After confirming the matter of the TV series, a few friends did not stay in the company anymore, they went directly to the Lynn bar opposite the company, ordered a few glasses of wine and celebrated.

And in the process of celebrating, they are also chatting about some future plans. With such a large sum of money in one go, they naturally think about how to spend it.

"Nick, you must have something on your mind, right? It takes four months for a TV series to air, so aren't you going to do anything in the summer? Now that you have some money in your hands, you don't want to think about movies? When it comes to the future, Clarke's main concern is still movies, "Now that we have money, shouldn't we think about it?" ”

"Clark, you're too anxious." Levy made a gesture and motioned to Clark not to worry, "Let's not talk about our money, is there any other use, just one thing is enough to give us a headache, do you have any good ideas to make a movie?" ”

"Don't you?" Clark asked rhetorically.

"Do you think creativity is a beer in a bar, and it's okay to have as many beers as you want?" Levy asked rhetorically, "Moreover, it will be broadcast in September, and we will start writing the script again in July, and we will start filming the TV series in August, with only two months of rest, starting from writing the script, and then looking for actors, to finishing the filming of a movie, post-production, finding a distributor, release, publicity, do you really think we can complete it in two months?" This is not San Fernando, and the movie can't be so nonsense. ”

There are many ways to shoot movies, in fact, there is no way to be fast - the big deal is not to do the set, it all depends on the director's lens to feel the shooting of the real scene, there are no actors, it all depends on the unfamous amateur actors to play with all their hearts, there is no equipment, let the photographer carry an 80-pound camera, post-production, editing is done with computer cutting, sound effects, or not at all, or find a few ready-made songs to use first, anyway: everything is improvised, shoot it out.

Such a movie, Levy is not going to not. No matter how he said it, he was also a director from China, and he still knew a little about the methods of shooting movies in Hong Kong back then. But what is photographed like this is a money-saving thing. In a short period of time, low cost, such things seem to make money quickly, but in fact, they are consuming the future of the entire industry. Hong Kong people shoot a movie in a few days, and they can make hundreds of thousands of dollars when it is released immediately after filming, which seems to be very profitable, but the result of them doing so is to destroy the entire Hong Kong film industry. Hong Kong people don't understand this truth, and even if they do, they don't bother to care, because those people are all masters who only care about making money for themselves, and they don't have that vision when they think about this kind of thing in the long run.

Of course, Levy doesn't care about overdrawing the future of American cinema. It's just that what's the point of making such a money-saving movie? As a director, you can't even express your own thoughts in a movie you shoot, so what kind of movie is it?

"This summer, we are mainly resting, work, I think, the main thing to do, is to prepare the script for the film that we are going to shoot in the future. I think to myself, and you should think about whether there are any good ideas that you can use to communicate. Also, if there's any good novel on the market that you think is suitable for changing into a screenplay, you can recommend it to me, or, as far as I know, there are quite a few screenwriters in Hollywood who are selling their own scripts, and if you come across a good one, you can give it to me - money is not a problem, we got this loan, and we can't spend it anyway. If you want to shoot a movie, you have to have a script first, and if you don't have a suitable script, what will we shoot? ”

From May to September, the TV series was launched, and it took a total of three or four months during the period, and in such a short period of time, in Levy's opinion, it was good to be able to find a suitable script.

The movie script is not a TV drama script, the TV drama script is better, because the TV drama script can be loosely structured, easy to understand, and exaggerated, after all, one of the important requirements of a TV series is that no matter which episode you start watching, you can quickly understand it, and if you want to watch it, if it is too profound, the TV series audience will scold the street. The movie script is different, the structure he shows needs to be more refined, the shooting technique, the lens conversion requirements are higher, the actors' acting skills, lighting, music, all aspects have to have detailed requirements, and even so detailed that each shot has to be written, it looks like only two hours, but the script is much more difficult to write than the TV drama script.

If the TV drama script is just a cup of boiled water to quench your thirst, then the movie script has to be a cup of tea, and how much taste you can taste from it is the meaning of this cup of tea. Since Levy wants to take movies as his main direction, it is not too much to put more thought into the movie script. If you make a movie with a few flying pages, you don't have enough respect for your own ideals.

And how can you have a good script? This is also a very worrying thing.

Of course, Levy can consider directly trying to recall the movies he has seen before, and then copy them out. This idea is not bad, but the problem is that Levy can't remember clearly which of the movies he has seen are adapted from novels and which are his original books, which must be copied and mixed...... Hehe. Moreover, he has been in the entertainment industry for a long time, and he also knows that some scripts have been accumulated for many years in the process of writing, and those authors have quite a lot of revised versions of the original manuscript in their hands. If you just copy it out yourself, you might really be sued in court.

What to do then? Do you insist on claiming that your ideas are in line with others, or do you claim to pay tribute and give compensation? Levy didn't want to do either of these things. Plagiarism is shameless enough, and if you plagiarize and insist that it is your own, it will be too shameless.

Therefore, even if it is plagiarized, you have to think about which movie can be sure that the author has not yet started to write, and then you can copy it - who said that plagiarism is not technical work?

Of course, Levy is not bent on plagiarism: if plagiarism is the only way out, then this life is too boring. In his heart, he still wants to use other ways to collect good scripts. Since I am a time-traveler, I have an impression of many novels that can be filmed into screenplays. If you have the opportunity to carefully collect novels, scripts and other things that are circulating in the market, then you can also have a number of good scripts that you can't shoot in ten years. And what about ten years from now? By that time, I was already mixed up, and I was afraid that a good script would not be delivered to me?

The best thing about a traverser is his vision and insight - even if he doesn't have a plug-in that automatically copies countless scripts, Levy can still find his way out.

"In addition, I would like to make some other investments. In the future, making movies will be our main business, but making movies may not always make money, especially sometimes, maybe we are not market-oriented, so I want to take some money out and make other investments. If the investment can go well, we can also have a good way out in the future. ”

Levy's decision made Michael laugh, "When it comes to money, I can remember that you are a Jew......"

Levi shrugged, and that's what Levy wanted to do in the past few months: on the one hand, he had to gather material to see how he would make the film in the future, and on the other hand, he had to find a way to make money.

It costs money to make a movie -- a blockbuster film can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, which is not a small number. Whether it is in Levy's memory or coming to this life, Levi knows that many movies originally had a good plan, but because of insufficient funds, they became castrated versions. It's hard for Levy to accept that situation, if you want to make a movie, you'd better have enough money to do it, and if you can't get the investment, you can do it yourself.

As for the money, there are plenty of ways for him. As a traverser, look at what is around you, everything is money. If nothing else, it's 96 now, and if you buy some Yahoo shares yourself, then by the end of 98, the price of these stocks will increase more than ten times. How much is it more than ten times in two years? Of course not. It's 1996, whether it's Google or any other website, it's not yet established, and it's not difficult to get ahead of the curve if you want to invest first. I remember that when Google was founded, the company that injected them with 25 million yuan of capital and got 10% of the equity - this figure is a return of tens of billions.

I really don't have much energy and experience to do these things, and it is very likely that I will be cheated like in "The Social Network", but there is no need to be afraid, just hire a private equity manager, determine the general direction, and leave things to him to do, and I can be sure that I will have a good income in the future - even if I am cheated, I can get a lot of benefits. In particular, Levy does not have any dreams of becoming the richest man in the world, a business elite, what he wants is a little money to use for himself in the future.

When do you have to make money making movies? Moreover, in order to make money, he shoots movies that he doesn't like, or even shoots something that makes him disgusting, what kind of director is he aspiring?

Take out a small amount of money at any time and throw it into the booming online market, which is enough to ensure that you have money to use in the future.

"Besides......" Levy pondered for a moment before he spoke, "Alexander, do you see if it is possible for our company to develop other departments in the future?" For example, a special effects company or something. I don't know as much about these business things as you do, you can help me take a look, this aspect will definitely have great development in the future, and it is worth our investment. ”

"You've said so much, most of it is still work, and there are very few things to really rest." Clark couldn't help but laugh as he listened to Levy's arrangement.

"Who says I don't want to rest? It's just that your way of partying and finding a woman to rest is not suitable for me. ”

"And how do you want to rest?"

"I haven't thought about it, maybe I'm going to travel around and see the Three Gorges in China? Maybe it's going to Atlanta to see the Olympics, or to see other sports, Jordan, Tyson, Ronaldo, these people haven't retired yet, right? Otherwise, visit the people I admire, like Kubrick...... There are too many things to do, and if you don't do them actively, you won't have the opportunity to do them in the future. Believe me, I know how to make the most of my vacation better than you do - because I know what scenery is worth admiring. ”