The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 414
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Chen Kun stretched out his fingers to his lips, signaling to be quiet, and at the same time glanced at the old man on the hospital bed. The old man was breathing slightly, half asleep and half awake.

He turned to face the lawyer in suit and tie, calmly, tried to maintain his majesty and said softly: "Don't tell him about this..."

Caught off guard, the weak old man on the bed suddenly moved and knocked over the things beside the bed: "I told you, get rid of these people! I'm not dead yet! It's not your turn to decide the company!"

Everyone present was a little embarrassed. Chen Kun was stunned for a moment, then he pursed his lips tightly, looking a little stubborn, and then squatted down to clean up the framed photos on the ground.

He gazes at photographs behind broken glass—a young boy holding a pinwheel, apparently pierced by a child, while his father blows on it.

Chen Kun walked behind him with his back turned, as if he wanted to comfort his uncle, took a deep breath, as if wearing a mask on his face, and said dryly: "I put it on the bedside, he Didn't pay attention."

"Okay!" Chen Jingxing picked up the guide tube and shouted in satisfaction, "This is the way to go!"

Chen Jingxing gave a thumbs up to Chen Kun, whose shoulders and expression relaxed for a moment: "Very good, I found the feeling." After saying that, he turned around and looked at Luo Chen, as if to say look at him, let this The male protagonist who had been watching the scene couldn't help showing a wry smile.

Although Chen Kun is one of the four major high school students, he has always been more idol-oriented. His performance in idol dramas is sufficient, but once he plays a role that cannot be handsome or deep, he will appear a little bit Exaggerated, even a little superficial, is not good for controlling the five senses.

Especially the eyebrows, quite steal the show.

This kind of subconscious routine acting skills is not easy to change. When filming a movie, he has time to cut out each shot one by one, which allows him to dedicate a high-quality performance. With careful carving, Chen Kun's routine performances will be seen at a glance.

It is not without reason that Chen Kun is the only actor among the top four who has not won the three gold medal winners.

But this is not a big problem for Chen Jingxing, Chen Jingxing has his own philosophy, for him, whether he is suitable for the role is more important than whether his acting skills are good or not.

He is not the kind of director who advocates one person with thousands of faces. The actors he likes are usually the ones with strong personalities. It is best for the actors’ own characteristics to resonate with the characters and even add credit to the characters. Drama is not suitable for movies.

The rich second-generation character of "Inception" is the subject of the whole movie. He wants the protagonist team's "implantation of ideas" action to convince the audience in terms of logic and performance.

Therefore, Chen Kun wants to show the subtle emotions between him and his father with strong dramatic tension in a few scenes.

Otherwise, the audience will wonder why he was moved by his father's words and a pinwheel at the end, so that he gave up his hostile merger plan against competitors? ——The changes made by Chen Jingxing in the original version include the business behavior of the rich second generation.

The behavior of the rich second generation in the original "Inception" is too rough, too far-fetched and meaningless.

It would be child's play to give up inheriting Nuo Da's business empire because of the implanted idea.

In Chen Jingxing's opinion, the most wonderful thing about "Zhi Nian" in "Inception" is that it complies with the needs of people's inner and subconscious minds, it is a game between people's hearts between square inches, and it is a subtle emotional guidance.

Even if the rich second generation "awakened" their will in life, why should they give up inheriting the business empire?
Isn't the inheritance the father's shares?

There is no contradiction between inheriting shares and no longer trying to prove yourself and live out your own ideals in life.

Just hire a professional manager, or let your uncle take over the power. What is the contradiction between painting, making music, doing charity and doing your favorite business and inheriting the company's shares?

Taking another ten thousand steps back, for Saito, whether the rich second generation inherits or not, the business empire is there, and it will not disappear out of thin air. For Saito, it is worth taking such a big risk just to let a rich second generation give up shares risk?Without the rich second generation in power, his uncle or other professional managers may be more difficult to deal with.

Unless it is to let the rich second generation spin off the company by itself, or bankrupt the company.

But this is too far-fetched, and no longer trying to prove to his father that he can run a good company does not mean that he will destroy his father's life's hard work.

This will make "Zhi Nian" lose that subtle sense of squareness and appear too buggy.

So Chen Jingxing changed it to, the rich second generation didn't love business, but his father had always been strict with him, and at the same time showed that he didn't trust his ability. After suffering from Alzheimer's disease, the relationship between father and son became more tense.

When his father was seriously ill and dying, in order to prove to his father that he was worthy of his son, that he could further develop the business empire and would not disappoint his father, he insisted on launching a hostile merger with a competitor.

Let my father see that he can take the business empire he left behind, so that he can prove to his father that he is not as bad as he thought.

And this hostile takeover also caused violent turmoil in the financial market and became the focus of media attention. Pan Yueming, the owner of the company that was taken over by the hostile takeover, launched a poison pill plan and tried every means to resist the takeover. Some losses, in short, there is a feeling of mutual loss.

But the rich second generation's father's Alzheimer's disease became more and more serious, and the relationship between father and son became more tense, and the rich second generation became more stubborn and determined to go his own way.

Therefore, the idea of ​​the protagonist group is actually to help guide the father and son to achieve an alternative reconciliation, so that the "misunderstanding" between the rich second generation and his father can be resolved, and he can give up the hostile merger plan that just wants to prove himself in front of his father.

This will make the logic of the whole "Zhi Nian" more natural and convincing.

However, even if the logic of the characters is slightly modified, Chen Kun's role is not easy to play, but Chen Kun's slightly artistic, sensitive and fragile sense of being a nobleman can help him interpret this role.

Now after a lot of tossing, Chen Kun finally adjusted to a state that satisfied Chen Jingxing. His micro-expression was not bad, and he suppressed the eyebrows that seemed to have his own will, which made Chen Jingxing quite satisfied.

With this comparison, Luo Chen's performance made Chen Jingxing a little unsatisfied.

The actor in "Inception" is actually not difficult to perform, and Luo Chen's performance is quite satisfactory, but it may be that Chen Jingxing has cooperated with Wu Yue and Lei Jiayin in the past two years, and the threshold for actors' performances has also unconsciously increased.

Compared with Luo Chen's "Signal" performance, which basically didn't improve much, it's a bit embarrassing.

That's right, Luo Chen's roles in movies such as "Monster Hunt" and "Journey to the West" in the past two years are not as good as "Fatal Identity" and "Signal".

Fortunately, the male protagonist of "Inception" is the same as most of Chen Jingxing's other movies. The protagonist is a tool for storytelling. The characters are not complicated, and Luo Chen's performance is actually enough.

The most important thing is that good looks and a slightly mature temperament can still support this role. Luo Chen is also a movie face, otherwise Chen Jingxing would not have used him all the time.

Luo Chen complained in his heart that Chen Kun's boss is not young anymore, and he came to this movie to play a supporting role to suppress him. He is really his nemesis. At the same time, he kept laughing, changing the subject, and tried not to let Chen Jingxing take the opportunity to train him again.

"Director Chen, "The Martian" should still be nominated for an Oscar. I don't know if Lei Ge has a chance to be nominated. He told me on WeChat last time that "Mars" is his best chance. If If he can be nominated for an Oscar, it will be a glory to the old Lei family."

Ray, I'm so sorry.

There was a smile on Chen Jingxing's face when he heard this, and he immediately sighed: "It's unlikely, the Golden Globes have not been nominated for best actor, and the possibility of Oscar is very small. It is too difficult for a non-white and non-black actor to be nominated for an actor award. It’s hard for those of us in the academy to get performances by people of yellow race, and Sister Yue didn’t get nominated for her performance so well.”

As the saying goes, if there is one, there will be two, and there will be again and again.

After "Center of the Earth" and "Matrix" opened the door to Hollywood's heavyweight awards last year, there is basically no big obstacle to come again this year.

"The Martian" was once again nominated for the TV Movie Golden Globes, this time with only two nominations, best picture in a comedy and best director.

In fact, Chen Jingxing didn't care much about this anymore. He had already won the best director last year, so it was naturally impossible to award it to himself. As for the Golden Globe Award for best film in the comedy category, it didn't really matter much.

On the contrary, if the actor can make a breakthrough in the awards, he will get a bigger sensation in the media and the Internet.

Even a nomination means something to an actor.

From the cognition of the film industry, from an artistic point of view, the gold content of the Golden Globes and even the Oscars is naturally not as good as the top three in Europe.

But if the fineness of the "gold" that contains gold takes into account its influence in the world, the weight of Hollywood is naturally as heavy as Mount Tai.

It's just a pity that the performances of Wu Yue and Lei Jiayin are definitely eligible for nominations, but it is too difficult to make a breakthrough at the Golden Globes or Oscars.

There must be discrimination, and there is a difference in the facial contours of yellow people and white people. Just like many people in China will be face blind when looking at other two races, many Europeans and Americans will also be face blind when looking at East Asians. They have Sometimes it is impossible to tell what level the performance of East Asian actors is, and it is not even easy to benchmark.

There are also language problems, the pronunciation logic of Chinese and English, and the lines are also very different. The two debuffs of yellow actors and non-English lines make it difficult for actors from China, including Japan and South Korea, to win awards in Hollywood. God, it's much harder than being recognized as a director.

In comparison, the three major European film festivals are more international, but the fundamental reason is that the judges of the three major European film festivals are more international and elite.

However, it was enough for Chen Jingxing that DreamWorks could continue to participate in the Hollywood awards game.

(End of this chapter)