The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 356 Inception
After all, it is a new force, and the team of DreamWorks is very active. Since Chen Jingxing held a meeting that day and decided to hold a "director audition", all departments have been mobilized and began to contact Penguin Video and Huanshi.com.

After all, Penguin Video and Huanshi.com are the shareholders of DreamWorks and partners who have cooperated for many years. Naturally, they have to communicate with these two streaming media giants first. If they both refuse, Chen Jingxing can only find other partners.

Fortunately, Huanshi.com responded quite positively. In fact, when Chen Jingxing was willing to sell the exclusive copyright, the two major platforms were already moved, but Huanshi.com acted faster because they were not satisfied with the "director's talent show" variety show Chen Jingxing said. The show is interesting.

Although Huanshi.com also has doubts about whether such a program can attract viewers, Huanshi.com itself does not have to bear the risk. Dreamworks promises to fully cover the production costs, and Huanshi.com only needs to carry out publicity.

In the end, the two reached an agreement. DreamWorks will bear 70% of the production costs, and Fantasy World will take 30%. They will jointly produce such a variety show. Of course, Fantasy World has made a big concession to DreamWorks. .

As a judge of this wonderful director talent show variety show, Chen Jingxing naturally has to spare time, so the "Matrix II" that fans are calling for cannot be launched immediately, but he is not idle, but takes advantage of this rare period In his spare time, he thought about the script of the movie he was going to shoot later.

Of course it is not "Matrix II" or "Matrix III". The "Matrix" trilogy itself is a complete story, and the script has been perfected long ago, so it is not easy to modify it casually.

It's not "The Ninth District". The story frame of "The Ninth District" has already been handed over to Tian Xinye by Chen Jingxing. The first season of "The Walking Dead" has been finished, and the second season will not start shooting immediately. At least we have to see the first season. The response after the first season is broadcast can determine whether there will be a follow-up.

Besides, the second season of "The Walking Dead" will not look for Tian Xinye again. He obviously likes to make movies, and this is also a very suitable path for Tian Xinye. He is a natural film director, and few people can match the language of the camera.

The reason Tian Xinye was in charge of "The Walking Dead" was because he couldn't find a suitable director. That's why Chen Jingxing wanted to hold a director audition to recruit talented and potential directors for DreamWorks.

Chen Jingxing doesn't want to be a "follower", as long as he is a genius. If he just wants a director who can shoot film and television dramas, there are plenty of them on the market. What he wants is a talented director. The scripts produced by different directors also have different effects.

And the script that Chen Jingxing pondered in this spare time was "Inception".

"Inception" can be regarded as a leader with dreams as the theme, and there is no problem even at the peak. The logic is quite strict and complex. The imagination of the structure of the first, second, third, and fourth floors of the dream is amazing, and the rhythm is fascinating. It is considered complete. A very high degree of brain burn.

In Chen Jingxing's opinion, the fundamental reason why this story is better than other film and television animation works of the same type is that the core of "Inception" is planting dreams, not stealing dreams, and planting dreams is the main narrative of this film.

In terms of difficulty, it is naturally higher than Inception and more mysterious, laying a solid foundation for the final climax of the entire movie.

Therefore, the name of this movie is also Inception. It may be more appropriate to translate it into the foundation, or it may be more in line with the meaning of the movie itself when translated into the dream/planting space, although this kind of name does not feel very cool.

Chen Jingxing didn't have any objection to the name Inception of Dream Space, it made you think it was Inception, but it was actually Zhimeng, which was also a big surprise.

However, there are naturally difficulties in making this film, and it is a structural difficulty, which is similar to "Source Code".

As the male protagonist, Dream Stealer was assigned by Compaq Corporation to steal ideas from a Japanese tycoon. The mission failed, but the tycoon took a fancy to his ability to steal dreams, so he gave the male protagonist a mission to go to the young man of the monopoly company. From the heir, through Stealing Dreams, he changed his idea of ​​inheriting a monopoly enterprise. In exchange, the tycoon could help the male lead get rid of the crime of killing his wife, end his fugitive life and return to the United States.

The key lies in the fact that the tycoon threatened the male protagonist with the crime of helping the male protagonist to get rid of the crime of killing his wife, and that the last phone call allowed the male protagonist who was wanted and had to go into exile to pass the entry customs smoothly.

This is the general goal of the hero's actions throughout the movie. He agreed to the tycoon's risky planning and execution of the entire dream planting operation just to return to China and reunite with his children.

Obviously, such a setting cannot pass the review, unless the country background of the protagonist's family is set to other countries, such as Siam.

If the country is not changed, then the plot will definitely need some magical changes.

So how to change it?

Chen Jingxing thought of "Red Pepper", another pinnacle of dream-themed works. He felt that the story structure of "Red Pepper" could be applied to "Inception", so that the problem of passing the review could be avoided to a large extent. .

That is to use the instrument that invaded the dream itself as the introduction of the whole story.

The device that can invade other people's dreams is a top-secret device, first for the treatment of mental illness, and then for some military purposes.

Both the hero and his wife are the developers of the instrument. One day the wife committed suicide by jumping off the building, and the hero fell into pain and nightmares day and night. As a result of his negligence, the instrument he was in charge of was stolen.

The theft of an instrument is a major event. It may not have the physical power of a nuclear weapon, but it may be more dangerous than a nuclear weapon. If it falls into the hands of other countries or KB organizations, even if it falls into the hands of criminals, it will be very dangerous.

The male protagonist and his companions embarked on a journey to retrieve the instrument, and came to Europe according to the clues. There were clues that made them suspect that a tycoon was the mastermind of stealing the instrument. They entered the dream of the tycoon through the instrument they carried, and wanted to steal it. Find out where the instrument is hidden, and then get involved in a transnational business dispute...

If the whole story structure becomes like this, it will be easier to pass the review.

While Chen Jingxing was thinking hard about the script, the news that DreamWorks and Huanshiwang would jointly launch a talent show for directors swept the Internet.

Huanshi.com and DreamWorks moved very quickly, because the entire selection rules are not complicated, and DreamWorks is more urgent. After all, the scripts for the five stories of the second season of "Black Mirror" have been prepared. This For Huanshi.com, the program is an attempt to innovate variety shows, but for DreamWorks, there is a real need.

Except that Huanshiwang tried to persuade DreamWorks to accept the audience's on-site voting and online voting support-although it was useless.

The audience does not have any right to decide whether to become the director of "Black Mirror" in the end, it is still up to the judges, or in other words, Chen Jingxing.

But after all, it is a variety show. Whether Huanshiwang is optimistic or not, it has to try its best to promote it on the road of commercialization, so that the audience has a sense of interaction and participation, right?

As for Chen Jingxing, the winner of the audience vote, he would not like it. If the top five directors in the audience's eyes were not the five directors Chen Jingxing finally selected, then it would not be a matter of Huanshiwang.com.

Wouldn't it be better if there was a dispute?

A reality show is still called a reality show without any controversy?The bigger the fight, the better, maybe DreamWorks actually has the same idea.

If a director that the audience doesn't like wins Chen Jingxing's favor and directs "Black Mirror", then there will be ready-made enthusiasm for "Black Mirror". After "Black Mirror II" is launched, the unconvinced audience will Go and see what level of work is produced by the "garbage director" in your eyes?
Anyway, the rules of the program should be clarified in advance. The program team will select one, two, three according to the on-site voting and online voting. Whatever champion, runner-up, third runner-up, gold award, silver award and bronze award can be arranged.

But who DreamWorks chooses as the director of "Black Mirror II" has nothing to do with these one, two, three, honor is honor, and benefits are benefits. DreamWorks is free to choose whoever it chooses.

In fact, this kind of program setting is not bad. Competitive variety shows are all striving for promotion or one, two, three, but not all participants are here for the championship. Exposure itself is wealth, and it can be the goal.

Although Chen Jingxing doesn't like some unknown directors, if he can earn a ranking, win some gold and silver awards, this is not only a resume, but also accompanied by exposure, exposure is fame.

With fame and reputation, maybe the advertising company who couldn’t even shoot the commercials will be approached by an advertising company, and the fame of the commercials will be even greater, and more people will come to find them, and those who have ready-made scripts may be able to fool them. to invest.

In short, try to make everyone happy, even if Chen Jingxing doesn't like him, he can still gain honor and fame.

To the surprise of many inside DreamWorks and Huanshiwang, this news created a lot of heat once it was released on the Internet.

"Birth of a Director"?
Director's talent show variety show?
DreamWorks paid to create short films?
Then compete for the gold medal?
DreamWorks will select five directors to direct the five stories of "Black Mirror II"?

Moreover, each episode of "Black Mirror II" has a duration of more than 90 minutes, are they considered independent online movies?

Hey guys, is Black Mirror going from a miniseries to a minimovie?

Maybe it's because the director's draft is so novel that no one has seen it before, or maybe it's because "Black Mirror" has turned into an online movie, which is shocking.

Or maybe the combination of the two is too amazing - the winner of "Birth of a Director" will get the chance to direct a DreamWorks film and television series.

In any case, netizens suddenly became interested in this variety show.

After all, it can be regarded as the first variety show of DreamWorks, and Chen Jingxing, Guo Fan and other big directors of DreamWorks will be the judges.

We must know that usually the judges of this kind of talent show may not be "professional counterparts". The program group is all about attention and ratings. "The Birth of the Director" is quite professional in this regard.

Not to mention that it is very rare for a director of Chen Jingxing's level to be a judge of a variety show himself.

(End of this chapter)