Chapter 87 Finale!

After feeling the change in his status in Disney's eyes, Wu Yuan is indeed more eager to expand the domestic film market.

It's not that he wants to "use China to gain weight", but he deeply feels the importance of the improvement of a country's industry influence to related practitioners.

Only when China's film market is getting bigger, stronger, and developing better.

Then Chinese filmmakers can stand up straighter and harder when they are abroad!

He hopes that more Chinese filmmakers can stand up straight in front of foreign filmmakers, be more valued, and receive equal or even higher treatment!

And to achieve this, the Chinese film industry must develop, and it must develop vigorously!

In addition to filming "Pirates of the Caribbean", Wu Yuan is also seriously considering and thinking about what Mr. Han asked him to shoot a commercial film in China next year.

For a commercial blockbuster like "Hero", if it is shot at this time, the pressure to make a profit is still too great.

"Hero" has not made a profit at all just by counting the domestic box office.

After that, it was released in foreign countries one after another, which made "Hero" make a profit and a lot of money.

"Hero" earned more than 50 million US dollars in North America. Without this 50 million US dollars, it would be difficult to break even.

After "Hero", no Chinese film can create such box office results in North America.

And this has nothing to do with the development of the mainland film market.

If Wu Yuan wants to shoot, he also wants to shoot a movie that can set off a viewing craze in the Chinese market, so that more mainland audiences can go to the cinema!

So which movie is suitable?

During the last half month of shooting of "Pirates of the Caribbean", Wu Yuan thought about this question almost every day.

Until "Pirates of the Caribbean" was successfully completed in the studio, he hadn't thought it through.

"Daniel! Happy wrap!" Jerry smiled and gave Wu Yuan a bouquet of flowers, and "jumped" to open a bottle of champagne.

Opening champagne to celebrate is one of the necessary procedures for the completion of Hollywood movies!

The champagne tower that was stacked high was soon filled with champagne.

In a blink of an eye, "Pirates of the Caribbean" was completed after nearly five months of shooting.

Holding the flowers and taking the champagne handed over by Jerry, Wu Yuan looked a little dazed.

"Pirates of the Caribbean" is the film with the longest shooting period for him.

Although he didn't have to worry about the pre-production, post-production and editing of this film, the actual shooting took him more than four months.

Hollywood commercial blockbusters are indeed more time-consuming to shoot than mainland art films, and this shooting took more time than before.

Accidents on the set, seasickness of the main creative team, and a large number of special effects shots in the studio all took a lot of time.

Fortunately, Wu Yuan finally completed the shooting of all shots according to the script requirements.

Jerry was also very satisfied with the finished film materials shot by Wu Yuan.

Unlike other art film directors, he always loves to change the script when taking on foreign plays and add some things with strong personal style.

Let's put it this way, a qualified Hollywood commercial blockbuster will not reflect any director's personal style at all.

The "Mission Impossible" series, "Fast and Furious" series, "007" series, "Harry Potter" series, "Transformers" series and other Hollywood commercial blockbusters, which series of directors have a sense of presence?

Commercial blockbusters have always been directors serving the script, not the script serving the director.

The script content does not have any metaphysical things, and does not output any artistic ideas, just how refreshing and stimulating the viewing experience.

Wu Baige's "Windtalkers" failed, isn't it because after filming "Mission Impossible 2", he felt that he was good again and had more power in his hands, so he started to put his artistic ideas into the movie.

The result is a movie that hangs the banner of an action war movie, but is actually mediocre and boring, exploring friendship in a war movie.

Wu Yuan didn't do this. He filmed "Pirates of the Caribbean" completely according to the script given by the screenwriter team. The whole movie revolved around fantasy and adventure, and did not add any personal goods.

Jerry wants such a director who works refreshingly and does not make trouble!

A big production that has already cost as much as $140 million really cannot afford any additional risk!

"Daniel!" After watching Wu Yuan drink the celebratory champagne, Jerry smiled and took out a small exquisite gift box that was not much bigger than a ring box from his arms and handed it to him.

"This is a personal gift for you to wrap up the filming. It is a pleasure to work with you. You are different from most Chinese people I have met."

Wu Yuan looked at the gift box with some doubts. It was the first time he heard that the producer of the filming would give the director a gift.

"For me?" He took the gift with surprise, opened it, and found that it was actually a watch.

"Patek Philippe's complex timepiece series, with date display and dual time zone function." Jerry shrugged and said considerately: "I see that you don't have the habit of wearing a watch."

"But Daniel, you often travel back and forth between the two sides of the ocean. I think a watch with dual time zone function is very practical for you."

"And as a well-known Hollywood director, I think you should wear a watch that matches your status, right?"

For Westerners, watches are very important. It can be said that every mature man needs to have a business watch and a commuter watch of his own.

Jerry saw that Wu Yuan didn't usually wear a watch, so he prepared such a gift for him.

According to the Western gift-giving habits, Wu Yuan took out the watch in the gift box as soon as possible and admired it in front of Jerry.

The case and crown are 18K white gold, the watch mirror is sapphire crystal glass, and the strap is calfskin, which is very exquisite and beautiful.

Obviously, when Jerry was choosing a gift, he took Wu Yuan's age into consideration and specially picked a watch that is more suitable for young people, rather than the metal strap model that middle-aged people love the most.

Wu Yuan looked back and forth for a few times, "It's a very cool watch, but this watch is not cheap, right?"

"As long as you like it." Jerry nodded with a smile.

Of course it's not cheap. He specially ordered this watch directly from Patek Philippe's Swiss headquarters, 45,000 euros including tax!

Converted into RMB, plus the consumption tax on high-end watches, Wu Yuan would have to spend more than 500,000 RMB to buy such a watch in China.

This is much higher-end than the Green Submariner.

Wu Yuan really needs such a watch.

Mobile phones nowadays are not as smart as they were later. Every time he travels back and forth between the two countries, he needs to recalibrate the date and time of his phone, which is very troublesome.

It would be much more convenient to have such a dual time zone watch.

He caressed the watch lovingly and said happily: "Thank you, Jerry, I like it very much!"

"This watch will be my regular watch in the future."

Orlando, who noticed the movement not far away, walked over with champagne in his hand. After a few glances, he deliberately said exaggeratedly: "Oh! Jerry, why does the director have a gift, but we don't."

"I feel that I have been treated unfairly. What about the actors' union? I need the actors' union to uphold justice!"

"Don't joke." Jerry glared at Orlando unhappily: "Don't think I don't know that the watch you often wear is much more expensive than this one!"

"You don't need me to give you a watch."

After that, Jerry walked to the center of the studio and clapped his hands vigorously, attracting the attention of all the crew members who were still doing the finishing work.

"Guys, you've all worked hard!"

"To celebrate the completion of our film, there's a big party waiting for everyone tonight!"

"So, for the sake of the drinks and girls tonight, everyone needs to move faster!"

A few seconds later, the cheers almost blew off the roof of the studio.