The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 424 Everyone Wants to Take the DreamWorks Car
"Is the prototype of Xingang City in "Special Mobile Team" Hong Kong Island?"

"That's right, the streetscape of Xingang City is indeed based on Hong Kong Island."

This Shaodong from the Lixin Group was obviously quite curious about Chen Jingxing, one called him Director Chen, and the other called Mr. Lin, and they had a very happy conversation around the topic of movies.

Chen Jingxing was born in 92, and Lin Xiaoxian was born in 86. The age gap between the two is not too big. It is obviously impossible for Chen Jingxing to call someone he doesn't know well, so he calls Lin Xiaoxian Mr. Lin.

Lin Xiaoxian called Chen Jing as Chen's director instead of Chen Dong, and he was like a movie fan in front of Chen Jingxing. He talked from Oscar to Chinese-language movies, and then from Chinese-language movies to "Special Mobile Team".

It is not surprising that Chen Jingxing has a wealth of knowledge about Lin Xiaoxian's films. After all, Lin Xiaoxian is the vice president of Media Asia Pictures, the current leading film company in Hong Kong Island, and the Lin family is also one of the chaebols deeply involved in the entertainment industry in Hong Kong Island.

In other words, on Hong Kong Island, the relationship between wealthy families and the entertainment industry has always been relatively close.

However, when Lin Xiaoxian mentioned "Special Mobile Team", Chen Jingxing was a little surprised. After all, "Special Machine" is an animated drama. Even if it is out of the circle, it is also known as a science fiction masterpiece with considerable depth. And the Chinese world is not a mainstream film and television theme, relatively speaking, it is relatively small and neglected and discriminated against.

Animated movies and animated dramas are really not the same thing, and audience acceptance is completely different.

Chen Jingxing's undisguised surprise seemed to please this rich man, and he even talked about his experience and feelings about "Special Machine" watching the drama, and also talked about the background prototype of this animation.

The origin of cyberpunk is actually quite early. It is one of the classic types of science fiction. It is a peculiar world of decay, with deep decline of civilization, technology has fallen heavily, low life and high technology, and it is one of the dystopian world models.

And "Special Mobile Team" expands the cyberpunk world view by a big step with precise mechanical settings, smooth action scenes, and profound philosophical speculation.

Moreover, the complex and dense style of Hong Kong Island is stuffed into the aesthetic structure of cyberpunk.

It is no secret that Hong Kong Island is the blueprint of the city of "Special Mobile Team". The director of "Special Machine" also answered it in an interview, so Chen Jingxing has nothing to hide.

Lin Xiaoxian asked very interestedly: "Does Director Chen have any plans to adapt "Special Mobile Team" into a movie? I believe that if it is made, it will definitely become a sci-fi classic."

"There is such a plan, but there is no script yet, and the project has not yet been established." Chen Jingxing vaguely guessed Lin Xiaoxian's plan.

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It's not impossible, after all, if "Special Mobile Team" is to be filmed, the filming must be on Hong Kong Island.

Lin Xiaoxian did not "strike while the iron is hot" as Chen Jingxing expected, which made him a little relieved when he was thinking of a decent reason for his refusal.

"Look at me, I'm a little excited to see Director Chen. I've delayed the shooting. I'll go to the side. I'll ask Director Chen to apologize in Lan Kwai Fong tonight."

Lin Xiaoxian saw the assistant director walking towards here in the distance, thinking that the props and actors might have been prepared and the filming would start soon, so he hurriedly apologized politely and kindly invited Chen Jingxing to the dinner at night.

"It's okay, today is mainly rehearsal, and the time is really not enough, it's not an official shoot, tonight..."

Lin Xiaoxian didn't wait for Chen Jingxing's refusal to say it, and immediately expressed his apology embarrassingly: "Forgive me, Director Chen, but there is really no way around it. According to the regulations of the police department, the road closure cannot exceed three hours at most, but it's no problem. Chen You can take pictures for a few days, and the road closure application is on me, so there will be no problems. There are too many people in Hong Kong Island who want to see you, Director Chen finally came here once, and I must appreciate it..."

When the other party talked about this, Chen Jingxing couldn't continue to refuse.

After Lin Xiaoxian left, amidst the exclamation of the onlookers, a freight train pulled seven or eight carriages and rushed on the street for hundreds of meters.

The train on the road is like sailing a boat on a dry road, which can create an absurd spectacle in itself.

In the movie, it is also the manifestation of the male protagonist's dangerous subconsciousness, and chaos appears in order.

Of course, this freight train was built by DreamWorks. It is actually a freight train, but its appearance has been modified into a train, and the carriages behind it are all empty. The actual construction cost is not high, far lower than the CG special effects.

This big guy was transported to the port by a freighter. It was originally disassembled, then pulled into a warehouse rented at a high price, and then assembled.

After finally pulling the train over, a crane came over and erected a huge black curtain to block the sunlight, and then the other two cranes hoisted a long and slender track at a distance of [-] meters between the two intersections. The nozzles on the track move from one end to the other, and "artificial rainfall" is carried out as the leading actors and group performers move.

There was no rehearsal for the shootout scene, it was all about rehearsing the positions of the characters and the camera.

There is a time period and duration limit for road closures. It cannot be during peak hours, and the duration cannot exceed three hours. Therefore, it may take more than a week for the scenes on Hong Kong Island to be filmed.

The first two days of shooting were mainly rehearsals, rehearsing positions and cooperating with various departments to find out problems and ways to improve, and the official shooting will be staged on the third day.

However, this kind of scene is still rarely seen by the citizens watching. The scenes of Hong Kong Island movies that need to be closed for filming are often gunfights and chases.

I have never seen the train on the road, and the "high-altitude track artificial rainfall" that used two large cranes to erect the entire street.

Many people thought it was a Hollywood production team at first, but the crew and actors were all yellow-skinned, and the sharp-eyed ones even recognized Luo Chen and other stars, so it was widely known that it was the crew of DreamWorks, and that it was Chen Jingxing who was on the stage. filming.

Chen Jingxing is a well-known international director. His films are sold in East Asia, Europe, America, and the box office of DreamWorks films in Hong Kong Island is also good. The image is still very high.

Moreover, neither Chen Jingxing nor DreamWorks had ever come to Hong Kong Island to shoot a movie, and they didn't even come to Hong Kong Island when DreamWorks was listed. On the contrary, the public is even more curious about this legendary director.

Lin Xiaoxian looked at the shooting scene outside the floor-to-ceiling windows in a high-end restaurant in the shooting block, feeling a little bit emotional: "Not only the film market in mainland China is about to catch up with the United States, but even the film industry is already at the level of Hollywood."

"It's not for nothing that their market value of [-] billion is not for nothing. The entire film and television companies in Hong Kong Island add up to less than half of theirs. However, other film and television companies in mainland China are still incomparable with DreamWorks. The overall gap with Hollywood is still very large. DreamWorks It's a special case."

Zhu Shencong, executive vice president of Media Asia Pictures, who was sitting opposite him, comforted the young owner. This was also his true opinion. Film and television investment is a gamble even for insiders.

Hollywood's industrial films have already ruled the world. For countries and regions without film industries, they must compete with each other if they want to survive and develop. For example, Huaguo mainly focuses on martial arts, comedy, and romance films.

Those who cannot establish a film industry are manual workshops, and every project has to take huge risks.

It is quite strange for DreamWorks to focus on industrial themes such as science fiction from the very beginning. The key is that he has won the battle. The reason why DreamWorks was able to establish an industrial system in a few years is actually because of money. It is possible to reap huge profits, the rate of return is coveted, and positive feedback all the way has reached the point it is today.

If it is a normal film and television company, if there is an accident in the middle, throwing a film and television drama will slow down the pace of the company's development, and may even go bankrupt.

Lin Xiaoxian shook his head: "Many things are sometimes promoted by geniuses. DreamWorks is the leader of mainland movies, and the entire film and television industry and entertainment industry have benefited. We have been marginalized. It is useless to be unconvinced."

Lin Xiaoxian's appearance today to win over Chen Jingxing was not really out of the excitement of fans or movie fans seeing their idol, although he was indeed quite curious about Chen Jingxing.

First of all, he really wants to cooperate with DreamWorks, or to see if he can find opportunities for cooperation. Media Asia Pictures has been cooperating with mainland film studios in the past few years, but has not dealt with DreamWorks.

The risk awareness of Dreamworks is not normal in the film industry, and they are quite picky about their partners. Domestically, it is mainly Guoying, and abroad, it is Universal. However, all of their films are booming, and the projects with the lowest return rate make friends and businessmen jealous. The disadvantage of "lack of risk awareness" has become the advantage of "high level and good vision".

Moreover, DreamWorks has had little contact with Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles since its establishment. Because the mainland film and television industry was relatively backward at the beginning of the new century, Hong Kong island filmmakers went north, and all major factories basically had a close relationship with Hong Kong and Taiwan film and television talents.

Jingying has absorbed a large number of talents from Hong Kong Island, from production to photography, from planning to editing.

China Film is also known for its love of directors from Hong Kong Island.

The development of the Huaguo film market and the rise of the industry is the process of integrating Hong Kong and Taiwan film and television talents into the mainland.

Only DreamWorks was established in 13, and it has become an internationally renowned studio in less than 5 years. The talents inside DreamWorks and the actors hired for film and television drama projects are all mainland actors.

The decline and gradual decline of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars is an unchangeable process, and DreamWorks has undoubtedly accelerated this process.

No matter how declining Hong Kong Island is, at least the older generation is still well-known in the entire Chinese circle, even in Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea. Sometimes this is their irreplaceability.

And Chen Jingxing's films can also achieve cultural output, such as Luo Chen, Lei Jiayin, Hu Ge, Lu Hongzhe, Yan Xiaoyue, these first-line stars are not only famous in China, but also in overseas, in Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, and even in Europe and the United States. of.

This makes Hong Kong and Taiwan actors no longer irreplaceable in terms of business logic. Whether it is the actors who have been promoted by Baodao in recent years or the stars of Hong Kong Island, no matter how hard they try, they can only eat Luo Chen, Hu Ge, Lei Jiayin, etc. This is true for actors' leftovers, commercial endorsements, and film and television resources.

The same is true for directors. Mainland China already has rising director stars like Ning Hao and Xu Zheng. DreamWorks and directors related to DreamWorks such as Chen Jingxing, Guo Fan, Tian Xinye, and Chen Sicheng have risen like rockets. The director squeezed into the second sequence.

A few years ago, a great director who was a surprise to the public can only make low-budget film projects now.

Therefore, Lin Xiaoxian, as the head of Media Asia Pictures, also wanted to see if he could build up the relationship with Chen Jingxing, and match up the new generation of actors and filmmakers in Hong Kong Island, and see if he could find some opportunities and resources in Chen Jingxing's hands.

(End of this chapter)