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Chapter 817 Football War

"Hey, Jonathan, do you have time? Come to the VIp box at Wembley Stadium, I'll introduce someone to you."

Two days before the League Cup final, Ye Qiu called Jonathan Wilson. At that time, Jonathan Wilson was writing his own column, so he asked with a smile, "Do you want me to say more good things for you in the column, right? You know, many people are not optimistic about you now."

Indeed, Tottenham Hotspur has not been in good shape in the past half month, but its fame and influence are there.

"Please, believe it or not, I'll take down your column and turn it into a third-version girl advertisement." Ye Qiu intimidated on the other side of the phone.

It doesn't seem difficult to get the column of Jonathan Wilson, for example, buy the entire ad in the page he occupied.

"Okay, okay, you rich people just like to mess around like this." Jonathan Wilson smiled and admitted defeat.

"I will introduce someone to you and I will introduce you to a part-time job," Ye Qiu said with a smile on the other side of the phone.

Jonathan Wilson heard it and shook his head and said, "You know, I'm not short of money."

This guy's royalties can earn ⊥He has made a lot of money, so where is he still short of money?

"Anyway, you will know if you come, otherwise you will regret it." After saying that, Ye Qiu hung up the phone.

As a result, there was no news afterwards. It was not until the day of the League Cup final that Ye Qiu asked the club staff to call Jonathan Wilson again, telling him the number of the box and asking him to go to the box by himself, and Peter Nean and Ron Gurley would wait for him there.

This made Jonathan Wilson always curious about who was going to introduce him to him, and actually sent two powerful players to accompany Tottenham Hotspur. Of course, this may be more because of the League Cup final.

With such doubts, Jonathan Wilson arrived at Wembley Stadium, and touched the box with a familiarity. After knocking on the door, the person who came to open the door was Tottenham Hotspur's head of the news department and the old friend Robert Milson.

"Hi Jonathan, you're late" Milson smiled and pulled Jonathan or Wilson in.

"Traffic jam" Jonathan Wilson used an old tooth excuse that has remained unchanged for thousands of years.

After entering this private room, Jonathan Wilson was a little surprised because he originally thought the private room should be quite empty, but he didn't expect that the entire private room was almost everyone, and many people were sitting in the seat, facing the stadium, with their backs facing Jonathan Wilson coming in.

Except for Peter Neon and Ron Gourley, Jonathan Wilson did not see who it was. He only saw one back, or even one head, who knew who it was?

"I'll introduce you." Robert O'Milson brought Jonathan O'Wilson to the seat, "Oliverton, the famous Hollywood director"

Amid Robert Milson's introduction, Jonathan Wilson was surprised to find that the person who stood up and turned around was really the famous Hollywood Oliverton. He is an amazing figure in Hollywood and the world film industry. How could he appear here?

Just when Jonathan Wilson was surprised, someone stood up next to him and laughed, "Oh, please, Jonathan, you'll be shocked when you see Oliver, right?"

Looking around, he said this, which is said by all Tottenham Hotspur fans all over the world. The famous Hollywood movie star Judeno is a die-hard fan of Tottenham Hotspur. He has his own special business seat at Stratford Stadium and must be there for every game. Even during the filming of the movie, he has to take the time to rush back to watch it.

Because of Tottenham and Tottenham, they both live in London, so Judeno is very familiar with Jonathan and Wilson.

"Matt, this is the most famous football reporter in Britain, Jonathan Wilson"

Under Judeno's introduction, Jonathan Wilson saw another Hollywood star, Matt Damon.

Jonathan Wilson was really confused at this moment. He didn't understand what was going on. Isn't this a League Cup final? Why are there so many Hollywood stars suddenly coming?

"Hello, Jonathan" Oliverton took the initiative to shake hands with Jonathan Wilson, "I'm glad to know you. I heard that you are a very good football reporter and football tactics analyst."

"It's over-reward" Jonathan Wilson responded politely.

"We are planning to shoot a football movie about Tottenham Hotspur." Oliverton said straight to the point.

Making a movie? Hollywood? Football?

These three words flashed through Jonathan Wilson's mind, but he never felt that these three words could have the opportunity to blend together, because football has been a taboo in Hollywood for many years.

When it comes to football movies, the most famous one is [Famous One Ball], but even this movie was actually started after being heavily sponsored by Adidas, and only two movies were filmed, and the box office was not very good, so the third movie was not released directly.

There is a very famous novelist named Nick Hornby in Arsenal. He wrote a novel about football called Demands. This novel is favored by many people, such as Johnny Depp, but when it was adapted into a movie, the team of Twentieth Century Fox transformed the sports in it from football to baseball.

So, what Arsenal fans were talking about was finally urged to discover that in this movie, football turned into baseball, and Arsenal became Boston Red Sox. There was nothing they had to do at all, and they were happy for nothing.

Jonathan Wilson once mentioned this to Jude No, that is why football is not good in Hollywood.

Judeno quoted the famous director Ken Roach, who is also a British fan, but as a director in Hollywood, he believes that the narrative style and rhythm of the two are different.

In Hollywood, all movies focus on the star effect, especially to make movies that sell big at the box office, it requires some big stars, but often big stars do not have the foundation of football. In this case, how do you make these big stars interpret all kinds of skills on the football field to life in the movie?

In fact, in the United States, there are more and more fans. Even in Hollywood, there are many people who like football. Especially with the strong rise of Tottenham Hotspur in recent years, it has attracted the pursuit of countless Hollywood stars. For example, the famous Oscar-winning actress Charlize O Theron has mentioned more than once that he likes Tottenham Hotspur very much and head coach Ye Qiu.

There are also many senior executives of film companies, famous directors, and big-name actors. They are all fanatical football fans, but they just cannot create excellent football movies, which has caused more and more filmmakers to stay away from football.

"You guys are planning to shoot a movie with Tottenham theme?" Jonathan Wilson still couldn't believe it.

Oliverton smiled, and Peter Neon on the side nodded and said, "Yes, Jonathan, this has been basically confirmed, and Judeno, Matt Damon, they are all willing to join this movie, and Adele is also willing to sing the theme song for this movie and re-interpret Tottenham Hotspur's team songs and fans' songs."

Adele is a world-famous female pop singer and the best Grammy pop singer. Born in North London, he is an absolute loyal to Tottenham Hotspur. She and Judeno can be seen in the stands in almost every game.

"This is how it started," Robert Milson introduced the story to Jonathan Wilson.

Ye Qiu once used the play of Oliverton's Battle Sunday] to encourage and stimulate players. This incident was rumored by the outside media. Later, after Oliverton learned about this, he also remembered the names of Tottenham and Ye Qiu. Especially in recent years, Tottenham Hotspur has been at its peak in North America.

When I was traveling with Tottenham to China this summer, Olivertone also came to China. By chance, I met Ye Qiu and the two sides started talking, and Ye Qiu smiled and suggested that maybe a movie should be made.

"Football is described as a battlefield without gunpowder. A football game is worth hundreds of millions or even more than one billion euros, which has attracted the attention of hundreds of millions of people around the world. Such a war can be said to be a world war."

"Those people don't shoot football well because they don't really understand football."

It was this time that Oliverton was full of interest in the football described by Ye Qiu, so he began to have a concept, often communicated with Ye Qiu on the Internet and emails. The more he talked, the more interested the two sides became. Especially in the past few years, Tottenham's legendary journey, there was too much material to shoot, and even a movie could not be summarized.

This time Oliverton came to London. In addition to having a personal experience of the League Cup final, he also planned to watch Tottenham Hotspur’s game on site and prepare the script.

"Use war to shoot football?" Jonathan Wilson was a little surprised.

War movies, in Hollywood movies, almost represent commercial blockbusters.

But Oliverton became famous by making war movies. His famous work was the movie [field platoon] describing the Vietnam War. He himself was a veteran who had personally experienced the Vietnam War, so he always had a feeling that others could not understand about war.

This is fully reflected in his filming of War Sunday]. Isn’t the tacit understanding that emphasizes teamwork and gives each other life to each other’s hands actually the same as war?

"Football is a very delicate sport with gorgeous personal performances, but it also emphasizes team combat very much. This is the same as war. However, one of the important reasons why football is difficult to move to the big screen is that the entire structure of the football game cannot adapt to the requirements of the movie. This is the biggest difference between it and war."

"So, when shooting football movies, the most important thing is to balance, grasp the essence of football and its most fascinating parts, reflect the spirit and core of the sport, emphasize the most similarities with war, and then through this emotional resonance and interesting stories, all viewers can understand why football is the greatest sport on the planet."

Oliver expressed his feelings about football movies. These were actually a conclusion that he finally came to after an in-depth conversation with Ye Qiu, combined with Ye Qiu's professional football qualities and Olivertong's own ability to understand movies.

That is, if a sports movie wants to succeed, you should not be too obsessed with the movement itself, but should integrate it into the entire society, transform sports and competitions into a metaphorical way, and then arouse emotional resonance among the audience.

In other words, this movie will interpret the charm of football in a completely new way and angle.

Oliverton has even thought about it. The movie is taken from Ye Qiu's first season coaching Tottenham Hotspur. It is a typical competitive film material. The movie starts with a fierce life-and-death battle, but Tottenham Hotspur was defeated and its ranking fell into the relegation zone. All media, journalists and fans were crazy about bombardment and accusations, and the team's situation was in danger.

Then we cut back to the team that just took over half a year ago and everything that happened afterwards, and slowly started. Finally, after a long period of preparation and preparation, we ushered in a big explosion of emotions, games and results in the second half of the movie.

This is also a typical Hollywood commercial film model. As long as you master it well, you can completely delineate the rhythm and narrative model of commercial films.

After Oliverton said this, Jonathan Wilson was a little surprised, "Aren't you going to make a biographical movie of Tottenham Hotspur? Why do you feel like you're going to make a series?"

Oliverton and Peter Neon laughed a little after hearing this, who said, "If the first movie is hot, then we will release a sequel, at least two or three, right?"

Based on Tottenham Hotspur’s past few years as material, it is indeed possible to shoot several films. The key is to determine the director and screenwriter, the effect of the filming, and the box office results.

"Then...you come to me..." Jonathan Wilson was a little confused.

"We hope to invite you to be technical coaching," said Oliver.

The so-called technical guidance is actually to give some professional opinions on the details of some football matches or tactical layout. Jonathan Wilson is a tactical analysis expert, and after watching football for so many years, he has a deep understanding of this sport.

"Why don't you invite Ye Qiu? He is more professional than me?" Jonathan Wilson asked strangely.

Oliverton and Peter Nion looked at each other and smiled helplessly. They thought Ye Qiu was the most suitable. After all, many of the creativity was discussed by Ye Qiu and Oliverton, but Ye Qiu planned to accompany his wife to travel around the world and had no time to participate in such a thing, so he recommended Jonathan Wilson.

However, Ye Qiu is one of the investors in this movie. Currently, Huangtian Group is already the owner of China's largest cinema chain. It also acquired the second largest cinema chain ANC in the United States and established a film investment company. It is already one of the top film investors in China.

With this background, and the movie tells the story of Tottenham Hotspur and Ye Qiu, with Tottenham Hotspur's current influence in North America and the world, coupled with Oliverton's directing ability, and the market appeal of Matt Damon, Judeno and Tottenham Hotspur stars, I believe this movie is quite marketable.

While Jonathan Wilson and Olivertone and others were craving the details and ideas of the movie in the VIp box, the game on the court was not postponed because they lost their attention, and it still began in full swing amid the cheers of tens of thousands of fans throughout the game.

Tottenham Hotspur still did not show the invincible Tottenham Hotspur's strength in the past in the first half. Tottenham Hotspur, who was slightly weak, used a passive scene to confirm why some people thought that Tottenham Hotspur would be defeated by Pellegrini's Manchester City before the game.

Especially in the first twenty minutes, Tottenham Hotspur played very, very hard. Ye Qiu shouted almost every minute on the sidelines, constantly reminding the players to be careful of this and that, and commanded very frequently. It can be seen that he was also very dissatisfied with the team's performance.

With the league already basically sure to win, Ye Qiu obviously hopes to continue to make breakthroughs in the Cup and Champions League, especially the League Cup, which has reached the finals. There is no reason to let such a trophy be spared in vain, right?

Yaya O Toure and De Rossi, two strong men, joined forces to limit Tottenham Hotspur's midfield. They performed quite well after the opening, especially Yaya O Toure. The physically energetic Ivorians performed very actively in this game. Tottenham Hotspur paid the price for his sluggish state in the 30th minute. Aguero received an assist from Yaya O Toure and scored the first record for Manchester City.

This made everyone worried about Tottenham Hotspur, because from the first half, Tottenham Hotspur continued the team's sluggish state in recent times. If it was against a weak team like Norwich, Tottenham Hotspur could still rely on the team's strong strength to beat the opponent, but now it is facing Manchester City.

When it comes to the strength of the players and the thickness of the lineup, Manchester City is not inferior to Tottenham Hotspur at all, and even surpass Tottenham Hotspur. Therefore, the outside world is not very optimistic about Tottenham Hotspur in this game.

After being scored by Manchester City, Ye Qiuyuqin also gave up walking around the sidelines and pointed at the command. Yuqin directly held his hands in his chest, standing there, looking coldly at the players on the field without saying a word.

It's strange that after being scored by Manchester City, Tottenham's performance improved a bit, especially after entering forty minutes, Tottenham Hotspur had a threatening attack, but failed to break through Manchester City's goal, but this was already a very good start.

So Pellegrini became passionate and walked to the sidelines to direct the game hard. It was obvious that he also felt that Tottenham Hotspur's sleeping lion had been awakened.
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