Chapter 305: Twenty Years of Slavery
"Shao Yingying was awarded the double actor, and the golden rooster was crowned!"
"Twelve years of hard work is crowned king today, entertainment tycoon Shao Yingying is no longer the uncrowned king, and the golden horse and golden rooster are like yellow robes."
"Congratulations to Boss Shao for winning the Golden Rooster, your efforts deserve praise."
After the Golden Rooster Awards, the national media hyped up the scene of Shao Yingying becoming the actor, and the entire Huayi Interpretation Network was replaced with a red back cover to celebrate, while Shao Yingying was plain with a smiling face, and after taking the trophy home and putting it away, he lived his life calmly.
Shao Yingying understands that media people use this incident as news hype in order to get clicks and sales, and the people in the company celebrate because they are thinking that such a big good thing must not be made at the end of the year, and the only person who really feels happy may be the person who won the award, because the actor can logically increase his salary and expand his acting career after winning the award. But where else can Shao Yingying expand? Now he has gone to Hollywood, and has successfully entered the circle of others, and is expanding to outer space.
When you think about this, you suddenly realize that you don't seem to have anything but trophies and certificates.
When Shao Yingying called Wang Jinghua after returning home, he said: "Sister, if there are still domestic awards to be awarded to "Dear", I won't go, let's send someone to follow me." ”
"Why are you going? Back to Hollywood? Wang Jinghua asked casually.
"I'll go back in two days, and I'll get the new script out in the next few days."
Shao Yingying's new script is a film that shines at the Berlin Film Festival, and this film made the Chinese win the best actor in Berlin. also praised a good actor like Wang Qianyuan, who is bleak in his career and can only play green leaves in various film and television dramas.
This script is called "Fireworks in the Day", because the person who is remembered for this script is Liao Fan.
When Shao Yingying watched this movie for the first time, he had a feeling that he couldn't understand it. He couldn't understand why Liao Fan in the movie was not a policeman, and he couldn't understand why Liao Fan became so decadent all of a sudden, and he used alcohol to anesthetize himself all day long. This is not the fault of the movie itself, but a problem of the system, a scene in the movie was changed, and that shot was when Liao Fan entered a hair salon when he was handling a case with his colleagues, and then there was a shootout in the hair salon. It was after this shootout that Liao Fan began to decadent, and this shootout began without warning. Ends without any rendering.
It's such a never-ending plot that makes the whole movie unclear, in fact, this movie is not like this.
The shootout was because Liao Fan made a mistake, because he made a mistake and led the criminal to kill people with a gun. His colleague died because he made a mistake. The director has carefully erased the heartwarming parts of the plot, he did not describe whether Liao Fan was fired after making a mistake or couldn't bear the psychological pressure and resigned, anyway, his decadence is not groundless, nor is it the kind of person who casually hugs an old lady and shouts 'You marry me' after drinking, this is the expression of psychological pressure, it is with such strong psychological pressure that Liao Fan will dance so happily when he catches the criminal. That place will become an actor-level performance. The most critical thing is the end of the story, at the end of which Liao Fan hit the police car with fireworks on the roof. His resistance to the world and the fear that he can no longer withstand the pressure are all placed in front of the audience, and the daytime fireworks will actually be a weight and knot that cannot be borne at all.
The best thing about the whole movie is that it restores the real environment, the cold of the Northeast, the posture of people wearing cotton jackets and cotton pants in winter and shrinking their necks, all of them are so like stories happening around us, although there are not so many thrilling special effects blockbusters, but what happens in such similar scenes still surprises us, just like seeing someone jump off a building and die on the side of the road, even if everyone is used to the dead people in the movie, but in reality, The oppressive feeling of a person's death is still so suffocating.
There are not many places that need to be rectified in this movie, as long as the plot is told clearly, this is a movie that especially tests the acting skills of actors, if the whole movie is supported by actors without acting skills, the plot will look fragmented.
Tick, tick, tick.
When the phone rang, Shao Yingying was sorting out the plot line, and after this was done, he would go to the company to find an artist to get the storyboard script according to his own ideas, and he didn't have any talent for painting, and it was too difficult for him to draw the storyboard script with the pen in his hand, so someone had to do this job.
"Hello?" Shao Yingying said this when he answered the phone.
"Xiao Shao, I, when I called your company, Wang Jinghua told me that you are working on a new script, when will you go back to Hollywood?"
Third master, what does it mean to chase this phone call at this time......
"I'll go back after getting the script, and the information will start filming at that time."
"Okay, don't forget what I told you, there's a lot of pressure on my side."
"Chairman Han, wait a minute, what did you tell me?" Shao Yingying didn't think that the third master had asked for anything, how could he suddenly have such a sentence.
The third master laughed and said, "It's a mouse, right?" Forget about it. Okay, Boss Shao, let me remind you, did your dear cause a storm of public opinion some time ago? Is the state planning to establish a new institution? Didn't you donate 10 million, why did you forget it so quickly? ”
"I haven't forgotten, I remember this." The more Shao Yingying listened, the more confused he became.
"Hey, what do you mean, don't you think you're a little embarrassed that you caused such a big deal and the actor returned it to you? I sue you, I'm under a lot of pressure, if I hadn't been under pressure to demand that the Golden Rooster Awards be fair, this actor would definitely not have fallen on you. What did we say at the time, you can't just come back and slap our guys in the face, you also make me a disgusting and disgusting movie, so I have a saying when I protect the calf, right? I can't tell people that you like themes that are closer to reality, but you see that there is only one film in your work that is close to reality, right? ”
Yes, listen to the meaning of the third master, "Fireworks in the Day" can't be filmed yet: "I understand the words, the third master, I'll shoot when I go back." ”
Hanging up the phone, Shao Yingying glanced at the Golden Rooster Award trophy on the bookshelf, and said with a wry smile: "It's a loss to Taihuan who didn't jump after winning the award, otherwise I would have blushed for a while on this phone today." ”
Putting down the book of "Fireworks in the Day", Shao Yingying thought about how to use other themes for a long time to prove that the third master is indeed a director and actor who likes realistic themes, he doesn't know how he likes realistic themes, and all the films he made before were science fiction films......
Shao Yingying, who was looking for a suitable theme on the screen, searched for a long time and didn't find it, "The King's Speech" has little to do with the United States, "Escape from Tehran" is not very suitable for a Chinese actor, "The Artist", "Hugo's Secret" and other films are not very in line with Shao Yingxing's style...... Suddenly, he saw a very interesting movie, this movie is based on a biographical novel, the title of the book is "Twenty Years of Slavery", which tells the story of a slave owner and a free man who are deceived into becoming slaves.
This should meet the requirements of the third master, right? The most important thing is that this movie can easily be changed into a movie that is in line with Shao Yingying's appearance, because there are not only black slaves in the United States, but many Chinese were sold as slaves to the United States to mine. The autobiographical novel begins in 1841, after the Opium War, the year Solomon Northup was tricked into slavery and the Qing dynasty's fortunes began to decline.
If this incident did not happen to a black man, but a rich boy who was far away in China offended someone and was hit by someone who was caught on a ship that was transported to the United States to dig gold mines, then the suffering of "Twenty Years as a Slave" would be even stronger, a rich young master who was far away in China was sick when he was mining because he was weak and was sold from the mine as a slave to the slave state, and then a series of things happened that should have happened to Solomon Northup, and it would be logical to do so.
There, the kind-hearted master looked at him differently because the young master had stayed abroad and could play the violin, and if the rich young master was a timber guide at home, then it would be natural to come up with a cost-saving method in the process of logging.
After thinking about this qiē, Shao Yingying began to write, there are too few good scripts about Chinese as the protagonists in Hollywood, sometimes even if there are acting skills, there may not be a suitable script, Cheng Long, Li Lianjie's scripts are more often tailor-made, Shao Yingying can temporarily catch such a script is already very good.
Tick, tick, tick.
Shao Yingying suspected that the phone always remembered that it was a troublemaker at a critical moment, so he picked up the phone and asked, "Who?" ”
"Shao? I'm Sylvester. ”
Stallone!
"Oh, what's the matter? I didn't look at the phone number just now, sorry. ”
"No need to apologize, I just told you that our publicity period has begun, when will you come back, we need to determine your time."
"The Expendables" is about to be released, and Shao Yingying can just use this publicity period to talk about the new movie he plans to start shooting when everyone participates in the show, which can be regarded as a foreshadowing in Hollywood in advance.
"Okay, I'll go back in a few days."
"See you later, then."
After hanging up the phone, Shao Yingying began to describe the qiē in the movie from a Chinese perspective, the only thing to change is the title, as long as the title is changed, the qiē in the slave state will be shown from the perspective of the Chinese. After thinking about it, Shao Yingying picked up the phone and dialed Harry Sloan's number and said, "Harry, you help me buy the rights to Solomon Northup's "Twenty Years a Slave", which will be my new movie. (To be continued......)