Chapter Seventy-Seven: Meeting the Giants (Asking for Collections, Asking for Monthly Tickets)
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After discussing with Jiang Zhiqiang, Li Mingbao will stay in the crew completely for the next period of time, although it is impossible for him to increase the filming degree of the crew. But he can master the content of the movie, as long as it does not meet the requirements, he will immediately ask Ivan to reshoot, so as not to wait until the movie is edited, he will show a certain scene, or a certain scene is not suitable, and then get the crew up to make up for the film.
Facing Li Mingbao, the overseer, Ivan looked at the money, so he let Li Mingbao watch from the sidelines. Jason, a future director, didn't cause much trouble for Li Mingbao when he starred in "Home Alone".
Although he has never acted in a movie before, maybe his father is the director, and he is no stranger to the crew, plus this movie is not very particular about his acting skills, and many pranks and other things, Jason also likes it very much.
Therefore, when filming Jason's role, Jason basically acted in his true colors, playing a naughty child vividly, compared to Fan Shaohuang's calm and hard-working during filming, Jason seemed smart, which is more in line with the image of the child in this movie.
After almost a month of busy work, this movie "Home Alone" has been filmed by Ivan, because Li Mingbao already has the footage of the original film in his head, plus he wrote a very detailed storyboard script, so in terms of material, there is not much wasted film, so as not to shoot thousands of hours of things, and in the end, a little bit was intercepted.
Of course, just because the movie is finished doesn't mean that the movie can be taken out and watched. No matter what kind of movie it is, the final editing work is very important, and if a director wants to pour his will into the movie, the final editing is the key.
Of course, in this movie, Ivan did not have such trouble, because his editing rights had long been taken away by Li Mingbao, and the final editing rights were actually in Li Mingbao's hands.
In the process of making a film, the original film will occupy a considerable part of the entire filmmaking time. Of course, this is for ordinary films, and like those special effects films, the post-production time is generally much longer than the shooting time. Fortunately, the movie "Home Alone" does not have any special effects, it is just an ordinary story with a small cost, so it will not take long in the post-production of Zuò.
In just one week, Li Mingbao got the post-production soundtrack, subtitles, editing, and so on. When he was in Hong Kong, he also had to ask Uncle Huang Zhan to help with the soundtrack. But on the Hollywood side, there is no need at all, because the original movie was originally produced here, and now Li Mingbao only needs to get the original movie soundtrack out, and he can get it done immediately, saving a lot of time.
At the beginning of September, in Li Mingbao's hands, a sample film of "Home Alone" finally appeared, in fact, it is a sample film, but in Li Mingbao's eyes, it is already a mature movie. Now this movie is in his hands, and there is no special gap with the original version, except for the difference in the starring role, including the lens, and the original version is all taken out for release, Li Mingbao's sample film, there is basically no need to change it.
The sample came out, and Jiang Zhiqiang also breathed a sigh of relief. Before, he thought that his face would be big, and his friends here in Hollywood would help him recommend the movie to the top management of his company without even looking at the dailies. But the style of Westerners rarely substitutes friendship into their work, so Jiang Zhiqiang's previous efforts were failures.
But now that there are sample films, it is not difficult for Jiang Zhiqiang to ask those friends to watch the movie again. So when Li Mingbao's sample film just arrived, Jiang Zhiqiang called a friend at Twentieth Century Fox and said that there was a film that he needed to see.
Jiang Zhiqiang's friend actually mixed quite well in Twentieth Century Fox. Although he used to be a marginal figure selling old films, because of his serious work, he has been promoted and raised in the first two years, although he is not the top executives in Twentieth Century Fox, but he is also the deputy general manager of a department, and his department happens to be a management bank, so it can be connected to this matter.
Justin is a balding man in his forties, as a person who entered Twentieth Century Fox just out of college, and now he has worked at Twentieth Century Fox for more than 20 years. If it weren't important, he wouldn't have been able to become the deputy general manager of the bank.
You know, this department is like heaven compared to the location of processing old films with no oil and water at all. In particular, Twentieth Century Fox is still one of the Hollywood giants, and the energy of this department, even if you are not an expert, knows how important it will be.
Justin was able to get to his current position, thanks to his diligence and seriousness, coupled with his qualifications are old enough, and his ability is also good, so in more than 20 years, he has gone from a small employee who runs errands everywhere, and then became a person in the old film processing department, step by step to the position of the boss, and then transferred to the line department, and now, he has become the deputy general manager. His work experience can be made into an inspirational movie. Of course, it would only be possible for him to be put on the movie screen after he won a lot of honors, but now, it is not very likely.
His relationship with Jiang Zhiqiang is actually not as reliable as Jiang Zhiqiang and Li Mingbao boasted. Although he did have a relationship with Jiang Zhiqiang back then, after he arrived in the industry later, Jiang Zhiqiang basically did not have much chance of having a relationship with him. After all, Anle didn't do the business of introducing new films before, the cost was too high, and Anle's small plate couldn't take such a big order.
And the time he has been in the line department is not very short, even if he had some friendship with Jiang Zhiqiang before, but after many years of not having much contact, that friendship is not worth anything at all. The reason why Jiang Zhiqiang was promised this time to see the movie made by Jiang Zhiqiang's new boss was that Jiang Zhiqiang revealed that Li Mingbao is a multimillionaire and is very interested in the film industry, and will even increase the proportion of investment in this business in the future.
Although Justin is a high-level in Twentieth Century Fox, his assets are not tens of millions, and it is also a good deal to be able to meet a multi-millionaire, and this friendship is his own, not a company, and he can form a personal relationship with such a person, Justin does not mind wasting some time. What's more, this rich man heard that he is very interested in the film industry, which means that there will be many opportunities for cooperation in the future.
Westerners don't like to bring personal friendships at work, but if they can make their work more successful, they don't mind showing friendship with you.
So when Jiang Zhiqiang took Li Mingbao to the independent screening room in the office building of Twentieth Century Fox, Justin, who had been prepared for a long time, gave Jiang Zhiqiang a warm hug.
"My old friend, I haven't seen you for many years, and now you're getting more and more handsome, I heard that your main business is now preparing for the Hollywood exhibition, so we can be regarded as peers working hard under the same sky?"
"Justin, you're right, we should be peers, and maybe we will become close partners in the future, it's all up to my boss, how he decides, how I work. Well, now I will introduce you to my boss, Mr. Li, Li Mingbao. After Jiang Zhiqiang hugged Justin, he immediately introduced Li Mingbao.
"Oh, Mr. Lee, hello, young rich man. I heard Jiang say that you can become a multimillionaire in less than a year, such a thing, I thought it would just be staged in the United States, but I didn't expect that in Hong Kong, there will also be a character like you, you look so young, I can't help but be jealous of you. ”
Justin's fast and fluent English almost made Li Mingbao look ugly. Fortunately, in Hong Kong, English is also the subject, although Li Mingbao does not like to learn much, but he has some talent in language, English, the subject of Hong Kong, he will naturally say that although the British and Americans are not the same in some spoken languages, the grammar is not the same, but fortunately, Li Mingbao is also a person who has been in Hollywood for a while, and there is no big problem in communicating fluently.
In Western society, the term modesty is not very popular, so in order to show his strength, Li Mingbao also replied: "I have to say that I think I am a genius, especially in movies, I think I am very talented." Take the case of me shooting in Hong Kong, when I made my first film, it was only within half a year of my exposure to the industry, and half a year ago, I had no impression of the industry at all.
But even so, the first film I made was still in Hong Kong, not only in Hong Kong, but in the whole of East Asia. It was in this situation that I realized my unique talent, and then I made a blockbuster film, and then I came to the United States. And now, my first film shot in the U.S. has also appeared, so I want to ask you, Mr. Justin, to see if this movie is worthwhile. ”
"I have to say, Mr. Li, you are fluent in English, and you don't have the modest style that you Oriental people are used to. Of course, I'm not saying it's bad, but I appreciate it. Every genius will have something different about him, and now when I hear Mr. Li's words, I suddenly have a lot of interest in your films, so we won't waste time, now please give the sample to our projectionist, let's enjoy Mr. Li's masterpiece together. Justin was surprised that Li Mingbao was not modest at all, but it did not prevent him from dealing with Li Mingbao.