If you want to see how wonderful special effects and cool fight scenes in "The Four Famous Hunters", Zhang Tan will roll his eyes directly, don't think too much.

The total cost of the first film invested and produced by Sonic Pictures, including filming and publicity, does not exceed 20 million yuan.

Although the renminbi appreciated slightly in 2006 and the exchange rate against the US dollar has fallen by 8 points, this cost is still a low-to-medium cost. In the past two years, since "Jing Ke Assassinated Qin" created the era of domestic blockbusters, the fifth generation of big directors have calculated the cost of films according to 100 million yuan.

Without wonderful special effects and cool fights, "The Four Famous Hunters" is supported by a twisted story.

When Zhang Tan was thinking about the script, he felt that martial arts films were obviously not suitable for playing with depth, and they had to be made into fast-paced commercial films, so that the audience could feel cool after watching them.

In his memory, those martial arts films that like to play literature and art and play with connotation finally hit the street with glory, such as Hou Xiaoxian's "Assassin Nie Yinniang", with a production cost of 90 million, and the box office recovery was only 60 million, and it rushed to his grandmother's house.

However, what made Zhang Tan very depressed was that in his opinion, this movie, which he could fall asleep in ten minutes and was too lazy to watch fast-forward, actually won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

"Is this the coldness of literary films?"

"If all literary films have to be filmed like this, I think I should not make literary films in the future." This is Zhang Tan's most intuitive voice when he thinks of such a film after he crosses over.

In short, the directing goals he set for himself, and the movies he made were either big hits, cool, or well-known.

And this "Huijing Division" is a script that he participated in the creation of according to the standard of a big hit.

When on the big screen, the whole picture of the movie is presented frame by frame. Seeing four young students, all kinds of cool and handsome plays, coupled with weird and unpredictable stories, rendering a duel with a strong atmosphere, and occasionally showing off a loving emotional scene. Zhang Tan himself thinks it's not bad, at least as a popcorn movie. Qualified.

If you don't tell any big truth, you just tell a story with climaxes and ups and downs.

Chen Gordon is also worthy of being the standard Xiangxiang director who has filmed, pee, and fart comedies, putting aside reasoning, all kinds of plots are handled very much6, although the plot twist is a little stiff, and many details always lack a little mellow reasonableness. But because of Zhang Tan's suggestion to deliberately speed up the pace, there were a lot fewer urine spots after watching the whole movie.

"Not bad, 10 out of standard. In his last life, Zhang Yimou's "Hero" was 7. If it is 5 points, "Huijing Division" is about 6. 5 points, passing line. At the end of the film screening, Zhang Tan stood up with all the main creators with this thought, and bowed deeply in front of the audience in the theater, thanking everyone for their loud applause.

Then it's time for the interactive Q&A after watching the movie.

In addition to leaving a lot of time for reporters to ask questions, the organizers of the premiere have left. also arranged for the creators to respond to many questions from fans and audiences.

Zhang Tan was asked the most frequently.

A reporter from the Information Times asked him: "I have seen the original work of "Huijing Division", in the movie. Many of the long plots in the book, in the movie, seem to be just a brushstroke, why is it so treated? ”

Zhang Tan replied: "A novel of 450,000 words, it may take ordinary people to watch it all day to finish it, a 110-minute movie. It's just a two-hour pastime. In a novel, you can suppress a large part of the plot to create a short climax, but in a movie you have to let the climax one after the other to ensure that the audience can concentrate. ”

When it comes to theoretical knowledge, Zhang Tan is a movie fan who has mixed with Douban and Time.com. Naturally, there is no stage fright, and I have studied in the directing department of Nortel for two years, so it is too simple to fool: "This involves the most important thing of a commercial film, which can be called cool and urinating." ”

The reporter asked very cooperatively: "What is a cool point, what is a urine point?" ”

"These two words are summarized by myself, and the cool point is the plot that can make the audience feel excited, for example, it can be killing a boss, it can be a stalk that makes people laugh, the purpose is to make the audience feel comfortable. The pee spot is a plot that makes the audience unable to lift their energy, and even feels bored and wants to go to the toilet. ”

After a pause, Zhang Tan continued: "The audience's attention is actually scattered and not concentrated. So for a movie, a good commercial movie, you have to make the cool points a little denser, and the urine points as low as possible. In "Huijing Division", we dilute all the possible urine points and try to highlight the cool points. ”

After a cool point and urine point theory, the flickering reporters were stunned for a moment.

It feels awesome.

Grab a pen and write down these two words, and when you can write a press release, spread the word.

When answering reporters, Zhang Tan was mostly fooling, but in response to fans' questions, Zhang Tan still answered as seriously as possible.

A girl wearing glasses said excitedly: "Tan Dada, I am your die-hard fan." ”

Zhang Tan smiled back: "Thank you." ”

"After watching this movie, I thought it was very good, and I just wanted to know if there would be a sequel? There are still a lot of stories about the four famous catches that have not been filmed. ”

"If the box office is good, there should definitely be a sequel, and the follow-up novel, film and television adaptation rights have been sold, and others should not buy it back as a collector's item."

The series of film and television copyrights of the four famous catches have all been wiped out by the local tyrant Sonic Pictures, and they cannot be sold to other companies again before filming starts.

Fans felt extra satisfied when they got the guarantee: "Then I wish "The Four Famous Catchers of Jingshi" can be a big hit!" Tan Dada, you have to work hard to create more and better novels! ”

"Thank you."

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On Friday, April 28, the day after the premiere, "The Four Famous Catchers of Jingshi" was released nationwide.

The Chinese film market in 2006 was far from being as prosperous as it would be in the future, although there were many movies made, but the number of films that could enter theaters was pitifully low, and those that could make money were even more pitiful, and there were also many restrictions on imported films. The most direct embodiment is that except for the summer and Chinese New Year files, there are almost no good schedules.

is not like the future scene in Zhang Tan's memory, the Spring Festival stalls and love. People's Day stalls, May Day stalls, summer stalls, National Day stalls, and New Year stalls, wave after wave of non-stop.

Therefore, this May Day schedule will be very popular in the future. Not many movies were released at this time.

There is only one that can be regarded as attracting more attention, which is "The Four Famous Catchers of Beijing". In addition, there are "Marriage by Agreement", "Judge Lao Zhang's Anecdote: Don't Move Feelings", "Dean Dad", "Taklamakan" and so on. The only thing that can be considered influential is the imported Hollywood fantasy adventure blockbuster "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", but it will be released two weeks later.

left a fifteen-day schedule without competition for "Huijing Division".

Zhang Tan is very concerned about the box office of the movie and wants to know the box office on the opening day. to determine whether the film can attract the audience.

But it's a pity that in this era, even the national online ticketing has not been done, and many theaters are using manual ticketing, accurate statistics, and they have to fly for a long time.

However, there is a more intuitive way to see whether the movie is a blockbuster or not - it depends on how reporters from all over the world report it.

After the premiere, many media outlets reported on the film's reputation.

"Information Times" said: ""The Four Famous Catchers of Jingshi" is a qualified martial arts film with dense and cool points throughout the whole process and almost no urine spots. ”

"Southern Metropolis Daily" said: "Although there are no exciting fight scenes as imagined, "The Four Famous Catchers of Beijing" still shows the charm that can make people watch it for two hours with relish. ”

The Yangcheng Evening News said: "The fast-paced plot overshadowed the disappointing performances. ”

The Beijing Times doesn't know if it forgot to give it a gift. Unceremoniously criticized: "Maybe you think it's terrible after watching "Jing Ke Assassinating Qin", but I believe that you may change your mind after watching "The Four Famous Hunters". ”

"Chutian Metropolis Daily" reported the experience of watching the movie from another aspect: "Tan Zhang, producer, screenwriter and author of the original book, after attending the premiere, was very satisfied with the film adaptation, saying that this is a cool point full of climaxes, but there is no urine point that makes people want to go to the toilet." ”

There is a media of praise and a media of criticism.

The word-of-mouth is not very good, but it is not as good as when "Steamed Bun Blood" was released last year. The overwhelming scolding, on the contrary, may be due to the big bad movie "Steamed Bun Bloody Case", which has enhanced the audience's drug resistance. The evaluation of "Huijing Division" is not bad.

Subsequently, the investigation reports of theaters in various places also proved that this movie did not suffer from coldness.

In many places, the attendance rate of movie theaters is okay, especially in Beiqi and Guangzhou. It is very high, and the attendance rate of Yuhai is slightly lower.

Four days later, there are finally preliminary statistics on the box office performance of the first week of the movie.

Sonic Pictures immediately invited the media to release this data to the public.

"Three days after the release. "The Four Famous Catchers of Beijing" won 30 million yuan at the box office, and the third blockbuster of this year to break 100 million yuan is about to be born! ”

The title is impactful and catches the viewer's eye.

This result is indeed very good, there is a blockbuster of more than 100 million, as long as you don't dive next week, you should be able to safely enter the 100 million yuan club.

The audience's word-of-mouth has gradually spread out.

"I think this movie is average, there are not many surprises, but it is not as bad as I imagined." A middle-aged man in his thirties, told reporters.

"As an original party, I am still very satisfied with this adaptation, I feel that the scene is a bit small, but the story is very attractive." So said a college student in Beiya.

A white-collar lady said in an interview with reporters: "I went to see it with my colleagues, and the ticket cost 30 yuan, and I felt that it was worth it back." I usually watch some foreign films, and there is still a gap between domestic films and foreign films. ”

Another middle-aged teacher said, "It's very lively. "I don't know if he's praising the movie or scolding the movie.

In any case, after obtaining 30 million yuan in the first weekend of "The Four Famous Catchers", investors and creators are satisfied. Zhang Tan also felt satisfied, this is his first movie adapted from a novel, as long as he doesn't lose, he wins.

After all, in the current Chinese film market, there are about a dozen movies a year that can make money, and the rest are losing money.

As long as you see the hope of making money, there will be no shortage of rich big bosses, who are fooled into the film circle and spend money to invest in making movies. The next ten years or so will be a period of rapid development of Chinese films, and countless hot money will pour in. This time the film adaptation made a lot of money, and Zhang Tan can imagine that the price of his other novels and film copyrights should be increased.

……

Another week later.

The movie did not disappoint everyone.

In the second week, "The Four Famous Catchers of Beijing" stabilized its footing, did not dive, and won the box office of 45 million again, accumulating the total box office to 75 million yuan.

rushed to the third place in the national box office in 2006, the first two are the only two movies that have broken 100 million so far this year, "Huo Yuanjia" and "Da Vinci Code", both of which have just started with a box office of 100 million.

"The four famous ones are about to break 100 million, and Sonic Pictures is off to a good start!" The media quickly drafted the headline. (To be continued.) )

PS: Forgive me for only having one shift today.

I started coding words in the morning, and by the evening, there were about seven or eight thousand words, and all of them were overturned and recoded......

In the past two days, many people have complained about my water, poor quality of chapters, and too slow pace, so that I don't have the courage to release new chapters now. I'm reorganizing the outline now, I believe I will be able to adjust it soon, this book is the best one in the two years since I wrote the book, I will definitely treat it with my heart!