Chapter 31 "Hearing Girl"
These days, everyone wants to go to Hollywood.
Especially for directors, when you stand at the top of the film industry, you will naturally feel like you are looking down on everyone.
Even if Poet Chen made an incomprehensible Western Fantasy Wuji, he still hopes to give it a try. It can be seen that these directors are eager for Oscars, and behind this, they are also eager for Hollywood.
There are indeed not many Chinese directors in Hollywood nowadays.
Two years have passed since Wu Baige dragged MGM to death.
Although it was not a crime of war, it did bring back the wealth that Wu Baige had accumulated in Hollywood through Mission: Impossible 2. Such a big name was broken directly at the waist.
Many people think that this movie is a bad movie made by Wu Baige. In fact, it is not the case. Windtalker is a war movie, but it happened to catch up with the Nine Medicine Incident during its release. Are you thinking of watching a war movie?
But no one cares about the reason for his failure, they only care about the consequences.
MGM is on the verge of bankruptcy, with only six of the seven giant companies left. Wu Baige sadly retired and returned to Hong Kong this year. The past years seemed like a dream to him.
Just a month ago, director Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" was released. Just a few months ago, he just won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival for this movie, and in another month, he will With this film, he became the first Asian director to win an Academy Award.
Looks very powerful, but after six years of being a husband, Ang Lee has been nominated for the Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Director, the Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear, the Oscar for Best Foreign Language, and the American Film and Television Gold Medal. Nominated for the Ball Award for Best Director, he has reached this position in Hollywood step by step.
It was not until the release of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" that he jumped from an art film director to an upstart at Columbia Pictures. The global box office of 200 million US dollars made him full of honors.
After the filming and release of "The Incredible Hulk", the global box office of nearly 250 million US dollars failed to cast him a golden statue, but at least there was still a Chinese seed in Hollywood. At that time, Wu The white pigeon has encountered Waterloo.
And "Brokeback Mountain" is Ang Lee's golden body.
It has only been more than a month since this movie was released in the United States. With a production cost of US$14 million, it has grossed US$178 million at the box office.
Focus Films, an investor owned by Universal, had a face numb with laughter.
Which director in China does not envy such an honor?
Poet Chen was outside the door and wanted to go in. Wu Baige was thrown out of the door. Whether it was Feng Pants or Lao Mouzi, most of them yearned for that position, but they could not pry into it.
This is not necessarily because they do not have the ability, but it is undeniable that even if they step into the land of Hollywood, there are still not many people who dare to invest in their dreams.
Spielberg's Jaws, which grossed US$470 million worldwide, also had an investment cost of only US$9 million because he already had experience in shooting multiple films.
In Hollywood, it is impossible to challenge production companies and distribution companies and get the right to direct a movie or even direct the editing with just a few awesome scripts or a few best-selling books. right.
This is a place that pays attention to connections, experience and ability. For a movie that invests millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars, they will not find a director who has never proven that he can do it. Do.
This is reality.
After the editing of "The Devotion of Suspect The box office ceiling of the film industry is so high that you can reach it with your bare hands.
If Guan Ling wants to take another step forward, Hollywood is the only place. Nowadays, although major film festivals pursue the supremacy of art, Guan Ling can definitely rely on art films to win the top three films in Europe, but that is not a sufficient condition for him to enter Hollywood.
If you want to enter Hollywood, then show your independent films to their film festivals and attract their attention!
A movie that is both well-received and well-received is the best way to silence all of them.
This is Guan Ling’s idea. He is a person with strong execution ability. Now that he has decided to go to Hollywood, during the Chinese New Year, he has been thinking about which movie to shoot?
The goal of filming the movie is:
In the beautiful country, it will be both popular and popular.
In China, it must be released. Even after the release of Suspect Only in this way can he not only show his holiness in front of others, but also win more box office.
So for the time being, in Guan Ling's eyes, the latter part of the "Saw" series, the "Dead Silence" series, and the "Insidious" series are all out of the question. Not only will this go directly to the bottom of the contempt chain in the Hollywood film industry, but it will also be marked as a cult movie, which will make investors think that it will not achieve huge box office success.
In the remaining series, there are many movies to choose from, but if Guan Ling wants to shoot a movie with a very large investment, it will definitely not be possible, such as "2012", "Inception" and the like. If Guan Ling If he wants to invest in China Film, Mr. Han might be able to smash his head.
And some low-budget movies, such as "Little Miss Sunshine", are so recent that they should have been filmed by now. Guan Ling has no choice in movies like "Juno". This movie is not suitable for China in the first place. If he goes to China Film with this script, there is a high probability that he will not win their favor.
So, even though he returned home during the New Year, Guan Ling was still thinking hard and burning the midnight oil.
Finally, he chose the script and wrote it, in English.
When choosing actors, Guan Ling will naturally consider Chinese actors, at least one, and a genuine heroine.
Liu Yifei, as someone who grew up in the United States, naturally became Guan Ling’s first choice. Because I chose her, I didn’t need any training in English.
Just give her the American Sign Language training she needs in the movie.
As for other actors, Guan Ling can choose them in Hollywood when the time comes, because the actors needed for this movie are really not very good at choosing them for other movies.
The movie Guan Ling chose is called "Hearing Girl".
It is a remake of a French movie, and the name of this French movie is "The Baileys".
Guan Ling is sure that at the moment, there is no better choice than this movie.
As a French drama film, "The Baileys" earned more than 60 million U.S. dollars at the box office in 2014 with a small investment. You must know that at that time, the number of French movie screens was five More than a thousand yuan, which is four times less than the beautiful country in 2006.
At the same time, "The Baileys" won all the awards at the César Film Festival, France's top local film festival.
This movie was later remade by people from Beautiful Country, and "The Hearing Girl" even won the Best Picture at the Sundance Film Festival and the Academy Awards. This is the second film since "The Departed". The second film to win the Oscar for Best Picture as a remake.
At this moment, the script of this movie is in Guan Ling's hands.
On the other end of QQ was Liu Yifei, who was so shocked by Guan Ling's questions that she didn't dare to speak.
No more QQ messages were sent. The phone rang and Liu Yifei called.
(End of this chapter)