What went wrong?

Wu Xiang is very familiar with the movie "Pot Head", he watched it before he was reborn. It should reflect the personal experience of a sniper during the Gulf War, which is a film adapted from an autobiographical novel published in 03, and the protagonist of the novel is the author, who is a witness to the Gulf War.

However, it is now 04 and 05, and at this time there is a war, the war in Iraq is going on, of course, the United States says that they have won the war, but they have not withdrawn, and the situation in Iraq is becoming more and more chaotic, the explosions are continuous, and the number of soldiers killed is getting higher and higher.

So, this guy Mendes changed this novel, and he changed the era of this novel to 03, which made this "Pot Head" with an extremely strong sense of realistic criticism and anti-war!

The anti-war theme, this is the most conscientious performance of Western films, although this performance is also needed, even controlled, but they can shoot this kind of theme, on the whole, it is still good.

Wu Xiang originally knew that this was a big-budget movie invested by Universal Company, starring Oscar winner Jimmy Fox, and powerful actor, Jack Gyllenhaal, and Oscar Best Supporting Actor, Chris Cooper.

But now, the investor Global, just hopes that Mendes will change, and it is absolutely impossible to turn this time into 03 years, absolutely not!

To be clear, that is, this time period. It's just that our U.S. military hasn't left yet, so you can't make anti-war movies in this area!

Actually, there is a need to add a sentence to this. That is, before Bush Jr., the commander of the Little Grove, stepped down, there was absolutely no film on this aspect.

Then you can't shoot things about the Iraq war?

You can shoot it, but you have to make a positive, positive one, and you must not make this kind of morale-hurting, bullshit reflection movie.

For example, I made a movie last year. The film "Forward Baghdad" is really ...... It's too bloody, it's too Nima, it's bloodier than our anti-Japanese dramas. All gods!

Anyway, this government is still there, so you must not be on such a sensitive movie, absolutely not!

Some people will surely ask, isn't this nonsense? Isn't the United States free speech?

Their freedom of speech. The same is conditional. It's like the definition of the word freedom, there are many interpretations of it, at least one basic explanation, that is, you can do whatever you want, but you can't harm the interests of others. Then if you make this anti-war movie now, it will damage the interests of the current government, do you say you can make it?

Freedom, in fact, must be restricted and protected by law. In other words, the premise of freedom is that you obey the law...... Kant preferred to interpret freedom in this way......

All right. Let's not talk about these philosophical things, whether they are metaphysical or dialectical materialism.

When the grove was there, there was not a single movie coming out that questioned the war, not a single one!

As far as Wu Xiang, a reborn person knows, there is another movie called "Green Zone", starring Mark Damon, this movie is not anti-war, and the plot looks like a detective film and a thriller.

But this film was all produced in 07, but it wasn't until 2010 that the movie was released, because at that time, Washington had changed.

Anyway, whether it's free or not, that's what people say.

But does all this have anything to do with Wu Xiang? Why did someone come to Wu Xiang for the best director of the Oscar?

Very simple, that is, Wu Xiang's speech after the Oscars, he pointed out that the US imperialists' invasion of Iraq was unjust, which deeply affected Sam Mendes, the Oscar-winning director.

So, director Sam Mendes wanted to make a film that reflected on the current Iraq War, and he wanted to change the time background in the original script of "Pot Head" from the Gulf War to the current Iraq War, so as to achieve the goal of anti-war, but the investors were not happy.

Mendes spoke very quickly, and the English pronunciation of the British made people feel very awkward, yes, maybe their English was purer, but those short syllables made people have a headache to listen to, but Wu Xiang still understood it.

Now the whole of Europe is basically the backyard of Hollywood, and the European film market is like a pure girl, but under the persecution of the bully of the United States, she has become a lewd @baby @ woman.

Of course, this is also for what, Europe is more acceptable to our Chinese films, anyway, they are all on the list, who is not the same?

In this context, Mendes can find very little investment, and now Universal's opinion on Mendes is basically not adopted, that is, although you are an Oscar-winning director, you still have no right to decide a script and decide what the story of this movie is!

This is the result of the increasingly detailed division of labor after the development of the film industry to a certain stage, Mendes is only a director, and his power is not big enough.

Mendes has its own film company, and Neil Street still accounts for a certain percentage of the investment in this movie, but this proportion is not enough to compete with the powerful Universal, and whoever pays the most money is decided!

So, he began to look for funds, he hoped to buy all the film adaptation rights of this novel, and then shoot it himself, no longer controlled by others.

From a global perspective now, there is no money anywhere else, but there is a country whose economy is rising rapidly, maybe they have the strength to invest, and don't forget, it was Wu Xiang's words that inspired Mendes to do this.

Therefore, Mendes came to Wu Xiang, and he hoped that Wu Xiang could provide him with enough funds and enough ......

So does Wu Xiang invest?

Think!

Why don't you want to? This is equivalent to going straight into Hollywood, directly into the enemy line!

It's a pity that Wu Xiang doesn't have any money!

I can't afford it. I really can't afford to vote. Wu Xiang now has a budget of 100 million for his own films, and then there are Michael's concerts, and various TV series to be produced. Now the TV series scripts piled up on his desk are the same as Xiaoshan. There are various other places that require money, such as the film and television city of Wei @ County, and the Huaxiang Film Company in Hong Kong,...... Anyway, the stall is too big, a little bit, the steps are too big, and the balls feel a little pulled.

Besides. Investing in Hollywood, European and American films, that is all in dollars. This cost is calculated in RMB, which is really too high and too high, and Wu Xiang does not have the strength to invest at all.

But this is another opportunity, a very good opportunity. Wu Xiang wanted to grasp it. Thereupon......

"Sam, your idea is very good, I couldn't agree more, but with your current script, you can't get support in Hollywood, and even if you buy it, you can't shoot it there. I have a solution. Can help you!"

"Huh, what's the solution?" Sam Mendes' eyes lit up when he heard this.

"Simple. Change the script and let the script go back to the 1991 Gulf War!"

"Huh?"

Wu Xiang said this method, and of course Sam was dejected.

In fact, any screenwriter doesn't like to be urged by others to change the script, because many times, the screenwriter himself has the most say in his work, and it's okay to change it himself, but he can change it according to other people's requirements...... Comrade Lan Xiaolong was sneezing at this time.

The current "Pot Head" is about the Iraq war, Sam Mendes has completely put the original novel in the current time, and his story will be the most direct criticism of this war.

And Wu Xiang understands that this can't be done, so let's bring the time back.

"The place I changed is actually very small, just a little bit. ”

"Huh?" Mendez still didn't understand.

"Do you remember a song?"

"What song?"

“CANDYMAN！”

"Huh?"

Speaking of which, Wu Xiang sang this guy.

“SADDAM-IS-A-SON-OF-BITCH! GOT-THE-BLUEBALLS-CRABS-AND-THE-SEVEN-YEAR-ITCH！”

"Haha......"

As soon as Wu Xiang sang it, Mendez laughed, still laughing heartily.

Because what Wu Xiang just sang was, Saddam, you are a bitch, and it will take seven years to get syphilis, of course, the pronunciation of this in English is quite rhyming, and this song is actually CANDYMAN.

WHAT CANDYMAN?

This song is a queue drill for the U.S. military, and it is often sung when running, but the tune is this tune, but you can change the words in it casually, as long as it can rhyme, and Wu Xiangzhi said that this song is in a movie, her name is called, "Full Metal Shell"!

"Full Metal Jacket" director Stanley Kubrick's anti-war masterpiece, but he is against the Vietnam War, and now let's fight against the Iraq War, isn't that okay?

Mendes understood a little after listening to this song, and Wu Xiang then talked about how he wanted to adapt the script.

To put it simply, it's a copycat!

Yes, copycat Kubrick's movie, in addition to that song can add Saddam, you can also add others, feel free to add ah, such as large-scale @ model lethal weapons, such as some wrong words at some points in time, we can add the latest popular words.

The other is to highlight this recruit training, which is part of the cottage, "Full Metal Shell" is more about describing the metamorphosis training of the Marine Corps, this song is only one aspect, and it can be started from many aspects, and the original work of the novel "Pot Cover" is actually the same.

And in this way, there is no special time characteristic of the recruit training or something, and the current training is actually similar to that of more than ten years ago, doesn't this achieve the purpose of satirizing the current war?

To put it simply, it is to blur the time in the movie and use a copycat way.

In the name of justice, to do the things of the cottage, this is ...... It's so witty!

"Wu! You're amazing! You're a genius!" Sure enough, Sam also thought Wu Xiang was very witty.

Sam Mendes was born in 1965, that is, he is thirteen years older than Wu Xiang, but now, how do you look at it, how is he much younger and more naïve than Wu Xiang.

I didn't expect that Wu Xiang could teach the Oscar Best Director to copy other people's movies, this is really ...... Wu Xiang wants to laugh very much!

Let's hold it first, Wu Xiang came up with an idea, this idea, for Wu Xiang, a reborn, does not cost a penny, but it has helped Mendes very well, he can finally make an anti-war movie, although he can't directly reflect on the current war, but he can reflect on the same one more than ten years ago, because they are all Iraq, and they are all called Bush.

But although he didn't pay any cost, Wu Xiang still shamelessly put forward a small condition.

"Can you introduce a few Hollywood actors who can act?"

This is Wu Xiang's purpose, what he originally thought was that as long as it was crooked nuts, he would get it, but since you Mendes are so happy, then we might as well increase the conditions.

"No problem!" Mendes was so happy now, he agreed to it, the next trip to Huaxia must be very interesting, at least he is in a much better mood now.

Wu Xiang, he won't accompany Mendes by himself, just find a few good tour guides to accompany him, and he still has to make his own movies.

is also in a good mood, the actor of the US military should be able to handle it, and his film is now completely ready to start.

However, this Mendes's anti-war movie made Wu Xiang think of a lot of things.

Anti-war, this kind of emotion, that is what US imperialism has always had, but you must know who has this kind of emotion.

Ordinary people!

The answer is this, the real anti-war sentiment is the ordinary people, why?

It's very simple, let's just say the small bush, then he represents the power of oil and arms capital, and because of this, he bypassed the United Nations to launch this unjust war.

To put it bluntly, he can get benefits from starting a war, or a great benefit, so will the people who can get such benefits oppose the war?

Absolutely not, and the same is true of the other party, everyone is half-hearted.

It can be seen who really gets these war dividends.

Can the common people at the lower levels of the US imperialists see the dividends of the war?

It is absolutely impossible to see that the upper class eats meat, and the surname of the boss below can't even drink the soup, at most a few leftover bones are thrown down from above.

But if you want to talk about war, then who will go to the soldiers?

Naturally, the common people below went to be soldiers, to fight, and to be cannon fodder.

You see, if you can't get the dividends of the war, you have to send them to death, so are there still ordinary people who don't oppose the war?

And Mendes, the British director, is even more anti-war, you fight in the United States, the upper echelons of the United States take the lion's share, and the upper echelons of Britain can't get too many benefits, and the American people can at least see some more jobs, but we British people can't eat a fart, and then you have to send someone to help you fight...... Those who are not anti-war are fools!

By extension, basically the upper class of American society will benefit from this war, so who is an idiot will invest in anti-war movies, unless they need to be 'anti-war'...... At this time, it is usually only once every four years.

Wu Xiang thought about it, did he feel that he should also add anti-war elements to his films?

I haven't figured it out yet, so let's talk about it when filming starts...... (To be continued......)

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