The entertainment industry shouldn't be like this

Chapter 139

Comrade Wang is going crazy!

He was already too busy to fly—

This year is a big year for Dunhuang in terms of film production, well, at least it is a big year in terms of the number of films produced.

As for Wang Wei, he belongs to Xiong Xiazi to break the corn——

Unlike some producers, he has to intervene in everything, of course, conditions do not allow;
He breaks one and throws one away. In most cases, he is only responsible for making requests and adjustments, and the specific matters are managed by the people in each main creative department.

Lao Wang could only help him "fit" the main creators of the appropriate department bitterly.

How busy is he?
He was so busy that the domestic box office of "Charlotte Annoyance" officially broke one billion, he could only find time to look up to the sky and laugh three times, and then continue to be busy.

Under such circumstances, he received a project proposal from the "Dawn" production company——

The new label jointly owned by Shen Zhenyi and Dunhuang is officially named "Dawn", and the meaning is self-evident.

Old Wang is going crazy!

"This is a movie about women!??"

The theme of "fighting zombies" is not new, but it is different from the absolute weakness of human beings in most zombie movies. This movie was renamed "Resident Evil". In it, zombies are beaten violently by girls. The scene is not ordinary grand.

Also, with a budget of 5000 million, Mr. Wang really wanted to scold her.

It's not that I don't have money, but——

What about the positioning of "art films and women-themed films"?Have you ever seen an arthouse or women's movie with such a big budget?
This is not his positioning for the "Dawn" production company!

"Why is it not a female-themed movie?"

"The zombies are fought by women, and most of the main creators are women. Is it necessary that all the zombies in it are also women, so that it can be regarded as a female-themed movie?"

Wang Wei looked like you don't discriminate against male zombies.

The corners of Old Wang's eyes twitched, and he turned to the silent Xu Daoxing: "Old Xu, you are the director of the production department, tell me, is it appropriate to move this movie to Shuguang's side?"

Old Xu didn't dare to take the blame casually, he was in deep thought, and said slowly: "It's not unreasonable to classify this film as a female-themed film; but, this kind of bloody violence, beating and killing themes, should be handed over to a female director." Shoot, can she handle it?"

Wang Wei curled his lips and said, "So I'm the only one who is honest. You are all pretending to be honest, but you are shouting in your heart not to."

"Female directors should only stay in the comfort zone. You say they always put artistic personal expression first, and it is difficult to break through the shackles brought by the female perspective."

"Let's jump out of their comfort zone, and you suspect that they are not capable enough, and you are unwilling to invest in them."

"The problem is, you never give others a chance. How do you know that they can't shoot subjects outside their comfort zone?"

"Suguang is a new company, and it was established to enter new fields. Don't stick to rules and regulations, and limit yourself to death."

Wang Wei's critical words left Lao Wang and Lao Xu speechless.

They asked themselves, although they said they wanted to support female directors, did they really break the stereotype of female directors?

The answer is obviously embarrassing - no.

Their impression is probably still at——

Art films: For female directors, they must be delicate and artistic, so you can vote;
Commercial film: A film directed by a female director must be very meaty and procrastinated, so I won’t vote for it.

At this point, they are far less courageous than the older generation in Dunhuang!

——Don't look at the old man walking around the world with a pot of chicken soup, but he is really qualified to pour chicken soup on people.

——He created a bigger stage for women in the entertainment industry in China, broke countless precedents, and is still a blessing to Dunhuang. This is also one of the important reasons why Sugon has received a lot of response from female groups in the industry after its establishment.

Wang Wei was right. As the favored juniors, they didn't even dare to take any risks. It was really unreasonable.

Of course, regarding Wang Wei's self-proclaimed honesty, we can only hehe.

Not to mention the "grass on the wall" Lao Xu, even Lao Wang, who had insisted on opposing it, has loosened his attitude.

"Although you say that, I still think that you clearly see that the company can afford it now, and then choose to jump on the verge of death."

"It's true to say that, but isn't the tradition of Dunhuang just to 'take the initiative to die'?"

Wang Wei nodded,

"So let's not worry about whether to vote or not, and just study the details of the project."

"All right!"

Comrade Wang sighed helplessly,
"The result is still as you wish!"

"Because I'm always right!"

Wang Wei smiled contentedly.

Although Old Wang really wanted to say that he was shameless, but thinking about this guy's past achievements, he remained silent.

For a moment, I don't know whether to hope that this guy will continue to have no failures, so that he can continue to be proud; or if this guy stumbles, so that he will become more humble in the future.

Therefore, the matter of "Resident Evil" being the first film produced by Dawn Studios was such a happy decision.

Old Xu smoothed things over, "Speaking of which, this is Dunhuang's first sci-fi film that requires a lot of special effects. Is the production of special effects outsourced, or..."

This is a serious matter, Wang Wei's face became serious,

"I plan to set up my own special effects studio and undertake some special effects and post-production of my own films in the future."

Old Wang's face also became serious: "That's not an easy task!"

"Yes."

Xu Daoxing nodded, and also said: "A special effects studio needs a lot of technicians. If there is not enough business, it can't afford to support them. It's just a waste of money."

"Apart from this "Resident Evil", are there any suitable projects for us to do later?"

"This is..."

Wang Wei knew that what they said was correct.

In this time and space, regardless of whether it is Hollywood or the Chinese entertainment industry, if a director or production company creates a special effects studio, it is generally based on the needs of the films they shoot.

In Hollywood, Industrial Light and Magic is the most famous in two lifetimes;
In China, the most popular special effects studio is "Phantom Special Effects" under Tangyu Media-Tangyu Media is the domestic studio that likes to shoot science fiction, fantasy and other large-scale productions. The demand for special effects has strengthened this special effects company.

Therefore, Xu’s question is actually, will Wang Wei get involved in science fiction, fantasy and other themes?

After all, Dunhuang's current investment strategy is that Wang Wei travels first, has a successful template, and then catches up later.

From this point of view, "Resident Evil" can be regarded as breaking this convention.

"Just for the "Resident Evil" series, there are many demands. We need a special effects studio."

Wang Wei finalized this point without much hesitation.

Not to mention that there will be blockbuster films that require special effects in the future, but only the strategy of film and game linkage requires close cooperation in special effects.

Of course, when it comes to the video game collaboration that is officially on the agenda, Lao Wang and Wang are even more helpless.

This "Resident Evil" really breaks too many routines!

Generally speaking, for a project to be unconventional and unconventional, there is really no limit to death.

However, when the "death" person became Wang Wei, everyone's tolerance seemed to be much higher.

In particular, he also prepared some special means.

……

On the day of the Lantern Festival in the first lunar month, the box office of "Charlotte Annoyance" officially crossed the one billion mark, becoming a milestone work in the Chinese film box office.

Not to mention how the media are all touting it, Wang Wei received an unexpected surprise from a salty fish who had almost no sense of existence on the same day——

Two lucky draw chests!

As a producer and screenwriter, the reward for breaking the record of one billion in a single film!
Previously, in addition to being a director, as a producer and screenwriter, there was no reward for breaking records.

Based on the urine nature of this salted fish system, Wang Wei guessed that either he was hacked by it before, or he had an identity other than the director. Only milestone records are rewarded.

What is the real situation, it can only be done and verified.

——With such an unreliable golden finger, besides guessing, we can only wait for time to verify it.

However, occasionally there is a surprise, this feeling is pretty good.

There are two treasure chests, one of which has a "Tracing Halo" - I've used this before, and it's a good thing.

The other is a brand new "Common Aura".

[Common halo (one-time) - Wearing an item designated by the host can establish a connection between members in communication. 】

Wang Wei thought about the new question very much.

Then... I didn't figure out too much.

After all, this broken system can only be summed up in one word in the introduction.

To understand, the best way is to know when you use it.

As a result, the "Resident Evil" project, which planned a film and game linkage, quietly became Wang Wei's "guinea pig".

Facts have proved that a certain leader is still the leader of that salted fish, but the things released are as good as ever.

……

Gu Jinguang of Weibo Technology, as the project director of the "Resident Evil" game project, imagined many problems encountered in the movie-game linkage link from the beginning.

——To study the proposition of "movie game linkage", the success or failure of previous video game adaptation movies has become the best reference.

Well, say "success or failure", but in fact there is only "failure".

Yes, it's that horrible.So far, there have been no game-changing movies that have been very successful; those that can recover production costs are considered successful examples.

After researching, Gu Jinguang felt that one of the important reasons is that the mainstream film industry has a contemptuous attitude towards game reform, even though the growth rate of the game market is much higher than that of the film market.

Therefore, there is no game reform movie that will involve the original personnel of the game, and a group of film creators who look down on the game from the bottom of their hearts, if the adaptation is not a bad movie, it is called a myth.

Therefore, the first principle of the film and game linkage he determined is to involve game developers and film creators at the same time, and create for the things they love.

But this raises new questions.

How do two teams with completely different ways of thinking communicate?
For example, most of their game development team are tool rational people.

However, in any kind of literary and artistic works, especially film and television works, this kind of instrumental rationality is fatal.

If they were to make a zombie film with their heart, it would be like this——

After the outbreak of the virus, the protagonist catches a zombie slice for research, devotes himself to developing a vaccine in the laboratory, then organizes the factory to produce it, and finally popularizes the vaccine step by step. Zombies are no longer a threat, and the whole play ends.

-Anyone who tries to make a film like this should shoot themselves, or be shot by the audience.

But it is more likely that they will eloquently demonstrate from the source, what is the mechanism of zombie production?The production of zombies is unscientific... Then I came to the conclusion that zombies are impossible to have zombies. There is no point in making such a movie, so give up.

Think about such a group of rational people who only talk about the highest efficiency, and a group of emotional people who want to mobilize the audience's emotions to the maximum, make them cry and laugh, fear, and hold their breath. It is probably sparks hitting the earth!

In particular, the main creative team of "Resident Evil" is still dominated by women.

God!Women can't be more reasonable!
Then, while slandering the big boss for deliberately increasing the difficulty, Gu Jinguang, who was suffering from communication problems, got slapped in the face after contacting the film's main creative team led by He Wenying——

"This kind of situation where the other party often only needs a few words or even a look, I can clearly understand their intentions, what the hell is it?!"

You know, not to mention the cooperation between two teams with very different thinking, it is their own team. A big reason that affects the cooperation is also the communication and tacit understanding between each other.

In many cases, team members are not incapable or unable to find problems, but are unable to communicate and feedback problems efficiently.

Of course, there are also times when they discover some problems in their subconscious mind, but for various reasons, they do not speak out at all.

——This kind of situation is not uncommon.

Generally speaking, to solve these problems in a small team, it often depends on long-term running-in and tacit understanding, so as to reach the level of mutual tacit understanding.

As for big teams and big companies... how do you think the "big company disease" comes from?

However, the cooperation with He Wenying's team broke Gu Jinguang's consistent cognition——

Their team seemed to understand what the other party said;

For example, the other party’s simple description of the scene, they seem to have seen a movie scene in a trance-dark and cramped streets, hideous zombies staggering around with their teeth and claws waving around; Hissing and footsteps coming and going...

And even if there is something you don't understand, all kinds of questions hidden in your heart will be asked unconsciously, and then everyone will communicate and optimize.

"Could it be that our team still has hidden skill points for making movies?"

Regarding this seemingly natural tacit understanding, Gu Jinguang can only think half puzzled and half self-comforting.

In fact, not only him, but the film creation team led by He Wenying also felt the same way.

Many of them don't even play games, but in a very short exchange, they roughly know what kind of game the other party wants——

It combines thrilling survival, puzzle-solving elements and thrilling gun battles, and is superimposed with a storyline full of suspense and human conspiracy...

Some of these settings are definitely not applicable to movies, but there are also many applicable, and even gave them new inspiration.

The point is, this efficient communication is so comfortable!

There will be neither chicken and duck talking, and no one can explain the sense of powerlessness of the idiot X; there will also be no one who tells you to go around, but you still don't know the use of what you do, or even simply feel that you are wasting your energy. irritability and helplessness.

Of course, this is just a simple communication in the initial preparations. With the refinement of various settings, how to seek common ground while reserving differences under the premise of respecting the logic of the two products of movies and games is the real difficulty.

But working in such an atmosphere is already unbearable.

"Is it true that a man and a woman are matched, and that they are not tired from working, so there is such a magical effect?"

Director He Wenying couldn't help expressing his feelings.

"Can't it be that everyone has a good understanding, so it makes sense?" Shen Zhenyi, who was learning to be a producer in the team, smiled a little mysteriously.

He Wenying was taken aback for a moment, then burst out laughing.

"Two people have a heart-to-heart connection, it is possible, that is called a destined marriage; a group of people have a heart-to-heart connection, what the hell is that called, multiple births, it is impossible."

……

　It's another lazy day~~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)