Chapter 1381: Six Directors
Although Jon Landau agrees that all actors use Chinese, he prefers to use professional Hollywood directors to shoot the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, for a very simple reason, because in Jon Landau's view, only by using Hollywood directors can he exclude movies that sell all over the world.
There was nothing wrong with this idea in itself, and many Chinese investors later supported it.
After all, Hollywood's film industry is very powerful, and their movie routines sell well all over the world, and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is just a story, and it is the same for whoever shoots it, as long as it can make money.
But Boss Jia knows that if the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is handed over to Hollywood directors to film, it will be completely a blind toss, as evidenced by countless Chinese-style works made by Hollywood directors in later generations, which is simply a mess.
Miraculously, if you say that the Chinese people do not accept such works, it is because these works only have the skin of Huaxia...... No, not even a skin, basically a foreigner.
But even foreigners don't like these movies, and they all failed miserably at the box office, with these lessons from the past, of course Boss Jia can't do such a stupid thing.
Of course, even if there are no lessons from the past, it is impossible to hand over the movie to foreigners, and Boss Jia doesn't want to be scolded by the Chinese people for the rest of his life.
Therefore, Boss Jia proposed very strongly that the movie should be shot directly with the 6 directors of the TV series, so that the purest Romance of the Three Kingdoms can be filmed.
Of course, if only these 6 TV series directors are used to shoot, it will not work, after all, their vision and concept are not in line with the world's film market, so Boss Jia instructed Jon Landau to find two more directors from within the company, and also become assistant directors to assist Huaxia directors in filming.
However, these directors only have the right to suggest, not the right to decide, if there is any violent controversy, then Boss Jia is directly responsible for controlling and deciding, and the control of the entire film is still in the hands of the Chinese people.
After making the following arrangements, although Jon Landau was a little dissatisfied and puzzled, he could only follow Boss Jia's instructions to find the six original directors of these TV series.
One might wonder how there can be 6 directors.
This is also the most special thing about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms TV version, in order to catch up with the schedule, many plots of the TV series were filmed at the same time, and the director was responsible for a part of the plot, and finally pieced together the TV series of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
When Jon Landau heard this for the first time, he was stunned, he never thought that so many directors could be cobbled together to make a TV series, let alone that these outsiders couldn't see that the TV series was jointly shot by six directors.
Since the completion of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, these 6 directors have never reunited, and they themselves probably did not expect that after 3 years, they would actually get together again.
When they learned that there were foreign film companies and producers of the Titanic who were willing to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to shoot the movie Romance of the Three Kingdoms, these six directors were all stupid.
After being stupid, their blood began to boil, and then they put down all the work in their hands, gathered in Wang Fulin's room, met with Jon Landau, and began the first communication between the two sides.
"Here's our shooting plan, and the script outline! Mainly the script outline of the first Yellow Turban Rebellion! After the chief director of the previous TV series version met Wang Fulin, he didn't talk about anything else, but asked to know the shooting plan and requirements of Jon Landau.
Wang Fulin and the six have discussed it before, they must take control of the movie version in their hands, and at the same time shoot according to their own ideas, at least according to their own ideas in the plot, otherwise they will ruin this traditional masterpiece, and they will all become national sinners, which is absolutely unacceptable.
Jon Landau also simply came up with the plan he had discussed with Boss Jia a few weeks ago.
Wang Fulin and they watched it very seriously, and Jon Landau even slept in the room, and it was not until the next day that the six directors said that they could continue to talk.
"First of all, we don't have any problem with the division of 6 films!" Wang Fulin said that for this result, Wang Fulin himself was also shocked.
He originally thought that the script outline that this foreigner came up with would be ridiculous and a pile of waste paper, and he would spend a lot of effort to convince these foreigners and tell them how to shoot the real Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
What I didn't expect was that Wang Fulin didn't find any big problems in this script outline, not even a slot, the plot division of at least six movies is very perfect, could it be that there are foreign script writers who are familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms to this extent!
This made Wang Fulin and others a little unbelievable, but they didn't get too entangled, but continued to hold the plot outline of the first movie and said, "But there are some problems in the script!" We need to discuss it! ”
"Good!" Jon Landau nodded.
"First of all, the problem of Zhang Jiao's three brothers, Zhang Jiao died of illness in history, and Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao also died very badly, there is no such way to die in the script, this is not against history!" Wang Fulin said.
"Hmm......" Jon Landau nodded, and then he couldn't speak, although he really wanted to shoot the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but where could he debate with these people who had studied the Romance of the Three Kingdoms almost several times!
So he said, "Sorry, I'll make a call," and then went to the balcony for ten minutes to talk, and then came back and explained, "That's right, an excellent commercial movie needs to be connected by the climax of the plot one after another." And as the final climax of the first film, there must be a big scene that surpasses all the previous battles, in the words of the doctor, that is to stimulate the adrenaline of the audience! ”
"So this battle must be exciting, and there must be enough war pictures, so we let Zhang Jiao survive to the end, and only he is qualified to support the final boss battle. Although this is a big gap from history, movies are movies and history is history! ”
"As far as I know, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is also seven points true and three parts fictional, since we are adapting the Romance of the Three Kingdoms movie, then on the basis of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there is another one, seven points true and three parts fiction, there is no problem!"
"Okay!" Wang Fulin and the others nodded, just changing Zhang Jiao's date of death, which is really not too much of a problem for the film adaptation.
"We can accept this, but for Zhang Jiao, they really know how to use Dao techniques, we can't accept it!" Wang Fulin said with an ugly expression, "We are making a historical movie, not a god or a strange thing, these will ruin the whole movie and make him become a four-like one!" ”
"Okay, I understand!" Jon Landau nodded, but ran to the balcony to make a phone call, which made Wang Fulin and the others look confused, and finally Jon Landau came back and said, "You are right, I also didn't think about it, but if the battle of the Yellow Turban is also a kung fu fight, the attraction of the whole movie is a little insufficient." ”
"So I had an idea that I could show these miracle-like Taoist techniques at the beginning of the movie, but after killing Zhang Jiao and the others, Liu Bei and them discovered the secret by capturing Zhang Jiao and their days."
"It turns out that the so-called invulnerability is that those soldiers wear a close-fitting inner armor on their bodies, by the way, isn't it that there are also invulnerable rattan armor soldiers later. As for what the Yellow Turban soldiers wear, it is also a very special and very strong inner armor! ”
"However, these are only worn by the personal elites of Zhang Jiao and others, and other ordinary yellow turban soldiers do not have them."
"Stealth is a kind of visual deception that borrows the terrain and arranges the blind spot of the vision!"
"Another example is not afraid of pain, which is a hypnotic ability!"
"There is also a fire-breathing fire, which is a pre-set mechanism"
"There is also the heavenly thunder, which is an illusion created by using stored lightning in the original capacitor! I have consulted the people concerned, and under the technical conditions of ancient times, it is still possible, although it is very complicated, but it is possible! ”
"Anyway, everything that is not scientific is explained by science in the end, and Zhang Jiao is actually a scientist in ancient times or something, which can further improve the connotation of Zhang Jiao's character! Let Zhang Jiao go from a god stick to a great scientist! Jon Landau explained with a smile.
"This idea, absolutely absolutely!" Wang Fulin and the others were stunned, they had never thought that there would be such a solution to the problem and contradictions.