Chapter 46: Questioning (5/5)
Despite the popularity of series movies in the past 20 years, the audience's aesthetic fatigue is still a time bomb hanging over every IP.
The most typical is "Transformers 5"...
You see, it's strange, in Paramount's opinion, the reason why "Transformers 5" did not do well at the box office was because of the audience's aesthetic fatigue...
As for the reputation is too bad, people don't mean to blame it at all - 250 million US dollars, the script and director are all carefully selected, if you admit that it's because the movie is too, it's not a slap in the face!
Of course, Hollywood can't change its strategy because of audience aesthetics:
The main way to save itself is "original IP+ type film innovation".
Although facing aesthetic fatigue, IP that still has a strong appeal is still a treasure trove that Hollywood cannot easily give up, as long as the content is refreshing, it can still save reputation.
- Just because a series of movies doesn't mean there won't be any creativity.
This is an opportunity for orange manufacturing, and Lu Xiaoran has always believed that original films and even art films can continue to maintain the vitality and attractiveness of the film medium as the engine laboratory of the film, so that the film can compete with other media!
So, Orange Manufacturing releases three to five original movies every year.
In Hollywood, many celebrities say that original movies are real movies...
There are a lot of superstars among them!
Orange manufacturing is growing more and more under such circumstances, a virtuous circle, more and more big-name stars take the initiative to contact orange manufacturing...
Therefore, "Knives Out" can recruit a large number of good actors!
As we all know, Hollywood is the most mature film market in the world, and the problems they are facing now are likely to be staged in the Chinese film market in more than ten years...
That's why Lu Xiaoran pays so much attention to the North American market...
The original time and space, "Knives Out" is $159 million in North America and $141 million overseas...
Replaced by Lu Xiaoran, the mainland box office can reach at least 1 billion...
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Lu Xiaoran has two requirements for Marta Cabrera on the role requirements sent to Wen Ziren: Hispanic and beautiful.
Then Wen Ziren recommended Ana de Armas.
Cubans...
The purpose of this character is to satirize the immigration policy of the United States.
By the way, Hollywood's current political correctness has really reached a certain level: in addition to "Knives Out", Armas also collaborated with Craig in Bond's new film "007: No Time to Die", playing a girl named Palomar, who is loved by Bond.
New Bond Girl!
In the past, Bond girls had to be sexy and beautiful, but later the addition of Michelle Yeoh and Halle Berry broke the concept of skin color, and now it is even more necessary to break the concept of personality - to be loved, it is not yet available!
This is a victory for women's rights!
The girl's acting skills are good, the orthodox academy is from the school, Wen Ziren knows her because she starred in "Knock on the Door" produced by Orange Manufacturing, the film lost money, but Armas opened up the drama and popularity...
Born in 88, he is three years younger than Sister Mi...
Tsk, by comparison, Sister Mi is already an international actress!
Forget it, don't mention Sister Honey, the most popular or the hottest thing now is hot - "Wolf Warrior 2" is a play, and it is directly promoted to 5 billion heroines!
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"Don't care about the data, I value the work more, I'm still me. ”
"The entertainment industry has changed too much, today this person is popular, tomorrow another person is popular, and there is no definite number of changes all the time. ”
"Many people in the entertainment industry say, 'I'm a star', as if suddenly I became a 'core', but in the whole universe, how can I be a 'core', no one is the core. We're all small, so don't take yourself so seriously!"
The hot bar is being interviewed, no need to guess, these are all prepared by the agent in advance...
Buddhism...
"I really didn't expect such a good box office. I know that the box office of "Wolf Warrior" is not bad, the script of "Wolf Warrior 2" is very well written, and the box office will definitely not be bad, but I really didn't expect it to be so high. ”
"Wolf Warrior 3"... I don't know, because "Wolf Warrior" was ready to be filmed into a trilogy at the beginning, but the second part was not easy to do, so I skipped it directly, and the "Wolf Warrior 2" we see now is actually "Wolf Warrior 3" that was originally planned to be filmed... If Brother Jing invites me, I will definitely participate..."
"I don't have any special plans for future development, but I just go with the flow, and the team has a more detailed plan. ”
"Wolf Warrior 2" exploded, and the hot bar was very popular, but Wu Jing was a bit controversial...
I like him very much, I hate him very much...
In China, once a movie hits, there will definitely be doubts...
Lu Xiaoran is no exception, "The Martian" exploded 4.42 billion, some people say 'it's just a duplicate work on the industrial assembly line', and some people say 'I really think it's very ordinary.'" The propaganda is hard science fiction, but it is deliberately funny, and the hardships in the process are all omitted!'
However, after all, there are only a few people who say these things - Douban score 8.2 points!
"Wolf Warrior 2"...
It does not conform to the context of Douban, nor does it conform to the taste of many 'professional' film critics, for example, a certain film review program openly questioned the level of "Wolf Warrior 2", and the host of this film review show is actually a Chinese opera teacher!
To sum up, 'So many people died in "Wolf Warrior 2", and it was meaningless to die. The audience watched so bloody, carnage, and violence, but as a viewer, I didn't fluctuate in my heart, and even wanted to laugh. In the end, because there are many children who will go to the cinema, Wu Jing, you are a pervert if you shoot like this. ’
It's really the bloody violence and lack of humanistic thinking that comes out of the mouth...
Military genre films, as a professional filmmaker, of course you can give criticism, but you have to get to the point, don't you understand the three elements?
Point out the problem, analyze the problem, and give suggestions for solving (improving)!
Awkward black...
He also said that he was abused on the Internet!
Can you hack a film without brains, but you can't accept that you are being besieged by fans without brains?
The producer and producer completely ignored her and made it clear that it was hot.
However, a reporter asked Wu Jing, and Wu Jing didn't have time to care about these at all, and responded positively: "I am willing to accept all the criticisms and suggestions for me, and I will respect everyone's suggestions and evaluations..."
It's not like Wu Jing who is 'cheap or not'...
Shouldn't the evaluation of the quality of a film start from the picture and plot, why is it linked to the personality of the filmmaker?
Even if you are an elementary school teacher, it is against the teacher's ethics to directly criticize a classmate, 'You are a pig's brain' or 'You are stupid'.
Some so-called film experts, who have been in the ivory tower for a long time, think that they are the heart of the world...
Actually, the black "Wolf Warrior 2" is quite simple, the background music played before the Armageddon is amazinggrace, "Amazing Grace", a church song...
You take it out and ask, what does this mean, what are you trying to promote?
This is called attacking the shield of the son with the spear of the son, and staring at this one is much more useful than what you say about 'personality perversion'!
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On the evening of August 20th, Lu Xiaoran finally responded positively on Weibo that the box office of "Wolf Warrior 2" was still controversial - at this time, the box office of "Wolf Warrior 2" exceeded 5 billion...
The first movie in the mainland to enter the 5 billion club!
"First of all, congratulations to Brother Jing, "Wolf Warrior 2" won the first place at the box office in Chinese film history, and it deserves its name!"
"Secondly, I was still filming "Knives Out", and a bunch of people sent private messages asking me how I watched the box office of "Wolf Warrior 2", and asked me why the box office of "Wolf Warrior 2" was so high? ”
"Also, I want to say that the biggest feature of the cultural industry is that it looks like a drunken fan, but the bubble is too big and the roots are not deep enough.
"Chinese films have developed to this point, and there is no longer any hesitation, you can be conservative, you can focus on traffic, but the form is stronger than people, you don't do it, someone does it, the cake is so big, whoever is late, may not be able to eat the scum. ”
"Finally, make a wave of trailers, "Operation Red Sea" will be released during the Chinese New Year, which is also an adaptation of the evacuation incident, I am sure that the box office of "Operation Red Sea" will not be worse than "Wolf Warrior 2"!"