Chapter 1165 - The Right to Final Editing of the Movie
This movie must not only be acted, but also acted well, even if it only appears in this movie in this life.
After coming to his senses, Jiang Hudong opened a bottle of soda, poured it down, and let out a light sigh of satisfaction.
"Zai Shi, this script is very good, so don't worry about it anymore. β
"Yay, Ani, how could you?"
Liu Zaishi looked surprised, this attitude changed so quickly that he couldn't react.
"Didn't you say many times before that you wanted to try your hand at acting? Please answer that 2007 is not a very good work? This time, let's do it bravely together."
"Can that be the same?" Liu Zaishi glanced at him angrily.
30 billion, this can only be regarded as a medium-sized investment in Korean movies.
It's just that in the eyes of the two, it is no less than the Hollywood blockbuster that was filmed.
"Anyway, the words have been signed, I can't go back, let's shoot the movie well, as for Kim Tae-ho"
Thinking of being cheated by the other party again this time, Liu Zaishi gritted his teeth for a while.
At this point, the two smiled bitterly, and they could only choose to accept the reality.
But because Jiang Hudong's attitude was too strange, his eyes fell on his copy of the script left by Kim Tae-ho, took a deep breath, and began to take it and slowly read it.
In the dim light, two old men who are more than forty years younger, because of the script of a movie, sometimes laughing, sometimes wiping tears with tissues.
"Hey, really, I don't know what the hell Sage is doing, why can't he get through on his phone?"
After reading the script, Liu Zaishi completely changed his face to the old boy, and the script carefully closed the baby.
Even when the waiter came in to clean up the plate, he held it on his body to prevent any soup from spilling on it.
"I must be afraid of receiving your call and being scolded by you, so I simply turn it to mute, or don't watch it at all. Jiang Hudong chattered and mocked on the side.
"Hey, am I that kind of person?"
"Hehe, I didn't know who it was before, I was going to call and tell that stinky boy of Xianzhe, how could I treat my brother like this, who said this. β
"Then I was by Kim Tae-ho, and I haven't read the script, so of course I won't be like this now. β
Liu Zaishi said stiffly, and at this time, the man didn't want to answer his phone, but the situation was similar to what Jiang Hudong said.
The only place to go in and out was when he was shopping, and his mobile phone was set to silent because of a collision, and he didn't know that Liu Zaishi was calling him.
With the starring agreement signed by Yoo Jae-seok and Kang Ho-dong, Kim Tae-ho and Na Young-seok went straight to Imperial Entertainment.
Less than 10 minutes after meeting with Song Ki-beom, the two sides exchanged views on matters related to the filming of the two films Old Boy and My Girlhood.
Although Kim Tae-ho said a lot in front of him before, after all, Luo Yingshi is still very cautious in the face of the president of such a company.
But after I actually saw it, I found out that it was the same as what my old friend said.
After hearing that he was willing to direct my girlhood, Song Ki-bum said on the spot that because it was inconvenient for Lee Hyun-chul to come to the company to meet him, he had full authority to represent the other party.
And promised that in addition to some expenses borne by the company, relevant personnel will be sent to assist him in familiarizing himself with the shooting location as soon as possible.
But what really made Luo Yingshi's breathing thicker was another promise from Song Jifan.
"President Song, do you really agree that I should edit the movie myself?"
Luo Yingshi couldn't believe that such a good pie would be smashed from the sky, and the right released by Song Jifan was the final editing right in the movie.
Even if he has never made a movie before, because of a certain similarity between variety shows and film and television dramas, Luo Yingshi knows that the final cutting power given by the producer is like the sword of Shang Fang given by the emperor, which is definitely a symbol of power and honor.
It's like doing a variety show on a TV station by yourself, editing the film and during the film, the TV station does not intervene, and delegates power to supervise the production.
This is something that every variety show aspires to, but the result is cruel.
The same is true for movies, thinking of this, Luo Yingshi couldn't help but glance at Kim Tae-ho, and when he saw the smile in the other party's eyes, he gradually became abrupt.
It turned out that his old friend was so willing to cooperate with this company, not for those high investments and seizing opportunities, but for the final editing rights.
Because of the development of the film, the final editing power of the film was in the hands of the director himself at the beginning.
But later, because of the length of the movie, the scheduling schedule, as well as the transfer of interests of the theater chain and the producer, as well as because of different opinions on the movie, there were conflicts in ideas.
In Hollywood, from a certain period of time, the final editing rights of movies have been held by the film companies.
The vast majority of directors have become poor people who can only copy and make movies, and there is nothing to do after filming.
For any director, the producer or censor arbitrarily deletes and alters the film without regard to the director.
The body that has led to the destruction of some films is incomplete, which is also a violation of the director's dignity.
It can be said that the ownership of the final editing right also represents how much the director's ultimate power can control.
If you don't have the final editing rights, you will just become a poor person who can only make movies but not edit them, and this dilemma is also vividly reflected in South Korea.
The producer is responsible for the investment, and unless the director leaves the house to do it, everything must be negotiated with the distributor.
In the treatment of the editing and final production of the film, there will naturally be contradictions between the two sides.
In fact, film distributors have been cutting films since the 1920s.
Even foreign films are no exception. In 1927, German director Fritz Lang's epic sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis premiered in Berlin, Germany, with a 153-minute premiere.
Later, the film was cut to about two hours due to censorship and excessive length by distributors around the world.
In 2001, the MΓΆnu Foundation's 1-minute restoration of the Metropolis was unveiled at the Berlin International Film Festival, and after years of excavation and research, about a quarter of the fragments were thought to be permanently dispersed.
For example, Citizen Kane's director Orson Welles' The Lady of the Dead is a classic in film history, employing innovative storytelling techniques and filming techniques.
However, after the filming of the beauty was completed that year, it was maliciously edited by Universal Company, which subverted the director's creative intention.
Orson Welles was shocked and wrote a five-page memo detailing the film's intentions and proper editing.
The 95-minute version of Lady of the Dead, which was edited beyond recognition, was hastily released by Universal and lost to history.
It wasn't until more than 40 years later, in the 90s, that a 111-minute version of the original intent edited out according to the Orson Welles Memorandum was released, thanks to the efforts of a number of producers, editors, and restoration experts.
It can also be regarded as being able to comfort the spirit of Orson Welles in the sky.
In recent years, many Korean and Hollywood directors have also been pitted by the "scissorhands" of film companies.
The most famous is an insider with a score of more than 9 points, and the whole film is 10 minutes long, but due to the intervention of the outside world at the time, it was cut by 50 minutes before it dared to be released.
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