I Created the Myth of the Old Ruler

A few days ago, overseas, Massachusetts.

Alfred Lake is one of AMC's senior division chiefs responsible for introducing movies.

He was Thomas Lee's superior.

"The Christmas schedule? What on earth is this guy Li thinking?"

Lake saw the report on the desktop and felt that his men were getting more and more difficult to deal with.

Here, the Christmas period is equivalent to the Spring Festival, Christmas, and New Year's holidays. It is also a good time for major shopping malls to launch promotional activities. The streets are crowded, the shopping malls are crowded, and the box office of movies is also rising. It is second only to Summer time and May Golden Week time slots.

Generally speaking, just as the domestic Spring Festival movies mostly show family-friendly and happy and festive movies, the movies around Christmas are also mainly light comedies, romantic dramas, cartoons, etc.

But Thomas Lee handed him a war movie.

Or a foreign language film.

In the words of Chinese people, it’s so unlucky to see anything like fighting and killing during the Chinese New Year.

Although there are no similar rules overseas, people still like to take their families to watch movies at Christmas. The classification of war movies does not allow children to be taken with them, so they do not give priority to such movies when going out, which drags down the box office.

Moreover, it was filmed “abroad”, which was emotionally unacceptable to Lake.

Fortunately, the contract only guarantees 5% of the film schedule. The specifics will depend on the situation.

Next to the report, there is a box of CDs, which contains the movie "The Tide", which was sent by Thomas Lee for evaluation and local review and grading.

Overseas, all movies, games and other audio-visual entertainment products need to be classified to distinguish some of the content that is not suitable for children, and then make those movies that are not suitable for children more exciting.

"Li's judgment has always been accurate. There may be a reason why he did this this time. Why not watch this movie first..."

Lake wanted to start the review immediately, but suddenly thought of tonight's party.

He graduated from Miskatok University in Massachusetts, where there is the famous Miskatok College Student Film Festival, which is also the largest youth film festival in the United States. Lake majored in photography. After graduation, he worked in film and television for a period of time, and later entered AMC, step by step, got to where it is today.

Tonight's party is the 20th anniversary of graduation between him and a few close classmates. It is in his own house. His house is quite big, and his friends can just sleep there when they are tired from playing.

Some of these students are already famous directors, while others have stayed in school to teach and become professors. They are all successful people.

In addition to the classic barbecue party, they also get together to watch movies. After all, they are all professionals. There is a lot to talk about while watching movies, so they spend a relaxing and happy night.

“Maybe it would be better to have them taste it together.”

Lake thought that his own opinion might be biased, but the opinions of so many classmates together were enough to produce a comprehensive evaluation.

After all, according to Thomas Lee, this is an epic blockbuster.

When Lake heard this sentence, he almost wanted to ask his Chinese subordinate to translate what "epic blockbuster" meant.

As we all know, this kind of big-budget movies have disappeared in recent years. Even Hollywood, the strongest film industry in the world, has no longer rashly tried this kind of big-budget production. In recent years, the hottest movies have been connected through works with a world view. Superhero movie, the kind of classic epic blockbuster no one makes anymore.

Lake doesn't think other countries can make epic blockbusters. First of all, their industrial equipment can't do it. Secondly, it's the level of the actors. Finally, it's the script, director and other factors, and the last thing is the financial investment.

At the beginning of the century, there were some epic fantasy movies. The computer special effects technology at that time was not very mature, so many of them used real-life shooting, such as finding hundreds of riders to charge on horseback, or making fake props to replace special effects.

This is also done to save costs. It sounds weird, but at some point, producing special effects is really expensive.

To this day, Hollywood is still proud of its mature film industry system. Various superhero movies are a reflection of the development of industrial special effects.

In Hollywood, these special effects can be completed at a relatively low price, but abroad, you either have to spend a lot of money to find a Hollywood OEM, or you have to explore it yourself.

For example, when a fire burns, foreign teams may have to study the particle presentation for several months, but here in Hollywood, there are hundreds of the same fire special effects that you can choose from. This is all accumulation and reserve, and it is not easy to overtake in corners.

There are even many special effects that can only be completed by specific studios, and most of these studios are concentrated here. Some people say that Hollywood has a monopoly on special effects movies, and this is not wrong at all.

If you want to shoot a movie with big scenes and many special effects, you will almost certainly find a special effects team from Hollywood.

But Lake didn't hear that any studio in Hollywood was undertaking related special effects production business.

In other words, the special effects of "Magic Tide" were most likely produced by studios elsewhere, or by them themselves.

Those kind of 50-cent special effects are simply not worth looking forward to.

Lake also took a look at the director's previous works, which were all horror films and thrillers. This kind of low-budget film would be classified as a B-level movie here, which made Lake feel that the so-called "epic" Blockbuster" might just be a joke.

As for the reason why those movies have such high box office, Lake believes that this is probably because of their backward aesthetics.

There have been blockbusters co-produced by the two countries in the past, and famous foreign movie stars have been invited. The result is that the quality can only be said to be average, and the special effects are not enough, leaving the audience disappointed.

Therefore, Lake picked up the CD of "Tide" with the mentality of watching a joke and complaining about bad movies, and drove home.

At night, after enjoying a perfect barbecue, Lake and his friends came to the screening room of his house, which was partially converted from a garage. It has perfect audio-visual effects and can be called Lake's happy house.

"What did you say you brought?"

asked one of Lake's friends, Justin. He is now a well-known director, has made two pretty good movies, and is considered a leader in the industry.

"A movie, to be released on Christmas Day, is imported from overseas."

Lake took out the disc.

""Magic Tide", the name reminds me of the game I played when I was a kid."

Another friend, Professor Armitage, quipped, he is a professor at the School of Communication at Miskatok University.

"It is said that this is an epic blockbuster, hehe."

Lake put the disc into the player.

"Epic blockbuster? I haven't heard of any director recently planning to make such a big-budget movie."

The last friend, Les, was a producer at a film company. He didn't quite understand what Lake meant, so he asked.

"Anyway, just watch. I've prepared a beer. We can watch and chat at the same time."

Lake brought a few bottles of beer, pressed the play button again, turned off the lights, and sat on the soft sofa.

The entire room dimmed, and before the crafting list appeared, a dark forest appeared first.

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