Chatty Hollywood

"I'm not trying to praise Charlotte Booth. He has all kinds of shortcomings as a director."

Roger Ebert once wrote:

"Whether it's Spielberg, Francis Coppola, or the recently deceased Stanley Kubrick, these film masters all surpass Charlotte Booth in many ways, but, conversely, Charlotte also has an ability that I think is the strongest of any director I’ve ever seen—"

"That's his narrative power!"

"——To put it simply, the director usually needs ten minutes to tell the story, but he often only needs five minutes or even three minutes to tell it clearly."

"This is very obvious in Sherlock Holmes."

"You know, as a detective-type film, this film with a lot of reasoning elements should have been a headache for many viewers, but with the use of Charlotte Booth's lens, even with my reaction speed Older people who are slower can also understand it very easily.”

"This makes some niche movies with complicated storylines popular."

“It can be said that this powerful narrative ability is a very important ability for commercial film directors——”

“Having this ability means that they can use less camera time to tell more complex, interesting, and self-consistent movie stories, and create more fleshed-out characters, while still leaving enough time for those hot-button characters. Scenes and special effects shots.”

“It’s because of this narrative power that Charlotte Booth’s films always succeed.”

"Because among all the movies with good stories, his movies have the best special effects and scenes; and among all the blockbusters with big scenes and massive special effects, his movies have the best storytelling."

"Therefore, leaving aside the field of art films, in the field of commercial films, if you want to make a film like Charlotte Booth, you must have narrative capabilities that rival him."

"If you can't do this, then I advise directors and producers not to easily follow the themes of movies directed by Charlotte Booth——"

"Without sufficient narrative capabilities, you can only get an imbalance between storytelling and special effects scenes."

"——What Charlotte Booth can do, you may not be able to do!"

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Roger Ebert's film review didn't have much to say about "Sherlock Holmes". Instead, it was quite complimentary about Charlotte's abilities.

However, not many people in Hollywood scoffed at this.

Because, many people have indeed realized or thought they realized the secret of Charlotte’s success through the suggestions in this film review——

Powerful narrative ability!

This made many Hollywood insiders who were confused by Charlotte's continuous success suddenly realize.

Roger Ebert's film review seems to have opened a window for them.

Many senior directors also agree with this view.

Some young directors even have ideas on how to improve their narrative abilities.

Film company executives or producers like Robert Egger have further confirmed Charlotte's abilities and have even more confidence in her future.

So, for a while Charlotte became very popular in Hollywood.

A large number of scripts and film appointments were flying to his office, which troubled Alexis, who once again served as his secretary.

As for Charlotte, he has already taken Charlize to New Zealand to visit the crew of "The Lord of the Rings"...

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The project "Lord of the Rings" was taken by Charlotte during the filming of "Sherlock Holmes".

Although there was some unpleasantness with New Line, the project was still won, and the related copyright issues were resolved some time ago through Mr. Westwood's efforts.

Therefore, the first part of "The Lord of the Rings", "The Return of the Ring\

,"Filming started in New Zealand.

——New Zealand is a filming location highly recommended by Peter Jackson. However, considering that the "Lord of the Rings" series was also filmed here in the original time and space, Charlotte, as a producer, had no objection.

However, Charlotte rejected Peter Jackson's suggestion to outsource the special effects production of the "Lord of the Rings" series to Weta Studios, which he co-founded with his friends.

——Spectre Studio itself is good at post-production special effects, so how could it outsource special effects to other companies?

Don’t let the rich water go to outsiders!

In particular, strictly speaking, Peter Jackson's behavior can be regarded as sucking blood from Charlotte's investment, and he naturally cannot allow it.

However, Charlotte did not reject the opponent harshly. On the contrary, he used a quite unique solution——

He directly acquired Weta Studios, owned by Peter Jackson.

——This is not purely to stop Peter Jackson’s mouth, but more importantly, the Spectre studio itself also needs to expand.

With Spectre Studio producing more and more film and television projects at the same time, and Charlotte also opening a game branch, the original manpower is already stretched thin.

In this case, in addition to slowly recruiting people yourself, it is a faster way to directly acquire other studios.

In particular, if Weta Studios is acquired, it can directly use it as a branch and take advantage of its proximity to the filming location of "Lord of the Rings" to immediately support the production of the movie.

This is much more efficient than remote technical support in Los Angeles, where Spectre Studios is based.

Moreover, unlike Weta Studio, which became famous after the success of the "Lord of the Rings" series in Charlotte's original time and space, Weta Studio at this time was not well-known and the acquisition cost was very cheap.

——In general, this can be regarded as a very cost-effective acquisition.

Of course, the completion of the acquisition does not mean that the integration is complete.

If you really want to integrate Weta Workshop and Spectre Studios, some work still needs to be done.

Regardless of the transfer of personnel between each other - simply adding sand, the unification of work processes, or the integration of administrative management, it is essential.

But even so, this integration process still takes a certain amount of time.

In fact, shareholders like Peter Jackson or studio executives are not a problem.

After all, part of Charlotte's acquisition was achieved through an exchange of shareholdings - simply put, although Peter Jackson lost Weta Studios, he received a small amount of shares in Spectre Studios.

From this perspective, he is already one of Specter's own.

On the contrary, they are ordinary employees of Weta Studio. How to turn them into people of Spectre Studio is a problem.

After all, this involves spiritual aspects such as corporate culture and cannot be achieved overnight.

At least, Charlotte can see the difference between the two on Redmine, the task progress sharing management tool within Spectre Studio.

Charlotte's trip to New Zealand also took the opportunity to further integrate the acquired Weta Studio.

In particular, he also prepared some special means...

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