Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

The author has something to say: I checked the IMDB data, and "Forrest Gump" is indeed an adaptation of the script. Empiricism kills people.This BUG has been modified in the previous chapters, and you can consider that "Forrest Gump" has been authorized for adaptation.In addition, students, we are very close to the points in the previous article.If it is at a certain point, the author will definitely shout about throwing the monthly pass... But Jinjiang does not have a monthly pass, so continue to collect and comment.Students, the monthly champions on the homepage and channel are calling us, where are the flowers and favorites?

Now that he has taken over the follow-up publicity work of "Forrest Gump", Jed has to return to Dongfeng Building to discuss with Lansing and Jia Fei.The building opposite the NBC Burbank Production Center has become a new landmark of Burbank since its completion. The post-modern design style makes this building a topic in Burbank, a western media center.Although Jade has not yet named this building, the company has already called this building Dongfeng Building.After all, the start-up cost of this building was contributed by Dongfeng TV Production Company, and the Galaxy Movies and Muse Culture in the same building had no objections.

On the highway to Burbank, Jed had already notified Lansing and Jaffe of the relevant content by text message on his mobile phone.When it comes to mobile phone text messages, we have to talk about the latest rise of Samsung mobile phone company.With the help of GSM mobile phone network protocol and SMS mobile phone short message protocol, they strongly intervened in the mobile communication market, and soon became a mobile phone company against Motorola in the United States.Of course, Jed is happy with such a development trend of Samsung mobile phones.Because Samsung mobile phones can have their own [-]% of the mobile phone shares, this is Samsung Electronics' concession on the VCD agreement in order to compensate itself.Of course, Samsung’s arrangement of shares in this way is also to allow the company to have more American roots and avoid investigations by the U.S. Department of Commerce or the International Trade Commission.

Since the SMS protocol has been recognized by most mobile phone manufacturers and communication service providers, mobile phone text messages have become an important communication method for modern Americans.Fortunately, the arrogant Americans found out that the largest shareholder of Samsung mobile phones is Horizon Technology Investment Co., Ltd., which is controlled by the United States, so they still proudly call the United States the "global mobile phone leader."

Jed doesn't care about the reputation, but it must be said that the text message is really easy to use.In this era when e-mail can't be sent anywhere, text messages are simply the best substitute.However, Jed still does not forget to urge Samsung mobile phones to speed up the research on GPRS. Jed is almost fed up with this era without wireless networks and smart phones.

Originally, Americans did not know enough about SMS, but the staff of Yinhe and Dongfeng started to use it under the leadership of Jed, and this thing is really easy to use, so it has become a necessary communication between the two companies. tools too.Now Lansing and Jia Fei are arguing with Jade's text message, when Jia Fei's current thinking will be normal for his whimsical boss?Lansing, on the other hand, looked at his former work partner with great sympathy.Lansing also has a deep understanding, why is a genius called a genius?It is because their ideas are always different from normal people.

Jed went into his own president's office, and then saw Jia Fei who was about to collapse and Lansing who was infinitely sympathetic.Seeing their expressions, Jed smiled and said, "Do you all think I'm hot-headed? Do you think so badly about me?"

"My big boss, it's true that "Forrest Gump" is a classic movie, but do you know what another name for a classic movie is? 'It's not a big hit'!" Jia Fei has revealed that he wants to make Jed Swallowed eyes, "God! Bet against [-] million box office, the global box office may still have some hope, as long as we work hard in a few European film festivals. Finally, we can go to the Asian market to make money. But it is only in North America. Box office! My boss, do you know that there are only two countries in North America? One is the United States and the other is Canada! Did you include Mexico? Even including Mexico is not good enough! If you include China and India Not too bad! Forget it, not many people in those two countries will buy tickets to watch our movies!"

"Jia Fei, be quiet!" Jed hurriedly comforted the general in his hands.Although Jed also believes that Jia Fei's vision is limited and he is not suitable to be the CEO of Future Film Group, but it is enough to be the general manager of a film production company. "Did you know? The third-class movies sell special effects, and the second-class movies sell plots. Do you know what the first-class movies sell? It's culture! If one day, 'Forrest Gump culture' becomes the national culture of the United States, Do you think we're still short on box office?"

"Yes, boss, I admit that your argument is very reasonable." Jia Fei thought for a while, and felt that Jed's words really had nothing to refute. "However, how many years will it take to turn 'Forrest Gump Culture' into American national culture? I'm afraid that by that time, Galaxy Movies will have gone bankrupt! Now, boss, what should we do now? The first weekend box office is only here, and it will be soon Second week weekend!"

"It doesn't take long, Jafei." Jed shook his head, "We don't really need to turn 'Forrest Gump Culture' into the national culture of the United States, as long as it looks like it is. Human beings have a blind obedience mentality, Do you know the 'herd effect'? When someone says this is the national culture of the United States, some people will believe it. When more and more people believe it, it will really be the national culture.

"Although I hate the Nazis, I have to admit that Goebbels was right when he said, 'A lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth'. We just need to keep repeating in various media that 'Forrest Gump is the symbol of the American people' ', 'Forrest Gump is the spirit of America'... within a week, I believe Americans will agree with this sentence. Because this movie is indeed very exciting, but it did not meet people who know how to appreciate and respect her. I I don't want to hide from you two that I'm about to form a distribution company. Of course, based on the law you know, this distribution company will not seem to have much to do with Galaxy Films, but this company will mainly distribute our films.

"Although Paramount has a distribution channel that makes us excited, their publicity and planners are too unambitious and brainy. They are not worthy of cooperating with us! Distribution channels can be slowly expanded, but ambition and brains cannot be slowly acquired. .We used too many abnormal methods in the past when we operated "Jurassic Park" and "The Blair Witch". "Forrest Gump" will be our best trial work.

"——Although we seem to be in crisis now, there are at least two turning points! One is that the film reviews originally invited by Paramount will be published one after another this week, so the exposure of the film will increase sharply this week; The second is our VAM agreement. "Forrest Gump" is a good movie, but it just lacks an opportunity for the audience to understand it. Jia Fei, please contact all the newspapers and periodicals we can contact to distribute the VAM agreement. If there are media reports, you will repeat my gambling agreement a hundred times, and then tell them 'Forrest Gump is a symbol of the American spirit'.

"Lansing, don't waste our show, contact Oprah to see when Tom Hanks can be arranged to go to "The Oprah Show" at the earliest; the second is to arrange the entire crew to go to "The Late Show" as soon as possible ". Now that we have such good TV on our hands, let's not waste it."

After listening to Jed's arrangement, Jiafei and Lansing went to their own business.Not long after Jia Fei and others left, the secretary said that Lei Shidong's secretary had contacted him, and hoped that he could give Lei Shidong a call when it was convenient for him.Although Jed didn't have a good impression of Paramount's distribution department, he still had a lot of respect for Redstone, so he took the initiative to call him.

"My dear Jed, you are so disrespectful!" Lei Shidong complained over the phone, "You have an opinion on our distribution department, so there is no need to fight such a gambling agreement? 2 million in North America box office? It’s unbelievable!”

"My goal is to go to the box office of more than 3 million." Jade said with a smile, "Mr. Redstone, "Forrest Gump" is a typical long-term work. You bring over 30 million box office, but it can definitely be released in North America for more than 1000 weeks. Even if we only have [-] million box office per week, can we break through [-] million?"

"But the movie box office is not a simple average number game, okay?" Lei Shidong started from movie theaters, then had his own theater company, and finally established his own production and distribution company through acquisitions.In terms of box office trends, he is really one of the few authorities in the United States. "The cruel reality of the North American box office is that the first three weeks will monopolize more than [-]% of the total box office revenue in North America. Any film that can be shown in North America for ten weeks is already a classic. Thirty weeks? Jed, you know Well, this is more than seven months of screenings. Even if we count the second round of theaters and art theaters, it is already difficult to reach [-] weeks."

"That's because these movies are not called "Forrest Gump." Jed said indifferently.

Jed is familiar with the super vitality of the movie "Forrest Gump" at the box office. Until the end of 1994, this movie was still in the top ten of the North American box office (it fell out of the top ten in the last week).Just when everyone thought that this movie would bid farewell to the North American market in the first week of 1995, they did not expect that this movie successfully returned to the top ten box office list by virtue of its Golden Globe and major awards.In the end, relying on the Oscars, it returned to No. 20 in the eighth week of its release and returned to fifth place at the box office.If it wasn't for the final release of the videotape, I'm afraid this movie will continue to be released. After all, "Forrest Gump" is No. 12 in the box office chart after being drawn from mainstream theaters.

Seeing that Jed was so confident, Lei Shidong had no choice but to wish him good luck.According to Redstone's estimation, "Forrest Gump" is very likely to be released ten weeks after its release. If it performs well at the Oscars and Golden Globe Awards, it may be revived briefly, but it will not last for another three weeks at most. draw.Afterwards, it will enter the second-round theater circuit, art theater circuit and video rental market. It is expected that the box office in North America will be around 1 million, which is not bad.But this movie should be popular in Europe, maybe it can win an award at the Venice Film Festival or something, and then it will earn about 1.5 million at the box office in the international market.Therefore, Lei Shidong firmly believes that the final global box office of this movie may be around 2.5 million yuan, while the North American box office wants to exceed 3 million yuan, which is tantamount to nonsense.

However, the newspapers in Los Angeles soon reported on the gambling agreement between Jed and Paramount the next day, and the national media also quickly intervened in the report.In just two days, American audiences suddenly discovered that the news about "Forrest Gump" was overwhelming.At the same time, there were suddenly more film reviews about "Forrest Gump" in the newspapers, and they were almost overwhelmingly favorable.So ordinary Americans began to wonder if a movie is really so good, can it be called a "symbol of the American spirit"?

So in order to refute these rumors, American audiences picked up their wallets and went to the cinema to buy tickets to see how "great" this movie is.If this movie is just a vain name, then everyone is not stingy to submit articles to newspapers and criticize this movie.But Jade is not worried about these audiences, "Forrest Gump" is not a vain work like "Little Times".Now the audience has been "tricked" into the movie theater, and most of them will be moved by the movie when they come out.

However, Jed didn't continue to worry about the promotion of the movie, he now just wanted to train the distribution talents in the company.Now Jed has returned to the barren Texas desert, shooting his debut novel "The Shawshank Redemption" in the ruins of the prison.Now all the actors have learned how harsh Jed is on acting, and even a powerful actor like Freeman can't bear it.

"Mr. Sherman is indeed the most picky director I have ever worked with." In an interview, Freeman couldn't help complaining, "He is a director with a strong sense of picture, if your movements, expressions, and even Your eyes don't match his needs and he'll just repeat the sequence over and over again. Thank god he got interested in disaster movies later on, so he tortured the VFX crew instead of us Poor actors. But I must say, I'm still looking forward to working with Mr. Sherman if given the opportunity. The reason is simple, I want to know the limit of what I can do."

The scene that Jed is going to shoot today is that the prison librarian, Lao Bu, has been unable to adapt to normal life after he was released. He chose to commit suicide when everything was lost. The main dramatic conflict in "The Shawshank Redemption" is "institutionalization" and "freedom".Although Rhett, played by Freeman, has repeatedly emphasized what is "system" and what "institutionalization" is... But it is the death of Lao Bu that really makes the audience have the most direct understanding of "institutionalization". .He couldn't adapt to ordinary life, and he tried his best to go back to the prison life without freedom.When his goal could not be achieved, he actually chose to die.This is beyond the comprehension of the general audience, you have freedom, why do you have to die?

The prop masters built a dilapidated and dark room, which makes people feel cramped and uneasy, but for Lao Bu, this is the life he most yearns for.He slowly stood on the stool and put his head in the rope.The camera slowly rises from the room to Lao Bu's head, and then slowly zooms into a close-up and close-up... Lao Bu's expression is so calm, as if the baby has returned to its mother's arms.Then there was a tremor, and a happy smile appeared on Old Bu's face.The camera pulls back, and there is an old cloth hanging in the dim room...

"OK!" Jed couldn't help applauding James Whitmore who played the old cloth.This actor who has struggled on the big screen since the golden age of Hollywood really has two brushes. The relaxed expression and the final happy look are definitely not what ordinary actors can do.This requires too much experience and perception, but James Whitmore did it easily with his experience.

"Mr. Whitmore, your performance has made me think of a soundtrack. The calm piano will be the main accompaniment, and behind the piano will be the faint and weeping violin. In the final In one shot, I want to let the bitter cello hint to the audience that this story is a tragedy."

"I can't wait to hear this soundtrack." Although Whitmore looked relaxed, the scene just now made him a little tired. "Mr. Sherman, I hope the next time I work with you will be a comedy, this movie is just too tiring."

Perhaps Whitmore's words represent the words of most actors. Jed is not a violent person, but his high standards also exhausted actors physically and mentally when they pushed their acting skills to another peak, which is why Hollywood A rule emerges that absolutely no actor can go back to Jed Sherman in a movie.But Jed also knew that everyone was oppressed by him very badly, so he specially arranged a soothing room.There is nothing in the room, just a big doll.But the face of this doll is Jed's face, so if you are dissatisfied with Jed, you can rush into this room and beat the doll Jed severely.

When the crew of "The Shawshank Redemption" was filming in Texas, "Forrest Gump" really sparked discussions across the United States as Jed expected.Countless Americans regard "Forrest Gump" as their own symbol, and "Forrest Gump" has undoubtedly become a symbol of the American spirit.Such publicity results left Lei Shidong speechless. The same movie has different results in the hands of different people.No wonder Jed complained about the lack of capabilities of the Paramount distribution department when he was working with "The Blair Witch", and now it is the same for "Forrest Gump".

More importantly, Jade hardly used any abnormal propaganda methods in the promotion process of "Forrest Gump", which was completely aboveboard.But even so, their publicity performance is still several streets away from Paramount.Lei Shidong couldn't help but touch his forehead, God knows how long Jed is willing to cooperate with Paramount if this goes on.

In the secluded sewer, Andy ran towards the bright exit... Jed didn't chase the camera out this time, but patted Andy from a distance, and patted him as he ran towards the distance.

This shot is full of various symbolic meanings. After comparing Jed's student works, some researchers in later generations believe that Jed's handling at this time represents the maturity of his director skills.

With the completion of this shot, the pre-shooting of "The Shawshank Redemption" was completed, and it was already late August.