Chapter 272: "Casting Names" VS "Assembly Number"
On December 24th, there is still a week to go before 2008, and the Chinese film market has also entered the most exciting competition.
After 12 days of screening, "Casting the Name" released on the 12th has won 133 million yuan at the box office in the mainland, of which 80 million in the first 5 days in the first week, and only 53 million in 7 days in the second week due to the impact of the official release of "The Assembly", which is a significant decline.
and Feng Xiaogang's second transformation work "Assembly Number" won 65 million box office in 4 days of release.
The two most important films in this year's Lunar New Year file have similar starts, and it is only natural that "Vote for Fame" can have this result, after all, the investment alone is as high as 300 million, and it has been attracting the attention of industry insiders from the start of filming to the present.
And Feng Xiaogang, when last year's "Night Banquet" failed in terms of word-of-mouth and box office, was able to achieve a result of 65 million in 4 days without relying on comedies, which was beyond most people's expectations.
is also a war film, and the release time is a week apart, so these two films are naturally compared with each other.
The two movies are also showing "brotherhood" on the surface, and "Casting a Name" actually has the shadow of an old-fashioned Xiangjiang movie.
The story of the three brothers sounds very familiar, the eldest and the second and third brothers have a deep brotherly relationship, but in the long journey of life, the boss gradually showed his villainous hypocrisy and parted ways with the second brother, and the third still followed the boss stupidly, until he found out that the boss had done the second child, so in line with the principle of voting for the oath, he killed the boss......
In this process, the second wife's wife exists in the form of a disaster, which is similar to Shu Qi's role in "Heaven's Mouth".
Peeling back the context of the whole movie, it seems that "Casting a Name" is such a plot that everyone has seen in various gangster films.
But more people do not agree that Li Lianjie is a villain, but think that he is a tragic hero.
As for "Assembly", some people said that they were moved, and some people said that Feng Xiaogang was too sensational, which was disgusting.
There is an argument that is accepted by most audiences: the first half of "Assembly" is a war film with quite surprises, and the second half is a passing literary film.
In addition to these two films, the other films in the Lunar New Year file have completely become background boards.
"Fate Call Transfer" starring Ge Wei, Xu Zheng, Fan Binbin, Xu Wan, Wang Xuebing, Yan Ni and others won 34.76 million box office in the past month after its release.
The series of movies "Die Hard 4: Virtual Crisis" starring Hollywood action superstar Bruce Willis won 27.28 million box office, once again proving that pure action movies have no market in China at all.
Coincidentally, the heroine of this movie is Li Meiqi, the heroine of "Three Kingdoms: Seeing the Dragon Unloading the Armor", and she is also a rare Chinese actor who can star in a Hollywood blockbuster.
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Huairou Film and Television Base, the crew of "Jiangshan Beauty" filmed in a closed studio for more than half a month, and finally completed the filming of most of the indoor scenes.
During this time, Liu Dong never went home, basically he had to stay up late every two days, and he went home for an hour or two, and Master Liu also went back to Hengdian, so he simply stayed in the crew directly.
For half a month, the crew has been surprisingly calm, Chen Kexin has been running all over the country to promote since the release of "Casting a Name", which will be in full swing with "Assembly Number" on the box office list, and he has no time to fight with Cheng Xiaodong.
And Li Ming has no rivalry with Liu Dong in the past half a month, and the two are at peace with each other.
The busiest part of the crew, except for Cheng Xiaodong, is Chen Huilin, all the scenes are revolving around her, and basically they don't stop for a day.
On the 18th, the crew began to shoot location scenes, and everyone moved to the suburbs of Beijing.
"The assistant director, hurry up and put the group performance in place!"
"All departments checked the equipment, and the three rocker cameras were quickly debugged!"
"Railcar check again!"
Cheng Xiaodong commanded loudly with a loudspeaker, and everything was ready after half an hour.
"Chapter Fifty-Eight, One Shot, One Time!"
"Let's go!"
Liu Dong rode across the middle of the two hills, quietly looking at the army opposite.
In the middle of the army opposite, Guo Xiaodong, who was dressed in armor, shouted, "Are you here to die, or are you here to surrender?"
He shouted with a little pride, before this Yan Huba had already captured the palace, the princess did not know what to do, killed Prime Minister Teng Bochang, Murong Xuehu was the only obstacle to his accession to the throne.
Murong Xuehu only came out of the palace last night, and he was in a mess at this time, and he didn't know where the helmets were scattered.
Liu Dong also showed a little tiredness at this time, but the anger in his heart was unreservedly expressed on his face.
Liu Dong pulled out the sword at his waist, threw his right hand hard to the middle, and turned two in the air and fell to the ground.
"Click!"
"Quick, stick the sword in!"
Cheng Xiaodong shouted to stop, and immediately commanded people to run over, took the hilt of the sword, and threw it to the ground.
However, it was embarrassing that the first time it was not inserted.
Plug it in again... Still didn't get in.
Keep plugging in!
It may be because it hasn't rained on the grass for a few days, or it may be that the prop sword is not sharp enough, and it took seven or eight times to stand on the grass smoothly.
"Okay, go on!" Cheng Xiaodong sat back and continued to stare at the monitor.
"Don't you want my head, come and get it!" Liu Dong almost shouted this sentence.
Guo Xiaodong on the other side showed disdain and smiled playfully, "This trick doesn't work for me!"
"Bring his head!"
With Guo Xiaodong's order, the May Fourth generals on both sides shouted out of the ranks, brandishing weapons and killing Liu Dong!
Liu Dong also pulled out his long knife from the left with his backhand and rushed over without fear!
A few people rushed to a distance of four or five meters and stopped, and then there was the action scene, which was not easy to grasp if you started charging from a long distance.
"Director Cheng, I plan to shoot this scene!" Liu Dong jumped off the horse and came to Cheng Xiaodong's side to suggest.
"Are you sure it's okay?" Cheng Xiaodong nodded, as a director, of course, he hopes to make the film work better to the greatest extent.
Although there is not much difference between one shot and one shot after another, there will definitely be a spatial jump when edited, and there is no such coherence.
Again, no matter how good the acting skills are, there will always be a lack of momentum when filming action scenes.
"No problem!"
Not only this scene, but also the next few scenes, Liu Dong plans to shoot live.
According to the filming plan, after filming this decisive battle, it is to shoot the rivalry between him, Chen Huilin and Li Ming, which happens to be a fight scene.
In terms of filming, Li Ming has been filming for more than 20 years, and there are no fewer action movies, Chen Huilin is also experienced, Liu Dong is not sure that he can really overpower them.
So he needs to overwhelm the other party from momentum, and from now on, a few days of actual combat in a row is enough.
Cheng Xiaodong called the four tricks over again, and took the action director team to demonstrate and guide over and over again.
"Fifty-eighth, three mirrors, once!"
"Let's go!"