My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 1178 The New York independent film circle at the turn of Pan Ga, the little nun and the buck-toothed loli!
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Daxin Township, in the center of Brooklyn, is an iconic independent movie theater, and not far from it is the most common Brooklyn Bridge in American TV dramas.

"Wow~~ Long time no see~ Wu——"

With a five-fifth oily hair, wearing dark green tassel flared trousers, and a brown toad mirror, he was dressed as a hippie. 'Kaige', who wore a new English name, greeted Wu Xiaozu in proficient English, and even came up with a cheek .

Brother Kai already has a green card, a very green one. . . . .

After all, there is a female boxing master who openly advertises that a woman is worth five men if she doesn't sleep--the kind of salty wife who almost beat Kai into a dog's head because Kai didn't cook a bowl of noodles at night.

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"..."

Seeing Brother Kai who was skillfully greeting Harvey and others, Zhang Jiazhen smiled at Wu Xiaozu, who shrugged.

Brother Kai can have any bad intentions, it's nothing more than a little vanity.

The trial screening of the film in New York is also the consideration of Wu Xiaozu, Harvey and others. In North America, the New York area and the Los Angeles area are the two largest gathering places for the film and television industry.In later generations, New York was the filming center of the media industry and American dramas. In this era, most independent films and independent filmmakers gathered in New York.

Compared with the covetousness of the Hollywood giants, the New York side operates better, and there is still a glimmer of life.For this reason, Wu Xiaozu also chose to start his North American film career in New York, which is relatively easier.

The New York Independent Film Festival, which had not yet been established at this time, was born under such circumstances, and became the largest independent film festival in the world, larger in scale than the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, USA.The New York Independent Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Toronto Film Festival are also known as the three major independent film festivals in North America, with huge influence.

hmm~~
The only one who went to North America and wanted to make a big splash in Hollywood, but walked to New York, and then started his own independent film career in North America to liberate all mankind...

It's so amazing.

In addition to the crew members, distributor representatives, some movie fans and film critics, there are also many entertainment media journalists who participated in the trial screening.

There will also be corresponding media interviews after the preview.

Even, NBC's veteran late-night talk show "The Tonight Show" was arranged to promote the movie "Detective Chinatown".At this time, Fei Lun had not joined NBC to start "The Tonight Show", and NBC's trump card was still "David Yachasao".

"Hi--"

Brother Long hugged Chen Chong and came over to say hello to Wu Xiaozu with a smile.

It is mainly related to Long Ge's low popularity now.

"Darling~"

Chen Chong asked the big-nosed dragon with a deep smile, "What is the announcement that the crew arranged for "The Tonight Show?"

"Bowei Pictures has used a lot of connections." Cheng Long was unguarded.

"I like the style of "The Tonight Show" very much... I wonder if I can go with you?" Chen Chong offered.

"No problem, I'll talk to Azu later." Brother Long reassured energetically and patted his chest.

Here, many crew members, movie fans and film critics followed into the big screening hall. On the other side, Wu Xiaozu also met many people in the New York independent film circle through the introduction of Harvey.

The big hole in the independent film circle is just like the live broadcast and goods circle in the later generations, with demons dancing around-all kinds.

Beginning in the 80s, several independent film company owners in New York established an organization called the "American Film Market Association", and created the annual Sundance Film Festival with market trading functions, gradually becoming the world's largest film festival. independent film market.

Currently there are 119 film companies registered with the association.

Therefore, in the 90s, the so-called Hollywood was also divided into two major sections: the American Film Association and the American Film Market Association. On this basis, three complementary branches were formed: large companies, feature film companies and B-level film companies. .

In North America, about 450-500 movies are screened in cinemas every year, among which the movies produced or distributed by those big companies account for 150-200 movies.The rest are independent film companies or specialty film distribution departments/subsidiaries of large companies.

According to the analysis of the North American market research agency last year (1990), about 12 movies with a box office of over 36 million will be produced in the North American market every year, about 5000 movies with a box office of [-] million, and the rest will start to be pushed down in turn.

Due to high production costs, marketing costs and exhibitors' retained shares, most films cannot recover their costs from the domestic box office. 3-6 times, or even higher.

Therefore, even in later generations, we are still in the initial stage of film development.

The gospel of the vigorous development of North American independent films has benefited from the rise and prosperity of home video tapes in the 80s. This is a market with a huge appetite, which is too big for Hollywood studios to satisfy.

Just like the era of domestic online video platforms in later generations, when content is king, the platform’s self-produced online dramas and big movies are flourishing to satisfy the appetite of website video members and viewers.

The gap in the home video tape market in North America in this era is the demand for online content in later generations. By the late 80s, national home video rental interest had surpassed national theater receipts.

Although the quality of many videotape movies (online big) is indeed not as good as that of theater movies, they can’t hold up to the large volume. If you find a video production store (video website) with a rich collection, you can open your eyes to all kinds of movies here-so Kun It's not without reason why Ting can do it at his fingertips.

Uh... In other words, you can think of Harvey and his independent filmmakers in New York as big movie suppliers on the Internet.

Rounding it up, Wu Xiaozu, a goddess who shares the awesome little boy face, is nothing more than a big net shooter. . . .

"This is Wu—"

Harvey smiled and introduced the smiling Wu Xiaozu to the independent film circle in New York.

Spike Lee, Jonathan Demme, Oliver Stone, and Jim Jarmusch all greeted Xiaozu Wu in real or false ways. These restrictions are the top cards in the independent film circle.

The biggest feature of the New York independent film industry is its high academic qualifications.

Even if it's Spike Lee~~~~ No offense intended, but this is indeed a guy who graduated from New York University.

Well, how about an example——

These people are the sixth generation from the Mainland, Dashuai Wang, Lou Ye, Lu Bichuan, Section Chief Jia...

You say they are masters, but in fact, they are all just cats and tigers, and they are all three-legged cat kung fu. If you want to say that they are not good, it seems that you can't fix the way they come...

"Hey, my bro—"

Wearing a peaked cap and a black suit, the short elite Spike Lee, who was pretending to be dark, touched Harvey's arms.

"You have been too disappointing recently bro, the "Seven Sins" you advocated is really too commercial, a very good theme in itself, but it looks completely different...

no offense--"

The black public knowledge raised his eyebrows and looked at Harvey, and then sincerely said to Wu Xiaozu next to him: "The water in Hollywood is too deep, you should not only see money, but pay more attention to this society...

I know that it is very good for a foreign language film to achieve such a great result in North America, but if——Wu, if you want to survive in North America, you must pay attention to more low-level content..."

Wu Xiaozu felt that what he said was quite reasonable.

In fact, since the 7s and 80s, Martin Scorsese, the master, has subverted the mainstream film style of the Reagan period by focusing on Oedipus-style contradictions and paying attention to underlying contradictions.

"Raging Bull", "Taxi Driver", "Mean Streets"... Really, Martin Scorsese's black treatment of this kind of Italian neorealism and French New Wave style really influenced the 80s , the filmmaker who took the shot in the 90s, and the black film creators led by him influenced many people-including Wu Xiaozu himself.

"Wu? You don't take it seriously, do you?" Harvey touched Wu Xiaozu, who was in deep thought, with his arm.

"Do you know who in the entire New York independent film industry is the closest to mainstream commercial films? If Jim Jarmusch told me that, I would listen to it.

This guy, Spike Lee, has been frankly favored by studios since his first work "Sure Win", and his works all come from the investment of these studios.

He and Universal can't wait to wear a pair of pants now... This guy uses symbols of racial politics to package himself, in fact, it's no different from those guys with student loans...

Believe me, his heart is not much whiter than his skin. "

Harvey sneered sarcastically and contemptuously, and nuzzled at Wu Xiaozu, "Did you see that woman? Her name is Susan Seidelman. She and Spike Lee are both directors from New York University.

Believe me, these NYU grads are full of business experience... Also, Spike Lee's new play "Jungle Fever" is funded and distributed by the world... It's still about black and white.

However, his films always want to say a lot, but they express it very dirty... This is a competition with our "Chinatown" racial topic to a certain extent.This guy has bad intentions! "

"I just think that what he said about focusing on the life of the lower class in the United States is very good. Don't you think it fits well with the theme of my next movie?" Wu Xiaozu shrugged.

Hey guys, feelings for Spike Lee this is here and come 'Panga Turn' by myself!

I really think of myself as a senior.

Could the water of the Mississippi River be deeper than that of the Yangtze River?
In terms of the status of international films... Spike Lee, a well-known black man, is really not convincing to Wu Xiaozu.

Of course, Wu Xiaozu didn't want to say anything in other people's land.

After all, there are many disciples behind him-many black film creators are closely related to him, such as John Singleton, Mario Van Peebles and his own royal photographer, etc...

As we all know, the male Spike, the female Oprah, and the two black well-known shit-stirring sticks-their views seem to make sense, but if you think about it carefully, they are all fallacies.

"It's all the better for you to think like that."

Harvey breathed a sigh of relief, he was looking for a cash cow, not a paranoiac pursuing art, "Let's go in, the movie will start right away. I believe this movie will surprise many people!"

As he spoke, he made a gesture of Chinese Kung Fu.

Not far away, a girl dressed as a little nun walked over holding hands by her mother, and on the other side, a buck-toothed loli was playing with a handsome little boy beside her.

　I'm not sure if I'm writing this way, everyone will think it's strange. Anyway, after thinking about it for a long time, I decided to start writing from the New York independent film circle as planned, rather than the richer Hollywood.It may not be so mainstream, take your time... But in fact, New York's share of North American film and television is really not small.Also, I may have to ask for leave tomorrow, and I will drive at [-] o'clock tomorrow morning, or go to Binzhou...

　　
　
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