diskusbooks Chapter 279 Released (Changed)
Chapter 279 Released (Changed)
After some discussions, it can't be said to have ended on bad terms, but the unyielding attitude of both parties also put plans for the "Batman" trilogy on hold.
For Warner, they can accept a salary of 20+20 for Wu Yuchen, but it cannot be the global box office share that Wu Yuchen shouted, but the North American box office share. This is already considered a maximum salary in Hollywood, and not many people Can get it. But Wu Yuchen refused to let go of the global box office share, leaving them with no choice but to temporarily suspend negotiations.
Warner is not in a hurry. In recent years, Warner can be said to be the best company among the seven major Hollywood companies, with a series of hit projects. The "Harry Potter" series, the "Matrix" series, and even "The Lord of the Rings" can actually be attributed to Warner, because New Line Cinema is actually a label company under Warner with independent operating rights.
Therefore, Warner is not in a hurry. They have the support of profitable series of projects every year, especially "Harry Potter", which is one every year. They have enough patience to negotiate with Wu Yuchen.
Wu Yuchen is not in a hurry. He won't be able to shoot "Batman" in a short time. The shooting plan for next year has been set, which is to shoot two "Pirates" in a row. Even if "Batman" is to be filmed, it will have to wait until the year after next. Let's slowly talk to Warner Bros.!
When the sequels of "Pirate King" and "Spider-Man" continue to be popular, he does not believe that Warner can continue to sit still.
Hollywood, China Grand Theater, star-studded.
Seeing stars such as Leonardo, Johnny Depp, and Cheng Long walking on the red carpet one after another, and famous directors such as Spielberg, Soderbergh, and Katzenberg appearing here one after another, Even some well-known producers and executives in the industry came to support him, which made Jeffrey deeply impressed by Wu Yuchen's extensive connections in Hollywood.
However, Jeffrey is not here today to see these celebrities. His focus is naturally on Wu Yuchen's new movie "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" premiering today. As a film critic with Oscar voting rights, he is also well received. Invited.
In the past few years, in addition to achieving dazzling results in commercial films, Wu Yuchen has also won Oscars one after another. Jeffery is also looking forward to this new Oscar-winning film by John Woo. After all, if the Oscars can produce excellent films one after another, the presence of film critics and judges will be stronger.
But at this time, Jeffrey was chatting with his companions about other topics:
"Did you read the Commander-in-Chief's speech yesterday?"
"Look, these politicians deserve to be damned. It's not enough to use public opinion to launch the war in Afghanistan. Now they want to incite everyone's hostility against Iraq again. What on earth are they going to do?!"
"Obviously, those people have been coveting oil in the Middle East for a long time. Moreover, when Lao Bu was in office, he had a grudge against Iraq."
“Isn’t the real final price to be borne by civilians?!”
"We need to call on more people to stand up and let everyone understand the cruelty of war!"
The two of them talked to each other.
Yesterday, Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush delivered a speech, emphasizing once again that the United States is facing a severe danger of terrorism. Not only terrorists, but also dangerous weapons in Iraq, and the United States has the responsibility to maintain world peace.
Unlike last year, anti-war demonstrations have begun to appear on the streets this year, and people in Hollywood have begun to speak out against the brewing war in the United States.
Under this circumstance, Wu Yuchen's "The Boy in Striped Pajamas", which is said to have anti-war slogans, has aroused the interest of many people.
After the lights in the theater went out, Jeffrey and his companions stopped talking and focused on the movie.
Before the movie started, a sentence appeared on the black screen:
"Before the arrival of dark rationality, children understand the world with their own natural feelings."
Everyone present was also relatively focused. After reading this sentence, they remembered it in their hearts, knowing that the director arranged this sentence at the beginning to have a meaning.
At the same time, Jeffrey also had expectations in his heart. Whether it was judging from the name of the movie or this sentence, this movie was probably a movie about children.
Sure enough, at the beginning of the movie, amid a burst of melodious music, several boys were seen chasing each other on the street with their arms spread out like airplanes flying, and they were making the sound of fighter jets. On the streets where children were running, soldiers were arresting them. Only the children seemed to be smiling unaffected.
When Jeffrey combined the time of 1940 just given, he also understood that this was during World War II. And watching these children imitate fighter jets, and watching the children use their hands to compare the sound of pistols with their mouths, it is obvious that they have been affected by the war.
In just a few seconds of footage, Jeffrey has already read out a lot of information and analyzed it from the music and the color tone of the film. After all, this is what he does. And soon he also started the story with the male protagonist, the 8-year-old boy Fang Xi.
His father was a senior military officer in the Japanese-occupied area of China, so the little boy could live a carefree life even during World War II. The family moved to a large villa in the suburbs due to the transfer of their father's job. However, the layers of barbed wire fences, strict guards, and the barking of ferocious wolves and dogs all revealed a depressing and disturbing feeling.
But high walls and barbed wire could not stop the children's curious and inquiring eyes. The lonely little Fang Xi soon discovered a small window in his room, and through the small window glass, you could see A small farm. The farm seemed interesting, and more importantly, there were many children who looked the same age as me, even though they were all wearing weird-looking "striped pajamas."
Xiao Fang Xi didn't know what these "farms" were, but no one in the audience knew that this was obviously a concentration camp, and the "striped pajamas" were the prisoners in the concentration camp.
Jeffrey also understood the director Wu Yuchen's thoughts at this time. This is probably a movie that reflects the crimes of fascism during World War II. However, in the past, the crimes everyone saw were German, and this time it should be the neon occupation depicted. China.
At the same time, Jeffrey secretly thought something clever. Although there have been many films about Natri in the past, and not without filming from the perspective of a fascist criminal. But this time the hero of John Woo's movie is a cute little boy, a pure-hearted child that no one can hate, even if his father is a fascist officer. But from the perspective of such a child, you can actually see some unique things that you couldn't see before!
The first impression given by Huang Xiaoming, a young and handsome neon officer, was not bad when he first appeared on the scene. He was handsome, strong, and seemed very graceful. He immediately fascinated Shu Chang, a young lady who had just entered puberty.
However, his demeanor was only shown to a certain group of people. When he changed his face towards the old servant in a striped shirt, and when he roared out the phrase "China pig", everyone present knew what this guy was. Especially Jews such as Spielberg, because the Nazis also called them "Jewish pigs" during World War II.
Chen Baoguo also hired a tutor for Xiao Fang Xi and her sister. He not only taught them Japanese, but also continuously brainwashed them into imperialism, preaching that neon is a country with gods, and the emperor is the guardian of civilization in the Eastern land. gods.
The purpose of Neon's war is to liberate the entire Asia, and the ultimate goal is to establish a "kingly paradise" of coexistence and common prosperity in Greater East Asia. At the same time, he advocates the theory of race. The neon people are the light of the yellow race, higher than the race of all surrounding countries, while the Chinese are an inferior race, and most of the people are criminals...
This made the audience frown. Of course they knew that this kind of "spiritual education class" was actually brainwashing.
However, through contact with the old servant, Xiao Fang Xi felt different feelings from what the teacher described in class. At the same time, during the adventure, he met a "striped shirt" friend on the farm, Xiao Chun.
Seeing the two children becoming friends across the barbed wire fence, Jeffrey couldn't help but smile. Childhood is precious because children can show kindness and sincerity to anyone regardless of national boundaries, race, or age.
It was great for Xiao Fang Xi to make new friends, but on the other hand, his mother began to collapse after learning the truth and had a big quarrel with his father. This also triggered a dispute at the dinner party later, and the old servant was dragged out of the door and beaten to death by Huang Xiaoming.
All this frightened little Fang Xi again, and he ran to his sister's bed at night. However, his sister, who used to follow her mother to believe in Buddhism and like dolls and dolls, has become a girl of the Imperial Association. She did not care about the death of the old servant, and Frankly speaking, this is all the fault of the people.
Seeing this, Jeffrey was already a little touched. The role of the sister is obviously in sharp contrast to the boy. A little girl who originally had her own beliefs and was kind-hearted, has already put her life in vain because of this kind of brainwashing. But this is not her fault. Children are the most susceptible to contamination. If a few years pass, will little Fang Xi become like her elder sister?
For all this, the movie does not give a judgment of right or wrong, but only raises some questions from the perspective of the child Xiao Fang Xi and displays them in front of the audience.
Xiao Fang Xi didn't want to believe that his friend was a bad person, but his sister's words and the teacher's words also had an impact on him, making him hesitate, and he didn't look for this new friend for several days.
One day when the house was being cleaned, Xiao Fang Xi found Xiao Chun who was wiping cups. He was still wearing the same striped shirt and was thin and frail. Xiao Fang Xi was very happy and took the initiative to give the cakes on the table to Xiao Chun. However, when Xiaochun was enjoying his meal, Huang Xiaoming broke in.
Huang Xiaoming looked down at the two children with a very fierce and oppressive expression, and angrily scolded Xiaochun as a "China pig" with low moral character who stole food.
Both children were frightened, and Xiao Chun stammered that he did not steal the pastry, but gave it to his friend Fang Xi. But when Xiao Fang Xi saw Huang Xiaoming's questioning and ferocious look at him, the blue veins on his face, and the roaring questioning voice in his ears, he flinched, and he immediately distanced himself from Xiao Chun. Relationship.
Many people in the movie theater lamented. It was obvious that Xiao Fang Xi's actions disappointed everyone. But seeing the little boy who was only 8 years old, everyone unconsciously chose to forgive him. After all, he is just a child, and he is still facing an extremely fierce executioner. How many children can withstand such oppression?
Xiao Fang Xi regretted his cowardice. He wanted to find Xiao Chun again, but he did not see him again several times.
One day, many neon officers came to the house, and they even had bosses that even their fathers respected. Xiao Fang Xi secretly watched the promotional video they were playing in the screening room from the window. The film shows that the Chinese people in the "farm" are very happy. They work during the day and live happily after get off work. The children play with each other. There are so many games that Xiao Fang Xi is dazzled by them. It is far better than being trapped in a big villa. The lonely little Fang Xi is much more interesting!
Xiao Fang Xi believed the content of the video and gave his father a hug. He believed that his father was doing things that made everyone happy.
The audience in the theater knew very well that this was just a fake propaganda trick played by the fascists, and the entire content of the promotional video was completely false.
Xiao Fang Xi came to the camp again. This time he saw Xiao Chun whose eyes were swollen. He apologized to him and hoped that he could forgive himself. Xiaochun nodded, and the two of them held their hands together through the barbed wire, and then everyone in the theater followed the two boys and smiled slightly.
Huang Xiaoming, a neon officer, was transferred to the front line by Chen Baoguo, and got into the car under Xiao Fang Xi's eyes.
Looking at the pale Gong Li sitting on the swing on the screen, with disheveled hair spinning around on the swing, Jeffrey understood that his mother was on the verge of collapse. She believes in Buddhism, but her husband has been killing innocent people in this way...
Gong Li and Chen Baoguo had a fierce quarrel, and the result was that Chen Baoguo asked Gong Li to move away with his two children. Xiao Fang Xi, who already had a deep friendship with Xiao Chun, didn't want to leave, but his parents gave him no room for negotiation.
Xiao Fang Xi once again came to the barbed wire fence in the corner of the concentration camp to say goodbye to her friend Xiao Chun, while Xiao Chun was worried about his missing father. Out of her own guilt, Xiao Fang Xi wanted to help Xiao Chun find his father before leaving...
After saying these words, Jeffrey had a bad premonition and was about to leave, but an accident happened. This is a common routine in movies. Although the routine is old, it is indeed very easy to use. Everyone was distracted by the plot that followed.
On the second day, Xiao Fang Xi dug a hole with his small shovel, and his little body slipped smoothly under the barbed wire, and he also put on the clothes Xiao Chun brought him.
Obviously, Xiao Fang Xi never thought about the danger, because he had just seen in the video how happy everyone was living on this "farm"!
Before leaving, Gong Li couldn't find her son. She saw the food falling on the ground, realized the seriousness of the matter, and broke into Chen Baoguo's meeting. Chen Baoguo, with a group of soldiers and military dogs, discovered his son leaving the back door window and hurried after him...
There was lightning and thunder in the sky, and an oppressive and destructive atmosphere rushed towards their faces. All the viewers already had an ominous premonition. No matter how much they hated Chen Baoguo as his father before, they all hoped that he could rush to the concentration camp quickly and find little Fang Xi.
At this time, Xiao Fang Xi, who entered the concentration camp, found that the camp looked completely different from the one in the movie. The environment was extremely bad and most of the people were skinny, which made him a little scared. He wanted to back out, but he mustered up the courage for his friends...
They walked into the house where Xiaochun lived, and suddenly there was a loud noise and everyone was kicked out. Amidst the heavy rain and thunder, two children were held in the center by a group of adults, walking towards an unknown place...
When they were taken into a dark room and asked to take off their clothes, the audience murmured in the theater: "No..."
Looking at the father on the other side who had already arrived at the entrance of the concentration camp, everyone couldn't help but cheer him up and wanted him to go faster.
But at this time, Spielberg and others sighed, having already foreseen the final tragedy...
The noisy room was now full of naked and skinny people crowded together. Xiao Fang Xi was very scared and kept gasping for air. The hands of two children hold each other tightly, representing the pure friendship between two innocent children.
When the iron door above their heads opened, the two looked up and saw a man wearing a neon military uniform and a gas mask sprinkling black powder, and the screen fell into darkness...
Seeing Chen Baoguo standing stunned in the concentration camp shouting his son's name loudly, and seeing Gong Li crying loudly, the audience's heart also clicked.