Subtitle of this chapter: Making movies is so "interesting".

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"Oh my God, this script, this script, this script......"

Our Master Yuan still has a little apprehension in his heart, after all, this script is his original, and there is no successful experience to learn from. Although he himself is very satisfied, and Lillian Gish, a professional actor, is full of praise after watching it, he still cares a lot about the evaluation of David Griffith, a master of film.

The big director sighed heavily and said, "It's really amazing! ”

Lao Tzu is really a genius!

Yuan Yanqian smiled faintly, and before she could speak, she heard Miss Lillian-Gishch say happily: "I said that David will like this script, because "Famine Orphan Girl" is too epic!" ”

Looking at the filmmaker's classic films, such as "The Birth of a Nation," "The Party Fights Strange," "Queen Belisia," and most recently, "The Road to New England" on Flutter Street, he has a soft spot for epics with grand themes and gorgeous scenes. Griffith himself once said that the biggest influence on his early films was the Frenchman Charles le Bargy's L'Assassinat du duc Guise (1908), which was also the highest-grossing French film in the United States, which gave Griffith a keen interest in gorgeous historical subjects.

In addition, he is a great artist with both humanistic spirit and humanitarianism, and naturally pays special attention to the disadvantaged.

He made more than 40 films about the Indians in his lifetime, including works like "The Redman's Vie" that took an Indian perspective on the westward expansion; He also filmed A Corner in heat, which reflects the ugly side of capitalism, questioning the economic gap between rich and poor in modern society with traditional Puritan values.

After World War II, at the height of McCarthyism, the notorious Commission of Inquiry into Non-American Activities summoned a large number of Hollywood film figures in order to investigate the so-called "extent of Communist infiltration of Hollywood." Ten of them were convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify and not revealing anyone's political affiliation or ideological leanings. This is the famous "Hollywood Ten Case".

It's just that a hundred years later, Hollywood will be ruled by the "left of form and the right of reality", which is actually the white left of the vanguard of neoclassical liberalism.

Then "The Orphan Girl of Famine" is both an epic film and a tragic story about the Irish people. These two points scratched the itch of the "father of movies" at once. In fact, Master Yuan's movie was tailor-made for him, except for Griffith, he didn't think anyone else in the world could make it.

Then the three of them began to discuss the shooting plan in depth, so the first thing was ...... Small money, money.

Mr. Griffith made a silent calculation in his mind: "In my opinion, the cost of this movie will be at least 800,000 US dollars, and at most it will not exceed 1 million ......."

In fact, he said this number in the big one. According to his estimates, if he really saved a little and didn't strive for perfection, the cost of shooting the entire movie would not exceed half a million dollars.

"No, David." Yuan Yanqian shook her head and said, "It's three million dollars!" ”

The film master gasped when he heard this, and said in surprise, "Neo, I don't think I need that much." "Famine Orphan Girl" is not like my "Party Fights Differences", there are not so many big scenes......"

His old man's "The Party Fights Differences" cost nearly $2 million to produce. The main part of it is the magnificent war scenes and the realistic and detailed scene layout.

He mobilized 16,000 actors in just one shot of the Persian army, and yes, it was indeed 16,000 actors. This scale, in later generations, can only be compared with the war movies made by Su Xiu and Zhong Xiu, such as "War and Peace" and the three major battles.

According to the existing script, there will indeed be big scenes in "The Orphan of Famine", such as thousands of corpses being buried at the same time, such as a workhouse that can accommodate 10,000 people, such as a sailboat fighting against a storm, but the scene will not be so big that there is no need to use so much manpower.

And because it is filming "modern" Irish folk, there is no need to build an ancient city with a large gladiatorial arena like Griffith during the filming of "The Party Fights Strange".

"David, you misunderstood me. I mean, when we advertise to the outside world, we have to say that our budget is three million dollars! ”

"This ......" The thinking of the film master has not yet changed, and he still thinks about the budget from the perspective of the director. So he didn't understand why our Master Yuan would quote a $3 million that could scare the investor to death.

However, his female disciple, Miss Lillian-Gich, had already been spoiled by her Chinese lover.

I saw her smile and said, "David, what are you worried about?" We at DreamWorks are the producers. Whether it's a million or three million, it's not up to us. Say three million dollars, that's good for our publicity. Think about it, the most expensive movie in history...... Isn't this just the gimmick that Neo just said. ”

Mr. Griffith heard this, and nodded after a moment's thought. Of course, he is also a veteran driver in this industry, although Miss Kiss still has some things to say, he also knows that there must be something wrong with the three million dollars.

In fact, when our Master Yuan saw the box office of up to 30 million US dollars, he regretted that his intestines were blue, and he announced 5 million US dollars to the outside world when he knew about it...... Well, 10 million dollars. This is the black money of the Chinese people in New York, and by the way, you can "avoid" more taxes.

After talking about the budget, the rest can only be said to be minutiae. They decided on a photographer, Mr. Victor Fleming, who was already familiar with the equipment used to shoot sound films, and he was originally Griffith's royal photographer. As for the assistant director, props, lighting, pyrotechnics and other crew members, there is no need to worry about anything if there are film masters here.

Then the next thing is naturally the actor. But at this time, Sister Lian came out and greeted: "Uncle, lunch is ready." Today is your favorite scallion oil noodles. ”

Aunt Yuan nodded, stood up and said, "Then let's eat first." David, you'll be able to eat authentic Seres Spaghetti later. In fact, the noodle country ...... Well, the pasta of the Italians is all copied from our Seris. You know Marco Polo's. If it weren't for him bringing back the noodles from our Seris, there would be no Spaghetti anywhere in Italy......"

But after the dinner table, the film master noticed a strange thing. That is, what his female disciple had in front of him was a basin of salad that was green and oily, and there was no meat at all.

Griffith then noticed that Miss Gish was very haggard, and that she had lost a lot of weight. He couldn't help but feel a move in his heart, could it be ......

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Murong did save a little bit of a manuscript, and this week he also got a recommendation on the PC and client, so it stands to reason that he should add more. But I'm going to go out for a week on the 13th, and since it's a vacation, I should be completely relaxed. So I've been saving up manuscripts recently, so I have to say sorry to the patients.