"What level of market reaction is considered successful?"

"To be honest, I don't know."

This was the first time since the beginning of the interview that Lin Youlun gave an answer that surprised Dong Qianli, so he followed up and asked: "Why?"

"Judging from the current Asian film market, the film markets in Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea have become saturated, not to mention Hong Kong, because of the constraints of population and market size, it is already the limit for a film to harvest hundreds of millions of box office, and this is still in the case of double ticket prices, and it is already the limit for normal films to reach 50 million box office, and now there are basically several such movies every year, so the market reaction I am talking about here does not include these regions."

Lin Youlun explained this, Dong Qianli completely understood that Lin Youlun's real intention was in the mainland market.

"Although Hong Kong films have been introduced to the mainland since the late 80s, the mainland film market mechanism has not been very perfect, and it has long been the set of planned economy, and with the deepening of the mainland's reform and opening up, in fact, the top government has also realized this problem, and the opening up of the mainland film market in the future is an inevitable trend, I believe that there will be many people like me, I want to know how much market potential this market with a billion people contains, and even I can predict without exaggeration, In the first 10 years of the new century, China's total economic output will definitely leap to the second place in the world, and the Chinese film market will become the second largest box office producing area after North America.

From this conversation, Dong Qianli can clearly feel Lin Youlunxiong's confidence in the mainland film market, and in the subsequent report compiled from this interview, he also specifically mentioned Lin Youlun's point of view.

Lin Youlun has long attached importance to the mainland film market. After the article was published in the latest issue of Ming Pao, it was seen more as a way for Lin Youlun to make his political stance.

As the premiere dates of "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" and "The Taiping Wheel" approach day by day, the attention of the media has long been shifted to these two films, and all the media are speculating. Lin Youlun went back to attend the premiere on which side.

"The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" here. Director Spielberg agreed to direct this film entirely because of his personal relationship with Lin Youlun. Otherwise, any other director would not easily touch this sensitive subject that has nothing to do with him, because this is a completely thankless task.

Again, Lin Youlun and Spielberg are just simple friends. As the second of the three giants of Oriental DreamWorks, the two still have very consistent interests, both public and private, Lin Youlun should come to the show.

Of course, if things are really so simple, the media will not quarrel over this issue, and some people even make bets on it, but "Taiping Wheel" is also very involved with Lin Youlun.

The film's director, Wu Yusen, was one of the first directors in Hong Kong to work with Lin Youlun. The two have worked together many times over the years and their relationship is extraordinary.

And the three heroines of the film, Lin Qingxia and Lin Youlun are godsisters and brothers, if it weren't for Lin Youlun's face. She is already married and has retired from filming, and she will never come out to act again no matter what; Not to mention Zhong Chuhong, she has a daughter for Lin Youlun, and there are even rumors in the outside world that Lin Youlun spent such a large price to make this movie, all for her; And the last heroine, Chen Hong, was popularized by Lin Youlun, although there is no evidence that the two are dating, but the relationship between the two is ambiguous. Ambiguity is an indisputable fact.

In addition, among the actors, such as Zhang Yurong and Liang Chaowei, they also agreed to act more or less because of Lin Youlun, so if Lin Youlun was absent from the premiere of "Taiping Wheel", it would definitely be unreasonable.

On the day of the premiere, many Hong Kong media were not sure where Lin Youlun would go, so they could only divide into two ways, but the reporters who just arrived from overseas were not so entangled.

American reporters are also running at both ends, but the number of people at the premiere of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" is significantly more than that of "Taiping Wheel", Japanese reporters are simple, basically they all go to the "Taiping Wheel" side, plus some reporters from the mainland, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, basically the number of reporters present at the two premieres is about the same.

In the editorial office of a magazine, a young man hurriedly pushed open the door and broke in.

"Editor-in-chief, the entrance ceremony of "Taiping Wheel" has ended, and many celebrities have come to cheer, but Lin Youlun did not show up, and it has been confirmed at the scene, and the organizer has not arranged Lin Youlun's seat."

The middle-aged man with glasses behind the desk stood up excitedly, "I didn't go to "Taiping Wheel", it must be there in "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", quickly, contact the reporter over there immediately to confirm the situation!" "

As soon as the voice fell, the phone that had been put aside rang.

"What are you talking about, Lin Youlun didn't go to the premiere of "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" either, how is this possible?"

Soon, most of the media in Hong Kong confirmed the news, Lin Youlun did not attend the premiere of "Taiping Wheel" or the premiere of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", as for where Lin Youlun went, no one knows.

Compared to the frenzy of the journalists, the critics were much more calm, and their attention was entirely focused on the two films themselves.

Liu Ruicheng is such an independent film critic, when he walked out of the cinema, he was still recalling the half-hour-long fierce battle at the beginning of "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", shells, bullets bloomed everywhere, flesh and blood flew everywhere he went, and this was all when he closed his eyes, and even he was still trying to recall the Chinese sergeant in the final battle to defend Nanjing. [,！ How many soldiers are there, how many are left in the end, and so on.

Obviously, war is not the theme of this movie, but Spielberg still used a lot of film space to render the cruel reality of war, otherwise there would not be such a battle scene showing the defense of Nanjing at the beginning of the film.

There is never a shortage of gunfight scenes in Hong Kong movies, and the scenes are also very big and bloody, but these are not on the same level as war movies.

It is precisely because of the lack of this type of film that Liu Ruicheng can't help but admire the director's skills every time he watches this kind of large-scale war movie, and Spielberg is obviously a master of this.

His control of the whole film has reached the point where he can freely retract and release it, which simply gives the audience a sense of immersion, and this sense of distance between the audience and the film is vividly displayed through various details of the film.

For example, before the battle began, the Chinese soldiers who knew that they had been encircled behaved differently: some were shaking their hands unconsciously, some were silently wiping their guns, and an officer put down his binoculars and took out a photo of his wife to take a final look.

And as soon as the battle began, this tension quickly turned into brutality.

The position of the squadron was covered by heavy artillery fire, and a soldier with a broken arm was looking for his arm everywhere, and then found the broken arm in his hand at a loss; The seriously wounded lay there screaming and wailing; One bullet killed the soldier's companion, and just as the soldier was glad that it wasn't him, another bullet shattered his head...... The wreckage of severed limbs, the shattered brains, the intestines flowing out of the wounds of the body, every shot is so shocking.

Liu Ruicheng swore that the Battle of Nanjing in "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" was definitely the most realistic and detailed war scene he had ever seen, so bloody that he couldn't bear to witness it, so much so that when watching the movie, some viewers quietly covered their eyes and couldn't bear to watch it.

This kind of realistic depiction of war scenes does not have any subjective color, which may be a unique advantage of Spielberg as a foreign director to shoot this kind of film, he will not judge who belongs to the righteous side in this battle, but only truly show the cruelty of war, and through this touch and shock, the audience will naturally realize the inhumanity of war and the preciousness of peace.

This method is more than twice as clever as simply reflecting the brutality of the Japanese army.

Liu Ruicheng pondered these questions in his heart, and walked out with the flow of people who ended, but at this time, the pager hanging on his waist rang.

After seeing the number displayed above, Liu Ruicheng ran to the door of the theater, discussed it with the owner of a store, and then used the phone in the store to call back.

"How's it going, how are you feeling over there?"

As soon as the phone was connected, Liu Ruicheng asked impatiently.

The friend and colleague on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment, "It's so shocking, the whole process of sinking the Taiping Wheel is exactly like the real thing, and I can't see any traces of the existence of special effects at all, and I don't know how to describe that scene in words."

"It's just special effects, but what about the plot?" Liu Ruicheng frowned.

"The plot is also very touching, and the part of life and death parting between the three teams of couples when the shipwreck in the film made many people in the movie theater cry." The colleague briefly described his experience of watching the movie, and then asked about Liu Ruicheng's situation.

"Spielberg's control of war scenes in this movie is definitely the best in the same genre of movies, no, it can be said to be a textbook of war films, as for the plot, I'll sell it first, it's worth watching anyway!" Liu Ruicheng changed his hand to hold the microphone, "By the way, I didn't see Lin Youlun at the premiere, he went to your side?"

The colleague's answer was very surprising.

"No, I thought he was on your side!"

Liu Ruicheng couldn't help frowning, Lin Youlun didn't even participate in the premiere on both sides, this is too abnormal!

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