Chapter 182: Press Conference (1/5)
Of course, Wen Ziren was given a grand welcome by everyone...
Zhang Jin also wanted to communicate with him in Hu Jian, which was a little embarrassing, and Wen Ziren couldn't say anything about Hu Jian—although his ancestral home was Fujian.
Born in Malaysia and raised in Australia, he directed "Saw Horror" at the age of 27...
The only few sentences in Chinese that Lu Xiaoran often calls him 'big brother'...
That's why he needs to bring an interpreter.
Chen Zhixi walked over and whispered to Lu Xiaoran: "Hua Normal University, don't go..."
"What's wrong?"
"Recently, an associate professor jumped out and said that actors are actors... At this time, you don't want to participate, it's easy to be a target!"
“…”
"Also, China Normal University is now full of soldiers..."
After a pause, Chen Luxi added: "I think your Weibo post is really bad!"
“… What's wrong with my scarf?"
Every word!
"Why did you point the finger at Fan Xiaopang?"
“… Who's aiming at her? I'm not aiming at Feng Pants and Liu Zhenyun..."
The sentence quoted by Lu Xiaoran, 'China Normal University is really humorous, I think you are very humorous', is accusing Liu Zhenyun...
"But you said A-listers..."
“… Yes, this is your responsibility, you are my agent, and you didn't advise me in the first place!"
"I don't know your Weibo password, how can I advise you?"
"I'm kidding... Isn't there a press conference in the afternoon, you can ask a few media outlets, and then I'll explain..."
"After this time, you don't want to post on Weibo! Your current identity is not suitable for discussing these, giving people a sense of frivolity!"
“… Yes. ”
I'll write something else later...
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The public screening press conference was held in Beijing's 798 Art District, and the scene was arranged to look like a growth city...
Lots of fans...
Wen Ziren, Da Tiantian, Lin Gengxin, Yu Rongguang, Jin Song, and Zhang Xincheng all appeared, and Lu Xiaoran also appeared with Tangtang...
A group of people signed autographs and took photos for fans at the scene, and a short red carpet lasted for an hour.
By the way, the watermelon video of this press conference was broadcast live...
"My grandfather told me a long time ago that his ancestral home is in Fujian, and he grew up listening to his great-grandfather and great-grandmother tell oriental ghost stories, and he also loved watching oriental horror movies since he was a child, so most of my horror movies are influenced by oriental culture, not the kind of simple plasma films..."
"I always thought that my films didn't have a lot of audiences in China... That day, Lu Xiaoran said, 'You think too much, the Saw series is almost every horror movie lover's favorite!', and I asked him, 'Where did they see it?', and he said, 'The biggest contribution of the Internet is sharing!'..."
"It's what it means to watch piracy!"
"Many of my films can't be released in China because of censorship, and I'm very excited about The Great Wall and excited to bring one of my proudest works to China and share it with my family. ”
Wen Ziren...
Emotional intelligence is OK!
A reporter even asked him: "Then what complaints do you have about censorship?"
"Horror films are banned in many countries, and we have already thought about it when we are doing this kind of theme, and of course we want China to implement a classification system as soon as possible..."
Around Lu Xiaoran, most of them are asking about the profitability of "The Great Wall"...
"At present, it should not be a problem for "The Great Wall" to recover its costs, specific to a single overseas country, in the first weekend, the Mexican market won 6.2 million US dollars, Russia 5 million US dollars, France, Germany each contributed 8 million US dollars, but how much can be earned, it depends on the box office situation in the mainland. ”
Someone asked how to do a good job in the big genre of "Sino-US co-production"...
Generally speaking, Sino-US co-production is a four-like, using Western classic special effects and cliché plots, but with Chinese faces that are incompatible with this effect, but also mixed Chinese and English, Chinese some are still translations, the final result is extremely embarrassing, donkey lips are not the horse's mouth to combine these Chinese and Western elements are not applauded or applauded bad film.
Lu Xiaoran said: "... The most important thing for Sino-US co-production is to have a knowledgeable team, our team members are all from big Hollywood productions, and they know how to tell a good story on a big budget!"
"Why work with Wanda... In fact, the most powerful monster film in Hollywood is Legendary Pictures, because their boss is a monster fan... Wanda has acquired Legendary Pictures, and we made the right choice to work with them!"
Then, the reporter who had been arranged before asked: "What do you want to say about the recent drama theory of actors?"
"This is obviously professional discrimination, there is nothing to say, drama is the contempt of the powerful in the old society for people in the entertainment industry, if you want to call people in the entertainment industry, you must first be the elite class, is it the elite class in our country?"
"Then what do you think of the remarks that the social status of scientists is not as good as that of celebrities?"
"I think this is a misunderstanding of social status! What are we evaluating a person's social status based on?
"If it's these two, it's really not comparable, but all over the world, the most famous are celebrities, and mass entertainment media are originally tied to celebrities!"
"Many people say this, but it's just to show off your taste, can you really understand scientific research reports?"
Also, scientists are really cute, CCTV interviewed nuclear physicist He Zehui a while ago, it was an embarrassing conversation, and a short excerpt was taken:
The reporter asked: "You made such a great contribution at that time, how did you do it?"
"What kind of contribution is that, it's not my original, to be honest, it's not all copied!"
The reporter asked again: "You and Mr. Qian Sanqiang found out that the three were separated and the four were separated, how did you find out?"
"You do your work carefully, the things are there, can't you see them?"
Big guy, bow down...
In fact, it is still a matter of threshold, scientific bigwigs are star-level figures in the field they are good at, but the field they are in has a certain threshold, not practitioners or people who make a living from it know their fur at most, and the industry in which entertainment stars are located belongs to the category of mass entertainment, which is a field with 0 threshold, which will naturally be paid attention to by more people.
Let's put it this way, let Academician Zhong come over and broadcast the latest research on respiratory diseases to everyone, and it is estimated that half of the people will fall asleep listening to it...
"Don't completely deny a certain group because some people are clumsy, actors also contribute to society. ”
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In fact, "The Great Wall" is really just a qualified and neat commercial film, a disaster film routine, thanks to the mature streamlined production of Hollywood in the United States, it only took 16 months from preparation to release!
In the middle, Wen Ziren also wrote "Annabelle 2" and "Nun"...
Because of Ran Ping's intervention, there is an ugly description of human nature in the middle - the front is tight, the rear is tight...
A commercial popcorn movie, the most important thing is the effect, Wen Ziren has no habit of saving money, think about it, in addition to the American team, the actors need a salary of 12 million US dollars, and other actors add a piece, including Brother Hei, less than 5 million US dollars, staff salaries, and the rest of the money are basically smashed on special effects!
Wen Ziren signed a $2 million director's salary + 8% global profit-sharing contract...
He was originally born in a horror film, and the image of the monster referred to the image of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", and he made certain additions...
Gluttony, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, The Classic of the North Mountains": There is more jade on the top of the mountain of Hook Wu, and more copper on the bottom. There is a beast, its shape is like a sheep's body and human face, its eyes are in the armpits, tiger teeth and human claws, its sound is like a baby, its name is roe deer owl, it is a cannibal.
The "roe deer owl" mentioned here is gluttony: human face, eyes under the armpits, cannibalism!
Of course, this is the image of the beastmaster, the little minions refer to the image of the alien, the mouth is very large, and when it is opened, it is a bloody mouth...
Douban scored 7.2 points, with a medium score for monster films, with a box office of 160 million on the first day, 210 million on the second day, and 190 million on the third day.
At the end of the first weekend, 560 million...
It's not comparable to "Mermaid", and even "Monster Hunt" is higher than it...
But in this cold period, a record has been set!
The total box office forecast of Orange Box Office is 1.6 billion - rewriting the box office and word-of-mouth of Sino-American co-productions.
But Lu Xiaoran is reflecting on herself, is she a little too jumpy lately...