Ronald's concerns are not unnecessary. The Shanghai Translation Factory, starting from the director Chen, has set a goal to restore the dubbing version to the original work.
This cannot be accomplished by just translating a few texts. It must start with the translation director and mobilize the acting skills of each dubbing actor, which is more or less equivalent to re-performing the original work in Chinese.
In addition, the translation factory strives for excellence, so that the mouth shape in the close-up shot in the movie should correspond to the degree of speaking in Chinese after translation, and some subtexts that are not in the text but can be understood culturally by the audience should be used in Chinese.
Common sayings, slang, jingles and other folk culture are expressed.
Since the market-oriented reform, the income and remuneration of these translation studios, which originally only did planning work, have shown signs of being out of step with the salaries of other film and television work in society. With a budget of 30,000 to 50,000 yuan per film, they can only do
Very basic text translation, and then let the voice actors go directly to the dubbing stage.
The old traditions that have been adhered to have also been abandoned. The situation of the Shanghai Translation Factory is relatively better, because the tradition of the old director Chen has been left for many years. Several other factories, including the team originally scheduled to dub Forrest Gump, because in the past
There haven’t been many dubbing characters in ten years, and now they are all newbies, so the effect can be imagined.
Before the Forrest Gump project this time, Liu Guangning retired early and went to Xiangjiang to accompany his son to school. Su Xiu was also preparing to report her retirement. Shen Xiaoqian, Tong Zirong and others were either taking a break or preparing to take a leave of absence without pay to find their own way out.
Fortunately, Xiao Yan was originally a disciple of the system. After a lot of yelling from his uncles and aunts, he managed to put together the lineup designated by Ronald. Several veteran cadres went to the grave of old factory director Chen, who unfortunately passed away the year before last.
I cried for a while. This time, with the direct funding from the Hollywood director, I must resume the old practice and translate this movie well, so that the audience can see the strength of the translation studio again.
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Xiao Yan wrote a report on all these matters and faxed it back to Hollywood. Ronald took the time to read it in his busy schedule and approved a Good Job.
Another purpose of Xiao Yan's return to Xujiahui was to issue a certificate for his father Lao Yan's right to invent the lightning lamp.
This year, Ronald is preparing to apply for an Academy Award for Science and Technology for this invention. However, China and the United States have not yet reached an agreement on intellectual property rights. Although Ronald has applied for a patent for the lightning lamp in America, Lao Yan's invention rights are still not legally binding.
establish.
When I applied for the award, I discovered that Lao Yan’s invention rights were not confirmed in America. This time when I went back, the new director of Xujiahui Studio also wanted Ronald to give SIPG some help.
Since Xujiahui has formed an industrial group, not only producing, but also allocating many state-owned cinemas in Shanghai to the group. It is hoped to introduce some advanced industrial planning and technological updates from Hollywood.
Ronald understood that these people were very concerned about cinemas, so he generously sold them some second-hand equipment, introduced some old-fashioned box office statistics methods, and gave them some equipment. As for how they introduced advanced international
Ronald doesn't mind whether the technology is submitted in the name of independent development. As long as the box office statistics and projection system formats of China and the United States are consistent in the future, it will be the biggest victory.
With Ronald's kindness, the new factory director happily gave Lao Yan the title of advanced worker. The reasons listed above include the invention of the long arc lightning lamp, plus daydreams and MPAA invitations.
There will be no obstacles for Lao Yan to come to Hollywood to receive the award.
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"Is it still your translation producer? Do you want to win that Chinese film award, gold, gold or something?"
While Ronald was reviewing the document, he happened to be having a meeting in Daydream's conference room. "Forrest Gump" is expected to stay in theaters until Thanksgiving.
At the same time, in the second half of the year, films that are targeting this year's Oscars gradually began to be released. Among them, two Miramax projects are more eye-catching.
The first one is the new work of the famous New York director Woody Allen, "Bullets Over Broadway". There are many old acquaintances of Ronald in it. For example, the leading actor John Cusack was in Ronald's "Bullets Over Broadway".
She debuted in "Working Girl". One of the female characters is also Ronald's "acquaintance", Jennifer Tilly.
Woody Allen's art films are relatively safe investments. Although he likes to use big-name actors, the shooting cycle often runs overtime, the budget often exceeds the budget, and his salary is not low, he still wins many Oscars every time.
nomination.
Therefore, Harvey Weinstein’s purpose is not entirely about box office performance. Reviews and awards are also important evaluation indicators for Miramax, which has been acquired. After all, Disney itself has already relied on animated films such as The Lion King.
You can make a lot of money, but it is unlikely that you will get important key awards through cartoons.
Therefore, this film cost more than 20 million yuan, and also recruited Woody Allen's long-term collaborator Dianne Wiest, the famous director Rob Reiner, and a number of gangster movies directed by Italians.
The supporting characters who appeared in the film were all invited to join the crew, looking forward to an epic Broadway historical drama.
European critics are also very fond of him. Although he has not participated in competitions many times, he has participated in many screenings. "Bullets Over Broadway" also participated in the Venice Film Festival in early September.
However, what made Weinstein very unhappy was that Woody Allen's masterpiece did not pass the preliminary selection and did not enter the main competition section. In this way, "Bullets Over Broadway" even missed the secondary competition section, and ended up only in the secondary competition section.
It had its world premiere in Venice and was screened for a few days as a very ordinary movie to sell.
Miramax's move is also very puzzling, because the chairman of the jury for this year's main competition unit is David Lynch, who just caused a scandal, and there is also actress Uma Se on the jury.
Man.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In this way, the two American artists will have a strong tendency to enter the jury of the three major European film festivals, and the American film is likely to win the grand prize.
.
However, in the end, the artistic director in charge of film selection, Gianni Rodolini, excluded Woody Allen's film from the main competition, and the two American judges could only do nothing.
The ones that entered the main competition instead of "Bullets Over Broadway" include "Sunny Day" from China, which is the directorial debut of actor Xiao Jiang, who Ronald admired so much that he gave him a camera.
The selected movie on the other side is "Long Live Love" by Tsai Ming-liang. He is actually a Malay-Chinese and is currently making movies there.
And Hong Kong sent Wong Kar-Wai's "Ashes of Time". This movie pays more attention to stars than Woody Allen. Several of the main actors are the hottest stars in Hong Kong and the Chinese film industry.
From this point of view, the reason why Venice's artistic director doesn't like Woody Allen is mainly because he doesn't like Hollywood productions, and it has nothing to do with whether the star stars in the film or not.
However, this arrangement did not benefit the other two Hollywood movies participating in the main competition, Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" and Alexander Rockwell's "Dangerous".
Malay director Tsai Ming-liang's "Long Live Love" won the Golden Lion, and in Sunny Days, Xiao Jiang's autobiographical lead actor Xia Yu also won the best actor award.
"Bullets Are Flying Over Broadway", the plan to return to America to gain box office through the performance in Venice failed. There is a high probability that this movie will be released and released locally as a typical award-winning movie, with a small test screening to gain some reputation.
, then it will be screened quickly for a few weeks and then taken offline, and will be re-screened after next year's Oscar nominations.
No way, these movies invested by Miramax are not high-concept movies with simple stories. It is very difficult to obtain box office through usual marketing methods.
However, another low-budget film invested by Miramax was a huge success by participating in European film festivals and then returning to America.
This is the second feature film of new cinephile director Quentin Tarantino, who had met with Ronald to discuss contemporary film techniques, "Pulp Fiction."
At this year's Cannes Film Festival, this film won the highest award, the Palme d'Or, which made Hollywood very proud. We can discover new directors who can make films that win awards at the film festival.
European film festivals are now encountering great challenges. On the surface, they are art awards, but behind the scenes they are actually aimed at the three major European markets, French (radiating Africa), Italian (radiating Latin America), and German (radiating Eastern Europe).
issued.
With Hollywood conquering the city under the clarion call of Jurassic Park in 1993, these markets and local art theaters have encountered a box office slump. Therefore, this year's three major European film festivals have invited American stars.
Serve as chairman of the jury.
Cannes went one step further than Venice. Instead of inviting "artistic" filmmakers like David Lynch, it simply invited Clint Eastwood, who has regained fame in Europe in recent years.
The power of the chairman of the jury in Cannes is relatively large among the three major film festivals. In addition to the local stars of China, the other judge Catherine Deneuve has a good relationship with Eastwood, and the two dominate the entire film festival.
Awards, and finally Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" won the Palme d'Or.
This also made two Chinese directors, Edward Yang and Yimou Zhang, who lacked the Palme d'Or in Cannes, the most important film festival in the three major film festivals, once again hate this seaside town.
Among them, Yimou's film To Live won the Jury Prize, which is equivalent to an official second place. Another winner of the Jury Prize was Russia's Nikita Mikhalkov, who also worked with Ronald
There is a bit of a connection, because he is the brother of director Andrei Konchalovsky, whom Ronald worked with.
Unlike his brother Konchalovsky who went to Europe and Hollywood, Mikhalkov has stayed in China to make films and has achieved greater success than his brother who went to Hollywood to make "commercial movies full of copper odor".
of international recognition.
To Live also won another award. The leading actor Ge You won the Best Actor at Cannes. Among the three major European film festivals this year, except for the first Best Actor in Berlin, which was awarded to Tom Hanks of Philadelphia Story, the other two were won by Chinese.
, some critics believe that this is the beginning of Chinese-language films moving to a bigger stage...
With Pulp Fiction's support from Cannes, Miramax has gained greater confidence and invested more money in a distribution plan for an ordinary commercial film. They are ambitious to release it simultaneously in more than 1,300 theaters in October.
this movie.
This is a huge success for a movie with a production cost of only eight million US dollars. After Miramax was acquired by Disney, the Weinstein brothers made a lot of ambitious movies that can really hit the box office.
This may be the first film to be a universal success and earn back its money without relying on re-releases after Oscar nominations.
This made Harvey Weinstein extremely happy and dragged director Quentin Tarantino around Hollywood.
If it were really possible to bind a commercial blockbuster director, such as Universal and Warner Bros. to release Spielberg's film, and Columbia and Paramount to release Ronald Lee's film, who would try their best to give Oscars to those in nursing homes?
What about the judges showing the movie?
Hollywood is also very fond of Quentin, a new director.
Not long after it debuted, it won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and it also had domestic box office prospects and a successful European distribution. This was not just an ordinary commercial film, or an art film director could cover it.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Few young directors in Hollywood today are like those in the past 15 to 25 years, when all kinds of talents emerged in an endless stream. Due to the decline of drive-in movie theaters, they can break into
There are signs of a shortage of new directors from major studios.
In addition to recruiting promising directors from Europe to try their hand at Hollywood, Hollywood also organizes many independent film festivals, such as the Sundance Film Festival in Utah and the Palm Springs Film Festival in Palm Springs.
Even several emerging directors in Asia, such as the Chinese-speaking director who has won consecutive awards in the past two years, are also contacting them, hoping that they can overcome the language barrier and come to Hollywood to give it a try.
Now, Hollywood itself has a new talent with potential, and it has opened up and won the Palme d'Or, which even veteran directors like Woody Allen have not won. Many people want to give him money to try it.
To keep this lucky asset, Harvey Weinstein is simply man-to-man, and will never let Quentin chat with other film producers for more than three sentences alone.
Ronald was also invited to attend a so-called movie viewing party. This kind of movie viewing party was mainly used to obtain public relations resources. Ronald originally didn't want to go, but because Tarantino's last movie Reservoir Dogs was
He liked it, so he made an exception to check it out.
However, Ronald did not give any particularly good evaluation that could be used by the other party for marketing purposes. Instead, he lowered his evaluation of Quentin.
The second work is often more difficult than the first, and the director's talent and potential are more evident.
The debut film is often a work used by the director to tell his own story, while the second film has to be replaced by someone else's story, which further tests the director's ability.
This pulp novel is mainly touted because it is different from ordinary gangster movies. Those gangsters are no longer as powerful as in the movies of Martin Scorsese or Coppola.
A bit like a gangster.
On the contrary, in pulp novels, these people also have the same worries as ordinary people. Just like white-collar workers working in the office, they have emotions, families, and even home repairs and other worries to distract them.
However, as another director who has watched a large number of previous works, Ronald saw a lot of borrowings from other classic works, so much so that Quentin slightly lost his own voice.
Unlike Reservoir Dogs, which has a very clear and unmistakable voice of Quentin himself, in Pulp Fiction, what Ronald saw were scenes of Quentin imitating his favorite directors. In it, you can see this classic scene of this director, that director
That classic camera movement, but there is no Quentin's own voice.
Such a movie can be appreciated by some Europeans, but for awards like the Oscars, the actor judges may not be able to see these borrowings, and instead feel that the structure is a bit loose.
Therefore, although Ronald is optimistic about the box office of this movie, he is not most worried about his Oscar competition.
What worries him the most is another movie that doesn't look good at the box office, "The Shawshank Redemption," a Castle Rock production that is now part of Turner Media Group along with the company.