Chapter 62 Say, did you do it on purpose?
During this period, the most popular news was still the debate between Director Feng and Chen Lin.
The two of them fought from the Magic City International Film Festival to the Internet.
Three days ago, the two tacitly stopped.
As a filmmaker, Xu Yuan certainly wants to understand the causes and consequences.
"I respect Director Feng very much. This is true. He and Master Shuo led me into the door. The reason why I felt like I was filming a movie was because I stayed in the crew of "Assembly" for two months."
"I just don't agree with some of his views. Of course, my expression needs to be improved. No matter what, I should not blame a senior in public, let alone that senior is my good mentor and friend!"
Chen Lin thought for dozens of seconds and then replied.
"But you did it anyway!"
"There's nothing to do. He insulted the audience a little. It's absolutely wrong to scold the audience!"
"Director Chen, do you think our audience shouldn't scold us?"
"What our audience needs is guidance, not total denial. In our big film market, what we rely on in the end is the audience. The audience does not pay for it, no matter how good you shoot, it is useless!"
"According to your logic, bad movies like "Tiny Times" are flooding, but they have box office!"
"That's different!"
"You talk about it in detail!"
"Okay, "Tiny Times" is a bad movie, which is the most fundamental consensus among us ordinary audiences, but don't forget that "Tiny Times" is a movie adapted from a novel! It has tens of millions of fans of its original work!"
"Now, it's popular to speculate on IPs. A better IP can sell for a sky-high price of tens of millions! This is definitely a blasphemy of normal movies and TV order. A real filmmaker should build himself into an IP, just like Feng's comedy, Chenlong action movies, and Stephen Chow's nonsense. These are what filmmakers should pursue!"
"Let's look at the difference between "Tiny Times" and other bad movies. Most of the people who go to the theater to watch "Tiny Times" are fans of Guo Xiaosi, or are forced to go into the theater by fans. In other words, as long as the "Tiny Times" series starts filming, no matter who the actor is, as long as the director is Guo Xiaosi, the box office starts at a minimum of 200 million yuan, which looks very high, but this has nothing to do with most viewers, because Guo Xiaosi cannot make "Interstellar", and he will not be interested in movies like "Veteran". In essence, he is a businessman!"
"The box office accumulated by relying on temporary popularity or only brainless fans is very false! If you want to get a higher box office, you need to further demonstrate your directorial strength, rather than relying on just two long shots! Speaking of this, I really doubt whether the Caicou, who wrote the film review, received the money!"
"What do you mean, a movie like "Tiny Times" won't hurt the Chinese movie itself?"
"It should be like that. I'll say that. If there is another Guo Xiaosi, it's hard to say, but he alone can't reach the level of hurting Chinese movies! Our box office results are more than 400 million yuan per year. No matter how popular Guo Xiaosi's fans play "Tiny Times", they will never make the box office exceed 500 million yuan! Unless he himself promotes the box office!"
Chen Lin said this decisively!
"Then let's talk about "Breakup Master". Why have you always firmly believed that "Breakup Master" is not a bad movie?"
"There's no way, I owe someone a favor! Now that the movie is about to be out of stock, I'll tell the truth. The biggest problem with "Breaking Up Master" in the whole film is logic. If I were asked to be the director, I would speed up the editing pace or simply delete some shots with low laugh points. But Deng Chao really worked hard. You can evaluate "Breaking Up Master" as a bad movie, but you have to admit that it is a very funny bad movie!"
"That's true!"
"There are few comedy movies in China that are so enthusiastic, and they intensively output laughs and complaints. On the Chinese screen, Deng Chao created a new view of entertainment, like variety shows that please the teenagers in every way, and implement self-deprecating, being mean, and being funny to the end. We can feel that he is trying to make fun of him at all times! Mr. Lu Xun said, 'The core of comedy is tragedy'. This sentence is praised by many filmmakers, but can't comedy just comedy? Deng Chao's path is right!"
"That's why you're trying so hard to help explain."
"That's right, of course, I will definitely not agree if he comes to me for a guest appearance in the future. It's so embarrassing!"
"Haha, let's go back to "Type", you just said that this is a movie selling gimmicks?"
"Yes, so it can be said that, so its logic is not very smooth, but I used double editing effect, and many viewers didn't have time to react and think. Coupled with the interpretation of the villain Mr. Jin Shijie this time, many people will probably be shocked!"
"I heard it right. You just said that there is something wrong with the logic of "Tian"?"
Do you even have to turn your own movies on the blacklist?
"That's right, if you put aside the scenes, special effects and brain domain concepts, I won't touch movies like "Tian"! But if you add those three things, I can clearly say that "Tian" is a commercial and science fiction film, which is definitely a movie worth the price. I am very confident in its box office!"
"So, you've just arranged for July 25?"
"What's wrong with July 25?"
"No, it's just that "Tiny Times 3" will be released on July 17! Did you deliberately schedule it to be released on July 25 to stagger "Tiny Times 3"?"
"And what? You won't suspect that my movie is not as good as "Tiny Times"!"
"Of course not. We all know that even if you close your eyes and take a picture, you will be better than Guo Xiaofour!"
"Although you know you're flattering, what you said is very realistic!"
Shen Lin smiled and continued: "The release date of "Tian" in North America is set on July 24. In order to achieve global release at the same time, the release date of China can only be set on July 25. In fact, if I really want to follow my ideas, I will definitely release on July 17, so let the audience compare it directly!"
"Then why do you have to be more superior to Mr. Han, who is also a writer-turned-writer? He also made a special contribution to his first screen appearance?"
"First, Mr. Han and I are good friends. Secondly, Mr. Han's film aesthetics are very correct. I have said before that aesthetics determine whether a director will make bad movies! It is obvious that the worst thing about Guo Xiaosi is the aesthetics of the movie!"
"Can I understand this way? As long as you are your friend, you will not lose the movie he made?"
"Not necessarily, depending on the situation, if one of my friends took "Fuchun Mountain Residence Picture", I guess I would be embarrassed to wave the flag and shout for him."
"Okay! Thank you Director Shen for accepting our interview with "The Cannon of the World". By the way, Director Shen, can you roughly predict the box office results of "The Body"?"
"Box office? 500 million yuan worldwide!"
"500 million? Are you talking about the US... US dollars?"
"certainly!"
Chapter completed!