Chapter 29: Interviews

"Don't Stop the Camera" exploded!

The summer vacation of Korean movies generally starts in late June, around June 20th, which is also the summer vacation time of Korean schools.

And because of this.

"Don't Stop the Camera", which was released on June 7, is not too competitive at all in the same schedule. With the spread of word-of-mouth becoming more and more widespread, the attendance rate is getting higher and higher, and major theaters have also increased the number of screens of "Don't Stop the Camera". On Sunday, June 10, the single-day box office of "Don't Stop the Camera" hit a new high, and the number of moviegoers exceeded 80,000 that day, catching up with the sum of the previous three days.

Since then, in the first week of its release, the number of moviegoers exceeded 160,000 and it topped the weekly box office list.

In the second week, thanks to the accumulation and spread of word-of-mouth in the first week, as well as the increase in the number of theater screens, the box office of the movie soared again, and there was another big outbreak. As of the end of the second week, the cumulative number of viewers of "Don't Stop the Camera" officially exceeded 1 million, and it was called the blackest dark horse in the first half of 2012 Korean films.

S.M Company, Aetna and Office.

Looking at Lee Seung-woo with a kind expression, Ahn Tae-woo asked, "Seung-woo, you really don't plan to be interviewed?" ”

Lee Seung-woo shook his head and affirmed: "Thank you Brother Tae-hee for your kindness, but I'm really not interested, so let's arrange for Brother Hyun and Lim Ji-yeon to be interviewed." ”

With the popularity of "Don't Stop the Camera", media reporters naturally began to flock like flies, and interview invitations came one after another, most of which indicated that Lee Seung-woo wanted to participate. But it's a pity that in his previous life, Lee Seung-woo was not only a director but also an artist, and he had already experienced the baptism of the spotlight, and he also saw through the so-called media and most of the fans' virtues - when he likes you, he can praise you as a god, and when he doesn't like you, he will step you into the mud.

There was nothing more obsessive and capricious than these two species, and Lee Seung-woo was really not interested in playing any game of piano chords with them.

Before the release of the movie, he was unknown and naturally needed media exposure and hype, but after the word of mouth spread after the movie was released, even if he didn't dump these people, at most he would be complained about his weird personality, and even if he didn't do well, he would be touted as a maverick, so there was no need to pay more attention to them at all.

Standing up, Li Chengyou said: "Brother Taihe, I will trouble you to worry more about the later publicity, you are busy first, and I won't bother you." ”

Antaihe smiled dumbly and nodded, "Okay then." Since you're not interested in being interviewed, then I can only let Jung Jae-hyun's predecessors and Lim Ji-yeon show their faces more. But to be honest, Chengyou, I really admire you, you see fame and fortune so lightly at a young age, I have been in the entertainment industry for so many years, at your age, you are really the first one I have seen. ”

Li Chengyou laughed and said: "Brother Taihe misunderstood me, I can't reach this state of mind when I look down on fame and fortune, I'm just not used to standing in front of the stage." I'm still more used to doing things behind the scenes than standing in front of the stage. ”

There is a saying that only when you have picked it up can you learn to put it down.

Whether it is a magnesium lamp or a fan touting, Lee Seung-woo has already experienced it in his previous life, and he knows that these are like bubbles in the sun, which cannot stand the test. Rather than wasting energy thinking about how to deal with the media and curry favor with fans, it is better to hide behind the scenes and make a fortune in silence. There is an old saying that a gun shoots a bird in the head. The higher the exposure, the more beautiful the artist, the more people will be observed with a magnifying glass, and the more they will have to endure cold words from all directions.

After all, no one in this world can please anyone, there are always people who don't like you, and there are always villains who will maliciously slander you even if they make something out of nothing.

It is precisely because of these experiences, after the disfigurement of his face in his previous life, that he has experienced the warmth and coldness of human affection and the cold state of the world, Lee Seung-woo resolutely chose to be a director in this life, and never considered being an artist again.

Why are you standing in front of the spotlight stupidly, so that everyone's eyes are focused on you, and you pick your thorns with a magnifying glass every day, are you tired of living.

Although it is inevitable that he will be noticed by the spotlight after becoming famous as a director, he is not like an artist who has to pursue the spotlight every day, pursue exposure, pursue praise in front of people, and pursue strong smiles. Obviously, he can hide behind the scenes to gain fame and fortune, and he can live a relatively more free life, so Lee Seung-woo is too lazy to re-follow the old path of his previous life, and jumps in front of the spotlight to find troubles.

And because of this.

In addition to media interviews that cannot be avoided, Lee Seung-woo has made up his mind to push it if he can, let alone a media interview, and even the SNS Lee Seung-woo does not plan to open it.

Why are you opening it, do you want to give those brains on the Internet a concentrated way to vent their emotions?

Not to mention anything else, it's like having an affair with Xu Xian last month. Fortunately, Lee Seung-woo didn't run SNS at that time, otherwise, Seo Hyun and those brain-dead fans of Girls' Generation wouldn't have climaxed to run to his SNS every day to Diss.

Some of the brain-dead on the Internet are simply unreasonable.

In a word.

Lee Seung-woo has made up his mind.

Real profit, you should catch it, false name, or bye-bye.

But sometimes things often backfire and backfire. As the saying goes, distance produces beauty. Lee Seung-woo's move not to be interviewed has only increased his popularity to a higher level.

The more Lee Seung-woo did not accept the interview, the more the topic of the interview became centered on him.

"What do you think of director Lee Seung-woo?"

Regarding this question asked by the media, the main creators of the crew have given answers one after another.

Jung Jae-hyun (assistant director of the crew, actor of the film): "Director Lee Seung-woo is a very serious, careful and rigorous person, without the impetuousness and irritability of his age at all, sometimes I even feel that he is more stable than me when I get along with him. For example, at work, no matter how late the day's work is, he will make detailed arrangements for the next day's work before resting. And whenever we were busy with something else, he would sit on the sidelines and carefully organize the text. Change word by word, sentence by sentence. He has to carefully consider every detail of the performance......"

Lim Ji-yeon (Actress): "Director Lee Seung-woo is not only handsome, but also very good at encouraging and guiding actors, and he can explain every problem in acting skills to us in the simplest and most simple way, so that we can understand and integrate into the role more deeply. ”

Kwon Si-kyung (one of the film's leading actors): "Although in terms of age, I am actually one year older than director Lee Seung-woo, I was born in 1989, and director Lee Seung-woo was in 1990. But in terms of actual life and work, I found that I was like a primary school student, and there were still many places to ask and learn from director Lee Seung-woo, who was younger than me in doing things for people, but he was my mentor in life. ”

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