The series "Di Renjie" has now started two parts, and the second part has already had a huge response in the foreign market.

"Di Renjie Shendu Dragon King" was not painted on all the big movie screens in the world until the end of 2014, and finally got 3. The box office of $9.4 billion has not exceeded $400 million, but it is not much closer. Moreover, the DVD after this movie sold very well, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United States, more than 200,000 in Japan, and 400,000 in Europe.

The sales volume of these DVDs, on the whole, has made many DVD studios begin to trust the brand "Di Renjie", and when the "Di Renjie" series wants to sell the DVD rights to them, they will be more willing to accept it. From a microscopic point of view, DVD has cultivated a lot of "Di Renjie" audiences, and when "Di Renjie's Garuda" appears, more people in the entire world will inevitably choose to pay attention to this film.

In this series, Luo Mo will be used as the male protagonist as much as possible, but Luo Mo does not completely regard "Di Renjie" as his own series in his heart, because this film, in the final analysis, is still Tsui Hark's work after all.

If he wants to really develop this kind of series, he will still choose to conceive, screenplay, and shoot the film himself, and if he is allowed, he will direct and act himself, and if he is not allowed, he will specialize in directing.

Soon, this master dialogue planned by LeTV Pictures was officially held in New York.

After Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping broke up, they joined LeTV Pictures, which caused a sensation at the time.

The breakup of the two began with the loss of money in "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", Zhang Yimou has never lost money in making movies, even the niche literary film "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" has also made a fortune for everyone, but his "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" lost money, which also led to the breakup of the two, and then both Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping were silent about the breakup of their once most ironclad partners, and never publicly expressed their opinions in front of the media.

Now, Zhang Yimou has returned to literary films, changed Yan Geling's novel "Lu Criminals", and adapted it into "Return", many Chinese audiences are still looking forward to it. After all, Zhang Yimou's films are the most popular classic literary films such as "Alive", "Red Sorghum", and "No One is Missing", not movies like "Ambush on All Sides".

LeTV Pictures has been building momentum for Zhang Yimou before, and today's momentum is relatively large.

Ang Lee, Luo Mo!

One is the pride of the Chinese who have slowly become the world's top directors, and the other is the Chinese magical director who has an impeccable box office and reputation.

Both won Oscars last year, and Ang Lee won Best Director, and their fame was unparalleled.

Seriously, Zhang Yimou is Luo Mo's predecessor, but in terms of his current status in the world's film industry, ten Zhang Yimou can't catch up with Luo Mo.

With these two people on their feet, the conversation was a success.

The dialogue took place at New York University, and the moderator of the conversation was Cui Minghui, a Chinese-American female documentary filmmaker and chair of the film department at New York University.

At the beginning, it was a cliché: "Speaking Chinese, English, Taiwanese, Yunnan, Shaanxi, today's theme is Chinese cinema, Chinese self-confidence...... I have known Ang Lee for many years, his hair has turned a lot grayer, and he also won the best director. It was the first time I had contact with Luo Mo, but he was the best Chinese filmmaker, and Zhang Yimou was also the best director in China......"

After talking a lot, the three of them finally appeared.

When Luo Mo appeared, there were a lot of New York University students below who whistled and applauded, which shows how well-known he is among this group of people.

When the three directors sat on the sofa, everyone could see the demeanor and image of several people.

Zhang Yimou is in a black leather suit, Li An is in a black suit, and Luo Mo is a small black suit, in front of the two seniors, Luo Mo's youth is like a rising sun, which brings a lot of different things to this dialogue.

Ang Lee is indeed getting older, although he has become richer with age, and he has become more mature, which makes people know that he has a lot of stories, but after all, he is also in his fifties...... Zhang Yimou is the same, it seems that after the impact of the recent superbirth incident, his face is very haggard.

Zhang Yimou was very handsome when he was young, and he once won the best actor at the Tokyo International Film Festival, even if he was old, his figure was not fat, his face was still handsome, and he had a charm. But after "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", he has become more and more haggard...... Although this person has such and such problems, and many people scoff at his behavior of wanting to kitsch the West to get box office awards, no matter what, you can't deny his contribution to Chinese cinema, and you can't erase his efforts to explore the road of Chinese cinema again and again.

Only Luo Mo, he was originally well maintained, he was almost thirty years old, and he looked like he was twenty-three or fourteen years old, coupled with the combination of a small suit and jeans underneath, it was well-cut and had a youthful taste, making him look more young and sunny, making people a little suspicious that he would sit with Zhang Yimou and Li An.

However, when it comes to achievements, at the box office, he is the highest among the three, Zhang Yimou and Ang Lee combined, the total box office of the movies directed by Zhang Yimou is less than half of that of this 29-year-old guy!

There is no need to rank according to seniority, Luo Mo is here, and his achievements speak for themselves.

Zhang Yimou's feelings for Luo Mo are the most complicated, Luo Mo is the pride of Chinese filmmakers now, Zhang Yimou will be relieved to see him, but at the same time there is envy and resentment - the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film that he is striving for, Luo Mo got it when he was 28 years old......

A long sigh!

After the three of them sat down, the promotional video of Zhang Yimou's new film "Return" was played at the beginning.

This film really has a unique Zhang's style, the beauty of the picture is bright and moving under the super exquisite resolution of 4K, and it is about to come out, bringing a huge visual enjoyment.

After that, it was Ang Lee and Luo Mo who talked about their feelings after watching this short movie.

Li An said some polite words, mixed with a little dry goods, Luo Mo also said: "Director Zhang's pictures have always been very visually tense, giving people a lot of visual enjoyment, but at the end it is eloquent, calm, and simple, I think this highlights people's memory, the dialectical relationship between repression and freedom." A few images at the end give people a sense of self-confusion......"

After a pause, Luo Mo said emotionally: "Many of our audiences always feel sorry for the ticket price when they go to the cinema and don't watch visual blockbusters. But I think that literary films also need to go to the cinema, because sincere and sincere literary films are films that have been carefully studied by the creators to edit the aesthetics, lighting, photography and scripts, and some of these scenes can only be achieved through very careful design and arduous shooting......

As soon as Luo Mo's words came out, Zhang Yimou's face was also a little excited, Luo Mo was able to identify with his movie so much, and broke that feeling to the point, which made him feel very comfortable.

At the same time, Luo Mo's call to go to the cinema to watch "Return" should also be very convincing...... This dialogue will eventually be broadcast in China, and the audience should be able to be called on by Luo Mo a lot. He said: "Director Xie Lu Xie Luomo praised me, I am very happy that he can like this film." "An older generation of filmmakers, when he thanked Luo Mo, his posture was very low, which only Luo Mo could afford.

Li An also glanced at Luo Mo approvingly.

After that, several people talked about movies, colors, pictures, and more and more in-depth, all of them were people who love movies, and when they talked about these, they had a common language.

After that, we talked about the issue of film funding, a penny is difficult for heroes, and how many directors have dreams but are defeated by the reality of money. Zhang Yimou spread his hands and said with a wry smile: "It took time to get the funds for my new film, and now there are many movies, and the investment competition is very big." ”

Ang Lee also said: "In my new film, I want to continue to think about things related to faith through boxing, but there is also a problem with money. ”

Luo Mo just smiled, he was not afraid of anything in terms of film investment.

After discussing the matter of Hollywood movies, Zhang Yimou bluntly said that when he was going to direct a Hollywood blockbuster in his new film, he learned from the two of them how to really integrate Chinese things into the movie, and how to make Western audiences buy it.

"Director Luo is the most vocal." Ang Lee said with a smile: "His Chinese film, "Gravity", sold one billion, and the English film, "Superman's Man of Steel" sold 800 million...... These are all real numbers, and the fact that "Gravity" won the Oscar also proves that he has enough acceptance in the Western world. ”

Luo Mo didn't shirk, thought for a while and said: "Making a movie in the United States, first of all, is the part that must be skillful, our film grammar is basically established in the United States, this is not negotiable, you must be proficient." I studied at USC for a year, and to a large extent, I wanted to figure out this problem, and when I had the foundation, I could talk about adding what I wanted to say in it, and then I started to talk about culture and popular films, trying to understand what foreigners want to see, and figuring out what they are interested in in our culture, figuring out what our culture and their culture can accept, and letting them accept it. To make a movie in China, you first have to satisfy the leaders, the theater owners, and the audience, so that they can show their talents to add their own things. Both directors also have high achievements at the box office of the movie, and they must know better than me that there must be popular things that everyone accepts in order to have the core of the statement. I also wanted to tell a story about fear in my Gravity, but I put a lot of effort into the visuals in order to make it popular......"

Luo Mo talked eloquently, he did not show timidity in front of the two older generation directors.

With so much film practice, coupled with a year of study at USC, Luo Mo already has a completely sufficient accumulation, and he doesn't have to be afraid in front of anyone.