Coquettish Rebirth

Jia Hongjian made a special trip to the United States, and sent Rowling and the child back by the way.The visas of Rowling and her children are about to expire.On this trip to America, Jia Hongjian mainly wanted to meet Nolan for a while!Nolan is of course a genius, there is no doubt that this director born in 70 is only 30 years old now, and he already has two works, a previous low-budget work was echoed at the independent film festival Yes, it allowed him to raise funds to shoot such a commercial work-you must know that the original novel of "Memory Fragments" is an unpublished short story by his own brother!

At the age of 30, Ang Lee had just graduated with a master's degree, and began to squat at home watching movies and writing scripts for six years.At the same age, Nolan had already filmed "Memento", which would make him famous in Hollywood.Then, after the next two or three years of hard work, the young director will work with the screenwriter of "Blade Warrior" to write a Batman story of his own, and then bring the script to Warner, so that because of the 1997 Governor's participation in the film After the disastrous failure of "Batman and Robin", Warner, who simply never dared to make Batman movies, authorized them and invested in them to shoot new Batman movies.

This is Batman Begins.And after this film was shot by this young director in his early 30s, he successfully created a box office of 3 million US dollars in North America!No matter from which point of view, this Nolan is actually a more talented Ang Lee, and this Nolan is obviously better at grasping business elements than Ang Lee.Although it may be on the literary level, Nolan is not as advanced as Ang Lee.But finding such a future well-known director to work for me and write scripts for me is obviously a blessing from heaven!

After arriving in the United States, Spielberg personally drove over to pick up Jia Hongjian.When we were on the phone, Spielberg gave Nolan a very high evaluation-according to him, Nolan relied on the simplest editing to create a very good effect of the film , At the same time, there are no high-tech special effects or the like.Of course, from a certain point of view, a film invested with millions of dollars has no money to do special effects.Except for this point, Nolan is at least in the whole film.That kind of narrative technique is used quite well.In other words, it tells the story quite well.And at the same time it is good, it also vaguely draws out different endings for people to think about, which is very rare for a new director!

In particular, the narrative structure of the whole story is quite interesting-it is to see the end.It happens to be the "beginning" of the story.The whole thing is turned upside down.The protagonist who always thought he was the victim turned into a murderer, and the victim was actually a good person who really wanted to help him, and then think about the development of the story in the normal chronological order.Just like turning into a completely different story, this kind of unique viewing experience is rare, and the connotation shown in the story is also worth thinking about.

For this kind of new director to create two different effects through different narrations of the story itself, it really got Spielberg 32 likes!However, Spielberg did not fail to pick out the shortcomings.He also told Jia Hongjian on the phone that in the process of narrating the whole film, he was a bit of a showman - this is also understandable, young people always want to show off their skills, but not Like a true master, only choose the most appropriate method to express.So this film is actually according to Spielberg's prediction. Some viewers may want to leave while watching the film, but those who can see the end will definitely be shocked!

Therefore, after Jia Hongjian heard such a phone call, he wanted to come over and talk to Nolan, and wanted to recruit him as a screenwriter, which of course is understandable for Spielberg.In the process of driving to the company, Spielberg didn't say much to Jia Hongjian, but just briefly introduced Nolan's background—this man has British and U.S. dual citizenship.His father is British and his mother is an American flight attendant, so the three children in their family have been traveling between the United Kingdom and the United States since they were young.Nolan is the second child, with a brother who is 6 years older and has become a writer, and a younger brother, Jonathan, who has also become a writer.Compared with the younger brother who has an American accent and a more American personality, the eldest and second child are more British, but the eldest has a purely British accent, while the second child, Christopher, has a mixed British and American accent. It's more of a British accent overall.Then, for such a young director, his personality is not strong in general, and it can even be said to be a little lacking in self-confidence, but he is very serious.The whole person is very thoughtful, and is likely to become a master in the future!

Then, about two hours later, Jia Hongjian met Nolan in the reception room of DreamWorks.This time Nolan came here, not by himself, but with his wife.After he came in with his wife, Nolan hurriedly explained: "Mr. Jia, I should have come by myself, but I have a little physical problem, so I can't drive by myself, so I can only ask my wife for help." ..."

Yo?Physical defect?Can't drive?Does Nolan still have this kind of problem?Jia Hongjian had never heard of it in his previous life!So at that time he asked curiously: "If you don't mind, can you tell me what is the defect? ​​I don't mean any harm, just pure curiosity." "Well... I was born with red and green color blindness, and I can't see traffic lights ...Although it can be distinguished by the position of the memory light, it is still a bit unsafe..." Nolan smiled a little awkwardly, and then explained.

Looking at Nolan's slightly embarrassed expression, Jia Hongjian smiled immediately, "It's okay, what is such a small defect? ​​To tell you the truth, I am also weak in red and green. It looks white, and the lighter green is the same as yellow in my opinion. When we were young, we had a physical examination at school, and I couldn’t see many patterns in that book every time I performed color vision. Later, I I was smarter, I secretly memorized the answers given by the previous classmates, and then memorized them, so now my physical examination report shows that my color vision is normal... And there were about 40 students in a class of our peers, half of them Among the boys, there are four or five of them who are weak in red and green..."

When Jia Hongjian said this, Nolan's eyes lit up, and he felt like he had found a "patient"! "You too? What a coincidence! So many people in your class are like this? We didn't have it in the class back then, but I was the only one, so I was often laughed at when I was young, and now I feel a little embarrassed. "Nolan said with a sigh while laughing, it sounds like he might really have low self-esteem because of this when he was a child. "Hehe, what's the point? I heard that the distribution rate of red-green color blindness among men is not low, and red-green color blindness is almost the same. Besides, this thing is hereditary, so we can't blame us!" Jia Hongjian smiled. .He really didn’t set magnets on purpose. He really has red and green weakness, but it’s relatively light. It’s still very clear to see the traffic lights. If 100 points are used to represent a color that is too strong to the limit, the red that others see is, for example, 100 points, what he saw may be 95 points.Then when the red is below 10 points, which is a relatively light pink, what others see may still be pink, and what he sees may be closer to 0 points of white. At that time, we need to put the pure white next to it. A comparison can see the difference.

But this does not affect his driver's license test. It's just that when he applied for a volunteer, he couldn't take various majors such as medicine and chemistry. In addition, when he was a child, there were a few friends in this situation in the same class. So he didn't think there was anything to be ashamed of - even Jia Jingxing was weak in red and green!

After chatting about the problem of color weakness here for a while, the relationship between Jia Hongjian and Nolan obviously became more harmonious and warm.And at this time, Jia Hongjian was also ready to talk to Nolan about what he wanted to talk about—"Mr. Nolan, I'm here alone this time, not to talk about your movie with you. You Katzenberg will come to talk to you about the movie, but don’t worry, we will definitely distribute your movie as an agent! This time I am here, mainly to ask you to help me see if a script outline can be written. A better script, come here, here is a non-disclosure agreement, please sign it..." While talking, Jia Hongjian took out the non-disclosure agreement that Katzenberg had prepared for him from his bag.

Even if it is such a simple "interview" process, what should be done is still to be done.What if Nolan interviewed Jia Hongjian and felt that the results were not very good, and then told Nolan the storyline, what if something went wrong?Yes, Nolan has a good reputation in Hollywood and is a gentleman, but Jia Hongjian has never been used to placing hundreds of millions of dollars in business success or failure on the quality of a person he is not very familiar with!At least Nolan didn't prove to Jia Hongjian that he was worthy of so much money's trust!In a situation that everyone is not familiar with, this is also very normal in business talk business-after all, this is the United States!It's not China!

Nolan was taken aback at this moment, he turned his head to look at his wife, and then took a closer look at the confidentiality agreement.I saw that this non-disclosure agreement stated that after reading the script outline for a while, Nolan could no longer write scripts with similar plots and characters, nor could he shoot movies, TV series, etc. with similar plots and characters. Things, of course, can not be said to others.For this reason, DreamWorks is willing to pay a total of one hundred thousand dollars for five years to buy him to shut up.

This contract, to sign or not to sign?Signed, if it happens to collide with one of his Nolan ideas, will he not be able to shoot for a few years?Isn't this a small loss?And what does Mr. Jia mean?Why did you call him over?And he said it wasn't about "Memento"... Could it be that DreamWorks had taken a fancy to him and wanted him to film a new movie that DreamWorks was preparing? (To be continued..)