Coquettish Rebirth

Jia Hongjian realized that the task at hand seemed to never be finished. Why did it seem that Nolan's matter was settled here, and then there was another matter?What happened next made him unable to ignore it!It turned out that Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was finally finished after half a year of editing and post-production.Speaking of which, Ang Lee's post-production is really fast!However, this is also determined by the film style determined before shooting.Compared with a film like "Tang Seng's Fantasy Journey", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" uses less special effects, even for various flying fights, all kinds of hanging steel wires are used.So the only special effects in this film are to use CG special effects to erase the traces of the steel wire.For this reason, Ang Lee and the others specially painted the steel wire in blue or green when shooting. Wire the edges of the image, then cut and replace and whatnot.

After so many preparations, the post-production special effects are of course quite fast.In a total of one month, the special effects company has already helped Ang Lee and the others to remove all the steel wire marks in the movie, and in the rest of the time, Ang Lee is doing various other things, such as soundtrack, various fine cuts, Like subtitles.Speaking of subtitles, Li An happened to be on the phone with Jia Hongjian to talk about this—"Mr. Jia, I'm Lao Li, after much deliberation, I still think that it should be released directly as a foreign language film in the United States. "

"Directly as a foreign language film?" Jia Hongjian was taken aback for a moment.The so-called foreign language film means that it is the same as some later domestic theaters.It's just a foreign language dialogue, but with Chinese subtitles added.And generally, if it is to be released on a large scale, it will basically be dubbed into an English version-don’t think that there is no dubbing in the United States, there really is!Even not only the United States, but even Germany has dubbing!After all, to be honest, it is the language of the nation that makes the audience feel more familiar and easier to understand. Not every country in the world can watch too many pirated movies through cvd and the Internet like China, and the result has long been Get used to the subtitle mode of the original sound and original picture.Of course, dubbing is not a mandatory requirement for large-scale releases, but the actions of various film companies in order to get better box office.Assuming that Chinese people have not seen so many pirated films.If you are not used to various subtitles.Obviously listening to Chinese is easier to understand.Otherwise, when watching a movie, you have to watch the facial expressions and subtitles of the characters, which is very tiring and unaccustomed!

Jia Hongjian didn't understand that Ang Lee was going to be released directly as a foreign language film.He told Li Ang at the very beginning that he wanted Zhou Runfa to speak Chinese and then English when they were acting.Then I am ready to use the English version to hit a better box office.Even hit the Hollywood Oscar's "main show".In the end, who knew that Ang Lee started to feel awkward again, and he didn't want to do English dubbing again. What does this mean?

"Old Li...why do you think you have to do this?" Jia Hongjian asked in confusion.The results of it.Li An explained: "Mr. Jia, that's how it is. I think this movie is a literary one. To tell you the truth, the pace of this movie is very slow. I watched it again and again. , I feel that this film is just an ethical film dressed in martial arts, just discussing the relationship between people in the background of martial arts. Such a literary film, even if it is in English, is not popular in North America. There must be small-scale releases in the market. Since they are all released on a small scale, why increase the cost? It’s better to just get one version..."

Having said this, Li An paused, "And I think that there is no dubbing and no English words. This is the real and pure Chinese story, yes. We are all Chinese, and our cultural background is different from that of foreigners. Instead of catering to foreigners, we should use the so-called mystery of our own culture to provide them with a pure and refreshing oriental story...I think this will not interfere with the audience's understanding..."

Hey!Ang Lee is quite stubborn!Not as cute as Nolan at all, isn't it?This Li An really didn't listen to what he said, no matter who came, he couldn't influence him, he just had to follow his own ideas!Although the appearance looks a bit weak, but why is this old Li so awkward?And what about Nolan?Not to mention that Nolan can make blockbuster movies, at least his character is so cute now, not a bit domineering. When he was filming "Tang Monk", if Jia Hongjian hadn't tried to improve Nolan's self-confidence, Nolan would still feel that he was overwhelmed. Can't live with those big actors!All day long, I follow behind like my younger brother and take the initiative to talk to the actors about the play to be acted in, is that right?After Nolan finished filming, he also obeyed Jia Hongjian, and he nodded at whatever Jia Hongjian said!

In such a comparison, Jia Hongjian really doesn't like Li An.However, in some respects, Ang Lee is indeed capable. Although the things he shoots tend to be feminine, and although he is awkward, he can still achieve results!But they can make money for Jia Hongjian!From this point of view, even if Jia Hongjian doesn't like Li An and won't be friends with him, it doesn't mean that he has to stay away from each other forever, right?No matter how much he didn't like Li An, Jia Hongjian had no grudge against Qian!It doesn't mean that you don't even make any money, does it?

"Okay, tell me later when you finish the subtitles. I'll find the theater manager in the United States to watch the film." Jia Hongjian thought for a while, and finally agreed to Li Ang's request.For Jia Hongjian, even if the film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" only uses a small range of Chinese dialogues and English letters, it does not mean that it will make astronomical less money.After all, things like movies still have to rely on their essence to speak.As long as the quality is good enough, even if it happens to be squeezed into the prime time slot, and there are all kinds of blockbusters competing for the box office, it can slowly make money by word of mouth!From this point of view, movies are relatively traditional, even if the alley is deep, as long as the wine is fragrant enough, it will be fine!Unless it was bad luck, for example, when 911/[-] was about to happen, we just happened to shoot a movie of a plane crashing into a building... Then even gods can't save it.This is released in the North American market, isn't it suicide?

Besides, the box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is quite good in history, and if Jia Hongjian remembers correctly, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was really similar to "Memory Fragments" at the beginning. First-level small-scale releases, and then slowly after proving their own strength, large-scale releases began-this so-called restricted-level release does not mean 18 bans or the like, but that the original aspects are real. Not optimistic, so it is only a small-scale release.Generally speaking, the scale of screenings below 300 movie theaters is considered restricted, or "limited" screenings.Now "Memento" has proven its achievements, and it has gradually begun to be released on a large scale, so it has the possibility of hitting tens of millions of box office.In history, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", if Jia Hung-chien remembers correctly, even reached hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office!So as far as this point is concerned, whether it is a large-scale release at the beginning or a limited small-scale release at the beginning, the impact is actually not big!

But who knew that Li An said at this time, "I have already done the subtitles... Mr. Jia... We can almost start looking for the theater manager to watch the film now." Hey, your sister!Li An had already thought about this matter, and finally notified Jia Hongjian?Does your sister really not take Jia Hongjian seriously?Thinking of this, Jia Hongjian was also a little upset. He decided in his heart that Jia Hongjian would not invest in Ang Lee's play next time!Anyway, he has already snatched Ang Lee's "Youth Pie", so why are he afraid that Ang Lee will make a movie that makes a lot of money in the future?In this case, let's take our single-plank bridge, he will take his Yangguan Road, and everyone will go our separate ways!

"Okay, then you come back with the film. Nothing else to do? Then I'll hang up." Jia Hongjian didn't seem to mind the order and hung up the phone after finishing his orders.In this regard, he behaves more like a southerner—basically, even if he decides not to cooperate with the other party and feels that he doesn’t like the other party, he will not express his emotions in particular, and he will not be as likely as the northerners Shows impatience when speaking directly.In fact, speaking of this matter, it can be regarded as a kind of "being a person who stays on the front line, so that we can meet each other in the future". Although Ang Lee's highest-grossing film in history has been snatched by Jia Hongjian, who can guarantee that Ang Lee Wouldn't there be a similar opportunity in this time and space to make a new film that is close to the box office?If there is such an opportunity, Jia Hongjian still wants to make money, right?

Soon, Ang Lee came to Los Angeles with the film.After handing over the film to Jia Hongjian, Jia Hongjian and the others watched it first. As far as Jia Hongjian himself was concerned, it was the same as the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" he had seen in his previous life.As for this film, Spielberg is very optimistic about it! "Although I can't really say how much the box office of this film is, after all, this film is too Chinese, but I personally really like it! It's a kind of rush between Chinese and Western cultures!" Lao Si commented.Jia Hongjian understood that the collision of Eastern and Western cultures mentioned by Lao Si was actually a collision between Li Mubai's "older generation" culture and the "new generation" Yu Jiaolong's culture. .This Yujiaolong is more like a modern person, all kinds of newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, all kinds of disregard of rules and restrictions, belong to the type of dare to love and dare to hate.As for Li Mubai and the others, they belong to the older generation, and they pay attention to friends' wives not to be bullied.Even if my friend died a long time ago, even if my friend's wife loves me and I love my friend's wife, neither of us can break through that layer of window paper... (To be continued...)