Made in Hollywood

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"Get out of California and blow up America!"

From the second day onwards, the media under Warner and Fox launched a massive pre-publicity round of "Independence Day". Among them, the advertising slogan shouted by Fox TV station quickly became one of the popular words in North America. .

"The creative and destructive young director Duke Rosenberg finally decided to get out of California after 'Speed ​​of Life' destroyed Santa Monica and 'Brave Island' blew up San Francisco and Alcatraz , locked the United States in the new movie "Independence Day", and perhaps the entire North American continent will sink in his endless explosion..."

Sitting on the campus bench, Irene put down the newspaper in her hand and asked Anna next to her, "Where is this lunatic going to bomb? The White House? The Statue of Liberty? Or the Empire State Building?"

"Hey, why didn't the newspaper mention the movie's release time?" Irene put away the newspaper in dissatisfaction.

"Can you be smarter, Miss Lauder?" Anna moved her buttocks and deliberately pulled a little further away, "The movie is called "Independence Day," and it will definitely be released during the Independence Day holiday."

"That's right." Irene nodded, "There is no shortage of movies to watch in July next year."

"Are you sure you'll have time?" Anna pushed her shoulders against her. "After this semester, we'll have an internship. You should go back to the Lauder Group for an internship, right?"

"Yeah, Mom asked me to go back to work at the family company." Erin sighed and asked, "What about you, Anna, what are your plans? Go to Broadway or go to Hollywood?"

"I haven't made up my mind yet." Anna seemed to be thinking.

"It's better than this." Erin suggested casually, "Don't you like Duke Rosenberg's movies? Why don't you just go to him, at least you can be an assistant director?"

"Hollywood is not as simple as you think."

Compared with Irene, who came from a wealthy background, Anna's eyes were more realistic. She didn't mention this aspect again, and simply changed the subject, "Irene, have you noticed that Duke Rosenberg seems to have walked into a misunderstanding."

"Misunderstanding?" Irene didn't understand and shook her head.

"That's right, his first two films were huge commercial successes, especially "Breakthrough", which now exceeds the global box office of "Speed ​​of Life" at over $355.6 million."

As a top student at the Institute of Film Production at New York University, Anna can still analyze some of her own experiences, "His explosions, car chases and visual impact shots are really attractive, but! These are all pure senses. Exciting! It's easy to cause aesthetic fatigue! Now Duke's idea is obviously to use bigger, more exciting explosion scenes to attract people. Maybe "Independence Day" will still be successful, but this kind of success cannot be sustained for a long time. "

Born into a luxury family, Irene naturally understands the impact of aesthetic fatigue. After thinking about it, she finally nodded slowly.

"So Duke has to transform?" she asked.

"I think it does."

This is a private conversation between friends, and Anna does not hide her random thoughts, "If "Independence Day" only maintains the attendance and influence of his first two films, the market may also accommodate his next film. Type works, if "Independence Day" is a big hit, then his next film must change his thinking. He can no longer simply use explosion and visual impact as a selling point, but should focus more on the story itself and emotional conflict, otherwise …”

She shrugged.

"Oh, Anna." Allen said in admiration, "You really should be a professional film critic."

"Professional film critics? They're all a bunch of men who don't have real male functions..."

Even if it's just a student who is still studying filmmaking, Anna's words are still full of disdain, "I just want to teach real men how to do it. Love!"

Hearing that her friend's words were interesting, Irene couldn't help laughing, then went over and hugged Anna, "I'm so happy to be with you, I can't bear to be separated from you."

"Me too." Anna patted her on the back, "I will always remember that we watched movies together, laughed and cried together."

Duke, who is far away in Los Angeles, will not know that a pair of fans in New York are worried about his future. The preparation of "Independence Day" is more complicated than the previous two movies.

"Hanson, I've seen your sketches."

In the Independence Day studio, Duke held a stack of drawings, and just called the heads of several departments such as special effects, art, and painting, and said quickly and concisely, "The appearance of aliens is too simple and friendly!"

"Listen to my description!"

Although there are the same words in the script, Duke deliberately emphasizes it again, which will definitely attract more attention, "they come from the red dwarf Grace galaxy 25 light-years away, organic life forms, like locusts, with many tentacles, flat skulls, Fragile body, no vocal cord structure."

"In terms of weapons, a super luxurious mothership, a large laser beam launcher, a green shield, and a small spaceship!"

"In short, I want the audience to feel disgusted, disgusted, disgusted at the first sight of aliens, and they will think that they are a swarm of locust-like predators!"

Seeing the solemn nods of those in charge, Duke waved his hand and told them to leave, re-drawing the samples of aliens and motherships.

There was a knock on the door, and Sofia Coppola walked in without any nonsense, and said directly, "Warner and Fox have temporarily finalized a promotional budget of $25 million for the film, if the final production cost can be controlled at 9000 Within $10,000, they'll put in another $10 million depending on how the film gets after it's released."

Duke nodded and said, "Go on."

"The props team rented the interior of the White House, we don't have to remake it, and we can save a lot of money."

This is good news, Sophia didn't stop. "The producers have decided to advertise during next year's Super Bowl. Also, IBM, Coca-Cola and Cadillac have decided to sponsor the filming, and you'd better consider their scenes as soon as possible, so that The studio called them a price."

"Let's go and see how Zach and the others are doing."

After Sophia finished speaking, Duke took the lead and left the office by pushing the door, and went directly to the office of Zach Snyder, who led the assistant to make the scene script.

Commercial movies require a clear and clear plot structure, without dragging water. The storyline of "Independence Day" is very simple - the aliens will destroy human beings, human beings will fight back, and finally win - the script of the film is designed around the connection of the people who fight back.

First, a mysterious spaceship flies to Earth. Second, the government found out that the Department of Defense and the White House responded. Third, the frustrated scientific genius played chess with his father to relieve his boredom and discovered alien signals. Fourth, the Vietnam pilot, who was once captured by aliens for testing, used alcohol to relieve his worries all day long, and his work was a mess. Fifth, excellent air force pilots do not despise their girlfriend because she is a stripper with children, and finally come together.

This series of events had no direct connection at the beginning. Each event seemed to be unrelated, but in fact none of them was wasted, and at the end, they all had irreplaceable effects. With the attack of aliens, these events will eventually tangled together.

While it's a typical, cross-narrative technique used a lot in movies and it's really bland, it's enough to tell the story.

Going to tell Zack Snyder to find the right ad insertion scene, Duke reviewed some of the scripts they developed, went back to the office, and continued to think about filmmaking.

If a commercial film wants to be successful, it is far from enough to tell the story clearly. The most effective and powerful weapon is sensationalism! The so-called love, of course, refers to emotions!

Whether it’s a line speech, action or explosion scenes, in the end, it is to stimulate the audience’s resonance, so that most of the audience who enter the theater can feel refreshed and relaxed, not like a literary movie, which makes the audience feel confused after watching it. , that is to take the initiative to drive most of the audience out.

Explosion and action are the shots that Duke is good at shooting now. Apart from these, the film also has the most basic way of sensationalism. Just like "Speed ​​of Life and Death" and "Brave to the Dead Island", good will inevitably overcome evil in the end. !

It can be said that the power of "goodness" wins in the end, which can be said to be the most basic commercial film law!

Perhaps many people will ask, why after watching so many movies, rarely or never see the bad guys win? This is not because the filmmakers are kind-hearted and afraid that the audience will learn badly, but they are unable to put the ending of "the bad guy wins" in front of the audience based on commercial benefits.

No one can deny that most mainstream audiences can't accept the ending of the villain's victory.

Even though the movie is just a virtual world, the public still likes to see the evil of the bad guys finally being overcome by justice and the bad guys get the severe punishment they deserve, just like the audience will not accept that Mickey Mouse has become a murderer who does all kinds of evil, and Donald Duck has become a robber. commit the same.

Moreover, mainstream society also needs this kind of film that is actually full of fairy tales, subconsciously reminding people that it is not a dangerous society to live in.

The preliminary preparations were tedious and repeated. Although Duke did not have to do it himself, as the director who controls the overall situation, every job must be reviewed and approved by him and the two production managers. After get off work, I received another call from the Hollywood Liaison Office of the Pentagon.

"What? Not satisfied with the script?" Duke Mei's heart skipped a beat. "Want to remove Area 51 and change the ending of the final battle?"

"No no no, General Joseph, it must be a civilian who destroys the weapons of the alien spacecraft, not the president or the military!" Duke specially emphasized, "This is a plot I designed after careful consideration."

"Tomorrow? Representatives from the Pentagon will arrive in Los Angeles tomorrow?" Duke breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the name mentioned on the phone. "I'll talk to Lieutenant Colonel Renho in detail tomorrow."

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