Chapter 1168 It doesn't matter, I'm shameless anyway
In order to determine the timeline of "The Last Warrior", Li Mu asked Spielberg tentatively, saying: "Steven, do you know when the movie Tom Cruise will be finished and when will it be released?"
Spielberg shook his head and said, "I don't know very well about the specificity, but I think it seems that the filming started in the second half of last year, and the filming will definitely be completed in the first half of this year. In addition, if there is no problem, it should be released at the end of the year."
Li Mu nodded and asked him again: "If we prepare as soon as possible, when will it be turned on? When will it be released?"
Spielberg thought for a moment and said, "If the speed is fast, we should be able to start the film in early March, but when the shooting is started in early March, we can only take the part of the shots in the United States first, and prepare for the filming in China while shooting. If the efficiency is fast, we should be able to finish the film before the end of this year. In this way, it should be released next summer."
Next summer, it will be better than "The Last Samurai" at least half a year later...
Li Mu was silent on the surface, but he thought to himself that "The Last Warrior" must not be allowed to achieve such good results and influence according to the development of history. However, how to use the method to stop the other party seems to have become an unsolvable problem.
In any case, Li Mu does not have the ability to stop a Hollywood film from being released worldwide. Hollywood is originally a free market. If he directly targets a certain Hollywood film and smashes other people's jobs, he will definitely encounter a strong backlash effect. So Li Mu is basically sure that it is basically a dream to make "The Last Warrior" ruined.
Li Mu thought again, since he could not catch up with it, it was released earlier than it was, and he could not directly make it bad. So how could he keep its influence to the lowest level?
After thinking about it, Li Mu couldn't think of a good solution.
After chatting with Li Mu for many details, Spielberg said goodbye and left. Li Mu asked Wang Yuanlang to send him away, but he turned on his computer and searched for information about "The Last Warrior" on Google.
After entering the English name of "The Last Warrior" into Google, Li Mu soon saw a lot of entertainment news. Fortunately, his English level was very good, and it was stressful for him to browse these overseas website pages.
Li Mu carefully looked through every information about "The Last Warrior" and soon found that almost all of this information was entertainment reports, and it was related to Tom Cruise, mostly reporting that Tom Cruise took on this movie and other news.
There is no real information in these reports. The plot of this movie and the entertainment reports are also vague. It is just that Tom Cruise took on a legendary story about an American Civil War officer and a Japanese samurai, and Tom Cruise played a captain who retired from the American Civil War.
In addition, there are some related interviews by director Edward Zwick. He kept keeping his eyes closed during the interview, just saying that he was very obsessed with Japanese culture, so he created such a movie. He also revealed that Tom Cruise himself was also particularly obsessed with Japanese culture and carefully prepared for this movie for two years.
The reporter also asked Edward Zwick if he could roughly reveal the plot of the movie. Edward Zwick was very cautious about it. Like Tom Cruise, he only told half of the basic story outline, just saying that this was a story between American Civil War soldiers and Japanese samurai. But he did not want to disclose what the story was. The reporter tried to ask more, but he changed the topic and said that this movie was a collision and combination of Western culture and Eastern culture, which would definitely surprise the audience after it was released.
Then Li Mu looked for some other news and collected some useful news from it. For example, the film officially started filming on October 10, 2002 and is expected to be completed in May this year. Moreover, the total investment of this film actually reached a fucking $140 million!
Li Mu was shocked to see it. Good guy, $140 million is more than $40 million higher than his budget for "Flying Tigers". The investment in this movie is so large, it is hard to guarantee that there is no secret support from a Japanese consortium behind it.
Li Mu suddenly felt that "The Last Warrior" was probably like his own "Flying Tigers", a top star, Hollywood team, great investment, big scenes, big productions, and the atmosphere of commercial movies everywhere, but in the bones, it is a kind of sophisticated cultural output.
It is very likely that behind "The Last Samurai", there is also a funder who is like himself, but he wants to export Chinese culture, Chinese spirit and Chinese history, while the other party wants to export Japanese culture and Bushido spirit.
The more Li Mu thought about it, the more he felt that his inference was extremely likely. The more he thought so, the more he was determined to find a way to ruin the movie.
Later, Li Mu searched for some makeup photos intentionally released by the crew. Among these makeup photos, there were photos of Tom Cruise wearing 19th-century American uniforms, photos of Ken Watanabe and Hiroyuki Sanada wearing samurai uniforms, and photos of Kato Koyuki wearing traditional Japanese clothes.
Tom Cruise is worthy of being one of the peaks of Hollywood male movie stars. She wore a military uniform from two centuries ago, but she could look heroic and handsome.
However, Li Mu suddenly realized a problem. Putting aside other subjective factors, Li Mu had to admit that in the movie "The Last Samurai", all the visual presentations about Japan are very exquisite, which can be said to be a painstaking effort. Whether it is the character modeling, costumes and props, or landscape architecture, they are all extremely attentive, and are all creating a beautiful visual effect.
Therefore, in Li Mu's impression, Tom Cruise's image in Japanese samurai uniform armor is more handsome than his image in military uniform. Why didn't the crew send out his image's final makeup photo?
Li Mu thought about it and suddenly figured out something!
The crew of "The Last Samurai" is very attentive to the plot of this movie!
Generally, movies will generally publish 30% or even more, which will attract users' attention, but the plot currently released by this movie is even less than 10%. They only announced the story's background and the starting point of the story, and the deeper plot is not disclosed at all.
They didn't even reveal the stills of Tom Cruise wearing a warrior uniform, that is to say, they didn't even want the audience to know in advance that Tom Cruise would become a warrior in this movie.
Li Mu guessed that they did this to ensure the suspense of the movie.
The structure of this movie is very interesting. How Tom Cruise was invited and decided to go to Japan to train the army and command the army to fight, is actually just an introduction. The real meaning of entering the main plot starts from the moment Tom Cruise was captured by Ken Watanabe.
Tom Cruise transformed from an instructor to a prisoner, and was gradually brainwashed by Ken Watanabe's Bushido spirit, and eventually became a samurai fight alongside him. This is the real main plot of the story.
Therefore, under this plot structure, once the final photo of Tom Cruise, a retired American soldier, put on a Japanese samurai uniform, is announced, and the plot can basically be guessed. The crew must keep the plot confidential, so they are so cautious.
At this time, Li Mu suddenly realized that a secret trick suddenly emerged in Li Mu's mind.
Aren't you hiding it and afraid of leaking it? OK, I've watched this movie several times, and I may not remember it very clearly except for the dialogue, but I remember every detail of the entire plot direction clearly. If I write down all the detailed plot directions and throw them online, and then use the navy to push them, then you find that almost all of your scripts have been moved online, what should you do?
Moreover, I'm not as simple as revealing your plot, I have to hack you!
That’s right, although your movie is indeed pretty good, but from the height of nationalism, I still want to hack you!
In fact, Li Mu knew in his heart that although "The Last Samurai" was good to watch the movie simply, the plot really couldn't stand serious consideration, and the prototype of the movie was not so noble and pure incarnation of the so-called so-called bushido spirit. Instead, a group of samurai fought against the government in order to safeguard their privileges and eventually became rebels. The movie changed the story and sang the best of its ability to praise it, which itself may hide some deep interest relationship.
Moreover, this movie was released at this critical moment, so Li Mu felt that he had to be black and severely!
Li Mu thought about the specific routines, for example:
"I thought it was a movie, but after reading the script, I felt that it was full of blood. The friends on the surface became enemies, but the enemies on the surface became friends. This routine is made at least a few hundred of them in Hollywood a year, right?"
"After reading the script, I have no interest in this movie anymore. If Tom Cruise has been making such a bad movie that cannot stand scrutiny, I am afraid that the Little Golden Man who will win the Oscar in his life will never be able to win the Oscar."
"Damn it! I really didn't expect Tom Cruise to act in such a nonsense movie, killing a Japanese woman's husband, but this Japanese woman fell in love with the murderer of a husband. When you saw the script, didn't you imagine what you were feeling if someone killed you and your wife fell in love with him?"
In addition to these, Li Mu also wants to pick up the American nationalist spirit when he is on the verge of the dark, so that the American people can subconsciously exclude this movie, for example:
"Director, how much did you pay for the Japanese? What was your intention to praise the Japanese's extreme Bushido spirit so hard? Do you know how many crimes did Japanese soldiers who believed in the extreme Bushido spirit committed around the world during World War II?"
"Did this damn silly director forget the Kanfeng Special Attack Team during World War II? They shouted that the Bushido spirit was sunk, but the warships of us Americans! Those who were killed were all our American compatriots. Maybe there were your elders and relatives here. You are so shameless in whitewashing this extreme Bushido spirit, and your face is really disgusting!"
"f*k! This silly director, I really suggest that he learn about the Papua New Guinea battlefield during World War II. Do you know that the Japanese soldiers who advocated the extreme Japanese Bushido spirit once committed the crime of eating American prisoners here?!"
"Although it is a peaceful era and we shouldn't have too much nationalism, I'm really disgusted by the director. You, an American, rack your brains to promote their nationalism for the Japanese. Then I would like to ask you, where is the nationalism that belongs to the Americans in you?"
"A adult should have a correct view of right and wrong. Unfortunately, this director did not. He didn't know that he was actually singing praises, but actually the spirit of the demon. He had long forgotten history. In his eyes, there was only interests. Whoever gave him money would sing praises for whom. I really doubt whether one day the descendants of the Nazis would find him and give him some money, and he would be willing to make such a whitewashed movie for the Nazis. I felt chilling when I thought about it!"
"Omg, I decided not to watch this silly director's movie from today!"
"Shit! It's not just his movie, I don't even want to watch Tom Cruise's movie!"
"god-damn! I think it is necessary for us to call on our fellow Americans, and all the countries and peoples who have been hurt by this extreme Bushido spirit, to boycott this movie!"
Before he knew it, Li Mu, the drama artist, had already fabricated a lot of various naval military remarks, and he felt more and more at ease, and wrote seventy or eighty ones in one breath.
At one moment, Li Mu also felt that it was a bit too low to do this?
Chapter completed!