Chapter 106: Exploitation
"Chen Jialuo's new film midnight preview was a great success!"
"From the miracle of "A Chinese Ghost Story", fight Fang Long again. 》
"Chen Jialuo's new film - "Prison Storm", tells the mysterious prison life, and Fa Ge reproduces his acting skills. 》
"30 million box office is expected, Chen Jialuo is about to become a hot director in Hong Kong. 》
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With the success of the midnight test screening of "Prison Storm", the media, who are accustomed to seeing the wind and the rudder, have praised Chen Jialuo's new film and cheered for it.
At the same time, most of the new movies were screened at midnight, and only Fang Long's "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" and Chen Jialuo's "Prison Storm" were very successful. Although it is only a test screening of sample films, and adjustments will be made in the later stage, some journalist friends and a small number of film critics have praised the two movies after watching them.
"Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" uses thrilling action scenes and many funny storylines to make the audience laugh at the same time as the sensory stimulation.
And "Prison Storm" is completely based on the mystery of the prison and the lives of the characters in the prison, the story is more allegorical and didactic, but the climax is repeated, and the characters are fully portrayed, so that the audience is immersed in it.
Simply comparing the two movies, in fact, each has its own strengths. Just like Zhong Tianzheng played by Zhou Yanfa and Lu Jiayao in the end, they fought Da Mi and Killer Xiong, which made people cheer and cheer.
From the perspective of those film critics who are keen on the development of the film industry in Hong Kong, "Prison Storm" is undoubtedly a more memorable work. Although Fang Long's films are large-scale productions, big scenes, and take an international route, characteristic films will always belong to a category that cannot be replicated.
Therefore, although the two films have not yet been officially released, their popularity has not diminished in the newspaper and media at all, and with the end of the midnight test screening, it has become more noisy, completely covering up the film promotion of other Christmas schedules.
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"I'm embarrassed, I overslept......"
A movie is about to be released, and the director naturally needs to take the actors to do the promotion. And today is the day when Chen Jialuo took the crew of "Prison Storm" to TVB to participate in the show, but unfortunately Director Chen Da stayed up all night yesterday to tinker with the script in his memory and overslept.
Don't think that Zhou Yunfa and others must have arrived early, and as a director, as a director who dislikes the actors and staff being late, he is actually late. And he was late for his TV debut in Xiangjiang, and no one believed him.
Chen Jialuo, who was in a hurry to go to TVB, just appeared at the gate of the TV station, and suddenly a bunch of people rushed out. Even though he was calm on the surface, he was also taken aback at this time.
Looking at the flashing camera, and many people still carrying the camera and holding the microphone, Chen Jialuo had a cold face, but his heart was very bitter.
What kind of place is this, it is 'Wutai Mountain', which is the broadcasting channel of Hong Kong.
Because there are many TV stations and radio stations here, and there are a total of 5 radio stations, namely: Xiangjiang Radio, Commercial Radio, Asia Television, TVB and Jiali TV, commonly known as Wutai Mountain.
It is no secret that Chen Jialuo wants to lead a team to TVB to promote the new film "Prison Storm", so everyone has been waiting for a long time. From Zhou Yanfa to Liang Jiahui and others, the people who never saw Chen Jialuo did not give up.
Now that he finally saw the moon, he rushed up to surround Chen Jialuo. This Chen helmsman is notoriously difficult to interview, but can he still run away when he arrives at our territory?
"Mr. Chen Jialuo, do you know that Zeng Zhiwei produced a follow-up film of "A Chinese Ghost Story" - "Golden Swallow"?"
"This movie is in theaters, Director Chen Jialuo, have you seen it?"
"I heard that Zeng Zhiwei once paid a lot of money to invite you to direct this movie, but in the end you refused. Is this true, Mr. Chen?"
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originally thought that these reporters were just asking gossip questions, but I didn't expect it to be about the movie "Golden Swallow".
"Golden Swallow" is clearly a product of "A Chinese Ghost Story", but it is so blatantly followed, it can be said that it is the resurrection of "A Chinese Ghost Story", which is laughable.
Zhong Chuhong's Xiaoxue is, of course, Wang Guxian's Xiaoqian's makeover, Huang Yaoming's Luo Zhiqiu is simply borrowed from Leslie Cheung's Ning Caichen, the old way of Wu Ma has become the sword god Feng Qingtian here, and the tree demon grandma is the old demon of Montenegro who moves paper, and the director is not ashamed.
The character design, storyline, modeling, set, and art are the same as "A Chinese Ghost Story", except that the theme song is replaced by Da Ming's bleak "Stone Story", plus an interlude "Love Detective".
Originally, Chen Jialuo thought that Zeng Zhiwei would release this movie after Christmas, but he didn't expect Zeng Zhiwei and others to be very smart.
As soon as several of them were combined, it was just at this time that "Golden Swallow" was introduced to the film market. pretended to be Chen Jialuo's popularity to start this movie.
From the time of filming, Zeng Zhiwei and others knew that they would be scolded for following the trend and so on, but does it matter? Making money is the king. Don't you watch "A Chinese Ghost Story", there are many movies of girls, ghosts and scholars all of a sudden!
At that time, "A Chinese Ghost Story" had a selling point for Leslie Cheung, and now "Golden Swallow" has Zhong Menghong and Daming's faction, and Zhuyu is in front, so he can make a box office no matter what. Selling to Southeast Asia will also have a lot of gains.
With the mentality of taking advantage of the situation to make money, "Golden Swallow" was released yesterday. Coupled with the push behind the pusher, it also caused a certain amount of heat.
It's a pity that Chen Jialuo knows that this film is silent, that's a certainty.
Zhong Menghong's Xiaoxue has Nie Xiaoqian's grudge, but not the kind of coquettish charm, Huang Yaoming's Luo Zhiqiu has Ning Cai's appearance, that kind of down-and-out and unworthy is completely inadequate, and the two don't seem to be very overpowered.
Feng Qingtian's upright face is comparable to Wu Ma Daochang's humorous and open-minded and likable? "The Story of the Stone" and "The Love Detective" are undoubtedly masterpieces of the Daming faction, but in this movie, it is tantamount to being kicked badly, and there is a kind of funny feeling of expressing wrong feelings.
Chen Jialuo, who had long known the result, faced the reporters' questions, and said with an unprecedented smile: "Brother Zhiwei did invite me with a lot of money, but unfortunately I was busy preparing for "Prison Storm" at that time, so I declined. As for the work "Golden Swallow", I won't comment on it. ”
"Director Chen Jialuo, can you easily disclose the specific amount?"
"I don't evaluate this movie, do you think it was made very badly, or do you not evaluate it because of Zeng Zhiwei?"
"I heard that the actress you want to work with the most is Zhong Meihong, what do you think of her acting skills in it?"
Chen Jialuo, who has always been difficult to open Chrysostom, actually responded to a more private question, and the reporters immediately asked nonsense.
Since Zeng Zhiwei used him as a gimmick to promote, Chen Jialuo had a bad taste and used this to create a momentum together. As for the later questions of the reporters, he just smiled and waved his hand and entered the building with the help of TVB employees.
Who is a journalist? He is a good hand at opening his brain and making up all kinds of brains. There are some things they don't need the truth, you just need to reveal a little bit, and they will help you interpret the real and false things later.