I really don't want to fight with gods

Chapter 919 It depends on whether you are on the Tao

Of course, the masterpiece that really made House Tim ascend to the throne is "The Lion King".

Before this watershed, when he first arrived in Hollywood, he had produced masterpieces, but the most popular ones were movies, and it was not his turn to play music.

Until the scene where all the beasts rushed to worship the old lion king and the old ape raised the little lion, the well-known and majestic soundtrack supported Tim's hand and won the Oscar for Best Music Award.

It's just that he has never been on good terms with the academics. Everyone thought this was the beginning of his dynasty, but he rarely won the favor of the judges after that.

But this does not prevent him from composing a series of classic and legendary music later.

"Gladiator", "Mission Impossible", "Pearl Harbor", "King Arthur", "Batman", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Inception", "Madagascar", "Kung Fu Panda"...

Milestone movie soundtracks, from the tender and melodious piano tones slowly bring out the tragic and melodious classical string music, to the inexplicably cheerful animation music full of national characteristics of various countries.

He can handle everything.

All the movies he has dubbed are basically excellent in terms of original soundtracks, and there are very few failures.

But at this moment, Jing Xiaoqiang took over the job of "The Lion King"!

Stretching out his hand and shaking it, House Tim straight to the point: "In the past year, I have been making soundtracks for Disney's new movie, but first I received a request that the background of the entire movie story need to be adjusted to the Eastern world, and then I sent a A whole bunch of musical soundtracks, asking to be stuffed into this unrecognizable shit movie!"

Jing Xiaoqiang is a thief in this matter.

It’s just that nearly three years ago, he randomly picked up the most easily realized Broadway musical adaptation, and it was also the most entertaining animal drama that was most acceptable to both Eastern and Western audiences, so he used The Lion King.

Who would have thought that he would fight against Disney and sell a copy of "Pirates of the Caribbean" by the way. Jing Xiaoqiang also showed Disney the most classic soundtrack of this movie, which of course shocked the boss Frank.

In order to successfully sign a script and copyright package agreement worth more than 300 million US dollars.

In fact, the price index more than ten years later, Tim, as the top soundtrack composer in Hollywood, can only get this price for a movie.

That's why a top blockbuster has a budget of tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars.

Several leading actors each received tens of millions, and the soundtrack composer, director, and photographer each received tens of millions, and the cost piled up.

The model of Hong Kong-produced western films is to break this bubble economy.

Jing Xiaoqiang felt that he was a domestic manufacturer who had mastered the cheap production method, and listened attentively with a smile: "But what do you think of the large number of music for musicals?"

Tim raised his breath and was about to yell, but when he faced the Old Wang next door, he felt that the child looked like his own: "At first I reluctantly accepted this Disney movie because I thought Disney It would make me do it like a Broadway musical, I hate Broadway...but this Broadway show, I would love to say that several of the melodies are exactly as I thought!"

Jing Xiaoqiang still smiled: "But I performed in Hong Kong in the spring of 91, and then I invited the manager of the Broadway theater to watch it at Christmas, and it was on Broadway in the spring of 92, and it is now one of the most popular musicals on Broadway. What do you think?" When I accidentally heard the melody and got inspired?"

Tim's painful point is here, the kind of depression that Monk Zhang Er can't figure out: "I never watch musicals, can it be called music, a bunch of shit!"

But I have to admit: "But your music structure in this drama is still very complete. Although there are a few soundtracks that seem a bit abrupt and not integrated enough, the overall structure is very good, and the emotional ups and downs in my imagination should be like this !"

Jing Xiaoqiang knew what he was talking about, the whole musical script was indeed complete.

Although Tim hates Broadway musicals, three years after the film he scored became a hit, "The Lion King" was adapted into a musical and put on the Broadway stage, thus becoming the highest-grossing Broadway classic in history.

But in this life, on the other hand, there are Broadway musicals first, and both the story structure and the classic melody are authentic, except that when he went to the Westside Theater to rehearse, in order to impress the audience, he took out the extra song "Victory" Pretentious.

The final track is also stuffed into the final victory scene, creating an epic sense that the original did not have.

From the perspective of a single track, "victory" is absolutely top-notch, but when it comes to the whole drama, it is superfluous. Jing Xiaoqiang does not have the ability to blend the tunes harmoniously.

In addition, the final ending track "A Man Should Be Self-Reliant" was put in by Uncle Huang, and the harmony was much better.

Experts can tell as soon as they hear it, just like a chef can understand which seasoning is too much after taking a casual bite.

However, Jing Xiaoqiang has neither guilt nor guilty conscience. To do business, one needs to be careful, bold and thick-skinned, not to mention that he is a patch-worker who specializes in wandering among various great gods.

While he asked Tim to express, he kept analyzing and evaluating in his mind, what kind of entry point to choose.

Looking around, Lao Yu had already come out with a bunch of behind-the-scenes of the HK movie with a cigarette in his mouth, gesticulating like a little ruffian, got into the tool truck and the van separately, and set off for the location of the highway. Most of the shots of "Speed" Shooting on the road, Mai Peiwei racked her brains and couldn't figure out why such a movie needs a budget of 1000 million US dollars. Is it really necessary to build a Boeing 747 plane shell to blow it up in the finale?

We can make a scale model to blast, and then use the partial model to steal the beam and replace the column.

Because the market is too small and the budget is too small, this stingy technique has been done countless times in Hong Kong films.

It's easy to save the budget.

At present, it seems that the soundtrack is almost the only shortcoming of Jing Xiaoqiang's model.

It is undeniable that HK also has a large number of excellent soundtrack artists, for example, Uncle Huang is the best.

But since he is making Western-language films, he must have a deep understanding of other people's culture. Uncle Huang, who is good at folk music, will definitely not be able to do "Speed" and "Mission Impossible".

In the early days, Jing Xiaoqiang could rely on his familiarity with classic works to arrange the soundtrack, but the entire industry cannot do this.

He wanted to pull Tim over, but the price was not cheap. Just at this time, he saw Reeves gliding over on a motorcycle, took out a bundle of electronic sound effects from a distance, signaled to Jing Xiaoqiang and handed it over to the staff, and then chased after him. With the crew left.

This is what Jing Xiaoqiang asked their band for, because Sunny laptops are developing towards the gimmick of personal audio-visual systems.

Now that there is no problem with the hardware, and the launch will be delayed for several months, Jing Xiaoqiang decided to find something for the R&D team to do, hoping that they can provide a set of electronic music software for VAIO, that is, it can play discs with a laptop computer, and can simulate and synthesize different Musical instruments, even simple electronic sound effects, will definitely allow musicians all over the world to use the Souni Notebook as a production tool.

Later, many trendy DJs would carry exquisite notebooks filled with familiar sound effects wherever they went, especially Apple notebooks, which are beautiful and easy to use.

Naturally, it is necessary to take a bunch of sound effects played by the band to the R&D personnel for clues.

This also happened to remind Jing Xiaoqiang: "Do you think you are the greatest musician in Hollywood?"

House Tim's eyes lit up. It's like it's hard for someone who writes an online novel to be regarded as a writer. Most of them can only laugh at themselves as a writer, and a film soundtrack composer is a little embarrassed.

Obviously what he does is compose and soundtrack, but because he only contributes to the movie, it is difficult to be praised as a musician.

On the contrary, Jing Xiaoqiang already has this name, which is one of the reasons why he came here: "I think I am!"

Europeans and Americans are not humble, and Tim, who is extremely talented and arrogant, must think so in his heart.

Jing Xiaoqiang smiled like a cat playing with a mouse: "But I heard that various film critics and music critics are very disapproving of you?"

Tim said with disdain: "Those trash... they will only stick to the old tune, but they can't see that the entire film industry has become an industrialized production. How to complete industrial products efficiently, high-quality and stably is the most important thing for film soundtracks. Purpose."

He can even recognize his face, so Jing Xiaoqiang naturally knows what his problem is: "Last year, when I just got an annual salary of tens of millions of dollars in the Jiaopen NHK Orchestra, a group of people in the music industry, led by the Tokyo Philharmonic, criticized me for being a It is wishful thinking to blaspheme classical music and try to integrate the pop music and classical music markets together. When I was touring in Europe this year, a group of music industry leaders headed by the Hans Opera House launched various European media, calling I am the subversive of serious music, the scum of the entire music industry, does this scene seem familiar to you?"

The 36-year-old Tim no longer has the momentum to ask questions, and he feels the same way!
He is an immigrant from Hans. He has never studied in a music school or other majors since he was a child. It is purely a hobby and talent, and then he started his career as an electronic music engineer from synthesis and mixing.

In other words, he followed Lu Kunlun's trajectory from the very beginning.

This kind of wild way is definitely not to be seen by the professional "artists", especially when Tim started to make his mark on film soundtracks. The stunning success rate of each film step by step, the high success rate, and the low scrap rate are amazing. Will analyze the characteristics of his soundtrack.

That is the extensive use of electronic mixing, the new music technology he is most familiar with.

Twenty or 30 years ago, composers had to be able to improvise, compose, conduct, and create music out of thin air. It was Tim, a guy who was born as an electronic music engineer, who created the "pick" from the music material library. Musical pattern.

It's as if the previous soundtrack musicians had to do all the work by themselves from planting wheat, grinding noodles to making pasta. Tim bought all kinds of finished flour and seasonings in an industrialized manner, and served them hot and fast.

This kind of era creator is the most hated!
Because of the change of the times led by him, many old-timers were at a loss, and young audiences and investors were attracted by Tim's high quality and efficiency.

So House Tim can be called the most controversial figure in modern Hollywood.

The reform striker who is difficult to be accepted by the orthodox professional school of course knows why: "The times will always prove everything..."

But Jing Xiaoqiang is the little devil: "God knows when the time will come, but if I let your soundtrack become the Metropolis song

　How about part of the opera The Great Gatsby? "

　　Tim knelt down in an instant!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)