In the Mei Lanfang Grand Theater, a luxurious screening hall that can accommodate 1,000 people, "The Taiping Wheel" has officially begun screening.
The dragon logo flashed past on the big screen, and the calm sea level appeared in the audience's field of vision.
The movie is called "Taiping" and it tells the story of a ship. It starts with the sea level, so let's get straight to the point.
The audience at the scene cheered up and waited for the appearance of the big ship to see how this ship compared with the one in 1997.
However, within a few seconds, they were disappointed.
The camera then moved to the land, where the corpses of Guo soldiers were everywhere, with heavy casualties.
The style of painting suddenly changed and turned into a war movie, leaving the audience stunned.
However, the movie is set in that era, so there is nothing surprising. Some viewers are still looking forward to the big war scenes that will follow.
Sure enough, there was a war scene next. The Guo army general played by Wang Xiaoming led his troops to fight the Japanese. Their tanks and the opponent's artillery also engaged in a "fierce" artillery battle.
"I'll go. Sherman and Pershing are here. Can Wu Yusen be a little more rigorous?"
"Strictness is of no use. This tank is just a decoration. It fired a few shots casually, but the front machine gun and coaxial machine gun were never used. What a fart fight!"
"If I had known it was a war movie, I wouldn't have watched it. It's impossible to watch domestic war movies. This steamed bun and Pan Datou are so embarrassing that I almost got cancer."
"Wu Yusen used to have the nerve to talk about Feng Pants. When he was filming "Assembly", he had to use Pershing. Even if Feng Pants couldn't be borrowed, he still used M3-modified Pershing. He was much more serious."
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"Titanic" was originally promoted as an Oriental "Titanic", a otaku romance movie, and most of the audience at the scene came for this. Who would have thought that it would be a war movie at the beginning.
But war is war, and many male compatriots who are attracted by their girlfriends are quite interested.
However, the few minutes of war scenes made some military fans couldn't help but complain in a low voice.
Wu Yusen in the front row heard the comments from several audience members not far behind, and Yuanmen's smiling face suddenly felt a little unhappy.
Wu Yusen was furious when he compared Feng Xiaogang with himself.
At that time, not only mainstream mainland filmmakers were not interested in Feng Xiaogang, but also many directors in Hong Kong and Baodao were not interested in him.
The main reason is that his movies can make money. These Hong Kong directors wish that mainland directors would rush to the market one by one, so that mainland film companies would be begging for them.
Moreover, because of what happened in 2011 when Ruan Jintian went to Dong Jing Film Festival, in order to clear his name and to praise Ruan Jintian, Baodao not only gave him a Golden Horse Best Actor, but also to prevent Xu Fan, who was the most popular at the time, from stealing Ruan Jintian's limelight.
He gave the gold horse to Lu Liping.
After all, Xu Fan is Feng Xiaogang's wife, and her reputation is not comparable to that of Ruan Jintian, and the influence of "Assembly Number" is even greater than that of "Monga".
Once the Best Actress is awarded to Xu Fan, she will be the last person to pay attention to this Golden Horse Awards. As for Ruan Jintian, the Best Actor, no one will care about her.
Lu Liping's performance is good, and she is low-key and not famous, so she won't steal Ruan Kamtian's limelight.
The key point is that her husband Sun Yanying often disses Feng Xiaogang, so it is only appropriate to award her the Best Actress Award.
When the film festival chairman at the time was interviewed, he also said that Xu Ban's performance was too violent and not good.
Of course Feng Xiaogang got angry and directly attacked Jinma, saying that if you don't understand, don't pretend to be an expert!
By the way, I scolded many people overtly and secretly, including Wu Yusen, who has been praising Baodao and Xiangjiang actor.
Wu Yusen got angry when he thought of Feng Xiaogang's blatant and covert revelation of his intentions, and now it is not so easy for actors in Hong Kong to praise Baodao and Xiangjiang as they did before.
Ten years ago, Baodao and Xiangjiang usually cooperated with two film companies. With the signing contract between the two parties, they went to the mainland film company to discuss funding to join. Baodao and Xiangjiang had the right to cast. Most of the starring actors in the co-productions came from
Baodao and Xiangjiang, and this method is just to use other people's money to train their own actors, which is economical and cost-effective, and it is quickly promoted.
This was the method first advocated by Wu Yusen, and then promoted to some directors and companies in Baodao and Hong Kong.
But there are always some tough people. Except for directors like Feng Xiaogang and Tang An who can sell box office but are unwilling to use Baodao actors, some film and television company bosses are an obstacle.
The director of the movie "Like a Dream" had already chosen a Taiwanese actress as the heroine when filming started, but the investor Yu Dong told her at the time: You must use our actors, otherwise you will take your luggage and leave immediately. I won't.
Will invest you a penny.
In the end, the director could only choose Bernard's Yuan Quan to play the heroine.
However, Yu Dong is not tough enough compared to Tang An. Many of the films invested by Bernard also used actresses from Xiangjiang and Baodao. The heroine of "Three Kingdoms" is from Baodao.
When thinking of Tang An, a trace of hatred flashed in Wu Yusen's eyes. Not only was "Red Cliff" defeated by Tang An, but they also borrowed funds from the mainland to promote the treasure island, and the Xiangjiang actors' plan was also compromised because of Tang An.
Bankruptcy.
Originally, mainland film companies invested and actors from Baodao and Xiangjiang occupied the main roles. This pattern has gradually become fixed. However, Tang An's "Super Body", "The Wind", "Now You See Me" and other blockbuster movies all have mainland actors.
, allowing Mainland Mesozoic actors such as Zou Xun, Li Binbin, Zhang Hanyu, Wang Xiaoming, and Deng Chao to quickly rise on the big screen.
It only needs to be Tang An's own movie. After all, the success of the movie mainly depends on Tang An's personal ability, and other companies will not use mainland actors for this reason.
But Tang An invested in another movie called "Painted Skin", the same starring actors were all from the Mainland, which ultimately made Chen Kun, Zhao Wei, and Zou Xun soar to the sky.
Director Wu Ershan is a newcomer, and the contributions of those actors cannot be erased. Since then, this group of Mesozoic actors has begun to dominate the big screen, driving out the Xiangjiang actors of the same age group, allowing mainland actors to occupy the mainland
The mainstream of the film market.
The source of this situation now is Tang An, Wu Yusen thought bitterly.
If it were not for people like Tang An, Zou Xun, Li Binbin, Zhao Wei, Chen Kun, Wang Xiaoming, Liu Ye, and Deng Chao, they would still be supporting the stars of Xiangjiang and Baodao, and young actors from both places could step on their shoulders.
If you go up step by step, maybe one or two superstars will praise you, how can you be as depressed as you are now!
At this time, Wu Yusen glanced at Wang Xiaoming not far away from the corner of his eye, and now he couldn't make all the decisions on his own movies.
Originally, Wu Yusen, the protagonist of Wang Xiaoming, cast Zhang Zhen to play, but due to the preparation and production cycle, Zhang Zhen took over the banned film "Wonder to the West", as well as "Xiu Chun Knife" and "The Assassin".
"Nie Yinniang" and "The Taoist Comes Down the Mountain" are really not available.
Huayi then took the opportunity to bring Wang Xiaoming in, because it was no longer a few years ago and Wang Zhongjun had the confidence to be tough.
Casting Zhang Ziyi requires her reputation, but Wang Xiaoming kept attacking on the big screen, and her reputation was ruined. In addition, she is a mainlander. Counting Zhang Ziyi, there are only two mainland starring actors.
The situation was not as good as before, and Wu Yusen had to compromise.
Ultimately, it was due to the failure of "Red Cliff" and the fact that several of the films it had produced in the past few years were dumped on the market, leaving it with no confidence.
but!
Wu Yusen's thoughts returned to the big screen. As long as "The Wheel" is successful this time, he will have absolute casting rights for the next movie.
When the time comes, no matter how tough Wang Zhongjun is, he will have to bow to him in the face of interests!