Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 117 Cannes Palme d'Or

When the casting of the film was almost finalized, Cao Yang had also written several script frameworks. They didn't need to be too detailed. As long as the general outline was written, he could go to the United States Copyright Office (USCO) to register the copyright.

What are the roots of Hollywood?
Some people think it is the complete film industry system, some think it is the advanced concepts and execution capabilities, and some think it is the mature processes and guarantee systems.

Many industry insiders also believe that scripts are the foundation of Hollywood. In their long-term practice, a mature development system has been formed around the script, which is the lifeline for Hollywood films to maintain their global competitiveness.

But no matter what, the importance of Hollywood scripts cannot be denied.

Without the ability to innovate, decline is not far away.

In addition, Cao Yang believes that some great directors with distinctive features are also one of the foundations of Hollywood.

Cao Yang just wanted to dig a little deeper into this foundation.

Regardless of whether it's useful or not, at least it's a way to vent my anger.

Maybe it can bring a lot of benefits.

It is better to let Hollywood's comic book movies and games and toys adapted movies run wildly on this "bright road" without looking back and happily earn effortless dollars.

If we lose innovation, we will lose competitiveness.

Cao Yang is going to register a total of five scripts this time, "Inception", "Interstellar", "2012", "The Martian", and "Gravity".

Register these scripts first, and try not to give them to the original directors, and see if you can get these directors to turn around and make superhero movies.

Maybe it would be helpful to give some guidance when the time comes.

Cao Yang also thought that Hollywood film companies would ignore their principles and directly shoot similar movies.

Actually, there is no need to worry about this. Before the movie is made, no one knows whether the story will be successful.

What's more, Cao Yang is not an unknown person, he is also a world-renowned director. For the sake of a story that is uncertain whether it will be successful, would he offend Cao Yang and trigger global public opinion?

They also have to consider the impact this incident will have on the company.

If the truck driver had not come up with the idea of ​​filming "Avatar" as early as 97, Cao Yang would have wanted to register this "forced demolition" story to cheat the truck driver.

Cao Yang suddenly felt that he might have become a little evil, then he shook his head to drive away the thought. What evil or not, he was just adapting to the local customs.

On this day, Cao Yang was discussing the filming with Gu Changwei when Berman stumbled in, greeting someone with words starting with F.

Cao Yang's heart skipped a beat. What bad thing happened again?
This fucking America is killing me, isn't it?
"Cao, hurry up, hurry up, turn on the TV and tune it to the damn Fox News Channel. I can't fucking believe this is real, F..."

Cao Yang quickly turned on the TV. What bad thing had happened again?
I tuned into Fox News and saw Sean Penn appear on it.

"... All of this information is stored in the government archives and is trustworthy. There are also these videos, which are also the footage of the news interviews back then. The information here is the information from the news reports back then, and there are also interviews with Milk's friends..."

I saw Sean Penn showing the pages one by one, and also played the recording of the interview...

The recording was of a woman who said she was Milk's neighbor and that Milk had pursued her in the past. She also said that many people in the neighborhood knew that Milk was just a normal man who had had many girlfriends.

Then Sean Penn played another recording. The person claimed to be Milk's campaign assistant and also his lover. She always knew that Milk was a normal man, and Milk's so-called boyfriend was hired by her...

Then a videotape was played, which showed Milk when he was young, having a party with a group of beautiful women. They were wearing very little, and there were scenes of them hugging and kissing... The other videotape was a news interview. Milk was a successful businessman at the time, and the person being interviewed with him was his girlfriend at the time.

There is a lot of other information that was displayed one by one by Sean Penn. It can be seen that he must have spent a lot of effort to get this information.

Finally, Sean Penn concluded: "Milk is a despicable politician who used these poor homosexual groups to achieve his dirty goals...

The bills he wants to push after becoming the Ombudsman are all designed to swindle support...

He is a liar. Even his homosexuality is a disguise. He is a complete political fraudster!"

"It's over!"

Bellman murmured to himself.
"It's all over now. What's going to happen to our movie? We had such a good script and were almost ready, but now it's all over... Sean Penn, that damn bastard, has lost his mind. What on earth does he want to do?"

"Berman, Sean Penn's actions have knocked down a banner raised by the left. Will those people watch Milk fall?"

"He's a shitty banner. We promoted him and it had an impact, so those people took the opportunity to make him a banner. Now he's nothing but a speculative politician." Berman said gritting his teeth.

After taking a breath, he continued angrily, "He did push those bills back then, otherwise he wouldn't have been killed by conservatives, but that was more than 30 years ago. Who cares about that?"

Cao Yang thought for a while and suggested: "I don't think it's all bad. As long as this matter becomes bigger, we can change the script and turn it into 'despicable politicians' to satirize those conservatives."

Berman's eyes lit up, and he began to carefully weigh the pros and cons, wondering if there was anything he could use.

He was also confused because of his concern. This was his first time as a producer and also his first time to cooperate with Cao Yang in an all-round way. If he failed, he would never be able to change his career to become a producer in his life.

Hollywood is the stronghold of the left, and movies that satirize conservatives are definitely politically correct.

Regardless of whether Milk is a speculator or not, he is clearly a radical, and satirizing him in the film is a bit unpolitically correct.

"My dear director, how are you going to deal with Milk? He is obviously a radical. We can't satirize the radicals after satirizing the conservatives for not being able to afford to lose. This is obviously a thankless task."

Every time Berman called Cao Yang "my dear director", it showed that he was excited, agreed very much with Cao Yang's ideas, and hoped that Cao Yang could come up with another good idea.

"That's easy. The social atmosphere at the time was generally conservative, and San Francisco was dominated by conservatives. As a successful businessman, Milk would definitely want to join the conservatives."

Cao Yang pondered for a moment, then continued, "He must have hated and looked down on homosexuals at first, but after several failed elections, he realized that he could use the power of these people to help him win the election.

In short, he is just a speculator, and everything he does is for himself."

Who says bad things can't turn into good things?
As long as this change is made, it will be in line with Hollywood's political correctness.

More importantly, this kind of plot is the most popular among the three European countries. They cannot compete with Hollywood, but they like to watch the jokes of the United States the most.

As long as the operation is done properly, the top three European awards may be coveted again this time.

The Palme d'Or at Cannes seems pretty good too.

Start writing the script.

(End of this chapter)