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- More than half an hour later, Ye Wei arrived at Universal Studios Plaza.
This is the headquarters of Universal Group, one of the six giants in the film industry. It is also a famous theme park where countless tourists come to visit every day. When he arrived at the Focus Film office in the Universal City headquarters building, it was only 16:32 and it was still office hours.
In the corridor outside, Ye Wei tidied up her clothes that were messy due to the rush, and then walked into this bright and fashionable studio.
There is a spacious open office inside, which is very busy. Employees are busy doing something at their desks. There are also secretaries coming and going with documents. Phones are ringing everywhere, with laughter, discussions, and replies
At the front desk, two beautiful young ladies were sitting there. They saw a young man coming and said with a smile: "Hi, young ladies, hello. I am Ye Wei. I called at noon to ask about " Producer of "Little Miss Sunshine".
"Huh?" The two front desk ladies were stunned. They looked at each other, confused!
The brown-haired girl was the previous operator. At that time, she thought the other person's voice was a bit childish, but she never expected it to be so younga teenager?
She blinked her eyes and was sure that he was a teenager, not because of his tender face. Although he had a tall figure, he couldn't hide the youthfulness on his face. He was at most 17 or 18 years old, right? How could he be a producer? The Olsen sisters kind? But who is he?
"Are youare you sure?" she couldn't help but ask.
"Unless I am a clone." Ye Wei raised the corner of her mouth, knowing why the other party was surprised, but what could she do to drive him out? She won't do this.
"Oh, then please follow me" The brown-haired front desk lady was really dizzy. Whatever it was, just do your job well. This industry has never been short of strange people and strange things.
Ye Wei followed her inside and went to the reception room of the production department.
Not counting the dream experience, this is the first time in his life that he has walked in a place like this, a truly professional film company! The focus is not on a small company with such a simple structure that ten people can't make up enough, but on a giant in an art film company. It has a sound department and hundreds of employees, just like a rigorous machine.
He looked around curiously until he arrived at the elegant and quiet reception room, sat down on the sofa and began to wait.
The front desk lady said that a manager-level person in charge of the production department would come to receive him and asked him to wait for a while. To be honest, for a stranger like him to make a phone call and then come over, it is already very good to be received by a manager. Of course, if progress continues, he will sooner or later meet with supervisor-level, VP-level or even C-level executives.
In addition, for a film project to change hands, one important person is indispensable: the producer of the project.
Today¡¯s production companies are like banks. They buy a certain producer¡¯s project, invest the money in him, and let him executive produce, while the company sends out supervisory producers.
Producers will also split off some aspects of production affairs and outsource them to different small companies, such as casting, location scouting, post-production, special effects, trailers, publicity almost every aspect is involved. In it, this is an era of risk-sharing cooperation. The days of big studios are gone forever, and so is Universal.
Therefore, although the producer of the "Little Miss Sunshine" project should have been suspended, his plans will still have a great impact on this matter.
Ye Wei thought about these things and waited for more than half an hour. When he glanced at the clock on the wall several times, someone finally knocked on the door and came in.
"I'm sorry, the office was busy and kept you waiting for a long time" A middle-aged man in a gray suit came in while talking, and suddenly stopped.
"It doesn't matter, I happened to take a nap just now, it was just a joke," Ye Wei stood up and walked over, smiling and extending his right hand, "Hello, I am Ye Wei."
"Hello" The middle-aged manager was of course surprised by the age of this "producer". Only then did he understand what the phrase "looks so young, like a high school student" meant. That was not a metaphor, it was the truth. This is an Asian high school student!
"Uh, please sit down, I'm Gale Wilson, call me Gale." He was full of helplessness, he was going to waste another ten minutes, why would anyone dare to come here.
Ye Wei sat back and understood the current situation. He was too young and could not be trusted easily. This was human nature, and this problem would definitely follow him for a long time.
But he will still have a chance, and the manager dare not deny it because of a long-standing ancestral motto in the film industry: "Be polite and never offend someone casually, because he might be the next Spielberg. Or the son of a billionaire."
A smart person will respect it, so he dares toCome over here.
Sure enough, after Gale sat down, he asked as usual: "So, Wei, are you interested in "Little Miss Sunshine"?"
"Yes, I saw information about it in the magazine. I know the production capabilities of Focus. A project that gives you such a headache must have its unique features."
Ye Wei's tone became serious, and the young voice did not sound like childishness.
This gave Gale a weird illusion, as if the person sitting across from him was really a producer, and he was a little serious: ""Little Miss Sunshine" is indeed unique. One of the predecessors of our company, 'American Films', was established at the end of 2001. I bought it and made it better. I revised 30 drafts in the past two years.¡±
"Wow." Ye Wei exclaimed. After a Hollywood studio gets a script, it is a necessary process to constantly revise the script after the project is approved and before filming.
Studios often hire multiple screenwriters to work together to rewrite and revise. Some are good at lines, some are good at scenes, and some are good at character creation On top of this, there is also a person called a "script doctor" who pays a lot of money to invite famous screenwriters. Come and work for a week or two to check things out and make some comments.
So there is a large creative team behind a good script and a bad script.
However, due to the rules of the Screenwriters Guild, only if the creation of the original script reaches 50% and the creation of the adapted script reaches 33%, there is a joint signature. Maybe the total proportion of revisions and screenwriter changes in a script will exceed 50%. Not enough, and in the end the only person signed is the original author.
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This is also the reason why most Hollywood scripts are mediocre, because they are too streamlined.
Of course, the scripts of independent films are generally not like this, especially for independent literary films, and this is especially true for films where the screenwriter and director are both written by the same person. It can only be said that once you enter the Hollywood industrial system, everything has a business process.
But having said that, no matter where it is placed, 30 drafts in two years is definitely an extremely high number, comparable to "Moonwalk" which took ten years to revise and revised 20 drafts.
There are two possibilities: one, the more changes you make, the better it will be and it will be close to perfect; second, it will be a mess and have already ruined the original script.
"Before we took over, the original author Michael Arndt had written the first draft and spent a year revising it before starting to seek production."
That is to say, this script has been continuously created for more than three years from its inception to now!
Although this is the most common thing in Hollywood, Gale still felt a little emotional, and said: "We originally liked it because it had a very interesting story idea, but we always felt that its story development was too bland."
"So we invited new screenwriters one after another to strengthen the tension of the story, redesign the characters, and write some new scenes, but"
He frowned and sighed, spreading his hands and saying: "It's still not enough, and its ending, how can I describe it It's like you spent 2 hours going around in a circle, and all you got was a fall. We don't want a Hollywood-style ending, But it has no compensation. If there is compensation, it is nothing. Do you understand? "
Having said so much, Gale couldn¡¯t help but ask this question. It¡¯s impossible for ordinary high school students to understand it. If this little ¡°producer¡± doesn¡¯t understand, then there will be nothing to continue.
"I'm pretty sure you are speaking English." Ye Wei suddenly smiled, ladies and gentlemen, I am not an ordinary teenager, I am a devil!
After thinking for a while, he continued: "The audience needs compensation. Because when people go to the cinema, they don't want to see a real world, but a world that compensates for the real world. There, heroes will defeat villains, and true love will Come together, truth will be declared, justice will be upheld These exciting and beautiful desires can only be realized in that imaginary world, and life is far from satisfying us. You know, as soon as you enter the movie theater, reality changes. It¡¯s time to end.¡±
¡°Reality ends here¡±, this is also the motto of the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California.
Think about it, if Andy in "The Shawshank Redemption" was shot and killed when he finally escaped from prison; if Forrest Gump in "Forrest Gump" ended up alone, what would happen?
"Wow." This time it was Gale's turn to exclaim. He couldn't help but sit up a little straighter. The person who could say such words was definitely not an ordinary high school student.
"Gail, I know I look very young, like the guy in "Full of Energy", but you can really trust me, I am a professional." Ye Wei laughed.
Gale doesn¡¯t even nod his headNo, he continued: "There are other problems with this script. There are several very controversial scenes, there are too many characters, and the scenes change very quickly"
"But let me tell you the truth, I personally think it is good enough. If the ending is modified so that the audience leaves the theater with a smile instead of a curse, then we can safely start filming. But there is a lot of opposition in the company. And they are all big shots. They have lost patience and confidence in this project, and they don¡¯t want to be entangled anymore. They just hope to recover the cost of the script. "
"Then it looks like I'm going to make a profit!" Ye Wei pretended to be excited, but in fact he was clarifying in his heart that this might be Gale's truth, or it might be a sales pitch meant to make the buyer think "Focus abandon this project." Not because it¡¯s not good enough, just because of office politics.¡±
"I think it will definitely not be a loss." Gale's smile was a little profound.
"Then can I read the script now?" Ye Wei asked. You will only know if it is good or bad after reading it.
¡°Well, after talking for so long, I still don¡¯t know which company you are from?¡±
Gale still has several processes to go through. Although the script of "Little Miss Sunshine" has been registered long ago, and all 30 drafts are coded there, there is no need to worry about being plagiarized. As for leaks, this is not a blockbuster script that requires high confidentiality. The media and fans did not care at all, and no one paid attention to the leaks.
¡°But the script is not given to just anyone, especially this is an eccentric high school student producer.
"Weiduo Image, it's a small independent production company run by my father. We have money and we like movies, so our first film "Wedding Day is Coming" was released this week, and it didn't do well at the box office. We lost face and wanted to get it back in the second movie.¡±
Ye Wei shrugged and spread his hands on the back of the sofa, exuding some dandy air. There was no need to act at all, just act like before.
He has already thought about the strategy. Youth is his shortcoming, but "having money" is his advantage. In this matter, the film company is only interested in money. Let alone 15 years old, a 5-year-old child is waving a hundred dollars. With ten thousand dollars, no one dares to look down upon him casually.
The other party will not know the financial status of Weiduo Image. What they know is that "here comes a rich man's son who knows a little bit about movies. God knows what he wants to do, but he is the son of a rich man."
"Oh" Gale nodded, stood up and said, "Wei, wait a minute, I'll go to the office to get the script."
Ye Wei said OK, knowing that the other party was going to find out the details, so go ahead.
Gale left for a while and then came back again, with a different smile on his face and a copy of the script. In his enthusiastic tone, he already treated Ye Wei as an honored guest.
"Wei, this is it, look at it."
"Thank you." Ye Wei's eyes lit up, and a surge of excitement filled his heart. He almost grabbed the script and read it honestly.
This is a script written in the standard script format. One page is approximately equal to one minute of video. The thick stack here has 120 pages, and the standard default film length is 120 minutes.
After turning over the cover of the script that read "Little Miss Sunshine, Screenwriter: Michael Arndt", he began to carefully read the 120 pages that had been revised countless times by this talented person:
¡º1Electronic control system, video recorder screen
On the stage, five young women stood side by side, waiting for the referee to score them (they all held their breath, full of anticipation). The referee announced the name of the winner. The other four were a little heartbroken.
The camera lens passed over the smiling faces of the losers, and finally fell on the winners. The winner burst into tears and hugged the nearest contestant.
When the subtitles come out, the music starts (slow, soulful, long rhyme), and continues throughout the opening scene, and does not stop until the title of the film appears. ¡»
Ye Wei only read the first few pages and was fascinated by it, with goosebumps of excitement all over his body. This is a good beginning to the story! Cleverly letting the main characters appear in their own scenes, but connecting them together to form an anticipated situation
Gradually, he stopped making any comments and completely integrated into the story, turning page after page
"Wei, you watch first, I'll go back to the office." After Gale said that, he seemed to get up and leave.
"OK, OK" Ye Wei murmured, his eyes not moving even a moment as he read the script.
¡º18 interior, restaurant, daytime
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Richard: How is the new plan going?
Oliver: Very good.
Richard: When are you going to perform for us?
Oliver: I don¡¯t know. It depends on what grandpa says.??
Grandpa: It will take a few more days, we have to keep working hard.
??Oliver sat down. Grandpa walked to the dining table.
Grandpa (continues): What is that? chicken? ! Damn chicken every day! Holy and Almighty Lord! Can we, even for once, have something else for dinner instead of this damn chicken? !
Shirley ignored it. Richard tried to interrupt him.
Richard: Dad Dad Dad Dad! ! !
Grandpa: I just want to say!
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