director of the millennium

Chapter 10 Movie!

The courtyard house of Wu Yuan's family, the main house.

On the messy table was a bottle of ice-cold Arctic soda.

Next to the Arctic Ocean soda, there is a "Viewpoint" magazine from Huaxia News Agency.

On the cover of the magazine, there was a thin man with a few clusters of yellow hair dyed.

"Top Ten Film and Television Figures - Deng Jianguo, a film and television tycoon!"

Under the cover picture, there is also a line of blood-red characters printed "Kill the goat and defend the capital!"

Don't get me wrong, there is not the slightest relationship between the two.

This "kill the goats and defend the capital!" is a statement put forward by a well-known media this year, saying that the problem of sandstorms in the capital is all due to the fact that too many goats have been raised, eating up all the vegetation, which is why such a large sandstorm occurs.

Don't laugh, this slogan is very popular this year, and once made the herdsmen in the northwest go crazy.

As for the cover character Deng Jianguo, this is a fierce man. In 97, he cast "Anti-Corruption Storm" and "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview 1.1 and [-]", earning [-] million by relying on advertisements.

After that, he will also cast TV series such as "The Merry Talent Ji Xiaolan", "The Raptors Crossing the River", "Gege Wants to Marry", "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview [-]", and made a lot of money.

With his courage to boldly invest in TV series, he was named the top ten influential figures in the film and television industry this year!

These days, it is true that TV dramas make more money than movies, and they are more in the limelight.

It's just that all of this has nothing to do with Wu Yuan.

At this time, he was sitting at the corner of the table, resting his forehead in one hand, and writing and drawing on the notebook with the other hand, his brows were furrowed from time to time, very distressed.

Since the summer vacation of school, Wu Yuan has locked himself at home, never leaving the door, and only thinking about his first movie.

The notebook in front of him was densely filled with script outlines.

This is a movie with a very complicated script. Wu Yuan wrote 11 pages for the script outline alone, and the specific details and characters have only just begun.

No way, who called this movie "The Night the Comet Came".

"The Night the Comet Came" was considered a famous movie in Wu Yuan's dream.

It's not because of how high the box office is, or how classic the movie is.

It's because the production cost of this movie was as low as only $5!
The reason why Wu Yuan chose this movie as his first work is because this movie does not burn money but only burns brains!

Only eight actors are needed, plus a small western-style building as the shooting location, and the filming can be completed in a week!

This kind of "suspenseful science fiction film" can be shot in a small space without frequent scene transitions and can be shot anywhere. The script is also very in-depth. It seems to have a small structure, but it is very hard-hitting "suspenseful science fiction film". It is very suitable for a debut work. up.

On a seemingly ordinary night, a comet will pass by the earth. Eight young men and women who are gathering accidentally open the infinite box of quantum paradox.

Countless parallel time and space intersected together this night, and a series of weird events unfolded from it.

It does not need to rely on big scenes and special effects, but only relies on the story itself, and uses a lot of foreshadowing dialogues and details to create a suspenseful and brain-burning fantasy story for the audience.

This movie was well received after its release and was hailed as one of the best suspense science fiction films of the year. It often appears in the review videos of low-cost suspense science fiction movies.

In fact, before "The Night the Comet Came", there was another ultra-low-budget sci-fi movie that was also limited to one scene and focused on conversation, which was quite famous.

"The Man From Earth"

But this movie is not in Wu Yuan's consideration at all.

No one really believed the film's $3.5 million global gross, did they?
No way?No way?No way?
In fact, this movie didn't even go to theaters. It was released on DVD, and the market response was just like that.

As a result, for some reason, on the Chinese Internet, this movie was inexplicably said to be a masterpiece, and it was even labeled as having a global box office of US$3.5 million.

To be honest, this movie uses the protagonist's mouth to output discussions about philosophy, science, theology, and the history of Western social development.

If Wu Yuan really makes this movie, no matter whether he makes a localized adaptation or not, it won't be a hit.

Unlike "The Night the Comet Came", this movie tells a fantasy story of "parallel time and space accidentally intertwined", which is very suspenseful and interesting!
People from any country and any cultural background can understand this movie as long as they watch it carefully. There is no need to accept the conflict between cultures and values.

The only pity is that this movie is a pure newcomer's work, more like an experimental work.

The hand-held camera was shaken and casual throughout the filming, and the composition of the picture was not rigorous. The effect was more like a long volg, which reduced the commercial atmosphere of this film to zero.

Moreover, the first 10 minutes of the movie are too loose and boring. Although there is a lot of foreshadowing in the chat in the first 10 minutes, it is really difficult for the audience to get through these 10 minutes. When the comet passes by later, parallel time and space begin to intersect.

If he wanted to have more commercial value, then Wu Yuan had to slim down the film and adjust the shooting techniques.

This is a high-end game!

Fortunately, Wu Yuan felt that he could do it.

Dream has been working in the industry for 20 years. I have watched countless Wu Yuan in various domestic and international movies, and I think I can still manage such a single scene composition and storyboard.

Moreover, the shooting techniques of film cameras and digital DV are really very different. Directors from an academic background will really have a sense of high-end when playing with the camera.

As for the localization changes and the loose plot in the first 10 minutes of the script, it is not very troublesome to change it.

Because the original film was a film without a script, the director just told the actors the identity of the actors, their relationship and some basic settings, and then let the actors play their own roles.

Therefore, in terms of lines, except for some key lines that must be spoken, many other lines are improvised by the actors, which results in many lines that are too lengthy.

What Wu Yuan has to do is to streamline his lines, and refine and simplify a large number of lines that are too long in sentence structure.

Without changing the core plot, make the actors' lines more concise and clear, directly pointing to the story, and then add more suspense and conflict points to reduce the boringness of the movie and increase the tension and excitement.

After such modifications, it is not certain that the film will become a dark horse at the box office, but Wu Yuan believes that the finished film should be able to sell for a generous sum of copyright fees and adaptation fees.

Yes, Wu Yuan never thought that this movie would make a lot of money at the domestic box office.

He made this movie to go to the world's three major fantasy film festivals!
What are you kidding?

There is a market for mainland movies in 2000?

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" only had a box office of 1500 million!

Why do the fifth and sixth generation directors in China like to take their films to various film festivals in Europe every year?
Is it really all about realizing your own artistic ambitions?

fart!
That's because the opening of major European film festivals is also a grand film fair, where film buyers from all over the world gather together!
Everyone is rushing to sell movies!

Foreigners buy movies in US dollars!
If a film company sells for tens of thousands of dollars, it will recover its cost if it sells three or five others. If it sells more than a dozen, it will be a blood profit!
And the money doesn't have to be shared with the theaters, the producer is purely profitable!

As for the domestic box office, it will be the icing on the cake!
It is absolutely impossible to make a movie these days without selling the copyright and relying solely on the mainland market!

Of course, Wu Yuan has no intention of giving up on the mainland box office market.

After spending ten days revising the script of "The Night the Comet Came", Wu Yuan finally went out, returned to school with the script, and found the director of the director department.

Now if a movie wants to pass the review and be released in China, it has to be named as a state-owned studio.

At this time, being a student of Wu Yuan Film Academy will be of great use!
　A small guess.

　　During the 94-year cold winter of 04-[-], why did the sixth-generation directors always like to make underground films that the General Administration did not approve?
　　Isn't it because they don't care about the domestic box office results? It doesn't matter whether it is released in the country or not.

　　As long as the movie can be sold in Europe, it doesn’t matter if the content is bad, as long as Europeans like it!
　　After another ten years, when the domestic box office market picks up, will these sixth-generation directors still be able to make films that can’t be censored?
　　Then they all honestly tried to find a way to make a movie that could pass the review!
　　Because at that time, the few dollars earned from selling films in Europe could not even match the fraction of the mainland film market!
　　Everyone has to grab the cake in the domestic market.

　　Ahem, this is just a one-sided view, Bo Jun just smiled, the truth is definitely not that simple.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)