If you want to enter the American film and television industry, you must first understand how people play and how they play? Very simply, like the American legal system, there is a separation of powers! The three most important links of production, brokerage, and distribution are absolutely separated, and no one can control anyone, and everyone has to work together. This involves another spirit of the law, that is, compromise and balance, these three parties can only mix together to do a good job by constantly compromising and balancing, and no one can decide what to decide with a tap of their heads, everyone has to sit together and discuss according to the rules.

The advantage of this is that it can minimize the wrong decision, ensure that the general direction is correct, and is conducive to long-term development, but it also has the downside, that is, the efficiency is not as high as someone patting the head to make a decision. However, the lesser of two evils, instead of patting the head to do the wrong thing efficiently, it is better to make the right decision with low efficiency, as long as it is done, it must be guaranteed that it is correct, or everyone thinks it is correct, this is a principle, and it is also a huge difference between Eastern and Western cultures.

It may not sound intuitive to talk about this alone, so let's take an example. For example, Hong Tao has a film company in China, Tan Jing signed a contract with Hong Tao's company and is a star, and Han Xue is the company's film production director. Okay, now there is a movie with an investment of 10 million, so Tan Jing said, I am worth 5 million, because it is a movie made by my own company, why don't you give me more? But Han Xue quit, half of the money was given to Tan Jing, how could she find other good actors? According to Han Xue's meaning, not only can she not pay Tan Jing more. has to give less, originally Tan Jing was worth 2 million. Now I will give 1 million yuan and contribute to the company!

Of course Tan Jing didn't do it. Han Xue definitely won't do it, he just won't give it! Yes, the two parties can't get along, what should they do? I have to go to Hong Tao, the big boss, for a ruling. At this time, Hong Tao was the bastard who slapped his head and made a decision. He knows a fart movie, and even if he does, he can't offend either Tan Jing and Han Xue, so he doesn't think about this issue from the perspective of whether the movie is good or bad at all, he thinks about Tan Jing and Han Xue, which is more important to him. Or consider that Tan Jing and Han Xue are better at kung fu in bed. Otherwise, just mud, not only to meet Tan Jing's salary, but also to let this film be filmed, then you can only continue to fool the investors and let them pay an extra 3 million. Then let Han Xue save again, don't keep improving, it's almost enough to make a fool of yourself. In the end, it may be a good movie, but as soon as all parties make peace, it will be made into a bad movie.

The investor suffered. It has affected the enthusiasm to continue to invest in movies in the future; Han Xue has been suppressed in creation and no longer pursues perfection; although Tan Jing has received money, her reputation has been damaged, who is willing to want the protagonist of a bad movie; Hong Tao's film company has not taken advantage. It also affects the healthy development of the entire film market, and none of them is profitable, all of them are lost!

You can also stretch your mind a little further. Think about a lot of things in our country, including the government's development decisions. Isn't it that many of them are very similar to this example? The disadvantage of the rule of man is here, and many of the starting points are good. If you want all parties to benefit, the result is generally bad, and everyone suffers from the top to the bottom, which is the disadvantage of having no rules and relying on your head to make decisions.

This matter is not over here, you have to take out the film for screening, right? So Han Xue found Rada, the theater manager in Hong Tao's company, and asked Rada to arrange a prime time to screen her film. When Radha saw it, she immediately refused, this kind of bad movie was screened in her theater, who watched it? It directly affected her work efficiency, and she wanted to show another company's blockbuster film.

Of course Han Xue quit, you don't let go of the films made by your own company, you go to help other companies do publicity, what do you mean? Go! Go to Hong Tao for comment! As a result, the matter has come to Hong Tao again, and he has to pat his head to make a decision. What Lada said is also reasonable, people have work efficiency assessment every year, and if they fail to do so, they will deduct money, be dismissed, and even affect people's reputation in the entire industry, who wants to hire a theater manager who has no profitability? Han Xue also makes sense, his own company's films, even his own company's theater is not willing to play, so how to explain to investors?

So Hong Tao patted his head again, Lada Cinema had to show this bad movie to Han Xue, and then fake the data, obviously there were only 10 people watching it, so it was said that 1,000 people watched it, anyway, the theater line is also its own company, and it is easy to do this. If you don't spend more money to find websites, film critics, and reporters to fan you, these people will give them money, let them say that their father is their mother, and they will never blink. As a result, a bad movie has become a god film that kills Hollywood masterpieces in seconds on the surface, and the box office is so high that it won't be over if it doesn't break through the sky.

In fact, the investors can't say it, the producers have lost their teeth and swallowed blood, the actors go out to brag about X with their faces, and the theater chain is to accompany Ben to make money, and the only beneficiaries are the media who help tout and tell nonsense. But they didn't take advantage of it, in the short term, they made money, but they sold their souls to the devil, and this kind of thing can't be done in the long run, and when the festival is sold out, they are worthless. This industry is also full of lies and bubbles, let's play by ourselves, one day the bubble can't bear it, it bursts with a bang, the whole industry goes back decades, and everyone has no fun with Nima.

Some people may jump out and say, how many years has our film industry developed, it can't be compared with Hollywood, we are still in its infancy...... This is all nonsense! What does it mean to stand on the shoulders of giants? It is because you have an example in front of you, so you don't have to explore it yourself, you just need to take the good things and successful experiences that others have explored to learn from it, and at most add your different understandings, change it a little, and go to the next level. Besides, according to the current set of methods in China, you will not be able to catch up in 10,000 years, and the reason is very simple, your direction is the opposite of others, and it is the opposite. The faster you develop, the farther you get to the right goal, simply put, you're on the wrong track.

But someone asked, is it possible to say, only you know this truth, and everyone else is a fool? No, people in the film and television industry know this truth, but they don't say it, because after saying it, there is no benefit but will be suppressed, because you hinder others from making money. When there are no rules in a society, black and white are often reversed, the right things are trampled to the ground, and the wrong things are rampant. Everyone understands it in their hearts, so they don't care about right or wrong at all, just mix it up for a day. The rich and powerful, get all the children abroad, so as not to affect them, as for themselves, if they can get a handful, when they can't pat their butts and leave, the common people?

Isn't there such a problem in Hollywood? How do they solve it? Quite simply, it's like the separation of powers, where they split the producers, the agency, and the theater chain into three separate agencies, and no company can own two of them at the same time. In other words, whether it is the 8 major film companies in Hollywood or the 6 major film companies, they cannot be producers or distributors, nor can they be producers or brokerage companies. They only have the right to shoot in their hands, but they don't have the script, director, and actors.

The producers are the film companies, and they just raise money to make the film. The agency is the actors, directors and screenwriters, and the six major film companies need to make movies, and they must provide the script, the screenwriter, the actors, and the director. All actors, directors, and screenwriters who mix in the United States and want to make really big movies and television must also sign contracts with these 10 brokerage companies, and it is useless to sign with others, which is stipulated in the industry. The distributor is the cinema chain, and the finished film must be screened in these theaters, and the screening ticket price is divided according to the proportion negotiated before shooting. This is a bit abnormal, how to divide the proportion before the shooting? Don't you have to look at the quality of the film to decide? We'll discuss this issue later, because it involves another link, which is the insurance company.

Is that the end of it? No, they also have an extremely strict set of operational details to ensure the interests of all parties. Let's start with the producer, that is, the film company, the model of the six major film companies is basically the same, they will have several vice presidents internally, and the number is more or less, let's say there are five. These 5 vice presidents have several filming quotas in their hands every year, but they can't take the script themselves, which means that they only have shooting quotas, but they don't have a script in their hands.

Where did the script come from? There is also a separate vice president in the company, who does not have the right to shoot it, but he has to choose all the scripts that the film company receives from the agency. He led a team to review and delete all the scripts according to a very mechanical, procedural, and scientifically quantified rule, and eliminated all the scripts that did not meet this rule, and finally all the scripts that met the rules were left, and then he took these scripts to the other 5 vice presidents and recommended them to read.

These 5 vice presidents can choose from these scripts at will, and if they don't like it, they can refuse to shoot, which largely eliminates the waste of company and investor resources to make bad movies for their own selfishness. (To be continued......)