What is an independent film?

Self-funded, even written and directed by one's own screenplays, this kind of work is known as "independent film".

In the middle of the last century, Hollywood's films were dominated by the eight major Hollywood studios, who implemented a producer system that completely enveloped Hollywood in the realm of commercial films.

This system severely restricts the rights of directors, which makes many directors unhappy.

So 'independent film' came into being.

These 'independent films' are different from the works of large corporations, they have a strong subjective imprint and style of the director, and because they are funded by the directors themselves or other financing channels, independent films often become synonymous with low-cost films.

Over time, 'independent cinema' flourished, and various independent film festivals were born, opening the door to the sale of 'independent cinema'.

Generally speaking, independent films that win awards at major film festivals tend to fetch good prices.

However, another synonym for independent cinema is unevenness.

Because there is no threshold, independent films represent a mixed bag, although there have been many high-quality independent films, but more of them are garbage, many rookie directors do their own dream of shooting a movie and then becoming popular, but the reality is that their movies are annihilated by everyone.

As we all know, Hollywood is chaotic, full of filmmakers who take drugs, play with women, and cheat money, and many actors who go to Hollywood alone with dreams have more or less the experience of being cheated.

But in fact, it's not Hollywood chaos. It's Hollywood's independent filmmaker mess.

Because large companies are bound by strict rules and regulations, directors and producers are relatively orderly. But independent film directors are different.

There are many people with lofty ideals among them, who are unwilling to be constrained by the producers of large companies, and want to make their own way out of the world, but more of them are garbage.

Some of these garbage companies set up their own shell companies to defraud investors of money in the name of financing, and some took money from friends to make movies, and after the movies lost money, they turned their faces and denied people. In the name of filming, some people practice tricks that deceive people and deceive sex, which can be said to be a mess.

Many foreign actors have been deceived when they broke into Hollywood.

Li Lin doesn't want his actors to be harmed by those independent filmmakers when they come to Hollywood.

"Any audition. As long as it is not produced by a large company or a well-known Hollywood company, you must go out to audition with your agent and security guard. Li Lin said: "This is for your good, Hollywood is too chaotic." ”

"In Huaxia, you are big stars. No one dares to touch you. But Hollywood is different, those damn guys, all of them are bold. ”

Can you not be bold? There is no shortage of independent filmmakers who commit suicide when the film fails, and that kind of person has always been crazy.

"I understand."

Fan Binbin's eyes sparkled, "When can we start filming?" I can't wait to shoot. ”

"Yes, I've been in the United States for a few days, and I'm so excited that I can't help myself." Huang Xiaoming also said with a smile that it was the first time he starred in a Hollywood blockbuster. Even if it's just a supporting role, he is still very excited in his heart.

This excitement is no less than playing a supporting role for the first time. The first time he played the leading role.

He knows very well that this is a testing stone, once he succeeds, he can gain a firm foothold in Hollywood, even if he can't succeed, with the experience of shooting blockbusters in Hollywood, as long as he returns to China with a little hype, he is an international master.

As much as he hates the hype, he himself will not stop it.

Anyway, it wasn't what he said, and he wouldn't be blamed if it was exposed when the time came.

"I'm kind of tempted to play with those Hollywood stars." "I've heard that all the acting skills of Hollywood stars have been tested in stage plays, so I wanted to try where the gap between me and them is. ”

"You're going to be disappointed." Li Lin smiled faintly, ""World of Warcraft" is a blockbuster, focusing on special effects, and it does not require high acting skills. ”

What do special effects blockbusters want? What you want is fame, and what you want is box office appeal.

Why did Leonardo become more popular after becoming popular with "Titanic"? It's because many blockbusters have found him, hoping that he can star.

And the success rate of blockbusters is higher than that of other small productions, so he has maintained his fame and become the fastest Hollywood artist to enter the 20 million club.

But Cheng is also a blockbuster and a bad blockbuster, although the blockbuster has brought him popularity, but the Oscar never looks at blockbusters squarely, so he was shortlisted for the Oscar and missed the Oscar, and was played to death by the Oscar jury.

So the superstar, who once said that if the Oscars didn't choose me, I wouldn't participate in the Oscars, began to go crazy.

He abandoned blockbusters and turned to the route of literary films, and at that time, some reporters laughed at him and said, 'This is the beginning of the fall of a superstar', and sure enough, Leonardo's morale, who switched to shooting literary films, fell.

After a few years, Leonardo improved step by step with his sharpened acting skills in literary films, but the Oscar always closed the door to him.

Until Li Lin's previous life, Leonardo was the role of accompanying the prince to study at the Oscars, and he never won a trophy of his own.

Similarly, "World of Warcraft" is also looking for fame.

You see, people even found models, why? Isn't it because this model is famous that she is calling for wind and rain in the fashion circle?

"But I can recommend you to go to the stage play." Li Lin said jokingly: "You can try to challenge the stage play on Broadway in the United States, maybe you can have unexpected gains." ”

"A stage play?"

Zhou Xun's eyes lit up, others didn't dare to challenge the stage play, didn't she dare? She's known as the elf of the play.

In China, stage plays are not popular, and the most are about campus stage plays, except for a few actors who spontaneously go to stage plays, other stars simply disdain stage plays.

Celebrities cherish their feathers, although their acting skills are not bad, but no one knows if there will be accidents in stage plays without 'Ka'.

It's good that there are no accidents, but once there is an accident, the star will immediately be a tragedy, no matter how many awards and explanations there are, they can't beat a mistake in the stage play.

Why? Because domestic awards have little credibility, all kinds of shady scenes explode every day, and fans are not interested in awards at all, even if they win awards, fans are still suspicious of the actors' acting skills.

Usually it's nothing, but once the scandal of a stage play mistake breaks out, it will immediately face a public relations crisis, so the star will not appear in the stage play.

Another reason is the issue of revenue.

is different from Broadway stage plays, China's stage plays are basically not watched, and the words that stars want to appear can only get a few hundred to a thousand at a time, and they can't even afford to stay in a hotel for one night, and they also lower their prices, so many stars simply appear in friendship.

The risks and benefits are not proportional, the stars naturally do not come, and the stars do not come to the stage plays, which become more and more niche, forming a vicious circle.

Unless someone is willing to spend money to hire celebrities to expand the influence of the stage play, otherwise, the stage play can only sink forever.

But is anyone willing to burn money? NO, of course.

For businessmen, instead of burning money to make the market bigger, it is better to wait for others to make the market bigger and then take over, after all, the stage play is not a very sticky industry, whoever has a good stage play will get the audience.

The audience doesn't look at your contributions.

It's like Lumière.

He invented movies and burned money to expand the market for movies, but who remembers him now? Patent? An anti-monopoly declares the patent invalid,

And then there's Edison, who invented the sound film and founded the company, where is that company now? Hollywood's Big Eight, does MGM's experience dare to be more bleak?

Everyone had the idea of picking peaches, so everyone watched the stage play and withered.

But Broadway is different, Broadway is famous in the United States, and countless stars perform on stage plays, attracting a large number of fans to watch and broadcast on television.

As a result, the Broadway stage show became more and more prosperous.

"I'm looking forward to playing with American actors."

……

Soon, "World of Warcraft" was announced, and the crew flew directly to Morocco.

They will rest here for a while and then go into the legendary Sahara Desert.

In the Sahara Desert, the props team had already set up the scenery inside.

"Actually filmed in the Sahara Desert," Fan Binbin sat in the car, looking at the desert outside, his beautiful eyes flashing again and again, "I don't know if my hydration cream is effective?" ”

"I hate dry deserts."

"Instead of worrying about the water in your face, worry about the water you drink yourself." Huang Xiaoming unscrewed the water bottle and took a sip of it, this is a drink specially prepared for them by the medical staff of the crew, which can effectively prevent thirst, the only drawback is that the duration is only two hours, that is, they have to replenish it every two hours.

"I heard there's a sandstorm here?" Zhou Xun squeezed into the car, his eyes vaguely revealing excitement, "I've never seen a sandstorm before?" ”

"Don't worry."

Li Lin laughed, "This time the sandstorm is coming every day, you don't have to worry, but I think what you need to worry about is what you should do under the sandstorm." ”

"The yellow sand is long, but it is the worst enemy of mankind."

"There are so many people, what am I afraid of." Zhou Xun glanced at Li Lin, "And I heard that the Moroccan military assisted us in filming this time!" ”

"Well, Peter. Jackson is worthy of being a big director, even the Moroccan government has to give face, of course, spent a lot of money, very distressed, I have a hunch that the filming of "World of Warcraft" will definitely make additional investment, I hope my cash flow can support it. (To be continued......)