Chapter 152: The King's Feast
Who is Feng Xiaogang, the biggest signboard of Huayi, the king of the Chinese New Year stalls!
Let's put it this way, in the first decade of the 21st century, if mainland audiences want to watch movies, the first choice is Feng Xiaogang!
It's so hanging!
That's why he dared to say, 'If I don't make a movie, what will the Chinese audience watch?'"
has no confidence, who dares to say nonsense, not all directors are called Bi Zhifei, dare to touch the director of the Porcelain Cannes Film Festival, he is the only one!
In addition, after Huayi went public, Director Feng made money and directly cashed out all the stocks in his hand, more than 200 million yuan!
With money and status, Feng Xiaogang was originally short-tempered, and he couldn't tolerate sand in his eyes!
In the face of the abuse of netizens, he decisively said: "If you think I offended you, don't watch this movie, you want to watch a movie that dirties me!"
"The audience generally reflected that "1942" was a sadistic movie. The director solemnly advises: Justice of the Peace and Harmonious Ladies are cautious. Just like people with high blood pressure and heart disease, drinking too much alcohol is bad for your health!"
With your attitude, the audience will buy it?
Do you really think of yourself as a big man?
Even if you're really a big director, you can't insult the audience like this, right?
Also, after the release of "1942", IMAX theaters across the country screened "1942" - Huayi and I-MAX theaters signed an exclusive agreement...
The agreement stipulates that during the release of IMAX movies by Huayi, the digital IMAX of the whole country will only screen Huayi's films, which is contracted...
This is actually no problem, the exclusivity agreement is not original to Huayi, it is widely used in the North American market, in line with international practice, the key Feng Xiaogang's attitude is unpleasant!
It feels like it's cheap and good!
Fans were angry at the "monopoly" of "1942", and many netizens refused to watch "1942" in order to avenge "Youth Pi"!
Wang Zhonglei explained: "As early as half a year ago, when "1942" was decided to be released at the end of the year, IMAX enthusiastically said that we could not sign an agreement, as a producer, it was very good, more than 80 screens. This agreement is exclusive and exclusive. "1942" was originally scheduled for November 23, because of the exclusivity of this agreement, if "1942" was released on the 23rd, the day after the release of Ang Lee's "Life of Pi", this agreement would come into effect, and "Life of Pi" would have no IMAX screen from the 23rd. We felt that we should not hit it so tightly and moved the schedule to the 29th, and the biggest beneficiary of this move was "Life of Pi" directed by Ang Lee, because we set aside a schedule for this agreement, and the movie "Life of Pi" had an extra 7 days of IMAX screens. ”
"An IMAX film is shown for 7 days, which is fair to everyone!"
Fair your sister, "Youth Pi" focuses on special effects and pictures, "1942", a disaster movie, for Mao to occupy the IMAX theater?
In terms of the number of cinema films, although "Youth Pi" has the strong support of Huiwen Cinemas, it is still five percentage points behind "1942" nationwide...
And it lasted for more than ten days!
The key is that "Life of Pi" has more box office than "1942"!
This is very unscientific, generally speaking, it is impossible for theaters to put money and not make money, they have to support domestic films...
There is no way, the annual KPI has not been completed, but the market share of domestic films is only 47.4%, a significant decrease from the same period last year.
Regarding "Life of Pi" being forced to give up the IMAX theater, Huiwen Tianxia said: I hope everyone will not misunderstand, 'the exclusivity of the agreement does exist', "Youth of Pi" ordinary 3D will continue to be screened until the Chinese New Year, I hope that director Ang Lee's fantasy masterpiece will be seen by more people...
Compared with Director Feng's aggressiveness, Huiwen's attitude is likable!
As a result, although the number of films scheduled is not as good as "1942", the box office of "Life of Pi" is not lagging behind at all, except for the first two days of the release of "1942", "Life of Pi" has always occupied the first place at the box office...
As of December 10th, the cumulative box office of "Youth Pi", which was released for 19 days, was 560 million, 300 million more than "1942"...
Feng Xiaogang was even more angry: "Everyone is trying their best to suppress this ("1942") and support Ang Lee. ”
Tsk, at the beginning, he was quite personable: "Our little nanny and little daughter went to watch "Life of Pi" and liked it very much. I told them that you should watch the premiere of my film, and they all said they wouldn't watch it, which shows that "Life of Pi" directed by Ang Lee is very good. ”
It feels a bit unbearable...
Think back to a few years ago, when he was doing well at the box office, the audience praised the most all day long, but now he says 'the audience is a brute'...
In a word: floated...
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In fact, not only "1942" will be released on November 29, but also the masterpiece "The King's Feast", which has been honed for two years
Lu Chuan's last film "Nanjing! Nanjing!" won the best film in Spain, Lu Chuan, as a young director, has a box office, awards, and Xingmei also has a reason to invest in "The King's Feast"...
Of course, at the beginning, it was said that the investment amount was 50 million, and then it was slowly increased to 100 million...
Qin Hong, chairman of Xingmei Pictures, said after the film: "My ideal is to be able to make a film that wins awards at international film festivals, but the state of the road string is completely different from that when filming "Nanjing!Nanjing!", people have a period of expansion, and the work attitude cannot be compared with "Nanjing!Nanjing!". In the original script, Yu Ji was the absolute female number one, and everyone saw what happened later. ’
Lu Chuan said before the release of the movie: "The King's Feast" not only loves the famous dinner in history, but also wants to show the ups and downs of an era, showing the charm of heroes in troubled times such as Liu Bang, Xiang Yu, Han Xin, Zhang Liang, and Fan Zeng.
also said that 'the box office is over 300 million to marry Qin Lan'...
The reason why Xingmei set the New Year file is completely a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and it was originally planned to be released in June, but "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" and "Painted Skin 2" are too awesome, so they were withdrawn to the New Year...
encountered "Youth Pi" and "Thai Embarrassment", which were more powerful than "Painted Skin 2", and died as he deserved...
was released at the same time, and it is inevitable to compare it with "Life of Pi".
"The road string is still the same road string, like the desire of the sea! Li Anxin has a fierce tiger, and there is a sick cat in the heart of the road string..."
"This Nima screenwriter is Baby Anne, the dialogue and narration are so pretentious. The film is so bad that even Zhang Zhen and Wu Yanzu's faces can't be pulled back. ”
Lu Chuan has the same desire as the sea in his heart, how can he be willing to become a member of the sixth generation of directors? In order to sit on the fourth position of mainland directors, he broke the kettle and made this masterpiece "The King's Feast". Congratulations to Lu Chuan, this film is enough to keep pace with "Golden Armor", "Wuji" and "Night Banquet". A few years later, when people look back on the history of mainland films during this period, they will see the spectacle of Zhang, Chen, Feng and Lusi, competing in theaters, who is worse than whom. ”
In the entire Chinese New Year file, "The King's Feast" almost did not set off any waves, with a small steel cannon on the top, and the road string can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune!
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My generation loves to overturn cases.
For example, the case of "Hero" is overturned, and the case of "Wuji" is overturned, but there are few cases for "The King's Feast"!
Because it really sucks!
It is not denied that "The King's Feast" has advantages: the research on the details of the scene, the restoration of the scenes of the Qin and Han dynasties, etc., is really good.
gathered a group of powerful and good-looking Mesozoic actors: Liu Huohua, Nie Yuan, Wu Yanzu, Zhang Zhen, Sha Yi...
However, after all, a movie is a movie, what kind of drama does the presentation like a stage play want to make trouble? imitate "Macbeth"? The lines are so pretentious, "The Most"?
Lu String said in an interview that this film uses an unusual editing method, and the audience is not familiar with it, so I can't understand it...
The editing methods of movies are divided into: multi-line narrative, flashback interlude, mixed editing, and single-line editing, as long as the story structure is complete, there is no movie that the audience can't understand!
The director eagerly expresses his view of history, abandoning or weakening too many character relationships and duels that should be strongly expressed in sharp conflicts, resulting in the expression of the theme can only rely on monologues, and the storytelling is seriously weakened.
The whole story has been in a rhythm that makes people feel forced and oppressive - the atmosphere that the court drama wants.
The rhythm is very persistent, not subdued, no waves, and I can't remember where the climax is after watching it.
The movie has been narrated from a third-person perspective, until the end, but suddenly cut into a first-person perspective: "My name is Liu Bang, I am sixty-one years old this year..."
'My name is Wang Da Hammer, and I'm a dick...'
It took two hours, and I was barely able to enter the play, but I was suddenly kicked out by the director.
This is no longer a serious question, it is completely the director's own bad taste.
As a costume historical movie that costs hundreds of millions of dollars, it is impossible for Luke to be accepted by the market by playing like this!