Chapter 1168 It Doesn't Matter, I'm Shameless Anyway...

In order to determine the timeline of "The Last Samurai", Li Mu tentatively asked Spielberg, "Steven, do you know when Tom Cruise will be filmed and when it will be released?"

Spielberg shook his head and said, "I'm not very clear about the specifics, but I have an impression that the film started in the second half of last year, and the filming will definitely be completed in the first half of this year, plus the later stage, if there is no problem, it should be released at the end of the year. "

Li Mu nodded and asked him again: "If we prepare as soon as possible, when will it start? When will it be released?"

Spielberg thought for a moment, and said, "If the speed is fast, we should be able to start the camera in early March, but in early March, we can only shoot the part of the shot in the United States, and then prepare the part for shooting in China. If If it is efficient, we should be able to finish it before the end of this year, and in this case, it should be released next summer."

Next summer, it will be at least half a year later than "The Last Samurai"...

Li Mu didn't show any signs on the surface, but he was thinking in his heart that "The Last Samurai" must not be allowed to achieve such good results and influence in accordance with the historical development. However, how to block the other party seems to have become a new one Unsolvable problem.

In any case, Li Mu has no ability to stop a Hollywood film from being released worldwide. Hollywood is a free market. If he directly targets a certain Hollywood film and smashes other people's jobs, he will definitely encounter a strong backlash, so Li Mu basically I can be sure of one thing, trying to make "The Last Samurai" pornographic is basically a fool's dream.

Li Mu thought about it again, since there is no way to catch up with it, release it earlier than it, and there is no way to directly stir it up, so how can we reduce its influence to a minimum?

After thinking about it, Li Mu couldn't think of a good solution.

Spielberg and Li Mu talked about many details and then left. Li Mu asked Wang Yuenlang to send him away, and he turned on his computer and searched for information about "The Last Samurai" on Google.

After entering the English name of "The Last Samurai" into Google, Li Mu quickly saw a lot of entertainment news. Fortunately, the English level is very good, and it is no pressure for him to browse these overseas website pages.

Li Mu carefully looked at every piece of information about "The Last Samurai", and soon found that almost all of these information were entertainment reports, and they were all related to Tom Cruise, and most of them were reports that Tom Cruise was filming. news about this movie.

There is no real dry goods in these reports. Regarding the plot of the film, the entertainment reports are also vague, except that Tom Cruise took over a legendary story of an American Civil War officer and a Japanese samurai.

Tom Cruise plays a retired captain from the American Civil War.

In addition, there are also some related interviews with director Edward Zwick. He has also been selling off during the interviews, just saying that he is very obsessed with Japanese culture, so he created such a movie, and he also It was revealed that Tom Cruise himself was also particularly obsessed with Japanese culture, and had meticulously prepared for the film for two years.

The reporter also asked Edward Zwick if he could reveal the plot of the film. Edward Zwick was very cautious about this. Like Tom Cruise, he only told a small part of the basic story. The outline is just to say that this is a story between American Civil War soldiers and Japanese samurai, but he did not want to reveal the specific story. The movie is the collision and combination of Western culture and Eastern culture, and it will definitely surprise the audience after its release.

Later, Li Mu searched for some other news and collected some useful news. For example, the film was officially started on October 10, 2002. It is expected to be completed in May this year, and the total investment of the film has reached Goddamn $140 million!

Li Mu was stunned secretly watching it. My dear, the $140 million was $40 million higher than his budget for "Flying Tigers". With such a large investment in this film, it is hard to guarantee that there is no secret support from a Japanese consortium behind it.

Li Mu suddenly felt that "The Last Samurai" is very likely to be like his own "Flying Tigers", with super stars, Hollywood team, big investment, big scenes, and big productions. , but it is a wily cultural output.

It is very likely that behind "The Last Samurai", there is also a gold master like himself, but he wants to export Chinese culture, Chinese spirit and Chinese history, while the other party wants to export Japanese culture and Bushido spirit.

The more Li Mu thought about it, the more he felt that his inference was very likely, and the more he thought about it, the more determined he had to find a way to spoil the movie.

Afterwards, Li Mu found some fixed makeup photos that the crew intentionally released. Among these fixed makeup photos, there are photos of Tom Cruise wearing a 19th-century American military uniform, and photos of Ken Watanabe and Hiroyuki Sanada wearing samurai uniforms. , there are also photos of Kato Koyuki wearing traditional Japanese clothing.

Tom Cruise is worthy of being one of the pinnacles of Hollywood male movie stars, wearing a military uniform from two centuries ago, but he can also look handsome and handsome.

However, Li Mu suddenly realized a problem. Leaving aside other subjective factors, Li Mu had to admit that in the film "The Last Samurai", all the visual presentations about Japan are very beautiful, and it can be said that they took great pains, whether it is character modeling. , costume props or landscape architecture, all are extremely attentive, all of which are creating an aesthetic visual effect.

Therefore, in Li Mu's impression, the image of Tom Cruise wearing a Japanese samurai uniform and armor is more handsome and handsome than his image in a military uniform. Why didn't the crew send out the set of makeup photos of his image?

Li Mu thought about it and suddenly figured out one thing!

The crew of "The Last Samurai" hid the plot of this movie very carefully!

In general movies, 30% or more are usually announced, which will attract the attention of users. However, the plot of this movie is currently less than 10%. They only announce the background of the story and the starting point of the story. More in-depth The plot was not revealed at all.

They didn't even expose the stills of Tom Cruise in a samurai suit, which means they didn't even want the audience to know in advance that Tom Cruise would be a samurai in this movie.

Li Mu guessed that they did this to ensure the suspense of the movie.

The structure of this film is very interesting. How Tom Cruise was invited and decided to go to Japan to train the army and command the army to fight is actually just an introduction. The real entry into the main plot is from Tom Cruise It started when he was captured by Ken Watanabe.

Tom Cruise changed from an instructor to a prisoner, and was gradually brainwashed and transformed by Ken Watanabe's Bushido spirit, and finally became a samurai to fight alongside him. This is the real main plot of the story.

Therefore, under this kind of plot structure, once the makeup photo of Tom Cruise, a retired American soldier, wearing a Japanese samurai uniform is released, then basically the plot can be guessed almost, and the crew must keep the plot secret. , so be cautious.

At this time, Li Mu suddenly realized that a sinister trick suddenly sprung up in Li Mu's mind.

Don't you hide it for fear of leaking? Okay, I've seen this movie several times, except for the dialogue I may not remember clearly, but I remember every detail of the whole plot, if I write down all the details of the plot and throw it on the Internet Go, and push the water army again, when you find that almost all of your scripts have been moved to the Internet, what should you do?

Moreover, I am not as simple as just leaking your plot, I have to black you!

That's right, although your movie is really good, but at the height of nationalism, I still want to black you!

In fact, Li Mu himself knows that although "The Last Samurai" is not bad just watching a movie, the plot really can't stand up to serious scrutiny, and the prototype of the movie is not the embodiment of the so-called pure and noble spirit of Bushido, but a group of warriors. In order to maintain their own privileges, they fought against the government and eventually became a rebel. The film's ability to remake the story and extol it may have hidden some deep interests.

And this film was released at this critical time, so Li Mu felt that he must be black, and he must be black!

Li Mu thinks about the specific routine, for example:

"I thought it was some kind of movie, but after reading the script, I felt full of dog blood everywhere. Friends on the surface became enemies, but enemies on the surface became friends. This kind of routine is made at least a few hundred times a year in Hollywood. ?"

"After reading the script, I no longer have any interest in this movie. If Tom Cruise keeps making such a bad movie that can't stand up to scrutiny, I am afraid that it is impossible for him to win the Oscar in this life."

"Damn it! I never thought that Tom Cruise would act in such a nonsense movie, kill a Japanese woman's husband, and the Japanese woman fell in love with the murderer, didn't you imagine when you read the script, If someone killed you and your wife fell in love with him, how would you feel?"

In addition to these, Li Mu also wanted to stir up the American nationalism spirit when he opened the black, so that the American people would subconsciously reject this movie, for example:

"Director, how much money did you take from the Japanese? So much effort to tout the extreme Bushido spirit of the Japanese, what is your motive? Do you know that Japanese soldiers who believed in the extreme Bushido spirit during World War II committed crimes all over the world? How many crimes were committed?"

"Did this damn stupid director forget the kamikaze team during World War II? They clamored for the spirit of Bushido and sank all our American warships! It was all our American compatriots who were killed. It's not good that there are your elders and relatives here, you are so shameless to wash away this extreme warrior spirit, your face is really disgusting!"

"F*k! This stupid X director, I really recommend him to learn about the Papua New Guinea battlefield during World War II. Did you know that Japanese soldiers who advocated the extreme Japanese Bushido spirit once committed the crime of eating American prisoners here. offense?!"

"Although it's a peaceful age, we shouldn't have too much nationalism, but I'm really disgusted by the director. You, an American, have racked your brains to promote their nationalism for the Japanese, so I would like to ask you, Where is the American nationalism in you?"

"An adult should have a correct view of right and wrong. Unfortunately, this director does not have it. He doesn't know that what he is singing is actually the spirit of the devil. He has long forgotten history, and only interests in his eyes. Whoever gives him money, he will sing praises for whomever, I really doubt that one day the descendants of the Nazis will find him and give him a sum of money, and he will be willing to make such a whitewashed movie for the Nazis, think about it It makes me shudder!"

"OMG, I've decided not to watch this stupid X director's movie from today!"

"Shit! More than just his movies, I don't even want to see Tom Cruise movies!"

"God-Damn! I think we need to call on our fellow Americans, and all countries and people who have been hurt by this extreme Bushido spirit, to boycott this movie!"

Before he knew it, Li Mu, a playwright, had made up a lot of various navy speeches, and he felt more and more handy, and he wrote seventy or eighty in one breath.

At a certain moment, Li Mu also felt that if he did this, was it a bit low or excessive.

But in the next second, Li Mu felt calm in his heart and thought to himself: It doesn't matter, I'm shameless anyway...