Chapter 974: Chen Hao's Works
There are no fancy animation effects, no original designs, not even anything that is in line with the trend.
An overhead picture of the Great Wall, and then four big Chinese characters, leap onto it.
"Chen Hao's works. ”
Yes, Chinese characters, Chen Hao's works, this is the opening picture placed in front of the Paramount LOGO, at the beginning of the movie, the majestic and magnificent Great Wall, just a few seconds of the picture, accompanied by the appearance of four big characters, this exclusive to Chen Hao's LOGO, is the only one qualified to override the front of Paramount, the lesser of two evils in the era of joy, since it can't do Paramount, it is better to give the core dominant position to Haozi.
Along the way, even people like Brother Tian, Tang Feng and Kuang Zhonghai who were born with golden keys can't help but be a little excited, this is their own career, and the career achieved by standing on the shoulders of the family, there is an essential difference, they do not lack success nor lack the joy of success.
In the era of joyful gatherings, they are recognized by all the elders of the family, and they are a kind of envy and admiration of all their peers. In the past, everyone thought that the entertainment industry in the film and television industry was a small road, a side road that was not worth mentioning, at best, it was used for fun, the rapid development of the entire world film and television entertainment and cultural industry in recent years, you went to Hollywood to watch all the movies produced last year, more than eighty percent of them have the existence of Huaxia capital, not to mention the domestic, can be compared with new energy and high-tech industries, Chen Hao let everyone know that the original movie can bring a company ten-figure income, you must know that this is not counting the stock appreciation of your company after listing, compared with the stock price of those large companies and large industrial chains, the money for film and television investment, but real money.
As far as the Chinese are concerned, Bruce Lee is undoubtedly the superstar of the times. Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and Chow Yun-fat have also let the world know Chinese movie stars to varying degrees.
Ang Lee has been recognized by Hollywood as a Chinese-American, John Woo was once a top director in Hollywood, and Lao Mouzi has hit the Oscars countless times, and they all have varying degrees of success, but they are all in one aspect.
Chen Hao is completely different today, the movie is a Chinese movie, made in a Hollywood way, and all the rest belong to Huaxia, producer Chen Hao, screenwriter Chen Hao, director Chen Hao, starring male number one Chen Hao, no matter who it is, you must admit the fact that this is a movie that belongs to China, the only point of argument is that the content of the movie is in line with Western culture, or Eastern culture, if the former is successful, Hollywood does not need to worry about Chinese media publicity, if it is the latter, the difficulty of success is doubled。
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" back then was a typical display of Western culture with an oriental background, don't look at the eaves and walls of martial arts and various fighting scenes are all in Chinese style, but if you look at the core of the story and the background of the characters of all the characters, you will find that it has nothing to do with Oriental culture.
Whether Chen Hao is successful or not is a label of the times, don't look at Huaxia is the beginning of the new year, there are still a considerable number of eyes, staring at Hollywood, which can take away a certain amount of attention from TV news during the New Year, "The Shawshank Redemption" It's definitely the first time in the new era, the nineties is still the era of the lack of Internet and cable TV, everyone will start at the beginning of the new year, pay attention to the TV series from morning to afternoon, at that time you will feel that watching five or six episodes of popular TV series a day is a very cool thing, and now this model continues and no one pays attention to it, not to mention in front of the computer, holding a mobile phone, you can watch as many episodes as you want.
On the plane, in addition to this group of their own people, there are two reporters from the imperial court, along the way, but also interviewed everyone, the time of the journey is undoubtedly the best opportunity for interviews, compared to the plane after the landing waiting at the airport after the media flocked to the station, the reporters of the imperial court, got off the plane, leisurely got on the car to the hotel, first transmitted the first-hand information back to China.
There were no grand premieres.
There is no long red carpet.
There are not many celebrities on the stage.
When we went to the hotel, everyone rested, slept and adjusted the jet lag, and it was not until the evening that Chen Hao and Xiaodi, together with the main creators of the entire crew, appeared in the public eye.
Compared with China or the New Year, the attention of the United States is relatively high, and everyone has great expectations for "The Shawshank Redemption", even those who don't expect how good it will be, and they also expect this film to be the focus of the media and public opinion like Chen Hao.
did not invite any guests, but the main creative staff of the crew, in the movie theater near Beverly Hills, chartered a hall, and no matter what the starring or supporting role, in the name of Chen Hao, everyone worked hard to create this work, and the achievements belong to everyone.
The domestic online pre-sale tickets are gratifying, everyone is not worried about the box office over there at all, with Chen Hao's appeal, even if this is a documentary, everyone can be willing to pay money to buy tickets and enter the support.
Advance tickets in Europe, South America, Australia, Africa and Asia can only be said to be unsatisfactory, not bad, and there are no surprises.
Of course, North America is the main battlefield, and the online advance ticket sales and the ticket sales of the first premiere, although there will not be specific data so quickly, the people who spread it still gave back some specific news.
Several big cities in the United States, Paramount and Hu Sanye's people, scattered a lot, various large movie theaters squatting, they will start the scene of everyone buying tickets and online ticket exchange before the start, summary report, the overall situation is still very good, the first show is almost sold out, and then according to the normal law, the attendance rate will continue to decline, before the whole premiere began, I didn't see any surprising pictures, of course, there were no frightening pictures, everything was normal, no different from the situation before the release of most movies, waiting for some surprise media, can only be very disappointed waiting for the situation after the real release of the film。
In the main creative team, except for Chen Hao and a few post-production personnel, no one has seen the finished film, after the production of Sanya was completed, Chen Hao bought a huge amount of insurance in the United States, everything is done with pre-release security measures for superheroes and big IP series of movies, some people also ridicule him for being too arrogant, no one wants to pay attention to your film, you don't have to be so nervous, no one will do anything to your movie, you think too much.
The movie started on time, a movie without a heroine, without any special effects and action scenes.
In this way, you deliberately showed yourself before the release, that is a kind of strategic propaganda, everyone wants to see, you Haozi is so sure that it will become a classic movie, what will it look like, you don't have a beautiful woman, you don't have special effects, and you have given up everyone thinks you can perform a very good action scene, then you tell me, what do you want to rely on to conquer us in this film, do you and Will Smith's acting skills? Then you have to have a story that is so strong that everyone must recognize, do you have it?
Facts give them the answer.
Yes, not only that, but this story is so powerful that it cannot be overstated, the power shown in watching this film today, and then the early publicity and expectations, in the seemingly plain plot, countless small and powerful dots are woven together into a line, forming a very powerful story axis, when freedom becomes a constraint, how should we face life?
The more than two-hour film, except for the scene where Andy climbed out of the sewage pipe at the end, stood up in the middle of the river and faced the heavy rain, the scene with open arms is very powerful, the whole scene, eloquently, seems to be as plain as water but makes people intoxicated, at first slightly drunk, gradually turned into intoxication, and finally completely drunk in the power transmitted by this film.
A ray of sunshine when everyone was drinking cold beer on the stage that day, and at that moment, the sunshine really shone into the hearts of all the audience.
In the last scene, the sunset by the sea, Andy and Red, two old friends, reunited, on both sides of the sunset in the shot, walking towards each other, the picture is frozen here, and the whole film of "The Shawshank Redemption" ends here.
Chen Hao doesn't have to look at the reaction of the audience outside, in his screening room, many people have not seen the finished film, and they are completely shocked by the film at the moment, they are professional industry insiders, and they can feel the power brought by this film, you can't imagine how long the screenwriter of this film has in his brain, how he came up with such a movie, how the director made it, there is no exciting picture setting, but with a gripping small plot, the points are connected one by one, a very beautiful picture。
In the end, the audience's word-of-mouth completely unfolded a beautiful picture of this two-dimensional plane, forming a three-dimensional story, perfectly conveying the emotions in the story to everyone, so that they remembered to walk out of the screening hall two minutes after the film ended.
"WHERE'S MOUSE?"
The media waited at the door of the screening hall under Chen Hao's package, many of them watched the first screening, they didn't know what to say, this is really a just right film, it is the most appropriate in the current pompous era, but if it was really placed twenty or thirty years ago, maybe everyone felt not so deeply, put it in the present, from fifty or sixty years old to teenagers and twenties, young people can find resonance in the film, it seems to be talking about a person in a prison, in fact, it is talking about the whole society.
When Will Smith walked out of the screening room, the flash made him regret for a moment that he didn't leave with Chen Hao, he knew that this film must be popular after watching the finished film, but he didn't expect it to be so completely popular, and the effect of the explosion was so good that it was beyond the limit of his guess.