Fred said so much emotionally, and Li Xiaole finally began to understand. He had never thought about how the huge Hollywood movie machine gradually conquered the global market since the late 1980s, but he had always thought about it.

Just looking at this from a purely cinematic point of view...

But now that Fred was talking about this issue from another economic level, he realized that this was not just the power of the film industry, but the result of American financial capital guiding the six major industries behind the scenes.

Studios are oriented from the North American market to gradually targeting the global market...

It was they who changed the types of Hollywood movies, and then, while negotiating other industrial investment cooperation with other countries, they used the opening of the film market as added value, forcing countries to allow Hollywood blockbusters to invade their unprotected markets... This made those

Hollywood blockbusters span the world.

"He set the rules and instilled a common set of values ​​around the world, so that every movie in the world must be forced to accept their set of rules, and all filmmakers must become a part of them...Every step of this,

It was all planned by that bastard Todd Hardy..." Fred gritted his teeth.

Is an unrestricted opening of the movie market good? For ordinary audiences, it is certainly good in the short term because they can see those American movies of excellent quality, but in the long run, this is not good for any country except the United States.

All have unimaginable harm.

Film is a cultural industry, and in this cultural industry, the United States has natural industrial advantages compared to other countries. It has no rivals in the world. If any country opens its own film market, it means that its own film market

The industry will collapse in an instant, and in this industry, only the voice of Hollywood will be left.

At that time, all filmmakers, like British filmmakers, must belong to the Hollywood interest group and participate in their works. American films will become a complete monopoly. This will not only allow the United States to gain ground in the film industry

The huge monopoly profits, the values ​​​​they convey in the movies, the American sense of superiority they convey, and the image they believe to be absolutely righteous in the movies will have a devastating impact on the culture of other countries.

In every American movie, universities are free and wild. Those students seem to party and have sex every day and eventually become Bill Gates. Every American president is a righteous hero who saves the world. The United States of America is the leader of the world in the face of any crisis.

, and on the big screen, Brazil, China, Russia, Eastern Europe, all these innocent countries will become representatives of poverty, backwardness, and even evil...

The United States can unscrupulously show the best of itself in its own movies without mentioning its various shortcomings.

It is normal for any kind of cultural background to highlight one's own advantages. Filmmakers all over the world do this. However, when there are only works with a single value in the world that monopolize the market, the cultural market loses its most precious fairness.

Architecture, whether intentional or not, will become a subtle cultural invasion, making everyone habitually believe that only American ones are the best and most advanced.

This cultural influence will bring some added value to American movies beyond their essential level, and will give a negative impression to movies from other countries.

No matter how bad an American movie is, cultural representatives from all over the world will feel that there must be something profound in the movie. However, no matter how good a domestic movie is, its reputation will not be worthy of the movie itself.

This has gone beyond the meaning that the movie itself should carry, and has transformed into an output of commercial inertia.

This results in a strange cyclical pattern, that is, American films make money in other countries, and then return to the country to make greater investments, shoot more films with large investments, and invest more in other countries' markets to obtain more

The box office... The six major studios are getting stronger and stronger.

Ordinary audiences in other countries are constantly paying money to ask Americans to make more well-made movies for them. However, due to the temporary lack of standards in their own country's film industry, the movies they make will not be able to collect box office, and they will not be able to win.

In order to make profits, the domestic film industry has become increasingly declining. In the end, it can only rely on Hollywood and continue to export talents to Hollywood.

This is ultimately a vicious cycle.

The harm caused by this global cultural monopoly is something that almost all filmmakers in other countries are worried about. Why are so many local actors and actresses in China, South Korea, and Japan standing up and saying: "American movies

In fact, that's it, the Oscar is just a regional award."

Of course they know that American movies are indeed the best in the world, and they are not arrogant or ignorant, but they still have to say this. They just don’t want the audience to be completely brainwashed by the cultural invasion of the United States.

The culture of each country is different, and the styles of the cultural industries they produce are naturally different. If they all follow the same rules that the United States is good at, then of course the most benefit will be the people who make the rules themselves.

Every country should have its own style of computer. As long as enough time is given, films from other countries will gradually catch up with Hollywood standards through accumulation and learning, instead of just crudely opening up the market for so-called "freedom"

compete."

Just like the United States itself, it is absolutely impossible for the United States to open up the import of home appliances, automobiles, and small commodities to Asian countries such as China, Japan, and South Korea. Each country will provide a buffer and protection time for its own weak industries, allowing them time to develop on their own.

, participate in the world competition in a healthy way, instead of letting them simply die...

Now, the sudden emergence of Black Pearl has suddenly become the key to leveraging the Hollywood dominance model. Unlike the future Lions Gate Company, Black Pearl is a Chinese company, which means that it may completely change this model. Therefore, the six major

That's why I deliberately tried to suppress myself.

When Li Xiaole wanted to understand this, he couldn't help but take a deep breath, looked at Fred, and assured confidently:

"Don't worry, Fred, I know what they are thinking, but I will never let them get what they want... As long as you are willing to serve as my art director, I will end this situation."

Although the Big Six now have some advantages, as long as they can produce a good Oscar-level work and improve their reputation among the three major unions of actors, directors, and screenwriters in the United States, then perhaps in the near future there will be a battle between labor and management.

In the conflict, the Black Pearl can play a decisive role, forcing the Big Six to abandon this monopolistic framework from now on, allowing everyone to have a fair chance to compete.

By then, the era of the six major studios dominating the world film market with their absolute hegemony will officially be over...

For Bruce Lee, Fred not only gave him the inside story of how Hollywood movies conquered the world, but also told him that he could have a chance to end this ugly era of pure capital controlling movies.

This made the adventurous factor in Li Xiaole's nature begin to boil again, making him feel extremely excited. He suddenly found that there was an opportunity in front of him to change the world's film landscape... and he would never let go of this opportunity.

of.

"Don't be so confident." Fred looked at him seriously and reminded seriously: "Many of our British filmmakers thought the same way back then. We also believed that our British films had natural advantages and rich industrial reserves.

We will definitely not be influenced by Hollywood, but things are not as simple as we think!"

When Fred said this, he suddenly stood up excitedly, walked up to Li Xiaole, grabbed his arm, and said in a cautious tone:

"Lee, I know you are capable and have more resources than us old-fashioned people, but Todd Hardy is not the movie operators you faced before. He is a true capitalist.

He will use various methods that go beyond the film industry itself to force you to submit, so you must be more cautious and careful. I don't want you to follow in our footsteps."

As soon as Fred called his name and felt the power coming from the old British man's hand, Li Xiaole immediately realized that this old-fashioned theater artist was not as cold as he imagined, and he couldn't help but nodded sincerely:

"Fred, I will pay attention, and please consider being my art director again... I really need you."

No matter how powerful Todd Hardy is, he believes that the "Slumdog Millionaire" and the future "Avengers" in his hands will have unstoppable advantages in terms of awards and box office respectively. He will not

I believe there are people who can suppress themselves in the field of movies.

Seeing Li Xiaole's furious back walking out of the door, Fred shook his head worriedly. It wasn't that he didn't want to help Li Xiaole, but this young man was too sharp now and had the absolute upper hand. No matter how he described the seriousness of the situation,

He doesn't really feel in danger...

Now suddenly the six major media outlets are singing praises for "Slumdog Millionaire". This is not just to win over Li Xiaole...According to Todd Hardy's sophisticated calculation, there must be another person doing this.

It had a deeper meaning...but he couldn't think of it at the moment.

However, Fred felt in his heart that things were not so bad in this way, because he felt that Li Xiaole needed a failure now. Only a tragic failure could give him a chance to truly transform...

As he is now, even if he becomes an art director, he probably won't be able to really change anything. Compared with top directors such as Spielberg and James Cameron, Li Xiaole still lacks a film like "Synder".

Like "The List" and "Titanic", "Slumdog Millionaire" was a film that really allowed him to enter another directorial level. "Slumdog Millionaire" is indeed very good, but it is too safe and not enough to change him.
Chapter completed!