Boss Jia did not expect Jon Landau to propose a movie about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
This did not happen in his previous life, and Boss Jia did not take the initiative to do it in this life. It was Jon Landau, a foreigner, who took the initiative to do it. Because of this, it had a special meaning to Boss Jia.
Because this time, Jon Landau took the initiative to discover the treasure of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and then took the initiative to propose a movie about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
This showed that Hua Xia culture had spread at a different speed around the world.
Some people might think that Boss Jia was overthinking. Jon Landau saw the Romance of the Three Kingdoms because he was influenced by Boss Jia, and as a Hua Xia citizen, Boss Jia would definitely support the filming of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. That was why Jon Landau proposed this. If it was another boss, this would be impossible. Therefore, Jon Landau did not take the initiative to do this. He just wanted to please Boss Jia.
That was not wrong, but Jon Landau did do something that had never been done in his previous life. Boss Jia himself was an anomaly in this world, so everything was essentially the same. This made Boss Jia feel a trace of joy deep in his heart.
Logically speaking, after his assets broke through the barrier of hundreds of millions of dollars, the pleasure that money could bring to Boss Jia was actually not much. After all, the life and enjoyment of one billion dollars and one hundred million dollars were about the same.
Boss Jia began to have pursuits other than money, such as how to operate and develop a country, a civilization, and a people. To Boss Jia, this was starting to replace the pleasure that money brought to him.
And to be able to see the gradual rise and influence of Hua Xia culture in the world was also an unusually joyful thing for Boss Jia.
"How do you plan to film it?" Boss Jia certainly wouldn't reject Jon Landau's suggestion. In fact, even if Jon Landau didn't mention it, Boss Jia would have adapted the Romance of the Three Kingdoms to the big screen in a few years' time.
However, the idea proposed by the United States was fundamentally different from the idea proposed by Boss Jia.
However, Boss Jia was still a little worried. He was worried about how the foreigners would handle and film the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In another world, it wasn't as if foreigners had never put the traditional classics of Hua Xia on the big screen. The most famous one was Hua Mulan, but the final result was self-evident.
Although it was claimed to restore makeup and history, it was actually a pile of dog shit.
Therefore, Boss Jia wanted to see what Jon Landau's plan was.
"I plan to film it in three parts!" Jon Landau said, and Boss Jia nodded at his first sentence.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms was such a huge story system. How could such a story be completed with just one movie?
After all, a novel like The Lord of the Rings, which had a relatively weak story, was filmed in six parts. And a story like Star Wars, which could be finished in an hour, was filmed in nine parts.
Not to mention three parts of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, even six or nine parts would be enough.
Just Red Cliff alone was enough to make a big movie.
However, it would be too much to make two movies like Wu Yusen in the future. Moreover, the adaptation of Red Cliff's script was really difficult to explain in a few words. It was a complete nightmare.
It was an unprecedented war in history, and the only memory left was Mengmeng. No one else could do it.
"Be more specific!" Boss Jia said.
"I plan to start with the part where the 18 Great Han Knights crusade against the Duke of Xiliang!" Jon Landau said.
"18 Great Han Knights crusade against the Duke of Xiliang?" Jon Landau's words made Boss Jia's expression very strange. If any Hua Xia person heard this, it would be a big joke.
However, for Westerners, it was the easiest to understand. After all, Westerners did not understand the political system of the Han Dynasty. Jon Landau read the translated version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The translated versions of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that could be found in the West were all translated by foreigners who liked the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In order to reduce the difficulty of translation and make it easier for foreign readers to understand the meaning, these translators used a lot of Western culture as substitutes.
For example, when the 18 Dukes of the Three Kingdoms asked for Dong Zhuo, they translated the 18 Dukes into 18 Knights. Because Dong Zhuo was made a Duke by the imperial court, he was translated into a Duke.
This translation was not wrong in the eyes of Westerners because in the West, Knights actually had their own territory, which was equivalent to the lowest level of nobility. In history, most of the 18 Dukes of the Three Kingdoms only had official positions and did not have titles. They were not even nobles. Translating them into Knights was considered giving them a promotion.
However, the problem was that this translation was a bit wrong in the eyes of Hua Xia people. 18 Knights crusading against the Duke of Xiliang. No matter how you looked at it, it was like 18 Knights fighting against a Duke. It would make people very speechless.
Thinking of this, Boss Jia could not help but have the idea of re-translating the Four Great Classical Novels and then releasing it to the world. The current translation was really terrible.
"Why not start with the Yellow Turban Rebellion?!" Boss Jia thought of a lot of things in his mind, but he did not stop Jon Landau. After all, this was not Jon Landau's fault. Instead, he asked.
"Because there is nothing to film in this plot!" Jon Landau scratched his head and said, "These plots are rather dry, and they're too disconnected from the later plots. I don't think it's a good idea to film them. If we film them directly from the eighteen knights and dukes, the battle scenes will be grand, and we can directly enter the climax. The Yellow Turban Rebellion only needs to be roughly described in the first few minutes!" Jon Landau said.
In fact, Jon Landau's words were not unreasonable. In the eyes of many professionals, the Yellow Turban Rebellion of the Three Kingdoms was actually not worth filming.
For example, although the CCTV version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" filmed the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there was only one episode in total, and most of it was focused on the Oath of the Peach Garden. The battle scene of the Yellow Turban Rebellion was fleeting. Zhang Jiao and the others only showed up to pose as P0SS, which was similar to the process of the plot.
As for Gao Xixi's version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", they did not even bother to film it. At the beginning, the Dukes of the Three Kingdoms directly asked for Dong Zhuo. This was exactly the same as Jon Landau's idea.
Therefore, there was nothing wrong with Jon Landau's idea, but Boss Jia shook his head and said, "The Yellow Turban Rebellion must be filmed, and a lot of effort must be put into it. It must be the best movie in the whole series!"
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