Chapter 495: Success or Failure
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This year's Chinese New Year, the three main films promoted by DreamWorks Films are, Gao Zhisen's "Rich and Powerful", Lin Lingdong's "Dragon and Tiger" and Li Lianjie's "Chinese Heroes". Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
It is also the luck of Lin Lingdong and Li Lianjie, two newcomers to DreamWorks Films!
Before this year's Chinese New Year, except for Gao Zhisen, none of the major directors of DreamWorks Films were born new films, and even DreamWorks Films (the American branch) did not have very good movies.
Coincidentally, just before Hu Comet and others scheduled the film, Lin Lingdong and Li Lianjie were lucky enough to meet Xu Cun who was hanging out in DreamWorks Film and Television City with a large group of beauties.
So, with Xu Cun's intervention, Lin Lingdong's "Dragon and Tiger" and Li Lianjie's "Chinese Heroes" were able to appear on this year's Chinese New Year.
Of course, among these three films, DreamWorks Pictures still mainly promotes Gao Zhisen's "Rich and Powerful" - except for the number of screenings occupied by Xu Cun's "The Matrix", DreamWorks Theaters screened Gao Zhisen's "Rich and Powerful" in a row.
Liberty Cinemas was split into two to release Lin Lingdong's "Dragon and Tiger" and Li Lianjie's "Chinese Heroes".
"Chinese Heroes" is a straightforward story: in World War II, the Chinese and American armies defeated the Japanese army in triumph, but the Chinese soldiers were despised and insulted. At the beginning of the eighties, foreigners could buy any luxury goods at the "friendship store" run by the Chinese government, but the Chinese were turned away, whether he had money or not.
Li Lianjie used "Chinese Heroes" to vent his dissatisfaction with reality, according to Li Lianjie's words: "I want to expose the unfairness in society and make the audience aware that this society needs to be reformed." ”
It was because of Li Lianjie's idea that "Chinese Heroes" failed to pass the censorship because of its direct insinuation of reality, which in turn led to the mainland film bureau not allowing "Chinese Heroes" to be released.
Xu Cun made a phone call to the Minister of Propaganda in front of Li Lianjie, and Li Lianjie received a notice from the Mainland Film Bureau that night - "Chinese Heroes" can be released in the mainland as long as the scene marked with the time is deleted.
In addition, as a movie released during the Chinese New Year, DreamWorks Pictures also advertised "Chinese Heroes" in Xiangjiang for 1 million Hong Kong dollars.
It can be said that DreamWorks Pictures has created excellent release conditions for Li Lianjie's debut film "Chinese Heroes".
It can also be said that Xu Cun, the big guy, is really interesting enough for his only horse boy Li Lianjie!
But-
At any given time, if a person wants to achieve ultimate success, he can only rely on himself in the end.
To paraphrase a common saying, iron needs to be hard.
Although Xu Cun created excellent conditions for the release of Li Lianjie's "Chinese Heroes", although Li Lianjie filmed "Chinese Heroes" with great painstaking efforts, and even hit an injury that almost killed him, but because Li Lianjie bluntly added too much preaching in "Chinese Heroes", so that the audience was not interested, and finally "Chinese Heroes" was only released in Xiangjiang for six days because the attendance rate was less than 40% and was forced to paint, and the situation in the mainland was a little better, but it was only released for seven days. It has achieved a box office of more than two million yuan.
Undoubtedly, Li Lianjie's "Chinese Heroes" hit the streets, even if he earned more than 300,000 Hong Kong dollars because of "Chinese Heroes" - discerning people, including Li Lianjie himself, know that the more than 300,000 Hong Kong dollars earned by Li Lianjie were not earned by Li Lianjie's skills, but by Li Lianjie's boss Xu Cun.
As soon as the box office of "Chinese Heroes" reached Li Lianjie, Li Lianjie brought his entire net worth to visit Xu Cun.
Of course, Xu Cun can't ask Li Lianjie for these small sums of money - Xu Cun only said two words to Li Lianjie: the first sentence, "Ajie, I have confidence in you, you will definitely be able to become an action star who is not inferior to Cheng Long." The second sentence, "Live well with Qiu Yan in the future, if you dare to bear her, I guarantee that you won't even have a chance to regret it." ”。 Then, Xu Cun, who was going to the shooting range to practice shooting, sent Li Lianjie away.
The release of "Chinese Heroes" is really insignificant to Xu Cun, but it has a far-reaching impact on Li Lianjie - first of all, from this point on, Li Lianjie regarded Xu Cun as his boss from the bottom of his heart, and even later he did not form Zhengdong Film Company like in his previous life. Secondly, from then on, Li Lianjie worked harder, and he worked harder when making movies, he wanted to prove to the world that his boss Xu Cun was not wrong about him!
But-
Success or failure is really predetermined.
The failure of "Chinese Heroes" fulfilled another newcomer to DreamWorks Films-Lin Lingdong.
After the painting of "Chinese Heroes", Shi Nansheng asked Xu Cun, who had been involved in the matter, for instructions, and changed the theaters and cinemas that originally co-screened "Chinese Heroes" to "Dragon and Tiger", which had achieved good results, so that "Dragon and Tiger" achieved a box office of 25.6 million Hong Kong dollars in one fell swoop, which was only less than 3 million Hong Kong dollars lower than Gao Zhisen's "Rich and Powerful".
The box office success of "Dragon and Tiger" in Xiangjiang was not much - because "Dragon and Tiger" appeared as a dark horse, before "Dragon and Tiger" got off the train in Xiangjiang, the distribution department of DreamWorks Film Company distributed it to Nanyang, Japan, South Korea and the mainland. After a circle, Lin Lingdong got a box office share of six or seven million Hong Kong dollars, and suddenly entered a well-off life.
Moreover, in view of the fact that "Dragon and Tiger" has achieved such good results, Tang Shuxuan, the general manager of the production department of DreamWorks Film Company (Xiangjiang Branch), personally found Lin Lingdong to allocate him a production fee of 10 million Hong Kong dollars, so that Lin Lingdong could plan a new movie.
Lin Lingdong has been suppressed in Xinyi City for many years, and he has a stomach full of thoughts. So much so that the day after Tang Shuxuan found Lin Lingdong, Lin Lingdong handed over his shooting plan, which is also the pinnacle of Lin Lingdong's life - "Prison Storm".
All in all, the failure of Li Lianjie and his "Chinese Heroes" gave Lin Lingdong, who had suffered for many years in Xinyi City, a chance to rise.
But-
Whether it is Li Lianjie or Lin Lingdong, even at the peak of their lives, they are still too small characters in Xu Cun's eyes, and they are at most just two chess pieces on the chessboard of his Xu Cun's big entertainment empire.
1986 ended.
Fast forward to 1987.
That is, the tenth year that Xu Cun came to Xiangjiang.
After ten years of hard work, Xu Cun finally successfully passed the stage of small achievements and entered the turbulent era.
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(End of Volume 2)
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This volume is over, but this book still has a long way to go, and if it weren't for the influence of external forces, and the results of this book are acceptable (which is the most important thing for the author), I will definitely write it until 2016!!
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(To be continued.) )