"Watching Movies" magazine can be called the bible about movies in the minds of a generation of audiences!

It is mainly edited by Zhou Liming, Cheng Qingsong, Bi Chenggong and others, and it was originally published once a month, but in the Internet era, it is too lagging behind to publish one edition a month.

The movie is cold, you just write, what's the point?

Therefore, after the establishment of the official account, whenever a work with a large degree of attention is listed, they will start writing a film review.

The writer of this article called "Deserved Names" is Zhou Liming!

He really liked the movie.

In such an era of heavy movies, every director and actor is desperately trying to express themselves, and actors are trying their best to spoil themselves in order to win awards, losing 20 kilograms, losing 30 kilograms, or gaining weight, playing homosexuality, acting psychotic...

It seems that if you don't do this, you can't show the level of the director, and you can't show that you are an actor!

"Cinema Paradiso" is a very bland narrative of film and life...

The more ordinary the movie, the more you can see the director's skills!

"Is it that good?"

Cheng Qingsong, as the first audience, saw this film review and looked at Zhou Liming with some suspicion.

He didn't quite believe Xu Hui...

As the most well-known gay in the circle, Cheng Qingsong has no good impression of Xu Hui!

You say, if you're so handsome, aren't you a?

Blind that face!

“… See for yourself!"

Too lazy to explain, Zhou Liming dialed Huang Wen's phone.

He wants to make an appointment...

……

However, as expected, the evaluation of "Paradise Cinema" is very high, with a score of 9.5 points on Douban on the first day, and a score of 9.8 points on Time.com...

"Love ends in vain, the theater collapses and disintegrates, imperfect perfection..."

"Life is not a movie, but this movie moved me deeply;"

"The movie is not very colorful, and the narrative style is relatively calm, but it is indeed an intriguing movie, with a rich plot and feelings!"

This is destined to be a classic in the hearts of fans, because he hits the inner feelings and presence of every fan. Although it is not perfect, those uncontrollable restraints, and overly sensational scenes, but they will not affect the emotional resonance it brings. And those perceptions of love and life are worth thinking about!" Life is different from movies, life is much more difficult. ””

In terms of word-of-mouth, it has set a new high for Xu Hui's movies!

The critics also applauded...

It's a pity that the box office on the first day was only 32 million...

Of course, it won the single-day box office championship, but 32 million, almost did not exceed "Charlotte Troubles", which has been in theaters for 23 days.

Thirty-eight percent of the film schedule...

did not meet Xu Hui's previous expectations.

Anyway, this is Xu Hui's first work with an international award!

Although Huiwen did not arrange any main creator meetings or the like, relying on the influence of Yang Ma, "Paradise Cinema" has a great influence, and even in the past few days, Du Niang searched for "Paradise Movie", and the first link that popped up was "Paradise Cinema" instead of the previous piracy website...

A first-day result of 32 million...

It is much lower than the box office on the first day of the second movie "Those Years"!

Xuhui is more willing to believe that this is because a few people are willing to go to the cinema to induce...

"First of all, this is a movie with long shots and a relatively soothing pace, I want to tell a story about the movie, then what I need is for the audience to devote themselves to the story, there is no show-off!"

Xu Hui was interviewed by "Watching a Movie".

"Xu Hui, I admit that "Cinema Paradiso" will be a movie that will stand the test of time, but I must say one thing, when I was watching a movie in the cinema, there were some ordinary fans sitting around, and I heard that many of your fans don't like "Cinema Paradiso"..."

“… That's normal, after all, they're probably expecting me to shoot an action movie..."

Xu Hui waved his hand with a wry smile: "Actually, I expected it a long time ago, "Paradise Cinema" is actually not suitable for theater screening, if according to my idea, I originally wanted to upload it directly to the video website, and everyone can also watch the movie for free on the Internet." However, the theater side still wants to try it...

A movie of the genre "Cinema Paradiso" will definitely not be able to listen to his inherent fans!

But the negative impact is also limited, in fact, almost all big-name commercial directors have experience directing literary films.

Zhang Yimou once said: The young generation of Chinese directors must grasp it with both hands, and both hands must be hard!

The so-called two-handed grasp refers to not only being able to make literary films, but also understanding the operation of commercial films...

"So what do you think of this situation? Good movies don't sell well!"

“… This is normal, the world's literary and artistic dramas can't sell commercial films, known as the greatest "The Shawshank Redemption", and the North American box office is only 28 million US dollars... Taking the North American market as an example, 660 movies were released last year, of which 130 grossed more than 10 million US dollars, and only 216 grossed more than 1 million US dollars. The vast majority of them are actually commercial films released by mainstream film production companies!"

“… So, do you think..."

"I think it's great that a movie like "Cinema Paradiso" can make a profit at the box office!"

With an investment of $35 million, close to $30 million in public relations, marketing, and publicity expenses, up to now, the North American box office of "Cinema Paradiso" has reached $55 million, and the global box office has exceeded 100 million...

Subsequent DVD sales, networks, TV copyrights, etc., it is not difficult to make a profit!

“… Let me ask you a more personal question, what kind of director do you want to be, or do you want to be like that director in the future?"

"There's no one specific standard, Kubrick is very good, as long as he wants to, his films are actually very personal, but they are all profitable, I think that's what most filmmakers want, Spielberg, Eastwood, Woody Allen are all over 60 years old, and they can still maintain the original love for film! These filmmakers are all role models for me to follow, and I will always try to make good work. ”

……

After dealing with the reporters, Xu Hui returned to the car.

The weather is so sunny and the mood is so bold, the assistant Mu Hua smiled like a fool...

Xu Hui looked at him very strangely, and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with you?"

“… Hehe, Miss Rouba took over "Mulan", she really deserves to be my idol!"

“… You can leave the group!"

"What?"

"It's okay... Wait a minute..."

The phone rang, it was Feng Xiaogang calling...

"Hey, Director Feng, yes, it's me..."

Three minutes later, Xu Hui hung up the phone, looking a little weird.

"Brother Xu, what's wrong?"

“… It's okay, Brother Chen, let's go to the XX community. ”

After notifying the actual diversion, after thinking about it for a while, Xu Hui dialed Huang Wen's phone.

"Brother Wen, Director Feng called me just now..."

"Director of the Spring Festival Gala?oh, I understand!"

"He called me just now and said that he wanted to pick me up and wash the dust, probably because he wanted to pull me on the boat..."

"Address? The address is in the XX community, will you come too?