No wonder, when Brother Hai mentioned that he wanted to make a costume film, Wu Di couldn't find any clues and had no impression. It turned out that in his previous life, he had never paid attention to Brother Hai's films of this era.
Jumped all over!
But why is there no impression?
There is only one answer!
That must be a bad movie!
You have to know that Wu Di in his previous life was also a idle person. For a long time, his spare time was playing with all kinds of beauties.
Since it was play and he was not a social celebrity, he naturally went wherever he wanted to go.
As a tryst place, the cinema is naturally also a place that young beauties love. It has atmosphere and entertainment. Of course, no one will notice even if they do a little trick.
It's dark everywhere, so exciting!
How exciting!
However, during that time, Wu Di, who was often active in major movie theaters, had never seen this movie.
This shows that, at least, for young beauties from all walks of life, this movie is unattractive and completely uninteresting.
I don't even want to look at him or even give him a look.
Look, how can this be done?
This is enough to show that Brother Hai had not understood the rules of the film market at least ten years ago. What era is it now?
Now is an era where movies also have to pursue box office, which is completely different from the era when they became popular.
At that time, how many movie theaters were there in the country?
Even for the most popular movie Shaolin Temple, there is still no specific statistics on how many people across the country have watched it and how many people paid to watch it.
However, what is certain is that in the era when Lao Zhang and Hai Ge were just becoming popular and most prosperous, even if their movies did not sell for money, theaters would not exclude them.
If you come back from abroad with great success and win a big award, the theater chain will arrange a good schedule for you to release your film.
This is also normal.
At that time, where was there such a thing as grabbing a slot?
How many movie theaters are there in the country?
I'm afraid five hundred families are enough!
As long as a movie theater is open for business, there must be movies showing. At that time, how many movies could the country produce throughout the year?
There are really too few!
As long as you directors can make movies come out, our cinemas will rush to show them, no matter what the quality is.
After all, people of that era had limited means of entertainment, so what else would they do if they didn’t watch movies?
Therefore, for a work like Brother Hai's, which is so deep and of high quality, there is no need to worry about the channels for release.
His audience is often young people living in cities. They may not necessarily pursue literature and art, but under the circumstances at that time, they are definitely a group of people with relatively rich spiritual lives.
It can be said that these people and Brother Hai influenced each other, but time passed by, and by around 2010, movies were no longer a rarity.
It has restored its traditional commodity attributes. Of course, our theater chain will give opportunities to your Brother Hai's works. You are a master.
But whether it makes money or not is another matter.
And if you don't make money, our theater chain won't be so good at the next movie.
Like Brother Hai, Lao Zhang, who also came from that era, understood this truth first.
While filming the literary and drama films that I was familiar with in the past, I often won awards.
Maintained a certain level of style.
At the same time, since your movie is going to be released in domestic theaters, you have to consider the tastes of the theaters and the benefits of the theaters.
If your movies continue to fail to produce good results for theaters, you are like a god and others will not support you.
Therefore, commercialization is something that Lao Zhang has always been doing.
It was only in the early 2000s that the transition from literary and artistic films to commercial films was made. The technology was not yet mature enough and the stories were not rounded enough. Therefore, Lao Zhang's films at that time still retained a trace of literary and artistic tone.
But later on, Lao Zhang realized it and took the lead. In the field of commercial films, his pace was much faster and more stable than Brother Hai.
However, Brother Hai is different. In the final analysis, character determines destiny. For a long time, you can easily see that Brother Hai does not care about the taste of female audiences when making movies.
He doesn’t care what movies women like to watch!
What he wants is a grand narrative and the expression of emotions, so Brother Hai's movies are always filled with all kinds of weird flavors.
All in all, it is the kind of flavor that would disinterest young female viewers.
This time, it offended the cinema's large customer base.
No matter what type of movie it is, if you carefully analyze the moviegoer reports of that year, you can easily see that the vast majority of moviegoers are women.
Of course, for example, superhero movies, mechanical armors, etc., will also have a large number of male viewers, and they are even far ahead among the moviegoers.
However, this does not mean that there are no female audiences for this type of film.
The fact is, not only do they exist, but the share may be smaller, but the overall number cannot be underestimated.
And how many superhero movies can be shown in cinemas throughout the year?
Even at his peak, he could count them on ten fingers.
What's more, there are also three, six or nine levels of superhero movies, and not all movies in the superhero series can reap large box office profits.
So, most of the rest of the time, cinemas still have to show normal feature films. As long as they are feature films, generally speaking, they are the preferences of female audiences.
Don’t feel unconvinced, this is related to the gender characteristics of men and women, because women still need less exercise.
Compared with men, they always like to be quiet and don't like to move.
So, entertainment such as watching movies, which requires very little exercise and can be watched in a fixed place, is naturally the favorite of female friends.
As for male friends, who wants to watch a movie when there are basketball and football games?
Movies are just one of the lower ranked entertainment projects among them.
As a result, apart from outstanding performance in superhero movies, male audiences can at best be on par with female audiences in other types of movies.
Maybe many people will still ask questions.
Since female audiences are the mainstream, then why are all the big box office stars male stars? Men are also the absolute dominant directors.
If you can ask such a question, it is bullying.
Let’s talk about the issue of male stars at the box office first. This is actually a very simple principle, opposites attract. It is precisely because there are mostly female audiences that male stars in movies are more likely to be popular.
It’s also easier to show off.
What about male viewers?
They are different. When they watch a movie, they don't pay special attention to it just because it stars an actress.
In other words, in the film industry, the so-called attraction of opposites is not prominent among male audiences.
When watching movies, men still focus on a sense of self-representation, and they tend to pay more attention to male stars.
This is why it is always easier for male stars to get ahead in the film industry.
What is a very serious fact?
Compared with the film industry, the TV series industry is almost dominated by female stars. As we all know, the length of TV series is much longer than that of movies.
Most of the people who usually watch TV series to pass the time are female viewers, and TV series are free.
It doesn’t cost money, so it can be used for entertainment.
If these topics are discussed, you can write a professional paper, so I won’t go into details here.
However, when it comes to the director's profession, why are there so few women? This is too bullying.
Even more bullying than the acting industry.
After all, as long as the story is a movie, it needs to be played by both men and women, and men cannot always sing alone.
Therefore, it is relatively easy for actresses to get roles and become famous.
However, the director is different.
What people want is a director who can make good movies, and they don't strictly require the director's gender.
As we all know, when did women first gain the right to education?
It’s only been nearly a hundred years!
In the beginning, even if women could study, education was still restricted for them. For example, in the beginning, institutions of higher learning such as universities were basically open to women for a long time.
The highest educational institution that women can advance to is high school.
And when you finish high school, you have to choose to learn a skill that can be used for employment. You will study secretarial majors, or you may also study stenography, typing, or even nursing.
There is nothing unusual about this, and it does not mean that men were not suffering in that turbulent era. However, this is a matter of opportunity.
Suppose there is such a rich man who is your distant cousin. He has a lot of spare money and is idle.
Therefore, he wanted to choose an outstanding child from his sect and pay for him to study and help him become a talented person.
So, given equal opportunities, who would he choose?
You are a girl, you study well, you are well-behaved, you are good at everything, but this rich man will not help you.
Because you simply cannot enter the field of higher education, how can you become a talent?
How can I repay him?
Being a director is a higher education field, and women rarely have access to the film industry from the beginning.
Until now, you will find that many female directors with names in the industry did not appear completely out of the blue.
They are either the daughters of famous directors, or their apprentices, and some even used to be assistants to famous directors.
In short, they have easier access to the film industry, so they are more likely to become directors.
It is only natural that their teachers and fathers give them support and assistance.
In addition to these women who already have the foundation and connections, even now, there are countless female students graduating from the directing department of the Film and Television Academy every year.
However, the vast majority of them have changed careers and become actors. There are really very few people who can really dig deep into the hard-working industry of directing. They can endure loneliness and remain calm.
The most important thing is that in an industry, every level inside is basically occupied by men. If you want to gradually climb up, you need to defeat monsters one level after another.
Breakthroughs layer by layer.
Where is it so easy?
Therefore, don’t always point to things based on the current situation. The emergence of many problems does not occur in a moment, but is a historical and accumulated matter.
When directors like Lao Zhang and Hai Ge became famous, the film industry was almost dominated by male directors.
When they choose the subject matter of their works, they often only consider their own intentions and what they want to express.
In their eyes, women are just beautiful objects.
They also often tell women's stories, but from that perspective, they often feel like they are scratching the surface.
It's just like Brother Hai. In fact, among directors, he is already considered to be one of those with very delicate emotions. I remember when "Ji Farewell" came out, I don't know how many men and women were moved.
However, as they grow older, many directors tend to become more and more conservative. Therefore, they always shoot traditional stories, take a conservative route, and even extend the same motif outwards.
Come up with some bullshit stories.
Many times, one thing that Brother Hai doesn't understand is whether the movie is for the directors or the audience.
Since it is popular art, you are dealing with the public, and your movies are not made for self-admiration.
Whether it’s the photography skills or the obscure emotional expressions, whether it’s the advancement of technology or the upgrade of emotional cognition, they all still have to serve the movie in the end.
In order for the audience to see these changes and truly feel what the director wants to express, whether they agree or not is secondary.
At least, the audience should be interested in your movie, but if you look at Brother Hai's movies in recent years, they are really boring.
There is no conflict or explosiveness at all.
Not to mention storytelling, that is simply not what Brother Hai is good at, it doesn’t exist.
Therefore, Wu Di's joining may really be a little encouragement to Brother Hai. At least, with him as Lao Zhang's prospective son-in-law, there will always be topics.
And it's still very high.
Isn't this just to bring popularity and traffic to Brother Hai's movie? How can ordinary people get this kind of thing?
Isn’t it that Lao Zhang deliberately let the water fall?
Spying on the enemy's situation is not a problem, but through Wu Di, Hai Ge's filming progress can be continuously sent to Lao Zhang.
Isn't that an interesting thing?
After today's scare, Wu Di became obedient and did not dare to have any more strange thoughts. From now on, he will automatically bring the situation over to Brother Hai without the need for Lao Zhang to personally direct it.
If it wasn't Lao Zhang who sent it, he didn't take the initiative to send the information?
By then, Yu Laozhang's reputation will not be damaged at all, and he may even receive a wave of praise because he took the initiative to let his son-in-law make a guest appearance on Brother Hai's set.
You see, I can give my own people to you, Brother Hai, to assign them to you at will, don’t you think I have a broad mind?
Now, Brother Hai is proud and Lao Zhang is also satisfied. The only one who is disappointed may be Wu Di.