Chapter 43: Luc Besson

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Because the overall development of the genre of science fiction is very dependent on the accumulation of local ideas, you have to look at it in the development history of the entire genre.

Still in terms of the most popular science fiction films on the theme of time and space travel, "Time and Space Clues", "Source Code", "Ring Messenger", and "Edge of Tomorrow" are not super classics in isolation, but they as a whole have gradually raised the threshold for using movies to express time and space travel, and if there are milestone films in this field in the future - just like "2001" is to space travel, "Star Wars" is to interstellar wars, and "The Matrix" is to virtual reality - It is inevitably inseparable from the previous accumulation.

Then, "Super Body" may be a small step in the field of brain science fiction.

Luc Besson is a French director, French directors are a very peculiar group, they firmly believe that film is art, so they despise Hollywood big productions, think Hollywood movies are vulgar!

Because France is the birthplace of cinema, it has produced many master directors such as Godard, Truffaut, Alain Rennais, Chabrol and many others.

However, the current situation of French cinema is very pitiful, more than 60% of the films shown in French cinemas today come from Hollywood, and during the downturn, the market share of French films in China fell to a pitiful 12%!

It's not even as important as the Chinese film market in China!

How could that make that group of pretentious French directors endure?

So they are even more extreme!

Look at the movies they have made over the years, "Female Addict", "Portrait of Silence", a bunch of avant-garde literary films?!

It's definitely not a bad movie, but it's definitely not a good movie either!

But these directors, and even traditional film festivals in Europe, still screen these films as avant-garde art!

They spit on commercial films, especially Hollywood commercial films!

Think they're vulgar!

But it is an indisputable fact that Hollywood movies attack the global film market.

As we all know, the globalization of Hollywood has allowed American films to break cultural barriers and achieve higher box office.

They make the film itself more accessible.

Hollywood movies are rampant all over the world, and they also have a subtle impact on the aesthetics of global movie audiences, and the global influence of French and Italian films, which were once comparable to American films, has plummeted.

Shen Lin proposed to cooperate with Luc Besson at the beginning, which surprised Cook Dijk, because although Luc Besson is the most open director in the French film industry, he still has the inherent arrogance of French directors - looking down on commercial films!

Fortunately, although the idea of "Super Body" was thought up by Luc Besson, the filming method and the compilation of the script were taken care of by Shen Lin!

Shen Lin has no interest in adding too many authorial ideas to a sci-fi commercial film, there are almost no deletions, except for some settings of the heroine, it is filmed according to the plot of the original version, as for the choice of actors, it is also a continuation of the original version, and it is Morgan Freeman who plays the role of the professor of the brain domain.

As for the starring role, Luc Besson has reached an agreement with Shen Lin that it must be a woman!

In fact, the theme of "Super Body" can also be played by a man, but the whole story will be much more boring.

Regardless of whether you are looking for a muscular man or a creamy student, the actor starring in "Super Body" will make the style of the whole movie drop a lot!

Only at the beginning of the film, the protagonist is in the simplest and most helpless state, she is thin and has no power to fight back, she can't speak a word of Chinese, and she is particularly confused.

So when the script was written, Shen Lin naturally tended not to look like a sci-fi hero.

If you are looking for an actor, this initial setting is difficult to establish.

Of course, the biggest disagreement between the two about the actor is definitely the choice of the protagonist.

Shen Lin insisted on supporting his own female ticket from the beginning, while Luc Besson insisted on using Hollywood actresses, and it was best to use the kind with great box office appeal.

Now that the path of commercial films has been set, it is necessary to set up an archway as a bitch, and Luc Besson insists on using Scarlett Johansson.

Cook Dick agrees that an unnamed lead actor can bring unimaginable disaster to the film.

Until a week ago, that is, on May 8, the North American box office of "Interstellar" suddenly reached 160 million, and the global exceeded 600 million US dollars, of which Chinese mainland contributed 320 million US dollars to the box office!

Change the whole situation!

Everyone can see that Shen Lin has a strong market appeal in China!

320 million US dollars, even in North America, it can rank in the top 20 in history.

320 million, the best record in the history of Hollywood's entry into the Chinese film market!

But looking at the cast list of "Interstellar", none of them have a real box office appeal in China, and the only explanation is director Shen Lin.

Hollywood is absolutely commercialized, once they identify Shen Lin, it will absolutely satisfy him, not to mention Luc Besson's opposition, even if the producer is Spielberg, it is useless.

So, under the pressure of Disney and light, Luc Besson was very aware of the choice of current affairs, and the entire "Super Body" project was completely handed over to Shen Lin.

France's Europa Films was directly kicked out, and the original distribution rights were also deprived!

Since then, "Super Body" has been regarded as an investment project between China and the United States.

The reason why Disney supports Shen Lin, in addition to the excellent box office performance of "Interstellar", is mainly the hot sales of derivatives, doll toys, spaceship models, these two things alone, in a month to Disney to create a net income of nearly 300 million US dollars.

Disney is even considering building an interstellar theme park!

Therefore, for Shen Lin's support for his little girlfriend, they naturally agreed.

To tell the truth, with Disney's family business, even if the box office results of this "Super Body" are rubbish, they don't care, they care more about the director Shen Lin.

Besides, the investment of $30 million, for Disney, is an absolute small production, and it should be coaxed by paying for it!

Ying Bao didn't know these inside stories at all, she only knew that she was finally going to cooperate with her boyfriend!

"So, do I need to get relevant martial arts training?"

"I don't have enough time, I'm going to shoot it in one month and release it in two months!"

"You're going to make a cartoon, and you're going to finish it in a month!"

Ying Bao rolled her eyes, she had already read the full version of the script and knew her role very well.

"So, you have to work harder!"

A gust of wind blew, and there was a faint chill on the banks of the Seine, "Let's go back to the hotel!"

"Okay, by the way, should I lose weight?"

"There's no need, anyway, what this drama requires is weakness. ”

Shen Lin thought about it carefully, and still didn't recommend Ying Bao to lose weight, "Besides, you were born with a round face, no matter how much you lose weight, you can't lose weight!"