Rebirth Enchanted Xiangjiang

"Back to the future special effects, please, everyone," Qiao Feng smiled and said in English after signing the face-to-face contract.

"Mr. Qiao is polite, this is what we should do, Mr. Qiao, your company is our old customer." The bearded man across from Qiao Feng stretched out his hand and shook Qiao Feng's hand and said with a smile.

"Now let's do it back to the future. I have a movie special effects in my hand in the second half of the year. I will trouble Mr. Lucas's special effects team." Qiao Feng said with a smile.

"Our Industrial Light and Magic's special effects are absolutely the best, Mr. Joe, don't hesitate to work with us." The Beard, the owner of Industrial Light and Magic and Lucas Pictures, said proudly.

"This is natural, otherwise the outside world would not say that Mr. Lucas can make a lot of money by just creating a department." Qiao Feng complimented.

"How come, Mr. Joe is too good at joking. When it comes to making money, our company does not make as much money as Mr. Joe in a movie." Lucas said with envy.

Qiao Feng shook his head in disbelief: "Mr. Lucas is too modest. The Star Wars trilogy and the Indiana Jones series produced by your company are among the top box offices of the year. Which one does not make hundreds of millions of dollars. And the Star Wars series is even more popular in the surroundings. I heard that in recent years, Star Wars dolls have been sold all over the world. Our Hong Kong children often see people buying them."

Speaking of this, Qiao Feng paused, raised his eyes and glanced at Lucas, and continued in a somewhat joking tone: "Not to mention Mr. Lucas, you Industrial Light and Magic. Everyone before the movie we made was released. I don’t know how the box office is, whether it’s a profit or a loss. Every time a movie is made is a gamble, and the risk is really great. But you, Industrial Light & Magic, are different. No matter which company the special effects are made for, no matter their Does the movie make money? Industrial Light and Magic should make a lot of money. There is no risk at all. I am really envious. I am also incapable, otherwise I would like Mr. Lucas to manage several departments. Come out, everyone can make a lot of money."

Now Lucas really smiled bitterly. Qiao Feng was right. Star Wars and Indiana Jones, also known as the Treasure Collection series, really made his Lucasfilm industry a lot of money. It can be said that the richest in the director is the number one. He is, and the richest director in the next few decades is still George Lucas.

But if you make money, you lose money. Take the drama Yukio Mishima produced by Lucasfilm last year. Lucasfilm's investment is not large, but it has several million dollars. In the end, the box office was only half a million U.S. dollars. If you look at the ratio of investment to income, it is definitely a loss.

And this film is because although the protagonist of the film Yukio Mishima is an outstanding family, he is regarded as a god in Japan, regarded as a treasure, and translated into various languages, but this person is an attempt to restore Japan. This militarist, ultra-nationalist right-winger, as a result, was worried that the Japanese right-wingers who worshiped Mishima Yukio would take the opportunity to disrupt the venue. Last year’s Tokyo International Film Festival involved this film involving Yukio Mishima’s homosexual sensitivity. The film was turned away.

Lucasfilm was very reconciled at the time, because the box office was so bad that it was hopeless to return to the original. As a result, it was not allowed to participate in the Tokyo International Film Festival award chase. It also strangled Lucasfilm's desire to make this movie available. Winning awards at the Tokyo International Film Festival, and then relying on the awards to have a good box office plan in Japan.

Lucasfilm did not do it. It initiated and organized a signature campaign involving more than 90 foreign filmmakers and writers, including many world-renowned directors and playwrights, as a protest. The result was nothing. Tokyo International The festival organizing committee resisted the pressure and insisted on rejecting the movie Mishima Yukio.

Even if the film was shortlisted for the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival later, and won the Technical Award and the Best Artistic Contribution Award, it still failed to recover the bad box office.

Who made it not Palme d'Or?

After a wry smile, George Lucas kindly invited Qiao Feng and his entourage to visit his Lucasfilm departments.

George Lucas took Qiao Feng and his party to visit the various departments of Lucasfilm, while introducing them, and at the same time bitterly talking about how this department spends money like water, and there is no output, and how that department is.

Just listen to what he said, as if his Lucasfilm is a money-losing player, and no one wants it for nothing.

Of course, in addition to the bitterness, George Lucas also took Qiao Feng and his party to visit the showroom. He was particularly interested in telling Qiao Feng which of the props in it was used in the movie, and focused on Star Wars. Some of the props inside, such as the cute pet robot R2-D2 in the most classic Star Wars.

This robot model is also the most popular among movie fans among the best-selling Star Wars toys around the world.

"Mr. Joe, don't look back to the future. There are not many special effects shots and you think it is easy to make. In fact, it is quite time-consuming and laborious to make." George Lucas said while bringing Qiao Feng to a department. It looks like a dilapidated factory. I found out that it really looked like a dilapidated factory. It’s just that the attentive staff and all kinds of props and models inside will let people know that although it looks broken, there is really something in it.

"Here is the special effects production site for a new movie of our company this year. Look, this duck headgear and this pair of duck feet are the special effects costumes of the protagonist in the movie." Lucas introduced: "The protagonist is only A duck from an alien planet."

"We have made more than ten sets of this special effects costume alone, ready to be replaced at any time." Lucas paused and emphasized.

Lucas gave the same introduction, and Qiao Feng and his team were amazed again and again. In fact, Qiao Feng and Shi Nansheng both smiled and suffocated.

Because Americans consciously are the leader of the film industry, Industrial Light and Magic is the boss of the special effects industry, and Qiao Feng has always kept his people hidden very well, and those special effects artists who follow Industrial Light and Magic are even more powerful. I would like to remind you that Qiao Feng’s special effects company has been studying and researching, and has not produced any special effects movies at all, and has no reputation at all, so George Lucas did not know that there is a special effects company under Qiao Feng, which has been special effects. Team.

Therefore, George Lucas introduced it very carefully. I was afraid that Qiao Feng would not understand it. Sometimes he would repeat the introduction. In his opinion, this is also a great opportunity to show his strength in Industrial Light and Magic.

Just going back to the next two films that add up to a hundred special effects shots, Qiao Feng was taken a lot of money and gave out five million dollars. Such a big customer and good customer should hold fast.

"Mr. Lucas, what does this department do?" After coming out of the model making room and moving to another department, Lucas asked curiously, unable to introduce Qiao Feng.

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