director of the millennium

Chapter 92 "Your Name"

After informing the students of the 02-level undergraduate performance class to go to the small auditorium for an interview tomorrow, Wu Yuan took his computer and returned to the renovated courtyard.

After re-laying the floor and refurbishing the interior, and adding a series of modern electrical appliances, Wu Yuan's old courtyard house once again looked new.

But to be honest, no matter how well decorated a courtyard house is, it is still not as comfortable as a modern villa or a large flat.

Maybe those palace-level courtyard houses can be both stylish and comfortable, but Wu Yuan, an ordinary courtyard house in the west city, lives like that.

Anyway, Wu Yuan was already thinking about it. After "The Hangover" was released, he got a share of the box office and had to spend a sum of money to buy a new property in the capital.

Taking advantage of the fact that there are no purchase restrictions in Beijing, I would like to buy three or five of his properties first, which will not only provide a comfortable place to live in, but also be a stable value-added investment, so I won't lose money no matter what.

There are also driving license tests and car purchases, which are also on the agenda.

It was fine before, but now Wu Yuan doesn't have a scooter, so his daily life is really inconvenient.

After taking a taxi back to the courtyard, Wu Yuan took a brief walk around. After making sure that there was nothing wrong with the renovation of the courtyard, he returned to the main house and continued to work.

The book of "Romeo and Juliet" has to be studied repeatedly, and the script of the new movie has to be adapted.

The idea of ​​the next new movie was decided almost at the same time as "Romeo and Juliet".

After Wu Yuan decided to schedule this play, he thought about what would be suitable for his next movie.

An RB was released in 2016, with a domestic box office of 251.7 billion yen, a mainland box office of 5.7 million yuan, and a global box office total of 3.581 million US dollars. It is a well-received and well-received animation film——

"your name"!
This is an anime movie, but this movie is different from Hayao Miyazaki's anime movies. It is not fantasy at all, and there are no pictures or plots that can only be achieved through animation.

This movie can easily be changed into a live-action movie, and there is no sense of disobedience.

The movie tells the romantic love story of a pair of teenagers and girls who exchanged bodies in their dreams. After spending a period of time in their respective lives, the teenagers crossed time and space, crossed time, and rescued the girl who died of a meteorite fall.

The male and female protagonists meet each other across time and space, and with the belief "No matter where you are in the world, I will definitely go to see you" to find each other and save each other!

To sum it up in one sentence, this movie is small and fresh, beautiful and romantic, so good to cry!
In fact, Wu Yuan has not never thought about it. There are many youth love movies with the same theme. Choosing an anime movie to adapt it is definitely not the best choice.

Movies like "A Little Thing About First Love", "20 Again", "Girls We Chased In Those Years" and "My Girlhood" can achieve the effect of this movie.

Then why did he choose this anime movie?

Of course it's because this movie is "blockbuster" enough!

Don't look at this as a romantic movie, but there are big scenes in this movie!

A once-in-a-thousand-year comet, a meteorite falling and destroying a village, these scenes are all big scenes that require special effects!
Asking Wu Yuan to make a real blockbuster with special effects, he definitely wouldn't dare.

In 2003, if you shoot a special effects blockbuster in the Mainland, you will only lose your life!

And he didn't have that much money, and a blockbuster special effects movie wouldn't be worth $[-] million.

But Wu Yuan wanted to bring some novel viewing experience to the audience in the mainland, and attract more ordinary people back to the cinema to watch this movie!
Then making a movie with some special effects and big scenes is a very suitable choice.

The main plot of "The Name of You" still revolves around the hero and heroine who swap bodies, but at the climax of the movie, there is a scene where a meteorite hits the ground and destroys a village.

If this movie is changed to a live-action version, there will be about 1-2 minutes of special effects shots.

The current production cost of special effects is not as exaggerated as tens of millions per second in later generations.

Wu Yuan did some calculations, and even if he hired the top special effects company in Hollywood to produce it, the cost of a one-minute special effects shot would only cost three to four million US dollars.

In "Pirates of the Caribbean 1", the scenes where the pirates turned into skeletons and Jack and the others fought together only took a few minutes.

So don't underestimate the 1-minute special effects shots, which are scattered in the movie, for more than ten seconds at a time, it can already support four or five big scenes!

For domestic audiences who haven't had much exposure to Hollywood special effects blockbusters, the impact of such special effects is already attractive enough.

Don't pursue one-step completion, just let the audience watch "Transformers"-level special effects blockbusters, just try some special effects first!
As a director who has returned from Hollywood and has made Hollywood commercial blockbusters, it is only in line with his style to make a movie with special effects and big scenes!
Wu Yuan has already thought about it. When the time comes, he will cut a 2-minute trailer and include most of the special effects shots. Putting it online will definitely attract audiences!

At that time, they will be attracted to the movie theater, even if after watching the movie, they find that the whole movie is just the special effects scene in the trailer, they won't care.

For a bad movie, this is trailer fraud.

But for a movie like "Your Name", the audience is only moved by the romantic love story in the movie after watching the movie, so what else would they think about?
Even if he figured out the taste afterwards, he would only lament that Wu Yuan played a trick, and he would not really have any bad feelings towards him.

As long as the movie is good enough, the audience will actually be very tolerant.

"Your Name" itself is a romantic and touching love story, coupled with Hollywood-level special effects scenes, it can definitely kill people in this era!
Moreover, it doesn't cost much to make such a movie. It only costs 3-4 million yuan, and it should be able to be made.

That's it, Da Tou also spent all of that one minute on special effects production.

Therefore, when Wu Yuan confirmed that he would film "Your Name" next, the students in the 02-level acting class naturally became the actor reserves that he focused on.

Wu Yuan has always believed that actors should play the right role at the right age!

Except for the heroine's grandmother, the main characters in "Your Name" are all high school students!
Luo Jin and Liu Yifei, freshmen acting students, are undoubtedly the most suitable to star in this movie.

Even Zhu Yawen, who was later hailed as a hormonal tough guy, is still a very green little boy!

Played by age-appropriate actors, this is what teenagers should be like in movies.

He planned to use the opportunity of rehearsing "Romeo and Juliet" to have in-depth contact with this group of 02 freshmen and select a few suitable actors.

Then, during the summer vacation, use these actors to shoot "Your Name"!
As long as the Hollywood special effects are produced simultaneously, it should be released before the end of that year.

But before filming, Wu Yuan had to make some adaptations to the original "Your Name" script.

There are many Japanese-style plots in the original movie, such as the family shrine of the heroine’s family, the production of chewing wine and other plots, all of which need to be redesigned.

Wu Yuan has a lot of things on his hands, and he won't be able to take any time off when he returns home.

　I would like to recommend a novel "Rebirth 1981 Begins from Killing a Pig". If you like period texts, you can read it here. It has a very old-fashioned flavor.

　　


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