Chapter 532: Touching Porcelain
In addition to bombarding Zhang Ran, Zhang Weiping also ridiculed "Wu Ji" by the way, claiming that in the past, "Hero" and "Ambush on All Sides" were all sold by the filmmakers after watching the film, and after "Wu Ji" let Lamax return it last year, the entire Hollywood studios knew about it, which made people feel that the films of Chinese directors were unreliable. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info this time "Golden Armor" had to invite the filmmakers of the eight major American companies to watch the filming on the set. After watching it, the filmmakers will have the bottom in their hearts to ensure that "Golden Armor" can effectively recover funds overseas.
As long as anyone who knows a little about Zhang Weiping's marketing strategy knows that Zhang Yimou's movie will hype the cast when it is in preparation, and it will be hyped again almost two months after the movie officially starts, and this time it is clear that Zhang Weiping is hype.
Zhang Ran rarely convinces people, but he has to accept Zhang Weiping's hype methods, this time he fired at Zhang Ran, Zhang Ran couldn't respond at all, and as soon as he responded, he fell into Zhang Weiping's trap, which will only attract more people's attention. Even if Zhang Ran doesn't respond, now all major media should start reporting, and the purpose of the other party's hype has been achieved!
Zhang Ran said helplessly: "Zhang Weiping deliberately asked me to touch porcelain, so I can only ignore him, if I ignore him, I will immediately paste it like a dog skin plaster." If I ignore him, I'll be in his hands!"
Yan Shuo was a little incomprehensible: "But if you don't come out to explain, netizens will be scolded." The year before last, a college girl was expelled because she was pregnant, and the school was sued in court, and netizens almost overwhelmingly supported the expelled girl, and they were scolding the school. ”
Zhang Ran smiled and shook his head: "These two things are completely different, you don't understand the psychology of netizens, if you are a student of an ordinary university and are dropped out of school for some reason, everyone will definitely stand on the side of the students, but Li Man is a student of Nortel, and she is acting in Zhang Yimou's play, she is so lucky, most netizens will not sympathize with her for this kind of lucky person." What's more, now everyone often scolds young actors for their bad acting skills, miserable acting, acting students don't study seriously, and it is also one of the reasons why they go out to pick up the drama before they get home, so this time netizens must have supported me a lot!"
Yan Shuo suddenly realized: "Teacher Zhang, you still see the problem profoundly!"
Although Zhang Ran didn't particularly care, Zhang Ran's fans stopped doing it. Zhang Ran already has a lot of fans, and now he has just been hired as the chief director of the Olympic Games, the fans are happy, but Zhang Weiping came out to splash dirty water, and the fans naturally blew up. Voices scolding Zhang Weiping can be seen everywhere on the Internet, and some people even chant to boycott "Golden Armor".
In the evening, in a villa in the capital, Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou were toasting and drinking.
Zhang Yimou took a sip of red wine and said, "Weiping, what are you doing? Why are you bombarding Zhang Ran, Zhang Ran is right about this!"
Zhang Weiping heard Zhang Yimou's dissatisfaction, sighed and said: "Yimou, I can't do anything either." The overseas box office of "Ambush on All Sides" did not meet expectations, and "Golden Armor" was more expensive and riskier. You don't want me to lose money like "Have Something to Say!"
"Something to Say" is Zhang Yimou's dead end, because of his breakup with Gong Li, investors abandoned Zhang Yimou one after another, so that his new film funding became a problem. At this time, Zhang Weiping stood up and invested in Zhang Yimou's movie "Something to Say". Although the box office of the movie was very good, Zhang Weiping was investing in a movie for the first time, and he didn't understand the rules, so he was cheated and lost more than 10 million. Zhang Yimou has always felt guilty about this, thinking that he has affected his friends, which is a piece of Zhang Yimou's heart.
At this moment, hearing Zhang Weiping mention "Something to Say", Zhang Yimou sighed and said: "He and I are both the chief directors of the opening ceremony, if you do this, how will we work together in the future?"
Zhang Weiping immediately said: "Actually, I shot at him because you are not fair, Zhang Ran is a young man, the awards are not as good as you, the qualifications are not as good as you, and all aspects are not as good as you, why is he on an equal footing with you? Why does he sit in the position of chief director? The leader is also foolish!"
Zhang Yimou smiled bitterly: "Although Zhang Ran is young, he is really level. If he wasn't too young, I'm afraid I wouldn't have had a chance to sit in the position of chief director, I read his plan, it's really excellent!"
"How is that possible!" Zhang Weiping was stunned, he didn't care about the Olympics, and even hated it a little, because Zhang Yimou was going to go out of the Olympics for two years, and the new picture had no income for two years, so he immediately said, "I think someone deliberately elevates him and deliberately belittles you, if I just quit doing it, let Zhang Ran guide it, I don't believe he can export flowers." Wait until Zhang Ran makes a fool of yourself, and everyone will miss you!"
Zhang Yimou knew that Zhang Weiping was a little dissatisfied with directing the Olympic Games, but he couldn't have the slightest room for compromise on this matter: "Don't joke, I only have this opportunity to direct the Olympics this time in my life, how can I quit!"
Zhang Weiping snorted and drank the wine in the cup in one gulp.
At the same time, Zhang Jingchu was also talking to Zhang Ran about it. She knew that Zhang Weiping was hype, but she was still angry in her heart: "Is it just that? It's just a matter of hyping up you, but he said that you ruined the future of students, which is too much!"
"I can't do nothing, otherwise in the future, wouldn't others use me to hype up if they want to? I have already called Qiu Yuanxu in the afternoon, and he will deal with this matter!" Zhang Ran said indifferently.
"Yes, in any case, it must not make him feel better. Zhang Jingchu snorted coldly.
Zhang Ran didn't have the heart to care about this, just have his subordinates do it. The most important thing now is the opening ceremony, and the director team of the opening ceremony on the 21st will start work. As the chief director, Zhang Ran must bring the core members of his team into the director team, these people do not need to run in, they can use it easily, and at the same time can ensure that they will not be alone in the director team.
Zhang Ran has more than a dozen members of the bidding team, all of whom are top talents, but it is impossible to bring them all in, so he can only choose one or two of them. After comprehensive consideration, Zhang Ran felt that it was most suitable for Lin Ying and Shen Wei, both of whom are top artists who integrate East and West. So, Zhang Ran called the two of them separately.
Lin Ying and Shen Wei were very excited after receiving Zhang Ran's call, saying that they would rush to Beiping after finishing the work in hand and join the director team.
After hanging up the phone, Zhang Ran frowned and pondered, Shen Wei's dance troupe has recently performed, and it will take about a month to enter the director team, while Lin Ying has architectural design work in his hands, and it will take about three or four months to join the group. There were already many people in the director team who were not convinced by Zhang Ran, and if there was no one to help, then he would not be able to stay in the director team at all, so he decided to find another one.
After thinking about it, Zhang Ran dialed Han Lixun's phone: "Old Han, I'm Zhang Ran, how are you doing, are you busy?"
Han Lixun said directly: "You are looking for me for the opening ceremony, what do you want me to do!"
Zhang Ran laughed: "Now we are forming the opening ceremony director team, I want to bring some members of our bidding team into the director team, you are one of them, I don't know if you are interested?"
Han Lixun immediately said: "The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is the largest stage in the world, and billions of people pay attention to it, how can we who do stage design not be interested!"
Zhang Ran gave a brief explanation of the situation: "In this way, at the end of the year, the operation center of the Olympic Organizing Committee will be officially established, and the corresponding departments such as stage art, costumes, and lighting will be formed, and you will be given a letter of appointment for stage art." Before that, you could only plan with me in the director team, with no name and no salary!"
Not only does he have no name and salary, but even the accommodation and air tickets will not be solved by the Olympic Organizing Committee, and he has to pay for it out of his own pocket. However, since the person was invited by Zhang Ran, the cost Zhang Ran will definitely solve it, and people have to pay out of pocket when they come to help, so it can't be said. Of course, even Zhang Ran and those who have a letter of appointment will not be paid until the official establishment of the Olympic Organizing Committee Operation Center, which is now voluntary labor.
It is not the first time for Han Lixun to participate in such a large-scale event, and he is very indifferent to this: "Who cares about these, I am very satisfied if I can contribute a little bit of my strength to the creation of the opening ceremony!"
After chatting with Han Lixun for a while, Zhang Ran hung up the phone, and then sat on the sofa thinking about the idea of the opening ceremony.
Things are indeed as Zhang Ran expected, after the news of Zhang Weiping's bombardment of Zhang Ran came out, it set off a wave on the Internet, except for a small number of people who think that Zhang Ran's approach is too impersonal and ruins people's future, the vast majority of netizens are on Zhang Ran's side.
Of course, the Beijing circle will definitely not let go of any opportunity to discredit Zhang Ran, and will desperately lead the rhythm in the next two days, just like they did with Zhang Yimou in the past.
It's just that now it's the Internet era, and everyone is more disgusted with the so-called expert remarks, and more importantly, everyone is very dissatisfied with the film and television industry, the actors' acting skills are getting worse and worse, and the film and television dramas are getting more and more ugly, so the performance in the Beijing circle is in vain, everyone thinks that Zhang Ran is doing the right thing, and the actors should not come out if they don't practice their acting skills well.
"What's wrong with Zhang Ran? Shouldn't students study well in school? Look at the current film and television dramas, especially young actors, there are several ugly acting skills. The reason why many young people now run to watch American dramas and Korean dramas is that our film and television dramas are too bad. ”
"Look at the students brought out by Zhang Ran, Huang Shengyi, Bai Ling, Cao Bingkun, etc., which one is not a good acting skill! Why are the students in their class so good at acting, because they don't come out to take over the drama in their freshman and sophomore years, and they are all seriously learning acting!"
"I came out to act in half a year after studying, no wonder the acting skills of young actors nowadays are getting more and more rubbish!"
"Hehe, Li Man has only studied acting for half a year, is his acting skills so good? Why did you choose her? It must be based on unspoken rules to get to the top!"
Zhang Weiping was a little confused, shouldn't everyone come out at this time to accuse Zhang Ran of being too domineering and ruining the future of students! Why are most people scolding themselves and Li Man, they are all supporting Zhang Ran, this is not scientific!
However, Zhang Weiping doesn't care who netizens support, as long as the popularity of "Golden Armor" can be stirred, the box office will be guaranteed. In China, the quality of the film is not the most important, marketing and hype are the most important. No matter how garbage a movie is, as long as it can stir up the heat, it can make a lot of money.
What really made Zhang Weiping depressed was that Zhang Ran didn't accept the offer this time, and Chen Kaige also said that this was hype and did not respond, which made him feel like he was punching out. He pondered for a while and decided to post another article bombarding Zhang Ran, announcing that he would help Li Man fight the lawsuit, so that Li Man would return to Nortel to study after filming.
At that moment, the secretary pushed open the door and walked in. Zhang Weiping thought that he had come at the right time, and beckoned: "Help me contact the media, I want to sue Zhang Ran!"
The secretary hurriedly sent the newspaper in his hand to Zhang Weiping's desktop: "Mr. Zhang, you take a look at this first." "Wounded City" was announced to be set for December 7, and Ning Hao and Zhou Xingchi's movie "Crazy Travel" was announced to be set for December 21!
The smile on Zhang Weiping's face suddenly distorted, his purpose was to induce Zhang Ran to respond, as long as Zhang Ran opened his mouth to respond, then he had room to continue to hype. But he never thought that Zhang Ran would do this, and even put "Wounded City" and Zhou Xingchi's "Crazy Journey" in the New Year file, clearly to encircle and suppress "Golden Armor".
I wanted to touch porcelain, but I ended up touching a big rock!