Chapter 605 Showing off wealth to Iron Man

The top performer at the 2011 Spring Festival Gala is still Cao Xuan.

There is no way, so many songs appear together in the Spring Festival Gala, it is difficult for people to ignore it, it is even more complicated than him attending the Spring Festival Gala himself, which is a gimmick.

At the same time, the Spring Festival Gala also added to the success of several new songs by Cao Xuan.

The first one is "Because of Love". Queen Wang's popularity and influence are strong enough. The key is that the Spring Festival Gala also has classic works, "Meet Me in 1998" and "Legend" are both golden songs of the Spring Festival Gala.

So on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, if Xiao Zhou wants to take over from Cao Xuan, he may not be able to surpass Wang Fei.

However, although the show "Because of Love" is very popular, because it is a real singing, Wang Fei is out of tune in many places, his breath is confused, and it can be called a car accident scene, so it has gained a certain amount of controversy.

Cao Xuan wants to be fair here. The female part of this song is indeed much more difficult to sing than the male part, especially with a voice like Wang Fei's.

If the tone is not lowered and suppressed, the voice will easily float. When the song was recorded in the studio, Wang Fei sang it harder than Cao Xuan.

But then again, even if it is difficult to sing, Wang Fei’s level will not allow him to sing like this.

To a large extent, it may still be due to the nervousness of the Spring Festival Gala live broadcast and the decline in singing skills.

This is nothing new. As Wang Fei gets older and develops various bad habits, such as smoking, drinking, staying up late, and not paying attention to protecting his voice, his singing skills have declined by no means from his peak, and he often makes mistakes.

Many previous concerts and some gala performances also had similar situations, but they were not as influential as the Spring Festival Gala. The people in the show were concerned and the fans were tolerant and concerned.

That was because the Spring Festival Gala was off-key, and Fang Huan also apologized specifically on Weibo, which actually helped Eason Chan escape the disaster.

After all, I sang "Because of Love" instead of Downey, and it was supposed to be the focus of the audience's attention. However, because of Cao Xuan, it landed safely.

Cao Xuan was not the only car accident scene in the Spring Festival Gala. Xiao Jingteng was even more miserable. I happened to have a bad cold at the time and my voice was in bad condition, but I insisted on singing, which caused the performance to collapse.

To be honest, there are not many people who really messed up the Spring Festival Gala, but Rain God’s performance can definitely be ranked among the worst.

Who triggered a small discussion among netizens, whether it was a spineless real singing with difficulty and mistakes, or a lip-synching to ensure that the party would go wrong.

That's a cliché, and I have to mutter a few words at the Spring Festival Gala almost every year.

Even in the Chinese music industry, there was no one to take sides. For example, Cui Jian publicly criticized lip-synching, and therefore had conflicts with Na Tianqian and other singers.

Fang Huan has also been asked this question. My answer is very complicated. I support real singing, but in some cases, it is understandable to use lip-synching for the sake of program effect.

Although that answer was not condescending, Downey's explanation was very clear.

Some performances are really important, and they are even just responsible for the audience. If they are broadcast to the public, they are also related to the face of some countries. It is true that mistakes are caused by the singer's willfulness.

But if you lip-sync during daily performances or concerts, it shows that you have no professional ethics, and you deserve to be attacked.

No matter what, real singing is definitely prioritized over lip-synching. The latter can despise the former, and the former is not qualified to challenge the latter.

In addition to "Because of Love", another popular song is "Under the Sea". In other words, "Under the Sea" was already very popular, but the outstanding performance of Phoenix Legend made "Under the Sea" even more popular.

Phoenix Legend and Yao Beina also won the first prize in the 2011 Spring Festival Gala singing and dancing category by virtue of that program, beating Cao Xuan, Da Zhou and other institutional singers.

The first song that became a hit was "The Lonely Warrior".

It's over the top and slightly off-kilter. In addition to being popular on the Internet, it's also popular with a small number of middle school and college students.

It's still winter vacation right now, and it's too obvious. When the new semester starts before the Lantern Festival, I'm afraid we'll be exchanging secret codes with each other outside the classroom.

"Do you love him walking alone in a dark alley?"

"I love him like he is kneeling!"

It was easy to say whether he could reach that stage, but Fang Huan got a headache when he heard that his best friend had returned to the capital from his hometown, still holding his cell phone and humming along to "The Lonely Warrior".

But in any case, the Spring Festival Gala made the performance of "Xuan" reach a higher level.

As of late February, just over a month after the release of the new album, domestic physical album sales will reach 500,000 copies.

Compared with other singers, it can be called a small breakthrough, but considering Downey's past performance, it can only be said to be quite satisfactory.

Although the physical album is more conspicuous, the digital album sales have reached a terrifying 1.4 million copies, and some of the other singles have also achieved good results one after another.

Haili's sales volume is also wrong. The cumulative physical/digital difference between Asia and Europe and the United States is 1 million less. After all, it is a purely Chinese album, and those who can spend money to support it are Downey's fans.

Frankly speaking, those data are not bad, and they are considered to be in the middle and lower reaches of Downey's albums over the years.

But considering the quality of that album and Downey's current popularity, we can still clearly feel the collective malaise in the domestic and international record markets.

Another thing to say is that now a small number of audio and video stores are closing down or changing businesses one after another, and stores that make a living purely by selling records are the best.

According to Warner's statistics, less than 35% of the physical album of "Xuan" was sold through online shopping platforms such as Taobao and JD.com. With the increasing development of online shopping, a few years later, a small group of people would queue up to buy the album.

Once you go, you come back again.

The record era has retreated into the countdown history of history...

Downey witnessed and participated in the golden peak period of recording in the early 1990s. Even though he knew the ending in advance, he was still very emotional when he saw the scene where things changed and people changed.

It flourishes and then declines, which is the eternal change.

There is no industry that can decline from its peak, and there will naturally be no industry that can rise from a weak point.

The Chinese music scene is in decline, but the film industry is booming.

Just two days before the Spring Festival Gala, the box office of "Let the Bullets Fly", which has been in theaters for nearly 70 days, officially exceeded 1 billion.

It was also the first Chinese-language film in history to have a box office of over 1 billion, ranking seventh in mainland box office history, second only to "Avatar" and surpassing the eighth place "Tangshan Earthquake" by 300 million yuan.

Although many people expected the result afterwards, when "Let the Bullets Fly" actually exceeded 1 billion, the shock to the industry and the outside world was still very small.

Small media outlets focused on the report, and the industry was also amazed and excited.

If the box office of "Let the Bullets Fly" is counted to 2010, the mainland's box office for the whole year last year was 11.3 billion, officially breaking the 10 billion mark.

In other words, the scope of the film industry is getting smaller and smaller, and its potential is getting weaker and weaker.

Everyone wants to make the last movie "Let the Bullets Fly", become famous, and make a small profit.

Jiang Wen was praised to the heavens. It is an exaggeration to say that if I throw out a script now, I can easily raise tens of millions of funds.

Many investors came to me to make movies with money in hand. Fortunately, Fanxing got involved early and signed a priority investment contract early, so I can definitely win over those people.

Ge Xiaoye has also become a hot favorite. The eight movies I starred in during the Lunar New Year season accumulated a box office of 1.5 billion, surpassing Fang Huan and becoming the highest-grossing movie actor in 2010.

"The Orphan of Zhao" received 4 million, "Let the Bullets Fly" Ge Xiaoye received 5.2 million, "If You Are the One 2" is too vague, it is said that it is even higher.

Nowadays, if the salary is over 10 million, there is no need to talk about it. If you want to finalize the actors, you can definitely get them with a salary of 20 million, and you can definitely recruit them even if you have no money.

If I want Mr. Ge to film, he must either be an old friend of a famous director, or the script disgusts me, or he must return a favor.

As for Downey, I can definitely afford it if I want to.

The minimum remuneration quote is less than 100 million. If you want to reach a cooperation, you will probably have to invest 150 million.

At that price, unless the remuneration is considered an investment like in "Let the Bullets Fly", if less dividends are given, then 99% of the crew would dare to think so.

To put it bluntly, even Stars internally wants to use Downey Jr. to film movies, so they have to think carefully about how to save costs as much as possible.

After all, as Fanxing Company became more formal in those years and some executives participated in stock dividends, even if Downey was filming his own movies, he would still cut his salary on a small scale or even receive a token fee like he would in the future.

Public is public, private is private.

Discounts can be given, but they will definitely not be as small as they will be in the future.

The Eight Little Giants benefited a lot, and several supporting roles also benefited a lot. For example, Hu Ge successfully entered the film market with that drama. I heard that several film crews are considering contacting me.

The one with the least benefit should be Bazi, who suddenly became the representative of the seventh generation of stars.

However, after receiving several film offers, relying on his father's aura, he also caught the eye of Feng Pengtong, and was expected to participate in "1477", which the former had been considering filming.

The entertainment industry is like that. A good work can definitely make people reach the sky in one step, but there are few ways to choose the downward path.

………

On February 10th, Lao Jiang held a public celebration party for "Let the Bullets Fly" in Beijing. There were so many celebrities in attendance, which gave him enough face as a new billionaire director.

It was a pity that neither Fang Huan nor Robert was present. We flew to the United States to shoot "Avengers" two days later.

New York, set of "Avengers"

Downey met his colleagues from the new film, a few of whom were acquaintances.

The White Widow had just finished filming, and Wang Fei also met her later. The Hulk and Captain America both starred in "Now You See Me", and Agents such as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Fury, who they later met in "Hawkeye".

The main actors who met for the first time in the entire "Avengers" should be Loki, Tom Hiddleston and Iron Man, Thor.

Next time Downey will make a guest appearance on the set of "Wang Fei", will he see Loki? As for Iron Man, he has been close to him for a long time but has never seen him.

"Hey, Thor, you've always been envious of his armor."

"If you had a choice, you would rather trade it for that figure."

Donnie also had some interactions with that group of people, and Xiaozhi figured out part of Xiaojia's character.

Wang Fei and Hulk are relatively reserved, but they can joke when they get acquainted with each other. The widowed sister is not so cold and cold outside the movie. They are quite close in person. Captain America sometimes likes to be funny, but also very serious at other times.

The character who most resembles the character outside the movie is Big Fatty Thor, who is as foul-mouthed as Iron Man, loves to joke, and hates playing tricks.

Such a personality often makes people dislike you at work, and may even make people hate working with you.

After some pleasantries, Donnie introduced Robert to everyone.

"Bingbing Fan, the most popular actor in China, also plays the role of Hill in the movie."
To be continued...