Chapter 760： 0 millionaire

On the second day after returning to Los Angeles, Ronan asked people to find several episodes of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and took time to watch them.

He is not interested in this variety show, but once watched a movie related to this, it is still a very successful genre.

That is also one of the very few India-related movies that Ronan has seen when he was on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Like Andy Lau's "Three Stupies in Bollywood", it left an extremely deep impression on him.

Netflix talked to the TV station about the authorization of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", which reminded Ronan of this work and the related news he had seen on the Internet.

If I remember correctly, the film used to be called "Slumdog Millionaire". It seems to be a film about Indian society and life, but it is actually a typical American dream film.

Otherwise, I won’t get the Oscar recognition, and I can’t remember whether it was the best film of a certain Oscar in 2009 or 2010.

The time period Ronan can remember is probably around 2010.

There is still a vague impression. It seems that I have seen it in a certain online news that "The Millionaire in the Slum" is based on Indian literature. The director has filmed the famous Secondary Two British young man as a dead little expert. "The Train".

Ronan can't remember the specific name of the director.

After all, the other party is not like Michael Bay, James Cameron and Spielberg. The films directed by them are widely spread and famous.

Ronan remembers that even many junior high school students knew the name of Bombshell.

This one really exploded a world for himself.

The man born when Mars hit the earth is worthy of the name.

As for that literary work, Ronan has not read it, and the Indian writer only remembers one Tagore.

Now that he thought of "Slumdog Millionaire", Ronan immediately called Connie and said that some time ago he had seen an Indian literary work related to "Who Can Be a Millionaire", and forgot the specific name, let her Go find it now.

Thanks to the close cooperation between Relativity Entertainment and India, and the wide use of English in India’s cultural class, Connie quickly found many famous English works.

As Ronan's assistant for many years, and also has an assistant team, Connie has long known that there are things that should not be asked, don't ask.

Besides, anyone who can achieve great success will look weird in some way.

Connie knows very well that Ronan and the entire Relativity Entertainment attach great importance to film adaptations. In contrast, original films receive less attention.

Every issue of the New York Times bestseller list, she will be sent to Ronan’s office on time.

In recent years, some English-speaking countries’ bestseller lists will also be collected by the assistant team and sent to Ronan’s office.

Collected relevant Indian literary works, Connie first read and summarized, and soon found one. The protagonist in it participated in the Indian version of "Who Can Be a Millionaire".

This is also the only work related to "Who Can Be a Millionaire".

Connie was very efficient. The next afternoon Ronan confessed, he saw a copy of India in his office.

"This is called "Questions and Answers". It is the work of Indian writer Vikas Swalup. He is a diplomat." Connie briefly introduced the basic situation: "It is not listed in the UK. This is my embassy People from the Indian branch of the industry purchased them and sent them by air express."

Ronan nodded slightly, picked it up and looked at it: "Q&A?"

Connie continued: "This is the only Indian literary work found so far that is related to "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". It was only published in India in the second half of last year. It was Vikas-Swarup. Writing in London when dispatched to the UK to perform official duties."

Her work is very well done: "The people at the Embassy Pictures have asked in private that Vikas Swalup was inspired by the cheating incident of British Army Major General Charles Ingham."

Ronan didn’t know much about variety shows and had never heard of it. He asked, “What cheating incident?”

Connie apparently made enough preparations: "Ingham was accused of cheating in the 2001 British TV show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". After being tried, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison and 15,000 pounds. Was fined and expelled from the military."

Ronan's heart moved and his eyes fell on the "Question and Answer" in his hand. The protagonist of the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" seemed to be accused of cheating when he was about to win the grand prize.

"I understand." Ronan said, "I will read this book first."

After Connie left the office, Ronan opened the cover and looked at it seriously, just as everyone in the middle and upper class of India is proud to speak English. This book is also in English.

Although it is British English, there are certain differences with American English, but for Ronan, there is no obstacle.

From a first-person perspective, it tells a story of an orphan in Mumbai who won a huge prize of 1 billion rubles in the TV variety show "Millionaire", but everyone thought he had cheated.

The reason is very simple. How could the knowledge of a slum child be so profound? Just when the actor was cruelly tortured, a beautiful female lawyer appeared to rescue him.

So, the actor told her about his magical experience. From the orphanage to the brothel, from the train robber to the leader of the beggar gang, every kind of suffering he experienced has become the most precious treasure.

The content described by 　　 allows Ronan to see the plot that was very similar to that movie, but it is far more complicated and richer than the movie.

The once "Slumdog Millionaire" was just a bizarre and exotic story for Ronan: a poor boy from a slum answered all the questions of the TV show correctly and won money and beauty.

But in the book, there are more descriptions of Indian society, culture, religion, etc., which at first glance looks more like a portrayal of Indian society.

Of course, Ronan doesn't know if it describes real Indian society.

Ronan has been to India more than once, but he has only dealt with the wealthy class in India, and has not actually touched the ordinary class in India. For him, what Indian society looks like is still stuck in the description of the Internet.

For example, urinate and defecate anywhere, such as a magical train, such as a plane that is always pierced from the sky, such as a superbike performance by Indian soldiers at a military parade, etc.

After reading it carefully, Ronan determined that the previous "Slumdog Millionaire" was adapted from this book called "Questions and Answers".

However, in the previous movies, less than 10% of the content of this book was made.

The film’s adaptation and the retained framework fully express the theme of both a quiz and a test of human nature.

The Indian style and complicated plots, character relationships, etc. carefully portrayed by 　　, the movie is basically simplified as much as possible.

This is undoubtedly a very clever approach. Whether it is a North American audience or a British audience, they are not interested in Indian society at all.

The most typical is the film’s typical Hollywood-style reunion ending, where the poor boy takes money and beauties in his arms, a very typical Hollywood movie fairy tale.

Ronan confirmed that "Questions and Answers" was the original work of "Slumdog Millionaires", and immediately asked Connie to collect more information, and at the same time transferred to Robert Lee, so that the Copyright and Legal Affairs Department could obtain the related film and television copyrights as soon as possible.

And it is not published in the United States, if possible, even the copyright outside of India is also bought out.

Compared to the possible future gains, this investment is nothing.

The original work can provide the basis for the adaptation of the film, and the big sale of the film will promote the hot sale of the original work.

The Indian branch of Embassy Pictures made preliminary contact with the original author, Vikas Svarup. Vikas Svarup was quite surprised that Hollywood could appreciate his own work. He didn't mean to hold the copyright and not sell it. The $2 million adaptation authorization issued is not outrageous.

Ronan also got more relevant information.

For example, the description of the bottom society in India in the book seems very real, but the situation described by Vikas-Swalup, who is a typical high caste, is completely different.

Vikas-Swalup has an excellent background. He admitted that the purpose of his creation was not to criticize social reality, and he was far from being a poor man. He did not really understand and investigate the living conditions of the vast majority of the poor in India~www.novelhall. com~ even "I don't know if there is really a joke who blinds orphans to facilitate begging", but writes these contents based on imagination and rumors.

These do not prevent Relativity Entertainment from buying the copyright. For Hollywood movies and American audiences, who cares what India looks like?

As long as the movie can create commercial value and bring profit, whether the content in it is real or whether it reflects the social reality of other countries, Hollywood will not consider it.

There are countless Hollywood movies fictionalizing the reality of other countries.

The situation in other countries in Hollywood movies is basically what most American audiences imagine, or what Hollywood has to describe for commercial interests.

Robert Lee has negotiated the copyright of "Zombie World War" with Max Brooks. Since Vikas-Swalup has a strong intention to sell film and television rights, he just sent someone to India to discuss the copyright of "Q&A". .

He himself has been in contact with Universal Pictures in Los Angeles recently.

Since Relativity Entertainment got the copyright of the "Fast and Furious" series from Universal Pictures, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Universal Pictures deal between Vivendi and NBC, Robert Lee has communicated with Ronan many times, especially Sha After the successful co-production of "Batman: Hour of War" between Sea Entertainment and Warner Bros., a new idea came up to promote the cooperation between Sand Sea Entertainment and Universal Pictures on film projects.