The premiere of "I Come from the Future" was quite special. There was no common red carpet performance. The audience at this scene was mainly composed of family members of veterans, medical staff, representatives of some units that supported the filming of the film, and a very small number of professional fans and industry insiders.
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Feng Dapao also tried this in the movie "1942". He invited members of the literary associations from Shanxi and Hebei to set up a premiere theater for writers, because to a certain extent, he felt that this kind of movie was only for literary works.
Only members of the association can understand the feelings.
But when Fang Yi did this today, Feng Dapao was not very happy. He felt that this was "turning a good movie into a flattering film with the main theme." Director Fang is now the director's representative, so doing this seems to be lowering his status.
Fang Yi only thinks that he is like a summer insect, and when you don't have revolutionary feelings, everything you do seems to be flattering.
For some reason, before the movie was shown, Fang Yi thought of Tan Ziwei from Hospital 301. Lao Tan left the hospital last year. According to the last news he heard, Lao Tan was taken back by his family to enjoy his life. He doesn’t have much time left. I don’t know if there will be more.
I didn't have a chance to see the movie, and I didn't know where he was. Thinking of this, Fang Yi seemed to still be able to see Lao Tan chatting and laughing in the ward, and how he insisted on calling himself company commander.
I hope he can see that talking about old men is the inspiration for the movie.
"I Come from the Future" has a very high screening rate, with 1,056 screenings in 987 theaters in 52 ticket warehouse cities across the country, breaking the current record for the highest zero-hour screening, and has almost booked a new zero-hour box office record. Fang Yi and the others are at
The six-star China Film Theater is just one of them, and outside the other 986 theaters, audiences are pouring in like a tide. It is late at night the day before the holiday, office workers, students, housewives... including many who have never watched movies before.
audience.
Yangma's "Premiere" column broadcast the event live, and front-line reporters said: "Did you see it? Host! Oh my God, I... have never seen so many people watching a movie in the early morning!" in the live broadcast room. The current chairman of China Film and Television looked at the screen blankly and tried to explain: "Most of the more than 5,000 screens we added in 2013 are in third- and fourth-tier cities, as well as some counties with slightly better economies. For my country's four largest cities and provincial capitals, For the 900 million people outside of China, this may be their first time to spend money to go to a movie theater. This mass consumer product is finally affordable for most people only this year... Well, this shows that our country’s movie market is still very large. We estimate It will eventually reach about four times that of the US market, which means that our film market can still increase several times..."
“Even if it’s ten years from now, there will still be many people who have never seen a theatrical movie!”
"But," Chairman Jiao emphasized, "not every director has such influence that allows them to break the first time. Do you know what I thought of? I thought of "Titanic" that year. People crowded
You have to spend money to buy tickets outside the cinema, and you even have to pay for a place in the queue. You are too young to remember that, but I look really like it now..." Chairman Jiao murmured, "That's very similar."
The two major directors of the Republican era, Guo Fan and Lu Yang, were watching the low-definition live broadcast of the "Premiere" column outside the premiere theater where the main creators were present, cursing and expressing their opinions.
Guo Fan, a man from science and engineering, said: "I remember it was said in the history books that during the big battles, farmers pushed carts to support the front line like this. The spread could not be seen to the edge, and there were many more troops than the front line troops... Although we only look at it
The number of audiences at a certain place is far inferior, not as spectacular, but think about it, if we want to get a box office of 2 billion, and a ticket costs 40 yuan, how many people will it cost?"
Guo Fan didn't wait for Lu Yang to answer, and answered by himself, "It's fifty million people, fifty million people! Countries with more people than this number in the world have very small populations. What a great thing we have done?! Five thousand
Thousands of people have to come to the theater one after another. In a country as big as ours, people come from any direction... Fortunately, I am in this era!"
Lu Yang waited for Guo Fan's excitement to pass and said something quite literary:
"I checked the data and found that 40% of the people who went to the movies this year were watching a movie for the first time. Guo Fan, do you know what the proportion of people who are flying for the first time is? It's higher than 50%. Movies are about to match this ratio.
Quite, that is to say, it turns out that movie tickets are as worthless and as rare as airplane tickets. If you go to the market and point out a bunch of aunties, none of them have ever been to a movie theater."
Guo Fan said: "So?"
Lu Yang said: "This means that now you buy a ticket and look around, half of the people have never been to the cinema. They are looking for directions awkwardly, and inexplicably bought a very expensive movie promotion package, and sat down excitedly.
This is the first time they will never forget it. It has happened twenty-five million times, and we have inadvertently become part of the collective memory of this era."
Guo Fan said with a smile: "There were many people buying tickets for the first time, and they came very early. It was my first time to fly, and I also went very early."
Lu Yang nodded and said: "These people are lucky because they watched this movie and had a good experience; they are also unlucky because after this, their second and third times will most likely not be good.
——After many years, they have become old audiences. When they think back to this day, can they still recall the stories that happened throughout the night?"
Guo Fan learned and applied it vividly: "It's like Chairman Jiao who can't forget "Titanic"? Among these 50 million people, how many 'Chairmen Jiao' can be produced after thirty years? I heard that there is a leader
I have also watched "Titanic", will there be someone like him among our movie fans?"
Lu Yang said with a longing look: "I don't envy you even if you say this. I just want to be someone like Director Fang. I do envy him."
Of course, all the brothers from Yangxi Opera were also present. The clock finally pointed to one minute before midnight, and Duan Yihong and Jin Dong were assigned together.
Duan Yihong said: "Fate is really interesting. I repeated my studies from Xinjiang Province three times before I was admitted to the Central Opera School. When I failed the exam the second time, did I know that one day I would be able to stand here? I can only believe that there is a chance
The inexplicable power guided me. Everything in the future will have some meaning, but people didn’t know it at the time, but it is very different today.”
"Why is it different?" Jin Dong asked.
Duan Yihong said in a deep voice: "It's rare now that I knew it was a moment of great significance."
Jin Dong was shocked by the scene outside the venue. At this time, he didn't want to say anything flirtatious and just nodded dullly.
The hour hand points to zero, which is the end of all movies released on September 28th and the beginning of "I Come from the Future" released on September 29th.