In March, Li Qian flew around the earth.

first flew to the United States, witnessed Qi Jie and Glen Charles signing a gambling agreement with the North American Cinema Alliance on behalf of Minghu Culture and Colombia respectively, and then flew to Egypt to visit the crew of "Transformers" that was filming in the depths of the desert, and then flew to Paris to visit the crew of "Spy Shadows" that was filming here.

Jin Han was hesitant to follow the path of "Avatar" and "Transformers" and follow the shooting method of 3D-IMAX plus 2D, but in the end, Li Qian decided to let him only shoot the 2D version - in Li Qian's impression, fast editing is almost the natural enemy of 3D.

Li Qian feels that even if he reluctantly invests a lot of money to produce a 3D version, its rapid camera switching will not only not get the 3D visual effects it deserves, but will easily cause the audience to get dizzy when watching the movie.

Why did James Cameron, the founder of 3D in another time and space, choose to shoot a film like "Avatar" to promote his 3D technology?

To put it bluntly, 3D viewing, in order to have an excellent and charming effect, a wide field of vision, sufficient depth of field, sufficient light, and it is best to organize a large number of long lenses and pictures to maximize the 3D viewing effect, so that the audience's viewing experience can achieve the best effect.

It's almost naturally perfect for making a "scenic movie"!

Therefore, a film like "Avatar" can almost achieve its best display effect, although "Transformers" is a little bit almost meaningful, but it can definitely add color to the film, but if it is put in "Spy Shadow", it may have the opposite effect.

In that case, why waste money and have to shoot in 3D?

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When Li Qian came to Paris, the overall filming progress of the crew of "Spy Shadow" had come to the end.

In the early days of the formation of the crew, there were some contradictions.

Accustomed to filming in China, Jin Han is very uncomfortable with the style and habit of Hollywood staff who abide by the eight-hour work system, and he always feels that he has finally made some senses, it's time to eat, and he has to shoot some feelings, and it's time to get off work - day after day, the progress bar doesn't seem to move!

In the Chinese film industry, whether it is an ordinary staff member or a celebrity, how can it be so delicate!

So in the beginning, he had a great temper, and he was foaming in his mouth, but fortunately, at that time, Du Yihua was in the middle and always helped him control the atmosphere in the crew, so that he did not completely oppose the Hollywood gang in the end. After a month or two, he slowly got used to it.

Now, "Spy Shadow" is similar to "Transformers", and in a month, it will be completely completed - this is the third work of a real co-production between Clear Lake Culture and Columbia.

Although Colombia also invested in the previous "Avatar", it was purely produced and led by Minghu Culture, and the copyright also belonged to Minghu Culture, but the three subsequent collaborations were really co-productions.

This is the first stage of co-production in Li Qian's "Chinese Culture Going Global".

That is, the two sides jointly invest and co-produce, and distribute separately in the markets they are good at, so that Chinese directors can shoot global stories, which is actually the story template that Hollywood used to be popular all over the world, and at the same time install some actors in the past to make a familiar face in Europe and the United States.

Therefore, the director of "Transformers" is Sun Yuting, and the heroine is known as the "No. 1 in appearance" among the new generation of actors in Minghu culture, Jiang Yiyi. The director of "The Love of People and Ghosts" is Lu Lingxi, and the heroine is Qin Jingjing, who is considered to be the "No. 1 acting acting" in Minghu culture.

As for "Spy Shadow", the director is Jin Han, and the heroine, that is, the Chinese girl in the movie, is He Yingyu, who has gained considerable popularity and reputation in Europe and the United States through "The Matrix".

In addition, for some less important supporting roles in the movie, as long as the use of Chinese actors does not make the atmosphere and narrative context of the whole film inconsistent, try to use Chinese actors.

Three films, push out three directors, three heroines, and let seven or eight Chinese actors also come to the film to make soy sauce.

The most important part of this process, of course, is to train directors.

Cultivating their popularity in the European and American film circles, cultivating their achievements, and also cultivating their global thinking - to shoot Chinese culture and promote the beauty of China in films, Hollywood things can't be copied and copied, but many of Hollywood's experiences and ideas are definitely worth learning from.

This is the so-called "Shiyi Long Technique".

And in the second step, in addition to successively promoting other Chinese directors internationally, we must also start to promote Chinese actors.

At this stage, it is still mainly about shooting Hollywood-style "global stories", but it is already possible to appropriately add some Chinese culture, Chinese customs and Chinese stories that have been transformed and are more easily accepted by audiences in other parts of the world.

It's a story that's slowly rendering, slowly advancing.

When they begin to gradually understand Chinese culture and begin to gradually accept the logic of Chinese stories, they will have the opportunity to continue to push this project to the third step.

That is, Chinese directors, Chinese actors, Chinese stories, global hits.

At present, this plan has just taken the first step, to what extent it can be achieved in the future, whether it can be successful, and how long it will take to succeed, Li Qian has no idea in his heart.

After all, in another time and space, until his death, China had only just begun to have a little global layout at the top of the capital, and there was no real promotion at all.

He just feels that in the current time and space, since he is in this position, he has the obligation and responsibility to promote the development of the Chinese film industry.

With great power comes great responsibility.

And he left no stone unturned.

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stayed in Paris for two days to watch Jin Han filming, and then on Saturday, he also took Jin Han, Du Yihua and He Yingyu, and by the way, invited the actor of the actor, that is, Tom Allen, the actor of "Avatar", to spend two days of vacation at his winery in France.

Tom Allen is an American actor that Li Qian is currently more optimistic about.

Of course, he is also an actor who is more willing to choose when producing in Colombia.

After filming "Avatar", he returned to China, and he took on two Colombian films, and then resolutely made a decision to jump directly from the original agency and sign a contract with Minghu Culture in China.

Yes, a second-tier Hollywood actor whose career is booming, but he chose to join a Chinese film company and became the first Hollywood star to sign a contract with the Minghu Cultural Agency.

Now, except for the manager, all the external brokerage contracts around him are handled by a brokerage company opened by Minghu Culture in the United States.

When drinking and chatting, he seemed very eager.

I am eagerly looking forward to the early release of "Avatar" with an investment of 250 million US dollars.

After learning that Colombia had signed a gambling agreement with the North American Cinema Alliance on the renovation of 3D theaters, he was even more excited - this undoubtedly shows that Li Qian, Minghu Culture, Columbia, etc., have high expectations for the box office of the 3D movie "Avatar".

And once "Avatar" is a big hit, he, the leading actor, will of course benefit a lot.

Today, Hollywood's film industry is extremely developed, and all kinds of competition are very sufficient, even if the conditions are good, the ability is good, and the opportunities are good, so that a rookie actor can quickly jump to a second-tier star with a salary of millions of dollars, but if you want to continue to climb up, it will only be more difficult.

After cooperating with Li Qian, after careful consideration, he decisively chose to hug Li Qian's thick legs, which is naturally due to the fact that he has quite high expectations for the series of works co-produced by Minghu Culture and Columbia, and hopes to cooperate for a long time and cooperate more in the future - a second-tier movie star, if you want to successfully advance to the first line, one or two films that are global hits are an indispensable foundation and confidence.

He was originally very optimistic about "Avatar", and now he is also optimistic about "Spy Shadow", and now that he has heard about the existence of the gambling agreement, he is naturally more confident.

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After five days in France, at the end of March, Li Qian left Europe by plane from Paris and flew back to China.

At this time, the curtain has begun on 3D and the global promotion of "Avatar". And there are only more than two months left before the official global release of "Avatar".

Li Qian spent nearly three years, including the early stage of technology research and development, and has spent more than one billion yuan to create the first 3D blockbuster, which is ready to go.

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Shuncheon Mansion, Minghu Building, General Manager's Office.

Qi Jie finished reading the newly sent box office report of last week, and the corners of her mouth subconsciously curled up into an arc of a smile.

This report is undoubtedly refreshing.

But after reading it, I always feel that something is missing.

After thinking about it, Qi Jie got up and walked out of the office, a few steps away, it was the art director's office.

She walked over, and it was Fang Shengnan who was on duty today.

But seeing that Qi Jie was about to knock on the door, she quickly stood up and reminded: "Mr. Qi, Mr. Li should be smoking a cigar, maybe a little choking?"

Qi Jie nodded and said, "It's okay." You're busy. ”

So she pushed the door open.

She knows that when Li Qian is smoking a cigar in the office, in addition to entertaining guests, there are generally two situations: the first is that he is in a particularly good mood, so he wants to enjoy it, and the second is that he is emptying himself. And this second time, it is often what choice he is facing, and he is very entangled in his heart.

She pushed the door in, and Li Qian was slumped on the sofa, holding a thick cigar in his hand.

The smell in the room is not small, and the exhaust fan is turning badly, but it is not too choking.

Qi Jie experienced a terrifying scene in a room where Li Qian, Cao Zhan, Liu Chengzhang, Jin Han, Zou Wenhuai, Fang Baijin and Fu Xuelong smoked cigars together.

That's the smoke.

Turning back to close the door, she sat down beside him. Looking at him, and seeing a few copies of what seemed to be a printed script thrown on the coffee table, I probably knew what was going on.

"Are you thinking about your next movie? or are you thinking about someone else?"

Li Qian took a puff of his cigar and slowly exhaled the smoke.

Qi Jie wrinkled her nose and fanned the smoke in front of her.

He sat up suddenly, put the cigar on the special cigar ashtray, and then picked up the stack of papers, and flipped through the covers one by one, folded them, and revealed the name of the first page.

Side-by-side is good, a total of five parts.

When he was done, he sat back, hugged Qi Jie, pointed to the five scripts on the coffee table, and asked, "What do you think, which one should I shoot next?"

Qi Jie turned his head to look at the past, and the names of the five dramas were: "Shu Mountain", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Farewell My Concubine", "Alive", and "Journey to the West".

Qi Jie is the only person in the entire Minghu culture who has all the keys to Li Qian's office and knows all the passwords, because those passwords were set by her at all, Li Qian occasionally forgot to ask her, and the fingerprint input was also shared by the two of them. However, after so many years, she has never really opened the safe where she has read Li Qianfang's script.

Looking at the name, except for "Shushan", which is a bit remote, she can roughly guess what the theme is, among which the script of "Alive" was given to Yu Bojun by Li Qian at the beginning, and she even turned two pages.

She knew what it was about.

After hesitating for a moment, she first put her hands together, put them on Li Qian's big hand that happened to go around her waist and pressed on her lower abdomen, gently rubbed it twice, patted it, and then took out another hand and touched his face.

"I think you should take a break for the next two years. ”

Li Qian turned his head to look at her, a little puzzled, "I've been resting for more than a year!"

Qi Jie smiled, and then felt a little distressed and pity, "That's also called rest! Do you calculate the past year or so, since the filming of "Avatar", how many things have you been busy with? Give this producer, edit that producer, do post-production, staring at "Kung Fu Panda", and record songs, and recently flew around the world and came back. ”

"You're too tired, take a break. ”

She patted Li Qian's hand and said: "The company's current shelves have been set up, it is very stable, the box office of "Avatar" has not been counted by others, we have seen it, we know it in our hearts, it will definitely be a global hit, I think it is very promising to surpass the record of "Titanic". You also brought Sun Yuting out, Fu Xuelong is also professional enough to shoot 3D now, and now we are at the forefront of the development of film technology in the world as you told me at the beginning, Qian, take a break!"

After a pause, she said again: "You rest, the company will follow you, take a little vacation." As for you, go and accompany them, don't get together all day long. On the company's side, we have been rushing for so many years in one go, although everyone has followed you step by step to climb up, almost a year, they are very happy and excited, but people are people, people will be tired, and it is not a bad thing to take a proper rest. ”

Li Qian pondered for a moment, and his expression gradually became a little solemn.

Then, he withdrew his arm, picked up the cigar, took a few sips, and smoked it again, and then said slowly: "I also want to rest, every day is fine, I don't care about anything, I will accompany my wife and children, and accompany you." However, I am still one step away from it. After this step, I can give myself a little time off. ”

Qi Jie looked at him and asked, "What's missing?"

She said: "We have 3D, the acquisition of IMAX has been negotiated, our technology in motion capture is also the world's leading, and our special effects are the world's top." Colombia turned a profit last year, and the situation will be better this year, and the financial pressure brought about by the acquisition of Colombia on the side of Clear Lake in the past few years is gradually decreasing. The directors you have cultivated are all so competitive and up, and we have completed the layout both domestically and internationally......"

Her words were interrupted by Li Qian's constant shaking of his head.

Li Qian said: "3D is just technology, and technology is for the service of films, but it doesn't mean that with technology, and then sell technology, everything will be fine." We're building these world-leading technologies just to prepare for what's next. ”

After a pause, his gaze shifted to the coffee table again.

After a while, he picked up one of the scripts and lit up at Qi Jie, "Next, I want to find an idea that others can learn from for the play of these technologies and the globalization of Chinese films." ”

Qi Jie turned his head to look over.

That's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

She suddenly remembered what Li Qian had said more than once: use world technology and world language to speak Chinese culture.

After thinking about it, she looked at Li Qian and asked, "So ......"

Li Qian laughed and said: "So when "Avatar" meets expectations, I will open this drama and use 3D to show the beauty of Chinese art and Chinese martial arts." ”

"And then ......," he let out a long sigh and laughed slowly, "and then, I can probably retire and take it easy, rest, rest enough, and go make some films that I have always wanted to make." ”

He pointed to a few scripts on the coffee table, especially the ones in the back, and said with a smile: "For example, these plays." ”

put down "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in his hand, he collapsed back again, his hand subconsciously reached over, stroked Qi Jie's soft waist, felt that it was not enjoyable, his hand got into it from underneath, rubbed it on her smooth and delicate back, and then said: "Until this "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", everything I did and all the movies I made had only one purpose, that is, to guide everyone to shoot good stories that the audience likes to watch, and to keep the domestic film market. And after this drama, it is the common responsibility of all Chinese filmmakers to keep this market, expand this market, and even compete with Hollywood films at the box office in the global market. ”

Speaking of this, he noticed something was wrong, and couldn't help but look up at Qi Jie.

Qi Jie pursed her lips, her face full of pity.

But in the end, she just sighed and said, "You......"

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Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, that is, the 25th, 26th, and 27th, we will rest for three days, and resume updating on the 28th.

When I came back three days later, I tried to finish it all in one go.