Chapter 430: Heartwarming Cameron

The Ludong Peninsula in May has brought a hint of heat, but compared with the capital, the weather here is still quite pleasant. And Fang Mingyuan, Lin Lian, and Chen Zhong were walking on the streets of Weijiang City, which is located at the tip of the Ludong Peninsula.

Fang Mingyuan accompanied Cameron and Gower, who had finished filming the promotional film in Yazhou, to Hong Kong to meet with Yu Qiuxuan, and Gower and Yu Qiuxuan had many discussions on how to enter the Chinese market in the future and how to further expand the cooperation between the two sides. In this meeting, Gower formally reached an agreement with Kumho Group on behalf of Emerald Bird Films, and Emerald Bird Films invested 50 million US dollars to jointly shoot the next movie "Jurassic Park", but unlike "Terminator 2", the copyright of "Jurassic Park" will belong to Kumho Group. In addition, the two sides also reached a series of previous agreements on the training of personnel and the exchange of jishu between the two sides in the future. In the next few years, the film company affiliated to Kumho Group will send a team of more than 100 people to Emerald Bird Film Company to study.

Moreover, at Yu Qiuxuan's insistence, Gower agreed that the premiere of "Terminator 2" in the future would be held in Hong Kong and the United States at the same time, and that "Terminator 2" would be officially screened at the same time. The move was a boon to Asian Terminator fans, and made headlines on the entertainment pages of Hong Kong newspapers the next day.

During his stay in Hong Kong, although Cameron still did not make up his mind, he discussed with Fang Mingyuan many times about the problems that need to be considered once "Titanic" is put into filming. Including how to truly reproduce the original style of the Titanic.

Cameron proposed that in order to recreate the style of the Titanic, it is best to gather relevant scientists, historians, photographers and highly experienced sailors to find the wreckage of the Titanic and conduct physical photography to strengthen the historical authenticity of the "Titanic" movie.

His request was not unexpected by Fang Mingyuan, in his previous life, Cameron persuaded Twentieth Century Fox to charter the largest deep-sea research ship on Shijie at that time, Russia's "Mstislav? Celtic Academy". Two submarines on board were used that were capable of diving to the bottom of the sea at four thousand meters, at a depth where the wreckage of the Titanic was located. Cameron used these advanced submarine equipment to photograph the wreckage of the Titanic. Through remotely operated vehicles, you can even enter the wreckage of the Titanic and photograph places that people have never reached after the sinking of the Titanic. And since the special camera on the submersible can only shoot for 12 minutes at a time, each dive has to be meticulous. Cameron organized a total of 12 dives and obtained a lot of valuable information.

For Cameron's idea, Fang Mingyuan naturally strongly supported it, and also "generously" said that this expense could be reimbursed to Cameron from outside the total budget.

Fang Mingyuan also proposed to ask Cameron to find a way to find the manufacturing shipyard of the Titanic to see if he could obtain the manufacturing blueprint of the Titanic back then. Because he remembered that when Cameron was introduced to the filming of "Titanic" on TV, the host at the time once mentioned that it was not long before Cameron announced that he was going to shoot "Titanic", the shipyard that made the Titanic opened its private archive, and Cameron was able to see the manufacturing blueprint of the Titanic, which they thought was long gone.

Thanks to this nearly 100-year-old blueprint, Cameron's art direction team was able to rearrange the interior of the ship in a way that no film had ever done with such detail about the props. It is precisely because of this meticulousness that the audience really believes that the Titanic of the year is really like this. Of course, it is precisely because of this meticulousness that the total budget of the film is so high.

Fang Mingyuan could see that Cameron was really tempted.

After sending off Gower and Cameron, Fang Mingyuan set off to the north, and was entrusted by the autumn to come to Weijiang by the way to take a look at the construction of the wharf belonging to Guo's Shipping Group Company, which has begun to be started here. Fang Mingyuan, who had just arrived in Weijiang from the capital of Ludong Province, did not go to the wharf site because it was late, but planned to visit the city of Weijiang first and eat something by the way.

Weijiang is only 100 nautical miles away from the mainland of South Korea, and it is also very close to the mainland of Japan and the Beijing-Tianjin region of China, where it controls a port, and the radiation force can affect several surrounding countries, including South Korea and Japan, which will be the forefront of China's import and export trade countries in the future, and the annual transportation volume must be extremely considerable. And since a long time ago, there have been frequent maritime exchanges between Weijiang and South Korea. In the 90s, Weijiang opened the first sea route from China to South Korea, although the capacity is still very small, but this marks the end of the private trade between China and South Korea for a long time, by the third party re-export situation. Fang Mingyuan knows that with the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea in the future, it will also become a bridgehead for economic and trade exchanges between South Korea and China.

In Weijiang, there are already many shops selling Korean goods, and you can sometimes see Koreans shopping and playing on the streets, and although the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries has not yet been reached, people-to-people exchanges have gradually become large-scale.

"Mingyuan, you said that the Japanese established diplomatic relations with us in the seventies, and the Koreans have been delayed until now, and have not yet established diplomatic relations with our country?" Lin Lian asked in some surprise. Since South Korea and China are so close to each other, China has been carrying out reform and opening up for many years, and the Americans have already established diplomatic relations with China, it should be said that there should be no obstacle for Koreans to establish diplomatic relations with China. weishenme has been dragging on until now?

"The reasons for this are complicated." Fang Mingyuan thought for a while and said, "The main reason is that when my country resisted US aggression and aided Korea, because the strength of the South Korean army was relatively poor among the US coalition forces, of course, everyone picked soft persimmons first, so they fought the South Korean army more ruthlessly. Moreover, because of Japan's dispatch of troops, South Korea's dream of unifying the Korean Peninsula has come to naught, so naturally they have no favorable opinion of us. At that time, the United Nations held that our volunteers were invading South Korea by entering the DPRK and interfering in the internal affairs of South Korea, and that the ROK is now establishing diplomatic relations with Taiwan, and we are establishing diplomatic relations with the DPRK. So this thing dragged on like that. ”

In fact, later generations analyzed that the Weishenme Koreans at that time had not established diplomatic relations with China until the 90s, which was actually related to the international situation.

The reason why the South Koreans established diplomatic relations with China so late is that of course there is a grudge between the two countries to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and it is also because before the 90s, South Korea, as one of the four Asian tigers, had a rapid economic development and simply looked down on China, which had not yet reformed and opened up. Otherwise, Japan and South Korea, which had brutally colonized Korea for decades, have already established diplomatic relations, and what is this war between China and South Korea?

In the 90s, with the further opening up of the Chinese market, China's economy began to take off, while the economy of the Asian Tigers began to face bottlenecks -- because the domestic market was small and the population was limited, the development of the Four Tigers could basically be called an export-oriented economy, and the commodities produced were supplied to the international market in large quantities. The result of such a development model is that the successor of economic development is insufficient, and once the international market fluctuates greatly, trade protectionism in various countries begins to rise, and the economy begins to stagnate.

However, Hong Kong, one of the four tigers, although its territory is smaller than that of South Korea and its market is narrower, has not yet returned, and it has received the support of the Chinese government in many aspects, backed by a large market of 9.6 million square kilometers and a population of one billion, which can provide it with ample space for development; On the one hand, Taiwan is a key target of US support, and on the other hand, it can also benefit from China's economic development. As for Singapore, it is because of its geographical advantages, it has developed further. Only South Korea can neither rely on the benefits of China's economic take-off nor its geographical advantages. There's also a Japan next to it. They want to rely on the United States, but the United States has already drawn its attention to the Middle East and is temporarily unable to take care of East Asia. As a result, South Korea's economy has stagnated, and even declined.

Under such circumstances, in order to stop the decline of South Korea's economy and to share the benefits of China's economic development, South Korea had to abandon its original position and move closer to China. To put it bluntly, it's for self-preservation

On the side of the Chinese government, due to the obvious decline of the Soviet Union, the military threat to China has greatly declined, and it can no longer pose a threat in a short period of time, and at the same time, the Soviet Union's support for the DPRK has also been greatly weakened, and the DPRK's economy is in trouble, and this waist pole is naturally not strong. And in 92, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was already too busy to take care of itself, let alone control North Korea. At this time, the Chinese government established diplomatic relations with South Korea, and was no longer afraid of North Korea's threat of severing diplomatic relations.

The establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea came to fruition.

Of course, although Fang Mingyuan knew these things in his heart, he couldn't tell Lin Lian about them, so he could only explain vaguely.

However, such an explanation is enough for Lin Lian, who is not very concerned about the political relations between countries.

When a few people turned a street corner, they suddenly saw a crowd of people on the street in front of them, and then a large number of small traders pushing carts or tricycles ran towards this place like frightened birds and beasts......