"Is 'Hero' good?"

"Beautiful!"

"Would you like to watch it a second time?"

"Yes!"

"Will you ask your family and friends to watch it together?"

"Yes!"

Li Tang stood on the stage with the microphone and worked hard to interact with the fans.

In the eyes of the majority of fans, the director and Uncle Daoming are too cold; Li Lian, Liang Chaowei, and Zhang Yanyu seem to be too far away; As for Zhang Ziyi, to be honest, passers-by are not very popular, after all, since her debut, she has risen too quickly and too powerfully, so that negative news continues.

In contrast, Li Tang, who has the least scenes, seems more cordial. Especially the "Going" starring him and Xu Jinglei has just been screened, and the audience who can come to the roadshow site is definitely a senior movie fan.

The filter of Jianbin who played by Li Tang in "Going" is still there, and in "Hero", a completely different role is presented, which seems to make people find the shadow of the chic and uninhibited Ling Hu Chong back then.

Of course, the main reason is that among the big names, Li Tang has the lowest coffee position, and he is the most lively, without any idol baggage, which can shorten the distance between him and the audience, especially fans in second- and third-tier cities.

"Xiao Li, hard work!" After stepping off the stage, the director looked at Li Tang with a satisfied expression.

With Li Tang's attitude towards the roadshow during this time, the director was very moved. To put it bluntly, a promotional roadshow is to liven up the atmosphere, create a topic, and then attract more audiences to the cinema. And this point is undoubtedly Li Tang is the best.

"Director, you're welcome. The main audience today is young people, young people, just want to be lively, people are crazy, it is easier to enliven the atmosphere. Li Tang took the water handed over by Xiao Zhao, took a sip to moisten his throat, and said with a smile.

It's not the first time he's running a roadshow, and in his cognition, a roadshow is sales. And there's nothing to be ashamed of in the word sales. Think about the previous life, bigwigs like Jobs and Musk would personally go to the front desk and promote their new products to the world, just to make their products sell better, and they were also salesmen.

If you want more audiences to enter the movie, you must bend down to listen to the audience's demands and explain the concept of the movie to the audience. Of course, you can't be too upright in this process, you have to reach a piece with the audience and get the audience's recognition as much as possible.

To be honest at this point, Li Lianlian is also doing a very good job, which may have a lot to do with his experience in the United States. Unfortunately, because of temporary things at home, I had to fly back to the United States in a hurry.

Others, in contrast, are almost meaningless, and in their opinion, being able to come to the scene, let the audience see a real person, or simply answer a few questions, seems to have completed the propaganda task.

It has been the twelfth day since the release of "Hero", and today I came to Xiamen to promote, and only Li Tang and the director were left in the entire roadshow team.

Zhang Ziyi and Liang Chaowei have also returned to the crew of "2046" to continue filming. This film directed by Wang Jiawei is said to have been made for several years. The funny thing is that when filming "Hero" last year, Liang Chaowei, Zhang Ziyi, including the director of photography Christopher Doyle all squeezed out time to shoot between the filming of "2046". And this squeeze can be squeezed out for nearly half a year.

Zhang Yanyu has completed the publicity of several major cities in the mainland according to the contract, and she is also responsible for the publicity of the Hong Kong release.

As for Uncle Daoming, it may be because the recent itinerary is too rushed, which causes his body not to return to the capital in advance.

To be honest, such a high-intensity publicity roadshow is really hard, and Li Tang barely survived by relying on his physical strength, but sometimes he feels a little powerless. In contrast, he admires the director a lot, but he is still energetic in his fifties, just like his dark and thin appearance, he is really old and strong, much better than Uncle Daoming, who is a few years younger than him.

Walking out of this theater, the two hurried to the next theater, and there are still two theaters to run today. However, the director said that after running in Xiamen today, you can rest for a day tomorrow, and fly to Ningbo the day after tomorrow to continue running.

"Hero" was released on December 14, and the box office in the first ten days has exceeded 130 million, far exceeding everyone's expectations. You must know that when it was first released, Zhang Weiping boasted to the media that Haikou's goal was only to break 100 million.

At that time, the media generally thought that it was too optimistic, after all, there are only a handful of Hollywood blockbusters that can break 100 million in China, and a domestic film is a bit fantastic without the blessing of "chartering". But "Hero" did it in less than ten days, and with the current trend, it is just around the corner to break 200 million.

The film market is like that, winner takes all. As the box office of "Hero" continues to rise, the popularity of major media and the Internet is also increasing.

And this new picture has also spent a lot of effort in anti-piracy, so far there is no high-definition version of piracy on the market, which is the biggest factor in the box office, and some cities even have a hard time finding a ticket, and you need to queue up in advance to buy tickets.

It's just that as the box office of the movie continues to rise, all kinds of negative reviews have also come to the face, the most of which is nothing more than saying that the movie is mysterious, the story is full of various loopholes, there are only special effects and no story, there is no artistic pursuit, whitewashing for Ying Zheng, overturning the case for Tyranny Qin, etc.

In a word, this is a bad movie directed by Zhang Yimou!

How do you say this kind of thing?

The box office explosion of "Hero" to this extent is something that no one expected, almost replicating the pomp and circumstance of Ofune's release five years ago. You must know that the big ship hit a box office of 360 million yuan that year, and it has not been broken so far.

And the success of "Hero" just shows that the domestic market needs blockbusters, especially domestic blockbusters.

For these so-called criticisms from the outside world, Li Tang really scoffed.

What does it mean to have a thin story?

What does it mean to have no artistic pursuits?

In his impression, the plot is simple, the picture is beautiful, and the pursuit of grandeur of the scene is the standard configuration of future Hollywood blockbusters. The so-called superhero series, quick series, and mission: Impossible series all follow this path.

To put it bluntly, these negative comments are that they saw that the box office of "Hero" was good, and their eyes were red, so they began to step on them in various ways, belittle them in various ways, brush their sense of existence in various ways, and try to bring rhythm. It seems that as long as the director and the film are criticized, there is hope for Chinese films.

The audience is always blind, and once there are more negative voices like this, it will often cause the audience to follow suit, and then everyone will criticize and step on it together, so as to form a nominal political correctness, a trend, or even a fashion.

The purpose of the roadshow is sometimes to set things right and fight against the negative comments that circulate in the media and on the Internet with ulterior motives.

This is precisely what the director is most satisfied with Li Tang.

Just like when he ridiculed those negative comments on stage today, he joked to the audience below: "The box office of "Hero" is so good, the audience loves to watch it so much, they all hate you to death, how can they still help you say good things, how can you let all the good things be taken up by you alone, you must be criticized, criticized to death, and criticized until you speak in unison." ”

These few sentences simply speak the director's heart!

The story structure of "Hero" seems to be quite thin on the surface, telling the story of the late Warring States period, when the war was chaotic and the heroes rose together. Among the seven heroes who have flourished for a while, only the Qin State dominates one side.

In order to dominate the world, the king of Qin launched a crusade against Zhao and other princes and six kingdoms. The ambition of the king of Qin aroused the strong dissatisfaction of the knights of the vassal states, and they waited for the opportunity to assassinate the king of Qin.

The Zhao State Assassin Changkong, the couple Assassin Remnant Sword, and Feixue were the most feared by King Qin. The King of Qin ordered: Anyone who can arrest the Assassin Changkong can get twenty steps closer to the King of Qin; Kill the remnant sword and flying snow, you can get ten steps close to the king of Qin, and seal the official and add silk.

The knights of the Qin State defeated Changkong, Remnant Sword, and Feixue without a name and were able to get ten steps closer to the King of Qin, telling the King of Qin the story of defeating the three of them in this way.

But it's such a simple story, in fact, the whole storyline is constantly reversing.

For example, the first version comes from Nameless's mouth, Nameless killed Sky, and used the reason that Sky and Feixue had a "one-night stand" to separate the relationship between Remnant Sword and Feixue. As a result, the remnant sword was finally killed by Feixue, and Nameless killed Feixue in front of the Qin army.

It's a pity that this version was quickly seen by King Qin, because in King Qin's heart, the remnant sword Feixue could not be such a narrow-minded and selfish person.

The second version comes from the speculation of King Qin. King Qin guessed that after Nameless killed Changkong, he found one of the two people to help him. As a result, the remnant sword Feixue was about to go, but in the end, Feixue injured the remnant sword, and ran in front of the Qin army and was defeated by Nameless.

The third version, which is the real truth. In fact, the remnant sword not only did not want to assassinate the King of Qin, but prevented the nameless from assassinating the King of Qin. Three years ago, the remnant sword Feixue was already able to kill King Qin, but the remnant sword was temporarily stopped. In the end, Feixue and Nameless teamed up to defeat the Remnant Sword, and then Feixue and Nameless performed in front of the Qin army, and Flying Snow was defeated, and Nameless also got the Remnant Sword and Flying Snow's sword, and finally came to the Ten Steps of King Qin.

These three versions do not talk about specific storylines, in terms of structure, Li Tang feels very familiar, much like Quentin's famous movie "Inglourious Basterds".

"Heroes" is in the front, and "Inglourious Basterds" is in the back.

The ending of the film reflects the traditional Chinese sentiment of "the great man of chivalry, for the country and the people".

Nameless finally understood the truth of "the world is for the public, and the truce and war stops", and only by letting the King of Qin rule the world will the people of the seven kingdoms not continue to suffer.

In the end, Nameless was willing to die under the bow and arrow of the Qin State. And Feixue, who knew that the nameless assassination failed, shot at the remnant sword, and as a result, both of them were martyred!

What's more, "Hero", as a martial arts movie, is completely qualified, even surpassing many previous martial arts movies, and can even be said to have created a new genre.

Among the several fight scenes, Li Tang and Li Lian are undoubtedly the most exciting. As the line says: "Although the rhyme of the martial arts and pianos is different, the principles are the same, and they all emphasize the realm of the great sound and the sound."

Under the sound of the blind old man's piano, the two began a duel of ideas. The raindrops are flying, and the moves are freehand. This is different from the realistic style of one move and one style in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the fights in "Hero" pay more attention to freehand, the beauty of the moves, and the delicacy of the picture. The whole fight scene is full of beauty.

Moreover, compared with the battle between Li Tang and Li Lian, which pursued slaughter and coldness, then the battle between Li Lian and Liang Chaowei in the middle of the lake pursued elegance and chic; The battle between Zhang Yanyu and Zhang Ziyi in the woods pursues beauty and beauty.

Every fight is a feast for the eyes. Each fight scene is full of beautiful colors, revealing an ethereal and ethereal atmosphere.

But if you insist on picking the bones in the egg, say that the excessive pursuit of the beauty of the picture weakens the content of the story; The segmented design of the structure is too fragmented, which destroys the wholeness; Every time the plot reverses, it seems stiff and so on.

Then it can only be said that these are the shamelessness of those with vested interests.

Li Tang feels that in this era, the director of "Hero" has achieved the ultimate, and no director is unsurpassed. Perhaps it was only from "Hero" that China officially opened the era of blockbusters. If you look back a few years later, you may find that "Hero" is like a mountain that has always stood there, but it has never been surpassed.

The second watch, cheekily ask for votes! The more monthly passes and recommendations, the better.

(End of chapter)