Chapter 20: The Time of Heaven (2/5)
In later generations, "Wolf Warrior 2" created a box office miracle!
In addition to the movie itself and the wave of small fresh meat, it also caught up with a very powerful point in time, the Sino-Indian border conflict.
This stall is obviously an excellent window for the release of national patriotism.
As an action genre film, "Wolf Warrior 2" is still thin in terms of character creation, from the bad to the mercenary leader in his bones, the supermarket owner of the philistine, to the tragic and kind African people, he has not been able to avoid the disadvantages of character face-painting and labeling...
But it just won 5.6 billion at the box office!
A phenomenal movie, in addition to telling a good story itself, is indispensable in terms of time, place and people.
Therefore, many later movies, such as "Operation Red Sea", many people said, "It is 10,000 times more burning than "Wolf Warrior 2". In front of "Operation Red Sea", "Wolf Warrior 2" is like a kindergarten child playing at home. This is a movie worthy of a box office of 5 billion!'
But its box office stopped at 3.6 billion...
Except because "Operation Red Sea" is not as good as "Wolf Warrior 2" in terms of viewing - one is a war movie, the other is an action movie, and it is not comparable!
The main thing is that "Operation Red Sea" was not as lucky as "Wolf Warrior 2", just in time for the Sino-Indian border conflict!
"The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" is the same, it encountered the conflict of the Diaoyu Islands...
At the end of the premiere, Zhang Junsheng found Tang Ningyu and An Yugang.
"When we promote, don't take the initiative to lean in the direction of the Diaoyu Islands, but we must take advantage of the situation!"
An Yugang was a little incomprehensible: "... How do I borrow it?"
"You can arrange a batch of public accounts with rhythm," glanced at Tang Ningyu, who suddenly thought of something: "Let's just say that Japan refuses to screen "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins"..."
Zhang Junsheng didn't react: "Ah? Refuse to be screened? Didn't Dingfeng arrange five screening halls..."
In order to strive for the Japanese screening of "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", Dingfeng has made a lot of efforts, and Zhang Junsheng knows these...
What he wants is to let the official account spread the rhythm of the crimes of Japan back then...
“^(* ̄(oo) ̄)^”
Tang Ningyu looked caring for the mentally retarded, and almost said that you are a pig?
“… You go on..."
Zhang Junsheng is a little embarrassed...
Regardless of whether it is a refusal or not, how many viewers care about the truth?
"By the way, we can also say that "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" has zero box office in Japan..."
"Do you want to add a sentence to the poster, 'The Diaoyu Islands are Chinese'?"
"That's too obvious..."
"Someone must have scolded us for making patriotic money..."
An Yugang didn't care: "Scold, scold... Propaganda..."
“… Didn't I say it, don't let the audience think that we are deliberately leaning towards the Diaoyu Islands!"
"It's too hard..."
Tang Ningyu asked rhetorically: "You can use it, why don't you use it?"
Zhang Junsheng was a little speechless...
He was disgusted with this kind of film that used political factors to impose on the audience...
However, he is now the producer!
If this solution is fine, why not use it?
"Forget it, make your own decisions, I'll go back and continue editing "No Man's Land"..."
……
Pull tab room.
The screen is shown in front of the editing table, and the rough cut footage of "No Man's Land" is played slowly.
Zhang Junsheng and Du Yuan both stared at the screen without blinking, and Wang Bo sat next to him, also staring at the front with a tired but concentrated face.
He studied along, saying that he wanted to be a director...
The whole pull-tab room for three people.
The number of people working on the editing doesn't really need to be large.
Too many people is not beneficial.
"There's no need for this... Why don't you delete it?"
Du Yuan asked.
“… Okay, actually, I think there's a lot of white space..."
"No Man's Land" has more than ten hours of various shot materials, and in the past few days, after rough cutting and preliminary editing, the preliminary distribution classification and plot sequence arrangement have been completed.
Next, you need to double cut and comprehensive cut.
Roughly cut, "No Man's Land" is three hours long, which is definitely not good!
Editing is a test for editors.
First of all, the editor must understand the story that the director wants to express, and at the same time, complete the story without revealing the mountain dew, and make the film more flavorful.
As an editor, Du Yuan knows "No Man's Land" very well, and finally couldn't help asking: "... Junsheng, can you release this movie?"
It's bloody!
Especially the shot of Huang Xuanhammer and Wang Bo, a big close-up...
“… I don't know, there's a high probability that it won't be released, so cut this one..."
Zhang Junsheng replied casually, focusing on the editing.
“… Do you know it's going to be released?"
"It's okay, I told Tong Ju, if I can't get by, I will directly make it into an online movie..."
Wang Bo, who was sitting honestly on the side, thoughtfully: "Online movies?"
“… What's wrong?"
"Does it mean that if I make a movie that I can't pass in the future, I can also screen it exclusively online?"
"You want to be beautiful, I estimate that after "No Man's Land", online movies will have to be regular!"
Wang Bo was speechless: "... You're leaving latecomers with no way out!"
"Blame me, I don't expect "No Man's Land" to make money anyway!"
……
Zhang Junsheng stayed in the pulling room and did not see the light of day, and "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" broke out.
Once the patriotic sentiment is mobilized, it is difficult to suppress it, even if someone says something on the Internet about 'Little Pink' and 'Your Country's Five Mao Party', it is useless...
"The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" was released on Thursday, and the box office in the first weekend was close to 400 million, which is nothing, and on the second day of the key release, the single-day box office was 140 million...
Set a box office record!
Whenever someone on the Internet said 'thirteen bad movies', they were immediately attacked by the group...
Dai Jinghua said as usual: 'According to Godard's history, which cannot be copied but can only be expressed, Schindler's List is a desecration of history. Zhang Xianmin criticized Zhang Yimou's filming of "Alive" as a pseudo-creation of pseudo-farmers, and now he has pseudo-historical pseudo-humanistic care. ’
As the banner of the New Wave, Dai Jinghua is of course Godard's supporter, and she can't even look down on "Hinterer's List", let alone "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling"...
If it is the right time, she is so critical, there is no problem, everyone has their own words, and the movie has the right to be criticized!
But the timing was not right!
Because of the Diaoyu Island incident, the contradictions between China and Japan have been infinitely magnified, and "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" has time!
Pick this time to scold the 'Jinling Thirteen Hairpins'?
Netizens directly attacked her Weibo.
"Suddenly there was a very interesting idea, why many people, especially film critics, can point out the shortcomings of great directors in such a sharp way, but almost no one can surpass them?"
"I watched "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", and I was really proud of the Chinese nation, worked hard to resist, and did not obey like the people of other colonial countries!"
"Godard again, he's right?"
These are still relatively gentle greetings, most of them are 'Cao Nima, you know a fart!'
'Garbage, no explanation!'
occupies all the time and people, "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" may really be able to create a box office miracle...
Zhang Weipin couldn't sit still!
The book of "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" was recommended by him to Zhang Yimou...