Chapter 19 Learning from the Advanced Experience of US Imperialism
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What is the cottage most afraid of? What the cottage is most afraid of is encountering the original.
Although Wu Xiang is not very familiar with the film industry, he also knows that this Zhai Junjie is the director of "Stormy Waves".
But fortunately, no one knows about Wu Xiang's weakness now. After introducing Zhai Junjie, Huang Hong opened his words, which is another purpose of watching Wu Xiang's script this time.
It turned out that Bayi Factory got the task this time, that is, to make a documentary about the flood fighting deeds, but this task was down, and the money was approved, but the money was really ......
In this regard, Huang Hong said a brush-by-stroke, but Wu Xiang knew in his heart that it was estimated that it was a little difficult. Just look at the current situation of Bayi Factory, it is really hard to support, and this fund is definitely tight.
Although I don't know the specific situation of Ludao, but in the late 90s, the domestic large-scale film production investment, including theaters, was not very good. As far as Wu Xiang is concerned, the chairs in the state-run cinema in his hometown are all in tatters.
Loss, this word is the most common now, and after Wu Xiang listened to Huang Hong's words, he understood that Uncle Huang wanted to turn losses into profits.
“…… This time your book, it's actually Lao Zhai who took a fancy to it, he thinks it's very good, let's ......"
When Huang Hong said this, Director Zhai couldn't help it, and he immediately interjected, "Xiao Wu, let me tell you." I like your book very much.,And to be honest.,I've already seen some good things.。 That's what you said, make money, I'm afraid it's a little embarrassing to say it, this is art after all, this is ...... after all"
Director Zhai's face turned red as he spoke, and when Wu Xiang saw this, he stretched out his hand and waved it, signaling that he wanted to say a few words, only to hear him say: "Making money, it's not a shame, it's not a shame at all!"
"Xiangzi!" Seeing that he brought it, and the kid who was the eldest on his side refuted the well-known old director of the family, Huang Yubo couldn't hang up here, but Wu Xiang didn't stop.
"Uncle Huang, Elder Zhai, let's do movies, filming was a task in the past, and it was done for the entertainment of the masses. In the past, it was a plan, but now it is the market, and we must have a market vision. There is nothing bad about making money, a movie, how can a movie judge whether it is good or bad? The vision of a professional and the achievements in art are naturally very important, but personally, what I value more to make money is her box office and the number of people who watch her movies! Because only these things can represent that your film and your art will be accepted by more people. And the main theme movie means that more people are infected and educated!"
Wu Xiang said this very seriously, Huang Yubo has been a buddy with him for so long, and he has never seen Wu Xiang like this.
"That's right! That's it, but ......" Director Zhai was about to speak, but Wu Xiang said it for him.
"But we don't have experience in this area, and no one has tried it, have we?"
"Yes!" Director Zhai slapped his thigh, in fact, Wu Xiang is not very familiar with Director Zhai, if he is a teacher at the film academy, he will definitely know that Director Zhai is a person who dares to try, in 86 he once made a film like "Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang", which is the first film to show the national army against Japan in a positive way.
And now the main theme movie has actually come to a very dangerous situation, on the one hand, the film market is not good, on the other hand, the rigidity of film production, which leads to losing money, for example, don't look at films like "Armageddon" The box office is not low, the cost is not small.
This must change, and Wu Xiang's book gives Zhai Dao such hope.
Wu Xiang continued: "We have no experience, but Americans have experience, Hollywood has experience, haven't you two watched their films?
"What?" Not only were Director Zhai and Huang Tuanzuo surprised, but even Huang Yubo grew his mouth.
"I'll give you an example. Wu Xiang stood up as he spoke, gesturing in his hands, quite a little bit of pointing, "The previous box office champion "July 4th" is also known as 'Independence Day', this movie looks like a sci-fi commercial blockbuster, but in fact, she is a proper theme movie of American imperialism. ”
Wu Xiang said this, no one in this room interjected, this is simply too subversive, Wu Xiang continued with a smile: "This film is about fighting aliens, but, have you ever thought about why you are so awesome in the United States? Can you deal with aliens? It's too simple, because on this planet, the American imperialists have no opponents, that is, aliens can threaten her." What was the result? They won, defeated the aliens, and became the savior of the world. Look at Bill Pullman's passionate speech, look at the united efforts of the US imperialists, this is all patriotic education, if you love this world, then love the United States, the United States, the hope of mankind!"
Wu Xiang said this, with a playful smile on his face, while the other three were completely stupid at this time.
"We have to sigh, people play high, you can't see the main theme of the movie. Wu Xiang continued to take strong medicine at this time, "Let's take a look at other people's methods, the president has it, right, but it is not him who saves the world the most." One of the transporters was a black pilot, the one who came up with the idea was a white ordinary technician, and the last one to sacrifice his life to blow up the enemy fortress was an alcoholic. Except for the leading president, the others are all ordinary people, what is this? This is down-to-earth, we ordinary people can save the earth, this is the spirit of ownership......"
Wu Xiang gushed endlessly, he made a very special analysis of the film "July 4th", in the face of such an interpretation, although the people in this room could not be sure that it was right, but they could not find anything wrong.
"Xiangzi, what are you pretending to be in your head?" Huang Yubo sighed directly after hearing this, but Wu Xiang's focus now is not on him.
Wu Xiang said to Huang Tuanzuo and Director Zhai: "My book, in fact, is written according to the Hollywood method, of course, not all copying, there are our own things, our special things." ”
"Good, that's good. Director Zhai was stunned by Wu Xiang, "Xiao Wu, hey, Mr. Wu, I'll give you a hand, you let me be an assistant director for you." ”
"Ouch mom!" As soon as he heard people call him like this, Wu Xiang hurriedly shouted, "Director Zhai, don't be like this, you are my teacher, we can't mess up in this generation." ”
"What's this, what kind of seniority do we have in art? That's all the same old thing. ”
"Don't, don't ......"
Wu Xiang naturally couldn't agree, but at this time, Huang Tuanzuo spoke.
"Xiao Wu, this film is good, but let's do this, how is this a casting method, this ......" Huang Tuanzuo is a little squeaky, this is all money.
However, Wu Xiang knows very well that these old film studios may be very poor, but in fact they are sitting on the top of the gold mountain, but they don't know what to do.
Maybe they really don't have much money, and even many factories owe wages, which is normal, and there are more state-owned enterprises that owe wages these years, and there are not a few of them. However, they have venues, equipment, personnel, especially technical personnel, and most importantly, they have all kinds of relationships, and these are what Wu Xiang wants most.