The next day, at noon.

Wu Ershan, Wang Xun and Yang Xiaomi, a group of three people, took the car and got off at Xiaoxitian Gongjia Station, of course, this is not Xiaoxitian Xiaoleiyin Temple in "Journey to the West".

Xiaoxitian archway was built in 1989, the front of the archway is written "Xiaoxitian" three words, it is said that it is named because of the temple of the incense in the early years, the back is written "Taiping Shengshi", just like the ancient royal style, golden and brilliant.

Wu Ershan, as the leader, pointed to the "Xiaoxitian" and introduced: "I looked at the old photos of Yanjing and asked some old people, the northwest corner of Yanjing City was not a prosperous place to go, "Xiaoxitian" and the surrounding area were originally open land, the place names are Suojia Tomb, Iron Lion Tomb and so on, until the liberation of the fifties and sixties before the gradual prosperity.

At that time, there was a temple in the northwest of this place, called "Little West Heaven", and the Buddhists said: Worship the Buddha as the Great West Heaven, and worship the Buddha as the Little West Heaven! Therefore, the surrounding places are roughly called "Xiaoxitian".

This "Xiaoxitian" does not refer to the current Xiaoxitian archway, but refers to the original site of the "Xiaoxitian" temple in the courtyard of Yenching Normal University, and the real "Xiaoxitian" temple is in the south of the courtyard of Yenching Normal University, that is, in the area of the Iron Lion Cemetery, and the specific location cannot be verified.

But now there is only one small Xitian archway left.

Nowadays, the surrounding area is collectively referred to as Xiaoxitian, and it is also one of the cores of Yanjing's film industry. ”

Wang Xun glanced at the bus stop sign and suddenly found that Yenching Film Academy, Beijing Normal University, which hosted the college student film festival, Beijing Film Studio, Huaguo Film Research Center, China Film Group, etc., were all nearby.

He nodded and replied with a smile: "Brother Qianqian, this is a prosperous place, the north side of the archway is the Huaguo Cinema, the archway is the Huaguo Film Archive, the Huaguo Film Orchestra, and the nearby Yenching University of Posts and Telecommunications and Yenching Normal University, etc., have brought handsome men and beautiful women, lively and prosperous to the area. ”

Yang Xiaomi took out her mobile phone and wanted to call Yang Chunling, but quickly put it down again.

She stuck out her tongue, she was unprepared for coming out this time, and she finally passed a level, if she was taught a lesson again because of a phone call, how wronged.

She glanced at Brother Jin in front of her, and turned her head to look at Wang Xun: "Make trouble, you lower your head, I'll tell you trade secrets." ”

Wu Ershan helped his glasses and covered his ears with both hands.

Wang Xun squatted beside her and listened to her narrate: "Noisy, you see that the surrounding area is so prosperous, is it okay to open a honey-seeking square?" ”

"You're such a little genius!" Wang Xun's encouraging education never stops.

"Haha, I'm a genius!" Yang Xiaomi's second middle school girl was sick again, and she pinched her waist with both hands and laughed.

"Watch less "Slam Dunk", are so many people in the Honey Hunting Group stupid?" This secondary disease must be suppressed.

"This..." Yang Xiaomi gave Wang Xun a big white eye, and then held her fingers with a thinking look.

"Are you stupid? The group estimates that it has been investigated a long time ago, and the land must be difficult to get. Stimulated by the white eyes, this excitement, Wang Xun's hometown dialect came out.

"You're stupid! You're a big stupid pig! Annoyed and angry, Yang Xiaomi directly detoured to Wang Xun's back, and then locked on to the target and pulled it hard.

Wang Xun was thrilled by this sudden pain, he immediately stood up straight, looked at Yang Xiaomi innocently, and rubbed his injured back.

He hurriedly admitted: "I was wrong, okay!" ”

Yang Xiaomi pouted triumphantly: "It's pretty much the same!" ”

Wu Ershan looked at it with relish, raised his hand and looked at his watch, Tong Kong magnified and hurriedly interrupted the interaction between the two: "Okay, don't make trouble, Mr. Han will have to wait in a hurry." ”

China Film Office Building, a small garden in front of the building.

When it comes to China Film, I always feel awesome, where is it?

is not only the right to introduce blockbusters, but also because before the capital was opened, it used its special position to occupy a large number of theater shares in advance.

Private and foreign capital cannot be controlled, let alone wholly owned, and if you want to be a theater chain, you must cooperate with China Film.

For example, China Film Xingmei, China Film Southern Shinkansen, China Film Digital Cinema, etc., rank in the top ten box office revenue all year round.

If you want to enter the market at this time, you must cooperate with state-owned assets, and after the policy is liberalized, the Wanda model of Daduhui can be launched.

Wang Xun, who is known as "the little master of sprinkling sugar", "nightmare for diabetics", and "saccharin maker", stood in the small garden with excitement at this time.

How did these titles come about?

From the brutal storm of East Asia in "My Savage Girlfriend" released in 2000 to the latest version of "Holding You in the Palm of Your Hand is the Taste of Happiness Milk Tea" Jay's endorsement advertisement landed on CCTV, and then to the fate of "Must Not Believe in Fate" released in the middle of the year, Wang Xun is simply the conscience of the industry in the field of "sprinkling sugar".

But when he heard the elder's call, his legs and stomach were still a little shaky.

The main thing is that this Han Sanye is really famous.

A man who controls the life and death of domestic movies with one hand.

Yang Xiaomi looked at the office building of Zhongying with a curious expression, and said very bluntly: "This is nothing new, it is as broken as the teaching building of No. 2 Middle School." ”

Wang Xun was startled, and hurriedly covered her mouth: "Little ancestor, don't offend people because of your mouth!" ”

Yang Xiaomi glanced at Wang Xun, and her little tongue stretched out.

Wang Xun's hands itched, and he let go in an instant.

"Have you washed your hands?"

"Nope!"

"And you're still covering my mouth?"

"Didn't you forget?"

"Am I going to get sick, then?"

"That's the problem of you not wearing pants!"

"What does this have to do with autumn pants? Besides, my socks are thick enough. Yang Xiaomi teased her school uniform pants, revealing the 80D black silk inside her ankles.

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Wang Xun almost had a nosebleed, is the bare-legged artifact available now?

His tone began to become gentle: "It's okay, even if you're sick, I'll take care of you." ”

Yang Xiaomi's ears blushed with shame, her big eyes suddenly became foggy, and her sudden love words made her suddenly daze.

Wu Ershan looked at the two ancestors arguing with a headache, and was thinking about how to end when suddenly a mouthful of dog food was stuffed into his mouth.

There was a person walking in the hall, Wang Xun took a look, this face was too familiar, fat fox - Yu Dong.

Yu Dong directly stepped forward to hug his God of Wealth Wu Ershan, rubbed Wang Xun and Yang Xiaomi's heads again, and laughed: "Hurry up and enter the screening room, Han Dong will have a meeting at 3 o'clock in the afternoon." ”

In the screening room of China Film.

The four of them sat down, Yang Xiaomi on Wang Xun's left, and Han Sanping on his right.

Han Sanping didn't speak, and Wang Xun felt a little cramped for a while.

The film "Heroes" began to play on the big screen.

On the wide screen, the scene of the Qin army's ten thousand arrows firing at one end was as if the curtain was about to be torn.

Jin Ge Iron Horse, chivalrous rivers and lakes, and the long stories of children's love leap on the big screen.

Yang Xiaomi watched it with relish, and Wang Xun was thinking about the purpose of the elder's summoning.

But Master Tan Dun's soundtrack made him unable to concentrate.

"Forget it, watch the movie well, what do you like." Wang Xun thought so.

Although the plot of "Hero" is as weak as ever.

But Lao Mouzi's mastery of light and shadow, color contrast, and especially the soundtrack makes the whole movie elegant.

"Hero" tells the story of four major assassins teaming up to assassinate Qin in a three-fold reversal drama method.

As a martial arts commercial film, these triple reversals have lost their original mystery and interest because of the slow pace.

But obviously, most audiences will not accept it, the simplest reason is that the audience wants to watch a refreshing martial arts movie, not a complex "philosophy" movie that needs to be considered, and the whole movie style is extremely "twisted".

Why "screw"?

After Lao Mouzi finished filming "Happy Times", he was preparing the script of "Hero".

At first, the script was written according to a literary film, the kind of Rashomon-style structure, and the theme that will never be explained.

What kind of world, war and peace, to kill or not to kill, to be in harmony or not to be in harmony, the heroism of a group or an individual.

This is all a routine of literary films.

I finally waited for the script to be written.

"Kacha" Li Press's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" came to a sunny day in North America, and people won the Oscar.

I was depressed for Lao Mouzi, and Li pressed the children to be unauthentic.

said that they would go to Baitou together, but Li pressed you and secretly baked the oil.

Later, it was Jiang Zhiqiang of Xiangjiang who encouraged him, and China Film also needed its own blockbusters in China.

The lineup in front of the stage is directly filled first:

Kung Fu Emperor, do you want Li Lian?

Literary male god, do you want Liang Manchu?

The three major actresses in Europe, do you want Zhang Manshen?

The ceiling of the emperor in the mainland, does Chen Daoming want it?

East Asian savage girlfriend, do you want to leave?

Cao Shaoqin, the public of Dongchang Factory, Donnie Yen should be an add-on.

The behind-the-scenes lineup can't be an errand:

Costume and character design, do you want Emi Wada?

The most famous photographer in Hong Kong, Christopher Doyle or not?

Music soundtrack master, do you want Tan Dun?

Golden Horse Best Martial Arts Instructor, do you want Cheng Xiaodong?

The best artist in China, do you want Huo Tingxiao?

Golden Rooster Award Best Props Award winner, Yi Zhenzhou want it?

Good dock special effects, do you want it?

In this way, "Hero" went from the prototype of a literary film to a commercial blockbuster that went to the extreme.

It's no wonder that the reviews of the whole movie were in trouble later, but it had little impact on the box office.

Zhang Weiping's hunger marketing is very successful, and the current public opinion is very slow to spread, even if it is a bad review, it will not cause fatal damage to the film.

As long as the publicity is full of firepower, there will be audiences who will walk into the cinema and see "Wuji" a few years later, which was frantically complained about, and is still the annual box office champion.

Movies at this stage, unless the national team is out, will always follow the definition of publicity investment = box office.

Of course, the theater chain even has to cooperate, take this "Hero" as an example, in the first week of its release, only this movie is exclusive to the whole country.

In other words, all the films scheduled are it, and "Infernal Affairs", which was originally on the same schedule as it, was definitely unable to be released in the mainland.

However, "Infernal Affairs" made a false shot, and audio and video products such as VCD and DVD were the first to be listed, avoiding the head-to-head confrontation with "Heroes".

Although pirated discs are rampant, genuine movies still have a large audience, so before the movie was released, the audio-visual rights of "Hero" were sold at a sky-high price of 17.8 million.

However, in order to ensure box office revenue, audio-visual products will not be available until March next year.

And "Infernal Affairs" is precisely looking at this vacancy, and doing the opposite, preempting "Hero" and dumping audio-visual products at low prices of 10 yuan and 12 yuan in China.

It sounds magical, but it's a real thing that happens.

and TCL, which auctioned the copyright of "Hero" at a sky-high price, announced its withdrawal from the image copyright before the release of the movie.

This has added more after-dinner conversation to the already popular movie.

The story behind the film company is sometimes more exciting and bloody than the movie itself.

On the big screen, the nameless played by Li Lian gave up assassinating the King of Qin, but was pierced through the heart by the Qin army's arrows.

The movie ends.

The screen went black, and the applause continued.

Han Sanping coughed, and the applause stopped.

There was calmness in his voice: "Wang Xun, as a best-selling martial arts author, you evaluate this movie." ”

Wang Xun smiled bitterly: "Han Dong, how can I have the courage to evaluate as a small character." ”

Han Sanping pointed at Wang Xun with a smile, and his tone relaxed: "You little skin monkey, dare to spray those rock and roll people, why don't you dare to evaluate the movie?" ”

Wang Xun scratched his head and smiled awkwardly: "Do you want to hear good words or bad words?" ”

Han Sanping was interested, and his body leaned towards Wang Xun slightly: "Talk carefully, listen to the opinions of young people, and start with bad words." ”

Wang Xun arched his hand: "That kid is ugly, you can bear more." ”

Han Sanping nodded.

Wang Xun cleared his throat: ""Hero" uses the mouth of Nameless and King Qin at this moment to alternately tell three stories related to the assassination of Qin - Nameless fictionalized the story of the anti-assassination of Qin: first kill Changkong, then induce Feixue to kill the remnant sword, and finally kill Feixue when he is in chaos.

The King of Qin believes in the second story of his speculation: in order to complete the assassination of Qin, Nameless colluded with Changkong, killed him by himself, and then invited one of the remnant sword Feixue to dedicate himself, during which Feixue first injured the disabled sword for love, and then sacrificed his life for the assassination of Qin.

In the end, Nameless frankly disclosed the true story three: in order to complete the assassination of Qin, after collusion, Nameless faked Changkong, and then teamed up with Feixue to injure the sword, and then faked Feixue in front of the Qin army. ”

Han Sanping smiled with a hint of scrutiny: "Are you talking badly?" ”

Wang Xun raised his eyebrows: "But at the end, Nameless died under the arrow array."

After reading the whole story, the audience will definitely scold, one is that the story is thin, and the other is that the theme is twisted.

The chivalry of the invaded country gave up assassinating the King of Qin because he wanted to pursue peaceful reunification, which is not in line with our people's consistent thinking about martial arts films. ”

The corners of Han Sanping's mouth twitched, and he waved his hand: "Tell me about your consistent thoughts on martial arts films." ”

Wang Xun thought for a while: "The scope of martial arts films is very wide, not only Chinese martial arts in the traditional sense.

For example, many action movies, police movies, and western films can be regarded as martial arts films in a broad sense.

The chivalry of the Chinese, the samurai of the nuclear people, the knights of the Europeans, and the cowboys of the ugly people all play the same role in the movies in which they are the protagonists.

In other words, whether it is a knife or a gun, it is chivalrous.

The audience watching martial arts films is a person's swords and swords on the rivers and lakes, happy and revengeful.

It's the kind of man who gets angry and splatters blood for five steps.

But it's a pity that the end of "Hero" lays down his arms, which is surrender in the eyes of the audience. ”

Han Sanping glanced at Wang Xun: "Let's say something good!" ”

Wang Xun couldn't hear the emotion from Han Sanping's tone, so he had to bite the bullet: ""Hero" does not have many dialogues, because Chinese culture pays attention to understanding, it is useless to talk too much, and it is to understand.

Besides, with the support of the picture, many things can be understood without saying it.

Nameless is an assassin who meets the King of Qin because he has killed the three Assassins that the King of Qin fears the most.

He told the King of Qin the story of how he killed the three Assassins.

The first is the long sky.

The place of duel, with no obvious color, accompanied by the piano, rain, and etiquette among the warriors, all hint at the friendship between them.

In the end, Nameless won, win fast, win in skill.

Colorless, skillful, this is the first layer of the film.

Then the core of the film begins, and Nameless tells how to kill the remnant sword and the flying snow.

The red Zhao Guozi Museum, calligraphy, a representative of Chinese culture, says that calligraphy and sword artistic conception are connected.

Just as I said in the previous duel with the sky, Qin Se and swordsmanship are connected.

Chinese culture itself is about the same, all things are one, and this connection depends on enlightenment.

Red here represents desire, human desire, because of human desire, the two cannibalism gives the nameless a chance, and finally breaks it one by one.

Red, human desire: possessiveness, jealousy, revenge, the second layer of the film.

King Qin said that you underestimated me, so he began to tell what he thought was the situation of these three people.

The film began to use blue as the theme, and blue represents reason, that is, strategy, and affection.

Therefore, for the sake of confidant love and national love, Feixue and Remnant Sword used their lives to achieve the nameless assassination plan.

Blue, rational, emotional, the third layer of the film

After that, Nameless tells the third story, in the library, the remnant sword organization Feixue and Nameless Assassin Qin, but failed to stop it and was injured by Feixue.

The picture here is mainly white. White, I think, has two layers, one is the balance of calm, rationality and desire, and the second is blank, meaningless, paving the way for the next layer.

White, the best balance between reason and desire, the golden mean, the fourth layer of the film

On the way to Qin without a name, the remnant sword stopped him and wrote two words, "Tianxia".

He began to tell about his assassination of Qin, and he finally gave up assassinating Qin for the sake of the world, because he believed that only the king of Qin could end the war and rule the world.

The picture here is mainly green, green, natural color.

The Chinese pay attention to the unity of nature and man, and the green here represents epiphany and enlightenment.

The remnant sword realized the "Tao", and the righteousness of the world is greater than the righteousness of the country, and the gains and losses of individuals are greater.

Green, Tao, the righteousness of the world, this is the fifth layer of the film.

In the end, the remnant sword gave Feixue a sword and died under her sword, and the last two people both committed suicide.

This let is the sixth layer of the film.

Chinese culture pays attention to layers, and this film has achieved this, layer by layer, and also pays attention to the realm, and the layer is a new realm.

From the bottom is desire and skill.

And then there's the scheme.

Further up is the righteousness of the world, but after all, it is still violence to counter violence.

The highest is to let the country, let the world.

This is the highest spirit inherited by Chinese culture, so the historical records start with the country, and we are all familiar with the story of Kong Rong Rangpear.

The film "Hero" has achieved this layer of elaboration and progression, Director Zhang was very ambitious and had good wishes when he made this film, this film is China's own film, because no one understands it except Chinese.

Director Zhang must have hoped that this film could open an era of China's own film style.

And this is not a story of assassinating Qin, Director Zhang just used this familiar history. What he talks about is his own understanding and perception of Chinese culture and his perception of the morality of the world. ”

Han Sanping took the lead in applauding, and for a moment applause surrounded the screening room.

His eyes locked on Wang Xun and asked, "Wang Xun, do you think the box office will be high?" ”

Wang Xun nodded subconsciously and shouted: "It will be high, it will definitely be higher than a new realm." ”

Han Sanping shook his head with a smile: "You little skin monkey, Chunyan has invested, of course you want it to be high at the box office." ”

Wang Xun stuck out his tongue mischievously.

Han Sanping turned his head to look at Yang Xiaomi: "Yang Mi, Wang Xun is a boy, how do you feel as a girl after watching this movie?" ”

Yang Xiaomi originally looked at Wang Xun with a look of adoration, and her heart was happy, but she was suddenly cue, and she was suddenly a little panicked, her expression management was out of control, and she subconsciously pointed at herself: "Me?" ”

Han Sanping looked at Yang Xiaomi with a smile that he thought was kind: "Yes, what do you think?" ”

Yang Xiaomi thought for a while: "I remembered the fight between Hu Yanglin and Sister Li, the picture is too beautiful."

I want to travel to the filming location, hee-hee. ”

"Oh? That's a good idea, too. ”

"That's right, Uncle Han, it's not bad if you can remember the scenery when you watch this movie, what plot you watch, the beauty will be over!"

"Hahahahaha Han Sanping was amused by Yang Xiaomi's words, and leaned forward and back.

As soon as his laughter stopped, his words changed, and his eyes were like eagles staring at the prey and looking at Wang Xun: "Wang Xun, since you said that the box office must be high, what if the audience doesn't have enough movie theaters?" ”

Wang Xun can be regarded as understood!

It's a two-way street!

He pondered for a moment and said, "Boy, people are soft-spoken, and the adults in the family have to decide this matter." ”

Han Sanping smiled and said nothing, self-explanatory.