"When Mr. Christian received the open script of "Infernal Affairs", he was sure that the movie would not be too popular in Europe and the United States..."
"Mr. Zheng Jun, who happened to have watched "Infernal Affairs", also had the idea of remaking "The Departed" and tried to write an American version of the "Infernal Affairs" script."
"I don't know what happened later, but he asked me to shoot "Lambs" on the one hand, and on the other hand, he took another group of people from the "Lambs" crew to follow Mr. Zheng Jun to shoot "The Departed"..."
“So, how do I do ‘Lambs’?”
"There's nothing I can do!"
"Ever since "Saw", all Christian has been talking about is "commercial value." He feels that the artistic value of "Lamb" will be very high, but it lacks commercial value, at least for this film.
The movie is unlikely to be a hit..."
"..."
Christian has been preparing for "Lambs" for almost ten years.
I originally thought that he would be very interested in this movie and even treat it as the other half of his life...
No matter how strict it is, we can understand it.
But the fact is...
Ever since SKY gradually rose to prominence in Hollywood through the movie "Saw" and he saw the hope of SKY's rise, Christian's whole person seemed to have changed. Not only did he not seem to be as religious about movies as before, he seemed
I prefer the "commercial" goal of promoting SKY to the ninth largest film company in Hollywood.
His inflated ambition makes him not just want to be a respected director, but also wants to move in the direction of "capital"...
So "Lamb" was halfway through filming, leaving Roddy with a head-aching mess!
In the office.
Rody was heartbroken, and there was an indescribable sense of despair in his voice.
Meeting such a director is really a headache!
"He wasn't like this before!"
"In other words, he was not like this in the first half of last year..."
"It wasn't until I met Olson that something was wrong!"
"..."
Rody looked at Zhou Yang, as if he had seen a savior. At that moment, Zhou Yang felt that the assistant director Roddy was like a little daughter-in-law who had been abandoned. He could feel his resentment from a few meters away.
Zhou Yang listened without saying a word, but glanced outside the room...
Outside the house was a group of noisy actors.
The actors were so angry that they felt they had been deceived. They even demolished the entire office and asked Christian to come out and give them an explanation.
How could Christian get out?
He may not even be in Los Angeles at this moment...
Zhou Yang withdrew his gaze and looked at the miserable Roddy, who also showed a bit of a wry smile.
No one knew that for no reason, this thing would turn out like this...
Roddy took out a stack of "Lamb" information.
Looking at this thick stack of information, Zhou Yang was a little intimidated.
"This is Mr. Christian's shooting plan. It looks like a lot, but in fact, I have read the plan very carefully these days and found that there is only half of the plan... He seemed to have no idea of shooting the other half from the beginning.
, or...he didn't have time to make the other half's plan..."
"In fact, the script of "Lamb" has been revised over and over again, with different endings every time. I followed him and I didn't know how many endings he had already created!"
"Wait a minute, it doesn't seem like it started with "Saw". It seems that last year, after the movie "April on Earth" won the Palme d'Or, Mr. Christian started to act strange..."
Zhou Yang opened the thick shooting information of "Lamb", especially when he turned to the shooting manual, he couldn't help but be shocked by the detailed shooting content in the manual.
It is so precise that every shooting line, every lighting, and every sentence has a detailed explanation, for fear that others will not understand it.
However, there is only half of the plot, and that half of the plot has been completely filmed by Christian.
Zhou Yang opened the script of "Lamb" again.
It is different from the script of "The Lamb" that I first saw. The direction of the plot has changed. From the initial crime theme, it has become more artistic. The whole thing has begun to have some vague stream of consciousness that even Zhou Yang can't understand. Zhou Yang
Looking down, I found that the script of "Lamb" has no ending.
"The ending of the original version was denied by Mr. Christian. Well, it was the ending when Mr. Zhou Yang and Mr. Christian met for the first time..." After seeing Zhou Yang's stunned expression, Roddy began to take it seriously again.
Explained.
"Mr. Roddy, so... what exactly is Mr. Christian going to do?" Zhou Yang took a deep breath and put the script aside, feeling that his mind was in a mess.
"When Mr. Christian was filming the movie "April on Earth", after two months of filming, the editing felt wrong, so he brought the actors back and reshot them all with a completely different ending...
At that time, he encountered opposition from investors, including everyone on the crew. Even some film producers got the news and began to have doubts. If it hadn't almost swept the awards at Cannes, the film "April on Earth" would not even have made much money.
..." Rody hesitated for a while and finally answered.
"Mr. Roddy, please go and calm down the actors first and leave me alone for a while." Zhou Yang finally shook his head when he heard the noise outside the house was getting louder and louder.
"Okay, Mr. Zhou Yang."
About a few minutes after Roddy left the office, the noise outside finally stopped.
Zhou Yang silently took out "The Lamb" and read it again.
There are always a lot of inexplicable bad things in this world.
Zhou Yang met many...
But this time it was so bad that I was speechless.
Who would have thought that Christian, a director so famous in Europe and the United States, could have such an unreliable side?
He picked up the script of "The Lamb" again and read it.
The more Zhou Yang read the script of "The Lambs", the more his head hurt. After reading it for half an hour, he barely understood what kind of concept Christian wanted to express through "The Lambs".
That's human nature...
The script of "Lamb" is actually very good, and there are many scenes that are very scary to think about, but it's a pity that there is no ending.
Zhou Yang recalled the first time he met Christian. At that time in Cannes, France, Christian told him a story about "Lamb" and showed him the script of "Lamb".
Carefully recalling the ending of "The Lamb", Zhou Yang suddenly felt very vague and couldn't even think of the specific ending.
He came to the computer, turned it on, and played the first half of "The Lambs". After watching it for a long time, a wry smile appeared on his face.
"Let me continue shooting here, how on earth should I shoot?"
"Is it possible that Christian himself didn't know how to shoot, so he just asked me to take the blame for the mess?"
After reading it several times, Zhou Yang felt like his head was spinning.
"Dong dong dong!"
There was a knock on the door in the office...
"Come in."
"Mr. Zhou Yang, can you take a photo?"
"Can't take pictures..."
"Oh!" Rody nodded, not disappointed.
The mess Christian left behind, let alone Zhou Yang, could not be filmed even if some famous Hollywood directors came over to film it.
After hesitating for a long time, he raised his head and looked at Zhou Yang with questioning eyes, his expression became a little embarrassed: "Mr. Zhou Yang, how about... can you help make a new movie using the name "Lamb"?
No matter what kind of movie you make, as long as you can make some money back... Otherwise, the total salary of the dozens of actors in the crew will be close to 20 million US dollars..."
"How much? How much did you say?"
"More than 20 million US dollars... Investors all withdrew their capital after seeing Christian's appearance. Therefore, in addition to Mr. Christian's own pocket, the investment in "Lamb" also included part of SKY's working capital, and of course my money.
I mortgaged my villa, car and house and invested them all in "Lamb"... If "Lamb" can't be filmed, I will suffer a big loss..." Roddy looked at Zhou Yang with an even more bitter expression on his face.
A year ago, he enthusiastically participated in the "Lamb" movie with millions of dollars, thinking that "Lamb" would make him a lot of money.
A year later, he felt like a dog...
Zhou Yang looked stunned, then embarrassed, and finally sat on a chair and opened the investment details of "Lambs" in the information. When he saw that all the working capital of SKY Company belonging to Christian was invested in this movie,
Zhou Yang's mood was speechless and complicated.
However, Christian still upholds justice and did not use the 20% investment that belonged to Zhou Yang.
But after seeing Rody's aggrieved expression, he finally couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
This guy is really an unlucky guy...
"Let me see if I can come up with a script. If I can come up with a script outline, I can give it a try..." Zhou Yang thought for a while, and finally responded when a movie title came to his mind.
"Okay!" Rody nodded quickly, with a smile finally appearing on his originally bitter expression.
Then, he saw Zhou Yang lower his head, take out a blank draft of the script, and after thinking for a long time, he wrote a line of names on the script.
Clarice Starling.
Buffalo Bill.
Hannibal Lecter…
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China.
The morning of August 18th.
The new round of box office results for "Infernal Affairs" is out.
"Superman 2" 50 million.
"Infernal Affairs" has a box office of 13 million.
The huge disparity seems to tell all Chinese filmmakers about the dominance of Hollywood blockbusters...
After Django saw that his "Night Walker" had a box office of 15 million, which was 2 million more than "The Departed", he did not feel any happy emotions in his heart, and even felt a sense of panic and uneasiness from the bottom of his heart.
That is a kind of guilty conscience and also a kind of shame.
He picked up the phone and finally made a call.
"Some things once you start, you can't go back. Don't worry, nothing will go wrong!"
The other person was comforting him.
He lowered his head.
"Dong dong dong!"
The knock on the door in the office startled him, and he almost jumped out of his chair.
"Come in!"
When he saw clearly that the person coming was his assistant, he felt inexplicably relieved.
"Director Jiang, "The Departed" is a hit in the United States!"
"Um?"
"This is news from the United States... I guess there will be news from China soon."
"..."
Jiang Ge took the phone and saw a series of news.
["The Departed" and the American version of "The Departed" are box office hits in Europe and the United States!]
[The box office of "The Departed" was US$8 million! "Superman 2" was only US$15 million!]
[U.S. Congressman Olson: The real superheroes are actually around us. They have no extraordinary strength, they do not have bodies of steel, they are ordinary, but very strong! 】