Chapter 223: The movie review is out
The Q&A session, which was originally scheduled to last for one hour, was extended to two hours at the repeated requests of reporters, film critics, and fans, and by the time it had to end, the reporters, critics, and fans who participated in the discussion were still unsatisfied.
In the two-hour Q&A session, the reporter's questions generally focused on gossip, and they were more concerned about the emotional conditions of Zhao Zhenghao and Yu Yabin, and asked some questions such as "Are you two in love because of the play".
Film critics' questions generally focus on the plot, which is more professional, although it seems a little boring to ordinary fans, but it is Zhao Zhenghao's favorite question, and the answers are the most detailed, and even a little talkative, and the two-hour Q&A session, Zhao Zhenghao spent more than an hour answering questions in this regard.
The questions from fans, who are also die-hard fans of Zhao Zhenghao, are strange, some make requests like the first lucky fan, some pursue some of Zhao Zhenghao's innocuous little secrets, and some ask him when he will release new songs and new albums.
After the discussion meeting, Zhao Zhenghao fulfilled his promise at the beginning, took a group photo with 100 lucky fans in Beijing, and gave a carefully prepared small gift, including Zhao Zhenghao's signed poster, wonderful stills of "Journey to the West", and a small USB flash drive, which stores the Mandarin and Cantonese versions of the theme song "Love of My Life" of "Journey to the West".
The gifts for fans are prepared by "Zhenghao Studio", and the gifts for reporters and film critics are prepared by "Nine Star Entertainment", although the content is not so rich, but they are also very satisfied, which can be seen from the heartfelt smiles on their faces.
From the next day, various media began to report on "Journey to the West: The Great Sage Marrying", and film critics also launched film reviews one after another, offering fans Amway's sincere work.
In fact, as early as the time when the discussion was going on, news about this event had already begun to circulate in the scarf and WeChat circle of friends, and the people who pushed these messages were all fans of Zhao Zhenghao.
As an individual, the spread and influence of fans are naturally not as high as those of media reporters and professional film critics, but the accumulation of the number one by one is also quite amazing.
At least, in the "Mouse Nest" and other Zhao Zhenghao's fan groups, the spontaneous publicity of the 300 lucky fans who were invited to participate in the preview screening and discussion meeting still produced good results, raising the expectations of Zhao Zhenghao's fans for "The Great Sage's Marriage" a lot.
And ordinary movie fans, who are relatively blind to the goal of watching the movie, have also been affected by this wave of pre-screening publicity, and they have originally lowered the viewing index of "The Great Sage Marrying", but there has been a rebound and a little increase.
"Qitian Film and Television" couldn't respond to this, although it also responded to Zhao Zhenghao's admit, splitting "Journey to the West", which was originally a film, into two parts, and gathered some media and film critics to criticize, but it can no longer become the mainstream of public opinion as it did a few days ago.
As many film critics say, as long as the movie is made carefully and worthy of the ticket price of fans, then everything is enough!
Among them, Chutian's film reviews are still very representative.
"First of all, I want to solemnly apologize to the producer of "Journey to the West", to its screenwriter and director, in the last film review, when I know that "Journey to the West" has two parts, I only watched the last "Moonlight Treasure Box", and arbitrarily wrote such a comment, which is irresponsible for myself, irresponsible for fans, and blasphemy against the movie "Journey to the West"!"
"Today, I was fortunate to be invited to watch the next part of "Journey to the West" in advance, "The Great Sage Marries", after watching it, my heart couldn't calm down for a long time, and I didn't even participate in the later discussion seriously, although I had many questions in my heart, but I didn't ask Zhao Zhenghao directly. ”
"As the screenwriter and director of "Journey to the West", Zhao Zhenghao has completed his own job by producing the two parts of "Journey to the West", interpreting the movie is our job as film critics, if we can understand the deep meaning of this movie with the help of others' explanations, then as a film critic, I will feel deeply ashamed!"
"There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, and my interpretation of "Journey to the West" may not fully conform to the original intention of the screenwriter and director, but, just like the interpretation of those classic masterpieces in our current primary and secondary school textbooks, who cares about right and wrong?"
"I knew from the beginning that the story of "Journey to the West" is based on "Journey to the West", one of the four famous novels, which is directly reflected in the title, although there is a prefix of "Journey to the West" in front, but the foothold of the whole film is still on the word "Journey to the West"!"
"It's just that Zhao Zhenghao has made his own interpretation of the story of 'Journey to the West' from a perspective that we have never imagined, from the perspective of a modern person. ”
"Through "Moonlight Treasure Box", we can intuitively understand that although the Supreme Treasure is the reincarnation of Sun Wukong, there is no trace of some qualities that Sun Wukong should have in our stereotyped impression, but he is greedy for life and afraid of death, lacks responsibility, and does not have a little heroism of Sun Wukong!"
"Just watching "Moonlight Treasure Box", of course we have a reason to curse Zhao Zhenghao, because the Supreme Treasure under his lens completely subverted our understanding of Monkey King! I was also based on this at the time, so I was disappointed in this film and said some self-righteous things to Zhao Zhenghao. ”
"However, after watching the entire story of "Journey to the West" in its entirety, my impression of Zhao Zhenghao's setting and shaping of the character of Supreme Treasure in this movie has changed 180 degrees, and I am sincerely amazed!"
"Now, looking back and thinking about it, do Supreme Treasure and each of us have some similarities? Although "Journey to the West" is a classic, after all, it was created hundreds of years ago, Zhao Zhenghao adapted it and added some concepts of modern people, I think it is very correct and necessary!"
"Just imagine, if one day, you and I, as ordinary people, are suddenly pressed on our shoulders to a major event related to the future and destiny of the world, how many people will stand up and bravely take on this responsibility at the first time?"
"I think the performance of Supreme Treasure in the film may be the reaction of most of us, first refusing, trying to escape this burden, and then after a series of events, during this period, re-understanding ourselves. ”
"Even in the face of our original intentions, we say that we will resolutely take on that burden, because we are just ordinary people, unlike the Supreme Treasure, we are the reincarnation of Sun Wukong, and we have the ability to take up the heavy responsibility of saving the world!"
"And in "Moonlight Treasure Box", Supreme Treasure didn't know that he had that ability, so his series of performances can be understood, that is the most real reaction of a real person!"
"It was in "The Great Sage's Marriage" that the Supreme Treasure had already awakened the memory of his previous life, and he didn't take on the responsibility at the first time, just like us, he still wanted to escape first!"
"What made him recognize himself, face his responsibilities, and restore himself to the omnipotent Monkey King? The answer given by Zhao Zhenghao is both unexpected and reasonable - love!"
"Therefore, the story told in the whole "Journey to the West" has nothing to do with responsibility, responsibility, or the people in the world, but simply two words - love!"
"This is very cliché! But Zhao Zhenghao's angle and technique of telling the story have brought this cliché story to a new meaning!"
"In particular, he is also dressed in a layer of comedy outside the core of this story, which is even more commendable!"
"Comedy is a very difficult subject to master, Zhao Zhenghao in "Journey to the West", not only dedicated a perfect comedy to us, but also used comedy to tell this touching love story!"
"For Zhao Zhenghao's behavior, I can only say that 'the artist is bold'! I admire Zhao Zhenghao's storytelling ability!"
"In the last film review, I said that Zhao Zhenghao is the most potential rookie director in the Dragon Kingdom film and television industry, I was wrong, Zhao Zhenghao, who directed works like "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Journey to the West", can no longer be crowned with the title of "rookie director", he has proved his ability with two works full of sincerity and very high standards, and he is enough to rank among the ranks of first-class directors!"
"Zhao Zhenghao, who has been defeated in the selection of the 'Best New Director' at the Academy Awards and the Golden Goblet Awards, I think he already has the ability to compete for the 'Best Director', now, it depends on his future plans, as a film critic and a deep film lover, I sincerely hope that he can focus more on film production in the future and make more and more wonderful film works for us!"
"At the end of the article, I solemnly recommend "The Great Sage Marrying" to all fans who have read this article! If you haven't seen its predecessor "Moonlight Treasure Box", I hope you can also find a chance to watch it, these two films will definitely not disappoint you if you watch them together!"
Since this film review was sent before the official release of "The Great Sage Marries", at the request of "Nine Star Entertainment", Chu Tian did not interpret much of the content of "The Great Sage Marry" in the article, but after browsing the whole article, it was full of admiration for "Journey to the West".
As an independent film critic with a high degree of credibility, Chu Tian's evaluation still has a very good influence on the reputation of a movie, especially for ordinary fans who have no specific goals, and the level of his evaluation will directly affect their viewing choices.
After Chu Tian's film review was issued, in the investigation of several blockbuster films to be released by authoritative institutions, the audience expectation and ticket purchase index of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage Marrying" both showed an obvious upward curve.
Moreover, as the release date of "The Great Sage Marries" approaches, the audience's expectations and ticket purchase index are still rising, and the day before the release, it has broken through the high point that it had reached earlier.
Affected by it, it was released at the same time as "The Great Sage Marrying", and the theme is similar, produced by "Monkey King Film and Television", starring the popular student Huang Zihang, The audience expectation and ticket purchase index of "The Legend of Monkey King" have shown a downward trend.
Although the film market in Dragon Kingdom has developed quite maturely, and the cake has become big enough, the number of movie fans is also relatively saturated, and the potential for tapping has dropped significantly compared with previous years.
Under the circumstance that the number of fans will not increase significantly in a short period of time, the target audience of films released at the same time and with similar themes will inevitably overlap in a large range.
Just like "The Great Sage Marries" and "The Legend of Monkey King", their highly overlapping target audiences are bound to make a decision on the first ticket purchase choice, and this decision will have a very significant impact on the final box office of these two films!
If there is a one-sided choice, the leading films in the early stage, as long as the quality is acceptable and the reputation is not too bad, will seize the opportunity in the next box office war and occupy a very favorable situation.
In the end, it is very likely that one film will be a box office hit, while another film will fail at the box office!
This is also the situation that "Monkey Sky Film and Television" is most worried about, and it is also the deep-seated reason why they will take advantage of the poor word-of-mouth response of "Journey to the West: Moonlight Treasure Box" to carry out large-scale smearing actions, they hope that the crusade against "Moonlight Treasure Box" can affect the viewing index of the biggest direct competitor "Journey to the West: The Great Sage Marries", in order to seize the opportunity in the box office competition on the first day of release.
But now, "Zhenghao Studio" and "Nine Star Entertainment" only used one test screening to bring back the previous unfavorable situation!
In the final analysis, it is the quality of a film that determines its own quality!
In order to promote "The Legend of Monkey King", "Monkey King Film and Television" naturally did not forget to hold a test screening for it, but the feedback from reporters and film critics on its test screening did not meet the expectations of "Monkey King Film and Television".
Especially in the case of "Journey to the West", the shortcomings of "Monkey Sky Film and Television" in terms of production quality are even more exposed, even if it is a film critic who has received a generous public relations fee from "Monkey Sky Film and Television", it is difficult to talk nonsense with their eyes open, they all rely on a pen to eat, although when writing film reviews, they will be tilted according to the producer's public relations strength, and pull the bias, but it can't be too blatant and unscrupulous.
Movie fans also have their own judgment ability, and if a film critic has a bad reputation, they will abandon it without hesitation!