Chapter 241 The box office is too scary to understand!

Author: The falling knife on a rainy night

Chapter 241 The box office is too scary to understand!

——Subtitle "Why it is the No. 1 movie in history"

Han Zhou and Han Sixheng left the cinema while the movie was playing.

This time, the host is Teacher Tang. With his ability, he can handle any situation. This is just a small scene.

But you can't run away by asking him for a drink later.

The reason why Han Sixheng and Han Zhou left was because they had to immediately look for an old Peking Opera veteran who was the most important part in the filming of "Farewell My Concubine".

Han Zhou wants to invite this Peking Opera veteran and a writer to collaborate as the artistic director of this film.

Logically speaking, Han Zhou should have done this part himself, but Han Zhou doesn't have enough time now.

Moreover, most of the content was shot by Han Sisheng, so Han Zhou needed someone to help Han Sisheng.

This veteran of Peking Opera is called Boss Chi, and this great writer is called Chen Hongjun.

As agreed, the two of them arrived at the reception room of Fulong, a hotel that used to be famous but is now just average.

Han Zhou and Han Sisheng arrived almost in front of each other.

On the first day of the new year, it was still presumptuous to talk about work, so Han Zhou still brought a gift.

What was given to Boss Chi was a jade thumb ring, said to be from the private collection of Master Wei, the previous generation of Peking Opera master.

What was given to Chen Hongjun was a rather commemorative item, a gold-nibbed fountain pen belonging to a US Army officer that was confiscated during the Peninsular War.

When the two arrived, Chen Hongjun was chatting with Boss Chi.

Chen Hongjun: "Boss Chi, I didn't expect you to come in person."

Boss Chi: "I'm just an opera singer."

"To be honest, Han Zhou has a target in his hand, a folk film shooting target. Not to mention his polite invitation, even if he didn't show up at all and only sent an official document, I would have to come all the way."

Chen Hongjun was delighted: "Who else can force you? Joy."

"If you don't want to come, don't mention the official document, it will be useless."

Boss Chi sighed: "Currently, in the country, only Henan opera does not require subsidies and can survive by singing on its own."

“No one has watched Peking Opera in recent years.”

"For a director as great as Han Zhou, if he makes a Peking Opera movie, even if it doesn't have hundreds of millions at the box office, it will still have to break 100 million, right? Of course I have to come."

Boss Chi thinks this is a good opportunity to promote Peking Opera.

But in fact, the two points he thought were completely wrong.

First of all, "Farewell My Concubine" cannot only have a box office of 100 million.

Because in the previous life, in 1994, when a movie ticket in China cost four yuan a piece and a movie ticket in the United States only cost three dollars, the domestic box office of "Farewell My Concubine" was 40 million, and the global total box office exceeded 100 million.

Under normal circumstances, for box office kings, the number of moviegoers is more reliable than the total box office.

According to calculations, if Farewell My Concubine had been released in this era, it would have had a box office of around 2.8 billion at most.

Of course, whether Han Zhou can successfully film "Farewell My Concubine" is another matter.

The second point is that before "Farewell My Concubine" was filmed, Peking Opera was at its best. After "Farewell My Concubine" was filmed, Peking Opera was completely dead.

There are factors of the times and factors of Farewell My Concubine itself.

Many people remember the line in Farewell My Concubine, "How can Beijing Opera survive when the Overlord is on his knees?"

But this sentence can probably be understood as a slander against the creators of Peking Opera.

Because before this, the most popular Peking opera was a model opera. The most popular Peking opera was "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" and the most powerful stage play was "The Red Detachment of Women." At that time, mainstream theater critics and dramaturgy actors in Europe

Everyone says that the artistic value of "Red Detachment of Women" is on par with "Swan Lake".

Of course, when relations between China and Europe deteriorated later, they flatly denied that they had said such a thing and gave themselves a shit.

In that era, Peking Opera was for ordinary people to watch, for the common people.

It's for working people.

However, a retro trend of thought was born after "Farewell My Concubine".

As the line says, 'He played for the reactionaries, and he played for the landlords and wealthy people.'

Originally, the line was a satire on Duan Xiaolou betraying Cheng Dieyi in order to survive.

However, this was precisely the mainstream trend of thought in the theater world of that era.

I used to sing only to the high-ranking officials, how can you, the idiots like you, deserve to listen?

What level of art appreciation do you have, what level of education do you have, are you worthy of listening to my Peking Opera?

In the changing times, the development of Peking Opera has encountered huge difficulties. Young people no longer like Peking Opera.

Between striving for new life through innovation and returning to liberation, they chose the latter.

However, Beijing opera is not the focus of Farewell My Concubine.

Replace "Farewell My Concubine" with "The New White Snake" with "Silang Looking for a Marriage" with "Su San Qi Jie", it's the same thing.

It will not have any impact on the movie itself. The reason why it is still "Farewell My Concubine" is just Han Zhou's own feelings.

The trauma of the times shown in the second half of Farewell My Concubine is just superfluous and not at all the key to the popularity of Farewell My Concubine.

When Han Zhou and Han Sixheng walked in, Boss Chi and Chen Hongjun were still chatting.

Seeing Han Sixheng, both of them stood up.

"Happy New Year, Fourth Master."

Han Sixheng: "Hahaha, happy new year, happy new year. I'm sorry to ask you to come here during the Chinese New Year."

Han Zhou stepped forward and stretched out his hands: "Hello, Teacher Chen, hello, Boss Chi."

After a brief chat, Han Zhou talked about the work that two people were required to do in his movie.

The two of them also listened carefully.

Han Zhou has a very deep understanding of the movie "Farewell My Concubine".

It is said that 1994 was the most glorious year in film history.

Many of the top 100 classic films in global film history were produced this year.

There are "The Killer Is Too Cold", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Forrest Gump", "Pulp Fiction", "Ashes of Time", "It's Always Sunny", "The Lion King", "Interview with the Vampire"

”, “The Stranger in Disguise”, “The Years of Love” and so on.

However, the absolute king this year is "Farewell My Concubine".

This year, "Farewell My Concubine" swept all the top awards.

There is only one exception, and that is Oscar.

This year, there were two strange shady secrets at the Oscars. The first shady secret was that "Forrest Gump" won "The Shawshank Redemption." The second shady secret was that in order for "Forrest Gump" to win "The Shawshank"

"Grandma's Redemption", "Farewell My Concubine" was not selected for the Oscars!

That's right, if "Farewell My Concubine" is in the running, "The Shawshank Redemption" or "Forrest Gump" will have no chance.

However, there are two sides to this matter.

If Han Zhou were American, Han Zhou would also choose "Forrest Gump".

In fact, in the United States, the movie with the highest score on Rotten Tomatoes is the super magical patriotic nonsense drama "Top Gun 2." Ninety-nine percent of people on Rotten Tomatoes gave it a score of 3.5 or above.

score.

The score of "The Shawshank Redemption" is a pitiful 65%, with 3.5% or above being given by 65% ​​of the people.

Many people say that there is no patriotic education in the United States, and that Americans don’t make movies with main themes and talk nonsense. The main themes of American movies account for 80%, and American movie fans are also good at it.

In other words, it is understandable that "Forrest Gump" can win "The Shawshank Redemption". After all, this is the United States.

However, "Forrest Gump" or "The Shawshank Redemption" cannot win over "Farewell My Concubine" at all. Once "Farewell My Concubine" is included in the selection, no matter what selection method is used, they will not be able to win.

After all, at that time, Americans were still in the stage of looking for face, and they were not where they are today.

Therefore, they chose the easy way and simply did not allow "Farewell My Concubine" to participate in the election.

After the Oscars, a staff member from the production of Farewell My Concubine asked Oscar insiders why "Farewell My Concubine" was not included in the nomination.

The other party's answer was, 'We thought you had won all the international awards and A-level film festival awards, so you didn't need an Oscar.'

The other party's answer was that his confidence was extremely weak, and he did not hesitate to use the subtext "Oscars are far inferior to the Golden Globes and Cannes" to explain why "Farewell My Concubine" was not nominated for the Oscars.

Of course, on a certain movie website that adds one point to well-known foreign movies and subtracts one point to domestic movies, the Chinese movie "Farewell My Concubine" ranks second in the history of the rating list. In fact, the conclusion has been drawn.

In fact, with a little analysis, you can see the difference in the confidence of the three films in winning awards.

"Forrest Gump" fictionalizes a period of history and adds some real historical events to Forrest Gump to show the partisan thinking of American conservatives that "God loves honest people."
To be continued...