Chapter 753: District 9
"Is it really okay?" Qi Bing was wearing a snow-white long dress, and said to Wu Tian with worry.
"Of course it's no problem, don't worry, you're the boss, I'm the director, we're matching, hehe." Wu Tian was dressed in a straight suit and said confidently.
It's nothing more than walking the red carpet of a premiere, Qi Bing, as the CEO of TechnoAlpin Film and Television, MGM's parent company, and himself, the director of MGM's big production and investment in "District 9", appeared together, and no one could find fault with it - this is not Hong Kong Island, and the tabloid reporters have dirty thoughts, and some of them are made up for you. In Hollywood, although the paparazzi are also very rampant, they have to ensure that the report is true, otherwise they are likely to bear legal responsibility!
Lengthened Lincoln slowly drove to the door of the theater at the premiere, the back door just stopped at the end of the red carpet, Hao Yu got out of the car first, opened the car door, and immediately a flash light kept flashing.
After Wu got out of the car, he was very gentlemanly holding the top frame of the car door with one hand, and stretched out the other hand to help out the glamorous Qi Bing.
Gently holding Wu Tian's arm and smiling at the reporters, Qi Bing's heart was full of happiness, maybe there were so many beauties around him, only he accompanied him to stand in the spotlight, right?
The premiere of "District 9" was quite grand, and this premiere alone cost tens of millions of dollars, not only inviting many big names who work closely with MGM to come to cheer, as well as popular singers to perform live, especially the models of the "Tianyan ** Show" that just ended not long ago, which made many men crazy.
Judging by the live effects, the huge cost of this premiere is quite worth it. Because the performance was broadcast live on CBS television, and a website was set up for webcasting. This is equivalent to an advertisement, and it is still a very powerful advertisement, and the cost of more than 10 million is definitely worth it!
After the two-hour premiere program, the real highlight came, Wu Tian personally took the stage to speak, and then the movie was opened.
"If this movie is successful, it will be recognized by everyone. Then I want to tell you that I didn't finish this movie alone, it was the joint efforts of everyone in the crew to achieve good results. Wu Tian held the microphone. In slightly accented English, he said, "If this movie doesn't satisfy everyone, then I'll tell you that there are actually a lot of shots that my assistant director Jarvis is responsible for." The bad grades have nothing to do with me. I'm a Wu who only creates fine works! ”
Following Wu Tian's words, the camera turned to the assistant director Jarvis sitting in the audience, but saw that the bearded man was laughing heartily. The audience at the scene looked at Jarvis on the screen, and they all laughed good-naturedly, it seems that the relationship between this crew member is very harmonious. But this young Zhonghua Wu, is the last sentence a little arrogant? Computing is a big name like Spielberg, and there are still times when he makes failed films, how dare he say that he only produces high-quality films?
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In fact, "District 9" started from the start of filming. The voices of all kinds of doubts have never stopped.
Admittedly, Wu Tian currently holds the title of the largest proportion of box office and production cost in all time. But last time, his "Ghost Record" was just a joke with an investment of 10,000 US dollars, where can he have the ability to direct a big production? Does he have that much control?
From 10,000 US dollars, it jumped directly to more than 200 million, such a huge disparity made almost all film critics think that Wu Tian could succeed!
More professional film critics have done a detailed analysis, first of all, Wu Tian was originally shooting thrillers, and everyone has to admit that "Ghost Shadow" has a very good grasp of the audience's psychology, and its control of the horror atmosphere is far stronger than those little devil horror films that suddenly edit a ghost head picture.
Therefore, many film critics have recognized Wu Tian's title of "Master of Horror", and if he continues to make horror films, maybe everyone can barely look forward to it.
But the problem is that "District 9" is a science fiction film, according to the announced situation, this is still a science fiction film with a rather grand scene, does Wu Tian have the ability to control this film well?
In addition, it is said that Wu Tian returned to China two years ago, and in a country where no science fiction movies have been produced so far, how can he learn to master the production of science fiction films?
Therefore, it is worth money today, almost everyone is questioning this movie, everyone is thinking that MGM will definitely lose money this time, and even the Chinese people's plan to enter Hollywood will end here!
The little devil's entry into Hollywood has already made many rice film and television people dissatisfied, but in view of the fact that the little devils have always looked at the United States, and the United States has collected high profits from them from time to time, it is reluctant to tolerate it.
But the Chinese entered Hollywood, but they resolutely failed!
China is a red country, and the propaganda during the Cold War made many people in the United States have a strong interest in red politics. Quan is quite resistant, and even a large number of Mi people have communist fears, and it is very difficult for them to accept that the Chinese people bought MGM, a veteran Hollywood film and television company, and then bought CBS TV, which almost every Mi family will watch.
Therefore, if MGM's huge investment fails this time, there will definitely be many Mi people applauding, waiting for the capital chain of TechnoAlpin Film and Television to break, and then go bankrupt......
Therefore, for "District 9", many film critics have been criticizing from the beginning, from the director, to the subject matter, to the actors, there seems to be no outstanding place, the greater the investment, the higher the degree of bad movies.
After more than a year of criticism, now the movie is finally released. Those film critics waited for the premiere of the movie to write an article scolding "District 9" overnight. I'll see you in the newspaper tomorrow morning -- maybe this time the film critics will no longer need to compete who has a deep understanding of the film, but whose scolding level is more powerful......
Even some film critics have already finished their drafts, and they are still complacent about the scolding sentences they have easily come up with......
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After the opening credits flash the TechnoAlpin and MGM Pictures logos, a sign resembling a traffic sign appears, but the image on it is a strangely shaped alien with a crossbar. The note below reads: No Aliens.
Just as the critics were confused about how to spray this beginning, the camera stretched backwards, and the signage became smaller and smaller. The screen starts to get bigger, showing the barbed wire fence behind the signage entering the frame, then seeing some steel shards messed around behind the barbed wire, and then backwards. But it's a huge shadow......
As the shadow continues to expand. Above the shadow, I finally saw a huge spaceship, hovering about twenty stories above the ground, and compared to the spaceship, the huge edifice was as small as a toothpick.
This is the big screen, which can best create the kind of Hongda singing classic shock! Only this first very sci-fi scene shocked the people present.
"Hmph. This scene is not badly made, and it is worthy of the post-production special effects made by Industrial Light & Magic. But only this one scenario. Does that mean that this film is a good film? The Chinese are so ridiculous, they don't even know what a movie is......"
The film critic muttered in his heart, it seems that he can't criticize this film directly from the first shot, but it can be regarded as a little highlight. But I don't mention your highlight, can't you still say that your film is a complete bad movie?
The camera then continues to stretch back, and the grand scene is frozen on a large screen with two TV presenters in front of it......
Wu Tian changed the style of the original film and directly appeared in the documentary interview, and even the original way of documenting the whole process was completely rejected by Wu Tian. Although the documentary production mode will have a stronger sense of substitution, the shaky lens will seriously affect the perception, as well as the main story line, etc., the documentary mode is difficult to express.
Therefore, Wu Tian directly used the TV studio to tell the story, first telling about the spaceship landing in the sky over Joburg, and then telling about the various reactions of human beings around the world to the arrival of aliens, and then human beings rescued aliens, but those prawns brought endless trouble to humans, and finally cut to the protagonist, a civilian of MNU, who will be responsible for moving the prawns to another forbidden area, a barren area far from the densely populated area, so that they can no longer cause problems to humans......
"Well, the aliens have become refugees, inferior troublesome races? The story design is a bit new, but it's just average......" The critics muttered to themselves as they continued to watch the film......
Wu Tian also seriously appreciated Cage's performance again, I have to say that Cage is a genius actor, through his performance, he deeply excavated the inner world of the protagonist, from the beginning of the high-spirited, life winner, to later mutation, was slandered by the government, and even arrested for experiments, that kind of pain is vividly expressed.
Especially when he mutated, the entanglement of whether he was a human or a prawn made people feel a sense of empathy and substitution, and he really captured the hearts of the audience.
This is exactly what Wu Tian is looking forward to, and this is completely beyond the movie in the previous life!
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"This is a movie that puts Hollywood to shame, because this is the only one this year!"
"A film with a forward thinking, an allegory about life."
"A real, authentic sci-fi movie that captivates you from the beginning and keeps the audience coming back until the moment the film ends."
"I'm going to admit my shallowness, I take back my original prediction of this movie because I was wrong, very completely wrong, and this movie is definitely one of the best movies of all time!"
"Amazing Wu subverted people's discrimination against young directors, and he can already be called a master......"
The next day, major newspapers and magazines in the United States published film reviews of "District 9", and it was surprising that the film critics, who were originally in decline, all changed their tone and applauded.
Wu Tian smiled from ear to ear, being able to conquer those film critics who are called mouthful, that kind of sense of accomplishment is even more comfortable than making billions of dollars.
"Great director, "Oprah" invites you to participate in the show." Qi Bing personally acted as a secretary and reported to Wu Tian.
"Oprah" is one of the highest-rated talk shows in the United States, the last show, the exposure rate was brushed, and for entertainment people, it was impossible to ask for the last show.
"Don't go!" Wu Tian refused directly.
"Go ahead, expose it, it's good for the box office." Qi Bing said with a smile.
"Am I short of money?" Wu Tian said.
Qi Bing couldn't help but smile bitterly, if you want to say that it is not bad money, there is absolutely no one in the world who is not bad money than Wu Tian.
"Just let the actors and Jarvis go and say I'm working on a new film." Wu Tian said.
"Okay then." Qi Bing could only agree, she also knew that Wu Tian's overexposure was not a good thing, besides, Wu Tian had already booked to return to China tomorrow, and there was still something waiting for him to deal with, originally this time I just took time to attend a premiere...... (To be continued......)