Chapter 407: What is the method used by Marvel editors to create all things?
In the "real world", Marvel executives suddenly launched an investigation that left employees baffled.
They are an entertainment company. In the past, the most investigations involved were tax issues, and people from the Federal Taxation Bureau had to take action.
This time, I suddenly want to check the value identity and cultural preference... What are you doing! Isn’t this what autocratic governments like to do?
Although other company executives expressed doubts about this matter, Kevin Feige, as president, and Jonathan Hickman, the editor-in-chief responsible for content creation, vigorously promoted it, and the focus of the investigation was on Jonathan's editor Department, other departments are just following the procedures, so there is no need to mess with the CEO's face.
Whoever made this person famous and recognized by Disney cannot shake his status just by such a small thing.
In the editorial department, all editors must pass the test, especially Asian editors, let alone Chinese ones.
With the development of China's economy in the past decade or so, China has surpassed Japan and become the world's second largest box office. All Hollywood film companies are trying to find ways to get a piece of the pie, not only inserting a lot of Chinese elements into movies , hiring Chinese actors, and even behind-the-scenes jobs such as writing, directing, photography, and editing have also introduced many Chinese.
It is a pity and necessity that the United States cannot change its own arrogance and prejudice, and the Chinese elements inserted are specious. Even if the proportion of Chinese actors' roles is not small, they have a bit of a "harlequin" flavor. The clown-like plot is set up to give European and American audiences a sense of satisfaction and vent their emotional value so that they can continue to maintain their high self-esteem.
The domestic audience has gradually reacted to the initial excitement of gaining "international recognition". After recognizing the ugly face of Western countries and even the entire culture against China, they have become less and less willing to pay the bill.
Especially as they become stronger, the national self-confidence becomes stronger and stronger, and they begin to export reverse culture.
But with the size of the second largest banknote warehouse here, wouldn’t you make a lot of money?
This is not in line with the spirit of capitalism at all!
As a result, major Hollywood companies are recruiting creative consultants or publicity personnel who truly understand the tastes of Chinese people, and even directly let Chinese people serve as directors.
They are trying to find a balance between the grand strategy of cultural export and earning box office.
In this regard, a number of good works have been created, which have harvested a large amount of box office from the Chinese market.
Marvel Studios’ previous “Avengers Series” is a typical example of attracting money and cultural output.
So in the past ten years or so, there have been a lot of Asian and even Chinese employees in Marvel. Some of them are immigrants who have lived in the United States since childhood, and some are simply top students who have just graduated from China.
These top students think they have caught up with the good times. Looking back thirty or forty years ago, no matter how talented their predecessors were, no matter how high-level jobs they held in China, they had to start washing dishes after coming to the United States. From the beginning, unlike them, they were able to join a big company and show off loudly to their parents when they came home during the Chinese New Year, attracting a lot of envy.
Lin Hao had similar factors when he came to apply for a job at Marvel.
So the artificial human clone he left behind naturally received a lot of attention.
"Mr. Wang, you have been working in the company for three and a half years, but you have never returned home. It is recorded in the file that you still have family in China..."
This time caused by Marvel The investigation was jointly conducted by a headhunting company and a security company hired by Kevin Feige from outside.
There is a good or bad thing about the United States. After government employees retire and are released from the confidentiality period, they can work in private companies.
Especially after senior executives of powerful departments like the CIA and FBI retire, many companies will rush to spend a lot of money to hire them to be responsible for the security or internal affairs review of their own companies.
The same goes for the tax officials of the Federal Internal Revenue Service. After they graduate, they either join a large company or set up their own accounting firm. Anyway, there is no shortage of money to make.
Were it not for the fact that the nine top judges of the federal courts are tenured for life, companies scrambling to get more from them.
Among the professionals Kevin Feige hired this time were senior executives who had served in the CIA for many years and were best at interrogation and intelligence analysis.
Now that we have realized the great value that the movie universe and its characters can bring, what does this cost mean?
Finding out the source of the problem is what he is most concerned about now. "Well...I have video calls with my family every day...every day."
Lin Hao’s artificial clone maintained his usual personality, shy and timid, avoiding the other party’s intimidating gaze.
After the "Li Dai Tao Zhan" plan was completed, the artificial human clone Lin Hao deliberately left behind only had the role of "Zhan Keng" to maintain his editor status.
So three and a half years later, his position was only promoted from an editorial assistant to an ordinary editor qualified to draw. Similar editors are common in any large animation creation company.
It is also commonly known as "ghostwriter" and tool painter.
Although they hold the title of "editor", they have no power to decide the content and plot. They are only responsible for beautifying and modifying the original manuscripts of the creators. Some of them do not even have original manuscripts. They must design the pictures and even the lines according to the creator's plot summary. .
What is even worse is that the works created by unknown painters are directly used by established and well-known authors, and have become "in demand" for more than ten years.
This kind of position is the safest, inconspicuous and very important. With excellent painting skills, it will not be "optimized" by Marvel's human resources department. The position is not high, and it will not cause covetousness and unnecessary trouble. .
The key is to be able to touch the drawings with your own hands!
Nowadays, most of the published manuscripts of well-known comics are written by "ghostwriter" artists, and the original author's hand-drawn manuscripts can only be reduced to collectibles.
Anyway, the power of the magic pen does not depend on whose name it is signed, it is fairer than others!
The retired senior executive from the CIA carefully observed the Asian painter named "Wang Yuan" and found that his performance was exactly the same as the personality traits recorded in the information and the daily evaluations of his colleagues. He drew him in his heart. "√", but kept calm and continued to ask other questions.
Lin Hao’s artificial human clone underwent more than half an hour of review, and naturally no problems were found.
After all, the person with the magic pen ability is Lin Hao himself. Every time he needs to use editing permissions, he comes to perform the operation in person, and every time he erases the beginning and end with the "power of time".
Only if these ordinary people can find out are there ghosts!
What's more, the abilities Lin Hao acquired were all brought by little devils from other worlds, and were not "drawn" to him by Marvel editors at all.
Lingxian and Marvel executives took the wrong direction from the beginning.
Of course, they couldn't have imagined that Lin Hao would have such an unreasonable plug-in.
They don't even know what specific abilities Lin Hao has.
"Interrogation records, work monitoring, daily words and deeds... I even mobilized editors to report each other!" Jonathan's face was full of exhaustion: "Still nothing was found."
"Can you really find out who gave that Asian character the weird superpowers by doing this?"
Lingxian expressed doubts about their approach for most of half a month, but he did not stop it in advance. Anyway, time is meaningless to his father. As long as he finds a way here, he will immediately appear in front of Lin Hao and carry out a special attack.
“Should we first figure out what actions the editor needs to take to make changes to the multiverse, or what are the specific means by which you create everything?”
“Just draw it. Is it going to be a comic book, a movie, or is it going to be distributed, or even require a certain level of popularity?”
I will continue to write four or five chapters today.
(End of this chapter)