Chapter 56 First Day Results (5/5)
Lu Xiaoran is not very familiar with most film critics in the circle, except Alang.
There is no need to pay attention to them!
Just as Zhang Yimou said: The most important benchmark for evaluating a commercial film is box office. Frankly speaking, China does not have powerful film reviews!
‘The current comments on Chinese movies are all about themes first. After I have taken a work, I always talk about ideas, culture, and meaning first. Isn’t this losing more and more audiences? What do you rely on to revitalize Chinese movies and make Chinese movie audiences go to the theater to watch movies? What do you rely on what you said? We have experimented countless times in the 1900s and proved that this is not possible!’
‘In their opinion, it seems that there is a certain avant-garde thought in the work and a certain rebellious spirit, so everyone desperately affirms it. However, ordinary audiences are not interested in the content, avant-garde and challenging thoughts behind you. As a result, this comment slowly leads Chinese films to a dead end - they have a great reputation, as if the level is high, but no one watches it.’
——"Southern Weekend Interview"
You see, a master is a master, and that’s what he said in 2002!
Chen Qingsong is a relatively well-known film critic in the circle. Which circle is it?
Movie review circle!
There are many titles before his name, such as director, screenwriter, film critic, writer, and have served as judge, director and planner of well-known domestic film festivals such as the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival and the College Student Film Festival.
Last year, I made a golden broom with the goal of imitating the American Golden Plum Awards and establishing the Golden Broom Awards to award the worst film of the year.
There are more and more bad domestic films, and the audience has long been dissatisfied with this.
There is an award for selecting bad movies now, and everyone is undoubtedly applauding!
But, this guy itself has a problem!
Because he has to unite some people and suppress another!
In later generations, I scolded traffic all day long, and was like Wang Hailin. You are so awesome, you scold Tianbao, Guan Gege, Lu Daan, and you catch Yang Mi, Liu Yifei, Xiao Zhan and others and others. Is it interesting?
No matter how much you scold your works, you have to say that ordinary people who read this are not easy to use...
A feeling of everyone getting drunk and I was awake alone!
He will carry out the interests of the capital party and will implement the shamelessness to the end.
However, he only posted this Weibo post for a minute and was deleted!
Nonsense, do you think Lu Xiaoran is a muddy person, but you want to mess with it too?
Some netizens took a sharp-eyed screenshot and asked Lu Xiaoran, "Do you know who this person is?"
Lu Xiaoran politely replied, "The half-baked film critic likes to sway!"
...
The premiere of the 25th and the full release of the 26th are released. Lu Xiaoran has already gone to Shanghai.
After traveling to six theaters, I later accepted an interview with Alang at the hotel:
"Are you confident of setting another box office record?"
Lu Xiaoran shook his head: "Before, I must have considered its market conditions before I made a commercial movie. Otherwise, I would not have looked for Liu Dehua in "Save Mr. Wu". In the past, I could predict the box office in every movie very much, but "The Lonely Agent" is a bit difficult because you can't find the target for the investigation!"
Alang thought for a while and nodded: "Indeed, this movie is too special!"
Then I asked: "Many people's movie is very similar to "Hurricane Rescue". How do you respond?"
"Haha, it's really similar. In fact, this kind of movie is very similar. It's all about the protagonist fighting violence with violence..."
After a pause, Lu Xiaoran continued: "My own opinion, "The Lonely Agent" is an action film that is biased into genre narratives. We have no intention of developing new movie genres to develop so-called challenging and different ideas from our predecessors. The important thing is to use our means to make a movie that is very attractive to the audience, try to make it as good as possible and try to make it tasteful..."
Alang asked again: "Will many people criticize you put pressure?"
"It's a bit, I can still read the news!"
“Can you talk about the Golden Horse Awards?”
"…I am not a member of them, and I don't need their awards. If I want to win the award, I will fight for Cannes, Berlin or Venice, not the Golden Horse!"
"You seem to be biased against them?"
"It's them who are biased against me. If I were Taiwanese and filmed "Save Mr. Wu", would you guess they would award me the Golden Horse Award?"
Alang was silent for a moment, and Lu Xiaoran smiled: "I have known for a long time that any award is actually a small circle game. Literary and artistic films with high artistic value can shine in major international authoritative film festivals. Why do you want to give a promise to a small island of Chinese film awards? You can watch the so-called Golden Horse nominated films yourself, and you are a nameless and pure Golden Horse Award special film in the international film industry. Why can they nominate?"
"If you want to promote a newcomer, if you push someone you like in a group of eighty-tenths, everyone will agree with this unspoken rule. If you push someone who is sixty-tenths in a group of eighty-tenths, or even fails, don't blame me for not admitting it!"
"Many people say you don't like to use Hong Kong and Taiwan actors, is that true?"
"No, every time I cast the role, I just don't like to use some flashy celebrity actors, they are too expensive!"
"Mission: Impossible 4, will you audition?"
"Go, of course I have to go, just talk about the overseas distribution of "The Lonely Agent"!"
I didn't have much talk, "Watching Movies" has launched a video version, which takes ten minutes to get a conversation with you...
Finally, Alang asked: "I heard that the new movie has started?"
"Well, the special effects have been in use for more than three months. We try our best to ensure that they will be released in November next year!"
"One movie a year?"
"Haha, there may be two movies next year!"
...
Speaking of Lao Liu, after she turned down "A Chinese Ghost Story", Liu's mother was very angry - the salary for filming "Source Code" was 1.8 million, with a cycle of half a year...
Preparation and post-promotion - that is to say, there is no other income for at least eight months!
If you take on "A Chinese Ghost Story", you will not only have a 2 million yuan salary, but the endorsement fee will be several million yuan!
She didn't understand why her daughter couldn't even settle such a simple account!
I am very concerned about the casting of "A Chinese Ghost Story"...
Liu Yifei stopped acting, which does not mean that the crew stopped directly.
They chose each other and finally decided on Gao Yuanyuan!
There is really no young actress in Hong Kong who can show off!
She told Liu Yifei the news, who did not speak and went out directly...
"Where are you going?"
"…See a movie!"
"What movies do you watch?"
""Lonely Agent", Lu Xiaoran's new movie!"
"I'll go too, I want to see what this director has!"
Liu Yifei smiled, opened his mobile phone, and opened the Weibo interface. The number one hot search was that "The Lonely Agent" had a box office of 39 million on the first day, setting a record for the highest painting opening in film history!
Chapter completed!