After the vertical montage of Forrest Gump was completed, John returned to Los Angeles, and the next thing to do was to invite Warner to watch the film and decide on the overseas distribution.

Send Warners a formal invitation to come to Crown. ”

As a director, producer, and boss, John must not only film but also ensure that the film can be produced smoothly, and at the same time, he must also make the film into the big screen.

Hollywood has a clear division of labor, different positions have different jobs, and John has many hats, so there are naturally more affairs.

But this will not be too long, the new line film company has been acquired, and when the assessment period is over, he will be able to hook up with the new line, and when the time comes, the production and distribution can be handed over to the new line to deal with, and he will try to do his job as a director.

The next day, in the Crown studio, John, Nancy, and Sophia sat on the sofa and waited for Warner's people.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Warner's people came by appointment, led by Warner Vice President Hobert Harris, after all, a big-budget movie like "Forrest Gump", a director of the viewing department is a little insufficient, in fact, even he, the vice president, has no right to make a decision, which is related to tens of millions of dollars in distribution fees.

"Hello President Harris, welcome to Crown Studios. John stretched out his hand to say hello.

"Hello, Director Chris Deng. Hobert Harris shook John's hand and said, "Director Chris Deng is a director of the Billion Yuan Club at a young age, and Warner has long looked forward to the opportunity to work with a good director like you." ”

"Thank you!" smiled slightly, Warner looked forward to working with him, he believed, but he was looking forward to slaughtering his fat sheep.

"Warner's strength and reputation in performance are second to none, and it has always been my dream to work with a giant like Warner. Although he knew that he was going to be slaughtered, John couldn't help it, and the old men of the Morgan family couldn't eat the ancients, so he could only grit his teeth and stick his head out.

After greeting each other, John brought Hobert Harris and his party into the broadcast room, everyone is here to talk about business, this kind of thing can be omitted, no matter how good friendship is, it is not worth a penny in front of absolute interests, Hollywood is the same as Wall Street, above interests, whoever can bring the greatest benefits to himself is his "good friend".

John took Hobert Harris and his party into the playback room, and after instructing the projectionist to show the film, the lights in the playback room dimmed, the music played, and a white feather fluttered on the screen ...... in the wind.

"Forrest Gump" has not yet been released, so there is no title, and it is a feature film from the beginning.

John glanced back at the people brought by Hobert Harris behind him, these are professional film selectors, their opinions are important, and whether Warner releases Forrest Gump or not depends largely on their final score.

Although professional film viewing teams cannot predict whether a film will hit the street or succeed, they can use past experience and data to reduce risks for the company.

The film opens for 7 minutes.

Melodious music as an opening can draw the audience into the plot.

A viewer with glasses writes down the score in his scorebook.

Other viewers also gave their own scores, some scored 7, some scored 6, and a brown-haired woman gave the highest score, 8 points.

Hollywood filmmakers have their own set of perfect scoring systems, from the film director, cast, audience, selling points, to the film type, storyline, shooting technology, editing techniques, sound production, movie opening, transition, climax, ending, ...... Wait a minute.

In short, it is necessary to comprehensively analyze a movie, list its advantages and disadvantages, and reduce the risk for the company.

But the opinions given by the filmmakers are not accurate percentages, and there are a lot of times when they look away, otherwise there would be no big street like "Future Water World".

The movie continues to play, and the score sheet in the hands of the filmmaker is gradually about to fill up as the plot progresses.

Film director 7 points.

The cast lineup scored 9 points.

8 points for shooting technique.

Audience: 6 points.

7 points for editing techniques.

5 points for the film genre.

8 points for sound production.

The storyline .......

The brown-haired woman watched the film and filled in the corresponding numbers on the score sheet.

The cast lineup is the highest score she filled, after all, the cast lineup of "Forrest Gump" deserves such a high score.

Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando...... and other actors, although their appeal is not as good as that of the new generation of actors, but they are not completely without appeal, on the contrary, they still have a high appeal among older audiences, and many people are willing to pay for them in the theater for the sake of feelings.

And the new generation of actor Tom Hanks has a good box office appeal, but his acting skills are good, and he plays the role of Forrest Gump well, you must know that acting skills are also the guarantee of a movie's box office, the actor's acting skills are good, the story is good, and it can ensure that the film has stamina.

You must know that there is a difference between staying in the theater for one month and staying for two months.

As for the heroine Winona Ryder, the current leader in Hollywood, her acting skills are no problem, and the box office appeal is even more problematic, there is such a goddess in the movie, why worry about otaku not going to the theater, and these are box offices.

As for Will Smith and Nicolas Cage, although these young actors are not as good as Tom Hanks, they are handsome, and handsome can also be converted into box office, of course, Will Smith is handsome or not, but he can attract black audiences and fans, these are box office, a dollar in the hands of a black person is the same as a dollar in the hands of a white person.

Therefore, a cast lineup like "Forrest Gump" is completely worthy of a high score of 9 points.

As for the type of film and why the audience score is low, it is because "Forrest Gump" is an inspirational film, and there is an inspirational film in Hollywood film history that has a box office of more than 100 million US dollars, no.

The audience entering the theater is mainly young people, these people like flying cars, explosions, gunfights, blood, aliens, goddesses, male gods, as for inspirational films, the audience is much smaller than these mainstream commercial films, which is also the natural disadvantage of "Forrest Gump", but fortunately, the cast lineup is strong to make up for some disadvantages, otherwise this score will be reduced.

As the music plays, at the end of the film, a white feather is blown up from the ground by the wind, drifting farther and farther away, and the 120-minute film ends.

The brown-haired woman nodded with satisfaction when she saw this ending, which echoes the opening credit, which is very subtle for an inspirational film, echoing each other before and after, full of life philosophy.

8 points at the end.

This is the score she gave to the end of "Forrest Gump", and at the same time, she crossed out the 7 points she scored on the award and rewrote 8 points.

This kind of film is very pleasing to the Oscar gang of old men, if it works well, a nomination is not a problem, if it can win a Best Picture Award, it will be perfect, as for the best director, don't think about it, the Oscar gang of old men don't boil a man into a middle-aged and elderly man, they won't let go, so John still has a long way to go.

However, for the distributor, an Oscar for a recent picture award is enough, although the Oscar has a low impact on the box office, but it has a great impact on the videotape market, and the title of the best picture can sell at least one or two million more videotapes, and these are all money.

Distribution is the process of earning a little here and earning a little there, although there are not many in each place, but the combined numbers are often 99% of people who can't earn in this life.

Therefore, filmmakers should analyze the film from all angles to find out their profit points and bring benefits to the company.