Chapter 40 The new leader of commercial films?
Surprises always come too suddenly: CCTV's "News Broadcast" on June 12, the host smiled: "In the past half month, the domestic movie "Chinatown Veteran" has created a box office of 1.5 billion yuan in half a month under the influence of good reputation."
The scrolling news title below the TV: "The Chinatown Veteran" is very popular with viewers."
The camera switched to the entrance of a cinema, and it was crowded.
Narrator: "At the Beijing Wanda International Cinema, the movie "Chinatown Veteran" was full, and even the daytime attendance rate exceeded 50%.
The general manager of Wanda Cinema appeared on camera and said in an interview: "Starting from May 25, the theaters are basically full every day. This situation has lasted for a full half month, which is indeed beyond our expectations!"
Next, the camera cuts to the audience queuing up to buy tickets (this shot is a bit fake, and people have used group purchases these days, who will buy tickets directly?) The narration rang: "It is understood that after "Chinatown Veterans" achieved a box office of 131 million yuan on the first day, it set a single-day box office record of 200 million yuan on May 26! As of now, it has exceeded 1.5 billion yuan in box office."
"The Veteran of Chinatown" is the third work of the famous Chinese writer and director Chen Lin. The plot revolves around the story of the rich second generation of criminals arresting the hot-tempered police and finally capturing him. Chen Lin boldly borrows the style of Jackie Chan's action comedy in this movie, making the film unique and enjoyable!"
Then, it was time to interview the audience.
"Even the children are talking to me about what an interesting movie it is!" Mrs. Wang, a citizen of grocery shopping;
"The classmates are all watching, and I'm urging me to see it too!" Chen Xiaolu, who is in junior high school, said shyly looking at the camera.
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How to say it is very novel. It is said that the movie is reported on "News Broadcast" and "Chinatown Veterans" is not the only one. The original "Hero", "The Promise", "Assembly" and so on have all been on CCTV's stage, but no director can let the host introduce it!
Most of them just scroll to play.
"Chinatown Veteran" seems to be no longer just a movie, it has almost become a phenomenon!
It is understandable that the box office is booming!
In sharp contrast, the "art movie" "I 11" a while ago, and the hired navy forces to sell them was still ignored, and there was a lot of criticism.
Some people appreciate it, but some people criticize it!
A literature professor and writer in the Yangtze River Daily criticized "The Veteran" as a "three vulgar" and "The Chinese cultural industry represented by movies cannot just focus on the box office, but should focus on cultural orientation and improve the cultural quality and taste of the people."
Some netizens directly retorted: "How many years have you been doing this? There are always some people who don't like you. They feel that they have the obligation to educate the people, saying "improve the cultural quality and taste of the people." It seems that they represent cultural quality and taste."
Chen Lin also wrote on Weibo: "In a normal country, art and business are separate. If you want artistic value, you don't have to consider commercial value, and if you want to make money, you don't have to talk about art.
Art is only a personal and small group career. It is good that it can be liked by ordinary people, but it will never fall into the fun of pleasing the people.
In any era, artists who create serious works are not as popular as popular authors. Balzac, Flaubert, and Stendhal's works are called world famous works today, but not many people read them back then. What is truly loved by the French people are Paul de Cock's erotic novels: love triangle, mistress, illegitimate son... And Balzacs would never want to compete with erotic novels, and crying and making trouble for the people is too vulgar.
They have their own artistic ideals. They are writing for French cultural ideals and for the people of all ages, not for the short-lived public preferences. What does the people have to do with them?”
Very well written, worthy of being a writer!
However, more people jumped out and scolded him, it was wrong. The exact way was to scold Light Media and Huayi Brothers.
Because "Chinatown Veterans" released for half a month has been popular for two consecutive weeks, behind the high box office, there is nearly 70% of the film-scheduling monopoly.
Many movies released at the same time were announced to be eliminated almost before entering the door.
Films like "No One Check", "Running Ant", "One Night After Drunk", and "Love the Island", all of which only do one-day tours in the theater.
Therefore, the producers and creators of these films strongly criticized the behavior of "Veter" for monopolizing the filming.
"The monopoly of theaters in theaters is the biggest poison to Chinese films. Some large production companies have already operated theaters into their own back gardens. China Film, Light and Huayi have joined forces to produce some way out for us to produce a small cost. This monopoly will weaken the normal competition in the market, and at the same time it will make other film and television companies shoot and produce more commercial films, hindering the development of film types in the direction of diversification. Therefore, no matter how big the achievements such as this large production will only develop abnormally. It is very unfavorable to Chinese films."
"We call on the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television to impose sanctions on this phenomenon and not allow Chinese films to become a single-man show in several blockbusters. Spring is the blooming of flowers."
As soon as these people were said, they were sarcastic by the fans of "Veter": "Some people are really funny. They don't blame themselves for making bad films, but they blame others for not giving alms to schedule films."
"To be honest, the cost of "The Veteran" is less than 70 million yuan, which is much lower than Lao Toozi's $100 million? Is this also called a big production?"
"If you have the ability, you can make a movie that is better than "The Veteran". Without saying a word, I will buy a ticket to watch your movie immediately."
"As long as you are a normal person, you won't give up a delicious delicacy and choose to eat pig food!"
The eyes of the masses are sharp, and the online support rate instantly bursts with some slander remarks!
However, the big tree attracts wind, and "Chinatown Veteran" is rushing to the 2 billion box office.
Other film and television companies were anxious and some people couldn't help but take the opportunity to start scolding again.
"The behavior of monopolizing filming is very unreasonable. This is forcing the audience to only choose one movie. The audience has no choice but to contribute some so-called miracle numbers."
"The quality of some movies is not to mention, just because they have big stars, famous directors, and support from big companies, they can get very high screenings. This is a trampling on the rules of the game. We must call on everyone to resist the monopoly of screenings together."
"Maybe the movie itself is good, but there is a problem with this kind of strong screening! Where is the fair competition?"
"I expressed sympathy for films such as "Two Heroes of the Treasure Island". Facing the film scheduling, it is difficult to resist movies without fame."
Regarding this kind of remark, Shen Lin directly expressed hehe, and later couldn't help it. He wrote on Weibo: "I feel it's ridiculous. He said that veterans monopolize the film scheduling? To be honest, if you give all the film scheduling to you, the market in June is estimated to be less than 500 million."
"The Veterans are phenomenal movies. We have never asked to monopolize the screening. We just do our best. The screening is provided by theaters and theaters, because they make money by screening veterans, and they lose money by screening your films."
"In addition, the ridiculous statement is that you all regard "The Veteran" as a blockbuster, but the veteran's cost is only more than 60 million, and there is no first-line king or the like to star in the starring role! The reason why box office can create miracles is that the audience has a reputation, rather than monopolizing the filming process."
This passage was said on June 27, because on June 28, a Chinese-style blockbuster was released, "Painted Skin 2"
Two kings were gathered - Zhou Xun, Zhao Yanzi, and brought the factory flowers, as well as Da Mimi, Feng Shaofeng joined!
Chapter completed!