Chapter 92 "Your Name"
After notifying the students of the 2002 undergraduate acting class that they would go to the small auditorium for an interview tomorrow, Wu Yuan returned to the renovated courtyard house with his computer.
After re-laying the floor, renovating the interior, and installing a series of modern electrical appliances, Wu Yuan's old courtyard house has regained its vitality.
But to be honest, no matter how well-decorated a courtyard house is, it is still not as comfortable to live in as a modern villa or a large flat.
Perhaps those courtyard houses at the level of royal palaces can have both style and comfort, but Wu Yuan's ordinary courtyard house in Xicheng is just so-so.
Anyway, Wu Yuan is already considering that after the release of "The Hangover", he will get a share of the box office and spend some money to buy a new property in Beijing.
Taking advantage of the fact that Beijing has not yet implemented purchase restrictions, he will buy three or five properties first. It can not only live comfortably, but also be regarded as a stable value-added investment, which is not a loss.
There are also matters of taking a driver's license and buying a car, which should also be put on the agenda.
It was okay before, but now Wu Yuan has no car to use, and his daily life is really inconvenient.
After taking a taxi back to the courtyard, Wu Yuan took a brief walk around. After confirming that there was nothing wrong with the renovation of the courtyard, he returned to the main house and continued to work.
The script of "Romeo and Juliet" needs to be read repeatedly, and the script of the new movie needs to be adapted.
The idea of the next new movie was almost determined at the same time as "Romeo and Juliet".
After Wu Yuan decided to stage this drama, he thought about what to shoot for the next movie.
An animated film that was released in 2016 in RB, with a domestic box office of 25.17 billion yen, a mainland box office of 570 million yuan, and a global box office revenue of 358.1 million US dollars, was both critically acclaimed and commercially successful -
"Your Name"!
This is an animated film, but this film is different from Miyazaki's animated films. It is not fantasy at all, and there are no pictures and plots that can only be achieved through animation.
This movie can be easily adapted into a live-action movie, and there is no sense of disobedience.
The movie tells a romantic love story of a boy and a girl who exchanged bodies in a dream. After spending some time in their respective lives, the boy crossed time and space to save the girl who died in a meteorite fall.
The hero and heroine crossed time and space to meet each other, and with the belief of "I will definitely go to see you no matter where you are in the world" to find each other and redeem each other!
In a word, this movie is very fresh, beautiful and romantic, and very tearful!
In fact, Wu Yuan has not thought about it. There are many youth love movies with the same theme. Choosing an animated movie to adapt is definitely not the best choice.
Movies like "A Little Thing Called First Love", "Back to 20", "The Girl We Chased in Those Years", and "My Girlhood" can also achieve the effect of this movie.
Then why did he choose this animated movie?
Of course, it's because this movie is "blockbuster" enough!
Don't think it's a love movie, but there are big scenes in this movie!
The comet that occurs once in a thousand years, the meteorite falls and destroys the village, these scenes are big scenes that need special effects!
Wu Yuan would definitely not dare to make a real special effects blockbuster.
Shooting a special effects blockbuster in the mainland in 2003 would only result in a huge loss!
And he didn't have that much money. A special effects blockbuster would cost at least $100 million.
But Wu Yuan wanted to bring some novel viewing experience to the mainland audience and attract more ordinary people back to the cinema to watch this movie!
Then making a movie with some special effects scenes would be a very suitable choice.
The main plot of "Your Name" still revolves around the male and female protagonists who swap bodies, but at the climax of this movie, there is a meteorite falling to the ground and destroying a village.
If this movie is changed into a live-action version, there will be about 1-2 minutes of special effects shots.
The current special effects production cost is not as exaggerated as tens of millions per second in the future.
Wu Yuan did some calculations. Even if he asked the top special effects company in Hollywood to produce it, the cost of 1 minute of special effects shots would only be three or four million US dollars.
In Pirates of the Caribbean 1, the pirates transformed into skeletons and fought against Jack and his team for only a few minutes in total.
So don't underestimate the 1-minute special effects shots. They are scattered throughout the movie, and each shot lasts for more than ten seconds, which can support four or five big scenes!
For domestic audiences who have not yet been exposed to Hollywood special effects blockbusters, such special effects are already attractive enough.
Don't pursue one-step perfection, and let the audience watch a special effects blockbuster at the level of Transformers. Just try some special effects first!
A director who has returned from Hollywood and shot Hollywood commercial blockbusters, making a movie with special effects scenes, this is in line with his style!
Wu Yuan has thought about it. When the time comes, he will cut a two-minute trailer, and then cut most of the special effects shots into it. Putting it online will definitely attract audiences!
When they are attracted to the cinema, even if they find that the whole movie is just the special effects scene in the trailer after watching the movie, they will not care.
For bad movies, such behavior is trailer fraud.
But for a movie like "Your Name", the audience will only be moved by the romantic love story in the movie after watching it, so how can they think about other things?
Even if they figured out the meaning afterwards, they would only sigh that Wu Yuan played a trick, and would not really have any bad feelings towards him.
As long as the movie is good enough, the audience will actually be very tolerant.
"Your Name" itself is a romantic and touching love story, coupled with Hollywood-level special effects scenes, it is definitely a killer in this era!
Moreover, it doesn't cost much to make such a movie, only 30-40 million RMB, it should be able to be made.
Even so, the bulk of the money was spent on the 1-minute special effects production.
Therefore, when Wu Yuan decided that he would shoot "Your Name" next, the students of the 02 acting class naturally became his focus of actor reserve.
Wu Yuan has always believed that actors should play the right role at the right age!
Except for the heroine's grandmother, all the other main characters in "Your Name" are high school students!
Luo Jin and Liu Yifei, a group of freshman acting students, are undoubtedly the most suitable for this movie.
Even Zhu Yawen, who was later praised as a hormone tough guy, is still a very green and fresh meat!
Played by actors of the right age, this is what teenagers in movies should look like.
He plans to use the opportunity of rehearsing "Romeo and Juliet" to get in-depth contact with this group of freshmen from Class 2002 and select a few suitable actors.
Then, during the summer vacation, use this group of actors to shoot "Your Name"!
As long as the special effects in Hollywood are produced simultaneously, it should be released before the end of the year.
However, before filming, Wu Yuan has to make some adaptations to the original "Your Name" script.
There are many Japanese-style plots in the original movie, such as the family shrine of the heroine's family and the plot of making Kuchikam sake, which all need to be redesigned.
Wu Yuan has a lot of things on his hands, and he can't rest even after returning to China.
I recommend a novel "Rebirth 1981 Starts from Killing Pigs" to everyone. If you like period literature, you can go and take a look. It has a very period flavor.