Chapter 625: Evaluating Nolan in person
The basis of happy cooperation is that there are interests to be made, and there is no no interest to be profitable, who cooperates happily with you.
Wang Ye is like this, and Kevin is like this.
If Wang Ye is not the author of "Harry Potter", and happens to be very optimistic about this one, Kevin, as the vice president of Warner Bros., is a well-known figure in Trump's entertainment industry and even the global entertainment industry, and he will tremble the entire entertainment industry when he stomps his feet.
Such a big man came to talk to Wang Ye about the adaptation in person, if there was no interest in it, would he come to the door?
Even if they cooperate in making a movie, sending a responsible manager over will give Wang Ye a lot of face.
Of course, this also shows how popular and successful "Harry Potter" is, like this one, as long as it is not blindly adapted, it is definitely fame and fortune.
Warner Bros. has made a lot of money in the movies it has made over the years, but if you want to say that it is famous and sensational all over the world, to be honest, you can't get one or two.
Nolan has filmed a few films, and "Inception", which he co-filmed with Wang Ye, is the kind that has a reputation and box office.
But compared with other companies' classic movies, such as Disney's anime, and some classic series of movies from other companies, it feels a little worse.
So Warner also wanted to make a classic series of movies, and they had been looking for such works, but the effect was not great, until the appearance of "Harry Potter", which became popular all over the world, gave them hope.
So Kevin took advantage of the stall of talking about the new drama to test Wang Ye's tone, but he didn't expect Wang Ye to want to shoot by himself, so there was no way, and when he heard Wang Ye say that he could cooperate at that time, he saw hope.
As long as their company is involved in the production of this film, it can be used to promote it when the time comes.
The reason why Wang Ye cooperated with Warner Bros. is not because of Warner Bros.'s influence in North America and its global publicity ability.
It's just that he has more options, because in addition to Warner Bros., there are five other big companies.
Of course, under the same conditions, he is also willing to cooperate with Warner Bros., after all, he has cooperated, and he is relatively familiar with each other, and the cooperation will be smooth, and there is less running-in process at the beginning of cooperation.
Kevin didn't sit for long before he left the hotel on the grounds that something was going on, and he knew that Wang Ye and Nolan had something else to talk about about the movie.
After Kevin left, Wang Ye and Nolan were much more relaxed, the two got along happily because of the movie, and they also got along with each other more happily, plus the two had a common topic, and the two also had a deep friendship.
The script for the new play "Interstellar" has already been sent to Nolan.
Wang Ye did not completely copy according to his memory, but partially modified it according to his own understanding.
According to the script in memory, the whole movie can probably be divided into two parts, the earth chapter and the interstellar chapter.
In my memory, the whole movie is more than two hours long, and the first hour is more than an hour of foreshadowing, which makes the whole film too verbose and bland, which causes many audiences to fall asleep directly before they reach the wonderful place when they watch it in the cinema.
This led to a lot of places that could not be understood in the second half of the minute, and also caused many viewers to not understand it and felt that it was not good-looking.
Wang Ye screened and streamlined the first half, and if he shot according to his script, the first hour or so was reduced to about half an hour.
Another reason is that there are a lot of professional words in it, which are difficult for ordinary audiences to understand for a while, or even incomprehensible.
Wang Ye also revised these incomprehensible parts, trying to explain these professional knowledge in some easy-to-understand language, so that ordinary audiences can understand it thoroughly in a short time and know what the movie is about.
For this reason, when Wang Ye wrote the script, he consulted a lot of information and asked many experts in this field.
The two talked very happily, and the two discussed the script for more than three hours.
For this reason, Wang Ye proposed to add Nolan's name to the screenwriter column.
Nolan didn't shirk this, as if his name should be added.
Maybe that's the difference between the Chinese and the Chinese.
If the Huaxia people heard that Wang Ye wanted to add his name, they would definitely politely prevaricate a few words, and then agree half-pushed.
But Nolan didn't, and when he heard Wang Ye say that he would add his name in the screenwriter column, he immediately agreed, and didn't say half a kind word.
At that time, Wang Ye just smiled, not angry, he never thought that Nolan would take advantage of him.
From a moral point of view, Wang Ye himself is plagiarism, but the plagiarism is from another time and space, in the current time and space, all his works are original, and there is no such thing as plagiarism.
But when Wang Ye proposed to let Nolan and Steven Spielberg direct together, Nolan's face was a little unpleasant.
Steven Spielberg is none other than Nolan's friend, and the two have been friends for a long time, and I heard that they have a very good relationship in private.
But the relationship is good, Nolan is a proud person, Wang Ye asked him to direct with Steven Spielberg, in his opinion, Wang Ye did not trust him and felt that he would ruin the movie if he became a director.
In fact, Wang Ye didn't mean that.
The works directed by Nolan over the years have proven his talent and strength, and he is a great director, which is not what Wang Ye personally thinks, but is recognized by the audience and peers.
Wang Ye personally thinks that Nolan is a bit paranoid, even paranoid.
Now that digital photography technology is very mature, most directors have given up on film cameras, but Nolan has not, and he is still insisting, "Inception" was shot by Nolan with a film camera.
There is also the fact that he is a real-life maniac.
Sometimes some big scenes, such as scenes with a lot of people, other directors will never use crowd tactics to shoot live, and they use computer technology to make up for the number of people in the later stage.
And he must shoot real people, and when he uses many group performances, the number of group performances is as high as more than 1,000 people.
Although the image is more realistic, it is also very time-consuming and costly.
Nolan has always been in the hunt for realism.
Blowing up cars, and even blowing up buildings, these are things he often does.
In pursuit of realism, he has always advocated real shooting, even if it is a miniature, which he believes is more realistic than the picture created by the computer.
Building real scenes and making models has always been Nolan's job, which greatly consumes time and money.
But the picture shot should be more realistic, and under normal circumstances, Wang Ye also agrees with Nolan doing this.
The special effects made by the computer are definitely not as realistic as the real shot.
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