I Really Didn’t Want to Be the Savior Chapter 105: Angry because of childishness
The next morning, Chen Feng and Zhong Lei each got up and ate at the restaurant on the top floor of the hotel.
Zhong Lei unconsciously fiddled with the whole-wheat film, and stared at Chen Feng curiously, "It is said that Katie is the goddess in the hearts of many domestic music fans, don't you know?"
"I know."
"Then you will meet the real person today, why don't you seem excited at all?"
"Why are you excited? We were invited by the other party to cooperate, and everyone is equal. Moreover, I am very sure that the person in front of me is worse than Katie and will achieve higher achievements in the future. I can see you every day. , why should you settle for the next best thing and expect someone who is not as good as you?"
Zhong Lei was dumbfounded for a long time.
"I don't know if I should say that you are arrogant, or that you think too highly of me, or maybe you have become more glib and good at sweet words."
Chen Feng pointed to his face, "Do I look like a glib?"
"Not like."
"That's not right, I'm seeking truth from facts."
Zhong Lei: "I feel like you've become crazy after coming here."
Chen Feng put down his spoon, "This western food is really unpalatable."
He smiled, "The environment makes people, people here like to say hello to crazy people. In their eyes, the arrogance of capable people is not arrogance, but cool. We are both cool. So we don't need to accept on.”
Zhong Lei doesn't know yet, this is just the beginning.
After attending the tasting session in the afternoon, and being shown off by Neil Brokamp, who frantically preached "Zoom of Chaos" for a long time, she realized that Chen Feng's arrogance was limitless.
Director Neil is also a madman, very conceited. While bragging about himself, he did not forget to express his contempt for Chinese science fiction.
In Neil's view, Chinese filmmakers lack both imagination and rigorous scientific literacy. Except for a few films that are not satisfactory, most Chinese science fiction films are unsightly and should be put into garbage collection trucks destroy.
Neil also thinks that he invited Chen Feng to cooperate this time to provide Chen Feng with an excellent opportunity. It is impossible for China to make a science fiction movie that is qualified to use "Bathing Fire" and "Self Burning" as the theme songs.
Neil thinks Chen Feng should thank him, because he brought the two of them a real stage to display their talents.
Although Zhong Lei felt that the other party was telling the truth, it was really unpleasant. Chen Feng was more straightforward, his face was impatient, and there were signs of being on the verge of eruption at any time.
At that time, Katie Swift was also expressing her opinions, and it seemed that she wanted to take full control of the lyrics adaptation, so that Zhong Lei and Chen Feng would give her a shot.
Not only that, but Katie wanted to completely change the original meaning of the lyrics, to include her own understanding of the universe and future technology.
This is her creative philosophy, and she wants to personally give the soul to the songs she wants to sing.
Then Chen Feng exploded.
He said ruthlessly on the spot, the Chinese side must lead the arrangement of the lyrics, otherwise, even if I give you the right to arrange it, I will not admit that this song has anything to do with us after I go back.
Of course I won't sue you, you are using it legally, but I will never admit that I have any cooperation relationship with the English version.
To put it simply, it is the shame of being in the company of others, making the English version of "Self Burning" unorthodox.
After finishing speaking, Chen Feng dragged Zhong Lei away, leaving Neil and the others to look at each other.
None of them knew what they were doing wrong.
Obviously, the situation cannot be allowed to deteriorate like this, so the box office of this film in mainland China will probably be negatively affected.
Then a Chinese actor in the production team understood the essence of the problem.
he said.
"This is probably a cultural difference. Our self-confidence may be arrogance in Mr. Chen's understanding."
This is a good summary.
After walking away, it was Zhong Lei, who was usually violent, who persuaded Chen Feng.
She couldn't understand why Chen Feng was so angry.
"Don't be like this, it's hard to get along with money. We are new here, so try to restrain yourself."
Chen Feng took a deep breath, "It's hard for me to restrain myself."
Only he knows why.
He has experienced wars many times, and even on the front lines, he has experienced the feeling of being torn into countless pieces.
After seeing other people use such a naive narrative to describe the future war, the whole story is full of senseless personal heroism, describing the ruler of the future world as a wise child, the world view is pale and blunt to defy logic, but there is no When he was self-aware and uttered nonsense and frantically released his sense of superiority, his mentality was about to collapse.
"Too superficial, too ignorant, too short-sighted, too absurd. He is also qualified to laugh at our childishness?"
Zhong Lei said, "Maybe he didn't mean it?"
"Isn't that more irritating? It means that he sees it that way in his bones."
Chen Feng gasped, trying to calm down.
Zhong Lei looked at him for a long time, and when he slowly calmed down, she said, "Before you were not a person who was easily excited, you had something on your mind."
"Hmm."
Chen Feng leaned back against the wall, and the plot of "Chaos Space" appeared in his mind.
Although the title of this new film is in the same vein as "Elysium", the stories of the two films are not related.
"Chaos Space" tells the story of the war between the earthlings and aliens that took place three or four hundred years later.
Well, at that time, humans had mastered wormhole technology and controlled dozens of star systems near the solar system.
Funny.
The human population has also exceeded 500 billion.
Continue to be funny.
But all human beings are under the control of an alien representative and belong to a vassal civilization.
This alien looks exactly like a human, but with pointed ears, tentacles with hair, and longer hands and feet.
The wormhole technology mastered by human beings is given away by others.
Much funnier.
What's more nonsense is that this alien is still absurd, living a tyrant.
Chen Feng felt his eyes hot.
This alien's management method is very simple and rude, that is, no management, only taxes.
Therefore, the structure of the entire human civilization is very chaotic, with gangs and enterprises divided, just like the lord era in the Middle Ages in Europe.
Then the male protagonist rises from the common people, chatting with childhood sweethearts, in the future I will give everyone freedom, "Ipromise."
There are many memes in European and American movies, one of which is that if the male protagonist promises something at the beginning, he will definitely do it.
The male protagonist really hung up all the way, and in a few words, he persuaded the high-level people to rebel. He was carrying a very fake energy weapon, but in fact Gatling's weapon rushed in.
The final boss, the alien, actually took a long sword and fought bayonets with the male protagonist in the base!
The male protagonist also won!
The civilization behind the aliens was actually frightened by seeing the protagonist's amazing fighting ability, and recognized the equal status of the people on earth.
Chen Feng was really choking on the nose.
If fighting the invaders is as easy as your movies, what is the human struggle for the next thousand years?
What are the sacrifices of so many people?
Also, this alien civilization, which claims to be able to dominate the Milky Way, is too mentally retarded!
What a wonderful setting to be lewd!
What's the difference between aliens and people, and people and sheep?
This is the source of his anger.
Chen Feng took a deep breath and spoke quietly.
His voice sounded distant, and his mood was bleak.
"Before the human mind has wings and truly leaves the earth and set foot in space, if human beings encounter a war at the level of inter-civilization and inter-star system, then it is impossible to solve the problem by fighting alone under individual heroism. war.”
"Just as humans decide to destroy the ant's nest, who will squat down and crush the ants one by one with their fingers?"
"No, it will only ignite a fire that will bake the entire land where the ant colony is located for three days and three nights. Not only will this not destroy the soil, but the embers of the flame will turn it into fertile soil."
"Or pull a hose and water the field."
"Every move of human beings is doomsday for the ants, but it doesn't matter to them at all."
"So whether it's "District 9" or "Independence Day" in the past, or "Edge of Tomorrow", "Pacific Rim", "Starship Troopers", etc... it's very naive."
"Well, I'm not afraid of your scolding. I think Star Wars is especially naive."
"Laser sword BiuBiuBiu, my source power exploded BiuBiuBiu," Chen Feng pretended to be waving his sword and shook his shoulders, "They don't understand anything at all."
"This is a complete asymmetry. Earthlings don't even know what the enemy is, and the disaster can be ended in an instant. It's not a war at all."
"Think about it from another perspective. Can ants understand how humans caused the 'world-destroying flood'? Well, a water pipe, a self-priming drainage pump, can ants understand and know how to disconnect the drainage Electricity for the pump?"
"This movie is too absurd and funny, and I personally can't accept it emotionally. If Neil had kept a low profile, I might have tolerated his ignorance, but he's still so arrogant, so I'm angry."
After listening to him, Zhong Lei still didn't understand his anger, but she chose to understand.
Zhong Lei began to try to substitute Chen Feng's emotions, and asked: "But now the movies are shot like this, otherwise the hero and heroine will not be eye-catching enough, and if the audience can't get in, there will be no box office."
"So I agreed to cooperate at first, and I didn't intend to be picky, but Neil stepped on my pain point and got a little out of control. I'll go back and talk to them later."
Zhong Lei was a little relieved, and then asked again, "If human beings can set foot in space, or even travel all over the Milky Way, will there be wars at that time?"
Chen Feng was shocked, and he couldn't help but imagine that kind of image in his mind~IndoMTL.com~ He recalled the history of mankind's struggle against beasts, natural disasters, diseases and other disasters since ancient times.
He remembered Ding Hu's last words before his death last time, and the corners of his mouth twitched unconsciously.
"It must be an era of magnificent epics everywhere, in which countless heroes used their flesh and blood to forge racial legends, but it is a pity that humans can't see it anymore."
Zhong Lei shook her head, "We just can't see it, you are too arbitrary."
"Okay. Go back."
Zhong Lei: "Wait, I suddenly thought of a point. Going back to the topic of ants you just said, if an ant in the ant population mutates and is extremely poisonous, a single bite can poison an adult. Even if you can't save the ant family, at least there is a chance to die together, right? If you bite fast enough, maybe you can leave a few of the same family as the fire for the survival of civilization?"
Chen Feng was stunned.
"Yes!"
"So personal heroism sometimes works well?"
"Which side are you on!"
The two didn't chat here for too long.
It was actually Neil and Katie who took the initiative to bring someone over.
The other party reflected on their attitude, solemnly apologized to Chen Feng and Zhong Lei, and expressed their willingness to respect the cultural concepts of the two, repeatedly emphasizing that their previous words were not malicious.
Since the other party gave the stairs, Chen Feng took advantage of the situation and went down.
The cooperation is officially launched, and it is agreed that each will go back to work at this time.
The Chinese side will come up with the first draft of the English version of the lyrics within two days, meet and negotiate the day after tomorrow, and polish and fine-tune on the basis of the lyrics provided by the Chinese side.
When the two returned to the hotel, Zhong Lei began to interpret the lyrics while biting her pen, while Chen Feng searched for other people's sci-fi movies for fun.