"Blade Runner" and "Future Waterworld" are both well-known films in Hollywood. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The former can be said to have pioneered the sci-fi punk genre and set a trend, while the latter seemed to be an unprecedented bad movie at the time.

But taking a long-term view, when a large number of disaster films focusing on the environment and human beings such as "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012" appeared, the response of the market was very enthusiastic.

So they are actually just unfortunate people who were born at the wrong time, but such a film may be able to earn groundbreaking fame for the director and creator later, but for the film company, it is an unscrupulous disaster.

Sid then gave an example, "Actually, if you think about it, Britney's 'Baby-One-More-Time' is, after all, the first saliva song, no disrespect, Max (Martin). ”

Sid quipped to the creator of the year's hottest single, and Max Martin shrugged with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you don't have a none-taken. ”

"But why did this album become such an explosive success?" says Sid confidently, "because our target audience is teenagers, middle school students, high school students, and college students." Do you think they can accept the dullness of The Seven Deadly Sins and the bizarre of The Silence of the Lambs?"

Sid's words caused everyone to nod contemplatively.

"That's why you're deliberately simplifying the story of 'Musical' and focusing on catering to a younger audience?" Nancy Meyers is beginning to understand Sid's intentions.

"Not bad. Sid nodded, "And speaking of which, we have to go back to the positioning of the song and dance film." ”

Sid snapped his fingers and smiled, "I know there must be a lot of you who don't understand why I chose a song and dance film? 'Scream' is a horror film, and my previous experimental 'Warm Corpse' is a romantic comedy, but why focus on song and dance. ”

Sid's words made everyone nod, and although they did have doubts about this in their hearts, none of them asked. Because in the past year, the Fire Lion Group has risen at a rocket-like speed under Sid's plan, and at the same time has achieved successive market-disruptive successes in film, television and music.

This makes Sid's prestige within the company already have a domineering spirit like Jobs and Bill Gates, so Sid doesn't say it, and they don't dare to ask. And Shirley Sandberg, who is truly fearless and bold, has already discussed the plan thoroughly with Sid.

"Let's start with the essence of the song and dance film. Sid walked lightly, and as he walked, he said: "The original song and dance film actually started with the invention of sound films. ”

"Ever since the advent of sound in films, audiences have wanted to enjoy both visual and auditory pleasures, rather than mere visual performances like in the silent film era. The singing and dancing films, like the golden age, renovated into a palace-like luxury cinema, are an audio-visual spectacle that greatly shocks and captivates the audience. ”

After that, the proliferation of similar song and dance films caused the audience's aesthetic fatigue, which in turn increased the market's requirements for song and dance films. In particular, higher requirements are put forward for the combination of stories and songs and dances, and the integration of story connotation and entertainment. It is also in this reflective ascension that film and television classics like "Sing in the Rain" and "The Sound of Music" have emerged. ”

"I know the biggest question you have is, the current market for music and dance films is very small, should we enter this market that seems to have no value? But to talk about this question, the most important thing is to first figure out, why are song and dance films shrinking so much now?"

"Old-fashioned stories from decades ago, boring characters, if such a boring thing can have a market, it will be a big joke in the world!"

"So, do teenagers hate singing and dancing these days?" Sid laughed and held up his finger, "then you should look at the backstreet boys and spice girls, their trendy, funny, cool and sexy hip-hop and songs have taken the world by storm." It has been proven that it's not that young people don't like singing and dancing, it's that Hollywood can't provide the singing and dancing they like. Do you think that the current Hollywood companies know what hip-hop is?"

Hollywood in 1999? Of course they don't understand!

Sid's words seemed to have a kind of magic, and the adults present heard his incisive analysis, and unconsciously agreed with his words, and even became enthusiastic.

"That's right, what those old antiques can't provide, it's up to us Fire Lions to finish!" the enthusiastic declaration actually shouted from the mouth of the oldest old man Charles Scheer present.

Seeing the surprised eyes of the crowd, Old Man Charles Schell laughed a little embarrassedly, and Sid also smiled: "I believe that Old Man, you have a soul as young as us. ”

Sid's words made the whole team laugh, and after talking about the bloody part, Sid continued: "Speaking back to our "Youth Musical", from the perspective of urban modern background design and story, teenage characters, etc., I refer more to the absolute classic "Romeo and Juliet". ”

Sid's words surprised Henry: "Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?"

"Yes, in the midst of opposing forces, there are heroes and heroines who love each other, this classic design, I really like it very much, and this is the fun of classics, which always inspires us to create new classics. ”

"The story of "Youth Musical" is very simple, that is, Troy, the male protagonist of the basketball department, who belongs to the 'cool', and Gabriel, the heroine of the science department, who belongs to the 'not cool'. The two of them break through the antagonism and estrangement between the students, and combine basketball, science, and singing, three seemingly conflicting things, at the same time, to complete it successfully, and harvest the love between the two - the standard Romeo and Juliet!"

Sid's simplification of the narration made everyone feel like an initiation, and then everyone began to discuss all aspects of the film.

After a few hours of the meeting, Sid pulled down the finished topic, "So the song thing, that's pretty much it, with Max [Martin] here, I don't think there's anything to worry about." As for the choreography and direction, let's just find that Anne Fletcher. ”

Anne Fletcher is also quite a famous talented dancer in Hollywood, and she is not inferior to Sid and Max (Martin) in the same way!

On her resume, Anne Fletcher learned to dance at an early age, and at the age of 12 she passed the highest certifications in jazz, tap, ballet and other dance genres. And she opened her own dance studio at the age of 13!

You must know that when normal people are 13 years old, they are still playing with mud.

This is younger than Sid's age when he opened the fire lion.

"Then it's time for casting. Sid exhaled, finally to this most critical matter, "First of all, I want to say that we have six main characters in the film, the male and female protagonists Troy and Gabriel, their two good friends, and also two characters, a man and a woman, and finally the Evans siblings who appear as 'villains'. ”

"These six roles are not casual, just choose a few handsome and beautiful idol actors who can sing and dance. Sid took out a few pieces of paper with different colors and pasted them on the whiteboard, "We must pay attention to 'political correctness'!"

Sid's words couldn't help but cheer everyone up.

In the United States, although the issue of race is never deliberately mentioned, in the life of North American society, in fact, all aspects of life will encounter this invisible problem. The issue of race is like a glass bottle, invisible, but it is real.

And as one of the few places where you can talk about it openly, the conference room of the film company is definitely one.

"First of all, the male protagonist Troy must be brown-haired white. Sid pasted a blank sheet of paper in the center of the board, "And then the heroine Gabriel, I want a little Latina beauty." As he spoke, Sid pasted a pale brown piece of paper next to the white paper.

"And then Troy's best friend, and Gabriel's best friend, had to be black. Sid took two pieces of black paper and placed them next to the hero's paper.

And the Evans siblings, as villains, must not only be white, but also blonde. As he spoke, Sid took two pieces of pale gold paper and pasted them on the opposite side of the protagonist's side.

White people with Latino protagonists, black best friends, blonde white villains, this is simply a model of standard Hollywood racial unity.

First of all, although everyone doesn't talk about it, white people, as the mainstream race of American society, are certainly not used to having non-white faces as the male leads. What's more, it's still 1999 in the United States, and even gay marriage and the rise of Asians still seem far away.

And black people as best friends has always been a tradition in Hollywood. Just look at Jackie Chan's "Rush Hour", why do you have to give him an Asian and find a black man as a partner? You must know that the older generation of Chinese Americans in the United States are known for never making friends with black people.

Since blacks can't be the protagonists, then at least give them the most sunny characters left, so in order to appease blacks, the most famous "rebels" in this minority, the role of friends must be them.

And the blonde villain is well understood. In European and American cultures, blonde hair has always been a symbol of elite aristocrats, just like Malfoy in Harry Potter. Blonde hair equals the Anglo-Saxon aristocratic elite and the psychological enemy of the public, and this conventional rule has long been deeply rooted in the cultural genes of Europe and the United States.