Chapter 38: It's embarrassing
“… Also, most of the team members of our "Embroidered Spring Knife" are mainlanders, and there is no Hong Kong and Taiwan accent, so when we read it, we will feel that the lines are very appetizing, when I first wanted to use Deng Chao as the protagonist, my agent actually asked me why I didn't look for Xie Tingfeng and Wu Yanzu, I was surprised, why do we need to look for thousands of professional acting talents who graduate from the mainland every year?
"The main creators of "Embroidered Spring Knife", Wu Jing, Deng Chao, and Li Bingbing are all actors who grew up with our people..."
Li Wei looked at Xu Hui, who was talking endlessly on the stage, and his heart felt like a river and a sea.
He has always been a supporter of HK Films and Taiwan Movies, and he firmly believes that any HK director can beat Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang, but after HK directors have been stationed in the mainland over the years, what has it brought to everyone?
"Yueguang Treasure Box" and "Cyborg" almost exhausted Li Wei's expectations for those HK directors, and finally, Wu Baige made a shot, Li Wei believes that the great director Wu Baige, who can shoot "Bloody Heroes", will definitely bring a different "Red Cliff" to mainland audiences!
Then, he watched the trailer for "Red Cliff".
The picture is very grand, quite like "The Lord of the Rings", but the lines are arranged very problematicly, it's too thunderous!
Especially Zhao Wei's appearance: 'The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of women!'
If Gu Yanwu knew this, he would probably crawl out of the coffin lid and teach Wu Baige well, and he wouldn't have tampered with other people's famous sayings like this!
It's also 'the responsibility of the girl', there is your sister!
Li Wei felt that Xu Hui was too right, filming historical themes does not mean that every bit of history must conform to historical materials, but at the very least, to respect history, speech and behavior must conform to the times.
This young man is not simple, although he only watched the movie "Embroidered Spring Knife", Li Wei has expectations for Xu Hui's future!
"Hey, what do you think of my male god?"
Zhou Xiaomeng patted Li Wei, who was speechless, and asked very casually.
“… I'm pretty bullish on him! I think he'll become..."
"Fuck off, my male god wants you to watch it!"
……
The full release of "Embroidered Spring Knife" will wait until tomorrow, and today's release is an early stage.
It's not a midnight show or anything like that, it's just that Xu Hui wants the good reputation of "Embroidered Spring Knife" to hit out quickly.
08 is not like later, you can check the movie box office at any time.
Therefore, although he wanted to know the box office results on the first day on July 1, Xu Hui could only hold back the anxiety in his heart.
By the way, I also had to be interviewed by several film magazines.
"Embroidered Spring Knife" has a good reputation, especially under the backdrop of "Jingwumen", which was released at the same time.
Film critics who are a little famous in the circle have rated movies above 7.5.
It's already very good, you must know that when this wave of people heard that Xu Hui was going to make a movie, they were all gearing up to judge the worst movie of the year!
As a result, with the mentality of appreciating bad movies, I didn't expect to see a work with a high degree of completion, and a group of film critics were stunned.
Taking advantage of the fact that word of mouth has not spread, hurry up and interview!
"Popular Film" sent Fang Zhijie, the editor who is best at dealing with young people.
When we met, we exchanged pleasantries for a while, and went straight to the point, he also knew that Xu Hui's time was precious, in addition to "Popular Movie", "Nandu Entertainment Weekly", "Watching Movies" and many other media asked him for an exclusive interview.
"Xu Hui, hello, let's start!"
Fang Zhijie glanced at Xu Hui, who was wearing black-rimmed 'glasses', and the latter nodded.
"I heard that you only used 14 million for the filming cost of "Embroidered Spring Knife"?"
"A little more than that, we spent a few more days later, otherwise 14 million is definitely enough!"
"Waves?"
"Just shoot randomly, shoot some birds, ride horses, you know we went to Ulaanbaatar, wow, that place is amazing!"
"Beautiful?"
"It's beautiful, but there are too many mosquitoes, and I want to cry when I bite it!"
"Hehe, what kind of movie do you think "Embroidered Spring Knife" is?"
"An action-genre commercial film!"
"Commercial?"
"Yes, "Embroidered Spring Knife" is a commercial film!"
After thinking about it for a while, Xu Hui continued: "I won't try particularly personal works for the time being, it may be a bit narrow, I think the essence of film is not to rely on commercial promotion to develop!"
Xu Hui looked at Fang Zhijie, who was speeding up the reporter or something: "Business should not be a derogatory term. Movies that some people watch without washing their eyes are good movies, movies are made by people, there are always illogical places, if you want to find it, you will always find it. You can't find a sense of identity with feelings and values in my films, but I can guarantee that it is the leading industry in China at the industrial level!"
“… Wait a minute, but I heard that the filming of "Embroidered Spring Knife" took less than 4 months before and after. ”
"The film industry is different from other genres, the industrial level of a film is measured more by its completion, rather than simply according to the time conversion, I can finish the film in 62 days, why should it take half a year? I can do the post-production in a month, why postpone?"
"When you were filming "Embroidered Spring Knife", did you deliberately imitate any director?"
“… This is really not, but I have borrowed from a Korean movie "Zhongtian" last year, the plot of that movie is quite bloody, but the costumes are serious, the props are realistic, the rhythm is exciting and unforgettable, and the most touching thing is: The whole movie is full of Manchu dialogues!"
When he said this, Xu Hui paused slightly, he was a little hesitant whether to say this sentence, but he still said: "Think about it, Koreans are making movies, but they use the Manchu language that we Chinese can write and use less than 2,000 people proficiently! When I was watching that movie, I was thinking, why the stick country elder is fighting with us for this and that, because people are really serious enough to protect those things." ”
“… That's why you arranged for Nie Yuan to shout Mongolian to the Manchurians in the play?"
Fang Zhijie is also very touched, he is a film critic who has been in the film industry for many years.
"That's right, I want the audience to know that I, Xu Hui, am serious about making another movie! It's not the kind of domestic anti-Japanese drama!"
"Anti-Japanese drama?"
In 08, although "The Legend of the Anti-Japanese Heroes" has been born, the name of the anti-Japanese drama is still new, and it is normal for Fang Zhijie not to understand.
"It's the kind of TV series that make up all kinds of nonsense in the name of anti-Japanese resistance, that kind of TV series has one thing in common, the RB people in the play will only say 'Hi!', and the rest are all Mandarin dialogues, I'm speechless, Chinese is one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn, and those devils are so smart?"
The two looked at each other and smiled.
After laughing, Fang Zhijie picked up the cup in his hand and took a sip of tea: "I think what you said yesterday is very right, in fact, I also think that the directors of HK are not suitable for filming historical dramas, so it's okay for them to make up police and gangster films!"
"Who let Wu Baige return from Hollywood! Isn't our country like this, it looks awesome when he returns from abroad, in fact, he is just like that..."
Fang Zhijie interrupted Xu Hui's awesome declaration and directly changed the topic: "... I haven't asked yet, which domestic director do you like?"
"Of course, it's director Zhang Yimou, I especially admire him, I think his construction in terms of color can be called a generation of masters!"
Talking about Zhang Yimou, Xu Hui seemed to be interested: "Starting from "Red Sorghum", whether it is "The Red Lantern Hangs High" or "Hero", even if "The City is Full of Big Wave Girls", then..."
Xu Hui suddenly realized what he had said, and looked at Fang Zhijie a little embarrassed, the latter was still desperately remembering something, and realized that Xu Hui had stopped, and he was still urging: "... Big Wave Girl, and then?"