Chapter 211: The Premiere
As soon as Qin Feng woke up the next day, he rushed to the company's production studio for post-production of the film.
Although the entire filming of "Infernal Affairs" has been completed, post-production is the key, and if the post-production is not good, no matter how good the shooting is, it can cut it for you, so post-production can be described as the top priority.
The most critical job in post-production is editing, the editing of a movie is very important, the film without editing is just one shot after another, they need to be edited to make it coherent and vivid.
Editing is the second creation of the film, and the editing work is going smoothly, and it was completed in two days, but a film has more than just editing and many projects, but the rest is left to the professionals.
The post-production of the film is being carried out in an orderly manner, although the other work is completed by professional staff, but Qin Feng still has to look at them one by one to ensure that nothing goes wrong, and the post-production of the entire "Infernal Affairs" was completed on January 16, 2014, and got the dragon mark The next step is the promotion of the movie.
Although the popularity of "Infernal Affairs" has been very high from the beginning of filming to the present, and there are many topics, the publicity still needs to be promoted, this money cannot be saved, and all passers-by on the streets and alleys know "Infernal Affairs".
Different publicity and distribution have different market repercussions for the film, so after completing all the post-production of the film, the film also began to carry out various online and offline promotions, basically everyone knows that this "Infernal Affairs" will be released on January 31, 2014, the first day of the Lunar New Year.
The trailer of the film has long been cut out for the first time and released on major platforms, and the topic has not stopped since the film was filmed, so "Infernal Affairs" is the most popular movie in the Spring Festival.
In fact, the propaganda is to put it bluntly, it is to find a few points, and then blow to death, blowing until you want to see it even though you don't believe it, and "Infernal Affairs" has too many points to blow, whether it is the rivalry between several major actors, or the movie with the largest investment amount in the history of Chinese films, etc., "Infernal Affairs", which is already very popular, has reached the point where no one in the world knows the king after crazy publicity.
Time flies quickly, and there are still two days left before the movie is released nationwide. And tonight will be the premiere of "Infernal Affairs".
On the day of the premiere on January 29, 2014, the Starlight International Grand Theater was star-studded, and celebrities from all walks of life came to cheer on it.
As the host of the premiere, Yanhuang Film and Television can be described as full of scenery this time, and the stars on the top of the premiere have all received invitations, which can be said to be eight or nine out of ten in the first line of the entertainment industry, and there are also many second-line guests, plus other big coffee guests, the premiere is so powerful that it has refreshed the scale and specifications of the premiere of Chinese films.
At seven o'clock in the evening, the invited guests had basically arrived. The invitations are basically the most famous film and television companies in China, well-known producers, directors, famous film critics, and many celebrities and media reporters.
At half past seven, the premiere began, and the host was Xie Nan of the light, and according to the process, the major creators came to the stage one after another to talk about the hardships of film creation and shooting.
When Qin Feng arrived, a reporter asked: "Director Qin, do you think the box office of this movie will break the box office of "Painted Skin"?" After all, such a big investment, if it didn't break the box office record, it would have been written.
"I am very confident in my work, as for whether I can break the record of "Painted Skin", I don't know, after all, the subject matter is different, but I can set a small goal, such as breaking the record of the mainland box office list. As for the movie, you will know it as soon as you watch it, I think if you don't watch this movie, you will definitely regret it, because you missed a good movie. Qin Feng said domineeringly.
After speaking, Qin Feng stepped down from the stage and returned to his position and sat down.
Liang Chao on the side said to Qin Feng: "Feng Zai, you are bold enough to say that the first place in the mainland box office list is the 2.63 billion yuan set by "Painted Skin". And the small goal of Infernal Affairs is to break this record, and if it can't be achieved, it will be... , Although we are all optimistic about this movie, but whether the market is optimistic or not is a bit bottomless, your small goal makes us feel a lot of pressure, if this does not break the record, those reporters can have you feel better. Liang Chao said that he had no confidence.
"Don't worry, Brother Chao, since I dare to speak, I also have confidence, don't you have confidence in yourself? Do you think this movie has the potential to break records?" Qin Feng, who is well versed in marketing in later generations, asked rhetorically, you must know that if any movie is released now, it doesn't feel like it's out of grade if it doesn't break one billion at the box office, and it's backward, and it's quite low-key.
Liang Chao couldn't help but smile when he heard Qin Feng's words: "It's not that I'm not confident, I really can't imagine this number, after all, the box office of the movies made before doesn't add up to so much." Although he has won numerous awards, Liang Chao is very helpless at the box office.
After the lights in the theater dimmed, the dragon mark appeared on the big screen first, and then the five big characters of Qin Feng's work, followed by the opening animations of several companies, and then entered the feature film.
At the beginning of the film is a Buddhist scripture "Nirvana Sutra", what does "Nirvana Sutra" mean? It is the last posthumous teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni before Nirvana.
To explain, countless religions in the world have talked about hell, and Buddhism is the most detailed religion that describes hell, Buddhism believes in the cycle of life and death, reincarnation.
Reincarnation is divided into six realms: the Heavenly Path, the Human Path, the Asura Path, the Animal Path, the Hungry Ghost Path, and the Hell Path.
The Hell Dao is composed of eight hells, and the most frightening one is the Infernal Hell, which is the uninterrupted suffering, death and life, life and death, and the cycle repeats itself, without interruption, and this is the meaning of Infernal Affairs. Of course, in this movie, there is a difference between the underworld and the white way, and the undercover agent is between black and white.
So the beginning alone gives people infinite reverie, and a title attracts everyone deeply, I have to say that this movie is half of the success, at least it makes people have the desire to watch it.
As the movie played, many famous film critics who were invited put down their pens for fear of missing a shot, and prepared to capitalize and close-up, which is a classic that should not be missed.
Many details in the movie are worth considering, such as the two sets of numbers 27149 and 4927. Chen Yongren's police number is PC27149, while Liu Jianming's number is PC4927, and in Buddhism, 7749 days is used to exceed.
In the Buddhist concept of reincarnation, after death, within 7749 days, a person goes through seven stages, that is, 49 days is a buffer period, during which most people can atone for their sins and be reincarnated after excess. But the best go to heaven, and the worst go to hell.
The reversal of 27 and 49 symbolizes the misalignment of Liu and Chen, and Chen's number also has a 1 indicating that he has been wandering between the two roads for many years.
There is also a listening bridge, the more than ten minutes of monitoring part for the first time exposed the fact that both sides have undercover agents, first of all, Liu Jianming found that Officer Huang was very covert and put on another earphone, and at the same time saw Officer Huang's fingers playing the beat, and the beat coincided with the frequency displayed on the locked channel in the computer screen, so it was guessed that Officer Huang had planted an undercover agent on Han Chen's side, and the way they communicated was Morse code.
Chen Yongren on the other side also found that Han Chen was wearing a headset, and guessed that Han Chen might have also placed an undercover agent in the police.
The highlights of the battle of wits and courage between the two sides, and everyone who didn't watch the movie very well was addicted.
The movie is almost over unconsciously, and it has reached the section of the rooftop duel.
In fact, if Chen Yongren didn't know Liu Jianming's identity in the end, Liu Jianming should become Chen Yongren's friend for life. The first impression of the audio store has made him have a good impression, after knowing that Ah Ren is an undercover agent, he is even more sympathetic, seeing that he is not only suddenly enlightened at this moment, there is a person who has a somewhat similar experience like himself, suffering endless pain, so he wants to cherish it very much.
But after Chen Yongren accidentally discovered that Liu Jianming was Han Chen's undercover agent, he immediately escaped. Chen Yongren ran away because he was afraid that Liu Jianming would harm him, and he did not have any evidence in his hand at that time to directly prove that Liu Jianming was Han Chen's undercover agent, so he escaped first and then made a plan. What he didn't know was that Liu Jianming suddenly wanted to be a good person and planned to restore his identity.
When Liu Jianming returned to the office and found that Chen Yongren had left, and the envelope had been passed, he knew that his identity had been known by Chen Yongren. Then came the rooftop duel.
The reason why Chen Yongren chose the rooftop is because he is familiar with the terrain and he is a police officer, he wants to always be above board, which is in stark contrast to Liu Jianming, who can only hide in a dark movie theater to make deals.
With Chen Yongren's death and Liu Jianming's smooth continuation of being his good guy, the whole movie has ended.
In the Buddhist scriptures, it is clearly stated that what kind of person will be sent to the infernal hell after death, and the Buddha said: Those who commit the five sins of rebellion will fall into this world forever and suffer endlessly. The five rebels, one kills the blessing, the second kills the wood, the third kills the arhats, the four come out of the Buddha's body and blood, and the five break the monks of harmony, and any one of them is guilty, that is, they fall into the infernal hell.
So Chen Yongren may go to Infernal Hell, because although he is righteous, he has to be a traitor, and he is also hurt to the victim, so it is really difficult to say what will happen to the undercover agent. As for Liu Jianming's destining to the Infernal Hell, the Buddha said: Those who suffer from the Infernal Hell will never die, and longevity is the catastrophe in the Infernal Hell. Liu Jianming, who is worse than death, will have to endure the pain of infernal purgatory.
At this point, the whole movie was finished, and the audience was silent for dozens of seconds, and Qin Feng, who was harmful, whispered: "It shouldn't be, it's not so bad, is this classic movie unsuitable?" After a while, he responded with thunderous applause, which lasted for several minutes.