"Good, really good Laurie!"

After listening to Laurie's understanding of horror films and even the entire movie script, Huo Que is impeccable, of course, he is not an expert now, nor is he a big-name director, he just makes a judgment based on his experience in his previous life and his understanding of movies in this life.

Laurie was a little flattered, he knew Huo Que's intention to let him read this script, although Huo Que was several years younger than him, but he also understood the principle of the master first, and if he could get Huo Que's appreciation, his hope of being a director was greater.

"Mr. Huo, I've talked to people about this before, but they don't think so." Laurie said with a wry smile: "Their understanding of horror movies is just the opposite of mine, they want to scare the audience, disgust the audience, and then make the audience's rebellious psychology drive them into the cinema." ”

Huo Que smiled, any academic discipline has its unique charm, even a painting has its own different artistic conception in the eyes of several people. What's more, it's still a movie with a changeable plot, so Huo Que won't say that other people's statements are wrong.

"Is there anything else?" When Huo Que and Laurie were still immersed in their understanding of the movie, an abrupt voice sounded, and Alice looked at Huo Que with tired eyes and asked weakly.

"It's fine." Huo Que smiled awkwardly: "By the way, Alice, you are also a graduate of the directing department, aren't you interested in the script?" ”

The script of "The Grim Reaper is Coming" is undoubtedly very good, otherwise he would not have enjoyed such a great reputation in various regions and countries in Huo Que's previous life, but Alice seems to have not seen the brilliance at all, which can't help but make Huo Que worry about Alice's future directorial career.

"Of course I'm interested." Alice said angrily. As a director, of course, she knows the importance of scripts: "It's just that I'm not interested in horror films, you know, directing is a big department, and there are many kinds of it." It's like Laurie, if he wants to walk out of this road when he becomes a director in the future, it must be in horror films. And you ......."

Alice stopped in the middle of speaking, this Huo Que's last movie was still strict and full of philosophical style, and this movie was immediately replaced with a Christmas family comedy, which has to be said to be very large.

"You're different." Alice changed her tone: "There is a specialization in the art industry, Laurie likes horror films, but not all directors like horror films, just like writers, some write magic, some write fantasy." ”

Huo Que understood this, he nodded and asked, "Then what type of film do you like?" ”

"Animated films."

Alice said it without thinking.

"Ahh Huo Que was stunned for a moment, and then reacted, the cartoon Alice was talking about was not the cartoon he understood when he was a child, she was talking about animated movies. As soon as he understood this, Huo Que was relieved, it's normal for girls to like these things, if you really want Alice to make a movie like "Chainsaw", it's not normal.

"What's wrong?" may have talked about the topic she was interested in, and Alice's eyes were completely sleepy, and she became energetic: "The reason why I want to study directing is because of animated films. I remember when I was a kid, whenever a new animated movie came out, my parents would take me into the cinema, drink Coke, eat popcorn, and enjoy the pictures on the screen, and it was very comfortable, and I still remember those exaggerated and warm images.

I think one day I have a child, and whenever there is a cartoon coming out, I will take him into the cinema, buy him Coke, buy popcorn with him, and listen to his laughter and see his smiling face. ”

Speaking of the back, Alice simply closed her eyes, and what came to her mind should be the picture of her and his future husband leading their children into the cinema, which is really heartwarming to think about.

Suddenly, Alice's eyes opened suddenly, and her originally white face was already flushed. She secretly glanced at Huo Que, and her face turned even redder.

Huo Que didn't care about this, he thought that the reason why Alice was blushing was that he said in front of the two men that he would have a child in the future.

However, what he may not have known in his life is the man who was holding the child with her in Alice's mind just now...... That's him.

Huo Que and Laurie only saw Alice's blush, but they couldn't hear her heartbeat that had accelerated somehow much. She is actually very entangled, and even a little self-blamed, Huo Que is a man who looks okay, and his words and deeds are also a bit gentlemanly, and he is also very capable, just because he made tens of millions of dollars in his twenties with just one movie.

But she has been with him for so long, and she is tired of being together every day, but she has never told her in her heart that she has feelings for this man, but why did the man next to her turn out to be him when she fantasized about the future life picture just now?

Alice bit her lip and lowered her head, remorsefully thinking of an excuse to be able to prevaricate this ridiculous thing, but she still thought of one despite her unremitting efforts.

"Perhaps, it's because I've spent too much time with him during this time."

When it comes to animated films, what immediately comes to Huo Que's mind is the market for animated films in the world, according to the analysis of the numbers in his predecessor's mind, animated films in this world are as popular as they are on earth.

Think about it, no matter what country or world animated films are in, there can be no market, because there is no limit to its consumer group, and it does not mean that only children can watch animated movies.

Of course, in Huo Que's previous life, there was really not much adult market for Chinese-made animated films in that country, except for children.

Of course, this can't be blamed on the animated movie itself, but only on the fact that there are no good animated movies that impress adults.

There are also some animated movies specifically aimed at children, but if you want adults to go into the theater for this movie, unless you are accompanying children, there are basically no people who go alone. It wasn't until one day in 2015 that a film called "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" broke this deadlock.

However, this is for domestic animated films, and if you want to talk about the animated films of the whole world, it will occupy a large place in the entire film industry.

Speaking of box office alone, there are three animated films with a box office of more than $1 billion in the world, "Frozen" has a global box office of $1.17 billion, "Minions with Big Eyes" has a global box office of $1.15 billion, and "Toy Story 3" has a global box office of $1.16 billion.

Like "The Lion King", "Zootopia", and "Despicable Me" are all nearly a billion dollars.

There is also the most familiar animated film "Kung Fu Panda" trilogy in Huo Que's country, with a cumulative global box office of as much as two billion US dollars.

This is the market for animated films, a market that no big studio will give up.

Since Huo Que wants to develop his film company in this world to a scale that can surpass the six major film companies, how can he give up this cake.

But the filming and investment of animated films are not as simple as imagined. Don't think that there is no actor in it, it seems that there are not many places to spend money, but in fact, animated movies are the most money-burning.

For example, "Toy Story 3" has an investment of up to 200 million US dollars.

James. Cameron spent $200 million to shoot "Titanic", which everyone can see that it costs, after all, others built a ship in order to achieve the effect.

And the shooting of cartoons is not spent on the scenes, not in the actors, not in the director, but in its production.

Just like the first part of "Kung Fu Panda", with an investment of 1300 million US dollars, a 90-minute movie, one minute is equivalent to 1.4 million US dollars. And it took two and a half years to shoot.

Of course, you can see where the money is spent, such as when the snow leopard Taro attacked Po, he kicked up a thick layer of dust and caused an explosion...... There are 33588526 grains of dust. During acupuncture, 133 needles were inserted into the panda's back. The crane in the "Five Heroes of the World" has as many as 6,019 feathers on its body. Number of chair fragments blown up by Po using firecrackers: 953593 pieces. Master Turtle was drowning in 37,517 petals on his deathbed.

Behind this qiē detail is hundreds of staff members working day and night. A second of 3D animation is composed of 24 stickers, and a patch of pictures takes a team of rendering engineers a week, a 100-minute movie has 144,000 stickers, how many people take to complete?

This is the prohibitively expensive animated movie.

"If you want to be an animation director, you must first be prepared to endure hardships, which is a very cumbersome thing." Huo Que was blunt. But he also made a point, other types of directors can still shoot scenes every day, while animation directors can only communicate with employees in the studio.

"From the moment I walked into USC, I was prepared." Alice smiled rarely: "When I was elective, my uncle explained the pros and cons to me very clearly. ”

"Okay, I'm watching the rise of the queen of this world director." Huo Que said jokingly.

"Then I'll go first." Alice stood up and walked out.

When Alice was gone, Laurie seemed a little unaware of what she had said, and she stopped talking a few times.

"Say whatever you want, you're welcome." Huo Que had actually guessed what Laurie wanted to say, but he just wanted to hear him say it.

"Mr. Huo, in fact, I came to be an assistant director with you to wait for one day to be able to shoot a movie, I like the script you showed me just now, can you give me that script to shoot? Of course, only after you see what I'm capable of. "Laurie trembled when he didn't say it, but he was full of confidence when he really said it.

Huo Que had already seen his ability, but he still shook his head: "Not for the time being." ”

Laurie's face darkened, and the whole person felt paralyzed: "Why? ”

"Because the investment in this film is a bit high." Huo Que smiled: "When you follow me to finish filming the next film, I will give you a chance to be an independent director...... But it still depends on the proceeds of my movie. ”