Chapter 485: Pilot Trailer
Liu Cixin, the author of "The Wandering Earth" and "The Three-Body Problem", is a very magical person who grew up in Yangquan, Jin Province. After work, while working as a computer engineer at the Niangziguan Power Plant, he published 13 books in his spare time, and won the Galaxy Award, the highest award for Chinese science fiction literature, for several consecutive years.
After becoming famous, he once said on a talk show: For a job like the power system, you must go to work on time and stick to your post. When you stick to your post, you can write there, and a considerable part of your writing time is done in this post. Frankly, "Because of writing on the post, there is a feeling of taking advantage!"
He also said that he would especially like to use a particularly poor quality LCD screen, and he couldn't see it if he turned it at an angle.
As a result, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission replied on Weibo: The reason why we want to deepen the reform of state-owned enterprises is because to a certain extent there is the phenomenon of people floating in the way you said, or the reform is good, the enterprise can concentrate on development, and you can also concentrate on writing .......
This reply became popular on the Internet, and some netizens praised the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and some people ridiculed Liu Cixin for "touching fish" at work.
Later, Da Liu replied, saying that he mainly wrote it in his spare time!
On Wednesday the 18th, the pilot trailer of "The Wandering Earth" was released. Because there is still a short time before the release, the scale of the press conference is not too big. I found a hotel near the company, set up the venue, and invited a few media reporters.
However, Lu Lin is now in full swing, he feels that a small event, but the media is a rare hot spot, and dozens of reporters still rushed to hear the news, and the small event venue was surrounded by water. Fortunately, the staff of Longlin Pictures are experienced, and the arrangements are in an orderly manner.
Lu Lin, Liu Cixin, Guo Fan, Han Dongjun, Song Zhuer, because they didn't want to make it too large-scale, the main creative team only called two actors over.
After taking their seats on the stage in turn, director Guo Fan delivered a speech on behalf of the main creative team and answered some questions from reporters. Then came Long Lin's first brother Han Dongjun, then Teacher Liu Cixin, then Song Zhu'er, and finally Lu Lin.
Anyway, this sorting almost didn't kill the reporters, and when they saw Lu Lin take the microphone, they hurriedly asked one by one: "Director Lu, do you think "The Wandering Earth" can replicate the success of "The Three-Body Problem"?"
"Director Lu, will "The Wandering Earth" represent Chinese films and hit the Oscars again?"
"Lu Dao ......"
Lu Lin waved his hand and said with a smile: "Slow down, I can't run!"
Everyone in the audience laughed, the big guy was humorous, and if he wasn't funny, he had to laugh along!
Listening to Lu Lin said again: "First of all, "The Three-Body Problem" is "The Three-Body Problem", and "The Wandering Earth" is "The Wandering Earth", although they are all science fiction adaptations of Mr. Liu Cixin, they tell two stories and even two world views.
"The Three-Body Problem" is actually mainly about the history of the struggle of human civilization, while "The Wandering Earth" talks about the story of people on the whole earth who work hard and fight against the laws of nature for the same thing and the same goal, that is, the continuation of the earth's civilization.
Therefore, it is difficult to say that the replication is successful, but I believe that "The Wandering Earth" will achieve remarkable results!"
"Director Lu, will "The Wandering Earth" hit the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film again?" a reporter asked again.
Lu Lin said in his heart: "It's not easy to get once, how can there be such a good thing twice!" But this occasion can't be demoralized, and said with a smile: "We naturally want to, but everyone also knows that the selection quota is one a year, and it depends on the arrangement of the Film Bureau!"
At the end of the interview session, the trailer of about one minute was officially released, and after the live broadcast, it will also be uploaded to Longlin Pictures, Time and other websites.
It's just that before it was played, the people in the audience screamed. Mainly because in the trailer, I saw US President Obama.
There has been a joke circulating on the Internet that Obama sent an email to Liu Cixin to ask for the manuscript of "The Three-Body Problem", and I also knew that he was a fan of Liu Cixin, but I didn't expect him to "make a cameo" in "The Wandering Earth".
"Director Lu, is it really President Obama's guest appearance?"
"Is it a live-action shot or a video clip?"
"Does the president really have a mandate?"
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Lu Lin expected that there would be these problems, so he had already given the microphone to Guo Fan and asked him to deal with these difficult problems. After all, it will be deleted when the feature film is made, and he will inevitably have drawbacks when he explains these.
There are many considerations for deleting President Obama's cameo scene. First, Optoelectronics is skeptical that it is appropriate for an outgoing foreign president to appear in a Chinese-language movie, and whether it will cause adverse effects. After all, it's not for nothing that people watch film and television dramas as real things.
The second is the conflict with the plot of the movie, which is easy to make the audience skip the scene. Because the character played by Wu Mengyu in the film was born in 1999, the timeline of the story is 2070. And in two days, the Austrian president will step down, and during his tenure, the "Wandering Earth Act" was not passed.
Anyway, President Austria's few seconds of cameo is the biggest role for "The Wandering Earth", which is one more publicity stunt, which appears in the pilot trailer to let netizens in China and even countries around the world know, and the goal will be achieved.
And this press conference did achieve the expected publicity effect. Less than two hours after the end of the event, the topics of "Obama's cameo appearance in "The Wandering Earth" and "The Wandering Earth" pilot trailer released" appeared on the hot search, attracting countless netizens to log on to Longlin's official website or Time.com to watch the trailer.
"Damn, isn't it, really participated?"
"It can't be a chicken thief, cut from the video of Obama's speech, right?"
"Silly fork, in Xing Ye's "Kung Fu", with the names of Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu, they all send money to Jin Yong, blockbusters released worldwide, who dares to do this!"
"I'll go, Da Liu is too ruthless, this fan, it's powerful!"
"Anyway, he will leave office soon, and when the film is released, he will participate as a former president, which is nothing!"
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The heated discussion on the Internet did not mention it, but said that after the event was over, the reporters left in a hurry. Lu Lin, Liu Cixin and others ate and chatted together in the hotel private room.
"Have you written anything lately?" Lu Lin asked casually.
Da Liu shook his head, "No, there has been no good creativity!"
Han Dongjun, who has never talked much and doesn't even have a sense of existence, said: "Writing shouldn't be difficult for a great writer like you!"
Da Liu laughed, "Then have you ever written it?"
Han Dongjun scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "No, when I write an eight-hundred-word essay in school, I have to hold it for a long time!"
Liu Cixin said: "For me, it is not difficult to write. What to write is the hardest part!"
Lu Lin said: "No good ideas?"
Da Liu sighed: "The main thing is that it is difficult to generate sci-fi ideas that make you excited!"
Seeing that everyone's expressions were a little flustered, he explained: "Maybe ordinary people will have a misunderstanding about me, as if I have to write something that surpasses the previous work, but I don't have this idea." Many of the factors that arise from a work are opportunities, which are unattainable.
But if I want to write a work, I have to have an idea that excites me. If I can't get excited myself, I won't have the motivation to write it!"
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