James Cameron is sitting on the sofa. As a top director in the world, he has met countless film company bosses and investors, but never once has he been as nervous as he is today. Even when he got investment for the first time, he was so nervous. No, because the big boss he was going to meet today was the richest man in the world.
When Ralph told him that the boss wanted to see him, he was shocked. He never thought that a big boss like Feng Yu would take the initiative to meet him.
Of course, he was also very happy in his heart. This was his first time meeting the world's richest man.
He saw a young man in casual clothes walking in, followed by Ralph, the CEO of Fengyu Holdings Group, and knew that this man must be the legendary richest man.
"Hello, Mr. Feng, I am James Cameron." Cameron quickly stood up and stretched out his hands.
Feng Yu briefly talked to Cameron and sat on the sofa: "Sit, don't be too nervous."
Cameron thought to himself, "Can you not be nervous? Before I came in, your four bodyguards searched me all over and almost had me stripped naked for inspection."
"James, I like your Titanic, Terminator series, True Lies, etc. very much, so I heard that no one funded the movie you always wanted to make, so you asked Ralph to send someone to contact you. "Feng Yu crossed his legs and leaned on the sofa and said.
"Thank you Mr. Feng for your appreciation. I am a director, and it is an honor for me to make other people like my movies." When he said this, Cameron had a look of elation on his face that could not be concealed.
"It's just that you also have a title, money-burning director, that is, one of your movies will bring down a company. This has been proven during Titanic, which also leads to the fact that no one dares to invest in your new movie. Payback cycle It’s too long, the investment is too big, and the variables are too big.”
"But I have confidence in you, or I am very optimistic about movies like 3D and IMAX, which can give audiences a more perfect visual experience. Our company has acquired the AMC theater chain, and together with the original MGM theater chain, we have the most 3d screen and imax screen."
"And we are renovating the theater to increase the number of 3D and IMAX screens. In the future, our movies will focus on the movie-watching experience. We just happened to understand that the "Avatar" you want to make, or this series of movies, is in this way."
As soon as he mentioned Avatar, Cameron began to introduce the selling points of this movie incessantly. He wanted to prove to Feng Yu that this movie would definitely make money and would definitely not be wasted.
Feng Yu waved his hand: "You don't need to say more about the plot. I understand what you mean. But you said that politics, culture, environmental protection, religion, race and other aspects must be taken into consideration. Don't you think it is too much? I know you want to pass this It is a satire on human arrogance, greed, and ignorance, but don’t forget that love is one of the eternal themes in the movie.”
"We have love, and it's love across races." Cameron emphasized.
"No, there is a problem here. The story you just told me is clearly about this human incarnation falling in love with a woman from the Avatar tribe, but apart from their thoughts, they are clearly the same race in appearance and other aspects. The biggest opposition here should be the contrast and interaction between the body and the incarnation."
"The real identity of the male protagonist in the movie seems empty and has nothing to do. Compared with the relationship between Jack and Rose, it is so different. Moreover, you have very few interactions between people in the front, and there is more to come later. The big scene, although it’s very cool and shocking, it’s hard to resonate emotionally because you set a happy ending.”
"I'm not saying that this ending is not good, but how to shoot a sequel? Isn't your dream to make this into a series?"
Cameron was ecstatic: "It would be even better if Mr. Feng would invest in a series for me. Of course I will film him into a series, a series that will go down in the history of movies! Of course the ending can be slightly changed, I will write it The script of the second part, so that we can know how to connect it with the first part. If Mr. Feng becomes a director, he will definitely be one of the most successful directors."
Feng Yu enjoyed Cameron's flattery, but he actually knew very well that he knew nothing about the director.
"As long as you understand, I am very optimistic about you. Whether it is this "Avatar" or the Terminator series, they have extremely high requirements for film technology. Many companies cannot do this, but Industrial Polishing Company can Completed. Fengyu Holding Group is cooperating with industrial polishing companies and plans to invest several hundred million US dollars to obtain a controlling stake in industrial polishing."
"Also, we are also studying to invest in Weta Digital, which produces the "Lord of the Rings" series. Peter Jackson is also one of the directors I admire very much. We are also in contact with him and plan to sign him to shoot the fantasy series. An epic masterpiece.”
Feng Yu said it sounded nice, but in fact he didn't even care about the so-called magical epic masterpiece. What is an epic? It should be historical poetry. Does this have anything to do with history? Is The Lord of the Rings history? Or is The Hobbit history
It should be said that they created a new history, a fictional mythical history, just like the Marvel world created by Marvel.
However, the epics that people generally recognize now are the medieval knight wars. It seems that with the advancement of technology and the development of society, people are more and more interested in reading stories from ancient times.
The so-called magic series is nothing more than realizing the scenes in people's dreams, such as magic, dragons and the like. Fifty years ago, too many current technologies were considered unachievable black technologies. Even ten years ago, there were technologies that many people could not imagine.
Let’s talk about smartphones. If they had appeared ten years ago, they would have been black technology. Well, it's still that kind of useless black technology, because it can't really be used without other technical cooperation.
When material life is satisfied, people begin to pursue spiritual life. Just like the ancient emperors, no matter which country they were in, they all pursued immortality. The same is true for people now. Various science and technology to extend people's lives have been developed, and medicine can also be regarded as one of such categories.
People's thoughts are actually very active, which can also be understood as having a lot of imagination. Various hero comics in the past were designed to satisfy this part of people's psychology.
Nowadays, comics are no longer enough, people are looking forward to scenes that can appear before their eyes, such as movies.
Therefore, the proportion of movies in culture will become larger and larger in the future, and the enjoyment brought by movies is the most intuitive.
"Mr. Feng, with the support of these two companies, we will complete the filming task quickly after cooperating with other companies. I think this movie may be released ahead of schedule."
"It doesn't matter. Slow work will lead to careful work. I believe you won't let me down."
Watching Cameron go out in a daze, Feng Yu felt a sense of accomplishment.
… (To be continued.)