Chapter 408: The Gringo and the Film Critic [Eighth Subscription Request]
On the evening of December 6, when Lin Yijiang rushed to the world-famous TCL Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, he found that it had become a world of Chinese. Everywhere you look, there are Chinese faces. In addition to the Chinese, there are also many Japanese Ben, Koreans, and even Vietnamese.
Listening to them chatting in the waiting area, most of them were more interested in ancient Chinese warfare.
For example, a Korean and a Vietnamese who seem to be studying at the same school will stand in the corner in English and communicate.
"Which period of China do you like the most?"
"Of course it's the Three Kingdoms!"
"Why?"
"How many people died!"
Seeing Lin Yijiang staring at the two of them, and then looking at the Chinese faces nearby, these two decisively confessed and hid in the crowd and disappeared.
Lin Yijiang couldn't help but smile, even if these two didn't leave, he wouldn't dare to do anything. He is a company that has business to go abroad, and he happens to rest today, not an international student who has been here for a long time. The laws of the United States are blackened, how dare you easily cause trouble!
After a while, I saw Lu Lin, Jing Yan, Chen Baowei, Wu Gang, and the supporting guests Dou Sen and Gai Erjia walking on the red carpet, and they were busy taking out their mobile phones to take pictures. It's a pity that I can't take a photo with Gai Erjiaduo, and I don't only have some small regrets in my heart.
The red carpet show is very short, and then the audience enters, Lin Yijiang pinched the premiere ticket in his hand, and entered with the team, which can be regarded as orderly. His position was in the middle of the seat, and the expressions on the faces of several guests on the stage were clear, which made him very excited.
He is not an iron fan of Lu Lin, let alone a fan of Jingyan, but he is more interested in the theme of Chinese special effects blockbusters. Because judging from his years of experience in watching movies, special effects blockbusters are the best way out for Chinese films, and they are also the inevitable way.
Kung fu movies have been in decline for many years, and the plot, comedy, and love are affected by cultural differences, and it is basically difficult to go abroad. Only special effects blockbusters can break through solid cultural barriers and spread Chinese films and Chinese culture to the world.
He once watched some small videos on the Internet, Chinese students asked foreign students who had watched "Nuwa Mending the Sky" what they thought, and most of the foreigners in it used exaggerated expressions to tell the content you are familiar with as a story that you sound inexplicable, and then the foreigners were very excited, but he had a feeling of tears in his eyes.
In fact, most people in Europe and the United States feel that they can understand it better when they watch "The Three-Body Problem", and "Hou Yi Shoots the Sun" and "Nuwa Mends the Sky" all seem to understand whether they understand or not, and they don't know how to be conscious. But it doesn't prevent them from watching those shocking and adrenaline-pumping special effects
Just when I was thinking about it, the interview ended and the video began. And seeing the picture of "Ninth Uncle" Lin Zhengying appear in the first shot, Lin Yijiang almost cried out excitedly, he is a loyal fan of "Ninth Uncle", when he first watched "Nuwa Mending the Sky", Daozu Hongjun finally showed his true face, revealing the classic one-word eyebrows, his excitement at that time was really overflowing, and he couldn't let go of it for a long time.
even wrote a letter to Lu Lin and sent it to Longlin Pictures, suggesting that Lu Lin could use special effects technology to make a movie starring "Uncle Nine". Although the mainland's censorship mechanism, zombie films have no hope of passing the review, but other themes are fine. It's a pity that I didn't receive any reply at all!
Because he was too excited, when he came back to his senses, he had already played the Taoist played by Li Zhixiong and left Wen Zhang and ran away alone. He is quite familiar with classic Hong Kong films, and he recognized this product at a glance, and he was pleasantly surprised.
immediately remembered the brave and fearless Zuo Qianhu in "A Chinese Ghost Story in the World", but when it comes to Taoist priests, Zhang Xueyou's Taoist appearance in the film is also good. If this one in "The Battle of the Deer" can invite Zhang Xueyou to play, with his funny acting skills, I believe the audience will be very surprised.
And Li Zhixiong played the picture of "climbing the clouds" and escaping, but was beheaded with an axe, which reminded him of the iron leg floating on the water in "Domestic Lingling Paint", and he had been practicing the stunt for 30 years, and as soon as it came in handy, he was bombarded down by a rocket launcher.
For a veteran movie fan like him, the pleasure of watching movies is different from that of the average audience. There are often a lot of associations with a shot and a shape, who I borrowed from, and who I paid tribute to!
The content on the screen continued, when thousands of Hulk-like warriors who were two meters up appeared and fought with the soldiers of the Yanhuang Alliance, most of them glanced at the side with shocked and bewildered expressions, including a big-breasted foreign woman next to him, it can only be said that even in Hollywood, such a picture is rare.
Indeed, most of the films in the "Avengers" series are above the standard, but there are only a few a year!
The content on the screen continues, and when Ying Long appears, many gringos are excited. Because dragons in the West are winged, while dragons in the East are generally wingless, although in Western literature, dragons are mostly bad.
"Oh, I really didn't expect that we in the West participated in your civil war in China thousands of years ago, and we played a very important role!"
Lin Yijiang was not far away, and a blonde and blue-eyed boy said excitedly.
"Hey, that's called Ying Long, it's made in China, and it has nothing to do with you in the West!"
"NO, NO, don't try to lie to me, I know that your Chinese dragon does not have wings, even if it is not in the West, there are Western species!"
"You speak Chinese so well, and we are Chinese seeds!"
The people around listened to it and sneered in understanding, but most of them were not good-looking. In the dim state, the foreign boy couldn't see the expressions of others, but knowing that he was dissatisfied with him, he reached out and covered his mouth without making a sound.
The plot of the whole film seems to be a little difficult for Westerners to understand, after all, Chi You left most of the troops in the old capital of Emperor Yan, which seems to be a little difficult to understand.
And some people told them that it was a very powerful magic array, once the entire Honghuang Continent was built, it would be ruled by Chiyou, and the two emperors of Yan and Huang had to start a war in order to prevent the Honghuang from falling into the hands of the evil Chiyou, so many people knew it.
When the film ended, these people who watched the movie responded with warm applause, and they were ready to recommend it to their friends and classmates after they went out. Except for China, most of the Oriental people are like friends who say, "Hey, there is a very beautiful one called "The Battle of the Deer", which talks about ancient Chinese wars!"
Westerners, on the other hand, mostly say, "There is a film similar to "The Lord of the Rings", of course, it is certainly not comparable to "The Lord of the Rings", but it is quite good, how about watching it together next weekend?"
At the end of the North American premiere, Chen Baowei, Wu Gang, Gao Hongze and others went back first. Lu Lin took Jing Yan to Las Vegas for a turn, after all, the two had been busy with work for too long and had not gone abroad to play together for a long time.
With the help of the "super microcomputer", Lu Lin can not only become the director of special effects blockbusters, but also become the "God of Gamblers". easily won a lot, and Jing Yan was very curious. But as soon as he got to her, he quickly lost everything Lu Lin won, and he was a little depressed about it.
The two of them came out of the casino, and the young lady was very curious: "I don't usually see you playing cards, how can you be so powerful?"
Lu Lin smiled, "How powerful I am, you should know better than me!"
Although it was night, after all, there were people around, and the young lady's cheeks were slightly red, and she said angrily: "I'm too lazy to pay attention to you!"
The two played here for three days, and it was the 10th when they returned to China, the day before the release of "The Battle of the Deer". Most of the people in the company are busy, and there are people following up on ticket supplements, advertising, theater activities, material delivery, film scheduling information, etc.
The most intuitive is the pre-sale box office and film scheduling, by the evening of December 10, the pre-sale box office of "The Battle of the Deer" has exceeded 200 million. And because there are no blockbusters that can compete in the same period, the film schedule has reached an astonishing 72.1%, which is the same as the 72.8% of "Transformers 2" and the 71.3 of "Transformers 3" on the first day of the year, and it is an absolute top blockbuster treatment.
On the evening of the 10th, most of the theaters in many prosperous commercial districts in China were brightly lit and zero-point venues were arranged. In other words, "The Battle of the Deer", a film with a 130-minute public release, is still winter, and many fans are quite supportive.
Word-of-mouth is a very key factor, although there have been many negative reviews on the Internet since the domestic premiere, Lu Lin's consistent level is too stable, and many viewers are full of confidence.
If you want to say that Lu Lin made a work that won the three major European film festivals, the Golden Horse, the Golden Rooster, and the Golden Statue Grand Slam, the artistry is so high that you doubt the first half of your life and move you to reminisce about the second half of your life, then no one will believe it. But his works are not low, there is a discipline and a lower limit.
Just like another time and space, when Ning Hao's "Crazy Alien" was released, few people would think that Ning Hao would miss, and it was impossible to watch it.
As a result, as soon as the word of mouth came out, it fell all the way to more than six points, and many people complained that they had lost the depth of thought, but the consistent absurdity and humor in Ning Hao's films were not absent, at most, the depth of thought was lame, which made many people not used to it!
Early the next morning, Lu Lin got up early and first looked at the message on his mobile phone, the assistant Gao Wen sent it at more than five o'clock in the morning, and the box office at zero o'clock was 34 million, lagging behind the 4,003 of "The Three-Body Problem".
But it's easy to understand that "The Three-Body Problem" was released in the summer, and "The Battle of the Deer" is the Chinese New Year. The climate is also crucial, and the zero point scene of the same movie will definitely be more popular with the audience in the summer than the Chinese New Year.
gave Gao Wen a reply, and he got up to make breakfast. After a while, Jing Yan got up and first came to the kitchen to ask about the zero point field, and heard that it was 34 million. I went to the bathroom in a daze, and I didn't even say a word. It seems that not only the audience is accustomed to his results, but also the people around him.
At breakfast in the morning, the score on Douban was already out. is only 7.1 points, which is a low score among Lu Lin's many movies. casually flipped through the short comments, most of them were plot garbage, the director's position was problematic, and Jing Xiang didn't explain it
Lu Lin almost didn't spray rice, don't explain you, it's okay for Jing Yan to attend the premiere, you won't explain if she participates. Please, you can be a professional in the water army, okay!
I really couldn't cry or laugh, thinking of this handing the phone to Jing Yan and looking at it, the young lady looked guilty, "I'm sorry, I'm bothering you again, hey, I'm participating in this film!"
Lu Lin was overjoyed, and the young lady couldn't laugh, "Haha, these trolls are too funny, wouldn't it be that they thought I was also participating in the premiere when they saw me!"
"What do you think?" Lu Lin smiled, and then said: "Hey, the current situation of the industry is not something I can solve alone!"
Jing Yan was still laughing, "Oh, no, I have to eat it later!" It's so funny, you said that if anyone offends me in the future, I will go to the premiere of his new film, at least I can make the Douban score a little lower!"
The young lady has a serious expression and looks like she does what she says!
Lu Lin smiled again, and said busily: "Cheng, Cheng, you are the most powerful, I'm afraid of you!" After resting for a while, this stalk was over.
In the morning, Jing Yan had an advertisement to shoot, and Lu Lin drove to Longlin Pictures. "I Am Not the God of Medicine" and "The Killing of the God of the Male Soldiers" have been completed one after another recently, and he has nothing to do except for the post-production of two movies.
But "post-production" is not difficult at all for a person like him who is "open", which is equivalent to leading a group of people to mess around, just staring at the point every once in a while.
After entering the company, I first went to various departments to take a look around and see the presence of the show. When I came to the Propaganda Department, I saw a group of employees constantly typing on computers, typing, and making phone calls. Now that word-of-mouth has an increasingly heavy impact on a film, Longlin Pictures must also control it a little, and it can't let its opponents brush up on bad reviews.
"Team leader, film critic Yin Sisi has posted an article, and the scolding inside is very ugly!" said a post-90s boy who was not in a big grade, raised his head and saw Lu Lin, and hurriedly got up to say hello.
Lu Lin smiled and nodded, then walked over and said, "Oh, old friend, let me see what she said?"
The young clerk hurriedly got up to give up his position, and Lu Lin sat down in front of him and roughly scanned the eye shadow review. To the effect that Lu Lin is a pervert, she rendered the war scene too bloody, and her heart was trembling after watching it, and she still couldn't calm down until this movie review was released.
The second is that he feels that Lu Lin's position is problematic, and portrays Chi You as a peerless genius who is mighty and domineering, superior in force, full of wisdom, and strategizing, while Emperor Yan is old and faint, and the Yellow Emperor is average.
In the end, how can you let Chiyou ride a panda, the panda is a national treasure, and it is so cute, and the intentions are too sinister!"
After Lu Lin saw it, he smiled contemptuously and said to the little employees around him, "What do you think?"
"She must have taken money from others, so she has been insisting on Hei Lu Dao!"
Lu Lin smiled again: "I just want to ask, what do you think of the content of this movie review she wrote!"
"Nonsense, war has always been cruel, there is nothing wrong with exaggerating the cruelty of war, and it is a crime to glorify war!"
"That is, it is recorded in many ancient books that Chi You rode an iron-eating beast, and if he changed to riding a horse, it would be called a problem!
Lu Lin asked again, "What about what she said, the problem between Chiyou and the Yellow Emperor?" Everyone was silent for a while, and finally Song Ge, who rushed here, said with a smile: "I think she is reversing black and white, Chiyou here is a typical hero, not those evil, but scheming, and in the end he will move stones and shoot himself in the foot!