Chapter 172: Chinese Films Need to Go Out (2/6)
Hollywood's creativity in recent years has really declined to the naked eye!
Several major companies are waiting for the sequel to make money in the film industry...
At the same time, in order to cater to the global market, Hollywood films are becoming less and less ironic and less aggressive towards other countries...
Politically correct...
The villain, the boss behind the scenes, was black before, then Russian, and now it can only be white...
Of course, the possibility of Chinese films wanting to occupy the mainstream of the United States is also zero...
Even Akira Kurosawa didn't do it at the beginning!
In addition, there are huge differences in the personalities of Chinese and American audiences, including their outlook on life, society and values.
Sino-American co-production, the likelihood of success is not very likely, so the pursuit of visual effects or sensory visual effects of popcorn cool film is the best choice...
"The Great Wall", the full name is "I Fight Monsters on the Great Wall"...
Very typical popcorn movie!
In addition, even if Orange Manufacturing takes root in North America and has signed cooperation agreements with several theaters, Chinese films can only win up to 600 open theaters - unless there are six blessings!
However, when North American films enter China, as long as there is a copy, they can get the distribution key, and the distribution model of Chinese and American films is completely different.
In North America, there is a split line system, and capable distributors will sign contracts with theaters first, and the cooperative theaters will get a copy of the movie, while other theaters that do not cooperate will not even have a copy.
There's a key issue here: competent publishers!
What does it mean to be a competent publisher?
MPAA Top Club!
Other cards, people really don't recognize!
Orange manufacturing has been in North America for almost five years, and it is still regarded as a company that makes horror films...
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At the premiere scene, the reporter first asked Lu Xiaoran about 'Little Fresh Meat'...
"Our previous generation heard old artists say that acting comes first, and I said that this is still a truth. In the end, the waves washed the sand, and the last thing left was the actors, and it didn't matter what bacon or fresh meat was in the end. ”
What's wrong with small fresh meat?
Professionalism?
But at least there are no multi-person sports, multi-person sports are called gathering crowds and cherry blossoms, which is illegal!
"Why did you use Wen Ziren to direct a movie like "The Great Wall"?"
“… He really wanted to make a blockbuster movie, I always wanted to make a monster movie, and then he said the idea, he was interested, and then I gave it to him!"
In fact, there are not many reporters and media around Lu Xiaoran, and they are basically pestering the big boss...
The big old king is also here!
It's a rare occurrence in public – he rarely appears in public after the defeat in Malaysia.
Da Lao Wang's face was full of political correctness: "This story happened in China, and I think the core is a Chinese story, so I tell it to the outside world, we are telling the Chinese story to the world." ”
Reporter: What are the places where Chinese and Western cultures are combined?
"There are a lot of them, you have to watch movies, almost every minute, so in fact, I think, it's "telling Chinese stories to the world", I'm interested in taking this project, also because I think it's first and foremost a global blockbuster, the audience is the widest, and this genre is also very popular with young people, just to use global blockbusters to convey China's image, values, and cultural information, and I myself have such ambitions, so of course I will work hard to do it. ”
"My ambition is to use 'The Great Wall' to convey China's image and values!"
"Our "Great Wall" unit can also be regarded as a collectivist hero, and there are also individual sacrifices, individual battles, and so on. Hollywood's older routine is to save the world by one person, which is also a way of writing, but I don't agree..."
"The Great Wall is the first attempt of Chinese cinema to go global, using only one American actor, all Chinese actors. ”
"Of course I was confident, when they approached me, I only looked at the project for five minutes and decided to invest!"
"Box office, I don't think $800 million in the world should be a problem!"
Lu Xiaoran over there was also asked the same question, and he answered very cautiously: "The movie will be released later, let's watch the movie first!"
Lao Lu... Hey, the skin is too thin!
What's wrong with you just blowing it?
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The script of the original "The Great Wall" is too old-fashioned, that is, to change "Independence Day", and the background is set on the Great Wall...
If such a script had been placed twenty years ago, it might have been able to harvest some box office, but it's 6012, and you're still playing this set?
Who buys it?
Of course, the main plot of "The Great Wall" is still to fight monsters.
The origin of the story, two foreigners to the East to steal gunpowder, the journey into the gluttonous haunted area, encountered the gluttonous ambush, because of the magnet, gluttonous stunned by the American team cut off a claw, at this time the shadowless forbidden army patrol passed by, will survive the 2 people escorted to the Great Wall, because of gluttonous stumps were escorted to the Chinese military tent;
The Shadowless Army is here!
The general played by Yu Rongguang recalled that 30 years ago, the gluttony attacked Bianliang, and the three gluttons fought against the defenders, and finally Yu Rongguang and Jin Song led the team to win the gluttony at the cost of serious injuries.
The imperial court found that Bianliang had a large population and was in the goal of gluttony, built the Great Wall, formed a shadowless forbidden army, and the two were the commanders...
At this time, the first small climax of the movie came, the gluttonous army attacked the city, the city wall was in danger, the general crane (Da Tian Tian) rescued the adjutant Zhang Xincheng on the Great Wall, encountered danger and was saved by the American team's magic arrow, the crane general Damon joined forces with China and the United States to save the city wall, and the gluttony had to Mingjin to withdraw his troops...
The end of the opening...
Then there was a Sino-American dinner, where the American team and General Eagle competed in archery, shook hands and made peace...
After that, the spy team led the brave into the gluttonous camp and discovered the evolution of gluttony and the hatching of new species.
The gluttonous samples of the captives were found, and in a big battle, Yu Rongguang was seriously injured and was rescued by General Crane and the American team back to the Great Wall, and died of serious injuries...
Transition scene: The Five Armies commemorate the commander-in-chief!
The screen full of Kong Ming, etc...
The commander-in-chief died, and General Crane sent his adjutant and General Deer Lin Gengxin to Bianliang to mourn, and by the way, borrowed troops - the strength of the Shadowless Army was only 50,000, which was not enough to gluttony!
At the same time, the Tiger General Jin Song was elected as the commander-in-chief, and the Crane General was elected as the military division...
General Crane and the American team studied the gluttonous captives and found that the magnet was the gluttonous weakness!
Zhang Xincheng and General Lu went to Bianliang, and then showed the "Outside the Mountain, Qingshan Building, Outer Building, West Lake, When will the singing and dancing of the West Lake be closed?" The warm wind smoked the tourists and made Hangzhou Bianzhou. ’…
There are all kinds of tensions on the front line, but the court is peaceful, and it is even divided into the main battle faction and the main peace faction...
The second climax came, the foggy sky gluttony stormed the Great Wall, the evolved flying gluttony and the giant beast siege gluttony destroyed the city wall, so that the defenders were close to collapse, and the tiger general Jin Song finally exterminated the beast king and eliminated most of the vanguard gluttony;
It is impossible for the existing forces to resist the next wave of gluttonous attacks!
At this time, Bianliang City, the court is still arguing...
The forbidden army made a generous statement at the imperial court, but the request for help was fruitless...
Of course, there was also a turnaround, and the defenders of the Great Wall came up with the ultimate flying weapon invention, the cannon!
Stopping the gluttonous attack for a while...
The camera was given to the prime minister of the palace (Li Xuejian), plotting against him, wanting to take advantage of the gluttonous disaster once in 60 years to greatly hurt the vitality of the imperial court, and then the Central Plains would be in chaos, and he would take advantage of the chaos to ascend to the throne, abolish the young emperor, and be above 10,000 people...
Zhang Xincheng directly admonished the court, and finally made the emperor wake up: gluttony is about to break through the Great Wall, and the shadowless forbidden army has fallen into a place of no return.
The Queen Mother also repented, beheaded the prime minister, and transferred 20W people from all walks of life to the forbidden army, and set off to help the Great Wall on the same day.
The final shot is that the Great Wall is almost falling, the Shadowless Forbidden Army is making the last resistance, and the Beastmaster has already issued a roar of victory.
Seeing this, Lu Xiaoran couldn't help but pat Wen Ziren: "You, pure plagiarism of "The Two Towers", don't even change the camera?"
"The Twin Towers": The mediocre prime minister, the army is approaching the city, the enemy is invincible, and the reinforcements only arrive at the moment of death...
The shot that Lu Xiaoran said was Gandalf attacking with thousands of troops...
Wen Ziren shamelessly admitted: "Such a story is much the same..."