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"I think Mr. Lin will find another reason to refuse. www.biquge.info"Jonathan Gleeman didn't think Lin Mu would attend such an event.
As soon as Jonathan Gleeman said this, Cheng Long also believed his statement, and on the day of the press conference, just when they all thought that Lin Mu would not come back, Lin Mu really came. However, this time he changed his usual suit and leather shoes, and the casual style of a rare denim T-shirt, baseball cap and sunglasses made many reporters at the scene not recognize him at first. The usual formal attire made the media instinctively ignore the fact that Lin Mu is only in his 20s.
Until the host invited him to the stage to participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the film release as a special guest. Only then did many reporters find out that it was the chairman of Paramount who had been sitting next to them. Seeing the reaction of the reporters in the audience, Jonathan Gleeman, who was on the side, finally understood Lin Mu's profound intention of not wearing formal clothes to attend the event and insisting on sitting in the audience. He wanted to make it clear to the media that he was only attending the event in a private capacity and did not represent Paramount's position.
Due to Lin Mu's special status, the organizers also specially arranged a link for him to give a speech. But even when he stood on the stage, Lin Mu still didn't mean to take off his sunglasses. "I was surprised to receive Mr. Cheng Long's invitation to participate in such an event, which seems a bit unreasonable, but Mr. Cheng Long's hospitality is difficult to resist. It's hard for me to refuse. I'm as excited as everyone here is about this film, and even though I haven't seen it before, I had the pleasure of reading the script of the film, and it's an interesting story. ”
"For the main creator of the film, I believe that there is nothing more suitable for this film than the current combination. Mr. Cheng Long is familiar to everyone, and his works are also loved by most American audiences. And Kristucker is a brilliant black actor, his performance can always bring laughter, I personally appreciate his comedic talent, although Lin Mu said this somewhat flatteringly, but his affirmation still made Chris Tucker feel very excited, after all, Lin Mu represents the sound of mainstream Hollywood movies.
"As for the director of the film, Mr. Bletratner, he is also a director with great potential. I have no doubt that he will be one of the most successful directors in Hollywood in the future! ”
mentioned Chris Tucker earlier, Lin Mu somewhat considered the situation, but when talking about Brett Ratner, Lin Mu's evaluation was not a deliberate compliment. As far back as he can remember, Bright-Ratner's first five feature films would grossing more than $10 at the box office, and "Rush Hour" was just his second film.
What makes Lin Mu remember the most is that Brett Ratner is the "godfather of hip-hop." Filmed by Russell Simmons, he has collaborated with famous artists such as Madonna, Maria Carrie, Jessica Simpson, etc., and has also won awards and Tony Awards.
Lin Mu's evaluation also has different opinions in the eyes of different people, Krill Tucker and Bright, who have been affirmed, are very excited, while Cheng Long thinks that Lin Mu is doing this completely to give him face, which invisibly closes the relationship between the two. And Cheng Long is willing to play some supporting roles in some movies shot after Lin Mu, mostly because Lin Mu is not on a show at this time and is approachable.
Cheng Long, Chris... When the action blockbuster "Rush Hour" starring Tucker was released, a reporter found Lin Mu's whereabouts in Xiangjiang. Tsui Hark's new film has caused a stir in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and has attracted widespread attention from all walks of life. And this movie, which is still in production, is not only popular with Lin Chiling, but also makes many Xiangjiang people remember the name Lin Mu.
The name, which was later associated with the media in Hong Kong and a film that created a myth about the global box office, further deepened people's curiosity about the woods. This young man rose like a comet in Hollywood, overshadowing all the screenwriters of his generation, and then successfully transformed into a producer, and finally became the head of Hollywood's oldest film company. In this age, people no longer believe in myths. But Lin Mu's experience is more like a myth that makes people fascinated.
The filming progress of the film "A Chinese Ghost Story: A Strange Love" has always been a topic of conversation in the Xiangjiang media, and Lin Mu's appearance in Xiangjiang has attracted the attention of all parties, but the media reporters could not get accurate information from the hotel where Lin Mu stayed, let alone have the opportunity to interview the young Chinese chairman of Paramount.
Lin Mu came to Xiangjiang this time mainly to visit his parents in Hong Kong, and by the way, he paid attention to the production progress of the film "A Chinese Ghost Story: The Love of the World". The pre-production of this film has been completed, and the post-production is all in the United States. When Lin Mu came, the crew had already finished filming. And Lin Mu had already learned the news from Lin Chiling in advance, and he came back this time. Mainly to discuss with Tsui Hark some matters related to post-production in the United States.
Originally, he planned to stay with his parents, but a reporter recognized him at Xiangjiang Airport, in order to attract the attention of the media, Lin Mu ostensibly stayed in a very famous hotel in Xiangjiang, and he did book a room in the hotel, but he never stayed at all. Many media outlets tried to enter the hotel to interview him, and many people waited outside the hotel. But Lin Mu has actually stayed at his parents' house all the time. His trick is to repair the stack and secretly cross Chen Cang's small scheme. Successfully diverted the attention of the media. Throwing off the attention of the media, Lin Mu's activities in Xiangjiang have become much more relaxed.
In the past few days that Lin Mu has stayed in Xiangjiang, Liu Weiqiang's new film "The Hero of the Storm and the World" is being screened. Martial arts films of the era can be said to be all the rage in Xiangjiang, and since the year of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" began to open up a new era of new martial arts, but in the late era, martial arts movies fell into decline, and "The Hero of the Storm and Storm" was in the decline of martial arts films. made an exception to adapt the comics into movies, and opened up a new model of comic martial arts movies with a large number of computer animation special effects, which were released in Xiangjiang and hit the box office. The scenery is for a while.
As a "blockbuster" of Xiangjiang stunt martial arts movie. The martial arts scene in "The Hero of the Storm and the Storm" can be said to be painstaking, and Lin Mu's words have had a great impact on Liu Weiqiang's style of shooting this film. In the film, he tried his best to use all kinds of stunts that computers could provide to break the stereotype of martial arts design in previous new martial arts movies. Interception on the lake, out-of-body master duel, and the final duel. All out of the odd and ingenious. It is unique and fully explores the function of computer stunts in martial arts.
and the classic "New Martial Arts Movie." Compared with. The most significant difference between this kind of martial arts films that belong to the century is the extensive use of various computer stunts. Therefore, in addition to the great breakthrough in the martial arts scenes, most of the light skills and body skills in the film are also completed by the computer, and in addition, scenes and paragraphs such as life charts and monsters are specially added to show stunts. After getting used to watching martial arts movies where you go back and forth in the sky with a tightrope, I added computer stunts. "The Heroes of the Storm and the World", which made the martial arts scenes more dazzling, made all Xiangjiang audiences addicted.
Many people clearly feel the figure of Hollywood technology movies in Liu Weiqiang's film, and Liu Weiqiang himself does not deny this, and he even mentioned that Lin Mu was mentioned at the beginning of the filming. There is a lot of gratitude to Lin Mu in his words.
The success of this film did not make Liu Weiqiang complacent, because he clearly knew the gap between Hong Kong films and Hollywood films, and this gap was most obviously manifested in the difference in production concepts. The same movie released in the same year, "Warcraft: The Phantom of the Dragon Family" invested and filmed by Paramount is obviously different from "The Heroes of the Storm", this difference is not only reflected in the final box office returns, but also in the interpretation of kung fu in the film, the understanding of foreigners and Chinese people is completely different.
The most attractive thing in "Warcraft: Phantom of the Dragon Family" is naturally the peak duel between Cheng Long and Li Lianjie, two kung fu superstars, but people who are familiar with Xiangjiang movies will find that the two did not use any stunts in the bamboo forest for a long time. is also a kung fu movie, and Western audiences are more willing to accept the setting of monsters, so in the film, Cheng Long and Li Lianjie have their own gorgeous transformations. The only difference is that they still use Huaxia Kung Fu after their transformation.
In a casual conversation that followed, Tsui Hark and Lin Mu mentioned the idea of making a movie. In fact, at the beginning of the filming of "A Chinese Ghost Story". Tsui Hark has been planning to shoot a Xianxia movie related to Shushan. Tsui Hark is filming the large-scale science and technology martial arts film "New Shushan Swordsman". It has created a precedent for new Chinese martial arts films. But he felt that as the Emei (Shushan) school of the five major schools of martial arts, there were still many stories that were not exquisite, and the film stunt production at that time was still in its infancy, which made the image in his mind unable to be displayed on the big screen.
In recent years, the rapid development of film stunts has made Tsui Hark unbearable to the complex of martial arts movies, and is ready to make a comeback and break into "Shushan" again He mentioned this problem to Lin Mu, in fact, he also wanted to test Lin Mu's attitude, if he was interested in this subject, Tsui Hark was fully confident to persuade him to invest in this film. If it weren't for Lin Mu's appearance, Tsui Hark would have launched this movie in the same year, but the appearance of "A Chinese Ghost Story: A Love in the World" disrupted his previous plan, but Tsui Hark never gave up this idea.
In Tsui Hark's opinion, Lin Mu has always been enthusiastic about Chinese movies, and he should be very interested in such classic themes, but Lin Mu's reaction was beyond his expectations, and after listening to Tsui Hark's description of his ideas, Lin Mu did not show the eagerness he imagined.
"It's a good idea in the Asian film market, but this kind of film is outside the Chinese-speaking cultural circle, can you guarantee that the audience can accept Huaxia's flying sword like the broomstick in "Harry Potter", and then accept the so-called sword energy and spells like magic? Lin Mu asked noncommittally.
"The Chinese can accept broomsticks and magic. Why can't foreigners accept Huaxia's flying swords and spells? Tsui Hark asked rhetorically.
"But the cultural background of the East and the West is different. Western culture was introduced to the East as an advanced culture. If we use import and export to describe this cultural phenomenon, I think that the West is now vigorously exporting its own culture to the parallel world, while the Eastern world has not gone out of its own culture while accepting the import of Western culture, that is to say, the East has always been in deficit in terms of cultural export. ”
"This situation has begun since the beginning of this century, we have accepted a lot of Western culture, but Westerners' understanding of Eastern culture has always been very narrow, and even Westerners are not many people interested in Eastern culture, Chinese people can like "Harry Potter" like foreigners, but I haven't heard how many foreigners like Jin Yong's novels, they can't even understand what story the novel is telling, let alone the story of Xianxia, which is flying away?" Lin Mu didn't want to splash Tsui Hark's cold water at this time, but the reality was like that. Commercial films are audience-oriented, and it is impossible for Lin Mu to invest in a film that has no market base overseas.
"We can only be led by others all the time, and movies that truly belong to Chinese culture will never be recognized by the Western world?" Lin Mu's analysis is all reality, but Tsui Hark is still a little unwilling.
"It took a whole century for the Easterners to accept Western civilization, and this influence is still going on, and it is not enough to get Westerners to accept Eastern culture overnight. We can only slowly infiltrate the culture, just like the development of Chinese films, we can only come step by step
"The Disney Company has just launched a new cartoon "Mulan", and the story theme is taken from the well-known story of Chinese people. This shows that Hollywood has now attached importance to the existence of Chinese-language films, and what we can do now is to slowly introduce some Chinese elements into Hollywood films, so that Western audiences can slowly move from curiosity to active acceptance of our culture. The stones of other mountains can be used to attack jade, and Hollywood is actually a good platform. But it's useless to blindly shout about entering Hollywood, I think how to use this catty, the platform is the key. ”
Lin Mu further analyzed: "Hollywood movies are still market-oriented, and Hollywood blockbusters have begun to pay attention to Chinese elements in recent years, in fact, they have taken a fancy to the broad market of China in the future. And I think this is an opportunity, an opportunity for Chinese films to really go out and achieve greater development. ”