Chapter 334 Friendship
Wang Shu now has a little money, so the hotel he booked is relatively luxurious.
Zhang Hanyu, Fu Dalong, and Mei Ting all live in luxurious suites in the hotel.
This kind of suite is not like a room in a high-rise building, but an independent small villa with a garden.
As for the employees of Yishu Company, they naturally do not have such luxurious treatment, and they all live in decent hotel rooms.
Near evening, Wang Shu called Zhang Hanyu and Fu Dalong and asked them to come out for dinner.
The two of them had already eaten at the hotel and declined.
Wang Shu could only give up, and then had dinner with Mei Ting at a high-end restaurant in the city.
Mei Ting drank some red wine and pulled Wang Shu into her room when she returned to the hotel.
Because it is close to the Venice International Film Festival, there are many people booking rooms in the hotel.
Therefore, even though Wang Shu, Zhang Hanyu, Fu Dalong, and Mei Ting all live in the same hotel, they are actually not adjacent to each other.
For example, it takes more than ten minutes to walk from the small villa where Zhang Hanyu lives to Wang Shu's residence.
Mei Ting pulled Wang Shugang into the room and kissed him eagerly.
The two kissed and kissed until they reached the bed.
Mei Ting took advantage of the situation and pushed Wang Shu down.
Wang felt Mei Ting's movements, Wang Shu pushed himself up and sat up, and whispered: "Shall I go take a shower?"
Hearing this, Mei Ting looked up at Wang Shu, mouth Gugu was speechless and shook his head, his well-behaved and affectionate look making people lovable.
Seeing this, Wang Shu pinched her face and said warmly: "It's better to wash it and make it cleaner."
Mei Ting's mouth was no longer bulging now, and she showed a Zhang smiled and said softly: "It's okay, I don't mind."
The next day, Jiang Wen learned that Wang Shu and "The Crowd" had come to Venice, and the leading actors of the two crews gathered together.
"The Sun Also Rises" is a movie written, directed and acted by Jiang Wen. In addition to Jiang Wen himself, the starring actors include Jiang Wen's wife Zhou Yun, as well as Chen Chong, Huang Qiusheng and others.
Jiang Wen likes to drink. Regardless of his personal life, he is still very particular about his work.
Wang Shu is now a big director. Although he is not as good as Jiang Wen in terms of qualifications, his achievements in commercial films are far better than his.
Even Jiang Wen himself ridiculed that nine out of ten of his movies failed, and he didn't understand why "Let the Bullets Fly" was profitable.
In addition, Jiang Wen also greatly admired several films directed by Wang Shu, especially "The Tuner", which he applauded.
Therefore, during this drinking party, Jiang Wen did not act like a senior at all, but communicated with Wang Shu politely.
The two crew members first exchanged greetings. Chen Chong looked at Wang Shu with a smile and said, "Director Wang, long time no see."
"Long time no see." Wang Shu did the same. He responded politely with a smile.
When everyone around heard the conversation between Chen Chong and Wang Shu, they were stunned at first, and then suddenly realized.
Chen Chong had previously auditioned for the crew of "The Tuner" and met Wang Shu.
However, the final role was played by Jiang Wenli and Chen Chong was not cast.
Jiang Wenli also won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes International Film Festival for the film "The Tuner".
Thinking of this, Zhou Yun and others felt a little strange in their hearts.
If the role of the heroine in "The Tuner" was not played by Jiang Wenli, but by Chen Chong.
Then the best actress at the last Cannes Film Festival may have been Chen Chong.
Such a good opportunity was missed.
Zhou Yun thought that Chen Chong must be extremely regretful in his heart, regretting that he did not behave better at that time.
Otherwise
While everyone around them had different thoughts, Chen Chong smiled and said: "Suddenly I heard that a producer in Hollywood wanted to buy Director Wang's " The film adaptation rights of "The Tuner", right?"
Wang Shu heard Chen Chong suddenly ask and knew that there might be some rumors in Hollywood.
However, Chen Chonghui suddenly mentioned that he was obviously obsessed with the heroine who missed "The Tuner".
Wang Shu has not yet answered this question, but Jiang Wen couldn't wait to ask: "Hollywood wants to buy the rights to adapt Director Wang's film?"
Mei Ting and Zhang Hanyu stood aside. , Zhou Yun and others were also quite surprised when they heard the news. As the center of the world's film industry, Hollywood rarely purchases the film and television adaptation rights of Chinese-language films.
This time there is a producer who wants to buy the film and television adaptation rights of "The Tuner", which is amazing.
Seeing that Jiang Wen had already asked about it, Wang Shu had no choice but to reply: "Yes, Hollywood asked Sister Gong Li to talk to me about this matter."
"However, we are just chatting at the moment, and the follow-up is not certain yet."
When Zhou Yun, Mei Ting and others heard this, they were first surprised by the admission in Wang Shu's words, and then they were a little confused. When they think about it, what is the point of procrastinating and discussing the matter of purchasing the film and television adaptation rights of a movie?
As long as the money is available, it can be done in minutes.
Compared to the others, Jiang Wen, who was also the director, thought more. He took a deep look at Wang Shu and saw that Wang Shu didn’t want to say more, so he didn’t ask what was in his heart. guess.
When he thought about it, there was a rumor in Hollywood that even Chen Chong had heard about this kind of thing. It must have been something that had been negotiated a long time ago.
And after negotiating for so long but still not selling the film and television adaptation rights of "The Tuner", it must not be a matter of price.
But there are other additional conditions that the two parties have not agreed on.
Chen Chong was also quite surprised when he heard Wang Shu's words.
There were rumors in Hollywood. She thought that Wang Shu had sold the film and television adaptation rights of "The Tuner", but she didn't expect that they were still in talks?
She couldn't understand.
Because even if it is a price issue, it has taken such a long time that it has either been negotiated or broken up.
Although she was confused, she also knew that she was not familiar with Wang Shu, so she didn’t ask any more questions.
Afterwards, let’s eat and drink.
The friendship between the two crews inevitably involves talking about the movie. Zhou Yun asked in a timely manner: "Director Wang, when you come to Venice this time, are you confident that you will win a grand prize?"
Although This question was a bit presumptuous, but when the people around him heard this, they all looked at Wang Shu.
Wang Shu didn’t like popping champagne at halftime, so he said with a smile: “The films that can be shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival are all excellent films.”
“No one can say whether it will win an award. Okay."
"It just depends on fate."
"If it's in fate, it's not there."
Zhou Yun is obviously not satisfied with this. He replied with a smile: "Director Wang can speak accurately at such a young age"
After speaking, he subconsciously glanced at Jiang Wen, and then said, "In my opinion, with Director Wang's strength, there should be a high probability that he can win a big prize."
Wang Shu saw that Jiang Wen couldn't move. He said with a smile, pretending to be helpless: "Sister Zhou's words are very flattering. The films shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival are the best from the film circles around the world. How can it be so easy for me to win the award?"
< br>"I don't dare to hope for the grand prize. I will be satisfied if I can win a small prize."
After finishing speaking, he paused and changed the subject, "If we really want to say who can win the grand prize, I personally I think "Lust, Caution" directed by Li Yu has a good chance."
"Lust, Caution"?" Jiang Wen muttered when he heard this. He was so arrogant that he didn't think that "Lust, Caution" was directed by him. "Rise as Usual" is worse than "Lust, Caution". But the fact that Wang Shu knew was that at this Venice International Film Festival, "The Sun Also Rises" was only a shortlisted film and did not win any awards.
Moreover, this film even lost money.
"Lust, Caution" is different. It not only won the Golden Lion Award at this Venice Film Festival, but after the film was released, its box office was extremely high whether in the Mainland, Taiwan, or Hong Kong Island.
You must know that Zhang Yimou's "A City of Golden Armor" was released on Hong Kong Island, and the box office was less than 19 million Hong Kong dollars.
As for "Lust, Caution", the price is as high as more than 6,000 Hong Kong dollars.
In North America, it also earned US$5 million in box office.
After the domestic science fiction blockbuster "The Wandering Earth" landed in American theaters ten years later, it only made a few million at the box office, which was not as high as "Lust, Caution".
When Wang Shu mentioned "Lust, Caution" and Li Yu, the topic naturally shifted to this.
Because in everyone's eyes, Li Yu is indeed more likely to win the grand prize at the Venice Film Festival than Wang Shu.
During the dinner, Chen Chong talked to Wang Shu from time to time.
She played a supporting actress in "The Sun Also Rises," and the Venice International Film Festival does not award supporting actress awards.
She came here just to accompany the crew of "The Sun Also Rises", and she just appeared at the Venice International Film Festival.
Wang Shu didn't like Chen Chong at all, but because of his face, he always cooperated politely.
During the dinner, while Wang Shu only wanted to return to the hotel as soon as possible, Zhang Hanyu, Fu Dalong, and Mei Ting were happy.
Especially Zhang Hanyu and Fu Dalong started drinking with Jiang Wen.
Wang Shu also understood this.
After all, the person sitting at the dinner table is the living Jiang Wen, or the meal that Jiang Wen took the initiative to save.
And Zhang Hanyu, Fu Dalong, and Mei Ting are actors, so they naturally have the idea of being attracted by Jiang Wen.
But because Wang Shu was right next to him, and he was from the crew of "A Crowd of People", he was relatively restrained.
In the middle of the meal, Wang Shu went out to the bathroom, and happened to meet Chen Chong when he came out of the bathroom.
Chen Chong seemed to be waiting here specially. She smelled of wine and spoke to Wang Shu at the right time: "Director Wang doesn't seem to like drinking?"
While speaking, she took two steps towards Wang Shu, rich and strong The smell of perfume and alcohol hit my face.
Chen Chong made his debut in 1976. In 1979, he starred in the movie "Little Flower" with Tang Guoqiang and Liu Xiaoqin. For this film, he won the Best Actress Award at the 3rd Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award and the Best Actress at the Yugoslav Film Festival. Actor Award.
In 1981, he went to study in the United States. In 1986, he was discovered by Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis in a parking lot and was invited to star in the American movie "Taipan".
Yes, this Dino De Laurentiis is the same Dino De Laurentiis who asked Gong Li about the film adaptation rights of "The Tuner".
It was also through this relationship that Chen Chong accidentally learned that Dino De Laurentiis wanted to purchase the rights to adapt the film "The Tuner".
What she said earlier in the box was that word had spread in Hollywood that a producer wanted to buy the rights to adapt the film "The Tuner", but it was just to flatter Wang Shu's words.
Actually in Hollywood, only a few people know about it.
“Yes, I don’t like drinking very much.” Wang Shu answered with a smile.
"I know that Mr. Dino wants to buy the film adaptation rights of "The Tuner" from Director Wang." Chen Chong continued with a smile on his face, and saw the surprise on Wang Shu's face, which looked a little bit proud.
She continued with a smile: "What I'm confused about is that it shouldn't be too troublesome to talk about this kind of thing. Why is Director Wang still in negotiation with Mr. Dino?"
In the private room just now When she arrived, she immediately thought that the price had not been agreed upon.
Then I thought about it carefully and found something was wrong.
Thinking back to some of the news I learned, I instantly realized the key.
When Wang Shu heard this, he said carelessly: "On one side is Hollywood in the United States, and on the other side is the country. Not only are they thousands of miles apart, but they are also separated by the sea. It is very troublesome to communicate with each other, going back and forth. It’s a waste of time, and it’s normal that the negotiation was not concluded within a short period of time.”
"As far as I know, that shouldn't be the case, right?" Chen Chong looked at Wang Shu with a smile, as if he knew what was going on.
"Haha." Wang Shu laughed twice and said, "That's not the case, then what does Sister Chen know?"
Chen Chong saw that Wang Shu was still pretending to be confused. , hummed again, "As far as I know, Director Wang seems to want to direct this movie himself, right?"
Mainland directors who want to step into Hollywood cannot do it only by being famous and having achievements. .
For someone like Jiang Wen, who has already won awards at three European majors and made friends with many European and American directors and producers through the three major European majors, he still cannot get involved in Hollywood.
Like Li Yu, this is a top student who graduated from New York University's film major, and he first started working in Hollywood. He only returned to the treasure island when he couldn't make it, and then went to Hollywood after he had achieved results.
Like Wu Yutai, this person, like Chow Yun-fat, was able to go to Hollywood only because someone supported him with money and effort.
Furthermore, in Hollywood, most of the movies he made were B-level movies, and he was at the lower end of the contempt chain.
Then I wanted to change my career. I was immediately kicked out of Hollywood.
Wang Shu has no connections in Hollywood, and since he is Chinese, he is at the bottom of the racial contempt chain in the United States.
Therefore, even if he wins major awards from the three major European companies, and then takes the script to Hollywood to find producers or film and television companies for investment, no one will criticize him.
Although the Oscars are more commercial, after all, art films are more popular.
It is more commercial, and art films with a commercial flavor can also win Oscars, rather than nine out of ten like the three major European films.
It is undeniable that Wang Shu can make art films. He takes the script of an art film and looks for investors in Hollywood. Logically speaking, he should not hit a wall.
In fact, it will definitely hit a wall.
Because Oscar not only has American ZZ correctness, but also prefers academics.
And this is one of the reasons why Li Yu couldn't survive in Hollywood and returned to Taiwan to become famous and was called back and was able to continue to survive in Hollywood.
He is a top student graduating from New York University majoring in film, a true academic.
The corresponding Wu Yutai is making B-level movies in Hollywood to make money for film and television companies, and he can still survive.
The transformation failed, and he was swept directly into the sewers of Hollywood, and he had no choice but to return to China.
As for Wang Shu, not only is he not an academic in domestic entertainment, he is also not an academic in the United States. If he is not famous in Hollywood, it will be extremely difficult for the art films he directs in Hollywood to win awards.
This is the judgment in the eyes of Hollywood producers.
Therefore, even if he holds the script, it is difficult to find a producer to invest.
As for commercial films
Hollywood has no shortage of commercial film directors, nor commercial film scripts. There are a lot of assembly-line commercial film directors.
According to the Hollywood model, unless a big director directs a movie, producers prefer assembly-line commercial film directors to directors with personal ideas.
In other words, it is difficult for him to take this path.
But
If you have the opportunity to be invited to Hollywood, seize this opportunity and become famous in one fell swoop.
Then there will be more room for maneuver.
(End of this chapter)