Made in Hollywood

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Today's Hollywood movies have opened the market in most countries, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are ravaging the world. The first question these students raised is not beyond Duke's expectation. It is related to this.

"Hello Director Rosenberg."

The question is from a girl wearing glasses in the third row, "My name is Zhuang Qiwen, a student of the Academy of Social Sciences, I would like to ask, why can Hollywood movies succeed in the world?"

After receiving the microphone sent by the staff, Duke did not immediately answer. Instead, he said in Chinese, "What do you think?"

A boy in the first row said, "Continuous innovation! Constantly turning imaginative ideas into movies!"

The girl next to him said, "There are many people in Hollywood who insist on working hard!"

"It is undeniable that what you are talking about is one of the reasons for Hollywood's success, but it is not the key."

After a short pause, Duke quickly organized the language, and in the eyes of countless curiosities, he said, "In my experience of working for many years, the industrialized and programmatic shooting and production mode and the entire industry from production to screening to the surrounding The marketing operation of the chain is the key to the success of Hollywood movies. In other words, the success of Hollywood movies is inseparable from its assembly line production model."

This answer was obviously unexpected. The few students in the front row were taken aback for a while, and suddenly one said, "Are you one of them?"

"What you said is correct." Duke laughed. "The professional critics in North America don't like me. They criticize me and my films. They are all assembly lines."

"Hollywood movies have never been developed as an artistic creation," Duke said without shy, "but as an entertainment industry."

"Hollywood presents a series of elements that the public likes to see, such as the traumatic experience of soothing people with the rewards of good and evil and the joy of everyone, and the stories of the'Cinderella' and the'Gray Boy' whose lovers eventually become married Provide collective dreams, stimulate people's audiovisual habits with spectacle scenes and strong sound. Formed the unique dream mechanism, melodrama structure, spectacle style, sensational rhetoric and popular narrative traditions of Hollywood movies, which constitute the assembly line a part of."

"And decades have passed, and society is changing. One generation is getting older and another is growing up, but Hollywood has always adhered to the mass film assembly line model."

A man raised his hand, and Duke nodded to him. He picked up the microphone in his hand and said, "But Hollywood also has art films."

Duke said as simply as possible. "Hollywood can use artistic movies to package popular movies and use popular movies to promote movie popularity. This allows Hollywood movies to maintain a certain degree of artistry while maintaining the mainstream, so as to adapt to the consumer's mentality of the audience!"

Hollywood is recognized as the world's film factory, it is indeed a veritable factory!

"The male student with glasses in the second row."

The host chose the second official questioner. He stood up and asked, "Director Rosenberg, Chinese films are still very backward. How can we rush to the world as soon as possible? We have a saying here. National. It’s the world, is this the only way to succeed?"

"Do you know Mr. Lee An?"

When the voice of response sounded in the auditorium, Duke said, "I believe that as a Chinese, Mr. Li knows Chinese movies better than I do. When he visited Warner Studios two years ago, he had an interview and many of them. A reporter from China has asked this question before, and I believe his views are more convincing than mine."

Then Duke began to repeat what Li Ang said at the time. "Mr. Ang Lee has visited all major Hollywood companies, including Warner, and he always asks a question wherever he goes, which is why American films can be used in any corner of the world."

"I remember very clearly that he said this in an interview with a Chinese reporter-the answers I got were almost the same. They said that they actually didn't think about the issue of having American characteristics when filming. In other words, Hollywood does not Recognizes the view that “the nation is the world”. Many people have been emphasizing that films should have national characteristics. This is a conceptual difference, but it is a phenomenon worthy of our study. It is not that we don’t want national characteristics, but It is not for national characteristics and national characteristics. Movies made in that way are like experimental films. No matter how much attention they are, they can only be niche movies."

"Maybe some words are not too accurate." Duke added, "but the meaning is not wrong."

In that interview, Duke was present because Ang Lee was choosing the right studio for The Hulk.

Although he knew that Ang Lee was not suitable for this film, Duke could not stop it. Long before he invested in Marvel, the copyright of the Hulk movie was sold to Universal Pictures. Now superhero movies are getting hotter and hotter, Marvel intends to take it back Copyright, how can Universal Pictures easily give up.

In the end, this film did not escape the fate of being on the street. According to the supplementary terms of the adaptation agreement between the two parties, if the film's response is too bad, Marvel has the right to take back the copyright with a relatively small price. The two parties are currently negotiating, and Hulk will return. The difficulty is not too great.

In fact, this is a very simple question. As far as movies are concerned, nationality is not of the world for many times.

Cultural differences are definitely not that simple.

Anyone with a little head can understand that China is rising rapidly, but at present it is still a world dominated by Western culture.

Duke borrowed Lee's words, but wanted to express it in a more tactful way.

Zuo Qiang and Jiang Qingfeng raised their hands several times before they were not selected. They couldn't help but wink at the host. The host is their acquaintance. The two parties had communicated beforehand. So when the next question was asked, Jiang Qingfeng was named.

"Director Rosenberg, my name is Jiang Qingfeng, I come from the liberal arts college, and I am an avid movie lover."

Looking at this short-haired boy, Duke nodded, "Hello, classmate Jiang."

Jiang Qingfeng asked the question he wanted to ask, "I am interested in writing screenwriters, but as far as I know, the status of screenwriters in the Chinese film industry is not high. Will screenwriters and scripts be valued in Hollywood?"

"Of course, everyone who can contribute to the success of a movie will be valued."

Hearing this, Jiang Qingfeng quickly added, "What about new screenwriters? I have read a lot of rumors and articles. After a screenwriter writes an excellent script, it can often arouse competition from big Hollywood companies. Is this true? "

"It is indeed possible, but the premise is..." Duke raised a finger, "This screenwriter is the gold medal screenwriter in the industry! The newcomer screenwriter..."

Duke shook his head, "In other words, I am a shareholder and executive director of Warner. I understand some of the situation in this regard. There are about 5,000 to 6,000 scripts delivered to Warner every year, and Warner’s adoption rate is less than zero per thousand. Point five, the new screenwriter’s work may be activated less than one in ten thousand..."

"Hollywood has never lacked scripts. In Warner Bros' script library, there are at least 30,000 scripts waiting to be moldy. There may be many new ideas and pioneering ideas. The probability of their adoption is very low. Let's just say It’s basically a dream to impress film companies with scripts."

"You may not be clear about one thing. When looking for funding for many projects in Hollywood, they are just an idea and plan, and there is no script at all. After those famous producers have found interested investors and partners, they went to the famous Screenwriters write appropriate scripts, and every Hollywood project undergoes a very strict review. Even the CEO of a film company does not have the power to decide on the project alone."

"So, don't expect to impress Hollywood with a script, let alone think that Hollywood will treat someone as a genius because of a script."

Zuo Qiang grabbed the microphone from Jiang Qingfeng and asked, "If your company met a very creative script by a newcomer, would you use it?"

"Ninety-nine percent of the time, no!" Duke said calmly, "My company only shoots commercial films. For Hollywood-style commercial films, innovation is equivalent to a huge risk. It may not be possible to recover tens of millions of dollars in investment."

This can be said to be a reality in Hollywood. Production companies would rather use the mediocre ideas of well-known screenwriters and producers than the creative scripts of newcomers.

The famous list of creative scripts—the blacklist of scripts. Many scripts have been hanging on it for many years, and no company is willing to take over. The very few scripts that have been made into movies have very general commercial performance.

This is China, and Duke is also a world-famous film director, and the topic of Chinese movies cannot be avoided.

So, the next male student asked, "Who is your favorite Chinese film and film director?"

"My favorite movie is "Farewell My Concubine", which starred in Yu Ji's actor, and I am still amazed." Duke thought for a moment. "My favorite director is Zhang Yimou. He shot "Hero". The colors used are impressive."

Another person stood up and asked, "Director Rosenberg, will you make a purely Chinese-style film in the future?"

"probably not."

Speaking of this, Duke's tone changed, "Now more and more Hollywood movies are beginning to try to integrate cultural and national elements from all over the world into their creative styles, diversifying and integrating other excellent cultural elements. They have always been Hollywood movies. I like the development trend of Chinese culture very much, and I am also absorbing elements of Chinese culture and applying them to movies, such as the kung fu in The Matrix. I will continue to try this in the future."

The on-site interaction lasted about twenty minutes. With the end of this event, Duke's trip to China also came to an end, ready to return to North America and begin preparations for "Batman". (To be continued...)