Compared with the three brain-burning suspense films made last year, there are no big scenes, and the small cost of winning by logic is all based on logic, which is a different way.

Of course, it is also the mainstream of the market, and no matter how awesome the reasoning is, it can only satisfy the niche tastes, and more people go into the cinema just to watch a big scene for two hours, or to watch a comedy and laugh a few times, that's all.

So if you don't play logic until it explodes, or you don't have a big scene, other than that, it's all cannon fodder!

Especially the kind of works that want to add so-called private goods to commercial films,

Don't want to die!

The two hardest things to do these days: the first is to put other people's money in your own pocket......

Or put your own thoughts into someone else's head.

"Do you know what I've been through during this time?"

Ding Cheng looked at Yao Zai, who was full of tiredness, and said with concern: "Someone discriminates against us?"

"That's not it!" Yao Zai held Ding Cheng's hand, and in the face of his lover's concern, he rarely relaxed: "The biggest difference between here and China is that you need to deal with the trade union. ”

"Over the years, through constant development, mergers, strikes and negotiations, various unions have gradually become the organizational entities with a strong voice in the Hollywood film and television industry. ”

"Have you ever heard of the existence of an art director's guild?"

Ding Cheng suddenly realized, it turned out to be because of this?

During this time, I also had a deep experience, and I realized how complex the Hollywood system is only when I have personal contact.

There are hundreds of thousands of film employees, and there are hundreds of job classifications, and almost every type of work can find a corresponding trade union security system.

On the one hand, the union gathers the strength of all its members to negotiate the minimum wage, working conditions and welfare benefits with the employer. The rules and regulations formed through negotiation have evolved into a code of conduct that must be observed in the production of film and television dramas.

On the other hand, as long as they cooperate with the labor union, more than 80% of the on-site work will be represented by them, which will form a strong restraining force for the producer. Because of all kinds of troubles under the trade union system in the process of cooperation, many low-cost productions try their best to avoid dealing with trade unions.

The world's first language + the world's first national consumption power + creative freedom + stable capitalism + national extroverted and cheerful personality and serious work will inevitably lead to the world's first entertainment industry.

The work can make a lot of money, so that it can invest a lot of money in the movie, and try to please the audience in the storytelling, resulting in a typical Hollywood narrative structure that ends with climax + happy ending, and as much as possible to satisfy the audience's curiosity and fantasy about reality and the future world, which seems to be not high but the whole world loves to watch.

That's the Hollywood routine.

"But this time has not been in vain, we finally have our own branch in this acre and three points of land!"

Ding Cheng looked at Yao Zai's satisfied expression, as an agent, it is also a great satisfaction to be able to have his own studio in Hollywood and to be able to put his influence into the top circles in the world.

You must know that only Brother Cheng Long has this strength, and Li Chengjie can't do it!

Compared with Hollywood's unscrupulous strength that swept the world,

Mandarin is simply insignificant in this land, especially in China, leaving aside the golden age of Hong Kong Island, it has been a blank for the past ten years.

Of course, it's just that film works have begun to be laid out for the capital that has long been eager to try.

Last year, the fire hero invested by Yu Fatzi, as the first part of Bona's pride trilogy, has received great expectations from inside and outside the industry. And behind the film, the producer, Sony Columbia, is impressively listed.

Previously, domestic film and television companies such as Alibaba Pictures, Tencent Pictures, and Wanda successively invested in six major film projects such as "Mission Impossible 6", "Venom", "Bumblebee" and "Wonder Woman", and went to Bona to participate in Sony Columbia's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood......

The cooperation between the six major Hollywood companies and Huaxia Film and Television Company has entered a new stage.

It can be traced back to Zhang Yimou's "No One is Missing", "My Father and Mother", Feng Xiaogang's "Big Names", Cheng Kaige's "Taoist Priest Descending the Mountain" and Jiang Wen's "One Step Away", etc., all have six shadows behind them.

When choosing to invest in domestic films, it is natural to consider the company behind this film and television project. Even in their minds, choosing the company to work with is far more important than choosing the project.

After all, in an unfamiliar environment, a stable long-term relationship with a company will naturally lead to projects.

"I've studied Hollywood's six major investment projects, and almost every one of them has either a big director or a big star. ”

Su Yao analyzed: "The four directors are their most trusted partners, and with the works they participate in, as long as they can get investment quotas, they will basically not let go of investment opportunities." ”

"The types of investments are mainly limited to romance, comedy and action. On the one hand, this is related to the judgment of the preferences of the six major domestic audiences. As we all know, comedy and action are our favorite genres of movies. ”

On the other hand, these three genres, especially comedy and action, are the genres that they are difficult to achieve, because there are cultural differences, even like the North and the South, there are different preferences and understandings in the treatment of comedy, which is an impossible task for the creative team of Hollywood. ”

Of course, there are also red lines that they don't have the opportunity to touch, such as "Awesome My Country", "Red Sea Operation", "Sky Hunting", "Tangshan Earthquake" and other projects, which involve sensitive topics, don't even think about it. ”

"Foreigners are not stupid, especially in terms of investment projects in the past two years, they have obviously opened their minds. In 16 years, Sony Colombia invested in Xingye's "Mermaid", and the box office and word-of-mouth were both bumper. ”

"Warner has made a lot of money because of its investment in White Snake, and I estimate that sci-fi, thriller, and suspense may also become the focus of their investment in the future. ”

Ding Cheng nodded, in fact, after this period of contact, there are actually three major gaps between Chinese movies and Hollywood.

The basic investment in Hollywood movies is more than 100 million US dollars, and some large productions range from 300 million US dollars or even 500 million US dollars, and the production cost accounts for more than half, which means that the cost of special effects may be more than 100 million US dollars.

And the largest investment in Chinese films is "Journey to the West", with an investment of almost 400 million, which can be automatically ignored except for the investment injection, 400 million is almost 60 or 70 million US dollars, and this money is given to Hollywood, and the special effects can't be made at a good level.

To put it bluntly, the market is not big enough, domestic films all rely on the mainland box office, and overseas income is almost zero. For Hollywood movies, overseas income accounts for more than half, and this is the gap.

If domestic films can also spend two or three billion US dollars on special effects, Ding Cheng believes that they can also make world-class special effects, and Nezha is the best proof of this.

The second is the gap in the overall industrial level, and the thing that Hollywood has been emphasizing is industrial production, especially big IP sequel works, which have a set of strict production standards to ensure that the quality of the film is above the passing line.

For example, Marvel, even if the director and actors have changed, the overall style is still the same. In China, the quality varies widely, and there are almost no standards at all.

In the end, it is the screenwriter, there has never been a shortage of good directors and good actors in Huaxia, and the current screenwriters know about remakes, but they only know adaptations, and there is no originality at all.

In such an environment, no matter how good the director is, he can't make any high-quality works, and the actors are even more powerless.

Not to mention Hollywood, not even South Korea!