Chapter 60 Jiang Wen (5/5)
Disney really attaches great importance to "Star Wars". It's the premiere in China. Director Garys Edwards and female lead Felicity Jones, starring Diego Rooner, Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen appeared at the press conference and premiere red carpet together.
The directors flew over!
However, it is useless. "Star Wars" is not a popular product in China!
Indeed, Star Wars story has a certain degree of continuity, and it has a relatively small audience.
In the words of the game industry, this movie is very unfriendly to novice players.
Because the Star Wars series has built a huge universe model and worldview that is exclusive to him, for novices, everything in it needs to be understood. It is not enough to understand it in general. You must have a comprehensive and solid grasp of the basic knowledge so that the more you watch it, the more interesting it becomes.
This puts too high demands on viewers who are constantly facing fast pace and low threshold requirements. With the advent of the fast-moving consumer goods era, everyone is obviously not as patient as before.
The movies of such songs that are currently released will basically take care of new audiences. "Star Wars" doesn't want to take care of new audiences, but it is because there are too many key points in the past class and cannot be taken care of.
Just relying on a few actors can make Chinese audiences fall in love with "Star Wars"?
In fact, in recent years, Wu Yifan has still had some appeal!
It's better to replace Jiang Wen with Wu Yifan...
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The premiere was very well-designed!
After all the guests walked on the red carpet, two teams of Imperial Storm soldiers rushed all the way and occupied both sides of the red carpet, causing the surrounding fans to shout. Then a heavy breathing sounded from the loudspeaker at the scene. It was the most classic sound of the black warrior. Both sides of the red carpet quickly quieted down, as if they were listening carefully. The black warrior who was loved by them was back again!
A bunch of movie fans even began to wipe their tears...
Zhang Junsheng was a little speechless...
As for being so excited?
This is Beijing, not Los Angeles...
"What do you think?"
The voice of a middle-aged man suddenly rang out from the side. Zhang Junsheng didn't have to go and saw who came over without looking. He didn't turn his head and replied directly: "I really didn't expect Director Jiang to betray his original intention!"
"What original intention did I betray?"
"Don't you look down on Hollywood productions? Star Wars is a typical Hollywood work!"
"...I can't do anything, my son said he wanted to watch me perform in "Star Wars"..."
Jiang Wen stood next to Zhang Junsheng and changed his tone, "But now, I know that those people in Hollywood are really rich!"
"Live-scene shooting in many places such as London, Iceland, Maldives, and the war scenes are grand, and it is estimated that at least 200 million US dollars will be spent!"
"Not that many, London and Iceland have tax refunds, which is only 150 million at most!"
"… Through this study, I learned that I have to spend money. If you don’t spend it, you don’t have good quality. How can you face the audience without good quality?"
"…Ahem, come on!"
"I won't chat anymore, I'll leave first..."
On the day, the love drama "Rogue One" has made you more determined to lose money?
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Jiang Wen is undoubtedly lucky.
One of the few works can make him live a good life, and he even has overspending and challenging the system and the audience's freedom.
This is enviable.
There are few directors in the circle who have such willful rights!
After all, it is the investors who pay for the bill...
The industry is also very clear that these freedoms can only happen to Jiang Wen in certain specific periods. If you change your time and person, you may end completely differently.
Lucky Jiang Wen's roof exploration continues...
In "Evil Do Not Suppress the Righteousness", the "old Beijing roof" where Peng Yuyan ran naked was actually built by Jiang Wen in Yunnan, with a total of 40,000 square meters.
Fortunately, Gubei Town paid the bill for the overspending place!
Otherwise, "Evil Don't Suppress the Righteousness" will be able to save Boss Yang from death!
Although Jiang Wen claimed that "the movies of this country are all about work, I just want to make a way out of these people's work!"
Unfortunately, in addition to "Sunny Days" and "The Devils Are Coming", he has never been able to show his amazing talent again...
The common point that their generation has hard to return is that they received from the education they received when they were studying in the film school was that they praised art films and despised Hollywood-style "industrial flow films". Even if they received huge investment, they also used the mindset of making art films to make commercial blockbusters, treated movies as works of art, indulged in personal artistic creation, and strived for excellence in light and shadow lenses. They wanted to be an exquisite work of art, but they were reluctant to tell a story that was popular and easy to accept by the public.
Even in the deep-rooted prejudice of these great directors, if a movie "tells a story well", it is "degenerate" to filming movies as TV series. When it comes to buying tickets, movie fans and audiences who expect to see a good story are even more proud of the cultural elites.
The great man once said: the people are the protagonists of literature and art, and the recipients of literature and art; they are the objects of enlightenment of literature and art and the object of service of literature and art.
Therefore, how to discover the masses that can have the greatest coverage and then detonate it is very important.
More critical for film creators!
Movies themselves are not visualizations of novels, stories are just one of the elements of movies.
But the problem is that the story is not well told. You must use something else to fill in the pit. What you can fill in can be visual effects, star acting skills, or even political correctness, or traffic young actors, but you have to give something to satisfy the audience's expectations.
Blindly self-entertainment is just a niche carnival!
For a good movie, you must first have a complete story structure, and then the rest will revolve around the story, adding memes, details, and hormones into it.
When I arrived at Jiang Wen, I will talk to you about artistic pursuits first, and I will give you various metaphors first. After a slap in my head - hey, I have sentiment, I am satisfied with artistic pursuits, so everyone can do whatever you want!
Everyone is really casual...
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"Long time no see, Junsen."
The person who came over was Huang Zhongjun. Zhang Junsheng took a step forward and shook hands, "It's indeed a long time no see, Mr. Huang!"
Huang Zhongjun didn't go around the circle and said directly, "Junsheng, do you want to film "The Wreath Under the Mountain" and "Mulan"?"
"That's right." Zhang Junsheng also nodded and nodded, "Mulan" was filmed next year, and "The Wreath Under the Mountain" is ready to be a gift film!"
"Can you cooperate with Dongyang Media?"
"Sorry..." Zhang Junsheng shook his head: "We have received $3 billion in funds, and there is no shortage of production funds for the time being... But you can try to invest in Jiang Wen's new movie!"
"…Forget it, I don't dare to invest in him!"
"The Devils Are Coming", Dongyang Media was cheated...
Jiang Wen made a comeback and filmed "The Sun Rises As Always", which cost more than 60 million yuan in this willful non-narrative film...
The film was not easy to make. Because the investors suddenly withdrew their investment, Jiang Wen asked people to help everywhere. Wang Shuo took action, and the third master also came forward to invite King Yang to invest, and finally blocked the hole.
Before the movie was released, Huang Zhongjun once called Gao Jun, general manager of the New Film League: "Do you think I missed a trap or avoided a trap?"
Huang Zhongjun considered investing in "The Sun" and then gave up.
He called his friends to guess the box office. Jiang Wen and Sanye's answer was 160 million, and Yu Dong, who was the issuer Poly Bona, had 120 million answers. Later, Gao Jun told Wang Zhongjun: You have definitely avoided a trap.
The final box office was only more than 20 million...
Since then, Dongyang Media has never invested in Jiang Wen again...
Chapter completed!