My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 753 Touchstone Pictures, the pig kidney face handed over the script!
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California, Los Angeles County, Burbank, an inconspicuous gray three-story building with the signboard of 'Touchstone Films'.

Just like the countless little-known small film companies in Hollywood now, they are as ordinary as they are.

Later, as Hollywood land and commodity prices continued to rise, many Hollywood film companies and related companies also moved to Burbank.

Wu Xiaozu settled here in advance.

Although the company has an address, its staff is still scarce, and it still belongs to the category of leather bag companies.

Touchstone, as the name suggests.

On the surface, the company hired a white man as the person in charge. This kind of professional manager is easy to find in Hollywood.The main business scope is the videotape business of Hong Kong Island Films here, and jointly produced "Seven Sins".

Therefore, in terms of capital structure, the film "Seven Sins" is a Sino-US co-production.Compared with Mr. Six, Wu Xiaozu unlocked this achievement ahead of time.Perhaps at this time, Mr. Liu is leading the four masters and apprentices, leaving aside the rest of the crew, and going around for business performances, eating a lot of food, right? ?
After all, he is Director Yang's first difficulty.This is not slander, this is what Director Yang himself said on TV and in his autobiography...

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Cine Tel film and television post-production company, editing room.

Many oriental faces are interspersed among the European and American staff, and everyone is busy with the post-production company of "Seven Sins".

This company is not well-known in the industry, but the operation process is very skilled.This Hollywood-style movie tailor role abounds in Hollywood.This company provided the venue, and Harvey personally recommended the post-production team to be responsible for the overall post-production work of "Seven Sins".

"I think this movie can try to take the film festival route." The increasingly obese Harvey took the initiative to tell Wu Xiaozu: "The market of this movie in North America will not be too big. After all, the skin color of the leading actor determines its audience. …sorry, I'm not racist."

"I see."

Watching Harvey hurriedly explain, Wu Xiaozu nodded slightly.

Movies starring Asians have always had a bad response in the North American market, let alone a kung fu movie?

John Wu's brand name is not so bright in North America, or... he himself doesn't have any brand name here, let alone a card face.

"This movie is mainly because I want to understand the Hollywood model, at least the post-production process and industrialization."

Wu Xiaozu took a sip of Corona casually, it was icy and refreshing, blowing away a little bit of his irritability.

"Seven Sins" has been post-production for more than a month, but the progress in all aspects is very unsatisfactory.

Nowadays, the general number of shots in Hollywood movies is about 1000, and the shots in general movies are 5 to 8 seconds. The duration of the shots of "Seven Sins" will roughly double under this premise, which is roughly the same as the 2-4 seconds of a thriller.

In terms of color palette, the cold tones make the overall style look too depressing.The "Seven Sins" that Wu Xiaozu wanted should be an alternation of audio-visual elements independent of reality and the real environment, converging unique film characteristics.

If you can summarize it in a high-quality way, in this movie, Wu Xiaozu hopes that the audio-visual language is pure audio-visual, pure film thinking.

Although this is a suspense film, what Wu Xiaozu wanted in terms of camera use and color was to make a bloody crime film look as noble and elegant as Bach's music...

Therefore, there are actually not many lines in the whole movie, and more through the lens and character performances, the viewers can feel the 'information'.

This is also a unique behavior for Hollywood, but fortunately, Harvey also agrees with this method, so that those Hollywood teams will not give up their picks.

This kind of difference in concept is very huge, even the editor's performance of the key points of the film is different from the result Wu Xiaozu wanted.

How to edit a scene is closely related to the parties involved in the editing.For example, when editing the shootout scene in the shopping mall in "Gunfire", Wu Xiaozu emphasized the importance of the camera position, so as to give the main characters in the clip one by one. However, if another person edits, it may conflict. It doesn't necessarily mean that the focus and drama will be placed on other people.

Therefore, these days, Wu Xiaozu has been doing limited running-in and cooperation with these Hollywood workers.

It is not uncommon in Hollywood for one movie to become two different movies due to editing.There are many reasons for the box office failure of "Kingdom of Heaven" directed by a famous director like Ridley Scott.

For example, the market fatigue of epic films, such as cost control, and the unpopular choice of subject matter.

But the pot of editing is really irresistible.Some parts of the screened version of the plot are too serious~
Still, that's Hollywood.

The final editing right is also a relatively precious "right" in Hollywood.This right needs to be laid at the box office.

If Wu Xiaozu didn't fund the production of this drama, he really wouldn't have the chance to have such great rights.

Fortunately...he is not only a director, but also a representative of the management, with his own financial ability.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to grasp the theme and direction of your own movie.

"Cannes?" Harvey understood.

Wu Xiaozu was noncommittal.At this time, Cannes is naturally his first choice.

"Do you have any plans for your first Hollywood movie?" Harvey continued to ask, he had been envious of Wu Xiaozu for a long time.

It's not just Wu Xiaozu's own production ability.

The other party's movie is what he thinks is the most suitable to be adapted into a Hollywood movie, whether it is "Double Heroes" or "Cell of Fear" is very suitable in terms of format.

In addition, the opponent has huge capital behind him!

With the increasing production costs of Hollywood in recent years, in addition to financing locally, overseas has also become the target of many Hollywood companies.

"The specific project may be launched next year." Wu Xiaozu responded vaguely.

In the workshop outside the Cine Tel, a scruffy man with a pork-loin face shamelessly glanced at the white-collar woman with her legs crossed and her high heels hanging down in the cubicle in front of her.

This man was tall and tall, with a silly face and a pig's waist, his eyes stared at his feet with green light, and he pursed his lips from time to time.

"Dude—"

A tall, thin man with a hooked nose smacked his porky face secretly, "If I were you, I would definitely focus on your script now, instead of secretly looking at a woman's feet here."

"The most beautiful thing in the world is the beautiful feet stepping on the pool of blood." The pig's kidney shrugged and sniffed his nose, "Is there any flying leaves?

"FXXK! You XX from Tennessee." The hooked nose smiled and cursed, casually handed over an added Flyleaf cigarette, and pointed it at Qi Nunu, "The group of Asians in the middle seem to be very rich, that fellow ha It seems that the one with Wei is a rich man from the East... Are you interested?"

The pig's kidney face held the flying leaf and sniffed lightly at the tip of his nose, his eyes lit up when he heard the other party's words.

The two laughed.

They have done this kind of thing in Hollywood not once or twice, coaxing these newcomers who "break into" Hollywood, they can do it easily.

With a pig's kidney face, he picked up a stack of scripts and smiled.

In terms of format and story, this script is definitely very exciting. After all, it is the 'material' he extracted from many video tapes he has watched.

It's enough to deceive these rich guys who come to Hollywood for gold!

(End of this chapter)