In fact, from the real situation, it is really difficult to define "Beijing Meets Seattle", whether it is a literary film or a commercial film......

If you talk about commercial films, it is obvious that the whole process of the two people plus a happy ending is enough to illustrate this, and the operation mode and final box office of the movie also show that this is a pretty good commercial movie, but if you want to say that this is a literary film, it is not inappropriate, because the heroes and heroines in the movie actually have the feeling of some literary films.

Now that Chen Xi encounters a similar problem, this is naturally the answer.

In fact, Chen Xi's previous "Border Storm" can be regarded as a literary film if you talk about it carefully, but the film's strong commerciality and box office cover up its brilliance as a literary film.

Chen Xi actually plans to shoot a real literary film this year, but he will not wait until after "Beijing Meets Seattle".

"Director Chen, "Beijing Meets Seattle" is a movie in which the heroine is a junior at the beginning, and now the junior has become a social topic and is widely discussed by everyone, how will you deal with this junior problem?" In fact, many people are paying attention to this question asked by the reporter, and in everyone's eyes, this kind of problem has almost become a minefield, and they will worry that it will be difficult for Chen Xi to really get out of this matter.

After all, if something is really touched, the result may still get worse.

Chen Xi said: "As for the final treatment of the movie, I would like to ask everyone to wait until the movie is officially released before watching it, and then talk about it, I think my movie does not violate basic morality, and there are some interesting things in the story line of the hero and heroine...... It is true that the identity of the junior is basically disgusted by most people, but I will let everyone see an interesting story instead of an interesting position. ”

Chen Xi's words are very flattering. Indeed, sometimes because of the strong influence of the film itself, the creators of the film are required to have some natural positions and other things when creating, and the films they make themselves will also have an influence.

A typical example of this is the Korean movie "The Melting Pot", because this movie brought widespread discussion about the protection of vulnerable groups and even changed the law for this, of course, this is not possible in China, don't you see that "Blind Mountain" and "Blind Well" are all banned?

However, in the movie "Beijing Meets Seattle", if you really want to scold the attitude towards Xiao San or say that you have to say that you are too tolerant of Xiao San, it can only be from some special angles, and it basically belongs to the level of real nonsense......

After all, in the movie, Xiao San's behavior was not praised from beginning to end, but this Xiao San was still injured because of what happened, of course. Xiao San is indeed on the top, but after taking the position, she found that life was far from the same as she imagined, so this matter itself did not carry a position towards Xiao San that was really unacceptable, so if you have to criticize the movie's attitude towards Xiao San from such aspects, it is really unnecessary.

...... "Director Chen, the box office of "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" you filmed before completed a big breakthrough, and finally reached a box office of 200 million, so you are now a similar type of "Beijing Meets Seattle", how much box office do you think you can get? ”

The issue of the box office is always one of the favorite concerns of journalists, such as now...... After hearing this question, Chen Xi was slightly silent. Then he said: "The box office of "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" has the influence of many factors, especially related to Singles' Day, so it has also increased at the box office...... and my requirements for the movie "Beijing Meets Seattle" are actually not low, and it should probably be more than 100 million. That's what I'm aiming for at the box office......"

If the goal of 100 million yuan is placed in "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love", many people will feel that Chen Xi was talking at that time, and they also feel that his confidence in himself is too sufficient, but for Chen Xi now. When everyone hears that his goal is to have a box office of more than 100 million yuan, they will only feel that this goal is actually within the range that Chen Xi should be able to achieve, and it just depends on how the final box office of "Beijing Meets Seattle" is......

Therefore, after hearing what Chen Xi said, basically everyone did not directly raise any strong questions. On the contrary, now everyone is just remembering what Chen Xi said before.

However, someone soon refuted it, but this person did not refute that Chen Xi's "Beijing Meets Seattle" could not get a box office of 100 million yuan, they just said: "Director Chen, will your prediction be a bit too conservative?" After all, the box office of your "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" has exceeded 200 million yuan, and according to estimates, the total box office of Chinese films will exceed 5 billion yuan within this year. ”

Chen Xi shook his head slightly: "These things can only be decided by the market, and they can only rely on the market to give us an answer!" For myself, of course, I would love to see some miracles, but hope is hope, and truth is truth. ”

At this time, someone began to ask Chen Xi about the entire Chinese market: "Director Chen, you once denounced some old filmmakers who were crippled at the director's rally, so what do you think is the future of Chinese films?" Is it mainly a commercial film or a literary film? ”

Chen Xi smiled: "I want to correct you, I didn't reprimand anyone at the director's meeting, I just said it because I was in a hurry, and others were already pointing their noses and scolding me, so I had to refute it, I can't talk about scolding anyone...... As for the market situation of Chinese films in the future, I think commercial films must be the mainstream, and this has been decided since the reform of the cinema system! ”

"The market of the Chinese film market will only grow upward, although we say that the box office market has collapsed after the heavy blow at the end of the last century, but after several years of recuperation, many things have slowly recovered."

In fact, this is indeed the case, the Chinese film box office had a capacity of 2.1 billion a year in 1991 before inflation occurred, "Zhou Enlai" rushed to the box office of 200 million with a ticket price of one or two dollars or even a few cents, and "Shaolin Temple" also rushed to a box office of 100 million with a few cents ticket price earlier, which shows that Chinese do not lack enthusiasm for watching movies, but unfortunately the Chinese film market has declined greatly for various reasons, By 2000, the annual box office revenue of the whole country was only 850 million yuan...... At that time, it was also an era when countless filmmakers could not see hope to launch it.

It wasn't until 2004, two years after the theatrical reform, that China regained some of its vitality, and by 2009, it should not be a problem for the annual box office to reach 5 billion.

Chen Xi said: "The box office capacity of our movies is now close to 5 billion, and I believe that it will exceed 10 billion in a few years, and 20 billion 30 billion...... Under such a box office market, our focus will definitely only be on commercial films rather than literary films, no matter how optimistic they are, literary films will indeed not be able to bear the heavy responsibility of tens of billions of box office a year, and we will have no power to fight back when Hollywood movies come! ”

"So that's what I'm worried about!" Chen Xi said: "To put it bluntly, the biggest gap between us and Hollywood is still in the overall strength of the film industry, and our industrial capacity is not up to par, so even if the future film box office market is enough to support our big investment, our film level may not be able to catch up, and the discourse film may even follow the old road of Taiwanese films, and finally become a situation where only small and fresh love youth films can survive...... That's what I don't want to see! These things need to be encouraged by each of us filmmakers. ”

Some people may think that such a passage is alarmist, after all, China's commercial blockbusters are indeed still very marketable, but if you look at it a few years later, there are not many domestic commercial films that sell well, and more of them are youth comedies such as "Little Times", "Hurry That Year", and "Heart Flower Road...... When it comes to Chinese blockbusters, everyone's enthusiasm is declining, and that's really dangerous.

The subsequent development of the film also confirmed what Chen Xi said, so after everyone really saw that the reality and what Chen Xi said were on the same track, many people were more convinced of Chen Xi.

…… After a press conference was held in the capital, many people were paying attention to the movie, including Zhuang Guofei and them, but these people were more critical.

"Filmmakers who have benefited from reversing social values, please touch your conscience first!" There are even a few mouthpieces who have said such things, but such words are not contagious to everyone, after all, everyone is a person with the ability to judge, of course, they know that the movie has not come out yet, so it is absolutely brainless to say that it is absolutely brainless to say that it is to reverse social values!

So now everyone is looking forward to what the real expression of this movie will be.

After Chen Xi's press conference in Beijing, the whole crew went to Vancouver and prepared to start filming, and there are a lot of situations where the water and soil are not adapted, and because of the difference in Chinese and American laws, the crew's major and minor affairs will also increase, and when they come to foreign countries, they are not fighting at home, and they are also evil capitalist countries, and the consumption of this crew is also painful for Chen Xi.

But happily, the filming of the movie is progressing quite well! (To be continued......) R1292