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Chapter 291 Booting up

"Director Huang, are you still going to hold a film festival?"

After brushing her teeth, Cheng Hong looked shocked and curious, "Like the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers?"

"What did you call me?"

"boss."

"Yeah!" Huang Ze nodded contentedly.

The role-playing just now cannot be ended with just a phone call.

Besides, I am her boss, so it’s not a loss for her to call me boss.

"You said Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers, that's definitely incomparable."

"I'm just a director, how much influence can I have!" Huang Ze shook his head, "I just don't like the Academy Awards, so I wanted to try it myself."

"If it doesn't develop well, then forget it."

“If it develops well…”

"That's not as good as the Golden Rooster." Huang Ze smacked his lips, "That's not something you can compare to at what level of development you have reached. That's the ceiling."

"Even if we win the first prize in Chinese-language films, we are still not as good as the other party!"

"It feels like a thankless job." Cheng Hong rolled her eyes, "Just to get revenge for the Hong Kong Film Awards?"

"There's nothing we can do. As human beings, we always want to do some things even if they are not beneficial." Huang Ze smiled.

The reason I want to do this is not just about revenge for the Academy Awards.

There is also another kind of anger at someone for not fighting back.

In the previous life, the three Jins were really competing to see who was worse.

The Academy Awards are complacent and basically just for entertainment in Hong Kong Island.

The Golden Horse Awards was a chaotic scene, and even Li An was embarrassed.

Golden Rooster, um, this...

In short, apart from the Golden Horse Awards during a certain period, there is a lack of Chinese-language film awards that have great appeal in the Chinese-language film circle.

It’s okay if he doesn’t know what the future holds, but now that he knows, Huang Ze can’t suppress the impulse at all.

Always wanted to give it a try.

"Hey, I have a question." Cheng Hong blinked, "Will your film participate? If it participates, will it win an award? If you force it, what's the difference between it and another Academy Awards?"

"If I give you the award, I think others will not have much expectation for the award. You are the referee and the players. What can they use to fight you?"

"And as long as you win the award, the Hong Kong Film Awards will definitely guide the media's opinion of you, saying you are self-entertaining, complacent, and arrogant."

"Pah..." Huang Ze patted Cheng Hong, "You're talking about four-character idioms all the time. Do you want to take the postgraduate entrance examination?"

"I think so. Then I'd like to trouble Mr. Huang to teach me and clear my doubts."

"..." Huang Ze's mouth twitched involuntarily.

This person has a strong learning ability!
It hasn't been long, and I've only played the role a dozen times, but I already know what I like.

"I have my school uniform with me."

"By the way, Mr. Huang, how much box office do you think the movie "Final Destination" can get in the United States?" Cheng Hong asked the question that she had always wanted to ask.

This is about how much fame the film can bring to her as a supporting role.

If it sells well, she can already imagine the compliments she will receive from her friends when she returns home.

That's Hollywood!

America.

A place where many colleagues want to stay even in the dark.

As long as this movie doesn't lose money and I have a lot of screen time in it, it should be no problem for me to claim that I've made it into Hollywood, right?
How famous is that?

And this fame is positively correlated with the final box office. "At least this number." Huang Ze held up three fingers, "I am confident that it will be 30 million US dollars. If it is more, it depends on the situation. No one can predict the specific box office of a movie."

"Okay, don't ask questions that are not related to the postgraduate entrance examination. I, the producer, am not worried, so what are you worried about? As a student who is going to take the postgraduate entrance examination, the upcoming interview is what is important. Go and prepare your clothes, and I will be the interviewer."

……

Early August.

Almost three months have passed since Huang Ze brought his group to the United States.

"Speed" is still in the busy early stages of preparation.

Because "Final Destination" required fewer special effects, the preparations were finally completed.

The opening ceremony was held outside a large mansion in the suburbs of Los Angeles.

All the main actors are together.

Fortunately, there are actually quite a few Chinese people in Los Angeles, and many things are easy to find, so the Hong Kong staff in the crew held a small worship ceremony.

Huang Ze didn't even want to do it anymore, just watched from the side.

I looked up at the sky, then at the statue of Guan Erye in front of a group of people, feeling a little puzzled.

In this place, does worshipping the Second Master work?
Is the Second Master meddling too much?

If it really doesn’t work, pray to Mazu.

However, it is none of my business, you can worship whoever you want.

"Huang, what are they doing?" Brad Pitt, who had put on makeup and looked no different from a 20-year-old young man, asked curiously, "Are they praying?"

“That’s the explanation.”

"Then I think I need to pray as well."

"I hope our movie will be a big hit," Brad Pitt muttered, making the sign of the cross.

"Don't worry!" Huang Ze patted Brad Pitt's shoulder, "As long as you act well, the box office of this movie won't be too bad in the end."

"I believe this will happen!"

"Okay, come in and get ready to start!" Zhang Jianya waved his hand and led the relevant personnel into the house.

While the actors were rehearsing their scenes together, Zhang Jianya and the photographer took some suggestive shots to be put at the beginning of the film.

For example, a small doll hanging from a rope will have its shadow reflected on the ground as if it is hanged.

There seemed to be a face flashing behind the electric fan.

The book blown by the wind stopped at the moment when Louis XVI was pushed to the guillotine.

On a boarding pass, the most eye-catching things are two strings of numbers, 180 and 13, both of which are considered unlucky numbers in the West.

13 is very simple, Jesus was killed by his 13th disciple, Judas.

As for 180, it means death in the West.

This is a hint to the audience that there is something very wrong with this flight and it may be a death flight.

After shooting the little hints that could be filmed now, we moved on to the real-life shooting.

The protagonist played by Brad Pitt is going to travel to Hong Kong Island with his classmates, and his parents are preparing things for their long journey.

……

Huang Ze stayed in the crew of "Final Destination" for a week and found that Zhang Jianya was filming step by step and doing a good job. Huang Ze then felt relieved and focused his main energy on "Speed".

Rather than filming the movie, Huang Ze is also quite interested in how Hollywood professionals arrange the big scenes.

After all, today’s computer special effects have not reached the level of later generations, and are very expensive. Most large scenes still require the use of model special effects or real-life shooting.

How to do it and how to do it is really an interesting thing.

(End of this chapter)