Chapter 730 This is all predestined
Maybe Cui Minzhen thinks that even couples can do everything in private, but when there are people around, they will be more or less reserved.
A little proper touching is enough to appear intimate enough to mislead others.
Especially for a woman of a certain social status like her, when getting along with her lover, she doesn't need to be as exaggerated as some women with special occupations do in the workplace; nor will she be sticky like Siamese twins.
That will make people feel a little frivolous and misplaced.
So she was just a little calm, showing that she neither rejected having physical contact with Du Caige, nor did she deliberately act too hotly.
She raised her glass continuously and toasted Du Caige.
After Cui Minzhen said a few words of congratulations, Park Hye-yeon took over the topic.
She was not in a hurry to start the video for Mr. Cui to chat with Du Caige, but after a few compliments, she brought the topic to Du Caige's favorite and best field - the film field.
She looked at Du Caige with curiosity and a little admiration, and asked in fluent Chinese with standard words: "Mr. Du, I watched the talk show you participated in yesterday. Some of your insights are really... really great, and it made me think about a lot of things. May I ask you to give me some pointers?"
Du Caige smiled and said: "Please tell me, I don't dare to give advice, let's talk about it."
Park Hye-yeon blinked those slender and charming eyes: "Yesterday you said that if our Asian movies want to get a good box office in Western countries, they must be understood by Western audiences. But how can we be understood by Western audiences?" ?”
So Park Hye-yeon is a very smart woman who knows how to survive in the society of Bangzi Country where the patriarchy is relatively strong.
She knows how to satisfy a man's little vanity and make him feel good about himself - for example, by asking him carefully what he is good at and can answer small questions, and after he answers, she will put on a look of admiration: Wow, you are so amazing ah!
At this time, most men will be floating and feel good.
And when a man feels good about himself, it is easy to have more affection for the women who were with him at the time.
"How to make Western audiences understand?" Du Caige laughed, "Actually, I already talked about it in yesterday's program."
Park Hye-yeon said in an almost coquettish tone: "That's for everyone to hear, I want to hear a little bit from you..."
She leaned forward, looked past Du Caige and looked at Cui Minzhen, "How do you say it in Chinese?"
"Private goods." Cui Minzhen said with a smile.
"Yes, private goods!"
Du Caige smiled helplessly: "Actually, those are the ones. I didn't keep anything, and I said everything that should be said. It is to try to use action movies and science fiction movies as themes, reduce narration, reduce preaching, reduce philosophical thinking, increase fighting scenes, and use them in line with Western style. The way people think and tell stories..."
"Please explain clearly!"
Du Caige said in his heart, you are so annoying to me, does your man know? Your circle is really messed up...
He collected his mind and replied with a smile: "Let me give you an example."
He briefly talked about the script of "Slumdog Millionaire", which he had already written and filed on it,
Don't be afraid of being plagiarized.
After he finished speaking, he said under Park Hye-yeon's adoring eyes: "This is a new script I wrote. You see, what this movie wants to express is actually an oriental style, fate, fate, a bit Buddhist. If I When filming this movie, the word "destined" will be used repeatedly. However, Western audiences can also understand it, and they will understand it from their own thinking. In fact, they didn't really understand it, because they misunderstood it, but They think they can understand it. And the amazing thing is that although their understanding is biased, it doesn't affect their understanding of the plot."
After a pause, Du Caige asked: "You know the line in the play, 'This is all predestined', what English can I use to express it?"
"What word?" Park Hye-yeon thought for a while, "It's Fate? Destiny?"
It can be seen that Ms. Park's English is so-so.
Du Caige did not correct her and said that Fate generally refers to a bad fate and ending, and this script is a happy ending, which is not suitable; Destiny is actually quite suitable, but it does not deeply match what the movie wants to express.
"It's written."
Park Hye-yeon showed doubts again, she chewed the word for a while, "Written...it's written. Destiny has already been written, do you want to express this?"
"This is for Western audiences to understand. They will think, oh, so this is the Eastern thinking. Eastern people believe that fate has already been written."
"Then... what is the original intention?"
Du Caige didn't answer, but asked her instead, "When the protagonist in the script says, 'Everything is predestined', how do you understand it?"
Park Hye-yeon looked up to the sky, her beautiful eyebrows were slightly frowned, and she nodded slowly after a while, with a subtle expression: "I understand."
Du Caige didn't know what she understood.
People from different cultures will definitely have different opinions on the saying "it's all predestined".
Even people raised in the same culture have subtle differences in perspective.
And if translated into "It's written", it has a completely different meaning.
But the wonderful thing is that no matter what culture you are, you can learn something from it.
As for whether what you comprehend is consistent with what the director wants to express, that's okay.
An excellent feature film like "Slumdog Millionaire" invested 15 million U.S. dollars, but it got a global box office of 378 million.
Make a fortune.
Among them, 141 million were obtained in North America.
And in mainland China, it got a box office of 54 million yuan.
Don’t think too little. In that era, the box office in the mainland was not very good. At that time, the number of screens in the country was only 4,000 yuan, which was only one-twentieth of that in the era of the God of Medicine.
If it is released in 2020, it will be easy for "Slumdog Millionaire" to get 2 billion box office in China.
Moreover, when "Slumdog Millionaire" was released in China, piracy was already flying everywhere, and few people would choose to go to the cinema to watch it.
So you can't use the box office to judge whether the movie is popular in China.
Through Douban, forums, etc., we can learn that "Slumdog Millionaire" was actually quite popular among audiences in China.
Such a literary film that can be accepted and loved by many different cultures is really quite rare.
If it is a popcorn movie like Transformers, as long as it is cool and the picture is cool, the plot is very simple and everyone can accept it.
However, "Slumdog Millionaire" is actually a more in-depth movie. On the surface, it deeply reflects Indian society and Indian culture. In fact, it is a movie that reflects Indian society and Indian culture in the eyes of Westerners, but it can be loved by the whole world. , is indeed not simple.
What's more, it is not only loved by audiences, but also by professionals. It has won many awards and almost swept the Oscars and Golden Globes in 2009.
In various film festivals and awards systems around the world, it has won a total of 137 film awards and nominated for 80 awards.
So this movie is really thought-provoking.
Du Caige has always felt that if he can deeply understand this movie, he can make a movie that can be accepted by both local and overseas audiences.
Park Hye-yeon didn't end her questioning.
She continued: "Mr. Du, you said in yesterday's talk show that you hope directors will not intentionally cater to Western audiences."
After a pause, she asked her own question: "But if you want to cater to Western audiences, how should you shoot?"
Du Caige couldn't help laughing: "It's very simple. The male protagonist is a handsome and rough man from the West, with some flaws, but sincere and enthusiastic. The female protagonist is a beautiful girl from his own country. friend, or husband."
"Western men do some good things, like fight evil, or save the planet, or at least save a village or something. In the process, the men of their country show all sorts of hateful aspects, and then die. And the heroine To fall in love with Western men, of course."
"Although the Western man is going back to China, he still has a wife and children in China. But this woman still has no complaints and no regrets. She was pregnant with his child. After the Western man left, she worked hard to raise the child by herself. When the child grows up , and let him look for the Western man—this is the story that audiences in the Western world love to watch.”
"Everywhere reflects their arrogance as descendants of colonists and their ambition to sow the world."
Cui Minzhen rolled her eyes and said coquettishly, "But such a movie will never be popular in this country. If any director in our Bangzi country dares to make such a movie, he will definitely be scolded to death by the people."
Hey, it's "We Bangzi Country" now. In the past, when you and I were alone together, it was always "How about Bangziguo, it is not as good as our Dahua."
She pays so much attention to details in front of Park Huiyan, it seems that Park Huiyan should have a mission to investigate her.
"Our Great China will not allow it. The country is getting richer and stronger, and the people are more and more confident. Such a flattering movie will definitely fail at the domestic box office," Du Caige laughed, "However, if I slightly change the script Once you change it, you can please both sides."
"How?" The two women asked almost at the same time.
Du Caige didn't think about it, because he had already considered this question, "It's very simple, choose a handsome actor of Asian descent and Stars and Stripes for the male lead. Change the identity of the female lead, be it a monster, a vampire, etc. The original partner of the heroine is naturally a monster or a vampire. The storyline has also been slightly adjusted. The hero still defeats the evil and saves the world. At the same time, he also wants to save the heroine's group so that the heroine's group can live in peace with humans. You see, Isn’t this just to please both sides? Western audiences can understand and accept it, and audiences in their own countries will not be disgusted.”
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