Chapter 561 Scene 561 Farewell to the Pirate Terrace for a while
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A South Korean female fan, Kim Ying-la, left a message on Li Xiaole's Facebook, expressing her worries:
"I believe in Li Xiaole's directing skills, as long as he shoots seriously, any type of movie should be able to shoot well, before he filmed "The Walking Dead", I remember everyone said he was too stupid, but what is the result now? But I asked almost all his fans around me, and we all think that the superhero movie Li Xiaole should never be touched, because, there is no doubt that superheroes are only American themes, no matter how well he shoots, American fans will have a deep disgust, which are two completely different cultural differences.
What's more, Chinese directors usually don't understand the culture of this individualistic hero, think about Ang Lee's "The Incredible Hulk", because Ang Lee couldn't grasp the superhero of the Hulk during the filming, he actually asked Eric Barna to turn a scene over and over again 140 times, this scene was too tiring, and the result was far from meeting expectations, which almost caused Ang Lee to quit the film industry......
I don't want Li Xiaole to repeat Ang Lee's attempt......"
Many neutral fans echoed Kim's opinion, with Jerry Andorra from Boston echoing:
"No matter how powerful Li Xiaole is as a director, but he is a Chinese after all, and just two years ago, he didn't even come to the United States once, Ang Lee went to college in the United States, I really doubt that he knows the meaning of superheroes?" I'm sure he'll make superheroes the leitmotif of an authoritarian state, like a Chinese soldier in World War II, desperately carrying explosives bags to blow up bunkers...... I think he should continue to shoot the second season of "The Walking Dead", at least his grasp of deep human nature is shijie-level. ”
Originally, everyone thought that Li Xiaole, a Chinese superhero movie, was unreliable, and everyone liked "The Walking Dead" very much, and they were really looking forward to his second season, so they were even more opposed to him shooting superhero series movies.
Such a huge wave of opposition is unprecedented in Li Xiaole's directorial career, and in addition to movie fans, this topic has also attracted the attention of a large number of American comic book fans.
What exactly does Li Xiaole want to spoil that superhero movie? It is said that he is going to shoot a multi-protagonist series of movies, so there are only two themes in American comics that can be made into a series of movies with multiple protagonists......
A DC company's "Justice League", its superheroes are: Superman, Batman, Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and so on.
The other is Marvel's "Avengers": including superheroes, Captain America, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor, X-Men, Black Widow and so on......
Since Black Pearl recently transferred the film rights of "The Walking Dead" to Warner, it is easy to think that he has reached a cooperation with Warner, which owns the film rights of "Superman" and "Batman".
"Oh my God~~ Li Xiaole wants to shoot the Justice League!? The director of an authoritarian communist country wants to shoot a Justice League that represents freedom and fairness~~This is simply ridiculous~! ~! Is Superman going to put on the five-star red flag!? ”
On Warner's official website, a netizen sent out this speculative post, which immediately caused an uproar, and countless comic fans began to abuse Warner for being blind, how could they give the copyright to Li Xiaole~!!
"It's crazy, Li Xiaole wants to shoot the Justice League, I really can't imagine what his Superman and Batman are like......"
"It's just so uncomfortable!! If Warner did that, I swore I would never watch a Warner movie for the rest of my life! ”
"Warner will be nailed to the frame of shame of American culture~!"
On the other hand, on the official forum of DC Comics, comic fans launched a million-dollar signature campaign of "Opposing Li Xiaole's Shooting of the Justice League", which received the signature support of more than 120,000 Shijie comic fans in just three days.
Even on Amazon, many Superman fans who were angry about it put Li Xiaole's avatar PS hair out, put it on the body of the supervillain Rex Luthor in the Superman story with a bald head, printed it on a T-shirt for sale, and printed a sentence under the pattern: 'All American superheroes public enemy'.
In the excitement of the outside world, Li Xiaole, Warner, DC, these are the objects of everyone's discussion, but no one has come out to express their position, Warner and DC know that it is impossible for them to shoot the Justice League, but they hold back their silence, just to use this topic to maintain the popularity of Superman and Batman, you must know that this superhero's movie is the cash cow of the two major companies.
And Li Xiaole himself is even more lazy to refute the rumors, because if you want to explain that you are not filming "Justice League", you will indirectly admit that you filmed "Avenger" Jihua, then he will still be scolded, and now let the opponents scold happily, and when these people stop, tell them that they guessed wrong, and they will not be embarrassed to scold people again, which will reduce a lot of public opinion resistance.
Li Xiaole's current job is to continue to intensify the filming of the rest of "The Walking Dead", and gradually transfer the management of the pirate TV company to Mina, who has a high reputation among the employees, and with her own training during this time, she has completely relieved her to hand over the pirate TV company to manage.
In the office building of the pirate company, in the brightly lit president's office, Li Xiaole was busy handing over all kinds of work to Mina, and told her with a smile:
"Mina, in the future, make a document of the company's situation every three days and send it to me, if you have any questions, you can directly ask Miss Lei for help, if there is a problem with the law, you can call Ms. Wagner, she is an expert in this field."
"Boss, are you really going to make a movie? In fact, my ability to deal with things in the company is limited, and I am afraid that I will not be able to cope with it for the time being......" Mina knew that he was leaving temporarily, and she looked a little reluctant, and her expression darkened a lot.
"Don't say that, Mina." Li Xiaole stood up straight, looked at this Texas girl with a cowboy spirit with very expectant eyes, and said:
"Remember? On the first day I was here, you wanted to get rid of me and run the TV station yourself, and now that you've got your wish, you should be happy. ”
"Don't laugh at me~ I was really ignorant at the time, and I thought it was funny." Mina was amused by him, squinted her eyes and laughed, with a sense of simplicity peculiar to a country girl, and asked with a smile:
"I heard you're going to make a superhero movie."
"What? Do you think I'm crazy? Li Xiaole touched his chin self-deprecatingly.
"Nope." Mina smiled: "For our TV station, you are a superhero yourself, and I am definitely the perfect fit for you to make superhero movies." ”
Li Xiaole thought that Mina was joking, but looking at her sincere eyes, he could feel that she believed in herself from the bottom of her heart, and her heart couldn't help but feel warm, although he said that he didn't care on the surface, but he was scolded by people on the website and newspaper every day, and his heart was somewhat uncomfortable, Mina's attitude made him feel much more comfortable, after all, there are still people in the United States who are willing to believe in him unconditionally.
"Xiexie, you trust me, I will do my best......" Mina took a deep breath, gently took out a letter and handed it to Li Xiaole, and glanced at him gratefully: "This is written to you by the old William of the Propaganda Department, you can take a look." With that, she exited the room.
Li Xiaole sat in the office where he was about to leave, looked at the busy people outside the window, stopped his troubled thoughts, and opened the handwritten letter, Old William of the Propaganda Department? He actually didn't have any impression at all, but the person who still wrote letters by hand in these years was naturally an old antique, but what about the company's antique Weishenme who wanted to write to him?
"Mr. Li, I am very presumptuous to write this letter to you, today is the day I officially retire from the company, I am not good at words, so I take this way to express my gratitude to you, I hope you will not be troubled.
I'm grateful for everything you did, you saved UPN, of course it's now called Pirate Television, but allow me to call it UPN.
I still vividly remember the excitement I felt when I joined this company 11 years ago, it was an indescribable satisfaction, UPN was full of energy at that time, this TV station had a beautiful future, everyone was motivated, not only as a job, but also as a career, and the first few years were the happiest years of my career...... I also fell in love with this vibrant company, and hundreds of happy working days made UPN gradually become a part of my life......
But then, things changed...... Our parent company abandoned us, and I watched it decay, watched my former colleagues leave one by one, and watched those who stayed behind sigh and complain every day...... Watch him die gradually...... I was really sad, I tried my best to save him, I worked hard every day, but my ability was limited...... Can't do much......
Later, you came, when I learned that the company that carried all my hopes and dreams was sold to you, a young man from China, I was inevitably through the night for a few nights, I understood that this was the precursor of the parent company wanting to give up on us and let the company go bankrupt, but I was still powerless, even desperate, I will retire next year, and the bankruptcy of the company means that my pension is in vain, and I can't know where my future life and future life will be...... There are many old employees in the company like me.
For the rest of my life, I will remember what you said on the day of the employee protest: 'From this day forward, I am the top leader of your UNP employees, and what does this mean, it means that I will take you to the death against your competitors!'" ’