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There are no geniuses in the world. There are many fools, which brings out the genius of some people.
If Spielberg is a relatively difficult guy to get along with, then the person who is even more difficult to get along with than Spielberg is Cameron.
A very difficult guy to get along with, a technical genius, his way of thinking is different from others, and he is also a money-burning machine. If the four legendary directors are all money-burning machines, then Cameron is the biggest one.
Money machine.
To use current buzzwords, Cameron is a technology geek, a super tech geek. Similar people in the United States include Joe Gang Leader, Bill Gai, and others.
After Spielberg brought Ye Ming in, he greeted Cameron and said, "Look who I brought here. Ye Ming, recently he and Emmerich were filming The Day After Tomorrow, a disaster movie. I don't understand.
Why Emmerich loves making disaster movies so much.
Of course, what makes me even more confused is that you would actually participate in a similar film festival. I thought today was April Fool's Day?"
Cameron is the kind of person who is unsmiling, at least in front of strangers, so at this moment he said seriously: "Hollywood should have various types of movies, so in a movie like this
No matter what the situation is, we should respect other people's rights to make movies. This is the foundation of Hollywood's success.
As for me, it’s because I am researching a new shooting technology and plan to use this technology to shoot a movie. This time it happens to be people from all over the world. I hope to share my technology with everyone. This is
I think 3D technology will be the standard for future movie shooting, and everyone will always use this technology to shoot in the future.
Of course, this technology is not yet very perfect. Although the principles are very complete, it is still quite troublesome to actually apply it to filming movies.
Therefore, I hope to hear everyone’s opinions on such a technology. No matter what it is, I need to listen to the opinions of users, or potential future users.”
This is a standard technical control, something only a very powerful technical control can say.
In Cameron's world, basically technology always comes first. All celebrities are scum. In other words, he can create his own stars without needing any stars. At this point, Big Ship
Leonardo DiCaprio on the Titanic is an example. DiCaprio used to be considered a front-line star in Hollywood, but not necessarily at the top. But after the big ship, when it comes to DiCaprio, he is basically considered to be a superstar.
In fact, everyone paid attention to the Titanic because it was a big ship and a disaster. As for Little Plum, it was just incidental attention.
As for the later Avatar, people all over the world are paying attention to both 3D and giant-screen 3D movies. As for the starring role in the movie, God knows, how many people know who the starring role in Avatar is?
Compared to Leonardo DiCaprio, Worthington, the lead actor in Avatar, can simply be called a tragedy.
Because Leonardo DiCaprio has at least become a superstar with the help of a big ship, but Worthington is basically a half-faced type and is still tepid. Therefore, saying that Cameron is a technical control is a very powerful technology.
Control, but for actors, he is really not willing to use celebrities. Maybe it means that in the early days, he also had some examples of using celebrities to make movies. But later, um, it was basically complete technical control.
Already.
Spielberg knew Cameron very well, so he immediately said: "Has your technology begun to be perfected?
I really didn’t expect it to be so fast, but do you think that after your movie is shot, how many people will be willing to watch your movie? Needless to say 3D, there are only so many 3D movie theaters in the entire United States. After you shoot it, first of all
You have to choose what kind of place to play it in so that it can have a box office. If there is no box office, I don't mind if you do it."
Cameron is indeed a technology expert. Everything is based on data. He took over the words and said: "There are less than 800 3D cinemas in the world, and there are 218 giant screen cinemas in the world, half of which are commercial cinemas."
, half of them were built by universities, museums and other institutions, speaking of which, there are relatively few."
Spielberg smiled and said: "Yes, there are only more than 800 3D cinemas in the world. How many are for commercial use? 500 is the highest. I guess this number may not be there, but tell me,
A movie, the 3D movie you are talking about, that is, a digital movie, can it make money?
James, I admit the greatness of your technology, and I also admit that in the future, digital movies should be the mainstream of movies. But on this issue, in fact, no matter what it is, now you have to shoot something like this
As for Zi’s movie, the market is not mature enough. And your technical research has not reached the level where you can actually shoot a movie, right?"
It seems, it seems, that this is indeed the case. Therefore, in such a situation, Cameron's technology is said to be very good, but it is still some distance from reality.
It means that movie theaters are not so easy to spread.
Who knows, James Cameron is definitely well prepared. He is a technical expert and actually wants to participate in a film festival like this. This has to be said to be a very strange thing. Spielberg
In fact, I had doubts about what this guy was doing from the beginning.
At this moment, Cameron said very firmly: "This technology will develop rapidly. I believe I will reduce the cost to a level that everyone can accept. Of course, the main purpose is to attract investment. The current research has reached a critical stage."
It's time, but there are some problems with costs, which I don't want to see.
Therefore, under such a situation, we can only slow down the research speed first and find the money. This time I am here, one is to share my technology, which is already quite mature in the laboratory. Also,
One is to find someone to invest, what about Director Spielberg, are you interested in investing in this research of mine?"
Spielberg immediately shook his head and said: "James, if you want to make a movie, then I think I will invest in it, but I am not very optimistic about this technology, and I have made a big move recently.
, it is impossible to support you financially."
In fact, these big directors will not invest by themselves, or they will never invest all by themselves, otherwise they will suffer losses sooner or later. If Coppola's Apocalypse Now seeks cooperation with several film and television companies, it may not be like this.
The fate of.
Therefore, since Apocalypse Now, Hollywood has actually encountered an unspoken rule. This unspoken rule means that the director will not solely invest in a movie, but at most participate in the film, and usually use his own remuneration, technology and other equity participation.
This is also about sharing risks. If you have money, everyone will make it. But if it fails at the box office, well, everyone will bear it together.
Because there is a rule in Hollywood. If a movie is said to be successful at the box office, this is a rigid standard. If it is successful at the box office, it can be said anything.
But if it is not a box office success, if it is a critical success, it is not a complete failure. Apocalypse Now was a box office failure, but it is definitely a classic movie in terms of reviews.
He didn't gain any benefit, but he gained fame. In addition, Coppola was indeed very arrogant, so he came across the opportunity to make a comeback. If a director's movies cannot achieve fame and fortune, then it is considered a failure of Che.
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Therefore, when a big director like Cameron or Spielberg makes a movie, it is definitely not a small sum. Chen Ben must be very high. Therefore, he must find one or two villains to invest together.
Sole proprietorship is impossible.
Even the digital movie 3D technology that Cameron is researching cannot sustain itself, and it must be endorsed by someone who is taken advantage of.
This time he is looking for money. Unfortunately, Spielberg is a profit man. If the technology is mature, he can use it to shoot movies, but now it is almost impossible for him to invest.
, of course, mainly because he is busy with other things now and does not have that much money or experience.
But the two of them can be considered acquaintances. Although they are not close friends, they are both top directors and have the morality of heroes to cherish heroes. Spielberg glanced at Ye Ming and said: "Ye, you are also doing this yourself."
Technically speaking, what do you think of this digital movie?"
This is actually a question with profound meaning. It depends on what kind of attitude Ye Ming has towards this kind of technology. If Ye Ming is not very interested in this kind of attitude, then in this way
At one point, there was actually no more to follow.
But if Ye Ming is interested in such a thing, then he can continue to talk about it.
Ye Ming pondered for a while and said: "The technology is not mature enough, and the hardware conditions are very insufficient. To build a giant-screen theater, it costs at least one million US dollars to start. If it is to be more complete, then on such a problem,
1.5 million to 2 million is more appropriate.
Therefore, the current cost of building a giant-screen digital cinema is too high. If the technology improves and the construction cost is reduced, then I think the world of digital movies will become dominant in the future. Maybe in ten or eight years, the box office champion will be digital movies.
Yes.
I am still very optimistic about this technology, and Huihuang.com is also developing similar digital technology."
This statement surprised Cameron. Is Ye Ming also working on this technology? Cameron glanced at Ye Ming meaningfully and said, "Is Mr. Ye also interested in digital movies? This
This is the first time I’ve heard of it.”
Ye Ming said with a smile: "It's not a movie. What we do at Huihuang.com is a little different from what Mr. Cameron does. Mr. Cameron, what you do is a digital movie, and what I do is a digital network. For example,
If you shop in the future, you can use digital technology to directly view the three-dimensional image of the item you want to buy. Do you think that such a thing will attract more people to shop? Or in the future, on the Internet
Most of the movies are also made digitally, which is very interesting.
Therefore, I am quite interested in this technology. If Mr. Cameron is willing to cooperate, then I can invest part of it and share the technology in the future."
In fact, Spielberg brought Ye Ming here, and a large part of it was actually for this investment. He himself is currently unwilling to invest in this kind of digital film technology, but it is also possible to attract a wealthy local to invest.
Her purpose, and it is obvious that Ye Ming is a good choice at this time. He is young, has technical control, and the key is money. Huihuang.com can litigate the US government for such a long time. Is this a lawsuit?
This is a waste of money. If you don’t have enough money, who would be willing to accompany Huihuang.com to litigate with the US government? Those lawyers charge by the hour.
Therefore, Ye Ming is not short of money, or in this case, it can be said that Huihuang.com is not short of money. Spielberg asked Luo Tian about his attitude towards digital movies, in fact, he wanted him to
It's just an investment.
But now, at this time, Ye Ming actually said that he would take the initiative to invest. This made Spielberg look at Ye Ming in a different light. Maybe Ye Ming is also a technology control person like Cameron.
This kind of person is the most unreasonable person to talk about. It's like talking about this investment. Before Spielberg could say it, Ye Ming actually took the initiative to talk about the investment.
And Cameron is also waiting for someone to invest, and the video technology of Huihuang.com is also top-notch in the world. It almost monopolizes Internet video technology. For a technology master like Cameron,
, is a very attractive question.
Therefore, at a time like this, Cameron immediately nodded and said: "Cooperation is very good. I am also very interested in this matter. You can talk about how to cooperate. Please let your
People from the company should ask my lawyer to discuss this matter."
When Americans cooperate, they usually work with Tongguo lawyers. Even if they are friends or even family members, this is the spirit of the contract. In the West, this is very popular. It is even said that the son borrows money from me.
If so, he would also write an IOU.
What's more, if Cameron and Ye Ming cooperate, then such an issue will inevitably involve some complicated provisions, such as what kind of cooperation, special sharing after cooperation, and what are the benefits and risks?
Division and the like are important considerations.
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