Chapter 241 Scary to the point of incomprehensible box office!
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."
"Xiao Shengke's Redemption" tells the story of how a person uses his intelligence to escape and complete his self-redemption after being wronged.
"Farewell My Concubine" tells the story of four different eras, from feudalism, to capital, to Xinhua, and then to modern Xinhua. It tells the story of an art in the changing times.
Change is about a person's life that is both magnificent and miserable during this change.
From the perspective of the movies themselves, the three movies all talked about their themes very well, and it can be said that they all achieved 100% presentation.
However, in the same situation where the theme is presented 100%, the theme itself has a high or low level for film awards.
It's like one chef made a plate of fried potatoes and another chef made Buddha Jumping Over the Wall.
Both of them are top chefs, but your fried potatoes will only cost you 100 yuan, but if you jump over the wall, the ingredients cost more than 10,000 yuan.
When the shredded potatoes are fried to the limit, that is only the limit at a low level of difficulty, and the limit of Buddha jumping over the wall represents the limit of cooking art.
In terms of the expression of dramatic tension, the two movie themes are destined to not be on the same level at all.
In addition, Farewell My Concubine is very different from the other two movies.
First of all, the subject of Forrest Gump is a mainstream subject in the United States, and countless people have filmed it.
And the story of "The Shawshank Redemption" is not an original story. In the 1960s, the great director Baker shot a movie called "The Hole". The plot cannot be said to be exactly the same as "The Shawshank Redemption".
It can be said that "The Shawshank Redemption" pays tribute to this movie on a large scale.
And the 1979 "Escape from Akala" is even more... If the movie were a building, it would basically be the same building as "Escape from Akala" with a different tenant and some pots and pans moved in.
If this was filmed in China and made by a Chinese director, and I don’t criticize you for plagiarizing for 20 years, you will be damned. Do you still want to win an award?
The theme of "Farewell My Concubine" is the first in the history of film.
From the perspective of film subject matter and film pioneering, "Farewell My Concubine" was the king in 1994. The only one that can barely compete with "Farewell My Concubine" is "The Lion King".
Therefore, Han Zhou now has to come up with "Farewell My Concubine".
Although in this era where movies are gradually becoming clichéd and boring, "Farewell My Concubine" won international awards and was considered a major bombshell.
But there is no way, Americans today are more shameless than Americans back then, and Europeans today are even more shameless than Europeans back then.
If you don't absolutely crush it, winning the prize is just a daydream.
As long as you can take the photo, you can win a prize.
The only question now is... can it be filmed?
Boss Chi gave his own suggestion: "I heard that the role of Duan Xiaolou is played by Wu Yue, you personally play Cheng Dieyi, and Juxian is played by Zhao Ziyu?"
Han Zhou nodded.
Boss Chi: “My suggestion is that Duan Xiaolou’s singing part should be performed by professional theater actors.”
"And, your Peking Opera part..."
Han Zhou: "Boss Chi, you may not know that I haven't decided when to film "Farewell My Concubine" before, but I have already told Wu Li about this."
"Wu Li gave up all his work and spent the whole year practicing singing."
"As for me, I have no problem singing."
Boss Chi thought deeply: "A movie is a movie after all. If Wu Li studied singing for a year for this role, then... it is indeed better than being an actor in a drama, okay."
The four of us chatted about this movie together for a long time.
After Han Zhou today, he won't have time to discuss his understanding of the movie in detail with the creative team.
This conversation lasted from morning to night.
At around nine o'clock, Boss Chi was so dazzled that he couldn't stand it anymore, and everyone ended the meeting.
After they broke up, Han Zhou hurried to a movie theater on the East Third Ring Road.
By the time we found someone to get the tickets and go in, "Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes to the World" had already been broadcast for half an hour.
Han Zhou found a seat and sat down.
An Lancai next to her grabbed Han Zhou's hand and said, "I'm so busy this year."
On New Year's Day the year before last, I was in a daze in Houhai, and last year I was in a daze in Qianmen.
This year, I had a busy day at work.
Han Zhou squeezed An Lan's palm and said, "It's okay. It's normal to be busy."
Han Zhou didn't want to wait until midnight to find An Lan.
However, he was about to go to Yanjing Garrison for military training, and Han Zhou really couldn't find the time.
An Lan: "Are you okay?"
Through the light of the movie screen, Han Zhou saw An Lan tilting his head and looking at himself.
Han Zhou: "I'm fine. What's wrong?"
An Lan hesitated for a moment: "I read your new movie script...is it...gay?"
Han Zhou: "Cheng Dieyi is not gay, he has gender cognitive disorder."
This point is clearly shown in the line, "The little nun was only twenty-eight years old, and her hair was cut off by the master in her youth. I am a girl, not a boy..."
When hearing this sentence, the young Cheng Dieyi always said, "I am a man, not a girl."
Because of this sentence, I was beaten countless times.
In the end, Cheng Dieyi believed that she was a woman, not a man.
An Lan and Han Zhou spoke in a low voice, and many movie fans turned around in dissatisfaction.
An Lan also didn't expect that "Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes into the World" would be full at ten o'clock on the first day of the Lunar New Year, so she simply took Han Zhou and left with him.
Early spring is actually still a winter night on the streets of Yanjing.
The two people walked aimlessly.
An Lan suddenly said mindlessly: "Actually, I am like Cheng Dieyi, but you are not like Cheng Dieyi."
Han Zhou was delighted: "It's just acting. If I were really like Cheng Dieyi, I would never play Cheng Dieyi."
An Lan: "When this movie is made, I'm afraid it will be very... I remember a section that I think can be changed."
Han Zhou turned around in confusion: "Which sentence?"
An Lan: "You wrote a paragraph where our troops entered the city to listen to a play. Cheng Dieyi was dissatisfied with them and thought they were not worthy of listening to the play, so they were not prepared and broke their voices on the stage."
"I think it can be changed to, it just broke the sound accidentally."
Han Zhou shook his head: "It doesn't follow logic."
In fact, this section of the previous version of "Farewell My Concubine" is exactly the version that An Lan wanted to change.
Han Zhou chose the version in the original work.
Why change?
Because this paragraph is illogical.
Our army entered the city without disturbing ordinary people. In just one night, its reputation spread throughout the country.
There is no way that Cheng Dieyi would make a mistake in breaking her voice out of fear. This was the biggest flaw and bug in the previous version of "Farewell My Concubine".
In addition, this movie is not intended to show a good person, and Cheng Dieyi is not a person who understands national justice. To change this paragraph is to take off his pants and fart.
In order to save Duan Xiaolou, Cheng Dieyi went to sing an opera for the Sakura Army. When he came out, he said, "There is a man named Qingshan who knows opera..." Duan Xiaolou still slapped him mercilessly, thinking
Even if he died, he shouldn't act for the Sakura Army.
That paragraph fully illustrates that Cheng Dieyi only loves Duan Xiaolou and does not understand what national justice is.
The latter part was purely to show the high quality of our army. It was not like the previous warlords, the Sakura Army, and the great masters in the feudal era who turned against the actors because of their broken voices. Instead, they sang a song to the two characters together.
To be honest, the movie version of "Farewell My Concubine" was a desperate attempt to win an award, and there were also traces of changing the plot to make it darker.
For Han Zhou, this is not a shameful thing.
Han Zhou is confident that as long as he shoots it, he will definitely win an award, and there is no need to play around with these things.
Moreover, even if he had to do all this in order to win the prize, Han Zhou would not despise this prize.
Therefore, Han Zhou used many parts of the original version of the film.
Just like this, Han Zhou told An Lan what kind of person Cheng Dieyi was on the streets of Yanjing.
The difference between these two treatments is huge.
In the original work, Cheng Dieyi just looked down on our army, and was later reported and criticized, so there was no such thing as being unjust.
In the movie version, Cheng Dieyi looks very unjust.
Han Zhou believes that it is true that those who engage in criticism and struggle are not good things, but there is no need to write Cheng Dieyi as a good and perfect person to compare it with those who engage in criticism and struggle.
This kind of diode thinking is generally a thinking that only the public has.
In Han Zhou's version, there are no saints or absolutely good people in "Farewell My Concubine". Instead, the love and hatred shown are more complex and closer to real life.
Art comes from life but is higher than life?
Fart, art does come from life, but it can never be higher than life, because art is just an insignificant thing in life.
In the original version of "Farewell My Concubine", Duan Xiaolou is just like the current star, a fake overlord, but he still understands the justice of the nation, but is afraid of death.
Juxian is the true overlord.
Cheng Dieyi is the real Concubine Yu.
However, the real Yu Ji is not a dramatic character. She is also a human being. Therefore, just this change has reduced Cheng Dieyi's immortality by three points, but the overall authenticity of the movie can be doubled.
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Han Zhou felt that this change was very cost-effective.
…
Late at night, Han Zhou sent An Lan home and left under Liu Jianxi's watch.
After leaving, Han Zhou returned to the new world.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Yang Hong was busier than Han Zhou.
Previously, Han Zhou spent one billion to buy a building in Yanjing, which basically put half of New World's profit last year into it.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, everyone in the film industry is paying attention to the Spring Festival release.
But no one noticed that New World moved its headquarters to Yanjing without any notice.
The new building is still bustling with people at this time.
For this industry, there is no such thing as Chinese New Year, only Spring Festival.
When Han Zhou returned to the company, the employees on site basically kept silent and stared at Han Zhou.
That's because good news needs to be told by qualified people themselves.
Yang Hong pushed Liu Tiantan.
Liu Tiantan stepped forward and handed over a piece of paper.
Han Zhou glanced at it.
"Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes to the World" had a box office of 348 million on the first day of the new year.
Opponent? Where did the opponent come from? It doesn’t matter anymore.
Han Zhou turned on his phone and flipped to the top trending search topic at this moment.
#"Nezha" broke the record!#
I clicked in and took a look, and it was posted by the CCTV website: ""Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes to the World" was released on the first day of the Lunar New Year, with a box office of 348 million on the first day, breaking the historical box office record of Chinese animation movies in China.
, we are only one step away from becoming the top box office hit in the history of animation movies in the Chinese market!"
A picture is listed below.
Before "Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes to the World", the highest-grossing Chinese animation film was "Beidu Fairy" with a box office of 190 million.
"Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes to the World" broke this record in just one day.
In the Chinese film market, the highest-grossing animated film is "Jungle", which was introduced to Hollywood in the United States, with a box office of 353 million.
Under this Weibo post, netizens were dumbfounded.
"Ah? Breaking the Chinese historical record in a single day? How close is it to breaking the imported film record? How close is it to breaking the box office record of all animated movies in history in one day?"
"Damn it, why haven't I heard of this movie? Is it so popular?"
"This is a movie for fans of "Prehistoric", and today all players went to watch it."
"Don't talk nonsense if you don't know. "Nezha" is not a movie for fans, it's a family movie."
"Holy shit, let me tell you, Nezha looked so handsome when he transformed!!!"
"One thing to say is that the special effects are no different from Hollywood movies, and the storytelling is still higher than that of Hollywood cartoons. It's a bit strange that we actually have animation movies of this level?"
"The rise of Chinese comics, the light of Chinese comics!"
That's right, "Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes to the World" is just one record short of breaking all box office records for animation movies in history on its first day.
But we are not fools. The record will be broken until early tomorrow morning.
Han Zhou fell into deep thought.
Han Zhou initially believed that without the backing of "The Return of the Great Sage", the box office of "Nezha" might not reach the level of its previous life.
But currently, it seems that my own publicity is more important than the background of "The Return of the Great Sage".
If "Nezha" reaches the box office level of its previous life, wouldn't it...become the top box office hit in the history of Chinese-language movies?
The top spot in history is animated movies? This is untrue no matter how you think about it.
It can't be... "Nezha" has become this world's version of "Wolf Warrior 2", right?!
But thinking about it carefully, this seems to be better than "Wolf Warrior 2". At least when they spend money to buy navy hacks, they can't hack real people. How can they hack anime?
Is Hei Nezha's Huntian Ling red instead of blue?
Or is Hei Nezha’s universe circle like a U-shaped lock?
This seems pretty good, right?
While Han Zhou was thinking, no one at the top of the film distribution companies of film companies across the country could sleep.
Why...anime actually has such explosive power?
This is unscientific!
How can anime be more attractive than real people? This is the case only in Sakura Country in the world, right?
what happened?
Han Zhou probably had an idea of what was going on, and Han Sixheng also knew that at this time, some film company executives had already thought of it.
In the past year, the movie market has actually exploded, but so far, no movie has been able to drain the box office and consume the enthusiasm of moviegoers on the road.
Therefore, during the Chinese New Year, the box office market was too big, and a huge flood broke out at this time.
And "Nezha" has caught up with this benefit.
The rise of anything domestically produced is a very important thing for this country and can attract the support of many people.
Many people say that "Wolf Warrior 2" is about good luck.
Actually that's not right either.
In which year and month is the United States and Europe not located in Heihua?
At what time was everyone's patriotic enthusiasm not aroused by the masses?
In fact, any time "Wolf Warrior 2" appears, it is bound to be popular because it is the first real 3D commercial blockbuster in China.
And "Nezha" became China's first 3D commercial blockbuster in the world.
Even if it is an anime, it must be a blast!
It's just like the two bursts of opportunity in the previous life for the rise of national comics and the rise of domestic commercial blockbusters. In this world, the order has been completely changed.
On the second day of the new year, Han Zhou stayed in the company for half a day and went to see Wang Xiya in the afternoon.
Every New Year, I play alone with An Lan. This year, Wang Xiya’s Tianle finally didn’t have a movie on the Spring Festival schedule, so I happened to be free.
As for Han Zhou, after the calculation results came out, he didn't care much about the box office.
The two went to Ocean Park for a day together. Although Han Zhou wore a hat, sunglasses and a mask throughout the whole trip, Wang Xiya was still very happy.
In the evening, a piece of news that shocked the entertainment industry came out again.
"Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes to the World" grossed 400 million on the second day of the Lunar New Year, becoming the first movie in the history of the country to achieve a box office of over 400 million in a single day!
Last year, "Kung Fu" had less than 200 million in a single day!
This year, "Nezha" earned 750 million in two days!
The price was still skyrocketing the next day because those game fans were afraid that the movie was deceiving people.
As a result, everyone around me who was playing games was talking about how good the movie was, so I rushed out.
The next step is to attract movie fans from passers-by. This Spring Festival stall has actually been eaten up.
However, the daily box office cannot be calculated until a specific day has passed.
Everyone knows that there are no other movies in this Spring Festival period, and other movies are just make-up!
"This box office is...horrible!"
"Is this serious? The box office is so terrible?"
"This box office... even topped the global single-day box office list, three times more than the second place!"
Players in North America are even more anxious.
Damn it, "Nezha" has topped the global box office list, and you still won't let us watch it!!!
Because of the large-scale protests from players, on Twitter, and on Twitter, many non-game players have noticed something.
A Chinese movie took the top spot at the box office in a single day, with a box office of nearly US$70 million in a single day.
Are Chinese movies so awesome?
Even if no one went to promote it, everyone soon learned the news that the screenwriter of "Nezha" was Han Zhou.
The three shots were really miserable. It was hard to feel proud, but Han Zhou lost all his reputation.
But in China, Liu Tiantan became famous overnight.
Countless reporters rushed to interview him.
A large number of stories, including inspirational stories and past history, have been dug up.
Liu Tiantan's slovenly look has dominated the Chinese news these days.
Han Zhou was also happy and relaxed without being disturbed.
He came to the Yanjing garrison alone and silently.
Under the red flag, Han Zhou took an oath and then, through special procedures, joined the training system of the reconnaissance company of the Yanjing garrison.
In the past six months, Han Zhou has been training in the military camp from Monday to Friday. He is a hard-blooded man and is exposed to the sun every day.
On weekends, I have to leave the military camp and go to the set to play Cheng Dieyi or Yu Ji.
This feeling is a bit subtle.
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Asking for a monthly ticket!
As you can see, the early stage is completely over and the book has entered the middle stage. I hope that the rest of the writing will go more smoothly.