25 April 1999.

After more than half a year of renovation, today's Dream Film Company has long been renovated and no longer looks like a garbage dump. Especially the millions of decoration costs smashed into it, and the effect that came out was definitely quite good!

I saw that the first floor of the office area is clean and bright, the marble floors of each office are shiny, the Italian chandeliers are beautiful, there are exquisite wallpapers, and a complete range of office equipment make you feel the earth-shaking changes here.

The second floor is used as a conference area, designed to be more novel and unique, fully automated large-screen conference room, which can accommodate nearly 100 people to study and propose together, projectors, audio equipment are all the most advanced in the United States. It should be noted that in addition to meetings, this floor also has a leisure and entertainment area, a fitness room, and a café.

The third floor is the company's newly established copy factory, which mainly includes the editing room and production workshop. As an editing room for dailies, it has a state-of-the-art computer system. The production workshop is completely modern mechanical operation, with high efficiency and fast action.

Of course, the three floors of Dream Pictures can have such a big change, basically "money" is at work, especially after Yi Feiyang received more than 20 million US dollars from Paramount Pictures Film Company, he invested 10 million yuan, mainly used in computer special effects editing, and computer animation creation.

Many people don't understand this, including Bill Rabbit, Fat Jack and others, they feel that this is too much of a waste of money, you must know that 10 million US dollars can shoot more than a dozen millions of films, or invite a superstar with a salary of tens of millions to start a blockbuster.

For the opposition of the big guys. Yi Feiyang is understandable. Because the biggest difference between him and them is. Yi Feiyang can see the trend of Hollywood film development in the future, but they can't.

In the future of Hollywood, all kinds of super blockbusters are rampant, what "Iron Man", "Spider-Man", as well as "Transformers", "Super Battleship", etc., which one is not taking the computer special effects route?

The Hollywood of the future. All kinds of animation masterpieces are proud of the crowd, what "Despicable Me", "Dragon Master", "Invincible Destruction King", and "Crazy Primitives", etc., which one is not famous by computer animation?!

Therefore, from the very beginning, Yi Feiyang planned to build his own movie animation special effects aircraft carrier, and these two parts are the foundation of iron!

Yi Feiyang spends money like running water here. For the high-priced treasure who is the chief financial officer, it is really a loser!

You want to. Of the original 54 million US dollars, 24 million were picked up and bought theaters, and 10 million were used to develop computer special effects and computer animation, and now only 10 million are left to support their families; If you put aside the past, it is good to say that there are only a dozen people in the whole company, even if they do not start work for three years, they can still eat, drink and maintain all of them; But it backfired, and suddenly added more than 30 people, and the fat man roughly calculated, the annual salary cost alone is 4 million, not to mention other expenses, not to mention insisting on it for three years, it is estimated that it will not even last for a year!

It can be said that Dream Pictures, from a small company that did not enter the stream, suddenly expanded three times to become a mid-scale film production and distribution company, and the rapid development is astonishing, but there are both advantages and disadvantages.

Needless to say, the advantages are not to mention, at least the human resources are sufficient, the disadvantage is that the expenses are too large, and Yi Feiyang, as the head of the company, has no plans to start a new drama.

If there is no drama to start filming, there will be no drama to be released, and if there is no drama to be released, there will be no income, and such a big family can only eat, drink and wait for death......

The fat man Gao Jiabao is very worried about this!

In fact, in addition to Gao Jiabao, the entire Dream Pictures company is also looking forward to Yi Feiyang's new works, and the majority of Hollywood audiences are looking forward to it, guessing what the next work of this newly rising Chinese magician in the film industry will be? !

……

On weekends, on a park bench, Yi Feiyang and Anne Hathaway snuggled together, and not far away, several mothers played on the grass with their children.

"Look at them, they feel so happy." Hathaway looked at the children playing mischievously in the grass, the sun, the green grass, and the cool wind, and felt that it was all so beautiful.

Yi Feiyang and Hathaway glanced at each other and both smiled slightly.

Hathaway pulled her windswept hair, narrowed her eyes, and sighed: "It's so charming here, a few months ago, it was covered with snow and ice, but now the grass is green, and it really changes a lot." ”

Yi Feiyang next to him also said: "Well, yes, not only has it changed here, but we have also changed." ”

Hathaway gave him a sudden look and asked a little strangely, "Have we really changed?" It seems that you have changed, and you are now a very popular new director in Hollywood. And I'm still the same! Shrugged playfully.

Yi Feiyang smiled and pushed the ends of her hair behind her ears and said, "Who said you haven't changed?" In the past, every weekend, if you were determined to be a nun, you would go to church and pray very devoutly, but now, hehe, how can you sit here with me and watch the scenery? ”

"Damn, why are you making fun of me like that?" Anne Hathaway couldn't help but blush and added, "It's not because you're ......"

"Oh, because of me?"

"Because you scoundrel has spoiled me! Yes, that's it! Hathaway said with a stiff face. I couldn't help but laugh in my heart, yes, how did I become so fast, where did Hathaway, who used to aspire to be a nun, go? Where is the girl who is determined to dedicate her youth and her life to God? Although I lost my desire to become a nun, I was blessed with something more precious.

"Oh, so I'm a badass, so why is someone still going to the park with a badass?" Yi Feiyang quipped.

Hathaway's pretty face turned red again, looked at Yi Feiyang helplessly, and then said: "I sometimes think, if I hadn't met you, what would my life be like now?" She shrugged her shoulders and added, "I like who I am, though." ”

"Really? In fact. I like you now, too. It's true. Yi Feiyang gently stroked Hathaway's cheek with his fingers. Hathaway bit her lip and looked at him affectionately, and just as the two were in love, a soccer ball flew over and interrupted their gaze.

"I'm sorry, this little guy is so naughty." A young mother walked over and said apologetically.

Hathaway's cheeks were covered with red glow, and she didn't dare to look at Yi Feiyang, so she casually said something: "Ahem." That, what are your plans now, the big guys are waiting for you to start a new movie. ”

"New film, hehe, I already have a plan." Yi Feiyang said confidently.

"Oh, is it? What movie is it? ”

"That's it!" Yi Feiyang gently picked up a snail climbing on a bench with his hand.

The snail was also unlucky, and finally managed to climb onto the bench with all his might, but was caught by someone.

"It's ...... A cute little snail. Hathaway said in surprise.

"yes, it's a snail." Yi Feiyang smiled slightly, "But it will be the leading actor in my next play." ”

"Ahh Are you going to shoot a popular science film? Hathaway's mouth was wide open.

Yi Feiyang, "Please." Use your imagination to say that snails can only appear in popular science films? ”

Hathaway shook her head, "I still can't guess, what exactly are you going to shoot?" ”

Seeing her like this, Yi Feiyang stopped teasing her, and said: "I'm going to shoot an animated film, the story is about this snail, and I have already thought of a name, it's called "Speed Snail"!" ”

"Speed Snail?" Hathaway looked at Yi Feiyang curiously, the snail crawled slowly, and everyone on earth knew that it had nothing to do with extreme speed.

"Yes, this animated story is about a snail who dreams of becoming a racing driver and sees the race on the track, overcoming all kinds of difficulties and finally realizing his dream......"

Yi Feiyang gently told the story of "Speed Snail" in his previous life, and Anne Hathaway listened to it with relish, and even forgot where she was.

In fact, since the filming of "Saving the Female Soldier Rachel", Yi Feiyang has been thinking about what to shoot in his next work.

Nowadays, he is called the "most talented" young director by Hollywood, in fact, Yi Feiyang knows that many people are waiting to see his jokes, how he, a Chinese director, capsized the boat, and how he fell from the position of a talented man and fell to the sky.

To be a man, you must be self-aware, otherwise you will be eliminated by the current situation, no matter how brilliant and bright you have been, it is just a flash in the pan.

It's nothing out of the ordinary, look at the two guys from Blair the Witch, Dennis and Adjado. According to Yi Feiyang's memories of his previous life, the two of them made up "The Witch" at that time and shocked the whole United States, because they were "mainstream races", the media's pursuit of them was much crazier than their own, they not only gave interviews everywhere, but the two extremely lucky guys also appeared on the cover of "Time Magazine" together, and became the darlings of the United States for a while.

But then what happened to them? Is the future promising? No, not only, they simply didn't get anything.

After the success of "Blair the Witch", in the first two years, all their energy was used to fight a lawsuit with the distribution company of "The Witch", and "Blair the Witch 2" released in 2000 had nothing to do with them, and the sequel rights had already been packaged and sold to others at the beginning. Later, the lawsuit was won, and the two directors wanted to make a comedy, but the investors insisted that they continue to make horror films.

After a few more years, the two directors began to make new films one after another, but both ended in box office failures. At the end, no one remembers these two young men who appeared on the cover of Time magazine, no one remembers the praise given to them by the media back then, and their names faded with time.

When you succeed, you break out of the cocoon, show your beauty to the world, everyone is admiring you, you think you have the whole world; But if you don't recognize your own situation, you'll get lost, you'll fly farther and farther, and eventually you won't find your way home, and then you'll fall down exhausted, picked up, and put together in a book to make a specimen. Occasionally a book would be opened, and the reader would say, wow, this is such a beautiful butterfly, it must have been beautiful when it used to fly! Then the book is closed and you are nothing.

This is the cruel reality, there are too many beautiful butterflies in the world. Hurried. Hurried away. He's just one of the taller flyers right now. If there is no self-knowledge, Yi Feiyang believes that he will not be much better than these two unlucky eggs.

According to the thinking of ordinary people, Yi Feiyang's first drama is purely a second-class dealer, the second drama is purely a low-cost thriller, and although the third drama has an investment of more than 300,000 yuan, it is not his investment. So now, Dream Pictures is much stronger than before. Do you continue to take the low-cost route and choose some low-cost, low-technical and low-difficulty movies for shooting?

For example, I continue to shoot horror films, or erotic films, after all, I have already succeeded in two films, and both of them have won big victories, so I can continue to eat my "old book" and continue to play my "specialty" in this area. But Yi Feiyang immediately put an end to this temptation of "no interest".

If a director is too content with the status quo, or reminiscing about the past. Then he can only be bound to this field, and it is difficult to break through himself.

For example, the Hong Kong director Wang Jing in his previous life. I always like to shoot some, pee, and fart movies, and after getting the worst, the majority of audiences only recognize and accept his type of movies, as long as he changes his route, takes the literary style, takes "Big Shanghai", and takes "Black and White Forest", then the box office will only hit the street!

Another example is a certain big director in the mainland, who has always been good at making northern Chinese New Year films, using some Beijing accent and Beijing tone to please the audience, and occasionally preparing to take the serious route and make a big production, whether it is a story or a very well-filmed "Reminiscences of 1942", the result is that the box office almost starved him to death!

Therefore, as a director, it is easy to be stereotyped by the subject matter of the movie, just like the lady in a high-end club, some are good at ice and fire, some are good at massage, and some are good at uniform temptation...... In short, everyone's skills are different, but the purpose is the same, that is, to make customers satisfied, let them all praise, and achieve a wonderful state; The director is a young lady and a prostitute, and she needs to use her own shooting skills to let the audience enter it, and when watching, she is directly screaming, only cool, no urine point, and goes directly to the shooting point!

Yi Feiyang is unwilling to be such a person, unwilling to be a stereotyped director, in his opinion, as a director, you must have a broad vision, whether you can become a big director, you must have boldness, magnanimity, and can shoot and control movies of any theme!

Why are there so few big directors?

The reason is very simple, the director is the storyteller, whether you can tell the story completely, beautifully, and endlessly, then it will identify whether your skills have reached the realm of superbness. To make another very simple analogy, many people can write novels, but some people are good at writing some romances, some people are good at writing some martial arts, and some are good at writing some science fiction, so is there anyone who is good at these fields? The answer is yes! But there are absolutely very few such people, because they are geniuses, masters of masters!

Yi Feiyang wants to be a great director and a grandmaster in the film industry, so he will never be bound by any subject matter, in his opinion, it is best for him to continue to take the low-cost route and shoot erotic movies or horror movies, but in that case, it will be very difficult for him to get rid of the two symbols of "erotic" and "horror" in the future. On the contrary, if he finds something else and shoots movies with other themes, whether it succeeds or fails, in the eyes of others, this guy is definitely not simple, at least he is a great director who has created across themes and fields!

Don't underestimate such a "big" word, countless Hollywood directors can't get it in a lifetime, and the real big directors can be counted on their fingers, there are only a few, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, and Spiel Berg......

Secondly, from another point of view, Yi Feiyang is not only a director, but also the boss of Dream Pictures, "a big family", "dragging a family with a mouth", thirty or forty people are waiting for him to eat, if he still makes a small fuss, then he can only stay in the stage of food and clothing, and can never drive a Mercedes-Benz to a well-off. So, he had to make a big deal.

In addition, the newly established computer animation design studio of Dream Pictures needs to accumulate experience, and the best way to accumulate experience is "practice", so Yi Feiyang plans to start shooting an animation film to motivate and hone the animation talents of these companies.

Finally, Yi Feiyang once shouted a slogan that touched countless people, that is, "No matter how big the dream is, it is not too big, and no matter how small the person who chases the dream, it is not too small!" ”

This classic quotation that plagiarized "Speed Snail" in his previous life seems to have become Yi Feiyang's most capable personal image symbol, or a symbol of the spirit of struggle. Yi Feiyang very much hopes to transfer this symbol from himself to the dream company, so that the company can become the "representative" of this golden sentence, so that when people mention this sentence, they will say, "Oh, this is not the Dream Pictures Company, the original small company, now it is struggling to become an aircraft carrier." ”

Yi Feiyang hopes that the company can have such a development, and hopes that the company can be recognized by the mainstream media in Hollywood, so it is necessary to start filming this "Speed Snail" that contains "golden sentences".

To sum up the above four reasons, it is imperative to shoot the cartoon "Speed Snail".

Yi Feiyang's thoughts and thoughts, where will Anne Hathaway know the way, she only knows the way, Yi Feiyang has never been in contact with animation design, as well as the production process of cartoons, and Hollywood cartoons are famous for their skills, burning money, and if they don't do it well, it will be self-defeating and a failure. Otherwise, there are so many big movie companies in Hollywood, why is Disney the best cartoon? The reason is that this field is too difficult to control, there is no funding, there is no technology, even if you have a good story, it is in vain.

But now, Yi Feiyang looks like he is swearing, and he is ready to break in so rashly, the result can be imagined, not to mention that he lost in a mess, it is already a miracle to be able to retreat!

Yi Feiyang saw that Anne Hathaway hadn't spoken for a long time, and seemed to be still thinking about something, so he touched her elbow on the chair, frowned and asked, "Annie, what's wrong?" ”

Anne Hathaway reacted with an "oh", shook her head to end her thoughts, looked at him and smiled: "It's nothing, I'm just thinking about something......"

Then Hathaway looked at Yi Feiyang, took a deep breath, and gave her advice in a serious tone, and said: "Yi, you know that your next movie is very important, which affects your future, so I hope you don't make rash decisions, not to mention that you don't seem to be very good at animation......"

"I see what you mean, cartoons are hard to do, it's a thing that is recognized by the whole film industry...... But don't forget, what my nickname is, magician, magic jan, there's nothing in this world that I can't do! Yi Feiyang said confidently.

"It's going to brag, what if you fail!" Anne gave him a blank look.

Yi Feiyang smiled, put his hand around her shoulder, and said, "What are you afraid of, even if you really fail, and you are by your side, I will live in your house at that time and let you support me!" ”

"What?" Anne was stunned, and then laughed, thinking that Yi Feiyang was joking.

But Yi Feiyang's serious look made Hathaway a little uncertain, and said in surprise: "Oh, are you serious? Live in my house and let me raise you? ”

Yi Feiyang nodded and said, "Yes, what, don't you want to?" Actually, I'm very good at raising, as long as I have three meals a day, by the way, it's best to be able to give me a bath every week, and occasionally take me shopping, take a walk......"

Anne Hathaway "fluttered" and laughed again, "Why does it sound like I'm raising a puppy?" ”

"yes, don't you like it?" Yi Feiyang raised his sword eyebrows and made a grimace, which made Hathaway lean back and lean back, and the worries and worries just now were swept away. (To be continued......)