China Entertainment: I have been a director since 05

Chapter 31 "Hearing Girl"

These days, everyone wants to visit 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 now.

It has been two years since Wu Baige dragged MGM to death.

Although it was not a war crime, it did directly cut into the middle of Wu Baige's huge reputation accumulated in Hollywood through Mission: Impossible 2.

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. Who in the beautiful country has the heart to watch a war movie? ah?

But no one cares about the reason for his failure, they only care about the consequences.

MGM is on the verge of bankruptcy, and only six of the seven giant companies are 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.

It 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 Golden Globe Award for Best Director. , step by step, I reached this position in Hollywood.

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 [-] million US dollars made him full of honors.

By the time "The Incredible Hulk" was filmed and released, the global box office of nearly 2.5 million U.S. dollars failed to win him a golden statue, but it at least left a Chinese seed in Hollywood. At that time, Wu Baige had already encountered Waterloo.

And "Brokeback Mountain" is Ang Lee's golden body.

This movie has only been released in the United States for more than a month, and it has made a box office of US$400 million with a production cost of US$1.78 million.

Focus Films, owned by investor Universal, was all smiles.

I wonder which director in China doesn’t envy such an honor?

Poet Chen was outside the door trying to get in, Wu Baige was thrown out of the door, Feng Pants and Lao Mouzi were all yearning for that position, but they couldn't peep into it.

This is not necessarily because they don't 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$4.7 million worldwide, also had an investment cost of only US$900 million because he already had experience in shooting multiple films.

In Hollywood, it is absolutely impossible to challenge the production company and distribution company to obtain the director's rights or even the director's editing rights for a movie with a few awesome scripts or a few best-selling books.

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.

this is the truth.

After the editing of "The Devotion of Suspect It's so high that you can reach it with your hand.

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 popular 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 goals of the film are:

In the beautiful country, it is both popular and popular.

In China, it must be released, and even after the release of SuspectOnly 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, he will definitely not be able to do it, such as "2012", "Inception" and the like. If Guan Ling and China Film Group want to invest, Han The Third Master 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 shot 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 and Television with this script, there is a high probability that it will not win their favor.

Therefore, although 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 selecting actors, Guan Ling would naturally consider at least one Chinese actor, 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 the other actors, Guan Ling can just 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 2014 million US dollars at the box office in 6000 with a small investment. You must know that the number of French movie screens at that time was more than 2006. Compared with [-] For the beautiful country, it is four times less.

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 the United States, and "Hearing Girl" even won the Best Picture at the Sundance Film Festival and the Academy Awards. This is the second film to win as a remake after "The Departed" The movie that became the Oscar winner for Best Picture.

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)