Chapter 215 Movie Universe

After "Youth Song" started showing in the Lido Cinema, the next afternoon, Ovitz, exhausted, also rushed over from the United States.

As the first artist he personally brought up, Su Yun not only won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and the Cannes Best Actress, but was also one of the company's investors... So, when she changed her career to become a director and make movies and compete for awards, no matter how busy he was, Ovitz quickly dealt with all the matters at hand and hurried across half the world to come to her.

This year's "Bruxton's Billions" made huge profits at the box office, which has already laid a good foundation for Su Yun's directorial career; if she can win an award at the three major film festivals, then Su Yun's career change this time can basically be considered to have established a firm foothold.

Of course, in addition to personal connections, CAA, which is currently in a rapid development stage, still lacks cooperation with behind-the-scenes team members such as directors, producers, and screenwriters.

For these reasons, if Su Yun can win an award in Venice, it will not only open a new chapter in her career, but also in the career of their company.

For this reason, Ovitz really didn't even have time to relax before he hurriedly started his public relations work.

"Obviously, your only opponent this time is the Yugoslav film Do You Remember Dolly Bell?, and this director is still a newcomer. He is definitely not as good as us in terms of public relations." Ovitz handed the information file to Su Yun and explained, "But the subject of his film is very appealing and very suitable for winning awards. Even if we lose the Golden Lion Award for his debut film through public relations, the FIPRESCI Award is likely to fall into his hands."

"So I had no choice but to invite you here." Su Yun smiled at him. "When Artificial Intelligence was able to successfully enter the Oscars as a science fiction film and win an award, even if it was an acting award, it was a very significant breakthrough."

"Don't exaggerate so quickly. Song of Youth has the potential and opportunity to win an award, but I can only say that I have tried my best." Ovitz spread his hands, "It takes a lot of effort."

"If you don't try, how do you know it won't work?" Su Yun said with a smile, "Don't you like challenging difficult tasks the most?"

"OK, I'm afraid of you. I'll make arrangements." Ovitz sighed pretentiously.

Amused by his helpless look, Su Yun pushed him with a smile and changed the subject: "By the way, how are Tom and Meg?"

"Tom is a very lucky guy. He was promoted from a minor role to the third male lead. The movie is expected to be released at the end of this year." Ovitz also knew that Su Yun must have asked him to come here for more than one job, so he prepared everything. He took out two file bags from his briefcase and handed them to Su Yun. "Meg is also very obedient and hardworking. Recently, she is growing her hair according to your request. After you finish the things on hand, she will go back to shoot the gay film and new movie you asked her to do before."

"Very good." Su Yun nodded with satisfaction: because the most suitable actors for the male and female protagonists of "Resident Evil 2" have not been dug out, Su Yun plans to let Tom and Meg take over and shoot this gg film first.

Although they cannot perfectly match the game characters, these two people are good-looking and young enough. After proper makeup and styling, they should be able to achieve a satisfaction level of 70% to 80%.

It is a taboo in remakes if an actor's appearance is not good, such as his/her body shape. However, Su Yun never believed that there are so many "plastic surgery-style acting" in the world - she has not seen much plastic surgery-style acting, but she has seen a lot of ugly people doing weird things.

Of course, it is undeniable that there are some talented actors who can successfully make up for the gap between the description and the acting quality, but if there are better options, why do they need plastic surgery acting to save themselves?

Haven't you seen in many remakes of classic dramas that when the beauty in the book is played by an actor who is not good-looking enough, the audience will inevitably curse at the role; and when the average-looking character in the book is played by a handsome man or a beautiful woman, apart from a few complaints that the actor's looks are higher than the original and not quite in line with the original, don't the audience still follow the screen-licking fans to express their approval and love?

So, if a 99-point character requires you to produce a 70-point product, and if a 60-point character requires you to produce a 90-point product, the feedback you get from these two approaches will definitely be very different.

As for the reason why Su Yun chose Meg as the heroine of her next new movie, it was undoubtedly because the appearance of the heroine of this movie needed to be a very typical, even stereotypical, blonde sweetheart.

Fang Mona holds the female-perspective TV series "Armored Woman" in her hands, waiting for the end of the Venice Film Festival: If Su Yun really wins the Golden Lion Award for her debut film, then this "Armored Woman" will be a follow-up to her success; if Su Yun does not win the Golden Lion Award for her debut film, then this "Armored Woman" will be a make-up measure for her temporary failure, which can maintain her exposure and attention for a period of time.

Hearing that she had prepared a way out and a retreat for herself with such good intentions, Su Yun honestly handed over the plan for her next new movie "Legally Blonde".

She is the only one in Zhao who can succeed in the North American market, so Su Yun absolutely believes that Fang Mona will not do such a stupid thing as stealing the script and finding someone else to shoot the film: now everyone is in the same boat, and Su Yun is still on Fang Mona's side on the surface. Unless Fang Mona is crazy, she will find someone to play tricks on her.

What's more, only Su Yun can think of and handle this kind of subject matter from a female perspective.

"Ally Woods..." Looking at the name of the heroine in the new film proposal, and then remembering the plot in "Brewster's Billions", where the protagonist Brewster gave his last money to his assistant Woods, who did not have a lawyer's license, to take the exam, Fang Mona probably understood Su Yun's idea.

"Do you want to use this kind of seemingly connected method to create a film series that seems connected but different?" Fang Mona asked.

"Yes, things like Easter eggs in the 'parallel universe' of each movie - when people in the future look back on these movies, they may find these interesting little Easter eggs." In this era, the concept of "movie universe" has not yet been as deeply rooted in people's minds as the comic universe and novel universe, but if you want to explain it, it is still relatively easy to explain.

So Su Yun briefly explained these key words to Fang Mona, and then added: "It's just like the first, second, and third parts of a series. Well, maybe you can refer to Jin Daxia's The Legend of the Condor Heroes trilogy?"

"However, the concept of 'parallel universe' is more like when a person is faced with two choices, he makes different choices, and then different worlds are derived." Su Yun explained, "Let's take a reference example, such as "The Deer and the Cauldron" - Wei Xiaobao chose to leave his hometown and enter the palace, so the story of "The Deer and the Cauldron" appeared; but if he did not appear, or did not choose to leave his hometown and enter the palace, then Wei Xiaobao would not appear in the story, and the plot line would still follow the same path as history..."

"For example, in the new movie I'm planning, the heroine Elle Woods is no longer the serious and rational paralegal in Brewster's Billions, who has to work to raise money for her exams because her family is poor. Instead, she is a leader of a sorority, who has money at home and enjoys life, and wants to study law. The only thing they have in common is that these two roles are played by the same actor, with the same name and the same intelligence..."

"This different approach may bring an indescribable sense of surprise to the audience who have watched the previous film."

"Just like the character Su Yunyun in "Song of Youth", who later appeared in "Brewster's Billions"? " Fang Mona raised her eyebrows.

"That's right." Su Yun smiled and talked to Fang Mona for a while, and finally successfully got the stamp of approval.

Although Fang Mona finally reminded her that it would be better for her to come up with a big-budget special effects movie as soon as possible to follow up the upcoming "Blade Runner", Su Yun also knew that it would take some time to achieve this: because the investment amount of "Blade Runner" was really too large.

The capital recovery period for movies has always been very long.

The small film company that was impatient to wait for its return went bankrupt due to lack of funds during the long waiting period...

The reason why Fang Mona approved her to make low-budget movies in succession was that Zhao's huge funds had been tied up in "Blade Runner", so that he could not afford the cost of the next big production for the time being?

The investment of HK$150 million in the 1980s was no joke.

Not to mention Su Yun, the emerging nouveau riche who claims to be worth billions, even many established wealthy people in Hong Kong or the United States may not be able to come up with this amount of money: after all, these "wealths" are relatively fictitious valuations, and in reality, most of them are real estate and various stocks under their names.

Of course, no matter how stingy Zhao was with others, he was also very generous when it came to the critical moment of using money: after knowing that Su Yun was going to Venice to compete for the award, a small team of logistics assistants and relatively ample reserve funds were prepared by Zhao Liming long before she set off.

With the wealthy Zhao family as a backup, it would be difficult for Su Yun and Ovitz to fail in this public relations work.

At the 38th Venice International Film Festival in 1981, the results were as they expected: Su Yun's Song of Youth won the Golden Lion Award for Best Debut, while Emile Kusturica's Do You Remember Dolly Belle won the FIPRESCI Award.

At the award ceremony, the two people who received their awards shook hands in a friendly manner.

Kusturica, who knew that his victory lay in the appealing subject matter, was not dissatisfied with the fact that Su Yun lost in subject matter but won in public relations. He even spoke to Su Yun in a friendly manner in not very fluent English because his country and Su Yun's country had always had good relations.

"I look forward to seeing you at the next awards ceremony." Both are called emerging directors and new directors, but Su Yun obviously has better conditions and talents than him. Therefore, Kusturica, who is ten years older than Su Yun, looks at him with a bit of challenge and friendly encouragement.

"In a few years, your and my paths will be exactly opposite." She knew that what Kusturica meant was that he wanted her to come up with an art film with a more award-winning theme next time and not let him win unfairly... However, considering her ultimate goal, Su Yun just smiled politely in return, and then simply explained the reason why the two of them had different positioning paths.

After hearing Su Yun's explanation that she laid the foundation with box office and then used the box office to bring up the award results, while he laid the foundation with awards and then used the awards to bring up the box office results, Kusturica nodded and changed the way he put it: "If we have time, let's arrange a music competition?"

Holding the business card with a long list of identities marked on it, including "director, screenwriter, actor, writer, musician, bassist of the band No Smoking Zone", Su Yun looked at this stubborn and versatile director for a minute, then decisively took out a business card of Lin Jiashu from her bag and stuffed it into his hand: "This is the band of my good friend. I will play music with them when I am free. If you have any ideas, you can make an appointment with them..."

Marie Sue, who successfully passed the buck: For someone like her who has followers all over the world, why should she go out and fight for her life?

When it’s time to use people, use them!