Han Zhou was sitting in a movie theater in Luoshanji. He went in wearing sunglasses and a hat, and no one noticed him.
Under the dim light, Han Zhou took off his hat and sunglasses and sat there.
It was already the second day in the United States. After Han Zhou finished discussing business with Timo and Chen Dayong, he took some time to watch his own version of "Twilight".
Han Zhou, the more I watch, the happier I am.
The filming was too vulgar, even obscene, and too brainless!
It's different from all other movies.
If other movies were reviewed like this, they would be failures and they would be ready to go bankrupt.
But the fact that this movie was reviewed like this is a huge success.
The original Twilight Saga in its previous life had a very low rating, the story was not very strong, and the acting was just... not much different from that of domestic idols. If it was really performed by domestic idols, the reputation might have been comparable to that of Tiny Times.
The specific story is a weird and vulgar love story between a fanciful nympho and a face-palpitating guy pretending to be Batman.
How to say it, when the early Jinjiang heroine met the early American comic hero, a Qiong Yao story was staged, and finally it was sugar-coated with the words "vampirism is not a disease but a superpower."
However, movie fans, especially young fans in Europe and the United States, buy into this.
When European and American teenagers grow up in this era of information explosion, they have accepted the so-called era where people cannot be defined and everyone is not as simple as you see.
After thinking, "Why are vampires necessarily bad? Why can't nymphomaniacs succeed?"
Just then this movie came along and it became a thing.
Of course, if you look at it from a different angle.
This movie is different again.
This is a film that breaks tradition, breaking the rules of film narrative and even the rules of story narrative.
It's an anti-authority film.
The reason why it is powerful is the same as the reason why it is vulgar and even obscene.
The development history of vampire movies is almost synchronized with the history of movies.
This world is similar to the previous life.
It's probably about the legend of vampires in Europe.
Then, when Gothic horror and fantasy novels emerged in the late 19th century, it was written into a novel.
The previous life was "Dracula" and this world is "Dracula". The names are similar, which comes from the fact that it is a German legend itself.
Around 1920, it was made into a movie.
At the beginning, the image of a vampire is that of a handsome nobleman, but when his true form is revealed, he is ugly and fugitive. To put it bluntly, he is like a bat transformed into a spirit.
However, there is always a shackle for horror movies, that is, there will always be a day when people get tired of watching them.
So, a love story about vampires will eventually happen.
The emergence of Bram Stoker's Dracula marked the beginning of the vampire film's move beyond the horror film genre.
With the development of comic heroes, vampires, which appeared before heroic comics, were bound to be written as comic heroes.
After all, comic companies are fighting each other till they are bloody. If one comes up with a new theme, the other will definitely copy it exactly.
Not to mention this kind of natural subject matter.
In the comics era, vampires are labeled as inherently evil and forever evil.
What artist has the time to give a character who only appears once a week a full and complete human description?
The protagonist is of course similar to a vampire, but he upholds justice.
Therefore, the vampire hero in this world is no different from the Blade Warrior in the previous life, they are exactly the same.
When things develop to this point, some people will suddenly wake up.
Huh? Why is the protagonist a man? Can't I make a female-led vampire movie?
Thus, this world's "Underworld" and "Blood Night" were born.
A super cool and awesome female vampire appears.
At this point, it also means that other unknown types of vampires are spread throughout the entire film industry.
At this moment, it is the return of classics.
The love vampire is bound to appear and will definitely be anticipated by the audience.
The question is, how to be different from others?
In Bram Stoker's Dracula, you fell in love with the heroine because she looked like the vampire's wife when he was still a human, right?
Then I think it's pure love, where the heroine simply attracts the hero, how do you explain this logic?
Don’t vampires suck blood? The heroine’s blood naturally attracts vampires, so isn’t this special?
Vampires are too spooky? Can't support pure love stories?
Then my hero vampire is different from the previous vampires, isn’t that enough?
So, what do women like?
diamond?
Arrangement, the characteristic of vampires is that their skin is like diamonds.
Money? Are you kidding me? If you live forever, even if you move bricks, you can still make more money than ordinary people. Since you live long, you must be knowledgeable. It is normal that it is easier to make money if you are knowledgeable.
What other features are needed?
Strong and thin, fast and lasting, cool and considerate, arrogant and careful.
What? These are antonyms?
You say it's not possible? I said it's possible.
Thus, a Qiong Yao story about a lovelorn female protagonist and a domineering vampire male protagonist was born.
From the perspective of its development, this story conforms to the laws of film development.
From the perspective of vampire development, it makes up for the lack of melodramatic elements in vampires.
From the market perspective, it just happens to meet the viewing needs of young boys and girls of this era.
From a rational point of view, this story is too melodramatic, too vulgar and even low-brow.
But, if it really happened, let me ask you, if there was a man like this standing in front of you and you were a woman, would you be willing?
With this heroine standing in front of you, would you do it?
When Han Zhou was writing the script, he told Timo everything.
Beautiful pictures are the basic condition.
The requirement of shooting a melodramatic film is to advance to the next level.
If the male lead looks like a schizophrenic instead of a vampire, and the female lead looks like a brainless person instead of an ordinary girl, then these are the conditions for becoming a huge hit.
Complete these three points and wait for the box office to collect.
It turns out that Teemo is a talented person. He was already proficient in the first point, so he easily completed the second and third conditions by making up for the lessons.
Han Zhou laughed when he saw the end of the movie.
This is exactly the effect we want.
Love is like honey, hate is like arsenic.
You don’t even need to look at Han Zhou, the comment section is bound to be interesting.
Some people call those who like this brainless.
Those who like it will scold you and ask you to care.
Once the cursing starts, the heat will rise.
In the future, those who like it will continue to spend money to prove that their vision is correct, continue to party, and think that others don’t understand them at all.
Those who don’t understand continue to curse and the popularity remains high.
The biggest failure of the previous Twilight series was that the director did not realize why the movie was so popular, so he kept filming it according to the original style.
If Bella becomes a vampire, the movie will be ruined.
Because the character was broken.
Han Zhou had planned it long ago. In this movie, the heroine would not be turned into a vampire. He would just keep filming it until it stopped making money and just have the ending ruined. There was no point in turning her into a vampire.
The love between a human and a ghost was going well, but you insisted on ruining it.
It’s like a love story about a domineering president. As the filming goes on, the heroine becomes the chairman of a listed group. Is there still a need for a domineering president?
Don't you know what daydreaming is?
It is much easier for ordinary people to fantasize about marrying a beautiful, rich and white woman or being favored by a domineering president than to fantasize about becoming a beautiful, rich and white woman or a domineering president themselves.
The key point is that the former does not require a threshold to fantasize, but the latter gets stuck at the threshold of how to achieve identity transformation and wakes up from the daydream.
As the movie was almost over, Han Zhou was like a mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law, and the more she looked at him, the more pleased she became.
But at the last moment, Han Zhou came to his senses and put on his hat and sunglasses.
With only a dozen seconds left in the movie, Han Zhou stood up and walked out.
When he walked over, Han Zhou saw the American uncle who had fallen asleep, and the little girl who was extremely excited.
And the boy next to him who rolled his eyes.
Teemo is a fierce general!
After leaving the cinema, the driver who was waiting there immediately took Han Zhou away.
Today is the only time Han Zhou has time to visit the New World US branch.
So much so that when An Lan flew from Yanjing to Luoshanji today, Han Zhou didn't have time to pick her up, and instead asked Chen Dayong and Timo to do it.
Sitting in the car, Han Zhou came all the way to the US branch of New World.
This branch is basically lifeless now.
At present, all the employees in this branch have nothing to do.
After the "Lord of War" project was completed, most of the technical jobs became idle.
Timo has tried his best to find work for them, but the outsourcing business here is not that hot.
It is said that in order to find something for them to do, Timo secretly took on the production and editing of AAA-level films.
Recently, when many Americans were watching these films, they found that the storytelling, the special shows and the fluency of the stories suddenly became so advanced and amazing, and they didn't know why.
Now, the New World branch finally has something to do.
Because everyone knows that the boss has come to the United States.
The company has a Chinese female receptionist.
There aren't many people here. This girl should be both the front desk clerk, logistics staff, and communications secretary.
After all, email and fax are used more in the United States than in China.
And the best place to put these things happens to be the front desk.
Of course, many companies here don’t have a front desk, but New World’s U.S. branch does. When Yang Hong established this branch, he didn’t have the time to study what the local film and television companies were like, so he simply copied New World’s domestic stuff.
Han Zhou and the driver came in, and the girl looked up: "Sorry, we are not open to visitors."
Han Zhou pulled down his sunglasses.
The girl was stunned for a moment, then surprised: "Old! Han!!!"
"no……"
"Boss!"
Han Zhou smiled and said, "Okay, it's all the same."
The girl took Han Zhou to the company.
Han Zhou: "You are from China, right?"
Han Zhou knew at first glance that this girl did not come here to find a job locally, but was arranged by Yang Hong from China.
When establishing a branch in the United States, Yang Hong would never allow a group of staff to be recruited locally and then become the so-called U.S. branch.
Yang Hong transferred a group of people from China who did not refuse to work in the United States, and they occupied almost all important positions.
As for those who had a strong desire to work in the United States, Yang Hong did not bring any of them over, and in the past six months, they were kicked out of the company one by one for various reasons.
New World came to the United States not to provide jobs, nor did it come to recruit employees who wanted to live in the United States to make a living.
But it's for fighting.
This is an outpost and a watchtower.
As for technical positions that do not involve management work, many people who were poached and Timo’s people were arranged here.
Timo has offended Universal badly this time and knows that he will no longer be able to work as an independent director in the United States in the future.
So, all the people and horses were lost to the new world.
As for Timo himself, he will get a 5% director's share for each of his next Twilight films, and he also has the qualification of first investment. After the investment amount of each film is determined, he can be the first to subscribe to no more than 30% of the investment.
Timo suffered huge losses from filming "He is a Dragon" and now he is focusing on making money. He has no obsession with the so-called company or team anymore.
Han Zhou was walking around the company and many employees were staring at him.
Some even couldn't help but come up and ask for autographs.
But they held back.
They all know that big stars are very polite to their fans, but they are not so good-tempered towards their subordinates in the same company.
Not getting scolded is a good thing, and you still want an autograph?
Unless you take advantage of the opportunity when they are in a good mood, if you ask for it when you have nothing to do, you will easily get into bad luck.
In fact, what they don’t know is that Han Zhou is not such a person.
Of course, Han Zhou would not sign autographs for the company's employees, because Han Zhou has only signed very few autographs for his fans so far, and each one is very valuable.
But the employee group is too large. If we give a signature to one person, will we give it to others when they come to ask for it?
Wouldn't that mean a lot of signing?
After visiting the work area which was not crowded to begin with, Han Zhou went straight to his office.
Although it is his own office, it is Han Zhou's first time here.
Han Zhou opened the file that Yang Hong sent him and asked his secretary to call people one by one.
The first person to enter the office was a middle-aged man.
As soon as the person came in, he said, "Boss Han."
Han Zhou nodded: "Lin Dunhe, sit down first."
Lin Hunhe obviously didn't realize that Han Zhou actually remembered his name. He was stunned for a moment and hurriedly took a seat.
Han Zhou has an excellent memory. He can remember everyone he has met in several branches of the company in just one go.
Lin Hunhe is not one of the company's founding employees, but rather joined the company in the middle stage.
It was probably added around the time when Summer of Idol was aired.
Han Zhou looked at the information and said, "You have done a good job recently, but the company will be busy soon, so you will have to work harder next time."
Han Zhou smiled and said, "You know me. When a project is completed, I will give you a lot of red envelopes."
Lin Hunhe smiled bitterly: "Boss Han, I want to go back..."
Han Zhou was stunned.
Looking at the information, there is no reason for Lin Hunhe to go back?
Lin Hunhe has a son and a daughter. His daughter is in junior high school and his son is in college.
And studying in the United States!
At first, Lin Hunhe had not thought about working in the United States. When Yang Hong selected him, he agreed without much thought.
After all, his son is studying abroad here and has a hard life. If he comes here himself, he can, on the one hand, take care of his son, and on the other hand, earn US dollars to spend. This way, the pressure brought by the cost of his son's study abroad can be reduced a lot.
"Ah? Why do you want to go back?"
Lin Hunhe: "I agreed to come to the United States in the beginning because my son was going to study in the United States."
Han Zhou nodded: "Yes, I have also seen the information, so why do you want to go back?"
Lin Hunhe laughed awkwardly: "That bastard..."
"My son," Lin Hunhe said calmly. After all, he had to save some face for his son. "He wanted to study abroad by himself, but after he got here, he said that the United States was nothing special, not fun, and expensive. He also couldn't get used to the food here."
Han Zhou looked curious, with a look on his face that said: What next?
Lin Hunhe: "My son, he has very good grades and studies very hard, so he is pretty good in all aspects."
Han Zhou thought it was a long story, so he drank some water and listened slowly.
Just as I took a sip from the cup, I heard Lin Hunhe say, "So, he participated in the exchange student program at the Southern California school, and no one could compete with him."
"He has now been exchanged back to Yanda."
"Puff~" Han Zhou spat out a mouthful of water.
Fortunately, he turned his head quickly and the spray did not hit Lin Hunhe's face.
From a certain perspective, the exchange student program has nothing to do with whether you are an international student or not. As long as your subject scores meet the requirements and you excel in all aspects, you can apply.
And the better your score, the easier it is to be accepted.
Those who understand these assessments understand that more than one-third of the students in Southern California are Chinese students, and there is also a large number of second-generation local Chinese.
The other half are students.
Wandering around various universities in California felt like returning home.
These people are extremely good at taking exams, and each of them far outperforms the local students in various assessments.
So much so that some people have now proposed raising the admission scores for Chinese students. Currently, the average admission score for Chinese students is already two-thirds higher than that of black students. If it were any higher, it would be twice as high.
If they want to apply to be exchange students, how can local students compete with them?
However, it is too magical that a Chinese student comes to the United States to study, then participates in the exchange student program, and returns to China to study at Yanjing University .
This son of Lin Hunhe is also a talent, he can think of it!!!
Lin Hunhe laughed awkwardly: "This is the situation."
Han Zhou coughed twice, then put down his coffee, calmed down, and then said: "Lord of War is about to be released, and the dividends will be distributed in four months."
"If you go back now, you won't be able to participate in domestic projects, and you will also lose the dividends from Lord of War. Think about it carefully."
"You know, our dividends have always been more than our wages."
Lin Hunhe also became conflicted.
Having been in the New World for so long, he certainly knew whether this was true or not.
Han Zhou continued: "Do you want to keep it?"
Lin Hunhe still didn't say anything.
Han Zhou smiled: "The box office of "Lord of War" may be higher than expected, and the dividends may not be just one time of salary, maybe... twelve months' salary?"
How many years are there in a lifetime? I can only get one year's salary... Lin Hunhe: "Money is a small matter. The main thing is to let the Americans see how good the movies made by our Chinese directors are!"
Han Zhou smiled.
Before the box office share of "Lord of War" comes, the first part of "Final Destination" is estimated to be completed, and it will be ready for release during the Western Halloween. The second part of "Twilight" is also estimated to be completed.
By then, will Lin Hunhe be able to give up the dividends from "Final Destination"?
A few months later, the dividends from "Final Destination" were received, and the dividend cycle for "Twilight 2" is about to come.
The waiting is over. The New World is not so short of people anymore. After all, we can continuously transfer people with ideas from China.
It is also possible to promote local American employees who have been in the company for a long time to middle-level management.
Lin Hunhe went out and another person came in.
Still the same, when he came up, Han Zhou said, "I know you too well."
These people usually come into contact with Han Zhou only once a year or sometimes never come into contact at all, but Han Zhou can clearly call out their names.
They felt very happy about being recognized by Brother Han, President Han, and Director Han.
And when Han Zhou talks about things, he always gets to the point directly, whether it is work or their personal difficulties.
Whether the problem can be solved or not is one thing, but Mr. Han, such a busy man, knows about my problem and is still trying to find a solution. What else can I ask for?
After the one-on-one talk was over, the whole company had a feeling that President Han was here to support me, and that this place was no different from the domestic branches.
Full of energy!
They all know very well how many projects Han Zhou has in a year.
The fact that Han Zhou came here in person proves that the company is already planning to develop its U.S. branch!
I met with middle-level managers and employees in various important positions from China.
Han Zhou then began to meet with local employees one by one.
Fortunately, there are fewer people now.
If Han Zhou were asked to go to Hengdian to have one-on-one talks with employees, he would be exhausted to death.
When the local employees met Han Zhou, Han Zhou didn't say much, but just told them the dividend rules after each project of New World.
When these people heard about dividends, their eyes turned green.
Although Americans sound very powerful, employees of film and television companies are all middle class.
In fact, these people have no savings at all.
If you lose your job for more than three months, your house and car may be taken away by the bank.
The dividend from a project is so high, which means that one's income level is actually one level higher than you imagine now, or even more.
This feeling of replacing a musket with a cannon made them realize that it would be hard to find another job as good as this in the entire Luoshanji.
Han Zhou was not interested in knowing their personal situation. He just wanted them to know that New World employees had high incomes.
Han Zhou was also telling them that they were held to the same standards as Chinese employees.
Of course, Han Zhou was talking nonsense.
Han Zhou repeated the common standards on both sides and did not mention the differences.
It just looks the same.
When Han Zhou was done with his work, the girl from the front desk stuck her head out of the door and said, "Brother Han, Goddess An is here!"
Han Zhou stood up and walked out.
Timo and Chen Xiaoyong had already picked up An Lan, but Han Zhou was busy with work, so they were playing outside and waiting.
Han Zhou promised An Lan that if there was a music award ceremony, he would attend it with her.
This time at the American College Choice Awards, Han Zhou arrived first, and An Lan came at the last minute before releasing her album.
This time, An Lan came here for a very important reason.
That is, this album is about to be released and needs promotion.
And on the B side, there is an English song.
This time, at the American College Choice Awards, Han Zhou will not sing, and it will be An Lan who will perform.
This time, Han Zhou arranged An Lan to be the pioneer for the force he represented to develop in the United States and to say hello to the passers-by fans in the United States.