"In fact, in terms of proportion, good movies themselves are much less than bad movies, and they are the same all over the world. The bad movies released in North America every year are far higher than those with good quality films. However, carefully selected blockbusters or masterpieces with smooth plots that can enter the mainland market, giving us the illusion that North America is full of masterpieces!"

Throwing the tissue into the trash can, Xiaobai continued: "In fact, if you compare vertically, domestic films are indeed improving. At least several works that are worth discussing every year will appear. In the first few years, there were no such treatment. All we can discuss is which work is worse..."

"As for why the audience thinks there are many bad movies, it is probably because most of the ones who are trying hard to promote this kind of movie!"

It is a very strange phenomenon. Before a movie is released, the more fierce it is usually called, the greater the probability of becoming a bad movie.

There is no way to do this. There are indeed some garbage viewers in the Chinese market, and they will pay for garbage movies.

The most efficient way is to use IPs, fresh meats and gimmicks that many people look down upon to harvest IQ tax.

If inferior products can earn as much income as ordinary products, why should I spend extra energy and cost on it?

This is probably the reason for the bad movies!

The market is not absolutely isolated. When investors see what we call "trash movies" making money, and a movie that "everyone says it's OK" doesn't know whether it makes money, guess where will capital flow from the perspective of rational decision-making?

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The director Xiaobai admired the most in his previous life was Director Wang Jing, the director in the Chinese language circle who is best at making bad movies!

He has always claimed that he must make money by making his own movies, and if he doesn't make money, he will not shoot them.

If it were just like this, Xiaobai would at most say that he was a businessman.

But in addition to making junk movies, he spends more time investing in art films!

He knew that he was filming a bad movie and knew that he could make money after filming it. He remembered that when Ann Hsu said he wanted to film "Day and Night in Tianshui Wai", but no one invested, so he went to find a good friend Wang Jing. Wang said I invested, and Xu said where did you get the money. Wang Sui made a bad movie "Zero Dog" and invested the pay for An Hsu!

Is "The Spy of the Daou" a bad movie? I knew it was a bad movie before I was filmed. Wang Jing knew, investors knew, and many viewers actually knew it before entering the cinema.

But investing in making such movies is really profitable. Why not make money so comfortable? This is reality, naked reality. This is the reality that you can’t change even if you give a movie a star on Douban. This is the reality that you can’t change even if you scold the movie on the forum.

Wang Jing has also made art films himself.

His filming of "Stupid Kid" also won the Best Actress Award at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards.

At that time, in order to win the directorship rights of this film, Wang Jing also took the initiative to tell the investors that he could not do the directorship fee, but the box office of "Stupid Kid" was not good, and Wang Jing no longer involved in the shooting of art films since then.

Kwan Jinpeng's "Happier the more depraved", Xu Anhua's "Night and Fog in Tianshuiwei", "Fried Rice", "Day and Night in Tianshuiwei", "Taojie"...

Some people say that the pre-screening promotional techniques and various fancy promotions currently used by Chinese commercial films are all methods that are highly deceptive to the audience, and the purpose is to make the audience unable to know the real production level of the movie. What they see are carefully packaged promotional content, hot scenes, stand-up show by the leading artists, and so-called exaggerated and frivolous reports by film critics and entertainment media...

The audience can only spend money to buy tickets and go to the cinema to see it in person, and then they understand whether it is good or bad. It is too late at this time.

Is this really the case?

Wang Jing directed the movie "Macau Storm" with a box office of 520 million yuan and made a lot of money.

Investors think the market response of this movie is really good. Let’s continue shooting the sequel. “Where Are We Going, Dad” is very popular. Remember to bring the children with you when filming! So there was “Macau Storm 2”, with a box office of 957 million.

When investors saw that the box office was almost doubled in a year, we wouldn't continue filming, I'm sorry to the audience, so there was "Macau Storm 3" again, with a box office of 1.117 billion.

At this time, Wang Jing publicly stated: Because of all the plots, characters and emotional relationships, they have achieved a reunion in "Macau Storm 3", "Macau Storm" will not be filmed in the fourth episode!

Haha, do you think investors will miss such a good opportunity to make money?

If you say you don’t take a photo, don’t take a photo?

"New Casino Storm" will meet you soon, and it has another name - "New Macau Storm"...

Of course, for the director, we must not scold the audience!

"There is nothing to scold the audience. We are walking in front of the audience after all."

"What money do art films need to make? Why do you think art films are a social phenomenon in China? It costs more than 100 million yuan. It's so terrible."

"Business movies should be made well, otherwise the theaters will not be able to do it."

These are some words that Christian Monge said to Bai Xiaofei in his previous life.

Very recognized!

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The interview continues.

I don't know where the topic is going...

"There was a midnight ceremony in Hong Kong movies. The director and the starring actors would watch their own movies with the audience. Most of the audience also knew the existence of the main creators. The audience would applaud when they felt that the filming was good, and they would cheer up when they were bad, and even scold them arrogantly. Which idiot was filming for me. The main creators were usually trembling and didn't know what the audience reflected."

"You dare to do this in your premiere now?"

"But nowadays, Hong Kong movies don't dare to do this!"

"Yes, times have changed, and audiences can access too many things nowadays. In the Internet era, Hollywood movies, European movies, Korean movies, and all the good works in the world can be seen at the first time, and they will naturally look down on domestic movies! After all, what we do in many places is really not satisfactory."

“Did you have any works that impressed you last year?”

"Yes, "The Return of the Great Sage" is quite a good, a very mature animated movie!"

“What else?”

"…It's like that. Actually, I don't have much time to watch movies. I've watched some old movies recently, so I won't comment on it."

In the whole year last year, there were more than ten works with a box office of over one billion yuan, among which "Monster Hunt" set a new box office record...

"The Pancake Man", "Charlotte's Troubles", "Hong Kong Lost" and "Knock on the Gate of Heaven" all exceeded one billion in box office.

The most important thing is that "Why Sheng Xiaomo" and "Gardenia Bloom" are not as popular as imagined. The box office of the former was 280 million yuan, while the latter was 380 million yuan. Although both movies were made, their reputation and audience accusations made them dare not shoot randomly...

Especially "Gardenia Blossoms" touched many viewers. They spontaneously formed tap water and supported "The Return of the Great Sage". It was an unprecedented grand occasion and touching!
Chapter completed!