Chapter 286 Emotional Memory
The price offered by Zhang Ran is relatively reasonable, but the advance payment is a bit high. However, the film dealers have seen several highlights of the movie, and the quality is absolutely first-class, so there is no big objection between them, whether it is Korean CJ Entertainment, Japanese Gaga Company, or Jiang Ziqiang, and they soon signed a contract with Zhang Ran.
In the end, "Space-Time Warrior" completed a pre-sale of 26 million yuan in the entire East Asia region, and Zhang Ran received a pre-payment of 13 million yuan, which means that after filling in the fund gap, there will be 6 million yuan in reserves. If other changes occur in the crew, Zhang Ran will not have no money to use.
After selling the copyright in East Asia, Zhang Ran picked up the phone and dialed the number of Lucbesson. Now the winner is decided, and Lucbesson needs to come out and wash away the dirty water that Harvey and the others poured.
In fact, no matter who loses or wins in this struggle, Lucbesson needs to come out to clarify. If Harvey and the others laugh to the end, Lucbesson will have to stand up and announce that they will strengthen supervision of the movie and re-edit the movie. When the movie is finished, they claim that after re-editing, the quality of the movie has been greatly improved.
There are trial sessions before the release of Hollywood movies. If the audience responds poorly, they will re-edit the questions raised by the audience, and even re-shoot the shots to improve the quality of the movie. Harvey especially likes to do such things. The movies he bought will be re-edited according to the tastes of American audiences, because people are nicknamed "Harvey, Scissor Hand". When "Princess Ghost" was released in the United States, Hayao Miyazaki sent Harvey a samurai knife, with the blade saying "No deletion" is allowed.
Now that Zhang Ran wins, Luc Besson also needs Luc Besson. Zhang Ran is the director of the movie and is very famous. No one will believe him when he stands up and refutes Harvey and the others. Luc Besson is different. As long as he stands up, there will be a lot of media attention.
This time, Lucbesson's phone call came on: "Zhang, why do you have time to call me? Nothing will happen? I've been sick in the hospital these two days and the doctor refused to answer the phone. My phone kept turning off!"
"I said why can't I get through your phone? It turns out that I'm sick!" Zhang Ran pretended to realize suddenly. Neil next to him rolled his eyes. He smiled and said, "It's nothing big. It's Miramax and Bowei tore up the contract and tried to use the guarantee of the film to rob the copyright of the movie, but now the matter has been resolved!"
"What, how did you do it?" Lucbesson was surprised. Apart from the 12 million reserve fund, Zhang Ran faced a funding gap of 20 million. Even if he had 5 million in his hands, there was still a 15 million gap. It was solved in just five days. How could it be possible?
"This is not important, what is important is that the funding gap has been resolved." Zhang Ran said lightly without explanation.
"Just solve it. Harvey is a bad reputation in the circle and has deceived many people. This time he is considered a casualty!" Lucbesson felt the coldness in Zhang Ran's words, sighed slightly, and said, "Harvey didn't lose much, he just wasted a lot of energy. Jacobson was miserable. He threw 10 million in vain, and the Disney board of directors would not let her go!"
"This is what she asked for!" Zhang Ran sneered, and then expressed his purpose. "In order to drive away the film dealers, Harvey and others spread rumors that our movies are of poor quality. Now you need to stand up and refute it, otherwise it will have a negative impact on the box office!"
"I will come to Vancouver tomorrow, and hold a press conference to clarify the matter!" The box office of the movie involved Luc Besson's interests, so he naturally would not refuse. After dealing with it, he hung up the phone.
Zhang Ran held his cell phone and shook his head gently. Luc Besson is no longer a simple director, but has become a film businessman. He can no longer make a movie like "This Killer Is Not Cold"!
Lucbesson did not break his promise. After arriving in Vancouver, he held a small press conference to clarify the entire incident.
At the press conference, Lucbesson fired directly at Harvey: "Harvey and the others are completely slandering. There is no problem with the quality of our movies! I have to tell you about Harvey. He often deals with European filmmakers, and his usual trick is to buy the North American distribution rights of the movie. He first offered 8 million yuan, but when others saw it, he didn't steal it from him. He gave him a deposit of 200,000 yuan. When the movie was about to be finished, he said, "I don't want this movie, return it, it's too late to sell it to others. He asked you for $1 million at this time. Many European directors talked about him and said that they were liars! This time they were repeating the same trick!"
Most media don’t like Harvey. This guy has done a lot of tricks and messed up Oscars. Now there are big directors like Luc Besson who are here to fire, which is popular with the media, and major media have given enough pages to this news.
Domestic media have always maintained high attention to "Space-Time Warriors". After the clarification of Lucbesson came out, major media reprinted it one after another, and related news began to appear on the Internet, which caused heated discussions among countless people.
"I just said that how could Zhang Ran have a bad movie that can make a good movie like "Explosive Drummer"?"
"This liar Harvey actually wants to lie to my boss. It's damn!"
"Damn Harvey, he actually slandered my Zhang Ran so much. If you dare to come to China, I will castrate you!"
While the media and netizens were talking about it, "Space and Space Warrior" was filming with all his might and was not affected by this storm.
What we are going to film now is that Jason was taken back to the mental hospital. Under the treatment of the doctor, he recovered from his consciousness and met Dr. Jiang Zhexin in the ward.
The studio was arranged in the shape of a ward, with all facilities in place. Reeves sat on a chair, smoking silently, his eyes were both melancholy and sad, which was heartbreaking.
At this time, Liang Jiahui walked in and sat down in the chair in front of Reeves. Reeves looked up at him, his eyes as cold as ice. If his eyes could kill people, Liang Jiahui was now a corpse. Liang Jiahui wiped the thin sweat on his forehead: "Did you remember it completely?"
Reeves's voice was filled with a strong hatred, and it was almost materialized: "Yes, I remember how you took me away and how you declared me a madman." His voice gradually became lower, revealing endless sorrow, "Of course, I did become a madman and an idiot later..."
Liang Jiahui's face turned pale: "I know this has hurt you, but you must help us now..."
"Help you?" Reeves interrupted Liang Jiahui's words, "Why should I help you?" He stood up and roared, "You ruined me, you turned me into a waste. My God..." Reeves looked sad and blinked twice to cry, but couldn't cry. "Now you actually want me to help you!"
"Stop!" Zhang Ran was dissatisfied with Reeves' performance and shouted loudly.
Jiang Zhexin was the murderer who made Jason become an idiot, so Jason felt full of hatred when he saw Jiang Zhexin, but when he recalled his experience of becoming an idiot, his heart gradually became very sad. Jiang Zhexin asked Jason for help at this time, rekindled his anger, and he began to roar; but this anger did not last long, and he remembered his experience of becoming an idiot, and the sad emotions infected him again.
In fact, Reeves performed well in this scene. There was a complete action chain, psychological motivation, and subtext. His eyes first changed from anger to sadness, then ignited by anger, and then became sad again, which was very accustomed to people.
But what Zhang Ran hopes to see is that when Jason says "You actually want me to help you", shed tears and cried. Reeves did not cry, and the emotional impact of the audience was not enough.
It is normal for an actor to not cry. Wang Zhiwen has such a great acting skills and needs to use eye drops when acting in crying scenes, let alone other people.
The shooting started again. This time it has not been done.
Zhang Ran shook his head, walked to Liang Jiahui, took out a blue badge, and put it on Liang Jiahui's chest. Liang Jiahui asked in confusion: "Director, what are you doing?"
Zhang Ran smiled and said, "It is best for an actor to act directly when acting. If not, you can use auxiliary means. This badge can drive Keanu's emotions and make him cry!"
Liang Jiahui has been acting for more than 20 years and has never seen such a thing: "Director, are you kidding?"
Zhang Ran smiled and said, "You will know later!"
The shooting starts over.
Liang Jiahui's face turned pale and his tone was a little awkward: "I know this has hurt you, but you must help us now..."
"Help you?" Reeves interrupted Liang Jiahui's words, "Why should I help you?" He stood up and roared, "You ruined me. You turned me into a waste. My God..." Reeves's eyes were extremely sad, and two lines of tears rolled down from his eyes, "Now you actually want me to help you!"
"It's great!" After the shot, Zhang Ran leaned on the chair and looked at Reeves in tears in the display screen, feeling extremely satisfied. "This shot has passed, and the next shot is ready!"
Liang Jiahui felt unbelievable. After taking two or three shots, Reeves couldn't cry. Why did he put a badge on me and cried, and ran over and asked, "Director, what's going on?"
Zhang Ziyi also found it incredible and asked, "Director, why?"
Zhang Ran waved his hand and called his assistant Wang Luodan over: "Dandan, come and explain!"
When Wang Luodan heard that he wanted to popularize science with Liang Jiahui and Zhang Ziyi, he felt so beautiful: "Many actors usually recall sad things to expand their feelings and cry. However, this method sometimes works, sometimes does not work. The method will use this method in the early stage, and later it will use a more effective method called emotional memory. I wonder if you have such an experience. At a certain moment, something will touch you, maybe a pattern, a song, or even a branch, and then you want to cry. In our memory, there are many such ordinary things that are connected to our memories. When these things appear in front of us, it will drive our emotions! Method partying actors for emotional memory training will find these memory points, and when they are performed, they can mobilize the emotions of the actors through these small things and let the actors react effectively!"
Liang Jiahui was stunned when he heard this. It was so amazing! Zhang Ziyi suddenly realized: "You train Keanu for emotional memory and know that the badge can drive his emotions!"
Zhang Ran nodded: "Yes, this is a psychological phenomenon."
Zhang Ziyi looked at Zhang Ran, then Wang Luodan, and asked, "You can do this method?"
Wang Luodan said proudly: "Of course, if you don't even know this, can you still be considered a student of Teacher Zhang?"
Zhang Ziyi looked at Zhang Ran and said with a smile: "Teacher Zhang, when will you teach me?"
Zhang Ran shook his head: "If you don't use emotional memory well, it will hurt the actors. Is it best not to use it? And you don't need to learn these things. The most important thing for you is to learn to let go!"
Just as Zhang Ziyi was about to ask what to put down, Lucbesson walked over and looked at Zhang Ran and said, "Zhang, Harvey and Jacobson are here, and they say they want to talk to you!"
Zhang Ran was stunned. This was a gift to the door. Unfortunately, I had no interest in beating at all. He sneered: "Let them get out, I don't have time to pay attention to them now!" (To be continued.)
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