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Text Chapter 139 The terrible cost advantage

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    Giving supporting roles to Asians will not have any impact on Hollywood.  Because Asians are not uncommon in Hollywood.  But the protagonist, as a Hollywood movie, must take into account the people who watch the movie.  The mainstream people who watch movies in the United States are white people, and white people will never like movies with people of color as protagonists.  This is basically the most basic unspoken rule for the film studio, the government, and the audience.  Not to mention Asians, even African Americans have been integrated in the United States for longer than Asians. It is not easy for them to obtain such rights.  ¡°Whether a great guy like Jackson would have achieved such success if he didn¡¯t have a white face and constant plastic surgery is a big question.  If Jackson appeared in front of the audience with his original African-American prototype, even if he had the same talent, it would be impossible to succeed, and he might be abandoned from the beginning.  Only white skin can allow him to achieve dazzling results, even if he is actually black.  Li Mingbao doesn¡¯t want to challenge the rules of the United States, at least not now. All he wants is to make money, so he knows that although those who play supporting roles can make money by doing this, it is not easy to become famous, but he still does it.  ¡°After all, times are about to develop. He can¡¯t shake such rules now, but that doesn¡¯t mean he can¡¯t shake such rules in the future.  After all, rules are actually changed by strength.  As long as Li Mingbao has the strength, what does changing the rules mean?  For Hollywood in the United States, Li Mingbao¡¯s strategy is to build walls high and slowly become king.  Slowly accumulate your own strength until one day you can compete with the rules, then there is no need to hold back.  As for the actors who abducted mainland actors, Li Mingbao was not joking.  Because this involves a more important plan, as long as there is an opportunity, Li Mingbao must lure those mainland actors to Hollywood, because it involves monopoly resources.  In any industry, those who can really make a fortune are those who engage in monopoly, just like Uncle Liu in Hong Kong. The reason why he is the uncrowned king is because he monopolizes most of the actors in Hong Kong.  What Li Mingbao wants to do is to monopolize actors in Hong Kong and Mainland China. He really needs to control such a huge market. He can get the best preferential treatment wherever he goes.  Of course, Li Mingbao and John have not signed any agreement. After all, this involves too many things. In Hollywood, John does not have everything to control the sky. If he wants to control costs, John will have to negotiate with the bosses of other companies.  Negotiate.  After all, this is not about him alone. If this thing is done, then Hollywood will undergo great changes.  It¡¯s not just John who can¡¯t solve this problem. Even Li Mingbao has a lot of things to do, because in Hong Kong, it¡¯s not Li Mingbao who controls the actors now, but Uncle Shao Liu.  If we really want to export Hong Kong talents to Hollywood, we have to take the hat off Uncle Liu's head. Hong Kong is so troublesome, let alone the mainland.  Therefore, the conversation between Li Mingbao and John was only a long-term plan, and it would not be easy to realize it in the near future.  But fortunately, Li Mingbao had another idea at this time.  If he wants John to be willing to invest, Li Mingbao must let John see the prospect of cost control.  Otherwise, it's just a few empty words, and maybe John won't be so interested in this plan after a while.  So after talking about this long-term plan, Li Mingbao immediately wanted to let John see some benefits.  It just so happened that Li Mingbao had such a tool, so it was effortless to use it.  "John, what we discussed just now are just some long-term plans, and there is still a long way to go before they can be realized. But in order to let you see my sincerity, let me tell you one thing.  Do you know how much it cost to shoot my movie "A Better Tomorrow"? " "If the cost of actors is the same as that of Xiao Ma, then maybe the cost of your movie will be lower than I imagined.  I used to think that your investment for this low-budget movie would be about five million US dollars. Although the cost is higher than that of "Home Alone", this is a gunfight movie and you also invested some other things.  Things, so the cost of five million U.S. dollars is not very high. But when I heard you said that the starring actors in this movie were only paid less than 100,000 U.S. dollars, the cost of this movie should be high.  It's very low, maybe two million dollars can complete the film," John said.  The cost was suddenly reduced from five million US dollars to two million US dollars. For John, this reduction was actually quite large.  Spending two million dollars to make a movie in the United States really can't produce anything.  Li Mingbao's gunfight movie is not the old-fashioned Western movie from decades ago, with a few cowboys, a few horses, a few ancient carriages, and?A few extras can make a movie happen.  Li Mingbao shot this movie, but he dispatched helicopters, houses, companies, many extras, and the counterfeit currency manufacturing workshop.  The army was even used. Although it was not Lee Ming-pao's first precedent for American movies to use the army for filming, but for a Hong Kong movie to use the army, the cost was definitely a lot.  Because Hollywood has done in-depth research in this area.  With these things, no matter how low the cost is in Hong Kong, it will not be much lower, because some hard costs are common all over the world.  So John had the courage to give the cost of two million US dollars. In fact, he already felt that this cost was low enough. Anyway, in Hollywood, with so many people and things to do, the cost of two million US dollars was absolutely  not enough.  After hearing John's words, Li Mingbao laughed loudly: "Two million US dollars in cost? If I really invest two million US dollars in cost, then to shoot such a movie, I will make at least two similar movies, and there will be a lot left.  If I save a little more money and ensure the quality, I can even shoot three similar movies. " "It's impossible. No matter how low the prices are in Hong Kong, the cost won't be that low.  , isn¡¯t the cost of your movie less than one million US dollars?¡± Although John has been discussing the cost issue with Li Mingbao before, and John also covets the low cost of movies in Hong Kong and mainland China.  But when it came to actual things, John was still shocked by such numbers.  Making a movie for one million dollars is definitely not unusual in Hollywood.  But if a movie like Lee Ming-pao's "A Better Tomorrow" was made for one million dollars, anyone who said it would think the person who said this was a lunatic.  Seeing John's shock, Li Mingbao continued to expand his victory and said: "John, when it comes to Hong Kong movies, you must not compare them with Hollywood. Although Hong Kong movies cannot be compared with Hollywood in terms of quality, they can control costs.  , Hollywood and Hong Kong are definitely not on the same level. Do you know that when I shot my first movie in Hong Kong, my investment in that movie was probably less than one hundred thousand dollars?  How much is the box office of the movie? The local box office in Hong Kong alone is as high as 26 million Hong Kong dollars, which is more than 3 million U.S. dollars when it is released in East Asia. I collected tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars.  It is said to be a revenue ratio of dozens of times. But now, my investment in "A Better Tomorrow" is HK$5 million, plus a series of investments in advertising and distribution, which is less than HK$5 million.  One million U.S. dollars. From this point of view, you know how much it costs to shoot a movie in Hong Kong. Another thing I want to tell you is that my investment in this movie is the largest investment in Hong Kong.  "The investment for other Hong Kong movies usually doesn't exceed US$200,000. It's crazy. How did your Hong Kong movie cost less than one million US dollars?"  With just a little investment, you can produce such an excellent film. Now I am extremely afraid of working with you, because I am afraid that if I am not careful, your Hong Kong films will become as popular as Japanese products.  The whole United States. When the time comes, I will be nailed to the pillar of shame by Hollywood," John said with a look of fear.  He couldn¡¯t help but be afraid. He really didn¡¯t expect that Hong Kong movies would control costs to such an extent.  When he thinks of Hong Kong movies, he can't help but think of Japanese products.  In these days, Japanese products are losing ground to American products in any field, even in the United States.  Especially the automobile giants, like Ford, are eager to burn down Japanese car factories such as Toyota and Honda. If such a situation is really allowed to happen, they will not mind starting another war.  That¡¯s why John was so scared after hearing the cost of Li Mingbao, because he was afraid that at some point, Hollywood would be occupied by Hong Kong movies.  In that case, his company, Twentieth Century Fox, would not be in trouble either.  Seeing John's expression, Li Mingbao knew that if he didn't say something to redeem himself, John might really regard Hong Kong movies as a scourge: "John, please wake up. There is an essential difference between Hong Kong movies and Japanese products.  Hong Kong movies are indeed very good at controlling costs, but this can only be regarded as complementary to Hollywood. It is completely impossible for Hong Kong movies to dominate the United States like Japanese products, because Hollywood movie stars cannot let go of such figures.  And the Hollywood market will not allow a group of Asian stars to be their heroes."
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