Chapter 676 Don't always stare at the Nobel Prize
Zhang Chu’s goal is not to write books all his life, it is just a stage of his current life.
Unfortunately, he does not have the talent to be a director and does not want to stay on the set all day long to deal with machines and actors, so he chose him to focus on the producers.
Let’s not talk about being a producer for other films. At least if the works you wrote are to be adapted into movies or TV series, if you have the identity of a producer, you can influence the quality of the film to a certain extent.
There are many types of producers, one is the planner who is responsible for the entire film, responsible for the production, and the other is also the financial investor.
Another type is that it is professionally and technically responsible for the entire film, including executive producers, production directors, production producers, on-site producers, and external producers.
This is the master of the entire crew and the highest power person. He has the right to decide what kind of members to hire and the right to fire them.
From the formation of the film to its release, it is the core of the film.
Most of the domestic producers are the bosses or investors of film and television companies, and they are actually the director-centered!
Hollywood is centered on producers, with great power and control everything.
Whether it is in Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, and MGM, movies are like products on factory assembly lines.
The producer is the executor of the company's policies, the director's control over the entire film has been weakened, and the producer is the chief steward, who controls the work from the theme selection, scene arrangement, crew members to the later editing and other work.
Most directors do not have the power to finish the final cut, and the power is with the producers!
What Zhang Chu has to do now is to figure out the production procedures of Hollywood movies and prepare for the future.
The large company is more organized in the production process, so that if his works are adapted into movies in the future, the quality of Zhang Chu himself can be controlled.
This is such an olive branch that Disney handed Zhang Chu to help him cross this threshold.
It is very difficult to become a producer. Even those top stars can only become producers when they are most powerful, and they must also be films starring themselves.
Many people started with producers who were young, and there would never be such a good opportunity for Zhang Chu. It was a top blockbuster produced by Disney, and it was Jerry Brookheimer who took the lead!
Maybe everyone is a little unfamiliar with this name, but when it comes to the films he leads the production, they will be very familiar with, and those works are all famous.
For example, Tomco's "Top Gun", "Battle of the Deadly Island" and "Pearl Harbor", "Black Hawk Down" throughout the whole process, and the most famous "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, have once topped the Hollywood power list, and are even better than the gold medal producers!
Zhang Chu can learn a lot of relevant knowledge from such a character. The only shame is that he is in China now, and now is the time for the crew of "The Da Vinci Code" to be prepared, and he should have participated, rather than being across the Pacific Ocean.
Fortunately, the filming of a movie cannot be finished in a short time. Zhang Chu has already arranged a winter vacation, so he will go to the shooting locations of his four movies.
If you have any problems, try to find out when shooting and production. Don’t wait until the filming is over and ready to be released before discovering something is wrong!
The filming location of the crew of "Farewell My Concubine" is in Yanjing, and he can go there on weekends. However, "Ghost Blows Out the Light" may be more troublesome, because Jingjue Ancient City involves a lot of scenes.
For example, they plan to go to the desert and plateau for on-site shooting, and at the same time, they will build a real nine-story demon tower, the ruins of the Jingjue Ancient City and the underground ruins of the Kwantung Army in Yida Paradise.
These buildings will try their best to restore the scene, and after shooting, they will be open to all tourists as tourist attractions in Yida Paradise!
According to the news obtained by Zhang Chu, Yida Group is now starting construction, and the film crew is shooting some other scenes, and these places will be concentrated together to shoot together.
He only hopes that the crew of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" won't really go to the desert during the winter vacation, but when he thinks about it, he seems impossible. How cold the northwest desert was at that time!
"Maybe one day, I can raise money to be a producer to film the written ones." Zhang Chu thought happily in his mind.
I am not a director, but I can ask the director to shoot. I believe most directors will not miss this good opportunity.
His works are often worth tens of millions of dollars, and they are calculated in US dollars. Being able to direct movies of this level is definitely the most dazzling one in his resume.
After putting down his phone, Zhang Chu took out the textbook in his backpack and turned it to the post-class problem. He could not start writing books at this moment, so he had to write out his homework first.
The only benefit of the Chinese department is that it does not have to learn all kinds of mathematics, nor can it build any models, but this is not a good thing for Zhang Chu.
He would rather use his pen to calculate advanced mathematics or advanced algebra than briefly describe the labor theory point of view on the origin of art, and what aesthetic ideological attributes are there, which can kill a series of brain cells!
Of course, things that need to be memorized with standard answers are actually the best memory. Those writing reviews are not only troublesome but also take up quite time.
Whenever this happens, Zhang Chu can't help but think about how he chose this major after being tempted?
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It was already nine o'clock in the evening after finishing my homework, and the bells sounded softly in the room.
Needless to say, Zhang Chu also knew that it was Matcha who was wandering outside for a whole day and came back. This guy only remembered to go home while eating and resting.
Zhang Chu did not get up to look for it. Matcha jogged all the way to the study, and then looked around curiously at the power aperture in front of the computer host, wanting to press it with his paw.
The cat is very interested in these luminous things. It often accidentally holds the power button, causing Zhang Chu's computer to accidentally shut down.
So in this case, Zhang Chu had to use the cloud save function. He could automatically save a word by writing a word, so that the computer would suddenly shut down and cause thousands of words to disappear!
The little guy was lying at Zhang Chu's feet and used his tongue to sort out the hair on his body. The flexibility of his body was simply terrifying.
At this time, Zhang Chu was conducting the outline, background and character setting of "Norwegian Forest", which determines what it will look like.
The whole story mainly expresses the kind of loneliness, which tells the process of how people get along with the world and how to reconcile with themselves. The overall story is not very strong.
Readers of different ages will have different experiences when reading this book, and its connotation is very rich.
It is clearly a story about love in youth, but it ends up becoming a literary classic, relying on the realism in it, which is very down-to-earth!
Many people may say that "The Forest of Norway" is full of pretentiousness, and people commit suicide every moment. Where does the reality come from?
But the psychological activities of the characters in it can touch the readers, which has a sense of empathy. It belongs to the loss of adolescence, what is love in adolescence?
In our lifetime, we will meet many people, friends in our youth, people we like when we first fell in love, funny roommates in college, people we love, and people we love.
The protagonist inside is very confused, and the readers may also be a little confused after reading it.
Many people like to ask what others are reading and what stories this book tells, but most people probably don’t know how to summarize "Norwegian Forest" for a while, because it does not belong to any specific type.
Talking about love, youth, growth, and individualism are all included.
If we look at it normally, this book is actually not outstanding, without too many suspense and plot twists, nor is there enough bumpy processes and emotional renderings.
But why is it well known to people?
Zhang Chu felt that this might be because of resonance, and many emotions hidden in his heart could be found in it.
Regarding this book, Zhang Chu is working hard to Chineseize it, today I guess the overall story can be written, and the writing style will keep Haruki Murakami's narrative unchanged.
A long time ago, he had drawn a junior Japanese mastery during the lottery. At that time, Zhang Chu thought that this might be a preparation for anime or a small movie with a plot. Now it seems that he finally has a place to use it!
Previously, he read all the domestically translated versions. Although the translation was very good, it was not the original text anyway.
If you want to understand one, it is best to read the author's original text, because translation is also a re-creation, bringing the translator's own understanding.
Zhang Chu stretched and stood up from the computer chair. He joked, "I hope Murakami Haruki's luck in running around will not be passed on to me."
Another Wannian Running with Wang Xiaolizi won the Little Golden Man, but Haruki Murakami probably still has to endure it if he wants to win the Nobel Prize!
The night wind on the windowsill was a bit cold. After Zhang Chu put on his coat, he lay on the balcony and moved his eyes, so that he could not let his eyes look at the computer screen for a long time and make his eyes look myopic.
Matcha also climbed onto the railings with ease. The hair on its back fluttered in the cold wind, and its whole body curled up, accompanying the shoveler to blow the wind together.
Zhang Chu touched its back with his hand, then held it in his arms, enjoying the rare tranquility of each person and a cat.
The community is brightly lit, but the leaves of the green trees have basically fallen off, and winter is not far away!
After closing the floor-to-ceiling window, Zhang Chu was about to go to the closet to find clothes and go to the bathroom to take a shower and sleep. But who expected that most of the group messages on his mobile phone were blocked at this time, and he only accepted the messages and did not remind him. Someone would look for him in the middle of the night.
"Blair's voice?"
Since he has been proficient in using WeChat, Blair rarely typed on WeChat and used voice, which is very convenient for him.
After Zhang Chu clicked on the voice and put his phone next to his ear, he heard a familiar voice coming.
"Congratulations, my dear friend, your "Da Vinci Code" caught the last bus of the National Book Awards and successfully entered the nomination list!"
After hearing this passage, his eyes couldn't help but lit up. He thought that this movie might have lost all its prizes due to commercial success. Unexpectedly, the National Book Awards gave this surprise.
You should know that during the World Suspense and Thriller Writers Conference a few days ago, it was a serious suspense and encountered gorgeous ignorance!
So Zhang Chu pressed down on the screen of his phone and replied: "Thank you, you must have your contributions. I hope you can win the award, so that I can win the literature award in the UK and the US."
However, Blair began to pour cold water on: "This is different from the Booker Award. It is the luckiest thing that you can get nominations. Because this award is sponsored by the Publishers Association, they need a bestseller to increase attention! This type of work has only received nominations in the past years, and you are not an American, and there is no story about Americans."
"I thought you told me this last time, but didn't you give me the Booker Prize in the end?" Zhang Chu said jokingly, "I can conquer even the most picky British, let alone the Americans."
After saying this, he even laughed. In fact, he was already full of luck last time, and it was very difficult to copy the original result this time.
In fact, the result is already very clear. Americans want to use "The Da Vinci Code" as a sedan chair to carry the award-winning work of their country!
If you win awards on such a popular bestseller, the attention will definitely be much better than defeating unknown works.
Blair couldn't hear the joke in Zhang Chu's words. He replied: "That's all I said. If I don't win the award, I'm at least mentally prepared. Next year's Allan Poe Award will definitely be prepared for you. This type of mystery detective award is most suitable for "The Da Vinci Code".
The so-called National Book Awards of the United States are the most important awards in the American literary world and also a grand ceremony in the publishing world. They are mainly divided into four different types, namely, non-poetry and youth literature.
It was jointly established by the American Publishers Association, the American Books Association and the Book Manufacturers Association, and the best five works in each genre were selected to be finalized.
There are thousands of ways to meet new books, and the Nobel Prize is just one of them. This award has developed a lot from the past that valued well-known writers' creations around hot topics to the current work that focuses on obscure and realistic themes.
"The Da Vinci Code" is chosen because of its best-selling attributes. If the dissertation is literary, it is actually not as good as the other works.
Zhang Chu actually has some expectations for this award, but he thinks "The Forest of Norway" seems to have more advantages in this regard.
Chapter completed!