Chapter 383: The box office battle of the Chinese New Year
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Chapter 383 Lunar New Year Box Office War. Luo Mo received an invitation, first of all, to participate in the world premiere celebration of "Let the Bullets Fly" on December 14, and then to participate in the world premiere of "If You Are the Truth, Do Not Disturb 2" on December 20.
Among these two invitations, Luo Mo's invitation to "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 2" is not unexpected, and Feng Xiaogang is strange if he doesn't call himself! But "Let the Bullets Fly" actually invited itself.
Luo Mo and Jiang Wen didn't know each other, and they hadn't even spoken before and had never met......
Feng Xiaogang is a person who hurts the egg, when his "No Thieves in the World" and "Kung Fu" competed for the New Year, he went to "Kung Fu" to play an underworld villain who was hacked to death by the Axe Gang, and this year his "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 2" and "Let the Bullets Fly" compete for the New Year, he went to "Let the Bullets Fly" to make a cameo appearance as the county magistrate who was killed at the beginning.
Luo Mo didn't know what his idea was, but it was estimated that he would also go back to participate in the premiere of "Let the Bullets Fly" when the time came.
Luo Mo postponed "People Are Embarrassed in Thailand" to next year's Spring Festival in order to avoid these two movies, and now both movies invite him to the premiere, Feng Xiaogang's "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 2" Needless to say, he will go. In addition, although Luo Mo and Jiang Wen are not familiar with each other, they should also go to the premiere of "Let the Bullets Fly".
Some people say that Luo Mo and Jiang Wen are the two most similar people, mainly because they can both direct and act themselves, and the response of the movie is not small...... It's just that Luo Mo is not very old, but "Inception" made him a god at the box office and word of mouth, while Jiang Wen's previous "The Sun Also Rises" hit the street a little bit at the box office.
Many people will even think that Luo Mo is better than Jiang Wen, much better!
However, Luo Mo was very embarrassed about this kind of thought in his heart...... His achievements are all copied, but Jiang Wen is really talented, not to mention, his "Let the Bullets Fly" will be his turnaround, which will make Jiang Wen 'stand and earn money'!
Luo Mo also wanted to go to the premiere to see Jiang Wen, a strange person.
Therefore, Luo Mo also gladly accepted the invitation of the two directors, and will attend the premieres of the two movies on the 14th and 20th, respectively, and also go to meet the two guys......
The movie premiere of "Let the Bullets Fly" was held in Beijing, and on this day, there were many people who came to the scene.
In fact, this year's Lunar New Year file is the decisive situation of the three major Chinese New Year movies: "Zhao's Orphan", "Let the Bullets Fly", and "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb 2".
Chen Kaige filmed "Zhao's Orphan", everyone knows that he is holding his breath, the original "Wuji" pulled Lao Chen off the altar, and "Farewell My Concubine" made his achievements disappear overnight. Later, there was an Internet god Hu Ge who made a "Bloody Case Caused by a Steamed Bun" to ridicule "Wuji" to shame himself, which made Director Chen, who was already depressed at that time, vomit out a mouthful of old blood, and hated to cut Hu Ge with a thousand knives.
Now, a few years have passed, and his ideal is 'Nothing else', and Jiang Wen thinks 'don't lose money, don't lose money' after "The Sun Also Rises", and Feng Xiaogang thinks 'win them and win them'...... However, Chen Kaige's "Zhao's Orphan" plays tragedy in this New Year's stall where everyone wants to be happy and happy, and many people don't like it in their hearts.
"Let the Bullets Fly" is Jiang Wen's blockbuster movie, this movie, Luo Mo has seen it before, people who like to watch comedy can be lively, people who can't see too many things can also watch it, they feel that the bullets are cool, and as for those who can see the depth, they can always find many interpretations...... At least some of the political metaphors are understandable to many.
This year's Lunar New Year showdown is really a wonderful showdown.
On the 14th, Luo Mo just came to the premiere, and was immediately snapped by the flashing lights, all of which were a bit noisy, the main ones were here, such a welcome made Luo Mo a little embarrassed, but there was no way, after "Inception", Luo Mo's reputation can be said to be in full swing, not to mention that his recent "Old Boy" added a fire to him.
Because Luo Mo didn't come too early, he didn't see Jiang Wen backstage today, and not long after Luo Mo came, the movie officially began.
Luo Mo's seat was arranged to a relatively forward position, and his side happened to be Feng Xiaogang, Luo Mo also greeted Feng Xiaogang for the first time today, the two of them greeted each other, and then sat down, and the movie officially began.
On the computer, the main commercial style of this movie is not too much except comedy, but on the big screen of this movie theater, the commercial elements are full of calculations - the train that fills the big screen, when the gun is fired, one shot at a time, the sound effect is deafening, and the trajectory of the bullet can sometimes be seen.
Watching a movie on the big screen is still different from watching it on the computer screen, on the big screen, a close-up of an actor's expression can even see any pore on his body, and the viewing experience is completely different on the big screen and on the computer screen.
Many people laugh from time to time as the plot of the movie progresses, indeed, after the box office failure of "The Sun Also Rises", Jiang Wen pays more attention to the entertainment effect of the movie, rather than putting everything he wants to say into it.
He also dared to say the slogan of 'standing and earning money' to everyone.
The movie is more than enough purely as an entertainment film - comedic elements, constant gunfights, and outwitting...... That's enough to jaw a lot of people.
At the end of the movie, the crackling applause rang out, and those who enjoyed it were applauding hard, they saw a very magical Jiang Wen from it, and those who couldn't enjoy it couldn't see what was behind it, and they felt that Jiang Wen had created a boring story nonsense, and those who couldn't see anything but thought the scene was good-looking, also felt that this applause was necessary.
As a result, the entire movie theater burst into applause.
Luo Mo also stood up and applauded, not knowing what it was like to be in his heart.
He now feels that compared with people like Jiang Wen and them, his skills are still a lot different, at least, if it were him, he would not be able to combine business and art so skillfully, anyway, he felt that he couldn't 'stand and earn money'.
"Director Feng's appearance is good." After the failure was over, Luo Mo smiled and quipped to Feng Xiaogang: "It's very pretentious as a county magistrate." ”
Feng Xiaogang hehe: "Let's act, so do you need to talk about it?" All kinds of actors, I just don't want to take them. ”
Luo Mo continued to be happy: "But it's not easy for special actors to win awards." ”
The two are quite familiar, and it is not too much to make such a joke, Feng Xiaogang shook his head and sighed, pointed at Luo Mo and said, "You kid...... But it seems that my "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 2" this time is more than lucky. ”
Luo Mo said: "I feel that you are more attractive, you have to believe in yourself." ”
"I don't believe in myself." Feng Xiaogang was happy: "But I believe in you." ”
…… At the end of the noisy premiere, Luo Mo finally saw Jiang Wen, both of them were very polite, Luo Mo called Jiang Wen Teacher Jiang, and Jiang Wen called Luo Mo Director Luo...... It's a little weird, but everyone knows who it's called.
"Mr. Jiang, your movie is really eye-opening for me, and business and art have reached a perfect combination...... is quite good, it is estimated that this time for the Chinese New Year, the expressiveness of "Let the Bullets Fly" at the box office is difficult for other movies to compete with. ”
Hearing Luo Mo's words, Jiang Wen smiled and waved his hand: "Director Luo, don't be joking, who doesn't know the truth, what really has an absolute guarantee at the box office is only your movie, look at your "Inception", that is called an empty alley." ”
Feng Xiaogang said with a smile on the side: "If you two continue to praise each other like this, I can't listen to it anymore." ”
At this moment, all three of them laughed.
Jiang Wen then said to Luo Mo: "Director Luo, in fact, I mainly wanted to take the commercial route for this movie at that time, because I never thought that commercial factors were bad, and literary and artistic factors were good...... In fact, movies are just a tool to entertain the public, the audience thinks it's good, that's really good, a small number of people praise it, and most people abandon it like a piece of paper, so I don't think there is more meaning to such a movie, and it's mainly just the self-absorption of my own director...... In this regard, I admire your "Inception" very much, which was able to integrate commercial elements and artistic elements so well in that situation, and the word-of-mouth and box office were a global hit...... This film of yours also gave me some inspiration. Heroes are teenagers, that's what I'm talking about. ”
Jiang Wen can be said to have been complimenting Luo Mo, but what he said also has a lot of his own true thoughts, Luo Mo's "Inception" has given many Chinese directors greater ambitions. It's just that most people just follow suit and start tinkering with their own 3D movies.
However, whether it is China or foreign countries, in 3D movies, only "Avatar" and "Inception" are recognized as very good, and many other so-called 3D movies are full of bad reviews. Some movies, even if they are comedies or purely funny youth love films, want to touch the light of the high ticket prices of 3D movies, and use 3D technology without restraint...... However, the result is tragedy......
In particular, a "God of War" was rated as the worst 3D effect, and many Americans even felt that this movie was disgraced in front of the Chinese's "Inception".
Luo Mo is leading the way......
Deep down in Jiang Wen's heart, he really admired Luo Mo very much.
"Mr. Jiang has a good reputation, in fact, I like your movies more, especially "Sunny Days" and "The Devil is Coming", I like it very much, but when I watched "Let the Bullets Fly" today, I found that I still like this movie more, thank you for constantly contributing new good films to the Chinese film industry."
The two of them complimented each other for a while, and there were really not many times to really discuss specific things, but they both knew that this was just the first time they met, and the main thing was to leave an eye...... There is nothing else to be involved in.
After "Let the Bullets Fly", Luo Mo also participated in the premiere of "Do Not Disturb 2", and in the last period of December, "Zhao's Orphan" retreated from filming, and "Let the Bullets Fly" and "Do Not Disturb 2" launched a life-and-death struggle with moves.
"Let the Bullets Fly" won 30 million on the first day, and the box office exceeded 100 million in two and a half days, and the box office myth is constantly being broken and refreshed.
"If It's True, Don't Disturb" cut 2 in the first week. 100 million yuan, and the box office also began to skyrocket......
The two movies launched a life-and-death Lunar New Year war.
After that, the box office of the two films exceeded 500 million yuan together, and the total box office of domestic films was completely new because of the addition of "Inception", "Tangshan Earthquake", "Let the Bullets Fly", and "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 2".