Chapter 242 Human blood steamed buns stir up public opinion


    "Nics Cage?"


    "I have no conflict with him!"


    After hearing this name, the first reaction in Rnd''s head was that he was used of being ckmailed.


    No way, who let him still clearly remember that when he discussed the release schedule of "Spider-Man" with James Cameron, in order to avoid "Independence Day" and "Tornado", he deliberately picked out of all the persimmons. What about a soft pinch?


    At that time, it was Nichs Cage''s "Into the Deadly Ind" that was blocked by him and suffered heavy losses.


    Although through the disc market, the movie finally returned to blood and profit, but in terms of box office, it was a mess. The global box office of more than 300 million yuan in the previous life was missing. Only a little over 100 million.


    After that, Rnd was very careful about this guy and didn''t want to run into him.


    After all, we are all our own people, so it''s not good to have such an infighting.


    However, Rnd felt that he was fine, but Francis Copp felt that Rnd''s problem was really too big. The old man looked at Rnd a few more times with his stomach full, and then shook his head with emotion: "I haven''t said anything specific yet. Well, why did you get rid of yourself first? I heard before that you are the guy who hates trouble the most in Hollywood. I didn''t believe it at the time. I thought they were joking. Now... you really don''t want any trouble Provoke!"


    ''It''s not that I don''t want to cause trouble, I just don''t want to cause some inexplicable housework. ''


    Rnd secretlyined in his heart, but on the surface, he shrugged.


    The indifferent attitude also made Francis Copp unable to dig deeper, touched his chin, and entered the theme, "The failure of "Brave to Kill the Ind" in 1996 caused a certain impact on him. However, after all, it was right for you, so the industry did not look down on him much, so after the failure of "Into the Deadly Ind", Jerry Bruckheimer still approached him and invited him to participate in " "Prison in the Air" project."


    "After reading the script, he readily epted the job, andst June, the film was officially released, with an investment of 75 million yuan, and a box office of nearly 225 million yuan. Although it didn''t make much money, But it slowed him down."


    "Because of this, he admires the director of "Prison in the Air" very much."


    "Because before the filming started, he made a lot of suggestions to the other party. Among them, at the beginning of the film, the scene describing the eight-year prison life of his character Cameron was what he asked to join. As an actor, you should know that if If the director revises the script ording to your ideas, then you must also appreciate him, right?"


    Speaking of this, Francis Copp blinked at Rnd.


    Well, Rnd responded with the most understandingugh.


    Rnd may be the best-tempered actor in the world, and he also appreciates all the directors he has worked with.


    Because the directors he has worked with basically changed the script for him.


    "Of course, appreciation is just an opportunity, not the point." Francis Copp, who received a response, continued.


    "The point is that after the sess of "Prison in the Air", the director Simon West found Jerry Bruckheimer and told him that he had always had a wish in his heart to make a movie, hoping to get His support."


    "But after hearing about the project, Jerry Bruckheimer didn''t respond immediately, but shied away."


    "So, Simon West found my nephew."


    "And my nephew, after hearing what Simon West said, felt ufortable, but decided to help."


    "You know, I just told someone that I admire you very much one second ago, but then turned around and said that this project is not good."


    "That''s not how it''s done, is it?"


    "So, he went to Amblin, to Kennedy/Marshall, but they weren''t very interested."


    "After asking around, all he got was rejection."


    "So, he asked me to ask you, if you are not interested, then..."


    "He can only tell Simon West the ''bad'' news."


    Francis Copp went around and talked a lot, but Rnd was confused.


    If you want to talk about the project, then just talk about the content, yesorno, how easy it is!


    I have to go around in a big circle, like constipation, exin the whole story clearly, what are you doing?


    However, when Francis Copp put an emphasis on the word ''Badnews'' at the end, Rnd, who already felt something was wrong, became alert. If it wasn''t for some tricky project, this guy would never have hinted at him so clearly. .


    So, Rnd, who wanted toin about ''Are you old and not thinking quickly'', put away his jokes and joking thoughts, stared at the old man for a while, and after confirming that this guy was indeed serious, Only then did he ask quietly.


    "Is this project a pit? Even Steven and the others don''t do it?"


    "It''s a pit, er... no, it''s not exactly a pit."


    "I can''t understand what you''re saying! Can you be more specific?"


    "This project is based on real events."


    "How real?"


    "''1993,'' ''Somalia,'' ''Super 61.''"


    Nima!


    When Rnd heard the three reference nouns from Francis Copp''s mouth, he was about to explode!


    Time, 1993?


    Location, Somalia?


    Codename, Super 61?


    Isn’t this special incident the ck Hawk incident?


    Since 1840, Somalia has been invaded and partitioned by colonial empires such as Italy, Britain, and France.


    In 1941, Britain upied Italian Somalia, and eight yearster, it was handed over to Italy.


    In 1960, British Somalia and Italian Somalia became independent sessively, and then merged to form a country.


    In 1969, Siad came to power and implemented a policy ofprehensive closeness and attachment to Mao Xiong.


    But after the guy who announced the disintegration of Mao Xiong came to power, Mao Xiong began to adopt a shrinking strategy, cut off aid to the ve countries on the three continents of Asia, Africa and Latin America, and achieved reconciliation with America. Under such circumstances, Siad, which previously relied on Mao Xiong''s aid for a living and suppressed its opponents in the civil war, copsed in January 1991. After Siad was overthrown, Somalia quickly fell into arge-scale warlord melee, causing arge number of civilian casualties and fleeing.


    In 1992, "the whole world" saw the skinny Somalis on TV, and the internationalmunity thought that something should be done for the Somalis, so relief supplies began to arrive in Somalia. But in the process, the supplies to relieve the poor were robbed by warlords.


    As a result, the United Nations decided tounch a peacekeeping activity called "Operation Restoring Hope". The main purpose of this operation is to solve the major famine in Somalia and then disarm the warlords in Somalia. But the Somali warlords believe that the UN peacekeeping force headed by the US military is not out of humanitarianism to help Somalis, but to obtain oil exploration rights.


    As a result, shortly after the UN peacekeeping force entered Somalia, the Somali warlords shed with them.


    In June 1993, a gun battle broke out between warlord forces and peacekeeping forces, shooting and killing more than 20 Pakistani peacekeeping soldiers.


    After this incident, the United Nations authorized the peacekeeping force to take some necessary measures, including arresting the culprit behind the incident and bringing it to justice. Because the U.S. military was also attacked before, they dispatched hundreds of Delta special forces to capture the leader of the Somali armed forces in August of that year.


    In October, the U.S. military received intelligence and dispatched several ck Hawk helicopters carrying 160 Delta and Ranger special forces soldiers tond on the streets of downtown Mogadishu. Twenty-four Somali fighters were captured in an adjacent building.


    However, during the retreat, Aidid''s armed forces counterattacked. During the battle, a ck Hawk helicopter was hit by a rocketuncher and fell. It was shot down. In addition, a search and rescue helicopter was damaged. At the same time, a five-ton operating truck was sted to pieces by rockets.


    The 160 U.S. troops who participated in the operation were trapped in the streets of Mogadishu. In order to save people, the U.S. military sent another fullpany, and the rescue operation continued untilte at night. When the U.S. military returned to the base, they discovered that a total of 18 people were lost in this operation, 73 people were injured, one person was captured, two helicopters were shot down, and three were damaged.


    Of course, this is not the point. The point is that when the bodies of American soldiers were dragged through the streets by Aidid''s armed forces the next day, public opinion in America was in an uproar. The international public opinion in China also believes that what the US military has done has gone beyond the scope of the ''humanitarian mission'' and is conducting a ''dirty war''.


    Under many pressures, the two sides negotiated. Aidid handed over the captured pilot Durant and the body of the American soldier; as a target.


    Until March 1995, thest batch of peacekeeping troops withdrew from Mogadishu. The peacekeeping operation, whichsted 27 months and cost more than two billion U.S. dors, ended in failure; this operation cost more than one hundred peacekeeping soldiers And nearly 10,000 Somalis were killed.


    To put it bluntly, this is a shame.


    And put on the table a shame that only five years have passed?


    This is the old birthday star hanged himself, enough to live!


    Thinking of this, Rnd looked at Francis Copp and cursed, "Oh, Fuck!"


    "Isn''t this project a scam?"


    "If it is said that the filming of "Death of a Virgin" requires money, then the filming of "ck Hawk Incident" is terrible!"


    Although Rnd knew that the "ck Hawk Incident" was indeed made into a movie in his previous life, and the reputation was not bad. Although the box office did not recover, the sales of the DVD and video tape were very good, but this would not be Rnd''s choice for taking over the project. reason.


    Because the film "ck Hawk Down" has moreplexponents than "Schindler''s List", and there are too many interested parties involved in it, no one will be able to please anyone who shoots it!


    Since you can''t make money by taking this thing, and it''s easy to provoke a show, then only a fool will do it!


    The straightforward refusal did not surprise Francis Copp.


    After all, he also knows that this matter is very difficult.


    With Rnd''s refusal, the third question ended, and the topic between the two did not extend any further.


    Now that the conversation was over, Francis Copp stopped upying Rnd and took him to find Kate who was looking at famous paintings in the collection room. Then, together with his wife, they apanied the two of them around the hilltop mansion.


    Extremely luxurious arrangement, Kate is smiling, but Rnd...


    That is of course a full promise.


    It doesn’t matter if it’s the Italian ck gold flower background wall in the living room, or the two-foot-high golden deer in the pantry, as long as Kate thinks it looks good, Rnd will say that he got the same material and ponder over the design with her.


    Because there was no concealment, those promises were clearly heard by the old man and his wife.


    The intimate words and doting actions made Francis Copp smile again and again, but when he turned his head, he found that his daughter-inw was staring at the young couple side by side.


    ‘Shit! ''


    ''It''s over! ''


    The old man knows that Rnd is very rich now, and he can build a mansion on the top of a mountain like he wants, so don''t look at Kate''s many ideas, but with Rnd, it''s just a matter of changing materials and building it vigorously, but he himself, can There is no way to make such a fuss. If his wife wants this and that like Kate, then his old life will have to be paid for.


    So, after ncing at the time, he said, "Ah, it''s already seven o''clock? How about we have dinner first and then watch..."


    In the process of going to the restaurant, he deliberately pulled Rnd behind, constantly hinting ''I''m not as rich as you'', ''Women are unreasonable'', ''Don''t show your love there in front of my wife'','' If I go bankrupt, I''ll go to your house for dinner" and a series of slightly threatening words that kept admitting cowardice. Rnd, who understood, didn''t stalk him, and drove him to a corner. After dinner, he and Kate Farewell, back to the hotel.


    "What did he talk to you about today?"


    As soon as she returned to the hotel, Kate asked about her situation after being dismissed by the other party.


    The three things that Francis Copp said were not confidential, so Rnd did not hide them and told the other party all of them.


    The power transfer of "The Virgin''s Death" and the firm endorsement of "The New York Times" are all within the scope of Kate''s eptance, but she has some doubts about the "ck Hawk Incident", "The ''ck Hawk Incident'' really Is it impossible to shoot?"


    "It''s not that I can''t shoot, but this matter is too sensitive." Rnd said truthfully.


    "I know sensitive, and I mean, aren''t sensitive topics your favorite thing?"


    Now that she has decided not to be an actor, and she has to watch her man well, then Kate has put in a lot of hard work in the position of producer, don''t look at the project of "Saving Private Ryan", what''s wrong with her? She didn''t do it, but in the past year, she has studied all the projects invested by Rnd.


    "Isn''t your favorite thing to do is to find a right opportunity for a bad project?"


    “The Seven Deadly Sins, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption…”


    "It''s all like this."


    Kate''s words are actually not much wrong.


    Rnd''s favorite thing to do is not to make a good film at all, but to follow the current situation and be the pig in the wind!


    But the problem is, regardless of whether it is "The Seven Deadly Sins" or "The Shawshank Redemption", their sess has nothing to do with Rnd! Rnd just knew they would catch fire, but he didn''t know why they caught fire until he did it!


    But unfortunately, Rnd understands that this kind of self-knowledgeable truth cannot be said directly.


    So, he could only exin in a roundabout way: "The Shawshank Redemption was an ident."


    ""The Seven Deadly Sins" was also an ident."


    "Except for "Forrest Gump", other movies are actually not directly manipted by people. It can only be said that we did certain things at a certain time, but God made him go to an extreme."


    "Like toon."


    "No one knows that themander-in-chief will attack Libya in that year!"


    "The foreign war of that year brought the anti-war sentiment in America to its peak. Therefore, "Field toon" was invincible in that year. Whoever touches it will die, and the opponents in the same period will be unlucky!"


    Now that he talked about the conditions under which a war film should be sessful, Rnd also extended it along the way, "If you want the ''ck Hawk Incident'' to be valuable, you must meet some people when it is released. Big things…"


    "But the question is, how can there be so many big things to touch?"


    "Besides, the only thing that can make war movies sweep the world is war itself. It is best not to fight..."


    At this point, the voice stopped abruptly.


    Just as Rnd kept denying the value of "ck Hawk Down", he suddenly remembered something.


    Wait a minute!


    Isn''t the "ck Hawk Down" in his memory the movie four yearster?


    and "Spider-Man" were originally at the same time.


    Because of ''September11 attacks'', "Spiderman" was forced to move, but "ck Hawk Down", it was released on time, and then a movie that was supposed to be disliked by everyone, in a garbage schedule, in the case of national grief, It sold a box office of 172 million. Although based on the investment of 92 million, this movie is a huge loss, but...


    This should also be considered a time, right?


    If we make a little packaging and release it before ''September 11 attacks'', then there is a lot of room for maniption—before ''September 11 attacks'', we will promote this movie in an anti-war form, preaching ''how cruel war is, Unnecessary intervention will only kill your children, husband, and father''; and after ''September11 attacks'', jump directly to the reverse, ''means that blind tolerance and peace talks can''t solve any problems, tolerance for those terrorists is To be cruel to oneself is to hand over the lives of oneself and your family to others, and you must kill them with lightning force. Only the death of those people can bring peace to the country and the people of America! ''


    In this way, isn’t it conforming to current events?


    Before ''September11attacks'', the American people''s desire for war was not strong, so it is a correct position to advocate anti-war, but after ''September11attacks'', the American people''s desire for war is unprecedentedly high, if it is matched with "ck Hawk Down" This humiliation will arouse the people''s war sentiment even more!


    Of course, the most important thing is that in less than a month, the war on terrorism has kicked off, and during the war, the thenmander-in-chief repeatedly stated that "ck Hawk Down" was his favorite movie !


    If "ck Hawk Down" can help him stir public opinion, it doesn''t matter even if he still loses money!


    Because he is in the interests of themander-in-chief, and the interests of those military workers behind themander-in-chief!


    As long as they are happy and willing to meet Rnd, then this business is a **** profit!


    But…


    This is eating human blood buns!


    The point is that if something happens in the east, stir up public opinion, and promote a national war...


    No one can recite it!


    Note: ①Nics Cage''s request to change the scene of "Prison in the Sky" is true. ②After "Prison in the Sky", Simon West approached Jerry Bruckheimer and told him that he wanted to film the "ck Hawk Incident", but was rejected by the other party, so there was no way, Simon West Te turned around and found Nics Cage, but was still rejected. At that time, no one in Hollywood was willing to invest in the filming of ''ck Hawk Incident'', because they thought it was causing trouble, and even the book was not published by the publishing house. After the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the publication of "ck Hawk Down: A Modern Warfare Story" was put on the agenda. In March 1999, it was officiallyunched. After the book was released, Simon- West found Jerry Bruckheimer again, and the other party decided to buy a book and shoot. But shortly after buying the copyright, Simon West turned around to shoot "Tomb Raider", so the project "ck Hawk Down" fell into the hands of Ridley Scott. ③The project "ck Hawk Down" is super sensitive. From the project approval to the release, the US Department of Defense participated in the whole process. The script alone was overhauled three times. There is a certain gap between the whole movie and CNN''s initial report, and Bush Jr. did endorse him. However, it is feasible for the article to be published on the basis of current events, because in reality they did the second half, but there was no rebound.