Liao Yuan was very sure of this. Everything that had just happened was too real, so real that in that world, Liao Yuan thought that everything he had done in the past few years was just a dream.
Could it be said that I can travel through two parallel spaces?
This is not a good thing, it should be said to be a very terrible thing.
Liao Yuan suddenly felt a little scared in his heart, but he could only pretend to be calm at the moment. He looked at the outline of the story tree about "Inception" written in front of him and fell into silence.
After a long time, he forced himself to calm down and continued to organize "Inception" in the hope of forgetting the nightmare just now.
"Inception" tells the story of a group of dream builders.
The male protagonist Cobb fled the United States for two years because he was accused of murdering his wife. During these two years, Cobb missed his children very much but could not go home.
In order to be able to go home and see his children as soon as possible, he decided to make a desperate move and help Saito, the chaebol tycoon who could release him and let him go home, to bring down his rival Robert Fisher and dismantle his father's company.
Cobb himself is a dream builder, and he is very good, but his wife always appears in his dreams and hinders him from completing his tasks.
In order for this mission to be successful, he needs to find someone else to take on the role of dream builder.
For this purpose, Cobb found three new team members: Dream Builder Ellie, Pretender Li Si, and Pharmacist You Zhuo.
Dream builders are a magical profession. They can design dreams and bring target characters into their dreams, and the target characters will bring their own subconscious with them;
When the Dream Builder designs a safe place, important information about the target person will be automatically stored in it;
The time in dreams is 12 times longer than reality;
After setting the dreaming time, if the dreamer dies in the dream, the dreamer will wake up in reality in advance;
But if the dreamer who created the dream dies, the dream will collapse;
It is worth mentioning that the more outrageous the dream is, and the environment it reflects, the sooner the characters will notice the dream owner and start attacking the dream owner.
Because there were hidden dangers in his dreams, Cobb hired Ellie, a talented dream builder, to give her the task of dream building.
They plan to create a three-layer dreamland to increase the success rate of the mission.
But the third-level dream is very unstable and requires strong sedatives.
This potion will make people's brains work faster, and the time will be 20 times longer than in reality!
However, this kind of medicine may make people unable to distinguish between reality and dreams, and it is very likely that people will be lost in dreams forever.
Under the influence of this powerful sedative, the only way to wake up from a dream is to fall.
So they planned to make the car fall off the bridge and lose weight on the first level of the dream, use explosives to create weight loss on the second level, and blow up the hospital on the third level to create weight loss.
Use the music countdown to synchronize the [Fall] in the three-story dreamland.
Each level needs one person, the dream master of this level, to play music and "fall" while awake...
At the end of the story, Cobb and others returned to reality, and Cobb also returned home as he wished, and saw the child he had missed day and night.
But whether Cobb is still dreaming or not depends on the audience's imagination to discover the truth.
The overall story of the script is perfect in the end, but the production process is destined to be very labor-intensive, and if the director's skills are not strong enough, the set layout is not detailed enough, and the actors' understanding is not deep enough, "Inception" will also be a difficult work.
At the moment when the script was officially completed, Liao Yuan suddenly felt a palpitation in his heart. He couldn't describe what it felt like. He felt worried, fearful, confused, confused, enlightened, and lost.
A week later, when Liao Yuan put the entire forty to fifty pages of the synthesized script in the conference room, the movie "Inception" project was officially established.
It was the first time for Lin Weiyin to attend such a company meeting. She was sunny and smiling, but she looked very serious. The notebook she carried was filled with the key points of the meeting.
No one present could ignore such a presence, so even when expressing opinions and speeches, they would deliberately slow down to allow Lin Weiyin to record the key points. It can be said that he took full care of the work of this "lady boss".
This somewhat slowed down the progress of the meeting, but Liao Yuan didn't say anything.
After the meeting, the first task to be arranged is to attract investment.
"Inception" requires a huge investment to complete the project. After detailed calculations, Liao Yuan discovered that "Inception" is not an ordinary waste of money. It requires more than 1.3 billion yuan to fill the entire project schedule.
After some calculations, Xinyuan Production finally decided to invest 50% of the funds. In addition to the 200 million yuan settled for "The Pianist on the Sea", Xinyuan Production Company will raise the remaining funds through advertising placement.
In addition, Liao Yuan's individual actor's remuneration, director's remuneration, screenwriter's remuneration, etc. will also be integrated to fill the 50% funding gap.
Because of the success of "The Pianist", the advertising placement recruitment for "Inception" was very smooth at first. However, when these advertisers learned that "Inception" was a commercial blockbuster and had invested up to
When the amount of over one billion was completely comparable to Hollywood masterpieces, everyone gave up.
What is the value of advertising?
Naturally, it’s in terms of traffic.
The ticket price of science fiction blockbusters is usually twice as expensive as that of ordinary movies. Even so, as long as the movie has the production level of Hollywood blockbusters, the audience will still buy it and it can still attract traffic.
But Liao Yuan has never made a science fiction film, and he has never achieved success in the field of commercial films. What's more, he can only be considered a fledgling in making literary films. Even if he has made extraordinary achievements, is it certain that he can succeed in an unfamiliar field? No one
I'm sure, or in other words, no matter how powerful he is, is Liao Yuan's step too big?
If it fails and the movie has no box office, then the advertising money they invested will be in vain.
People were skeptical and seemed a little timid.
Of course, the most important reason is that the cost of advertising placement for this project is too high.
Just for the cost of implanting a can of Coke, I asked Coca-Cola and PepsiCo for a price of 40 million, and it was guaranteed. The final price needed to be quoted by the two beverage companies themselves.
This is simply a lion's mouth.
Therefore, when many advertising investors invest, their quotations begin to shrink. Several million yuan is considered normal, and occasionally more than ten million yuan is considered high.
But these scattered funds are simply a drop in the bucket for "Inception", which requires an investment of 1.3 billion yuan, and are of little use, so Xinyuan Productions has no desire to discuss it in detail with them.
These investors didn't care. They felt that Liao Yuan was definitely in trouble this time. Being conservative and reducing investment was naturally the best choice.
But not long after, their jaws dropped. Coca-Cola paid 10 million U.S. dollars, a total of about 70 million yuan, to acquire a scene that only appeared for two seconds in "Inception."
"It's so profitable to make a movie..."
Many people outside the industry were in disbelief when they heard the news.
But the investment circle sneered: "It's hard to buy money, but Coca-Cola has a lot of money. They only have 10 million U.S. dollars, so they can afford to gamble. You know, last year, Coca-Cola invested more than 40 dollars in advertising expenses around the world."
100 million U.S. dollars, so this 10 million U.S. dollars is just a piece of fish to them."
Coca-Cola's quotation has made many domestic advertising investors red-eyed.
Not long after, Geeling Automobile, a leader in the domestic automobile industry, directly announced that it would invest 120 million in the movie "Inception" and contracted all the cars that appeared in the movie.
The successive offers from two major industry giants have made the advertising value of "Inception" skyrocketing, making the film even more noisy inside and outside the industry.
Whether it is Geling Automobile or Coca-Cola, they have professional advertising value evaluators within their own companies. In their evaluation system, most people believe that this investment can earn back their capital. This is a very good news for other investors.
A valuable signal.
Therefore, in the following period, there was an endless stream of advertising investors coming and going from Little Yellow Croaker Company and Xinyuan Production Company. ——
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