There were four people on the dining table, and they were all shocked except Li Mu.

The shock that Li Mu's words brought to the three of them was indeed indescribable. Li Mu was willing to take out the Mu Ying ticketing system, give 20% of the shares for free, invest, guarantee the other party not to lose money, and leave all the risks to himself. All of this is just to let the partner come to China to make movies!

Not to mention the two American guests were stunned, even Senior Brother Liu was so surprised that he couldn't speak.

He knew Li Mu. He knew that Li Mu had an extraordinary sense of mission to the country and the nation. This can be seen from his performance of holding the national flag at Harvard and his passionate speech. However, he did not expect that Li Mu would be willing to sacrifice the most fundamental goal of a businessman for the sake of China's image and influence around the world and for the long-term development of the Chinese film and television industry.

It seems that Li Mu only sacrifices profit completely. It seems that there is only 3321. However, what Li Mu said just now is no longer just sacrificing profits. Even while giving up profits, he also has to invest more costs to do this. From this point of view, it can be seen that Li Mu attaches great importance to Hollywood and China to make movies.

Spielberg couldn't help asking Li Mu: "Mr. Li, do you hope Hollywood can pull the entire Chinese film industry? If this is the case, we can work with Makino Yingxiang to make some movies in the future, and this is absolutely fine."

Li Mu nodded: "It is necessary to pull. There are too many problems in the film and television industry in China. It will take at least ten years to rely on internal adjustments and improvements alone. However, if they are promoted by outstanding peers in the industry, they must catch up, otherwise they will be eliminated by the rapidly developing industry and by the rapidly developing audience."

As he said that, Li Mu said again: "Of course, another aspect I just said is also very important, because unlike Western ideology, Western media have a lot of demonizing propaganda about us. I don't understand politics and don't want to touch politics. But as a Chinese, I really hope that the whole world can take off the tinted glasses imposed on them by the media, and truly see the real appearance of this country, this nation, and these people, or understand the ancient culture that this nation has nurtured on this land for thousands of years. The best solution I can think of is movies."

Spielberg was also particularly touched. Although he was an American, he was even more a Jew. He understood Li Mu's sense of national belonging, and that feeling was beyond the limitations of the territory and the country, and it could not be simply summarized by patriotism.

Spielberg once made a movie related to the Nazi massacre of Jews. The movie was called "Schindler's List". It tells the true story of a German businessman named Schindler who helped more than a thousand Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. As a Jew, Spielberg was unwilling to shake hands with German actors during the entire process of filming this movie. Although it seems unpolite, this is due to the sense of national belonging deep in his heart.

Whether it is out of a Jewish deep recognition of national belonging or a businessman's pursuit of interests, Spielberg could not refuse Li Mu's cooperation plan. He nodded gently and said seriously: "Mr. Li, I am willing to accept your cooperation plan. In the next ten years, I will personally or in-depth participation of my team in a movie related to China every year, and even led by me and my team."

Speaking of this, Spielberg paused and asked Li Mu: "Mr. Li, regarding the cooperation of Muying Ticketing System in North America, we also hope to increase our holdings of a portion of the shares by investing. Do you think it is feasible?"

Li Mu said: "It is 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 invest, I will account for 80%, and you will account for 20%. If you want to invest, I will give you 10% room for increase, but when the share increases, the company's valuation is 200 million US dollars."

A valuation of 200 million US dollars, 10% of the shares is 20 million US dollars. Although this is not a huge sum of money for Spielberg and his company, it is also a considerable expenditure. Although this company has nothing, the valuation of 200 million US dollars sounds a bit incredible, but the 200 million US dollars is already worth it based on the Muying ticketing system, its influence in the yy ecosystem, and market space.

It’s like Tencent suddenly announced that one day it would make a new product under the framework of WeChat. Even if it doesn’t invest a penny, its valuation will be sky-high if it is backed by the WeChat ecosystem.

Spielberg just thought for a moment and said to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, I accept your conditions and am willing to increase my 10% stake."

"Okay." Li Mu nodded: "I don't have any other requirements here. My requirements are all on the movie. Let me briefly mention a few points: First, I have a veto on the movies, scripts, castings and budgets you have in China as agreed. If I don't like your story, I can pass the movie directly; if I don't like a certain actor in it, I can directly remove him from the movie; if I have any opinions on the budget, I will increase or reduce it moderately based on the original."

Spielberg said without hesitation: "This is reasonable, I have no objection."

Li Mu also felt relieved. What he was most worried about was that Spielberg and his team would fool him at that time, so he had to control the script of each movie and nodded before he could shoot it.

In fact, Li Mu has always had a lot of dissatisfaction with the film and television industry in China. Even if the Hollywood film and television industry is in a fame and fortune world, it will fall and rot in the internal world, but the professionalism of making movies in the entire circle can always be maintained and implemented. A Hollywood actor may be a scum, an addict or a mistress, and he or she will make a fuss, but as long as he or she walks to the camera, he will be a professional actor and present a professional performance.

However, in the Chinese film and television industry, the difference in acting skills of a large number of professional actors is a shattering one. The production level of the entire industry is so rough, the urgent pursuit of money, fame and fortune, and the low requirements for art itself are simply undesirable.

Many times, when Li Mu watches domestic film and television dramas, he will find that even the protagonists can't act, let alone those extras.

Sometimes, it is difficult for a movie to have several online acting skills in a movie, but the extras are outrageous, and they are played every minute and have a very poor viewing experience;

Sometimes, for the sake of traffic and income, a lot of so-called popular young actors are invited. Each frame of the whole drama is as beautiful as a magazine blockbuster, and the plot is combined to make people feel vomited;

Sometimes, the special effects of a three-year-old child can't bear to look at it.

Moreover, the film and television dramas that Li Mu most disgusted with the post-production recordings are unbearable as long as the lip shape is not matched. However, in order to save time and effort, most domestic film and television directors and actors use post-production dubbing methods to save time and effort on filming, so that the "Miss Digital" who counts numbers on the set will appear...

Some old actors are also unprofitable, and their acting skills have not made breakthroughs in more than ten years. They have played the same roles for more than ten years, but each one makes people embarrassed all over;

If you look at the corruption of the Chinese film and television industry, Li Mu, an outsider, can curse him for three days and three nights without word. It’s not that he admires foreigners and fascinates the foreigners. From the perspective of an audience, Chinese film and television dramas cannot be compared with American film and television dramas. The simplest example: In American dramas, you rarely find extras with no acting skills online. Sometimes the acting skills of extras are amazing. Even if most American dramas are not good, they will not make people lose their drama because of the poor acting skills of the actors. However, in China, extras are really extras who can’t act at all, and few directors can stick to their artistic pursuits. They really invite a bunch of supporting actors who can act in to make the whole drama fuller.

It is precisely because of these original sins that make people feel that they are unable to become strong, that Li Mu is full of pessimism about the self-development of the Chinese film and television industry.

Although Hollywood penetrated a large number of Chinese film and television markets in the later period, and even a large number of cooperation between actors, directors and screenwriters in the Chinese film and television industry, the Chinese market had already risen at that time, and the industry had gone astray, and the audience was led by the way, so that Hollywood content had to bow its head when it arrived in China, and all wanted to use domestic so-called actors without acting skills in the box office. They did not bring any improvement to domestic films at all. Instead, they were led by the domestic film market and they were far behind.

If the Chinese film and television industry still embarked on this path in this life, Li Mu would definitely disband Muye Yingxiang and never touched film and television again, because he was unwilling to get along with so many lobby players, even if he was just in one industry, he could not afford to lose that person.

Spielberg asked Li Mu very proactively: "Mr. Li, if we sign the contract successfully, what theme would you like us to make in 2003, and what kind of movies related to China?"

Li Mu thought for a moment and said, "War theme! Whether it is "Save the Soldier Ryan" or "Brother Company", they are war-themed films and TV series that I like very much. During World War II, China paid a huge price to resist the Japanese invaders, and made great contributions to the people of the world. However, Hollywood has never had any films about China resisting the Japanese invaders during World War II. You have made almost all the World War II battles that Americans participated in. You have also filmed a movie about the German army massacre of Jews during World War II. If you personally directed a movie from China during World War II, I think it would be very meaningful."

Spielberg can understand Li Mu's sense of national belonging. Even though Li Mu had promised him to invest or even give a guaranteed box office, he still reminded Li Mu in a friendly manner: "Mr. Li, real war films cost huge and very high cost. Saving Private Ryan invested 70 million US dollars four years ago, and his brothers invested 120 million US dollars, which is very high. And you want to make a movie that reflects China during World War II. This kind of movie may not have too high box office performance in North America and other parts of the world, so the possibility of recovering costs is not high..."
Chapter completed!