Today is a good day, and it is also the day when Yi Feiyang's TV series "The Walking Dead" starts filming.
For this legendary Chinese-American director's condescending first TV series, major media in the United States have paid huge attention to it.
At least at the opening ceremony, there were 18 American TV stations broadcasting it live.
According to the rules set by Yi Feiyang, the power-on ceremony is very Chinese, that is, worshiping gods to power on the phone.
The so-called worshiping gods means kowtow to the second brother Guan, serve roast suckling pig, and light incense candles.
This kind of traditional ceremony is very common in Hong Kong, and it is also very common in Fantasy Entertainment, but now when faced with 18 TV stations in North America, it makes people feel curious.
"God, is this the key to the long-term victory of Fantasy Entertainment? Before starting the movie, you must pay homage to Mister Guan? I heard that this Guan is a giant god in China who is in charge of wealth and luck. See
No, Guan's face is red, and red represents joy and luck in China." A reporter from a TV station said.
"Dear viewers, what we are seeing in front of us is the traditional Chinese power-on ceremony. In their Chinese language, it is called worshiping God! This kind of worshiping God is different from our belief in Jesus Christ, and it is also different from our worship mass.
It's a very mysterious personal worship ceremony. Did you see that poor crispy suckling pig is a gift dedicated to this caring god by the crew. It is similar to the gift we offer to God when we pray... and that thick...
Don’t think that incense candles are used to drive away mosquitoes. They are a unique type of incense candle in China. They are said to be a type of sandalwood and smell very comfortable. This kind of incense can often be seen in Chinese temples. However, TV sets
Audiences in front of you should be careful to imitate it, because this kind of incense candle can easily cause fire!" Another TV station explained in an "expert" manner.
As the mysterious and Chinese-colored worship ceremony came to an end, reporters from major television stations and media turned their cameras on director Yi Feiyang.
Yi Feiyang lived up to expectations. After saying a few words, he announced loudly: "The Walking Dead is officially launched!"
Firecrackers crackle!
Red spreads all over the floor!
Immediately, the team invited from Chinatown began to perform dragon and lion dances, feasting the eyes of the surrounding audience.
"Wow, that's great! This is even better than the movie!"
"Chinese traditional culture attracted me! I fell in love with China!"
"Yi is not only a director, but also a messenger of cultural communication!"
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Ignoring those people who were talking about it, Yi Feiyang led his film crew and went straight to the shooting destination and started the first scene of the drama "The Walking Dead".
Story plot: Rick Grimes, a small-town police officer with a happy family, was accidentally shot while chasing a fugitive. When he woke up from his hospital bed, he found that everything around him had changed dramatically.
The hospital was empty, with corpses all over the floor. When Rick was frightened and confused, he discovered that he was not the only "alive" creature in the hospital...
This sequence of shots was shot in a private hospital in Los Angeles. The crew spent a lot of money to get ten minutes of filming time. In order to more realistically show the horror of the empty hospital, Yi Feiyang emptied almost all the people in the hospital.
.However, for those seriously ill patients, we cannot delay their treatment because of filming, so we have to gather them in one area and avoid the camera during filming.
In addition, Yi Feiyang is also responsible for emergencies. If something happens to the patient during this gap, he will be responsible. Fortunately, the filming of this set of shots was completed smoothly, and Yi Feiyang also
Breathe a big sigh of relief.
The next shot was the scene where the male protagonist Rick encountered zombies for the first time. After shooting it three or four times, Yi Feiyang always felt dissatisfied.
Especially the fixed-patterned shots of zombies grinning, tilting their heads, shaking and walking slowly, which made Yi Feiyang feel that there was a lack of novelty.
"Hey guys, don't you think this set of shots is boring?" Yi Feiyang sat behind the monitor, stroking his chin and asked Tom and others around him.
As the director of the production department, Tom is also a TV drama director. He watched the replay with the others and said confusedly: "It's okay, it's pretty good!"
Yes, in everyone's opinion, although the set of shots taken by Yi Feiyang is not a classic, it is quite satisfactory and has no flaws at all.
"No, it looks boring, lacking in dynamics and visual impact!" Yi Feiyang said harshly.
"To be precise, this kind of zombie is not the kind I want. What I want is for the visual effects to be upgraded to a level that will amaze everyone!"
The original version of "The Walking Dead" was under financial pressure, and many of the visual effects were done in one go, and the pictures were crude and dull. However, Yi Feiyang confidently spent 30 million U.S. dollars in filming funds, and then decided to invest 25 million U.S. dollars just for visual effects.
, he has reason to believe that the visual impact of the new version of "The Walking Dead" will be far greater than the original version. This is also the most critical step in changing the scale of television to movies.
In fact, since the birth of the television industry, the scale of production has been cautious and meticulous, and it has never dared to go beyond the big cast and make TV series look like movies. In fact, blockbuster TV series about past lives and futures are rampant in North America, and sophisticated production
More than movies, this proves the absurdity that television can only belong to small productions.
Thinking back to that era of "Game of Thrones", "Under the Sky", and "Downton Abbey", any of these TV blockbusters that swept the world were not outstanding in visual special effects, challenging the audience's vision, and subverting the audience.
What about imagination?
Thinking of this, Yi Feiyang decided to use special effects to change the attributes of the zombies in his movie. In one sentence: My zombies must be different!
The zombies of this era still maintain an aging and stiff performance style. Although each of them looks arrogant with arrogant teeth and claws, in fact, as long as a boy of seven or eight years old can calm down and not panic, he can kill one with one shot!
In the previous version of "The Walking Dead", didn't the hero Rick's son Carl just shoot one by one in the head with a gun, killing the walking zombies without changing his face?
If you are just copying the original version and repeating it, it may seem creepy on the surface, but in reality, when faced with zombies that are as powerless as babies, humans who are armed with guns and can be calm and composed are like that?
Want to change!
Yi Feiyang couldn't help but think of the 2013 zombie blockbuster "Armageddon," also known as "World War of the Zombies," before he traveled back in time. In it, he was crazy and bloodthirsty. He could run faster than a normal person can charge for 100 meters, walk as fast as flying, and even have a certain amount of wisdom.
Zombies that can build ladders and are so densely packed like a swarm of cannibal ants sweeping across the continent can be considered the Destroyers who truly bring destruction and disaster to mankind!
Only this kind of lens can be called subversion and reconstruction!
Bringing endless panic to the audience, and then highlighting the "Jedi escape" style of the protagonists, this is the perfect step to create a zombie explosion drama!
Of course, Yi Feiyang knows very well that once he changes the behavior pattern of zombies, or even shows his evil side, many stubborn people will naturally object. Those who like to smear him, newspapers and media will definitely
I will write a book about this.
You will be bombarded!
But so what? What I want is a true zombie world. Not a false world full of moral preaching!
Thinking of this, Yi Feiyang has already made a decision. He will revise the script and reshoot this sequence of scenes.
Furthermore, previous zombie movies concentrated on cannibalism in horror scenes, and even talked about how a group of zombies surrounded a person on the camera, and then tore the victim's body apart, revealing the bright red flesh and intestines, just like eating chicken feet.
He keeps chewing on his fingers, arms, thighs, etc.
This thing has already made Yi Feiyang, who has suffered so much from Chainsaw, play until he vomits...
Is this the only thing in zombie movies that can make the audience scream and be afraid?
It’s not just that!
You know, fear comes from the inability to break free, the inability to face it, and the inability to imagine it.
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Thinking of this, Yi Feiyang summoned the original author of the play, the comic author Fatty Robert. After all, this is someone else's work. If he wants to significantly modify the attributes of the zombies in it, he must respect their opinions and consult with them.
suggestion.
As expected, when Yi Feiyang proposed to modify the character attributes of the zombies in the original comics, turning slowness into fast speed, and dullness into smartness, Fatty Robert shook his head, "No, this won't work! Zombies are not like that, you say.
They are not zombies at all!"
Yes, in Fat Robert’s mind, nerves, and mind, the fixed zombie pattern is difficult to change.
Many Americans have been exposed to some ghost stories since they were young, such as the Tooth Fairy, the Green Haired Man, the Big-headed Monster, Pumpkin Head, etc. Zombies are also one of these monsters. Even in many American entertainment dictionaries, the explanation of zombies is
That is: Zombies, commonly known as the living dead, move slowly. When they see the flesh and blood of living people, they move very fast. They have a strong sense of hunger and like to eat living people.
Because of this, Fatty Robert feels that Yi Feiyang completely lost the characteristics of the zombies by turning them into that.
Yi Feiyang had already anticipated Robert's reaction, so he said: "Yes, man, the zombies in the past were indeed what you said... But no one knows what zombies look like! So why don't we redefine a kind of zombie?"
The new zombies..." Yi Feiyang said in a seductive language, "Our zombies will be able to run at a speed far exceeding that of ordinary people on the screen. Their crazy pursuit will make every audience stiffen and widen their eyes.
Then hold on tightly to the people around you.”
"The zombie tide, the zombie tide composed of countless zombies swept across like a tsunami, coming over the city, destroying, overturning, and even drowning everything in front of it!"
"There is nowhere to hide, no place to stay, the black sense of oppression is everywhere, it uses suspense to drive the heartbeat of the audience, and it uses unimaginable shots to directly subvert all zombie movies!"
"Mutation, the alienation of zombies breaks away from the dull and boring settings of all zombie movies. The final boss has human form and zombie form. After switching, it has various incredible abilities. Together with the special effects to enhance the visual impact, the audience can't help but
Caught in panic and excitement of extreme secretion of adrenaline!" Yi Feiyang knocked on the table with some excitement, and a series of stories made him appear hysterical.
Fat Robert was stunned by Yi Feiyang's behavior, especially Yi Feiyang's series of extremely inflammatory words, which made him a little undecided.
Seeing this, Yi Feiyang patted him on the shoulder, looked at the sky and said, "Robert, have you ever seen God?"
Robert shook his head hurriedly. "No!"
"Then I can tell you. As long as you and I are willing to cooperate, then we are God, the God who has re-created zombies!"
These words were like a giant hammer, hitting Robert's slightly proud heart hard.
He was shaken and said: "Director, I listen to you!"
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The re-adapted script and the re-defined "zombie" attributes have made the shooting speed even slower, because this requires a lot of special effects shots, such as zombies flying like vampires and climbing like geckos.
Climbing on roofs and walls, chasing wildly on all fours, etc. These scenes all require special effects crews to do.
At this time, the benefits of Yifeiyang's previous large sum of money to acquire New Zealand's Weta Digital Company were revealed.
In the past, when encountering special effects shots like this, you had to contact professional special effects companies, analyze the type, sign a contract, carry out production, and post-editing... a series of tasks. It is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of money.
Now, Weta Digital has directly become the special effects backbone of Fantasy Entertainment. As long as it is a movie or TV series produced by Fantasy Entertainment that involves special effects, you only need to send them a shot script, and they can complete it in the shortest possible time.
its produced.
The powerful power of Weta Digital once again proves Yifeiyang's foresight in acquiring this company.
At the same time, another acquisition plan of Yifeiyang was also quietly underway.
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As mentioned before, when Yi Feiyang was preparing for "The Walking Dead", he thought about the future trend of using mobile phones to watch TV series, so he thought of acquiring South Korea's Samsung and the United States' Apple in advance. You know, in his previous life, these two companies
The company accounts for about one-third of the global mobile phone market share, and can be said to be a super giant in mobile phone products and Internet electronic products.
For Yi Feiyang, his foreseeable investment is to catch predators!
For example, he has already caught Google Internet Company, Vita Digital, and AMC TV Station, etc., and now he is starting to pursue smartphones and tablets.
So before the filming of "The Walking Dead" started, Yi Feiyang arranged for the two closest people around him to carry out this task. These two people were Dures, the vice president of Fantasy Entertainment, and Alex, the investment manager.
Although Dures and Alex don't quite understand why Yi Feiyang thought of acquiring these two companies for no reason, especially now that Fantasy Entertainment has just acquired AMC TV station, it is the time when they need to recuperate and should not make such a big deal again.
news. But because of their blind trust in Yi Feiyang - there was no way, Yi Feiyang's investment acquisitions seemed to have never made mistakes, and they all made huge profits, so the two began to implement Yifeiyang's acquisition plan
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Let’s start with South Korea’s Samsung. This electronics company is affiliated to South Korea’s Lee Enterprises and has a history of more than 70 years. It ranks first among South Korea’s companies and accounts for 6.3% of the country’s tax payments. It can be said to be South Korea’s pillar company.
Therefore, it is almost impossible to acquire this company, because Koreans are very xenophobic and arrogant. They would rather bankrupt the company than sell the power of the company to foreigners. Moreover, even if Samsung is willing to sell, the national government will not
agree.
The conservative protectionism of Korean enterprises has made it almost impossible to acquire South Korea's Samsung. In addition, South Korea's Samsung currently has total assets of 200 billion in the world. Acquisition of Samsung? That is a huge joke!
However, Samsung is currently going through a very severe expansion stage. It has established development zones in more than 70 countries and regions, including the United States. Since they have to expand to so many areas at once, their cash flow is not very sufficient, especially from outside.
Assets entering the United States are subject to strict scrutiny by the U.S. government, so Samsung's U.S. branch is eager to find a suitable partner to develop the U.S. market together.
Many large American companies are not very optimistic about this small country from Asia, because in the field of electronics industry, Americans still trust Japanese technology, such as Japan's Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic, etc. Regarding Samsung's entry into the United States, it is even more
Many Americans scoffed, waiting to see the joke.
It happened that at this time, Dures met with the chairman of Samsung with the sincerity of Dream Entertainment, and they communicated and negotiated in a friendly manner. In the end, both parties felt that this guy was pretty good, so Dream Entertainment easily became Samsung's development in the United States.
Partner, to be precise, Samsung’s largest distributor in the United States!
Although it is very different from his previous plan, Yi Feiyang also understands how ridiculous his previous plan is. Acquiring Samsung? It’s too yy! It’s better to face reality. As long as he can control the sales of Samsung products in the United States in the future
The circulation in the market is an astronomical profit!
Fantasy Entertainment and Samsung took less than half a month to complete this series of cooperation plans from contact, communication, negotiation, and finally injecting US$300 million to help Samsung open up the US market, which is enough to prove Samsung's commitment to the US market.
The desire, and the eager desire to take root and bear fruit.
In contrast, another acquisition plan proposed by Yi Feiyang, the acquisition of Apple in the United States, is even more difficult. Unlike South Korea's Samsung, Apple has not been established for a long time and is not a pillar industry in the United States.
, to be precise, the reason why Apple is so famous is because of Steve Jobs!
Who is Steve Jobs?
He is a hero in the American electronics industry. It can be said that everyone in the American electronics field knows Joe Daxia!
Why is he said to be a hero? Because Jobs is very loyal and has acted like a hero... (To be continued...)
