Chapter 170: Dating Zhou Huimin
Speaking from the heart, "Hardcover Chasing Girls", which Wang Jing and Meng Chao collaborated on for the first time, is definitely not a movie with depth.
But does a movie have to be all about depth?
According to the future director Feng Xiaogang, movies originated from the marquee, which belongs to the vulgar art of entertaining the public, although it is not difficult to get into the elegant hall, but it is indeed something that everyone can afford.
Therefore, the biggest measure of the quality of a movie should be whether it can make people happy!
A movie can be a literary tragedy, it can be a tragedy, but at that time it must be able to really touch the hearts of the audience.
In the same way, movies can actually be very simple, funny for the sake of being funny, and spoofing for the sake of spoofing.
But this qiē doesn't matter, what it needs to do is to be able to make the audience smile, the so-called radish and green vegetables have their own love, whether it is spring and white snow or the lower riba people have the value of saving zài.
And the simplest measure is at least not disgusting!
Although the content of this "Hardcover Chasing Girls" can be said to be all over-the-top and crazy, it can make people laugh, so this movie still has its necessity.
For many media and film critics, this movie is a rare groundbreaking work in Chinese films.
That was to pioneer a category of spoofed hits, although genre movies have had in the past.
For example, Jiang Dawei's "Owl" spoofed the martial arts films of the time in a nonsensical form, and Shaw Brothers' "Li Sanjiao Breaks the Gate of Hell" is even more a spoof of Bruce Lee, a superstar in the film industry......
But there are very few movies that can be like "Hardcover Chasing Girls" is a comprehensive spoof of the content of popular movies, and invited the most interesting characters of the original movie to play the leading role, so that he can spoof his own role, which is even more groundbreaking.
For this reason, this is also the reason why "Hardcover Chasing Girls" can make so many people laugh!
One is based on the spoof elements of the movie itself, and the other is that the theme of chasing girls is originally a favorite theme for many audiences, so it is easy to shoot a comedic effect.
Therefore, in the end, a completely commercial film such as "Hardcover Chasing Girls" also achieved good box office revenue, and the box office reached 12 million on the first day, and it reached 50 million a week later!
It can be said that in the production of commercial films, the young Wang Jing is really a good hand. His first film after joining Genesis Film Company was a good box office result in "Hardcover Chasing Girls" to Meng Chaona.
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And when the time was gradually approaching November, Meng Chao finally released the first record album in his life - "Never Left".
This record has been planned and produced since the end of the Youth Innovation Competition, and the song selection has been selected very early. The rest of the time I started shooting the music video while I was free.
Because Meng Chao himself is an increasingly professional director, Meng Chao is basically responsible for the MV shooting of the entire record, and he has invited many professionals from Century Note Records to provide the creativity of MV shooting, combined with the original MV content of these eleven songs. Slowly forming a story.
Meng Chao has always been a professional singer, and his biggest dream in the past was to be able to release his own record.
For this reason, Meng Chao is very attentive, and the level of shooting of the entire record MV is much stronger than that of the average singer's record MV, because Meng Chao is very strict with himself, and he does not only have vague scenes and heroines like the MV of ordinary singers, but requires that the MV content of each song must be a complete story!
And it should be easy to understand, so that the audience can understand it at once, and through the story, it will be easier to understand what the song wants to express.
It took nearly 40 working days to complete the MV shooting of the eleven songs, and it wasn't until November that the album "Never Left" began to be subscribed on the Internet.
And almost a week later. Some of the video stores on the market are just starting to be able to buy the record.
It can be said that Meng Chao made this record very carefully, and it was not entirely for the purpose of making money, as can be seen from the pricing of the record, this is a high-quality record with very thin profits.
Meng Chao's main idea is to hope to fulfill his own dream before the record industry is completely sluggish, so he will treat it with such a rigorous attitude.
And Meng Chao's efforts were not in vain, after the release of this record, 80,000 copies have been sold in less than three days, which is already a platinum record by current standards.
And after three days, sales have not fallen. Many video stores have even run out of stock, and consumers who want to buy can only buy online directly online with Meng Chao's Century Note Record Company!
In terms of sales, this record is likely to exceed one million copies, and there are no more than ten singers who can have such sales in the music industry today. is basically a superstar in the music industry such as Zhang Guorong, Xu Guanjie, Tan Yonglin and Deng Lijun.
"Hui Min, my new record has sold more than 80,000 copies in three days!"
After learning the good news, Meng Chao called Zhou Huimin in the office of Genesis Film Company.
"Congratulations, Mr. Meng!"
Hearing Zhou Huimin's slightly polite answer, Meng Chao was a little dissatisfied: "Didn't you say that you couldn't call me Mr. Meng?" See a lot! ”
Hearing Meng Chao's words, Zhou Huimin on the other end of the phone was a little twisted and said, "Okay." Then I'll call you Super Brother! ”
"That's good." Meng Chao said with a doting tone, since the Youth Innovation Competition, although Zhou Huimin has signed a contract with Meng Chao's two major companies and signed a long-term contract for several years, she has always been very leisurely, there is no suitable thing to do, and the company arranges a few commercial performances for her on weekdays, and Meng Chao also respects Zhou Huimin very much, and proposes that Zhou Huimin's original commercial performance can only be accepted.
And because there is less contact, the relationship between the two is still relatively rusty, which makes Meng Chao very regretful, so he immediately called Zhou Huimin after the record sold well this time.
"Is Hui Min free tonight? I'll invite you to dinner, talk a little bit about work, I plan to start filming a TV series before the end of the year, you are one of the heroines, and now I feel that the record industry still has a certain vitality, so I plan to let Century Note also help you release a record after the year, and we will discuss the issue of song selection. ”
Hearing Meng Chao's words, Zhou Huimin hesitated for a moment, but still agreed: "Okay then." I'm waiting for you at home? You can just go downstairs and call me. (To be continued.) )