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The role of a supporting role, given to Asian-Americans, will not have much impact on Hollywood. Because people who mix in Hollywood, Asians are not uncommon. But the protagonist, as a Hollywood movie, must take into account the crowd that watches the movie. The mainstream people who watch movies in the United States are white, and white people will never like movies with colored people as the protagonists.

This is basically the most basic unspoken rule of the film party, the government, and the audience. Not to mention Asians, even African-Americans, who have been integrated in the United States for a longer time than Asians, and it is not so easy for them to obtain such rights.

If it weren't for a white face and constant plastic surgery, it is a big question whether he would have achieved such success. If Jackson had appeared in front of the audience as an African-American prototype, even if he had the same talent, it would not have been possible to succeed, and he might have been abandoned in the first place. It is only the skin of a white man that will make him shine, even if he is actually black.

Li Mingbao doesn't want to challenge the rules of the United States, at least not now, all he wants is to make money, so he knows that in doing so, although those who play supporting roles can make money, it is not easy to be famous, but he still does it.

After all, the times are going to be exhibited, and if he can't shake that kind of rule now, it doesn't mean that he can't shake that rule in the future. After all, the rules are actually changed by strength. As long as Li Mingbao has the strength, what is the point of changing the rules?

For Hollywood, Li Mingbao's strategy is to build a high wall and slowly become king. Slowly accumulate your strength, until one day you can compete with the rules, then there is no need to forbear.

As for the actors who abducted Big 6, in fact, Li Mingbao was not joking. Because this involves a more important plan, as long as there is an opportunity, Li Mingbao abducts those big 6 actors to Hollywood, which is a must to be done, because it involves monopolizing resources. In any industry, the real people who can make money are those who engage in monopoly, just like the sixth uncle in Hong Kong, the reason why he is the uncrowned king is because he monopolizes most of the actors in Hong Kong. And what Li Mingbao wants to do is to monopolize the actors in Hong Kong and the Big 6, such a huge market, he really has to let him master it, he can get the best preferential treatment wherever he is.

Of course, now Li Mingbao and John have not signed any agreements or anything like that, after all, there are too many things involved, and on the Hollywood side, John is not single-handed, and if he wants to control the cost, then John has to negotiate with the bosses of other companies. After all, it's not about him alone, and if this thing is done, then Hollywood will change dramatically.

It's not just John who can't solve this problem, even if it's Li Mingbao's side, there are many things that need to be done, because on the Hong Kong side, it is not him Li Mingbao who controls the actor now, but Uncle Shao Liu. If you really want to export Hong Kong's talents to Hollywood, you have to take off the hat on Uncle Six's head, Hong Kong is so troublesome, let alone the Big 6. Therefore, the conversation between Li Mingbao and John is only a long-term plan, and it is not easy to realize it in the near future.

But fortunately, Li Mingbao had an idea again at this time. If you want John to be willing to invest, then Li Mingbao must let John see the prospect of controlling costs. Otherwise, it would have been just a few empty words, and perhaps it wouldn't be long before John would have been less interested in the plan.

So after talking about this long-term plan, Li Mingbao immediately wanted to let John see some sweetness. It just so happened that Li Mingbao had such a tool in his hand, so it was not difficult to use it at all.

"John, what we just discussed is just some long-term planning, and it still takes a long way to achieve it. But in order for you to see my sincerity, then I will tell you one thing. Do you know how much it cost to shoot my "True Colors of Heroes"? ”

"If the cost of actors is like that little brother, then maybe the cost of your movie will be lower than I imagined. Before, I thought that your investment in this low-budget movie would be about five million dollars, although it is higher than the cost of "Home Alone", but you are a gunfight movie, and you have also invested some other things, so the cost of five million dollars is not very high.

But when I heard you say that the leading actors of this movie are only paid less than 100,000 US dollars, the cost of this movie should be very low, maybe 2 million US dollars can complete the movie. John began.

Reducing the cost from $5 million to $2 million at once was actually a big drop for John. Two million dollars to make a movie in the United States, I really can't make anything. Li Mingbao's shootout film is not the old-fashioned Western film of a few decades ago, a few cowboys, a few horses, and then a few old carriages, plus some extras, you can make a movie.

Li Mingbao filmed this movie, but he dispatched a helicopter, a house, a company, a lot of extras, and the counterfeit money manufacturing workshop. even used the army, although for American films, the use of the army to film is not a precedent set by Li Mingbao, but a Hong Kong movie can use the army, so the cost is definitely a lot. Because Hollywood has a deep study in this regard.

With these things, even if the cost in Hong Kong is low, it will not be low, because some hard costs are common all over the world. So John had the courage to give a cost of two million dollars, in fact, he already felt that such a cost was low enough, anyway, in Hollywood, to dispatch so many people, and things, the cost of two million dollars is absolutely not enough.

After hearing John's words, Li Mingbao laughed: "The cost of two million dollars? If I really put in the cost of two million dollars, then I would make at least two similar films for a film like this, and I have a lot of money left, and if I save a little more, I can even make three similar films on the premise of maintaining quality. ”

"No way, no matter how low the prices in Hong Kong are, the cost will not be so low. According to you, isn't the cost of your film less than a million dollars? Although John has been discussing the cost with Li Mingbao before, and John also covets the low cost of movies in Hong Kong and Big 6.

But when it comes to the actual stuff, John is still struck by the numbers. Making a movie for a million dollars is definitely not unusual in Hollywood. But if a million-dollar movie like Li Mingbao's "True Colors of Heroes" is made, whoever says it will think that the person who said it is crazy.

Seeing John's shock, Li Mingbao continued to expand the results and said: "John, for Hong Kong films, you must not compare with Hollywood, although Hong Kong movies cannot be compared with Hollywood in terms of quality, but in terms of cost control, Hollywood and Hong Kong are definitely not at the same level.

Do you know when I was shooting my first film in Hong Kong? My investment in that movie was less than $100,000 in dollars. But do you know how much my movie grossed at the box office? The Hong Kong box office alone is as high as 26 million Hong Kong dollars, which is more than 3 million US dollars when converted into US dollars. Later, when it was released in East Asia, I received tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, which can be said to be a revenue ratio of dozens of times.

And now for this "True Colors of Heroes", my investment is 5 million Hong Kong dollars, plus a series of investments from advertising houses. And five million Hong Kong dollars, less than one million US dollars. From this point of view, you know how much it costs to shoot a movie in Hong Kong. There is one more thing I want to tell you, my investment in this film is the largest investment in Hong Kong now. Other Hong Kong film investments usually do not exceed US$200,000. ”

"Crazy, it's just crazy. How do you shoot your films in Hong Kong? With less than a million dollars of investment, I can make such a good movie, and I have a great fear of working with you now. Because I'm afraid that if you're not careful, your Hong Kong movies, like Japanese products, will run rampant throughout the United States. When the time comes, I will be nailed to the pillar of shame by Hollywood. John said with a look of horror.

He couldn't help but be afraid, he really didn't expect that the cost of Hong Kong film control would reach such a level. When he thinks of Hong Kong movies, he can't help but think of those Japanese products. In these years, Japanese products have been defeated by American products in any field, and even the United States itself cannot be guaranteed.

In particular, auto giants, like Ford, are eager to burn down Toyota-Honda's factories for Japanese cars, and if such a situation is really allowed, they don't mind another war.

So after hearing the cost of Li Mingbao, John was so afraid, because he was afraid that he didn't know when, Hollywood would be occupied by Hong Kong movies. Then his Twentieth Century Fox Company will not be any better.

Seeing John's expression, Li Mingbao knew that if he didn't say something to redeem himself, maybe John really regarded Hong Kong movies as a flood beast: "John, please sober up." There is an essential difference between Hong Kong movies and Japanese products. Hong Kong films do control the cost very much, but this can only be regarded as complementary to Hollywood, and it is completely impossible to make Hong Kong films like Japanese products across the United States. Because it is impossible for Hollywood movie stars to let go of that kind of figure, and the Hollywood market will not allow a group of Asian stars to be their heroes. ”