Yi Feiyang has always had lofty ambitions, pure ideals, or in other words, unknown ambitions.
Yes, he has ambitions to dominate Hollywood and dominate.
To take a step back, even if you can't dominate, you can still become the most famous director in Hollywood and even the world.
In short, to make a good movie and move people all over the world, so that people can know themselves, respect themselves, and admire themselves... This is Yi Feiyang's dream.
Aren’t you moved after watching your own movie? Slap your butt!
Don’t you admire your own movie after watching it? Slap your face!
But Yi Feiyang never thought that he would become the master of Hollywood's underground porn empire.
When I shoot a movie, I definitely don’t do it to make a lot of people’s dicks stick up!
This does not conform to your own ideal logic.
Therefore, when Henry the Elephant said that he would take care of his career, Yi Feiyang was shocked.
But Yi Feiyang calmed down immediately.
It's so weird.
You must know that I have not been in the United States for a long time, and I have not done anything earth-shattering, nor have I shaken my tiger body and made the heroes surrender. The only possibility... The other party was just talking politely, or in other words, it was a bait.
Many baits can be seen, touched, heard, and eaten.
Henry, the elephant in front of him, undoubtedly laid a bait for himself. He was such a cunning fat man that he almost took it seriously.
After thinking for a moment, Yi Feiyang immediately understood the situation and said, "Thank you very much, Mr. Henry, for your kindness, but I still say the same thing, I am not interested in filming this kind of scene!"
Be solemn and decisive.
Don't be tempted!
Henry the elephant smiled bitterly.
"Hey, man, you are so difficult. To be honest, if it were me, I would have been tempted by such tempting words, but you... God, you are a monster."
"No, Mr. Henry, I am not a monster, I just know my weight."
"Maybe, but do you know why I want you? You have been in Hollywood for less than a year, and you have already made a name for yourself in the film industry. Even Gusta from Lionsgate Pictures looks at you differently, and Paramount's
President Raymond, I heard that he is also very optimistic about you..."
"If nothing else, you are actually very talented in the pornographic industry. You have created the adult version of "SpongeBob SquarePants", you have also done bikini promotions for the movie "The Witch", and you have done body painting for "Ghost".
Propaganda, there is no doubt that these ideas are not something ordinary people can come up with casually. So I thought, since you can scare people to death by shooting horror movies, will shooting pornographic movies make people's dicks wet?
Exploded?! Haha, isn’t it funny?”
"I'm sorry, Mr. Henry, please take back your unfunny joke! Especially don't mention that damn thing in front of me!" Yi Feiyang's sharp eyes made the laughing elephant Henry stop immediately.
"Oh I'm sorry, man, I was quick to talk! I can prove to God that I didn't mean it. Yes, I just said it casually. Well, there was no malice at all!" explained the tycoon Henry.
"But then again, you are really a person who is very good at creating miracles. This is the reason why I chose you! And those damn media reported so much on your filming that scared people to death. What does this mean? What does it mean?
They are extremely repulsive to your continuous creation of miracles! Yes, the United States is such a bitch country and does not tolerate geniuses of other skin colors! On the surface, it promotes seduction, but secretly it is very xenophobic, not to mention you, a Chinese, look
Look at those poor black people, they are still discriminated against by many white Americans!"
"Man, maybe I really shouldn't say so much, but I still want to remind you that if you take the right path and shoot an orthodox movie story, you will have a hard time. Those American directors and American movie tycoons cannot tolerate someone like you.
Alien... Again, I don't have the slightest malice, please believe me!" Henry the Elephant said sincerely.
Of course Yi Feiyang understands what the other party means. After all, as a Chinese, if you want to make a name for yourself and achieve a career in North America, a place dominated by Americans, it will be more difficult than detecting Mars. If nothing else,
Just talk about the miserable situation of two Chinese superstars, Chow Yun-fat and Li Lianjie, trying to break into Hollywood. One plays a cold-blooded killer, the other plays a cold-blooded drug lord, our "God of Gamblers" Gao Jin, our "Kung Fu Emperor" Fang Shiyu, where are they?
went?!
In addition, after the previous life of Mr. Lee won the Oscar with "Life of Pi", what was the performance like in the United States?
It is said that Spielberg and Lincoln are both super talented people in the eyes of Americans. Who would have thought that the movie "Lincoln" directed by him and about the liberation of black slaves would actually lose to a Chinese director when competing for the Oscar statuette?
?
When the American CNN anchor learned about it, he shouted "very surprised", and the local media also described it as an upset. The American newspaper "USA Today" did not publish Li's photo on the front page and inside pages. Another newspaper, the "Los Angeles Times"
, a professional film critic wrote an article questioning the award ceremony. On the surface, he felt that Lee deserved the award. In fact, he believed that Kathleen Bigelow of "The Killing" and Ben Affleck of "Escape from Tehran" did not win the best director.
Nominations have added variables to the results. Between the lines, Lee is always believed to be inferior to Spielberg, and he feels sad for "Lincoln" which received 12 nominations but only won two awards.
It can be seen from this that Americans are very cowardly!
It’s very difficult for Chinese people to become famous!
"Whether you have any ill intentions or not, I really have to leave now. Thank you for your hospitality!" Yi Feiyang thought for a moment, then stood up and said.
"Oh, I know I can't convince you no matter what I say, but it doesn't matter. At least you admit that you are my friend." Henry the Elephant sighed, moved hard, and got up to see the guests off. But his huge body shook a little,
Almost fell.
"Damn it, my body..."
Beep beep beep, beep beep beep!
The timer rang at exactly this time.
"Dear Yi, before you leave, can you do me a favor..." Tycoon Henry panted, wiping the sweat from his forehead and said, "The time is up, I need... I need an injection, help me... The needle is in the drawer
Here!" Henry the Elephant looked very uncomfortable.
Yi Feiyang, who was about to leave, had to stop and watched as the other party struggled to move... He was too fat. I really don't know how his small heart could support such a huge body.
"Is it in the drawer?" Yi Feiyang walked over, opened the drawer, and saw the boxed injections.
It looks like it contains insulin that suppresses diabetes.
"Yes, help me, give me a needle here!" Henry the elephant stretched out his thick arm, which was densely covered with needle holes.
"General injections are too ineffective for me. Only this slightly larger one... works." Henry the Elephant pointed to the thick syringe in the drawer.
Yi Feiyang had to admire the elephant's willpower. Most people would probably not be able to bear such a thick syringe for three days, but he could actually carry it for so long.
"But I don't know how to give people injections." Yi Feiyang raised his eyebrows.
"It doesn't matter, just do as I say... God, my damn disease, why don't you let me die sooner, so that I can suffer less!"
During the injection, Yi Feiyang finally understood why Henry the elephant needed to be injected with such a thick needle.
The skin is so thick that ordinary small needles cannot penetrate it!
Whoops, whoops!
By the time Yi Feiyang finished injecting the insulin, the elephant Henry was already panting from exhaustion. Yi Feiyang wondered, why don't we just let you pose and be poked, or you will be panting from exhaustion?
"Okay, dear Yi, thank you, I'm fine now, yes, don't worry about me, I'm fine, at least now!" Henry the Elephant said to Yi Feiyang affectionately.
Originally, Yi Feiyang was ready to leave after finishing the work, but now he was too embarrassed to leave immediately, "Are you really okay? Man, I see you are sweating profusely."
"I'm used to it! They blame me for being so damn fat. I sweat all over my body whenever I move."
"Okay then, I think I'd better leave and let you have a good rest."
"Well... you go, to be honest, I don't know when I will be dead in this office, and my company will be in chaos, so it's better to be out of sight and out of mind!" Henry the Elephant sighed.
, looking like he is old and sitting there waiting to die.
Perhaps in his opinion, if he died in obscurity like this, what would be the point of struggling for so long?
I tried my best to get this Chinese Yi to help me, just hoping to use his hand to shoot a classic erotic film at the last moment. I want my name to be engraved with this film and everyone to remember it.
When watching a drama, remember yourself!
The reason is that simple!
Is this wrong?
Even if I make a mistake, I am in the wrong industry!
…
Henry the Elephant sighed while paying attention to Yi Feiyang's movements. When they talked before, he found that the other person was the kind of guy with a cold face and a warm heart.
Kind people always like to sympathize with others, don’t they?!
Sure enough, Yi Feiyang, who was about to leave, stopped.
Thoughts are flying.
After a moment, Yi Feiyang seemed to have made some kind of decision.
"Mr. Henry, although I don't know why you insist on letting me help you, I can help you. I have three conditions!"
As soon as he heard that there was something going on, the elephant's dim little eyes lit up, "What are the three conditions? Tell me, if possible, I will definitely agree to it!"
Yi Feiyang thought for a while and said: "You asked me to help you shoot the movie, the purpose is to help you become famous, so that you can be remembered by people after you die, so I think the theaters under your company will probably keep it.
There’s no point anymore, so I’m going to buy them all!”
"What, buy my theater chain?" Henry the Elephant was surprised, Kao, I'm not dead yet, this guy has the idea of my theater chain. That doesn't mean that once I die, the top company will directly
Ruined?!
But it seems that after his death, this company really has no meaning to continue to exist, and there are no children around him to inherit this "business".
Gritting his teeth, "Okay, I can agree to this condition."
Yi Feiyang smiled.
Purchasing movie theater chains has always been Yi Feiyang's biggest worry, and it is also the biggest stumbling block to the development of Fantasy Pictures.
However, in Los Angeles and Hollywood, movie theaters are very expensive. Especially today when American movies are booming, movie theaters have become recognized as a hot commodity.
It is absolutely impossible for a small company like Fantasy Pictures to steal theaters from big companies like Fox, MGM, Paramount, or even Lionsgate.
Build your own cinema?
That's not very realistic. Not to mention the investment, it also wastes time.
Then the only way is to spend money to buy it.
As far as Yi Feiyang knows, although Henry the Elephant is very low-level in filming, he is still very visionary for film development. There are at least eight large national-scale movie theaters under Top, and they are all located in the most prosperous commercial areas of Los Angeles. According to the market
The estimated value is at least 30 million. These theaters have helped Henry the Elephant make a lot of money. If they can grab it, then future films produced by Fantasy Pictures will have a base and touchstone, and there will be no need to beg other theaters to premiere and schedule films.
Suppressing his excitement without revealing any trace, Yi Feiyang put forward the second condition.
"The second condition is that if this drama is successful, I want you to donate all the box office revenue to charity!"
"Ah? Donate the box office?" Henry the Elephant's nature of loving money as much as his life made it difficult for him to agree.
"Yes, everything must be donated, and not even a penny can be kept. Do you agree?" Yi Feiyang stared at him and asked.
Henry the elephant took a deep breath and shook his fat body three times.
Come on, after I die, I don’t know which bastard will benefit from this money, so donating the box office now is just childish!
"This condition... I can also agree to you!" The elephant said this with difficulty.
"Very good, one last condition. Since I am helping your company to film, I will try my best to use your company's artists. However, I am fully responsible for the specific personnel deployment, and your people must not interfere!" Yi Feiyang said after these words.
You have to be decisive.
The most fearful thing in filming is the bond. As the saying goes, you are not afraid of opponents who are like gods, but teammates who are like pigs!
Yi Feiyang didn't want to be stabbed in the back while he was desperately filming in front.
What's more, this top is not a formal film company at all, it is more like an entertainment venue. It only shoots movies for entertainment. It is estimated that it has never even filmed a movie with an investment of more than 300,000 yuan. It is not letting such a company lead itself.
The goat led the tiger to fight... As the fable tells it clearly, the goat eventually turned into mutton soup, and the tiger turned into a gun girl with a blossoming butt.
"As for this condition... Since I asked you to help with the filming, I will definitely trust you. Well, so, you have the final say!" Henry the Elephant was very straightforward this time.
Yi Feiyang smiled again, just as he had guessed, he accepted it so readily.
In fact, Yi Feiyang puts forward conditions in a very skillful order. He puts forward the most difficult ones first, and then the less important ones last. This will give the parties the illusion that they have accepted even such difficult conditions.
Not to mention.
"Look, my friend, I basically agreed to all your conditions, so now, can I also make some requests?" Billy the Elephant asked.
"Of course, you said." Yi Feiyang is not such an unreasonable person.
"Ahem, first of all, I hope that you can put a sentence at the front or the back of the play you filmed, for example, to pay tribute to the respected Mr. Henry, or that this play is the work of Mr. Henry with great pains, etc., yes.
, I just want to put my own label on it, I hope you can understand."
"I can promise you this. After all, I'm helping you film, and I'm using your top resources... By the way, you'll pay for the filming, right?"
"That's great, haha. Secondly, if this drama can't meet my requirements, I mean, it can't make the whole Hollywood excited, what should I do?"
"What do you think?" Yi Feiyang asked.
"Then all the conditions you have mentioned before are invalid! And compensate me for all losses during the shooting. Pay attention, double it! For example, if I invest 300,000 yuan, you have to compensate me 600,000 yuan. If I invest 3 million yuan, you have to compensate me 6 million yuan.
, and so on! The most important thing is that I will not accept this bad movie, I can only put your label on it, and it has nothing to do with me, Henry the Elephant!"
You must have seen this elephant's careful calculation and its nature of never taking a loss.
The three conditions I put forward may seem harsh, but to buy a movie theater chain, I have to pay for it, not let others give it away for free; asking him to donate the box office is equivalent to doing a good deed for him; finally, asking the other party to cooperate
Delegating power is also for the sake of filming well.
However, the three conditions put forward by the other party are almost all businessmen's philistinism. They only want to take advantage of the situation and will never suffer any loss.
"Yes, I can accept your conditions. Yes, there will be exchanges, which is good." Yi Feiyang said lightly. "But now I lack a very important person to be the assistant director of this play, so
I would like to recommend someone to you who is very experienced in this field..."
"Oh, who is he?" Henry the Elephant doesn't care who will be the assistant director, but it would be good to find someone with experience.
"He is...Bill Rabbit!"
"Ah, it's that bastard, can he do it?" Henry the Elephant had a huge psychological gap, just because Bill Rabbit was a famous street kid when he was in the underground film industry.
"Believe me, maybe he was rubbish before, but talents can also be trained!" Yi Feiyang vowed. (To be continued.)
