Chapter 253: Polarization

Putting aside the awesome topic, it is estimated that the reporters were afraid of hearing what they couldn't understand from Cheng Er's mouth again, so they threw the question back to the actors.

As the male number one, Li Tang, who won the Venice Film Festival against the current with this movie, is naturally the first to bear the brunt.

"May I ask Li Tang, you have cooperated with the two heroines in the movie before, and this time you are working with two beauties at the same time, do you have any stories to share with us?"

The question suddenly jumped from serious artistic discussion to behind-the-scenes gossip, which caught people off guard, and when Li Tang looked at the obscene-looking middle-aged male reporter in his forties who asked the question, his first reaction was to provoke trouble, which was definitely deliberately provoking trouble.

"In fact, this time I cooperated with Bingbing and Qinqin, and it was precisely because they had worked together before and became very good friends that they were willing to come over to help. I'm not afraid of embarrassment here, to be honest, I just didn't have any money at the time, and I didn't talk about the salary when I invited them over, including my senior brother Xu Zheng. Speaking of stories, I can only say that the two beauties and my brother Xu Zheng are very affectionate, and I would like to express my gratitude to them again! ”

Although Li Tang wisely avoided the question, whether it is Jiang Qinqin, Fan Xiaopang and Xu Zheng, they are all well-known actors now, and they can be called stars, and it is news that they can appear in friendship.

Immediately, a reporter asked Fan Xiaopang: "Bingbing, I heard that you have pushed several TV series for this movie, right?" ”

In fact, the film appointments pushed by Xiaopang were all for the preparation of "Jade Guanyin", and now she is happy not to explain it with false rumors, and said with a smile: "Because I have a good relationship with Teacher Li!" ”

Saying that, she restrained her smile and said seriously: "Actually, the main thing is that the script attracts me." Since I got the original script, I haven't had any communication with Mr. Li and the director, I have a lot of feelings for the character of Xiao Ke and am more interested in her, so even if I don't have a salary, I'm willing to push off other plays. It's arguably the one of the characters I'm most emotionally invested in, and what attracts me to her is her release. When I was filming "Your Life Is So Amorous" before, I often felt depressed. It's also the need of the character, and this time I can vent my emotions to my heart's content. And the story itself also provides me with a larger space to perform, and I can present a more diverse state. ”

In the end, she also turned her head to look at Li Tang with a smile and said, "Teacher Li said thank you just now, in fact, I think I should thank him and the director for giving me the opportunity to be on the big screen this time." ”

I have to say that Xiaopang's eloquence has been trained well in the past two years, and then she shared some interesting stories with reporters during filming, such as when filming a scene where she and Li Tang interrogated in the house, in order to ensure that the emotions are full, director Cheng Er hopes to use an eight-minute long shot in one go.

She was at a loss at first because she had no experience in acting in stage plays, and joked that where is this acting in a movie, it is clearly acting in a drama. She could only rehearse with Li Tang over and over again, and finally completed the director's requirements, and won the unanimous applause of the on-site staff.

Of course, it is indispensable to talk about Li Tang's great help to her, not only discussing the role with her, but also personally helping her design the character movements, which benefited her a lot.

Seeing that Xiaopang was talking about these with his eyebrows fluttering, Jiang Qinqin pouted imperceptibly.

There are many questions from reporters, and the creators take the trouble to answer them one by one. In fact, the more controversial it is, the better it is for the film and can arouse the curiosity of the audience.

In two days, Li Tang and the creators went to several famous movie theaters in SH City, and the effect was also very obvious, every time they arrived at a movie theater, every time the screening hall was full.

On the third day, Li Tang, Xiaopang and Cheng Er boarded a flight to the capital. Jiang Qinqin was going to report to the Peach Blossom Island crew, and Xu Zheng was still busy filming the time-traveling drama.

Before the release of the Hollywood blockbuster "The Mummy 2" on October 11, the three of them ran through several key cities, and when they were promoting in Nanjing, Xu Guangtou actually brought the heroine of his time-traveling drama, the now popular Wanwan actress, to help. It seems that the bald brother's popularity is still good, but I don't know if there is a fake show.

In Hangzhou, Jiang Qinqin also worked tirelessly to come from Taohua Island, and went to Ningbo with them to publicize it.

At the same time, the evaluation of "The Third Man" in the media and on the Internet has also been polarized. The reason is very simple, because the audience who has watched "The Third Man" is divided into two waves, those who understand and those who don't.

I think it's very good-looking, it's very durable, and I open two and three brushes; I didn't understand the whole process with a confused face, and the clips that kept flashing back were even more confusing, and the nearly two-hour movie was confusing for nearly an hour.

As a suspense movie, "The Third Man" creates a suspenseful atmosphere not only through the narrative, but also through the setting of details. The details not only require careful observation by the audience, but also careful consideration.

For example, why did Xu Guangtou play Lin Mo to commit suicide? It looks like nothing was explained in the movie, but if you look closely, you will find that when Xiao Ke is holding the silver photo frame, the photo frame is a photo of Lin Mo and a woman, but Lin Mo is always the only one in Lin Mo's house.

Then through the pickup truck that Li Tang saw when he repaired the car in the car repair shop, and this car was Lin Mo's, several clues were connected in series, and it was not difficult to interpret that the silver photo frame was actually a photo of Lin Mo and his wife, Lin Mo had a car accident and his wife died, which caused him not to want to live anymore.

It is also not difficult to explain why Xiao Ke took the initiative to send it to the door, but he did not commit any crime.

And it is precisely through this kind of fragmented narration that Cheng Er breaks a story with a clear main line and a relatively simple plot into pieces. It's like a jigsaw puzzle, you need to go through two or three brushes before you can piece the whole movie together according to the details of the story.

As Cheng Er said at the premiere, this film is to make the audience feel engaged.

But the audience just wants to have fun watching the movie, and they don't bother to go to the second or third brush for the sake of participation. Therefore, every time the roadshow is promoted, the theater may be very lively, but as soon as they leave, there are few people who watch it.

Especially today, they ran two theaters in Ningbo, and they were not full. The reason is simple, because today "The Mummy 2" was released.

From the premiere on October 5 to the end of the Golden Week on the 7th, the box office in Shanghai exceeded 1 million in three days, 600,000 in Beijing, and several other key cities ranged from 100,000 to 230,000, and the total box office exceeded 3 million in three days.

If it is calculated according to 1 million, at least the transportation and horse expenses and copy costs of the publicity roadshow during this period, including the remuneration compensated to Xiaopang, Xu Guangtou, and Jiang Qinqin, can be regarded as production.

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Li Tang carried a large plastic bag containing seven or eight lunch boxes in one hand and a wooden box in the other, walked to the door of the room, and had no way to ring the doorbell, so he could only kick the door twice with his foot.

"Brother Li!"

It was Jiang Qinqin's assistant Xiao Tang who opened the door, and hurriedly reached out to take the heavy big plastic bag from Li Tang's hand.

"No, no, be careful when the soup spills."

The lunch box was packed with packaged dishes, and in order to prevent the soup from spilling, Li Tang took it very carefully.

Walk straight in the door and carefully place it on the coffee table.

"Hey, where's Cheng Er?"

There were only Chubby and Jiang Qinqin and their assistants in the room, and there was no figure of Cheng Er.

"Director Cheng said he wanted to go to Sanjiangkou for a walk."

Chubby answered, and couldn't wait to untie the plastic bag and take out the lunch box from inside.

When you arrive in Ningbo, you will naturally have the specialty red paste crab here, as well as Ningbo braised goose, fried shrimp, dried fried shredded beef, etc., as for the most famous stinky winter melon, sea vegetable stalks, stinky thousands of zhang, etc., Li Tang didn't dare to ask for it, these things are too smelly, for fear of smoking the two beauties.

The wooden box contained two bottles of Great Wall 92 dry red.

Today is the last stop of the publicity roadshow, tomorrow Li Tang and Jiang Qinqin will go to Peach Blossom Island to report, and the start date of "Jade Guanyin" on Xiaopang's side has been set, and they will also fly to Yunnan.

Despite the polarization of word-of-mouth, the box office is finally acceptable, and it is naturally indispensable to celebrate.

Xiao Tang is very good at looking at eyes, and when Li Tang entered the house, he pulled Wang Shasha and withdrew very consciously.

"Poof!"

Li Tang opened a bottle of red wine, poured one-third of each of the three red wine glasses, picked up the glass and said, "Everyone has worked hard this time. Come on, let's do one first! ”

The second update!

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