Although Clark's words were said in passing, they also reminded Levy of the rest of his heart, in fact, during this time, compared to the release of Truman's world, he was more concerned about the production of X-Men.

This is not because the X-Men are better than Truman's world in his opinion, but because this is also the biggest business of Mystery Company right now: although it is also the day when Truman's world and the love notebook are released, the former is a Levy movie that has received a lot of attention, and the latter is also one of the most popular movies released this year, and has even been named the best romantic comedy by some people, but the post-release and publicity affairs of the film are mainly handled by the distribution company after all.

All Levy needed to do was provide them with some necessary filming footage, interviews, and involve the actors in different levels of publicity. It's not a very difficult job, especially for a well-reviewed movie. Truman's world has a good evaluation, and it has the attraction of Jim Carrey, and the opening screen has exceeded 3,000 in the world, such a movie, even the distribution company will not allow it to fail, and Levy doesn't have to worry too much about the rest. More than that, what he needs to devote more energy to now is the work of an X-Men producer.

This film, which has an investment of more than 70 million, can be said to be a large-scale production that Mysteries has ever had. Moreover, this film involves the interference of investors, producers, distributors, copyright owners and other parties, and the work of coordinating all these people needs to be completed by Levy.

Levy originally thought that he would stop making movies and change to producers, so that he could take a little rest, but who knows, the coordination of these aspects will not be easy. Because everyone wants this film to be a success. So all parties are also involved in the production of this movie, which also makes Levy a little anxious.

Speaking of these, Levy also has a bit of a headache.

"Clark, on the media side, as well as the follow-up promotion and liaison of the movie, you can do it for me. You are also an assistant director, and the actors know you, so you can contact them. The entertainment company is urging a lot of people, and I have to take care of things over there now, maybe I can't help too much here. ”

Now that we've got it. Levy also had a few words with Clark. Levy doesn't make movies himself, so Clark naturally doesn't have to be an assistant director anymore, and Levy also hopes that he can help him with the promotion of the film while he prepares for a new movie.

Levy's explanation, Clark nodded and agreed. He also knew that this was the first time that Mystery had pulled in such a large amount of money to make a movie, and they had to do their job well, so that it would be easier to get financing in the future. And the entertainment company is willing to give Enigma such a large investment to make a movie. In addition to the fact that the content of this movie is X-Men, which itself has a large audience base, Levy's name is also an important aspect.

For this film, the entertainment company made a massive investment. The reasons are multifaceted, and they have also examined the basic conditions for the Mystery Company to shoot this film. They believe that the film can sell for money.

First of all. Comic movies have a lot of influence, and it could have been said that their stories themselves are already equivalent to the effect of having a star joining, and there is no need to worry about the box office and publicity.

And. In terms of the picture, Levy himself didn't have a movie to shoot anyway, so he directly transferred his own production team over, and his film crew was pretty good, and there wouldn't be too many problems.

The rest is the scene and special effects, Levy has already established contact with the props company when he filmed CSI, and he has a special effects company in his own hands, plus nearly a year of super hero broadcasting, it also gives people a preliminary understanding of the special effects that the audience loves, with these things, the mystery company can make the movie well.

Of course, in fact, it would be better for Levy to be a director himself...... In fact, X-Men can also be said to be a soft science fiction work, if it is handed over to some big directors to shoot, it can also shoot a lot of things. But the entertainment company also knows that shooting this kind of movie is really a bit like dancing in shackles, and few real big directors like it.

Commercial blockbusters are not the same as ordinary literary films. The vast majority of literary films have very little investment, and even if they invest themselves, there are many people who can produce them. But commercial blockbusters can't do it, they have a lot of investment, and there are a lot of aspects involved. At the time of commercial blockbuster shooting, director, second theater director, script supervisor, executive producer, co-producer...... A movie can be said to have a lot of managers, and everyone has a different division of labor, but all of them can be managed by the director.

Want to revise the script? You'll have to ask the script supervisor about this. The script supervisor contacted the screenwriter, and if the screenwriter agreed, he had to notify the screenwriters' union, and then contact the original author of the comics, and the original author agreed, and then contact the writers' association, so that the script could be changed.

The progress of the on-site shooting of the movie is not fast enough, the equipment is not enough, and you hope that the actors will add more scenes and subtract the scenes? The opinion of the director of the second theater must be taken into account. Do you want to add or subtract scenes, have you asked the agency? The progress has changed, have you asked the publicity company? Need a new set, have you asked the set?

Is it too much money to spend money on the film, is it possible to overspend? The co-producers are responsible for these things. As investors, aren't they sending people just to get stuck in the money?

What is the final result of the film, and how is it edited? This is not under the control of the director, there is also an executive producer above the director's head.

In this way, the director's power is basically only left to shoot the movie, control the rhythm, control the picture, design the actors' positions, and control the actors' play. Moreover, in this process, the shooting has to be discussed with the photographer, the composition must have a professional art director, and what the director needs to do is to try to shoot a good enough picture after the characters, scenes, scripts, and art styles have been determined, control the rhythm and changes of the movie, and make the movie look good.

Compared with literary films, directors can have more room to play, and they can even consider how to explain their own ideas, while commercial films cannot give directors room to play. It's more like a propositional essay that has to be done if you ask for it. The shooting of commercial films is completely an assembly line operation, everyone is responsible for a part, and what everyone needs to do is to make their part perfect, and things like free play do not need to be considered. Unless it is a particularly top-level director, otherwise, the director is just a link in the assembly line.

In fact, this is also a major reason why commercial films are inferior to art films in the eyes of critics: art films express the director's thoughts, and the director is telling a story, whether it is good or bad, it must be the elaboration of the director's own thoughts. But commercial films don't necessarily express whose thoughts it is.

Take this movie as an example, on the script, Marvel is very close, not only Stan Lee came to participate in the discussion, but also found people from the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild to discuss how to shoot together, and the director has almost no room to play. Even, the movie's character image, character setting, storyline direction, and overall style of the story have certain rules: Captain America has to be Wei Guangzheng, Hulk has to be **, Spider-Man has to be a social bottom, and Iron Man has to be a playboy - it can be said that this kind of movie does not allow the director to play independently at all, and any famous director will not be too interested in shooting a movie with this kind of proposition composition: big directors like to elaborate on some of their own things, Who wants to be a worker on an assembly line?

Levy, of course, was not willing, and the entertainment company was not surprised. But fortunately, the director of the commercial film itself is not particularly important.

In fact, most commercial films, especially superhero movies, do not pay much attention to the issue of choosing directors. In Levy's memory, the most typical is the director of the Spider-Man trilogy, Sam. Remy - Before filming Spider-Man, he had only made some hardcore horror films, and although Spider-Man became the highest-grossing hero movie in history, after filming the trilogy, he still couldn't even get the editing rights to shoot other movies. And the others are about the same, Tim. Burton only had two live-action films before making Spider-Man, and Jon Favreau had just made a mess of Jumanji 2 before taking over Iron Man, but these movies have already chosen to use them, because of the success or failure of hero movies, the director can not decide too much: they are just a link. Unless it is mixed with the level of Michael Bay, it can add to commercial films, otherwise, the director of commercial films is the same.

The purpose of commercial films is to make money, and they want the box office, special effects are one aspect, scenes are one aspect, and audience recognition is also an aspect. With these aspects, the movie can be good. The plot is weaker, and even the plot is unreasonable.

In these aspects, the role of the director is smaller than that of the producer: the director of a film can decide how to shoot it, but he cannot decide how much to spend on it and who to shoot. What percentage of the film should be invested in special effects? How much should I invest in setting up my scene? Which star should I find to shoot in order to gain the audience's approval? These aspects involve money, and they are not small numbers, as a director, it is difficult to make a decision, and it must be decided by the producer.

A producer who develops the idea and style of the film is important for commercial films.

And the entertainment company believes that Levy can do the job: his fame and experience make people believe that he can be a good producer. (To be continued......)