hollywood draw

Wayne is Warner Bros.'s signature since the 1990s, which is known to almost everyone in the circle. The reason why Warner Bros. is willing to promote this trip is to see the market potential brought by the terrifying population base of this market. They want their own flagship product, the DC Superhero series, to be promoted on this land.

The first stop of promotion is set on the university campus. There is more than an hour before the event starts, and the auditorium that can accommodate 800 people is full. The school has not suspended classes, and some considerate teachers even announced the get out of class 20 minutes in advance, allowing restless students to join in the auditorium.

However, the number of people is still too large. Many students who have been dismissed early are crowding in line at the entrance of the auditorium. In terms of the arrangement of the venue, the school obviously did not expect Wayne's influence to be so great.

"Do you get a ticket to land on Noah's Ark? It seems impossible to go in without a bloody battle!"

In front of me, a man wearing white half-sleeved hands set up a pergola. Looking at the noisy door of the auditorium, he shook his head helplessly.

"I had known that I should have escaped the first performance class. There are only 800 seats in the auditorium. Now there are so many people crowded at the door. It's over, so I don't want to go in today."

There were also students complaining around, but they did not leave. They were all looking forward to any accidents and putting everyone in.

At this time, the auditorium was full of people, and there were densely packed spears and cannons in the front two rows. Journalists from various media were also looking forward to it. Behind them were some invited guests, teachers and professors from the school, and behind them were the students who successfully entered the venue.

Although Wayne's movies have not been introduced to this land in recent years, this is a special place. All the works he directed are fully visible. Compared to his strangeness among ordinary people, he is very familiar with this name on the film campus.

Whether it is a student of the Film Academy or a teacher here, he has watched the videos he has taken more than once, and even some shots and clips have been displayed more than once in class. Of course, no matter where his works are, some people like them or some people don’t like them.

"His works have too strong personal style and the content is not suitable for large-scale promotion."

A middle-aged professor sitting in the second row chatted with two colleagues around him before the event started. "Hollywood movies are becoming more and more organized, and homogeneity is naturally becoming more and more serious. Wayne Greenberg is indeed the most special one, but his early works are too strong in personal style. Although his current works have begun to bow to business, they are still too special and cannot be widely used for other directors to learn and promote."

Both teachers around him nodded silently, understanding that this is an objective phenomenon. Everyone here has read Wayne Greenberg's works more than once. As a teacher, the most helpless thing is that they cannot promote them on a large scale.

Black-style movies have not been mainstream in North America and the entire West over the years, let alone in this land. If Wayne hadn’t appeared and gradually pushed dark stylized works to the mainstream, I’m afraid this type of movie would still be a carnival for niche fans and would not have been recognized by the public.

"Some of his ideas and techniques are worth promoting and learning." A young teacher thought about it and gave a different view. "I have watched "Batman: The Dark Knight". Whether it is an unprecedented anti-hero setting, or the theme concepts in the entire film, and the ideas conveyed to the audience, this film is considered great, although the film has clearly compromised with the business."

"Audience is always a problem for this type of director." The middle-aged teacher nodded, obviously agreeing with his colleagues. "But Wayne Greenberg has clearly found a balance between art and business. His films have never lacked audiences, even in those early works."

"It's very simple, because even if his videos have strong artistic attributes, they can always be understood by ordinary people!"

Another middle-aged teacher who had been silent gave his own summary. This sentence also won the approval of two colleagues.

This principle is very simple, but it is not that simple to do it. Because no matter where the art film directors are, the works they produce are of the same nature. In the so-called art film field, directors never want to tell a story, but they use the content of the film to express their emotions to the audience.

Therefore, when watching art films, many viewers will be confused by obscure plots and are also bored with long scenes of large and long scenes. Most people pursue the most original feelings such as refreshing and joy when watching movies, but often what art films want to convey to the audience is the director's emotions, which will inevitably appear niche.

But not all directors cannot see through this. For example, "Farewell My Concubine" which is called the great Chinese movie. No matter who it is, it cannot be denied that this is an art film that expresses emotions. The only reason why it is so popular among the public is that ordinary people can understand it, which is extremely important.

There were many troubles in the venue, and everyone was chatting in a low voice. However, people's eyes never left the figure sitting in the crowd on the stage, whether it was students or the media.

Just before the event officially started, a group of students poured in the auditorium again. In the end, the school opened the entrance of the auditorium again and let the students who were willing to stand in. After a little chaos, the scene returned to an orderly state again.

At about 10 a.m., a host walked to the center of the stage with a microphone, and the scene was completely quiet. After a brief introduction, the host said to the microphone: "I would like to invite our guests today, Wayne Greenberg, the winner of Hollywood Best Director."

In the seat on one side of the stage, Wayne stood up with a smile on his face, picked up the microphone prepared on the table, and walked towards the center of the stage with big strides.

She still dressed up for thousands of years, wearing a dark slim suit and casual leather shoes that were not visible to any brand logo. The linen round buzz cut with a length of no more than two centimeters highlights the tough lines of the face. There is no tie or bow tie in the suit, which looks free and casual.

This outfit was not strong, but it was full of the tough temperament that a man should have. When he walked on stage, he left a relatively good impression on most people on the scene.

Accompanied by the warm applause in the auditorium, Wayne bowed slightly to everyone with a smile. Only he was left in the center of the stage, but the host did not stop. This made many people at the scene find it strange. You should know that carefully selected hosts are often responsible for important translation work.

Nowadays, the biggest obstacle to communication between the two sides is language, but as Wayne raised the microphone and opened the mouth, the scene immediately became boiling again, and many students in the back row blew whistles excitedly.

"Hello, I'm Wayne, Wayne Greenberg. If I follow my own words, it's the surname Wei..."

"This ghost old man speaks so well in Mandarin?"

"Ha, I heard it right?"

There was a sudden surprise at the scene, and then the crowd gradually shouted to the stage.

"King of Darkness!"

"The King of Darkness..."

After the crowd gradually calmed down, Wayne said to the microphone again: "I took Chinese during my school days. It seems that the decision was very correct that year. It made the communication between us much smoother."

Others don’t know it, but he knows it very well. It is absolutely very possible to become an old friend here with just his authentic Beijing films. So in the communication session before the event, he directly chose to remove the host’s questioning session for the present scene.

"It seems you gave me a good nickname, ha, but the first thing I want to tell you is not to call me the King of Darkness!"

He shrugged at everyone, and Wayne didn't care about the low laughter at the scene, straightened his face and continued: "Most of the students on the scene will become film and television workers in the future, no matter your goal is to become an actor, a screenwriter, director, or photographer. It is inevitable that we do need to watch many masters' film and television works and many excellent films, but we don't need to be their fans, and we don't need to worship them.

Everyone is young people. My suggestion is to explore human nature in your own works, deeply feel the most common emotions of human beings, shoot your own lives, your own feelings, and make the voice of young people."

A burst of warm applause rang like a tide. Until now, some teachers kept buzzing their ears with their fingers, feeling incredible about this fluent Beijing film, and some people looked at each other and felt incredible about a white foreigner speaking Chinese.

"Okay, the serious and stereotyped topic is over. I'll introduce myself formally." Wayne waved one hand, and a warm smile appeared on his face again. He continued to say to the microphone: "My name is Wayne, and my friends call me that too. Don't get me wrong, it's not Bruce Wayne's Wayne, although many people call me the real version of the Dark Knight..."

"Is this a fake ghost old man?"

A media reporter sitting in the first row turned his head mechanically and murmured to the cameraman beside him.

"Who knows?" The photography studio raised his head and replied in a daze. "I want to go up now, and use my hands to open his white skin to see if there is another color hidden inside."

"Isn't it? Is it a big deal to export to domestic sales?"

A reporter next to him was full of smiles. His words made several colleagues laugh and covered their mouths and laughed.