Chapter 175: Hong Kong Filmmakers
In fact, the national conditions and cultures of different countries are different, and the films produced must be different. Pay attention to the movie's connotation and your own thinking, and you can make a good movie.
But if you have to catch up with the international trend and ignore your own culture, then the movie will be nothing.
Levi's words made Yamada still contemplate.
In Japan these years, master directors are rarely produced. Japan has a strict hierarchy. Before a director wants to direct a movie, it is impossible without more than ten years of hard work. And even if you can be a director, because Japan is a shooting mode under the production company's responsibility, the director does not have much power.
After ten years of painstaking efforts, in the end, he was just a screw that was called around by others, which made the Japanese film industry lacking in talented directors.
Akira Kurosawa can be famous all over the world, and Takeshi Kitano can dominate Japan, but among the young directors today, few people can have enough talent to go out and make a living.
If Levi can really bring a Japanese director to Hollywood and train him to be a good enough talent, it is indeed a way out to be able to shoot a movie with enough flavor.
Although the Japanese are worried about the damage to Japanese culture caused by the unappealing adaptation of comics and games, they can also see the enormous benefits of shooting live-action movies: the influence of the three-dimensional is greater than that of the two-dimensional.
Levi offered a viable option for a partnership, and that was enough. Now Levi proposed that he was going to do this. Yamada has heard a lot about what Levi has done since his debut. He seems to have basically made no mistakes. Perhaps, it is really possible for him to accomplish this?
"I have to ask the company for instructions on this matter first." After thinking about it, Yamada still didn't dare to agree.
"That's up to you. And, as far as I know, some games and comics in Japan are not particularly Japanese. For example, in the game Resident Evil, such a game, we can try to cooperate first."
Levi estimated that Yamada would not care much if these words were just said: they wanted more benefits and couldn't let go before they got them. However, things are different now that Levi has raised the possibility of cooperation.
"A game from Capcom?" Yamada looked a little embarrassed, "They're not very talkative... but we'll try it anyway."
Levi nodded without saying anything. Although Capcom and Sony do not get along very well, he believes Capcom has nothing against money.
Let them do these things; they will give Levi a satisfactory answer.
"Then, for the next period of time, please play in Japan now; we will help you deal with these things!"
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The opening of the Tokyo Film Festival is coming soon, and as one of the prominent guests, Levi certainly cannot just stay idle. With the help of Columbia Company, he also met with some Japanese novel writers, cartoonists, film directors, etc., and had some exchanges with each other.
Levi doesn't think he's wrong when he says that Japanese movies are on the decline. However, although Japanese movies have declined, there are still many influences left behind.
For example, their cartoonists have a solid foundation in storyboarding, and their novel writers also pay great attention to scene descriptions when writing novels because most Japanese movies are adapted from these things, so their authors will naturally pay attention to these.
Of course, these are no longer Levi's main jobs. He just visited Shimada Soji and other writers to express his love for their works, and he didn't do anything more.
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At this time, Levi also did other things: he is here in Japan, and he is also receiving some guests.
"Please sit down, Mr. Hung. It is really an honor for you to be invited to Japan. I have watched enough of your movies, and I never thought that one day I would be able to meet your real person."
The guest who was complimented by Levi was a fat man with a rather plump body. However, although this fat man is bloated, he has a unique shrewd and, capable, even domineering temperament in his expression, which most people don't have.
"I didn't expect you to know not only Jackie Chan but also me." Hearing Levi's compliment, Sammo Hung laughed out loud. He didn't mean to be modest and directly accepted Levi's compliment, "I heard Yuen Woo-ping talk about you, but I didn't expect to meet so soon. He said that you have your own opinions on Hong Kong movies. Now it seems that you don't dare to say anything else. If you know me, it means you have at least watched many Hong Kong movies. Yuen Woo-ping's friends are also my friends; you are welcome to tell me anything you want."
"Mr. Hung is really a straightforward person." Looking at the fat man before him, Levi felt quite satisfied: there was nothing wrong with cooperating with this person.
When Levi came to Asia, apart from Japanese scripts and the development of South Korea's film industry, he had to consider another important place: China. He is naturally interested in the world's second-largest ticket warehouse for future films.
No director will refuse to open the door to China's domestic market.
It is not easy to open the door to this market. In memory, this has even become a problem that makes Americans scratch their heads.
They have made various efforts to open up the market and even let Chinese actors appear in American movies for the sake of the market.
However, the direction of their efforts also illustrates a problem: audiences in any country are more aware of local things. If you want to gain the audience's favor, you must please the audience there - Americans to please the Japanese box office; the Karate Kid was produced in the 1980s - this is the most typical example.
Levi has also considered these things. If you want to open up the domestic film market in the future, you have to have some contact with the domestic film industry.
Levi has no idea of helping the development of Chinese films, but he really wants to establish contact with the industry for the future and prepare his own movie to enter the country.
And now he can get in touch with Sammo Hung through Yuen Woo-ping. The springboard is still ok.
As for Sammo Hung himself, he has never given up on the idea of developing in Hollywood. He is also very interested in Levi's initiative to approach him. He even took the initiative to run from Hong Kong to Japan to meet with Levi.
Seeing that Levi was very respectful to him, Sammo Hung immediately became happy, and after he became excited, he immediately started to take care of everything, "If you go to Hong Kong, feel free to find me if you have anything to do. I dare not say in other places, but in Hong Kong, if I want to do something, everyone has to sell me some face."
Levi nodded at this: Sammo Hung does have this face, "Then, I happen to have something I want to trouble you... Mr. Hung, I want to find a Hong Kong screenwriter. Can you find him for me?"
"Who? As long as you speak, I will call him to come to Japan immediately."
"Thank you in advance. Do you know a screenwriter named Zhuang Wenqiang?"
Since Sammo Hung is used as a springboard, there must be something found on the other side of the springboard.
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