Chapter 258: YY to Yang Yang
Zhang Bai's arrival made Yang Yang very happy, and the two watched the recently released films in idleness, and after watching them, they enthusiastically analyzed the filming techniques and narrative style of the film.
Zhang Bai has made movies for more than 20 years and has accumulated a lot of directorial experience, and his vision for analyzing a movie is extremely sharp and accurate, which has benefited Yang Yang a lot.
Among the films released in the summer, in addition to the super dark horse "Those Years", the biggest winners are several Hollywood commercial masterpieces. Everyone made a lot of money and returned satisfied.
As the world's largest film market, Huaxia has become the most ideal place for Hollywood directors to make money. In recent years, many so-called Hollywood blockbusters have achieved great success in China, the most typical representative of which is the "Dinosaur Age series".
This series of films is mainly about the future world, scientists resurrect Jurassic dinosaurs through cutting-edge technology, this achievement has everyone excited, but the ensuing series of accidents has led things in an unpredictable direction - dinosaurs have amazing reproductive abilities and tyrannical personalities, which inevitably put the whole world in crisis.
Then humans and dinosaurs started a fierce race war.
From Yang Yang's point of view, this film is really not good. Although the gimmick is the same, it is several notches worse than "Jurassic Park" in the previous life.
The biggest drawback is the boring nature of the story, from beginning to end, in addition to special effects or special effects. But domestic audiences like to watch this.
From a technical and artistic point of view, there is a clear gap between Chinese films and Hollywood productions, and the most intuitive is the use of computer special effects in films.
Hollywood movies are known for their fancy and gorgeous special effects. "Dinosaur Age 1" is actually a film that failed to invest, with a production cost of more than 60 million US dollars, but the box office of its release in North America was only more than 30 million, which can be said to be a loss.
The investors bought ropes and were ready to hang themselves, and at this time someone ran over to comfort him, don't be in a hurry to die, go to Huaxia to see the screening, maybe you can recover a little money. At that time, if you don't lose much, you can still pay off if you move bricks diligently in the second half of your life.
As soon as the investors heard it, they thought it made sense, so they conducted a two-week test screening in Huaxia, and the results were unexpected. At the end of the two-week trial screening period, the box office reached $300 million, and then the release was extended, and two weeks later, the box office of 500 million not only brought the investor back to life, but also made a lot of money.
Since then, Hollywood producers have been like flies smelling cheese, and they have set their eyes on Huaxia, a movie paradise with a lot of money and stupidity.
"Dinosaur Age" launched series 2 and 3 in the next three years, and many other movies, which also became popular in the Chinese market with special effects.
Of course, the quality of the films after that has been much higher, although in Yang Yang's opinion, it is like that. "Age of Dinosaurs" 2 and 3 continue the unfinished war of the first part, humans and dinosaurs fight from land to sea, from ocean to sky, and it is estimated that the fourth part should be about to open the era of the universe.
But the audience still buys it, and the box office of every movie is good, so that many Hollywood film investors no longer care about the local box office, and they have put the bulk of it in China.
Fortunately, many domestic directors are also aware of this and have begun to try to add special effects to movies and TV series. For example, Wu Zheng's successful "Forsythia Fairy" a few years ago is a good example.
Yang Yang's influence on Hollywood commercial blockbusters is still in the previous life, the story is compact, the plot is tense, all kinds of shocking scenes, handsome guys and beauties, full of coolness.
But although Hollywood movies in this life are still strong, as far as science fiction movies are concerned, he can only see a lot of special effects, the storyline is thin, there is no main line, and it is still in a stage of exploration and development.
Seemingly, it's not so hard to resist.
Yang Yang has a wave of ambition in his heart to carry the banner of local special effects movies against Hollywood, but this ambition is still too early for him now, and it still needs time to precipitate and accumulate experience.
In the past few days with Zhang Bai, Yang Yang took the time to determine all the remaining songs of the new album, and then sent the lyrics and songs to Yaguang to compose the music, and waited until after the Golden Rooster Award ceremony, and then officially started recording.
During this time, Wang Buer also came to Yang Yang once. For the sake of what he said before, I also want to follow the trend to make a film about youth love.
Yang Yang was a little surprised when he saw the script, this script was adapted from the one that Mi Li gave him a long time ago.
That's right, it's "Early Summer", the one created with Yang Yang as the prototype.
Even if he follows the trend, Wang Buer will not be stupid to make a film with a similar style to "Those Years", he plans to take the pure love route this time.
When Yang Yang was bored, he once read "Early Summer", which tells the story of a lonely female writer who falls in love with a boy who sings on the roof of her house every night.
The author's writing is delicate and emotional, and the sister-brother love between the female writer and the big boy is written in a heart-wrenching manner, and many people cry when they see it. Yang Yang later checked the information on the Internet to find out that "Early Summer" was a hit, and it sold two million copies within a year, and it was constantly revised and published in three or four editions, and it was very popular among students.
Yang Yang, as a party concerned, said that the second half of "Early Summer" is completely the author's own YY, because except for the occasional "girl who got up in the middle of the night to collect the quilt" a few times, the two did not have any intersection, let alone have a relationship.
Wang Bu's script has undergone a small adaptation, replacing the identity of the heroine's writer with a high school student, which will be more marketable.
Wang Buer came to Yang Yang mainly for one reason, when buying the adaptation copyright, the original author named Yang Yang to play the leading role in the movie, otherwise she would rather not sell it.
No, Wang Buer came to find Yang Yang.
"Specify me to play the leading role?" Yang Yang couldn't laugh or cry.
"Your kid's charm is really great, and there are people who publish books for you. Zhang Bai laughed.
Zhang Bai and Wang Buer both graduated from Nortel's directing department, Zhang Bai is many years older than Wang Buer, and he is Wang Buer's fellow brother, because Yang Yang, the common "little junior brother", quickly got to know each other after the two met.
Wang Buer smiled and said, "To be honest, even if she doesn't name her, I plan to find you." Now there is any idol star in China who is as popular as you. With you, no matter how you make this movie, you can't lose it. ”
But Yang Yang really doesn't want to take on this drama. He just starred in "Those Years", and he already has a "greasy" feeling for youth films, and it feels a bit of a waste of time to star in another one. And after directing "Those Years", Yang Yang tasted the joy of being a director, the popularity of "Those Years" has not passed, and he is already itching to get the guide tube again.
Recently, he didn't have time to prepare for the recording of the album, but after this period has passed, Yang Yang is determined to shoot again.
The waist bag is bulging, and it is really hard to toss and toss.
Zhang Bai saw Yang Yang's embarrassment and gave the two of them an idea.
"If you want me to say, this movie is simply made into a vigorous crush. The heroine has never seen the singing boy on the rooftop from beginning to end, and has been just immersed in her own beautiful fantasies, and at the end of the film, Yang Yang will come out to show her face again and draw a perfect end, isn't it more distinctive. ”
Yang Yang clapped his hands and applauded: "This idea is good." ”
Wang Buer's eyes also lit up.
If you shoot according to Wang Fuji's original idea, I am afraid that the filming will eventually fall into the cliché of youth films in the past.
The success of every film has its reasons for success, "Those Years" relied on a "true", and "Early Summer" relied on "YY". Oh no, no, it shouldn't be called YY, it should be called "crush".
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