Chapter 188: Finished Films and Film Festivals
"The Green Hornet" was completed on time, but no one had the heart to hold a celebration party, because the crew had to stay in the United States because of the inspection. Zhou Xingxing re-shot the ending scene according to the script, but the scene shot at that time was edited out by him for another ending, that is, Bell looked at the burning World Trade Center and asked Zhou Xingxing: "Doesn't this scene make you change your decision?" ”
Zhou Xingxing nodded, and the two of them stepped forward towards the World Trade Building.
But this ending was seen by someone from Columbia and said it couldn't be used.
This is a very sensitive time, and Americans have begun their own ideological censorship. Columbia was very worried that using 911 as a scene would arouse the disgust of the American people, so Zhou Xingxing had to reshoot the ending scene according to the original arrangement.
But the ending was not wasted, and Columbia had captured the essence of businessmen, who planned to release a director's cut of the footage they had already filmed after the limelight had passed, and even if the film was so popular, it might be re-released in 3D by the 10th or 20th anniversary.
However, the crew of "The Green Hornet" had to stay in the United States for a while. Although everyone usually hopes to go to the country of hope, but after the 911 world, the country of hope no longer has the name of the country of hope, and at this time the whole country is looking miserable, and the powerful people with excess energy have begun to shout for revenge. The crowd began to feel insecure, and Miyamoto saw more than once people in the street with guns drawn and looking around, which scared the Japanese and Hong Kongers enough. Coupled with their Asian appearance, there is always a sense of disobedience among the American population. Although Kasuga has repeatedly contacted Colombia, it is simply not possible for the U.S. aviation industry to organize enough capacity in a short period of time. The Colombian side can only say that it is willing to entertain the crew and start the post-production of the film by the way, but the specific release time is still far away.
Shen Zhenghui himself knows that the 911 period is China's best period of strategic opportunity, after a series of events from Yugoslavia to the South China Sea show that the Americans have begun to press China as their biggest adversary step by step. But 911 Time shattered their expectations. Pulling the Americans' attention from East Asia to the west to Afghanistan and Iraq. It is no wonder that after learning of the 911 incident, the top leader immediately called George W. Bush and gave the most direct support to the fight against terrorism around the world, of course. The Americans also reciprocated. It has always given the title of terrorist organization to the organization that has been causing trouble in western China.
In fact, it doesn't matter at all what the Americans think. After all, they are the five permanent members of the United Nations, and whoever does things just looks at each other's faces, is it difficult to count on each other's help when doing things? Verbal support is sufficient. The Bush administration, which was originally a weak government, suddenly turned into a powerful military junta, and the US war plane rumbled again.
However, this time the supreme leader played a trick, and when he was talking to the US president on the phone, he seemed to casually mention that there is a Chinese crew currently stranded in the United States, and the members of the crew are about to attend the 10 th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival to be held in Yongcheng, China.
Naturally, Bush Jr. said yes and did not let the Chinese side send planes, but the United States arranged planes to go to China. The two also talked on the phone about the upcoming APEC meeting in Shanghai, and President Bush said that he was very much looking forward to this visit to China.
After hanging up the phone, Bush Jr. handed over the task of letting the Chinese crew go home to his cabinet members, and this was another burst of chickens and dogs, because Bush did not ask the name of the crew at all. So a group of people made a round of phone calls to the heads of several major Hollywood companies, and finally found out that this crew was the crew of Columbia's "The Green Hornet", and their members were not only Chinese, but also Japanese.
Now the Americans are a little dumbfounded, according to the previous understanding, all these people should be packed and sent to Pingjing or Puhai, but this is mixed with how the Japanese should deal with it, and it seems inappropriate to send the Chinese away. So they came up with a genius idea to pack up and send these people to Hong Kong, and then it was none of our business how you go. So the crew soon got the news that they would be able to fly to Hong Kong on a special plane immediately, after which they could decide for themselves whether to go to Japan or the mainland.
The crew was still a little confused when they received the news, and they didn't know what was going on. The Colombian staff knew that this incident had alarmed the president, and they were also surprised, and for a while, the background of spring seemed a little too mysterious.
In fact, only Zhou Xingxing was invited to the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival in the crew. After "Shaolin Football", his relationship with the mainland film industry, especially the relationship between several bigwigs, was a little stiff, and he himself knew this, so he had to put down his body to participate in some activities in the mainland film industry in order to ease the relationship. This time I was stranded in the United States, and I thought I wouldn't be able to catch up with the film festival, although there are objective reasons, but others hate you and ignore your suffering. This time, Zhou Xingxing himself was relieved in his heart.
Another relief was Miyamoto, according to the plan, the editing and post-production of the film should be in Japan, at least in Hong Kong, because in these two places, the cost is much lower than in the United States. Originally, I was stranded in the United States thinking that I had to edit and post-produce zuò in the United States, and the cost went up, but now I go back to Japan to make zuò, so I can save a lot of money, and at the same time, Kasuga can also reimburse a little more account, which is really a double thing.
On the other hand, Shen Zhenghui also received an invitation to the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, in fact, his "Assembly Number" (above) (below) was released in 2001, this time his work was not nominated at all at the film festival, "Black Fist" was released, but this kind of film is impossible to get a title in this kind of film festival, so he got the identity of an award presenter.
This is exactly what Shen Zhenghui needs recently. During this time, he had no intention of calculating the huge profits he was about to get with Mitsumi Fukuda, and he was fed up with having to take hordes of bodyguards everywhere and accept the accusations and scolding of Japanese TV and tabloids. In other words, he couldn't stand the Japanese environment, and he was tired of being afraid of a possible assassination. The invitation to the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival just gave him a chance to relax.
Of course, bodyguards are still indispensable, but Shen Zhenghui feels that stepping on Chinese soil has suddenly increased his safety factor to a very high level. He didn't even take a detour through Hong Kong and flew directly to Puhai. Then transfer to the car to reach Yongcheng, Wuyue Province.
Zhou Xingxing also arrived in Yongcheng. The organizing committee's reception of celebrities can only be said to be average, like Zhou Xingxing, it is inevitable that he will feel a little cold, and for people like Shen Zhenghui, who has four bodyguards around him and a number of bodyguards on the periphery. It doesn't matter if it's hot or cold. The people sent by the organizing committee to communicate and coordinate were smacked at Shen Zhenghui's style.
As a result, Shen Zhenghui and Zhou Xingxing jointly presented the award for the best TV movie.
Domestic film festivals are still informal. Walking the red carpet is almost a formality, but the appearance of Zhou Xingxing and Shen Zhenghui still attracted many audiences in Yongcheng, especially Zhou Xingxing wearing a black suit. When they came out with their ties, the onlookers shouted and applauded.
In comparison, Shen Zhenghui is much dwarfed, he took a lot of effort to convince his bodyguards that his safety was guaranteed, and he was allowed to walk on the red carpet alone, and neither of them brought a female companion, which can also be said to be a big mistake arranged by the organizing committee, if they are mature, they will know that they don't know how many women are willing to take the arms of these two men and walk out to take pictures of reporters for free.
Zhou Xingxing and Shen Zhenghui are quite stylish, waving their hands, posing, and enthusiastically interacting with fans. Under the limelight of the two of them, the others also had to cheer up, and it was no longer perfunctory at the beginning. However, most of the filmmakers Shen Zhenghui himself don't know much, and many people are not in the commercial film system, so Shen Zhenghui looked at it and found that he was most familiar with Brother Biao's face, and most of the others didn't know it.
He and Zhou Xingxing walked the red carpet and signed their names, and then walked into the award hall. Shen Zhenghui chatted with Zhou Xingxing about the filming of "The Green Hornet", in fact, the editing right of "The Green Hornet" is not in Zhou Xingxing's hands at all, his job is to finish the movie and hand over other things. Fortunately, with Shen Zhenghui's efforts, Kasuga was able to edit this film, Shen Zhenghui promised Zhou Xingxing that the effect of the final editing of the film must be confirmed by Zhou Xingxing himself, in fact, the final editing was mainly done by Miyamoto, and Shen Zhenghui still has confidence in Miyamoto.
But at this time, people kept coming forward to greet Shen Zhenghui and Zhou Xingxing. Shen Zhenghui filmed two "Assembly Number" this year, and under this special shape, he refreshed the box office record of domestic films in one fell swoop, made great achievements in business, and also greatly expanded the theme and field of the main theme film, as well as the shooting method. In this way, everyone in the film industry is in danger, not only the directors of commercial films, but also a group of literary film directors and directors in the system, who are full of feelings in their hearts.
Especially this guy didn't get mixed up from the domestic film industry at all, he didn't even have a film major at all, after graduating from university, he started acting and making movies from Japan, and he casually became popular in Asia, and created a box office record that exceeded the box office of all domestic films in a year. It's really more people than people die, and goods are thrown around. The most angry thing is that this guy is still very rich, and when he first filmed "Assembly", he took out 100 million yuan to make a movie, when everyone thought he was wronged, he succeeded, and the success was so dazzling, so that everyone else in the film industry felt like a fool, and he was in the film industry for all these years, and he couldn't compare to a layman.
Of course, there are also those who stick to their own positions and disdain Shen Zhenghui.
But not all people are so backbone, and many people want to take advantage of this opportunity to have a relationship with Shen Zhenghui. It's better to get money from him.
So Shen Zhenghui was surprised to find that several famous top directors in China actually attended this event, and several of them even came up to greet him with a smile and chatted by the way.
Because "Assembly" was released this year, there is no possibility of winning an award at all, and Shen Zhenghui's relaxed attitude will not make people have some associations.
Director Feng seemed to have a good relationship with Zhou Xingxing, he stepped forward to greet Shen Zhenghui and pulled Zhou Xingxing aside, and the two of them talked together.
Director Zhang's smile was a little shy, he first complimented Shen Zhenghui, saying that "Assembly" has set a new benchmark and is the first blockbuster in China.
For such compliments. Shen Zhenghui was a little embarrassed. He took away the name of the creator of the blockbuster from Director Zhang, but in his heart, maybe he was too impressed by later generations, and he really didn't think that 100 million yuan was too much money.
Seeing that Shen Zhenghui is very talkative. Director Zhang said what he thought. He also wanted to make a blockbuster film. The subject matter is similar to Jing Ke's assassination of King Qin.
When he said his thoughts, Director Chen on the side didn't seem to have the right expression.
Director Zhang said that what he wanted to show was not the entire historical scene, but that he wanted to show the assassin's amazing skills and skills. This is also a novel idea.
Shen Zhenghui naturally went through the pictures that Director Zhang shot in the future, but in addition to those dazzling pictures in the whole film, Shen Zhenghui felt that the whole film was lackluster, especially the ending, which can be described as a pit father. Shen Zhenghui couldn't imagine how naïve his thoughts were, and he would end up like that. But while making money is still making money.
This guy is clearly irritated. Shen Zhenghui thought to himself, Li An's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won an award in Hollywood, and the success of this Chinese made the mentality of other Chinese, especially Chinese, begin to be unbalanced, and they are no longer satisfied with small fights, and they are alone in holding art awards. Thinking of being able to achieve commercial success and recognition, Director Zhang took the first step to eat crabs, but the traces of the old style of these people are too heavy, and it is very difficult to transform, Director Zhang's future works in Shen Zhenghui's view, basically have no success (regardless of the box office), all his films are showing his profound skills as a photographer, including the extremely vulgar "Three Guns Shooting Surprise". Seeing Director Zhang in front of his new film, Shen Zhenghui couldn't help but think - should I invest some money? Or shouldn't you invest some money?
Fortunately, Director Zhang is still quite reserved, and feels that he should not express his stance than others on this occasion, and give others time to consider. He said something he wanted to talk about in detail and walked away. So Director Chen on the side came up again to say hello, he also had a lot of ideas, and also wanted to shoot a blockbuster film with grievances and hatreds, Director Chen agreed with Shen Zhenghui that he realized that he should try to use international actors to gain an international market, so in his plan, it is best for top stars from China, Japan, and South Korea to participate in his new film production, so that he can gain a huge market.
Director Chen is not talking about investment when he talks to Shen Zhenghui, he is talking about distribution, he has a close relationship with Japanese capital, and in 98 he filmed "Jing Ke Assassinates King Qin" with the financial support of Japan, and he also has channels in Hong Kong, but the way of spring is obviously wider and is entering Hollywood.
Shen Zhenghui said that the matter of issuance could be discussed, so Director Chen also left with confidence.
After a long time, Director Feng and Zhou Xingxing came back, Director Feng seemed very happy, he made it clear that he was coming for Shen Zhenghui, Zhou Xingxing is his good brother, and the "Big Shot" he is preparing to shoot very much wants to land in the Japanese market. Zhou Xingxing was on the side to help.
Shen Zhenghui couldn't laugh or cry, feeling that he seemed to have a status in the country, and these top directors came to him to do things. "Big Shot" is a good film, even a god film, but it is still quite difficult to say whether it can meet the Japanese aesthetics.
This is a film invested and filmed by Huayi Brothers, and it has a financial background in Colombia, logically speaking, Director Feng doesn't have to worry about the box office at all, but how can the director who gets the share think the box office is low? The most dazzling thing about Shen Zhenghui's series of halos is his box office results in Japan, and Kasuga's distribution channels and theaters in Japan.
It's something that no one else has.
Shen Zhenghui could only temporarily say that he would consider this issue, saying that as long as there is money to be made, Kasuga will definitely not refuse this kind of cooperation.
Director Feng also felt that he had achieved his goal, and then he began to talk about cooperation again.
Cooperation is an eternal topic, because no one is self-sufficient, even if Hollywood in the United States is not the same when it is necessary, it is not the same to consider what the audience in the Chinese market likes, Director Feng's cooperation purpose is very simple, most of the films he shoots are commercial films, and the things he likes are male stars with box office appeal, who are tied to Uncle Ge all the year round, and sometimes they are a last resort. There are only a few people in China who can have this kind of appeal, not to mention that they are all used to cooperating -- a humane society.
Director Feng also covets the film resources of Hong Kong and Japan, but at the moment he can't come up with a specific cooperation plan, and he is not the boss himself, so he can only roughly say one intention, through this Lala relationship, he can be familiar with each other when there is really cooperation.
Shen Zhenghui finally finished dealing with these people, and then watched the film festival start to open, and began the process of awarding awards in a process-based manner. (To be continued......)