With the dust of the main roles of "Red Cliff" settled, "Red Cliff" became popular before filming, and it has undoubtedly become the focus of media reports again, with a huge investment of 200 million yuan and a super cast, bringing together Lin Yuquan, Liu Dehua, Liang Chaowei, Chen Daoming, Chen Jianbing, Zhen Zidan, Fan Binbin, Zhou Xun, Liu Yifei and many other celebrities and popular film and television supernovas across the Taiwan Strait, its lineup is simply fantastic.

And the discussion on the Internet about whether the star lineup of "Red Cliff" is in line with the characters of the Three Kingdoms is overwhelming, almost every star is compared with the characters of the Three Kingdoms, and all kinds of posts can be seen everywhere in the forum, some are praised, some are criticized, and some are noncommittal, but what is surprising is that Fan Binbin, Zhou Xun, and Liu Yifei have won everyone's applause, and Erqiao Sun Shangxiang is considered by countless people to be one of the most anticipated scenes in "Red Cliff".

Compared with the age of the three women, it has not had a bad impact at all, and a group of male actors have been subject to a lot of controversy on the issue of age, but the actors and roles are too different, take several leading actors, Zhou Yu was 34 years old during the Battle of Chibi, Lin Yuquan was only 22 years old, Cao Cao was 54 years old, Chen Jianbing was 35 years old, Zhuge Liang was only 28 years old, Chen Daoming was as high as 50 years old, Liu Bei was 48 years old, You Yong was 45 years old, Zhao Yun was 50 years old, Liu Dehua was 44 years old, Sun Quan was 27 years old, Liang Chaowei was 43 years old, the age difference is very obvious, And there are also obvious differences between the appearance and the historical records.

Lin Yuquan had expected it, but he didn't worry too much, which of the various versions of the Three Kingdoms is 100% satisfactory, and how many actors can meet the standards in the audience's minds?

What's more, not to mention the physiognomy of the characters in the Three Kingdoms, no one knows it today. If after the movie is released, the audience criticizes an actor for not acting like or acting unrealistically, it can only mean that the actor's acting skills are really not good.

What made him hurt was that the media that had always been keen actually linked him to Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige.

When it comes to Hou Hsiao-hsien, you will think of Yang Dechang, when you think of Godard, you will think of Truffaut, when you think of Spielberg, you will think of George Lucas, when it comes to Yasujiro Ozu, you will think of Akira Kurosawa, in the history of Chinese and foreign films, there are many directors and superstars who are active in the same country and in the same period.

Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige are undoubtedly such twin superstars, when it comes to Zhang Yimou, you will only think of Chen Kaige, and in fact, the competition between the two has almost been the main theme of the development of mainland films in the past two decades.

As early as 1984, Chen Kaige filmed the highly symbolic "Yellow Earth", when Zhang Yi was only his photographer, and his brilliance was completely obscured. Later, in 1987, Zhang Yi made his debut film "Red Sorghum", which won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival in one fell swoop, completely announcing the rise of the fifth generation of directors.

After entering the 90s, the two directors began to enter the golden creative period, in this period, the first to show their talent was Zhang Yimou, with the filming of the last two parts of his trilogy "Ju Dou" and "The Red Lantern Hangs High", which caused great repercussions around the world, and the edge firmly suppressed Chen Kaige. It wasn't until Chen Kaige made "Farewell My Concubine", which can be called one of the most outstanding works in the history of Chinese cinema and the only Chinese-language film to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, that it won back a city, and the $30 million global box office of "Farewell My Concubine" made Zhang Yi insurmountable for many years.

But Zhang Yi is Zhang Yi after all, after "Alive", in the next ten years, Zhang Yi began to continue to try and explore, "Qiu Ju Fights a Lawsuit" and "No One is Missing" won the Venice Golden Lion Award twice, and once again made Chen Kaige a foil role, especially in the past two years, "Hero" and "Ambush on All Sides" have created a new box office myth and become the leader of Chinese commercial films.

But in the same way, how could Chen Kaige admit defeat lightly, so after ten years of silence, he finally made another amazing move last year, filming "Wuji", which is known as the oriental fantasy epic movie.

Its investment of more than 300 million yuan once again set a new investment record in the history of Chinese films, trampling Zhang Yi's $30 million for "Hero" and 250 million yuan for "Ambush on All Sides". At the same time, the film brings together a star lineup of Zhang Dongjian, Nicholas Tse, Cecilia Cheung, Chen Hong, and Hiroichi Sanada, as well as Bao Dexi, who won the Oscar for Best Cinematography for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and Lin Di'an, the martial arts instructor of "The Matrix" and "Spider-Man".

Everyone can see Chen Kaige's intentions, yes, after being suppressed for many years, he wants to point to the brilliant box office record set by "Hero" and compete with Zhang Yi on the road of commercial films.

Originally, the dispute between the two had nothing to do with Lin Yuquan, but who made him belong to the Kyoto Film Academy now, and it just so happened that he was about to shoot the 200 million huge "Red Cliff", and he also took the route of a commercial blockbuster, so he was naturally associated with Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige by media reporters, calling it "the arms race of the three directors of the Kyoto Film Academy".

This statement is also appropriate, because the films of the three of them can be described as unbeatable in terms of investment and star lineup, obviously outperforming other domestic films, leaving Feng Xiaogang and others far behind, leading the current trend of commercial blockbusters in China, and once again demonstrating the unshakable status of the Kyoto Film Academy to help directors.

What makes the media even more excited is that "A Thousand Miles to Ride Alone" and "Wuji" have been scheduled to be released at the end of this year, and according to the filming time of "Red Cliff", it is very difficult to release it in the summer.

At present, the best schedule in China is undoubtedly the summer file and the Chinese New Year file, if the summer file cannot be released, then it is likely that it will also be released at the end of the year, so the three will directly face off in the New Year file, and this is also an important reason why he and the two are put together.

When mentioning this topic, the media will inevitably compare it with the New Year war set off by Feng Xiaogang, Zhou Xingchi, and Lin Yuquan that has just ended.

But now the competition between Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Lin Yuquan, the three directors who are also from the Kyoto Film Academy, is obviously better than the former in terms of topicality, and at the same time, Lin Yuquan's "Red Cliff" and Chen Kaige's "Wuji", the two films together have reached 500 million investment, which is undoubtedly the most expensive showdown of the century for domestic films in history. It's crazy to think about such a grand event.

For a while, with the news of "Red Cliff", the topic of the Lunar New Year war between the three seniors of Kyoto Film Academy, who is also the new generation of directors and the fifth generation of directors, was quickly detonated and occupied the headlines of major entertainment media.

There was a lot of discussion in the outside world, but Lin Yuquan was not idle, after having dinner with the leading actors of "Red Cliff", he immediately asked people to collect information about relevant agents in the entertainment industry for him, and started a new round of busyness.

"Director Lin, it seems that after the wonderful Chinese New Year war that just ended, we will be able to enjoy a good show at the end of the year, to be honest, it is difficult to guess who will win and who will lose between you and Director Chen, but I am optimistic that you will win in the global box office competition." A gentle voice rang out.

"Thank you! I didn't expect that there were still people who were optimistic about me, it seems that I have to be more attentive when making movies, so as not to live up to Sister Hua's trust in me. Lin Yuquan smiled at the middle-aged woman with short black hair sitting opposite him, looking extremely capable, her appearance is very ordinary, just from the appearance, it may be difficult for outsiders to imagine that this inconspicuous woman is Wang Jinhua, the first agent in the mainland who is popular Li Binbin, Fan Binbin, Ren Quan, Hu Jun and others.

Speaking of Wang Jinhua's experience, its brilliance is truly amazing.

As the first generation of cultural agents in China, she was involved in the music industry at the beginning, and later became popular in the Chinese music scene, and the famous brother group brothers established a firm foothold in the brokerage circle, and then successively recruited singers such as Gao Feng, Dai Rao, Bai Xue, and Li Huizhen to become a well-known singer agent in the domestic music scene, and really had a place in the brokerage circle. But this is just the beginning, and later at the invitation of Chen Daoming, she officially transferred to film and television agency, and shined dazzlingly in this new field, and became a veritable first agent in the mainland after bringing Cheng Qian, You Yong, Li Binbin, Ren Quan, Hu Jun, Liu Wei, Fan Binbin, Su Jin and other actors to popularity.

And she has a high industry status in the entertainment industry, which can be called the textbook and examiner of artist brokerage, and is also known as "Sister Hua" by countless star artists, only with her own ability and charm, in recent years, Guan Zhilin, Liu Jialing, Yang Ziyi, Yuan Yongyi, Wu Junru and other Hong Kong and Taiwan stars have joined her banner, and it is she who single-handedly created Huayi Brothers, the aircraft carrier of mainland artist brokerage.

After chatting with Liu's mother the night before, Lin Yuquan was ready to dig people, but he didn't have the time and energy to dig one broker after another, but planned to directly dig the manager of a brokerage company, and then she would set up a brokerage company, and do her best to bring the brokerage company on the right track.

After excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan brokers, Lin Yuquan quickly locked up several gold medal brokers in the mainland, not because of the ability of Hong Kong and Taiwan brokers, but because his company is in the mainland, and the brokerage business that the brokers are responsible for handling is basically only for the domestic.

The most powerful and influential of these gold medal agents is Wang Jinhua, who is naturally the first to be contacted by him.

"Hehe, Director Lin said this, it seems that he is very confident in himself." Wang Jinhua said with a smile.

"Where do I have confidence, in fact, I don't have any confidence in defeating Director Chen, after all, Director Chen's box office appeal is far from what I can compare with now, it's just that my movie hasn't started shooting yet, if I am timid now, it will inevitably affect my shooting level, so what I said just now is just cheering myself up." Lin Yuquan said indifferently, it's not that he really doesn't have confidence in himself, on the contrary, his self-confidence is more than anyone else, but he is not very interested in the competition with Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou advocated by the media.

In Lin Yuquan's view, the director is not comparing with others, but should be with the standard in his own heart, if he blindly compares the box office with other directors, it is unfair to the vast majority of directors. After all, there are differences in the content, investment, cast, and publicity of each movie, how can they be forcibly put together for comparison.

And what is a real victory, some people may think that as long as the film achieves a high box office and succeeds in making money, it is a victory, but he feels that the film is a real victory only if it meets the requirements and standards expected by the director.

Otherwise, no matter how high the box office is, the film will be shot like, and there is nothing to be proud of.