Chapter 227: Down
At the end of the movie, like Li Mo's adapted novel, the huge tail of the perpetual train sweeps away a wall of snow, revealing a sunny valley. In the valley www.biquge.info there is a lake with melting snow and ice, green grass, a few fruit trees, and a few beautiful fawns grazing carelessly.
The three children held hands and walked into the valley, looking up at the fruit trees......
The music starts and the movie ends.
It's not a bear anymore, and of course, this ending is also more likable.
But Warner Bros. has a strange face, and Li Mo also has a strange face.
Warner Bros. is odd about this ending, although this is the beginning of a new century, and there is no doubt that the three children have become the Adam and Eve of the new century, and even the metaphor of the fruit tree is so obvious. The question is, did the new era start with 3P?
Li Mo also said, first, racial balance, the ratio of white and black races in the United States is two to one, and the ending is still two to one, and the second is a deliberate spoof, after all, the theme of the whole book is too heavy, so heavy that people can't breathe, maybe this kind of spoof can make the audience laugh knowingly.
But this ...... Is it really good?
Li Mo is also weird, Lao Ka is really still the character of his previous life, obviously with a budget of 10 million US dollars, he has a life of more than 8 million US dollars, and the entire production cost ranks fourth among all Hollywood films this year, if it is not for the giant ship Jurassic Park, it happens to be ranked third.
The money was not spent in vain, comparing the special effects of the two movies, don't look at the Snowpiercer in the previous life, which was filmed more than 20 years later, but it is really not as good as the special effects of this movie, indeed, in terms of special effects control, few people can compare with the old card.
In addition, the battle scenes are more popular, such as the section of the carriage meat bo, which turned out to be a chaotic battle in the movie, but it made Lao Ka shoot that big and wide, and he was angry...... Indeed, in terms of excitement and good-looking, it is far better than the original movie.
But in this way, it has completely become a standard commercial movie, can it still get a golden man? There is also an indescribable ...... Weird feeling.
Li Mo said his worries, but he also said: "Congratulations to everyone, you don't have to worry about it losing money." ”
Steve Ross, the soul of Warner Bros., said with a huge cigar in his mouth, "Lee, it's nowhere near as good as your other two books." ”
Li Mo has never been interested in this person, because his background is too complicated. He started his father-in-law's funeral home and then stepped into the parking lot. It didn't matter, Guan Jian later moved between Wall Street and the mafia. Although there are also some flashes of human nature, for example, he is generous to his cronies, and even Li Mo is ashamed of himself, but he has many flaws, in order to protect himself, he can decisively betray his friends, and he can spread rumors and coax the stock market to make profits for himself.
Li Mo has always held a respectful and distant attitude towards him.
I can't offend you, and I don't need to have any intimate dealings with you.
However, Li Mo also has to admit this person's intentions for Warner, after the Minion short film came out, almost all Hollywood studios began to go crazy about it again, obviously, this is another big IP that is no less than Jurassic Park, don't ask about cartoons, cartoons are well made, and they still far exceed the box office of live-action films.
This made Warner Bros. nervous, and then sent representatives to negotiate with Hollick several times. Hao Lick's reply was also simple: the current technology could not support the filming of this animation, and it was not appropriate to negotiate copyright matters too early. Didn't you say okay, Warner Bros. has priority.
Warner Bros. has always been worried, so Ross personally stepped forward, in the face of this big guy across black and white, Hao Lick was also a little nervous, he had to take out the scripts of the other two animations - "Despicable Me", after arriving in China, I thought it was not good, and translated it as Despicable Me, talking about the copyright of Minions, we have to talk about the copyright of these two animations.
Rose looked at the script, and it is said that he watched and watched, and the cigar burned to his mouth without noticing.
After reading it, he didn't say anything, put a blank check in front of Hao Like, you fill it out yourself, even if you fill in 100 million dollars, I will blink.
This is to show his sincerity, and it is impossible for Halick to fill in 100 million US dollars, so that he will not survive the next day. Hao Like had no choice but to call Li Mo, Li Mo thought for a while, and said, if he really wants it, he will give it to him, the copyright is not much, three million dollars is fine, but there is one, when to start filming, we must have the final say. If the technology can't keep up, you can't shoot, otherwise it will ruin this big IP.
Three million dollars is not much, just the beginning of the Minions, and millions of dollars will be saved when making movies in the future, Ross happily hugs Hollick, and then throws a big party to entertain Hollick and the people of Io's studio.
So Li Mo said, "Mr. Ross, you should be very satisfied. ”
Steve Ross chuckled.
"There's still a theme song missing," Lao Ka said.
"Why is there still a lack of a theme song?" asked Li Mo curiously.
You must know that there is also a huge record label under Warner Bros. Pictures, and there is no shortage of musicians.
"I haven't been able to find a match for it...... "Steve Ross is also dissatisfied.
"Let me think about it......" Li Mo frowned and thought, and hummed a song for a while, it was a famous song "DOWN" in Li Mo's previous life, the lyrics Li Mo definitely can't remember, but is this important, this is not "My Heart is Eternal", you must try to restore its lyrics and score.
Li Mo couldn't remember the score, but it was even less important, Li Mo didn't plan to adopt the original score at all, he hummed and changed it again, and in just ten minutes, a hoarse and desolate new song appeared.
Rose took a big cigar in his mouth, listened to the song and gradually matured, and looked at Li Mo blankly...... He knew that Li Mo was very demonic, but how demonic this was, and then shouted, and the surrounding employees couldn't stop laughing, this was the boss being burned in the mouth by a cigar again.
"Lee, let's go to the record company," Steve Ross said as he glared fiercely at the employees and took Mr. Limer's hand.
The song is so TMD that it fits the theme of the movie.
If it is more than ten years later, when Chinese hear this song, they will immediately perceive it, isn't this the great northwest wind of our Dao brothers?
This song is what made Li Mo change to that style.
Lao Ka also went to the recording studio of Warner Records, several musicians came around, a good song must have a good soundtrack, Li Mo discussed with them, in addition to the piano, it was also paired with the ocarina, the Chinese guzheng, the guqin is not good, it does not match its atmosphere, and the cello and violin are not good, just these kinds of instruments, other instruments are not used. Dozens of people debugged it more than a dozen times, and the knife brother style became more and more intense, and Ross said: "That's it, that's it." ”
Cameron said, "Boss, Lee, if that's the case, the film will have to be re-edited." ”
"Oh?"
"Also, the soundtrack has to be restarted. ”
"How?"
Cameron thought for a long time and said, "Boss, you have to highlight its pathetic atmosphere......"
Obviously, he got new inspiration from Li Mo's song, but he didn't think it through.
In fact, after Li Mo watched the sample film, he also felt that it had always been weird, but he couldn't say it. He lowered his head and thought for a while, and finally came up with it: "Cameron, you mean sensationalism. ”
"Yes, sensational," Cameron's eyes lit up.
Rose's eyes also lit up, and he couldn't say that the original film was bad, but everyone had read the original book, and they always felt a little weird. After Li Mo's song and the sensationalism he said, everyone immediately noticed the flaws of this film, it has hot scenes, wonderful fights, and it seems to be good, but if you think about it seriously, it is a "Terminator", not Snowpiercer...... The same goes for the music, which is a rock soundtrack throughout the movie.
"Time is tight. ”
"Lee, do you have any good ideas?"
Li Mo thought for a while and said, "In this way, you send someone to my hometown to invite my music teacher over." ”
"Wow, your hometown, can I go?" said Schwarzenegger, chatting to the sidelines.
Li Mo looked at the future governor and thought, you and Lao Ka are not friends, right?
"Schwarzenegger, it's not my real hometown, let's compare it, my hometown is located in a remote rural area of Los Angeles, and this person is in the city of Los Angeles, but the people you go to also have to keep the information secret, I don't want to fully expose my identity in China for the time being, because I haven't gone to college yet. Maybe after college, it doesn't matter. ”
"Okay," Ross said, it's not been a year or two, after so many years, I know that Li Mo didn't disclose his home address in order to study with peace of mind.
"Then I will go to Japan and ask for a man named Sojiro. "Li Mo is not interested in Japan, but he still respects this kind of pure musician with a pure heart. Invite these two people, one is to play the guzheng and the other is to play the ocarina. There are also those who play the piano and those who play the cello, these two instruments are very familiar in the United States, and there are many people who play them well, so there is no need for Li Mo to suggest it.
Li Mo went to Industrial Light and Magic again, and Lao Si and Lao Lu were working on "Jurassic Park".
Not only the special effects production teams of ILM and Pixar, but also many editors from the two major film companies, editing is also very important.
Li Mo thought about the Jurassic Park in his previous life, and participated in the discussion of these films.
He has a certain right to review editing, which is also indicated in the contract, and he is one of the funders, and the two film companies are not excluded.
But he quickly discovered the benefits of Li Mo's addition, and the film still had two hundred minutes, except for a few that were sure to be kept, the rest were not determined. Li Mo thought back to the movies of his previous life, where he succeeded and where he failed, and kept pointing them out on the side.
After four days, Li Mo, Lao Si, and Lao Lu came out of the Industrial Light and Magic Studio, but the harvest was huge, and the 200-minute film was only about 140 minutes now. Using this film for special effects processing could save at least millions of dollars for the two film companies.
Li Mo rubbed his sleepy eyes and said, "It turns out that it is so difficult for a movie to be formed." ”
Lucas smiled wryly: "Lee, do you know that I have to do every Star Wars for a few years? If you don't join, don't say a few days to finalize, even in winter, this movie may not be finalized." ”
"Lucas, I'm definitely not going to be involved in the next movie anyway, so I'd better leave it to you professionals. Li Mo said, if it weren't for that movie as a reference, Li Mo would really be inferior to these two trump cards, and the lower part would still be a dinosaur, but it was completely different from his previous life, could Li Mo still be on the side?
Li Mo flew to San Francisco again.
Yili clothing company has been established, no acquisition of other companies, the temporary approach, is to invite dozens of fashion designers, this is the beginning, the future will invite more fashion designers to come. The company's intentions are simple, it is a middle-class business, it does not make cheap goods, and it does not make top brands, so it has a comprehensive range of styles, such as women's clothing, all kinds of skirts and pants, coats, coats, suits, suits, furs. In addition to clothing, there are also underwear, in addition to traditional underwear, there are also couple underwear, erotic underwear, don't underestimate the latter, it now also has a huge market in Europe and the United States.
There are also shoes and socks and bags...... Like toys, Li Mo is also quite confident in this kind of industry, as long as the company does not have serious chaos, just a labor cost is enough for Li Mo to bite a fat cake in this huge market. Or to put it this way, Li Mo said that the toy market can reach or even exceed 100 billion US dollars, that refers to the future, the current world toy market is only tens of billions of US dollars, certainly less than 100 billion US dollars, but the current clothing market must exceed 100 billion US dollars, and even now it can be said that the industry has reached hundreds of billions of US dollars.
For example, Amancio Ortega, the second richest man in the world in 16 years, his main source of wealth is the Inditex clothing group, and the main project can make Chinese jaw-dropping, that is, women's cheongsam.
Many people look down on him, saying that his company has copied many ideas of brand-name products and is a robber company, but in fact, this statement is not very accurate, he is doing middle-class business, and then opening processing factories in South America or Southeast Asia, and not even advertising, to reduce costs, to ensure that everyone can buy clothes, shoes and hats similar to brand-name products at medium and low prices. Of course, which top brands will inevitably be affected by his products, but many customers are really benefited, so his company has grown rapidly.
Amancio Ortega has some practices, Li Mo will adopt, and some practices will not be adopted, for example, if he plagiarizes other people's ideas, Li Mo will not adopt them, follow the trend, it is inevitable to copy part of the ideas, but Yili company must have its own creativity, I copied part of you, you also copied part of me, other companies will not exclude, and similarly, Yili company has a forced style. There is also advertising, which must also be done.
Li Mo took the drafts drawn by these designers, and then locked up in his office while reading them, drawing drawings one by one. Let him do the costume design, that would be impossible. However, he still remembers some styles of clothing, shoes, hats, and bags in later generations, as long as he draws them and gives them to various designers. Not only these drawings, but also the drawings of many products, Li Mo plans to draw them together and lock them in the safe after returning to China, so as not to forget them together after a long time.
Just as he was in retreat again, Hao Lick called: "Boss, you are on fire again. ”