Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 476 What kind of person is YU?

Now that the film and television adaptation rights of "You Are Not an Ordinary Man" have been acquired by Deep Space, there is a high probability that "Party A and Party B" will not be released. It is also difficult for Feng Xiaogang to participate in this New Year's Eve.

Yu Dong didn't want to talk more about "You Are Not an Ordinary Man", so he asked Jimmy, "You went to Yanjing Film Studio on purpose, but didn't talk about it?"

Jimmy shook his head, "No, but it's expected. In the end, we have to pass the test of Zhang Heping from the Forbidden City Film Industry. Of course, this meeting is not useless, at least we can feel Han Shanping's attitude." .Since Han Shanping wants to cooperate with us, then I am more sure about this matter."

"If the cooperation with the Forbidden City Films does not come to fruition this time, how would you choose? Put on a posture and collide with the Forbidden City Films?"

Based on Yu Dong's understanding of Jimmy, since he already knew about the New Year's Day, he should not give up easily.Even if the cooperation with the Forbidden City Films failed, they would not let go of this opportunity.

Yu Dong is now curious about what Jimmy will do if he cannot reach a cooperation with the Forbidden City Films.

Jimmy said with a smile: "Then we have no choice but to confront it head-on."

Yu Dong nodded, and didn't ask any further questions. Jimmy did things properly, and he didn't have to worry about the extras.

In fact, Jimmy has the confidence to say this. During the Deep Space Annual Conference last year, he visited Jiang Xianyong, director of the Film Bureau, and got some promises from Jiang Xianyong.

If this path of the Forbidden City Films does not work, Jimmy can continue to follow the path of the Film Bureau without asking for more care from the Film Bureau. Come out and pull the side frame.

As long as no one gets sidetracked, there is no reason why Deep Space will lose to Forbidden City Films.

Of course, if it wasn't for the last step, Jimmy didn't want to have a direct conflict with the Forbidden City Films.

Harmony makes money, these four words are one of Jimmy's life creeds.

After talking about the plan, Jimmy smiled and talked about this year's deep space annual meeting, "You have to be ready, your office will definitely not be able to accommodate so many guests."

"The auditorium has been prepared a long time ago. Old Wu is more excited than I am at this annual meeting. He personally arranged the auditorium."

"Principal Wu is of course happy. So many celebrities came to his school. He turned around and took a few photos, and found two more... No, he didn't have to look for it by himself. Those media reporters came over after smelling the smell. Wait for those reporters to publicize Propaganda, Jinyi is going to make a big splash again." Jimmy laughed.

Yu Dong nodded, and was about to continue the chat when Wu Changxin suddenly appeared at the door of his office and knocked on the door.

"Is Jimmy here?" Wu Changxin walked over enthusiastically and shook hands with Jimmy.

Jimmy also responded enthusiastically, "Say Cao Cao Cao Cao is here, Principal Wu, Yu Dong and I were talking about you just now."

"Oh? What are you talking about?" Wu Changxin asked curiously.

"I said that you are a warm person. Knowing that there will be many guests here in the past few days, Yu Dong specially helped arrange a small auditorium for him to receive guests."

Wu Changxin smiled and waved his hands: "Yes, yes, hospitality is our fine tradition in China! When it comes to enthusiasm, Jimmy is the one who is really enthusiastic. For your company's annual meeting, just invite some partners, and invite me to do it." Well. Our school owes a lot to your company, but it didn't help you much, shame on you."

"Principal Wu is serious. Our company relies on Jinyi to export excellent talents to us. Among other things, Yu Dong and Yu Hua account for half of our Deep Space Company."

"A few of them are indeed excellent, but it makes me feel even more ashamed to say that they are output from our school..."

Hearing the two people coming and going and talking politely, Yu Dong couldn't stand it any longer. He coughed lightly and asked Wu Changxin, "Principal, what do you want from me?"

Wu Changxin patted his forehead, "Well, I almost forgot about the business, the materials for the performance major freshman exam are out, can you help me to refer to it?"

"Now?"

"No, you are busy these days. I organized a meeting for two or three hours on the afternoon of the [-]th. Do you have time?" Wu Changxin looked at Jimmy again after speaking, "Jimmy, do you have any time on the afternoon of the [-]th?" Time, come and help me, you are a professional, and your opinions must be valuable.”

Jimmy said modestly: "What kind of professional am I? I haven't written a script for many years. And I don't know much about acting, so I still won't go."

"Just kidding, if you are not a professional, then there are not many professionals in the world. If you have time on the afternoon of the [-]th, you might as well come and have a look. It's just for fun."

Jimmy nodded: "Okay, let me take a look, if you have time, come and take a look."

"Okay, okay." Wu Changxin nodded again and again, then looked at Yu Dong, "What about you, do you have time that day?"

"Yes." Yu Dong nodded.

In fact, during the previous exam, Wu Changxin suggested that Yu Dong should be an examiner on the spot.

It's just that the exam time was too long, Yu Dong didn't agree, he just watched it for a while and then came back.

Now that the audio-visual materials and the analysis materials of various examiners are out, Yu Dong can spend some time looking at them.

Seeing that Yu Dong agreed, Wu Changxin nodded with a smile, "Okay, that's it, I'll come to you at three o'clock in the afternoon on the [-]th. There's nothing else to do. You can talk to Jimmy about business. Jimmy, then I'm excused. Come to Jinyi when you have time."

"Nature, nature."

After Wu Changxin left, Jimmy said with a smile: "This old Wu seems to be a little dependent on you. It seems that the students you picked for him last year are quite satisfied?"

"The qualifications of this group of students are indeed good. Of course, the main thing is that the teachers are serious and responsible. Otherwise, no matter how good the students are, they will not be able to teach them."

Jimmy raised his eyebrows and joked, "The teacher you're talking about includes yourself?"

Yu Dong was not humble at all, "Of course."

Jimmy gave a thumbs up, "Yes, the skin is getting thicker."

……

This year's deep space annual meeting, Giuseppe is the first foreign guest to Jinling.

The Deep Space Annual Meeting started on February [-]th, and Giuseppe arrived in Jinling on February [-]st.

"I had to come a few days early because I was worried that if I came later, you wouldn't have time to talk to me."

Giuseppe's translator this time was still Rossi, because he had more and more exchanges with China, so he simply hired Rossi for a long time and worked as a full-time translator for him.

Every time Yu Dong sees Rossi and Giuseppe together, he always thinks that they are brothers, because the hairlines are so similar.

"Actually, there is no need to be in such a hurry. Aren't you going to celebrate the New Year in China? There is plenty of time later."

Giuseppe shook his head with a smile, "Isn't it a bit impersonal to ask you to talk about work on such an important festival?"

Yu Dong secretly complained that he came to talk about work on New Year's Eve, and it didn't get any better.

This time Giuseppe came here mainly to chat with him about the script of "Marilyn". Giuseppe told Yu Dong that after filming "The Pianist on the Sea", he returned to his hometown in Sicily and retreated for more than a month. In time, he wrote the script and named it "Marilyn".

"I have already translated the script into Chinese, and the level is not high. If there is anything wrong, I would like to ask Mr. Yu to enlighten me." Rossi said.

"Just kidding, I don't understand Italian either, so how could I find out the mistakes in the translation."

Yu Dong roughly flipped through the script of "Marilyn", the content is basically similar to the later movies, there are some small details in the middle, but it doesn't matter.

"The last time you told me you had this idea, I knew you would be able to write it." Yu Dong patted the script and said to Giuseppe, "This script is the one I have seen so far this year. best screenplay."

Giuseppe laughed, "It's only been one month this year."

Yu Dong also laughed, "For you, only one month has passed this year, but for me, there are only a few days left this year. Giuseppe, I'm not flattering you, this script is really well written Good. I can even imagine how you would turn this excellent script into a movie."

Giuseppe shook his head: "This is just the beginning, there is still a lot of work to be done, I want to find the town of Casticuto in my heart, and also find the heroine in my heart—Marilyn, I I believe this task will not be very simple. Of course, the most important thing, and the first thing to be done, is that I need to get the film and television adaptation rights of "Death of the Widow" from you."

Yu Dong smiled and said, "Hey, is this a matter? I'll make a call later and ask Yu Yu to talk to you. I believe there will be no problems."

Giuseppe nodded: "I know, actually, I came to you not to ask you for the right to adapt the film and television, but just to hear your opinion. If the script can be approved by the original author, I believe, half of the success of the film will be achieved. gone."

……

On the plane from the United States to China, Spielberg and Doug Liman sat next to each other.

After take-off, the plane gradually stabilized, and Doug Liman was also thinking about chatting. He looked at Spielberg and said with a smile: "Steven, this is the second time for you to participate in the deep space annual meeting. How do you feel?" ?”

"Nothing special. What about you? It's your first time participating. How do you feel?"

Doug Liman shook his head, "It doesn't seem to be anything special, I don't care about the others, I just want to meet YU. I asked many people about his impressions, and got many different answers. In your heart, he is What kind of person?"

"In my heart." Spielberg pondered: "First, he is very talented, which is undeniable. I have met many novelists and screenwriters, but I have never seen a thinking A person who diverges faster than him. Sometimes, when we chat about something casually, he can come up with a very good idea."

"I fully believe in this. Many people have said so. This is the first, what's next?"

"Second, he is a typical Chinese."

Doug Liman asked strangely: "How do you say that?"

Spielberg explained, "He is very traditional. Although he has a lot of ideas, he is silent most of the time and does not express his views easily. He is also very humble. I have never seen him showing arrogance. It is not easy for him who is so famous at such a young age. At the same time, he will not compromise easily, and will not change the things he has decided."

"I won't change the things I've decided. Does this prove that he is very confident?" Doug Liman asked.

"It can be considered, but I think that everyone has a thing that must be done in their hearts, and YU must also have such a thing in his heart. All the decisions he makes are to accomplish this thing."

After listening to Spielberg's words, Doug Liman was thoughtful. All he knew about YU came from other people's mouths, but the more he heard other people describe YU, the more curious he became about YU.

Seeing that Doug Liman was silent, Spielberg thought he was nervous about meeting YU, so he smiled and comforted him: "You don't have to think too much, he is a very easy person to get along with. Your two movies Haven't started to be afraid yet, this time I just took this opportunity to talk to him more."

Doug Liman nodded: "I think so too, and I also want to talk to him about "Golden Dreamland", because I really want to make this movie."

"If you want to talk about "Golden Dreamland", then I suggest you wait until the two films on hand are finished. If the two films can be made well, he will naturally be willing to talk to you. If the filming is not good , then there is no hope at all.”

Doug Liman bit his lip. He really wanted to talk about "Golden Dreamland" with Yu Dong, but what Spielberg said was very reasonable.

After a while, he sighed, "His novels are always very special, and people want to make them into movies after reading them."

Spielberg glanced at Doug Liman, smiled and said nothing, he and Doug Liman have the same feelings, YU's novels have such magic power, people want to shoot them as soon as they see it Become a movie, become a picture.

And gradually, YU has become the guarantee of the box office.

It seems that as long as a movie is related to YU, the box office will be a big hit.

When "Second World" broke the record, Spielberg could still tell himself with great confidence that he was the biggest contributor.

But as time went by, after "Resident Evil", "Two Smoking Barrels", and "Sniper Booth" succeeded one after another, he began to doubt whether he was too conceited. Perhaps, "Second World" could succeed, and YU The credit should be more?
Especially after "Sniper Booth" hit the box office this time, people's evaluation of YU has risen to a higher level.

As long as it is a plan that YU participates in, there is no loss, and all of them are huge profits.

Not to mention "Two Smoking Barrels", after all, YU did not directly participate, but "Sniper Phone Booth" won a box office of more than 1000 million at a cost of less than [-] million. .

For this reason, Spielber is very concerned about the two films that YU handed over to Doug Liman. If the cost of these two films is not high, and the director is not very well-known, if the film can be successful, it is conceivable that in the future there will be How many people are spending their dollars to buy YU's novels, or ask him to write scripts.

　Thank you [Shangguan Luojun] for the 5000 reward
　　
　
(End of this chapter)