Chapter 152 "The King's Feast" that no one pays attention to
Who is Feng Xiaogang? Huayi’s biggest signboard and the king of the New Year’s Eve!
Let me put it this way, if mainland audiences want to watch movies in the first decade of the 21st century, their first choice is Feng Xiaogang!
The sound is so sassy!
That's why he dared to say, "If I don't make movies, what will Chinese audiences watch?"
If you don’t have some confidence, who dares to say anything, not all directors are called Bi Zhifei. He is the only director of the Cannes Film Festival!
In addition, after Huayi went public, Director Feng made money and directly cashed out all the stocks in his hand, more than 200 million yuan!
With money and status, Feng Xiaogang is already a bad temper and can't stand the sand in his eyes!
Faced with the insults from netizens, he decisively retorted: "I think I offend you. Don't watch this movie. If you want to watch it, it will be a dirty movie!"
"The audience generally reflects that "1942" is a heart-wrenching movie. This director solemnly advises: A harmonious lady with a gentleman of the peace is cautious. Just as a person with hypertensive heart disease is suffering from excessive drinking, it is harmful to health!"
With your attitude, will the audience buy it?
Do you really think of yourself as a big shot?
Even if you are really a big director, you can't insult the audience like this, right?
Also, after "942" was released, Huayi and i-a cinemas were screened nationwide, and Huayi and i-a cinemas signed an exclusive agreement...
The agreement stipulates that during the release of Huayi's movies, the digital III nationwide only screens Huayi's movies, which is a contract...
This is actually no problem. The exclusive agreement is not original to Huayi. It is widely used in the North American market and is in line with international practices. The key is that Feng Xiaogang's attitude is unpleasant!
I feel like I'm just getting cheap and being good at it!
Movie fans took their anger at the "monopoly" of "1942", and many netizens refused to watch "1942" in order to avenge "Youth Pi"!
Wang Zhonglei explained: "As early as half a year ago, when "1942" decided to be released at the end of the year, I was enthusiastic about whether we could sign an agreement. As a producer, it was very good, with more than 80 screens. This agreement is exclusive and exclusive. "942" was scheduled to be released on the 23rd of the agreement. If "1942" was released on the 23rd, and "Young Pi" directed by Ang Lee, the agreement will take effect the day after it was released. "Young Pi" will not have an III screen starting on the 23rd. We think we should not bump so tightly and move the schedule to the 29th. The biggest beneficiary of this move is "Young Pi" directed by Ang Lee, because we left a period for this agreement, and the movie "Young Pi" will have an III screen for 7 days."
"I've been screened for 7 days in one film, which is fair to everyone!"
Fair, your sister, "Pi" focuses on special effects and pictures, "942", a disaster film, wants to occupy the IC theater? It's not just to collect more tickets!
In terms of theater screening volume, although "Young Pi" is supported by Huiwen theaters, it is still five percentage points behind "942" nationwide...
And it lasted for more than ten days!
The key is that "Boyant Pi" has a more box office than "942"!
This is very unscientific. Generally speaking, it is impossible for theaters to keep money from making money, and they have to support domestic movies...
There is no way, the annual KPI has not been completed yet, but the market share of domestic films is only 47.4%, a significant decrease from the same period last year. Although "Young Pi" is a batch of films, it is also an imported film and is not included in the scope of domestic films. It is macro-control...
Regarding the forced sale of "Boy Pi" from the IA screening room, Huiwen Tianxia expressed his opinion: I hope everyone will not misunderstand that "the exclusiveness of the agreement does exist". "Boy Pi" will continue to be popular in the New Year's Eve. I hope that director Ang Lee's fantasy masterpiece will allow more people to see...
Compared with Director Feng’s aggressiveness, Huiwen’s attitude is adorable!
Therefore, although the volume of screenings is not as good as "942", the box office of "Pi" is not at all behind. Except for two days before "942" was released, "Pi" has always occupied the first place in the box office...
As of February 0, the cumulative box office of "Pi" for 9 days was 500 million yuan, which is 300 million yuan more than "942"...
Feng Xiaogang became even more angry: "Everyone tried to suppress this ("1942") and tried to praise Ang Lee."
Tsk, at the beginning, he was quite graceful: "Our nanny and my little daughter went to watch "Boys Pi" and I really like it. I told them that you can watch the premiere of my movie, and they said they wouldn't watch it, which means that "Boys Pi" directed by Ang Lee is very good."
It feels a bit unappreciable...
Thinking back a few years ago, when he was a good box office, the audience praised the most all day, but now he says, "The audience is a beast."
One sentence summary: It's floating...
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In fact, not only "942" will be released on the 29th of the month, but also "The King's Feast" that has been sought after for two years.
Lu Chuan's previous movie "Nanjing! Nanjing!" won the best film in Spain. Lu Chuan, as a young director, has box office and awards, and Xingmei also has reason to invest in "The King's Feast"...
Of course, at the beginning, the investment amount was 50 million, but later it gradually increased to 100 million...
After the movie was released, Qin Hong, chairman of Star Mei Film, said: "My ideal is to be able to make a film that won awards at international film festivals, but Lu Chuan was completely different from when filming "Nanjing! Nanjing!". People have an expansion period, and their work attitude is incomparable to "Nanjing! Nanjing!". In the original script, Yu Ji was the absolute number one female lead, and everyone saw what happened later.'
Lu Chuan said before the movie was released: "The King's Feast" not only loves the famous dinner in history, but also wants to show the storm of an era and the charm of heroes in troubled times such as Liu Bang, Xiang Yu, Han Xin, Zhang Liang, Fan Zeng.
It also said, "Marry Qin Lan at the box office of over 300 million"...
The reason why Xingmei scheduled the New Year is to be a living horse. She was originally scheduled to be released in the month, but "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" and "Painted Skin 2" are so awesome, so she was withdrawn to the New Year's Eve...
I met "Pi" and "Lost in Thailand" which are more powerful than "Painted Skin 2", and I died as if I were...
It was released at the same time, and it is inevitably compared with "Boys Pi".
"Lu Chuan is still the same Lu Chuan, the desire is like the sea! Ang Lee has a tiger in his heart, and a sick cat in his heart..."
"This is Damn the screenwriter, Annie Baby, the dialogue and narration are so pretentious. The film is so bad that even Zhang Zhen and Wu Yanzu can't get back the Yan of Zhang Zhen."
"Lu Chuan has the desire like a sea in his heart, how can he be willing to become one of the sixth generation directors? In order to take the fourth seat of mainland directors, he burned his boats and made this extraordinary work "The King's Feast". Congratulations to Lu Chuan, this film is enough to be on par with "Golden Armor", "The Violence" and "Night Banquet". Several years later, people will look back at the history of mainland films during this period and will see the four masters of Zhang, Chen, Feng Lu, and Zhulu Cinema, who is better than the wonders."
During the entire New Year holiday, "The King's Feast" caused almost no storm. With a small cannon on its way, Lu Chuan was considered a blessing in disgrace!
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Our generation likes to overturn the case.
For example, it is a reversal of the verdict for "Hero" and a reversal of the verdict for "The King's Feast" but few people are reversal of the verdict!
Because it's really bad!
It is not denied that "The King's Feast" has advantages: it is indeed good to verify the details of the scene, restore the scenes of the Qin and Han Dynasties.
A group of powerful and beautiful Mesozoic actors have gathered: Liu Huohua, Nie Yuan, Wu Yanzu, Zhang Zhen, Sha Yi...
However, movies are movies after all, and what do you want to make a fuss about the same way as stage plays? Imitate "Macbeth"? The lines are so pretentious, "The Novelty"?
Lu Chuan said in an interview that this film uses unusual editing methods and the audience is not familiar with it, so they can't understand it...
The editing methods of movies are divided into: multi-line narrative, flashback, mixed clipping, and single-line editing. As long as the story structure is complete, there will be no movie that the audience cannot understand!
The director eagerly expressed his views on history, abandoning or weakening too many characters' relationships and duels that should have been sharp conflicts and strongly expressed, resulting in the expression of the theme being able to rely on monologues, and the storyline is seriously weakened.
Is the whole story always in the atmosphere of a palace drama in a rhythm that makes people feel forced and depressed?
The rhythm is very persistent, neither rising nor falling, without turbulence, and after watching it, I can't remember where the climax was.
The movie is narrated from the perspective of a third person until the end, but suddenly it enters the perspective of the first person: "My name is Liu Bang, I am 61 years old this year..."
‘My name is Wang Dachui, I am a loser…’
It took two hours and just after I could barely get into the role, I was suddenly kicked out by the director.
This is no longer a question of whether it is serious or not, it is entirely the director's own bad taste.
Chapter completed!