Xiao Qian came to South Korea this time and had another job, which was to take stock of the box office of "The Opium War".
After two and a half months of release, this Chinese film has achieved somewhat crazy box office success in South Korea.
5.35 million people, which is slightly lower than "The Spies", but higher than "Titanic".
It is really an unexpected situation. It has not won "Titanic" in China, but it actually has the upper hand in a third country.
Xiao Qian was also puzzled by this result.
Considering the Korean people's admiration for the United States, no matter how you look at it, this result should not be achieved.
"If it were the same screening situation, "Titanic" would definitely be unbeatable. But if the situation is different, then there is nothing we can do."
Li Meijing made tea for Xiao Qian and Li Qingjue while revealing the answer to the mystery.
When speaking, pay more attention to Li Qingjue.
This is the most beautiful girl in the world, how can my cousin win?
Xiao Qian was puzzled.
"How come your country's film industry is so kind to us?"
Li Meijing's expression was also full of emotion.
"I don't mean to be nice to you, but I just caught up with the good times."
She was quite careful and observed her surroundings carefully, even in her own office.
"The government intends to abolish the film quota system. Now the industry is in turmoil and everyone is in danger. Once the government really does it, I am afraid that the Korean film market will become a dumping ground for Hollywood movies. Other Koreans
Why don’t you think about it? Anyway, those directors and actors share the same hatred for Hollywood movies.”
Xiao Qian understood.
Isn’t this the historically famous skinhead movement in the Korean film industry?
During this movement, all Korean filmmakers united to resist the government's move to abolish the quota system and successfully defended their own interests.
Now that the skinhead movement is at the forefront, the Korean film industry naturally has no good feelings towards Hollywood movies.
The box office of "Titanic" obviously suffered from the evil hands of Korean filmmakers, so it ranked third.
There was no "Opium War" in the original history, so "Titanic" ranked second, still not surpassing "The Spies of Life and Death".
Although Li Meijing didn't say it too clearly, Xiao Qian definitely figured out that the number of screens "Titanic" could be released on was limited.
In this way, even if the audience wants to watch it, there will be no place to watch it.
This kind of behavior would never be allowed in another place. After all, there are so many movie theater chains, and everyone can't be consistent.
If you don’t want to make money, others still want to make money.
If you have different ideas, you will give outsiders every opportunity to defeat you.
Only the Korean film industry is different. People here are very united, especially when they are united to the outside world. Despite the desperate struggle, the government had to compromise.
It can be said that the high box office of "The Opium War", in addition to the fact that the movie is indeed excellent, can also be regarded as a good opportunity.
When Korean filmmakers resist Hollywood movies, they inevitably have to endure tremendous pressure.
Korean filmmakers in previous lives had no other choice but to fight hard. With determination to fight to the death, they overcame the greatest difficulties.
This time, a third party from "The Opium War" intervened, allowing Korean film practitioners to find a suitable gun to deal with Hollywood movies.
Look, in this world, apart from Hollywood, there are also good movies.
As for whether this will allow Chinese films to expand in the Korean market, Korean filmmakers don't care. The most important thing is that they have great arrogance in their hearts.
I don’t think Korean movies can’t even win against Chinese movies.
It can be said that this wave of Chinese and Korean films is a weak alliance to fight against powerful enemies.
As a result, the benefit fell on Starlight's head, with more than 5 million box office attendances, ranking second in the box office this year.
Xiao Qian was happy, but Li Meijing was not.
"Hey, our "Love Letters" are so far apart."
When "The Opium War" was released in South Korea, the Korean movie "Love Letter" was also released in China. Although Dongying tried its best to promote it, unfortunately the box office was not satisfactory.
As of last month, "Love Letter" had grossed 8.5 million yuan at the box office. Although it made a lot of money, when compared with "The Opium War", Korean filmmakers were very depressed.
"There's nothing we can do about it. As a literary and artistic film, "Love Letter" is bound to have trouble impressing the audience."
Although the plot of South Korea's "Love Letter" is fundamentally different, it is still adapted from the Japanese classic. That "Love Letter" caused such a huge response in the country that it has almost become synonymous with Japanese movies in the country.
Under such comparison, it is really difficult for South Korea's "Love Letter" to make any waves.
In addition, it is a literary and romantic movie, so it is really difficult for today's impetuous audiences to calm down and enjoy it.
Li Meijing followed the entire promotion of "Love Letter" in China, so he naturally knew that China was not playing dirty tricks. The reason for the poor results was what Xiao Qian said.
"We plan to apply for "The Spies of Life and Death". What does Representative Xiao think?"
Xiao Qian hasn't read it yet, but she has impressions from her previous life. After thinking about the plot, she nodded.
"I think it's okay. It's an excellent movie."
Of course, what Li Meijing was talking about was not about the quality of the movie, and what Xiao Qian was answering was not about the quality of the movie.
There is nothing illegal about "The Spies", the overall quality is very good, and it deserves to be a good movie for Chinese audiences to enjoy.
"What we plan to declare here is the October Siege."
The first stage of the Sino-Korean film exchange process started with "The Opium War" and "October Siege."
The quality of these two movies, which are currently the highest-grossing movies in China, is obvious to all, and they will definitely be used as the first choice to win glory for the country.
The Ministry of Culture has already obtained the box office data of "The Opium War" in North America and South Korea, and has begun to plan how to promote it.
These are all Li Jianguo's political achievements, and Xiao Qian is happy to see them come to fruition.
Regarding China's choice, Li Meijing was not surprised at all. If it were her, she would have chosen "October Siege".
She doesn't have any good ideas. Currently, the only movie that South Korea can produce is "The Spies of Life and Death". Unlike China, which has begun to enter the era of blockbusters.
We can only hope that "Spirit of Life and Death" can be accepted by Chinese audiences like it was in China.
"Chairman Li, I think our film cooperation should go further after entering the new millennium."
When Li Meijing heard this, her heart moved.
"What do you think, Representative Xiao?"
Xiao Qian obviously planned it.
"Our current cooperation is only open to each other in the terminal field. At present, the effect is pretty good. But I think we should give full play to our complementary advantages on the production side to create a more promising Chinese and Korean film market."
This is something Xiao Qian has thought about for a long time, and he still needs to use the progress of Korean films to overwhelm the domestic film industry.
Although it now seems that Chinese films have temporarily taken the lead in his influence, when he was working on the front line, he had clearly felt that with the expansion of the film market, domestic film talents were increasingly stretched.
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The actors are not bad, but the talents in directors, screenwriters, dramatists, etc. are not up to par at all.
There are basically no threshold restrictions in the Chinese film market.
As long as you have money, anyone can take pictures if they want.
This is not only true in the film industry, but even in the film training stage something goes wrong.
Although China has professional film and television talent training colleges, it is too easy for students to get out of here.
This inevitably leads to the fact that there are many people who are just fake. Not only do these people do nothing to improve the standards of the industry, but on the contrary, they also greatly disrupt the rules of the industry.
Think about the actors who graduated from professional colleges in previous lives, how many of them really have professional qualities?
Directors who graduate and graduate are even more scarce.
In this regard, South Korea has done very well.
It is very difficult to get started as a film director in South Korea, even to the point of being prohibitive.
If you want to work as a film director in Korea, you must graduate from the top film schools, such as the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) and the Directing Department of Chung-Ang University.
It is certainly difficult to get into such an institution, but the most difficult thing is how to graduate.
In order to graduate from school, one must meet one of three conditions.
1. At least one short film has been shortlisted for the three major film festivals: Cannes, Berlin and Venice;
2. At least one short film has won awards at film festivals of the same level as Busan, Tokyo, and Shanghai;
Third, be able to make a feature film that will be screened in theaters.
To put it bluntly, in China, probably 80% of directors cannot achieve the first two conditions.
So good, after all the hard work, can you become a real director after graduating?
no.
You also need to start as a handyman, cameraman or assistant director in the crew, and you have to constantly find and write scripts by yourself, and practice step by step, so that you can finally become a real film director.
It’s completely different from China, where anyone can be a director.
Actors also come to direct, screenwriters come to direct, cameramen come to direct, and even people who have never had film and television production experience come to direct.
Director Feng Da in his previous life complained about it...
All the actors became directors, so I had no choice but to become an actor.
Xiao Qian's current influence is limited to acting in movies, so there is no way to change the current situation of the domestic film and television industry.
The only thing we can do is to use other people's advanced experience and systems, and in turn force our domestic counterparts to follow suit.
Because if you don't make progress, sooner or later the gap will be widened by others.
