A total of five people came to Film Weekly. A female reporter, a makeup artist, a photographer and assistant, and a driver. They seemed very formal.
At the other party's request, Chen Feng changed into a black suit. Then, with the help of the other party's makeup artist, he trimmed his eyebrows, put on light makeup, and applied foundation. Then he started taking pictures of him at the photographer's request.
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He posed in several poses, and their report will use several of the photos.
The female reporter's name is Qin Li. She is about 30 years old. She is not pretty, but has a temperament, some intellectual beauty, and a dashing look with short hair. She told Chen Feng that his photos might be used
For the cover of the next issue of Film Weekly.
Chen Feng was a little surprised by this, but if he thought about it carefully, he deserved to be on the cover of Film Weekly. After all, the movies he shot during this period were the highest-grossing domestic movies.
Of course he hopes that he can really be the cover character of the next issue of Film Weekly, not mainly because it can increase his popularity, but because it can increase the box office of this movie to a certain extent.
Qin Li's interview copy was also read to Chen Feng in advance. Basically, it was not a sensitive issue, and Chen Feng expressed no objection to it.
The interview started soon. Because of the previous Youth Daily report, it was of course impossible for Film Weekly to repeatedly ask questions similar to those of Youth Daily. Therefore, the interview questions prepared by Qin Li this time were focused and avoided talking to Youth Daily.
The report is similar. His focus is of course on movies.
"First of all, congratulations on your movie. It has already exceeded 600 million in box office within half a month of its release. So before your movie was released, did you ever think that it would achieve such a high box office?" The interview began in an orderly manner.
Chen Feng had thought of it a long time ago, but he definitely couldn't tell the truth, so he shook his head and said: "Of course I never thought of such a high box office. It's a bit beyond my expectation. After all, my total investment in this movie is only about 1 million.
.Before it was released, all I could think of was that this movie would have a box office of over 10 million. In this way, I would not lose money and could make a small profit. As a result, the current high box office is really for me
Very unexpected.”
"Can you tell me how you invested 1 million to make this movie? How did you come up with the idea of making such a movie?"
"My dream since I was a child is to be a director and make movies I like. But I know that making movies is very difficult. The first thing is the problem of funds, because I had no funds at all at the beginning. Or because I was a resident singer in a bar.
, I only earned over 300,000 yuan. It was basically impossible to make a more formal movie with this amount of money. So I had to attract investment, and later I successfully raised 500,000 yuan in investment, and then I had the courage.
, to make such a movie.
The reason why he thought of making such a movie is because his investment is relatively small. The filming only needs one house. The entire movie is set inside and outside the house. There are no extra scenes, which saves a lot of money. Secondly, the actors
, except for Teacher Cai Yunlin, the actors I hired are basically minor actors and their salary in the new film is not high."
"We all know now that it was Liu Qinfei who invested in your movie. Can you tell me how you got her investment in the first place?"
"When I was the lead in the crew of "The Gunslinger" directed by Wang Weidong, Liu Qinfei has always been an actress that I like very much. Later I met her. After filming the Gunslinger, I just happened to be polishing this one.
I have always dreamed of filming the script "Men Come From Earth", so I gave this script to Liu Qinfei, hoping to get her investment. I was very lucky, she also has a good vision, after she read the script she said two words
They gave me 500,000 yuan without saying anything. Then I started shooting my movie, which took about half a month to complete. Then it was submitted for review relatively smoothly, and it was approved in less than a week.
Then came the stage. At first, I visited several theater chains, but couldn't reach an agreement. One theater chain actually wanted to buy out my movie. At that time, he asked for 5 million, which seemed to be relatively profitable, but obviously it was not.
My movie was greatly underestimated, so I didn’t agree. Later, under the introduction of a friend of mine, I released my movie at Tiandi Cinema. Several senior executives from Tiandi Cinema watched my movie.
After this movie, everyone gave it high praise, and their vision is very good. At least in my opinion, their review vision is higher than that of many other theaters that previously looked down on my film."
"I see. Now everyone admires Liu Qinfei's investment vision. He spent 500,000 to invest in your movie, and now it has a box office of more than 600 million. It is very easy to see the box office trend exceeding 1 billion. Her investment
It can bring her at least a hundred times the income. Such a large return on investment is now talked about in the industry. At that time, besides Liu Qinfila, did you also find anyone else to invest?"
Chen Feng laughed and said: "At first, I thought about finding other people to invest, but I didn't know many rich people. Later, I only found Liu Qinfei. Because I was on the same crew with her at the time and could get in touch with her. Others
I couldn't even get in touch with rich people. After all, I was a grassroots man who came to the capital to work, a young man with no connections, no money, and no money. Even if I met those rich people, they wouldn't be able to take a liking to me.
, after all, I am so young, it is impossible for those people to trust me like Liu Qinfei. It is precisely because of Liu Qinfei's trust that she was able to obtain more than a hundred times the investment income this time."
"We all know that director Huang Jingkun criticized your movie not long ago, saying that your movie is not a science fiction movie. Although you responded on Weibo, science fiction movies are not necessarily big-budget movies.
There must be special effects, so can you tell us what your sci-fi movie looks like specifically?"
"Science fiction movies, as the name suggests, are science fiction films. They are feature films with science fantasy as the content. Its basic feature is to make a fantasy description of the future world or scenes in the distant past based on the scientific principles and achievements known today.
. This is a more official explanation, and my personal explanation is that science fiction movies are fantasy movies, and they are wild and unconstrained movies. And my "This Man is from the Earth" has no special effects, no aliens, and no spaceships, but it has
Focusing on the philosophical content, truly conveying the core of science fiction. That is fantasy.”
"Can you tell me your evaluation of the movie "Galaxy Age"?"
Chen Feng thought for a while and then said: "In my eyes, the movie "Galactic Age" cannot be regarded as a bad movie in the true sense, because after all, the special effects in it are still very good. Although the script has loopholes,
Despite the loopholes, it is still a decent script. However, they did not polish some details well. In addition, during filming, there were some flaws in some details, including interspersed shots and inconsistencies. In fact, they only needed to reshoot some scenes.
, revise it and correct some errors and omissions, and it can still be considered a good movie. Of course, if you want to push it over, there are many things that need to be revised, not to mention that the movie has been released now and it needs to be withdrawn.
After that, if we reshoot and modify it, the investors may not agree with it. I also feel a little regretful about this."
Chen Feng's answer surprised Qin Li. In fact, Chen Feng wanted to criticize Galaxy Age as a bad movie at first, but to be honest, it is not really a bad movie. It's just that it has appeared on the Internet now.
It has become a trend to ridicule and ridicule this movie for fun. Everyone is talking about it. Everyone says it is a bad movie. In addition, there is really nothing special about it, so it is really
It became a huge piece of shit.
It can only be said that Huang Jingkun is very unlucky. Of course, this cannot be blamed on others, let alone Chen Feng. There is a problem with the quality of his own films. During the filming, post-production, editing and review, he did not handle it well.
, they didn’t really pay attention to it, and then suddenly it was released. They can only blame themselves for such a situation.