Chapter 363: "Hero"
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Qin Tang wants to make a new movie, this is a classic movie that he has thought of once again since "Kung Fu", and it is also a commercial blockbuster that can win a high box office.
Because it was the film he was preparing to shoot that replaced China into the era of domestic commercial blockbusters.
Although he has already negotiated with Fox to play the second male lead in a movie, it is someone else's movie after all.
Qin Tang just wants to use Fox as an excessive springboard, he still wants to shoot his own movie.
The name of the film is "Hero".
Why didn't Qin Tang choose those Hollywood superhero movies to shoot? Although some of the superheroes of this plane are the same as the original plane, there are still some that do not appear.
For example, the Transformers series does not have it, and the Spider-Man series does not have ......
These real blockbusters are too simple to win the box office.
However, as a Chinese person, does Qin Tang have to move down these blockbusters as they were? I really want to shoot it so originally. What will the Chinese people think? Obviously a Chinese person, but he created a story of foreigners, a superhero of foreigners?
This...... It doesn't make sense!
As a Chinese, of course, the perspective of creating zào is from its own perspective, and there is no reason to start from a foreign perspective.
But it is very difficult to sinicize these films. There is no problem at all with the sinicization of the script, the problem is that the level of shooting these sci-fi blockbusters in China is limited, and the main reason is the limitation.
Those sci-fi blockbusters have to involve the national level at every turn. Especially the Transformers, look at what they all look like.
Can this be filmed? Is it necessary for the Chinese People's Liberation Army to be dispatched to cooperate with the shooting? Could it be that Beijing City can be blown up in the movie?
To be honest, Qin Tang felt that it was really unrealistic.
Therefore, these sci-fi blockbusters, he intends to put them on hold for the time being.
Wait until you think of a better way, or get the consent of your superiors first, and then think about shooting these blockbusters.
"Hero" is a classic film worthy of Qin Tang's shooting. Because, Zhang Yimou became famous in the international film industry with this film, and the North American box office of this film is also the largest in China. And among them, Zhang Ziyi, it was because of this movie that she started her international chapter road.
"Hero" is the background of director Zhang Yimou's film globalization and commercialization, and it is the first martial arts film directed by Zhang Yimou, an important symbol of his own artistic transformation. Star-studded, grand scenes, exquisite pictures, and martial arts design are freehand, combining traditional Chinese artistic conception with the violent aesthetic shape of action films, creating a new round of box office mythology and film industrialization model of Chinese mainland films.
The film starred Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Chen Daoming, Zhang Ziyi and Donnie Yen, and was sung by Faye Wong as the theme song of the movie, and premiered on December 14, 2002. It mainly tells the story of the end of the Warring States Period, when the three knights wanted to kill the King of Qin.
This is the first domestic film with a box office of over 100 million yuan, and it is also the best mainland director film in the North American market until 2014.
Mind you, there's a point in time here, and it's 2002!
The film created Zào 2. The box office of 500 million yuan has brought China into the era of domestic commercial blockbusters.
In the North American foreign language film market, it surpassed many French, German, Spanish, and Japanese films at the box office with nearly 60 million US dollars, ranking third in the box office list.
The film was named the first of the top ten films in the world in 2004 by Time Magazine, nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and won many domestic and foreign film awards.
A 2002 martial arts historical film can achieve such box office success, which is amazing.
The total global box office of "Hero" reached 13 at that time. 500 million RMB.
Such a classic movie is definitely worth making.
Qin Tang is sure that after the filming of "Hero", the box office will definitely surpass Kung Fu.
Although his favorite filmmaker is Xing Ye, he also loves "Kung Fu". But speaking from facts, "Kung Fu's ability to attract money" is indeed weaker than that of "Heroes".
Speaking of which, I have to say an interesting fact about "Heroes".
Ruyue in "Hero" is the role played by Zhang Ziyi. This role was not played by Zhang Ziyi at the beginning.
Originally, this role was to be played by Shu Qi. It's a pity that Shu Qi's agent at the time (I don't know who it is), after reading the script of "Hero", was not optimistic about this movie, so he directly pushed off the role and refused. Then, let Shu Qi take over the spokesperson of an advertisement and let Shu Qi shoot an advertisement.
Shu Qi didn't think much about it at the time, and directly agreed. After all, it was the agent's decision, and her status at that time was not as high as it was later, so she didn't argue with the agent.
Outcome...... Everybody knows that. Zhang Ziyi became famous internationally because of her role as Ruyue in "Hero", successfully entered Hollywood, embarked on the road of "International Chapter", and was directly reborn.
Hehe, everyone can imagine the fate of Shu Qi's agent, Shu Qi directly changed his agent.
It can be said that Shu Qi missed that role, which basically made her entire acting career change dramatically.
This is her best chance to become internationally famous, not one of them.
Think about how hard Shu Qi worked later to embark on the road of internationalization.
If she had taken over the role of Ruyue at the beginning, it would have been completely different!
Unfortunately, life is never assumed.
This is "Hero", a classic enough film to be internationally available.
With such a good movie, of course Qin Tang has no reason not to make it.
"Hero" is a film that Zhang Yimou has been preparing for three years, how can it be bad to sharpen a sword in three years? In fact, at the beginning, Zhang Yimou wanted to adapt the works of Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng, but he was unsuccessful, so he decided to make it himself. Fortunately, he didn't succeed, otherwise he might have lost "Hero".
In fact, the nameless played by Jet Li was also the latest to be determined in terms of casting. To play the nameless actor, you must not only have good martial arts skills, but also have huge market appeal.
The reason why there should be an appealing character to play is because this film is an international standard movie, Zhang Yimou wants to promote this movie to the international market, and he once wanted to be played by Jackie Chan. But at that time, considering that the age and personality of Jackie Chan and Nameless did not match, Jet Li was finally invited to play the starring role.
Jet Li also lived up to expectations, his performance was nameless, and he was brilliant enough.
The main characters of the film are all wearing **** and colorful costumes, with **** decorations, which are full of personality and full of meaning. The different colors also seem to hint at the different fates of the four protagonists, which has also become a major artistic achievement of the film.
The Wall Street Journal of the United States believes that "Hero" has truly opened the curtain of the era of Chinese blockbusters."
At the same time, Hero's grand narrative strategy between business and art has also sparked heated debates among intellectuals, the general public, official ideology, and film professionals.
The mode of film industrialization brought by "Hero" is also quite enlightening. From the early planning and preparation, the star system of genre films, to the filming production, and finally the publicity and distribution, "Hero" presents to people a set of market-oriented film operation paradigms that are completely different from the previous operation methods of domestic films, but completely conform to the laws of commerce.
"Hero" was released for 2 months, and the domestic box office reached 2. 500 million yuan, there is no doubt that "Hero" has achieved unprecedented commercial success for domestic films. In a certain way, "Hero" is a milestone in the road of Chinese film industrialization, and it has rich enlightening significance in the development of Chinese martial arts genre films that combine art and commerce.
The New York Times reported on the grand occasion of the release of "Hero" in the United States in two pages, commenting: "The Chinese film "Hero" is as classic as China's "Dream of Red Mansions", and it is also the uncrowned king of our American Oscars. ”
Producer Zhang Weiping commented: "The film "Hero" was delayed for 2 years in North America before it was released, but it was still welcomed by North America and topped the box office in the first week. ”
In 2005, Time magazine selected the "Top Ten Best Movies in the World in 2004", and Zhang Yimou's "Hero" and "Ambush on All Sides" tied for first place, which is also the first time that a Chinese film was selected as the first place by Time magazine.
In short, "Hero" is the pioneering work of mainland blockbusters, and it also adds a new genre to mainland Chinese New Year films: martial arts blockbusters, which should be written in the history of the development of China's film industry.
Of course, every movie has its own flaws, and nothing is perfect, not even the classic Heroes
The plot of "Hero" is too thin, the plot lacks the kind of reality close to life, and the portrayal of the characters seems a little simple, the character of the director is relatively abrupt, the traces of the axe and chisel are relatively deep, and the authenticity has been lost. These are the fatal wounds of "Hero".
Of course, it's normal to have flaws.
Doesn't the existence of these shortcomings itself prove the authenticity of this movie?
The classic "Kung Fu", isn't it the same?
Although flawed, it does not negate their classics.
What Qin and Tang want to do is to present the classics.
This is his glory and the glory of these classics.
Whether it is music, film and television, Qin Tang will follow his own plan step by step, and will bring the classics to everyone as much as possible.
In this world, if there are no these classic works, it will be a pity.
Naturally, filming "Hero" is definitely a very late thing.
Qin Tang's idea was to wait for the filming of the movie he cooperated with Fox to finish shooting, and then make "Hero".
At that time, it will be quite beneficial to the release of "Hero" in North America.
As for now? "Heroes" can secretly do some preparatory work first.
(An entire chapter is about heroes, just because I love this movie!) )