Chapter 1055: Encounterable and Unattainable
After the release of the Crazy Flower of the End, Qiao Feng was already preparing to return to Hong Kong, but Robert Iger called to meet him, and Qiao Feng had no choice but to change the flight and leave time for Robert Iger to meet.
"Mr. Qiao, this is a script about women's rights selected by several producers from the script library and the shooting plan they submitted." After meeting, Robert Iger didn't talk nonsense, and directly took out a few things from his briefcase and handed them to Qiao Feng.
"Why, can't you make up for these plans?" Qiao Feng was a little puzzled.
Hollywood has a complete project approval system, a project from the beginning of the script has a professional script analyst to judge the quality of the project, give a score, only through the script analyst's evaluation of the script will the script appear on the producer's desk.
One of the seven like MGM, the division of labor among script analysts is refined to the extreme, and someone is responsible for calculating the male and female number one scenes in the script, and the scripts with less than 75 scenes are often brushed off to ensure that the big-name stars have enough scenes. Someone is responsible for calculating the dramatic events in the script, and only the script that reaches 45-60 scenes is expected to pass, so as not to make the film too dull and lengthy.
Analysts also determine the genre to which the script belongs, analyze the box office trend of the genre over the past three years, and predict the market outlook. A good script analyst needs to understand not only the market environment and trends, but also the tastes of the studios he serves.
A script is screened through layers before it reaches the production supervisor and then finally presented to a meeting at the highest level of the studio to decide whether it can be included in the shooting plan.
Of course, even if the final decision is passed and the project is approved, the script may still be proposed and revised by investors, production teams or leading actors who have the right to speak.
But, that's all an afterthought, like now, since it can be in the hands of Robert Iger, it has at least reached the high-level decision-making link, this kind of thing Robert Iger can even be decided by people at the next level, why do you still use it to let yourself see it now?
"Mr. Joe, from sleeping with the enemy to our end of the road, there has been a wave of feminism throughout North America, and Hollywood companies are looking for scripts related to women's rights." Robert Iger said.
Qiao Feng nodded, of course he knew about it, MGM was also looking for it, Egger had told him about it, and he agreed, so he could take advantage of this feminist wind to make a few more fools.
But what does this have to do with Robert Iger bringing him the project?
"You can decide this matter yourself." Qiao Feng said.
"Yes, Mr. Qiao gave me this right, but I read these scripts, and I thought, how to say, well, it doesn't make my eyes shine. Mr. Qiao, you are the top screenwriter, so I want you to take a look, give an opinion, and see if there is something wrong with my feelings." Robert Iger smiled a little embarrassed.
is also, a dignified CEO of one of the seven major Hollywood companies, who is a person who stands at the top of Hollywood, can't even decide on a project, and he has to show it to the big boss, and he will be laughed to death if he says it.
However, Robert Iger, who has not been at the helm of MGM for a long time, would rather pass it out and be laughed to death than take risks when he is not sure.
Otherwise, you will be swept away like your predecessor, and it is more difficult to accept losing your current position and being swept away than being ashamed.
Fortunately, Qiao Feng, the big boss, at least didn't think Robert Iger's cautiousness was a funny thing.
In his opinion, the people below can't make up their minds, and it is a matter of course for the people above to decide, as long as not everything is like this, it is not so unacceptable.
Qiao Feng took a few plans and scripts and read them, he read them very seriously, but no matter how seriously he watched them, when the special script analysts and producers gave their evaluations of the script and the outline of the script, and the role arrangements were summarized in detail, two hours was enough to read it.
Then Qiao Feng understood why Robert Iger didn't dare to make a rash decision.
Because, these scripts are too ordinary, even mediocre.
In normal times, such a script basically has no possibility of success.
That is, in the current environment, various companies are looking for scripts about women's rights, so that such scripts are taken seriously and passed the review of script analysts.
I can't help it, the big ones are pulled out from the short ones, and they are revealed.
If you want to put it in another company, in order to catch up with this wave of feminist trends, you may use it.
But for Robert Iger, who took over MGM, the movies produced and released were all very well received and had a high box office, such a script and the project are a little unattractive.
But he can't deny it, firstly, not long after he took office, the producers below are all MGM's old seniority, he is not too convincing to the public, and secondly, he is not very professional in movies after all, and if he vetoes it rashly, he will be ridiculed for not understanding movies.
It just so happened that Qiao Feng, the top screenwriter boss, was in the United States, and Robert Iger threw this problem to the big boss to decide.
After reading it, Qiao Feng knew in his heart that if he didn't see such a script, he would shoot such a project, and it was not necessarily how much he would make in such a trend, but it was unlikely that he would lose money.
But now that he sees it, he can't ignore it, otherwise it won't ruin his reputation as a top screenwriter.
"So Iger, I have two female-themed movies here, one is based on the classic drama Charlie's Angel in the 70s, I got the copyright, and the other is about a comedy script of a women's baseball team called the Pink League. Qiao Feng thought for a while and said.
"Just one project? Mr. Joe, I've heard that other companies are preparing several projects on women's rights." Robert Egger was naturally extremely satisfied with Qiao Feng's script, which was also one of the reasons why he looked for Qiao Feng, but for only one project, this was far less than he expected.
Qiao Feng interrupted Robert Iger with a wave of his hand and said, " There are a lot of them.Egger, you have also seen it, in a hurry to find a project for women's rights, the script found is not very ideal.There is not even a good one, let alone a few.So, it is enough for us to have a good project.What's more, several of the movies we are going to release this year are also about women's rights, or about women's rights.You are like a terminator.The heroine can no longer be passively protected like the first one.She will train herself, protect herself and her children, and no longer rely on men, this is the biggest feminism.There is another instinct, which is simply pure feminism.“
Instinct, to put it bluntly, is about a beautiful woman, how to "play" and "teach" Man, although the male protagonist makes full use of his clever mind as a talker to analyze the whole case, he is more of a pawn or an intermediary being played by two women in the palm of his hand, when he approaches the facts he thinks step by step, he kills what he thinks is the murderer in extreme excitement, and when the female psychiatrist who loves him deeply, it is actually when he is captured by the heroine, just one step away, he will also follow in the footsteps of his predecessors and become a poor worm who has been killed.
A woman who has been defeated by all of them, whether it is intelligence, spirit, beauty or flesh as the heroine of a movie, if this movie is not a feminist movie, then there is no movie worthy of being a feminist movie.
"Egger, we don't need any more feminist movies, that's enough."