With the 1999 "Journey to the West: The Great Sage" movie that shook the Chinese film industry, various "Journey to the West: Tang Monk", "Journey to the West: Eight Precepts", "Journey to the West: Sand Monk", "Journey to the West: Little White Dragon" Quan Nima came out.

For example, in December 99, a children's drama "Spring Returns to Huaguo Mountain" was released, and because of the boom of "Journey to the West", Qing Yì won tens of millions of box office.

However, after watching it, the audience scolded "Spring Return to Huaguo Mountain" as a naïve and fingering follow-up work! It is tolerable to follow the trend, and it is precisely because of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage" that the audience's interest in the theme of Journey to the West has been activated!

But the audience's appetite has also been nourished by "Journey to the West: The Great Sage", which is very demanding on creativity, plot and visual effects. Ordinary low-budget movies can't satisfy the audience's appetite at all!

"Spring Returns to Huaguo Mountain", a children's drama of hundreds of thousands of yuan, was released, which naturally aroused questions from the audience!

Of course, the director of "Spring Returns to Huaguo Mountain" may feel wronged.

In fact, this work was planned a few years ago, and the filming started earlier than "Journey to the West: The Great Sage", and because the filming progress was not very fast, it was released in December 99.

Because, this film is said to be filmed for children, and all the posters are children, but a bunch of adults ran to watch it without asking, and after watching it, they came to scold again!

The director felt that he was really shot lying down, of course, because of the box office hit "Spring Returns to Huaguo Mountain", a small-budget film, it also unexpectedly became a box office dark horse, which made countless directors sigh - this movie is really shit luck!

The industry has seen a naïve film like "Spring Return to Huaguo Mountain". After achieving a box office of 10 million, they began to be full of confidence, and a tide of "Journey to the West" theme is about to sweep the Chinese film industry.

For this kind of vulgarity, Wang Qinian actually feels that he can't cry or laugh.

Following the trend is one of the major drawbacks of commercial films, take Hong Kong movies as an example.

In the Hong Kong movies of that year, Bruce Lee became popular, and all of Hong Kong was kung fu movies and martial arts films. The ghost horse funny movie is popular, and all of Hong Kong is a comedy. When zombie movies were popular, the whole of Hong Kong was zombies jumping around in Qing Dynasty official uniforms. Stephen Chow's nonsensical movie is on fire. It's a bunch of imitators.

At last. This kind of vulgar following has also overdrawn the potential of the Hong Kong Film Festival.

Now Chinese films have a bigger stage than in the past, but the Chinese film industry still continues to follow the bad customs!

In fact. It's not just commercial films that follow suit. It's a literary film. Even...... The works of the masters of literature, as well as Nima's, all follow the trend.

It's inevitable to follow the trend. Because it's in the nature of animals to follow the trend and imitate. Humans have passed over animals, because humans don't just follow trends and imitate. Moreover, they will also think and summarize, and in the end, they will bring forth the new and form a creative idea!

Innovation in the scientific community is a new theory formed by accumulating knowledge from generation to generation, learning the knowledge of predecessors, and then developing it. Without learning the knowledge of predecessors at all, scientific and technological innovation is almost impossible!

The same is true in the film industry, there is no harm in learning and imitating, but the most taboo is a bunch of brainless imitations, where there is no place for thinking and improving.

Now there is a swarm of Journey to the West-themed films, many of which are brainless followers. Even, I didn't even have time to write a script, so I just went to the street to buy a copy of the original Journey to the West or the novel version of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage", as well as various works of Journey to the West culture, and started filming.

"This year and next year, at least ten film and television dramas with the theme of "Journey to the West" will be released!" Yu Dong said, "Mr. Wang, are you filming a sequel to "The Great Sage"? ”

Wang Qinian didn't think about it, and said with a smile: "Most of these followers are estimated to be bad movies." As soon as there are many bad movies, the more the audience will feel the sincerity of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage"! After the test of time, if the audience really misses our work, they can consider making a sequel. ”

This is just like before Stephen Chow filmed "Journey to the West: The Demon Chapter", the audience was disgusted by a series of bad movies such as "Journey to the West", "Yueguang Treasure Box" and so on, so Yue missed classics like Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West", and looked forward to Stephen Chow making a new film with the theme of "Journey to the West"!

In the end, Stephen Chow's new film "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" exploded at the box office, with a box office of more than one billion yuan, becoming a masterpiece in the industry.

Whether Wang Qinian's "Journey to the West: The Great Sage" will make a sequel depends on the follow-up audience feedback. really makes the audience remember it after a few years, in that way, it is worth making a sequel!

"That's right, Mr. Wang! There is a film, when "The Great Sage" was being filmed last year, the director of this film showed me the script. Although, it's not as market-oriented as Mr. Wang's film. But I think that the plot is very well written, full of topicality, and the cost is also very cheap, I don't expect to be as strong as "The Great Sage", but I still have the certainty of making money! Yu Dong said confidently.

Wang Qinian looked at the name of the script "Tell Your Secret", and after that, he didn't even turn the script, so he said: "Manager Yu, I believe in your vision!" By the way, if the director is reliable, you can sign a long-term brokerage contract with him! ”

"The director is very reliable, and he is a very experienced veteran director. In the past, I made movies with the main theme, but now I am transforming. Yu Dong said, "If the transformation is successful, he will definitely be an excellent director!" ”

Wang Qinian said in his heart, I know all this.

Yu Dong in history is home because of his investment in "Tell Your Secret", and the director of this movie, Huang Jianxin, must have successfully transformed, and he is becoming more and more popular and out of control.

In addition, many directors in Hong Kong want to shoot "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" but are not recognized by the domestic radio and television departments, cultural departments and the army, so Huang Jianxin must be invited to be the producer.

It can be seen that Director Huang is not just a director in the future, his connections in the domestic film industry can also be transformed into wealth in the future!

Wang Qinian thought again, this era is the most bleak era for the main theme movie, and many big directors with the main theme have gone to the sea to shoot commercial films, which can be seen!

However, Wang Qinian is good at reverse thinking, and judging in combination with future exhibition trends, so that he can see the exhibition context of the cultural industry more accurately than others.

Many people think that the main theme movie is not a good one, this is only the past when there were only eight model dramas, and the older generation of audiences are tired of watching it!

But in a few more years, young people have not seen or even heard of the eight model dramas, and if they go to shoot again, they may be a big success!

From the perspective of plot classics, the eight model dramas of the year, each of which is a classic Cheng dù, is by no means inferior to Hollywood's top war films.

It's just that, of course, limited to poor conditions and difficult funds, it is impossible to shoot scenes like Hollywood movies.

Assuming that there are better conditions for remaking those main theme movies of the year, it will not be weaker than Hollywood's top war movies! (To be continued!)

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