Chapter 180: The Night Banquet
In the process of promoting the new album, Liu Yifei inevitably had to be asked about Brother Hu's car accident.
From here, you can see the unprofessionalism of Liu Yifei's brokerage team, or Liu Yifei's own "hard-heartedness".
When asked about Brother Hu's car accident, her performance was very amateurish, and at first glance she was unprepared.
"I sent him some text messages of blessing because I didn't want to go...... Forehead...... Let's hope he can recover well, and don't want to bother him too much. ”
"Then have you contacted each other after filming "Fairy Sword"?" The reporter asked again.
Liu Yifei just said: "Because it's true that everyone is very busy......"
The reporter was very clever to take this issue and not to delve into it.
Even if you say something nice and polite on this occasion, you have to tell the truth.
is because Tang Ren has been firing Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Linger's CPs, causing Liu Yifei to keep a distance from Brother Hu.
In August, a talent show called "Dream of Red Mansions" became popular.
This is an actor talent show held for the new version of "Dream of Red Mansions", and the demand for Liu Yifei to play Daiyu on the Internet is very high.
Liu Yifei denied it at the propaganda site: "I didn't receive an invitation." I won't fight for this role for the time being, it's pure rumors. ”
When asked about the arrangements outside the new album, Liu Yifei said: "My "Animal World" scene has been completed, and there are still some commercials to be filmed in the next few months. I don't plan to join the group for the time being, and there is still a lot to learn. ”
She plans to go to the theater to report after the album promotion, and then follow the theater teacher to learn acting again.
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The word-of-mouth of the premiere of "Night Banquet" in Venice has spread back to China.
Audiences in Venice generally reacted as "cinematic".
Hamlet is too famous in the West.
"The story is not difficult to understand, and it is easy to see that it is taken from Shakespeare's Hamlet, but all in all it is not particularly wonderful."
"In terms of plot and structure, 'Night Banquet' is too Westernized, and it feels strange to mix it with the setting of ancient China, and if you remove the era setting of the background, it is difficult to see that this is a Chinese film."
Does this mean that Feng Xiaogang filmed "Hamlet", but Western audiences didn't buy it?
After the crew of "Night Banquet" returned to China, they held a national tour of screenings, traveled through Yangcheng, Lin'an, Fengtian and Chang'an, and then held a world premiere in Beijing.
The next day, the main creators appeared in the magic capital to build momentum for the film.
It is said that the movie promotion task is so heavy, it should be very busy, but at half past 10 in the evening, Huang Xiaoming and Zhou Xun actually appeared in the studio of "Animal World", led by Wang Zhonglei.
The crew has not yet lost work, and the two of them are not in the air.
"Didn't bother you filming, did you?" Wang Zhonglei greeted Xu Ke and others.
"No, no." Xu Class warmly shook hands with the three of them.
Although Huayi did not invest in "Animal World", from the perspective of others, it is impossible to drive people out.
Huang Xiaoming and Zhang Yuanjun have met a few times, and they know each other, but they are not familiar with each other.
But this junior's grades are really good!
After the two TV series, a male protagonist of a cinema movie with a big hit of 54 million was directly released.
Not to mention Huang Xiaoming, any young actor will be jealous when he looks at it.
Regardless of whether it is pretending or being like this, Huang Xiaoming is really warm and thoughtful.
Zhang Yuanjun and him are at most nodding friends, but he is very positive about him in the studio, and he thinks that the two have been good friends for more than ten years.
"How do you play this game?" Huang Xiaoming holds the prop card of the crew.
"It's to play cards, compare rock-paper-scissors, and win the stars in everyone's hands."
"It's as simple as that?"
"It's as simple as that." "However, when you and a group of people are locked in a room to play this kind of game, and the loser may die, this game is not just a game, it will be more tense and exciting." ”
"I can't tell you about this game for a while, and when the movie is released next year, I'll invite you to watch it, and you'll know after watching it." Zhang Yuanjun finally said, "It's not bad." ”
Wang Zhonglei and the three didn't stay for long, and left in about half an hour.
"There's an opportunity to work together." Wang Zhonglei said this to Zhang Yuanjun in front of the crew.
It's just polite words, who will take it seriously.
After Wang Zhonglei and the three left, Xu Jiao quickly organized people to film.
"Hurry up and take a few more shots."
The results of "Night Banquet" will not be bad, and Feng Xiaogang's audience popularity is the best among mainland directors.
The word-of-mouth accumulation of the Chinese New Year stalls for more than ten years has made the audience buy tickets to enter the cinema when they see Feng Xiaogang's three words.
Therefore, although the 12 million results on the first day of "Night Banquet" are amazing, they are actually expected.
12 million, which is Feng Xiaogang's best first-day box office result since he became a film.
It is also the best first-day result of all the films released this year.
In order to attract more audiences to the theater, Huayi has taken a new measure - every audience who buys a ticket to enter the theater can get a "red envelope" that deducts 60 yuan in cash for shopping on a treasure website, and 400,000 red envelopes will be given out within a month from the premiere of the movie.
This trick seems to be pushing a movie, but it is actually pushing a certain treasure.
A certain treasure is really not popular now, and online shopping is not generally accepted by the public.
With the help of the golden sign of "Feng Xiaogang Movie", it is a good way to attract customers for yourself, but I don't know how much a certain treasure will give out of this 60 yuan red envelope.
The movie has just been released, unless it is particularly bad, otherwise the word-of-mouth will last for 2 weeks, and at that time, "Wuji" lasted for two weeks before the word-of-mouth collapsed.
It's the same with "Night Banquet".
The film's reputation began to crumble after the second week.
Most of the first moviegoers admitted that the film was good overall, but "it's a problem movie."
Of the dozen or so viewers randomly interviewed by a magazine, the vast majority of them did not dare to say that it was a "good-looking" movie.
Professional film reviews came out later, pointing directly to the screenwriting problem.
"Bad screenwriters directly lead to bad lines. Those half-colloquial, half-literary lines, some of which are numb, and some of which are hilarious. Lines such as "Lonely Singer" and "A Dance of the Sword moves in all directions, and the performance is indeed my strength" really makes me suspect that this national first-class screenwriter has watched too much of Qiong Shao and Yu Qiuyu.
The original script of "Night Banquet" is called "The Prince of the Sword", which was written by Qiu Gangjian, and this teacher's representative works are: "Rouge Buckle", "People in New York", and "Ruan Lingyu".
After the original script was handed over to Huayi, Feng Xiaogang wanted to adapt it, but Qiu disagreed, so Feng asked Sheng Heyu to write the script.
Sheng is also a great screenwriter in the mainland, and his representative works include: "Towards the Republic", "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty" and so on.
The adapted script is not accepted now, but it does not mean that it will be better to shoot according to the original script.
Looking at Qiu's previous scripts, his ideological criticism is very good, even avant-garde.
But such a script can't sell money, and it doesn't meet the needs of Huayi and Feng Xiaogang.
The problem of "Night Banquet" can be summed up in one sentence, probably that the director's literary literacy is not enough to bring Shakespeare's story to the Chinese screen.
Maybe Feng Xiaogang didn't think it through.
Blockbusters are used to make money.
"Hero" and "Wuji" are all the same.
However, perhaps Feng Xiaogang wanted to prove himself artistically too much, so "Night Banquet" slowed down the story and its rhythm, and fell into the quagmire of formal aesthetics.
From "Night Banquet", you can see Feng Xiaogang's twisting and entanglement.
I really watched this film, it's not very good, but it's not that bad.
(End of chapter)