Coquettish Rebirth

For the next half a day, Jia Hongjian kept asking Professor Su De about his experience in observing various gangs in the United States in the past 10 years, and even specially recorded the organizational structure, unspoken rules, and slang words of various gangs. A series of things.It can be said that after such an interview, Jia Hongjian was really eye-opening!With the help of this professor who has been with gangsters for ten years, it can be said that Jia Hongjian is almost half an expert on American gangsters now!

Of course, such an interview would be of better help to Jia Hongjian and the others in making the plot of "Infernal Affairs", and they could make the plot more realistic.But on the other hand, when Jia Hongjian walked out of Columbia University and took Nolan to their "resort building" in Times Square, he suddenly thought of an idea-if we shoot a film similar to Honest How about people getting into American dramas where gangsters develop?It's a bit like an American drama like "Breaking Bad"!

That's right! What is Breaking Bad about?It is about an ordinary middle school chemistry teacher who never smokes or drinks, and has never done anything wrong in his life.As a result, I am old and have an elder son with cerebral palsy, not to mention, when my wife was just pregnant with her second child, this old man was actually diagnosed with lung cancer!After considering a series of issues such as the living expenses of the eldest son, the expensive cost of studying in the United States, the cost of raising the second child by his wife, and even the tuition fees for the second child when he grows up, the old man’s The "midlife crisis" broke out.He is not willing to die in such an ordinary way, he is not willing to spend his whole life in an ordinary life and even be unable to fulfill the responsibility of being a father before dying!Once his brother-in-law and brother-in-law went to catch drug dealers as an agent of the DEA Drug Enforcement Administration.In order to make him feel better, his brother-in-law invited him to watch the process of catching drug dealers from a distance.As a result, the old man suddenly saw his former students among the drug dealers!

Then, as a chemistry teacher, the old man suddenly thought of selling drugs - he could make money quickly, and then his former students could be responsible for selling them!So such a teacher who used to be a teacher began to make drugs in the caravan while on sick leave, and then sold them to the market, and then began to have a series of troubles--rebounds from various drug dealers, and finally there was Being threatened by a bigger gang or something.After this American drama was broadcast in the United States in 08, it has become one of the most popular American dramas in the United States!Nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for several years in a row!And the actor who played Breaking Bad has won the Emmy Award for Best Actor, the biggest award in American TV dramas, for three consecutive years!

This American drama is about a chemistry teacher dealing with drugs, so how about we make a drama about sociologists or economists dealing with gangsters?Or arrange the protagonist to become a middle-level cadre similar to Enron, who is unemployed because of Enron's bankruptcy, and at the same time finds that he is sick and has to fight for enough money for his family to spend the rest of his life?Or is it arranged to be an honest cadre who was cleared out in the case of a large layoff in a company like Cisco?Such a cadre has the characteristics of most American audiences-honestly, he hasn't done too many bad things.Loving family or something?And know something about running a business?As a result, he lost his job for no apparent reason.At the same time, he couldn't find a job, and he was terminally ill. The middle-aged crisis broke out, and he simply went on the wrong path?

A guy who knows a little bit about running a business starts a gang.what will happen?Or simply say that I found out that my neighbor or something became a "store manager".Then go to help others?It turned out that the gangsters turned out to be even darker than the business world.More unlimited squeeze?It has even developed to the point of hiring chemical madmen or recruiting sick chemistry teachers to make drugs by themselves, and then how to run gangsters, even vertically and horizontally.Win some "stores" to rebel?After killing the boss above, get rid of some joint "stores" and let your gang become new "regional managers"?Then go up step by step?

Or did the father find out that his son had become a gangster drug dealer, so the father took his son and started to make their own history of "The Godfather"?No, it seems to be a bit of a thing to bring a child into it like this.Then it was discovered that the adult son of someone he knew had become a gangster, and then he got some information about gangsters from him, and gradually analyzed the gangsters' oppression without limit, and then started to run his own gangster from scratch?At this time, we still have to face suppression and counterattack from other "stores" or even the entire "company"?How to operate an outstanding "gangster" in a desperate situation?

In fact, just thinking about it this way, such an idea is quite interesting!Even Jia Hongjian said that if this film is really made, even if it is not his idea, then he will be willing to watch it!After all, this is an area out of reach of ordinary people, right?Ordinary people don't understand what gangsters are all about. If we can film the exact scene of gangsters, plus all kinds of conflicts and killings, how exciting would it be?Even for the main theme to be correct, you can film how the protagonist turns bad step by step, how step by step he changes from an honest person who just ignores others and just wants to make quick money to a murderous monster.Then we can film how the main character was degraded step by step by the "gangster" system, became really fond of gang life, disregarded other people's lives, and was finally caught by the police or killed by his enemies in revenge?In this way, from a political point of view, it is to promote righteousness and promote the main theme that being a bad person will not end well, but in fact, everything to be photographed has been photographed!

Although I don't know if there is really any pressure to shoot the main theme of the film here in the United States, but from the perspective of the market, if it is really a bad guy, it will be a gold belt for murder and arson. Isn't this disrupting social order?Turning around, I attracted a group of people to join the gangsters, and then they were all killed on the street. Isn't this a crime?So the main theme still needs to be grasped, otherwise after the film is shot, there will be various disputes, and various complaints will arise. Although it is not the same as the official ban in China, but the TV station chose not to sign the contract and cut it in half. Well, people just stopped broadcasting commercially, so Jia Hongjian's creativity can't be fully displayed, can't he?And to use Jia Hongjian's consistent principles, that is, the bad guys in the film have a good end, so what are the benefits other than a sense of rebellious pleasure?Can make more money?Can have a good reputation?Obviously not!So there is not much benefit, and you have to take a lot of risks. Isn't this just asking for trouble for yourself?

But having said that, being creative is a good thing, but being creative alone is not enough.At that time, although it is possible to find Professor Su De as a consultant, fully and truly show the situation of the gangster, and then make a dramatic adaptation, but the problem is that although DreamWorks registered as a scope of work including TV drama production, so far The focus of DreamWorks is on movies.It can be said that the entire company is either producing movies by itself or distributing them as an agent. It really hasn't started in TV drama production, and it doesn't even have a team for TV dramas!Under such a situation, how to operate a TV series?How to find a TV director?How to find an actor?How to find a cameraman?How to set the scene?How to find a bunch of screenwriters to jointly write the script?Jia Hongjian really didn't have these things, these contacts, so in fact, if he really wanted to do it, it would be really troublesome, because he didn't even have a helper!

And it's impossible for him, Jia Hongjian, to say that, like hbo's "Company of Heroes", the big investment let Spielberg come to direct and find someone?Even if he is happy, Spielberg is not necessarily happy. If this plot really needs to be filmed freely, maybe it will take five or six years to finish. Spielberg will not make movies for five or six years?And he, Jia Hongjian, had been with the crew for five or six years, at least at the beginning, he still needed to find someone or something. He was always in charge of the initial preparations?Not to mention the fact that they will have to find a TV station for marketing, sell the TV series to the TV station, and ask the TV station to try it out, which is troublesome!Then do you want to do this?Jia Hongjian thought it was better to talk to Katzenberg after returning to Los Angeles.

How can I say that Katzenberg is Disney's former second-ranked owner. It is not reliable to say that people are not familiar with the production of this film and television drama, although Disney may not have done these things back then, but these years It slowly developed inside.But as the former vice president of Disney, Katzenberg will always know more about the market of American dramas than Jia Hongjian?In case, after inquiring with Katzenberg later, he found that getting the episodes was not as troublesome as he imagined, why didn't he, Jia Hongjian, do it?

So the next day, after everyone woke up and walked around Times Square with Nolan, and asked him to buy some small gifts for his wife, the three of them flew to the airport in a rented helicopter, and then boarded the After boarding the special plane, he flew to Los Angeles.To fly over the continental United States, you must use subsonic speed, so the speed of this flight is much slower.By the time we got to Los Angeles, it was already nightfall.Jia Hongjian originally wanted to go directly to Katzenberg, but considering that the girl was tired all day, he ran out after coming back like this, which seemed a bit too neglectful of the girl.So I rested for a day with peace of mind, and went to DreamWorks to find Katzenberg the next morning.

"Jeffrey," Jia Hongjian greeted Katzenberg as soon as he entered Katzenberg's office, "Would it be troublesome for me to make an American drama?" It means that you really want to make an American TV series, or do you ask me if it will be troublesome for our company to make an American TV series?"

kindness?Jia Hongjian was slightly taken aback, and immediately changed his original intention, "There are all of them, how about it, is it troublesome?" What if our company starts making American dramas?So why not make your own, right?At that time, we can ask Katzenberg to help find someone, and then we can sell broadcasting rights to TV stations like in China?In the United States, TV dramas should also be traded? (To be continued..)