Levy talks about Japanese culture, but in fact, what comes to mind is more movies related to Chinese culture. Compared with the Japanese who are unwilling to cooperate, the people in China are willing to cooperate, but their attitude makes Levy sigh a little.

Most of the modes of cooperation with the Japanese that he thought of were actually things that he had thought about before and how to make domestic films shoot at a high level. It's not that he hasn't thought about making some contributions and doing something for the development of domestic films. However, these things can only be thought about: if he really lures anyone to Hollywood, I am afraid that it will not take three days, and these directors who have arrived in Hollywood will start to shoot Hollywood-style movies, and Chinese culture or something will all be thrown aside.

In fact, the national conditions and cultures of each country are different, and the movies shot must be different. Pay attention to the connotation of the movie and pay attention to your own thinking, and you can make a good movie. But if you have to catch up with the international trend and ignore your own culture, then the movie will only be nothing.

Ang Lee is more successful than Director Zhang and others because he pays attention to deep cultural exchanges, rather than shallow big breasts and gorgeous colors. Ignoring the deeper things, focusing only on the surface, and then thinking that 'Hollywood likes kung fu movies' and 'Hollywood likes big breasts', this approach is really ridiculous.

Compared to them, Japanese people still value Japanese culture more: their manga and game industry is supported by Japanese culture. Although, in Levy's view, Japanese culture is nothing compared to Chinese culture. However, they have indeed made their culture into an industry, and they have made profits from it.

This situation is really a bit embarrassing.

Levy's words made Yamada still ponder.

In recent years, there have not been many master-level directors in Japan: Japan's hierarchical system is strict, and it is impossible for a director to do it without more than ten years of hard work before he wants to direct a movie. And even if you do it as a director, because Japan is the production company responsible for the shooting mode. So the director doesn't have much power either. More than ten years of hard work. In the end, it was just a screw that was called around, which made the talents in the Japanese film industry quite young. Akira Kurosawa can be world-famous, and Takeshi Kitano can dominate Japan. But now the young directors are inside. But there are not many people who are talented enough to go out and explore.

If Levy can really bring a Japanese director to Hollywood. Cultivating him into a good enough talent, then being able to make a movie with enough flavor is indeed a way out. The Japanese are worried that the adaptation of manga and games will not look good, which will cause damage to Japanese culture. However, they can also see the huge benefits of shooting live-action films: the influence of the third dimension is greater than that of the second dimension, and everyone understands this. Levy offers a viable solution for cooperation, and that is sufficient.

It's not that Colombia hasn't thought about training directors to go to Hollywood, but the risks are too great. Columbia has been losing money all these years, and then spending money to train a Japanese director to go to Hollywood? The probability of success is too small, and it costs a lot of money.

Now, Levy has offered to do it. Yamada has heard a lot about what Levy has done since his debut, and he seems to have basically made no mistakes, maybe, it is really possible for him to get this done?

"I have to ask the company for advice on this matter first." After thinking about it, Yamada still didn't dare to say yes.

"Please. Also, as far as I know, there are some games and manga in Japan that don't particularly have a Japanese flavor. For example, the game Resident Evil, such a game, we can try to cooperate first. ”

If these words had just been said, Levy estimated that Yamada would not care very much: they wanted more benefits, and it was impossible for them to let go until they got the benefits. However, now that Levy has proposed the possibility of cooperation, things are different.

"Capcom's game?" Yamada's face was a little embarrassed, "They're not very talkative...... Still, we'll give it a try. ”

Levy nodded and didn't say anything more. Although Capcom and Sony are not very compatible, he believes that Capcom has no enmity with money.

Just let them do these things, and I believe they will give Levy a satisfactory answer.

"Then, for the next period of time, please visit Japan now, we will take care of these things for you!" ――

The opening of the Tokyo Film Festival is imminent, and as one of the main guests, Levy is certainly not just a tourist. With the help of Columbia, he also met with some Japanese fiction writers, manga artists, film directors and other characters, and had some exchanges with each other.

Levy said that Japanese cinema is in decline, and he doesn't think it's wrong. However, although Japanese cinema has declined, there are still many influences left. For example, their manga artists have a very strong foundation in storyboarding, and their fiction writers also pay attention to scene descriptions when writing novels - because most Japanese movies are adapted from these things, and their authors will naturally pay attention to these.

Of course, these are no longer Levy's main jobs. He just visited writers such as Shoji Shimada to express his love for their work, and he didn't do anything more.

At this time, Levy was doing something else: he was here in Japan, and he was also receiving some guests.

"Mr. Hong, please take a seat, it is really my honor to be invited to Japan. I've seen enough of your movies that I didn't expect to meet you one day. ”

The guest who was complimented by Levy was a big fat man with a rather plump body. It's just that although this fat man is bloated, he has a unique shrewd and capable temperament, which can even be said to be domineering, which ordinary people don't have.

"I didn't expect that you not only know Jackie Chan, but also know me." Hearing Levy's compliment, Hong Fat Man laughed, he didn't have the slightest sense of modesty, and directly accepted Levy's compliment, "I heard Yuan Laoba talk about you, but I didn't expect to meet so soon." He said that you have your own opinions on Hong Kong movies, and now it seems that you dare not say anything else, you can know me, which means that you have at least watched a lot of Hong Kong movies. Yuan Laoba's friend is also my friend, you can tell me anything directly, you don't have to be polite. ”

"Mr. Hong is really cheerful." Looking at the fat man in front of him, Levi was also quite satisfied: there would be no mistake in cooperating with this person.

In addition to Japanese scripts and the development of the Korean film industry, there is another important place that Levi has to consider when he comes to Asia, that is, China.

China's film industry can be said to still have a lot of things: in terms of prop production, they can provide props for movies like The Mummy II. In terms of shooting scenes, many scenic spots in China are treasures that have not yet been discovered. In terms of actors, scripts, and soundtracks, China also has its own outstanding features, and what to say is the most anticipated domestic film, which is naturally the identity of the second box office in the world in the future of domestic films.

No director will refuse to open the door to China's domestic market.

It is not easy to open the door to the domestic market, and in memory, this has even become a problem that makes Americans scratch their heads. They have made various efforts to open up the domestic market, and even for the sake of the market, to have Chinese actors appear in American films - although the image of these people in American movies is not so satisfying, and it can even be said that it is self-defeating.

However, the direction of their efforts also illustrates a problem: the audience of any country is more aware of local things, and if you want to win the favor of the audience, you must please the audience there - in order to please the Japanese box office, the Americans made a karate kid in the 80s, and in order to please the Chinese audience, they adapted it into a kung fu dream - this is the most typical example. It's a bit ugly, but it works.

These things, Levy also considered. If you want to open up the film market in China in the future, you have to have some contacts with the domestic film industry - Levy has no idea of helping the development of domestic films, but he is very interested in establishing contacts with domestic films and preparing for his own films to enter China in the future.

And what he can contact now is to contact Hong Fatzi through Yuan Baye - as a bigwig-level figure in Hong Kong movies, Hong Fatzi still has a lot of influence in Hong Kong, and it is still okay to use him as a springboard to China.

And Hong Fatzi himself has never given up the idea of wanting to develop in Hollywood, and he is also very interested in Levy's initiative, and even took the initiative to run from Hong Kong to Japan to meet Levy.

Seeing that Levi was very respectful to him, Hong Fatzi was also immediately happy, and after he became excited, he immediately began to take care of everything, "If you go to Hong Kong, just look for me if you have something." I don't dare to say anything else, but in that place in Hong Kong, if I want to do something, everyone has to sell me some face. ”

Levi could only nod at this: Hong Fat Man does have this face, "Then, I happen to have something to trouble you...... Mr. Hung, I want to find a Hong Kong screenwriter, can you help me find one? ”

"Who? As soon as you speak, I will immediately call him to come to Japan. Hong Fatzi immediately spoke.

"Then thank you in advance, Zhuang Wenqiang, the screenwriter, may I ask, do you know each other?"

Since Hong Fatzi is used as a springboard, then, on the other side of the springboard, you have to find something. (To be continued......)

PS: Most of Japan's war-reflecting works, such as the works of Hayao Miyazaki and others, reflect the damage caused to Japan by World War II, and Shoji Shimada and Haruki Murakami are among the few writers who mention that World War II requires Japan to first reflect on the harm it has caused to the people of other Asian countries.