The crew did not have many location scenes in Paris, and the difficulty was not great, the most difficult place was to close the road in the extremely prosperous and crowded city of Paris, no matter the time and space were quite limited, Duke had to direct the crew to complete the planned scenes with the fastest speed, quality and quantity, fortunately, Liam? Neeson is in good shape, and as long as he can maintain his good condition, the progress of the shooting can be guaranteed.

On the viaduct of the temporary road closure, the cars are jammed, and the camera on the slide keeps reversing, right in front of the camera, Liam? Neeson moved his two long legs and chased forward desperately, and the actor, who was over 50 years old, almost reached the limit of his running speed.

“Cut！”

Behind the camera, Duke looked up and shouted, "Take a five-minute break, Ruili, and touch up Liam's makeup." ”

Tall Liam? Neeson leaned over a car and bent over to catch his breath, even after systematic training, this long uphill run was still a little unbearable.

Duke went over and asked him a few words, extending the break to fifteen minutes.

The role of Agent Brian determines that it is impossible to use a younger actor, a retired agent of an advanced age, and can also use hand-to-hand combat to take out a bunch of young and strong bandits, which can only happen in movies.

The fifteen-minute break was already the limit, and although the actual shooting was not done on the viaduct near Charles de Gaulle Airport, the traffic here was not too heavy, but the crew could not have taken up too much time.

Duke stood up and walked to the viaduct, looking into the distance for a moment. Look at the crew's blockade again, Tina? Faye crossed the blockade and was walking briskly towards him.

"The plane has already taken off." She walked over to Duke and said. "Evie will call you when she arrives in Australia."

"Hmm." Duke nodded.

Ivanka only stayed here for four days, and then went to Australia, which is now a period of rapid development of the company, and it is still very far away to promote it to the world, but it is not difficult to enter the European and English-speaking regions that are closely connected with North America.

As for the company's listing, although Ivanka mentioned it several times after returning from New York. Duke has dragged it down for various reasons, and it is normal for a company to go public to seek funds for expansion at a certain stage of development. And this company has only invested but not produced for several years, and Ivanka has the idea of going public, which seems normal to him.

However, according to Duke's understanding. Listing this thing later. There seems to be a Donald? Trump's shadow, he doesn't want that troublesome guy, to reach into his cake.

Of course, going public is a necessary choice in the future, and if you want to continue to expand, you will undoubtedly need a huge amount of money, and Duke does have some net worth, but most of it is not cash. And there's no way he's going to put a lot of money into a project with an uncertain future.

The time to market can wait a little longer, at least after Google goes public.

The short break ended quickly. Tina? Faye seems to have something else to do, and Duke tells her to talk about it later, and the next shot won't take too long.

Liam gasping all the time? Neeson basically recovered, and although the last shot NG four times, it took less than forty minutes for Duke to shout through.

The scene on the viaduct was completely over, and the crew left some of the crew to finish here, while Duke took the crew involved in the filming and drove to a minority neighborhood in the city.

Moving in a car, Tina? Fei talked about something that he didn't have time to mention just now, "There is news from Warner's distribution department that their international distribution department has basically negotiated with the people on the other side. ”

Hearing her say this, Duke immediately looked interested.

"The other party agrees with your conditions in principle, "Hurricane Rescue" can be released at the same time, and suggests that you take the film to the Shanghai Film Festival in early June next year."

Tina? Fei opened the work log, glanced at it, and said, "The other party also has a condition, asking you to pass the screening version of the film to the film no later than mid-April, and they need to ......"

"Need to review?" Duke said.

"Yes." Tina? Fei nodded, "It needs to be reviewed before the film can be released over there." ”

This is a normal situation, not to mention now, even in the past ten years, any film released in the theater market over there must be reviewed, in fact, all over the world, before the film is released, it will basically face this situation.

For example, in North America, although the MPAA's rating system is not mandatory, which distribution company will not send a rating when it releases a film? If it is not rated, the theater chain will almost always refuse to show it.

Thinking for a few minutes, Duke vs. Tina? Fei said, "Promise them." ”

Regarding the issue of a certain big scissors, Duke is not worried, although the films he made after entering Hollywood are very American, they do not touch the sensitive content of the opposite side, such as the content about the South China Sea in "Brave Island", which has become Iran and the Persian Gulf in his hands......

And in the future, no matter if anyone's film wants to be released in theaters on the other side, it must go through this procedure.

Although the review standards on the other side are always erratic, and the content that can pass the review today may not be able to pass tomorrow, but the domestic films that are only for them are still relatively clear in terms of the quantitative standards for foreign films.

Duke used to be helpless when it came to a certain big scissors, but after spending time in Hollywood, he also thoroughly understood that no matter what country or region, it is impossible to completely allow audio-visual products that actually have propaganda and incitement to circulate at will.

Political correctness is a must choice for mainstream audio-visual products in any country, and this big scissor does have many defects such as inconsistent standards and too strong arbitrariness, but it cannot simply throw some responsibility on their heads.

For example, some of the drama projects he had worked in in his previous life.

At that time, he had been in the crews of several dramas, and he actually knew very well that the popularity of dramas was not only due to the existence of big scissors, but also inseparable from the market.

In addition to the mandatory requirements of big scissors, it is not difficult to find that among the many types of TV dramas, divine dramas can be said to be the clearest types of dramas, with a global common model - a clear confrontation between the good and evil camps, the ending of justice and the final victory, and the plot of life and death......

And after the high development of the Internet, no one can deny that the age of the audience in front of the TV shows a trend of aging, and gradually becomes mainly born in the fifties and sixties.

There is a certain market demand, which is destined to have room for the survival of the drama, especially for TV stations and production companies, the risk of the drama is small and the benefit is large.

First of all, the drama is a politically correct TV series, and there are a lot of "just needs" - all kinds of anniversaries must be broadcast; secondly, the genre of the drama is clear, and there are a group of loyal target viewers like older audiences; Compared with other dramas, divine dramas do not need stars, the investment is relatively small, and the replay rate is high and the income is high. At the same time, the dramas that are popular, exclusive and have local characteristics often receive government support, and the financial subsidies are considerable.

Although he didn't really become famous in his previous life, Duke's turning point came from the drama crew, pyrotechnician is a necessary position in the drama, and the existence of a large number of drama crews also provides opportunities for newcomers to take the lead.

The behind-the-scenes department may not be inconspicuous, but from the cast and crew of the drama, it is not difficult to understand the opportunities created by this kind of drama for the cast and crew in front of and behind the scenes.

Divine drama is a type of drama with very low requirements for the cast and crew, especially the actors-it is not beautiful, not tall, and has a dirty temperament, and may not be able to perform other dramas, but generally speaking, there is no problem in acting in divine dramas.

In fact, many second- and third-tier idol artists who look very glamorous may not have made much money as drama actors who have almost never heard of their names.

Duke once heard some producers mention that some second- and third-tier artists, specializing in idol dramas and life dramas, may also need to work around at home and provide living expenses; And the actors of the divine drama, as long as they work hard enough, often have endless scenes and can earn a lot of income.

To exaggerate it, in the film and television industry, where opportunities are far more important than ability, the cast and crew of the drama may be relatively close to the category of "one point of hard work and one point of gain".

The popularity of certain types of movies and TV series is often caused by many reasons, and it is impossible to simply attribute the problem to any one person or unit.

Like Captain America slashing Hitler and Quentin? In the same way that Tastino stewed the Nazi leadership, both in China and the United States, had a similar attitude towards film and television - political correctness must be encouraged and romantic imagination allowed.

Of course, proper imagination and additions bring more entertainment to the entertainment repertoire, and everyone likes to see it, but adding some vulgar elements can only be said to be really complained.

In short, as a former industry insider, Duke roughly knows where the bottom line of the big scissors is, and he is a director who can make timely adjustments, not Christopher? Diehards like Nolan.

Arriving in the minority community, Duke took a few shots and ended the day.

There weren't many locations in Paris, but they were quite fragmented, and the filming schedule had to be adjusted from time to time according to the relevant conditions in the city, and in mid-January 2004, the crew finally ushered in the final scene.

All the difficult shots were basically shot in Burbank's studio, but for Liam? For Neeson, the hardest part of the scene was undoubtedly the running scene, and when he finished his last run on a bridge over the Seine, Duke announced that the shoot was over.

The film took only two months to complete all the shots, and Duke didn't stay in Paris, he needed to return to Los Angeles to continue post-production, and he also needed to make his presence felt in various occasions during the sprint of the awards season.

It is sometimes important to be familiar with many judges, the first of which is the upcoming Golden Globe Awards. (To be continued......)

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