Chinese entertainment for engineering students

"Every night in dreams, I see you, I feel you.", accompanied by Wang Fei's heavenly voice singing the ending song, the screen flashed.

The barren land, the afterglow of the setting sun, and the giant steel city in the distance.

The lonely aircraft, the reflective sunglasses, and the dried tears looked like a sleeping Neo.

Switching frame by frame, flashback, along with the sand and dust carried by the airflow, gradually moved away, flying straight towards the legendary Xi'an.

The screen was dark, the lights were on, and there was applause.

"It's great. Even if there are only these two clips, this is a very good film. No need to look at anything else. I believe you can make a science fiction blockbuster." Robert Shaye's excitement was palpable.

No one knows better than him how difficult it is for producers during this period. Everyone knows that dinosaurs have attacked the world, and they must keep up. Whoever can keep up will make a lot of money.

Investors are waving their checks and looking for competitors from Industrial Light and Magic. How can only one Industrial Light and Magic be enough so that he can take on a few movies?

It is almost a consensus among Hollywood producers that the future of commercial films will be special effects.

God knows how excited he was when he saw the videotape sent by Jiahe. He watched the clip over and over again countless times.

Even with the most demanding analysis, that clip is enough to deserve top-level special effects. Many of the effects, as an old filmmaker, he couldn't tell how they were shot.

As the veteran of New Line Cinema, he has been working in B-level movies for countless years. Although he can indeed make money and live a prosperous life, who doesn't have the heart to make blockbusters?

He has always liked Hong Kong's kung fu movies. Since Bruce Lee's death, it has been a long time since such beautiful kung fu fights appeared in Hollywood.

This time, he also saw exciting fighting scenes. Although they were different from Bruce Lee's kung fu movies in the past, they were more novel, more intense, and more beautiful.

The action of Fang Long, which Jiahe strongly recommends, is also good-looking, but the sales of the last film were not satisfactory. He has also seen it, and feels that it must be because the director and the actor are not compatible.

I heard that Jiahe was also preparing a new movie by that guy, but before that movie came out, a science fiction kung fu movie actually appeared.

Yes, this is Robert Shaye's positioning of this film, a science fiction kung fu film.

Producers always have to find the highlights of a film to convince investors, so they are always able to find highlights in the film that can be promoted and sell well.

Hollywood is very repulsive to the cultures of other countries, no matter how loudly it shouts, and this is especially true for Asians.

In my childhood, many directors made very deep and well-shot films, but they just couldn't do well in ugly countries.

But Bruce Lee is an exception. He is one of the few Asian movie stars who can make a difference in Hollywood, and even formed a unique movie genre, kung fu movies.

Therefore, if you want to sell such a science fiction film in Ugly Country, you must not lack the selling point of Kung Fu in the promotion. This is the only way for Ugly Country people to be willing to go to the cinema even though they know that it is all performed by Asians. choose.

Even Robert Shaye has plans to make Wang Xu another kung fu superstar after Bruce Lee.

Even the female lead had a face that was cold but could not hide her beauty, her movements were sharp yet chic, her figure was slender yet sexy and charming, her waist was soft but yet she had strong movements.

Contradictory women are the most charming. Kung Fu actresses have never appeared, and action actresses are even rare.

Linda Hamilton in "Terminator" can be counted as one, but her performance in the film is too muscular and she can hardly give people a sense of female temptation.

In addition to her high reputation among a few female groups, she is a complete tomboy in the eyes of other viewers. Of course, it's not that there are no good ones, but after all, it can't become mainstream.

And Wang Fei in "The Matrix" is simply synonymous with sassy and lustful. She is obviously wrapped in leather clothes, with only her shoulders and arms exposed at most. She also has a face as cold as ice, is decisive in killing, and is ruthless and vicious in her attacks.

But it just gives people a feeling of infinite temptation, especially her big black and white, exceptionally smart eyes, her occasional glances, occasional gazes, and occasional expressions, which make people unable to extricate themselves.

What's more, Robert Shaye had already done an investigation, and the materials provided by Jiahe clearly named the male and female protagonists as singers with platinum record sales in the ugly country.

Wang Fei is a singer who was nominated for a Grammy and almost won the award. She cannot be considered a complete newcomer.

Robert Shaye has even heard their songs, and they are actually quite popular stars on MTV.

This kind of combination, although the entire film team is mainly Asian, is no longer unfamiliar to Chinese audiences.

Even due to the popularity of "Bodyguard", the singer's acting in the movie seems to be a selling point, and he can cooperate with the record company and promote it with great fanfare.

Therefore, Robert Shaye quickly made the decision to go to the Imperial Capital for on-site inspection. As long as he could prove that the clip was made by these Chinese people, he would almost certainly be actively involved.

And when he watched the refined first paragraph and the new second paragraph this time, he knew that he could make a decision.

New Line's system is the producer responsibility system, which is also the system of the entire Hollywood.

Because this film was a collaboration, it had been discussed within the company before. Robert Shaye was the founder and CEO of New Line. If he liked it, it was basically a done deal.

In such a special era when dinosaurs are raging, special effects are equal to blockbusters and sales. That is the truth. Everyone knows that this is a big wave of popularity. If you catch up, you will make a fortune. If you fail to catch up, you will wait for it to cool down.

Not to mention that Chou Country doesn't follow the trend, they have no bottom line if they follow the trend.

The budget of this film was only US$15 million, leaving only US$5 million for New Line, and Golden Harvest also wanted to enter Hollywood.

Therefore, New Line is destined to be unable to gain much say, but it is New Line that has the final say on how to deal with the three-thirds of land in Ugly Country.

Even if he considers further cooperation with Jiahe, he will probably transfer part of the benefits to Jiahe, but based on the clips shown in this film, Robert Shaye has already upgraded the treatment of this film to at least one level in his heart.

At the same time, it is a great pleasure for Robert Shaye to receive help from someone far away across the Pacific in advance.

Not to mention anything else, the quality of the special effects and the total investment were only US$15 million, which was nowhere near the price quoted by Industrial Light and Magic.

You know, the clips that have been shot now are more than five minutes long, and they are all special effects. The price of this part alone, Industrial Light and Magic's quotation is more than 15 million US dollars.

I heard that this film was made out of the hero's own interests. The hero himself was also a man who was not short of money. Robert Shaye really became more and more interested in this man.

If special effects can be made so cheaply here, then he may not just have discovered a great movie, he may have discovered a gold mine.

Therefore, when Wang Xu suggested that he visit his special effects studio, he enthusiastically agreed almost immediately.

None of the directors followed. They planned to watch the new clip in the video room. Although they had been here many times, this was the first time they saw the final product.

"Mr. Wang, can you sign your name for me before visiting? I mean you two. My wife is your fan. She knew I wanted to see you before she came, and she was so excited.

It is said that there is no version signed by the two of you in the entire Ugly Kingdom, at most there is one. "Robert Shaye politely took out an opened record and asked excitedly.

Well, if he hadn't known that this middle-aged man was one of the bosses of New Line, Wang Xu might have really believed it.

However, his gesture of not hitting the smiling person originally represented his attitude and showed that he was looking forward to further cooperation. This was an olive branch, and Wang Xu naturally accepted it.

"Thanks for her love, Mr. Shaye, what's her name? Eva?" Wang Xu remembered that he seemed to have a wife named Eva and two daughters. When it comes to signing, you have to ask who you want to sign so you can write the beginning.

"Call me Bob. Write to Mr. and Mrs. Shaye. I want your signature too. Do you know her?" Robert Shaye was a little surprised. He is a very private person and rarely publishes it to the outside world. Regarding information about relatives and friends, he pretended to ask casually, but his expression was a little ugly.

In a place like Hollywood, even if New Line is just an independent production company, countless actors are willing to pay various costs to get close to it.

It is normal for the other party to know your identity. After all, he has already said that he wants to cooperate. If he really knows nothing, he may have to consider whether he really wants to cooperate.

But few people in Hollywood know his wife's name, and even people from Jiahe probably don't know it. He has never planned to bring his family to Hollywood.

But the man in front of him knew that this was interesting. He had other connections in Chou Country, which he had never known about.

Of course, Wang Xu didn't expect that the things he casually recalled in his past life would lead to such a reminiscent situation. After all, this thing would be written on his resume in the future.

In his previous life, he had clicked on "Lord of the Rings" when he was watching it. At that time, he was just browsing casually. But this time, knowing that he was coming, Wang Xu of course went to the memory bank to check if there was any information about him. It was just a casual memory. But it's still clear.

She also has a younger sister, which many people know because her younger sister is an actress and can appear in Hollywood with him.

But similarly, her sister's family is also very secretive, and most people don't know about it.

In later generations, in the Internet age, especially the mobile phone age, many of those rating websites were edited anonymously by passers-by, and revealing names and the like was no longer considered private.

However, it is a bit unusual in this era. No matter whether New Line is a small independent production company, it is also a small Hollywood company.

The box office of one of his films can exceed the total number of films produced by any Hong Kong film company in a year.

Of course, he wasn't too afraid of the other party investigating his situation. He didn't say that he was the boss, he just said that the producer would come to investigate.

Regardless of who comes to inspect, the company here naturally needs to investigate the background of the person in order to find the right fit. This is a universal rule all over the world.

He was just surprised that Wang Xu found out something that even Jiahe didn't know about. How did he know it? What else did he know?

Cooperation is all business matters and generally does not involve family members. This place is thousands of miles away from Hollywood. As long as we are talking about business, there should be nothing to worry about and it will not have any bad influence on the family.

Thinking of this, Robert Shaye's expression also softened.

"I think I heard about it somewhere, but I didn't expect it to be true. Don't worry." Wang Xu also felt that he was talking too fast. Why did he ask someone's wife's name when there was nothing wrong?

The key point is that he broke it out in one breath. Judging from Robert Shaye's expression, he should be very concerned about privacy, so he quickly comforted him.

"It doesn't matter. Places like Hollywood are still a bit chaotic. I almost never take my family there." Robert Shaye said with some emotion on his face.

"That's true. Although I've never been there, I've heard about it for a long time, but I didn't expect that a big boss like you would have to hide his family." Wang Xu sighed and handed Wang Fei the CD he had just signed.

"We are not a big boss. We are a small company. It is not dangerous, but it is mainly troublesome." Robert Shaye seemed to be really sighing. Come on, these old fritters are all top-notch people.

"Yes, I understand. Mr. Shaye, let me introduce you formally. My name is Wang Xu. I am the founder of Wang Chao Entertainment. This is my fiancée Wang Fei. Please take good care of me in Chou Country in the future." Wang Xu signed the two people's names. The CD of his name was handed to Robert Shaye, and then he introduced himself very formally.

"Just call me Bob, you will definitely do it. I only knew that the special effects studio belongs to you, but I didn't expect that the film company also belongs to you." Robert Shaye opened his mouth in surprise.

"Call me X, or call me Xu, you may not be able to pronounce this sound. The company is a start-up and has no works." Wang Xu continued to laugh. He didn't believe that Jiahe Club didn't tell them the specific situation.

"This work is enough. I believe that a great work will be born in your hands." Robert Shaye said very complimentarily. He said this before the negotiation, which was a bit price-deprecating. It seems that this person is really cute. .

"Thank you, let me take you to visit my special effects studio." Wang Xu stopped this kind of insignificant probing and greetings. He has already understood what he should know. What he said here is at best to express his attitude. .

This is also the reason why he doesn't like various social situations.

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(See you another day. This chapter was originally from yesterday. Maybe I clicked the wrong button yesterday. I will post it today. If I have time in the evening, I will still write it. If not, forget it and continue Schrödinger.)