The first weekend was 120 million, setting a new record for the box office of Ang Lee’s movies in mainland China!

Well, in fact, before "Boyant Pi", Ang Lee's movies were not sold much in the mainland, and only "Lust and Caution" had a box office of over 100 million yuan. As for the wrong values, "Made Woodstock Music Festival", which encourages drug use, was not released at all...

So Yuehua invited Ang Lee from the United States overnight to let him promote it in China...

Nowadays, movies have to be promoted. Besides, every New Year holiday is worth every inch of land!

Next week, "Days Related to Youth" directed by Ma Xiaokang and directed by Ye Jing will be released soon. Dongyang Media Haomeng Film and Television is a trump card. The original "Private Customization" has gone to nearly 500 million box office...

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There are not many Chinese-language filmmakers that can make Zhang Junsheng admire!

Although he is not a perfect person in morality, he still has high requirements for others...

Lao Touzi, Zhang Junsheng likes it very much because he is a very traditional craftsman and doesn’t care about it except for movies;

He is very sincere and will not please someone casually, nor will he point at others to scold him, "The audience is a beast, the audience does not recognize the goods, this audience cannot do this generation of audiences!"

Ang Lee is of course one of them, he is one of the few directors with personality charm.

The mainland film industry is in amidst drastic changes, and people are anxious and unable to hide their perverse aura. This is true from ordinary people to big directors. Ang Lee's gentle, round and integrated temperament, and his peaceful and undisdainful nature are all very close to the personality ideals that Chinese people yearn for.

We only realized that we had a "lost time", and the direct result of this miss was a gentle, round, delicate and calm collective personality.

Ang Lee is such a person!

Of course, many people think that Zhang Yimou is not as good as Ang Lee...

How to say this? These two are both directors at the top of the pyramid, so there is no need to praise each other!

The main reason why everyone has a bad impression of Zhang Yimou is the stupidity and badness of the domestic critics.

Lao Touzi may never be able to film "Youth Pi", but Ang Lee cannot be able to film the Beijing Olympics!

Lao Touzi is good at local characteristics or movies with a yellow earth atmosphere. It can be said that he is more aggressive and reaches the pinnacle;

Ang Lee has a more accurate grasp of Western sentiment. Of course, he is also good at the atmosphere of Eastern Confucianism, so he can integrate it into the calculations.

Ang Lee will definitely not be able to produce the smell of fishy smell when he films "Say Something Good" and Zhang Yimou will definitely not be able to win the Oscar even if he films "Brokeback Mountain"!

Zhang Yimou's significance is far greater than Ang Lee, whether it is the history of Chinese films or world films. Chinese films cannot avoid Zhang Yimou, and he has made so many firsts...

In fact, if you compare it, these two people are a bit like Deng Jiaxian and Yang Zhenning...

I can understand why young people like Ang Lee more.

Oscars, humanistic care, personal emotions, beliefs, etc., these elements naturally hit everyone's G-spots better than rural ecology such as "Ju Dou". In addition, everyone is increasingly disgusted with various outdated values ​​and bad habits in China. As the mainstream fifth generation, Zhang Yimou will certainly be despised together.

In the domestic movie fans circle, it has become politically correct to promote Hong Kong and Taiwan directors and derogate mainland directors.

Not to mention Ang Lee's complete blow to Zhang Yimou, Cai Mingliang completely beat Jia Zhangke...

There are already people who compare Chen Kaige and Wang Jing...

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Ang Lee couldn't run away from the road show, his main market is actually the United States...

Yuehua arranged several large-scale publicity activities, with the locations set in Beijing, Songjiang...

The first event was Nortel's promotion.

On stage, Ang Lee talked to the host:

"How to find a balance between business and art has something to do with how much money it costs. I can take whatever I want to buy something within 20 to 30 million US dollars, and I have this market value."

"I have only two movies that have been under commercial pressure, one is "Hulk" and the other is this one. When a new idea comes out, just listening to me, the bosses of the film company will feel that they want to spend money; but when I have ideas to talk about it, they will be nervous: How to sell this thing?"

"Americans are relatively naive. The mainstream movies seen by audiences all over the world are relatively naive, and the philosophical part is almost done."

"When I come to film, I can't do this. I have to be worthy of the book, I can't superficialize this thing, and respect the audience. For example, if you click on the bloody thing, you can just understand it. You can slowly imagine the book, and you can take a week or two to watch it, but the movie only takes two hours, and you can't be distracted, and you must be fully focused at any time. There was a time when I wanted to be a "martyr". If I fought, I would go to the end and make the most expensive art film, which is famous for its name."

"Later I found that if I could not satisfy the audience and without the recognition of the audience, my movies had no value. After all, I was not the director who talked to myself and only filmed for myself. So in my heart, artistic conscience and business pressure, readers' expectations, my own satisfaction, and the general rules of the operation of the film company, I struggled for a long time and my heart was very tormented. Sometimes I felt like I was drifting across the Pacific Ocean with a tiger, and I didn't know when it arrived."

"What do you think, Junsheng?"

Zhang Junsheng nodded: "Almost, mainstream commercial movies are mostly simple stories. If it is too complicated, few people will really watch it..."

"I heard you're making an extremely extreme movie recently? Have you ever thought it won't be released?"

Zhang Junsheng was very calm: "...then it can't be released. I am so rich, so I can always shoot one and enjoy it myself!"

"Then aren't you afraid of being banned from taking photos?"

The Film Academy is very left-leaning. Whether it is a student or a teacher, they are proud to be in opposition to the system!

“…it probably won’t.”

"Then let's ask Zhang Yimou, what do you think of Hollywood?"

"…Hollywood is not suitable for me. I don't have this ability. I am a typical local director. The first one is I don't know how to speak English. The second one is that I don't have any feelings about things abroad. Although I have been abroad many times, basically, I can't stay for more than a week. It's not the material, so I never dare to expect to develop abroad."

"Where is the Great Wall?"

“… “Great Wall”, I’m just a worker and don’t even have the right to edit…”

Zhang Junsheng interrupted: "It's already very good, at least he has the right to suggest!"

Ang Lee also nodded: "In fact, Hollywood directors have a reputation. Only when you accumulate enough reputation will the producer give you the editing rights! The producer-centered system is actually a box office theory. If my movie is unanimously praised by the critics but no audience will watch it, then I will have to stay in a small studio in Hollywood in my life."

"Yes, of course, if you have an independent movie, that's another story! My first foreign language film, "Pulp Novel", is an independent movie. I have the final say on how to edit it!"
Chapter completed!