In order to determine the timeline of "The Last Samurai", Li Mu asked Spielberg tentatively, "Steven, do you know when Tom Cruise's movie will be filmed and released?"

Spielberg shook his head and said: "I don't know the specifics, but I have the impression that it seems to be started in the second half of last year, and the filming can definitely be completed in the first half of this year, plus the post-production, if there is no problem, it should be released at the end of the year." ”

Li Mu nodded, and asked him again: "If we prepare as soon as possible, when will it be launched?"

Spielberg thought for a moment and said: "If the speed is fast, we should be able to start shooting in early March, but we can only shoot the part of the shot in the United States at the beginning of March, and then prepare the part that will be filmed in China while shooting, if the efficiency is fast, we should be able to finish it by the end of this year, so that it should be released next summer." ”

Next summer, how can it be at least half a year later than "The Last Samurai......

Li Mu was silent on the surface, but he was secretly thinking in his heart, he must not let "The Last Samurai" achieve such good results and influence according to the development of history, but how to stop the other party seems to have become an unsolvable problem.

In any case, Li Mu has no ability to prevent the release of a Hollywood film around the world, Hollywood is originally a free market, if he directly targets a certain Hollywood film and smashes other people's jobs, he will definitely encounter a strong backlash, so Li Mu can basically be sure that if he wants to make "The Last Samurai" yellow, it is basically a fool's dream.

Li Mu thought again, there is no way to catch up with it, release it earlier than it, and there is no way to directly stir it up, so how can its influence be lowered to the lowest?

Thinking about it, Li Mu couldn't think of a good way.

Spielberg and Li Mu chatted with Li Mu for many details before leaving, Li Mu asked Wang Yuanlang to send him away, and he turned on the computer and searched for information about "The Last Samurai" on Google.

After typing the English name of "The Last Samurai" into Google, Li Mu quickly saw a lot of entertainment news, but fortunately, his English level was very good, and there was no pressure for him to browse the pages of these overseas websites.

Li Mu carefully looked at every piece of information about "The Last Samurai", and soon found that almost all of this information was entertainment reports, and they were all related to Tom Cruise, and most of them were news that Tom Cruise had taken over the film.

There is nothing real dry in these reports, and there is also ambiguity in the entertainment reports about the plot of this movie, except that Tom Cruise took over a legendary story of an American Civil War officer and a Japanese samurai, and Tom Cruise played a captain who was a veteran of the American Civil War.

In addition, there are some interviews with director Edward Zwick, who has also been selling off at the time of the interview, just saying that he himself is very obsessed with Japanese culture, so he created such a movie, and he also revealed that Tom Cruise himself is also particularly obsessed with Japanese culture, and he has been carefully preparing for this film for two years.

The reporter also asked Edward Zwick if he could give a rough idea of the plot of the film. Cruise, he only said a small and half of the most basic story synopsis, just said that this is a story between American Civil War soldiers and Japanese samurai, but what the specific story is, he is not willing to reveal at all, the reporter tried to ask more, but he diverted the topic, saying that this movie is a collision and combination of Western culture and Eastern culture, and it will definitely amaze the audience after its release.

Then Li Mu found some other news and collected some useful information from them, such as the film officially started filming on October 10, 2002, and is expected to be completed in May this year, and the total investment of this movie has reached his mother's 140 million US dollars!

Li Mu looked at it secretly, good guy, $140 million is $40 million higher than his budget for "Flying Tigers", and the investment in this film is so large, it is difficult to ensure that there is no secret support from a Japanese consortium behind it.

Li Mu suddenly felt that "The Last Samurai" was very likely to be like his own "Flying Tigers", with super-first-class stars, Hollywood teams, big investment, big scenes, big productions, and the atmosphere of commercial movies everywhere, but in his bones, it was a kind of scheming cultural output.

It is very likely that behind "The Last Samurai", there is also a financier like himself, but he wants to export Chinese culture, Chinese spirit and Chinese history, while the other party wants to export Japanese culture and bushido spirit.

The more Li Mu pondered, the more he felt that his inference was extremely probable, and the more he thought about it, the more determined he was to find a way to stir up this movie.

Subsequently, Li Mu found some makeup photos deliberately released by the crew, among these makeup photos, there are photos of Tom Cruise wearing a 19th-century American military uniform, there are photos of Ken Watanabe and Hiroyuki Sanada wearing samurai uniforms, and there are also photos of Kato Koyuki wearing traditional Japanese costumes.

Tom Cruise is worthy of being one of the pinnacles of Hollywood male movie stars, wearing a military uniform from two centuries ago, but he can also look heroic and handsome.

However, Li Mu suddenly realized a problem, putting aside other subjective factors, Li Mu had to admit that in the movie "The Last Samurai", all the visual presentations about Japan are very exquisite, and it can be said that they are painstaking, whether it is character modeling, costumes and props or landscape architecture, they are all extremely attentive, all of which are creating a beautiful visual effect.

Therefore, in Li Mu's impression, Tom Cruise's image of wearing a Japanese samurai uniform and armor is more handsome and chic than the image of him wearing a military uniform, why didn't the crew send out a makeup photo of his image?

Li Mu thought about it, and suddenly figured out something!

The crew of "The Last Samurai" is very careful about hiding the plot of this movie!

In general, movies will generally announce 30% or even a little more, and then attract the attention of users, but the plot of this movie is currently less than 10%, they only announced the background of the story and the starting point of the story, and the more in-depth plot was not revealed at all.

They didn't even expose the stills of Tom Cruise wearing a samurai uniform, which means they didn't even want the audience to know in advance that Tom Cruise would be a samurai in this movie.

Li Mu guessed that they should do this to ensure the suspense of the movie.

The structure of this movie is very interesting, how Tom Cruise was invited and decided to go to Japan to train the army and how to command the army to fight is actually just an introduction, and the real sense of entering the main plot starts from the moment Tom Cruise was captured by Ken Watanabe.

Tom Cruise's transformation from an instructor to a prisoner, and then gradually brainwashed and transformed by Ken Watanabe's bushido spirit, and finally becoming a samurai to fight alongside him, this is the real main plot of the story.

Therefore, under this plot structure, once the makeup photo of Tom Cruise, a retired American soldier wearing a Japanese samurai uniform, is announced, basically the plot can be guessed, and the crew must keep the plot secret, so it is so cautious.

At this time, Li Mu suddenly realized that a trick suddenly sprouted in Li Mu's mind.

Okay, I've watched this movie several times, I may not remember well except for the dialogue, but I remember every detail of the whole plot clearly, if I write down all the detailed direction of the plot and throw it on the Internet, and then push it with the water army, then you find that almost all of your script has been moved to the Internet, what should you do?

Moreover, I'm not just leaking your plot, I have to hack you!

That's right, although your movie is really good, but at the height of nationalism, I still want to hack you!

In fact, Li Mu himself knows in his heart that although "The Last Samurai" is not bad to watch the movie alone, the plot really can't stand serious scrutiny, and the prototype of the movie is not the embodiment of the so-called bushido spirit so noble and pure at all, but a group of samurai who fought against the government in order to maintain their privileges and finally became rebels.

And this film was released at this critical time, so Li Mu felt that he had to be black, and he had to be ruthlessly black!

Li Mu has almost thought about the specific routines, such as:

"I thought it was a movie, but after reading the script, I felt that it was full of blood, friends on the surface became enemies, and enemies on the surface became friends, this kind of routine Hollywood shoots at least hundreds a year, right?"

"After reading the script, I have no interest in this movie, if Tom Cruise keeps making such bad movies that can't stand up to scrutiny, I'm afraid he will never win the Oscar in his life. ”

"Damn! I really can't imagine that Tom Cruise would act in such a bullshit movie and kill the husband of a Japanese woman, but this Japanese woman falls in love with the murderer, don't you think when you read the script, if someone kills you and your wife falls in love with him, how would you feel?"

In addition to these, Li Mu also wants to provoke the nationalist spirit of Americans when the black is opened, so that the American people subconsciously reject this movie, such as:

"Director, how much money did you take from the Japanese? What are your intentions in going to such great lengths to praise the extreme bushido spirit of the Japanese? Do you know how many crimes the Japanese soldiers who believed in the extreme bushido spirit committed around the world during World War II?"

"Haven't this damn stupid dog director forgotten the kamikaze special forces in World War II? They shouted the spirit of bushido, but the planes that sank were all our American warships! The ones killed were all our American compatriots, maybe there are your elders and relatives here, you are so brazen to whitewash this extreme bushido spirit, your face is really disgusting!"

"F*ck!, this stupid X director, I really suggest that he learn about the Papua New Guinea battlefield in World War II, do you know that the Japanese soldiers who advocate the extreme Japanese bushido spirit once committed the crime of eating American prisoners here?!"

"Although this is an era of peace, we should not have too much nationalism, but I was really disgusted by the director, you are an American, but you rack your brains to promote their nationalism for the Japanese, then I want to ask you, where is the nationalism that belongs to the Americans?"

"An adult, should have a correct view of right and wrong, it's a pity that this director doesn't, he doesn't know that he is actually singing, in fact, it is the spirit of the devil, he has long forgotten history, in his eyes there is only interests, whoever gives him money, he will sing praises for whom, I really doubt that one day the descendants of the Nazis will find him and give him a sum of money, he will be willing to make such a whitewashed movie for the Nazis, I shudder when I think about it!"

"OMG, I've decided never to watch this stupid X-directed movie from today onwards!"

"Shit! not only his movie, I don't even want to watch Tom Cruise's movie!"

"God-Damn! I feel compelled to call on our fellow Americans, and all the countries and people who have been hurt by this extreme bushido spirit, to boycott this film!"

Unconsciously, Li Mu, the drama spirit, had made up a lot of all kinds of naval remarks, and he felt more and more handy, and wrote seventy or eighty articles in one breath.

At a certain moment, Li Mu also felt that he was doing this, whether it was a bit Lo or a little excessive.

But in the next second, Li Mu was calm in his heart, and secretly thought: It doesn't matter, I don't want to be ashamed anyway......