My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 1568 The Top 1978 Directors of the World Cup and "Please Answer [-]"
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The lounge of the post-production studio for Source Code in Los Angeles.

Everyone was puffing and puffing smoke, pushing glasses and drinking wine, watching the "David's Late Show" broadcast on CBS on the TV with big backs in front of them, which is also the Hong Kong translation of "David's Teeth Show".

"There is still one month until the World Cup, right?"

"The opening ceremony was held at Soldier Stadium in Chicago, and the song "Land of Glory" is really a piece of shit! Listen to three verses for 1 cent on the beach in Los Angeles!"

"Yeah~Yeah~ Dude, I agree with you, they just want to do a world show, like Super Bowl—"

"Dennis Rodman, I like him. Look at the way he flirts with Madonna Ciccone. Believe me, they're going to give it a try tonight—"

In the show, the way Rodman, the big bug with colorful hair and tattoos all over his body, interacted with Madonna, the queen of music, made Quentin Tarantino bluntly judge that the two would definitely have an affair.

"Are you sure?"

"Of course, Quentin just hung out with this singer some time ago, but I heard people in the circle say that Madonna dislikes Quentin..."

"Hahahahahaha..."

"Oh buy ga!"

"Mary Falke—" the shoehorn-faced Quentin Tarantino continued to explain, blushing, and there was a cheerful laugh in the air.

"By the way, is the Chinese team here? What date will the match start?"

Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Mare Falkxia, and Song Xiaohei all looked curiously at Zhang Yimou, who was energetic and laughing as he listened to the story—the latter’s laughter was cut off.

Are you polite? ? ?
"Ahem..." Wu Xiaozu, who was smoking a cigar, cursed casually, "Shit!"

"This year is a bit lacking, but I believe that the next one will be fine. The sword refers to the 98 World Cup in France, which will be the most promising one for us and China to enter the World Cup!"

Zhang Yimou, who is black and red, is holding a beer bottle, as if at this moment "RNG sword finger team is possessed", his face is full of "next year is our most promising one".

"Our professionalization lags behind Goryeo and Little Days. But I believe that given us time, we will not be afraid of strong teams like Goryeo, Iran, and Saudi Arabia."

Zhang Yimou at this moment really has the excitement and pride of a Chinese men's football fan!
In the mainland of this era, the atmosphere of football is strong, and every game is always full of seats, and young people playing football can be seen in school stadiums and streets and alleys.

In 1994, the professionalization of football created the League A, which once pushed this football boom to an unprecedented peak.The A-A of this era is not a fake A, Xu Fang of the Football Association is still a very capable founder, entrepreneurs are also throwing money for the reason...

These days, our overall strength is indeed still slightly inferior to the top teams in Asia, Korea and Iran, but basically we are also among the top teams in Asia, and we can generally win or lose.

Even because of the restraint of styles, the national football team, which mainly plays sideways and suppresses stamina, is quite restrained and has a small day of the Brazilian dream.

There is nothing to fear the sun at all.

"..."

The more Wu Xiaozu looked at it, the more he felt that Zhang Yimou looked like Colonel Guan at this time.

Case solved!
The fact that the national football team can't enter the World Cup is due to Zhang Yimou's milk... let's fight him together.

Of course, Wu Xiaozu also believed that around 1997 in a few years was indeed the best opportunity for the strongest players in the national football team.

We really have a chance to enter the World Cup with our strength...

Yes,

This year is also the World Cup.

Uh, don't remember the 1994 US World Cup?

It was the one where the hot little braid and melancholy prince missed a penalty kick, and it was also the one where Maradona was expelled from the game because he failed a drug test, and it was the one where Fei Luo stood like a minion and won the World Cup without playing a game A season of champions.

This moment is just like that moment! ! !

The filming of "Source Code" was quite smooth, but the troublesome thing was the post-production. A Mou also followed Wu Xiaozu's suggestion and took the initiative to come and learn the special effects of the movie together——

When he saw the special effects production process of the film, Zhang Yimou felt an eye-opening shock.

He didn't expect that the development of Hollywood's film technology and concepts would be so advanced. In a short period of time, he saw a huge gap between Chinese films and Hollywood.

But this disparity did not scare him, on the contrary, he felt a sense of excitement to strive for strength, because from the special effects company founded by Wu Xiaozu, and his prediction of the development of the film, it can be seen that Chinese films are not without opportunities to catch up.

Yes.

catch up!

Don't talk about surpassing, these days we do have a kind of "blind" imitation of old beauty, and we never thought of surpassing others.

This gap is just like the current national football team and the world's first-class and second-rate teams.

Watching the national football team in the 90s didn’t mean they didn’t lose, let alone scold, but the fans were not afraid or numb, because there was hope—they didn’t even want to scold in the future, and just ignored it.

The same goes for movies.

In future generations, isn't the more popular theme of the Hong Kong film a copy of the trend?But it is also understandable, after all, is the main theme the safest? Capital is of course willing to follow up.

But you can't stand still, can you?

The same is true of Chinese-language movies now.

Zhang Yimou himself was aware of this.

Especially in this life, with Master Wu leading him in, it touched him a lot.

"Don't mention the sad things, "Source Code" will be released in the second half of the year, if it goes well." Wu Xiaozu shrugged with a smile. After all, the special effects of this movie are not complicated, but the team is doing it through this movie. Technology accumulation and reserves.

Originally, Jerry Bruckheimer wanted the film to be released as soon as possible, but Wu Xiaozu refused.

They also rejected the other party's idea of ​​arranging the movie to be released in June.

Not just because of the World Cup.

The main reason is that Di Baobao's Wang Zao has already been scheduled for the World Cup period—yes, it is Simba's version of 'Hamlet' "The Lion King".

This movie is simply king bomb!

Think about it, during the World Cup, they set a series of records, got nearly 10 billion in box office, and became the world's box office champion. How terrifying is it?
"When is your "Hunting" going to start?"

"I'm afraid I'll wait a little longer, mainly because I feel this story..." Zhang Yimou paused, showing hesitation.

"Not suitable for the mainland?"

"Yes."

Facing Zhang Yimou's worries, Wu Xiaozu smiled.

Although "Alive" was not completely banned, it basically gave Amou a stick and made him have scruples.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be such a dishonest movie "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge", just like Ning Hao's frightened filming of "Golden Heist"...

"The background of the story can be set in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan." Wu Xiaozu gave his opinion.

"Uh..." Zhang Yimou was stunned for a moment, his mind also turned around, and he couldn't help laughing, "It's really a good idea. I'll think about it later and see how to prepare."

"Wu sir, Mercedes named the commercials we sent out and wanted to invite you to direct them." Zhang Jiazhen, dressed casually in a shirt and jeans, grabbed a bottle of beer in an ice bucket, took a sip, and said with a smile: "The salary is also very impressive."

"I'll take a look back." Wu Xiaozu didn't refuse.

It is a very normal phenomenon for a director to direct commercial short films, and many big directors have received such "offers".

The main reason is that Mercedes is a very important partner of Wu Xiaozu. His films and many of the company's big investment films have the shadow of the other party's sponsorship. Naturally, such customers should be taken seriously.

An important channel for big directors to make quick money, Wang Jiawei and Li Ani have both filmed commercials for BMW, and the Coen Brothers have also filmed for the French cigarette brand Parisienne People.

Of course, the most popular director who likes to make money from commercials is David Fincher, who is known as the film director who shoots the most commercials on the planet. After all, my brother was born as a commercial director.

"By the way, France wants to commemorate the Lumiere brothers next year, and wants to invite 40 representative directors from all over the world to shoot a collection of short films.

It is stipulated that only the oldest camera in the world made by the Lumière brothers can be used to shoot, and there are three rules: 52 seconds, no simultaneous recording, and no repeated shooting more than three times... You and I are representatives of Chinese-language movies. " Zhang Yimou took the initiative to speak.

"You see, I'm really busy." Wu Xiaozu spread his hands towards Zhang Jiazhen.

Wu Xiaozu certainly could not refuse such an invitation in name and nature.

This collection in the previous life was the famous "Lumiere and the Forty Directors". Every invited director has to answer three questions: Why are you willing to participate in the filming of this film?Why are you shooting a film?Are movies dying?
In the previous life, Mouzi played avant-garde.

A pair of bannermen photographed on the Great Wall started to dance slowly in ancient costumes, and then suddenly changed to rock and roll demons dancing...

Zhang Yimou of later generations may be able to embarrass three rooms and two halls when he sees his original works again.

While Xiaozu Wu and the others were chatting about the World Cup, the Lumiere Brothers, and commercials, Auntie Lin on the other side was chatting with a few girlfriends about the script they wanted to create——

And after Deng Lijun's troubles, the movie finally became a TV series.

In order to resist "Sex and the City".

The nickname is "It's not impossible for us to make such a TV series with my best friend!"

Then they chatted about those familiar things in Wanwan in the past——

While talking, Lin Mitao remembered the outline of a series of stories called "Please Answer" mentioned by Wu Xiaozu...

Then she roughly told the story to a few people. Everyone has experienced that era, and they all began to offer their words and suggestions...

"Will it be interesting for us to play the role of our mother?? Wouldn't it be great to combine the stories of our youth?
I think the 70s and 80s are really interesting... At that time, I will write that the heroine likes Deng Lijun and Lin Qingxia... I like to watch "The True Colors of Heroes", giggling, it's quite interesting to think about it. "Teng Lijun, a round-faced Taiwanese girl, came up with random ideas. Unexpectedly, her words made Auntie Lin's eyes shine, and at the same time, Shi Nansheng next to her also became interested.

Lin Fengjiao listened to them quietly.

"How about Feng Jiao and I acting together?" Auntie Lin suddenly asked.

"Uh……"

Lin Fengjiao was taken aback by the other party's sudden question of "throwing cakes", and was in a daze for a while.

(End of this chapter)