Chapter 281 Can You Avoid Being Plagiarized? (Second Update!)
"Ah Jun, these Yankees are really too stingy. I thought you would not agree to these conditions." Tang Shuxuan said with emotion after carefully talking about the process of finding out the publishing house.
On the phone before, Tang Shuxuan only talked about the prices of various publishing houses, but she didn't say a word about the hardships in the middle.
Now she has not talked about this, but dealing with dozens of publishing houses, negotiating prices, etc., is really not an easy task.
In particular, "Jurassic Park" and "The Da Vinci Code" are books written by Xiangjiang people. The contemptuous attitude of the publishers in the United States is conceivable.
Although they knew that these two books were good books, many people negotiated with the attitude of charity out of their natural condescension.
Although Tang Shuxuan is a woman, she has a very stubborn personality. She usually won't condone this kind of person. If the negotiation fails, she turns around and leaves without any hesitation.
Tang Shuxuan didn't say these things, but Yin Jun actually knew about them.
Because in the next forty years, the difficulty of Chinese people wanting to make a fortune in the United States has been known to everyone through various channels. Many people who stay in China do not envy the Chinese in the United States. Chinese.
Even after the subprime debt crisis, when the Americans needed Huaguo's support so much, they could be so harsh, let alone now in 1979.
Rao is that Xiangjiang has not yet returned to China, and it is managed by the United Kingdom, and Americans will not treat Xiangjiang people as British.
In the previous life, the economic development of Huaguo was getting better every day. Many talented Huaguo people would choose to return to China to develop after studying and working in the United States for a period of time. This has to be said, and it is largely because the United States does not have it. fairness, justice and openness.
The Chinese people who stayed in the United States still only care about the living environment in the United States, so they also have to endure discrimination in many aspects. Yin Jun doesn't know how many of these things he has seen.
In just three months, Tang Shuxuan even completed the translation and found the publishing house. Such efficiency has already surprised Yin Jun.
I used to hear that Tang Shuxuan was a hero among women, but now it seems that she is really a strong woman who is vigorous and resolute.
If Tang Shuxuan in her previous life did not focus on movies but on business, her achievements should not be worse than Liang Fengyi's.
Yin Jun also understood Tang Shuxuan's difficulties in the middle of the negotiation, and decided to reward her with compensation in the future.
"I'm already satisfied with this condition. If it wasn't for you, Sister Xuan, I would have snickered if I could have won half of it myself." Yin Jun said with a smile, "The most important thing now is to publish it so that more people can get it." Most people appreciate these two novels. As long as we become famous, it will be easier for us to publish future novels.”
"You still have novels?" Tang Shuxuan was surprised, "Don't tell me that they are of the same grade as these two novels, otherwise I will feel inferior!"
Tang Shuxuan is a well-known talented woman, even if she said that, you can know how outstanding Yin Jun is in everyone's eyes.
Tian Jiachun was not surprised. She saw many things that Yin Jun did, and she admired Yin Jun even more. She thought Yin Jun's writing novels was a great thing?
"I'm still thinking about a story about the collision of a magical world." Yin Jun said, "About next year, I can give it to Sister Xuan for you to translate."
"That's about the same." Tang Shuxuan also breathed a sigh of relief seeing that Yin Jun didn't take it out now.
To be honest, the more Tang Shuxuan translated "Jurassic Park" and "The Da Vinci Code", the more she realized the charm hidden in the words.
For a lot of knowledge involved in the two books, she had to find some very professional friends of her husband, and rely on their explanations and explanations to understand and translate them properly.
Tang Shuxuan didn't quite believe that with the education ability in the mainland during this time period, such talents could be cultivated. I am afraid that apart from Yin Jun's explanation that he read some books on this subject by chance and that he is a genius, then Nor is there a second plausible explanation.
If Yin Jun comes up with stories that can shock the world one after another, Tang Shuxuan feels that she can completely consider Yin Jun to be a super genius on the same level as Einstein, and a super talent who will apply for national protection.
"By the way, how long are you going to stay in the United States this time? Why do you book a hotel for half a month?" Tang Shuxuan asked, "Is there anything else I can help you with?"
"Oh, it's nothing." Yin Jun said with a smile, "Xiangjiang's film market is too small, I want to come here to experience the atmosphere of American movies before entering Xiangjiang Films, so I plan to walk around Hollywood , look, understand."
"You really have a leisurely heart." Tang Shuxuan said, "Others are eager to make movies, but you are not in a hurry."
"Running fast may not necessarily make you money, and if you move slowly and prepare well, you may not necessarily lose money." Yin Jun said with a smile, "It all depends on whether you are serious enough, as long as you are serious and persevere, there is nothing you can't do OK."
"Your idea is suitable for you." Tang Shuxuan shook her head, "You have genius-like ability to conceive scripts, so you can do whatever you want. If you were someone else, it wouldn't work. They didn't copy foreign countries. It is to follow the trend of Hong Kong’s local. This reduces the risk of failure, but the action must be fast, and the audience must go in and grab food before they get bored, only in this way can they make money.”
Yin Jun nodded.
Many people think that the plagiarism of Xiangjiang's films only started in the 1990s, but they are completely wrong.
Xiangjiang's films have always been like this.
Once a movie is popular, other movie companies will definitely copy and imitate it until there is no way to make this movie.
It's just that the current movies are not so prosperous in general. There is no capital from Baodao and South Korea to support Xiangjiang's film industry, and there are not so many theaters to show these rough-made movies, so they can be released in general. , can get a good box office, are good movies.
However, film companies such as Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest still have to be shameless. The films they produce are relatively sophisticated, and their stars are also reliable.
Then distributors in other places point to the movies on these rankings and movies produced by big companies to buy, basically there is nothing wrong.
In the 90s, when movie stars got lost in money, they acted whenever they saw money, no matter the script.
However, distributors from other cities still recognize their signs, so they buy movies when they see their names. As a result, after several or more than a dozen box office hits in a row, distributors from other cities will never be fooled again.
Over time, Xiangjiang Films collapsed.
This is also an important reason why Yin Jun admires Cheng Long so much.
In that impetuous era, Cheng Long never acted in any bad movies at all, even the literary film "Glass Bottle" was definitely not in the category of bad movies.
In contrast, the acting kings who will be respected by everyone in the future, such as Liang Chaowei, his bad movies are more good than his good ones?
Not to mention Wu Zhenyu, Liu Qingyun, etc., even Zhou Runfa and Zhou Xingxing have acted in a few bad movies.
for what?
Not to mention being forced by the society, in fact, most of it is for money. A film made in ten days costs two to three million, or even five to six million. Who would not want it?
This is also true for directors, scene recorders, producers, supporting actors, etc.
That is because they only see money, they don't cherish their own reputation, and they don't cherish the hard-won situation of Xiangjiang Films as a whole, so Xiangjiang Films are ruined in the hands of all of them.
Xiangjiang Films was pushed off the cliff by the people of Xiangjiang Films.
After being silent for a while, Tang Shuxuan looked at Yin Jun, and asked with a smile: "Ah Jun, I want to ask you, your movie scripts are as good as the TV scripts, but do you have a way to avoid plagiarism? You do If you make a good movie, they can make this movie category completely bad for you, no matter how talented you are, I’m afraid you can’t innovate every year, right?”
Yin Jun laughed: "Sister Xuan, in fact, there are many ways to avoid plagiarism. Although it cannot be avoided 100%, it is very easy to make the plagiarists pay more."
"For example?" Tang Shuxuan asked leisurely. At this time, she was like a studious student.
Tian Jiachun also listened with great interest. She is also a person in the entertainment industry, so she is very familiar with the stubborn problems of Xiangjiang movies, so she really wants to hear what the most intelligent genius in Xiangjiang can solve this problem.
"The first one is to let the market weed out these shoddy movies." Yin Jun didn't hide his secrets, and talked eloquently, "In the movie theater, anyone's movie can be shown. This is a fact. But it's not a good movie, at most it's released It takes five or six days, and it will be released in as little as two or three days. This is the natural elimination force of the market. Once bad movies are made in a row, and they lose hundreds of thousands or millions, do you think these film companies can still persist? Can it go bankrupt?"
"Well, this is a way." Tang Shuxuan nodded.
"Secondly, what aspect of a movie can be imitated the most, and what is the most difficult to imitate?" Yin Jun said, "The plot is the best to copy, but some movies that need to spend a lot of money to produce are not easy to imitate. For example "Star Wars", which was released in the United States two years ago, without its special effects, who would dare to make such a movie? This investment is more, and if it loses money, it will not be a bankruptcy, at least it will go bankrupt!"
"But you can't expect everything to be a special effects movie, can you?" Tang Shuxuan asked back, "Story movies are still the most important thing. We should focus on this."
"This requires a strong supervisory organization." Yin Jundao, "Xiangjiang's film lacks a supervisory mechanism, so changing the name and changing the protagonist can be justifiably plagiarized. It should be for this supervisory agency to supervise a movie that is about to be released. Once it is found that it has plagiarized any movie, it will not be allowed to be released, so that most of the low-quality follow-up movies will be eliminated."
"The prosecutor's office in Xiangjiang? They don't have enough courage to do this." Tang Shuxuan shook her head.
Many people don't know that Xiangjiang's movies are actually screened only after being censored.
Tang Shuxuan's movie related to the mainland was not released, and it will be several years later, when the signs of the mainland taking back Xiangjiang become more and more obvious, the ban will be lifted.
But the prosecution office only inspects sensitive movies, and they have no opinion on whether it is following the trend, and it is difficult to distinguish.
To do this, they must be given greater authority, and then more veterans of the film industry must be recruited to judge.
But how to prevent these senior people from being bought by others is another difficult task.
"If the inspection office is not good, then let several theaters identify it themselves, and if it is not good, they will not be screened in theaters. This is also a way." Yin Jun said.
"It's impossible for theater chains. They pay a basic fee for each movie. Whether the movie makes money or not has nothing to do with them." Tang Shuxuan said.
"The bottom line fee is not a good policy in its name. I believe it will be eliminated by history in the future." Yin Jun said solemnly, "By that time, theaters will pay more attention to their long-term business. They should do it. Only by making this kind of change can Xiangjiang Films become better and better."
"It's very difficult. When a movie makes money, there must be new theaters entering the theater. There will always be theaters that don't care about quality. Otherwise, how can there be so many movies?" Tang Shuxuan retorted.
Yin Jun nodded and said: "What you said is very reasonable, but those who really want to do theater business for a long time are definitely not willing to ruin the market like this. So I think that several large theater chains should unite and work together. Boycott those films, if you small theaters dare to show them, then what will be shown here in the future will not be shown in our place. After some trade-offs, I believe they know what to do."
"There is another prerequisite for your approach, that is, the big theater chains, such as Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers, must unite. But everyone knows that they cannot unite." Tang Shuxuan said.
"Not necessarily, if there is someone who is stronger than them and can lead everyone forward, then they can be twisted into a rope."
"You won't say...is it you?"
"certainly!"
Yin Jun laughed, "Who would do such a thing?"
"It's good for Xiangjiang Films, but you've also blocked many people's money. I'm afraid it's not good for your safety?" Tang Shuxuan frowned. She didn't even say that she was worried about Yin Jun's ability. After thinking so much, Jun knew that he had long been prepared to become a film company and theater chain, but he would definitely be fully prepared before going into battle.
"That's natural, but as long as we get rid of the first batch of ignorant investors, then later people will know the danger and won't enter the market rashly." Yin Jun said, "But if I want to do it, I will I'm sure I'll know how to be prepared, I wouldn't dare to go out without preparing eighty bodyguards... Think about that scene, how majestic I am!"
"loquacious!"
Tang Shuxuan smiled sweetly.
It was only at this moment that she felt that Yin Jun was a young man with a childlike innocence, not the super genius he talked about just now... At that time, Yin Jun was like a wise elder. Yes, there are a lot of children, maybe they will be fascinated by a genius like him!
Look at Tian Jiachun again, his eyes almost burst into flames!
From the conversation just now, Tang Shuxuan also knows that Tian Jiachun is also married and has two daughters, and she also worships Yin Jun so much. If a little girl is Yin Jun's assistant, I am afraid that tonight she will have to Do you want to throw your arms around Yin Jun?
What young girl would not like to admire a talented and virtuous boy genius?