Chapter 459: Oriental flame

"I am a policeman."
In a quiet office room, Heath Ledger muttered to himself, writing something on the notebook from time to time, he was dissecting the character "Chen Yongren (lly)", because the specific background of the character and the duration of the undercover have not yet been determined , I did n’t even know what the name was before, Wang Yang said: "Do you like what name? This does n’t matter, okay, Billy!" Lly means "truncheon" in American English, which naturally implies "Billy" is actually a policeman.
Therefore, Heath can only jump and blur some feelings of this character in different periods, which is enough for him to figure out some characteristics, favorite habits, etc., so as to create a "Billy" belonging to him.
"Wow wow—" While he was immersed in a sad and uncomfortable emotion, suddenly the cry of the baby came from the monitor, and Matilda cried! Ledger couldn't help mōmō nose, got up and walked in love and annoyance, of course, his daughter is anyone in his heart, but not "Billy", what should I do? This is not a play! How do other actors handle these relationships? He frowned, did he want to leave them for some time, shut himself up and be isolated from the world?
"Horseshoe, what's wrong? Ha ha! Dad hugs ..."
Heath Ledger is notoriously picky and accustomed to acting, but because of his superb acting skills and popular popularity, he still has a lot of film appointments under careful selection. Four films were released last year. Now that he has a wife and a daughter, he has become a family lover and does not want to take up so much work. Now he has only two film appointments, one is the US version of "Infernal Affairs" which was released in July this year, and the other is expected to be in the second season "Dark Knight" started shooting, and before finishing these two films, he will not take other films, it is enough.
It ’s also dangerous. Ledger almost could n’t participate in the American version of Infernal Affairs due to a schedule conflict, and missed
Billy
with regret; but fortunately, he gave up the same
I ’m not there
that is scheduled to start in July. The corner of "Robby" chose to join Infernal Affairs.
"I'm Not There" is a story about the life of legendary singer Bob Dylan, a musical biographical feature film, Publisher: Weinstein Pictures, Director Screenwriter: Todd Hines, starring: Kate Blanchett, Christian Bell ... is also scheduled to be released this year or the end of next year, what does this mean? If this independent film is a good work, the Weinstein brothers will not let it go unnoticed during the award season, the genre positioning is like last year's "Walk with Song", the previous "Ling Hún Song King" and so on.
Heath Ledger is an infernal person in Infernal Affairs, but he also has other jobs. Recently he and his famous singer Ben Harper intend to set up a record company and step into the music world to find out. Regardless of Ledger or Harper, he hopes to get miraculously young, but his interest is not great.
In fact, it is not that Wang Yang is not interested. It is because the film work has tossed him so fast that he ca n’t even sleep in time! He absolutely does not allow himself to sacrifice family time, and he is not willing to invest only money. He knows that once he joins a team, he will not be able to sit back and watch, as if opening the Pandora box, so this matter needs to be considered carefully. In addition, if he wants to start a music company in partnership, he feels that this "Big Three" lineup is a bit bad.
He was too busy, and the second was a rookie in the music industry; Ledger was clearly playing tickets, and he did not have much "business ability" with his feelings; Harper had experience and connections, but his management skills and vision Not enough, he just feels that someone is needed.
Time is rushing and there is not much time to think about the music company. Wang Yang has been busy preparing for the two films. Of course, he cannot do everything by himself. Many matters are assigned, and he will not be the US version of Infernal Affairs. The producer of the first production has managed a lot of things, but the script adaptation has to be taken care of anyway, and is already imminent. At least the character setting and scene outline should be listed to carry out substantive preparations.
How to adapt Infernal Affairs? This problem caused Wang Yang to have some headaches. He did n’t want to disappoint the audience in Asia, nor did he want to disappoint the audience in Europe and America. However, for this adaptation from east to west, there must be a difference in concept, he is sure Need to choose a camp or a closer camp.
The WB version of The-Departed (literally translated as the dead) undoubtedly chose the Western camp. It seems to be telling a story similar to "Infernal Affairs", but the style and buried theme are completely different, provided The movie viewing experience and energy are also different. This is precisely because of the overall cultural differences, beliefs, and interpretations of good and evil, good and evil, etc. of the creative team of directors, screenwriters, actors and so on ...
The different themes and styles in turn lead to different stories and characters, for example, a very crucial point: time. In Infernal Affairs, Chen Yongren and Liu Jianming have been undercover for almost ten years, which has made Chen Yongren contaminated with more suffocation. At the same time, his words and deeds have already tended to be calm and calm, even if he is suffering inwardly; "It was not long after the two police officers graduated undercover, and the two were in a different state of mind and behavior.
The two movies have their own unique features and their own personalities. If you want to set a preference, Wang Yang prefers Infernal Affairs because it gives more memorable and tasteful emotions, regardless of Is it a relationship between characters or characters; The Business of Infernal Affairs is stronger, it tells emotions and stories in a rude, unrestrained, straightforward, straightforward, realistic way, and finally completes the theme, so its characters and Under the contrast, the relationship between the characters is simple, black and white, and their complex and contradictory inner world is a bit superficial.
The evaluation of Infernal Affairs in the United States is naturally very good. The three indicators of Rotten Tomatoes are billions of dollars at the box office. Oscar ’s best film, best director, best adapted script, best editing, one can imagine people ’s "Americanization" After the endless story and emotion are very interested.
It is very common in Asia. It only received US $ 1.03 million at the box office in Hong Kong, and Taiwan did not even introduce 1.21 million in Singapore or mainland China. Most of the media disdain them for it and think it is just a boring movie. This is not difficult to understand. Most of the audience watched with the mentality of "Infernal Affairs" PK "Infernal Affairs", and as a result, they saw very similar stories, American-style thinking and emotions, so damaging gods, It's strange that everyone has a good face.
Wang Yang understands that no matter what it is made of, it is inevitable that it will be taken by others. Compared with the original version, it seems that one party will inevitably be disappointed. How can both fish and bear paw?
In a flash, he figured it out. The way to get both fish and bear paws is to shoot according to his own ideas! He will consider the aesthetics of North American audiences and Asian audiences, but he will not be bound by them. This is a "non-traditional commercial film." The most important thing is, what exactly does he want to get in such a double undercover story?
"Lonely." It is also lonely, and it is a loneliness suffering from different pains, a loneliness that can't even be solved by death. Wang Yang knows that it is what he wants.
Another major reason why Wang Yang prefers Infernal Affairs is that the performance is great! The gang of talented old dramas supported the whole movie, especially the four men, which is really wonderful! This is where "Infernal Affairs" has a gap. As a hot film that won the Oscar of the year, it only received one nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Mark-Walber) in terms of performance awards. Grid), it can be explained from the side that the actors' performance is not amazing.
It ca n’t be said that it ’s bad, it can be called
complete the work out of the place
, but there is a better chance, the problem is all in the control of the fire, and Leonardo DiCaprio (Chen Yongren) strains his nerves too tightly By the way, he seems to be erupting all the time; Matt da méng (Liu Jianming) is almost useless. If Leonardo ’s fire is too hot, he is too weak; and Jack Nicholson (Han Chen) ’s role is a bit excessive, and at the same time his performance is very tempting, causing the fire to run out of control from the other end; As for Martin Xin (Officer Huang), he barely left any deep impression.
Except for Heath Ledger who played Chen Yongren, the cast is still blank. Liu Jianming, Han Chen and Officer Huang will definitely be on the scene. There is no shortage of actors on the shortlist.
Although Matt Daemeng was allowed to participate in Liu Jianming's audition, Wang Yang felt that most of him would not be him. Martin Scorsese's ability to direct is undoubted, but Dammeng still showed limited interpretation of this angle. Cosses likes it, but Wang Yang does n’t like that style, unless Da Méng had different performances that impressed him during the audition; Jack Gyllenhaal ’s audition inquiry was directly rejected.
It is only a few months away from the start of filming, there is not so much time for the actors to slowly brew, and the shooting situation is bound to be very tense, so he must choose the kind of guy who has a diagonal heart and is crazy enough to enter the scene, and Michael Pete is also " "Liu Jianming" is on the audition list, but the performance will be known later.
"I don't know the answer until I see the script." Jack Nicholson responded to the invitation so far, he was happy to pack Heath Ledger, and was interested in "Infernal Affairs" tǐng. Wang Yang said to him: "You will soon" The length of the NBA topic in the two people's conversation has fallen into a large number, because Nicholson raised his head and asked why he could not be seen at the Staples Center recently? Wang Yang naturally said he was busy, and then it was more interesting to watch TV with his baby at home. Then I talked about whether the Lakers can make the playoffs, the upcoming All-Star Game, and which team is the championship ...
As a result, in the All-Star Game, the East staged a major reversal with 21 points behind, defeating the West 122-120, and LeBron James, who scored 29 points, took up his first MVP trophy and took Tracy at home- McGrady and MVP missed each other, Yao Ming continued to be mediocre.
"Flame and Huayi jointly set up Oriental Flame, planning to launch a joint venture Chinese movie in the next five years"-Sina Entertainment; "Flame Huayi founded Oriental Flame, flame Chinese movie will be visible in five years"-NetEase Entertainment; Directing Chinese-language movies " Tencent Entertainment ...
Although not as eye-catching as the NBA All-Star Game news, this news has attracted a lot of fans! Oriental Flame Entertainment! ? Wang Yang directed Chinese movies! ? what happened! ?
After reading the news in a hurry, the movie fans were excited and disappointed again, the editor who suffered a thousand knives! It turns out that Flame Film and Beijing Huayi Brothers Media Group have finalized a cooperation agreement to establish a new film and television production company "East-Flames". The company will be headquartered in Shanghai. The first film project is expected to be within the next five years Complete and release. It is understood that Flame Film will be responsible for the future global distribution of EF films, while Huayi Brothers will be responsible for the distribution in China.
"This is a huge and exciting opportunity." Flame Group Mark Srant said, "China's film market is developing rapidly, each year has a different look, we believe that in the next 10 years, it will become One of the most negligible movie markets in the world may be the biggest. "He also said that Oriental Flame will create a Chinese-American co-production film with Chinese culture as the background. Both Chinese and English films will have the opportunity to be put into production, which will be the mainland Unprecedented big production.
"We are very sure that after a high-cost and high-tech meticulous creation of the Chinese story, it has a broad market in the world." The words of Srant all imply that the EF film is meant to be global, and it will not only serve China. The audience, in addition, he also hinted that EF will plan to introduce some typical "Hollywood movies" genres, such as superheroes, youth campuses, family comedies, etc. into China, he said: "We believe that these movies are quite dynamic no matter where they are. , Chinese audiences should have their own "High School Musical". "
"Actually, the two of us want to make movies, mainly for big production, at least more than 100 million US dollars ..." Hua Yi brothers Dong Mi Hu Ming also interviewed by reporters and talked about some detailed cooperation intentions She has even more amazing news, Wang Yang may direct EF's first Chinese film!
Wang Yang, who was interviewed by a Sina reporter over the phone there, expressed a lot of excitement. When answering the question of "directing Chinese films", he smiled and said: "We cannot rule out this possibility, we cannot rule out any possibility, but as of now Say, I need to make the best of the two movies I have in hand. "
This is the reason why Chinese movie fans have been disappointed. First of all, Flame did not say that EF ’s first film project must be Chinese movies, and most of them are English movies for the world market, and then add a few popular Chinese actors to play supporting roles. Normal people can see that Wang Yang said polite words, but Hu Ming has a good saying, "It was impossible 20 years ago." In any case, this form of co-production is the first time in the history of China & Hollywood, At least it is a Chinese story! $ 100 million budget! history? Fantasy? Science fiction? There is already reason to look forward to it.
As for the Chinese version of "High School Musical"? The most fans of singing and dancing raised their brows, and they felt a bit creepy when they thought about it ...
A Chinese-language live-action film with a production cost of US $ 100 million? Not to mention 20 years ago, it was hard to imagine 5 years ago! Even "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won a big victory. But the facts lie ahead, the Chinese film market is growing stronger, and Flame Movies has completed an important step in Asia's deployment faster and earlier than any company. The North American media are beyond emotion, and have no doubt about it. Will it develop so fast? ! Become the world's largest market within 10 years? Are you kidding me?
No one knows now. It ’s just that Flame and Huayi Brothers have made Hollywood filmmakers feel a little uneasy. If the Chinese market really becomes so exaggerated in a few years, they will undoubtedly slow down a big step, and their joint venture movies have come out. So, did they find a partner to start a company?
Of course, it is necessary to hold a strong Chinese company to hold a controlling share, otherwise it is very likely that we ca n’t do anything, and there will be no change in the distribution resources! To know that this joint venture film has a huge power ~ EbookFREE.me ~ to break the annual import quota, the company opened in China, Huayi Brothers distribution is not considered to be imported, and do not have to compete with other filmmakers for blood.
In fact, the 20 quotas introduced each year competed very fiercely. It is rumored that many companies secretly broke through the boundaries of ordinary lobbying. This also led to the final decision of the flame film to participate in the investment of "Chibi". A warm invitation, FF is not good to refuse. Wang Yang has refused to give face to Han Sanping for several times, and the right to introduce any movie is in their hands. If there is any unpleasantness, who will guarantee that FF will still have a quota?
No matter how high the box office is, if Yang is "blocked" and the plot is serious, his name will even disappear immediately, and he has to be treated with caution. However, the proportion of Flame Film's participation in "Red Cliff" is not high, only 10%, about 10 million US dollars, which is not a high risk.
As for Oriental Flame, which is only a shell company, the current Flame Holdings is 80.1%, while Huayi is 19.9%, the two unanimously by pulling a group of people in Hong Kong to come in, one to share the risk, and the other to get the representative of Hong Kong stand by.
These things are not in a hurry, because obviously the market is not yet mature, the time has not yet come, and the first project of Dongfang Flame is still blank. The flame movie on the other half of the earth is full of heat, and Wang Yang is so busy every day ... .