After coordination with all parties, Spielberg decided to set off for China on the 13th day of the first lunar month in Chinese time. In addition to more than 20 American Flying Tigers and their relatives, he would be accompanied by There were two camera crews who followed the filming and recording process. One was sent by Li Mu and Liu Xinxin was sent by Li Mu, and the other was recruited by Spielberg through connections.
According to Spielberg, the filming team he hired is a well-known documentary team that has close ties with Hollywood. HBO has a very close cooperation with them. The team that filmed "Band of Brothers" provided a lot of Big help.
Spielberg invited them here for two purposes. One is to have an additional recording perspective to make this great meeting more perfect. The other is that HBO likes to work on big themes and is very good at working on big themes. "Flying Tiger" "Flying Tigers" is a movie when it's shot in two hours, and it's a TV series when it's shot in 20 hours. HBO is best at using the same tactics to create movies to create TV series. If they are interested in "Flying Tigers", they can make it Sell the copyright to them, or cooperate with them directly to develop TV series together.
Li Mu naturally has no objection to this. In the IP era, the more derivatives of an IP, the better. A novel is first published on the Internet. After the quality and popularity meet the standards, it is then published, then audio-visual, and then turned into comics and animations. , and then changed into online dramas, online majors, satellite TV dramas, theater movies, and even into client games, web games, mobile games and even console games...
In short, as long as the story is good and popular, its development must be diversified, and the more diversified the development of a story, the more audiences it will have. No one limits "Flying Tigers" to only It is a movie, and of course it can also be made into a TV series. If a domestic film and television company wants to buy the TV series rights of "Flying Tigers", no matter how much money they pay, Li Mu will not agree. Even if he kneels down and calls daddy, he will not agree. I won’t agree. If it were HBO, Li Mu would not pay a penny for the copyright fee. As long as you, HBO, would carefully film for me the greatness and fearlessness of the Chinese military and civilians when they resisted Japan, and truly restore to me the crimes of the Japanese invaders. Come here, it’s okay for me to give you some fucking money.
Li Mu has never made "Flying Tigers" for the sake of making money, but for the country, the nation, and history. No matter how much money he spends on these three things, Li Mu will not hesitate.
Considering that the plane arrived in Chuncheng on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, just in time to celebrate the Lantern Festival, Li Mu arranged for these American Flying Tigers to spend the festival with the old Chinese Flying Tigers, and then asked volunteers to arrange for them to go to the former Flying Tigers Visit the old site of the team base and some places with common memories, give them a few days to reunite and find memories of the past, and officially hold a press conference on the 18th of the first lunar month.
At this press conference, Li Mu will not only announce to the public the other characters of "Flying Tigers" together with Spielberg, but also announce the status of the Veterans' Immortal Charitable Foundation and the "Looking for Survivors" project that is currently in full operation. "Flying Tigers" charity action.
An Air China 747 coordinated by Li Mu will go to the United States five days in advance for painting. After that, until the veteran Flying Tigers team charters the flight, this aircraft will not perform other flight missions. The Boeing 747 is It is currently the largest civil aviation aircraft. Changing the paint of such a large four-engine aircraft is not a simple project. It is time-consuming, labor-intensive and money-consuming. However, in order to achieve the desired effect, Li Mu does not care about this investment at all.
Fortunately, Air China's leaders have learned about the clear positioning of the Veterans' Immortal Charity Foundation and the details of the search for surviving Flying Tigers members through private communication. What's rare is that they are also very supportive of this public welfare activity, and Air China is willing to bear the responsibility for free. This is a charter flight, and I hope to permanently retain the special painting of the 747 after the charter flight is over.
Li Mu is particularly happy with Air China's attitude. What he cares about is not saving money on charter flights, but Air China's positive and cooperative attitude. This proves that the charity project "Veterans Don't Die" has great appeal and appeal to the entire society. , I believe that when I launch this charity project, it will definitely be recognized and supported by the whole society. The more recognition and support, the more comprehensive help I can provide to veterans in the future.
Based on Wei Lan's calculation for Li Mu, the Veterans Immortality Foundation will continue to protect the existing veterans until their death. In ten or twenty years, at least hundreds of millions of yuan will be needed to support it. It seems that the funding gap is huge. However, once this charity project becomes a phenomenon in society, with China's population base, this funding gap will be easily filled in a short period of time.
If funds are sufficient, Li Mu is even planning to continue to expand the influence of the Veterans' Immortality charity project. In the next few years, the foundation can allocate its remaining efforts to help those in Taiwan while covering all veterans in mainland China. If the veterans of the Anti-Japanese War still have spare strength, they can also help veterans of other countries in Southeast Asia who have resisted the Japanese invasion, and they can even help the old Soviet Red Army who participated in the Northeast attack on the Japanese Kwantung Army.
Li Mu, a nationalist, helps the anti-Japanese veterans of other countries. He does not simply want to help them, but wants to use practical actions to create a justice alliance with the anti-Japanese veterans as the core and remind the world of Japan's war atrocities. As long as his ability allows, He can help groups around the world that have resisted or been harmed by Japanese invaders.
Even the American veterans who participated in the Pearl Harbor War, the Battle of Midway, the Battle of Iwo Jima and other wars, even the Soviet Red Army who fought against the Japanese in the Northeast, and even the Provisional Government Organization of the Republic of Korea before North and South Korea were divided. In short, all those who resisted the Japanese invaders during World War II, regardless of race or nationality, are the targets of Li Mu's "Justice Alliance". He wants to unite all those who can unite. The purpose is to remind all countries, nations, and people that have suffered from war and aggression, and hope that they will always remember that period of history, so that their descendants and their compatriots will never forget that the country called Japan once brought so much to the people of the world. of all suffering.
To achieve this goal, the key lies in the energy that the Veterans Immortality Foundation can gather in society. Domestic publicity is only part of it. In the future, he must push this charitable organization to every corner of the world.
At this time, the public is still unaware of the existence of the Veterans’ Immortal Charity Foundation. There are two big things they are more concerned about right now. One is that there are so many criticisms of Li Mu on the Internet. Why doesn’t he come out and give everyone an explanation? Is it because of a guilty conscience or is it true? Already separated from the grassroots; another one is when the Chinese actors of "Flying Tigers" will be announced.
Many media reporters are also waiting for an official and clear statement on these two matters. During this period, many media asked to interview Li Mu, but without exception they were all declined. Even Li Mu’s mother Yang wanted to interview Li Mu, but Li Mu also refused. He declined, citing lack of time.
Before the launch of the press conference, Li Mu was not prepared to accept interviews from any media. All misunderstandings, speculations and attacks were insignificant to him, because he knew that everything would be fully announced to the public on the day of the press conference. By that time, everything would be revealed to the public. All the attacks and rumors will be self-defeating in the press conference. Before that, all explanations are in vain and meaningless. His time is precious. How can he have the energy to talk to every rumor maker? One by one, this kind of attack can only be broken into parts and killed all at once. It is necessary to defeat all enemies in one battle.
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On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, Los Angeles time, a specially painted Boeing 747 took off from the Boeing Airport in Seattle and landed at the Los Angeles International Airport after several hours of flight.
After the Air China 747 completed its new painting at the Boeing assembly plant, it took off directly to Los Angeles. After landing at the Los Angeles Airport, it immediately taxied into the large hangar reserved at the airport, so the entire appearance time dropped from a height of 500 meters. Starting from the hour, it only takes ten minutes in total to land, reverse thrust to decelerate, and taxi into the warehouse.
Los Angeles International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world. Countless passenger planes take off and land here every day. There are also countless 747 models, and the liveries of airlines from various countries are available. Generally speaking, except for aviation enthusiasts, it is extremely popular. Few people can tell the difference between these planes. It stands to reason that Air China's veteran plane was only exposed among many planes for more than ten minutes, so it should not attract much attention. However, its unique painting still made many witnesses look askance. .
This specially painted 747 is indeed quite eye-catching. It is originally the largest civil aviation aircraft, and the front half of the nose is a double-layer design, which is much higher than the fuselage. And on the tall nose, there is an impressive The shape of a huge shark mouth. Although the shark has a cartoon shape, it looks particularly majestic and domineering.
Most of the liveries in modern civil aviation are very orthodox, and only a few special aircraft use cartoon livery. For example, some Japanese airliners use comic character themes for livery, and the American FedEx Panda plane uses giant pandas as its livery. It seems that it has never been seen in the civil aviation field using shark paint.
In addition to the eye-catching shark mouth shape, there are also eye-catching words spray-painted on the fuselage, which read in Chinese and English "Veterans will never die---American Flying Tigers special plane". However, because the plane never stopped moving, most witnesses I didn't see the words on the fuselage clearly, I just saw the shark on the nose. Even the few who saw the words didn't understand the message.
There are also some witnesses taking photos of this 747, but fortunately this is not the era of smartphones. Even the most high-end camera phones now only have 300,000 pixels at most, and mobile Internet access is still not very popular, so no images have been circulated online. .
It is about to cross the ocean and the hemisphere to achieve a great reunion that will go down in history!
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