The scene was so embarrassing, and Nolan and Li Xiaole seemed to be Kardashian's boyfriends, this intimate relationship made Bell, Hugh Jackman, and the calm old English gentleman very familiar and walked away, leaving a space for Li Xiaole and Nolan, the two rivals, to talk alone......

"Director Nolan, I'm sorry, you know, I just met that lady for the first time today......" Li Xiaole looked at this scene and couldn't help but pout in embarrassment.

"I know, I know her, she's a wayward girl." Nolan shook Li Xiaole's hand with a smile in that American-British accent:

"Congratulations, Lee, "Iron Man" was very well filmed."

"Thank you, I love the Batman franchise too." Li Xiaole also sincerely shook Nolan's hand, although the two didn't know each other, they both felt a lot of each other's thoughts from each other's movies, although there was an atmosphere of secret competition, but the two still admired each other for a long time.

The career trajectories of the two are indeed very similar, and the media has repeatedly compared the two of them, Li Xiaole's "Life Remote Control" and "Iron Man", Nolan's "Memory Fragments", "Batman", and they also came to the United States to shoot movies of similar types.

"I hope to see your "Iron Man 2" this year, if you can still shoot it in such a short time like this movie, maybe I can learn some of your techniques and improve the details of my "Batman 2" released this year." Nolan's expression was elegant and modest, but his tone vaguely revealed his willingness to compete fairly with Li Xiaole.

"Isn't your Batman: The Dark Knight coming out next year? How did it get ahead? Li Xiaole raised his eyebrows, feeling a little surprised.

"It's not because of you." Nolan squinted his green eyes and smiled:

"Iron Man" was so successful that Warner also felt that this year's superhero movies would become a huge box office wave, and the Batman cycle, which was originally released every other year, was changed to one every year...... However, how do you know that the second part is called The Dark Knight? The title of Warner has not yet been decided? ”

"Oh...... I have a few friends at Warner...... "Li Xiaole realized that he said something he "shouldn't know", and he could only talk about him left and right.

"Director Li, you don't know how many reactions have been generated because of the rise of your Black Pearl Company, but it's not just Warner because you advanced the movie plan." Nolan smiled and held up his glass to Paramount:

"Even David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is going to be released this year, if it weren't for the visual effects plug-ins developed by your Black Sails in the production of that Taiwanese movie and "Iron Man", which greatly reduced the processing time of post-production special effects, this movie will only have to wait until next year to be released, and it seems that next year's Oscars will be much more interesting than this year......"

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is also coming out this year?" Li Xiaole suddenly felt some numbness in his scalp...... What he did seems to have greatly changed the course of the "original" world film history, although he also changed the pattern of many companies when he was in South Korea and China, but he himself did not go to the front line, and Black Pearl did not become a large group company, and there is still little change in the overall pattern.

But as Black Pearl has grown stronger and stronger, and now it has gradually formed a new and powerful group force, coupled with some innovations in special effects technology brought by him, the entire Hollywood world has changed the course of cinema a lot......

Li Xiaole thought of this, and felt extremely glad at the moment, fortunately, he had determined the copyrights of many scripts in advance, otherwise if he wanted to make one and then think about the next one, it was likely that he would not be able to get the copyright of the movie he wanted to shoot now.

"By the way, director Nolan, I want to know what the situation is in British cinema now?" Li Xiaole saw that the greetings were almost over, and he could finally turn to the topic:

"Our Black Pearl company has obtained a lot of European cinema chains, and we are ready to open our branch in the UK, and at the same time we want to work with our British counterparts to shoot some works and learn."

"Are you saying you want to make European-style films......" Nolan seemed a little surprised when he heard Li Xiaole's words, it is very common for excellent Chinese directors to come to the United States to develop, after all, Hollywood is the holy land of commercial films, everyone wants to make a name for themselves in this Vanity Fair, but Chinese filmmakers have never set foot in European films.

Although Chinese directors such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Jia Zhangke have made films with Chinese characteristics, which have been favored by European filmmakers at the three major film festivals, this feeling is actually like eating a French meal, and suddenly seeing Chinese porridge and side dishes will give people a refreshing feeling.

If you take the works of Ang Lee, Chen Kaige, Wong Kar-wai than Ken Lodge, Wim Wenders, Lars von Trier and other European art film masters, it is absolutely incomparable, unless Chinese can also make pure European-style exquisite and direct human films, and this is almost impossible, because the grassroots culture of Chinese directors themselves is completely different from the artistic sense of Europe itself advocating aristocratic elites.

"Well, that's one of my wishes." Li Xiaole nodded calmly, there are three reasons for going to the UK, the first and most important is to open up the film market of the European Black Pearl Company, and the second is that in order to improve his personal directing level, he accepts different cultures and shoots various types of high-quality movies is the only way for first-class directors to improve themselves.

And the third, for the Oscar of his dreams, he hopes to shoot works that can really be more deeply rooted in the hearts of Martin Sixes and Chris Eastwood, not just to be popular, but to be truly "heirlooms".

But how to shoot a "masterpiece", he does not have a standard answer in his heart, he believes that London, the capital of art, should let Rang understand something.

"Lee, you're really an interesting person." Nolan showed a playful smile, looked at him and said:

"Well, I'll try to tell you what I'm directing, unlike the United States, no independent film company has the power to release films on a large scale, and foreign film companies can't co-produce with British filmmakers at will...... Generally speaking, if you want a co-production with a UK co-production, then you have to go through two channels. Nolan said and looked at the six executives who were noisy around the crew of "Eavesdropping Storm":

"The first channel is to work with the Royal Film Society, where you make a formal application and the Royal Film Society will review the project, and the film they like is usually a large-scale series, or a theme that promotes the majesty of the British royal family or politicians, such as "The Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter", "Batman", "The Queen" ......and so on."

Li Xiaole guessed what Nolan meant when he heard it, and frowned: "Is the Royal Film Society a strategic partner with the Big Six?" ”

"That's it." Nolan nodded helplessly and took a sip of the red wine in his hand:

"They have almost monopolized all the resources of the best British film talents, and those film talents who have been cultivated in the UK for many years will be on the front line through the Royal Film Society's cooperation with the Big Six, and those young directors and actors with potential will be directly recommended by the Royal Film Society to the Big Six to participate in some other types of films, and not directly participate in British and American co-productions......"

"And what about the second channel?" Li Xiaole immediately understood that this channel had been blocked by the six major ones, and if he applied for this Royal Film Society to shoot a co-production, he was afraid that the other party would drag on for a few years to hang his appetite.

"The second is to apply for co-production status from the British Drama Council, which is a small organization of non-governmental public institutions, which is organized by various British theater groups and the three major foundations left over from the old independent film companies of the last century, mainly to support their domestic art and independent films, and help them enter the international market...... You can apply for a collaboration with them, but the Drama Council approves very few co-production projects every year, which is very difficult. Nolan reminded Li Xiaole.

Li Xiaole understands that the so-called Royal Film Society is a market-oriented film organization that makes blockbusters or praises the main theme of the United Kingdom, while the British Film Council is a public welfare organization that mainly supports art films.

Seeing Li Xiaole's excited look, Nolan also laughed and put down his wine glass: "It seems that you have decided to cooperate with the Drama Council?" ”

"That's true." Li Xiaole involuntarily threw out a sentence of London accent English.

"Alright, I'll introduce you to someone." Nolan smiled and led Li Xiaole to the thin and tall old British gentleman: "Mr. Fred, this is Lee, I think you have already known him through the award ceremony." "Lee, this is Mr. Clive Fred, President of the British Film Council."

"Hello, Mr. Fred." Li Xiaole was a little surprised in his heart, looking at the old British man who had been looking at him unpleasantly at the awards ceremony, and also stretched out his hand a little embarrassed, thinking that this thin British old man who looked like an old version of Voldemort was the chairman of the Drama Council? He should have come to attract investment, why didn't so many Hollywood producers on the scene even have a person who took the initiative to come and greet him?

"Oh~~Mr. Li Xiaole, it's a pleasure to meet you~" Fred held his head high, and let out a buzzing voice with his huge nose, the tone was completely like Gandalf's classical British accent in "The Lord of the Rings", although he said "Nice to meet you", but he did not show any "happy" emotions, and the handshake with Li Xiaole was also a shallow taste.

"Mr. Lucas is calling me, let's talk." Nolan made a gesture of "resignation" and glanced at Li Xiaole with his eyes, which meant "I can only help you get here".