Chapter 138: Post-Production
"You're saying that your film is going to hit foreign markets?" Ge Yalong's tone was full of incredibleness, and then he looked Lin Nan up and down, as if he had re-acquainted Lin Nan: "Your kid's heart is too big!" ”
Ge Yalong suspected that the shocked tone did not make Lin Nan any dissatisfied, and he also understood Ge Yalong's mood very well, in fact, not only Ge Yalong, Lin Nan said this to anyone, and the results were nothing more than two.
First: This kid is already crazy, and we don't care about him;
Second: Who sent you to tease me?
As for those who can really believe what Lin Nan said about the impact on foreign markets, they can be counted on one hand.
Of course, Lin Nan didn't tell many people about this, and the only ones who knew about it were Wei Junbo and a few of them, and even most of the people in the crew didn't know their director's plan, let alone that they were filming a movie with the main goal of entering the foreign market.
In fact, this can't be blamed for Ge Yalong not believing, after all, Chinese films have never achieved any advantage in the competition with foreign films, and the concept that losing less is winning has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, this is still in this place of China, if you really get it abroad, it will be completely incomparable, and the best result is a fiasco, so after so many years, in fact, few people want to enter the foreign market.
If Zhang Yimou and Ge Yalong said this to enter the foreign market, then Ge Yalong would definitely be extremely supportive, after all, Zhang Yimou's strength and popularity are there, and there is still some hope for impact, but Lin Nan ......
To be honest, although he admires Lin Nan very much, but Lin Nan is only a newcomer in this circle after all, and there is only one complete film work, although he is a box office dark horse, but to be honest, those big names in the circle really don't care very much, and almost every year, there will be a few dark horses in the Chinese New Year stalls. Earn the audience's attention with an extremely coquettish posture, and then, there is no more.
Most of them will either eat their old books or go downhill, and they will eventually fall silent anyway. The reason is that luck actually accounts for a lot of the dark horse of the movie, and if you are lucky and have the right taste, you will become a dark horse.
But you can't expect to be lucky all the time, it turns out that most people are actually good at that time, only when they really feel the taste of the audience, grasp the direction of the market, and have their own independent style, such a filmmaker will have stable success and be valued by the bigwigs. For example, Zhang Yimou.
And Lin Nan now only has one "People in Embarrassment", although strength also accounts for a large component in addition to luck, but until now there is no indication that Lin Nan has grasped the direction of the market and explored the audience's taste, these things. It takes at least three or four movies to be successful before you can see it and really be taken seriously by those big shots.
So in fact, to be realistic, Lin Nan is now just a child with a little strength and good luck in the eyes of those real bigwigs, and he still needs to go through a lot of things to really grow up, and such a "child" actually said to himself that he wanted to sell the movie abroad, how could Ge Yalong not be surprised. This is something that many great directors don't dare to think about!
"How big the heart is, how big the stage is!" With a confident smile on his face, Lin Nan shook his head at Ge Yalong, whose face was full of shock and doubt, and said, "I'm still young, I'm not afraid of losing!" ”
Looking at the smile and confidence on Lin Nan's face, Ge Yalong suddenly closed his eyes and was in a trance, yes. Dare to fight, this is a young person, the Chinese film market needs such young people!
When his eyes opened again, Ge Yalong's eyes no longer had half a doubt, but with a trace of recognition and appreciation. patted Lin Nan on the shoulder, and a string of hearty laughter came out of his mouth: "Okay!" Good! Good! I didn't expect you to teach the old man a lesson today, I'm old, I have no ambition and no ambition, the Chinese film market still depends on you young people! ”
"Old Ge laughed, if it weren't for you old-timers to lead, how many detours would we have to take as young people!" In front of the old-timers, it is necessary to be humble when it is time to be modest, because the old people generally like the younger ones who are more humble, and Lin Nan knows this well.
Lin Nan's disguised praise also made Ge Yalong shake his head with a smile, and after a long time, he sighed: "Do what you want, when the juniors overcome obstacles, there will naturally be people of our older generation to shelter you from the wind and rain!" ”
After saying this, Ge Yalong left directly, looking at the back of Ge Yalong leaving, Lin Nan's heart also had a warmth flowing.
What did Ge Yalong mean by what Lin Nan knew very well, although he didn't need Ge Yalong to help him solve the problem at present, but Ge Yalong was able to negotiate with Haitian International, one of the five giants, for himself as a newcomer, Lin Nan was still very moved.
In Lin Nan's life, what he admires most are those who stick to their jobs and posts all their lives, Ge Yalong is one, and Xu Changtian is also one.
Speaking of Xu Changtian, Lin Nan remembered that he hadn't seen Xu Changtian for a long time, and he didn't know how the editor who helped him a lot a few years ago was doing now, and he still had to visit him sometime.
Ge Yalong's actions were really fast, the day after he returned from Lin Nan, the criticism on the Internet and the media about Nanshan Yixin's new film was greatly reduced, on the one hand, the media stopped because of Ge Yalong's prestige, and the major film and television companies' water armies fished in troubled waters also got the news and quickly retreated, after all, without these media on the bright side, their secret water army is easy to expose.
After everyone stopped, the fans who boycotted "Saw Horror" were not effectively organized, and the enthusiasm quickly subsided, in fact, most people were originally just joining in the fun, and now they are doing their own things when they are not busy.
After borrowing the criticism of fans and the media to keep "Chainsaw" hot failed, Lin Nan no longer hid it, but released some personal explanations about "Chainsaw" through the official website of Nanshan Film and Television Company.
The tirade can be summed up in one sentence: "This is not a simple thriller, have you ever seen me make something simple?" ”
Lin Nan's announcement was issued, and many people immediately remembered Lin Nan's title of "miracle maker", and remembered the Nanshan memory who created several classics.
"NTU wouldn't really make a thriller a comedy, would it?"
"It's very possible that the urine of the south is very good!"
"The thriller picture on the official website is probably also used by NTU to fool people!"
"It must be so, NTU is too bad to tease us in this way, no doubt about visual comedy movies!"
After this announcement was issued, fans' thinking immediately turned to a direction that Lin Nan himself didn't expect, fans actually thought that what he said about "not a simple thriller" meant a funny film, and even some netizens imitated Lin Nan's tone and said: "This is not a simple thriller, have you ever seen me shoot something that is not funny?" ”
Lin Nan is in no mood to explain this new wave of misunderstandings, anyway, when the movie really comes out, everyone will know what kind of movie it is.
The filming of "Chainsaw" went very quickly, because the actors used, the scene was actually so little, and the filming was relatively easy, and after several leading actors found their senses, the filming progress was faster.
Filming began in early February, and by the end of February, when Kong Xi's Jiansaw pulled the iron door of the bathroom and announced the end of the game to a terrified Adam, the entire filming was completed.
After the filming was completed, Lin Nan took a few people back to the United States with James, and this time he came to the United States not to see James off, but to come to the United States for the post-production of the film, and by the way to find a partner for the movie.
The post-production special effects company has been contacted for a long time, and it is a very good post-production special effects production company in the United States, especially in horror, thriller, suspense and supernatural have unusually rich experience.
Lin Nan is also very willing to spend money in this post-production, a movie that only took more than 4 million yuan for the entire shooting, and more than 5 million yuan for post-production.
The biggest reason why he is so willing to spend money is, of course, because Lin Nan has high requirements for the details of the movie and strives for perfection, and he believes that only high-quality products made with heart can make more audiences willing to buy tickets to the cinema.
In the days of post-production, Lin Nan has been supervising and proposing the effects he needs with the production team, and at the same time, Wei Junbo has also traveled to almost all the powerful film production and distribution companies in Hollywood, such as Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount, MGM, Universal, Warner, ......
But these giants don't have much interest in Wei Junbo, the movie that the Chinese people say, so Wei Junbo still didn't achieve any effect after running around for nearly a week, which also made Wei Junbo a little frustrated, is it really impossible for Huaxia movies to succeed in foreign countries?
Lin Nan didn't believe this, and Wei Junbo naturally didn't believe in this either, so he continued to negotiate with these giants.
After many twists and turns, Wei Junbo finally contacted an old classmate, who was in charge of Paramount Pictures. Gascohen is familiar with each other, and it happened that he signed a line between the two, and Sixel couldn't refuse directly because of the situation, and it happened that he was idle again, so he agreed to talk to Wei Junbo.
Wei Junbo naturally would not let go of this hard-won opportunity, and immediately notified Lin Nan of this matter, and then went to Sibel's office with Lin Nan and Lin Nan with the samples.