Chapter 138: The Hand of God
Teresa Teng silently looked at the lyrics written by Gu Biao next to her, just reciting the words, she didn't feel amazing, and even a little redundant.
However, the story in the lyrics can quite touch her mood.
The key is to be in the right place.
The song "Walking on the Road of Life" was officially released in 83 years in history, but it was written in about 82 years. As the most widely sung work in Teresa Teng's songs in later generations, the reason why it can become popular is not unrelated to Teresa Teng's absolute devotion in interpretation.
At that time, Teresa Teng experienced a two-year study abroad career in the 79s and 80s, temporarily withdrew from the rivers and lakes, and then started again in Hong Kong and Taiwan, seeking to enter the market again. The ups and downs of her life trajectory made her very touched and 100% committed when she sang this song.
As the so-called thousand Hamlets in the eyes of thousands of people, after all the joys and sorrows have just been experienced, the world is naturally different.
In contrast, Cheng Long certainly didn't understand this state of mind, and the words were verbose, he only understood it literally, and couldn't help but want to ridicule: At this level, he still said that he could compose lyrics? With this kind of writing for elementary school students, dare to say that he guided Xiao Sui to write a famous script? I don't know if Gu Biao has contributed to the story of "Hujiang Beach", maybe he is relying on money to buy someone to be a gunman......
Cheng Long didn't say it, but that suspicion was already beyond words.
Gu Biao was not angry, and after writing the last word, he smiled indifferently: "This song may be a little verbose and cumbersome, but it is different when sung - because I want to borrow the tune of Miyuki Nakajima's predecessors." To cover a Japanese song into Chinese, there must be more decorative syllables, and I believe Miss Deng can also understand it. ”
Teresa Teng has been developing in this book for three years, of course she understands this truth, and she nodded frequently with understanding.
The ideographic concentration in Japanese is very low, and the efficiency of syllables is so poor that it takes about three times the number of pronunciations in Chinese to express the same meaning.
To take the simplest example, Chinese pronounces one "I" sound, and Japanese requires three sounds of "Wattasi". Therefore, if you cover a Japanese song into Chinese, you have to add twice as much extra verbose.
On the other hand, if you hear a Chinese song that is particularly urgent, with a particularly large number of words per sentence and a variety of melodies, it is likely to be a cover of a Japanese song (except for Zhou Jielun).
Gu Biao's just one sentence made Teresa Teng judge: Gu Biao is a person who is well versed in the essence of bilingual creation.
"Gu Shao, what did you study in college? You have a very deep creative foundation and a good understanding of different cultures. Teresa Teng couldn't help but be curious, she only knew that Gu Biao was a businessman in the entertainment industry, and she didn't know about his education before.
Gu Biao told frankly: "I am studying diplomacy and international relations, and the Foreign Affairs Academy is the Chinese 'Georgetown University'. ”
"I was born as a diplomat, so it's no wonder that I have such a deep foundation in cross-cultural creation. Teresa Teng was in awe.
At this time, even Cheng Long had to completely put away his contempt, observe secretly, and wait for the change.
Gu Biao smiled indifferently, recalled the melody in his head, and then sang with Miyuki Nakajima's tune: "Although the road by your side is far from tired, accompany you to walk one ...... after another."
After the song was matched, Teresa Teng's eyes immediately lit up, that feeling was like a surprise box, and when the layers of packaging on the outside were uncovered, it gave people the impression of being "mediocre".
But when it came to the last layer, it was winding and quiet, and suddenly it opened up, and the strange peaks suddenly became abrupt.
She listened to it only once, and then sang along to it.
The other onlookers were also dumbfounded, and there was no one else with this kind of improvisational ability to meet the situation.
Who else dares to say that Gu Biao is not worthy of being Xiao Sui's life mentor and writing great works in terms of creation.
People are omniscient and all-powerful bosses, but they usually disdain to waste energy on this kind of self-entertaining trail.
"Gu Shao, did you really give me this song? I want to release it on the album when I officially come back next year. You can also say a number of copyright fees......" After singing, Teresa Teng was very excited, and the more she chewed, the more she felt that it fit her mental journey.
How could Gu Biao be embarrassed to accept money, this was originally someone else's song, and he was forced to pretend to be forced by the situation and took away the "right of authorship", which was already a last resort.
"Use it as you like, don't need money, and I don't take this as a profession - I'll write a message for a gift. Gu Biao picked up the pen again, brushed and wrote, "Give Miss Teng Lijun, wish her to get out of the loss and start over", as legal evidence.
Then he brushed off his clothes and went away, hiding his merit and fame.
Deng Lijun looked ashamed, and chased Gu Biao to send him and Xiao Sui to the car: "I'm sorry, it's my little family who is angry." Gu Shao is doing big things, how can he be able to afford the money for writing songs. I will keep your signature, and if the media asks about it, I will also correct your name, so that people will not be mistaken that you are writing songs for money. ”
She was also afraid that Gu Biao would feel embarrassed to write songs, so she explained all the way until the car door closed and said goodbye and left.
This is the end of the night's gathering.
Xiao Sui sat in the car, feeling a little trance and pride for the first time: "Husband, you are so amazing, if you are free and write the script yourself, you will definitely write better than me." It's so frustrating to be compared to you like this. But I'm also very proud, this is my husband~"
Xiao Sui hugged Gu Biao tightly, and it seemed that he would evaporate as soon as he let go.
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Back at the hotel, Gu Biao roughly described the synopsis of the story, and then Xiao Sui fought all night and devoted himself to the creation of the script with great enthusiasm.
For the next two days, Gu Biao stared at the negotiation process and the writing process at the same time.
also persuaded Xiao Sui many times not to be too detailed, and the storyboard script was said slowly, and the whole outline came out. It doesn't even matter if it's a little bit colorful and doesn't quite fit the format of the script.
Operability will be discussed later, and the key now is to come up with something that can fool people.
Gu Biao is in Hollywood, and he doesn't know a famous director.
To be exact, he has never dealt with the entertainment industry here at all, and the two times he came, he only dealt with suppliers who provided technology services.
But since I thought of filming "The Terminator", the candidate is naturally ready-made - that is James Cameron, who made this film in history.
When Gu Biao came last time, he knew this truck driver, and asked him to pull the equipment to the airport and get the other party's business card, since he knew that he had potential, what else could he say.
Therefore, on the third day after the concert, after Gu Biao got a preliminary narrative script, he was ready to call Cameron to test the other party's recent situation first.
Gu Biao also knew that rashly saying "brother is optimistic about you" to a truck driver would make people feel strange, so the excuse for contacting was still to ask the other party to transport equipment.
For this reason, Gu Biao got a set of large-scale, slightly modified industrial robots from KUKA Robot (of course, it was bought with money, but it has not yet been shipped out of the country), and then a circuit that can control the camera is connected to it, which is a temporary experimental "quasi-photographic robot".
Then, a phone call was made to Cameron and asked him to come and pull the goods and help pull them to the airport.
Cameron's first reaction when he received the call was still quite confused, and he explained for a while before he remembered Gu Ao's identity.
“…… Oh, it's Mr. Turazinsky's Asian customer last time, right? It's back again?"
Gu Biao: "That's right, it's an experimental model of photography robot. ”
"Photographic robot?" Maybe because he heard that this equipment was relatively high-quality, and it was a new word that he had never heard before, the young man Cameron was embarrassed to refuse directly. (There are a lot of coined words in the field of technology in English.)
"If you're not in a hurry, I can arrange it for you, or introduce another friend...... Here's the thing, I'm not really a truck driver anymore. I followed the two crews for more than half a year, and now I got an opportunity to be a special effects supervisor in a science fiction film. You may not believe it when you say it, but it's true......"
Cameron's tone of explanation was a little weak, very tactful, and he even asked his brother to help Gu Biao pull the goods at the expense of money.
Historically, Cameron's debut in the film industry was about this time, when he first worked as a driver while taking jobs for various film and television companies and equipment companies, while taking part-time classes and looking for opportunities to teach himself to do chores.
His job as a special effects supervisor was also introduced from a client he had previously knew.
However, Cameron obviously has a lot in mind, he knows that he has a chance, it doesn't mean that he has a firm foothold in the film industry.
He also needs more friends and insurance, so he doesn't want to offend any of the customers he has tried to befriend in the past, and hopes to maintain the impression so well until he is completely popular.
When Gu Biao heard the news, he was overjoyed.
It turns out that this kid is no longer a truck driver, and he has completely caught the work of insiders. Then he pulled him into the gang, and there was a lot less tongue and doubt.
At least in the future, historians don't have to wonder why Gu Biao hired a truck driver to be the director, whether the traverser predicted history, so he knew that Cameron would be popular.
"It turns out that you are already the special effects director of science fiction films, disrespectful and disrespectful. That's okay, when I bought this set of photographic robots and supporting technology, I happened to be inspired by the machine, and I thought of a script about future robots traveling through time and space to destroy human beings-
But at the moment there is only the script and the money, and nothing else. Mr. Cameron, if you have time, you are willing to come and take a look, help me with the staff and staff, what resources and talents need to be coordinated to make such a science fiction film, I can pay you for the consultation. ”
"Only the script and the money, do you need to make a science fiction film...... A lot of money, are you mentally prepared?" Cameron was still afraid that Gu Biao was joking casually, after all, this was too much of a contrast with Gu Biao.
Gu Biao hurriedly bragged: "I can take out $500,000 as a preliminary preparation now." Within two months, I will have at least another 5 million funds in place - this script is what I came up with, my girlfriend wrote it herself, and I am confident. I am in Xiangjiang on the other side of the ocean, and I have become popular with a TV series written by my girlfriend, which is the most popular TV series in the Chinese cultural circle this year, and there is no one. ”
Cameron listened with enthusiasm.
The director of the crew he works for, Roger Kao, can't get an investment of $5 million for this project at present!
Although 5 million is not a super big production, he Cameron is just a rookie who has never been a director once, and has only been a visual effects supervisor once, and it is a good harvest to be able to experience it.
"I'm going to work overtime tonight, tomorrow, tomorrow, I don't want a consultation fee, where are you, I'm coming to you." "His time is not worth much, even if it is a trip for nothing.
"Then it's decided tomorrow. ”