"I'm not touting Charlotte Booth. As a director, he still has all kinds of shortcomings. ”

Roger Albert wrote,

"Whether it's Spielberg or Francis Coppola, or the recently deceased Stanley Kubrick, these film masters have a lot more than Charlotte Booth, but, on the other hand, Charlotte has an ability, I think is the strongest of any directors I've ever seen—"

"That's his storytelling ability!"

To put it simply, the average director needs to use ten minutes of footage to tell the content, but he often only needs five minutes, or even three minutes, to tell it clearly. ”

This is very obvious in "Sherlock Holmes". ”

"You know, as a detective movie, this film with a lot of reasoning should have been a headache for many audiences, but with the use of Charlotte Booth's lens, even I, an old man with a slow reaction speed, can easily understand. ”

"This makes some niche movies with complex storylines become popular. ”

"It can be said that this strong narrative ability is a very important ability for commercial film directors——"

"Having this ability means they can tell more complex, interesting, and self-consistent movie stories with less time on camera, and create fuller characters, while still leaving enough time for those hot scenes and special effects shots. ”

"It's because of this narrative ability that Charlotte Booth's films are always successful. ”

"Because of all the movies with good stories, his movie has the best special effects and scenes, and among all the blockbusters with big scenes and massive special effects, his movies have the best story. ”

"So, art films aside, in the commercial film field, if you want to make a film like Charlotte Booth, you have to have the same narrative ability as him. ”

"If you can't do that, then I advise directors and producers not to follow the theme of Charlotte Booth's films—"

"Without enough storytelling, you'll only get the result of an imbalance between storytelling and special effects. ”

"—What Charlotte Booth can do, you may not be able to do!"

Roger Albert's film review does not have much evaluation of "Sherlock Holmes", but rather a lot of praise for Charlotte's own ability.

However, not many people in Hollywood scoff at it.

Because, many people have indeed realized or thought they are aware of the secret of Charlotte's success after the mention of this film review-

Powerful storytelling!

This made many Hollywood insiders who were confused by Charlotte's long-term success suddenly realized.

This film review by Roger Albert seems to have opened a window for them.

Many senior directors also agree with this view.

Some young directors have even come up with ideas on how to improve their storytelling skills.

And film company executives or producers like Robert Iger have further confirmed Charlotte's ability and confidence in her future.

So, for a while, Charlotte became hot in Hollywood.

A large number of scripts and film contracts flew to his office, which bothered Alexis again.

As for Charlotte, he had already taken Charlize to New Zealand to visit the crew of "The Lord of the Rings" at this time......

The project "The Lord of the Rings" was won by Charlotte during the filming of "Sherlock Holmes".

Although there was some unpleasantness with the new line, the project was still won, and the related copyright issues were resolved some time ago, after Mr. Westwood's rush.

As a result, the first part of "The Lord of the Rings" "The Lord of the Rings Reappears" started filming in New Zealand.

- New Zealand is a filming location that Peter Jackson highly recommends. However, considering that the original time and space, the "Lord of the Rings" series was also filmed here, Charlotte, as a producer, did not object.

However, Charlotte rejected Peter Jackson's suggestion to outsource the special effects production of the Lord of the Rings series to Weta Studios, which he and a friend co-founded.

- Ghost Party Studios itself is known for its post-production of special effects, so how can it be possible to outsource special effects to other companies?

Fertilizer water does not flow into the fields of outsiders!

In particular, strictly speaking, Peter Jackson's behavior can be regarded as sucking blood in Charlotte's investment, and he naturally can't allow it.

However, Charlotte did not refuse the other party harshly, on the contrary, he used a rather absolute solution -

He directly bought Peter Jackson's Weta Studios.

- This is not purely to silence Peter Jackson, but more importantly, the Spectre studio itself needs to be expanded.

There are more and more film and television projects being produced at the same time in the Ghost Party Studio, and now that Charlotte has also started the game branch, the original manpower has been stretched.

In this case, in addition to slowly recruiting people yourself, it is a faster way to directly acquire other studios.

In particular, if Weta Studios is acquired, it will be possible to use it as a branch and take advantage of its proximity to the filming location of The Lord of the Rings to immediately support the production of the film.

This is much more efficient than doing remote technical support in Los Angeles, the headquarters of Ghost Party Studios.

Moreover, unlike Weta Studio, which became famous after the success of the "Lord of the Rings" series in Charlotte's original time and space, Weta Studios at this time was not very famous, and the acquisition fee was very cheap.

- Overall, this can be considered a good value for money acquisition.

Of course, the completion of the acquisition does not mean that the integration is complete.

If you really want to merge Weta Studios with Ghost Party Studios, some work still has to be done.

Whether it is the transfer of personnel between each other, in simple terms, the unification of work processes, or the integration of administrative management, it is indispensable.

But even so, this integration process still takes some time.

In fact, shareholders like Peter Jackson or studio executives aren't a problem.

After all, part of Charlotte's acquisition was achieved through the exchange of shareholdings - in short, Peter Jackson lost Weta Studios in exchange for a small stake in Ghost Party Studios.

From that point of view, he was already his own person in the Ghost Party Studios.

On the contrary, it is the ordinary employees of Weta Studio, how to turn them into the people of Ghost Party Studio, this is a problem.

After all, this involves spiritual things such as corporate culture, and it can't be done overnight.

At the very least, Charlotte can see the difference between the two on Redmine, a task-progression management tool within Ghost Party Studios.

And Charlotte's trip to New Zealand this time also has the purpose of taking the opportunity to further integrate the acquired Weta Studios.

In particular, he also prepared some special means......