In the past two years, the comedy movies in the summer file have been lost one after another.

The year before last, there was a "The Richest Man in Xihong City", which became a hit of the year.

Last year's "Rat Guts Hero" became cannon fodder, and so did several comedies this year!

This year, there is a comedy with a good box office - "The Sun Never Sets Hotel", but unfortunately that movie is sandwiched between "The Demon Chaos of the Fengshen Trilogy" and "749 Bureau", and it is not surprising that it has become cannon fodder...

In the summer and Spring Festival files of previous years, domestic comedies have always played an important role in the box office, and Huang Bo, Shen Teng, Xu Zheng and Wang Baobao are considered comedy celebrities.

The audience recognizes these people!

A few other people, what Allen, Yue Yunpeng, Xiao Shen Yang...

At least in terms of audience popularity, they can't compare to them!

Let's put it this way, comedy movies, unless you can play new tricks, it's hard to come up with new ideas.

Since its release on July 31, "The Martian" has not met an opponent.

Several Hollywood films have been moved to the end of August, including Dwayne Johnson's "Jungle Cruise", Jared Leto's "Morbius", and Nolan's new film "Creed"...

With such advantageous conditions, "The Martian" also lived up to expectations, winning 25 consecutive daily box office championships, and finally in the third weekend, the cumulative box office increased to 6 billion, everyone knows that a new box office champion in film history is about to be born!

Wu Jing and the official Weibo of "Wolf Warrior 2": There is still half a step away, "The Martian", it's your turn!

Guo Fan also replied to the official Weibo of "The Martian": Don't forget your original intention and move forward hand in hand...

After Shen Ming woke up, he quickly replied: "I want to ask about my "Zhuo Yifan"?"

……

The box office of "The Martian" surpassed "Wolf Warrior 2", and Shen Ming couldn't keep a low profile even if he wanted to!

The box office record in mainland film history, the top five, "The Martian", "Wolf Warrior 2", "The Wandering Earth", "Nezha's Demon Boy Descends"...

He alone occupies four seats!

Already a veritable king of the box office.

But all the movies he participates in, the higher the brightness, the higher the box office, and there is no less than 1 billion, except for "The Legend of Wukong"...

Now no one doubts Shen Ming's status in the mainland film industry!

The rich have distant relatives in the mountains, and the poor in the downtown no one asks. It's just obvious in Vanity Fair.

At the beginning, the premiere of "Wolf Warrior 2" was deserted, and in addition to the cast and crew of "Wolf Warrior 2", the biggest name was the man gang, and they came for Shen Ming!

When "Wolf Warrior 2" broke through the 3 billion mark, Wu Jing's phone was blown up.

Dehua shouted Wu Jing in various ways, wanting the role of "Wolf Warrior 3"...

Shen Ming is no exception, "The Martian" broke a new record in mainland film history, and a group of third-tier starlets who can't beat the eight poles also came to rub the heat...

Andy Lau publicly shouted that he wanted to participate in Guo Fan's next movie...

Why bother?

At the beginning, Guo Fan wanted to invite Andy Lau to play Liu Peiqiang through Wu Mengda, but he refused...

Then there was Wu Jing emergency rescue...

Speaking of Shen Ming, there were too many people looking for him for a while, and Shen Ming simply refused all the interviews on the grounds of preparing for "Lethal Weapon".

In addition to the interview with "Watching a Movie"...

This is something that has been promised before!

……

The location of the interview was at Shen Ming's house.

In the study, Shen Ming sat on a chair with a calm face.

"The Martian is so high at the box office, have you ever thought about it before?"

"I did think about this, based on the high box office of "The Wandering Earth", we think that as long as this project is made, the box office will not be too low, and it has the support of the Ministry of Culture, but to be honest, I didn't expect it to be so outrageous, and I actually topped the first place in film history!"

"I've heard you're going to be doing a lot of research, and what are you looking for?"

"This will not be investigated until after the screening, and the craze will fade, because at that time, the audience's feedback is more objective!"

"For example, the problems in the plot, whether the characters are good or not, what is not clearly explained, whether the aesthetics of the scene is disobedient, whether the clothes worn by the characters are good or not, what are the places that make everyone feel uncomfortable, and whether the expectations of the film itself have been met? If it is not reached, we have to find ways to meet the audience's expectations in the follow-up works.

"There are more breakdowns, including age groups, genders, needs, and data research. Through online and offline interviews, as well as after the film was released again in the first-tier, second-tier and third-tier cities, a questionnaire was made for everyone to discuss and help us focus on the key points, and finally determine which are the cores to be adjusted. ”

"So, there will be a next one?"

"The next one may not be 'Mars Rescue,' but the genre is similar. ”

"Are you personally satisfied with the summary of the film, and the expectations?"

"There are two levels to this. The first is the ideal state, in fact, many places have not met expectations, whether it is the production level, or the characters, as well as the shooting and special effects, there are always many places that are much worse; the second is the objective state, this film only took us 26 months from project establishment to release, which has shortened the cycle of "The Wandering Earth" by 40%!"

"What's the technical problem?"

"Actually, the special effects of "The Martian" are also considered high-level in the world, and the special effects are more realistic, which is really thanks to the "Wandering Earth" training team, when we do "The Wandering Earth", we also want to be realistic, but we don't have enough experience, so we can only use CG technology to replace scene rendering, why use wind and snow? This is all a coincidence, just like "Jurassic Park" back then, why does it rain heavily to cover the lack of details!"

"The top special effects, such as "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", are very realistic, and our next "The Wandering Earth 2" is working in this direction!"

"Then what do you think are the advantages of "The Martian" compared to "The Wandering Earth"?"

"It's still the texture of the movie, "The Wandering Earth" has quite a hardcore concept design and sci-fi attributes, which are dissipated by a certain part of the family emotions and personal emotions in the movie, and even many of the early concept designs are not presented in the movie. In fact, everyone doesn't feel so strongly that this is a hard sci-fi, more like a disaster movie. By the time we arrived at The Martian, we focused more on sci-fi, and we wanted to set up a family line for me, but we were directly rejected... There's no need!"

"Do you think science fiction is at its best?"

"No, in fact, the concept of science fiction itself is a foreign product, whether we have an aesthetic system or a cultural system, this part is missing us. It was the Industrial Revolution, and we were unfamiliar with technology, machinery, and structures. There is also a very important point, science fiction films have a very important attribute, it needs to be endorsed by the state. The country must be strong, and the audience will have the confidence to believe it when they see science fiction or technological elements in the film. ”

"That is to say, when we see astronauts and spacecraft in "The Wandering Earth" and "The Martian" today, we already think it's OK, because in real life, China's aerospace technology and technology are really powerful, our spacecraft went to the moon to take pictures and came back, and the astronauts also went out of the capsule. ”

"If you go back ten or five years, the audience won't believe it that way, because science fiction also needs to correspond to reality. ”

After chatting about "The Martian", the reporter continued to interview some other things, such as Shen Ming's personal habits:

"You don't seem to speak in public?"

"I don't think I'm at that point, how capable I am, how big I can do. How much work you do, how much money you get. Otherwise, it's unfair. As an actor, the most important thing is to be a person. ”

"Cinema can be interpreted as a business, but it's definitely not a good way to make money?

"Yes, if movies are a means of making money, then we might as well open a restaurant. The stakes of the movie are extremely high, and they are a bit like slot machines. ”

"But you can succeed in every film?"

"I generally read the script, I will analyze it from the logical aspect, for example, the motivation of the characters, the relationship between the characters, you can't create a character or story out of thin air, as long as you can find the point of empathy for the characters, this movie will be successful nine times out of ten!"

"If a new director wanted to make sci-fi now, what advice would you give him?"

"Don't be greedy, don't involve too many things, especially things you don't understand! Catch a point and hit hard, it's enough to pierce a point, don't be greedy for others, the more you give, the less you see. Because the audience has space to make up for it, just like when we paint Chinese paintings, Chinese paintings always have blank spaces. The human brain is limited in the amount of information it can receive per minute, and if there is too much, the brain will die. So we have to leave enough space, we have to know the trade-offs. ”

"Will you be going to do science fiction movies next?"

"Of course, Lao Guo's "The Wandering Earth" has two more, and I want to try a few of them. ”

"Finally, a word!"

“… Well, I think all literary and artistic creations are inseparable from the times, from the perspective of the times, excellent actors starring in movies with less high commercial value must be the perfection and richness of the Chinese film industry, so if my movies can't sell at the box office in the future, I hope you don't feel surprised, in the future, I will definitely make a lot of attempts. ”

"Thank you!"

"You're welcome!"

……

Seeing off the interview team, Shen Ming returned to the living room.

Cheng Xiao, who was sitting on the sofa, looked up at him: "They're gone?"

"Well, why don't you leave, stay and eat!"

“… Are you hungry?"

"It's okay, you want to eat... Who are you messaging with?"

"Xuanyi and Sister Yun'er!"

"Who?"

"Declaration!"

"The one in the back!"

"Sister Yun'er!"

Shen Ming was stunned: "... You... How did you know Lin Yun'er?"

"Don't stutter!"

"I... I didn't stutter..."

"I just think she's quite pitiful, she doesn't have a boyfriend, and she doesn't have a girlfriend..."

“… How much do you care about Peng Peng, does Lin Yun'er have your turn to worry about it?"

Milk Xiao muttered: "It was she who took the initiative to find me, and it wasn't me who chatted with her, and it was clear that she wanted to seduce you through me, Sao Fox!"

"What?"

"Nothing..."

Cheng Xiao changed his harmless face again: "Let's go, go eat!"

“… Why are you talking about it?"

"No, you might be wrong!"

"I'm going to join the group of "Lethal Weapon" in two days, will you come with me?"

"Okay... I'm bored at home anyway..."

The two walked to the garage, and Nan Xiao suddenly spoke: "Or, let's stop driving?"

“… Walk over there, two kilometers!"

"Can't you?"

"Okay, what do you say, do it... Actually, I drive, mainly because I don't want to drink. ”

"It's okay, you can drink a little tonight, and you're done drinking, it's so cute..."

“… Is there one?"

"I think it's cute anyway!"

The two chatted as they walked, and the moonlight shone on their figures, getting longer and longer...

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