my movie years

Chapter 155 Definition of Simple and Complex (Today's update)
"Okay, let's take a break." Zhang Hao clapped his hands and ended the shooting.

Chen Kun immediately sat next to Zhang Hao holding the script and asked Zhang Hao many questions about the plot.

"Director, I have a question."

"Look, this is almost becoming a curious baby." Zhang Hao said to the producer Liu Hao beside him, and then turned his head to signal Chen Kun: "What question, you can ask!"

Chen Kun took out his small notebook, which recorded many problems.Some issues are ticked to indicate that they have been resolved.Some questions are marked with a question mark, indicating that they have not been resolved.

"What I want to ask is, since the male protagonist lost his memory for a period of time, other people who have experienced things together should know what happened.

Why not go to someone else and ask what happened and help yourself remember? " Chen Kun asked.

Before he reached middle age, Zhang Hao had already soaked goji berries in his thermos.

After taking a sip of water, Zhang Hao replied: "Why didn't you ask? I have searched for it, just to verify the memory I got from the diary.

He has the ability to go back to the past, and all he does is to make himself and the people around him live well.

But time and time again, when I go back to the past when I was a child, I find that no matter what changes I make, I can't stop the unfortunate tragedy from happening. "

"I understand, the hero is superfluous, he shouldn't appear." Chen Kun seemed to have a feeling.

Zhang Hao said with a smile: "In the ending I prepared, there is really this one. The male protagonist returned to his mother's womb through the tape left by his father, and then strangled himself to death with the umbilical cord."

Chen Kun shuddered: "This ending is too cruel for me. Could it be that the director has prepared multiple endings?"

"Yes, I plan to shoot four endings, and the ending of the theatrical version must be the most favorable ending." Zhang Hao said.

There are four endings in the original version:

1. In the public release version, the male and female protagonists pass by each other, forgetting each other in the rivers and lakes, and the ending is regrettable.

2. After the hero and heroine pass by each other, the hero turned around and chased after him, with an open ending.

3. The hero and heroine met, chatted, met again, and had a happy ending
4. In the director's cut version, the hero commits suicide, the cruelest and most consistent ending with the storyline and theme of the show.

For the version released in theaters, Zhang Hao intends to choose the first one, with a regretful ending.This ending is not as cruel as the fourth ending, nor is it as beautiful as the other two, with a regretful and incomplete beauty that the audience will remember.

In fact, Zhang Hao prefers the ending of the director's cut version, but if this ending is shown in the theatrical version, the word-of-mouth of the film will explode, and the box office will definitely explode, the kind that explodes downward.

Everyone has a heart yearning for a better life, wishing this world will always be sincere, kind and beautiful, but they all know that it is impossible.

Shakespeare said that the most beautiful art is tragedy, but how many people are willing to see tragedy happen again and again.

As a movie for the public, the first thing is to think about the audience, or the money in the audience's wallet.Showing the audience what they want to see is the way to succeed in commercial movies.

Just as Zhang Hao was leading the "Butterfly Effect" crew to film hard, Warner Pictures finally got news.

After Zhang Hao returned to China, Warner Pictures executives held a meeting on DC superhero movies. How to restart "Superman" and "Batman" became the top priority.

Jeff Robinov, the vice president of Warner Pictures who had talked with Zhang Hao, put forward a proposal from Chinese director Zhang Hao at the meeting, but was opposed and criticized by another vice president, Rick Solomon.

"Chinese? What movies do they know? What insightful ideas can they come up with?" Rick Solomon said.

The current president of Warner Pictures, Severin Meyer, will end his term at the end of next year and go to work in the group company, so the competition for the next president of Warner Pictures will become fierce.

Currently maintained, the most promising successors are Jeff Robinov and Rick Solomon.

Rick Solomon is currently in an advantageous position to promote the establishment of the "Superman: Man of Steel" project by virtue of his persuasion.If the film sells well next year, Rick Solomon will undoubtedly win this battle for president and become the next president of Warner Pictures.

Jeff Robinov naturally refused to sit still, so he promised the group company to promote the restart of the "Batman" series.

In fact, he himself felt that it was not very reliable to find a Chinese director. Although he was also the winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Ang Li was more trustworthy than Zhang Hao.

It's not that Jeff Robinov has never thought of inviting Ang Lee to direct "Batman". After all, Ang Lee has also made a super-English movie "Hulk" before.

It's just that Ang Lee is busy with the post-production of "Life of Pi" at this time, and rejected Jeff Robinov's invitation.

But so far, only director Zhang Hao has a complete and clear plan for the "Batman" movie. First-class commercial directors are unwilling to take over, and other low-level directors are not prepared.

Looking at it comprehensively, Zhang Hao is actually the best one.

Thinking of this, Jeff Robinoff, out of defense of his position, said: "Rick, please don't look at him with such colored glasses, there are still good directors in China.

For example, Zhang, whose "Hero" is very popular in North America, and Jack Chen is also a world-renowned kung fu superstar.

As for Zhang Hao, he has just won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Although he is young, this is not a gimmick. "

Jeff Robinov and Rick Solomon were arguing about Zhang Hao's suitability. Other executives of the company were watching, while the president, Severin Meyer, was watching the two vice presidents with great interest. President's argument.

The two fought back and forth to no avail, so they looked at Severin Meyer together: "President, what do you mean?"

Severin Meyer glanced at the two of them, expecting what kind of position he would take.

Although there is competition for positions, everyone ultimately hopes to allow Warner Pictures to continue to generate profits.The interests of all company executives are related to the interests of Warner Pictures, and no one wants their company's projects to fail.

So Severin Meyer, like Rick Solomon, had a bit of a problem with Jeff Robinoff's suggestion of a Chinese director.

But Jeff Robinov is his confidant after all, and Severin Meyer couldn't refuse outright, so he said: "Well, Jeff, ask the Chinese director to propose a complete outline of the trilogy to me, and then submit it to me." Discussed by the Board of Directors.

As for the DC movie universe he mentioned, I will submit it to the group company for discussion. "

The combination of drama series, comics, and movies proposed by Zhang Hao to tell a movie universe with a complete world view cannot be achieved by Warner Pictures alone, and it needs the promotion of the parent company Times Group.

After the high-level meeting, the head of Warner Pictures Asia found Zhang Hao who was filming in Chengdu.

"Do you want me to submit the script of the trilogy?" Zhang Hao asked.

The person who came was Lin Jianfeng, a senior manager of Warner Pictures in charge of distribution in Asia.

"That's right, the company's senior management has already discussed and approved your plan for the trilogy, but without seeing the script, the group company may not agree to promote this project." Lin Jianfeng said.

"Okay, I understand." Zhang Hao agreed.

In the Chinese film industry, a few film and television company bosses, directors and actors have a meal together, and they can decide the birth of a project differently.

In Hollywood, although the status of screenwriters is low, Hollywood attaches great importance to scripts.

Warner has a dedicated script review department, usually composed of eight review teams.When a script is submitted to the script review department, it will be cross-reviewed by seven people.

The review is generally based on the completion of the script, and then the popularity and popularity of the same type of scripts in the market in the past three years.

Four of the seven people thought the script was acceptable, so they handed it over to the last script review team leader for review. The team leader thought the script had a selling point, and then handed it over to the group company for discussion.

The film industry is a high-risk industry, and the purpose of this is to avoid risks as much as possible.

But no matter what kind of system, there is no guarantee of [-]% perfect risk avoidance, it just increases the probability of success.

There is a popular jargon in the Hollywood screenwriting industry: relatively simple commercial movie scripts are more likely to be favored by large companies.

Unless you are at Spielberg's level, the last time you submitted the "Batman" trilogy script, almost 100% of them were PASSed.

Zhang Hao had already prepared the script for the "Batman" trilogy, and immediately sent it to Lin Jianfeng's mailbox, and then Lin Jianfeng submitted it to Warner Pictures.

Is it possible that Warner Pictures adopted Zhang Hao's script but knocked Zhang Hao out with three strikes?

This is also a common thing in Hollywood. The screenwriter wrote a script to a big company, but the big company took the script for itself and kicked the screenwriter out.

But this is something that can’t be helped. Zhang Hao has already become well-known in the Chinese film circle, but he is a little transparent in Hollywood.If people insist on kicking him out, Zhang Hao has nothing to do.

And this is a story about Batman. The film copyright of Batman is in the hands of Warner Pictures. He does not have the authorization, and he has no right to create a story about Batman.

However, Zhang Hao seems to be redundant, because Severin Meyer ordered, and the trilogy script written by Zhang Hao was quickly put on the desk.

After reading the script, Severin Meyer frowned. The reason was simple, the script was too dark.

Several movies of Marvel next door take the easy and younger route, which has proved that this route can be successful.But Zhang Hao's script and this story are very dark at first glance, with a feeling of classical tragedy.

I have to admit that this director from China is quite capable. The scripts of the trilogy are very well completed and the stories are very exciting.

But Warner Pictures has a library of scripts, and there are many similar scripts, but they have never been put into practice and made into movies.

Zhang Hao understands the truth, and Severin Meyer, who works in Hollywood, naturally understands that it is difficult for complex movies to sell high box office in the market and then succeed.

"Avatar", which ranks first in the world's box office, except for the amazing 3D picture performance, its story is just an old-fashioned Hollywood story.

Such a story template can be applied in any period and environment, and can be mass-produced.

Jeff Robinoff also read the script, and Severin Meyer felt the same way.

Severin Meyer said: "Jeff, such a script is too risky, and it is difficult to pass it on the board of directors."

Jeff Robinoff nodded and said: "I know, it seems that we have to find a new director to restart Batman."

After Zhang Hao handed over the script of the "Batman" trilogy to Warner Pictures, nothing came of it. Without any news, Zhang Hao did not panic, and filmed "The Butterfly Effect" in an orderly manner.

Because he wanted to participate in the Hong Kong Island Film Awards, after arranging some crew work, Zhang Hao and Da Mimi rushed to Hong Kong Island to attend the awards ceremony together.

As one of the three most authoritative awards in the Chinese film industry, the influence of the Golden Image Awards is second only to the Golden Horse Awards, but compared with the current Golden Horse Awards, the Golden Image Awards have always played by themselves.

Films without the participation of filmmakers and actors from Hong Kong Island will not be shortlisted by the Academy Awards.

And this strategy, which tends to be regionalized and conservative, became more and more serious later.

Even after the incident broke out at the Golden Horse Awards, but the authority and reputation plummeted, the Golden Statue Awards did not seize the opportunity, but became more closed.

In terms of influence and credibility, the Golden Rooster Award in the Mainland can't even compare with the two declining awards, and it has been reduced to a tasteless award.

The three major gold awards for Chinese-language films have completely collapsed, not to mention other film awards.

But up to now, the influence of the Academy Award is still there, Zhou Xun, the leading actor of "The Undertaker", has also won the Academy Award Queen.

This is not the first time for Zhang Hao to come to Hong Kong Island. When "Genius Gunner" was filming on Hong Kong Island, the crew was blackmailed by local gangsters.

Andy Lau walked the red carpet as a member of the crew of "Sister Tao", while Zhou Xun walked with the crew of "The Undertaker".In addition, teacher Jin Shijie and photographer Lu Jianqiu all came.

Only Joe Hisaishi was unable to come because he was busy preparing for the Budokan concert.

The Hong Kong Island media is as famous as the British Fleet Street paparazzi, and they are very, very interested in Zhang Hao, a cutting-edge mainland director. When the plane landed at the Hong Kong Island Airport, Zhang Hao and Da Mimi were enthusiastically interviewed by reporters.

It is worth mentioning that, after a long period of screening, "The Undertaker" was officially released in China one week after the Oscars ceremony, and won 2.4 million box office.

And the film has also landed in the Hong Kong Island market, and Hua Tsai's appeal here is quite strong.Coupled with the title of Oscar's best foreign language film, the film scored 1237.5 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, creating Zhang Hao's best box office record in Hong Kong Island.

Hong Kong Island has also become the third largest ticket warehouse for "The Undertaker" after the mainland and small life markets.

There is a director named Yojiro Takita in my little days. After seeing the movie "The Undertaker" in my little days, I like it very much.

So he found the screenwriter Xiaoshan Xuntang, intending to obtain the adaptation rights from Haotian Studio, and make a small day version of "The Undertaker".

The leading actors happened to be looking for Masahiro Motoki and Ryoko Hirosue.

Of course, Haotian Studio did not refuse such a thing.

After going around and around, Yojiro Takita finally made "The Undertaker".It's just that this time it has become a remake, and it is impossible to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

　I was sick, so uncomfortable, I wrote a chapter with my sick body, and rested.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)