Chapter 1138 Why Not Start a School?

The day before Christmas, other senior executives of DreamWorks arrived at Huaxia with the prepared contracts, and were ready to have a formal signing ceremony with Li Mu. The cooperation between DreamWorks and Makino Imaging officially opened a precedent for the in-depth cooperation between the Huaxia film industry and Hollywood. .

The entire DreamWorks attaches great importance to this cooperation. They and Li Mu each get what they need. They want to use the Muying ticketing system to enhance their influence in the North American film industry, and Li Mu hopes that DreamWorks and Spielberg can work together for the film industry. While Huaxia is doing a good job in promoting the grandfather, it can also improve the overall level of Huaxia movies.

For this signing, Li Mu summoned Ning Hao, Teng Huatao, Tang Wei, Huang Bo, Zhang Kexuan and Du Wei to Shenzhen. talk.

This detailed discussion was arranged in the banquet hall of a five-star hotel in Shenzhen. Although the signing ceremony will be held here tomorrow, today's meeting is not open to the outside world and the media.

For Ning Hao and Teng Huatao, both of them are new directors. Although the box office of "Those Years" has reached 400 million and continues to create the history of Chinese film box office, Teng Huatao is still very humble, because he himself It is very clear in my heart that 40% of the box office of this film comes from the story itself, 30% from the promotion, and 20% from the cast. It is already very good that I can account for 10% of the influence.

Ning Hao's "Crazy Stone" has not yet been released, and now he is a new director who is newer than Teng Huatao, so he is also more humble and cautious.

These bigwigs of DreamWorks, especially Spielberg, don't necessarily have much money, but when it comes to their influence in the film and television industry, they are definitely world-class. For Ning Hao and Teng Huatao , The two felt that they were domestic second-class club players who met Ronaldo and Ronaldinho, and they were excited and humbled.

In this interview, Li Mu put forward relatively specific requirements to DreamWorks: "First of all, in the future films that the two sides will jointly produce in Huaxia, the actors of Makino Imaging must be used, and the proportion of important Chinese and Western actors should be about 5:5;"

The big bosses of DreamWorks immediately stated: "There is no problem, just follow the 5:5. If there are special themes, it can also give more tilt to the Chinese actors."

Li Mu also put forward other requirements: "In exchange, DreamWorks' films in the United States and other parts of the world, from the crew to the cast, must give Makino Imaging a certain minimum quota, and Makino Imaging has the right to dream in the future. In each live-action film in the factory, there are no more than two Chinese actors and no more than two crew members."

This requirement is, on the one hand, to allow the production team and actor team of Makino Imaging to learn from the Hollywood experience, and on the other hand, it is also to help Makino Imaging's actors break into Hollywood. Li Mu knew that China's film and television industry was very good for exporting to domestic sales. An actor went to Hollywood to act in a movie with zero pay, and he could become a first-tier or even a first-tier player after returning to China. He didn't want to let go of such an opportunity.

DreamWorks did not haggle any of Li Mu's requirements, and they took all the orders. The only goal was the Muying ticketing system. As long as Li Mu did not propose to reduce their shareholding ratio, they would never give any opinion on Li Mu's requirements. After all Li Mu's 20% shares were not given for nothing, even if he didn't want money, he had to exchange resources for it.

Seeing that DreamWorks' attitude was very good, Li Mu was also very satisfied, and said to Spielberg and other DreamWorks bosses: "In the future, if the directors of Makino Imaging have no films to shoot, I will send them to DreamWorks. Factory study, seeing how Hollywood makes a movie, from script to preparation to casting, to shooting, editing and post-production, these are all things they need to learn.”

Spielberg said with a smile: "Mr. Li, don't worry about this, every production crew of DreamWorks will be open to you for observation in the future, and during the observation process, our staff must know everything and say everything."

Li Mu nodded and looked at Ning Hao and Teng Huatao who were excited.

He smiled and said: "If you go to Hollywood to study in the future, you must calm down and learn the most advanced production experience in Hollywood. This will greatly promote the development of our Makino Imaging and the development of the domestic film and television industry."

Both of them nodded, and they were too excited to add.

At this time, Spielberg said: "Mr. Li, in the past few days in China, I deliberately looked for some DVDs of Huaxia's films, and found that there is a very serious problem, that is, the quality of the actors is uneven. In every movie I watch, most of the actors give me the feeling that they don't understand acting at all, as if most of them look very fake in front of the camera, either not enough or too hard, not only the extras , even many leading actors have such problems, if this problem cannot be solved in the future, it will definitely affect the quality of our cooperative films in the future."

Li Mu smacked his lips and sighed: "To tell you the truth, Steven, this is also where I have always been very helpless. The biggest problem in China is the overall lack of quality of employees. There are only a few authoritative film and television academies in China, and the rest Most of them are art academies that mainly make money. In this case, let alone these art schools that make money, even authoritative film and television academies are full of unspoken rules and black box operations, and truly capable people. If you can't get in, you can't get out if you go in, that's the biggest crux!"

As an old-fashioned angry youth, Ning Hao heard Li Mu talk about this issue, and immediately agreed: "Before I entered the film school, I thought this was the palace and cradle of the film and television industry, but only after I came in did I realize that this cradle is too filthy. The students in the acting department of the Film and Television Academy don’t really understand acting, so how much development can the industry expect?”

As he said that, he pointed to Huang Bo, who was a little restrained and said nothing, and said, "Don't look at Huang Bo who has never received any real professional performance training, but his acting skills are enough to kill more than 90% of the so-called domestic performances. Academy has sent actors."

Huang Bo hurriedly waved his hand: "Director Ning, what you said, I can't stand it..."

At this time, before Ning Hao spoke, Li Mu had already spoken: "I think Ning Hao is right, Huang Bo's acting skills are indeed better than most academic actors, this is not only a compliment to Huang Bo, but also to the industry. Torture, why does this happen, why people from first-class film and television academies are less and less able to act, in my opinion, everyone no longer has the craftsmanship to do things to the extreme."

Speaking of this, Li Mu sighed: "Why are the ancients' skills in making ceramics so exquisite, and why are many classic works so advanced in modern technology that they cannot be reproduced indiscriminately? To put it bluntly, our current generation has lost the craftsmanship of the ancients. , Although the film and television industry is an industry that only exists in modern times, it still needs a craftsman’s heart to be able to do things well. The success of Hollywood is not only a commercial success, but also the promotion of countless masters’ ingenuity. What our film and television industry lacks is this. Spirit, everyone is pursuing fame and fortune, and they are not skilled in business, so they dare to come out and make money by filming. In the final analysis, the industry environment is not healthy enough. If the industry is healthy enough, such people will have no chance to succeed."

Spielberg nodded and sighed: "From my personal point of view, the quality of many practitioners in Huaxia is indeed not enough. Of all the movies I have watched these days, none of them can reach a superb level, the most intuitive. The problem is the level of the actors, so I think that we must pay more attention to this aspect in the future, and if possible, I hope Makino Imaging can cultivate a group of extras who have passed the stage of acting."

Li Mu frowned slightly, and then his eyes lit up: "Yeah! It is very important to train a group of extras who have passed the test! If nothing else, at least one hundred extras with passable acting skills will be cultivated, so that no matter what team we use in the future, Whoever directs, who writes, and who leads, has such a group of extras who have passed the test, will not lower the production level of the whole play, and will not affect the audience's sense of substitution, which is a huge wealth."

Thinking of this, Li Mu slapped his thigh: "That's right! It's to make users accustomed to heaven! We must use exquisite production and excellent products to improve the user's aesthetics and improve the user's vision. Dare to use it to fool the audience, then in the end, they will lose a lot of money, and as long as they can’t fool the money, they will be forced by the market to change their ways, or they will change or die!”

Spielberg looked at Li Mu and said seriously: "Mr. Li, I think your theory is very correct. The main reason why the industry is cloudy and stagnant is that there is little competition pressure in terms of professional skills. If someone doesn’t know how to act, then the industry will naturally not develop in the future, but if the quality of the market demand is improved, it will definitely force the practitioners to comply with the market demand, otherwise they will inevitably be eliminated by the market.”

After speaking, Spielberg said again: "Actually, with your strength, I think it is absolutely possible to set up a film and television training school in Huaxia, and then I can help you hire the best talents from Hollywood to be professors for Huaxia Films. Cultivate a group of new talents who are separated from the existing influence of Vanity Fair and fully educated in Hollywood style, especially actors. If dozens or hundreds of extras with passing skills are cultivated, then such a group of actors will have an overall impact on a movie. Absolutely huge!"

Spielberg's words gave Li Mu a huge hint.

Opening a film and television training school was something he had never thought about before, but thinking about it now, China's film and television industry is really bad enough.

Now that the overall box office is sluggish, the director just wants to win the award.

Actors just want to be famous, accept all kinds of unspoken rules in order to be famous, and even conduct black-box transactions in order to enter the film academy;

The film and television company just wants to reduce the budget and increase the income, so that the set props of the film can be saved; the extras do not need to have good acting skills, only the cheapest ones; the later effects can be fooled...

Practitioners in the film and television industry are bullshitting in all aspects of production. Very few people will calm down and study how to make a really good movie. How can it be possible to make a really good movie under such circumstances?