"As a film lover and now as a film and television practitioner, I have watched a lot of domestic and foreign films of various genres before this, and it seems that many directors like to explore the relationship between dream and reality in their own films."

Speaking of this, Jung Hyuk-jae paused deliberately, and after the students in the audience eased up, he continued: "I have heard many people say in front of me before, 'I want to pursue my ideals, I want to chase my dreams'!" I'm sorry, but it's hard for me to understand what these kinds of people think.

Many times, in our own thoughts, it seems that we have already regarded reality as a pitiful accessory to our dreams, and for our dreams, reality can be completely left behind, so that the dream is really what we want? ”

Jung Hyuk-jae's speech continued, as if the various instructors who had come to Yonsei University to give lectures had never discussed the issue of 'reality' as bluntly as he did, and this was something that the university students sitting in the audience had never thought about.

College students who have not yet entered the society, their ideas are naturally brilliant and unrestrained, although their dreams are different, but during the school without exception, they all regard their dreams as their highest goals, and everything is working hard with this dream.

Jung Hyuk-jae's speech on 'reality' was like a slap in the face of everyone in front of him, making them have some doubts about their goals, maybe their previous thoughts were wrong?

Jung Hyuk-jae gave an unscripted speech on the stage, his eyes naturally swept over the expressions on the faces of everyone in the audience, some people were thoughtful, some people were unimpressed, and all living beings were in it. In fact. This speech on 'reality' was not his whim, or deliberately to attract everyone's attention, but Jung Hyuk Jae really wanted to tell the younger students present an experience and truth.

"Reality is not an accessory to dreams, but a necessity to dreams, our dreams, our virtual reality, and even these abstract things that we love and talk about all day. They are really all subsets of reality. ”

"It's terrible if you don't have dreams, but if you don't even have reality, that's even more terrible."

Speaking of this, Zheng Hyuk-jae was also ready to end, thirty minutes is actually not a short time, and he also told some things about his personal experience, and the younger students in the audience listened carefully and carefully one by one.

"Senior, can you tell me that you are now on the road to pursuing reality, or are you on the way to pursuing your dreams?"

After Jung Hyuk-jae finished speaking, he was about to walk off the stage and leave. I heard a lesbian in the audience raising her right hand and shouting at herself.

Since someone asked a question, Jung Hyuk-jae thought about it and planned to finish answering this question before leaving, in fact, it was not so complicated to answer, "I am still on the road of pursuing reality, but I know that as long as I keep going, I will get closer and closer to my dream!" ”

The voice landed, and the scene was silent for a long time. Then there was a round of applause, and many people stood up from their seats. Clapping his palms, he seemed to be very touched after listening to Jung Hyuk-jae's performance.

Amid the warm applause of his classmates, Jung Hyuk-jae walked off the stage and came to the backstage of the small auditorium, where Bong Joon-ho had been waiting for him to come over.

"What a great speech you just made!" Meeting, Bong Joon-ho opened his mouth and praised.

Jung Hyuk-jae waved his hand a little embarrassed. said modestly: "Actually, I thought of what to say, I didn't expect these juniors and sisters in the audience to give face so much." ”

"In fact, if you give them a good example, they will recognize you from the bottom of their hearts." At this time, it was a director of the school introduced by Bong Joon-ho before, and when he heard that he had such a high opinion of himself, Jung Hyuk-jae hurriedly turned around and said thank you to her.

This speech is actually part of Bong Joon-ho's plan. Although neither of them is a star, but in the eyes of students who pay attention to movies and TV series, Jung Hyuk Jae and Bong Joon-ho are undoubtedly an example of their study and hard work, or their own seniors, they can all achieve such achievements today, why can't they?

The school activities here are over, and the time is almost 12 o'clock at noon, listening to Bong Joon-ho, several leaders of the school have set up a banquet in a hotel near the school early, just waiting for this side to finish!

Hearing Bong Joon-ho say this, Jung Hyuk-jae did not hesitate, he had a meal left and right, nothing more than saying some compliments at the dinner table, talking about the mountains, whether it was to go, it could be regarded as expanding his contacts for himself

"How's it going, how are you eating?" Coming out of the restaurant, Bong Joon-ho asked Jung Hyuk-jae to come to a café here to sit down, which can be regarded as relieving the smell of alcohol on their bodies.

The big men at the dinner table, where can there be less wine if they have meat and talent, this is not a line of eight or nine people who began to drink wine while eating, and it didn't take half a moment to be a bottle of wine in the stomach, so where would you not get dizzy when you drank it!

Quiet music, fragrant coffee, sitting in this coffee shop, his head doesn't seem to be as dizzy as just now, the strength of the wine has finally passed, Jung Hyuk Jae sat up straight, took a sip of coffee, and looked at Bong Joon-ho in front of him, although neither of them spoke, but Jung Hyuk-jae knew that Bong Joon-ho was not just looking for him for his college student movie activities, there must be something he didn't tell himself.

At the wine table just now, the two of them were chatting endlessly, it should be that there are too many outsiders, he can't say it, now there are no other guests in the café except for the waiter at the bar counter, and now Bong Joon-ho should tell his ultimate goal.

Bong Joon-ho took a sip of the coffee on the table, suppressed the surging wine, then looked up at Jung Hyuk-jae in front of him, and said, "Hyuk-jae, didn't you set up a film production company before?" ”

Hearing Bong Joon-ho in front of him ask, Jung Hyuk-jae nodded. Then he said modestly: "I opened a movie-related company, but it's just a small company, and I can't get on the stage!" ”

"The success of "Welcome to Dongmo Village" shows that your company is not a small company!" Bong Joon-ho said with a smile, "If you tell what you just said, we don't know how many people in our circle want to kill you in their hearts!" ”

Bong Joon-ho's words have a realistic basis, and not many people paid attention to them before the release of "Welcome to Dongmo Village". For a small-budget film without any big-name stars, these are not to worry, but what people didn't expect is that it is such a film that is not inconspicuous in their eyes, and finally won tens of millions of viewers, becoming another milestone in the history of Korean cinema.

This made many film production companies blush, and they only hated themselves for why they didn't seize the script and seize that opportunity in the first place?

It's just that it's too late to regret it now. Regret is a little late. But it is not too late to cooperate, since the screening of "Welcome to Dongmo Village" ended, and the final number of moviegoers came out, many film production companies have come to the door in person, one is to get acquainted, and the other is to see if there is any possibility of cooperation between the two sides.

Naturally, there is no need to talk about film production companies, and many screenwriters and directors in the screenwriting circle have also submitted their project plans to the company, and these project plans. Zheng Hyuk-jae roughly looked through some of them, and some of them were directly eliminated. And some are temporarily saved, although the name of the movie Jung Hyuk-jae is not particularly familiar, it may be that the previous life did not have the opportunity to make a movie, but the project plan is still very good, and it is worth discussing in detail.

Today, Bong Joon-ho is also such a set of similar rhetoric. When he heard this, Jung Hyuk-jae's drinking strength had already woken up, and his eyes were clear and staring at Bong Joon-ho in front of him, and a trace of thought flashed in Jung Hyuk-jae's heart.

"Hyuk Jaexi, that's actually the case" has been said at this point, and Bong Joon-ho has no intention of continuing to beat around the bush. Straightforwardness is his character, "Does your company have any plans for film production in the near future?" ”

"Yes, but you need to read the script and the project plan."

Although the one in front of him is his senior, but in business, since he has said it all here, Jung Hyuk-jae doesn't plan to give him a back door or anything, unless this movie is "Monster of the Han River".

If the Korean film industry in 2005 was blown up by "Welcome to Dongmo Village", then at the end of 2005, it will be "The King's Man" again, and then what? A "Han River Monster" that came out of nowhere once again swept the entire film circle, and the record of the number of moviegoers just set by "The King's Man" in the first half of the year was broken by the monster movie "Han River Monster".

If history does not turn around and there are some small errors, then Bong Joon-ho's film work has already begun to be prepared three years ago, which is why Jung Hyuk-jae has never played the idea of this movie, but it seems that he didn't have the idea of this movie, but he took the initiative to find the door.

"I have a script on hand now, and I've been polishing it for almost three years."

When Bong Joon-ho said this, Jung Hyuk-jae already understood in his heart that this script should be "Monster of the Han River".

Jung Hyuk-jae didn't continue to speak, but Bong Joon-ho began to explain why he came to the door.

Disaster movies are actually mostly produced in Europe and the United States, especially Hollywood, and no one has ever made such a type of movie in South Korea, and Bong Joon-ho's idea for this script also stemmed from the fact that he had actually seen an unknown creature on the side of the Han River 18 years ago, so he was very shocked, and from that time on, he thought that if he became a director in the future, he must bring this experience to the screen.

The script has been polished by Bong Joon-ho for three years, and it can already be said to be perfect, but when it came time for him to attract investors, many domestic film production companies hesitated. Because after all, this is to use a monster as the protagonist.,Whether the current CG level can perfectly produce a monster?,Everyone is still skeptical about this.,This alone has made many film production companies retreat.。

In addition, according to Bong Joon-ho, there is also a plan for this project that was handed over with his script, which also included the production cost of this movie, which is also a very staggering number, 121 won!

Although this script is from Bong Joon-ho, although Bong Joon-ho once directed a "Memories of Murder" and achieved good box office results, but all this is not enough to make these film production companies make up their minds to invest, and it is not only who the director of this movie is who they invest in, and what about this script! What is more important is the reaction of the film market, the appetite of the audience, these are the decisive factors of the film.

Although monster movies are a genre in movies, there has never been a movie of this type in South Korea, whether local moviegoers will like it or not, this is the focus of their consideration, otherwise it is 12 billion yuan, no wonder they are so cautious.

Bong Joon-ho found a number of well-known and well-capitalized film production companies in China, and although they were very interested in the script, once it came to the investment of 12 billion won, they all claimed that they would consider it carefully, and then there was no follow-up.

This is also one of the reasons why he found Jung Hyuk-jae, whether it is a blind cat touching a dead mouse, it is always impossible to cast a wide net.

Jung Hyuk-jae drank coffee while listening to Bong Joon-ho in front of him explain his true thoughts about this monster movie, as well as the description of the blank in the domestic monster movie market, there is always one sentence, that is, making this movie will definitely make money!

Let's not talk about whether Bong Joon-ho's words were thought up to fool investors, when he heard the "Han River Monster" that Bong Joon-ho said, Jung Hyuk-jae had already brought an umbrella and immediately agreed, but fortunately, reason stopped his impulse, and sometimes he couldn't be too proactive, anyway, it was not him Jung Hyuk-jae who was panicking now, but Bong Joon-ho who wanted to put the movie in his mind on the big screen.

Thinking of this, Jung Hyuk-jae said, "Bong Joon-ho, how much does this movie cost to make?" ”

"What?"

Hearing Jung Hyuk-jae's question, Bong Jun-ho was a little stunned on the spot, and he didn't react for a while. (To be continued.) )