At the premiere, "Beijing Meets Seattle" started showing in the cinema.
The story is very simple. A somewhat pretentious mistress came to Milijian to give birth to her child in the name of tourism in order to avoid the wind and give her child a good household registration.
The person who received her was a middle-aged uncle. Corresponding to the heroine who had a bit of a bad temper, the uncle was literary and artistic.
The uncle was half an hour late, and the pretentious mistress humiliated him with harsh words, but the uncle did not dare to reply a word.
There was no other way, she paid for it, this is the benefit of money.
The combination of a single father, an artistic uncle, and a hypocritical mistress with low self-esteem, made Teng Huatao somewhat interested.
This kind of combination is actually not uncommon in China, but the heroine has a bad temper, is pretentious, and is also a mistress, which is rare.
But he still had some interest. After joining the ranks of famous directors, Teng Huatao found that his vision suddenly became much higher, rising to another level.
Some movies that he thought were very good in the past now seem to him to be just that, lackluster and mediocre.
After watching the movie "Beijing Meets Seattle", Teng Huatao's inner evaluation is that it's just okay.
There is nothing intense in the plot. The most intense scene is probably where Tong Liya and Hai Qing have a conflict and quarrel.
The actor's performance on the transformation of the character's personality is what makes Teng Huatao shine the most.
Needless to say, Tong Liya, the heroine of "Waiting for the Wind" is more literary and artistic. He also wanted to find Tong Liya at the beginning. In terms of acting skills, compared with other new generation actresses, Tong Liya has no obvious limitations and her acting skills are very good.
Broad, sweet, artistic, royal, carefree, irritable... I can play all kinds of characters.
From an anxious and vain rich lover to a down-to-earth and calm single mother, Teng Huatao looks at it from the perspective of a famous director. The two heroines before and after have not only changed their personalities, but also completely matured.
This kind of mature change prevents him from deliberately thinking about his identity as a mistress while watching a movie, and he doesn't feel disgusted with this identity.
It’s a good romance movie, Teng Huatao nodded inwardly, but that’s all.
It doesn't have much deep meaning or connotation. It just tells a plain love story based on the popular topic of going to the United States to give birth. The whole love story is not very touching.
After watching the premiere, one day later, the first-day box office was released.
43 million, and the online reputation is very good.
This number is somewhat beyond Teng Huatao's expectation. Originally, it was at most two to three hundred million, but it looks like it will be at least over 500 million.
However, when I thought about it, there were no rivals in such a popular period as the National Day schedule during the same period. The highest-grossing film was "Special Identity" with only 17 million on its first day.
It's not surprising.
Now that the box office has come out, Teng Huatao doesn't care anymore. Even if he gets 500 million in box office, he doesn't care anymore. This year's romance film box office champion, "Waiting for the Wind", is determined.
Get ready to have a good rest and welcome the upcoming Double Eleven.
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"Beijing Meets Seattle" sold well at the box office on its first day, and has a good reputation among viewers online, especially on Weibo, where the ratings are much higher than on any other platform.
However, Tong Liya was a little unhappy. She looked at some negative comments gloomily and said, "If you criticize the character, just criticize the character. Why did you bring me with you?"
"Doesn't this prove that you're good at acting? There's nothing to be angry about." Li Qian looked at the voices scolding Wen Jiajia for having bad views and comforted him with a smile.
Although the movie has been well received, there are still many negative reviews, which is inevitable.
After all, the heroine is a mistress who worships money, has a bad temper, looks down on others, goes out of her way to give birth to a child, and holds hands with the hero. Later, the moneymaker comes, turns around and leaves again.
Many viewers were scolding Wen Jiajia. Some viewers didn't know if they couldn't remember the character's name, so they directly referred to Wen Jiajia as Tong Liya.
It's normal for movies to be like this. Except for some classic characters like Ma Ge, most of the movie protagonists are remembered by the actor's name.
"I will never play this kind of role again."
Tong Liya was still a little unhappy. This was the first time she was scolded for her role. This feeling was very unpleasant.
However, thinking of the plot in "Return to Youth", she was a little worried and said, "In "Return to Youth", my character separated from the male protagonist and married another man. As the heroine in a romance film, this
You won’t let the audience make plans, right?”
"What's the point? The heroine in "Sleepless in Seattle" has a fiancé, but she went to meet Tom Hanks. It's supposed to be wrong, but it still became a classic. The director's level is different, how can I make a movie that makes people laugh?
There’s a heroine in a romance movie that the audience doesn’t like, so don’t worry.”
Li Qian patted Tong Liya and coaxed her for a while, "Okay, don't be angry. Let's go to the road show. Don't keep Xue Xiaolu and the others waiting."
After sending Tong Liya out, Li Qian returned home and turned on the computer.
There is actually nothing to watch in the movie, but the news on the Internet is quite interesting and worth pondering.
In "Beijing Meets Seattle", the heroine's character design is undoubtedly unhealthy, so even though the movie was well received, there were a lot of criticisms in Douban, Tianya, Bihu, and Tieba.
However, only on Weibo, many people do not dislike this kind of persona.
Li Qian scrolled through Weibo for more than half an hour, read many people's speeches, and their previous Weibo posts, and found that they were basically all women.
They are very active, they often go to Weibo, and they have some feminist feelings.
It’s an interesting phenomenon. There are so many online platforms. Not counting some obviously gendered ones, such as sports forums such as Hupu, where all men are active. Among all websites and platforms, Weibo has the most active women.
This makes sense. The female director Xue Xiaolu created the heroine's character, but a normal male director would not arrange it like this.
Even if the characters are the same, the transformation process will be different.
Women and men view and deal with problems differently.
Apart from that, "Beijing Meets Seattle" is nothing interesting. For Li Qian, it is just another blockbuster movie for the company.
The National Day schedule was generally relatively deserted. Except for "Special Identity" which sold 17 million on its first day, only "Escape" broke 10 million on its first day. The others were all cannon fodder.
Both of these movies are not very interesting, and together they are not as good as the things that the crew of "Special Identity" had done before.
It was really a huge drama in the film industry. First, a director came out to hold a press conference and claimed that he was originally the director and screenwriter of "Special Identity", but was replaced by Donnie Yen.
Both of them have been involved in several lawsuits.
Zhao Wenzhuo held another press conference, accusing Donnie Yen of acting alone and deleting his scenes without authorization, and then his roles were changed.
On the other hand, Donnie Yen also accused Zhao Wenzhuo of being an actor, saying that he wanted to live in the presidential suite.
It was even revealed that Zhen Zidan’s driver killed Zhao Wenzhuo’s driver.
A good fight almost turned into a black and violent fight.
However, it seems that the murderer was indeed the driver of the RV that Donnie Yen drove for him on the set. The driver who died was not Zhao Wenzhuo's driver, but the driver of another producer.
When all this series of things are combined and compared, the box office and the plot of the movie are simply not enough to watch.
It's not even as good as Shu Qi's support for Donnie Yen, who was found out from the restricted-rated movie he had previously starred in, and exposed five o'clock photos and videos, which triggered the Hu Su Bao incident and implicated Ma Xiaogang.
Logically speaking, these things that caused a lot of fuss before, the movie is very popular, and Donnie Yen and Zhang Hanyu are famous here, so the box office will be higher.
However, the negative reviews about Jingtian still put viewers off.
The plan of recruiting two top-tier male actors to support Jing Tian failed. Now the audience is very smart, and it is not that easy to defraud them of their money.
Apart from these three movies, there is nothing else to watch during the National Day season.
The long holiday lasted for seven days, and "Return to Youth" was about to start shooting on the 8th. Li Qian also took advantage of the last rest time, and held meetings with the actors from time to time, went to the digital field, and remotely controlled the situation of the locations in various places.
However, on the 3rd, Zhou Xingchi came to Beijing again and talked to Li Qian about the idea of a sequel to "The Truman Show" that he had mentioned when the movie was released.
Hearing that Zhou Xingchi had completed the outline and concept of the script, Li Qian was full of surprise, "Director Zhou, do you really want to make this sequel?"
Zhou Xingchi nodded, "Yes, I think Truman is very strange. He can be everyone, but everyone is not Truman. "The Truman Show" is more like a ridiculous phone call. For Truman
, this is only half of his life, it is incomplete. I want to make up for this character’s life.”
Logically speaking, famous directors, especially domestic ones, will not make sequels, which is different from the big commercial directors in Hollywood.
The big directors in China all have artistic pursuits, which of course is self-indulgent to say the least. They generally don't make sequels, let alone other people's sequels.
However, Zhou Xingchi said so, and Li Qian was also a little curious as to what kind of life he wanted to give Truman for the rest of his life.
"Can I read the script?"
"Compared to the fairy tale of "The Truman Show," the second half of my life is a tragedy." Zhou Xingchi explained as he handed a folder to Li Qian.
"Let me consider."
Li Qian took the folder with only one piece of paper and read it carefully.
In fact, when Zhou Xingchi had the idea of a sequel, Li Qian also roughly thought about the possible plot.
After Truman leaves the studio, he will inevitably become a big star, whether actively or passively, this is inevitable.
Even if he doesn't want to, he is already a world-famous star and everyone knows him.
This simple script outline is almost the same, using the method of narrative. It starts with the movie starring Truman being released and selling well all over the world. He holds a fan meeting in the square.
Then it started when Truman left the studio and wanted to meet his first love and be together.
Unwillingly, he was chased by everyone around him, capital, and television stations to become an actor.
He is a huge hit all over the world. He can be seen in movies, TV series, variety shows, singing, and TV stations all over the world, just like in the studio.
It's just a different approach, and you don't need to be monitored 24 hours a day.
However, his first love left him and the changed Truman.
Various factors later caused Truman to slip from his high position as a superstar and become a ninth-tier actor.
This gap was unacceptable to Truman, and he finally returned to the studio where it had been closed for 30 years.
However, when he stepped into the studio, he found that the studio had been abandoned for many years and it was dead silent inside.
To be honest, this script is a bit old-fashioned and a bit unfamiliar.
Li Qian thought about it, put down the script, and made a summary, "So Director Zhou, Truman became a big star in reality, lost himself in the scenery, and finally his first love left him, the audience abandoned him, and the capital also
Abandoned him and finally returned to the dead silence of the studio?"
"That's probably it." Zhou Xingchi also saw that Li Qian was not too satisfied, so he explained, "With billions of viewers and hundreds of billions or trillions of capital, it is very difficult for him to become a big star.
It's normal, and it's also normal for the audience to abandon him afterwards.
Because in the past thirty years, the live broadcast on TV was real and unpredictable, and his performance in real life, or anything else, was all a performance. There will be a day when you get tired of any performance. No star can
After being famous all his life, he was abandoned by the audience and naturally abandoned by capital. This gap made him want to return to the center of the world, that is, to return to the studio, which was natural."
Li Qian nodded. These plots are very logical. Live TV can be popular for thirty years because it is live and unpredictable. It is like peeping on a person for thirty years, which is as long as half a life.
But when you are a star, no matter whether it is a movie, TV series, variety show or singing, there will be a day when you are not popular.
However, this story was too sad. Li Qian shook his head and asked, "Why does Director Zhou want to shoot like this?"
"Why..." Zhou Xingchi pondered for a moment and said with some regret, "In order to show a complete life, everyone is Truman, and Truman is not everyone."
Li Qian was speechless. He couldn't talk properly. It was like talking about philosophy.
The general meaning is that Li Qian also understands that life is like this, and it is the same as Truman's experience.
Everyone has the peak of life and the most miserable time. There is nothing better than heaven and hell.
Everyone has their own choice, whether it is chosen by themselves or forced by the environment.
"Since Director Zhou wants to film it, I have no problem with it."
Li Qian thought for a while, but still didn't refuse, even though the copyright was in his own hands.
Zhou Xingchi is a bit of a literary youth, so let him be. He must have filmed the movie "The New King of Comedy". This movie is enough to show the changes of Zhou Xingchi in the future.
It's normal, all famous directors are like this.
"However, I have a suggestion. In the end, it was too frustrating and the handling was not good enough." Li Qian continued.
"Director Li, please tell me." Zhou Xingchi was a little surprised. Li Qian had different plot arrangements during his short time.
However, when I think about Li Qian being a famous quick shooter, he makes one movie while Li Qian can make three or four movies. I can't help but sigh, it's great to be young.
Li Qian organized his words and expressed his thoughts, "Actually, the general direction can basically remain unchanged, and the final ending can be changed. Truman tried every means to enter the studio, put aside the current embarrassment, and return to the past.
life, and become Truman, the darling of the world.
However, when he stepped into the studio, he found that this studio, which had been abandoned for many years, had been restarted again and was starting a new 24-hour live reality show. This time, the protagonist was another baby. Truman only
I can play a small supporting role in this show."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Xingchi's pupils shrank suddenly and he blurted out, "Playing a minor supporting role in another protagonist's world?"
"Almost, that's what it means. Although it is equally tragic, compared to Director Zhou's tragic ending, the ending is tragic, but more ridiculous, funnier, and less tragic." Li Qian nodded.
This funny thing is not a happy smile, but a ridiculously funny and heart-wrenching smile.
"really."
Zhou Xingchi was filled with emotion. It was almost the same ending, but the ending that Li Qian came up with in just a few minutes was much more subtle than the one he had spent several months conceiving.
What a genius!
Even Zhou Xingchi, who calls himself a genius, has to admire Li Qian's genius, which is not on the same level at all.
Suddenly, he stared at Li Qian seriously and laughed at himself, "Everyone is the protagonist of his own world, but he may also be a supporting role in another person's world. Perhaps in Director Li's world, we so-called great directors are also
Just a supporting role."
"??????"
This inexplicable sentence full of pessimism made Li Qian have a question mark on his forehead.
Just now he was just a bit of a literary person, but now he has become a philosopher.
After Zhou Xingchi finished speaking, he also realized that there was something wrong with what he said, and smiled sheepishly, "I'm sorry to express my feelings."