I Really Didn’t Want to Be the Savior Chapter 192: The meaning of competition
Director James Diaz is much higher than Neil Brokamp, whom Chen Feng had dealt with.
Although "District 9", "Space of Elysium", and "Space of Chaos" have established Neil's status in the rivers and lakes a little, but compared with James Diaz, the two are not in the same rank at all.
Since 30 or 40 years ago, since his first debut and swept the Hollywood weekend box office chart, James has never made a B-level film, and his shot is a top production.
Even if he just randomly comes up with an idea, the movie is just a name, there will be countless investors waving cheques to step over the threshold of his family, and the price of hundreds of millions of dollars at every turn.
Ordinary-level directors have to take the initiative to visit investors, tell others about their filmmaking ideas, and do self-promotion again and again.
The better ones are investors with fixed long-term cooperation.
Like James, he chooses investors. He not only looks at the money, but also considers whether the investor's philosophy is compatible with him, whether the money comes from a clean source, and whether the investor will be a layman. Command insiders.
When a director is strong enough to select investors, his influence in other aspects of the film industry is needless to say.
For domestic so-called capital representatives like Wang Xilei, James Diaz is someone who needs to look up to the stars.
But now this person is very familiar with trying to pull Chen Feng into his new play!
Wang Xilei was lost and didn't know what was wrong with his worldview.
Isn't Chen Feng a music producer, he is still a boss with some influence in the Chinese music scene, and he is not a Hollywood actor, what is James doing?
What annoyed him even more was that when the group of people in the back were talking about business, they invariably lowered their voices so that he couldn't hear the truth.
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"Mr. Chen Feng, I hope you will seriously consider my invitation."
After introducing the movie, James said sincerely.
Chen Feng was lost in thought.
Actually, when I came across this group of people when I went upstairs just now, and was suddenly stopped, Chen Feng was also a little lost.
I don't think I have any acquaintances in the United States except for the Grammys. Who are these international friends who suddenly joined in?
If it hadn't been vaguely familiar to Pete, Chen Feng would have left.
After the other party reported his identity, Chen Feng stayed very approachable, had a cordial conversation with the other party, and exchanged business cards.
What a mess!
James Diaz!
So far, the top ten film directors in the history of the box office have three seats.
He is also a real bigwig who almost ranks among the first thousand in the history of art.
If it weren't for the fact that today's Chen Feng has become a galactic human, his subconscious mentality has changed slightly, he sees things more detached, and his experience in the 31st century is too rich. With his previous temperament, he must immediately embrace James's. The thighs yelled you don't go.
Chen Feng was a little surprised and a little surprised when he heard that the other party invited him to participate in his movie.
He was planning to expand into the film industry.
Although he is very confident in his script, Chen Feng has carefully pondered the complete creative process of the film and knows that it is not as simple as it seems on the surface.
Moreover, from the Chinese film industry to the world, there is also a long and insurmountable gap that needs to be broken.
The opportunity to hook up with James Diaz is a shortcut.
Try to go into battle in person first, to open a way for the company, and then everything will become much smoother, and even have the opportunity to skip the domestic swindling directors, and get a Hollywood director back in the first movie.
And the new film directed by James is a science fiction film that Chen Feng likes very much.
The reason why James came to him is very strange. This person has seen a video of Chen Feng dragging a delta wing into a helicopter to save people on the Internet.
After watching it, he was immediately shocked by Chen Feng, and he just wanted to pull Chen Feng into his new play and play an important role with a lot of action scenes.
James knows that Chen Feng is not a professional actor, and he has not even learned acting skills at all, but this is not a problem, he can train him.
With such a skill, it is a pity not to act in a movie with sparks and lightning.
Today's "random encounter" is not a real encounter. After asking Pete and others to talk about the facts, he deliberately chose this hotel to block Chen Feng and communicate face-to-face.
His invitation was serious.
Everything is beautiful, but Chen Feng is deeply embarrassed by the invitation of the other party.
Because the character James intended him to play in the movie turned out to be Japanese.
This is pretty stiff.
"I'm so sorry, Mr. James, I'm usually very busy with work, and I'm not a professional actor, so I can't do it. I'm sorry. I have some things to do today, why don't we talk about it another day."
Chen Feng said, he was about to leave when he got up.
Never thought, James seemed to see through his scruples and took his hand, "Mr. Chen, I know what you're thinking, but I hope you can try to let go of your vision. If possible, for the sake of It is not a problem for a character to modify the script appropriately, but many pre-shooting plans and other actors have all been set, so there is no way for the nationality of this character. But it is not important, science fiction films are about the starry sky, not the country.”
Chen Feng sat down again, "Yes, so in my eyes, there is no difference between Americans, Japanese, and Chinese in more distant sci-fi films. Everyone is human, and that's enough."
Next to Pete interjected: "Mr. Chen, do you think the world will be unified in the future?"
Chen Feng thought for a while, "Maybe."
James shook his head, "Unlikely, competition is human nature and instinct. Now human beings are the most powerful life on earth, and we only have one way to compete with each other. So competition runs through our entire history, Competition among individuals, competition among groups, competition among races, and now competition among nations.”
Chen Feng narrowed his eyes, "Is Mr. James a supporter of militancy?"
James shook his head, "No, competition is not the only way of war. Now is the 21st century, it is almost impossible to have a real large-scale war between major powers, so that all mankind will pay an unbearable and painful price. Much bigger than World War I and World War II. It doesn't fit our biological instincts."
"What do you mean by competition?"
James sorted out his thoughts and said: "With the country as a unit, there is continuous and eternal fierce competition at various levels such as technology, economy, education, etc. For example, the technology competition between your country and our country. It seems that the loser will Waste of resources, but defeating more losers is the way to make winners run faster. There used to be a saying that those who are chased by tigers can run the fastest. Some major scientific research results were born a year earlier , can create potential value for mankind, which is far greater than the resources wasted by losers. I do not advocate war, but I advocate competition.”
Chen Feng was stunned at first, but his eyes gradually lit up.
Worthy of being a sci-fi master who thinks deeply about anthropology, James Diaz pointed out Chen Feng's relatively narrow troubles.
Competition is valuable.
Competitors are enemies to each other, but at the same time comrades to some extent.
In the several timelines he had gone through before, the human beings were disturbed too much.
It was either the infiltration of insidious thinking or the extinct S bacteria. After the S bacteria ended, the broadcast of "Morrowind" never stopped.
The resulting world government was either wrong to one extreme or "right" to the other extreme.
Humans have never followed a completely natural path in the direction their racial identity should have taken.
This road should be changeable, full of complexity and randomness.
Perhaps, after eradicating the S-bacteria, we should immediately change our strategy, no longer indiscriminately broadcast to the whole population, and instead adopt Ryan's strategy and use Morrowind only for top scientists?
Chen Feng laughed.
"Thank you Mr. James for clarifying the confusion. But I don't need to let go of my vision anymore, I'm not narrow-minded at all. But I also admit that the reason for my rejection of the role is that I don't want to play a Japanese. I just want to play one, Abandoning nationality and race, a pure yellow-skinned earthling.”
Seeing his determination, James Diaz was disappointed, "Well, what a pity."
Chen Feng thought about it and decided to leave a good relationship.
"We will have the opportunity to work together in the future, Director James. Everyone thinks that I can only write songs, maybe I am barely a so-called superhero in your country now. But in fact, writing songs is just my hobby. , my true talent is much more than that."
Everyone at the table was confused and didn't know what he was going to sell.
James: "Please speak up."
Chen Feng: "My accomplishments in screenplays, especially sci-fi screenplays, will definitely not disappoint you. If you are interested and have the opportunity in the future, we can talk about my screenplays."
James' expression is a little strange.
The others weren't much better.
It took a long time for James to say, "Actually, I usually only shoot scripts that I wrote myself."
Chen Feng didn't take it seriously, "I know, so if you're not satisfied at that time, don't tell me you asked me to play Japanese, I can play Korean. How about it?"
James: "Okay! Hope we can work together soon!"
After talking, Chen Feng turned around and went upstairs, walking briskly and in a happy mood.
This time, he found a better director for Star Peak Entertainment's future sci-fi movies.
With James' golden signboard, Xingfeng Entertainment will inevitably go more smoothly at the film level, and can directly skip the stage of the Chinese film market and directly enter the global market.
The personal connections that come to the door for free are really auspicious.
Chen Feng felt at ease on this side, but Wang Xilei on the other side was heartbroken.
He didn't quite know how Chen Feng was chatting with these people, but James' last raised voice "I hope we can cooperate as soon as possible" pierced his eardrums.
What a world!
Didn't you James make movies?
If you want to ask Chen Feng to invite the theme song, I can understand.
But what do you mean by begging him to play your film, and looking forward to cooperating so enthusiastically?
Wang Xilei and the little flowers and fresh meat around him only lamented the injustice of the world.
Despair and tragedy~IndoMTL.com~ Wang Xilei and his party hurriedly chased after them.
I can't let him go like this, I have to lick it back for Chen Feng!
The cruel words I just let go were forgotten by Wang Xilei again.
But Chen Feng raised his hand and asked the hotel security to stop the group.
Unwelcome licking dogs, tongues are disgusting.
He returned to his room, Zhong Lei was sitting on his bed, holding a guitar in his arms, playing boredly.
"Why the delay? What the **** are they looking for you?"
Chen Feng sat down angrily, "Don't talk about it, it almost made me sick to death."
He told Wang Xilei that he thought he had both men and women, and then wanted to put all the men and women he brought into his bed.
Zhong Lei was so happy that she leaned back and forth, both funny and disgusting.
"These people are too weird."
Chen Feng nodded, "Yes, good art, but they were abruptly messed up by them."
"No, I've been clear about these **** things. I laughed at the misunderstanding that you are both men and women."
"Shut up!"
Zhong Lei suddenly said: "Who do you think this limelight might have come from at the earliest?"
Chen Feng thought for a while, "I know about it."
"Don't blame others, who told you to write songs in the morning, all from a woman's perspective."
Chen Feng narrowed his eyes.
He wanted to admit something.
Not from a woman's perspective, but from your perspective.
"Of course I don't blame Lu Wei."
"That's good."