The film, titled "Spotlight," is based on a series of reports from the Boston Globe in 2002. The pen ~ fun ~ www.biquge.info report shows that the Catholic priesthood community, which is widely regarded as a symbol of holiness and holiness in American society, actually has the terrible crime of molesting boys.

And this kind of behavior is not a single phenomenon, but a large-scale existence. What is even more unacceptable to the world is that the Church has adopted a cover-up approach to this kind of behavior, and the Church not only does not have any disciplinary measures against priests who have committed crimes, but even does everything possible to defend them.

In the end, this truth, which was tried to be covered up by the Catholic Church, was exposed by the Boston Globe for more than a year. And the movie Chen Xueqian wants to shoot is to bring this real event to the big screen.

It's just that Chen Xueqian's filming of this movie is undoubtedly a war against Catholicism, but even so, he still did not hesitate. Chen Xueqian naturally did not do this because of his sense of justice.

For Chen Xueqian, although he does not reject such things as justice, if he wants to sacrifice himself for justice, it is unrealistic. He is not a savior, and he can't do such a saint-like thing.

In fact, the reason why Chen Xueqian did this was based on practical considerations.

It is important to know that before the Boston Globe reported on it, due to the huge power of the Catholic Church, there was very little coverage of this in the media. Even the judiciary has consciously or unconsciously covered up for the Church.

It was in such an environment that the reporters of the Boston Globe withstood pressure from all walks of life and finally fully exposed the dangers of the priest's child molestation case and the role of the church in it.

At that time, this report caused a great sensation. In life, people have begun to pay attention to the church, an organization hidden under light and holiness.

However, such attention is still not enough. Because the identity of the clergy is a natural cover-up, and the Catholic Church is an extremely powerful organization, American society cannot give an answer to how many such cases still occur every day.

And with regard to the patrists, Catholicism did not excommunicate them from the church system as one would hope. Most of them have just changed places, and in the new places, the priests will continue to repeat their previous mistakes.

People in society know too little about this. And this is also where Chen Xueqian's confidence lies in making this movie.

Because this means that after the release of this movie, it will inevitably cause a storm of public opinion. In this way, why is his film unattended? For this reason, Chen Xueqian has high hopes for this movie.

When Chen Xueqian entered the crew, all the relevant personnel of the whole movie had already arrived.

The crew chose to shoot in Boston, and before filming, Chen Xueqian specially invited the character prototype of the movie he made.

When Keaton, Rachel, and Mark Ruffalo saw the prototype characters, they all greeted each other with admiration, and these truth-seeking reporters heard that they wanted to bring what they did back then to the big screen, and their attitude was also very kind.

A meeting was going on happily. And several leading actors are thinking about how they should play their roles well.

After this meeting, Chen Xueqian began to organize everyone to study the script together, and Chen Xueqian asked everyone to show a textbook acting skill for this movie.

Chen Xueqian's positioning of this movie is a group portrait movie, without a starring role in the traditional sense, and this incident itself is not to show reporters, but to tell about this matter.

For this reason, Chen Xueqian asked the performance of an actor to be plain and timeless.

For Chen Xueqian's request, everyone was at a loss at first, after all, there was a difference of nearly ten years between the filming time of this movie in Chen Xueqian's previous life.

Ten years can be a transformation for an actor's acting skills.

In view of this situation, Chen Xueqian once again showed everyone what kind of performance he wanted through his performances, just like in previous movies.

When Chen Xueqian's demonstration ended, several people at the scene looked at him with a dull expression, they really didn't expect Chen Xueqian's acting skills to be so good.

And the most terrifying thing is that even Rachel McAdams's role can be performed beautifully, which is out of the scope of acting, and can even be said to be beyond the cognition of ordinary people.

However, Chen Xueqian really did it. This makes several actors how not to be surprised.

held a simple start-up ceremony, and Chen Xueqian officially started his new film shooting.

During the filming of the film, Chen Xueqian carried out a fully closed management of the crew. This was done to prevent news about the film from leaking out in advance.

In order to prevent everyone from being interfered with by the outside world, a high degree of secrecy was adopted.

It's just that God doesn't fulfill people's wishes, and Chen Xueqian hopes that the film can be filmed in an unaffected environment. However, the group of people who had been swept away from the board of directors before leaked the news to the media.

Then, as expected, Chen Xueqian's new movie suddenly attracted great attention from the outside world. And more than attention, it's more pressure!

Just after the news leaked, Chen Xueqian received a phone call for advice almost every day. Some church fanatics are more extreme than that.

Outside Chen Xueqian's crew, from time to time there would be church members who came to demonstrate.

However, even in the face of such great pressure, Chen Xueqian was still unwavering, and when some actors in the crew were worried about the external environment, Chen Xueqian was interviewed in front of the media for the first time.

The TV station that interviewed Chen Xueqian was CW, a television station that had just been formed in 2006 by the merger of Columbia and Warner Bros.

In order to gain a firm foothold in the competition, the TV station invited Chen Xueqian to one of their talk shows.

"Chen, we know you've been working on your own new movie lately!" The moderator of the interview was a white man in his early 40s.

In view of the controversy involved in this matter involving Chen Xueqian, the host reversed his usual humorous image. When he came up, he asked very seriously and straight to the point.

"Yes, I've been working on a new movie lately!" Chen Xueqian admitted it calmly.

"So Chen, according to the information we have received, the film you are about to shoot is based on the 2002 Boston Globe incident, I don't know if this news is accurate?" The host continued to ask questions without any relaxation.

Regarding this question, Chen Xueqian nodded seriously with a serious face: "That's the case!" ”

Hearing Chen Xueqian really admit it, the host suddenly perked up and asked again: "So, Chen, how did you think of filming this incident?" As you should know, this was a very controversial affair at the time・・・・・・・"

"No, I don't think so!" Chen Xueqian directly interrupted the other party's words.

"What?" The host couldn't help but be stunned.

"There's no controversy about what the Globe did, they did the right thing, and I don't think there's anything controversial about it."

Regarding Chen Xueqian's words, the other party was dumbfounded for a while.

Indeed, not a single article published in the Globe at the time was fabricated out of thin air. It really doesn't make sense to say that this matter is controversial.

It's just that this incident has caused a huge controversy, but there is no doubt about it.

However, this kind of controversy really cannot be discussed in the open, because to do so would be to expose the Catholic behavior to the world. Because the host was a little unsure of how to answer for a while.

It took a while for the host to figure out how to continue the topic.

"I just made a slip of the tongue, I mean, it was a big reaction at the time, and there was a lot of heated arguments around it. For such a thing, why would you be interested in adapting it? ”

Hearing the host's words, Chen Xueqian replied: "I put this matter on the screen so that more people can understand the ins and outs of this matter." At the same time, in order to arouse everyone's attention to this matter in the future. ”

"I'm sorry, you just said the follow-up?" The host couldn't help but interrupt Chen Xueqian when he heard this, and asked.

"Yes, follow-up! Shouldn't we be concerned about the whereabouts of the priests involved? Are they reforming their ways, and are they sincerely sorry for the wrong things they have done? Is there repentance, is there a repetition of the past. Even after that, the church did not hide such events. Shouldn't we be concerned about these follow-ups? ”

"This ・・・・・・," the moderator was speechless again.

He really wanted to refute Chen Xueqian, he really wanted to say, isn't this just continuing to smear the church and target the church!

However, in the end, he still did not say it, because he himself knew that his statement was not appropriate, and even very wrong.

"I don't understand when it has become a controversial thing to do the right thing and stand up for justice. Are the innocent children who are not as important as the face of an organization? Isn't it even more blasphemous for these clergy who take advantage of people's piety to deceive and harm others? And people like me are the real boosters of the pure faith, aren't they? ”

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Or is the face of the church more important than the purity of the gods? So what exactly do we believe in? Is it the selfless and loving Lord, or the clergy who read the Bible and do dirty things? ”

After listening to Chen Xueqian's words, the host couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Chen Xueqian's words just now are not simple, just now he directly separated God and the church, in the context of talking at this moment, his statement may not really be bought by many people.

If that's the case, then the Vatican is in big trouble.

However, the host did not dare to take the initiative to bring up this topic at this time. He was really a little afraid that Chen Xueqian would divert the topic to where he couldn't resist.

It's just that the interview naturally can't end here, so he can only change the topic and say: "Chen, I heard that in your hometown of China, there are many people who have no faith, is this true?" ”

Regarding another malicious question from the host, Chen Xueqian couldn't help frowning, and then said: "I don't agree with your words. In China, there are indeed many atheists, but that doesn't mean we don't have faith, and I think atheism itself is a kind of faith. The so-called freedom of belief should also include the freedom not to believe in religion. ”

Regarding Chen Xueqian's words, the host said: "Having said that, all kinds of crimes are rampant in China, violations of professional ethics are frequent, and even many people believe that the Chinese are currently in a kind of moral decline, don't you think it is caused by the Chinese not believing in God and lacking fear of the future?" ”

After listening to the host's words, Chen Xueqian couldn't help but be speechless.

"Is it better that China's crime rate is much lower than that of the United States? As for sinning because they don't believe in God and lack fear, then I want to ask, why did the priests who molested boys sin? I think the crime rate in a country does not depend on God, but on the universality of the law. ”

When Chen Xueqian conducted this live broadcast, many people in the United States were watching the show.

For Chen Xueqian, a teenager full of mystery, many Americans are curious. For this reason, as soon as this talk show was announced that the guest of this issue was Chen Xueqian, it attracted many onlookers.

Not to mention those fans of Chen Xueqian, just those who are curious about Chen Xueqian don't know how many.

When the host asked Chen Xueqian one tricky question after another during the interview, even many ordinary viewers who were originally inclined to Catholicism were dissatisfied with the host.

It was only after they listened to Chen Xueqian's answer that they understood how agile this young man's thinking was and how unique his insights were.

In fact, for many Americans, many of them have suffered far more injustices in their lives because they do not believe in Catholicism than Chinese.

Because in the United States, too many things are tightly tied to Catholicism. From birth to old age, it is almost difficult for Americans to completely escape the influence of religion throughout their lives.

And Chen Xueqian's atheism itself is also a kind of faith, which really convinced many people.

Through this interview, Chen Xueqian officially explained his intention to make this movie to the outside world, and at the same time, he also gained many people who agreed with him and began to stand up and speak for him.

And this already involves an ideological confrontation, but no one can imagine that the key person who provoked such a confrontation is actually a Chinese.

And the impact of this interview is not limited to the United States, after this interview about Chen Xueqian came out, many Chinese Americans saw it and immediately forwarded it to the domestic website.

The domestic people who had just experienced the baptism of Chen Xueqian's action movie saw Chen Xueqian mercilessly refute all kinds of unreasonable questions raised by the other party in the American TV show, and countless netizens instantly became his fans for a while.

For Chinese, it is a national hero who can win glory for the country in the world, and Chen Xueqian is already proud of China! How can the Chinese people not like such a person?

For a time, this video was retweeted millions of times, and the number of views exceeded 100 million. Looking at Chen Xueqian's eloquent talk in front of the Americans, I don't know how many little girls were fascinated by him.

It's just that Chen Xueqian didn't know anything about all this, he had already returned to the crew again at this time and began to continue filming.

For the filming of the whole movie, Chen Xueqian used a lot of editing techniques for the first time, using the montage effect to make a lot of shots. The rhythm of the whole movie is always unhurried, there is no particular climax, but it is not boring at all.

It turns out that the event itself is fascinating enough, and even if it is presented in front of everyone, people can't help but watch it.

Throughout the filming process, Chen Xueqian always kept the rhythm of the film at a critical point as much as possible, so that the film did not appear intense or procrastinating.

After a period of filming, Keaton and his perception of Chen Xueqian have changed again.

This director is very different from the directors they have been in contact with before, he has his own standards for the camera, he doesn't let the actors try the same scene over and over again, and his shooting seems to have set a clear standard from the beginning. As long as this standard is met, it will do.

In him, you don't seem to see the excellence of other directors. Although that kind of excellence is more because they themselves don't know what they want. Only by constantly trying and comparing can you know what you want.

Another thing that surprised everyone was Chen Xueqian's acting skills, this director has a big difference from other directors, he can complete almost any scene in person, and even Keaton and the others feel that if the other party plays their role, it may be better. This feeling undoubtedly made several leading actors feel pressure, and then under this pressure, their acting skills were stimulated to the maximum.

The filming of this "Focus" is not difficult, but the most important thing is actually the post-editing problem. Coupled with Chen Xueqian's efficient shooting progress. The entire film was shot in just two months.

Immediately, Chen Xueqian plunged into the editing room to start post-production.

During this period, "Twilight 2" and "Hurricane Rescue 2" were released one after another, and Chen Xueqian participated in every premiere.

In the end, "The Hangover 2" won $260 million at the North American box office.

And the results of "Twilight 2" greatly exceeded everyone's expectations, although everyone had expected that this movie would be indispensable at the global box office, but when the growth of this movie really came out, it still surprised everyone. This film, based on Chen Xueqian's novel of the same name, has reached a terrifying $900 million at the global box office. No wonder the American media exclaimed that Chen Xueqian was simply robbing money!

As for "Hurricane Rescue 2", which reached $230 million at the global box office, it also gained a lot, after all, the cost of the movie was less than $30 million.

With the big hits of several consecutive movies this year, Summit Entertainment can be said to have completely gained a foothold in Hollywood. I believe that if there is another film that can win the Oscars, then this company will be able to stand side by side with the six giants of Hollywood!

For this reason, many people have once again paid attention to Chen Xueqian, because a long time ago, Chen Xueqian had already said that his film was going to hit the Oscar for Best Picture.

However, while the outside world was staring at Chen Xueqian, Chen Xueqian was paying attention to the price trend of crude oil trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Although in the memory of previous lives, crude oil will turn from prosperity to decline in mid-July this year, and then enter a brief silence. However, because Chen Xueqian's butterfly wings became more and more urgent, he was not fully confident that it would continue to follow the trend in his memory in his previous life.

However, by mid-July, the price of crude oil had gone from boom to bust as he remembered, and Cal Icahn called Chen Xueqian afterwards to inform him that everything was going according to plan.

And in October, when Chen Xueqian began to edit the film intensely, Cal Icahn was also engaged in an intense crude oil operation.

At this time, the total amount of funds under Icahn's name has far exceeded 5 billion US dollars, and such a large amount of funds flowing into the crude oil market will definitely have an impact on the situation, but in order to be able to realize his plan as he wishes, he can only try to minimize his sense of existence.

When the time came in November, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries decided to slash crude oil production, and the price of crude oil, which had fallen sharply, finally stabilized again.

At this time, Chen Xueqian had successfully earned $1.5 billion.

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ps: Today the two chapters were sent together! (To be continued.) )