This director only makes bad movies

Xu Nan was stunned for a moment.

What does Cameron mean? He didn't do anything to Cameron.

Although he had thought about touching Cameron, he had only thought about it and had not implemented it yet.

Why does Cameron have this attitude?

"Director Cameron, what did you say?" Xu Nan asked.

Cameron raised his chin slightly: "I will never admit that copycat movies are a type of movie. Movies are an art, a noble art."

"Maybe your movie can make money, but it doesn't qualify as art."

After saying that, Cameron held his head high and left. He did not give Xu Nan a chance to explain, nor did he make things difficult for Xu Nan. He simply said one sentence to express his attitude.

But judging from his appearance, it seemed that he did not regard Xu Nan as an equal to talk to.

There were sneers all around, and a group of people were gloating over Xu Nan's misfortune.

It is difficult for a foreigner, or a foreigner who started his career by relying on evil ways, to have a high status in this circle. To be accepted, it is still based on the face of the trouble he made before.

The crazy and attentive American beauty from before also left secretly, as if she was afraid of Cameron's pursuit.

Xu Nan's expression did not change, but his mood was very unhappy.

Lin Ziyi saw this scene and came over to comfort him.

"Don't be angry, Cameron has this temper and everyone around the world knows it."

"Let me give you an analogy. When he won the Oscar for Best Director for "Titanic", he stood on the stage, facing all the people in the industry and the audience around the world. Do you know what he said? ?”

Without waiting for Xu Nan to answer, Lin Ziyi said word by word: "I! am! the! King of! World!!"

"It was the Oscars ceremony. All the heavyweights in the American entertainment industry were present, and it was broadcast live around the world, but Cameron still said this. You can imagine how arrogant he is."

"Even before his arrogance was due to the success of Titanic, he was famous throughout the entertainment industry for his stubbornness and arrogance before the ship swept across the world."

"When filming Titanic, he asked to build a real big ship for filming because it would be more realistic."

"It would cost a huge amount of money, but at his insistence, Fox had to do it."

"During the filming, just because of a shot of a few seconds, Cameron had to spend millions of dollars to redo all the tableware on the ship and make it by hand."

Because of a shot of just a few seconds, Cameron had to spend millions of dollars to redo all the tableware on the ship and make it by hand. In the end, all the tableware was broken. "

"Because it was too expensive for him to film, the producer even threatened him by jumping into the water in front of everyone on the crew. But even so, Cameron still did not change his stubborn character."

"Even the Hollywood giant Fox couldn't stand his lavish spending on filming, and the financial chain was almost broken."

"At the most dangerous time, Fox couldn't stand the arrogant Cameron and directly cut off the crew's funds, planning to terminate his contract and let other directors shoot the movie "Titanic". Really, the situation at that time was very It's dangerous. Cameron was almost kicked out by Fox. In that case, there wouldn't be that big ship that rampaged across the world."

Finally, Lin Ziyi concluded: "So Cameron didn't mean it, he just has this kind of character. Everyone in the entertainment industry knows that, not only you have been angry with him, many people have been angry with him, even me." His anger.”

Xu Nan knew that Lin Ziyi was comforting him and smiled lightly.

"Don't worry, I'm not that fragile. Since the day I entered the industry, countless people have disliked me, but so what, no matter how much they dislike me, I haven't reached this point yet."

Seeing that Xu Nan's expression didn't change, Lin Ziyi nodded: "It's good that you are doing this. I was worried that you would not be able to think about it."

"How is that possible?" Xu Nan smiled and asked smoothly: "By the way, you just said that you were also angry with Cameron. What happened? You are the boss of the theater chain. How can he, a director, give you such a look? look."

Lin Ziyi sighed: "It's not because of "Titanic 2". This is the sequel to Titanic. It has the foundation laid by the previous film. This movie is favored by everyone in the industry, and American audiences are eagerly looking forward to it. Just like the It’s like a pervert who has been abstinent for a year sees a beautiful woman.”

Xu Nan listened quietly, knowing that Lin Ziyi would finish the story.

Sure enough, after a short silence and a glass of red wine to soothe her throat, Lin Ziyi continued her story.

"It's because this movie is so popular and famous that this guy wants to negotiate terms with our theater chain and increase the movie's box office share."

"How can this be done?" Lin Ziyi's delicate and charming face showed a trace of anger: "The division is a convention, it has been decided long ago, it is an unspoken rule in the industry, why should it be increased."

"No, you've been here for so long and you're still being squeezed out?" Xu Nan wondered: "I remember that Paramount's "300" gave you the same conditions as the other two major theater chains. Why did he change when he came to Cameron?"

"I didn't explain it clearly. Cameron's condition is not just for me, but for all theaters in the United States."

"He demanded that dozens of theater chains in the United States, large and small, increase their box office share at the same time, otherwise he would refuse to release "Titanic 2."

Lin Ziyi explained.

"So crazy, you actually want to negotiate terms with all theaters on your own?" Xu Nan was shocked.

In the entertainment industry, theater chains are the absolute upstream monopoly platform. Both directors and film and television companies are in a weak situation when facing theater chains.

As long as you want to release a movie, you can't bypass theaters. No matter how big a director you are or a powerful film and television company, as long as the theaters don't release your movie, you have nothing to do.

Cameron actually wanted to rely on the movie "Titanic" to negotiate terms with theaters, which is really arrogant.

"What's the result?" Xu Nan asked.

Lin Ziyi sighed: "We are still talking. After all, this is Cameron, the sequel to Big Ship."

Although theater chains are at the top of the entertainment industry's contempt chain, that also depends on the situation.

Take the crew as an example. Normally, the director is the biggest in the crew, but if the director is just a novice director and the actors are big-name actors, then the actors in the crew will have more say than the director.

If it were an ordinary director, even a big director, who dared to raise the box office share, the theater chain would definitely be tough to the end, suppress this director, and let him know that the world is cruel.

But if it were Cameron, the result would be different.