I Created the Myth of the Old Ruler

  Chapter 309 308. You can go to sleep if you are tired (monthly ticket plus more!)

  A few days ago, overseas, Massachusetts.

  Alfred Lake is one of AMC’s senior department directors responsible for introducing films.

  He is Thomas Lee’s superior.

  "Christmas schedule? What is this guy thinking about?"

  Lake saw the report on the desktop, and felt that it was getting more and more difficult for his men.

Here, the Christmas schedule is equivalent to the Spring Festival, Christmas, and New Year's Day. The holidays are also a good time for major shopping malls to launch promotional activities. The streets are crowded, the shopping malls are crowded, and the box office of movies is also rising, second only to Summer vacation and May Golden Week schedule.

  Generally speaking, just as the domestic Spring Festival files mostly show family fun and festive movies, the movies around Christmas are also mainly light comedies, romantic dramas, cartoons, etc.

   But Thomas Lee handed him a war movie.

   is still a foreign language film.

  In the words of the Chinese people, what to see in the New Year's Eve, how unlucky.

  Although there is no similar exquisiteness overseas, everyone still likes to drag their family to watch movies at Christmas. War movies are not rated for children. They will not give priority to choosing such movies when going out, which drags down the box office.

   and it was taken "overseas", for Laker, it was emotionally unacceptable.

  Fortunately, only 5% of the film arrangement is guaranteed in the contract. The specifics depend on the situation.

  Next to the report, there is a CD-ROM containing the movie "Magic Tide", which was sent by Thomas Lee for evaluation and local censorship.

  Overseas, all movies, games and other audio-visual entertainment products need to be graded, to distinguish some of the content that is not suitable for children, and then to make the movies of the level that children can't see more exciting.

  "Li has always been very accurate in his judgments, this time he will do this, and there may be reasons, so it is better to watch this movie first."

  Rake wanted to start the review immediately, but suddenly thought of the party tonight.

He graduated from Miskatok University in Massachusetts, where there is the famous Miskatok University Film Festival and the largest youth film festival in the United States. Lake was born in photography and worked in film and television for a period of time after graduation. AMC has achieved where it is today step by step.

  Tonight’s party is for the 20th anniversary of his graduation with a few close classmates. It is in his own house. His house is quite big. A few friends can just go to sleep when they are tired.

  Some of these classmates are already famous directors, while others stay in school to teach and become professors. They are all successful people.

  In addition to the classic barbecue party, their party is to get together to watch movies. After all, they are all practitioners. There are a lot of things to talk about watching movies, so they spend a relaxing and enjoyable evening.

   "It might be better for them to taste it together."

  Lake thought that his own opinions may be biased, but the opinions of so many classmates added together are enough to produce a comprehensive evaluation.

  After all, according to Thomas Lee, this is an epic blockbuster.

  When Lake heard this sentence, he almost wanted to ask his subordinate of Chinese descent to ask him to translate what is meant by "epic blockbuster".

As we all know, such high-cost movies have disappeared in recent years. Even Hollywood, the strongest film industry in the world, has not rushed to try such high-cost productions. In recent years, the hottest works have been connected through a worldview. The superhero movie, that kind of classic epic blockbuster, is no longer filmed.

  Lake doesn’t think other countries can make epic blockbusters. First of all, their industrial equipment can’t do it. Second is the level of actors. Finally, there are factors such as scripts and directors, and one more thing is capital investment.

   There were some epic fantasy movies at the beginning of the century. At that time, the computer special effects technology was not mature, so many used real-time shooting, such as finding hundreds of riders to charge on horseback, or making fake props instead of special effects.

  This is also to save costs, which sounds a bit weird, but in some cases, special effects are really expensive.

  To this day, Hollywood is still proud of its mature film industry system. Various superhero movies are a manifestation of advanced industrial special effects.

  In Hollywood, you can complete these special effects at a relatively low price, but in foreign countries, you either spend a lot of money to find Hollywood OEMs, or you can explore it yourself.

  For example, if a flame burns, foreign teams may have to study the particle presentation for several months on their own, but here in Hollywood, there are hundreds of the same flame effects that can be selected at will. These are all accumulation and reserve, and it is not so easy to overtake in corners.

  There are even a lot of special effects that can only be completed by specific studios, and most of these studios are concentrated here. Some people say that Hollywood has a monopoly on special effects movies. This is not wrong at all.

  If you want to shoot a movie with large scenes and multiple special effects, you will almost certainly find a special effects team on the Hollywood side.

  Krek did not hear that Hollywood studios undertake related special effects production business.

  In other words, the special effects of this "Magic Tide" are likely to be made by other studios or by themselves.

  The special effect of fifty cents is not worth looking forward to.

Lake also glanced at the director’s previous catalog of works. They were all horror films and thrillers. This kind of low-cost film that would be classified as a B-level film here made Lake feel the so-called "epic." "Blockbuster" may be just a joke.

  And the reason why those movies can have such a high box office, Lake thinks, this is probably because of the backward aesthetics.

  There have also been blockbuster films jointly shot by the two countries before, and famous foreign movie stars were invited. The quality can only be said to be very mediocre, and the level of special effects is not enough, which disappointed the audience.

   Therefore, Lake picked up the CD of "Magic Tide" and drove home with the mentality of watching jokes and complaining about bad movies.

  In the evening, after enjoying a perfect barbecue, Lake and his friends came to the projection room of his house. A part of the garage was used for modification, which has perfect audio-visual effects. It can be called Lake’s Happy House.

   "What did you say you brought?"

  A friend of Lake’s Justin asked, he is now a small well-known director, has made two good movies, and is regarded as the best in the industry.

   "A movie, to be released on Christmas, was imported from overseas."

  Rake took out the disc.

  ""Magic Tide", hearing the name reminds me of a game I played when I was young."

  Another friend, Professor Armitage, joked that he is a professor at the School of Communication at Miskatok University.

   "It is said that this is an epic blockbuster, huh."

  Rake put the disc in the player.

   "Epic blockbuster? I haven't heard of any director who wants to make such a big movie recently."

  The last friend, Les, was a producer at the film company. He didn’t understand Lake’s meaning so much, so he asked.

   "Just watch it anyway, I prepared beer, we can talk and watch it."

  Lake brought a few bottles of beer, pressed the play button, turned off the lights, and sat on the soft sofa.

  The whole room dimmed, and before the production list appeared, a dark forest appeared first.

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  (End of this chapter)