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Today's Hollywood movies have pried open the markets of most countries, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are raging the whole world. The first question raised by these students is not as expected by Duke, and it is related to this.

"Hello Director Rosenberg."

The question was from a girl wearing glasses from the third row, "My name is Zhuang Qiwen, a student from the Academy of Social Sciences. I would like to ask, why can Hollywood movies succeed worldwide?"

After taking the microphone sent by the staff, Duke did not answer immediately, but instead said in Chinese, "What do you think?"

A boy in the first row said, "Remaining innovation! Continuously turning imaginative ideas into movies!"

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The girl next to him said, "There are many people in Hollywood who are persisting and working hard!"

"It is undeniable that what you are talking about is one of the reasons for Hollywood's success, but it is not the key."

After a moment of pause, Duke quickly organized the language and said in countless curious eyes, "In my years of work, industrialized and programmed shooting and production modes and marketing operations of the entire industrial chain from production to screening to surrounding areas are the key to the success of Hollywood movies. In other words, the success of Hollywood movies is inseparable from its assembly line production mode."

This answer is obviously a bit unexpected. Several students in the front row were stunned for a while, and suddenly one of them spoke, "Are you one of them?"

"You're right." Duke laughed. "The professional critics in North America don't like me. They criticize me and my movies. They are all assembly line products."

“Hollywood movies have never been developed as an art creation,” Duke said without hesitation, “but as an entertainment industry.”

"Hollywood provides collective dreams to the audience by showing a series of elements that the public likes to see, such as the traumatic experience of soothing people with good and evil, and the stories of "Cinderella" who finally get married with lovers, and the stories of "Gray Boy" that stimulate people's audio-visual habits with spectacular scenes and strong sounds. It forms a tradition of fantasy mechanisms, melodrama structures, wonder styles, sensational rhetoric and popular narratives unique to Hollywood movies, which form part of the assembly line."

"And decades have passed, society is changing, generations have grown up, but Hollywood has always adhered to the popular movie assembly line model."

One person raised his hand, Duke nodded at him, and he picked up the microphone he passed it to his hand and said, "But there are art films in Hollywood."

Duke tried to say simply. "Hollywood can use art movies to package popular movies and use popular movies to promote the popularity of movies. This allows Hollywood movies to maintain mainstreamness while maintaining a certain degree of artistic quality, thus adapting to the audience's psychology to maintain consumerism!"

Hollywood is recognized as the world film factory, and it is indeed a veritable factory!

"The male classmate wearing glasses in the second row."

The host selected the second formal questioner, and he stood up and asked, "Director Rosenberg, Chinese films are still very backward now. How can we rush to the whole world as soon as possible? We have an argument here. The nation is the world. Is this how to succeed?"

"Do you know Mr. Ang Lee?"

After the response sounded in the auditorium, Duke said, "I believe that as a Chinese, Mr. Ang Lee knows Chinese movies better than me. When he visited Warner Studios two years ago, he was interviewed, and many journalists from China asked this question. I believe his views are more convincing than me."

Then Duke began to repeat Ang Lee's words at that time. "Mr. Lee visited all major Hollywood companies, including Warner, and he was asking a question wherever he went, which is why American movies can drive straight into any corner of the world."

"I remember very clearly that when he was interviewed by Chinese reporters, I got almost the same answer. They said that when they were filming, they didn't think about having American characteristics at all. That is to say, Hollywood does not recognize the idea that 'the nation is the world'. Many people have been emphasizing that movies should produce national characteristics. This is a difference in concepts, but it is a phenomenon worthy of our study. It is not that we don't have national characteristics, but that we cannot have national characteristics for national characteristics. The film made like an experimental film, and even if we receive attention, it can only be a niche movie."

“Maybe I don’t express very accurately some words,” Duke added, “but the meaning is not wrong.”

Duke was present in that interview because Ang Lee was selecting the right studio for The Hulk.

Although Duke knew that Ang Lee was not suitable for this film, he could not stop it. Long before he invested in Marvel, the Hulk's film copyright was sold to Universal Pictures. Now superhero movies are getting hotter and Marvel is willing to take back the copyright. How could Universal Pictures give up easily?

This film ultimately did not escape the fate of losing. According to the supplementary terms of the adaptation agreement between the two parties, if the movie responds too poorly, Marvel has the right to recover the copyright at a relatively low price. The two parties are currently negotiating, and it is not too difficult for Hulk to return.

In fact, this is a very simple question. As far as movies are concerned, nationalism is not the world's for many times.

Cultural differences are definitely not as simple as saying.

Anyone with a little bit of mind can see that China is rising rapidly, but it is still a world dominated by Western culture.

Duke borrowed Ang Lee's words and just wanted to express it in a more euphemistic way.

Zuo Qiang and **feng raised their hands several times, but they were not selected. They couldn't help but wink at the host. The host was their acquaintance and had communicated in advance, so when the next question was about, **feng was named.

"Director Rosenberg, my name is **Feng, I come from the Academy, and I am an avid movie lover."

Looking at the boy who was not tall, Duke nodded, "Hello, classmate Jiang."

**Feng asked the question he wanted to ask, "I am determined to develop towards screenwriters, but as far as I know, the status of screenwriters in the Chinese film industry is not high. Will screenwriters and scripts be valued in Hollywood?"

"Of course, everyone who can make a movie successful will be valued."

Hearing this, **feng quickly added, "Where is the new screenwriter? I have read many rumors and articles. After a screenwriter writes an excellent script, it can often cause competition among major Hollywood companies. Is this true?"

"It is indeed possible, but the premise is..." Duke raised a finger, "This screenwriter is the gold medal screenwriter in the industry! The new screenwriter..."

Duke shook his head, "In other words, I am a shareholder and executive director of Warner. I understand some of this. There are about 5,000 to 6,000 scripts delivered to Warner every year. Warner's adoption rate is less than 0,500 per thousand, and the works of new screenwriters may be less than 1,000 per thousand..."

"Hollywood has never lacked scripts. In Warner Bros.'s script library, there are at least 30,000 scripts waiting to get moldy. There may be many new ideas and pioneering ideas. The chances of them being adopted are very low. Let's just say that, it is basically a dream to impress the film company with scripts."

"You may not know one thing. Many Hollywood projects are just an idea and plan when looking for funds, and there is no script at all. After famous producers find interested investors and partners, they will find well-known screenwriters to write suitable scripts. Each Hollywood project will undergo very strict reviews, and even the CEO of the film company does not have the right to decide on the project separately."

"So, don't expect to impress Hollywood with a script, let alone think that because of a script, Hollywood will regard someone as a genius."

Zuo Qiang snatched the microphone from **feng and asked, "If it were your company and I met a very creative script from a newcomer, would you adopt it?"

"Ninety-nine percent, no!" Duke said calmly. "My company only shoots commercial movies. For Hollywood-style commercial movies, innovation is equivalent to a huge risk, meaning that it may not be able to recover tens of millions of dollars of investment."

This can be said to be a Hollywood reality. The production company would rather use the mediocre ideas of well-known screenwriters and producers than use the creative scripts of newcomers.

The famous creative script list is a blacklist of scripts. Many scripts have been on them for many years, but no company is willing to take over. A very small number of scripts made into movies, and their commercial performance can only be said to be very average.

This is China, and Duke is a world-famous film director, and the topic is always unavoidable.

So the next male student asked, "Who is your favorite Chinese film and film director?"

"My favorite movie is "Farewell My Concubine", which is a male actor who plays Yu Ji, and it still makes me amazed." Duke thought for a moment, "The favorite director is Zhang Yimou, and the colors he used in "Heroes" that he filmed are impressive."

Another person stood up and asked, "Director Rosenberg, will you shoot a purely Chinese-style film in the future?"

"It shouldn't."

Speaking of this, Duke's tone changed, "Now more and more Hollywood movies are beginning to try to integrate cultural and ethnic elements from all over the world into their creative styles, diversifying and integrating other excellent cultural elements has always been the development trend of Hollywood movies. I personally like Chinese culture very much and are also absorbing elements of Chinese culture and applying them to movies, such as the kung fu in "The Matrix". I will continue to try this in the future."

The live interaction lasted about twenty minutes. With the end of this event, Duke's trip to China came to an end. He was preparing to return to North America to start the preparations for "Batman". (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!