Chapter 0553 Johnny. Depp visited

So Meng Xinghui asked Jeremy. Jones and Brad. Peter and Johnny. Depp contacted, at first, as Meng Xinghui expected, they heard that the director was from China and only twenty-three years old, and their first thought was to refuse (Chapter 0553 of the indulgence of the entertainment master). In Hollywood, the only Chinese directors who can attract superstars to join are John Woo and Ang Lee, a twenty-three-year-old rookie director, who can't get into their eyes.

As for the Star Imaging Film Company, it is a little-known small company in Hollywood, which has just been established, and no one must know about it.

They must have heard of Meng Xinghui's name, but he is just powerful in the music industry. As the saying goes, interlacing is like separating mountains, although music and film have parts that are integrated, but they are essentially two art forms, how can a person be proficient in two fields at the same time?

So after these two people received the invitation notice, they didn't take this matter to heart at all. So Jeremy. Jones followed Meng Xinghui's explanation and told them that it doesn't matter if you want to, read the script and talk about it, anyway, there is no loss in understanding it.

Both of them are very dedicated actors, and their professionalism is quite high, even if they didn't think they would join the production, they still took the time to read the script.

Originally, they thought that a work like the War of Creation must be a few well-known creation gods fighting together, and there have been many Hollywood movies like this, and there is nothing new about the War of the Gods and the like. The expectations of the two people for this work are even lower.

But when they finished reading the synopsis of this play, their hearts suddenly moved, a work like this combination of mythology and science fiction is relatively rare in the entire film history, first of all, the idea is very novel, which is enough to attract them to watch it.

So their interest was aroused. When they continued to watch, their mood became more and more excited, because they found that the script of this movie was really well written, and the grand world view and scenes were difficult to control, but every sub-shot was extremely detailed, and the details were so wonderful that there were very few directors in the world who made the details to the fullest under the grand scenes.

Details determine success or failure, and sometimes the competition between big productions is the details. But all big productions, everyone knows that they must be works with extremely grand scenes and world views, but such works are easy to be stylized, fake and empty, and simply chase the false prosperity of visual effects, if you can do it in the macro background with the details of a certain node to move the audience, such works can be more shocking.

For example, in the context of the apocalyptic explosion, instead of exaggerating how tragic the scene of the explosion was, it is better to focus on the tears in the eyes of a lost lamb, which are far more shocking than those ruins!

This is the magic of details, and this is the most essential difference between a first-rate director and a third-rate director.

And Meng Xinghui's script obviously achieves the ultimate combination of details and grand scenes, and those few detailed shots can just dig out what the grand background can't show, and become the finishing touch of the whole movie, or thought-provoking, or shocking, or cleansing the soul!

The narrative structure of the whole movie is very meticulous and the technique is extremely smooth. Depp and Brad. Although Peter read the script at different times, without exception, they read it all in one breath to the end, and their emotions followed the ups and downs of the characters in the play, and after closing the last page, they actually found it strange that they didn't know when they had burst into tears!

Actors are very emotional, especially when they put themselves into the role. These two world-class actors, when they read this script, they involuntarily substituted themselves into the role of Adam, the Westerner, and then as the fate of this character changed, they empathized with his emotional world, and finally at the end of the play, they found that they had already "entered the play"!

They have been in the film industry for so many years, and they have never seen such a charismatic director, just using the director's vocabulary in the script, they have completely conquered them!

What a shock! It's really shocking!

What they didn't expect was that Meng Xinghui was not only a god-level person in the music field, but also a god-level in the film field. Although he has not yet made a film, he undoubtedly has the best level in the world!

Talented! Wonderful! This is definitely a peerless genius in the film industry that can only come out in a hundred years!

It took them a long time to come out of the "role", and their first instinct when they woke up was to give Jeremy. Jones called.

Johnny. Depp was the first to call. It was three o'clock in the night of U.S. time. Jones was sleeping with his wife in his arms when he was awakened by a screeching phone ringing. He opened his eyes in a daze, thinking that the salesperson of some insurance company was promoting products or something, so after answering the phone, he asked very unceremoniously: "Hey, who are you, disturb people's sleep in the middle of the night......

"Sorry, I'm Johnny. Depp, I'm sorry to disturb your rest. It's just that I have something very important to talk to you about. A very magnetic voice came from the other end of the line.

"Johnny. Depp? I don't care what you do, and I will give it less in the future...... Huh...... "Jeremy. Jones slept in a daze, and his mind didn't react at first, but he muttered two words, "Johnny. Depp" after that, he quickly shivered and came to his senses!

Nima, Johnny. Depp! Hollywood's most valuable emperor superstar, the world-famous "Captain Jack", he almost hung up someone's phone!

Jeremy. Jones used to be a Hollywood movie boss, but a small third-rate company like him had no chance to compete with Johnny. When dealing with a character like Depp, the salary of a movie is worth a year's profit of his company, where will he still look at him? So although they are both in Hollywood, everyone seems to live on two planets, and they don't even nod their heads when they meet each other.

He wanted to do something, but the key was that people refused to order with him.

But now, this character, who could only look up to before, called him in person in the middle of the night?

Jeremy. Jones trembled with excitement, sat up from the bed, his voice changed from the original irritability to twelve points of respect, and whispered: "Dear Mr. Depp, forgive me for being rude,...... I didn't expect it to be you...... It's a great honor to receive your call! ”

"Mr. Jeremy sent me the script, I just finished reading it. So I called you, hoping that you could contact Mr. Meng Xinghui. I would like to meet with him. "Johnny. Depp is concise, perhaps because it is too late, and he is afraid of affecting the rest of others.

"Okay, I see. I'll get it back to you. "Jerry. Mi Jones said humbly.

Brokered by him, Meng Xinghui soon flew to the United States, where he was at the headquarters of Star Imaging and Johnny. Depp met.

Johnny. Depp is quieter in reality and not as witty as "Captain Jack" in the movie. It looks more delicate, but what remains unchanged is still the pair of electric eyes, deep and affectionate.

Actually, Johnny. Before Depp played "Pirates of the Caribbean", he mostly acted in literary films, such as "Chocolate", an emotional movie full of strong humanistic feelings, and his acting skills are superb. He has been nominated for three Oscars, ten Golden Globe Award nominations, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the film "Sweeney Todd". However, he was not well known to global audiences before, and after starring in the commercial blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean", he began to become popular all over the world.

So sometimes there is really no way, no matter how good the acting skills are, an actor needs a work with huge popularity, otherwise there are very few people who recognize it. The Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, which swept the box office of $2.7 billion worldwide, is enough to confirm Depp's charm.

Johnny Depp also knows Meng Xinghui, after all, his performance in Vienna was too demonic, and everyone who watched that game was impressed, even if he didn't watch the game at the time, and it was impossible not to see it in the overwhelming media reports afterwards.

Johnny. Depp is a person who doesn't talk much in life, but when it comes to movies, it's a different story. Because he feels that the role of Adam, the Westerner, is more attractive than Captain Jack, Pirates of the Caribbean is essentially a typical commercial movie, with almost no humanistic and artistic value, but "The Battle for Creation" is completely different, not only has all the elements of commercial literature, such as a smooth plot, dazzling pictures, grand scale, heroic redemption, but the most shocking thing about this movie is not these things, but the profound humanistic core it contains, the movie covers the myths and legends of the East and the West, As well as the process of the cultural values of the East and the West from conflict to cooperation and finally to integration, such a theme can provoke the audience to think and reflect deeply, and has high artistic value.

No actor wants to act in commercial films all his life, especially Johnny. Depp has superb acting skills, and the original literary film actor is even more unwilling to be a commercial film actor for the rest of his life.

His pursuit of art has never changed, and he really wants to get involved in the Oscar, so he is reluctant to miss a movie like "The Battle of Creation".

It was because of the artistic charm of "The War of Creation" that Johnny. Depp is so eager to meet Meng Xinghui, he especially wants to play the role of Adam, a Westerner.

But he still doesn't know whether Meng Xinghui has the strength to control this work, what the investment amount of this work is, and whether the post-production can reach the level described in the script. If the director can't do it, the production team can't do it, even a god-level script can be ruined into a third-rate bad movie, which has long had a precedent in the industry.

Because Meng Xinghui is still too young, so that Johnny. Depp is more or less skeptical. This is also the reason why he asked for an interview with Meng Xinghui. He wants to test whether this director only has the ability to talk on paper. Otherwise, if he wants to join this movie, he will inevitably have to turn down other film contracts, and he will still have to take a certain risk.

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