"Yonick, I'm so, so, so proud of you, you're amazing! I want you to know, you're amazing! I've checked it a long time ago, and there's never been a 17-year-old nominee for Best Director, never! But you, oh, my, God, it's a huge honor, it's just amazing.

I love you so much, but not because of your accomplishments! No, if you don't get nominated, we're definitely comforting each other now, and that's a different kind of good. So with or without nominations, you make me feel that this qiē is too good, life is too good, we are together, it's so good......

Not...... Damn, I want to say something cooler, but I can't say it, I just love you! Can't wait for the weekend, I miss you so much! You're like a cute puppy, I want to hug you, but you're like, well, a lion! You're so handsome, and I want to hold you, you're so nice!"

"Thank you, Nina...... Did you prepare these words first?"

"What do you mean!"

"If not, I don't wonder why I feel the same way, because we really love each other very much, and the symptoms are the same. ”

"Hahaha!"

Nina's sweet laughter came out of the mobile phone, Ye Wei was in a happier mood, why is it so happy to have a nomination, it is precisely because of these moments to enjoy this joy with the people who are important to him. The laughter of Mom and Dad and Duoduo is about to spread all over Los Angeles.

Early in the morning, the text message box and email were full of congratulations, and when Nina finished busy and went back to class, Lev and Bard rang their excited screams, and the work cell phone was also ringing, today was destined to be a busy day.

I'm not interested in them, from the hazy sky to dawn, I want to go out for morning luck, Ye Wei looked at the girls' blessing text messages, Jia's, Emma's, Anna Sophia's, and Lily's: "Congratulations! For a moment I thought you weren't selected, I thought I would say, 'It's not a big deal', no, it's a big deal!"

Ye Wei replied to her with a smile: "Thank you, that's why I can't be Iron Man." ”

After a while, Lily replied, "I laughed my head off!"

"That's why Iron Man is so fascinating. ”

“LOL!!!!!!”

......

There is an expected situation in getting the nomination, Ye Wei has a lot of media interviews at once, some of them in the United States and Asia, some of them have already been arranged, and they will do it with or without nominations, and some of them are new, and they really need to arrange some time to complete them.

But he still went to school in the morning, and the news had spread in school, and his classmates, who were not hostile or indifferent to him, all laughed and blessed him, and the brothers' celebrations were even more touching.

After having lunch in the cafeteria at noon, Ye Wei could rest for a long time in the shade of the trees, and Ye Wei was talking to Brian on the phone.

"Time Magazine cover!" Brian said excitedly, but also quite dissatisfied: "Finally! At the time of "The Wedding is Coming", you should have been on the cover, but now, finally! Weige, get ready to win an award for the Genius of the Year or something." ”

Ye Wei was not very excited about the news, "In fact, I have a cover mirror of Time Magazine, and I basically go on the cover every day. ”

Brian laughed and said another piece of news, about Disney's new invitation.

"Snow White and the Seven Warrior Monks?" At first glance, Ye Wei was stunned, but then realized the fun.

Traditionally, Snow White is a girl with no fighting power, and it is up to Prince Charming to come back to life, shatter the witch's conspiracy, and achieve happiness. When Snow White personally defeated the witch with her strong martial arts, it was not only a subversion of fairy tales, but also a transformation from male power to female power.

Snow White fights up, which is the aesthetics and values of the new era.

It would be a 21st-century Snow White, beautiful, kind, gentle, but also heroic, strong, sassy, and brave...... Her eyebrows must be very thick......

Although there are many things he doesn't like about this project, such as the background of the times, such as the warrior monk, he was really interested in it before he read the script. He doesn't like Disney either, but it's a bargaining chip. He laughed, "Let's take it into consideration." ”

"Weige, what the hell are you thinking now? Let me know that I can do my job better. Brian asked.

Ye Wei went to a bench on the side of the boulevard and sat down, in fact, he had already had a mind, and it was time, and he said at the moment: "I have been thinking about it these days, and I have made my decision. Whoever wants to ask me to direct all these projects has to meet my three principles. ”

“...... What?" Brian seemed a little intimidated, "Three principles?"

"The first principle, I want the right to write the script. Ye Wei said very seriously.

As the director of the project, if you are dissatisfied with the script and propose to revise it, but the producer is not satisfied, then you can withdraw in the pre-production stage: I don't like the script, and you refuse to change it, I just don't shoot it.

But this is a waste of time and energy, the so-called script writing rights, in other words, I have the right to be a screenwriter to make the script the way I want, ask me to join, don't entertain me.

For example, Yuan Heping's team talked about "Snow White and the Seven Warrior Monks" for two years, because they were dissatisfied with the script and there was no progress, and their opinions were not taken seriously by Disney, Disney continued to let its screenwriter change. This is the absence of authoritarian rights.

This power can be big or small, any project starts with a script, and the script of a high-budget commercial project naturally starts from the business, and behind it is a set of sophisticated operations. The vast majority of directors like this kind of hire can only shoot the script they get, and they can mention it, but they can't decide.

"Weige, this is a bit ......," Brian was stunned, "it's a bit of a hurry. ”

"No, that's the first principle, and the second principle is, I want casting decisions. Ye Wei continued, very resolutely.

For big studio projects, the casting affairs are very complicated and long, and it is not the director who has the final say, but the research and response of the production team, producers, brokerage companies, labor unions, and target groups, the opinions of the media, the reactions of fans, and the specific considerations of the actors' personalities...... Too many, too many possible scenarios.

If the director has the casting decisions written into the contract, it can greatly reduce the disagreement in this area, speed up the progress, and create the cast that the director wants as much as possible.

Think about it if he agreed to direct, and Disney wanted Kristen Stewart to play Snow White!

"Wei Ge ......" Brian's tone seemed to be almost speechless, "How to cast, the director will have power, and when there are contradictions, there will be discussions, there is no need to make a clear decision......"

"No, it's necessary. That's the second principle, and the third principle is, I'm going to cut the right to the end. Ye Wei couldn't help but increase his voice, this is the most important power in the three principles.

"What!?" Brian was dumbfounded, probably the joy of the Golden Globe nomination was splashed with this basin of cold water, "Weige, the right to final cuts, it's really too much! ”

The final cutting power is more ruthless than the first two powers, in comparison, the casting right becomes irrelevant, and how the script is changed is not critical, because the movie becomes a movie in the editing room, and the same script and the same pile of materials are edited differently.

It is almost a direct release of the director's cut, who dares to hand over tens of millions of dollars to the director to cut it? "That empty shot has an artistic conception", "That montage is art", "Only when a dog dies can it be shocking"...... In the eyes of ordinary audiences, it is a different matter, dogs and children cannot die! If they die, the director must die.

If this is a literary film, OK, this is a commercial film, it is too risky for the director to make the final cut, so big that no film company is willing to bear it, unless it is a big director who has proved his ability to make money with great certainty in the commercial category.

"Do you know who is the only one who has the final cut right now? Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Tim Burton, Peter Jackson...... You're not here yet, Ridley Scott, Michael Bay...... Don't get carried away by your nomination, you're not there yet!"

"Tell you the truth, Brian. Ye Wei's firmness did not waver in the slightest, "I love independent production far more than making films for big studios, I know that these three principles are difficult, and it is too much to put them in the rules of the industry, but only in this way can I be moved." The right to write the script, the right to decide on casting, and the right to cut the final cut, none of them will work. ”

"My genius, you're not there yet!" Brian raised his voice angrily, "Things have to come step by step, you can't go to the moon in one step, you make a commercial blockbuster first, maybe the next project can be there, and you will produce it." Want it now? DreamWorks won't satisfy you. ”

Ye Wei stood up, walked to the library, and said resolutely: "This is my decision, you just negotiate like this, it's okay, if it doesn't work, it won't work." ”

......

When he came to the library, Ye Wei had already ended the call with Brian, and no one had convinced anyone, but in this matter, he would not change his mind and say that he would not say anything.

Only then will he still be VIY, not a Hollywood hired director.

Walking in the reading area of Mingya on the first floor, when he saw a group of familiar girls over there, Ye Wei walked over in greeting, "Hey, girls!" I couldn't see Lily there.

"VIY!", "But!" Connie and the other five girls immediately responded with laughter, and got up from the chairs at the round table, saying congratulatory words, all of which said, "Great!"

Ye Wei raised his hand to high-five them, "In fact, I would like to nominate another Golden Ball, football, the kind of football I play." The girls laughed, holding their mobile phones to take a group photo, "Today is really a memorable day." "Yes!"

"Yes. Ye Wei grinned and hugged their shoulders, one after another, smiling at the mobile phone camera, "Come on, take a group photo." ”

After all, it was a library, and this movement immediately attracted the rebuke of the teacher on duty, and the girls sat back at the table with a smile to continue studying, Ye Wei asked them, "Have you seen Lily?"

"Lily went to the second floor to look for a book, and I don't know. Connie said.

"That's gone, I'll go say hi to her. Ye Wei strode to the stairs on the second floor, and finally got a decent nomination along the way, and wanted to talk to her face-to-face. Going up to the second floor, where the students in the reading area were quietly reading, he went to the library and looked down the aisle between the rows of bookshelves.

When I got inside, I saw Lily standing sideways in the aisle on the left-hand side, and he said hello and walked over, "Lily!"

Lily's whole body jumped, as if she was startled, she hurriedly put something back in her handbag, turned her head to look, and her face was a little panicked, "Only...... How are you ...... here?"

"I'm going to school too, what's that?" Ye Wei walked up to her, puzzled and curious about what the ghostly thing was just now.

"Stop gossiping, girls' stuff ......," Lily gave a look that she couldn't tell the boys.

Ye Wei nodded his head, girls always have a lot of things, the handbag is like a treasure bag, and said with a smile: "Hey, aren't you going to praise me? I accept any compliments today." ”

Lily rolled her eyes and glanced at him, walked out of the aisle, adjusting her heart that was still palpitating, thinking about those few text messages in the morning again, when she thought of this today, she couldn't help laughing, and then she also laughed: "Haha!"

First, she said, "It-is-a-big-deal!" The bastard said "This-is-why-I-can't-be-Iron-Man." She didn't react immediately, but after thinking about it, she understood the meaning, and she really laughed. He's playing back at her sarcastic about him, like she's saying "Big-deal!" , he's not Iron-Man, he's Irony-Man, Irony (sarcasm) has an extra Y, and just because his last name Y is almost last, it will be pronounced by the sixth, and she will think for a moment that he is not selected. It's not okay for superheroes to come so late.

This sentence had so many funny meanings that she couldn't stop laughing, and replied to him "Laughing-my-head-off!" The bastard immediately replied, "This-is-why-Iron-Man-so-charming." This time she knew how to understand it, and she realized that Iron Man didn't have Y, and it was so ...... to take Y and put it together with her laughing head to be Heady (intoxicating Heady.

"Haha!" The more I thought about it, the funnier it became, Lily smiled and glanced at Ye Wei again, "I can't praise it, I don't have my head." ”

"Oh, poor fellow. Ye Wei couldn't help but laugh when she heard this, and reached out to pat her head hair, "Okay, put it back." ”

"Thank you, Sarcasm!"

"That's it, don't give me a few more likes, please!"

"How's this? genius!"

"Oh no......"