Chapter 801: Set the right goal and go the right way
"When I was filming, I paid a lot of attention to my actors, for example, filming Zhou Yunfa, he had never made an action movie, he said that he had never beaten anyone in his life, and he couldn't shake his fists. “
Wu Yusen was talking eloquently on TV, and Qiao Feng pressed pause at this time, and then sighed very much: "It's still our own people who know the characteristics of our own actors, unlike ghosts who think they know kung fu when they hear about Chinese actors."
"Yes." Li Zhi snuggled up to Qiao Feng and couldn't help but nod.
She knew this well when she was studying in the United States.
It seems that everyone is Li Xiaolong in the eyes of Americans, and when she introduces herself to others as Chinese, those people will always scream and then grab their hands and kick them indiscriminately, and then come to Chinese kung fu.
"I think it's really wise for you to let Fa Ge and Wu Yusen come to Hollywood to develop together.If either of the two of them comes alone, it will definitely be difficult to adapt to the environment in Hollywood.Watching this show, you know that although it is a set interview script, and you also let Wu Yusen blow it, but listening to the meaning of his words, you know that he still has the most tacit understanding with Fa Ge.
Qiao Feng smiled and nodded: "You are very right, I also think that Fa Ge and Wu Yusen are a perfect match.
"When I first heard that Fa Ge was going to Hollywood to develop, I thought you also wanted to make him a kung fu star like Cheng Long and Li Lianjie." Li Zhi pursed his lips and smiled.
"Not to mention, there were really a lot of people who proposed publicity to me before.After seeing the bloody heroes, the true colors of heroes and the hot hand detectives, they all thought that Fa Ge was a strong person." Qiao Feng said with some amusement.
People in Europe and the United States think that Chinese people are good at kung fu, and Zhou Runfa's most popular movies are action movies, so when Qiao Feng said that he wanted to operate several of Zhou Runfa's films to be released in North America, and let Zhou Runfa go to Hollywood to make films, MGM's publicity and distribution department began to plan to promote Zhou Runfa as another Asian kung fu star after Cheng Long and Li Lianjie, and was also ready to shape Zhou Runfa into "Asia's most kung fu star".
When Qiao Feng saw the plan, he almost died speechless.
Zhou Runfa in the original time and space was arranged by Hollywood people to make a wrong position, comparing him with Cheng Long, Li Lianjie, etc., thus ignoring Zhou Runfa's profound acting skills, and finally caused Zhou Runfa's path in Hollywood to go astray from the beginning, crooked, and stumbling far from reaching the height of Cheng Long and Li Lianjie.
Unexpectedly, in this time and space, I disrupted a lot of things, but as a result, there would still be this kind of wrong positioning.
Qiao Feng was very glad that he flew to the United States because of the Academy Awards, and then saw the publicity plan.
If not, I basically don't pay much attention to this kind of propaganda thing, and in that case, I would have missed Zhou Runfa again.
"The bloody heroes, the true colors of the heroes and the spicy detectives are all piled up to be released in April and May, isn't it a little too dense." Listening to Qiao Feng talk about a few upcoming movies, Li Zhi asked worriedly.
It is not intensive to release a few movies in two months, and in a mature and huge film market like North America, it is normal to have dozens of movies with various investments a month.
Li Zhi is not worried about this, what she is worried about is that they are all starring Zhou Runfa, before that, Zhou Runfa was not very famous in North America, and such an intensive release of Zhou Runfa's movies will not cause aesthetic fatigue among North American audiences.
In that case, not only will it not play the role of propaganda and fame, but it will be self-defeating.
"No, it won't." Qiao Feng understood what Li Zhi meant, but he didn't think it would be a problem.
"These films are not high, and the highest-ranked bloody duo is only more than 700 canvases." Qiao Feng explained.
This number is basically the same as when Terminator was released.
Although the bloody duo is not very famous among ordinary audiences in North America, whether it is a director or an actor, when the Terminator came out, both directors James Cameron and Schwarzenegger were also penniless, and they were not even as famous as Wu Yusen and Zhou Yunfa.
At least there are quite a few Hong Kong film lovers in North America, and there are still a lot of Chinese movie fans.
In comparison, the original Kashen and Arnold, in addition to having the identity of European and American whites, can not be compared with Wu Yusen and Zhou Yanfa anywhere.
At the beginning, the terminator cooperated by Kashen and Arnold could have more than 700 canvases, and after so many years, Wu Yusen and Zhou Yanfa collaborated on more than 700 canvases, which is really not much at all.
"A low schedule means that the possibility of several films being released in the same theater will not be so high, and naturally there will not be a large degree of audience overlap.
"Wouldn't that be too high at the box office in the end?" Although the film schedule does not dare to completely affect the box office of the movie, the film schedule can greatly affect the box office to a certain extent.
is a Hong Kong film with a small audience, and there are not many films scheduled, doesn't this mean that a few movies will not be very good at the box office?
The scale of the release of hundreds of canvases, the small ones are sorry for the frequent shows that have been on recently.
Because of their own fame, whether it is Zhou Yunfa or Wu Yusen, the shows they are on are all spent money.
If you count the hard advertisements on bus stop signs, subway lines, etc., this alone will cost tens of millions of dollars.
At that time, if the box office is not ideal, it is not good that these films that make a lot of money in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia will lose money in North America.
Thinking about the loss of money, Li Zhi felt that it was not okay to be aggrieved.
But no matter how aggrieved you are, you can only endure it.
Blame the world today for being dominated by the mainstream values of Europe and the United States.
It's only to blame me, China hasn't been revived yet.
It's obviously a few good films, but because this is a world dominated by white people, and the mainstream values are European and American values, movies starring all Hong Kong people are not so valued.
"Don't be aggrieved." Qiao Feng stretched out his hand and shook Lizhi's slender hand: "When the mainland develops in a few years, we won't rely on the North American market, and our domestic movies will still make others blush."