You Made Me a Superstar

   Chapter 400 Classic Movie!

   After carefully reading the script draft of the movie "American Gangster History", Zhou Yang couldn't help but marvel at Zheng Jun's talent.

The original film of "American Gangster History" is a film with a very typical time and space interlaced structure. The draft script will be written in three ways: flashback, interlude and sequence. The story is very vividly displayed, especially the understanding of the culture of the United States during that period, which makes Zhou Yang can't help but suspect that the author of the draft script of "The History of American Gangsters" is an authentic old American native scholar. ...

   However, the draft of the script "History of American Gangsters" is not perfect. The narrative of the events is perfect, but the more perfect things are, the more complicated and lengthy the story is.

   It’s okay to shoot a TV series, but if you really want to move this story to the big screen, you might not be able to finish it in 20 hours…

In addition to the narrative being more verbose than "Once Upon a Time in America", the unimportant side plots are also quite cumbersome. After watching "American Gangster History", Zhou Yang's first impression was that Zheng Jun paid too much attention to the so-called art, but forgot the film itself. The choice, although very grounded, the theme of the whole film is slightly lacking.

   two days.

   Zhou Yang turned off his mobile phone, cut off all communication tools with the outside world, locked himself in the small room of SKY company, carefully read various materials, and thought about the episodes of "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​in his memory...

   Two years ago, Zhou Yang didn't know so much film knowledge. After reading the commentary of "Once Upon a Time in America", he didn't care about some of the detailed shots in it.

   But when Zhou Yang recalled the scenes of "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​two years later, he felt more and more that the film was a classic, and even annoyed why he didn't watch the film well from beginning to end.

The draft script of "American Gangster History" was deleted by Zhou Yang, and added the classic plot of "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​in memory, and integrated childhood friendship, love, loss, greed, violence, the passage of time, and the rupture of relationships. Themes such as the old American criminal gangs, etc., and sublimate these themes one by one through the plot.

   "Hoo!"

  The morning sun in Los Angeles shines on Zhou Yang's desk.

   Zhou Yang, who hadn't adjusted the jet lag, stayed up all night. Instead of feeling tired, he felt extra-spirited.

   He carefully reviewed the draft of "History of American Gangsters" and his revised draft, typed it out on the printer, and even had a dozen pages of revisions.

He is not talented. In fact, he modified it on the basis of "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​and carefully searched the memory in his mind. After confirming that he could no longer make any modifications or improvements, he It was only after a long sigh of relief that it seemed that he had finished something, and he was extremely happy.

   He stood up from his office chair, stretched, and after eating something, he opened the door.

   "Mr. Zhou!"

  The door...

  Zheng Jun has been waiting for a long time. When he saw Zhou Yang come out, he immediately stood up excitedly and began to speak incoherently: "We, burst! Burst, burst!"

   Walkway.

   Zheng Jun's voice was so loud that Zhou Yang's eardrums were shaking constantly.

   "What exploded?"

   ""The Departed" exploded! The box office was $6 million, higher than "The Chainsaw"! Mr. Zhou, I did it... Yes, I did it... Mr. Zhou, I can do it..."

Zheng Jun shouted excitedly, and then shivered and handed a large stack of box office data to Zhou Yang. He stared at Zhou Yang closely, his eyes were full of anticipation, vaguely, as if a flame was burning in it. Emits a fiery glow.

   Debut in her twenties!

   He wanted to prove his level in the film industry with passion, and took the film to overseas exhibitions, but he committed a taboo and was banned.

  The youth is gone, the dream is shattered, and even once down and out, relying on selling scripts to make a living.

   But the setbacks in life did not knock down this fanatical filmmaker. The flame in his heart was not extinguished, but became brighter after repeated blows.

   He was so eager to succeed once!

   Even if the success is extremely short-lived, even if it is just the dust in this big era, it will be taken away by the wind at any time!

   At the entrance of the aisle, he was half-haired and cheered like a child.

  After not getting Zhou Yang's response for a long time, his excited expression suddenly became a little panic, the smile on his face gradually stiffened, and then he began to become embarrassed.

   Immediately afterwards, the aisle became silent, Zhou Yang just looked at him silently...

   His heart suddenly began to sink a little, as if a darkness swept his body again, and finally he was engulfed in the darkness and could not extricate himself.

   An investment of 10 million US dollars is not a small amount after all. President Zhou himself has not made such a large investment. I am afraid...

   Suddenly this thought appeared in my mind, and when this thought appeared, it was instantly irresistible.

  He lowered his head subconsciously.

   "I changed the script a little bit, you can see if it works..."

   "If you think it works, shoot like this, if you think it doesn't work, shoot according to your ideas..."

   "Ten million dollars, tell the finance department, and I'll give you a note, how much should you pay for "The Departed", not a penny!"

  “…”

   At this moment, Zhou Yang's voice entered his mind.

   He was shocked, and then raised his head in disbelief, only to see Zhou Yang showing a smile.

  's smile is extraordinarily gentle, like a touch of warm sun in winter, which makes him very warm!

   Then, Zhou Yang printed out the revised "History of American Gangsters" and handed it over to him.

   He watched the revised version of "History of American Gangsters" for the first time. The more he read, the more surprised and excited he became!

His script draft is just a concept in the movie, a story, many details in it need to be sculpted over and over again, and need to be refined and analyzed again and again, and Zhou Yang has refined the story and even sorted out the entire script. Clearly, completely reached his ideal state...

   Time passed little by little.

   He carefully read the script from the beginning to the end...

   After watching it, my pupils shrank suddenly, and then my eyes widened, I felt goosebumps straight up, and my scalp was numb!

"This……"

   "Mr. Zhou, this movie, if it's really shot like this, will definitely become a classic old American movie, not inferior to the classic movie "New York 1920"!"

   "Yes, absolutely!"

   "I promise..."

   "Mr. Zhou, I didn't expect you to be so powerful. You have such a deep understanding of the art of the old beauty's era and movies..."

   "I will definitely make it well, give me some time, I will read the script carefully again..."

   Zheng Jun panted heavily, his voice trembling, echoing over and over at the aisle.

  …………………………

   "Superman 2" is in full swing.

  53 million, this is a milestone for Huaxia Films and another peak in James Lee's career.

  James Lee is naturally happy.

   But it was limited to being happy, not as excited as others imagined.

   "More than a hundred years ago, my ancestors had their own colony in this place, and everyone knelt before us..."

   "More than a hundred years later, I'm just doing the same thing as my ancestor, but in a different field, that's all..."

When the assistant excitedly told James Li the box office data of the second day of "Superman 2", he sat on the chair in the presidential suite of the Yanjing Hotel, looked down at the whole of Yanjing, and then took out the Huaxia Entertainment Circle. The directors showed some smiles on their faces in the various pursuits of this "lecture".

This year……

   Perhaps because of Zhou Yang's birth, or the operation of relevant departments in China, Hollywood movies are not very good at the box office in China.

After the appearance of    "The Grandmaster", there is a vague tendency to compete with Hollywood movies...

   This makes many Hollywood directors feel ashamed, and Robert Jr., the director of "Interstellar", is ridiculed by all his Hollywood colleagues. He feels that his films are simply discrediting Hollywood, and the shame is thrown to China.

  Director Robert Jr. was even laughed at as suffering from depression.

   Initially, "Superman 2" was going to be released in mid-September.

However, when the movie "Infernal Affairs" suddenly emerged, and the director of "Men in Black" Cheles changed the schedule so as not to compete with "Infernal Affairs" at the box office, a large number of old American movies on the Internet ridiculed Cheles, Some people even took the rhythm and said that when Hollywood movies lost their supposed dominance in China, James Li couldn't sit still in an instant. He thought of his ancestors and today's Chinese movies...

   So!

   He adjusted the schedule of "Superman 2" to August to compete with "Infernal Affairs".

   In fact…

The    effect is really good.

   "Mr. James, we are almost going home..."

"Returning to China? I'm really reluctant. Many directors in Huaxia have an almost crazy admiration for us. I stayed in Huaxia, just like the original slave owner... Back in the United States, there may be a sense of gap. …”

in the room.

   he sighed.

   He really enjoyed the feeling of being a superior person in Huaxia.

   No matter where they go, they always talk about movies, even if there is no nutrition, these directors can always find the most profound movie philosophy, and then they are sought after and regarded as classics...

The assistant    laughed.

   Before he could say anything else, he heard the phone vibrate, and then the assistant received a movie message from Laomei.

   When receiving the message, the assistant's expression was very exciting.

   "Mr. James, our "Superman 2" box office in the US does not seem to meet expectations..."

"Um?"

  The smile on James Li's face gradually solidified, and then he glanced at his assistant suspiciously.

"And the word-of-mouth on the Tomato Movie Internet has been surpassed by The Departed..." The assistant turned on the computer, and then muttered to himself in disbelief: "Christian and the Black Councillor Olsen are working on this movie. Propaganda..."

   (end of this chapter)