Chapter 1136

There were four people at the table, all of whom were shocked except Li Mu.

Li Mu's shock to the three people is really indescribable. Li Mu is willing to take out the pastoral film ticketing system, give 20% of the shares, invest, guarantee that the other party won't lose money, and leave all the risks to himself. All this is just for the partners to make movies in China!

Don't say that two American guests were stunned. Even elder martial brother Liu was surprised and couldn't speak.

He knows Li Mu. He knows that Li Mu has a special sense of mission to the country and the nation, which can be seen from his performance of holding the national flag in Harvard and his impassioned speech. However, he did not expect that Li Mu would sacrifice one for the image and influence of China in the world and the rapid development of Chinese film and television industry The fundamental goal of a businessman: profit.

It seems that there is only 3321 things for Li Mu to sacrifice profits completely. However, what Li Mu just said is not only to sacrifice profits, but also to invest more costs to do it at the same time of giving up profits. From this point of view, Li Mu attaches great importance to Hollywood's film making in China.

Spielberg couldn't help asking Li Mu, "Mr. Li, do you want Hollywood to pull the whole Chinese film industry?"? If so, we can cooperate with Makino to make some films in the future, which is no problem at all. "

Li mudian nodded: "pulling is necessary. There are too many problems in China's film and television industry. It will take at least ten years for internal adjustment and improvement. However, if driven by excellent peers, they must catch up, or they will be eliminated by the fast-growing industry and the fast-growing audience."

Li Mu said: "of course, the other aspect I just mentioned is also very important, because different from the western ideology, the western media often demonize and propagandize us. I don't know politics and don't want to touch politics. But as a Chinese, I hope the whole world can remove the colored glasses imposed on them by the media and really see this The best solution I can think of is the movie. "

Spielberg was also particularly touched. Although he was an American, he was also a Jew. He knew Li Mu's sense of national belonging very well, which was beyond the limits of territory and country, and could not be simply summed up in a word of patriotism.

Spielberg once made a film related to the Nazi massacre of Jews. The film is called Schindler's list. It tells the true story of a German businessman named Schindler who helped more than 1000 Jews escape the Nazi massacre in World War II. As a Jew, Spielberg didn't want to play with German in the whole process of making this film Although the handshake seemed impolite, it was the sense of national belonging in his heart.

Spielberg could not refuse Li Mu's cooperation plan, either because of a Jew's deep recognition of national belonging or a businessman's pursuit of interests. He nodded slightly and said seriously: "Mr. Li, I'm willing to accept your cooperation plan. In the next ten years, I will participate in one and two cooperation projects in person or by my team There's no problem with Chinese movies, even being dominated by me and my team. "

Speaking of this, Spielberg asked Li Mu, "Mr. Li, do you think it's feasible for us to increase our shareholding by way of shareholding in the North American cooperation of muying ticket system?"

"It's feasible, but the range is not more than 10%. That is to say, we will set up a company in North America together. If you don't contribute, I will account for 80% and you will account for 20%. If you want to contribute, I will give you 10% of the space to increase your holdings. But when you increase your holdings, the company's valuation is 200 million dollars."

With a valuation of $200 million and a 10% stake of $20 million, it's not a huge sum for Spielberg and his company, but it's also a big expense. Although the company has nothing, it sounds like a bit unthinkable to value $200 million, but it only depends on the animal husbandry and film ticketing system, its influence in the YY ecosystem, and the market Space, that $200 million is worth it.

It's like that Tengxun suddenly announced that one day it would make a new product under the framework of wechat. Even if it didn't invest a penny, it would be valued at a sky high price just relying on wechat ecology.

"Mr. Li, I accept your terms and am willing to increase my shareholding by 10%," Spielberg said to Li Mu after only a little consideration

"Good." Li Mu nodded: "I don't have any other requirements here. My requirements are all on the film. First, I have a veto on the script, casting and budget of the movie you cast in China as agreed. If I don't like your story, I can pass the movie directly. If I don't like an actor, I can directly pass him Take it out of this movie; if I have a problem with the budget, I will increase or decrease it moderately on the basis of the original. "Spielberg said without hesitation, "it's reasonable. I have no problem."

Li Mu also put his heart down. What he worried about most was that Spielberg and his team would fool themselves when the time came, so every script of a movie must be controlled by himself, and only when he nodded his head could it be filmed.

In fact, Li Mu has always been very dissatisfied with the film and television industry in China. Even if Hollywood film and television industry is famous and profitable again, it will degenerate and rot again, but the professionalism of film making in the whole circle can always be maintained and implemented. A Hollywood actor may be a scum, an addict or a junior or a shoemaker, but as long as he or she goes to the camera, he or she will It's a professional actor, and it's also a professional performance.

But in China's film and television industry, a large number of actors with professional background are so poor in their acting skills that it's hard to describe the rough production level of the whole industry, the urgent pursuit of money, fame and wealth, and the low demand for art itself.

Most of the time when Li Mu watched domestic movies and TV plays, he would be extremely embarrassed to find that even the main characters could not act, let alone those group performances.

Sometimes, it's not easy for a movie and TV series to have several online acting films, but it's terrible to play in groups, to play and jump in minutes, and to watch them; sometimes, for the sake of traffic and income, the movie and TV series invite a lot of so-called red meat. Each frame of the whole play is beautiful as a magazine movie, just like a mother It makes people feel sick after being strung together and matched with the plot;

sometimes, the fake props and special effects in a movie make the three-year-old children can't bear to look at it directly,

and Li Mu's most diaphragmatic film and TV plays that should be recorded in the later period are unbearable as long as their mouth shape is not right, but most of the film and TV directors and actors in China, in order to save time and effort, all of them adopt the later matching The way of sound, so that will appear in the field of the number of "Miss number"

Some old actors are not enterprising. Their acting skills have not broken through in more than ten years, and they have played the same roles in more than ten years, but each of them has made people feel embarrassed;

counting the erosion of Chinese film and television industry, Li Mu, an outsider, can scold for three days and nights without repetition. It's not that he worships foreign things and fawns foreign things. From the perspective of one audience, Chinese film and television plays There's no way to compare it with American movies and TV series. The simplest example is that in American TV series, there are few group performances where the acting is not online. Sometimes the group performances are amazing. Even if most of the American TV series are not good-looking, they won't make people play because of the bad acting of the actors. However, in China, the group performances are really group performances that can't be performed at all, and there are few A director can insist on his own artistic pursuit, and really invite a group of supporting actors to come in, so that the whole play becomes fuller.

Because of these original sins, Li is full of pessimism about the self-development of Chinese film and television industry.

In the last life, although Hollywood penetrated into the Chinese film and television market in a large amount, and even cooperated with actors, directors and writers in the Chinese film and television industry in a large amount, the Chinese market at that time had risen, the industry had gone astray, and the audience had been led astray, so that the content of Hollywood would bow to the domestic market, and the domestic non performance would be used for the box office The so-called actors of technology have not brought any improvement to the domestic films at all. Instead, they have been led by the domestic film market to deviate a lot.

If the Chinese film and television industry goes on such a path in this life, Li Mu will certainly disband Muye image and never touch film and television again, because he is unwilling to mix with so many low guys, even in one industry, he can't afford to lose that person.

Spielberg asked Li Mu very actively, "Mr. Li, if we sign the contract successfully, what theme and Chinese related movie would you like us to make in 2003?"

Li musuo thought and said, "let's talk about war! Both Saving Private Ryan and brothers company are war dramas I like very much. In World War II, China paid a huge price for resisting Japanese invaders, for world peace, and for the people of the world. But Hollywood has never made any film about China's resistance to Japanese invaders in World War II All the World War II battles you participated in have been filmed, and you have also filmed the German massacre of Jews in World War II. If you direct a Chinese and World War II movie in person, I think it will be very meaningful. "

Spielberg can understand Li Mu's sense of national belonging very well. Even though Li Mu promised to invest and even give a guaranteed bottom box office, he still reminded Li Mu of his professionalism: "Mr. Li, the real war movie costs a lot of money and costs a lot. Saving Private Ryan invested 70 million dollars four years ago, and his brother even invested 120 million Dollar, the cost is very high, and you want to make a movie that reflects China's World War II. I'm afraid that this kind of movie, in North America and other parts of the world, won't have too high box office performance, so it's unlikely to recover the cost... "

Li Mu said firmly, "it doesn't matter. If you want to invest in the theme, I can't afford to invest in my company, my company can't afford to invest, my shareholders can't. money is not a problem. The problem is to have good works. China has a population of 1.3 billion. I don't believe that a good movie will be seen by no one!"“