Chapter 1059 Target

In March, Li Qian flew around the earth.

First, I flew to the United States to witness Qi Jie and Glenn Shire respectively representing Minghu Culture and Columbia, and signed a gambling agreement with the North American Theater Alliance. Then I flew to Egypt to visit the crew of "Transformers" that was filming in the depths of the desert. Then, I flew to Paris to visit the crew of "The Bourne" which is being filmed here.

Jin Han hesitated for a while whether this "Bourne Shadow" should follow the path of "Avatar" and "Transformers" and follow the shooting method of 3D-IMAX plus 2D, 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 Shadow" is undoubtedly an action movie that has to go the way of sharp editing. Li Qian feels that even if he reluctantly invests a lot of money to produce a 3D version, its rapid camera switching will not get the 3D it deserves. Visual effects, on the contrary, will easily cause the audience to feel dizzy when watching the movie.

Why did James Cameron, who was the founder of 3D in another time and space, choose to shoot a film like "Avatar" to promote his 3D technology? But when he came to this time and space, Li Qian obviously had many choices, why did he finally decide to follow the path that Cameron walked?

To put it bluntly, for 3D viewing, if you want to have an excellent and charming effect, wide field of vision, sufficient depth of field, and sufficient light, and it is best to use a large number of long lenses to organize the lens and picture, you can maximize the 3D viewing effect. Make the audience's viewing experience to achieve the best effect.

It is almost naturally the most suitable for making "scenic sightseeing films"!

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

That being the case, why bother to waste money and have to shoot it in 3D?

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When Li Qian came to Paris, the overall filming progress of the crew of "The Bourne Shadow" had reached the end.

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

I am used to filming in China, and Jin Han is very uncomfortable with the style and habit of Hollywood staff who abide by the eight-hour workday. I have a feeling that I'm going to get off work-day after day, the progress bar doesn't seem to move!

In the Chinese film industry, whether it is an ordinary worker or a celebrity, how can they be so delicate!

So in the first period of time, he was very angry, and his mouth was foaming when he got angry. Fortunately, at that time, Du Yihua was in the middle to help him control the atmosphere in the crew, so that he didn't completely follow up with the Hollywood gang. Opposite. After a month or two, he slowly got used to it.

Now, "The Bourne Shadow" is similar to "Transformers", and it will be completely finished in a month or so-this is the third work that Minghu Culture and Columbia have truly co-produced.

Although Columbia also invested in the previous "Avatar", it was purely produced and led by Minghu Culture, and the copyright also belongs to Minghu Culture. However, the three subsequent cooperations are really joint productions.

This is the first stage of co-production in Li Qian's mind of "Chinese Culture Going Global".

That is to say, the two parties jointly invest and co-produce, distribute in the markets they are good at separately, and let Chinese directors shoot global stories. In fact, it is the story template that Hollywood used to be popular all over the world. Get familiar.

Therefore, the director of "Transformers" is Sun Yuting, and the heroine is Jiang Yiyi, who is known as the "first in appearance" among the new generation of actors in Minghu culture. The director of "Human and Ghost Love" is Lu Lingxi, and the heroine is Qin Jingjing, who is regarded as the "No.

And when it comes to "The Bourne Shadow", the director is Jin Han, and the heroine, who plays the Chinese girl in the movie, is He Yingyu, who has already gained considerable popularity and reputation in Europe and the United States through "The Matrix".

In addition, for some less important supporting roles in the movie, as long as the use of Chinese actors will not make the atmosphere and narrative context of the whole movie inconsistent, Chinese actors should be used as much as possible.

Three films, three directors, three heroines, and seven or eight Chinese actors also come to the film to make soy sauce.

The most important thing in this process is, of course, to train directors.

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

This is the so-called "teaching foreign skills".

And when it comes to the second step, in addition to gradually promoting other Chinese directors internationally, it is also necessary to start promoting Chinese actors abroad.

At this stage, it is still mainly shooting Hollywood-style "global stories", but it is possible to appropriately add some modified Chinese culture, Chinese customs and Chinese stories that are more acceptable to audiences in other parts of the world.

This is a story that is slowly rendered and slowly advanced.

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, global hits.

From the current point of view, this plan has just taken the first step. To what extent it can be achieved in the future, whether it will be successful, and how long it will take to succeed, Li Qian has no idea at all.

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

He just feels that, in this current time and space, since he is 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 and watched Jin Han filming. On the following Saturday, he brought Jin Han, Du Yihua and He Yingyu with him, and by the way invited the actor who played the leading role, that is, the actor of "Avatar" Tom Ai Lun went to his winery in France for a two-day vacation.

Tom Allen is currently Li Qian's favorite American actor.

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

After returning to China after filming "Avatar", he took on two Colombian films, and then made a resolute decision to jump out of his original agency and sign 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 the Minghu Cultural Agency.

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

He seemed eager as he drank and chatted.

I am eagerly looking forward to the early release of "Avatar", which invested 250 million US dollars.

He was even more excited when he learned that Columbia had actually signed a betting agreement with the North American Theater Alliance on the transformation of the 3D theater. The box office of the movie has given high expectations.

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

Today, the film industry in Hollywood 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 newcomer actor quickly jumps into a second-tier star with a salary of one million dollars, but If you want to continue to climb, the difficulty will only increase.

After cooperating with Li Qian, after careful consideration, he decisively chose to embrace Li Qian's thick legs. Naturally, he had quite high expectations for the 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 - if a second-tier movie star wants to successfully advance to the first-tier, one or two global best-selling films are an indispensable foundation and confidence.

He was already very optimistic about "Avatar", and now he is also very optimistic about "The Bourne". Now that he heard about the existence of the VAM agreement, he naturally became more confident.

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After staying in France for five days, 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 two months left before the official global release of "Avatar".

It took Li Qian nearly three years, including the early stage technology research and development, to create the first 3D blockbuster with more than one billion Chinese yuan in funds, and it is now gaining momentum.

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Shuntian Mansion, Minghu Building, General Manager Office.

After Qi Jie finished reading last week's box office report, the corner of her mouth subconsciously curled into a smile.

This report is undoubtedly refreshing.

But after reading it, I always feel that there is something missing.

After thinking about it, Qi Jie got up and left 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 going to knock on the door, she quickly stood up and reminded: "Mr. Qi, Mr. Li should be smoking a cigar, maybe it's a bit choking?"

Qi Jie nodded and said, "It's okay. You can do your work."

So she opened the door.

She knows that when Li Qian stays in the office and smokes cigars, besides entertaining guests, there are usually two situations: the first one is that he is in a particularly good mood, so he should enjoy it; the second one is that he I am letting myself go. And in the second kind of time, he is often faced with a choice, and he is very entangled in his heart.

She opened the door and went in. Li Qian was slumped on the sofa, holding a thick cigar in his hand.

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

Qi Jie experienced a horrible 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 billowing smoke.

Turning around and closing the door, she sat down beside him. Looking at him, and seeing a few seemingly printed scripts casually thrown on the coffee table, I probably knew what was going on in my heart.

"Already thinking about the next movie? Or thinking about someone else's?"

Li Qian took a puff of his cigar and exhaled the smoke slowly.

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

He sat up suddenly, 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.

Arranged side by side, a total of five copies.

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 film next?"

Qi Jie turned her head to look over, and the names of the five plays were: "Shushan", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Farewell My Concubine", "To Live", and "A Chinese Journey to the West".

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

Looking at the title, 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 "To Live", and she even turned over two pages.

She knew what story it was.

After hesitating for a while, she put both hands together, and put them on Li Qian's big hand that just went around her waist and pressed on her lower abdomen, rubbed it lightly 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 resting for more than a year!"

Qi Jie laughed, and then felt distressed and pitiful, "That's called rest! You count the past year or so, since you finished filming "Avatar", how much work have you been busy with? For this producer, for that producer, editing , working in post production, staring at "Kung Fu Panda", and recording songs, and recently flew around the world and came back."

"You are too tired, take a rest."

She patted Li Qian's hand, and said: "The company's shelf has been set up now, and it is very stable. The box office of "Avatar" is not counted by others. We have seen it and we know it. It will definitely explode in the world. , I think it is very promising to surpass the record of "Titanic". You also brought out Sun Yuting, Fu Xuelong is now professional enough to shoot 3D, and now we are walking in the world as you told me at the beginning The forefront of the world's film technology development, Qianqian, let's take a rest!"

After a pause, she said again: "Take a rest, the company will follow you, and take a little vacation. And you, go and accompany them, don't get together all day long. As for the company, let's hurry up." After so many years, although everyone said that they followed you up step by step, almost every year, they were all very happy and excited, but people are people, and people will get tired. Take a break if you take a proper rest. Not a bad thing."

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

Then, he withdrew his arm, picked up the cigar, took a few puffs, and then started smoking again, and then said slowly: "I also want to rest, I'm fine every day, don't care about anything, Just stay with my wife and children, and with you. But, I'm still one step away from finishing. After finishing this step, I can give myself a little vacation."

Qi Jie looked at him and asked, "What else is there?"

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. Columbia has turned a profit last year, and this year's situation must be even better. The financial pressure brought about by the acquisition of Columbia in 2019 is also gradually decreasing. The directors you trained with your own hands are all so upbeat and have risen up. We have completed our layout both domestically and internationally..."

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

Li Qian said: "The 3D technology is just technology, and the technology is for the service of movies, but it doesn't mean that everything will be fine if you have the technology and then sell the technology. We build these world-leading technologies just to help the next step. Prepare."

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

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

Qi Jie turned her head and looked over.

That's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

She suddenly remembered what Li Qian had 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" meets expectations, I will start this movie and use 3D to show the beauty of the images of Chinese art and Chinese martial arts."

"Then..." He let out a long breath, smiled slowly, and said, "Then, I can probably semi-retire, live a little easier, take a break, take a rest, and go take some photos of yourself The film I want to make."

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

Putting down "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in his hand, he paralyzed back again, stretched out his hand subconsciously, and stroked Qi Jie's soft waist. Rubbing, and then said: "Until this "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", all the things I did, all the movies I made had only one purpose, and that was to guide everyone to make good stories that the audience likes to watch. Keep the domestic film 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 films in the global market. Just be an artist and make something that proves that Chinese films are not 'only commercial films'."

Having said that, he sensed something was wrong, 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 and the day after tomorrow, that is, 25, 26, and 27, we will rest for three days, and the update will resume on the 28th.

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