Chapter 20 The Time of the Day (2/5)
In later generations, "Wolf Warrior 2" created a box office miracle!
In addition to the movie itself and the wave of young and handsome guys, it also caught up with a very strong time point, the Sino-Indian border conflict.
This stall is obviously an excellent window for the release of national patriotism.
As an action-type film, "Wolf Warrior 2" is still thin in character creation. From bad to mercenary leaders in the bones, merciless supermarket owners, to the miserable and kind African people, none of them can avoid the illusion of stereotyped and labeled characters...
But it just won 5.6 billion yuan in box office!
A phenomenon-level movie, in addition to telling a good story itself, is indispensable for both time, place and people.
So, many later movies, such as Operation Red Sea, said, "It's 10,000 times more expensive than Operation Red Sea. In front of Operation Red Sea, "Wolf Warrior 2" is like a kindergarten kid playing house. This is a movie worthy of 5 billion box office!'
But its box office stopped at 3.6 billion...
In addition to the viewing performance of "Operation Red Sea" is not as good as "Wolf Warrior 2" - one is a war film and the other is an action film, which is not comparable!
The most important thing is that Operation Red Sea is not as lucky as "Wolf Warrior 2", and it just happened to catch up with the Sino-Indian border conflict!
The same goes for "The Flowers of War" in Jinling, encountering the conflict between Diaoyu Islands...
At the end of the premiere, Zhang Junsheng found Tang Ningyu and An Yugang.
"When we promote, don't take the initiative to lean towards the Diaoyu Islands, but we must take advantage of the situation!"
An Yugang couldn't understand: "…How to borrow it?"
"You can arrange a batch of public accounts to show the rhythm," he glanced at Tang Ningyu, and the latter suddenly thought of something: "Japan refused to screen "The Flowers of War"..."
Zhang Junsheng didn't react: "Ah? Have you refused to show it? Dingfeng arranged five screening halls..."
In order to win the Japanese screening of "The Flowers of War" by Jinling, Tingfeng made a lot of efforts, and Zhang Junsheng knew this...
What he wanted was to let the official account spread the crimes of Japan back then...
“^(* ̄(oo) ̄)^”
Tang Ningyu looked caring and mentally retarded, but he just wanted to say that you are a pig?
“…you guys keep going…”
Zhang Junsheng is a little embarrassed...
Regardless of whether it refuses or not, how many viewers are concerned about the truth?
"By the way, we can also say that "The Flowers of War" in Japan has zero box office..."
"Would you like to add a sentence on the poster, 'Diaoyu Islands belong to China'?"
“That’s too obvious…”
"Someone must be scolded for making patriotic wealth..."
An Yugang didn't care: "Just scold me...promotion..."
"...I said it, don't let the audience think we deliberately lean towards the Diaoyu Islands!"
“This is too difficult…”
Tang Ningyu asked back: "It can be used, why not?"
Zhang Junsheng was a little speechless...
In original time and space, he was very disgusted with this kind of movie that used political factors to impose on the audience...
However, he is now the producer!
Since this plan is OK, why not use it?
"Forget it, you guys decide for yourself. I'll go back and continue editing "No Man's Land"..."
...
Pull-out room.
The screen is screened in front of the editing stage, and the rough-cut footage of "No Man's Land" is played slowly.
Zhang Junsheng and Du Yuan stared at the screen without blinking. Wang Bo sat next to him, staring at the front with a tired face but focused look on his face.
He learned from the scene, saying that he wanted to be a director...
There are three people in the entire studio.
The number of editing workers does not actually need to be large.
Too many people is not beneficial.
"There is no need for this paragraph... why don't you delete it?"
Du Yuan asked.
"...Okay, actually I feel that there are a lot of blank spaces..."
"No Man's Land" has more than ten hours of various lens materials. After rough cutting and initial cutting in the past few days, the preliminary classification and plot sequence arrangement has been completed.
Next, you need to re-cut and comprehensive cut.
It’s roughly cut, “No Man’s Land” lasts three hours, which is definitely not possible!
The editing work is a test of the editor.
First of all, the editor must understand the story the director wants to express, and at the same time, he must complete the story without showing off, and make the film more interesting.
As an editor, Du Yuan knew "No Man's Land" very well, and finally couldn't help asking: "...Junsheng, can your movie be released?"
Too bloody!
Especially the shot of Huang Xuan Crack Wang Bo, a large close-up...
"…I don't know, it's likely that it won't be released. Please cut this episode..."
Zhang Junsheng answered casually, focusing on editing.
“…You know it won’t be released?”
"It's okay, I've agreed with Director Tong. If you can't pass, just make an online movie..."
Wang Bo, who was sitting honestly beside him, thoughtful: "Online movie?"
"…What's wrong?"
"Does it mean that if I shoot a movie that cannot be passed in the future, I can also show it exclusively online?"
"You think beautifully, I guess online movies will also become regular after "No Man's Land"!"
Wang Bo was speechless: "...You are leaving the latecomers with no way out!"
"Blame me, I don't expect "No Man's Land" to make money anyway!"
...
Zhang Junsheng stayed in the studio and saw no light, and "The Flowers of War" broke out.
Once patriotism is mobilized, it is difficult to suppress it. Even if someone says something about "little pink" and "Your country's 50 cents party" on the Internet, it will be useless...
"The Flowers of War" was released on Thursday, with a box office of nearly 400 million in the first weekend. This is nothing. The second day of the release, the box office of 140 million in a single day...
Set a box office record!
Anyone who says "The Flowers of Flowers" on the Internet will immediately be attacked by a group of people...
Dai Jinghua said as usual, "According to Godard's history that cannot be copied and expressed, "Schindler's List" is a blasphemy of history. Zhang Xianmin criticized Zhang Yimou for making "Living" as a pseudo-creation of pseudo-peasants, and now he has come to pseudo-historical and pseudo-humanistic care again."
As the banner of the New Wave, Dai Jinghua is of course a supporter of Godard. She doesn’t even look down on "Shintler's List", let alone "The Flowers of War"...
If it was the right time, she would be so critical, and she would have no problem. She would say her own words. If the movie was made, she would have the right to be criticized!
But the timing is not right!
Because of the Diaoyu Islands incident, the Sino-Japanese conflict was infinitely magnified, and "The Flowers of War" has the time!
Choose the "Thirteen Flowers of Jinling" at this time?
Netizens directly captured her Weibo.
"Suddenly there was a very interesting idea. Why can many people, especially film critics, point out the shortcomings of big directors in a sharp way, but almost no one can surpass them?"
"I read "The Flowers of War" and I am truly proud of the Chinese nation and strive to resist. I have not obedient like the people of other colonial countries!"
"Talking about Godard again, what he said is right?"
These are relatively gentle greetings, most of them are ‘Great Damn, you know nothing!’
‘Trump, no explanation!’
Taking all the time and harmony, "The Flowers of War" may really create a box office miracle...
Zhang Weipin can't sit still!
Chapter completed!