The day before Christmas, other senior executives of DreamWorks arrived in Huaxia with the drawn up contract to prepare for a formal signing ceremony with Li Mu.

The whole DreamWorks attaches great importance to this cooperation, they and Li Mu take what they need, they want to use the Muying ticketing system to enhance their influence in the North American film industry, and Li Mu hopes that DreamWorks and Spielberg can do a good job of promoting the ancestors of Huaxia, and at the same time, they can also improve the overall level of Chinese films.

For this signing, Li Mu summoned Ning Hao, Teng Huatao, Tang Wei, Huang Bo, Zhang Kexuan and Du Wei to Shenzhen, and before signing the contract, he talked in detail with several bigwigs from DreamWorks, including Spielberg.

The detailed meeting was arranged in the banquet hall of a five-star hotel in Shenzhen, where the signing ceremony will be held tomorrow, but today's meeting is not open to the outside world and the media.

For Ning Hao and Teng Huatao, both of them are rookie directors, although the box office of "Those Years" has reached a scale of 400 million and continues to create the history of the box office of Chinese films, Teng Huatao is still very humble, because he knows very well in his heart that the reason why the box office of this movie is so high comes from the story itself, 30% comes from publicity and promotion, and 20% comes from the cast, and it is already very good that he can account for 10% of his influence.

Ning Hao's "Crazy Stone" has not yet been released, and he is now a newcomer director who is even newer than Teng Huatao, so he is also more humble and cautious.

These bigwigs of DreamWorks, especially Spielberg, may not really have much money, but if they want to say that their influence in the film and television industry is absolutely world-class, for Ning Hao and Teng Huatao, the two feel that they are like domestic second-rate club players meeting Ronaldo and Ronaldinho, excited and humble.

In this interview, Li Mu put forward relatively specific requirements for DreamWorks: "First of all, in the future, the films jointly produced by the two sides in China must use the actors of Makino Images, and the proportion of important Chinese and Western actors should be about 5:5;"

The bigwigs of DreamWorks immediately stated: "There is no problem, just follow 5:5, and if you have special themes, you can also give more tilt to Chinese actors." ”

Li Mu put forward other requirements: "In exchange, DreamWorks will give Makino Imaging a certain guaranteed quota for films shot in the United States and other parts of the world, from the crew to the cast, and Makino Imaging has the right to provide no more than two Chinese actors and no more than two crew members in each of DreamWorks' live-action movies in the future." ”

This requirement, on the one hand, is to let the production team and actor team of Makino Imaging learn from Hollywood experience, and on the other hand, it is also to help the actors of Makino Imaging break into Hollywood. Li Mu knows that the export to domestic sales of the Chinese film and television industry is awesome, the actor goes to Hollywood to participate in a movie with zero pay, and after returning to China, he can become a first-line or even a super first-line, he doesn't want to let go of such an opportunity.

DreamWorks bargained for none of Li Mu's requirements, and completely accepted them all, the only goal was the Muying ticketing system, as long as Li Mu did not propose to reduce the proportion of their shares, they would never put forward the slightest opinion on Li Mu's request, after all, Li Mu's 20% shares were not given for free, even if they didn't want money, they had to exchange resources for it.

Seeing that DreamWorks' attitude was very good, Li Mu was also very satisfied, and said to Spielberg and other DreamWorks bosses: "In the future, if the directors of our Makino Imaging have no scenes to film, I will send them to DreamWorks to study and see how Hollywood makes movies, from the script to preparation to casting, to shooting, editing and post-production, these are all places they need to learn." ”

Spielberg smiled: "Mr. Li, don't worry, every crew of DreamWorks will be open to you to observe in the future, and in the process of observation, our staff will know everything and say everything." ”

Li Mu nodded, looked at Ning Hao and Teng Huatao with excited faces, and said with a smile: "If you go to Hollywood to study in the future, you must settle down and learn the most advanced production experience in Hollywood, which will greatly promote our Muye image and the development of the domestic film and television industry." ”

Both of them nodded their heads, excited beyond their reach.

At this time, Spielberg spoke: " Mr. Li, in the past few days in Huaxia, I deliberately looked for some Huaxia film DVDs, and found that there is a very serious problem, that is, the quality of the actors is uneven, I watch every movie, most of the actors give me a feeling that they don't know how to act at all, as if most people look very fake in front of the camera, either not enough strength, or too hard, not only extras, but even many leading actors have such a problem, if this problem cannot be solved in the future, then the future will greatly affect the quality of our cooperative films。 ”

Li Mu smacked his lips and sighed: "Don't hide it from you Steven, this is also where I have always been very helpless, the biggest problem in China is the overall lack of quality of practitioners, there are only a few authoritative film and television schools in China, and most of the remaining art colleges are mainly making money, in this case, not to mention these money-making art academies, even authoritative film and television academies are full of unspoken rules and black-box operations, and really capable people can't get in, and they can't get out if they enter, this is the biggest crux!"

Ning Hao, as a veteran angry youth, listened to Li Mu talk about this problem, and immediately agreed and said: "Before I entered the film academy, I thought this was the palace and cradle of the film and television industry, but after I came in, I realized that this cradle is too filthy, and even the students of the acting department of the film and television academy don't really know how much acting they can expect, how much development can they expect this industry to have?"

As he spoke, he pointed to Huang Bo, who was slightly restrained and speechless, and said: "Don't look at Huang Bo, who has never received any real professional acting training, but his acting skills are enough to kill more than 90% of the so-called academic actors in China." ”

Huang Bo hurriedly waved his hand: "What you said Ning Dao, I can't stand it......"

At this time, before Ning Hao could speak, Li Mu had already spoken: "I think Ning Hao is right, Huang Bo's acting skills are indeed stronger than most academic actors, this is not only a praise for Huang Bo, but also a torture of the industry, why is this happening, why people from first-class film and television schools are becoming more and more unable to act, in my opinion, everyone no longer has the craftsmanship to do things to the extreme." ”

Speaking of this, Li Mu sighed: "Why are the ancients so exquisite in making ceramics, and why are many classic works so developed by modern science and technology that they cannot be reproduced indiscriminately?" To put it bluntly, our generation has lost the craftsman heart of the ancients, although the film and television industry is an industry that only exists in modern times, but it still needs a craftsman heart to be able to do things well, Hollywood's success is not only a commercial success, but also the promotion of countless masters' ingenuity, what our film and television industry lacks is such a spirit, everyone is pursuing fame and fortune, and the business is not proficient, so they dare to come out to make money, in the final analysis, the industry environment is not healthy enough, if the industry is healthy enough, such people have no chance to get ahead at all. ”

Spielberg nodded and sighed: "From my personal point of view, the quality of many practitioners in China is indeed not enough, none of the movies I have watched in the past few days can reach the superb level, and the most intuitive problem is the level of the actors, so I think that in the future, we must pay more attention to this aspect, if I can, I hope that Makino Imaging can cultivate a group of extras with good acting skills." ”

Li Mu frowned slightly, and then his eyes lit up: "Yes! It is very important to cultivate a group of extras who have passed the acting skills! Not to mention anything else, at least 100 extras with good acting skills will be cultivated, so that no matter what team we use in the future, who directs, who writes the screenplay, and who starring, there will be such a group of extras who have passed the test, will not lower the production level of the whole play, and will not affect the audience's sense of substitution, which is a huge wealth." ”

Thinking of this, Li Mu slapped his thigh: "That's right! It is to get users used to go to the sky! We must use exquisite production and excellent products to improve the user's aesthetics and raise the user's horizons, so that in the future, if those indiscriminate bad movies dare to come up with them to fool the audience, then in the end they must lose a chicken and a flying egg, and hang the eggs, as long as they can't make money, they will definitely be forced by the market to change their evil ways and return to the right, either change or die!"

Spielberg looked at Li Mu and said seriously: "Mr. Li, I think your theory is very correct, the reason why the industry is muddy and stagnant, the most important thing is that the competition pressure in terms of professional skills is small, if the leading actor will not act or not, someone will pay, then the industry will naturally not develop in the future, but if the taste of market demand is improved, it will definitely force practitioners to comply with the needs of the market, otherwise they will inevitably be eliminated by the market." ”

Saying that, Spielberg said: "In fact, with your strength, I think it is completely possible to set up a film and television training school in Huaxia, and when the time comes, I can help you invite the best talents from Hollywood to be professors, and cultivate a group of new talents who are free from the influence of the existing Vanity Fair and completely Hollywood-style education for Chinese films, especially actors, if dozens or hundreds of extras with acting skills are cultivated, then such a group performance team will definitely have a very big impact on a movie as a whole!"

Spielberg's words gave Li Mu a huge hint.

Opening a film and television training school was something he had never thought about before, but now that he thinks about it carefully, the film and television industry in Huaxia is really rotten enough.

Now that the box office is in a recession, the director only wants to win awards, and in order to win awards, he does not hesitate to sell dog meat on his sheep's head and use gray operations;

Actors just want to be famous, and they don't hesitate to accept all kinds of unspoken rules in order to be famous, and even have to make dark box transactions in order to enter the film school;

However, film and television companies only want to reduce their budgets and increase their revenues, so that the set props of the film can be saved, the extras do not use the best acting skills, only use the cheapest, and the post-production effects can be fooled......

Practitioners in the film and television industry are pulling calves in all aspects of production, and very few people will calm down and study how to make a really good movie, how can a really good movie be made in this situation?

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