Chapter Four Hundred and Eighty-Three: Premiere Ceremony
Wu Jingpai and Guo Degang have known each other for a long time. When he was filming Wolf Warrior 1, no one supported him. There were only a few people at the premiere. At that time, Lao Guo gave him a platform.
This is also the reason why he volunteered to make a guest appearance on The Nineteenth Generation and attend the premiere there.
"Come in quickly, I've been waiting for you." Fang Jing smiled and invited Wu Jing into the theater and arranged him in the first row.
Wolf Warrior 2 has such a high box office, the Wu Jing of today is no longer the Wu Jing of the past, and many famous directors have not made as many movies as him in their lifetime.
"How's it going with Teacher Guo?" Fang Jing asked casually.
Wu Jing shook his head, "It's not good. It's very stubborn. Some people scolded and reported it even before it was released."
Fang Jing nodded silently and stopped talking. Wu Jing's sentence actually had two meanings. The first half said that Lao Guo would not bow to the theater, and the second half said that he had many enemies.
When a movie is released, regardless of the box office, most of the proceeds will go into the pockets of the theaters. After deducting taxes, investors will only have more than 30% left. If they want to have a high film scheduling rate, they will need less.
This is also the reason why only investors who can get their money back if the box office of a movie exceeds three times their investment.
But Lao Guo just didn't want to miss out, and insisted on maintaining the original box office split. As a result, many theater chains refused to give him arrangements, so Lao Guo had to go to small county movie theaters and remote mountainous areas to promote.
This matter caused a big fuss in the circle. It was calm outside, but inside it was almost getting serious.
In addition to offending the theater chain, there are also people on the Internet who are slandering the 19th generation of Ancestor. They have been slandering him since he was still in the late stages of production. When Lao Guo checked, he found that many of them were familiar to him, and they were all enemies in the cross talk industry.
Now I don’t know how many people are secretly waiting to see Guo Degang’s joke.
"See you later, I'll go up first!"
After saying hello to Wu Jing, Fang Jing came on stage to express his thanks to Lin Chaoxian and others. Each of them said a few words and talked about some of the stories behind the shooting. After more than ten minutes, the movie started.
As a veteran film critic, Shi Hang will not miss the Lunar New Year festival every year. Even if Fang Jing does not invite him to the premiere today, he will watch Operation Red Sea in the future.
No cell phones were allowed to take photos at the scene, so the film critics took small notebooks to read and take notes.
The story begins, somewhere in the sea, Chinese citizens are hijacked by pirates, and the Navy Dragon Squad is dispatched, dazzling the audience with various firearms and high-tech equipment.
Nodding silently, Shi Hang gave this beginning a favorable rating. In addition to the Jiaolong Squadron having sophisticated weapons that were in line with modern military development, what he valued more was collective unity.
The Dragon Team is a collective. If at the beginning one of the team members is very handsome, playing one against ten, performing all kinds of cool and difficult moves, that would be a real disappointment.
Looking at the background of Wu Jing in the first row, Shi Hang raised the corner of his mouth. This was the way Wolf Warrior walked, leaning towards the Western individual hero style. Those who didn't know better thought Leng Feng was Iron Man.
The theater was very quiet, with no commotion or noise. The film critics at most lowered their voices to discuss the plot.
The plot laid the groundwork, with the Dragon Team rescuing people abroad. This part was a real overseas evacuation incident. Wu Jing was stunned and looked at Fang Jing. This plot seemed a bit familiar.
Isn’t that what his Wolf Warrior 2 is like?
"It's wise to pick up people's teeth!" A film critic wrote this sentence in his notebook.
The same routine seems fresh to the audience after watching it once, but the effect may not be good the second time. In Wu Jing Wolf Warriors 2, special forces go into the city to save people, and you, Lin Chaoxian, also go into the city to save people. It is also about overseas wars and the evacuation of overseas Chinese.
Action, this alone can be said to be plagiarism.
Shi Hang also felt a little disappointed. He originally thought it was a different military film, but he didn't expect it to be a copy of Wolf Warrior 2.
"Gu Shun and Director Li, occupy the high ground and cover us!"
"The first team rescues people, the second team attracts firepower!"
"Boom!!"
The rocket launcher exploded, bombs rang out, large pieces of flesh and blood flew out, and broken limbs were everywhere. A foreign soldier had his arm broken by a single shot.
Shi Hang was stunned, the audience in the theater was stunned, and Wu Jing was stunned. This scene was real and bloody enough.
In general movies and TV shows, people who are still alive and running after being shot are completely nonsense. How fast is the bullet? It basically pierces the body when it hits the body.
Moreover, the bullet rotates, and after entering the body, it can tear a large area of flesh and blood. The result after the bullet penetrates is a hole as big as a ping pong ball in the back, which is extremely painful. If it is still able to run, it can only be said that Wolverine is reincarnated.
If it didn’t penetrate, congratulations, you’ll be useless if you hit the bone.
The audience continued to watch. Just like the first story, there was no individual heroism. The Dragon Team still worked together as a team to successfully save people.
Everyone in the team played their own role. The captain played by Zhang Yi took control of the overall situation and arranged the tactics reasonably. The sniper Gu Shun played by Fang Jing did not shoot easily and would definitely kill if he fired.
Observers, machine gunners, blasters, everyone is indispensable.
Coming out of the city, Team Jiaolong received orders from the vanguard to rescue reporters and people from energy research companies.
The sun is scorching in the desolate Gobi, and a war is about to break out. There are sniper rifle duels, rocket launcher bombings, white phosphorus smoke grenades, remote-controlled flying bombs, mortar positions, and cars full of bloody corpses.
Cruel and real, this is Operation Red Sea. Shi Hang feels like he is not watching a movie, but a documentary.
Wu Jing's Wolf Warrior 2 draws its inspiration from life but is higher than life. The tanks are elegant, one can fight a hundred, and steel wires block artillery shells. These are simply impossible to appear in real life.
In comparison, Operation Red Sea was too real. A sniper cut off a hand, half of a body was cut off, suicide bombs, and a car full of dead people all showed the cruelty of war.
The members of the Dragon Team are not supermen. They will die and be disabled if they are shot.
The original film of 160 minutes was finally edited to 140 minutes. The whole film is passionate to the end. The total text and drama are less than 20 minutes, and Zhang Yi is basically talking.
A movie of more than two hours is already very long in China. If it is longer, the audience will be very tired. This is why part of it will be cut in the later stage. After all, a normal movie lasts about ninety minutes.
"Click!"
The theater lights came on, warm applause broke out, and Fang Jing and other leading actors came on stage.
"Thank you all colleagues and seniors, media, film critics and friends for coming to support me. I would like to express my gratitude again. Filming is not easy. If you think it is okay, I hope you can come back and help promote it..."
After watching the movie, Lin Chao invited guests to dinner. Most of the celebrities excused themselves because they had something to do. It was enough time to come and help repost on Weibo.
Those who went there were basically the media and film critics, and they also had to dig up some behind-the-scenes filming information from the crew.
After dinner, Fang Jing gave red envelopes to the media and film critics. This was a rule. Otherwise, why would they promote you or work hard to write articles for you?
As we approach the first day of the Lunar New Year, there are more and more premieres. In addition to Operation Red Sea, Monster Hunt 2, Detective Chinatown 2 and other films are also starting their final promotions.
What's interesting is that Fang Jing appeared at the premiere of Detective Chinatown 2.
The filming rate for Operation Red Sea is 15%, and we will get the data a few days later. Various film companies have also announced their film schedules, with the highest one being Monster Hunt 2, which has 30%.
The lowest is 19th Generation, with 1.8%, and many major theater chains will not show them.
Like Operation Red Sea, Detective Chinatown 2 is both at 15%, while Journey to the West is higher than both of them.