Subtitle of this chapter: It's so "interesting" to make a movie.

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"Oh my God, this script, this script..."

Our Master Yuan is still a little nervous. After all, this script is original by him and there is no successful experience to learn from. Although he is very satisfied with this professional actor Lilian Gishch also praised it after reading it, he still cared about the evaluation of David Griffith, the film master.

The big director let out a heavy sigh and said, "It's so great!"

I am indeed a genius!

Yuan Yan smiled faintly. Before she could speak, she heard Miss Lilian-Gish say happily: "I just said David would like this script because "The Lonely Girl in the Famine" is so epic!"

Looking at the classic movies filmed by this film master, "The Birth of a Country", "The Party Against the Different", "The Queen of Belisia" and recently "The Road to New England" on Palm Street, he has a special liking for such epic films with grand themes and gorgeous scenes. Griffith himself once said that the most influence of early films on him was "The Assassinatduducguise" (1908) filmed by the Frenchman Charleslebargy, which is also the most popular French film in the United States, which also made Griffith have a strong interest in gorgeous historical subjects.

In addition, he is a great artist with both humanistic spirit and humanitarianism, and naturally pays special attention to vulnerable groups.

He shot more than forty movies about Indians in his life, and among them were works like "theredman'sview" that viewed the Westward Movement from the perspective of the Indians; he also shot "acornerinwheel" which reflects the ugly side of capitalism, and used the traditional Puritan values ​​to question the economic gap between the rich and the poor in modern society.

Well, if you don’t have to be left, Hollywood has always been a bit left. After World War II, at the peak of McCarthyism, the infamous non-US Investigation Committee sent a large number of Hollywood film industry figures to investigate the so-called “the degree to which Hollywood was infiltrated by the Communist Party”. Ten of them refused to testify and did not want to disclose anyone’s political background and ideological tendencies and were convicted of contempt for congress. This is the famous “Hollywood Ten Case”.

But what ruled Hollywood a hundred years later was the "left left and the right", and was actually the white left who pioneered neoclassical liberalism.

Then "The Lonely Girl in the Famine" is both an epic movie and a tragic encounter of the Irish people. These two points suddenly touch the itch of the "father of movies". In fact, Master Yuan's movie was written for him. Except for Griffith, he didn't think anyone else could have made it in the world.

Next, the three of them began to discuss the shooting plan in depth, so the first thing was... Xiao Qianqian.

Mr. Griffith calculated silently in his heart and said, "In my opinion, the cost of this movie will cost at least 800,000 US dollars, and at most it will not exceed one million..."

In fact, he said this number in a big way. According to his estimate, if he really saves a little and doesn't strive for excellence, the cost of shooting the entire movie will not exceed 500,000 US dollars.

"No, David." Yuan Yan shook his head and said, "It's three million US dollars!"

The movie master took a breath after hearing this and said in surprise, "Neo, I don't think there are so many things to use. "The Lonely Girl in the Famine" is not like my "The Party and the Fighting", there are not so many big scenes..."

His old man spent nearly two million US dollars on production costs of "The Party and the Gentleman" and the big one was the magnificent war scenes and the real and detailed scene arrangement.

He mobilized 16,000 actors in just one shot of the Persian army. It was right, it was indeed 16,000 actors. In later generations, only war movies shot by Sussian and Zhongxiu, such as "War and Peace" and the three major battles, can be compared.

According to the existing text script, there are indeed big scenes in "The Orphan of Famine", such as thousands of corpses being buried at the same time, such as a poor house that can accommodate tens of thousands of people, and a sailboat fighting a storm. However, the scene will not be so big that there is no need to use so much manpower.

Moreover, because it was filming "modern" Irish folk, there was no need to mobilize a large city to build an ancient city with a large arena like Griffith during the filming of "The Party and the Party".

"David, you misunderstood what I mean. I mean when we promote externally, we have to say that our budget is three million US dollars!"

"This..." The movie master's thinking has not changed yet, so he still considers budget issues from the perspective of the director. So he doesn't understand why our Master Yuan wants to claim a three million US dollars that can scare the investor to death.

However, his female disciple, Miss Lilian, had been ruined by her Chinese lover.

She smiled slightly and said, "David, what are you worried about? Our DreamWorks is the producer. Whether it is one million or three million, we have the final say. It is three million dollars, which is very beneficial to our publicity. Think about it, the most expensive movie in history... isn't this the gimmick that Neo just mentioned."

After hearing this, Mr. Griffith nodded after thinking about it. Of course, he was also an old driver in this industry. Although Miss Gysh had not said anything, he knew that there must be something wrong with the three million dollars.

In fact, our Master Yuan later saw the box office of up to 30 million US dollars, and regretted it so much that he lost his heart. If he had known it, he would have announced five million US dollars to the public... Well, ten million US dollars. This time he laundered the Hongmen and the Chinese people's black money in New York, and by the way, he could "avoid" more taxes.

After talking about the budget, the rest can only be said to be intricate. They finalized the candidate for the photographer, and naturally they were Mr. Victor Fleming, who was already familiar with the audio film shooting equipment. He was originally Griffith's official photographer. As for the deputy director, props, lighting, fireworks and other crew members, there is no need to worry about anything if there is a movie master here.

Then the next one will naturally be the actor. But at this time, Sister Lian came out and greeted: "Son-in-law, the lunch is ready. Today is your favorite noodles with scallion oil."

Aunt Yuan nodded and stood up and said, "Then let's have a meal first. David, you will be able to eat the authentic seresspaghetti later. In fact, the noodles country... Well, the Italian pasta is all copied from us Seris. You know Marco Polo's. If he hadn't brought the noodles back from our Seris, there would be any spaghetti in Italy..."

However, after getting on the dining table, the movie master discovered something strange. That was, the one in front of his female disciple was a pot of green salad that was not covered with any meat.

Only then did Griffith notice that Miss Gish was very haggard and had lost a lot of weight. He couldn't help but feel a little moved. Could it be...

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Chapter completed!