The level of director James Diaz is much higher than that of Neill Brokamp, who Chen Feng has worked with before.
Although "District 9", "Elysium", and "Chaos Space" have slightly established Neil's status in the world, compared with James Diaz, the two are not in the same league at all.
Thirty or forty years ago, since his first debut film swept the Hollywood weekend box office charts, James has never made a B-level movie, and his first movies have been top-notch productions.
Even if he just comes up with an idea and the movie has a name, countless investors will step through the door of his house waving checks, and the price will be hundreds of millions of dollars.
Ordinary-level directors have to take the initiative to visit investors, tell others about their filmmaking concepts, and promote themselves again and again.
Slightly better are investors with fixed long-term cooperation.
Like James, he is the one who chooses investors. He not only looks at the money, but also considers whether the investor's philosophy is consistent with his, whether the source of the money is clean, and whether the investor will be an outsider indiscriminately directing an insider.
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When a director is strong enough to choose investors, his influence in other aspects of the film industry goes without saying.
For so-called capital representatives in China like Wang Xilei, James Diaz is someone who needs to look up to the stars.
But now this man is very familiar with it and wants to draw Chen Feng into his new drama!
Wang Xilei was confused and didn't know what was wrong with his worldview.
Isn't Chen Feng a music producer? He is still a boss with some influence in the Chinese music scene, and he is not a Hollywood actor. What is James doing?
What made him even more angry was that when the group behind them got down to business, they all lowered their voices, making it difficult for him to hear clearly.
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"Mr. Chen Feng, I hope you will seriously consider my invitation."
After introducing the movie, James said sincerely.
Chen Feng fell into deep thought.
In fact, Chen Feng was a little confused when he came across this group of people when he went upstairs and was suddenly stopped.
I probably don’t have many acquaintances in the United States except the big guys from Grammy, so who are these international friends who suddenly join in the fun?
If it weren't for the vague feeling that Peter looked familiar, Chen Feng would have left.
After the other party reported his identity, Chen Feng stayed in a very approachable manner, had a cordial conversation with the other party, and exchanged business cards.
It’s noisy!
James Diaz!
The great director who holds three of the top ten box office positions in film history so far.
He is also a true master who is almost a thousand years old in the history of art.
If Chen Feng hadn't become a galactic human, his mentality had changed slightly subconsciously, he looked at things more detachedly, and his experience in the thirty-first century was too rich, with his previous temperament, he would have hugged James' thigh and shouted
Don't leave.
When Chen Feng heard that the other party invited him to participate in his movie, Chen Feng was slightly pleasantly surprised.
He was originally planning to expand the film industry.
Although he is very confident in his script, Chen Feng has carefully considered the complete creative process of the film and knows that it is not as simple as it seems on the surface.
Moreover, there is a long and insurmountable gap that needs to be broken from the Chinese film industry to the world.
Having the opportunity to connect with James Diaz is a shortcut.
First try to go into battle in person and open up a path for the company. Then everything will become much smoother. You may even have the opportunity to skip the domestic rip-off directors and get a famous Hollywood director back in the first film.
And the new film directed by James is a science fiction film that is a subject that Chen Feng likes very much.
The reason why James came to him was very strange. He had seen a video on the Internet of Chen Feng dragging a delta wing into a helicopter to save people.
After watching it, he was immediately amazed by Chen Feng, and all he wanted to do was get Chen Feng into his new drama and play an important role with lots of action scenes.
James knew that Chen Feng was not a professional actor and had never even studied acting, but that was not a problem. He could train him.
With such skill, it would be a pity not to act in a movie with sparks and lightning all the way.
Today's "accidental encounter" was not really a chance encounter. After making an appointment with Peter and others to discuss the facts, he deliberately chose this hotel just to block Chen Feng's face-to-face communication.
His invitation was serious.
Everything was beautiful, but Chen Feng was deeply embarrassed by the other party's invitation.
Because the character James planned for him to play in the movie was actually Japanese.
This is very stiff.
"I'm so sorry, Mr. James. I'm usually very busy at work, and I'm not a professional actor, so I'm not qualified. I'm sorry. I have something else to do today, so why don't we talk about it another day."
Chen Feng said, getting up and saying goodbye.
Unexpectedly, James seemed to see through his scruples and took his hand, "Mr. Chen, I know what you are thinking, but I hope you can try to broaden your horizons. If possible, for the sake of a role, it is appropriate
Modifying the script is not a problem, but many pre-production plans and other actors have been decided, so there is no way to determine the nationality of this character. But it is not important. The important thing in a science fiction film is the starry sky, not the country."
Chen Feng sat down again, "Yes, so in my eyes, in more distant science fiction films, there is no distinction between Americans, Japanese, and Chinese. We are all human beings. That's enough."
Peter next to him interjected: "Mr. Chen, do you think the world will be unified in the future?"
Chen Feng thought for a while, "Maybe."
James shook his head, "It's unlikely. Competition is the nature and instinct of human beings. Now that humans are the most powerful life on earth, all we have left is to compete with each other. So competition runs through our entire history, and the differences between individuals
Competition, competition between groups, competition among races, and now competition among nations.”
Chen Feng narrowed his eyes, "Mr. James is a supporter of militancy?"
James shook his head, "No, competition is not limited to war. We are in the 21st century, and it is almost impossible for real large-scale wars to occur between major powers. In that case, all mankind will pay an unbearable and painful price, which is far greater than one
War and World War II. It goes against our biological instincts.”
"Then what do you mean by competition?"
James sorted out his thoughts and said: "On a country-by-country basis, there is continuous and eternal intense competition at multiple levels such as technology, economy, education, etc. For example, the science and technology competition between your country and our country. It seems that the loser will waste resources.
But defeating more losers means letting the winners run away
There is a way to get faster. There was a proverb in the past, a person who is chased by a tiger can run as fast as possible. Some major scientific research results, if they were born one year earlier, can create potential value for mankind, which is far greater than the waste of losers.
resources. I don’t advocate war, but I advocate competition.”
Chen Feng was stunned at first, but his eyes gradually brightened.
Worthy of being a master of science fiction who thinks deeply about anthropology, James Diaz opened up Chen Feng’s relatively narrow-minded troubles.
Competition is valuable.
Competitors are enemies to each other, but at the same time they are comrades-in-arms to some extent.
In the several timelines he has experienced before, human beings have been greatly disturbed.
It was either an extremely insidious thought infiltration or the S-bacteria that wiped out the world. After the S-bacteria ended, the playback of "Morrowind" never stopped.
The world government that was finally formed was either wrong to one extreme, or "right" to the other extreme.
Humanity has never followed a completely natural path in the direction that its racial characteristics should lead.
This road should be changeable, full of complexity and randomness.
Perhaps, after eradicating the S bacteria, we should immediately change our strategy and no longer broadcast it to everyone indiscriminately, but instead adopt Ryan's strategy of only giving "Morrowind" to top scientists?
Chen Feng laughed.
"Thank you, Mr. James, for clarifying my doubts. However, my vision does not need to be broadened. I am not narrow-minded at all. But I also admit that the reason why I refused the role was that I did not want to play a Japanese. I just want to play a Japanese, regardless of my country."
Different from race, just yellow-skinned earthlings.”
Seeing that he was determined, James Diaz was very disappointed and said, "Well, that's a pity."
Chen Feng thought about it and decided to leave a good mark.
"We will have the opportunity to cooperate in the future, Director James. Everyone thinks that I can only write songs. Maybe I can barely be considered a so-called superhero in your country now. But in fact, writing songs is just my hobby. I really
His talent is much more than that.”
Everyone at the table was confused and didn't know what he was trying to do.
James: "Please just say it."
Chen Feng: "My accomplishments in film scripts, especially science fiction film scripts, will definitely not disappoint you. If you are interested, we can talk about my scripts if we have the opportunity in the future."
James's expression was a little strange.
Others are not much better.
After a long while, James said: "Actually, I usually only shoot scripts that I create myself."
Chen Feng did not feel dissatisfied, "I know, so if you are not satisfied when the time comes, don't ask me to play a Japanese, I can play a Korean. How about it?"
James: "Okay! I hope we can cooperate as soon as possible!"
After chatting thoroughly, Chen Feng turned around and went upstairs with brisk steps and a happy mood.
This time he found a more awesome director for Starfeng Entertainment's future science fiction movies.
With James' golden name, Star Peak Entertainment will surely go more smoothly on the film level. It can skip the stage of the Chinese film market and directly enter the global market.
The connections that are given to you for free are truly a blessing from heaven.
Chen Feng felt relieved, but Wang Xilei on the other side was disappointed.
He wasn't sure how Chen Feng was chatting with these people, but James' last raised-pitched words, "I hope we can cooperate as soon as possible," pierced his eardrums.
What kind of world is this!
Don’t you, James, make movies?
If you want to ask Chen Feng to invite you for the theme song, I can understand.
But what do you mean by going to such lengths to beg him to star in your movie, and still looking forward to cooperating with him so enthusiastically?
Wang Xilei and the few little flowers and fresh meat around him just lamented the unfairness of the world.
It's despairing and tragic.
Wang Xilei and his party quickly chased after him.
We can't let him go like this, he must be licked back by Chen Feng!
The cruel words he just let go of were forgotten by Wang Xilei again.
But Chen Feng raised his hand and asked the hotel security to stop the group of people.
Unwelcome dog licking will cause people to think their tongues are dirty.
He returned to the room, and Zhong Lei was sitting on his bed, holding a guitar in his arms, playing boredly.
"Why did it take so long? What do they want from you?"
Chen Feng sat down angrily, "Stop talking, it almost made me sick to death."
He told Wang Xilei that he thought he was a man of all genders, and then wanted to send all the men and women he brought to his bed.
Zhong Lei was so happy that it was both funny and disgusting.
"These people are so weird."
Chen Feng nodded, "Yes, good art was suddenly turned into a mess by them."
"No, I've long been familiar with these shabby things. I laughed because they mistakenly thought you were a man and a woman."
"Shut up!"
Zhong Lei suddenly said: "Whose mouth do you think this news might have first spread from?"
Chen Feng thought for a while, "I probably know."
"Don't blame me. Who told you to write songs early in the morning? They are all from a woman's perspective."
Chen Feng narrowed his eyes.
He really wanted to admit something.
It's not all women's perspective, it's all your perspective.
