Chapter 914 King of the Box Office (4100+ chapters~)
At the Fengge Cinema in Wangfujing, Wu Jianye and Feng Pengtong were sitting in a corner of the theater watching a movie.
What was shown in the movie was a martial arts movie, a movie that Wu Jianye had never seen before, and presumably it was caused by the butterfly effect caused by Wu Jianye's appearance.
The reason why I watched this movie with Feng Trousers is because this movie completely failed Feng Trousers' first movie "Forever Lost My Love"...
Feng Pants's ambitious first film, because the premiere was quite a sensation, the box office in the first three days was indeed a success, but it was only the first three days, and then the domestic movies were like a blowout, and they quickly
Several films have been released, including films from studios and private film companies.
The current martial arts film was released at that time. The director of the film is a person Wu Jianye has never heard of, and the actors are all newcomers. But it is such a film that, in the period of late June and early July, dominated the film industry.
the domestic film market.
This movie has now reached the end of its run, and there are only a few theaters left, but as of now, the box office of this movie has exceeded 30 million!
For a new director and a private film company, this is already a very good result!
It is impossible for films released by other domestic directors to have a 100% screening rate like Wu Jianye. When this movie first started, the screening rate was not high. However, as the box office is getting better and better, Fengge Cinema
The film placement rate given is also getting higher and higher.
In the end, it surpassed Feng Pants' "Forever Lost My Love"!
And today Wu Jianye was pulled by Feng’s pants to watch this movie!
"Don't complain if you lose. This director named Wang Tao should have studied Hong Kong films and the movie "New Dragon Gate Inn" before. Although his storytelling technique is not as good as yours, his story is very attractive.
Although the structure of the story is not that rigorous, there are laughs and fights, which can attract ordinary audiences!" Wu Jianye told Feng Pengtong softly.
This movie is called "The Storm of Swordsman", and the story it tells is actually a bit cliché. The young protagonist has his family wiped out, and then learns skills to take revenge!
There are some routines in martial arts novels, but now martial arts novels have not become outdated, and this routine has not become outdated. In addition, the director named Wang Tao has added a lot of jokes in it. Although these jokes are somewhat like the routines of Hong Kong movies, this
At that time, Hong Kong films were very popular in China.
So the movie’s performance wasn’t too bad either!
On the other hand, Feng Pants's movie was a bit pretentious, and overall it seemed a bit irritating, but this movie is a movie that makes people feel happy from beginning to end.
Feng Tongtong gave a wry smile. Although his movie failed at the box office, he knew that his shooting techniques and storytelling methods were superior to Wang Tao, but he lost to him at the box office.
"Teacher Wu, is this the difference between commercial films and artistic films you mentioned?"
Wu Jianye laughed, which aroused the dissatisfaction of other viewers in the hall. Wu Jianye quickly waved his hands to express his embarrassment, then lowered his voice and said to Feng Pengtong: "Your movie "Forever Lost My Love" can be regarded as literary and artistic.
Movie? At best, it’s a pseudo-literary youth movie!”
Feng Pants' face was a bit ugly after being complained about by Wu Jianye, but he still sighed. The first movie he directed failed at the box office. Obviously, he did not expect it. If Wu Jianye had not expressed his dissatisfaction before, His trust probably makes Feng Pants' heart even more fragile.
"Teacher Wu, I don't think you're worried at all. This movie was made by another film company!" Feng Pants calmed down and asked with some confusion.
Although the new film company and the new blockbuster movie will not have any impact on Wu Jianye himself, it will be a big blow to Tangting culture.
Wu Jianye laughed and said: "Although Tangting Culture alone can drive the domestic film market, it can't be as fast as a hundred flowers blooming. I even hope that there will be more new film companies and new directors like this! "
Regarding this, Wu Jianye did not lie. He really thought so. Wu Jianye has never forgotten his original intention. It is not his personal success or failure, but the success or failure of the entire Chinese-language film. And now this The release of this martial arts movie just gave Wu Jianye more confidence.
If even with its own emergence, China's movies are still like another time and space, and just follow those people step by step, it really doesn't make sense. Only when new film companies come out, new directors, and new actors appear, can we Really bring out Chinese movies.
The original people plus the new ones are the ones that emerge, this is the real development!
What's more, there are actually many aspects of the filming of this new movie that are inseparable from Tangting Culture. For example, their costumes and props were customized at Gugu Props, and the filming location was at Hengdian Film and Television City.
The theater where it is shown is Fengge Cinema.
Even the female lead they used, He Qing, is an actress from Tangting Culture!
What's there to worry about?
Feng Pants gave a thumbs up and said: "Great!"
Wu Jianye laughed and said nothing to Feng Pants. Instead, he sat there and began to enjoy this movie that he had never seen before.
As Wu Jianye said, with the success of "The Legend of Kendo", domestic film companies have begun to invest additional money in filming movies, but there are still some focuses. For example, everyone has now seen the film "The Legend of Kendo". With its success, everyone started filming martial arts movies!
This is actually a shortcoming of the film industry. When the film industry in Hong Kong was developing, this situation also happened. For example, the early release of "Mr. Zombie" caused film companies in Hong Kong to start shooting zombie-themed movies in droves. The success of "God of Gamblers" has led to a swarm of people filming gambling movies.
At that time, there were also endless movies like Gambler and Gambler.
All these have led to the decline of this theme of movies. After Lin Zhengying, zombie-themed movies in Hong Kong have completely declined. In the gambling movie series, only the three IPs of God of Gamblers, Saint of Gamblers and Gambler can survive.
Wu Jianye didn't want martial arts movies to decline like this, so he told Huang Jianxin in the later stage and asked him to inform domestic film companies that Fengge Cinemas would have plans to restrict the release of martial arts movies in Fengge Cinemas. At the same time, Wu Jianye We also contacted China Film and Television and worked with them to come up with this unspoken rule, which is not a rule.
However, after this rule came out, Wu Jianye also got some infamy, such as monopolizing the market.
But he doesn't care about eating Wu Jianye. What he wants is the healthy development of the domestic film industry, not abnormal development.
However, because of Wu Jianye's decision, some other domestic joint theaters saw hope and released some shoddy martial arts movies. As a result, martial arts movies almost became dust in history in just over a year.
It was only when "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate", which had been produced for two years, was released that the decline in martial arts movies was restored...
But that’s all for another day.
Now Wu Jianye and Feng Pengtong walked out of the theater after watching the movie.
"Teacher Wu, I'm going to find Mr. Shuo to study the script for a new movie. Will you come with me?" Feng Tongtong asked. He hoped that Wu Jianye could go with him.
During this time, Feng Pants has been studying the script of the new movie with Wang Shuo, but their status is fundamentally different. Wang Shuo has more wild ideas in the script, while Feng Pants hopes that the story can be more complete.
, the two often had some disputes, but Feng Pengtong had no way to convince Wang Shuo, and in the end he could only modify the script according to Wang Shuo's wishes.
If Wu Jianye can pass, he believes that Wu Jianye will support him even more. After all, Feng Pants thinks that he is more professional than Wang Shuo when it comes to making movies!
But Wu Jianye was destined to disappoint him and said with a smile: "I'll forget it. You can go figure it out on your own. I have to meet someone this afternoon!"
Feng Pengtong asked curiously: "Who is he? Do you need to see him in person?"
Wu Jianye laughed and said: "A very interesting actor!"
Feng Pants said helplessly: "Okay then!"
After saying that, the two separated. Feng Pengtong went to find Wang Shuo, while Wu Jianye returned to Tangting Culture.
In Wu Jianye's office, Tan Yang brought the actors Wu Jianye wanted to meet!
In fact, we can’t call each other actors yet, we should call each other martial arts athletes!
And the other party has only starred in one movie so far, which is "The Last Emperor" directed by Wu Jianye, in which he played the role of Puyi in his teenage years!
"Ajing, congratulations to you, you won the National Martial Arts Competition Elite Spearmanship and Sparring Championship."
The actor Wu Jianye wanted to meet today was none other than Wu Gen, who later created a series of movie box office myths.
This year Wu Gan can be said to have reached the pinnacle of his martial arts career, winning the elite spearmanship and sparring championships in domestic martial arts competitions.
When Wu Jianye called Wu Dan this time, he actually wanted Wu Dan to follow the old path of his senior brother Li Lianjie and enter the film industry.
Wu Gan's acting career can be said to be ups and downs. When director Zhang Xinyan was preparing to film "The Kung Fu Boy", he went to the martial arts team to select actors. Wu Bin, who was still the coach of the martial arts team at that time, gave Wu Gan several good prospects.
Hidden, Zhang Xinyan and martial arts instructor Yuan Baye went around and picked nothing suitable, so they left. However, they also knew that Wu Bin must be a good candidate and all the good ones were hidden.
So I found Wu Bin here and invited Wu Bin to eat dumplings. During a meal of wine, Wu Bin recommended his treasured Wu Dan to Zhang Xinyan and Yuan Baye. Zhang Xinyan also fell in love with Wu Dan at a glance, so Wu Dan later
He successfully entered the entertainment industry and starred in his first movie "The Kung Fu Boy".
Later, he starred in TV series such as "The Sword", "The Master of Tai Chi", and "Xiao Li Fei Dao".
It can be considered that he was at the peak of his career after his debut. However, later Wu Pan failed to find a suitable direction for himself. In addition, the domestic film industry was in recession, so Wu Pan had to imitate Jet Li and enter the Hong Kong film market. Unfortunately, at that time, the film market in Hong Kong was also in a slump.
After the downturn, Wu Gan once became a marginal figure in the film industry.
Later, he starred as the killer in "Slaying the Wolf". Although he didn't have many roles, he was stunning enough that he returned to the audience's attention. For a while, Wu Gan became the representative of the villain in Hong Kong movies.
During that time, Wu Pan himself felt the problem, and in the end he had no choice but to direct his own movie.
Many people think that the first movie directed by Wu Kan was "Wolf Warrior". In fact, the first movie directed by Wu Kan was "Wolf Warrior", and the heroine in it was later played by Wu Kan in "Wolf Warrior 2".
That heroine!
The box office of "Spike" was tepid, so Wu Gan had to switch to the TV drama industry and starred in the second part of "I Am a Special Forces Soldier", "Knives Out". Only then did he find his acting career, and then everyone knows
"Wolf Warrior", which has been in preparation for three years, is released.
By the time Wu Jianye was reborn, Wu Gan had already become one of the most box-office-charging actors in China. Unfortunately, he was a bit too old after all.
"Director Wu, please stop making fun of me!" Wu Gan said shyly.
Wu Jianye laughed and said: "I don't mean to make fun of you. If you can win the championship of our country's martial arts competition, you are already the world champion!"
Wu Dan scratched his head and smiled, not knowing how to answer the question.
Wu Jianye also asked curiously at this time: "Ah Jing, I have always been curious, how powerful are the domestic martial arts and Sanda?"
In later generations, the debate about Chinese martial arts and actual fighting never stopped, and Wu Jianye was also a little curious.
Wu Wan laughed and said: "We are practicing routines, but in fact they are no longer considered real martial arts."
Wu Jianye continued to ask: "Then what is the real martial arts?"
"Real martial arts are actually killing skills. Now that our country advocates martial arts training to strengthen the body, those killing skills have long been banned. However, I heard from our coach that there are still some martial arts families in some areas of our country!
"Wu Gan explained.
Wu Jianye also thought of Dai Zhen. Dai Zhen's father once talked about this issue with Wu Jianye, but he was vague when talking about it. He didn't talk about many things involving the previous generation of their family.
Now it seems there is still some story!
Wu Jianye smiled and said: "Okay, let's not consider this matter. This time, I asked your senior brother to call you over. I want to ask you if you are interested in becoming an actor at Tangting Culture?"
Naturally, the reason why Wu Gan was called here was not to differentiate between martial arts routines and actual fighting. It was naturally because he was called to the film industry!
After hearing this, Wu Pan's eyes lit up. After all, he is already quite old for a martial arts athlete. It is time to think about his future, not to mention that the martial arts team has a precedent like Li Lianjie!
"If Director Wu doesn't dislike it, I definitely have no objection." After finishing speaking, Wu Gan said with some embarrassment: "Is it just the martial arts team?"
Wu Jianye smiled and said: "Don't worry, I will solve the problems with the martial arts team!"