"Oh, that's incredible!"

Boom Boom – The helicopter's propellers spin at high speed and make a loud roar, flying slowly in the clear blue sky, in Xunyang County, Shaanxi Province, China, where the "Firefly" film crew is taking aerial shots. Looking down from the sky, the county town located between the green mountains and green waters has a peculiar landform and a meandering water circulation, just like the shape of a Taiji diagram, which is also known as the "natural Taiji City" here.

Because the director did not reveal too much of his intentions and knew little about Oriental Chinese culture, few of the film crew on the helicopter knew the meaning of this framing, and only felt that the scenery was beautiful, Harry George, who was holding the camera, asked: "What does this mean?" Wang Yang, who was also wearing a seat belt, stood by the hatch, looked down at the Taiji City, and smiled: "Good and evil, good and evil are like this yin and yang...... Keep shooting! ”

He wanted this Taiji City scene in order to finally express and sublimate the view of the whole "Firefly", what kind of world is a beautiful world? Taiji diagram is one of the components of the viewpoint: complete good and complete evil are inhuman. In fact, this point is covered in classic films such as "A Clockwork Orange" and "The Seven Deadly Sins", whether sex is good or evil? Maybe the coexistence of the two is human nature. Of course, a person who does not understand Chinese culture will not know the meaning of Tai Chi Tu all at once, but he needs this.

If he wants to achieve the fusion of cowboy + Oriental, his attempt is to be wild, the theme is unified but the artistic conception is clear, and the picture scenes are all poetic, so that the characters and stories can go in, rather than doing too many collecting changes, resulting in the birth of a deformed four-like. He wants the feeling of "quiet as a virgin, moving like a rabbit", Taiji City is a part of "quiet", a part of the East, many things do not need to be explained, but it is placed there, waiting for others to dig it out.

In August 2004, after completing the filming of Taiji City and the Loess Plateau in Shaanxi Province, Wang Yang continued to take the film crew to Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province to shoot beautiful scenery. The filming of "Firefly" in China has caused many media fans to wonder, what is the relationship between the western cowboy of the plains and deserts and the almost completely different flavors of China's mountains and rivers?

However, this time he set foot in the land of China, not to publicize the visit or play, the crew's work schedule is tight, and Wang Yang has to rush back to take care of Jessica, so he didn't accept many interviews, only went on an entertainment interview on NetEase.com, saying hello to fans and fans;

What does "Firefly" have to do with China is one of the must-ask questions, in the café of the Sunshine Hotel in Zhangjiajie, Hou Jian, the reporter in charge of this interview, asked.

"Yes, Fireflies will have a lot of 'Chinese elements'. Wang Yang nodded, raised the coffee cup and took a sip, and continued to smile: "You will see that there are Chinese characters, Chinese and so on, and there will be no shortage of these beautiful scenery that we are shooting now, including the peaks of Zhangjiajie will appear in the movie, but you may not be able to recognize which ones they are, because we will also carry out later modification and synthesis to move those peaks to another planet." In fact, the background of the whole story is inseparable from oriental culture. ”

"This should be the first time you've tried to add more Chinese elements to your film, why is that? What does this change mean?" Hou Jian quickly recorded the great director's answer, and then asked another question.

Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders with a smile and spoke eloquently from the beginning: "When I got the first version of Joss Wheddon's script, he set it up like this, a world where Chinese and American cultures influence and merge with each other. Joss Whedon and his wife have lived in China for a while, and he enjoys appreciating traditional Chinese culture, which can make stories and future worlds more mysterious. He's right, and then that's my forte, I love the story of the script and I have a lot of new ideas, and Chinese culture, needless to say, fascinated me early on, so I'm happy to try it, it's really great. ”

"I know that "Firefly" has set a lot of new personal records for you, with the highest production cost, the longest filming time, and the largest number of participants...... "Hou Jian counted a few records, looked at Wang Yang and asked: "But at the same time, you have been burdened with a lot of pressure and accusations before, will "Firefly" be a film that you will prove yourself again? What do you think?" Wang Yang immediately shook his head slightly: "I don't think about it so much now, I just want to make the movie well, and spend more time with my family." ”

Thinking about the journey along the way this year, he smiled again: "But this time there is indeed more pressure, but only a small part of these pressures are from outside voices, and most of them are the film itself, which is more challenging for me than ever." As for the record-setting ......" he laughed: "I hope it can continue to set more personal records! ”

"Hehe!" Hou Jian also laughed for a while, looked at the book, and then asked: "Not long ago, your wife Jessica Alba fell ill because she was too tired and suffered from acute nephritis, and later it was said that you completed the rest of the martial arts scenes for her, which is a topic that everyone is very concerned about. ”

"Yes, thank you in advance for your concern, she is recovering well. Wang Yang thanked him, took a sip of coffee, thought about the difficult shooting of martial arts scenes, and said with a smile: "I can't say that I am playing another male role, but I have adjusted the proportion of the shot." I think it's also a Chinese element, and you must go to the cinema next year because I do play really well and cool, haha. ”

After doing a few more Q&As on "Firefly", Hou Jian asked the necessary questions: "Director Zhang Yimou's new film "Ambush on All Sides" was released on July 16, have you ever seen it during your time in China?" Wang Yang shook his head and replied: "No, the crew's schedule is relatively tight, and I haven't seen it yet." But I know it's going to be at the Toronto Film Festival next month, and I'll go see it. And Zhang Yimou is a great director, and his pictures are used very beautifully. ”

"What is your impression of Hunan?" Hou Jian continued to ask the necessary questions, and Wang Yang replied with praise: "The impression that Hunan gives me is that it is very beautiful, and it has a deep historical and cultural heritage, I have not been to other places to see it, but Zhangjiajie is a very wonderful and charming city. ”

Just as the crew of "Firefly" finished filming in Zhangjiajie and was about to leave for Los Angeles, its official website suddenly announced a detailed world background, the arrival of earthlings in a new galaxy, the formation of a Star Alliance government between China and the United States, the outbreak of war, the defeat of the independence faction, and the mysterious emergence of marauders...... This time, due to the large and complex background, the publicity work of the flame movie did not follow the mysterious route of "District 9", but widely advertised, so that more people left an impression and interest in the background setting.

However, if you want to get more information about characters such as Reva and Blue Glove, as well as upload more comic concept art, set stills, etc. on the official website, you still have to play some viral marketing games, which is also to encourage the enthusiasm of movie fans. At the moment, Jessica Alba is the most popular and has the most people involved in Unblocking Reva's viral marketing game, followed by Robert Downey Jr., Wang Yang, Heath Ledger, Michael Pitt and others. Depending on the popularity, the difficulty of marketing the game will naturally be different.

And now the announced "Cowboy + Oriental"! Fans finally understand why Chinese characters are printed on the hull of the Tranquility, why they went to China for filming, and the role of Wu Yanzu and even Wang Yang...... But they don't understand, what the hell is this? "Shanghai Noon"? In the list of sci-fi adventure movies, there is no space cowboy to be found, let alone any space + cowboy + East. Even the media film critics who want to sing him down don't know where to start.

"It's ridiculous, it's funny! Can you imagine a rough cowboy in a cheongsam? I heard that it was originally the idea of Joss Wheddon, who was a clever man who knew how to do what he liked, and who completely destroyed the haughty and arrogant Wonder Young. Jeffrey Westerhoff's usual style of satirizing his blog at the right time attracted clicks and scolding from fans as expected. It wasn't that he laughed at him alone, many online film critics who temporarily belonged to Yang Hei ridiculed: "It seems that Wang Yang is in a fever period." "He had no idea what he was doing. "......" is very exciting! This is a new and interesting setting, and I believe that Magic Young will bring a big surprise. Netizen Chris F left a comment on the official website, and most of the fans were full of interest, because the director is not anyone, it is the magical Yang who "everything will be done", what happened to the cowboys? What happened to Dongfang? They have confidence in Wang Yang! Fye-T wrote: "If it is the same style as "Star Wars", "Star Trek" and even "Stargate", then what is the meaning? At least the setting of "Firefly" is very novel and unique now! I look forward to seeing the trailer!"

No amount of data settings, concept art, and stills can compare to a trailer that is intuitive and attractive, and the excitement of the trailer and trailer has always had a significant impact. However, the teaser of "Firefly" did not come out so quickly, not counting the framing of the plum blossom forest, the crew has just officially finished, obviously the graphics engine team still needs a long time to complete in terms of special effects production, Wang Yang has already submitted detailed requirements in the preparation stage, and will follow up the supervision, but also after leading the team to shoot for more than 4 months, ushered in the time for rest and vacation.

At the end of this summer, the quadrennial Olympic Games were being held in Athens, Greece, and Wang Yang saw that Jessica's physical indicators were well recovered and she could cope with a leisurely trip, so he called her parents, father-in-law, and mother-in-law, and the whole family went to Athens to watch the Olympic events. And Joshua wants to take advantage of the fact that he and Alexis have some free time to hurry up and go on a date to maintain their relationship, and there is no companion.

The Olympic Games have opened on August 13, Wang Yang and his entourage arrived in Athens and directly began this happy Olympic journey, and on August 19, the emerging network technology potential stock Google landed on the NASDAQ, with an issue price of $85 per share, and closed at $100.34 on the same day, an increase of 18% on the first day, and the IPO raised a total of $1.67 billion. Because he is absolutely optimistic about Google, Wang Yang, the best guest in the IT industry and Google's longest, did not sit idly by, and also spent some spare money to invest, and his private brokerage team became the most active person in the market on the first day, and successfully became one of the shareholders who left behind.

If the background of the "IT world" has brought Wang Yang more respect in Hollywood, although having money and an IT company does not mean that he can make good movies, just as Bill Gates can't be a director, but Magic Young, who is good at both "ambition" and "amateur interests", undoubtedly seems to be particularly capable; but for Silicon Valley, although Magic Yang uses the Internet to complete "ghost virus marketing" earned the first pot of gold, and dug into the Blogger horse, but except for a few characters, many people have a contemptuous attitude towards him, IT is not a person who makes movies casually, Blogger is just a big luck, singing Yahoo can see the level of this Hollywood director, and the magic Yang wants to be Yang Zhiyuan is still a little worse.

Yahoo is on the horizon, but the newly listed Google has been poured cold water, with Institutional Shareholder Services, a powerful company citing 21 deficiencies in Google's corporate governance practices, scoring Google 0.2 on a corporate governance coefficient of 100, which is almost zero, lower than all other companies in the S&P 500 index.

Since the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) is still investigating Sergey Brin, 31, and Larry Page, 31, who were previously interviewed by Playboy, it is likely that their actions violated the relevant regulations. So Brin and Page and the entire Google company were thrown into a "little black room", and the company had to maintain a "quiet period" before the IPO, even if they wanted to say a few words of explanation.

At this time, 24-year-old Wang Yang, who has not yet become a shareholder of Google and is filming in China, returned to his room until the early hours of the morning after an interview with Xiaoxiang Morning News, and sang a lot on his blog while having a video conversation with Jessica: "It's nice to see that Google's corporate governance coefficient is 0.2, and if it's 0, it's even better! Who hasn't seen it yet?" With a six-year history of $85, Google is not a company with terrible management, but a company that breaks all the traditional rules and outperforms all other companies in the S&P 500. It's called Young, Power, Google!"

Obviously, if you are optimistic that the stock is preparing to buy in large quantities, it is very unwise to sing more, but Wang Yang found that maybe it is an occupational disease, maybe it is because he has participated in too many interviews and award ceremonies, and sometimes he likes to have a good time, of course, he doesn't feel that he sings too much, and there will be a bunch of people rushing to buy it.

Sure enough, many people thought he was trying to go short, and Google is a very arrogant company, and most analysts believe that its stock price will fluctuate greatly because public shareholders have no control over the company's future development. Google's founders, executives, board members, and employees hold the equivalent of 10 public shares for each share, with founders Brin, Page, and CEO Schmidt holding a total of 37.6% of the company's voting rights, and the management team and directors as a whole holding 61.4% of the voting rights. It's the equivalent of saying that they're taking your money and not asking you to speak, and Google isn't ready to provide future financial projections, which sounds nice: "Companies will make decisions based on long-term benefits, not short-term benefits." ”

Many shareholders are very annoyed by this, but Wang Yang is very happy, he has no idea of joining the board of directors of Google, and buying Google is completely to invest and make money, so as to have more sufficient strength to support the development of the Flame Group. There is no end to the money, almost always after more than one number, and he has a lot of it now, if you want to do any IT and search business every day, it is really annoying. But knowing Google's huge potential, Wang Yang was also happy to see someone make money for him, so he bought a golden egg with a big hand, and a new Google shareholder was born.

Wang Yang not only bought it himself, but such a good investment opportunity may as well be introduced to his family, and some good friends who want to invest know it, but Natalie Portman said that she would most like to buy shares of Fire Movies.

Indeed, many, many people want to buy shares in Flame Films, an independent film company with an impressive track record of not losing money in all the large-scale screenings of films in the six years since its establishment, but has repeatedly created box office miracles. The medal table of the Athens Olympics changes every day, the champions, runners-up and third places in various events continue to be produced, and the box office champions of the last few North American weeks in the 04 summer vacation have also been found.

From July 30th to August 5th, the champion fell on the head of "Mysterious Village" released by Bowei Company, this 60 million cost thriller suspense film was directed by M-Knight Shyamalan, who has the title of "genius director", and received 69.14 million in the first week, and it seems that it is not a problem to sell and recover costs. However, with the birth of "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural", and then experiencing the rules of "Immortal Tribulation", Jiang Lang of "Tianzhao" was suspicious, and this time he gained 43%, 48% freshness and 59% likeability of the 34-year-old Shamaran, in a voice of disappointment, ridicule, and pity, the name of genius fell down and was labeled as a director.

The so-called climb as high as it hurts when it falls, "pointless", "idiot", "another mediocre, insane work that overestimates M. Knight Shyamalan." "The New York Observer, Salon, The New Yorker, and other popular media outlets were unceremonious. Everyone knows that if the "Firefly" of another more genius magical baby who has fun in the IT world is any less satisfying, what awaits it is bound to be a storm.

The champion of August 6-12 belongs to "Murder by Knife" starring Tom Cruise, August 13-19 is "Alien vs. Predator", August 20-26 is "The Exorcist Prequel"; The Athens Olympics ended successfully on August 29, the United States, China and Russia won the top three gold medals, Google's stock price rose every day, and the last week of the summer vacation from August 27 to September 2 was won by Miramax and Zhang Yimou's "Hero" with a box office of 23.72 million.

From the warm-up in late April, the beginning of May to the end of August, everyone who has watched this year's summer vacation report card will find a lot of "Flames-Films", Flame of Passion released a total of "Ice Age 2", "Furious Speed", "The Hangover 2" three movies in this summer, and among the 17 North American weekly box office champions, they won four of them on May 7-13, June 11-17, June 18-24, and June 25-July 1, accounting for 23.52% , and has won for three consecutive weeks.

This ★★★★ weekly box office winner puts Flame Films at the top of this summer's charts, followed by Warner Bros., ★★★ DreamWorks ★★★, Sony/Columbia ★★, 20th Century Fox ★★, Universal Pictures ★, Bowway ★, and Miramax ★. For an independent film company, could there be more demanding requirements for a boutique strategy that has only released three films? Who wouldn't want to buy shares in Flame Films?

Since you can't buy stocks, and the market of mutual checks and balances can't be monopolized by anyone, a group of investors and manufacturers are not without other ways, but "Unprecedented Flying Forever", "Lucky Player" and several other follow-up films have ended miserably, Warner Bros. doesn't care if there is one more bad movie, but MGM, the king of movies at the time, is even more mired in the quagmire. The box office of major studios and independent filmmakers has joys and sorrows, and FF cannot be found in the ranks of sorrows.

Excluding the distribution costs such as publicity, copying, and transportation, the combined production cost of the three Flame films is 195 million, which are 75 million, 70 million, and 50 million respectively, but they are each and the same crazy sweep the world!

"Ice Age 2" 230 million North American box office, 500 million overseas box office, 730 million global box office, Blue Sky Studios announced its strong rise again; "Furious Speed" 190 million North American box office, 350 million overseas box office, 540 million global box office, a gold-absorbing series that is very popular with young people all over the world was born under the rampage; "The Hangover 2" 254 million North American box office, 327 million overseas box office, 581 million global box office, the crazy opening results are lacking in stamina because of the average word-of-mouth, but it is definitely a big profit.

Looking at this report card, everyone feels like they are going crazy, Flame Movies and theater companies are going crazy with joy, but many film companies are unspeakable, with a total production cost of 195 million and 1.851 billion global box office! This is not the final number, because the flying cars and drunk people are still showing a fraction of the difference.

Next summer, Flames-Films, which has already scheduled large-scale screenings of "Kung Fu Panda", "Firefly" and "League of Assassins", will it still have such good luck?

No one knows now, but there is no doubt that this summer vacation has stimulated a lot of people, and as the time enters September, the Toronto Film Festival will also open on September 9, when there will be 100 premieres from outside North America and 81 North American premieres, a total of 328 films will be exhibited. Among the films seeking to be released, there are gems and straws, it depends on who has the discernment.

This time, Flame Films, Lionsgate, Miramax, Fox Searchlight, Focus, Newmarket and other studios have been preparing for a long time.

(To be continued)