Coquettish Rebirth

On the other side of the world, Spielberg is watching "Monkey" with JK Rowling. [Queen of Tuning] This so-called "Monkey" is naturally "Journey to the West", but this Journey to the West is a relatively "thrifty" way, and the chapters of the hundred and ten chapters are shortened to about thirty chapters. , It can be seen how powerful this thing is deleted and modified!It is because of this that Spielberg and JK Rolina are quite dissatisfied-after knowing that the 30 chapters that I read now are actually 100 chapters, who would not want the deleted 70 chapters to be How pretty?

Indeed, there will be a lot of good things in these 70 chapters, there will be many, many backgrounds, and various struggles-in fact, the 30 chapters are just a single-line route for Monkey King to fight monsters and upgrade.However, even if it is such a simple route, it has become more compact and refreshing to some extent-this way, it is really a variety of fighting and exciting, it can be regarded as a stand-alone rpg strategy!

To some extent, it was because this "stand-alone strategy" was written too passionately that they were quite interested!Like now, when Spielberg and Rowling are together, they are discussing this book!

"I think this book is too funny. There are many surprises. For example, how can ordinary people think that God has a bureaucratic system in heaven, and everyone has a status and system and even a salary? Just thinking about it, it's very ironic about the civil service system!" Sister Rowling said with a smile at that time.

That's right, Miss Rowling didn't think at first that this wording was satirizing China or something like that. Her home country, England, is also a place where civil service politics is very developed. At the end of the development of the civil service system in the world, they are all the same procrastination and slow pace.It's like the political satire "Yes, Minister" that the United Kingdom went abroad in the 80s, and what this film talks about is that the civil servants of the affairs officer restrict the elected ministers of the political affairs officer.Because the civil servants feel that the ministers will leave in two or three years, and they dare to say any nonsense in order to attract votes, and their ministers have never learned management, and there is no pre-employment training, so their group of people do not manage at all Without the country, it can only be managed by the affairs officer. [

Take the United Kingdom as an example, this group of political officials, that is, politicians, takes office every 14 months on average.The former one probably focused on the privatization of the state-owned railway, and then after this one was privatized, another one came to power, and then it was about going to privatization and re-nationalizing, and then this one was nationalized again... I don’t blame the civil servants for this I think politicians are assholes.

Such a "Yes, Minister" caused great repercussions in Britain at that time.Back then, thousands of people went home to watch this TV series, and even the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had someone record it for her to watch.In addition, Jia Hongjian also heard that many civil servants in the UK would go home after get off work and watch the video tapes repeatedly, in order to use the TV series as a training course!

So in Rowling's view, all this is like a classic version of political satire comedy, "And, behind this, the demons Monkey King encountered on the road are basically the mounts or pets of gods. This is very worth pondering…”

"Well, I think so too, and a lot of the irony in it can be reproduced today, just like I told my children two days ago that if the boss of a big company in the United States cheated a lot of shareholders In terms of money, maybe he can enter the White House to receive a medal in the end..." Spielberg nodded and said, "But I think the best thing about this book is that it integrates the fighting with a strong sense of rhythm. In the plot, a fantasy story full of fantasy is integrated into the historical events of the year. This is like telling the story of the Crusades. Adding fantasy legends can attract a new generation of people through the protagonist’s experience Young people pay attention to the history of the past..."

Hearing this, Rowling suddenly asked. "By the way, Steve, do you think this can be made into a movie?" "This? It's a bit too long, right?" Spielberg said a bit embarrassed. "But my Harry Potter is also very long. According to our plan, we can shoot five or six or even more, so why can't they do this?" Rowling still didn't give up on turning this "Journey to the West" into a movie. Obviously, on this point, Rowling and Jia Hongjian have the same thoughts!

"The problem is that your Harry Potter is divided into parts, each one tells a separate story, and then each part is connected but independent, so it doesn't matter if these can be made into independent movies. But this "Monkey" is a long novel, and it is connected together. If this is to be a movie, there is no way to give a relatively independent small ending at the end of each movie, so that the audience will feel uncomfortable after reading it. If this If the length is shorter, after careful manipulation, there may be drama in the trilogy, but now the length is very condensed, and if a lot of things are simplified, the hidden meaning will be gone... So I think This is really not suitable for filming, but suitable for filming TV series, the kind of one hour one episode... well, it's a bit like hbo's TV show, one episode a week or a month, one hour per episode The kind with more points, so that the story can be told in a cinematic narrative, and it can also be free from space restrictions... It's amazing to say that, hbo just contacted me recently..."

Listening to Spielberg's words, Rowling laughed at the time, "Why, hbo contacted you to want you to make "Journey to the West"?" Spielberg laughed at the time, "I want to too! But unfortunately not, They bought a novel about World War II called "Band of Brothers". Didn't Tom Hanks and I participate in Jia Hongjian's "Saving Private Ryan"? HBO thinks it's realistic but a bit dramatic The story is a bit like "Band of Brothers", so they invited me and Tom Hanks to think about whether to take this TV series. They claimed that if we wanted to, they could give us an investment similar to the top Hollywood movies to make a TV series... By the way, don't tell outsiders about this."

Rowling was a little surprised when she heard it, "Band of Brothers"? I've heard of this book! HBO wants to make this book into a TV series? Can it also invest in top-level Hollywood movies? It also costs [-] million US dollars Don't you think so? This investment is really... quite enough! How about it, you agreed?" At that time, the eldest sister began to gossip curiously.

That's right, the book Band of Brothers is well-known in Europe and the United States, not to mention that it is no less than the investment of top Hollywood blockbusters, which makes people very curious!No matter which country or era it was in before, the investment in this TV series is definitely not as good as that of movies!This is the case even for American or British dramas. Because movies are larger in scale and can collect money directly from the audience, and the overall consumption time is short, there are not many restrictions on consumers, so the high scores can be very impressive. !

As for TV dramas, there are more requirements for the audience. First of all, because of the longer length, it is even more necessary for the audience to watch it in front of the TV every time it is broadcast, otherwise they have to record it regularly or ask others to help. Increased consumption costs.On the other hand, because movies appeared earlier than TV, movie stars are more famous than TV stars, and TV has become more of a "kindergarten" for movies, so in this way, there is no way to compete with movies!

But now, this wonderful TV station in the United States, hbo, used to make a cheap movie and broadcast it on TV a month ago, but at this time, it is going to start making TV series with the investment of the movie. Will the money be collected back?You must know that this hbo is different from other TV stations in other places. It does not rely on advertising fees to make a living, but like the British BB, it relies on users to pay for its living.However, BB has a mandatory TV tax. As long as a family has a TV, it must pay TV tax to BB, and this HBO relies on cable TV viewers to pay.So in general, the higher the investment in HBO, it doesn't necessarily mean the more money you can receive—assuming that 1000 million people in the United States are HBO's consumer groups, 1000 million people like to watch HBO's stuff.So even if hbo spends a billion dollars, but 1000 million people still like to watch it, if a family pays a cable TV fee of 100 dollars, then hbo will definitely not be able to recover the cost!

Therefore, this Rowling really thinks that HBO is a fortress, and has such great ambitions!At this time, I only heard Spielberg say, "That's why they came to me and Tom Hanks. Others make World War II films. The market appeal is probably not very good, but the two of us joined forces to make this "Salvation" The box office response of "Saving Private Ryan" in the US market is not bad, so they want to find us as much as possible, and then try to increase the ratings as much as possible, so as to stimulate more people who are interested in "Saving Private Ryan" to spend money to buy HBO's channel qualifications……"

Rowling nodded when she heard this, and thought to herself that this was the case—if Spielberg agreed to shoot, then after the preliminary preparations, HBO would start various promotions.Then everyone is interested in the excitement, so many people are ready to pay, and then they will start to show, so that many new viewers will join, which is not good for hbo In this way, the cost can be made back after broadcasting the first episode!Then the rest is to see if Spielberg and the others can satisfy the audience-according to hbo's standards, they don't care about the ratings. than ratings!What they can compare is the satisfaction rate of the audience, that is to say, whether the people who subscribed to the hbo program are satisfied!The more satisfied people, the more people will renew in the future! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote, monthly ticket, your support is my biggest motivation.)

〖∷Update fast∷∷Plain text∷〗