"There are many reasons for choosing April. The most important one is that I want to let the audience see the movie earlier. Originally, I had no intention of releasing it in the summer."
Facing reporters' questions, Lu Chuan responded calmly.
Tang An seemed to feel much calmer than before, but he didn't stay too long and walked directly past without saying hello.
Seeing that he ignored her, Lu Chuan's eyes flashed with anger, but he concealed it well.
Walking into the infield, many people in the industry were present.
Tang An greeted them one by one and came to the host, Chairman of Xingmei Media.
"Hello, Mr. Qin, I am here to wish your company that this movie will be a hit at the box office."
Qin Hong said politely, "Then let me borrow Mr. Tang's auspicious words."
"This seems to be the first movie that Director Qin has invested in. Is your company ready to fully engage in film and television production?"
Tang An didn't talk about movies with him. In fact, there was nothing interesting to talk about. Instead, he talked about business.
Qin Hong smiled and said, "We have this plan. Huayi has gone public, Wang Changtian is also preparing to go public, and Yu Dong threatened to land on the New York Stock Exchange. I am so excited to see it."
It has the largest theater chain in the country and is involved in film and television production and distribution. Isn’t that what Wanda did later on?
Tang An said, "If Mr. Qin wants to go public, it will be easy. Xingmei Cinema Line alone can be listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Film and television culture stocks are very hot now."
Star Cinema Line will definitely not be ignored when it goes public. After all, it is also the largest theater chain company in the country, with more than 100 cinemas, and basically every provincial capital in the country has at least one cinema.
"Haha, Mr. Tang is right."
After Tang An said this, Qin Hong thought the same and had the idea of listing his theater chain companies separately.
After chatting with acquaintances for a while, Bernard's distribution director Zhang Ziming seemed to be in a bad mood. After careful questioning, he found out that he had not obtained the film distribution rights for "Xi Yangyang and Big Big Wolf Part 2".
The first part was released in January this year, sandwiched between "Red Cliff" and "Embarrassing Journey", with a box office of only 60 million. According to the trend before the release of "Embarrassing Journey", there was a high chance that it would exceed 100 million.
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These three films were distributed by Bernard, so they were naturally blamed by the other party for poor distribution.
"Mr. Zhang, don't worry, it's just a cartoon. Next year's "On the Road" might surprise you," Tang An said with a smile.
"I hope so." Zhang Ziming sighed.
It didn't take long for the premiere to officially begin, with CCTV's 6 "Premiere" columns and Jiangning TV broadcasting it.
Host Tu Wei: Nanjing is the ancient capital of China. It has a history of nearly 2,500 years, but in the past 72 years, Nanjing has become
Memories that we can’t bear to mention and have to remember.
We are gathered here today to witness the birth of a Chinese-language film, and also to pay tribute to the city of Nanjing.
We pay tribute to the unyielding and tenacious fighting spirit of our ancestors.”
After talking about a lot of scenes, Qin Hong also gave his own speech as an investor, followed by Lu Chuan...
All the audience began to wait seriously for the opening of the movie. This title already let all the audience know what kind of story is going to be told.
Among the thousands of spectators at the scene, no one had a relaxed face, and there was no playfulness between the couples. Everyone was infected by the atmosphere of the scene.
The first half hour or so is a war scene, with the audio-visual characteristics of a Hollywood war movie, a handheld camera, low saturation, and a space design similar to the final battle in "Saving Private Ryan."
At the thirty-minute mark, Tang An clearly heard the audience in the back row whispering, "Why can't we win?"
It’s not surprising to have this idea. This film tells the story from the perspective of the Japanese people, including this war scene, which brings the audience into the Japanese-Benjamin army.
Then Liu Ye, the male lead, died in the 40th minute, completely using the Japanese as the first point of view.
I have to say that Lu Chuan is very bold in challenging the audience's common sense and psychological expectations, quite boldly!
The entire story is not narrated from the Chinese perspective at all. The only one with a complete perspective is Kadokawa, a Japanese military officer.
Strictly speaking, the main line of this film is to express Kadokawa's psychological changes. This is the real story of the film.
In fact, it is not impossible to use the Japanese-Ben people's perspective, but no matter what, we must not show the Japanese-Ben people to be so tender and full of compassion, and even let two Chinese people go and kill themselves with bullets in the end.
What is the nature of this event?
It's an act of beastliness!
What is the nature of the Japanese people?
He's a bad guy!
The famous chess master Wu Qingyuan was maliciously suppressed by the Japanese at that time during his struggling years in his youth.
Many years later, when someone asked about what happened back then, the 90-year-old chess master simply gave a five-word evaluation in an understatement: "They are bad people."
No other modifiers are needed, a simple bad guy is enough.
It took a while after the movie ended for the applause to break out, along with the comments from many viewers. It was obvious that the audience who had come to their senses also had a lot of controversy.
The noisy discussion mixed with applause grew louder and louder.
Lu Chuan, who had been tense all the time, was relieved and was not afraid of controversy. When filming, he planned to tell this historical event from another angle.
Controversy creates popularity, which can attract more viewers to the cinema.
Many reporters surrounded Lu Chuan when he left the venue, and some young reporters directly asked him why he wanted to beautify the Japanese people.
Facing the doubts of many reporters, Lu Chuan had already prepared his words.
"I want to tell our audience what kind of opponent we lost to back then!"
"I consulted a lot of information, and it was completely from an objective standpoint... Movies have no national boundaries!"
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Lu Chuan faced reporters' questions calmly, constantly emphasizing that he was elaborating objective facts, constantly talking about what is shown here, what is the meaning there, and then what is highlighted...
Tang An shook his head after hearing this, and did not attend the subsequent dinner. He did not want to participate in this feast based on blood and tears.
However, the reporters did not let him go. Several reporters were separated from Lu Chuan to stop him.
"Director Tang, what do you think of this movie?"
"Do you think this movie is objective and fair, or does it deliberately glorify the Japanese people?"
Tang An thought for a moment and said, "I don't know whether it's fair or not. Movies have no national boundaries, but filmmakers do."
Tang An left a thought-provoking sentence, and regardless of their thoughtful expressions, he pushed aside the crowd and left.
Science also has no national borders, but scientists do. Otherwise, why did Professor Qian Xueshen give up the United States, which has better scientific research conditions and more advanced technology, and returned to China after all the hardships?