with one hand and one foot. Marysu, who must be famous, this kind of attention and emphasis on box office results is in line with the qualities that a businessman should have.

It was Kevin Costner who was listening, frowning slightly: "Of course I understand what you mean, but the script and production of this movie should be top-notch—especially when I spent a lot of money on it." The price invites you to participate."

"Movies with large investment and high cost but failed badly at the box office are not rare in the history of movies." Su Yun was talking, thinking of the big pit that made the Zhao family almost change hands... …

Shaking her head to shake off the distracting thoughts in her mind, Su Yun added: "Using a big investment to fight for a big return is itself close to a big gamble, and when we choose to do this, we need to spend 12 points Spirit, to carefully observe all factors that may affect the final result."

"You mean..." Kevin Costner's frown deepened.

"That's right, there is no shortage of movies with grand screens and wonderful plots in Hollywood now. If you want to occupy a place on such a big table, you must have some unique features that others don't have..."

Just like her "Tomb Raiders" series, at the beginning, it followed the trend of tomb robbery at the time. Fortunately, it was accepted at the fastest speed, but from the beginning to the end, the pure and unique oriental style is the most attractive. root cause.

Even after the entire series comes out, the amazing plot line will be overwhelmed by this "uniqueness".

"That's why I specially invited you to participate in the post-production special effects of this movie." Kevin Costner emphasized again after hearing this.

"I am very grateful that you value me so much, but I also have to say that when everyone is pursuing the same thing, the value of this kind of thing will overflow to a period of rapid decline." Su Yun shook her head , "Just like "Cleopatra" back then, everyone was chasing epic blockbusters at that time, making everyone scramble to spend a lot of money to make such films, and in the end the audience was fed up and bored with the continuous similar tastes. After drinking it, I can no longer eat this kind of 'taste'."

Although the investment in "Cleopatra" was tens of millions of dollars that year-but it was still in the 60s at that time!

Undoubtedly, with a simple conversion of the purchasing power of currency, "Cleopatra" is currently the highest loss in the history of world cinema.

If this "Future Water World" does not have its own variable, it is estimated that it will be able to follow the tail of "Cleopatra" in a few years, and go straight to the "throne" of losing runner-up...

After spending a long time drooling from film production to economics, Su Yun somehow reversed the original ideas of these people in front of her.

Back then, she didn't have the power to reverse the results, but now she has the advantage of the relative cooperation of the production team, and it is expected that she can do her best to change the fate of a good work that was born at an untimely time.

With the cooperation of the production team, Su Yun first proposed to fix some culture-related bugs: I don’t know whether Hollywood’s oriental culture-related content is really always being cheated, or it’s not going to be done at all. In the part of the script where the map of the "New World" is engraved, the Chinese characters on it have glaring mistakes and omissions.

As for why it is Chinese characters?Because the latitude and longitude of the map of the "New World" points to Mount Everest.

After discussing and revising some of the bugs and blunt places in the plot with the thinking of later generations, the whole script seems to be much smoother-this is not because the script author is not good enough, but because the vision of the times is limited .

That is to say, only Su Yun, who has seen and personally experienced those crisis situations appearing in various news media reports, can more accurately see the details that will happen outside this era.

Of course, for the price that the production team spent a lot of money on Su Yun and her studio, Su Yun also helped to revise the script and at the same time drafted a few drafts of shots that were expected to be added to the movie.

There are many amazing scenes on the sea, and these shocking scenes can just neutralize the dark tone of the whole movie.

Whether it is the shining stars connecting the sky and the sea, or the dazzling sunset... These phenomena seem to make people feel the charm and power of nature from the bottom of their hearts, combined with the desolation and misery of struggling to survive in the vast sea, what is the meaning of endless loneliness? The feeling of home inevitably jumps out.

However, compared to the appearance of "beautiful scenery" on the sea surface, there are even more "survival" of human remains under the sea.

The beauty of nature remains unchanged from ancient times, and the traces of human beings sink deep into the seabed and become illusory legends... This is even more an unspeakable sadness.

After receiving these drafts, Kevin Costner and the film production team were quite satisfied. After several rounds of negotiations, they formally signed a cooperation agreement, allowing Su Yun to participate regularly in the next production period. Come here to continue the follow-up cooperation matters.

As for this long production process, everyone is busy with their own work—the production team of "Future Water World" is busy shooting film materials; The late series "Once Upon a Time in Kyushu".