Chapter 136: Everyone has someone above them, striding towards a new era
"The Wedding Banquet"? Homosexual?
When Roland heard these two words, his right hand, which wanted to knock on the door, hung in the air.
In his head, a name has popped up - Ang Lee.
Since the time travel, he has not been looking for the familiar points in the memories of his past life, everything is natural, but even with the passage of time, the name Ang Lee can still make him stop and look.
There is no other reason, purely because the other party won three Oscars.
Regardless of whether he is a spectator or an insider, Roland is not very interested in such a thing as awards, because as long as it is selected by people, there is no absolute fairness, but it is also a reflection of bull beeps that people can win three Oscars, the point is that the three movies that won awards are very good at the box office, which is even more rare.
So, when he heard the salesman's words, he stopped.
I want to continue to listen to what the guy inside will say.
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Inside the office.
The guy who looked very similar to the father, who was very similar to the national husband, except that the hair was all brown and yellow, and there was some baldness on the top of his head, frowned and looked at the man with glasses in his thirties in front of him, and he wondered if his ears had heard it wrong.
"Gay?" Madavoy repeated the word uncertainly.
"yes......" Although his tone was a little weak, the man with glasses still nodded.
The affirmative words made Medavoy raise his hand and scratch the back of his head, and his face showed a lice-infested expression.
"I think you're probably in the wrong place, we're here at Columbia-三星Pictures, not a B-grade studio, and if you're looking for a distributor for your independent film, I don't think you should be here......"
"But the main content of our movie is still about love and family ......"
Although he heard the intention of evicting customers, he still wanted to continue struggling, "I brought briefing materials......
But before he could finish speaking, Meda Voy made a Stop gesture, then raised his right hand and pointed to the door.
"Mr. Shams, I don't want to call security."
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'Wow! It's him? ’
When Roland heard the title of 'Mr. Shams', Ben was still feeling that he could meet Roland, a well-known director, as soon as he left, he immediately laughed - who is Shams, why doesn't he know?
This guy, that's Ang Lee's royal producer!
James Shams, who became famous twenty years later, is a good machine company managed by him, which is also known as Focus Pictures in 04, which is known as the new Miramax in the industry!
As an Olympic machine, his achievements are extremely eye-catching, two Oscars for Best Director, one Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, five actors, one supporting actor, one supporting actress, plus small awards in different categories and countless nominations, in short, his existence is a row of small-budget independent films for Universal Pictures!
After all, these achievements have been made since the beginning of the millennium, and the Weinstein brothers!
And now, I actually ran into him?
Roland's face showed surprise.
Although he knew all about these achievements, he did not mean to say hello.
Not only because this behavior of listening to the corner is not good, but also because he has nothing to say to the other party!
So, he turned and slipped into the spare office next to him, and when the footsteps had faded away, he jumped out.
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Mike Madavoy is an old acquaintance of Roland, when filming "T2", this guy often came to the studio to hang out, and naturally saw the scene of Roland and Cameron spraying each other, and when filming "Captain Hook", every time Spielberg asked him to send film, he knew that it was Roland who overspent again.
In this kind of two strong directors were unable to bring it to it. As Spielberg's former agent, he will not have reservations about Roland's request, and when he learned that Roland wanted to copy a copy of the movie behind-the-scenes information of "Groundhog Day", he directly copied the phone and threw these brainless things to his assistant.
After he gave the task, Roland, who had already flipped through the briefing materials that Shams had left on the scene, asked with a smile, "How can such an independent filmmaker ask you to sell a movie?" ”
"Shouldn't it be a matter for the purchasing department to buy overseas films?"
"You, the general project leader, how can you care about such a trivial matter?"
As soon as these words came out, McEwarm, who was already unhappy, rolled his eyes directly, and said to Roland very casually: "I can't help it!" My friend asked me to help me take a look, I can't refuse, right? ”
"Friends? The briefing materials are clean, and I don't know anyone, so what friends will they have to find you? Although Roland didn't meet with the other party, he still wanted to gossip.
There's no way, no one can't play with the Oscars, and if a Chinese like Ang Lee can win the award, it will prove even more that Shams's background is so deep, and now, even McEvoy said that he was entrusted by a friend to help take a look, so this kind of favor is not something ordinary people can give!
In the face of his inquiry, McEvoy smiled and squinted, shook his head, and said, "Oh, yes, you probably don't know these things. ”
"Steven, those guys can't be bored talking to you about this......"
"Anyway, it's okay, then I'll tell you, do you see the list of producers of "The Wedding Banquet", is there a guy named Dolly Hall? She was an unknown actress before, and then she turned behind the scenes......"
"The first movie she made was "Revenge of the Poison", and then she became an assistant director in Troma, and in 90 she made a movie "Love is Life and Death", and the supporting actor was nominated for an Oscar in 91......"
"It's the one she asked someone from MGM to ask me to help me see......
I see......
When McEwar explained to Roland the twists and turns behind the movie, when he heard Troma and "Revenge of the Poison", he directly sorted out the network behind James Shams.
Troma, that's a well-known B-grade film company! All kinds of strange elements can be found in their movies!
And what are the "Three Queens and One King", "Waitress", and "Stuck On You!" produced by them......
Just by looking at the name, you know that this car is fast enough to throw the wheels out!
Of course, starting by making color movies is not the point, the point is that they can't make money making this kind of movie.
When they found out that the blonde girls in Bikini couldn't sell, they switched to horror films.
"Revenge of the Poison Demon" is their company's masterpiece.
Of course, it's a horror movie, but "Revenge of the Poison" is more like an antihero movie like 'Venom', and after the success of the movie, they fell in love with that crazy mix of plasma, stumps, and naked woman.
As they go bigger, their influence goes beyond the film itself, with Quentin Tarantino openly admitting that he is a fan of Troma, and Peter Jackson, who made "The Dead Race Across the Line," said he was inspired by Troma's madness.
It is precisely because there are so many fans of Troma that many civilians who really like movies will regard this as the starting point of their careers, such as Samuel L. Jackson, Angelina Jolie's ex-husband Billy Thornton, Kevin Costner, who won the Oscar for Best Director and Film for "Dances with Wolves", Oliver Stone, who worshiped under Martin Scorsese, and John Averson, the director of "Rocky", and James Gunn, the director of the "Guardians of the Galaxy" series......
They're all from the Troma Company!
Even Brad Pitt borrowed Troma's momentum!
Troma is the real novice village in Hollywood, and the poor and white guys can try to jump in it after two years!
As long as you don't use the same resources as the immortals, you can leave, and the guys who have already played famous will take care of you.
Because – everybody is a civilian.
"It turned out to be someone from Troma? I see......"
Why did "The Wedding Banquet" appear in Sony?
It's a question like why Roland is sitting here.
If you have to divide Hollywood as a whole, in addition to the small sects like the Australian Gang, the second most powerful is actually Troma, which represents the common people, and the largest is naturally the Jewish Gang.
'It turns out that Ang Lee opened the American market by relying on the Troma connections?' ’
Roland originally came to get the information of "Groundhog Day", but he didn't expect this sudden gossip to make him full.
Although this kind of thing is not important to others, it is not important at all, but for Roland, it is quite meaningful.
Is it because of the discovery of James Shams who was able to snatch food from Miramax, the fixed villain of American Entertainment?
No, the kind of guy who can spray small steel cannons, Roland doesn't have the heart to understand, some people are willing to lean up, that is, they are willing to show themselves like Harry and Meghan, what can he do?
What really made him remember the James-Shams and the Troma faction was actually the Xiangjiang martial arts instructor!
That's right, while Roland was smiling, countless kung fu movies had already appeared in his head......
In fact, as early as when filming "T2" and "Captain Hook", Roland discovered something that he didn't expect - Hollywood, there is no action director at all.
How do you shoot an action movie?
The director draws the action on the storyboard, lets the actors learn one by one, and then shoots one by one, through post-editing, so that the scene becomes tense and exciting......
As a result, there is such a situation -
"T1", the governor drives and slams the wall, "T2", the governor lifts people to slam the wall, "T3", the governor slams the wall himself, "T4", the governor pinchs the wall, "T5", the governor takes the head and slams the wall, "T6", the governor incarnates as a pile driver, keeps slamming the wall......
Although the T-800 is such a setting, he is the devil's terminator, and he must have an absolute sense of power and can't make those bells and whistles, but this also has something to do with shooting in front of the storyboard.
The movements are all dismembered, how do you get up coherently?
It's like a "Fuse", which can make the guys on YouTube scream when they watch it.
In the case of stop-motion shooting, the action of 'Captain America trying to strangle Ultron' can be done-
If you want him to float, he can't!
So when Roland saw Schwarzenegger, Williams, and Hoffman dancing stupidly on the set, he was like Brother Super, bewildering 'What are you?' 'The torture of the soul.
And this is actually the real reason why Roland couldn't write the script of "Spider-Man" at all......
Because he can't design freeze-frame action, he doesn't know how to write every fight scene at all, and this thing doesn't even have a channel for plagiarism, not to mention, Roland doesn't look down on this Low action shooting method at all!
He wants Xiangjiang martial arts instruction to save his life!
He doesn't want to make the graceful Spider-Man into Tim Burton's version of Batman!
The fight between the water and the house is not as good as the flying bat Ke is evil!
However, it is possible to find someone, but there is a problem with this.
When Hollywood has no concept of action direction, how can he tell Spielberg and Cameron that I need to ask the guys from the film company to go across the ocean and hire a few cow-beep martial artists to come over?
According to Spielberg's agreement, "Spider-Man" will be filmed in 95 years, and Cheng Long only entered Hollywood with "Red Fan Zone" in 96 years, and Wu Baige only filmed "Broken Arrow" in the same year, in this case......
It doesn't make sense!
Yes, after the Xiangjiang kung fu film entered Hollywood, those guys who thought it was amazing began to learn the routine of action directing and designing movements, actors learning, and starting to shoot after two moves......
"Changing Face", "Mission Impossible 2", "The Matrix", "Breaking Bad", ...... These are the products of learning.
And like the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series that was rounded by Chen Jiaban, who was Li Lianjie's younger brother, as well as "007: Skyfall", "Rogue One", "The Last Jedi", "Ace Agent", "Aquaman", these are the works of the martial arts fingers stationed there.
The most typical is the handsome storm gunner in "The Force Awakens", which is played by Yang Liang, the big brother in the Northeast.
is also the guy in "Mission Impossible 6", the guy who fought Ethan and Da Chao in the toilet.
And the action director in "Wonder Woman 2" was also taken down by him.
Knowing that there is a martial arts finger that can be used, if Roland ignores it, isn't it stupid?
Do the best you can do, Peter Parker's spider sense is perfectly capable of bullet time, since that's ......
Keanu Reeves, it's not your turn to show off this time!
The handsome beep in the action movie of the new era, I, Roland, should be decided!
Just imagine, in the era when "Red Fan Zone" did not appear in North America and "Broken Arrow" was not released, I had already broken away from the set of filming, and ran wild on the road of Liu Jialiang, a hard bridge and a hard horse, and a whimsical family!
In the case of Xiangjiang Wuzhi + Industrial Light & Magic + Super IP + Cameron, that unlucky guy will become a director!
Other guys, how do you compare to me?
Watch my taillights follow my ass and eat dust!
Alas, the feeling of being surrounded by top-notch resources is so unpretentious and boring!
Before, he really couldn't find a good way to explain to those bigwigs who taught him bit by bit, how did I know that there were a bunch of capable people in Li Xiaolong's hometown, but now! Isn't the channel just in front of you!
Among the producers of "The Wedding Banquet", in addition to James Shams, there is also Xu Ligong of Wanwan!
Xu Ligong is indeed not from Xiangjiang, but he is not too familiar with Anle Pictures, which occupies 40% of the market of the Xiangjiang cinema line!
Ang Lee had no money to shoot "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", so Xu Ligong immediately went to Anle's boss Jiang Zhiqiang to invest!
Fa Ge, Michelle Yeoh and Yuan Heping were also found by Jiang Zhiqiang!
In this way, the matryoshka doll will be able to play!
Martin Scorsese is Oliver Stone's teacher, Oliver Stone is a senior of the Troma faction, James Sharmus is a native of Troma and a good brother of Ang Lee, and Ang Lee's boss is Xu Ligong, who is a good friend of Jiang Zhiqiang, and Jiang Zhiqiang ...... Oops, this six-dimensional space theory is really easy to use!
It's like Roland asking David to help him pluck the bear's hair, and directly put the black cauldron on Perelman's body-
This is like Roland instigating Spielberg to engage in a distribution company, and directly put the black pot on Cameron's body-
It's like Roland buying a game company and then putting the black pot of hobbies on Spielberg's body-
Something that doesn't make sense?
Then find a guy who can explain it and push it to them, isn't it over?
People open a brother to get a super aim has been deployed, and you have to shout that my reeds are not open!
And now—
Ang Lee, look at this pot, it's dark and heavy, it's like the award, it's big and thick......
After receiving the materials of "Groundhog Day" handed over by the beautiful black silk female secretary, Roland pushed the materials of "The Wedding Banquet" in front of Madavoy, "Mike, I want to ask you to do something again......"
"Huh? You don't want me to buy this movie for distribution, do you? ”
"Having trouble?"
"It's okay to buy it, it's okay to do it, but you'll have to give me a reason......"
"I like it, okay?"
“What? Do you like gays? Do you believe that Steven will kill you if he finds out? ”
"Phew! What are you talking about? I mean I like James Shams as a person...... Hey! You see, I'm wrong! I mean, this director named Ang Lee is from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and he went to the same school as Martin and Oliver, plus the Troma you just mentioned, give him a chance......"
"Wow, how come you like to give people a chance as much as Steven?"
"Do you dare to say such a thing in front of Steven?"
"Uh...... When I didn't say it...... But it's okay to buy it, but I said in advance that this kind of same-sex movie can't be spread on a large scale, and the production cost of the whole movie is only 750,000, so it's ......"
"Okay, okay, don't count that for me, if you don't want to buy it, then I'll pay for it, and then package it for you Columbia Samsung to do distribution, if you are afraid of losing, then deduct eight percent of the fee, if it's not enough, I'll supply you, can you do it?"
"Do!"
When Roland saw the honest guy, his eyes suddenly flashed with contempt.
Aren't you afraid of losing money? Is it necessary to pick so hard?