After a hot Spring Festival, the market has calmed down a bit.
There are no longer any imported films during the National Day, Lunar New Year, and Spring Festival periods. There are not even many blockbusters during the summer vacation. They are all concentrated between March and June.
It can be regarded as a protection for domestic films, although now domestic films have an advantage over Hollywood blockbusters.
Except for "Fast and Furious 7", all the annual crowns in recent years have been won by domestic films, and domestic films also account for the majority in the top ten box office.
However, imported films are carefully selected from hundreds or even thousands of movies. They are all the best among the best. Compared with most domestic movies, they are a dimensionality reduction attack.
In the four months of March, April, May and June, domestic films have been basically suffering from waves of ravages.
"Fast and Furious 8", "Pirates of the Caribbean 5", "Transformers 5" and other imported blockbusters have defeated domestic films to the point where they can't resist even a little bit.
Although some movies have been released in the past few months, such as "The Memory Master" starring Xu Zheng and "The Bomb Disposal Expert" starring Liu Dehua.
Every year at this time, a group of people come out to badmouth domestic movies and make all kinds of comments.
Some people in the academic community are also speaking out, criticizing the film industry for being too commercial and not pursuing art.
In particular, the film "A Hundred Birds Pay Attendance to the Phoenix" directed by the late former director of Xi Film Studio, Wu Tianming, caused an uproar last year when the distributor knelt down in public and posted it on Weibo due to a lack of film schedule.
Last year, this kneeling made a box office of 80 million yuan.
This year, when the movie was re-released, the issue of kneeling down to beg for a screening was brought up again.
Anyway, those engaged in literature and art look down on commercial films, let alone that there is less and less market for literary and artistic films. Basically, unless a commercial film has a high reputation, it will be criticized, and if it cannot beat the imported film, it will also be criticized.
Just like in previous years, just complain, but this year there is also an Indian movie "Dangal" which grossed 1.3 billion at the box office.
Not only imported blockbusters, but also Indian films are rubbing domestic films on the ground, which excites some people even more.
Some professionals criticize domestic films for only pursuing box office, while other audiences denigrate domestic films and praise films from Hollywood, South Korea, Japan, and Japan. This time, they also include Indus.
"These people are really busy with their time, and they complain every year. Wouldn't it be better to put this energy into work? If you have the perseverance to go to work, you will have made a fortune long ago."
Li Qian was also speechless. A group of people who didn't even open their eyes were talking self-righteously all day long.
To brag about other countries’ movies is to praise other countries without even thinking about what has changed.
"Domestic films still have a long way to go."
Guo Fan was also filled with emotion, "It's just a matter of bragging about other people's movies, and it also rises to the perspective of the country. In Nanbang, a semi-colonial country, consortiums control the entire country, and everything serves the capitalists. Even if there is that
So what if it’s a realistic movie?”
"take it easy."
Li Qian shook his head. Those realistic movies in Nanbang did expose a lot of the dark side of society and the collusion between the powerful and the rich.
It also makes many domestic audiences feel that Nanbang movies are more meaningful. After all, many films that cannot be filmed in China are covered by photovoltaics.
In fact, they are all the same. Every country's movies have a thread, but this thread is different.
Our country is dominated by the government, so in addition to pornography and drug control, the line must also be in line with social stability and harmony.
The Nanbang Consortium dominates, so it doesn't matter how the government is distorted. No matter how badly the government is scolded, the consortium will be happier.
After all, there is no shortage of people with lofty ideals in every country. The country of Nanbang is a place where the government and the consortium fight. Almost every chief executive wants to get the country out of the control of the consortium.
You can hack the government, you can hack whatever you want, no matter how sharp the issue is, it doesn't matter if you expose the reality, it can divert social conflicts.
What the consortium needs is money and control over the country. As long as these two things are not threatened, they will not care.
Although there is freedom of creation in Hollywood, there is also a thread that is also in the hands of the master of this country.
Decades ago, Mi Lijian caused a Hollywood Ten Gentlemen incident due to political reasons, which is rare in the history of global movies.
But generally speaking, China is indeed stricter, and Optoelectronics should also be criticized. For officials, they do not seek merit, but seek no faults.
If it weren't for the fear of being embarrassed when meeting the leader, Li Qian would have wanted to scold Guangdian from time to time.
But the scolding should be done to the point, not blindly blaming or scolding with your eyes closed.
Sometimes when Li Qian reads the various voices on the Internet that boast about freedom abroad and belittle his own country, he wants to curse them.
The Sowon case, Nam Bang Jung Prefecture became the first country in Asia to implement chemical castration, and "Dangal" was a box office hit. Aamir Khan gained a large group of fans in the country, and he discovered what Aamir Khan had done before.
Many things have happened, including the promotion of relevant laws on women and children.
Good guy, so he went around praising Nanbang and Sange’s judicial system, and then he started to cross the border with most countries except his own country, and then belittled the domestic judicial system.
Apart from the two countries involved, the one who deserves the most praise is Mi Lijian. After all, he is the father of many people.
Of course, they probably don't know that there is a clause in Militian's law that the Governor can pardon federal criminals. During each Governor's term of office, he will pardon as few as a few dozen to as many as four to five hundred criminals.
There were also relatives among them. Clinton pardoned his younger brother before he retired. Roosevelt pardoned the most criminals, pardoning nearly 4,000 criminals.
There are also people who were pardoned by the next chief executive before going to jail after the chief executive stepped down. Unlike Nanbang, they had a tradition of liquidating the chief executive, and they were still kind and harmonious.
It's a bit like the ancient emperor's general amnesty. If this kind of justice existed in China, I don't know what kind of criticism it would be.
Anyway, it was okay. After Li Qian had eaten, he complained to Guo Fan for a while.
"Boss, do you even know this?" Guo Fan listened with great interest. Although he was a legal major, he must know these things, but it was still interesting to hear people complain.
"A computer can tell everything about the world. I can also chat and chat on the Internet when I have nothing to do."
Li Qian smiled and said, "You can't go off the rails with netizens. When you make a movie for the audience, you have to know what the audience thinks first."
"This is called going deep into the masses?" Guo Fan thought up a word.
"You're still visiting privately incognito. Do you think you're going to be an official?"
Li Qian shook his head, "In general, I am still used to feeling inferior. When the public's self-confidence increases, this situation will become less common. As the first heavy industry science fiction blockbuster, your film "The Wandering Earth" is very important."
, although many viewers are looking forward to it, but based on my long-term observation and data collection, there are still many viewers who are still doubtful and do not believe that we can make a real science fiction blockbuster."
After saying this, a sense of mission suddenly surged in Guo Fan's heart, "Don't worry, boss, I'm ready."
"Okay, it's almost time, let's turn on the phone."
Li Qian looked at the time. It was already eight o'clock, and the launch ceremony of "The Wandering Earth" was about to begin.
The movie was filmed in the Oriental Film Capital in Jade Bird City, a film and television base built by Wanda. It is also a modern, industrialized film and television base with truly top international standards. The hardware facilities are much better than those in Hengdian and Huairou.
However, as a large-scale production with an investment of 4 to 5 billion, the opening ceremony was not very high-profile, and only a dozen reporters were invited to attend.
It is a long-term battle, and it is still very early to accept the results, so there is no need to engage in such a big battle.
As an investor, Li Qian also gave a brief speech in front of the dozen reporters.
"As the first domestic heavy industry science fiction film, there are many voices about "The Wandering Earth", with expectations and doubts.
When the train was first invented, people didn't believe it could run fast because the horse-drawn carriages of that era could run much faster than it.
But with the development of science and now the high-speed rail, domestic science fiction is like the train at that time. Some things always have to be done first. I hope time can prove it, and I hope the audience can trust us."
With the completion of the opening ceremony, the filming of "The Wandering Earth" has officially begun.
Although only a dozen reporters from some major media and TV stations were invited to the ceremony, the reports came out, which still made movie fans very excited in this month when domestic films were being crushed.
"Support domestic science fiction, Li Qian's production must be top quality!"
"I've been looking forward to it for so long, and the filming has finally started. I've watched "The Wandering Earth" more than a dozen times. I really hope it can be reproduced realistically."
"If "The Wandering Earth" really becomes a hard science fiction blockbuster, it seems that domestic movies will have no shortcomings!"
"Haha, domestic science fiction? It must be another money-making movie. Using the domestic technology, we can make a hammer science fiction."
"The more blockbusters there are, the more rubbish they become. Labor and management are almost disgusted by those blockbusters and would rather watch nutritious Hollywood popcorn movies."
"I also watch popcorn blockbusters, but I'm also looking forward to "The Wandering Earth" and I'm going to criticize Li Qian. I also believe that if even Li Qian comes to make money-making movies, then domestic science fiction will be really hopeless."
"I talk about Hollywood blockbusters all the time. Hollywood can't make blockbusters in just one or two years. Apart from Hollywood, there are not many places where hard science fiction can be shot. Domestic films have only been commercialized for more than ten years. We will definitely catch up!"
"The movie tickets are ready, and I want to go see it anyway because of the domestically produced hard science fiction!"
The film market is not very popular except for imported films. The filming of "The Wandering Earth" immediately attracted a lot of attention.
Nowadays, the audience has been frightened by various blockbusters, and "The Great Wall" still has a huge investment of one billion.
Coupled with the hard science fiction, Guo Fan is not Li Qian, so the audience cannot absolutely believe it.
So, there are all kinds of voices, but at least the majority are positive.
I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but more than ten days later, another science fiction blockbuster "Fortress" co-invested by Huayang Media, Penguin, and Ahli also announced that it would start filming.
This film, which was prepared later than "The Wandering Earth", is so far ahead of schedule that it just held a press conference.
Different from the low profile of "The Wandering Earth", "Magic City Fortress" stars the popular young star Lu Han. As soon as the press conference ended, it immediately hit the Internet.
With 60 million fans, Huang Zhongjun and Teng Huatao's words at the press conference, "Domestic science fiction has stood up since "Fortress", have spread to every corner of the Internet.
The Internet is awash with news about "Fortress", as well as various handsome photos of brother Lu Han forwarded by fans.
With a high profile, many fans, and a focus on publicity and momentum, "Fortress" completely overshadowed "The Wandering Earth" and seemed to suddenly become the hope for the revival of domestic science fiction.