Half an hour later, Ye Wei arrived at Universal Studios Plaza.

It is the headquarters of Universal Group, one of the six giants of the film industry, and is also a famous theme park that is visited by countless tourists every day. When he came to the Focus Movie Office in the Universal City headquarters building, it was only 16:32, and it was still office hours.

In the aisle outside, Ye Wei tidied up his messy clothes because of the hurry, and walked into this bright and fashionable studio.

Inside is a spacious open office, busy, employees are doing something at their desks, there are secretaries holding documents to come and go, and the phone rings everywhere, talking, laughing, discussing, replying......

At the front desk, two beautiful young ladies sat there, they saw a young man coming over, and said with a smile: "Hi, young ladies, hello, I'm Ye Wei, I called at noon to ask the producer of "Little Sunshine Beauty". ”

"Huh?" The two front desk ladies were stunned, they looked at each other, confused!

Among them, the brown girl was the previous operator, and she thought that the other party's voice was a little childish at the time, but she never expected to be so young...... A teenager?

She blinked her eyes, and she could be sure that he was a teenager, not because of his tender face, although he was already tall, he couldn't hide the childishness on his face, at most 17 or 18 years old, right? How could he be a producer? The Olsen sisters? But who was he?

"You...... Are you sure?" she asked.

"Unless I'm a clone. Ye Wei raised the corners of her mouth, knowing what the other party was surprised about, but what could she do, kick him out?

"Oh, then please come with me......" Miss Brown Front Desk is really a little dizzy, whatever, do your job well, this industry has never lacked strange people and strange things.

Ye Wei followed her into the inside and went to the reception room of the production department.

Not counting the experience in a dream, this is the first time in his life that he has walked in such a place, a truly professional film company! The focus is not on the kind of small company with a simple structure, which is not enough for ten people, but a giant in an art film company, which has a sound department and hundreds of employees, just like a tight machine.

He looked around curiously, until he reached the elegant and quiet reception room, sat down in the sand, and began to wait.

The front desk lady said that a manager-level production department head would come to meet him and ask him to wait for a while. To be honest, it's good for a stranger like him to make a phone call and come running, and a manager to receive him, of course, if he can progress, sooner or later he will meet the supervisor, Vp, or even netbsp; In addition, for a film project to change hands, an important person is indispensable: the producer of the project.

Today's production companies are like banks, buying a producer's project, investing the money in him, and he executes the production, and the company sends executive producers.

The producer will also spin off some aspects of the production business and contract it to different small companies, such as casting, location scouting, post-production, special effects, trailers, publicity, ...... Almost everything is in it, it's an era of risk-sharing, and the days of big studios are gone, and so is Universal Group.

So the producer of the "Little Sunshine Beauty" project, although he should have been suspended, what plans he has will still have a great impact on this matter.

Ye Wei thought about these things, and waited for more than half an hour, when he glanced at the clock on the wall several times, finally someone knocked on the door and came in.

"I'm sorry, the office is too busy, so you've been waiting for a long time......" A middle-aged man in a gray suit came in as he spoke, and suddenly froze.

"It's okay, I just happened to have a good night's sleep, just joking," Ye Wei got up and walked over, smiling and stretching out his right hand, "Hello, I'm Ye Wei." ”

"Hello......" The middle-aged manager was surprised by the age of this "producer", and then he understood what the phrase "looks so young, like a high school student" means, it is not a metaphor, it is to tell the truth, this is an Asian high school student!

"Uh, please take a seat, I'm Gail Welson, call me Gail. He was full of helplessness, and he was going to waste ten minutes again, how could anyone dare to run.

Ye Wei sat back, knowing the current situation, he was too young to be trusted, this is human nature, and this question will inevitably follow him for a long time.

But he will still have a chance, and the manager will not dare not give it, because of a long-standing ancestral motto in the film industry: "Be polite, never offend someone casually, because he may be the next Spielberg, or the son of a billionaire." ”

Smart people will respect it, that's why he dares to come over with a big grin.

Sure enough, after Gail sat down, he asked as usual, "So, but, are you interested in "Little Sunshine Beauty"?"

"Yes, I read about it in magazines, and I know Focus's production prowess, a project that gives you such a headache, there must be something unique about it. ”

Ye Wei's tone became serious, and the young voice couldn't hear child's play.

This gave Gail a weird illusion, as if the producer sitting across from him was really a producer, and he was a little serious: "'Little Sunshine Beauty' is really unique, one of the predecessors of our company, 'American Films', bought it at the end of 2oo1, and then made it better, and there were 3o drafts of revisions in the past two years. ”

"Wow. Ye Wei exclaimed, after the Hollywood studio gets a script, it is a necessary process to continuously revise the script after the project is established and before filming.

Studios often find multiple screenwriters to work together to rewrite and revise, some are good at lines, some are good at scenes, and some are good at character building...... On top of this, there is also a kind of person called "script doctor", who invites those famous screenwriters to work for a week or two to check and give some opinions.

So a good script and a bad script have a big creative team behind them.

However, because the screenwriters' union stipulates that only 5o% of the original script creation and 33% of the adapted script creation can there be joint authorship rights, and perhaps the proportion of all the revised screenwriters and screenwriters of a script will add up to more than 5o%, but it is not enough to be separated, and only the original author will be signed in the end.

Laymen don't understand, thinking that the script is good or bad because of the original author alone, but in fact, there are many unknown authors behind it, several, dozens of them are possible. Like "Charlie's Angel", 17, and "Stone Paradise", 32.

This is also the reason why Hollywood scripts are mostly mediocre, too assembly line production.

Of course, the scripts of independent films are generally not like this, especially independent literary films, and even more so for films where the screenwriter and director are both the same person. It can only be said that once you enter the industrial system of Hollywood, there is a set of business processes for everything.

But then again, no matter where you put it, the two-year 3o draft is definitely an extremely high number, which is comparable to "Moonwalk", which took ten years to revise and change the 2o draft.

There are two possibilities in this way, first, the more it changes, the better it is, and the second is that it is messy, and the original script has long been ruined.

"Before we took over, the original author, Michael Arndt, had written the first draft and had already spent a year revising it before he started looking for a producer. ”

That is to say, this script has been in creation for more than three years since its birth!

Although this is the most common thing in Hollywood, Gale still has some emotion, and said: "We liked it because it had a very interesting story idea, but we always felt that its story exhibition was too flat. ”

"So we hired one new screenwriter after another to strengthen the tension of the story, redesign the characters, and write some new scenes, but ......"

He frowned and sighed, spread his hands and said, "It's still not enough, and how to describe its ending...... It's like if you spend 2 hours spinning around and all you get is a fall. We don't want a Hollywood-style ending, but it doesn't compensate, and if there is, it's nothing, you understand?"

Having said so much, Gail can't help but ask such a sentence, it is impossible for an ordinary high school student to understand, and if this little "producer" does not understand, then there is nothing to continue.

"I'm pretty sure you're speaking English. Ye Wei suddenly laughed, ladies and gentlemen, I am not an ordinary teenager, I am a demon!

After a little brewing, he continued: "The audience needs to compensate. Because people go to the cinema not to see a real world, but to see a world that compensates for the real world. There, heroes will triumph over villains, true love will come together, truth will be proclaimed, and justice will be served...... These exciting desires for beauty can only be realized in that imaginary world, and life is far from satisfying us. You know, as soon as you walk into the cinema, it's time for reality to end. ”

"Reality ends here" is also the motto of the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Think about it, if Andy was shot dead in "The Shawshank Redemption" when he finally escaped from prison, and if Forrest Gump ended up alone in "Forrest Gump", what would happen?

"Wow. This time it was Gail's turn to exclaim, he couldn't help but sit up a little straighter, the person who could say such a thing was by no means an ordinary high school student.

"Gail, I know I look young, like the guy in 'All Body', but you can really trust me, I'm a professional. Ye Wei laughed.

Gail didn't nod his head and continued, "There are a few other problems with this script, there are a few very controversial scenes, there are too many characters, and the scenes are changed quickly......"

"But I'll be honest with you, I personally think it's okay, and if you modify the ending a little more, so that the audience can leave the theater laughing instead of scolding, you can rest assured that you can shoot. It's just that the opposition in the company is very high, and they are all big names, they have lost patience and confidence in this project, they don't want to dwell on it anymore, they just hope to recover the cost of the script. ”

"Then it looks like I'm going to earn it!" Ye Wei pretended to be excited, but in fact, he knew in his heart that this might be Gail's truth, or it could be a sales pitch, intended to make buyers feel that "Focus gave up this project not because it wasn't good enough, but because the office was in charge." ”

"I don't think it's going to be a loss. Gail's smile was a little deep.

"Then can I read the script now?" Ye Wei asked, whether it was good or bad, I only knew after reading it.

"Uh, after talking for so long, I still don't know which company you're from?"

Gail still has a few processes to go, although the script of "Little Sunshine Beauty" has long been registered, and the 3o manuscripts are all there, so you don't have to worry about being plagiarized;

But the script wasn't just for anyone to read, especially since this is an eccentric high school producer.

"It's a little independent production company that my dad owns, and we have money, and we love movies, so ...... Our film "The Wedding is Coming" has been released this week, and the box office is not very good, and we have lost face and want to get it back in the second movie. ”

Ye Wei shrugged his shoulders, spread his hands on his sand back, revealing some squirrel, there was no need to act at all, just like before.

He has long thought about the strategy, youth is his shortcoming, "rich" is his advantage, in this matter the film company is nothing more than money, let alone 15 years old, a 5-year-old child waving a million bills, no one dares to despise it at will.

The other party will not know the financial situation of Wei Duo, what they know is "the son of a rich man who knows a little about movies, God knows what he wants to do, but he is the son of a rich man." ”

"Oh......" Gail nodded, got up and said, "Well, then you wait, I'll go to the office and get the script." ”

Ye Wei said OK, knowing that the other party was going to check the details, go ahead.

Gail left for a while, and then came back again, with a different smile on his face than just now, and a copy of the script, and his enthusiastic tone was already Feng Ye Wei as a guest of honor.

"But, that's it, look at it. ”

"Thank you. Ye Wei's eyes lit up, and a wave of excitement filled his heart, and he almost grabbed the script and read it honestly and unceremoniously.

This is a script written in a standard script format, one page is equal to about one minute of video, and here there is a thick stack of 12o pages, and the standard 12o minutes is preset for the length of the film.

After flipping through the cover of the script that read "Little Miss Sunshine, Screenwriter: Michael Arndt", he began to carefully read the 12o pages that had been revised countless times by the talents of the people:

"1 Electronic control system, video recorder screen

On stage, five young women stand side by side, waiting for the judges to give them a rating (all of them holding their breath in anticipation). The referee announced the names of the winners. The other four were a little heartbroken.

The camera's lens skimmed over the smiling faces of the losers and finally landed on the winners. Tears welled up in the winner's eyes, and she hugged the contestant closest to her.

Subtitles are played, and the music begins (slowly, affectionately, and rhymes), and continues the entire opening scene until the title appears. ......』

Ye Wei only read the first few pages, and he was fascinated, and he had goosebumps of excitement all over his body, this is a good beginning of a story! Cleverly let the main characters appear in their own scenes, but they are connected to form a situation that people look forward to......

Gradually, he stopped making any comments and became fully involved in the story, turning page after page......

"But, then you watch first, I'll go back to the office. Gale said and seemed to get up and leave.

"Ok, ok......" Ye Wei muttered, his eyes didn't move half a minute as he read the script.

『18 Interior, Restaurant, Daytime

......

Richard: How's the new plan going?

Oliver: Good.

Richard: When are you going to show us?

Oliver: I don't know, it depends on what Grandpa says.

Grandpa: It's going to be a few more days, and I'll have to keep working hard.

Oliver sat down. Grandpa walked over to the table.

Grandpa (continued): What is that?chicken?!Every day is a damn chicken!O God Almighty!Can we, even once, have something else for dinner instead of this damn chicken?!

Shirley ignored it. Richard tried desperately to interrupt him.

Richard: Dad...... Dad...... Dad...... Dad......!!!

Grandpa: I'm just going to say ......!

......』

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