120 million in the first weekend, setting a new box office record for Ang Lee's film in the mainland!

Well, in fact, before "Life of Pi", Ang Lee's movies did not sell much in the mainland, and the box office of "Lust and Caution" exceeded 100 million, and "Making Woodstock", which had three wrong views and encouraged drug abuse, was not released at all...

So, Yuehua invited Ang Lee from the United States overnight and asked him to promote a wave of propaganda in China...

In these years, everyone who makes movies has to be promoted, and besides, the Chinese New Year stalls are expensive!

Produced by Ma Xiaokang next week, "Days Related to Youth" directed by Ye Jing will be released soon, Dongyang Media + Good Dream Film and Television, this is a trump card, and the original "Private Custom" has taken away nearly 500 million box office...

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Chinese filmmakers, there are not many people who can make Zhang Junsheng admire!

Although he himself is not a perfect moral person, he still has high requirements for others...

Lao Mouzi, Zhang Junsheng likes it very much, because he is a very traditional craftsman, and he doesn't care about anything except movies;

is very sincere, and he will not please a person casually, let alone point at others and scold something, 'The audience is a brute, the audience doesn't know the goods, this audience can't do it!'

Ang Lee is of course one of them, he is a rare director with charismatic personality.

The mainland film industry is in the midst of drastic changes, and people are anxious and angry, and it is difficult to hide their perverse anger, from ordinary people to big directors. And Ang Lee's temperament as warm as jade, mellow and penetrating, and his temperament of being safe and not discouraged in adversity, are all close to the personality ideals that Chinese yearn for.

We realize that we have a period of "lost time", and the direct result of this loss is a gentle, mellow, delicate and calm collective personality.

Ang Lee is such a person!

Of course, there are many people who think that Zhang Yimou is not as good as Ang Lee...

How to say this, these two are directors at the top of the pyramid, there is no need to step on one!

The main reason for everyone's poor impression of Zhang Yimou is the stupidity and badness of the domestic critics.

Lao Mouzi may never be able to shoot "Youth Pi", but Ang Lee will not be able to shoot the Beijing Olympics either!

Lao Mouzi is good at movies with local characteristics or a yellow earth atmosphere, which can be said to be a little offensive and reach the peak;

Ang Lee has a more accurate grasp of the Western mood, and of course the Eastern Confucian atmosphere is also very good, so it can be regarded as a complete understanding.

Ang Lee will definitely not be able to get the muddy smell when filming "Something to Say", and Zhang Yimou will definitely not win the Oscar when he shoots "Brokeback Mountain"!

The significance of Zhang Yimou is far greater than that of Ang Lee in terms of Chinese film history and world cinema.

In fact, in comparison, these two people are a bit like Deng Jiaxian and Yang Zhenning...

I can understand why young people prefer Ang Lee.

Oscar, humanistic care, personal emotions, beliefs, etc., these elements can hit everyone's G-spot more than the original rural ecology like "Ju Dou". Coupled with the fact that everyone is becoming more and more disgusted with all kinds of outdated values and bad habits in China, Zhang Yimou, as the fifth generation of the mainstream, will of course be spurned together.

In the domestic fan circle, it has become politically correct to praise Hong Kong and Taiwan directors and belittle mainland directors.

Not to mention that Ang Lee finished blowing up Zhang Yimou, Cai Mingliang finished blowing up Jia Zhangke...

Some people have already compared Brother Chen Kai and Wang Jing...

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Ang Lee can't run a roadshow, his main market is really the United States...

Yuehua arranged several large-scale publicity activities, and the locations were set in Beijing, Songjiang...

The first is Nortel's publicity.

On stage, Ang Lee talked to the host:

"How to find a balance between business and art has to do with how much money is spent, maybe less than 20 million or 30 million US dollars, I shoot casually, I have this market value. ”

"I've only had two films that have had commercial pressure, one is 'The Incredible Hulk' and one is this one. When a new idea comes out, just listening to me, the boss of the film company will feel like they want to spend money, but when I have a thought to talk about, they will be nervous: How can this thing be sold?"

"Americans are more naïve, and the mainstream movies that audiences around the world see are relatively naïve, and the philosophical part is almost there. ”

"And I can't do this when I come to make a film, I have to be worthy of the book, I can't make this thing shallow, and I have to respect the audience, for example, the bloody things are pointed, and everyone will understand. Books can be imagined slowly, and they can be watched for a week or two, but movies are only two hours long, so you can't be distracted, and you have to pay full attention at all times. There was a time when I really wanted to be a "martyr", and when I fought hard, I would make art to the end, make the most expensive art film, and leave my name in history. ”

"Later, I found out that if I can't satisfy the audience, without the audience's recognition, my film has no value, after all, I am not the kind of director who talks to himself and only makes it for himself. Therefore, in my heart, I struggled for a long time with my artistic conscience and commercial pressure, readers' expectations, my own satisfaction, and the general rules of operation of the film company, and my soul was very tormented. Sometimes it feels like following a tiger across the Pacific Ocean, not knowing when it will reach shore. ”

"What do you think?"

Zhang Junsheng nodded: "Almost, most of the mainstream commercial movies are relatively simple stories, if they are too complicated, few people really watch them..."

"I heard you've been making a very extreme movie lately?

Zhang Junsheng was very calm: "... Then it can't be released, I'm so rich, it's always okay to make a film and enjoy it myself!"

"Then you're not afraid of being banned?"

The film school is very left, whether it is a student or a teacher, they are proud to work against the system!

“… Probably not. ”

"Then let's ask Zhang Yimou, what do you think of Hollywood?"

“… Hollywood is not suitable for me, I don't have this ability, I am a typical local director, the first I don't know English, the second I don't have a feeling for foreign things, although I have been abroad many times, but basically, I stay for more than a week, I can't stay, it's not that piece of material, so I never dare to go abroad to develop. ”

"What about The Great Wall?"

"..."The Great Wall", I'm just a part-time worker, and I don't even have the right to edit..."

Zhang Junsheng interjected: "It's already very good, at least I have the right to suggest!"

Ang Lee also nodded: "In fact, Hollywood directors have a credibility value, as long as you accumulate enough credibility value, the producer will give you the editing right! The producer-centered system is actually the box office theory, if my film is unanimously praised by critics, but there is no audience to watch it, then I can only stay in a small studio in Hollywood for the rest of my life." ”

"That's right, of course, if it's an independent film, then it's another story! My first foreign language film, "Vulgar" is an independent film, and I have the final say on how to cut it!"