Chapter 62: The Way Out
Song Ge was so excited that he couldn't help but want to shout, but he still endured it and continued to listen to Lu Lin's arguments.
"The East Asian Confucian cultural circle, with Chinese civilization as the core, radiates to Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia. For thousands of years, history, culture, and blood have been connected, and Hong Kong films have achieved a moment of glory.
Now that Hong Kong films are in decline, Korean films are making great efforts, and the local market is fighting in Hollywood, radiating to the South Seas countries, and gradually becoming a rising trend.
RB is an economic powerhouse, with a population of more than 100 million, a strong film industry, and many masters. However, the development is too deformed, the proportion of anime and erotica is too large, and the live-action film market is sluggish.
Although India is not one of the three major cultural systems, it has a unique culture, a large population, and a rapidly rising economy, and is the only country in the global film market that has not been crushed by Hollywood. The films produced are exported to Europe, America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, and their strength should not be underestimated.
As for the countries of the South Seas, there have been countless Chinese people in the past few hundred years, and their political status has been improving day by day. Hong Kong's films and novels were once all the rage here, but now except for Thailand, which may have bright spots, the rest are dumping places for films from other countries, and should be a natural market for Chinese-language films.
Nowadays, Chinese films absorb Hong Kong production teams, and they should abandon their shoddy production style, vigorously develop commercial genre films, and revitalize the domestic market.
Externally, we should rely on traditional Chinese culture, take history and mythology as the theme, make special effects blockbusters, first occupy the South Seas, and then enter Japan and South Korea, and strive to resist Hollywood and Indian films. Vigorously carry out cultural exports, and re-establish China's dominant position in the civilization system of East and Southeast Asia.
After more than ten years of concentrated development, if China rises in the future, the economy and culture of Europe and the United States will decline. Chinese civilization has spread all over the world, and both black and white people can understand Chinese history and culture. At that time, when Chinese blockbusters enter North America again, will there still be such humiliating box office results?"
Song Ge heard this Huo Ran's change of color, he saw that Lu Lin was young before, and he always had a little contempt. Unexpectedly, I was able to say such a thing, and I was really surprised.
His previous ambition was to be a large-scale film group with production, brokerage, distribution and cinema chains, and to be the best film company in China. Unexpectedly, Lu Lin's ambition is to revitalize Chinese films and compete with Hollywood blockbusters to dominate the world. The pattern of the two is no longer the same.
I was shocked for a while, and I sighed in my heart, I really wanted to say, little brother, are you a commissioner from above? This is too far to think!
Lu Lin laughed and said: "Young people, there is no capital, what they have is the courage to dare to do it!"
Song Ge smiled: "You are now a 2 billion director, and the box office is divided into more than 700 million, if you don't have capital, others won't have it!"
Lu Lin said: "700 million is a great wealth for ordinary people. After a while, I will set up my own special effects company and buy some large-scale computers, all kinds of ultra-high-definition digital cameras, and all kinds of post-film software. I also have to set up my own brokerage and distribution department, and there are a lot of places to use money!"
Song Ge was surprised, "You still want to set up your own special effects company?"
Lu Lin smiled: "Yes, in the future, Longlin Studio will only shoot special effects blockbusters, of course, it will set up its own special effects company." ”
Song Ge said: "Special effects blockbusters are certainly profitable, but an investment of one or two hundred million is also very risky!"
Lu Lin shoots special effects blockbusters, and he must make sure that he will not lose money. But he couldn't explain it to Song Ge like that, and said with a smile: "The risk is naturally there, it depends on how to control it." First of all, in terms of script, you must pass the test. I'm going to set up a screenwriting team for a while, specializing in adapting all kinds of fairy tales and fantasy novels!"
Song Ge was more and more surprised, although there is always a saying in the film industry that "the script is the foundation of a play", but in fact, no one really pays attention to it. The director has changed, the production has changed, and the actor has changed after the production has been changed. Some actors even said that they didn't need a script, and she could play a story synopsis.
"To be honest, in the current film and television industry, there are really not many people who pay attention to scripts. What everyone cares about is the role, especially some big-name actors, who don't think about shaping the characters at all, but just want to show their charm through the roles. Song Ge sighed.
Lu Lin sneered, "I will never tolerate that kind of selfish actor!"
Seeing that Song Ge was surprised again, Lu Lin explained: "In my opinion, the cultural core and story synopsis of a movie are the bones. And the actor's appearance, acting skills, and various special effects are skins. A person's appearance is actually mainly determined by the movement of the bones. This is the root of people, or in martial arts novels, a person is praised as a martial arts wizard, and it is always said that the bones are wonderful!"
Song Ge thought for a moment and said with a smile: "This statement is novel, but I heard that there is a saying in those who practice sketching, which tells the painter to draw the bones first." You have to understand the structure of the human skeleton to find the dots and draw the angular characters. ”
Lu Lin said with a smile: "That's right, it's not that the script can't be changed, but it must start from the whole." Those who changed the script in order to add drama to themselves, he was happy. But the structure of the whole story is also out of shape. ”
Song Ge was thoughtful, and suddenly said: "You just said that the cultural core and story structure are the bones of a movie?"
Lu Lin nodded, "Hmm".
Song Ge suddenly realized and said with a smile: "I see, no wonder domestic films frequently fail in North America!"
Lu Lin smiled: "Oh, what does Mr. Song think?"
Song Ge took a sip of the beer in his glass and said, "Because Europeans and Americans don't agree with our culture and values, and they don't know our stars." So when they watch Chinese commercial movies, it's like looking at a gorilla with weird bones and rough skin, and it's strange if the box office is good."
Lu Lin said with a smile: "That's the truth, so the current Chinese films, entering North America is just self-inflicted." Only by deeply cultivating the Southeast Asian market can there be a way out!"
When Lu Lin said this, he didn't say it, but it was based on facts. In the previous life, Wu Baige's "Red Cliff", which had a terrible reputation, won a total of 100 million US dollars in RB, which is higher than the box office in Chinese mainland.
In South Korea, it has achieved a box office of more than 20 million US dollars. Other South Asian countries are not bad, including Singapore with $4 million, Thailand with $2 million, and Malaysia with $1.56 million.
It was only in the world's largest North American market that it achieved a box office of $620,000. I really don't know if the income can be used for the expenses of food, clothing, housing and transportation when the main creators travel to and from North America.
Although Song Ge didn't know about "Red Cliff", he also knew that Southeast Asian countries liked to watch Chinese TV series, and said with a smile: "It seems to be really like that!"
Lu Lin said again: "I don't know Mr. Song, are you interested in working with me to make Longlin Studio bigger and become the vanguard of Chinese films to open up the Nanyang market?"