You made me a superstar

Chapter 323 The Man in Black

"Chain Saw" has been drawn by Laomei for a long time, but its influence is still amazing.

Hundreds of thousands of investment.

Over $1 million at the box office.

Shooting does not require any difficulty, only blood-soaked survival scenes are needed.

Low risk, high reward, and many hungry movie fans are eagerly waiting for the arrival of "Saw 2"...

Everything is enough to drive many old American filmmakers crazy.

February this year.

Similar room escape movies in Laomei are almost in a state of blowout shooting.

Almost all of these filmed films are squeezed into release in April.

Zhou Yang opened up the pre-sale tickets for movies that will be released in April or will be released soon.

After reading it, he was stunned.

No one would have imagined that since the popularity of "Interstellar" faded, it was not other blockbusters that occupied Laomei's April movie schedule, but "Chain Saw Massacre", "Saw Night", "The Grave of Chainsaw", " Movies with similar names like My Chainsaw.

What's more, the box office of these movies was actually pretty good. After watching it all over again, Zhou Yang couldn't find any that hit the street.

After reading the brief introduction of these scripts, Zhou Yang felt a sense of familiarity rushing over his face.

Almost every movie has a hapless black friend, an evil white behind-the-scenes contestant, and a string of almost swearing lines.

All movies seem to have a template, but you can't sue them for plagiarism or copyright infringement.

"Mr. Zhou, your "Chain Saw" has sparked a wave of chainsaw craze in the United States. The game company has seen the potential of "Chain Saw" and hopes to buy the game adaptation rights and authorship rights of the movie..."

On the phone, Zheng Jun's voice was excited and crazy.

It's like making a fortune.

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This year's Cannes International Film Festival revealed a serious and suffocating atmosphere inside and out.

Although many filmmakers participating in the exhibition tried their best to hide this sense of depression with smiles, fans can feel that this year's Cannes is extraordinary.

Chairman Steve Ferrez used to be a Norwegian director. In the 80s, he made many bold art films in the international film circle. He was boycotted, threatened, and banned several times, but he did not stop because of this. Shen Shen was unable to recover after a setback, but his status in the film industry was getting higher and higher, and he was even regarded as a god-like existence by many filmmakers.

In a way, art doesn't need mediocrity.

Not only is it not necessary, but it must be unique and fanatical, preferably the kind that can dedicate itself to art.

The same is true of the so-called film art.

Steve Ferris appeared in the premieres of 28 films shortlisted for Cannes this year. Every time he appeared, he would attract a lot of attention, just like the king of Cannes.

This year's Cannes Film Festival has been controversial.

Although anti-war films have always been frequent visitors at film festival awards ceremonies.

The anti-war film "Bella's Last Day", which won the Berlin Golden Bear Award last year, received rave reviews.

But this year's "Celsius 911" was shot too boldly and explicitly.

"The Last Days of Bella" only focused on shooting the civilians in Iraq, and the depiction of the war was very limited and ambiguous, while this "Celsius 911" almost pulled off all the old beauty's underpants and presented them naked in front of everyone , with the premiere of "Celsius 911" in Cannes, Lao Mei's incumbent was criticized and cursed by many media, and public opinion once fell to the lowest point of taking office, and there were even protests and denunciations on a large scale.

The oppressive and suffocating atmosphere of this year's Cannes basically all comes from this film.

A few days after the premiere of the film, even filmmakers from various countries felt that Michael Morgan might not survive the award ceremony, and even predicted that he would be shot when he walked on stage, received the award, or even failed to accept the award.

Of course, director Michael Morgan doesn't care about these things at all.

Artists are all fanatical, especially for an artist like him who is full of paranoia in his bones. If he can really die on the stage, then he will definitely go down in history.

February 24.

Michael Morgan finally met Zhou Yang, whom he had longed for.

From Christian's mouth, he had heard countless times about Zhou Yang's legend.

Zhou Yang in the story is full of wisdom, vigilance, paranoia and fanaticism...

Artists are all lonely, like a lone wolf forever living in an unknown corner, but they also need approval and companionship.

He felt that Zhou Yang should also be such a person.

A fighter, a hero!
Michael Morgan was actually pleasantly surprised when he saw Zhou Yang for the first time.

The oriental director seemed to be immersed in his own world. When facing him, he was taciturn and handsome, but he revealed a sense of sternness. He also disliked reporters' excessive interviews and attention just like himself. The windbreaker wrapped him up and scored The outside is tight, as if separated by two worlds, instinctively resisting the reporters outside.

He rarely talks about movies.

When facing himself, he just nodded his head. When eating together, he ate the dishes on the plate as clean as if they had been washed.

After the meal, he politely declined the invitation of himself, Christian, and even the chairman Steve Ferrez to hide in the room, and he had never even been to the screening hall of "Struggle", let alone accepting invitations from any reporter in any name. interview.

"He doesn't like crowded places, and more often, he likes to be alone. Of course, his personality changes a lot. Sometimes he is crazy about blood, and sometimes he feels disgusting. He hates interviews, at least when I know him. At that time, he never took the initiative to conduct interviews, and his personality was actually very paranoid. Of course, his personality was also very weird, and he seemed to be suppressing the violent tendencies that he could not..." Christian took a sip of tea, looked at It was night outside Cannes.

"I think he is more like a sensitive, lonely night walker..." Chairman Steve Ferrez did not feel disgusted by this, and said with emotion in his heart: "This reminds me of myself when I was young..."

"I think he is a proud person. When I was having dinner with him, I felt a hint of arrogance in his bones. He seemed to look down on anyone..." Michael Morgan nodded, deeply convinced.

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"Boss, Mr. Christian invited you to dinner, are you coming?"

"Don't go."

"Oh, boss, and the photographer, Mr. Cameron, would like to take a photo of you, is it convenient for you to take it?"

"forget it."

In the room, Xu Mei nodded and left.

Zhou Yang, on the other hand, looked out the window with complicated eyes.

He doesn't look down on anyone.

He simply felt that he should keep a distance from these people, the farther the better.

When he met Christian, he felt that Christian seemed to be more fanatical than before, and his speech was full of all kinds of dangerous remarks, which made Zhou Yang feel chills down his spine.

Christian was at the dinner table, chatting about the old beauty of the moment, talking about the people, followed by criticism, and even patted the table.

He met Chairman Steve Ferrez, who gave Zhou Yang the impression that Steve Ferrez was a very sensitive and paranoid artist. Although his speech was calm, Zhou Yang felt that this person was very dangerous, as if he was a A time bomb that would explode at any moment, especially the way he stared at him, made Zhou Yang's heart beat wildly.

He also met Michael Morgan, the director of "Celsius 911". His thinking was quite dangerous. During the chat, he even imagined with Christian that he might be shot dead by fanatics on the stage. If this is the case, I hope Christian can be well He filmed him being shot and told his son that he was a hero!
Then he started talking about how he was going to die, whether the bullet was going to go through his head or his chest, and how he should fall down in a decent way.

After Zhou Yang listened to Michael Morgan's words and saw the fiery look of expectation in his eyes, his mind went blank.

He felt that this guy was simply a psychopath.

On the evening of February 25th.

Zhou Yang heard a knock on the door.

Then...

Will Smith is here, bringing a short, old black American director with a crew cut. His name is Cheers.

Will Smith is the most normal person that Zhou Yang has seen. Instead of chatting with Zhou Yang about how beautiful he is, he introduced the black director Chelsea to Zhou Yang.

Zhou Yang subconsciously glanced at Cheers, and inexplicably became vigilant again.

Chels wanted to make a sci-fi movie.

There is a vague concept and idea, but this idea is very vague and cannot be formed into a specific script. Cheers asked many screenwriters to tell them his ideas, and tried to have many scripts written, but he was not satisfied.

So Will Smith introduced Zhou Yang to him. It happened that this time in Cannes, Cheers also had a work shortlisted, so he came to talk to Zhou Yang about the script.

"Mr. Zhou Yang, I like your "Chain Saw". I heard that a game company bought the adaptation rights of "Chain Saw" from you?"

"Haha, thank you, I also like your "Sunset". If I remember correctly, this should be the only sci-fi film nominated in Cannes, right?"

"Yep."

Under the exaggeration of some caring people in Laomei, Zhou Yang's popularity among the black community is very strong.

Cheers actually did not hold any hope for this trip. In his inherent impression, Zhou Yang has always made realistic literary films, which tend to focus on the grassroots at the bottom. The films he wants to make are science fiction films. It is best to add some commercial movies with a comedy atmosphere, which is really the opposite of Zhou Yang, but it is actually quite good to meet Zhou Yang and chat.

Zhou Yang chatted with Cheers and found that Cheers was also a normal person without any paranoia or fanaticism. Then he showed a smile, and the sense of vigilance slowly disappeared.

Then...

They chatted about the new movie.

"Mr. Zhou Yang... are you okay?" After Chils finished his thoughts, he found that Zhou Yang didn't seem to be listening carefully, but when he kept looking at Will Smith, he frowned slightly. brow.

"Mr. Chelsea, wait a moment."

After about ten minutes...

Cheers stared blankly at Zhou Yang handing over a script outline.

He subconsciously took it.

He saw three Chinese characters in the name of the script.

"Man in black".

(End of this chapter)