Millennium director

After feeling the change in his status in the eyes of Disney, Wu Yuan is indeed more eager to expand the domestic film market.

It’s not that he wants to “capitalize China’s self-respect”, but he deeply feels the importance of the improvement of a country’s industry influence to relevant practitioners.

Only China's film market is getting bigger, stronger and developing better and better.

When Chinese filmmakers are abroad, their waists can become straighter and stronger!

He hopes that more Chinese filmmakers can stand upright in front of foreign filmmakers, be taken more seriously, and receive equal or even superior treatment!

And if you want to achieve this, China's film industry must develop, and it must develop prosperously!

While filming "Pirates of the Caribbean", Wu Yuan was also seriously considering that Director Han asked him to make a commercial film in China next year.

If a commercial blockbuster like "Hero" is shot at this time, the pressure to make back the money is still too great.

"Hero" didn't make back its money at all just at the domestic box office.

After that, it was released one after another abroad, which allowed "Hero" to recoup its costs and make a lot of money.

"Hero" earned more than 50 million U.S. dollars at the box office when it was released in North America alone. Without the 50 million U.S. dollars, it would be difficult to maintain capital.

After "Hero", no Chinese film has been able to create such box office results in North America.

And this has nothing to do with the development of the mainland film market.

Wu Yuan wants to make a movie that can set off a movie-going craze in the Chinese market, so that more mainland audiences can enter the cinema!

So which movie is suitable?

During the last half month of filming for "Pirates of the Caribbean", Wu Yuan thought about this issue almost every day.

Until "Pirates of the Caribbean" was successfully completed in the studio, he didn't think about it.

"Daniel! Happy wrapping up!" Jerry gave Wu Yuan a bouquet of flowers with a smile on his face, and popped open a bottle of champagne.

Opening champagne to celebrate is one of the necessary procedures for a Hollywood movie to be completed!

The champagne tower, which was stacked high, was quickly filled with champagne.

In the blink of an eye, "Pirates of the Caribbean" was completed after nearly five months of filming.

Holding the flowers and taking the champagne from Jerry, Wu Yuan looked a little dazed.

"Pirates of the Caribbean" is his longest-running film.

Although he didn't have to worry about the pre-production, post-production and editing of the film, the actual shooting took him more than four months.

Hollywood commercial blockbusters are indeed more time-consuming to shoot than mainland literary and artistic films, and this shooting also took more time to adjust than before.

On-set accidents, the creative team's seasickness, and a large number of in-studio special effects shots all took a lot of time.

Fortunately, in the end Wu Yuan successfully completed the filming of all the scenes in accordance with the script requirements.

Jerry was also quite satisfied with the finished film material produced by Wu Yuan.

Unlike other art film directors, he can't help but want to change the script and add something with a strong personal style when taking on external roles.

Let's put it this way, a qualified Hollywood commercial blockbuster will not have any reflection of the director's personal style at all.

"Mission: Impossible" series, "Fast and Furious" series, "007" series, "Harry Potter" series, "Transformers" series and other Hollywood commercial blockbusters, which series of directors have a strong presence?

In commercial blockbusters, the director has always served the script, rather than the script serving the director.

There is nothing metaphysical in the content of the script. It does not output any artistic ideas, it is just as refreshing and exciting as it is.

Wu Baige's "Wind Talker" failed. Isn't it because after he finished filming "Mission: Impossible 2", he felt that he was good again and had more power, so he started to stuff his art into the movie. Got an idea.

The result is a film that purports to be an action war movie but is actually a mediocre and boring film that explores friendship within a war movie.

Wu Yuan was not like this. He made "Pirates of the Caribbean" exactly according to the script given by the screenwriting team. The entire movie was shot around the two points of fantasy and adventure, without adding any personal goods.

What Jerry wants is a director who works quickly and doesn't cause trouble!

A large-scale production that has already cost as much as 140 million US dollars really does not allow for any additional risks!

"Daniel!" After watching Wu Yuan drink the celebratory champagne, Jerry smiled and took out an exquisite small gift box not much bigger than a ring box from his arms and handed it to him.

"This is my personal final gift to you. It is very pleasant to work with you. You are different from most Chinese people I have met."

Wu Yuan looked at the gift box with some confusion. It was the first time he heard that the producer would give the director a gift after completing the filming.

"Given to me?" He took the gift in surprise and opened it to see that there was actually a watch inside.

"Patek Philippe's complex function timepiece series has date display and dual time zone function." Jerry shrugged and said considerately: "I don't think you are in the habit of wearing a watch."

"But Daniel, you often travel back and forth across the ocean. I think a watch with a dual time zone function is very practical for you."

"And as a well-known Hollywood director, I think you should wear a watch that matches your status, don't you?"

For Westerners, a watch is a very important thing. It can be said that every mature man needs a business watch and a commuter watch of his own.

Jerry saw that Wu Yuan didn't usually wear a watch, so he prepared such a gift for him.

According to Westerners' habit of receiving gifts, Wu Yuan immediately took out the watch from the gift box and admired it in front of Jerry.

The case and crown are made of 18K white gold, the watch mirror is sapphire crystal, and the strap is made of calfskin, which is very exquisite and beautiful.

Obviously when Jerry was choosing a gift, he took Wu Yuan's age into consideration and specifically chose one for him that was more suitable for young people, rather than the metal watch strap model that is most popular among middle-aged people.

Wu Yuan looked back and forth, "It's a very cool watch, but it's not cheap, right?"

"As long as you like it." Jerry nodded with a smile.

Of course it’s not cheap. He ordered this watch directly from Patek Philippe’s headquarters in Switzerland for 45,000 euros including tax!

Converted into RMB, plus the consumption tax on high-end watches, Wu Yuan would have spent more than 500,000 RMB to buy such a watch in China.

This is much higher than the green water ghost.

Wu Yuan really needs such a watch.

Today's mobile phones are not as smart as later. Every time he travels between the two countries, he needs to recalibrate the date and time of his mobile phone, which is very troublesome.

It would be much more convenient to have such a dual time zone watch.

He stroked the watch fondly and said happily: "Thank you, Jerry, I like it very much!"

"This watch will be my regular watch from now on."

Orlando, who noticed the movement not far away, walked over with champagne in his hand. After a few glances, he said deliberately and exaggeratedly: "Oh! Jerry, why does the director have a gift but we don't?"

"I feel that I have been treated unfairly. Where is the Screen Actors Guild? I need the Screen Actors Guild to seek justice!"

"Stop joking." Jerry glared at Orlando angrily: "Don't think I don't know, that watch you often wear is much more expensive than this one!"

"You don't need me to give you a watch."

After saying that, Jerry walked to the center of the studio and clapped vigorously several times, attracting the attention of all the crew members who were still doing the finishing work.

"Guys, thank you for your hard work!"

"To celebrate the completion of our movie, there is a grand party waiting for everyone tonight!"

"So, for the sake of the drinks and girls tonight, everyone needs to move a little faster!"

A few seconds later, the cheers almost brought down the roof of the studio.