Hollywood Secret Garden

Chapter 20: Brazen plagiarism! (2)

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The passionate and playful music sounded from the little girl's fingertips, and Angela with a bright smile and the ups and downs of the rhythm could not help but give people a feeling of vitality.

"Sonoonetoldyoulifewasgonnabethisway" When Angela sang the first line, Jessica held up the small wooden beat that she got from somewhere, and tapped it four times very interestingly.

"Yourjob'sajoke. You'rebroke;

Yourlovelife'sD.OA;

It'slikeyou'realwaysstuckinsecondgear;

Whenithasn "tbeenyourday.yourweekyourmonthorevenyouryear." The little girl continued singing cheerfully, then winked at Jessilla before the next sentence exited, and then sang: "But, I"llbethereforyou! "

Jessica, who had been playing the acoustic guitar, immediately replied with a smile: "Whentherainstartstopour!"

Before she could finish, Angela said again: "I"llbethereforyou! "

Jessica continued: "LikeI" vebeentherebefore! "

When the little girl sings for the third time: "I"llbethereforyou! "

Although Jessica continued with a smile, ""Causeyou"rethereformetoo!" But she looked at Angela with emotion in her eyes.

The simple and unpretentious lyrics quickly moved everyone. No matter who has setbacks and failures in life, there will always be help from relatives and friends when they are depressed. The charm of this song lies in the connection between friends in life. The friendship is sung in an optimistic and playful spirit that makes people want to like it.

The name of the song is "I"ll Be There For You", this is not the famous "I"ll Be There For You" by the famous Backstreet Boys, but the theme song of the famous American TV series "Friends"! Yes, that's right, it was NBC TV that started broadcasting in 1994, and it has been on the air for 10 seasons. "Friends" has become popular all over the United States. This TV series is not a big production, and there is no big scene. It is just writing 6 good friends in 10 years. The bits and pieces of living together may sound bland and tasteless, but only those who read it will know how interesting, wonderful and attractive the stories are. I also love the custom-made theme song.

She once wanted to plagiarize "Friends", but she just threw the idea out of her head. It's a pity that if she was more than ten years older, plagiarizing "Friends" would have no problem at all. But, now, absolutely not! Now she is going to write "Forrest Gump" and it is much better than writing "Friends"!

Very simple, writing "Friends" needs to be based on a deep social experience, able to observe and dig sensitively about those little humors and those trivial things in life. Obviously, it is impossible for a little girl who is only 11 years old anyway. Have such an experience! "Friends" has a total of 10 seasons, each season has about 23 to 25 episodes, and each episode is about 20 minutes. If each season is calculated as 23 episodes and 20 minutes each, the 10 seasons will take 4,600 minutes in total! To write 10 years of life, friendship, trouble, laughter, conflict, love, and work of 6 friends in these 4600 minutes is probably not something a little girl can do, even in her previous life, the entire "Friends" The script is done by many people.

Oh, of course, American TV shows never have a full script, they always go on after a season or two, listening to the audience and making various changes, but even if you cut those 4,600 minutes by a tenth , 460 minutes, and it is not comparable to the longest 180-minute movie script. If you really want to write it, maybe the little guy will have to enter and leave the National Academy of Sciences for the rest of his life, so if you want to write a TV script, at least she has to wait until she is an adult. However, just like buying stocks back then, this is only a small part of Angela's unpaid plan, so it can be skipped.

At the end of the song, the applause sounded again, and there was even a little whistle. Angela pulled Jessica with open arms and bowed to the crowd just like the end of the stage, and then returned to the bonfire.

"I finally understand why the crew called you 'surprise'," Meg said with a smile, clapping her palms.

"Yes, very nice music, Angela, how did you write these three different styles of music?" Dennis asked after taking the electric guitar that the little girl returned. He has always liked music. "I'll Be There For You" has a special feel.

The little girl glanced around. Nancy, Charles, and others who were sitting in front of the bonfire were looking at her. She was a little nervous, knowing that her performance tonight was a bit out of line. After all, as an 11-year-old little girl herself It’s okay to write the script, but at the same time, she can write and sing her own songs, and she can sing so well. She doesn’t mind being called a genius, but if the genius needs to go to the National Science Report, then it’s okay. Bar.

"I remember—I told Nancy, I used to..." The little guy brought out her ADHD statement again, but her music level is really not bad, so everyone occasionally asked related questions, she was also able to answer them fluently, Just when everyone exclaimed, there was one person who was pondering endlessly, that is, George Wells, who had returned to the film company the day before, but arrived in a hurry today!

It's strange, isn't it, although he has the position of production manager, he himself said that he just supervises the finances on behalf of Disney, and he is also the editorial team leader of Touchstone Films. Could it be that the editorial department of the film company has already Leisurely enough to have nothing to do

of course not! If someone asked George like that, he would have yelled, there's obviously a reason why he's back on set so quickly, otherwise how could he just get back to Los Angeles and run back to Napa in Northern California before taking a break garden

As for the specific reason, do you still remember the animation script of "The Lion King"? When Disney got it from the little guy, it had been prepping it until a few days later, when the originals needed to be returned, and no one noticed that there was still a staff and some loose manuscript paper on the last page of the animation script! These pieces of manuscript paper are different from the paper of the script. They were obviously inserted. After careful inspection, I found out that these are two songs, and the stave is the score of one of them.

That's right, these are the two theme songs of the original "Lion King", "Unending" and "Unlimited Love Tonight", these two songs are basically tailored for "The Lion King", whether it is the opening "Life and Life" The vastness of "Endless" or the tenderness of the episode "Love Tonight", in which Simba and Nana meet again, are both very classic. The 67th Academy Awards swept by "True Story" made some gains. It is conceivable that when the staff reported the matter to the animation production department, Disney, which had realized the great value of "The Lion King", would be shaken.

But Disney executives have different opinions about the origin of these two songs, although the handwriting is indeed Angela's, and there are her own comments under the two songs, for example, she wrote under "Breathless": When the sun rises and everything begins to recover, it begins with an African-style cry. Life may be reincarnated, and everything will rise and fall, but life will never end. If the music and the picture match perfectly, everyone will be able to see a vibrant African savannah. If the verse is sung by a sweet and thick female voice, I believe it will form a strong contrast and contrast, which will be more able to achieve better results. attractive effect.

But most people are skeptical, such as Evelyn Kant, the head of the original painting department: "I absolutely do not believe, gentlemen, she is just a child, an 11-year-old child who has never been to Africa, The Africa broadcast on TV is one thing, the real Africa is another, I don't know if she has received systematic music training, but she has relevant systematic training, so I want to write about these two types of music. Different styles of music are also very difficult.”

However, in any case, whether it is the little girl's work or not, since it fits so well with the cartoon, they always have to buy it, so in the end, CEO Eisner made the decision to let the little girl go Make a polite and decent approach, if the author is her, then buy it first, if not her, try to find a way to know who the author is, of course, also the production manager of "Born to Be" George W. Wells was the obvious choice.

At this time, after listening to the little girl's three songs, George's mind had already run away from this task. What he thought of was Hollywood Records, which is another subsidiary of Disney. Founded on the 1st of the month, it can be said that it has just started. The little girl's vocal skills may still be insufficient, but when she sings, she does not feel childish at all, and she seems to be able to do all kinds of songs with ease. , otherwise he wouldn't have made three songs in different styles - obviously, he has no doubts that Angela can write lyrics - if the record company wants to have a foothold in the music industry, signing Angela's record deal will It is the best choice, and anyone with vision will do it.

It's no wonder that George's mind jumped so much, considering who his uncle was to know how much pressure he had on him - Frank Wells, the current president and COO of Disney, and the current chairman and CEO of Michael W. Eisner's best friend!

For George, he absolutely does not want anyone to doubt his ability to work because he has an uncle of the president, so almost no one at Disney knows about his relationship with the president, including his good friend Matthew. At the same time, he also really wants to make a career as soon as possible to prove to everyone that he can do well without the help of his uncle, so Eisner repeatedly persuaded him not to be impatient, which is why he did this to the little girl value.