Chapter 32: How Old Are You? (Above)

Golden Harvest Cinema Line, laid in Asia, is currently the largest cinema chain in Hong Kong and Singapore, Malaysia is co-operated with local companies, accounting for 32% of the market share, Thailand and Vietnam are also jointly operated, accounting for 18% and 22% of the market share respectively...

In the mainland, Golden Harvest Cinemas ranked fourth in terms of total screen count and third in total revenue

Wanda, which ranks first, has 89 theaters and 762 screens, and the total box office in 2011 is 1.55 billion so far;

then there is the Chinese film star beauty, 166 theaters, 855 screens, and a total box office of 1.48 billion;

Golden Harvest's 95 theaters, 620 screens, with 1.29 billion more than 1.24 billion Shanghai United Cinema Line, won the third place...

Moreover, Golden Harvest's Shenzhen flagship store has an annual box office income of more than 85 million, BJ's flagship store has an annual box office of more than 62 million, and the flagship stores in Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Nanjing have an annual box office income of more than 50 million.

The flagship stores in the five major cities are all ranked in the top 15 of the annual box office of theaters...

The flagship stores in Chengdu, Chongqing, Qingdao, Xi'an, Fuzhou, Xiamen, and Zhuhai also earned more than 30 million at the box office!

In addition, the second- and third-tier cities in the plan are making efforts.

In other words, Golden Harvest Cinema Line belongs to the big cinema line, you... Directly blocked?

Zhang Weiping told the media, 'From "Three Guns" to "Hawthorn Tree", New Picture and Golden Harvest have distribution contracts, but they violated the contract twice, and the contract stipulated that the box office would be settled at a certain time, but they delayed twice and seriously breached the contract, I warned them when "Three Guns" was delayed, and "Hawthorn Tree" was like this again, so this time it was a punishment, and the audience should not go to Golden Harvest to watch "Thirteen Hairpins" first, because they couldn't act. ’

Shen Xudong smiled directly...

This Nima is called eggs beating stonesβ€”beyond my strength!

……

The company, the top management is discussing Zhang Weiping's move...

"Golden Harvest Cinemas owes money?"

Gao Jun shook his head: "How can we owe money?" Our cinema checkout, no matter whose film it is, even if it is an American blockbuster, it will have to wait one to two months. ”

"Then why did he say that?"

"He's just trying to find fault... Our "First Love" box office is too good, attracting media reports from most departments, and he wants to bring a topic to "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling"! ”

Chen Xi couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong, 'I played a bed scene with Bell' is not enough?" ”

"I acted in bed scenes with Bell" is a very important propaganda means for "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", in addition to the bed scenes in Zhang Weiping's various propaganda films...

Neuropathy the same!

A good movie about a national disaster became a cyan movie under his propaganda.

Gao Fenfen is more concerned about another thing: "Then he really doesn't give us the key to "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling"

"Do you think he dares?"

"He's insane... Who knows? ”

Gao Jun continued: "Last year, when he released "Three Guns Shooting Surprise", there was a conflict with our "October Siege". At the end of the first week, "Three Guns" reduced the account sharing by 5 percentage points to the theater chain, the theater line took two points, and the movie theater took three points, isn't this clearly encouraging the theater chain to win the box office with more rows of "Three Guns"? Because of the high investment cost of "Siege" and the high pressure of recycling, "Three Guns" was cheaply filmed. ”

"But it's legal, right?"

"It's legal, but it's not moral, and now we don't want to increase the price of movie tickets, and we don't want to help the producer for welfare, so we want to punish us?"

The more Chen Xi listened, the more outrageous he felt: "Who is being punished?" He doesn't know that his movie is not available, can we have more "First Love" and other movies? ”

Gao Junle hehe: "I'm used to being domineering..."

"How do we respond?"

"Just respond normally... By the way, what is Xudong's attitude? ”

β€œβ€¦ I called him and he said he was fishing, such a trivial matter, don't bother him! ”

Hearing this, Gao Fenfen took out her mobile phone: "Is this still a trivial matter?" ”

……

"The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" is actually adapted by Yan Geling from "Wei Tling's Diary" - Wei Tling recorded in his diary that some of the Nanjing civilians who fled to the safe zone at that time were indeed Qinglou women, in 1988, Han Sanping was the director of Emei Film Factory, and he once made a version of "Refuge" with director Zhou Li, and the screenwriter was also Yan Geling, which was the starting version of "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", only three hairpins...

Yan Geling's "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", the story sets up more dramatic conflicts, such as exchanging the lives of 12 prostitutes for the lives of 13 female students, and also replacing the protagonist with a fake pastor John Miller, creating an anti-hero protagonist, in addition, the place where the story takes place has been changed from Jinling University to a church...

In this way, the core contradiction of "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" is similar to the tram problem, what it wants to discuss is: In the face of the disaster of the army slaughtering the city, is there a distinction between high and low life? Is every life equal?

Should the Qinglou woman who does the leather and meat business sacrifice? And the life of a schoolgirl (virgin) is even more precious?

Prostitutes or schoolgirls, who is more worthy of surviving?

At its core, it's similar to Maupassant's Ball of Sheep Fat...

Set in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the Prussian army captured the city of Rouen and ten men fled in the same carriage. Among these ten people, there are big bourgeoisie, businessmen, and nuns, all of whom can be called decent people.

Unlike Sheep Fat Ball, she is a prostitute.

The ladies insulted her as a disgrace to society, and the men secretly lowered the sheep fat balls by talking loudly. Until they feel hungry, and the sheep fat balls bring enough food. The old ladies were reserved for a moment, accepted the food from the sheep fat balls, and began to compliment her.

The car drove to a small town occupied by Prussian soldiers. The soldier named him to sleep with the sheep fat ball, but the sheep fat ball refused to commit to the soldier because of his patriotic feelings. So all the people in the car were detained.

So, the whole car began to persuade the sheep fat ball to accept the soldier's request. The sheep fat ball reluctantly accepted it.

When the sheep fat ball returned to the car, the original praise turned into scolding and disregard. This time, the whole car was ready with a sumptuous meal, except for the mutton fat balls. And this time, the ball of sheep fat starved in the corner, whimpering in the Marseillaise of Cornide...

The sheep fat ball in "Sheep Fat Ball" is forced, and the thirteen hairpins are active...

"Thirteen Hairpins", if it was changed to an underage little girl, there would not be such a big controversy!

In addition, some thirteen hairpins were brainwashed by priests, female students, and several leading collective PUAs, and were forced to commit...

But in this way, there is no great side of human nature!

Shen Xudong doesn't like this movie, because this movie is completely insincere, only the old man's flattery of the Western perspective.

Generally speaking, movies about Nanjing must at least have a home-country-nation narrative main perspective, but the protagonist of "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" is a white American, and it is Bell who plays John Miller who finally completes the transformation of the character, and all the Chinese men are dead - whether it is Instructor Li, Mr. Meng or George Chen, you can't be emotionally invested in this character...

So, from the very beginning, the film was a 'cosmopolitan' perspective, not a national narrative!

In other words, the goal of the film from the beginning was to be an Oscar...

(End of chapter)