Since ancient times, there has been a term in the traditional Chinese antique trading market called "picking up leaks", which means buying very valuable antiques at a very cheap price, often without the seller knowing about it.
In fact, there is also a saying of "picking up leaks" in the film trading market. For example, the director and screenwriter of "Journey to Thailand", a movie that will be very popular in China in the future, took a book and looked for investment everywhere.
However, no one paid attention to it. Finally, it was spotted by a certain company. After filming, it was released. With a small investment of 30 million, it earned a box office of 1.2 billion! It can be said that this is a huge mistake.
In the history of American movies, there have been many omissions, but to say the most miraculous among them, I have to mention one drama, and that is "The Blair Witch Project"!
"Blair Witch" is an experimental film shot by college students using a DV machine. The total investment was only 20,000 US dollars, but the global box office reached an astonishing 250 million US dollars!
This is a miracle, a heaven-defying miracle!
If we have to say why this movie was successful, then there is only one reason. These stupid student directors were lucky enough to get in touch with Lady Luck’s aunt, and they shot the movie into a "pseudo-documentary" and it will become a "pseudo-documentary" in the future.
The ancestor of "documentary" movies, and later "Ghost Chronicles", "Paranormal Activity", and "Into the Haunted House" are all successors of this model.
It's now 1998, and filming of "The Blair Witch Project" is about to be completed, but it hasn't been released yet.
Yi Feiyang's plan is very simple and direct. No matter what method he uses, he must get the copyright of this drama!
If the method Yi Feiyang used in his first pot of gold was "blackmail", then this time, the method he used is "fraud"!
I'm despicable, I'm shameless!
To achieve my goal, I will do whatever it takes!
Yi Feiyang wants to make enough capital for himself in the United States, which is full of gold!
Marx said that the primitive accumulation of capital is bloody. Sorry, Yi Feiyang feels that his accumulation of primitive capital has become much more civilized.
In the past few days, Yi Feiyang asked Fat Jack and Rabbit Bill to collect all the information about "Blair Witch", including the two college students who directed the play, Daniel Merrick and Adado Sanchi.
Here are all the information about these two people.
Jack and Bill didn't understand why China Yi was suddenly interested in these two fledgling college students? Is it because they made a low-cost movie? I heard that this movie was shot with a DV machine.
, how rough, how simple, what's so strange about it.
Although they didn't understand, the two of them followed Yi Feiyang's instructions and quickly contacted the two college students. After a conversation, the two parties made an appointment to meet at a coffee shop near Hollywood three days later.
On the day of the meeting, Yi Feiyang specially dressed up to make himself look high-spirited and look like a successful businessman rather than a shabby guy. You know, although the United States claims that everyone is equal, people still dislike the poor and love the rich.
When I see you wearing bright clothes, I will think highly of you.
As for the two guys, Jack and Bill, they were dressed like Yi Feiyang's followers. One was fat and the other was thin, so they complemented each other perfectly.
The cafe seemed very lively.
Yi Feiyang and the others arrived early, ordered three cups of coffee and waited.
Time passed slowly, and people kept pushing open the door of the coffee shop, but they were not the people Yi Feiyang wanted to wait for.
Yi Feiyang is okay, Fat Jack and Rabbit Bill are already a little restless.
"Shit, these college students are so laid-back in everything they do! Whether it's dating or handing in homework, they are never active!" Bill had been expelled from school, so he was jealous of the university, and he was even less interested in those college students.
Feeling good.
"Let's wait and see, maybe they will come soon." Fat Jack comforted.
"What are you waiting for? Maybe these guys have planned to let us go! I think we should give them a call and ask."
"That's fine. If we really can't come, we don't have to wait any longer!"
…
Yi Feiyang tapped the table with his fingers.
"No need," he said, "let's wait another ten minutes. If they really don't come, we'll leave!"
Yi Feiyang's words leave no room for doubt.
Helpless, the two guys had no choice but to sit down on the chairs and continue waiting.
Another seven or eight minutes passed.
Yi Feiyang, who was originally calm and calm, was a little irritable deep inside, but he tried hard to control his emotions and try not to let his emotions show out.
The time began to count down, and just when Yi Feiyang sighed and decided to end the date, the door of the coffee shop opened, and four people walked in from the outside, two men and two women, all dressed casually. At first glance, they looked like they were involved in the world.
Young people who are not deeply cynical.
The young white man with freckles on his face looked towards Yi Feiyang while chewing gum, and then raised his hand to say hello: "Hey, brother, are you going to meet us?" After saying that, he sat down uninvited and chatted with his friends.
Sat down.
"Hello, I'm Yi Feiyang." Yi Feiyang stretched out his hand.
The white young man smiled and shook hands with him, "I am Daniel and he is Adeado... You can also call him Cuban, because he is an authentic Cuban!" Then he asked: "
Dude, are you Korean or Japanese?”
"No, I am Chinese." Yi Feiyang said.
"Chinese? A very ancient and mysterious nation. But I still like the Japanese, and I like their ninjas!" Daniel gestured twice as to how to send darts, "They are very handsome when they run, and their darts are also very handsome!"
"
"Oh damn, I like ninjas too. The way they hold swords is more handsome! I have a Japanese long sword in my hand. I heard it's an antique from the shogunate era!" Another young man, Edeado, laughed.
"No way, man, you actually have such a treasure, why didn't I know?"
…
The two guys were talking to themselves, leaving Yi Feiyang and the others aside.
As for the two white girls beside them, they kept flirting and ogling Yi Feiyang.
For them, they have never seen a Chinese man with such a deep temperament and handsome appearance. The Chinese students in the university are either short and depressed, or have low self-esteem and lack of confidence. They even walk with their heads down for fear of others.
It's like making fun of them.
Seeing how arrogant Daniel and Adelaide were, Jack couldn't help but was about to lose his temper.
However, Yi Feiyang took off his coat as if nothing happened, hung it on the chair, then lit a cigarette, crossed his legs, and listened with interest to the two Daniels "spanking" each other.
Seeing Yi Feiyang's elegant posture, just like in the movie "The Godfather", the eyes of the two girls shined even more.
Daniel and Edeardo talked to themselves for a while, then turned around as if nothing happened and said to Yi Feiyang: "Oh, by the way, man, you didn't ask us to just drink coffee today, right?"
Yi Feiyang smiled, and here comes the topic.
"My assistant should have told you that I am very interested in the DV movies you shot." Get straight to the point and don't hide anything.
"Our DV movie? Haha, you are quite well-informed! We just finished filming this DV and the editing is only half done!" Daniel smiled.
"If possible, I would like to pay 30,000 US dollars to buy the copyright of your drama!" Yi Feiyang exhaled a puff of smoke and said.
Daniel glanced at Edeardo, who in turn glanced at Yi Feiyang and asked, "Are you from the film company?"
"No, I am not."
"You have your own cinema?"
"NO, I have not."
…
"Ha, man, we don't understand. You are not from a film company and you don't have your own cinema. Why do you want to buy our copyright?"
"I have already said that I am very interested in your drama."
"But our play is an experimental film."
"I know this."
"We filmed on DV."
"I know this too."
…
Daniel and Edeardo looked at each other.
Daniel suddenly smiled, "Although you are very interested, we will not sell the copyright to you!"
"Why?" Yi Feiyang asked.
"It's simple, your price is too little!"
"If I remember correctly, it seems that the total cost of your movie was only twenty thousand dollars. Once it changes hands, it will make ten thousand dollars. Isn't that enough?"
"Of course it's not enough. If we show this drama in theaters, maybe we can get more!" Daniel said slyly.
"Yes, this is our hard work and we will never sell it to you easily!" Aideado said.
Yi Feiyang smiled, "How much do you want?!"
"One price, two hundred thousand!" Daniel Lion said loudly, "Only this price will we consider."
"That's right, not even a penny less!" Adeado said, "Our hard work is at least worth this price!"
The two of them spoke with confidence, as if they were sure of Yi Feiyang.
"Two hundred thousand?" Yi Feiyang tapped the table gently with his hand.
Rabbit Bill and Fat Jack next to me are almost crazy with anxiety. Don't agree, these two guys are just crazy about money!
They looked at Yi Feiyang anxiously, hoping that he would refuse, but would Yi Feiyang do it?!
