Chapter 332: A real villain

The power of capital is terrifying, especially in an empire-capitalized country, and especially in a film industry with the most capital-intensive commerce. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Under the abundant capital chain, operation and paving means, Hollywood has become a benign ecological chain, and at the same time, it has also achieved a monopoly structure, and the most famous Oscars are implemented by several giants and officials for political correctness and the next business plan.

There has been a magical time in the film industry, and both Eastern and Western films have reached a milestone turning peak.

Hollywood launched "The Lion King" that influenced the history of animated films, and at the same time, three classic movies that could not be surpassed in a hundred years appeared "The Shawshank Redemption", "Forrest Gump" and "Pulp Fiction", which is worshiped as a god by young people all over the world.

In the Chinese film industry, there are "Chongqing Forest", "Alive", "Journey to the West", "East Evil and West Poison", "Sunny Day", "Eating Men and Women".

That year was like the year of God's chosen one, and it was like a fable, and after that, it was difficult for Hollywood to have a grand occasion when the king did not see the king.

And Chinese movies have plummeted, and they seem to have overdrawn the life of Chinese films.

But despite the monopoly of Hollywood by giants, there are still individual exceptions that can survive in the cracks by special means, and even set off storms.

That is, in the 94 years of God's Choice, with a film with a production cost of 8 million US dollars, it competed with "The Shawshank Redemption" with a production cost of 30 million US dollars in the same year and "Forrest Gump" with a production cost of 60 million US dollars.

At the same time, he also picked up a film genius master director, Quentin Tarantino, an independent investor who really made waves in Hollywood, where capital is monopolized, Harvey Weinstein.

Brothers Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein founded an independent film production company, Miramax Films, in the seventies.

The younger brother Bob Weinstein is a talented screenwriter and director, while the older brother Harvey Weinstein has an unusual sensitivity to film and business, and is a genius who knows how to survive in the cracks and fight against the monopoly of capital.

Harvey Weinstein's business operation and investment vision are beyond the reach of several Hollywood giants, with the smallest investment, the largest box office results, and then re-invest, like a snowball, the development of this small company with only tens of thousands of dollars to the later stage, was acquired by Disney with strong means, which shows its influence.

The Weinstein brothers founded Miramax Films, the company's culture is 'grassroots counterattack', of course, the premise is that they have a special talent and vision, they capture some of the audience groups that have been left out by Hollywood, and maximize the charm of independent literary films, so that these niche audiences become die-hard fans, and then slowly grow and develop.

Although the niche consumption power cannot be compared with the public, there is a point that it is stable and guaranteed, and with this source of security, Miramax Film Company takes much less risk than large companies, but once it hits good luck, it is a hundred times the profit.

The biggest winner in 1990 was their investment in "Paradise Movie", which invested more than 1 million in exchange for more than 10 million box office, and almost won the award softly, which was equivalent to a myth at that time.

Harvey Weinstein is a man who uses business vision and operational methods to create myths.

The company he founded was forcibly acquired by Disney because he was a little inflated in the later stage, calling the six giants, and Disney's merger and acquisition was also helping him in disguise, because although Harvey Weinstein is indeed a genius, he is still not an opponent of capital, and if the giants want to unite against him, he will die without a place to die.

The trigger for this incident was the 1999 Oscars, in which "Private Ryan of the Rescue" lost to "Shakespeare in Love", and made an incredible Gwyneth Paltrow the Oscar-winning actress, because the entire Hollywood jury was "PR" by Harvey Weinstein.

Harvey Weinstein's power has finally caused outrage.

"Shakespeare in Love" can't be said to be a bad movie, but compared to "Saving Private Ryan", there is no comparison at all, but Harvey Weinstein slapped the giant Paramount in the face.

The spirit of grassroots counterattack is indeed commendable.

And this time, the publisher of Director Zhang's contact in the West is the grassroots spirit Harvey Weinstein, when he saw this middle-aged fat man with an honest appearance and a simple smile, Wang Yao's first sense was a little contradictory.

Wang Yao didn't like the hypocrisy of the other party, but the truth of the communication made Wang Yao feel comfortable.

In Wang Yao's feeling, this Harvey Weinstein is a real villain, and he makes no secret of his despicable real villain.

After Harvey Weinstein showed the trailer for "Hero", he became very interested in this film with oriental martial arts and cultural overtones, because the return rate of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" last year was so high that he saw that "Hero" was like discovering a gold mine.

However, he is not kind to this gold mine.

Harvey Weinstein kept the price very low, so low that he might have to buy the entire North American distribution rights before he could even get paid for Lee's link, and Director Zhang was sweating profusely with his fellow publishers, and this fat man was an old god eating their expression.

"Dear friends, you must know that no one in Hollywood will pay such a large price for the distribution rights of this film except me. Harvey Weinstein shrugged his shoulders with regret on his face, "I'm not saying it's bad, it's just that no company can turn it into a movie that doesn't lose money except me, the cultural differences and consumption differences are too great, and I still have to edit it." ”

Director Zhang frowned, although the other party was telling the truth, it still made him unhappy, and more importantly, he had to edit the film, which was a forbidden area for a director.

"Mr. Harvey, in fact, we just want to broaden the communication and market between the East and the West, how it is not appropriate, and it does not have to be released. Director Zhang rolled his eyes and said with a smile.

Harvey smiled, "If that's the case, then I can only say it's a pity, Director Zhang is a director I admire, I've seen all your works, whether this transformation can be successful, I think it should be very important to you." ”

Director Zhang raised his eyebrows slightly: "Mr. Harvey understands me." ”

"You Chinese people say, know yourself and know your opponent, and win all battles. Harvey smiled, "Everyone understands people, they all know what the value of this movie is, what the role is, my attitude is like this, I want money, you want a name." ”

Director Zhang was choked up, he was not good at talking about business, not to mention that he met a scoundrel, turned his head to look at Wang Yao, who had been yawning and tapping on his laptop, and gestured to him with his eyes.

Wang Yao received the signal, glanced at Harvey, and cleared his throat, "Mr. Harvey." ”

"Nice lad. Harvey looked at Wang Yao with a smile, from the moment he entered the door, he was curious about this young man with a too special temperament.

"The North American box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has accumulated 200 million. Wang Yao asked with a smile.

Harvey was stunned, "You're talking to me about the benefits, then I'll have to talk about my risks." ”

Wang Yao shook his head, "I just hope you don't bully us, for Hollywood in the current burnout period, the new theme full of oriental culture should be the biggest potential stock." ”

Harvey narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked at Wang Yao with some surprise, "You shouldn't be very old, how long have you been making movies, how much do you know about the film market?"

"I won the Special Jury Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival a month ago. Wang Yao hooked the corners of his mouth, "He also cultivated a movie queen, that is, the thirteen-second movie queen who is the most noisy in your West." ”

Harvey was stunned, his expression becoming more and more surprised, "It's you?"

"So, in some ways, the two of us should be all the way. Wang Yao said with a smile, and the state of communication did not look like a junior at all.

Because Wang Yao first understands Western culture and equality, and he also knows that the West pays attention to being good and being bullied, so he still has to be stronger.

Wang Yao's words made Harvey frown and fall into thought, the Thirteen Seconds Movie Queen is indeed very lively, and he has heard a little, but he is more concerned about the motivation behind it, Nikita represents the strength of Russian films and the people behind him who want to reformulate the rules of the international film industry, the 'Thirteen Seconds Movie Queen' is just a pitiful victim, but Wang Yao directly counterattacked in public, which Harvey really couldn't imagine.

He hadn't had time to get to know the details of this matter yet, because he had been busy dealing with the matter of being banned, and he felt that Wang Yao, who was fighting back, might just be a fool who didn't understand the motive behind the matter.

But Wang Yao said that the two of them were the same kind of people, which made him completely change this idea.

This boy is not a fool, he is a madman.

Harvey looked at Wang Yao, he was a beautiful face for a Westerner, and his dusty temperament reminded him of an idiom 'fairy wind bones', and the smile on the corner of his mouth was indifferent, and he didn't know if it was pretending to be profound.

This is an enigmatic young man.

looked at Director Zhang again, this figure who is the number one in the entire Chinese film industry, stopped talking after this young man spoke, which shows his attitude towards him.

The more mysterious it is, the more uneasy it makes him, after all, he knows too little about the mysterious Orient, although this ancient civilization that has lasted for thousands of years has declined in modern times, but who can guarantee that this huge ancient country does not have the existence of an ancient family like Rothschild, after all, it is recognized all over the world that silver in the nineteenth century flowed into this mysterious Oriental country.