Chapter 349 The Global Cover of Time Magazine

The global billion-dollar box office of "Interstellar" is gradually settled.

There are really god-level movies in China.

This movie pushed Chen Xi to a real peak.

In China, Chen Xi has obviously become the first person in the film industry!

Even if he was only thirty years old now.

Moreover, "Interstellar" is not just a box office hit, in fact, the film has a pretty good reputation in the whole world, and even set off a craze for learning astrophysics in the whole world, and many people use what they have learned to analyze the science of "Interstellar", or to debate things about "Interstellar" with others.

On the IMDB film review website, the rating of "Interstellar" finally maintained a score of 9.0, entering the 9-point club, so you can imagine how well received the film in the North American market.

On China's Time.com and Douban.com, this movie also has a score of 9.1 and 9.3 respectively, which is almost the same level as "Farewell My Concubine".

And this movie, although it was not able to win the Oscar for foreign language films for many reasons and various competitions, but this film was nominated for the Best Director Award at the Academy Film Festival in 2014, and Chen Xi was nominated for this award twice, which has proved his position as a big director.

And this movie did not win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and after many things competed, it was finally awarded to an award that many people did not expect, and even fell below the glasses: Best Original Screenplay!

This award will be awarded to a foreign film, which really blinds many people's 24K titanium alloy dog eyes, but the wood is already in the boat, and Chen Xi also won an Oscar that truly belongs to him!

The film won the highest Golden Bear Award in Berlin at the European Film Festival Awards next year, and Liang Chaowei was crowned another actor in this place!

…… These awards have pushed the artistic value of "Interstellar" and Chen Xi's status in the world film industry to a big step.

Of course, all over the world. Interstellar has also become a phenomenon.

"Interstellar offers spectacular spectacle, plenty of drama, and a sense of humor that is full of highlights. It makes us surrender because of surprise and makes us feel small in front of a universe. Obviously, on the way to making an epic, director Chen Xi also made us feel fun. -- The Guardian.

"Chen Xi is already one of the most skilled storytellers of this generation of filmmakers, and this film deserves a place in the temple of science fiction classics such as "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Contact of the Third Kind" and "Gravity." -- Variety, USA.

"Interstellar is a surreal and dreamlike space adventure. This grandiose film explores the intimacy of human beings while also contemplating the universe in a fascinating way. The film's narrative and bold conception propelled you into its grand and believable structure, and it seems that we can hope that Chen Xi, a Chinese director, will one day truly create his own masterpiece. β€”The Hollywood Reporter.

...... "Chen Xi's love letter about cosmic travel and exploring the stars requires the patience of the audience. But along with the film's transcendent visual scenes, it provides viewers with incredible emotional rewards. A film full of emotion, full of energy, but not long and dull, with surprising images and without indulging in plot logic. - Global Screen.

…… Official media, individual fans......

Too many people have made their own comments about this movie, even if it is some not-so-good reviews.

After "Interstellar", Chen Xi received an interview invitation from the American "Time Magazine", and it was not the Asian edition of "Time", but directly "Time".

Actually, it's no wonder.

"Interstellar" grossed $1 billion at the global box office, which is now for a foreign language film in North America. It's an unimaginable success, and it will have a major impact on the history of the film industry in the whole world, so it makes sense that interviews like this are now.

For this kind of interview. Chen Xi naturally accepted it.

This "Interstellar" is really the world's top movie for Chen Xi.

A director who can make two movies, "Gravity" and "Interstellar". The cumulative box office is close to $1.9 billion, and the score is also very good, so his next status is really not comparable to before.

This trend continues. He must be the figure who has left a name in the world cinema temple.

The people from Time Magazine came soon, and the efficiency was relatively high, and Chen Xi was also interviewed according to the arranged itinerary.

Obviously, this article will definitely involve a lot of things, and it may even be escalated to the matter of national competition.

Since a long time ago, Chen Xi has actually entered the country's sight, and he has begun to slowly approach the goal he wanted at the beginning.

A lot of things will eventually rise to this level.

Chen Xi wanted to do something.

Of course, as far as the facts are concerned, he is ready for an interview now, and there is no point in thinking too much about the rest.

"What do you think is the most successful aspect of Interstellar? There are a lot of high-rated movies and good-looking sci-fi movies, but why is only your "Interstellar" the first non-Hollywood film in the world to gross more than $1 billion? This American journalist named John said something like this directly.

In fact, there are a lot of outstanding films in the world, including Japan's "Spirited Away" and many others, especially the Soviet Union's "War and Peace", the film of the fighting nation took 170,000 people to shoot, and they made a 100,000-square-meter Moscow and then burned it with fire, with a total investment of nearly 600 million US dollars.

The war scenes of this movie are so grand, it is estimated that it is difficult for mankind to surpass any movie, and the drama is also very elegant, basically breaking the American Hepburn version of "War and Peace", and the final return of the movie is also high, just in Japan it dropped 250 million US dollars, a fire, and even in the context of the Cold War, this movie won the best foreign language film at the Oscars.

But it's a pity that the global box office of this movie did not exceed 1 billion......

Chen Xi said with a smile: "Movies such as "Source Code" and "Gravity" have given me a certain popularity, and "Interstellar" has touched everyone in some places, so it has a good box office, and I am also very satisfied." In addition, I have to say that the box office success of "Interstellar" also comes from my backing, that is, the huge Chinese mainland market, which contributed more than 300 million US dollars to the box office of "Interstellar" this time, otherwise it would not have made the global box office to this level. ”

He's right.

"Now that China is one of the largest box office markets in the world, what impact do you think this will have on the entire world film industry?"

Chen Xi said: "I think it's all a good influence, for film practitioners, this is a huge market, can accommodate more films, of course, now in the Chinese market, in addition to Chinese films, basically more than 90% of the box office is Hollywood, which is also a good thing for Hollywood, and our market will gradually diversify, the audience will become more and more accepting of more different types, different countries of the film, so I think everyone can look forward to the day when the box office market in Chinese mainland surpasses that of the United States." ”

When he said this, Chen Xi smiled bitterly in his heart.

Indeed, the Chinese market has become huge, it sounds beautiful, but in fact, it is just that he doesn't say it, too many of the dividends of this market have been ingested by Hollywood, if there is no domestic film protection, the consequences are even more unimaginable, Chinese films, when will they become strong?

There were a lot of questions in the future, and Chen Xi also cooperated to take a bunch of promotional photos.

Shortly after Time reporters returned, the cover character was changed to Chen Xi in the July 2014 issue, which was headlined "The Rise of One Man and One Region: A New Power for World Cinema." ”

Sure enough, according to this logic, a lot of things make sense.

"Time" came to Chen Xi, first of all, naturally because of the world's first billion-dollar non-Hollywood movie, and secondly, because of the increasingly huge box office market in Chinese mainland, and of course, the rise of China.

Although China itself does not want to be remembered all day long, it is still inevitably remembered, and now American TV dramas and movies, as long as they involve contemporary world politics, there are almost no Chinese people who do not mention China. Moreover, if there is one place where China is the most powerful, the most domineering, and the most terrifying, it is in American film and television productions.

Time Magazine, Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Screenplay, Grand Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival, Berlin Golden Bear...... And, as a base, he has now reached a total box office of $2.5 billion.

The title of film master has indeed fallen on him.

Now the whole world is paying attention to Chen Xi's dynamics, and Chen Xi himself, in the second half of 2014, started the filming of "Evening Ming", and during this time period, Chen Xi did something quite important to himself: met the real big man, the first chief.

This was a secret meeting, and what Chen Xi had been working hard for had finally achieved a certain success, Chen Xi said some heartfelt words to him, and after that, the result was relatively satisfactory this time.

Therefore, what Chen Xi wants to take in the future will be the same path as the previous China Film, many policies and other things, Chen Xi also has a certain qualification to participate, and at the same time as "Late Ming", Chen Xi will shoot a main theme movie for this goal.

This movie belongs to the Anti-Japanese War, but it doesn't have to be made to praise the Eighth Route Army, after all, everyone can see that over the years, they have become more and more enlightened in these aspects, and there will be other anti-Japanese forces involved in the middle.

In fact, what Chen Xi wants to shoot most is the Battle of Aiding Korea, but in this international environment, it is indeed unrealistic for Chen Xi, an influential person, to make that kind of movie, so he can only retreat to the next best thing and shoot this "Iron and Blood Pingguan". (To be continued......)