Chapter 171: Propaganda (1/6)
The New Power of Cinema...
It's probably a symposium on the study of young filmmakers...
This year's session is not very important, mainly for publicity, unveiling the New Year's stalls.
Next year is the most important thing - inherit the professional concept of actors!
"The Martian" has not yet reached the publicity period, and besides, there will be a special cinema promotion for the Chinese New Year, and... In this year's Lunar New Year file, there is no one who can fight, and the "Martian" dimensionality reduction strike...
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By the way, "Dream Giant" has also been released...
And then...
What's wrong with you?
A young movie watched by preschoolers, there is no climax in the whole play, and the drowsiness finally survives to the end, and the queen sends a helicopter army to hunt giants on Giant Island with high spirits, thinking that there will be a fierce battle.
I didn't expect it to be a second catch!
Bastard!
Not even an orgasm...
And then it's time for the end of the film.
Your sister's.
Is this a Spielberg movie?
A bunch of kneeling licks in film reviews: twenty brain holes to let you know about "Dream Giant"
"11 Things You Should Know About "Dream Giant"...
No, can you please stop licking like that?
If you smash it, you will smash it, and the whole world will not buy it!
"Dream Giant" has a box office of more than 50 million in North America, and the global box office has not reached 200 million...
What a loss!
If you want Lu Xiaoran to say that Spielberg has made three young movies in recent years, "War Horse" is the best, "The Adventures of Tintin" is second, and "Dream Giant" can be said to be the worst of them!
Don't say that there is no childlike innocence, it is the reason for the movie, not the audience, "Alice in Wonderland" and "Charlie's Chocolate Factory" are successful, and "Dream Giant" is really not good!
Why doesn't anyone say 'Spielberg is dead'?
A master-level director filmed such a thing, isn't this called a miss?
By the way, the original author of "Dream Giant" is Roald Dahl, who is also the author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "The Great Fox Dad", "Matilda"...
This year is really a terrible year, "Batman v Superman" lost, "X-Men" lost, "Independence Day 2" lost, "Suicide Squad" lost again, and now even Lao Si and Li An can't do it...
So, it's a contagious disease?
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Wen Ziren came to China - but that person was promoting "The Great Wall", accompanied by the American team and a black brother Yahya Abdul-Maddin...
For a project as big as "The Great Wall", there must be black people involved, otherwise, you are politically incorrect!
Lu Xiaoran led Wen Ziren to the studio to watch "The Martian" in advance.
"The focus of this movie is on growing potatoes on Mars!"
“... Why don't you plant rice?"
“... Because the conditions don't allow it!"
Lu Xiaoran explained: "Actually, the space agency recommends lettuce, they say that lettuce, a variety that can be eaten both above and below the ground, will be better, there is almost no waste, and the first crop grown by NASA on the International Space Station is lettuce." ”
"But... This one is a movie after all, and... He only brought potato seeds!"
The Martian...
The story thief is simple, it is the story of the protagonist Lu Jianye being left on Mars, and then the space agency tried to rescue him...
There is no conspiracy, no villains, not even political struggles, just 'human community!' with a capital letter.
Before the great rights and wrongs of life, all people have crossed all kinds of gaps and barriers between people and countries, and spared no effort to cooperate, no one cares about political contests and economic gains and losses, just to bring us back to our home as one of the human beings.
“... How does it feel?"
"Very good!"
Wen Ziren nodded...
"Can you get 2,000 theaters to open?"
"It's not a big problem, after all, this movie is scarce in Hollywood right now!"
"Haha..."
Lu Xiaoran nodded...
Wen Ziren's meaning, he understands.
In fact, the universal values displayed by Hollywood film culture were laid down by a group of American leftists in the thirties and forties!
Let's talk about a little story, "Trumbert", a biopic, about the life of the famous screenwriter Trumbo, when Macthyism was prevalent in the United States, and the left wing was all overthrown, including Trumbo, at that time he had already written such a masterpiece as "Roman Holiday", and the film industry forbade him to participate in screenwriting...
The producer is not stupid, of course he can't let go of such a talented person, so he lowered the price of 3,000 US dollars and worked without signing!
Then many people in the same situation as him came to him, and that group of people basically laid the values of American cinema - left-wing!
What are left-wing values?
This proposition is a bit big, but the reason why the elites are elites is because their elites are typical right-wing value orientations!
Therefore, Wang Hailin is very angry, he is a left-wing writer, but today's film and television dramas are full of stories of the gods of the Three Realms, the domineering president, the second generation of the military, and the second generation of the rich, and the protagonists of the animation are all eldest misses, young masters, and high society, which seriously infringes on his life...
What is a leftist, the poor boy is a leftist!
Of course, we can also see many practical problems: the solidification of class has led to the conservative development of literary and artistic creation.
Okay, receive!
Movies like "The Martian" are actually popular creative models in the United States in the past few years - "Desert Island Survivor" and "127 Hours" are basically this way...
It's just that Lu Xiaoran put the proposition in space...
But in recent years, the space theme has almost broken in the United States, and science fiction movies are either Marvel, or continue to pick up old-fashioned themes such as "Alien" and "Terminator"...
They don't dare to take risks!
It's no wonder that the market just doesn't buy the originality - "Arrival" and "Blade Runner 2049" are so good movies, but few people buy tickets!
"I don't know how much "The Martian" will take at the box office in the United States..."
"It's hard to say, after all, this is a Chinese movie... But you sold Netflix's shares, and many theater directors praised you..."
“... Is Netflix already a public enemy of the theater chain?"
"Well, the main big companies don't fight for themselves..."
The two walked and talked - the two were going to the venue where "The Great Wall" premiered.
Bona arranged a grand premiere for "Billy Lynn's Halftime Fight", and Orange and Wanda also arranged a premiere for "The Great Wall"...
After all, it's a big investment of $150 million!
"The Great Wall" has a lot of cards, Sino-American co-production, and Captain America participates...
As for the distribution company, Orange United Global, and Wanda's participation are conducive to the better promotion and distribution of "The Great Wall" in North America.
In short, North America has given 3,300 open theaters, as for whether it can succeed, it depends on whether the market buys it!
However, to be honest, a film like "The Great Wall" full of Chinese elements is actually not easy to arouse the interest of North American audiences, so for the North American box office, everyone's expectation is that as long as it can exceed 80 million US dollars, it will be considered a success...
The focus is on the mainland box office!