Chapter 668: "Wuji" premieres
2005 is a very special year for Chinese films.
First of all, this year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Chinese films, and this is a year worth celebrating.
Secondly, Feng Pants, the king of Chinese New Year films in the mainland, announced his transformation in a high-profile manner, and he has always been good at Beijing-style comedy and joke collections, and he actually wants to challenge the court tragedy adapted from Shakespeare's famous play, and he has taken a big step.
Then this year's Golden Rooster Awards are also quite unexpected, although the Best Picture Award still has a double yellow egg, but the defeat of the main theme movie "Zhang Side" directed by Yin Li with a box office of up to 40 million has made industry insiders who are well versed in the Golden Rooster Awards lose their glasses.
Of course, the awards of "On the Taihang Mountain" and "Ke Ke Xili" are still the main theme. The former depicts a great man, and the latter may win the award because the director is Lu Chuan.
Brother Cheng Long won the Golden Rooster Best Actor for the first time, and the old lady Jin Yaqin in "The Two of Us" won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress again after being crowned the queen of the Tokyo International Film Festival, which is an affirmation of the older generation of filmmakers.
Although the former is somewhat controversial, it cannot negate the contribution made by the other party in Chinese-language films. Perhaps the Lifetime Achievement Award is more suitable for Cheng Long, a kung fu superstar.
Ma Liwen, the director of "The Two of Us", unexpectedly defeated Gu Changwei, Yin Li, Lu Kuan and others to win the best director, and also broke a small upset.
And Xu Jinglei, who won the best director at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, one of the top 12 A-category film festivals in Spain, for "Letter from a Strange Woman", was not even able to be nominated.
The first generation of little fresh meat Tang Guoqiang and embarrassing mother Huang Meiying won the best male and female supporting roles with Grandpa Mao in "Zhang Side" and the mother in "Peacock" respectively.
may have gotten the news in advance, Yin Li, the director of the film "Zhang Side", which received eight nominations, was even absent from the Golden Rooster Awards ceremony held in Sanya, and He Xin, the winner of the last actor, was also absent. The excuses of the two are surprisingly consistent, the schedule is tight, and there is no time to separate.
Finally, of course, the film "Wuji", which is known as 300 million yuan and has the largest investment in the history of China, has finally been released after more than a year of fermentation and brewing in the early stage.
The premiere on the 12th is said to have invested millions of yuan by the organizers, and despite psychological preparations, at six o'clock in the evening, when He Xin arrived at the CPPCC auditorium in an Infiniti business car provided by the sponsor, he was still taken aback by the scene in front of him.
A red carpet up to 100 meters long, lined with a forest of begonia flowers, at the end of the red carpet is more than three meters high and more than 10 meters wide gold-topped red wall "Infinite Gate". A white balloon light symbolizing the full moon was raised over the red carpet, and a huge poster of the main body of the six leading actors was erected in the square.
Dozens of "Red Army" soldiers under General Guangming wore red helmets, armor, shields with red edges, black backgrounds, and pink begonias, crescent shovels, and long knives standing on the outside of the "Infinite Gate". The guards on the inside of the "Gate of Infinity" are the black soldiers of Beigong Jue Wuhuan, wearing black and silver armor, white top flowers, and tulle to cover their faces.
Although it has been more than a year since the movie was filmed, seeing the familiar scenes in front of them, several leading actors who got off one after another still felt very cordial.
Compared with He Xin, who accepted an exclusive interview during the day and then attended the press conference together, several people who went to climb the Great Wall in the morning despite the strong wind and severe cold had a faint fatigue on their faces.
He Xin didn't quite understand the connection between "Wuji" and the Great Wall, and he didn't understand why he would do anything to climb the Great Wall on a cold day.
Although it is very cold in the capital today, after nightfall, the temperature drops to more than ten degrees below zero. But the enthusiasm of thousands of fans holding flowers, balloons, and posters on both sides of the red carpet, as well as the shining magnesium lights of hundreds of media reporters from China, Japan and South Korea, seemed to dispel the chill of this winter night.
When the six leading actors stepped on the red carpet at the same time, thousands of fans were excited, waving flowers and posters in their hands, and frantically calling out the names of their idols.
The shouts of "Tingfeng", "Dongjian" and "White Juice" came and went. He Xin, who was walking on the red carpet and waving to fans, inevitably felt a little regretful in his heart, after all, the voice calling his name was relatively weak.
Alas! Fans are still not very mature these days! I know that the stinky feet of Hong Kong and Korean stars, acting schools like him and Hiroyuki Sanada still can't compare with these traffic.
After walking through the red carpet, the creators stopped at the "Gate of Boundlessness", and everyone sent their blessings to "Boundless" and thanked the fans according to the process.
Zhang Dongjian, who is very good at shaking the burden of idols, even greeted Chinese fans in standard Mandarin.
There was a cheer again.
Chinese people are like this, every time a foreigner says two words of Chinese, it can always inspire everyone's national pride.
"Xiaohe, hard work!"
As one of the main creators, the producer Han Sanbei stood on the side in a very low-key manner, and when he applauded, he turned his head and said hello to He Xin, who happened to be standing beside him, very friendly.
is also reborn, Xiao He is not the benefactor of President Han like Mr. Xu, so he hurriedly responded: "Third master, polite, not hard!"
"Did the shoot go well?"
To say more, Mr. Han is also the chief producer of "The Ballad of Yunshui".
"It's going well, otherwise Director Yin would definitely not let it go this time. He Xin said with a smile.
"I heard that you collaborated on another movie with a small company this time, how did you shoot?"
"Yo, do you know this? It's being filmed in Chongqing, and it's estimated that it will be completed by the end of this month. ”
He Xin was a little surprised, the third master had a lot of opportunities, and he actually knew about a small-scale movie like "Stone". You must know that since the success of the National Teacher's "Hero", now China is looking up to Hollywood, and it is often a big production that costs hundreds of millions, and even literary films are tens of millions at every turn.
"I have seen the first two films of Director Ning, and he is a very talented young director. Han Sanwan nodded.
The third master was very optimistic about Ning Hao in the original time and space, and the original version of "Stone" was successfully produced at the beginning, including the later release and release, and China Film gave a lot of support.
He Xin was still waiting to let the third master praise himself for a few words, but unfortunately the time was too short, and as the popular stars such as King Qi, Bai Juice, and Dong Jian interacted with the fans, the host announced the next link.
The creators pressed the button together to ignite the infinite light, and the white infinite light pierced the black night sky.
The audience suddenly boiled, and the atmosphere was extremely warm, and the media and fans embraced the iron fence together, broke through the wall of security guards and "soldiers", and came to the "Infinite Gate".
In order to avoid a dangerous stampede, the creators hurriedly retreated into the CPPCC auditorium under the escort of security guards.
The premiere tickets that were claimed to be 1880 yuan before were not actually sold to the public, they were basically given away through relationships, and a large part of them were arranged by the organizers.
As one of the six leading actors, He Xin naturally mixed more than a dozen tickets with good locations and distributed them to relatives and friends to come over to cheer together.
His girlfriend and Hao Rong's family, including Li Mengnan, who hadn't seen each other for almost half a year and had just finished filming a documentary TV series, also came.
"Haha, Brother Mengnan, long time no see...... Hey, who is this?"
He Xin specially ran over to say hello, and hugged Li Mengnan, who he hadn't seen for a long time, and found that today this product also brought a young woman with a bit of a bitter look.
In fact, he had heard a long time ago that Li Mengnan encountered a second spring and found a girl who was more than ten years younger than him, who was also an actor, and it was said that he met during filming, and it developed very quickly, and it has reached the point of talking about marriage. Today is the first time we have met, and He Xin feels very familiar at first sight.
When the girl saw He Xinwang coming, she shouted with a restrained face: "Teacher He!"
As a result, Li Mengnan was not happy when he heard it, and said, "What kind of teacher do you call him?"
"Yes, yes, yes, should I call my sister-in-law?" He Xinle said.
As soon as I was introduced, I learned that this girl graduated from the 97th class of Nortel's performance department, and was a classmate of Haiqing and Huang Haibo, and was also a student of the famous greasy male teacher Huang in later generations. I have collaborated with Sun Li and Liu Li in "Blood Romance" before, but because I played a supporting role, it was not very attention-grabbing.
After entering the venue, no other links were arranged, He Xin returned to his position in the front row and sat down, the lights in the venue dimmed, and the big screen gradually lit up.
When "Chen Kaige's works" appeared, the scene was driven by those supporters, and there was a round of applause.
"Begonia blossoms, the beginning of life. ”
At the beginning of the movie, the young Guan Guerjia Gege Xiaotong and the chubby Xiao Wuhuan appeared on the battlefield with piles of corpses, and the full god played by Chen Hong slowly descended to the world......
Kunlun, played by Zhang Dongjian, is a slave who crawls through the canyon with his messy hair and dirty body......
The bright general of Hiroyuki Matena drew his sword and pointed at the target, and the first climax of the movie, "The Battle of Yak Canyon", was officially unveiled.
And He Xin's first appearance was in the dark night, when the eerie killer ghost wolf fought against the light on a dead tree......
The magnificent royal city, colorful scenes, and very stage play-style dialogues look a bit like a combination of "The Lord of the Rings", "Heroes" and "Daming Palace Ci".
He Xin watched the finished film for the first time, and although he was mentally prepared, he still felt quite disappointed when he really rewatched it again.
Maybe I didn't think it when I was filming, but now when I see the finished film, compared with the story in the original script, the editing looks very messy, and many shots lack transitions, which makes people scratch their heads, so the coherence of the story becomes very poor.
But I have to admit that the picture quality and color of the film are very exquisite, which complements the magnificent scene. And the special effects are also more realistic than the original "Legend of Shushan" by Xu Laowei.
However, the beautiful graphics and realistic special effects still can't hide the thinness of the story. However, the people who watched the movie still applauded from time to time with rhythm, making the atmosphere of watching the movie very lively.