My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 1561 The four major professional leagues in North America, "Source Code" officially started filming

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Wu Xiaozu killed the Coca-Cola in the paper cup, glanced under the banner, the slightly disappointed players on the court and the old Nelson who was later known as the 'mad scientist'.

In the late 80s, he injected the Warriors with a run and gun (bombardment attack) that affected the team's overall team culture, and became part of the team's symbols in the past few years.

The happy basketball style formed by this kind of X**D tactics made the Warriors known as the 'Golden State Athletics Team' and the 'Bay Area Party High Speed ​​Team'.

Of course, I have to admit that the gorgeous X**D style of play has indeed attracted many viewers in the Bay Area to divert their attention from baseball, rugby, and ice hockey——

This is definitely an alternative existence in the 80s and 90s when defense was paramount.

It is a pity that the team has not made a breakthrough in performance for a long time, resulting in no voice in the league... Coupled with the fact that the east is strong and the west is weak all the time in this era, the development of the Warriors is not satisfactory.

This season, it was hard to use Hardaway to exchange from the Magic for the "suspended spinach tiger" Chris Webber of the new No. [-] pick in the Michigan Five Tigers, and with the madman Sprewell, God's left hand Chris Mullin and the young general Johnson Formed a new running and bombing brigade.

The gold content of the team's offensive power is quite impressive... It's a pity that Weber has always resisted the old Nelson's advanced play that made him obscure his position, and contradictions have gradually arisen.

But the lunatic Sprewell also has something to say, after all, before you came, I, the handsome young man who was the most popular in the team in the past two years, had already started playing bombardment tactics! (Teacher Lu chased after him.)
Fortunately, although the team didn't get along well enough, the talent came together and the results were pretty impressive. The regular season was 50 wins and 32 losses, and the Western Conference... was the sixth.

That's right, it's Master Six!
Entering the playoffs is also ready to take advantage of Jordan's retirement period to show his talents... The first round record was 0-3, and he was eliminated!
In the third game, at the home court of the Warriors, Fliggy Bartley's monster data of 56 points and 14 rebounds swept the Warriors out of the game, telling them what it means to have a big butt and a 'dao'!

On the big screen at the scene, there were fans wearing Warriors uniforms holding their heads in disbelief, and then raised their middle fingers towards the camera—'RNM, refund your money! ! ! '

The scene was noisy and full of curses.

Old Mad Scientist Nelson stood on the sidelines with his hips akimbo.

"Our company needs to expand its influence and popularity if it wants to go public and develop in the United States. Sponsoring sports is the best way in North America."

Wearing short-sleeved 9.9 dollars a piece, jeans and rhubarb boots on the lower body, wearing an Orlando Athletics baseball cap, Xiaozu Wu squeezed the Coke paper cup with a smile, and threw it into the trash can beside him...outside.

Clearly, there's no shooter gene here yet.

Next to it, the tall, wavy-haired female secretary Lin Xizhen in casual clothes bent down to pick it up and help throw it into the trash can.

"The NBA is one of the four major professional leagues in North America, with a wide audience, second only to rugby and baseball.

However, with Michael's retirement, the NBA's attention and exposure have plummeted, and the value of the entire industry has also halved.It can be said that his retirement has caused the influence, value, and development of the NBA to regress.

It is said that Mr. Stern, the president of the NBA, has decided to find the next Jordan successor...to restore the disadvantage of the NBA. "

Su Liyao wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and his shirt was rolled over his elbows. After serious thinking, he said, "Within 24 hours after Michael retired, the US Dow Jones Index fell by 125 points, and Nike's stock price plummeted by 4%. It is expected that this season, Nike's financial report will According to the data, their sales volume decreased by 35%, and sales decreased by 2.5 million dollars.

The starting price is indeed very suitable now, but no one knows when the NBA will be relieved.

Although they are the four major professional leagues, ice hockey and rugby do not quite meet our requirements. Only baseball and basketball are really suitable for us to start.

In comparison, the commercial promotion of baseball over the years has been impressive, especially in East Asia, where the influence and development of commercial leagues are not weaker than basketball.Dongying, Korea, and Wanwan are all very popular, plus the big market in North America... not to mention that Jordan has also entered the field of baseball..."

Let's put it this way, with Jordan, the market value of the Chicago Bulls once ranked first in the league, even surpassing the New York Knicks.The entire area of ​​Chicago lost over a billion dollars!
Later, Jordan paid, and the market value of the three companies, including Nike, skyrocketed by 23 billion dollars!

So what is NBA No.1?
"If you have a chance, let the secretary's office make a report and try to get in touch with a team that is suitable for investment."

Wu Xiaozu gave Lin Xizhen an order, and added: "As for baseball or basketball... it's the latter, it's better for our sports brand...

It is best to choose a well-known city and team in the United States, which will be helpful for our subsequent development.The team can have poor results, but the city selection must meet our needs. "

Like Cleveland
Wu Xiaozu didn't come to help build an ugly country...of course he had to choose a big city.

Although Oakland is not a big place, it is only 20 kilometers away from San Francisco, just across a bridge.

Of course the best must be New York and Los Angeles.

New York is impossible, and neither is the Lakers. The former is not short of money, and the latter is a family that lives on the Lakers...

Oh, and there's the poor guy in the heart of the Los Angeles people, who isn't even considered a proper Los Angeles team by the old Los Angeles people.

An outlier who chose to move away from the original venue in order to share the cost of renting the venue with the Anaheim Night Ducks in the same city-the Clippers.

The boss is Donald Sterling, a Jew who was later discriminated against blacks after his 50-year-old girlfriend broke the "recording door".

Oh, feng shui turns around, later generations call Baoyi in New York, America, and Kanye, who wants to enter the White House, also falls into racial discrimination-discrimination against Jews, dog head!
"Good boss."

Lin Xizhen squinted his eyes and nodded slightly, expressing his memory, and said insightfully: "In North America, joining the four major professional teams can make the reputation of a company or an individual grow rapidly."

"Have you heard, Ayao, you will be the owner of the team from now on." Wu Xiaozu put his arms around Lin Xizhen's waist, and joked to Su Liyao, "This will be very helpful for your future development."

As long as it doesn't operate like the Brooklyn Nets, the only designated institution in the NBA in future generations, it will be fine!

"I'll forget it and let Ah Cheng take over later." Su Liyao smiled, "I've already planned to run for office in 95 and 96."

"Have you decided?"

"Boss, as you said before, we have to be vigilant against ZZ, but we can't really alienate it"

Su Li's eyes were determined, he smiled, and said in a calm tone: "Besides, I'm also very interested in ZZ. I've been busy with business matters for the past few years, and giving back to the society may also be beneficial to change my mind."

Wu Xiaozu nodded and smiled, and silently patted the other party's arm.

The other party has a great age advantage, and a legal degree is very helpful for this path. If it is not for his own development, the other party may have already taken another path.

What's more, his development will not be bad if he takes this path.

What's more, because of his own sake, the other party is also famous in the mainland high-level.Although there will not be much change in the short term, but who knows what will happen afterwards?
Su Liyao, who is only 30 years old this year, can afford to wait... the future chief executive who was born in the police force is still born in the 50s~
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There are more than 40 studios with names and surnames in Los Angeles, and most of the CG blockbusters in later generations are shot with green screens in the studios.

Today, CG green screen shooting in Los Angeles studios is still considered an advanced technology, and more producers and directors will still choose live-action shooting.

Director Wu didn't have to be like the later Nolan, who had to shoot in real scenes and increase the cost of shooting. He paid more attention to which mode the film was more suitable for... The shooting methods and methods are just ways to tell stories.

Works like "Source Code" are undoubtedly more suitable for studio shooting.

This film will also be Wu Xiaozu's longest and most filmed in the studio so far. Basically, more than 85% of the entire film will be completed in the studio.

This is undoubtedly a test and growth for him and his production team.

This time, Wu Xiaozu's main production team exceeded 270 people, and North American cartoonist Geoff Darrow was specially invited to serve as the concept designer and script designer of the film creation. A well-known painter of violent aesthetics,
"Shaolin Cowboy" also made a spoof of "Brother Jianguo".

The whole creative style has the shadow of 'Mobis'.At the same time, he is also a loyal fan of Hong Kong Island martial arts movies in the 60s and 70s, Japanese samurai movies and martial arts novels...

In addition, he is also responsible for the design draft of "The Matrix".

It can be said that "Source Code" is Wu Xiaozu's training team, and it is also an early preview of "The Matrix"-after all, the filming, production, and post-production difficulty of that film almost made the film abort in the previous life.

Wu Xiaozu must have sufficient confidence.

So he also recruited the Yuan Jiaban led by Yuan Heping in advance to serve as the action team of "Source Code" in advance, and designed the action design of "The Matrix" in advance according to the sketch, and also worked part-time as a member of the "creative team" led by Wu Xiaozu.

This team includes 27 top photographers, illustrators, designers, special effects masters and so on.Each of them also has a mature team to complete these ideas.

Wu Xiaozu's proposal of many special effects also put a lot of pressure on the later team.

Fortunately, this "Source Code" gave them plenty of time to adjust.

This is also the reason why he didn't get started with "The Matrix" directly.

Wu Xiaozu wanted to shoot the latter into a movie full of Hong Kong island kung fu movies + Japanese manga + Wu Xiaozu style + Philip K. Dick novels.

The latter is a science fiction novelist who was not very well-known during his lifetime, and he can be regarded as a niche existence in the science fiction genre.

But in fact, many movies are adapted from his novels, such as the famous "Blade Runner" before, and Schwarzenegger's "Cosmic Dragon", including the later "Foreseeing the Future", "Minority Report" and so on. .

I can be regarded as a pioneer of the concept of cyberpunk.

"The Matrix" itself is very cyberpunk... There are not no movies of this style before. The first real cyberpunk movie was "Tron World Warfare" released in 1982.

This movie is not only advanced in concept, but also avant-garde in technology... The director boldly used 20 minutes of pure movie CG animation in the film!

Proper milestone achievement!
It's a pity that this film that was too advanced made the investor Fang Dibao lose a lot.

The main reason is that Di Baobao is still dumb and eats Coptis chinensis, and he can’t tell the pain——"Tron World Warfare" was originally an independent film produced by director Steven Lisberger, but due to financial reasons, it was delayed.

At that time, he didn't even think about looking for giants like Disney in the past, thinking about delaying it for two years...

Who would have thought that this script would be seen by Disney executives, and after reading it, they would think 'Your boy is really a talent', so they directly took over the script with a big hand and became a big investor.

later……

The film's director, Steven Lisberger, went back to work as an art designer.

However, in later generations, the sequel of this movie "Creation: Legacy" has had a great impact. You can ask the box office to be polarized.However, this movie helped Di Baobao get a box office of more than 4 million US dollars worldwide, at least it was indeed a commercial success.

So, this is also the reason why Xiaozu Wu was careful and careful.

Cyberpunk culture is too small...

Even in later generations, subculture exists.

This requires Wu Xiaozu to be ahead, but not too far ahead... Otherwise, I am afraid it will be GG!
(End of this chapter)