Chatty Hollywood

"In other words, you are planning to hand the story about Captain Jack to Disney filming after the current trilogy, and let it be named "Pirates of the Caribbean", and we are filming about Will Turner becoming The story behind the captain of the "Flying Dutchman", right?"

After listening to Charlotte's explanation, everyone was silent. After a long time, the old gun concluded,

"You think that after the trilogy, filming a sequel will make less and less profitable. It is not worth the effort. I can understand that shooting a separate story for Will Turner is essentially to reduce the cost of actors, but Why is Will Turner and not Captain Jack?"

The old gun didn't understand,

"Although I admit that Phoenix played very well, Depp's popularity should be higher, right?"

"Because Disney will definitely think so too!"

Charlotte shrugged.

"If we choose the Will Turner line, we can get a sum of money from Disney, and the cost can be controlled. If we choose the Captain Jack line, let alone how high Depp’s pay will go, the key is Disney Will you let go obediently?"

"So, this is just a helpless choice?"

The old gun sighed with a wry smile.

"Because Phoenix is ​​cheaper, and because we can't grab Disney?"

"That's not all."

Charlotte shook her head.

"There is another very important point. Evil is invincible and righteous!"

"what!?"

Whether it is the old gun or the old Hollywood fritters like Mr. Westwood, or the ghost like Alexis who has a close relationship with Charlotte, they all have a face at this time.

"We are just making a movie. Is there any relationship between good and evil?"

"Of course there is."

Charlotte explained,

"Neither you guys nor Disney, but Captain Jack's exaggerated popularity and charisma are actually bluffed, forgetting that he is actually a wicked and funny character in the movie."

"You mean—"

As Charlotte’s old partner, Old Gun was the first to react.

"——Captain Jack alone can't hold up the complete storyline!?"

"It's not that serious."

Charlotte shook her head.

"However, just like the military principle of "just fit and win by surprise", unless it is a simple comedy, it still needs a normal role after all-just like in many stories, the protagonist's popularity is often not as good as that. There are some supporting roles, but we cannot simply think that there is no protagonist, only supporting roles are enough."

This is the most obvious in Japanese comics and animations compared to Hollywood movies——

Whether it is "Reaper" or "Inuyasha", there are supporting roles that are more popular than the protagonist.

This is of course due to the excellent supporting roles, but in the final analysis, it is also because they are only supporting roles.

——Compared with the need to connect the story trend, as the protagonist whose values ​​are not too biased, the supporting actors have much higher degrees of freedom.

They only need to express their own personality and let the people who watch it like it.

In the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, although Captain Jack is not a supporting role, he is not the protagonist in the traditional sense.

——At least in the first part of the series with the most praise, Will Turner, not Captain Jack, has the most series of plots.

In the fourth "Stranger Waves", there is no relatively traditional Will Turner and Elizabeth, Captain Jack must take the task of connecting the story with the charm of the characters, and the task that makes people like it. , The whole story is obviously out of control——

It can be said that although the story of the fourth "Stranger Waves" is also good, there are not many normal people in it, which makes the audience lose the perspective of substituting the story and lose a sense of immersion.

——When the audience can't fully immerse themselves in the story, they will naturally be picky.

It can be said that it is precisely because of the failure of "Stranger Tides" that Disney realized that the orthodox male and female protagonists are not useless in the story.

——They are not only the perspective that the audience enters, but they also play a role in connecting the story and contrasting with the evil Captain Jack, highlighting its charm.

The good and bad in this world depend on comparison!

So, in the fifth "Dead No Contest", Will Turner's son and Captain Barbosa's daughter appeared, and formed a new trio with Captain Jack...

To a certain extent, the role of Captain Jack should actually be a role similar to that of the portable grandfather in the online novel.

However, the role of this "grandfather" is too strong, making him more eye-catching than the normal protagonist.

But even so, it does not mean that you can completely abandon the traditional protagonist and directly use "Grandpa" as the protagonist...

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Of course, many of Charlotte’s reasons cannot be told to Old Gun and Mr. Westwood.

But even so, after he explained that "Captain Jack's charm needs the contrast of orthodox characters to be displayed", everyone understood what he meant--

"Charlotte's words make sense!"

As a veteran producer, Mr. Westwood first expressed his approval.

"Captain Jack's current charm is indeed obtained through comparison. When he becomes an absolute single protagonist, the film will either be completely overwhelmed by the orthodox elements and become unbalanced, or Jack's own positioning must be added to the bias. The element of the character-this can easily cause the character to lose charm."

"So a movie with Captain Jack as the absolute protagonist will be more difficult to shoot than a movie with Will Turner as the protagonist!"

The old gun also understood the meaning,

"But that's what I said, but compared to Captain Jack's popularity, Will Turner's popularity is a bit worse after all, right?"

"But the pay is also low!"

Because Mr. Westwood still doesn't know Ruifan's true identity~www.readwn.com~, Charlotte didn't say that Ruifan is a ghost, and the salary paid to him is not normal.

The point is that even with his current status as Phoenix Ryton, the pay will not be particularly high.

——Who made him a "newcomer" after all?

"In this way, we can use a lower cost to open up a branch series of "Pirates of the Caribbean"."

Charlotte shrugged.

"In this way, we can make a lot of money. If we don't, the loss won't be too great. And—"

Mr. Director smiled,

"Isn't the story behind the "Flying Dutchman" worth looking forward to in itself? — At least, we can make a story with the feeling of "Twenty Thousand Miles Under the Sea", right?"

"That's a good idea!"

Hearing Charlotte's words, the old gun also shines...