Chapter 118: Stepping into the Billion Yuan Club
Word-of-mouth is the accumulation of the box office, which is the recognition of all filmmakers, the reason why Zhang Yimou was able to use a "Hero" to lay the top box office is that the word-of-mouth accumulated in the early stage of literary films is indispensable; is also well-known in the circle, as well as Feng Xiaogang's Chinese New Year films, Ning Hao's comedies, Jiang Wen's movies, and even Chen Kaige before "Wuji" relied on word-of-mouth to win the world.
Shao Yingying, a high-box office of nearly 50 million a week, got it, and now, what he wants is the reputation of "Embroidered Spring Knife".
It's just that Zhang Yimou's "Riding Alone for a Thousand Miles" has struck a word-of-mouth boom.
""A Thousand Miles to Ride Alone" is a very good movie, it can be said to be a very rare film among domestic films in recent years, I haven't shed tears in the cinema for a long time, but when I saw Ken Takakura, who is well-known to the Chinese people because of "Manhunt", perform the scene of crying and weeping, the tears couldn't help but flow out, and I was very angry."
"This is a movie that makes people sigh, the father's special emotions and concerns for his son have always entangled the whole movie, what "A Thousand Miles to Ride Alone" can bring me is the feeling that all commercial films can't give me, even if the story is taken out, it is still moving."
"I miss the feeling of watching Ken Takakura on a small TV, I miss the young and ignorant self, when the old Takakura appeared on the screen, the first line I thought of was 'Asakura jumped, and Tangta also jumped'...... At the beginning of the movie, I was laughing, but the smile gradually faded, and the whole person was restrained in the movie......"
The golden word-of-mouth of "Riding Alone for a Thousand Miles" has been wave after wave, and Zhang Yimou's return to literary films has been praised by fans to the pinnacle. It's just that the snail-like box office has never been able to catch up with the footsteps of "Embroidered Spring Knife", and it has become inevitable to be defeated!
And the reputation of "Embroidered Spring Knife" is under the wave of "Thousands of Miles to Ride Alone". There was only a small wave.
"I like "Embroidered Spring Knife" very much, Liang Jiahui's acting skills are not said, but why did the director use broken cuts to connect the scenes of action scenes? When the characters are running, they still use the old method of shaking the camera to make the audience feel dynamic, can't Wei Jiahui learn advanced shooting and editing methods? The sense of camera and editing techniques of the whole film remind people of Hong Kong films for a moment, but other than that, they are all very good. ”
""Embroidered Spring Knife" is not very easy to pick out in the overall plot, whether it is the acting skills in the scene where Lu Jianxing was promoted, or Jin Yichuan was blackmailed by Ding Xiu. I feel it very much, especially the scene where Lu Jianxing does it to Shen Lian, which is very feeling. It seems that he really saw two of the three brothers turn their faces and persuade one to fight, Shao Yingying seems to have found his own way to break through, but unfortunately, he almost made me completely fall into the world of Shen Lian. can only say that Liang Jiahui acted too well. ”
"I watched both the two dramas "A Thousand Miles to Ride Alone" and "Embroidered Spring Knife". In the first play, Ken Takakura can make people feel that it is worth the ticket price, and "Embroidered Spring Knife" is full of surprises. I like the action scenes of "Embroidered Spring Knife", and even prefer to call this movie an action movie rather than a martial arts movie, there is no chivalry in "Embroidered Spring Knife", everyone's behavior is not for the righteousness but for themselves, it is very real. What's more real is that I watched Shao Yingying fly with one punch, but this flying is not exaggerated at all, it is very enjoyable. It's all good movies! ”
If "Riding Alone for a Thousand Miles" and "Embroidered Spring Knife" are really compared with word of mouth, "Riding Alone for a Thousand Miles" will definitely be slightly better. "A Thousand Miles Alone" has landed in North America under the escort of Columbia, and has received a good reputation in North America, uh, of course, it also ended up with a box office fiasco.
When the final box office results of "A Thousand Miles to Ride Alone" were in front of him, Shao Yingying saw the number of '31 million', at this time "Embroidered Spring Knife" has entered the deadline for delayed release, just one month after the release of "Embroidered Spring Knife", the summary given by major companies and the Internet proves that the box office of "Embroidered Spring Knife" officially exceeded 100 million!
Over 100 million !!
Shao Yingying personally sent Wei Jiahui into the 100 million yuan club, which is probably a country that no Xiangjiang director has ever laid in the local market.
At this time, Wang Zhongjun was also very happy, Hua Yi now has two movies of more than 100 million, one is "Night Banquet" and the other is "Embroidered Spring Knife", with these two movies, Wang Zhongjun is still Wang Zhongjun, Hua Yi, or Hua Yi, this is absolutely not wrong.
Wang Zhonglei was busy holding a celebration banquet, Wang Zhongjun was gathering the last count, and only Shao Yingying was sullen after such a great achievement.
He has been studying "A Thousand Miles to Ride Alone", and the key is that he has never figured out what is so good about this play.
This time, Shao Yingying completely defeated Zhang Yimou at the box office, but what next? Zhang Yimou's "The City is Full of Big Rounds" almost broke the record of "Titanic" a little bit, if this book comes out, Zhang Weiping starts to openly argue with Huayi, what should I do?
It is necessary to do him, Shao Yingying has become the chairman of Huayi, it is impossible not to do him when others call him, the question is, what to do!
"Xiao Shao!"
Wang Zhongjun walked into the office with a smile on his face and a red face, sat opposite Shao Yingying and said: "Hey, your face is not right, our "Embroidered Spring Knife" has broken 100 million, why are you still unhappy?" That's okay, I'll tell you a good news today, the owners of the theaters have calculated an account after giving points, if it is according to the current momentum, "Embroidered Spring Knife" will definitely get a box office of 120 million when it is painted, how about it, this time you should be happy, right? Our company has made a lot of money! ”
Shao Yingying hadn't spoken yet, still sitting on the chair thinking about it.
"I know, are you angry about the reputation of "A Thousand Miles to Ride Alone"?" After Wang Zhongjun finished saying this, he saw Shao Yingying react: "I knew it was like this. Xiao Shao, if this Wang Jing hadn't been scolded as a ', pee, and fart director', how much more would he earn than Wang Jiawei? If Wang Jiawei wasn't a boss and only made his favorite literary films, would he have won so many awards? ”
Wang Zhongjun sighed and said: "Xiao Shao, each of them has their own way, let's not sigh and pity ourselves here, we won at the box office, didn't we?" ”
Shao Yingying looked at Wang Zhongjun's eyes and said, "If I say, I still want to win in word of mouth?" ”
"Xiao Shao. Have you forgotten what you promised me? Fight big with small, this is Huayi's strategy, we can't spend a lot of money to fight hard! Wang Zhongjun persuaded bitterly.
"I'm afraid I won't be able to play big if I don't want to play when the time comes." Shao Yingying said mysteriously.
Wang Zhongjun glanced at Shao Yingying and said, "Xiao Shao." What do you mean? ”
"Mr. Wang, don't worry, as long as you don't open your mouth, I will never use the same big investment of 50 million to make a movie, this is always okay, right?" Shao Yingying knew that when "The City is Full of Big Rounds" was established, Wang Zhongjun would definitely come to him again. Because that's a tough battle that can't be hard-topped!
"Hey, that's right."
Wang Zhongjun suddenly remembered something and said, "Xiao Shao, I forgot about serious things when I talked about it. Colombia has found it, and I want to buy the overseas copyright of our "Embroidered Spring Knife......"
"Not for sale!"
Shao Yingying replied very simply, and quickly shook his head and said: "Mr. Wang, "Embroidered Spring Knife" is not suitable for export. At least not right now. First of all. Foreigners who have not seen any blockbuster stunts may not understand the plot, and secondly, the popularity of all the stars in the movie is limited to China and Asia, so it is true that such a film can make a fortune no matter how much or how little it sells, but Huayi is short of money? What Hua Yi lacks is not money, once the film is sold, it will be a slap in the face. ”
"The box office of "Heroes of Heaven and Earth" has separated us from Colombia, and this time people are looking at the high box office. If "Embroidered Spring Knife" is making people lose money, we will have to beg others if we want to cooperate next time. ”
"It's not a good feeling to beg someone." Wang Zhongjun nodded. There was a little sour taste in and out of his words anyway, and I don't know what he was poor about.
"That's okay, listen to you, we're not short of that money. In this way, the celebration is ready, how about pulling all the crew members and holding a grand celebration banquet? ”
Shao Yingying heard this promise very quickly: "Do it." ”
But what kind of movie should I use to play 'The City is Full of Rounds?' Now, there is no need to think about stealing the script and registering it first, at this time, I am afraid that Lao Mouzi and Xinxiang have already filed the script on radio and television. In fact, there have long been places in China where the script is recorded, and the first thing to review is the script when reviewing the film, and the script review is equivalent to preparing the case in radio and television, and if there is plagiarism and other things, there is also a place to reason. However, for ordinary screenwriters, it is the same as nothing, they can't even solve the problem of food and clothing, what intellectual property rights do they care? This makes plagiarism a common practice in the circle, and makes plagiarists more and more shameless.
Thinking of this, Shao Yingying watched Wang Zhongjun walk out of the office, followed by the huge celebration banquet of "Embroidered Spring Knife", when Shao Yingying, Wei Jiahui, Wang Zhongjun, Liang Jiahui, and Wen Zhang stood together with a hammer and stood in front of all reporters with a hammer of 120000000 ice carving money to face all reporters for a group photo, "Embroidered Spring Knife" officially came to an end, of which the box office of 120 million became Shao Yingxing's first victory after entering Huayi, he won Zhang Yimou, even if it was only a literary film.
Unexpectedly, before Hua Yi was happy, Zhang Yimou was very dissatisfied after hearing the news of Hua Yi's big victory in the media, and said to reporters: "When did I say that I would compete with others at the box office?" This has not been compared, why did you lose? Where's the loss? ”
"I'm a literary film, and "Embroidered Spring Knife" is a commercial film, can this be compared? I can't look down on you media throwing arrows indiscriminately, Huayi has never had a high-level person say anything about the picture of a big victory, people celebrate their achievements, what are you stirring up? ”
Zhang Yimou was angry, but he was still sensible, at least he didn't provoke on the pole.
It's just that Wang Zhonglei was blocked by the media in a drunken manner on the fifth day after the celebration banquet, and the media told Wang Zhonglei that Zhang Yimou, who was not taken seriously by the entire Huayi high-level, and when he sow discord, Wang Zhonglei said with a red face: "If you lose, you lose, what reason do you find?" If you didn't think about it at the beginning, what does it mean that you adjust the schedule of "A Thousand Miles to Ride Alone" to the same schedule as "Embroidered Spring Knife"? ”
Zhang Yimou is looking for himself to go down the stairs, if Hua Yi relaxes his mouth here, this matter may pass, but Wang Zhonglei provoked the fire between the two sides with a word!
This sentence was not only on the newspaper, but also on the video, and the picture of his heart was gone, Zhang Weiping stood up directly and shouted at the media: "It's better than that, Shao Yingying, I don't care if Wang Zhonglei said this sentence or if he drank too much, anyway, it was you Huayi who said it, I will recognize Huayi, isn't it just the box office?" "Embroidered Spring Knife" won 120 million box office is not enough for you to toss, in next year's box office market, see who can win the box office champion, Huayi, do you dare to fight? ”
Early in the morning, Hua Yi should have experienced the good news that "Embroidered Spring Knife" won 120 million box office, and was energetically waiting for "Wulin Gaiden" to be broadcast on eight sets, waiting for "Crazy Jewel" to be completed, and waiting for "Hippie Smiling Face" to be established, but Shao Yingying walked to Wang Zhonglei's office angrily with the newspaper, and reached out to open the door without knocking, and closed the door with the trend.
Syllable!
A muffled sound came out, and the entire office area was stunned.
Syllable!!!
Shao Yingying threw the newspaper on Wang Zhonglei's desk, his face was distorted with anger, and he said viciously: "Brother Xiaolei, do you see that the current Hua Yi has eased up a little, you are uncomfortable, you feel uncomfortable if you don't have anything to do for a day!" (To be continued......)