At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 857 When New Wave Meets Hollywood (24)

"The Listener" is actually quite sincere!

If there is no sincerity, Mak Siu-fai and Zhuang Wenqiang will not use Liang Chaowei.

After "The Wind", spy films became a new trend.

Then... "Dongfengyu" encountered another problem - review!

Because of the united front issue, many things cannot be done...

It is obviously a revolutionary historical theme, but the whole journey is unclear...

Therefore, "The Listener" directly abandons beliefs and only talks about "part-time jobs", which most likely blurs the political background of the civil war, leaving only a very vague framework for the confrontation between the enemy and ourselves.

"Everyone is looking for something to eat", "Everyone is their own master, but they are just working for a job."

Therefore, regardless of ideology and political beliefs, "The Listener" is still the mode of police and gangster films that Mak and Zhuang are good at...

They really worked hard and used the story of "The Listener" to the greatest extent for their own use.But the harder you try, the more climactic passages prove that these efforts are still in vain.

It is in line with the public's perception of Hong Kong movies: beautiful environment, changing costumes, and touching love scenes...

But it's useless, "The Listener" is a spy war!

Originally a very good original work, the film made out of it is not at all touching.The character Zhou Xun didn't feel anything when he died...

It proves that Hong Kong directors are not good at this subject matter!

After all, there are naturally interviews in the interview area. When "Painted Skin 2" was mentioned, Shen Xudong explained: ""Painted Skin 2" continues the theme of Painted Skin, and at the same time expands the world view of Liaozhai..."

"We will definitely continue to make the "Liao Zhai" series of movies. Hollywood can make series films and movie universes. There is no reason why we can't do Chinese-language films!"

"Of course I hope the box office is as high as possible..."

After a brief chat, Shen Xudong left the interview area—he still had to attend the industry forum!

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In fact, the discussions about "Hunting" in the circle are mainly focused on Shen Xudong. Shen Xudong is the producer, screenwriter, and producer. Even in the early days of Shanghai Film, Shen Xudong's name was the main publicity...

It took a while before it was released to be replaced by Wen Muye + Chen Daoming.

This is normal, because Shen Xudong = quality + box office!

Theaters are buying it, and many movie fans are willing to believe it.

Therefore, many people in the industry summarize Fumino as a lucky person...

When we arrived at the forum, the host He Ping asked this question at the beginning, and Shen Xudong shook his head: "Wen Muye, like me, grew up watching Hong Kong movies, European movies, and American movies. To boast, we actually have a certain level of literature and art. , it’s not impossible for me to make a literary film!

But we take commercial genre films as our creative direction, because we firmly believe that movies are made for people to watch. "

"So, I am relieved to hand over the movie "Hunting" to him, because he tells the story from a head-up perspective, not looking down, let alone looking up. Many of our directors tell the story from the perspective of looking down. !"

"Wen Muye and I like "The White-haired Girl" very much. We feel that this movie is good for empathy. Therefore, when "White-haired Girl" was performed in the liberated area, it was welcomed by the PLA and the masses, and it made the soldiers so excited that they wanted to hold guns. Playing actors... We also like "Marshal Ma"... Nowadays, many so-called movies that reflect the poverty of the people, the people don't watch them at all, and they look down on them in their bones, just like the attitude of Western society towards third world countries..."

"Obviously I'm a spectator, but I insist on saying that I'm speaking for the lower class..."

Speaking of this, Shen Xudong glanced at Jia Zhangke, who was sitting next to him: "Director Jia, does what I said make sense?"

Jia Zhangke was a little embarrassed: "...but we filmmakers should always leave something behind..."

"I think if you want to leave something behind, why don't you look at what Hong Kong movies have left now. I want to say "Cage Man" and "Spring Dawn in a Dangerous Building". How many people do you think know about these movies?"

"Okay, let's stop talking about this, our topic today is when the New Wave meets Hollywood! Who will start first? Let's be handsome!"

Then Wang Xiaoshuai talked about the problems encountered in "I 11".

"I 11" is actually a Sino-French co-production, and the filming funds are mainly provided by France, ARTE France - French art channel.

By the way, both Lou Ye and Zhang Jian have received their sponsorship.

"I 11" is distributed by Fujian Hengye. Fujian Hengye started out by making horror films and thrillers. It has experience and channels for film distribution. It is entirely possible for "I 11" to spread to movie theaters across the country...

There was no problem so far, and then Wang Xiaoshuai began to complain that after the poor results on the first day, the theaters did not arrange films and there were online piracy...

He Bing interrupted him: "Xudong also works in theaters, how do you arrange the filming for the theaters?"

Shen Xudong thought for a while, and said: "Before the film is released, the film distributor and the theaters will negotiate the number of films. But during the screening, if the film sells well, the number of films will be increased to a certain extent. Note that it is the film's sales volume. Rather than word of mouth, of course, film scheduling is sometimes influenced by politics..."

"Then why is there such a saying as a three-day tour?"

"Generally speaking, regardless of whether there is publicity or not, there will be a lineup for the first three days of a new film's release, but there are many new films released every week, and the number of theaters is limited, so the attendance rate of which film can only be determined. Which one is shown. In fact, there are many movies called "three-day tour of the theater", basically if you can't do it in one day, you won't be scheduled..."

"Then do you think this is fair?"

"...It's not fair or unfair. The current cinema model is actually a real estate model. Basically, wherever there is a shopping mall, there are cinemas. But the rent in the shopping mall is very expensive. Take the five Jiahe Cinemas in Shanghai as an example. The rent The highest is 900 million a year, the lowest is 600 million... Moreover, they want to increase it next year, plus water and electricity, employee wages, equipment updates... the annual expenditure is at least 1500 million...

We must arrange movies that can make money, otherwise, there is no way to survive! "

Speaking of this, Shen Xudong spread his hands: "Even survival can't be solved, who has the spare time to care about the so-called art? This is a very real problem!"

"Then let art films disappear?"

"Art films will not disappear. There is a saying that one waxes and wanes, and there will be troughs when there are highs. Now that literature and art are replaced by popular, it must be that the development of literature and art has reached a bottleneck, which has caused the same aesthetic fatigue and led to popular novels and novels. , special and fast have become advantages. When the crowd wants to see more profound information, and when art with profound cultural heritage also finds a breakthrough, the right time, place and people work together, and a new round of Renaissance will be arrival…"

The host He Ping hurriedly said: "Speaking of Hollywood, Xudong thinks that the increase of Hollywood movies is a good thing or a bad thing for Chinese movies?"

"Good thing!"