"Manslaughter" held five premieres, and Gong Li attended one of them, but he also came in a hurry, and then flew back to North America...

Awards season is at its climax...

Judy Dank, Helen Mirren, and Kate Winslet's respective public relations teams are all working hard - they really applied for that sentence: There are many good actors and good movies every year, but there is only one golden man for each project, who is it for? It depends on the respective means.

Acting is just a ticket to entry.

If you really want to break into the mainstream, you need means...

Gong Li himself has little chance of winning, so far only the Los Angeles Film Critics Association has given the Best Actress, the New York Film Critics Association, and the Boston Film Critics Association have awarded the Best Actress to Helen Mirren...

Of course, "Carol" did well at the box office.

As of December 12, the cumulative box office of "Carol" in North America has reached 9 million US dollars!

Overseas is better - also as of December 12, the overseas box office has reached $14 million...

You must know that "Carol" has not yet been released on a large scale!

Moreover, same-sex movies are banned in many countries and regions.

Shen Xudong compared the original time and space, and roughly came to the conclusion: North America should be able to break 2,000 perfect yuan, and the world adds up to about 50 million US dollars...

It's definitely not as good as the 178 million in "Brokeback Mountain", but it will definitely be a lot higher than the $40.27 million in the original time and space!

The reason is very simple: when "Carol" was released, same-sex movies were no longer curious.

Pull it back, at such a critical juncture, Gong Li estimates that he won't have time to fly back to do publicity...

It's good, there is no time to promote "Manslaughter", which also means that there is no time to promote "Golden Armor".

Oh, on the first four days of "Manslaughter", the box office was 68 million, and it didn't break the record or anything, but the discussion was directly top-notch...

Not only netizens are talking about the perfect crime, but major web portals, including the print media, are also discussing whether the heroine of "Manslaughter" is right or wrong...

A bunch of film critics, experts, and professors have expressed their opinions...

Lin Lingdong was a little confused, so he made a movie, which was obviously a crime genre film, but he enjoyed the blockbuster treatment, and the whole country paid attention!

At the roadshow scene, a bunch of media asked him why he was filming like this...

"That's how the script is written..."

"But Ayu is a criminal... If she kills someone, there is no punishment, right? ”

Well, here's the point of controversy: after all, we believe that evil prevails over good, even in movies, we still believe that the distinction between "innocent" and "guilty" is, after all, killing someone and beating someone is "guilty", no matter what your reason is.

Lin Lingdong was speechless: "This is just a movie, a crime genre film, we are making a drama completely in accordance with the direction of the genre... And Ayu's family is actually a victim..."

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Shen Xudong wrote on his blog: How to make a perfect crime?

The most important thing is to erase the alibi...

"Manslaughter", the protagonist sets up a four-layer scam.

The first layer is to deceive the police and forge confessions.

The second layer is to create alibi evidence as quickly as possible, from banks to hotels, to ATMs, and mobile phone numbers; The innkeeper, the restaurant owner, the driver, the electrical appliance dealer, the grocery clerk, everyone was invisibly "brainwashed" by her to make alibi confessions...

But she understands that this is far from enough, so the third layer is to rely on the knowledge gained from watching movies, and constantly train her family on how to deal with police inquiries, how to collude confessions without arousing suspicion...

For 26 days, this woman used all her cunning and effort to race against the entire law enforcement system.

When her daughter is nervous in the face of the police, she shows up in time and defuses her suspicions with ease.

Again and again, he was suspected, questioned, and even beaten by the police.

The mood of the audience also fluctuated and waved. This is not only sympathy for the weak, but also a reflection and reflection on the justice of the entire law.

The spearhead is actually the government's grassroots judicial corruption, eating and taking cards, and corruption is rampant...

The mother of the rich second generation is a high-level member of the judicial system, and the persecution of the protagonist's family is becoming more and more serious.

In the end, the youngest daughter finally couldn't help but torture and told the truth.

Then, the protagonist's hole cards follow: in fact, she never believed that her family could deal with the seasoned police...

All the suffering, she fought alone - she dropped the corpse. It was placed in a cement mixer, poured into the concrete, and a new police station was built.

All the police found was the corpse of a dead dog...

At this point, all suspicions are just speculation, like boiling water melting snow, self-defeating.

Therefore, the villain of "Manslaughter" is actually a grassroots judiciary...

The overall logic of this creation is such that I don't have any implicit ideas...

The most exciting part of a suspense crime film is the game part.

I've seen a lot of people say that this movie teaches bad audiences...

I think this hat is a bit too much, "Manslaughter" is actually a cool film with entertainment attributes, from the beginning, we didn't want to express any overly profound themes, just to simply entertain the audience.

I didn't expect any profound artistic expression...

Otherwise, it will not be scheduled to be released in the Lunar New Year.

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Shen Xudong posted this blog, mainly in response to the public criticism of a bunch of elders in the circle - accusing movies of teaching bad audiences...

This must be responded, if it alarms the retired leader, in a casual word, "Manslaughter" will have to be screened, and it will be screened if it alarms the Internet beast - the parents of children, and it is estimated that it will also be screened...

By the way, it is necessary to spread the news that costs 80 million...

The real cost of "Manslaughter" is 48 million, and the revenue of patch advertising and product placement advertising is about 30 million, so the shooting cost is actually less than 20 million...

As for the cost of publicity, there are also sponsors, which are basically offset.

Gong Li, like "Witnessed by the Whole People", signed a basic salary + profit sharing model

Why blow the cost of 80 million?

You have to blow the cost a little higher, so that everyone knows that you are not making money, and they will not be too blushing...

Otherwise, a report is really unbearable!

The General Administration is actually quite difficult, knowing that what I am doing is offending people.

So except for those films that are obviously politically sensitive, their attitude towards most directors and films is "the people don't hold the people accountable, and the officials don't hold them accountable." ”

Back then, Jia Zhangke filmed "Xiao Wu", was sued and banned for five years - Lao Jia's "Confused" mentioned this past, "On January 13, 1999, I was called by the Film Bureau to talk, I was 29 years old that year..." I was as excited as Jiang Gan stealing a book, and when there was no one around, I picked up the document and read it, and what was copied on it was a report on my movie "Xiao Wu" in the film and drama version of Taiwan's "Dacheng Bao".

This does not surprise me, what is amazing is that next to the text, someone wrote a few lines of small report: Please pay attention to this matter to the leaders of the bureau, and do not let such a movie affect my country's normal foreign cultural exchanges. ”

"After reading it, hatred rises from my heart, and evil grows to the side of my guts. After stabilizing my emotions, I saw the signature after the small report: XX..."

Later, it was confirmed that it was actually Wang Bin who wrote the complaint letter, and Wang Bin was Zhang Yimou's literary planner, who planned "Hero" and "Riding Alone for a Thousand Miles"...

Lou Ye's filming of "Suzhou River" did not involve politics, and no one sued, so it was just an ordinary ban, and the director himself was not punished

Including "The Devil is Coming" - it is said that someone wrote an anonymous letter to the competent authorities, distorting Jiang Wen's motives for making this movie...

Riding a horse, "Manslaughter" is naturally problematic, if someone takes eye medicine...

In short, "Manslaughter" was released for 7 days, and the box office exceeded 100 million, and when "Golden Armor" was released, "Manslaughter" still won 11 million box office in a single day...

At this time, the cumulative box office of "Manslaughter" is already 130 million.

Therefore, even if "Golden Armor" is released, the theater still gives "Manslaughter" 20% of the film schedule...

But... On the one hand, it is a box office hit, and on the other hand, the distributor is walking on thin ice...

Shen Xudong even swore: "Riding a horse, never make this kind of movie again!" ”