Chapter 1077: Spending Money and Making Money
"With this sentence, the depth of "Truman's World" has been raised to a new level!"
After listening to the entire film review, Sun Peng nodded with great satisfaction.
In fact, when he first saw the original version, Sun Peng was indeed shocked, but what shocked him even more was the idea of the movie, the huge studio and the idea of using a person's life as the core of the show, and of course, the heartiness when Truman broke out of the cage at the end. But for the connotation and implication of the movie, to be honest, Sun Peng didn't have much feeling, or he didn't think much about it at all.
After all, he was too young to see the world beyond the ivory tower.
But when he rewrote the script of "Truman's World" in this life, in order not to make mistakes, he carefully thought about every detail and made an all-round and meticulous adaptation, Sun Peng gradually realized a lot of things, and only then did he understand the reason why this movie became a classic and ranked so high on many lists.
The people who trapped Truman seem to be the TV station, the producer and even the capitalist behind it, but in the final analysis, I am afraid that it is the audience who cheered for Truman to break out of the cage in front of the TV!
So the end of the movie is not Truman's forgetful running, but the scene of two audiences changing channels boringly......
"Huh? Sister Chang, why are you staring at me like this? ”
is proud that his understanding of movies has risen a notch, much better than before, when he really hasn't been in vain in the past few years, Sun Peng suddenly found that the assistant was looking at him directly, as if a flower had suddenly grown on his face.
"I'm thinking about ......"
Tilting his head, Liu Chang suddenly smiled and said: "The scripts you wrote before were either fights and kills like "Dragon Gate Inn" and "Hurricane Rescue", or cartoons like "Frozen" and "The Lion King", and even the latest movie "League of Assassins" is essentially a popcorn movie, why did you suddenly remember to write a script like "Truman's World"?" At first glance, it seems to have a lot of depth......"
"What do you mean at first glance? It's already very deep, right?! ”
Hearing Liu Chang say this, Sun Peng was suddenly unhappy.
"Good, it's deep!"
Shrugging his shoulders, Liu Chang spread his hands and smiled: "That's why I think it's strange, don't you keep saying that only the box office is the most important thing now?" Although I think the box office of "Truman's World" should not be bad, but no matter how good it is, it should be better than action movies and science fiction movies, right? ”
After listening to the assistant's words this time, Sun Peng smiled.
That's right, there have always been basically only two criteria for him to choose a script: the most suitable and the highest box office!
But of the two, the former is the most important.
The simplest example, of course, is the whole process of Sun Peng's popularity of his cousin.
Lin Lin's acting skills were terrible back then, and when she was just getting started, Sun Peng chose "Crazy Lady" for her, which did not have high requirements for acting skills, and the production cost and difficulty were also super low. After being popular for a while, Sun Peng immediately let her resolutely leave the crazy lady and began to star in the group drama "Criminal Minds", and let Lin Lin play a role with relatively few scenes, but it was very fan-attracting role, and then the first season of "Super Sense Detective", which consolidated Lin Lin's foundation.
When his fame and acting skills went up, Sun Peng began to tailor "Keep Talking" for mobile phone companies.
There is no doubt that even if a movie like "Keep Talking" has a good reputation, it is impossible to get too high a box office, but it is very suitable for Lin Lin at that time, and of course it is more suitable for Niu Yunsheng who wants to advertise.
Then there is "Kill Bill" and big productions "The Matrix" and "League of Assassins", which are the heroines, and then "The Silence of the Lambs", which really needs acting skills for the first time, and "Tomb Raider", which can make Lin Lin go further!
Step by step, it's not just a random mess.
But without exception, these movies are all very commercial films, and the box office is not bad, it is nothing more than the difference in the size of the box office appeal because of the amount of investment. Even the first film "The Sixth Sense" with Liang Ren, although it also has a lot of elements that explore human nature, but in essence, Liu Chang feels that it is still a thriller and suspense movie.
But this time, "Truman's World" changed everything.
Commercial films? Liu Chang can't actually deny it, and it's certain that the box office of this film should be bad, and it may even be a big hit. But compared with Lao Bai's other movie scripts before, "Truman's World" is undoubtedly much more "high-end", and the things expressed in it are indeed meaningful, as the critics said!
So at this time, putting down the chopsticks in his hand, Sun Peng thought about it seriously for a while, and then chuckled: "Sister Chang, in fact, the reason is very simple!" Because I'm getting older, my experience is growing, and my thinking is getting deeper......"
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Sun Peng's words, of course Liu Chang didn't believe it at all!
After all, this kid can write a monster like "The Legend of Deer and Ding" in his twenties, and because he is a few years older, he began to write scripts like "Truman's World"?
Hehe, don't be funny!
However, Liu Chang is sure of one thing, that is, Sun Peng really wants to throw money at the Modu Drama Academy, which he has never dealt with, and he is 40 million yuan, and he is going to build an internship center for this school. And that's not all, in the next five years, Sun Peng will also provide a large scholarship every year in his own name to fund the students of the School of Drama to shoot their own short films and even movies!
Compared to the alma mater in Beijing, the number is a little smaller, but it is still quite amazing.
After roughly deciding on the donation plan, all that remains is for the school and Sun Ya to negotiate the detailed terms of the agreement. After all, Sun Peng didn't plan to throw the money to the school - he really couldn't trust these people, so he planned to leave everything to the second sister to supervise and manage, just like the Beijing Film Academy.
Today's second sister is not just Sun Peng's agent.
In fact, after "taking in" actors such as Ye Kong and Lin Lin, and later signing directors such as Wei Xiaolin and Song Qun, the number of employees in Sun Ya's agency has already exceeded forty, of which except for a small half of them who specialize in handling Sun Peng's affairs, there are enough manpower to deal with these troublesome things.
Of course, the main business is still on Lao Bai's side.
Most of the scripts sold are in the form of basic remuneration + dividends, and supervising every income of these films around the world has become one of the most important jobs of a brokerage company. In addition, of course, there are Sun Peng's music copyright dividends, picture books and royalty income, etc., and as Sun Peng's assistant and an important member of the brokerage company, Liu Chang of course knows very well how much money Sun Peng can make this year, so although he is puzzled, he will not object to Sun Peng throwing money at the Drama Academy!
For example, in the just-published book "Murder on the Western Express", the first royalty can almost earn back the 40 million......
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