Coquettish Rebirth

Jia Hongjian is full of confidence, but what about Katzenberg beside him?To be honest, if someone said in front of Katzenberg that he had many ideas that could be made into an American TV series, Katzenberg would definitely not believe it immediately!why?Because even the best screenwriter in the entire United States can only say that he has only one great idea and a creative idea in his mind for a year or two!Yes, there is indeed one exception, a guy named jj-abrams, this guy can come up with 99 ideas in one lunch time, but this guy got the script of "the end of the world" in [-] It actually won the Golden Raspberry Award for worst screenplay.So in general, buddies still have to hone and hone!

Among the remaining screenwriters, no one can tell Jia Hongjian that they have enough good ideas all at once!If someone said that, Katzenberg would definitely think the other party was a liar!However, in front of him was Jia Hongjian!Although Jia Hongjian is not a well-known film and television talent in the United States, and he has not been in the industry for a long time, but Jia Hongjian has shown a lot of his talent in a relatively short time and limited opportunities!

For example, in "Who Am I Remake", Jia Hongjian helped with the plot all the way, and even some fighting scenes were decided by him directly with Cheng Long, and he proposed the overall plan. The concept of fighting, and then Cheng Long refines the movements.Then, although Jia Hongjian didn't play much in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and he didn't have any credit for Jia Hongjian in "Memory Fragments", but "Tang Monk's Fantasy Journey", which is currently under intense post-production, is so Jia Hongjian made a movie by himself!It can be said that apart from the fact that Jia Hongjian did not shoot this film himself, the whole story was thought up by Jia Hongjian!Both Katzenberg and Spielberg have seen the samples before the special effects of this film were made.And both of them praised it very much, thinking that this film will definitely have a good return!

Then, Jia Hongjian also participated in the screenwriting of the current "Infernal Affairs" and "Batman". Judging from the plots of these two films, Jia Hongjian is really capable.Although it may not have the strength of the top screenwriters in the United States, Jia Hongjian is also a very qualified producer at a low level, and he really has a lot of stuff in his mind!So after thinking of this, Katzenberg couldn't help asking: "Have you thought of many ideas in your mind in advance? You have been preparing for American dramas a long time ago?"

"There are ideas, but American dramas don't." Jia Hongjian replied briefly, which was true.He really didn't plan ahead to make an American drama. "You know. I'm a creative business person, so I often have all kinds of weird ideas in my head. But I don't know when these ideas will disappear, so since God gave me this talent, let me have I got inspiration. I usually write it down. I can use it when I have a chance in the future.” Speaking of this.Jia Hongjian wanted to change the topic immediately, lest Katzenberg always focus on this topic. "For example, we write about two brothers. The elder brother is imprisoned for no reason, and he is also a death row inmate. The younger brother is obviously a promising architect, but he would rather give up everything and pretend to rob a bank and let the police arrest him in order to enter The prison where the elder brother is, and then rescue the elder brother. How about it? At that time, the younger brother, we can design a concept that is a bit rainy, that is, a slightly psychological symptom, but the kind that is easy to produce geniuses. He recruited the elder brother How about a blueprint of being locked up in a prison, and then designing a tattoo yourself, tattooing all the blueprints of the prison on your body, and using a high IQ to escape from prison?"

After Jia Hongjian's brief description, Katzenberg really found it interesting when he heard it—"Well...adding some unexpected events, it is tantamount to pulling the audience into a world they are not familiar with. A more exciting and thrilling "Shawshank Redemption", isn't it? This one is pretty good!" After hearing Katzenberg's praise, Jia Hongjian continued, "We can also be a normal person. The TV series that strayed into the gangster field, like the one above, lead ordinary people into areas they are not familiar with. But this time we will not learn from "The Sopranos" and the like, and we will not take the route of "The Godfather" and the like, Not only to describe the high-level, but also to use hyper-realistic techniques to shoot the bottom. Shooting an ordinary person who is cornered, a middle-aged man with a mid-life crisis who has achieved nothing, how to start to build and run a gang! We are not talking about Ko The story after the Lyon family became the godfather of the Mafia, we are telling the story of how they became the godfather! There are murders, police and even persecution, and even undercover agents..."

If the original "Prison Break" seemed to Katzenberg to be "interesting, it should be able to attract ratings", then the idea of ​​"Desperate Boss" that Jia Hongjian just mentioned was very popular in Katzenberg. Ge seems to have more potential for excellent TV dramas - "The Sopranos", which was broadcast on H-wave in 99, is actually equivalent to filming a TV drama version of "The Godfather". They are also mafia families of Italian descent, but the name is not "" The people in The Godfather just tell a more modern story.But such a TV series has a high praise rate in the United States! Although H-wave is a premium cable TV station, and there are no commercials, it doesn't talk about ratings, but the praise ratings from people who watched it are really high!If the idea Jia Hongjian mentioned just now is used together with the insider facts of the so-called gangsters given by some consultants, it will really reflect the reality and be fascinating at the same time!Because people are always interested in content that they can't relate to!Although Jia Hongjian's idea seems simple on the surface, but combined with the strong industrial processing capabilities of the American film and television industry, it can definitely become extraordinary!

Why can the film and television industry of the United States surpass most countries in the world, or to put it more aggressively, surpass the film and television production capabilities of all other countries in the world?The biggest factor is that they were the first to start film and television production, so a lot of things have been quite well-equipped with their talent pool and corresponding routines!Even the screenwriters on their side have become a teamwork. Everyone is good at one aspect. If everyone cooperates, it will really be like an assembly line to produce "entertainment products" in large quantities!They don't need such a model to make a good work of art.Works of art are not at all pursued by countries with a commercial and cultural atmosphere like the United States. They are pursued by the French!What the United States is after is money!

So in fact, Jia Hongjian came up with such an idea and found a group of suitable screenwriters.Several screenwriters discussed under the general framework, and soon there will be unexpected plot twists, even routine plot twists.With the addition of a lot of routine suspense and development design methods, it can be said that it can be made in minutes to make ordinary people who don't know how to feel good-looking movies!And with such skills and routines, it is not easy for other countries that have not developed in the United States to steal from them!At the same time, if an individual comes to the United States to learn this method, he will also find that he can't do it quickly and well by himself without such a method in the United States!

It’s like when a documentary is being shot, how to make the documentary attractive is a routine in the United States!For example, it seems that the protagonist is going to do something or go somewhere at the beginning, and it makes him nervous.Such an opening can attract people in 1 minute and 2 minutes!Because it is equivalent to throwing the audience from the "middle" into the story.Rather than the usual chronological order to tell them the story.And such a disruption of the order has created an attraction!In other words, just like Cheng Long's fighting scenes, even if he could design the actions of "Killer's Trenches" he filmed in the United States, he didn't have the right to edit them.No power to control camera positions.So the fighting scenes in this film he made in the United States didn't feel shocking at all.Even the scene where the three assistants of Cheng's class were fighting each other with sticks looked so slow, it was like a grandpa and aunt dancing a square dance!

But what happens when the camera and editing rights belong to Cheng Long? In 83, the filming of "The Killer's Trenches" was completed.After returning to Hong Kong, Cheng Long immediately filmed "Project A", "Food Truck" in 84, and "Police Story" in 85.This one looks better than the other!And each of them looks much better than the "Killer's Trenches" filmed in Hollywood!Why?Just because in terms of fighting, Cheng Long has the whole martial arts movie environment in Hong Kong behind him, which provided him with a team like Cheng Jiaban, with a good team, plus his own editing and shooting camera Design, then it can make the whole film show fist to flesh, stormy!

In any case, Hong Kong movies are stronger in fighting, but in other aspects, the United States is absolutely stronger!Just like Cheng Long can control the camera to make the fight more beautiful, the cooperation of a team of screenwriters, photographers, etc. in the United States can make American dramas and movies extremely beautiful!Similarly, in such a large area with strong film and television, it is really not too difficult to pull out a small team of your own!Because many playwrights here in the United States have opened their own studios, which can be regarded as outsourcing plot writing!

Just when Katzenberg was thinking that Jia Hongjian's idea was too good, Jia Hongjian was not idle—"We can also take advantage of the anti-intellectualism tendency in the United States, and take advantage of the kind of people who don't think much of learning. The thinking of people who think they don’t know how to live is the thinking of nerds, so I made a sitcom for nerds. For example, let four university professors be good friends, two of them are Americans, one is Chinese and the other is Indian. , and then acted very nerdy, even the girls were embarrassed to chase after them, but who knew that a waitress who worked in a restaurant lived in the opposite door of their apartment, and this woman was quite beautiful. These nerds have their own characteristics eccentricities of all kinds, making jokes by exhibiting their eccentricities..."

That's right, what Jia Hongjian said was "The Big Bang Theory", but one of the characters was replaced by a Chinese!And the reason for doing this is——"In this way, we can operate international copyright transactions! Now most of the American dramas in the United States sell their broadcasting rights in the United States, and they will only be sold to a Chinese drama series in three or four years. Broadcasting rights. Don’t forget that I am Chinese, and I have a TV station with the highest ratings in China! As long as we don’t deliberately insult China, and don’t deliberately do things that the Chinese government does not allow us to broadcast, then we can even After earning money in the United States, I will go to China to make money! Believe me, buddy, I can let my TV station buy copyright from DreamWorks at the market price at that time, and even introduce our copyright to other TV stations!" (To be continued. .)