It's a sunny morning in Los Angeles, and in a medium-sized conference room at DreamWorks headquarters, there's already a heated discussion about the topic of the conference.

Today's meeting was attended by several parties, including Gary Gonzman, executive producer of the CPE project at lead producer Pretong, and Hanks who also joined the meeting by phone; Jeff Mai, head of production at DreamWorks, Terry Price, head of distribution, Bao, assistant on behalf of Spielberg, and several secretarial staff.

With so many big names gathered together, it's impossible not to pay attention to the project "Little Beauty of Nikko", which is nicknamed "Jimmy" internally.

The reason for this nickname comes from the 20l cartoon "Genius Boy Jimmy", the protagonist Jimmy is extremely smart at a young age, and he makes scientific and technological inventions to save the earth. And here, of course, Jimmy is the project's first producer and director, Ye Wei, and Jimmy's mechanical dog, Gold, is the second producer, Peter Heller.

Soon after the meeting began, the conference table was very clearly divided into three factions, led by Gozman, and Jeff Smai was also in this faction, and the two executive producers agreed that the use of numbers was not the best, but the most suitable and stable; The film faction composed of Ye Wei, Price, and Heller felt that they could do their best, why not do it, with the current fantasy cast, it is not a big deal to jointly add 1 million investment.

Regardless of whether there is more investment or not, whether to change to film or not, the shooting cycle cannot be changed, Hanks has to work for "The Da Vinci Code", which will start filming soon, and Roberts will not like to exceed the promised 9 weeks, as well as all aspects of the schedule and publicity date, more than 9 weeks and one day.

Then there's the centrist, Hanks, who listens quietly and doesn't speak much, but his attitude is crucial, and he's inclined to film......

Spielberg's assistant Bao had no opinion and reported according to the circumstances of the meeting.

From the beginning of the different opinions, to the voices of both factions gradually became a bit louder, no one is a bad guy, they all want the project to be successful, but they have different ideas about the problem. What is power, power is to be able to settle these production disagreements with one blow.

"We're talking here about the range of safe capabilities, and we should stay in the range, rather than venture out and go out, even if it's like there's gold all over the place

As soon as Gozman's words fell, Ye Wei's voice on the other side rose again: "The metaphor of the image, so all the differences are not all about how big is my scope?"

Ye Wei paused, and the conference room was suddenly silent, only the slight sound of turning the document paper, he glanced at the people at the conference table, Gonzman, who was a little old and red, Smai, Price, who nodded silently, and the telephone that did not make a sound.

He continued to say loudly: "There are a few points that no one here denies, first, film is the better choice now, no matter what aspect, it is the best choice; Second, a joint budget of one million is not a big deal and is acceptable to all parties; Third, if the director is an old director with rich experience in film making, this meeting will not even save zài, all the questions are, whether I, Ye Wei, a 6-year-old boy, can do a good job. Right, Gary?"

"Yes, but boy, it's not about you personally. Gozman became more and more angry, spreading his hands, "Everyone here, no one doubts your professional ability, otherwise there would be no meeting." ”

Everyone nodded silently, Hanks also said "yes", and Gozman said: "The problem is that we have to have a line, we can't endlessly raise the requirements for you, increase your difficulty, this is not for you, every project must be like this, do a calm, rational, strict risk management, we are making a movie, not playing a gambling game"

"I agree. Jeff Mai said that he became a KPY figure in a large company in his thirties, and this Stanford top student is not a person who loves to gamble, "The project is already very dangerous now." ”

Danger? Ye Wei smiled politely, being impolite was already laughing, am I a Texas chainsaw murderer? Suddenly, an idea came to him, so clear

As he thought, he said, "I fully understand that I have always been grateful for the trust you have placed in me, but gentlemen, this trust does not come out of nowhere, the way things are, and you have to do something to win the trust of others." Gary, Jeff, I'm going to have to come up with something this time so you don't think it's dangerous, kid

In fact, Ye Wei himself knows the answer, and everyone in the conference room also knows whether they have the ability to speak with facts, and the work is the greatest power.

The reason why there is "Jimmy" is because there are "Dance of Angels" and "The Wedding is Coming".

Gonzman was silent, Smai was silent, and Price, the initiator, said: "Weige, you can shoot something with film and prove that you can shoot it." ”

"That's not going to work, it's not okay to just take some pictures. Gozman immediately said that he was really made angry by these office politicians in the end, "We never felt that the problem was technical, but we were not photographers; The problem is that in the shooting schedule, the problem of time cannot be solved, and once there is a chain reaction, who will be responsible?"

Ye Wei touched his chin and raised his palm, "I'll tidy it up for you, there will be a time problem with film, first you can't complete the progress in one day, and then the schedule starts to become chaotic, and then the material is deleted, the quality is reduced, and it's over." This is your concern, right?" Gozman and Smai nodded, and Ye Wei grinned: "Time problem, time problem......"

Thinking about the idea of the new student, he said: ""Chainsaw, as you all know, has been very popular recently. ”

Everyone should be, how can they not know that such a big commercial miracle, more than 660,000 North American box office, the global box office of more than 100 million is no problem, and the production cost is only 200,000

Ye Wei continued: "I don't know if it's true or not, anyway, its propaganda says that after it was officially launched, it only took 6 days to prepare for it, and 18 days to shoot. Is there a question of time if James Wing comes to direct?"

"What do you mean?"

The so-called exploitation film (itatpihm) is not the same as cult films or low-budget B-grade films, exploitation films are genres that exploit a subject matter, such as "The Wedding is Coming" is a spoof of exploitation, "Chainsaw" is a bloody horror exploitation, this kind of film has a common characteristic, low cost, short production cycle, CHLT film and a hotbed of commercial miracles.

"I mean, I'm not going to shoot anything, I'm not going to be casual when it comes to movies. ”

Ye Wei narrowed his eyes and looked around at everyone, "If there is a guy who starts from determining the script and starting the production system, the pre-production, shooting, and post-production take 2 days, which is half of "Chainsaw", no more than one day, no less than one day, no less than one day, to make a film exploitation film above the level, what do you think of him?"

Yes, that guy will be my little beauty in the sunshine" The preliminary preparations were done ahead of time, I have time, I will spend 2 days, I will pay all my own money, and make an exploitation feature film on film, prove it to everyone, this kid is okay"

The conference room was dead silent, everyone was stunned, Gozman opened his mouth, he wanted to say calm, but what he said was: "Are you crazy?"

"No, just angry. ”