Perfect Life - v5 Chapter 134

In March, Li Qian flew around the earth.

First, I flew to the United States to witness Qi Jie and Grenshire on the spot, representing Minghu Culture and Columbia respectively, and signed a gambling agreement with the North American Cinema Alliance. Then I flew to Egypt to visit the “Transformers” crew that was filming in the depths of the desert. Then, I flew to Paris to visit the crew of The Bourne Bourne that was filming here.

Jin Han hesitated for a while whether to follow the path of “Avatar” and “Transformers” and follow the 3D-IMAX plus 2D shooting method, but in the end, Li Qian decided to let him only shoot the 2D version ——In Li Qian’s impression, fast editing is almost the natural enemy of 3D.

“The Bourne Bourne” is undoubtedly an action movie that has to go the way of sharp editing. Li Qian feels that even if it reluctantly invests a lot of money to make a 3D version, its rapid camera switching will not get the 3D it deserves. The visual effect, on the contrary, will easily cause the audience to feel dizzy when watching the movie.

James Cameron, who was the founder of 3D in another time and space, why did he choose to shoot a film like “Avatar” to promote his 3D technology? When he came to this time and space, Li Qian obviously had many choices. Why did he finally decide to take the road that Cameron took?

To put it bluntly, for 3D viewing, if you want to have an excellent and charming effect, with a wide field of view, sufficient depth of field, and sufficient light, and it is best to use a large number of long lenses to organize the lenses and pictures, in order to maximize the 3D viewing effect. Make the viewing experience of the audience achieve the best effect.

It’s almost naturally the best for a “scenic spot”!

Therefore, a film like “Avatar” can almost achieve its best display effect. Although “Transformers” is a little bit interesting, it can definitely add color to the film, but in “Bourne Bourne” Here, it may have the opposite effect.

In this case, why waste money and have to shoot it in 3D?

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When Li Qian came to Paris, the overall shooting progress of the “Bourne Bourne” crew had come to an end.

In the early days of the formation of the crew, there were once some conflicts.

Being used to filming in China, Jin Han is not used to the style and habit of Hollywood staff who stick to the eight-hour work system. It feels like it’s coming out, it’s time to get off work – day after day, the progress bar doesn’t seem to move!

In the Chinese film industry, no matter whether it is an ordinary staff member or a celebrity, how can it be so delicate!

So at the beginning, he was very temperamental, and he got angry and blistered in his mouth. Fortunately, at that time, Du Yihua adjusted in the middle and always helped him control the atmosphere in the crew, so that he did not completely follow the Hollywood group. Oppose. After a month or two, he slowly got used to it.

Now, “The Bourne Bourne” is similar to “Transformers”, and it will be completely finished in one month – this is the third work that Minghu Culture and Columbia are truly co-produced.

The previous “Avatar”, although Colombia also invested, it was purely produced and dominated by Minghu Culture, and the copyright also belonged to Minghu Culture, but the three cooperations since then are really joint productions.

This is the first stage of co-production in Li Qian’s “Chinese Culture Going Out”.

That is, the two sides jointly invest and produce jointly, distribute separately in the markets they are good at, and let Chinese directors shoot global stories. In fact, this is the story template that Hollywood used to be popular all over the world. At the same time, some actors were placed in Europe and the United States Mixed face familiar.

Therefore, the director of “Transformers” is Sun Yuting, and the heroine is known as “the first in appearance” among the new generation actors of Minghu Culture, Jiang Yiyi. The director of “Human and Ghost Love is Over” is Lu Lingxi, and the heroine is the Berlin actress, Qin Jingjing, who is considered to be the “first in acting skills” of Minghu Culture.

And in “Bourne Bound”, the director is Jin Han, and the heroine, who plays the Chinese girl in the movie, is He Yingyu, who has gained considerable popularity and reputation in Europe and the United States through “The Matrix”.

In addition, for some less important supporting roles in the film, as long as the use of Chinese actors will not make the atmosphere and narrative context of the whole film inconsistent, try to use Chinese actors.

Three movies, three directors and three heroines were pushed out, and seven or eight Chinese actors were also invited to make soy sauce in the film.

The most important thing in this process is, of course, the training of directors.

Cultivate their popularity in the European and American film circles, cultivate their achievements, and at the same time cultivate their global thinking – to shoot Chinese culture, to promote China’s beauty in the film, of course, Hollywood things cannot be copied, but many Hollywood experience And ideas, but certainly worth learning from.

This is the so-called “teaching the barbarians’ long skills”.

In the second step, in addition to promoting other Chinese directors internationally, we must also start promoting Chinese actors.

At this stage, the main focus is to shoot Hollywood-style “global stories”, but some modified Chinese culture, Chinese customs and Chinese stories that are more easily accepted by audiences in other parts of the world can be appropriately added.

It’s a slow-rendering, slow-moving story.

When they begin to gradually understand Chinese culture and gradually accept the logic of Chinese stories, they will have the opportunity to continue to advance this plan to the third step.

That is, Chinese directors, Chinese actors, Chinese stories, and global bestsellers.

At present, this plan has only just taken the first step. To what extent it can be achieved in the future, whether it can be successful, and how long it will take to be successful, Li Qian is also completely clueless.

After all, in another time and space, until he died, China was only just beginning to have a little global presence at the top of capital, and there was no real promotion at all.

He just felt that in the current time and space, since he has stood in this position, he has the obligation and responsibility to promote the development of the Chinese film industry in this way.

With great power comes great responsibility.

And he spared no effort.

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He stayed in Paris for two days to watch Jin Han filming. On the following Saturday, he also brought Jin Han, Du Yihua and He Yingyu along with them, and by the way invited the actor who played the male lead, that is, Tom Ai, the male lead of “Avatar”. Lun went to his winery in France for a two-day vacation.

Tom Allen is an American actor that Li Qian is more optimistic about.

Of course, he is also an actor that Columbia is more willing to choose when producing.

After returning to China after filming “Avatar”, he successively received two Colombian films, and then made a resolute decision to jump directly from his original agency and signed a contract with China’s Minghu Culture.

Yes, a second-tier actor in Hollywood, his career is booming, but he chose to join a Chinese film company and became the first Hollywood star signed by Minghu Culture Agency.

Now, apart from the manager, all external brokerage contracts are handled by a brokerage company established by Minghu Culture in the United States.

When drinking and chatting, he seemed eager.

Eagerly looking forward to the early release of “Avatar” with an investment of 250 million US dollars.

After learning that Columbia had signed a gambling agreement with the North American Cinema Alliance on the renovation of the 3D cinema, he was even more excited – this undoubtedly shows that Li Qian, Minghu Culture, Columbia, etc. are all interested in the 3D movie “Avatar”. The box office of the movie has given high expectations.

And once “Avatar” is a big hit, he, the actor, will of course benefit greatly.

Today, the Hollywood film industry is extremely developed, and all kinds of competition are very sufficient. Even if the conditions are good, the ability is good, and the opportunities are good, a rookie actor quickly jumps to a second-tier star with a salary of millions of dollars. If you want to continue to climb up, the difficulty will only be greater.

After cooperating with Li Qian, after careful consideration, he decisively chose to hug Li Qian’s thick legs. Naturally, he had high expectations for this series of works co-produced by Minghu Culture and Columbia, which he participated in. And I hope to have long-term cooperation and more cooperation in the future – a second-tier movie star, in order to successfully advance to the first-tier, one or two global best-selling films are essential foundations and confidence.

He used to be very optimistic about “Avatar”, and now he is also very optimistic about “Bourne Bourne”. Now that he heard about the existence of the gambling agreement, he is naturally more confident.

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After spending five days in France, at the end of March, Li Qian left Europe by plane from Paris and flew back to China.

At this time, the global publicity about 3D and “Avatar” has already begun. And there are only more than two months left before the official global release of “Avatar”.

It took Li Qian nearly three years to build the first 3D blockbuster, including the previous technology research and development, which has spent more than one billion Chinese dollars, and is ready to go.

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Shuntian House, Minghu Building, General Manager’s Office.

After reading the newly delivered box office report last week, Qi Jie subconsciously raised a smile at the corner of her mouth.

This report is undoubtedly refreshing.

But after reading it, I felt like something was missing.

After thinking about it, Qi Jie got up and walked out of the office. A few steps away was the art director’s office.

She walked over, Fang Shengnan was on duty today.

But seeing that Qi Jie was about to knock on the door, she quickly stood up and reminded, “Mr. Qi, Mr. Li should be smoking a cigar, maybe it’s a little bit choking?”

Qi Jie nodded and said, “It’s okay. You’re busy.”

So she pushed open the door.

She knew that when Li Qian stayed in the office smoking cigars, in addition to entertaining guests, there were usually two situations: the first, he was in a particularly good mood, so he had to enjoy it; the second, he I am letting myself go. And in this second time, it is often what decision he is facing, and he is very entangled in his heart.

She pushed open the door and went in. Li Qian was paralyzed on the sofa, holding a thick cigar in his hand.

The smell in the room is not small, and the exhaust fan is running fiercely, but it is not too choking.

Qi Jie has experienced a terrifying scene where Li Qian, Cao Zhan, Liu Chengzhang, Jin Han, Zou Wenhuai, Fang Baijin and Fu Xuelong smoked cigars together in a room.

That’s really called the smoke billowing.

Turning to close the door, she sat down beside him. Looking at him, and seeing a few copies of what seemed to be printed scripts thrown at random on the coffee table, I probably knew what was going on.

“Already thinking about the next movie? Or thinking about someone else?”

Li Qian took a cigar and slowly exhaled the smoke.

Qi Jie wrinkled her nose and fanned the smoke in front of her eyes.

He suddenly sat up, put the cigar on the special cigar ashtray, then picked up the stack of documents, opened the covers one by one, folded them, and revealed the name on the first page.

Serve well side by side for a total of five servings.

When he was done, he sat back, put his arms around Qi Jie, pointed to the five scripts on the coffee table, and asked, “Which one do you think I should shoot in the next scene?”

Qi Jie turned her head to look over. The names of the five plays were: “Shushan”, “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, “Farewell My Concubine”, “Alive”, and “Journey to the West”.

Qi Jie is the only person in the entire Minghu Culture who has all the keys of Li Qian’s office and knows all the passwords, because those passwords were set by her, and Li Qian occasionally forgot to ask her, and the fingerprint input was also shared by the two of them. However, after so many years, she has never really opened the safe where Li Qianfang’s script was read.

Looking at the name, except for “Shushan”, which is a bit uncommon, she can roughly guess what the subject matter is. Among them, Li Qian gave Yu Bojun the script of “Alive”, and she even turned two pages.

She knew what the story was.

After hesitating for a while, she first put her hands together and put it on Li Qian’s big hand that just went around her waist and pressed against her lower abdomen, gently rubbed it twice, patted it, and then spread out another hand. , touched his face.

“I think you should take a break for the next two years.”

Li Qian turned to look at her, a little puzzled, “I’ve been off for more than a year!”

Qi Jie laughed, and immediately felt a little distressed and pity, “That’s also called rest! You can count the past year, since the filming of “Avatar”, how much have you been busy with? For this producer, for that producer, editing , doing the post-production, staring at “Kung Fu Panda”, and recording songs, and only recently flew around the world and returned.”

“You’re too tired, take a break.”

She clapped Li Qian’s hand and said, “The company’s current framework has been set up, and it is very stable. No one else counts the box office of “Avatar”. We have seen it and we know it in our hearts. It will definitely be a global hit. , I think it is very promising to surpass the record of “Titanic”. You also brought Sun Yuting out. Fu Xuelong is professional enough in 3D shooting now. The forefront of the world’s film technology development, Qian, take a break!”

After a pause, she added: “You take a break, the company will follow you, and take a little vacation. As for you, go to accompany them, don’t get together all day long. On the company’s side, let’s catch up in one go. After so many years, although everyone has followed you up step by step, almost every year, everyone is very happy and excited, but people are people, people will be tired, take a proper rest, Not a bad thing.”

Li Qian pondered for a moment, and his expression gradually became a little dignified.

Then, he pulled his arm back, picked up the cigar, took a few sips, and started smoking again, and then slowly said: “I also want to take a break, every day is fine, and I don’t care about anything, Just accompany my wife and children, accompany you. However, I still have one step to finish. After this step, I can give myself a little vacation. “

Qi Jie looked at him and asked, “What’s more?”

She said: “We have 3D, the acquisition of IMAX has been negotiated, our motion capture technology is also the world’s leading, and our special effects are the world’s top. Colombia has turned losses into profits last year, and this year’s situation will definitely be better. The financial pressure brought about by the acquisition of Colombia in 2018 is also gradually reducing. The directors you have trained by yourself are all so ambitious and rising. Whether we are domestically or internationally, the layout has been completed…”

Her words were interrupted by Li Qian’s constant shaking of his head.

Li Qian said: “3D is just technology. Technology is for film services, but it doesn’t mean that if you have technology and then sell it, everything will be fine. We build these world-leading technologies just for the next move. Prepare.”

After a pause, his eyes shifted to the coffee table again.

After a while, he picked up one of the scripts and lit up at Qi Jie, “Next, I want to find an idea that others can learn from for the development of these technologies and the globalization of Chinese films.”

Qi Jie turned her head to look over.

It was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

She suddenly remembered what Li Qian once said more than once: use world technology and world language to speak Chinese culture.

After thinking about it, she looked at Li Qian and asked, “So…”

Li Qian laughed and said, “So when Avatar reaches the expectations, I will start this play and use 3D to show the beauty of those images of Chinese art and Chinese martial arts.”

“Then…” He let out a long breath, smiled slowly, and said, “Then, I can probably retire halfway, live a little easier, take a break, rest enough, and go take some pictures of myself The film I want to make.”

He pointed to a few scripts on the coffee table, especially the ones at the back, and said with a smile, “For example, these plays.”

He put down “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” in his hand~www.mtlnovel.com~ He paralyzed back again, stretched out his hand subconsciously, and stroked Qi Jie’s soft waist. He rubbed his smooth and delicate back, and then said: “Until this “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, everything I did and all the movies I made had only one purpose, and that was to guide everyone to shoot the audience. Good stories I like to watch, and keep the domestic movie market. After this movie, it is the common responsibility of all Chinese filmmakers to keep this market, expand this market, and even compete with Hollywood movies at the box office in the global market. Well, I’ll just be an artist and make something that proves that Chinese movies are not ‘only commercial’.”

Having said that, he noticed something was different and couldn’t help but look up at Qi Jie.

Qi Jie pursed her lips, her face full of pity.

But in the end, she just sighed and said, “You…”

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Tomorrow the day after tomorrow, that is, 25, 26, 27, rest for three days, and resume the update on the 28th.

When I came back three days later, I tried to finish it in one breath.