Chapter 1170 "The Diary of a Village Priest"!
Since Munau's death, Bresson has become the successor of art films at DreamWorks. Therefore, the group of people at DreamWorks are extremely demanding. Griffith often said to Bresson: "Robert, you are a signboard of DreamWorks. We can all make mistakes, but you can't." So every time Bresson submits his movie script, it will attract the special attention of members of the DreamWorks director team.
DreamWorks has high expectations and high requirements for Buliesong, which puts this young man under tremendous pressure, but there is a saying that there is no pressure, there is no motivation. If this is not the case, Buliesong will discuss growth.
However, among all the directors in Hollywood, Bresson is definitely the one who enjoys the most care. Not to mention anything else, just when making movies, he can ignore the box office, he doesn’t have to worry about investing in movies, let alone worry about the movies losing money. In addition, he has the freedom to create his own creation, the self to select actors, and the freedom to decide any aspect of the movies himself.
There are probably not many such freedoms that can be enjoyed in Hollywood and even the whole world.
So Hollywood filmmakers, especially those directors, are envious of this young man and their eyes fall to the ground. In their eyes, if a director can have such treatment, it will be the greatest happiness.
Bu Liesong's script, like him, is completely meticulous and very serious. Generally speaking, his script may be the slowest written among directors such as DreamWorks. When Bu Liesong writes scripts, he is not like a writer, but like a craftsman who builds walls, bricks and floors. If he is not satisfied, he has to peel off and start over again. It is precisely because of his serious attitude that every time he takes out the script, we can illuminate our eyes.
This time, the script he submitted was very thin, probably the thinnest script of Buliesong I have ever seen. But seeing the solemn expression on Buliesong's face, I had to look at the script he handed over.
"Boss, I hope to give me full autonomy in this movie. This may be the most important work in my life.^^^^^" Buresong looked at me with his eyes firm, and at the same time, his breathing became heavy.
This shows how much he attaches importance to this movie.
"Robert, this script is so thin." Gans laughed at the script of Bresson.
"The toilet paper in the bathroom is thick, but what's the point?" Bu Liesong's playful words made a guy in the office laugh suddenly.
I laughed, and I picked up the script while laughing.
But after I turned a few pages, the smile on my face completely disappeared.
This movie shocked me so much, because the theme of this movie is very similar to a movie in my memory, and this movie is also from Bresson, but it will be postponed for many years in history.
The script of Bresson is centered on a pastor. The idea of the whole movie is to express one word: redemption.
It can be said that this is the movie with the strongest religious nature of Buresong. It is also the movie with the strongest religious nature of DreamWorks for children so far. The story of the movie is very simple, but the kind of thinking that bursts out from this simple story makes people amazed.
I dare say that in Hollywood, no one can write such a script except Bresson.
But although I appreciate his movie called "The Pastor", I still feel dissatisfied with some aspects, because in my heart, I have unknowingly compared this movie by Buresong with his representative work in history.
It is also about the movie "Pastoral Land". Although the content is roughly the same, there are still many shortcomings in this movie.
Bu Liesong stared at me, leaned forward, his eyes straightened, and he was very nervous. This movie was undoubtedly very important for him. I had the final say whether the movie could be filmed in the end, so Bu Liesong was obviously sweating.
"This movie can be filmed, but some parts are not perfect." Putting down the script, I pinched the bridge of my nose.
Hearing that the script was generally approved, Buliesson smiled and said to me: "Boss, then give me some advice on the imperfect part of this script."
Looking at his serious face, I laughed. It seemed that this job could not be delayed at all.
In the next few days, except for filming, I basically modified the script with Buresong. What I had to do was to modify the movie based on my later impressions, and later I simply changed the name of Buresong's movie - "The Diary of a Rural Pastor".
In this way, the world-famous masterpiece in history was released in advance.
After the script of "A Rural Pastor's Diary" was confirmed, the crew immediately set up, and Humphrey Bogart was selected to be the leading actor this time. He was more suitable for the image of the introverted pastor than others. Humphrey Bogart himself liked this movie, and this guy also said to others with great ambition: "Maybe I will win the Harvey Award for this movie."
"The Diary of a Rural Pastor" was soon promoted in the media. The media attention for this movie that invested 5 million yuan was not reduced in comparison with the previous movies that invested tens of millions of dollars. Because those reporters all understood what position Robert Bresson was in at DreamWorks.
The two movies of DreamWorks, along with several new movies from other film companies, made DreamWorks lively, and it was a critical period when the deadly bill of the Radio and Film Bureau had blocked the door.
This form surprised the public, and many people didn't understand that at such a critical moment, the group of people from DreamWorks were able to shoot movies so peacefully, and they were having a lot of fun.
McCarthy couldn't figure out this problem. Although he might have found that things were abnormal, even if he felt it, what's the use? The truth was done and the bill had been handed over.
So in this situation, everyone's eyes were on the Supreme Court. Because the final decision of the Clinic Separation Act could be passed, whether it was finally passed is the final decision of the court.
The debate in the court has obviously reached a white-hot level. Although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, I know that among the people in the US Supreme Court, there are also people from Democrats and Republicans.
Whether the theater separation bill can be approved is the key to all issues.
The Supreme Court justices probably thought it was overwhelming during this period. It is obviously a huge test for these people to deal with such problems.
However, no matter what kind of disputes they have gone through or how big the differences between the two parties are, the result will definitely come out in the end.
And this time, when the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court announced at the press conference that the Court finally passed the theater bill, the reporters present exclaimed deafeningly.
"In principle, the Supreme Court agreed to the proposal of the Code Executive Board, of course. It has also been revised and improved in some places. This is to make the bill more complete and reasonable. Overall, the general framework of the bill has not moved. We believe that major Hollywood film companies should not have their own cinema systems. Doing so is a typical monopoly."
"After the theater law is implemented, major Hollywood film companies must complete the division with their theaters within one month, otherwise those theaters that have not been sold will be taken back under the name of the federal government."
This sentence from the Supreme Court Justice. A stone stirs up a thousand waves.
The division of theaters must be completed within one month, otherwise it will be taken back to the federal government. Such terms really make people feel a bit stressful.
Many people think that it is obviously a very urgent matter to let major Hollywood film companies complete the division within a month, and a month later, the country nationalized the companies that have not been handed over, which is obviously even more unreasonable.^^,Book,Book,Book, First Post^^
But this is a law, and the laws enacted by the Supreme Court can only be abide by.
The news came, and the whole Hollywood exclaimed. The major film companies completely began negotiations.
This time, Hollywood became very lively. I couldn’t see any good cars. But during this period, almost all the top cars in the United States appeared in the city. People in suits and ties were everywhere, and those with briefcases were obviously the tentacles of the Wall Street consortium.
The Wall Street consortium finally came out. They hid behind the scenes at the beginning this time. Now that they have completed these actions, they can finally take action against Hollywood film companies.
Hollywood film companies must complete the handover of cinema chains in one month. In their opinion, this is a very difficult task. So many cinemas have to be transferred in one month, which involves various complex issues such as transfer of cinema chains, discussion of cinema chain prices, etc. If it is normal, it will be a hurry even if it takes half a year to complete it.
But this is the dream of the Wall Street Consortium. Give a month to put a tight curse on Hollywood film companies and let them obediently promote the cinema chain. In this deadline, the Wall Street Consortium can take the opportunity to lower the price: in one month, if we don’t buy it, your cinema chain will be nationalized by the federal government for free.
Under such circumstances, the representatives sent by Wall Street consortiums to negotiate in Hollywood were all very awesome, as if they were the kings of heaven.
When they entered Hollywood and found the bosses of major film companies, they all had the expressions of superiors, but soon they found something was wrong. The bosses of the film companies did not have any panic because of the promulgation of the theater separation bill, and did not have any panic because of the one-month period. They obviously did not bow their heads and bow as they imagined.
Many representatives of Wall Street consortiums were rejected by the owners of Hollywood film companies, and some owners simply let someone blow these representatives out.
At the beginning, the representatives of these consortiums thought that the bosses of major Hollywood film companies were doing this because they were angry. After all, the emergence of this bill had an extremely adverse impact on Hollywood film and film companies. Hollywood film companies were holding back this tone.
Maybe the performance of these bosses will be better in a few days. This is the idea of the representatives, but one day or two. After that, the major Hollywood movies are still calm, which makes the representatives completely panic.
The Wall Street Consortium has spent so much effort to get rid of the theater system of Hollywood Film Company. Now everything is ready, but the Hollywood film companies are still stunning, which makes these representatives of the Wall Street Consortium feel guilty.
They no longer put on airs, but began to come to the door on their own initiative, and it was at this time that they found that the Hollywood film companies did not take them seriously at all.
These representatives went from being arrogant at the beginning to calm down, and finally bowed their heads and bowed, completely beyond their imagination. But what they found was a result: no matter how they talked to the film company, they didn't buy their accounts at all, and mentioned the acquisition of theaters and a one-month period. The owners of these film company smiled and were no longer sad.
This situation forced the deputies to report to their bosses that the situation in Hollywood had just reversed.
The Hollywood film companies were in a panic and did not appear, but the consortiums were anxious. If they had to spend so much effort, they would suffer endless losses.
Therefore, many senior executives of the consortium simply came to Hollywood in person and tried every means to join the film company's bosses and talked impatiently about the acquisition. However, the film company's bosses pretended not to hear their request.
Suspicion soon emerged in the media. Many media reported that this situation at least showed that the separation of theaters did not seem so simple. The reason why major Hollywood film companies are so calm is that they also have a killer weapon.
"The Broadcasting and Film Bureau thought it was caught off guard and took advantage, but in fact, it was probably them who suffered the loss in the end. The peace of major Hollywood film companies seemed to indicate something."
"The major Hollywood film companies may have really made some unanimous decisions, and this decision is likely to solve their adverse dilemma in the separation of theaters."
Media analysis believes that major Hollywood film companies have already had countermeasures, but they are just analyzing how the situation develops in detail. We have to continue to wait.
But they didn't take long to wait to discover Hollywood Films. To be precise, it was the reflection made by the film companies within the Red Dragon League.
Shortly after the theater separation bill was implemented, DreamWorks was the first to implement the separation bill.
On this morning, a signing ceremony at the Los Angeles Notary Office attracted a lot of media, and almost all reporters from important media in the United States gathered here. What they witnessed was the emergence of the first case of separation of theaters in Hollywood.
DreamWorks Film Company sold its more than 4,000 cinemas to Kodak for 240 million yuan, and the two parties formally determined the transfer contract.
This ceremony, after reports from American media, quickly spread throughout the country.
Americans have very different views on this incident. Some people agree, some oppose, and more people are full of doubts.
In their opinion, the theater separation bill was obviously unfavorable to Hollywood film companies, but DreamWorks not only did not resist, but was the first to implement the bill. This calm action was obviously not in line with the thinking of ordinary people. Logically speaking, if he was treated like this, he should have fought back.
But how could they know that DreamWorks and Kodak have played a complete game. This contract is equivalent to Kodak buying our theater chain with DreamWorks' money. In the end, we still have no changes in the actual control of the theater chain.
But DreamWorks' move has brought us many benefits. First, we implemented the theater separation bill in accordance with the law in this way. In this sense, the Radio and Film Bureau has no reason to sanction us. Secondly, the DreamWorks' behavior left a deep impression on the people and deepened the people's sympathy and support for DreamWorks. On the contrary, the Radio and Film Bureau has been boycotted by the people in this regard and left a bad impression. Third, and most importantly, DreamWorks's doing this has no loss at all. The more than 4,000 cinemas separated were nominally managed by Kodak, but within Kodak, the large theater system is an independent existence, and only Yassel can control it.
The Radio and Film Bureau also seemed to have noticed some tricks behind our behavior, but they could not grasp any of our handles.
The DreamWorks' operation opened the film company of the Red Dragon League.
After DreamWorks signed a theater contract, other cinemas took action one after another. More than 3,000 cinemas under Warner Bros. Film Company sold more than 3,000 cinemas under Yassel for 160 million yuan, and Yassel's company also acquired 2,000 MGM's. In addition, Ford also purchased more than 470 cinemas under Paramount, Edison purchased 4,000 cinemas at MGM, and the remaining nearly 3,000 cinemas were purchased by the Kennedy family.
In this way, within just one week, Hollywood changed drastically. In an instant, all the film companies within the Red Dragon League sold their own theaters.
Things are going very shockingly.
After these things were completed, the Americans began to look at Lei Dianhua Film Company!
Chapter completed!