Chapter 593: The First Restricted Movie
Qiao Feng was talking on the phone with Shi Nansheng in the middle of the night in the Western Hemisphere early in the morning, and when Shi Nansheng reported to Qiao Feng on the current negotiation between Sony, Coca-Cola and MGM, the voice of the secretary's question suddenly sounded outside the door.
Then I heard a somewhat familiar man asking, and then the secretary replied and stopped.
"What's going on?" After the door was suddenly pushed open, Qiao Feng took the microphone and asked in a deep voice.
"Mr. Qiao, this Mr. Mu has to see you....." Seeing that the boss was about to be angry, Miss Secretary's eyes were red with fright, and she hurriedly explained.
"Mr. Qiao, does what you promised me still count?" The man who forced his way in asked bluntly.
"Okay, I know, it's okay, you can get out." At this time, Qiao Feng saw the man's appearance clearly, and it turned out that he knew him, so he waved his hand at the secretary to signal that it was okay.
It was Mu Dunfu who broke in, the director of Black Sun 731, and the director of Qiao Feng's favorite Silent Lambs, but it's a pity that this is now shooting something more realistic, so I recommended Chen Xiaodong's old Dou Chenggang.
After the secretary carefully took the door out, Qiao Feng smiled and took out a cigarette from the table, then came out from behind the desk, handed one to the other party and then wanted to light it for the other party, the other party took the cigarette but didn't light it, and still looked at Qiao Feng like that.
"Mr. Qiao promised to give Black Sun 731 two months of screening time, but now it's only a month, why is it going to be painted?" After Qiao Feng promised to speak his mind, Mu Dunfu's face was much better, and he also accepted Qiao Feng's kindness to light a cigarette again, but after taking a puff of cigarettes, he still asked angrily.
Black Sun 731 was released on December 1st.The release schedule is actually not very good.But there is no way.,No one wants to give such a film on a good schedule.
Hong Kong's long-awaited classification system was finally released not long ago, and it caused a great shock when the English-language Asian Wall Street Journal publicly revealed that Hong Kong's film censorship was carried out without a legal basis, to the fact that the Hong Kong Executive Council and the Legislative Council quickly set up a task force to deliberate on the newly proposed "Film Censorship Bill" and include the "three-tier film system" in this draft, and then to November 10, 1988, when the "[[[1988 Film Censorship Bill]] was issued. It officially came into effect, and the dust has settled on this matter for more than a year.
From this day onwards, Hong Kong has also implemented "Level 1" (approved for screening of films of any age) and "Level 2" (approved for screening of persons of any age, but the promotional materials related to the films must be marked as "not suitable for children"). "Tier 3" (approved for release to persons over the age of eighteen).
Then, unfortunately, Black Sun 731 became the first film to be classified to the third rank.
"Level 3" (approved for release to people over the age of 18), this article alone almost drops one-third of the movie's audience.
After all, movies are still young entertainment programs, and older people have always been more budget-conscious, and they don't have the spirit to go to the movies.
So, in fact, the crowd that watches movies is teenagers, and then there are people in their twenties and thirties, and there are more people in their thirties and forties.
Now a rating system directly drops one-third, which means that one-third of the potential audience cannot watch the movie, which is also equivalent to one-third of the possible profit is gone.
In this case, how could a theater chain chasing profits be willing to show this movie.
Even if the film is made by Yindu Organization, a co-production between Hong Kong and the mainland, the leftist Shuangnan Cinema Line is reluctant to show this film on a too good schedule.
Of course, Shuangnan Cinema is not released on a good schedule not because of box office considerations, but because of diplomatic pressure, after learning that Yindu Agency made such a film, the little devil put pressure on the country through diplomatic channels, although it is not the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but it is also an official way.
In addition, at this time, China and Japan are in a friendly period, and friendship is greater than the sky, so Yindu can only understand the spirit and put the film in a general time period such as December 1st, and will end the screening on December 22nd before the arrival of the Christmas schedule.
So, Mu Dunfu remembered Qiao Feng.
Qiao Feng was an angry young man because of the original time and space, and he learned about the misery of the Chinese during the Anti-Japanese War since he was a child, and he heard too many personal experiences from his grandmother at home.
Therefore, Qiao Feng is very supportive of Mu Dunfu making such a film, and he also expressed his respect to Mu Dunfu.
Moreover, those victims who are still alive in the Chinese folk have never initiated a claim against the Japanese people, which Qiao Feng does not want to see.
Not only did the victims not get an apology, but the rest of the world was not so aware of the desperate suffering that Chinese suffered during World War II.
Qiao Feng has been to Nanjing, whether it is the original time and space or the current time and space, and the original time and space has been to the Holocaust Memorial Hall, where he has seen the names of the victims on the walls, and the messy bones in the mass graves.... He saw too much.
The more he watched, the more he knew that he should let more people walk, and he had a more, more detailed, and more heart-piercing understanding of the sorrow of the Chinese people, that period of history, and the violent and tragic experience of Yuben at that time.
Therefore, when Mu Dunfu approached Qiao Feng and hoped that Qiao Feng could also release this movie in Longteng Cinema, Qiao Feng agreed without a second of hesitation, and promised to arrange as many films as possible in the first month of release.
After all, this Longteng Cinema is not Qiao Feng's alone, he can not have interests, but Shao Yifu, Zou Wenhuai, and Lei Juekun have to ask for it.
Therefore, Qiao Feng can only give the maximum schedule without touching too many other people's interests, and there are many people in December, that is, two days before Christmas, so Qiao Feng gave Black Sun 731 the most films in December.
Then, Qiao Feng also promised that in January, no matter what the attendance rate is, a certain number of films will be arranged for Black Sun 731.
This is Qiao Feng's promise to Mou Dunqian, and it is also a promise to the thousands of Chinese who suffered back then.
However, Mu Dunfu said that the movie, which had only been released for a month, was going to be painted.
"What, I never let me paint?" Qiao Feng was stunned for a moment, this was what he had specially advised, who could paint Black Sun 731 when he didn't have other instructions?