Chapter 664: Campus Trip
At the end of lunch at the premiere, Liu Yifei arrived in Jiangcheng at 6 pm and continued to shoot "Wang Xiaofang".
Before Liu Yifei got on the plane, Zhang Yuanjun didn't forget to remind her: "I will visit the class in a few days, remember to give me the love letter you owe me, don't forget the 500 words." If you can't write well, hit it back and rewrite it. ”
provoked Liu Yifei to scold him for being careful.
It's okay to ask Liu Yifei to play different roles, and if she wants her to write 10 different love letters to her husband, she has a big head when she thinks about it.
Liu Yifei left, but the publicity activities of "Fragments of Women" will continue, and the burden falls on Zhang Yimou, Zhang Yuanjun and He Saifei.
Literary films don't have much budget for large-scale roadshows, but there are also less expensive ways to promote them.
Campus Activities.
With the popularity and appeal of Zhang Yimou and Zhang Yuanjun, many colleges and universities are willing to receive the two for exchanges and screening activities.
On the afternoon of the second day of the premiere, Zhang Yimou and Zhang Yuanjun came to Peking University on behalf of the crew to communicate with Peking University students.
are all old fritters in the film industry, whether it is in a top university like Peking University or in other schools, it is not too difficult for Zhang Yimou and Zhang Yuanjun to deal with this kind of activity.
The car has to say something, and combined with local characteristics, it is enough to say something that is in line with the local area at that time.
For example, when Peking University communicated with teacher Dai Jinghua, several people were asked by the students in the audience: "Now that commercial films are popular, the living environment of literary films is getting smaller and worse, and now making literary films, will you worry about the audience's aesthetics, or that the acceptance is not so high?" ”
After Dai Jinghua read out the question on the note, he also wanted to hear the opinions of Zhang Yuanjun and Zhang Yimou.
Zhang Yimou said that he has no such worries: "No matter what type of film, it will have its audience." From a commercial point of view, the investment in literary and artistic films is small, and it is not easy to get a high box office, but at the same time, the pressure on literary and artistic films to return to their profits is not so great, there is no need to worry about the audience not accepting it, good films with appropriate publicity will definitely be seen by the audience. I never doubted the aesthetics and receptivity of the audience, I had to trust the audience. ”
Zhang Yuanjun took the microphone: "I want to answer this classmate's question from another angle." I think our Chinese audience's aesthetic and acceptance of all kinds of films is the highest in the world, and you can watch any film. ”
After Zhang Yuanjun finished saying this, he glanced at Dai Jinghua and Zhang Yimou, and the two seniors seemed to have guessed what Zhang Yuanjun was going to say later.
"Because there is piracy in our country." Zhang Yuanjun said a big rebellious word.
As soon as this sentence came out, the teachers and students in the audience laughed, which can be regarded as acknowledging this phenomenon.
Zhang Yuanjun smiled: "It doesn't seem good to say this, but this is an objective phenomenon." Because of piracy, our audience has seen too many different kinds of movies over the past few decades. The movie-watching aesthetics cultivated in this way are very high, so even if we are a single film market, various types of films can still find their movie-watching groups in China. Just like "Chainsaw", it has never been released in China, and horror films are also a relatively niche genre, but there are still a large number of viewers in China who have watched "Chainsaw". So don't worry about saying that the audience doesn't accept it, and doesn't like it. ”
Dai Jinghua did not elaborate on his views on this issue, but only played a few sentences on Zhang Yimou's views: "...... Of course, the feelings of the audience should be considered, but at the beginning of the creation, it is necessary to focus on the work itself. If you consider whether the audience likes it or not, and whether you accept it or not, it is tantamount to tying yourself up. ”
In the next question, a student mentioned the Marvel movie "Ant-Man" released in China last week, "Ant-Man" is not a popular IP of Marvel, but the film has won 400 million box office in China, the student wants to ask Zhang Yimou and Zhang Yuanjun how to watch the Marvel movies that have become popular all over the world in recent years.
This question has nothing to do with "Pieces of a Woman", but it is worth answering.
But Zhang Yimou regretfully said that he had not seen Marvel movies: "But I have also heard that their technology is worthy of recognition." Although I haven't read them seriously, since they can be sold all over the world, there must be a reason for them, and I will find time to check them out, hoping to answer your question in the future. ”
Zhang Yuanjun can't answer this question from the shooting technique, but as an actor, he has his own perspective: "From the performance point of view, I don't like Marvel movies very much. ”
"I think Marvel's large-scale use of green screen filming is a great harm to the actors' performances."
"The actors are required to really listen, see and feel, and the crew must provide a real environment for the actors to play. I've seen other works by Marvel actors, and to put it mildly, most Marvel actors have performed very badly in movies other than Marvel, except for a few. ”
Zhang Yuanjun almost named Robert Downey Jr. for his poor acting skills.
Zhang Yuanjun used the influence of the green screen on the actors' performances to open up the thinking of Zhang Yimou and Dai Jinghua.
The two roughly agreed with what Zhang Yuanjun said, if there is no real scene, let the actor act in front of an empty green screen all day long, and in the long run, it will be of little help to the actor's performance.
"Being an actor is a profession that requires imagination, but at the same time it needs to be real." This is Zhang Yuanjun's last expression on this issue.
The topic was finally pulled back to "Pieces of a Woman" by Dai Jinghua. Although Liu Yifei, the female number one who is the biggest attraction of this play, was not present, as the male number one in this film and Liu Yifei's husband, he can answer many questions about Liu Yifei on his behalf.
He even broke the news at the scene that Liu Yifei learned a lot of maternal knowledge and infant care knowledge in order to prepare for this play.
"For a while, the reporter asked us if we were pregnant, and our parents and family also came to ask, and we explained that we were preparing for a new play and were not pregnant. He was also scolded by his family for being neurotic. ”
After the exchange at Peking University ended, # Zhang Yuanjun criticized Marvel for having no acting skills # and was on the hot search that night.
"This morning, the crew of "Pieces of a Woman" came to the campus of Peking University to communicate with teachers and students, and at the event, Zhang Yuanjun criticized the filming method of Marvel movies for hurting the acting skills of the actors, saying that the performance of Marvel actors in other movies is very bad."
Zhang Yuanjun didn't know that his words could be on the hot search at that time.
But the crew announced that since they said so, they would go along with the river to do some marketing.
Use the popular Marvel to advertise "Pieces of a Woman" with small cost and low attention, why not.
This hot search is not negative news, and for the sake of movie promotion, Zhang Yuanjun also acquiesced that the crew could do this.
Who called our crew poor.
If this kind of thing is said by someone else, it may be attacked by netizens, but this is said by Zhang Yuanjun, his achievements are enough to comment on anyone's acting skills, and Marvel fans don't take Zhang Yuanjun's criticism to heart.
Zhang Yuanjun said that Marvel actors did not act well in other movies, and did not say that Marvel movies were bad, so what is there to fight about.
But there are still some Marvel fans who feel that Zhang Yuanjun's criticism is wrong, saying that there are many acting highlights in Marvel movies, which makes them feel very moved when they watch it.
But when the argument started, the heat was there, and the purpose of "Pieces of a Woman" was achieved.
Zhang Yuanjun was even more lazy to respond, he still had to continue to run campus tours and screening activities.
(End of chapter)