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Chapter 242 Killing Crazy in the European and American Film Markets!

America, the crew of "Hua Guo Partners"

Today's filming is a scene of a western restaurant.

Lu Chen flipped through the script of this scene.

After coming to the United States and attending the premiere of "Kung Fu Panda", Lu Chen returned to work.

First, I focused on the post-production work of "Iron Man" and "Batman: The Dark Knight", and then filmed the scenes of "Hua Guo Partners" in the United States.

"Director Lu, here~" Zhao Liying brought over a cup of freshly squeezed juice.

The role played by Zhao Liying doesn't have many roles in the United States, and most of them stay with Lu Chen and play the role of female assistant, but she has not yet become an assistant in life.

But Zhao Liying is working hard. Now she is abroad, this is the best opportunity. If she returns to China, she will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey if she wants such an opportunity alone.

Lu Chen took a sip of the juice, handed it to Zhao Liying, looked at Deng Chao who was reading the lines in the distance, and shouted.

Deng Chao immediately put down his script book and trotted over, "Director Lu!"

An expression of all ears.

This is a movie starring Director Lu.

Although "Hua Guo Partner" has been rumored before the filming started, Director Lu came to shoot this film because Xindongfang gave the shares.

However, when Director Lu explained this at the press conference about the Olympics, it was definitely not for money.

Even if it was a movie for money, as long as it was directed by Lu, it would be a special honor for Deng Chao to star in it.

"Today you have two scenes in the western restaurant, do you remember the inner changes of the characters in the two scenes?" Lu Chen likes to let the actors get into the state and know how to act before shooting.

Only in this way can the crew save time and ensure that the shooting progress is steadily moving forward.

Deng Chao nodded, "In the first scene, I was fired from the laboratory. In order to survive, I worked odd jobs in a restaurant. At this time, I should be decadent and feel that life is hopeless."

"In the second scene, my two good brothers and partners and I came to the United States with our own education business, and I felt deeply proud in my heart."

"The first scene in the western restaurant was not just decadent." Lu Chen taught Deng Chao how to understand the inner activities of the characters. "Meng Xiaojun in the movie is a family of returnees. Both his grandfather and father studied abroad."

"I myself graduated from the best university in Huaguo, and among the three, I am the only one who has the opportunity to go abroad, so I have a deep sense of arrogance."

"Then Director Lu, I want to wash dishes in America with arrogance?" Deng Chao asked seriously.

The crew couldn't help laughing when they heard the words, and they couldn't help it again the next second. Director Lu is now lecturing, so don't disturb him, or he will be scolded bloody.

"Meng Xiaojun has always believed that the United States is the best in the world." Lu Chen told Deng Chao seriously, "Even if I am reduced to washing dishes, I don't want to change my opinion."

"I feel that now that I have established a foothold in the United States, I have surpassed my peers, so my eyes must be positive and uplifting. But this is Meng Xiaojun's performance. Behind the positive and uplifting eyes is decadence. The eyes in this scene are the most important."

"..." Deng Chao was confused.

Lu Chen explained that since Meng Xiaojun was expelled from the laboratory, he already understood that it is almost impossible to get ahead in the United States, and there is no fairness in the United States.

But do not want to go back to the country to develop.

So I kept pretending to live a positive life, but inside I was feeling decadent. The America I imagined was very different from the real America, and the inner gap was particularly huge.

One day, the aunt who came to the restaurant for consumption saw that Meng Xiaojun was underestimated by the restaurant team leader, secretly gave Meng Xiaojun a tip, and said, "Young man, you will go far, but she can only stay here for the rest of her life." it's here".

This gave Meng Xiaojun great comfort in his heart, and he began to seriously think about whether it was right or wrong to come to the United States.

"Director Lu, I understand." Deng Chao nodded emphatically. Director Lu said in such detail that if he couldn't understand anymore, he probably wouldn't have to act in Director Lu's works in the future.

"When aunt said this famous thing to you, the camera will tweet a close-up later to capture your facial expressions." Lu Chen said, looking at my eyes, "There must be changes in your eyes."

"From the pretended positive look in the eyes, to the wry smile, there is still relief, but in the end there should be doubts in the eyes, and for the first time in my heart, I think whether it is right or wrong to come to the United States for development."

Deng Chao carefully observed the changes in Lu Chen's eyes. This is a demonstration first, and it belongs to feeding food into his mouth. If the performance is not good, I am really sorry for the cultivation of Director Lu.

Zhao Liying was on the side, watching Director Lu's performance seriously. From the change in his eyes just now, it can be seen that Director Lu's skills are quite strong.

Of course, Lu's directing skills are good, and the roles he played before can be remembered by people, but Lu's directing skills are completely overwhelmed by his strong directing ability and screenwriting ability.

Coupled with the fact that Director Lu doesn't have much acting skills now, it is true that no one discusses Director Lu's acting skills anymore.

But in Zhao Liying's heart, Director Lu's acting skills are excellent among Chinese actors.

"Understood?" Seeing Deng Chao occupying the head, Lu Chen got up and arranged the work, "Okay, let's go, and all the groups, get ready, it's time to shoot."

I specifically told Deng Chao that it was also a scene in the western restaurant today. Deng Chao had two scenes, and the characters in the two scenes were completely different in mind.

This requires Deng Chao to change the character's heart in one day, which still takes into account the actor's acting skills.

Shooting a movie must be a scene. No matter how many shots are taken, they are all shot at one time, so as to save costs.

And a scene, in some works, may be ten years apart, but when actors are filmed, they are all filmed on the same day, which requires actors to switch and immediately enter the inner state of characters of different ages.

The on-site assistant director hurriedly arranged the shooting scene and the positions of the group performers according to Director Lu's wishes.

Huang Xiaoming and Chen Kun were also listening carefully just now, and they were also preparing for the acting skills that Director Lu and Deng Chao talked about, and they memorized all the lines of the second scene in the restaurant.

In the first scene of the western restaurant, there is only Deng Chao.

In the second scene, the three partners in the movie are all present, bringing their educational career to America.

……

"Crack!" Lu Chen put down his earphones, "I've passed this one, and I'm going to shoot here today. The scene management team packed up the shooting equipment."

Today, I finished shooting all the scenes in the western restaurant.

This scene is only used for today, and there is no need to come back for shooting in the future. The shooting equipment must be packed and transported to the next shooting location.

Deng Chao breathed a sigh of relief. He had NGed a few times just now. He was afraid that because of himself, he would not be able to complete the filming of the scene in the western restaurant today. Fortunately, he withstood the pressure in the end.

I feel that when shooting Director Lu's work, the inner pressure is the greatest.

Before filming Director Feng's "Assembly", I didn't have such a big pressure.

I was afraid that something was not done well just now, and in terms of acting, we must do our best, otherwise Director Lu will not be satisfied, especially in terms of details.

So when shooting, I was still very tired.

Of course, this is Director Lu's work, and it's worth the effort.

As for Deng Chao, the filming of the "Assembly Number" scene was not finished. As the second male lead in the movie, the filming of the scene was not completed so quickly.

But "Hua Guo Partners" started, Deng Chao was transferred to shoot "Hua Guo Partners" first, as for "Assembly Number", Feng Xiaogang first filmed the scenes without Deng Chao, and when this side was used up, Deng Chao Only then will the "Assembly Number" crew continue to shoot.

"Director Lu, congratulations!" Spielberg has been here for more than an hour. Director Lu was filming just now and didn't disturb him. He didn't come over until the filming was over.

With documents in hand.

This is exactly the data for one week after "Kung Fu Panda" was released in Europe and the United States.

The crew of "Hua Guo Partners" also looked at Spielberg, curious about the current box office data of "Kung Fu Panda" in Europe and America.

Director Lu's "Kung Fu Panda" cost hundreds of millions of dollars to produce. It is impossible to recoup the cost in the box office market of mainland China and Hong Kong. The target must be global.

"Kung Fu Panda" is another pure Chinese animation film.

The Chinese are all paying attention to the box office data of "Kung Fu Panda" in Europe and America, which will be the face of Chinese-language movies.

"Kung Fu Panda" is different from "Inception" and "Transformers" directed by Director Lu. It is a movie with a story background in China, and the culture in the film is also China.

The Chinese are all waiting for "Kung Fu Panda" to create new miracles.

Lu Chen took over the document. This is the data jointly released by Mars Films (Overseas), Universal Pictures, and DreamWorks Animation, the publisher of "Kung Fu Panda".

"Kung Fu Panda" was screened in 19 countries in Europe and the Americas, with 11025 screens. Its weekend box office was 6985 million US dollars, and its weekly box office was 1.63 million US dollars.

The data is quite detailed.

This is also for future box office distribution.

There are two investors in "Kung Fu Panda", Mars Films and DreamWorks Animation, and Universal Pictures is the largest distributor of "Kung Fu Panda".

As soon as "Kung Fu Panda" was released, it became No. 1 in the box office market of European and American movies that week.

This achievement, for a Chinese animation film, can already be described as a miracle among miracles.The weekly box office in Europe and America was 1.63 million US dollars!

Shocked the world.

Let "Kung Fu Panda" also become the world's most popular animated film this year.

"Director Lu, "Kung Fu Panda" is unanimously praised in the European and American film industry." Spielberg asked his assistant to come over and took out a bunch of newspapers and magazines.

These are all reports of "Kung Fu Panda".

"Director Spielberg, can you show me?" Zhao Liying thanked the other party when she handed it over, and picked it up to look at it.

All are in English.

But for Zhao Liying now, there is no difficulty in reading.

Before deciding to star in "Hua Guo Partners", Xindongfang Education Group arranged excellent English teachers to improve the English proficiency of the main actors.

Zhao Liying's English level is now good enough that she can read foreign newspapers normally.

Zhao Liying got "Time Magazine" and immediately flipped through it.

On the cover is Dao Lu and the poster of "Kung Fu Panda".

The article reported in detail the grand occasion of the release of "Kung Fu Panda" in Europe and America.

Comparing Lu Dao to Li Xiaolong, let Europe and the United States once again understand Huaguo Kung Fu.

The box office performance of "Kung Fu Panda" is the absolute number one among pure Chinese films.

Although there are European and American actors for the dubbing, most of the English dubbing of the main characters is done by Chinese actors, who are familiar Chinese Kung Fu superstars.

Chen Long dubbed 'A Bao', Li Lianjie dubbed 'Linghe', Yang Ziqiong dubbed 'Tiny Tiger', Zhang Ziyi dubbed 'Qiao Xiaolong'.

And 'Master Raccoon' voiced by Chow Yun Fat.

Among the English dubbing actors, the content of "Hua" is particularly high.

In addition, the director is Lu Dao, although DreamWorks participated in the production, this is a purely Chinese animation film.

After all, the soul of the movie, the one who created the characters of "Kung Fu Panda" such as "Po" and "Master Turtle", is the Chinese director Lu Chen.

"Times" even stated that "Kung Fu Panda" was carefully prepared by Director Lu for movie fans around the world, a movie about China.

Let more people know about Huaguo, and understand Huaguo's national treasure 'Giant Panda'.

The release of "Kung Fu Panda" has greatly increased the popularity of pandas.

Of course, the protagonist "Po" in "Kung Fu Panda" also took advantage of the super popularity of pandas, and the two sides complement each other.

"Director Lu, the fans also praised "Kung Fu Panda"." Spielberg said, taking out a document.

All of them record the reviews of "Kung Fu Panda" from major movie websites in Europe and America.

#McGard, this is actually a Chinese animated movie!I don’t know, I thought it was an animated movie produced by Pixar and Disney#
#This is the first time that the anthropomorphic Huaguo National Treasure Giant Panda has been brought to the big screen. A fat, chubby, naive dragon hero, too funny. After watching the movie, I have to go to our national zoo, Look at the pandas on loan from Huaguo#
#阿宝吃包子 That part was so funny, I was so hungry after watching the movie, I went to a Chinese restaurant immediately after watching the movie, and had a meal of steamed buns, steamed stuffed buns are really delicious, much more delicious than hamburgers, I strongly recommend Chinese food stuffed buns #
#这是Young Director No.1, the most successful commercial director, the story, color, character creation, and picture quality in "Kung Fu Panda" are all world-class. This is an excellent animation film belonging to the world. Strong Recommended to watch in cinema#
#《Kung Fu Panda》Inside the lines, I like it so much, let me feel, what is the only four ancient civilizations that have been passed down to Ling, and I feel the wisdom of the ancient Chinese people#
#Lu Dao's "Kung Fu Panda" once again carried forward Huaguo Kung Fu. This is another Kung Fu superstar after Li Xiaolong and Chen Long. No, it should be a Kung Fu film director. This Kung Fu movie, I will definitely support#
When Lu Chen saw the last item, he was speechless. What does it mean to fight in person? He's not a martial arts star. He has acting skills, but he can't play that chic action in action movies.

As for the lines that many European and American audiences praised the movie, Director Lu expected it.

When "Kung Fu Panda" was first produced, it cost more than 300 million dollars to hire a huge top-level translation team.

Chinese-English translation, the worst kind of translation is the original translation. Whatever the literal meaning is, it will be translated into whatever it is. This kind of translation also has a nickname, machine translation.

An excellent novel, after machine translation, will become an ordinary, incomprehensible novel.

There are differences in the culture of each place, not to mention the cultural differences between countries, so it is not possible to copy the translation.

At that time, Lu Chen's request to the translation team was to let European and American audiences understand the meaning and artistic conception expressed by the lines of the movie.

Some of the lines were found from European and American ancient books, and the words with the same meaning as the ancient Chinese poems were found. Most of the lines were not directly translated, and some words were completely different, but the meaning was the same.

"Director Lu, it's 1.63 million a week!" Spielberg was very excited. Judging from the data of the week, the box office in Europe and the United States will definitely reach [-] to [-] million dollars in the end.

There is also Huaguo Market.

Including the Asian market, as well as film markets on other continents.

There should be no problem at all with $[-] million at the global box office.

Currently, the number one animated film in the world is "The Lion King" released in 94, with a global box office of US$9.64 million.

No. 2 "Finding Nemo" produced by Pixar in 03, US$9.4 million.

No.3 is "Shrek 2" produced by DreamWorks Animation, with 9.19 million US dollars.

No.4 is "Ice Age 3", which was released in March this year, with a global box office of more than 2 million US dollars.

With the current trend of "Kung Fu Panda", it will definitely surpass the achievements of "Ice Age 2". There will also be two big hit animation films this year.

Some European and American media say that this year is the year of animated films.

As for "Kung Fu Panda", it must be booked in advance, this year's global animated movie box office champion.

"Director Spielberg, don't be so excited. Compared with the previous ones, there is still a gap." Lu Chen looked at the data and was in a good mood.

The success of "Kung Fu Panda".

It shows that Chinese-language movies are still popular in the global movie market.

As long as the movie is excellent and has the elements that a global commercial movie should have, then the global box office will not be bad in the end.

"Director Lu, this is your first time making an animated film." Spielberg reminded, thinking that Director Lu will be No. 1 in history as soon as he comes up.

If this is the case, others will have no way out.

Not to mention that this is a Chinese animated film with China as the background of the story.

To achieve such good results in the European and American film markets.

This is a myth, which belongs to the myth of Chinese animation films.

Many newspapers said so.

#《Kung Fu Panda》More than 1.6 million dollars a week!With his own strength, Director Lu made the Chinese animation film beat the "Ice Age 2" produced by the Hollywood film company. This is a miracle! #
#"Kung Fu Panda" is full of Huaguo elements, including "Inception", there are also many Huaguo elements. Now more and more global movies are beginning to have Huaguo elements. This is the credit of Director Lu! #
"Director Spielberg, I'll look at these data when I have time." Lu Chen handed the file to the assistant next to him, "You just come over, let's talk about the "Shrek 3" that DreamWorks is going to produce .”

Lu Chen wanted to find some work for Mars Film and Television (animation).

Now that "Kung Fu Panda" is finished, Mars Films (animation) has nothing to do.

As for domestic animated films, although they became popular because of "Kung Fu Panda", they didn't have jobs so soon. Even if there were jobs, it was domestic film companies that took advantage of the popularity and quickly entered the theater to collect a wave of money and leave. This kind of jobs Might as well not do it.

What Lu Chen wants is not only a good job, but also a top-notch job.

After all, good knives are made by grinding. If Mars Films (animation) participates in the production of several world-class animation films, it will be able to become a world-class animation production company no matter what.

It just so happens that DreamWorks is going to produce "Shrek 3" and plans to let Mars Film and Television (Animation) also participate in the production to learn from the experience of making animated films.

Lu Chen also hopes that Mars Film and Television (animation) can independently produce a top-level animation film as soon as possible to prepare for the future animation films of Chinese myths and stories.

"Director Lu, are you going to be the director of the animated film "Shrek 3"?" Spielberg said excitedly: "Then I will change the director immediately and you will direct it."

Director Lu is now the guarantee of the global box office.

The global films "Inception" and "Transformers" directed by him both exceeded US$10 billion, ranking among the top ten in global box office history.

The third global movie "Kung Fu Panda" has once again become a hit, with even greater momentum than "Ice Age 2" released in March this year.

As a sequel, "Ice Age 2" has a fan base, but it still lost to the "Kung Fu Panda" that turned out to be.

Of course, director Lu Chen has personal fans. Although it is not a sequel movie, this is a product of Lu's export. Many fans around the world support him unconditionally.

What's more, "Kung Fu Panda" is so wonderfully shot, it is completely a top animation film in the world.

"Of course not." Lu Chen really wanted to ask Spielberg how he understood this. Whoever said he was going to be the director of the animated movie "Shrek 3" didn't have the time.

The original filming of "Kung Fu Panda" was to prepare for the establishment of Mars Film and Television (Animation). Now that the company has been established, it is on the right track. Lu Chen does not plan to make any more animated films in the next few years, but he will cultivate animation film talents.

(End of this chapter)