my movie years

Chapter 179 Disputes and Interviews

After the wrap-up banquet, most of the team members had already returned to China, while Guo Fan and a few others stayed and participated in the post-production of "Batman: Beginning of War" with Zhang Hao.

It is said to participate, but it is actually soy sauce and learning how others do it.

The film production process, pre-production, shooting, and post-production are all indispensable, and sometimes the importance of post-production is even higher.

In the editing room provided by Warner Pictures, Zhang Hao, Guo Fan, Charles Rowan, and veteran Hollywood gold medal editor Mike Dawson completed the editing work together.

"This line is not good, I think it should be shortened as much as possible."

"However, this line is very popular in the market, and I think this line should be kept."

Because there is no final editing right, only the right to make suggestions, so Zhang Hao can't edit the film according to his own ideas.

In the editing room, he often disagrees with Mike Dawson. Mike Dawson thinks he is a gold medal editor, and Zhang Hao is just a low-level director who doesn't understand what film editing looks like.

As for Zhang Hao, he thinks that he is the one who completes the film. He already has a well-thought-out idea of ​​how the film will be finished. Mike Dawson only needs to edit it according to his ideas.

Ever since, during the editing work, the two often quarreled.

This time it was the same again, Guo Fan looked at Zhang Hao and Mike Dawson who were not giving in to each other, he hesitated to speak, he couldn't get in.

Ever since, the ball was kicked to Charles Rowan, and Mike Dawson asked, "Charles, what do you mean?"

Charles Rowan opened his half-closed eyes. He is the producer and the actual controller of the entire "Batman: Beginning of War".In other words, he holds the final editing rights on behalf of Warner Pictures.

If another Hollywood producer, Jerry Bruckheimer (producer of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series), is changed, it will definitely make Zhang Hao, a small Chinese director, come and die.

But Charles Rowan is different. He has a relatively gentle personality and respects the director more.

Jerry Bruckheimer and the director of his production are often in the news of feuds and quarrels.But Charles Rowan was not. Instead, he was praised by the directors he had worked with, calling him the best producer.

Because Charles Rowan will not interfere too much with the director's creative freedom except to control the crew, which gives the director a lot of room to play, including post-production.

Therefore, when Zhang Hao and Mike Dawson disagreed, Charles Rowan supported Zhang Hao more than half.

After watching Charles Rowan support Zhang Hao again, Mike Dawson snorted coldly: "If you don't follow my opinion, don't blame me for the poor box office of the film."

Not to be outdone, Zhang Hao said in a strange way: "Don't worry, when the time comes, the editor's name will be filled in by me on the subtitles of the movie. You don't have to fill it in. Naturally, it's not your responsibility."

"How dare you?" Mike Dawson glared, "I am the editor of the film, so I must have a name."

Seeing the two who were about to quarrel again, Charles Rowan comforted him: "Okay, okay, our most important job right now is to complete the post-production of the film, and there is no point in arguing."

Under Charles Rowan's peace and mud, the two turned their heads away, like vindictive children, ignoring each other.

But in the next cut, the two started arguing again. Guo Fan watched from behind, shaking his head helplessly, feeling a little headache.

Logically speaking, since this is on someone else's territory, Zhang Hao should give in.But Zhang Dao didn't know which tendon was wrong, so he turned into a fighter and refused to give an inch.

The days passed day by day amid such quarrels, Hans Zimmer sent the final version of the soundtrack, and at the same time, the sound effects in the digital field, and some special effects CG composite shots have been sent.

The film is also taking shape day by day, with the appearance of a movie.

After a hard day's work, Charles Rowan and Zhang Hao had coffee at a cafe on the street next to the Warner Pictures headquarters building.

The mellow and strong coffee entered his mouth, Zhang Hao smacked his lips and said, "Tea is better."

Charles Rowan smiled and said, "I still have the tea you gave me last time. I will only take out the tea when distinguished guests come to the house."

"If you like it, I'll bring you some more next time."

"OK……"

The two looked at each other and smiled, then chatted about work.Charles Rowan said: "The annual Super Bowl is coming."

"I'm not interested in American football, but the Super Bowl is called the American Spring Festival Gala, and I've heard of this name." Zhang Hao said.

Zhang Hao can be regarded as a fake basketball fan and football fan, but he really doesn't know much about American football.

Charles Rowan ate a piece of snack and wiped his mouth with a tissue: "Actually, I don't like this sport very much, I prefer watching baseball.

But an important part of the Super Bowl has always been valued by Hollywood film companies. Do you know what it is? "

"what?"

"It's a Super Bowl halftime ad. Every year in the Super Bowl halftime ad, there will be a trailer for a summer movie." Charles Rowan explained.

"So," Zhang Hao said, turning the coffee cup in his hand, "You mean, we should release the preview of "Batman: Beginning of War" at halftime of the Super Bowl?"

"That's right..." Charles Rowan nodded.

"OK, I see. I will edit the trailer and put it on the Super Bowl." Zhang Hao took over the task.

On the eve of the Super Bowl, Zhang Hao edited a 30-second trailer as required.

One second of the Super Bowl commercial is calculated in hundreds of thousands of dollars, so this 30-second trailer should fully reflect the characteristics of the film.

Charles Roven joined Warner Bros. Pictures president Severin Meyer, vice president Jeff Robinoff, and Rick Solomon to watch the trailer.

"Charles, when will the film be finished?" After watching the trailer, Severin Meyer had no expression on his face,

The quality of the trailer is good, but the trailer may also be turned into a teaser, and the only people who have seen the full version of the film are Charles Rowan, Zhang Hao, and the editor Mike Dawson.

Charles Rowan replied: "President, Zhang Zhang and I have already watched the first cut version of the film. Based on my decades of experience in the industry, this film is very well completed and of good quality."

"So, do you think this "Batman: Beginning of War" can be successful in the market?" Rick Solomon asked.

"Whether it can be successful or not depends on the market's decision." Charles Rowan replied, and then suggested to Severin Meyer: "I think we need to adopt a conservative issuance strategy.

First conduct an internal test screening, then hold an on-demand screening, and wait for word of mouth to spread before expanding the scale of the screening. "

Now the outside world is constantly questioning "Batman: Beginning of War", which has disrupted Warner Pictures' confidence in this project. Charles Rowan's opinions are very pertinent.

"These Disney media don't miss any chance to attack DC." Jeff Robinov secretly hated.

"Okay, Jeff, it's useless to lose your temper, don't we use the same method!" Severin Meyer was calmer, and agreed to Charles Rowan's plan: "Just use this strategy to issue, and at the same time watch Let's see what happens after halftime in the Super Bowl!"

"OK……"

The president has decided, and naturally he has no other opinions.

Before the meeting ended, Severin Meyer asked Charles Rowan, "By the way, what did Zhang think of this movie?"

Charles Rowan thought for a while, and truthfully relayed Zhang Hao’s opinion: “He believes that he is creating a great series of superhero movies, and he said that in the future, everyone will regard this trilogy series as the ceiling of superhero movies. "

"Ceiling? This Chinese man has a big voice." Rick Solomon laughed.

Severin Meyer appreciates this attitude: "Yes, it is good to have confidence. If even the director has no confidence in his own work, how can we believe that this film can be successful?"

"makes sense……"

At this time, Zhang Hao, who is known by several people, was busy with post-production, and accepted an exclusive interview with the media "Film Weekly" under the Six Princesses.

"This Batman movie is the first restart after 1998 years after "Batman and Robin" in 15. I will analyze the city of Gotham from an external perspective."

Zhang Hao talked eloquently to the reporter of "Film Weekly", calmly.

"Some netizens speculate that after Zhang Dao you succeed this time, you will stay in Hollywood to develop. Is this news true?" The reporter then asked.

"No, my roots will always be in China, I am a Chinese-speaking film director, and I will definitely return to my homeland in the future.

In fact, it is not far away. I will return to China this year. Zhang Hao refuted the rumors on the Internet.

The reporter was relieved, and then asked another question: "We understand that you took your team to fully participate in the production of "Batman: Beginning of War". What kind of purpose do you have for your team to participate in it? ?”

In fact, everyone knows why, but this is an interview with the official media, and the matter is qualitative.

Zhang Hao thought it over before answering: "We must be objectively aware that compared with Hollywood, the center of the world's film industry, most of our domestic film crews are small workshops, with no more than 100 participants and no more than three. 400 people.

We seriously lack the experience of large-scale projects and large-scale productions, and lack of understanding of the film industrialization process.

I am here with my team this time to make a contribution to the development of China's film industrialization process and cultivate industry talents. "

These words are lofty and correct, but what Zhang Hao actually thinks in his heart is: the industrialization of film is none of my business, and all these are done for his own future development plan.

Moreover, promoting the so-called film industry process is not something that someone else can do.

But in the face of the media, you definitely can’t say that. Of course, the public and the higher authorities like to listen to what they say. This is called the wisdom of interviews.

Just like some directors, they talk about the so-called film art in front of the camera, even though they are obviously making money.

If it fails to make money, people will in turn blame the audience for not knowing the art of film.

Is it because you don't understand the so-called art?No, people just blame you for not contributing movie tickets to the movies he made, so you don't understand art, you are guilty.

Although this logic is a jerk, this is the logic of the Chinese film industry, and this logic is also applicable in Hollywood.

Therefore, Zhang Hao also wants to take money from the audience, but compared to other bad film directors, Zhang Hao is more willing that the audience will take the initiative to give him money.

After all, the path of bad movies has been passed in the previous life, which proves that this path is not conducive to fame and fortune, and may be in danger of being destroyed by physics.

"The last question, do you think, when will our Chinese-language films be able to make our own sci-fi films?"

Zhang Hao was silent for a while, and then said: "This is indeed a very acute question. It can be said that I have many plans for the future, and I have also reached a cooperation with Mr. Liu.

In the near future, we will definitely see sci-fi movies belonging to our Chinese-language movies. "

"Okay, thank you Director Zhang Hao for accepting our interview, I wish your new film a big hit at the box office."

"thanks……"

　521 is also Valentine's Day, vomiting blood...

　　Another chapter tonight...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)