Chapter 235: Suppression
The book "Lao Pao'er" has been preparing since the beginning of the year, if it weren't for Cao Ping's hospitalization, it would have been started at the end of November, so the favor given by Zhong Lei is really enough, it's not good to pay it back!
Since Feng Xiaogang was invited to be the male lead, this scene has whetted the appetite of all the media and audiences, as one of the top directors in China, and now he has transformed into an actor to film, everyone is very curious about what kind of work he can bring to the audience. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Guan Hu is a sixth-generation director, compared with the sixth-generation three masters Jia Zhangke, Lou Ye, Wang Xiaoshuai and others who have been in major film festivals all year round, his resume is slightly thin, except for winning the Best Adapted Screenplay Award and a Best Director nomination at the Golden Horse Awards in 2009 with "Bullfighting", the most recent award was at the Beijing University Student Film Festival last year.
Compared with the six generations of three masters, Guan Hu's ability is not outstanding, and his talent in literary films is not high, so he has not mixed up for so many years, and this movie is a rare big move for him in recent years. Perhaps it was the newborn child who suddenly opened his mind and made him want to provide a better life for his family for the first time, starting from last year's "Chef Drama Ruffian", to this "Lao Paoer", he officially began to transform into a commercial director. But having made a lifetime of literary films does not mean that he can put it down, he tries to find a balance between the two, but this is destined to be a very difficult thing, he can only slowly grope for it, maybe Feng Xiaogang, who is also trying to survive in the cracks, can give him an answer.
Filming in Beijing, the start-up ceremony is of course the most convenient to hold in Huairou, and some scenes in the play also need to be set up at the Huairou base. On December 13, the crew held a press conference in Huairou to build momentum for the promotion of the film.
Brother Zhonglei was very interesting, and specially arranged the company's publicity team to help with the press conference, which made the battle quite big, and also held a simple light show at the opening. The so-called light show is actually to pull a curtain in front of the stage, let the main creative team of the film stand behind, make a row of spotlights to light from behind, play the back on the curtain, and do a few actions with the music. Although it is simple, it is much better than talking about the horn as soon as it comes up, at least it has a hot field effect.
Although he often plays soy sauce in movies, since "I Am Your Dad" in 2000, Feng Xiaogang, who has played the starring role for the first time in recent years, has stolen everyone's limelight. Most of the cameras of the reporters at the scene were taking pictures of him.
The on-site host is also Huayi's person, and after the curtain is removed, he began to ask questions to Guan Hu and others. The host's question also first asked Feng Xiaogang about the beginning and end of the movie, and then turned back to the script and the introduction of the main characters in the play.
After Zhang Hanyu, Liu Hua, and Xu Qing briefly introduced their roles, the host also pulled the topic to Cao Ping and Li Yifeng, who were standing on both sides: "We can see that our crew also has two little fresh meat, the actors of Xiao Paoer, Yi Feng and Cao Ping......"
Zhang Hanyu interjected: "Little old Pao'er." ”
"Is it so ruthless?" asked the host with a smile.
Zhang Hanyu explained: "Beijing used to call 'them' little old guns. ”
"Okay!" the host said, "Then let's two little fresh meat also introduce how they joined, right?"
The movie hasn't started filming yet, so naturally they can't reveal too much of the plot, so the two just made a brief introduction. Subsequently, the host brought the topic back to Lao Pao'er's title.
Huayi's host must be towards the crew, so the questions asked are mainly about introducing the film and publicity, and the reporters on the scene are waiting for the final reporter question session to ask some sharp questions to save the manuscript.
From the perspective of the cast, the division of labor in this drama is actually very clear, Feng Xiaogang is very suitable for the role, and it is also the basis of publicity, as for how the acting is going, we have to talk about it after filming. Zhang Hanyu, Liu Hua, and Xu Qing belong to the guarantee of acting skills, and Li Yifeng is naturally the guarantee of appearance, which is the core of traffic attraction that accounts for a large proportion of commercial films, and is used to attract young audiences to enter the theater to watch movies. As for Cao Ping, although most people in the film industry know his name, he is still an unfamiliar face to the public. The host obviously received the notice in advance, so the question did not involve him too much, and Cao Ping was also happy.
Soon, the introduction was also completed, and the session also arrived at the scene to ask questions, the reporters were gearing up to prepare questions, and after the host announced the progress of the link, the reporters raised their hands.
The ones who came were all well-connected media invited by Huayi, so the questions asked were also focused on the movie and the starring actors, but there are always exceptions to everything, a young man who looked like he had just graduated was named and stood up, and then aimed at Cao Ping.
The young man was twenty years old, and the sign on his chest was an intern reporter, as the so-called newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, she asked as soon as she opened her mouth: "This Mr. Cao Ping, as far as I know, you only won the Golden Horse Award for Action Design last month, as a person who is biased towards technology, why did you come to the front of the stage this time?" This question also attracted the attention of reporters on the scene, and the camera was aimed at Cao Ping.
Slightly frowned, Cao Ping didn't really want to answer this question, this reporter obviously never knew his own information, but after checking it on the spot, he stood up and asked, did he think he had found something big? This journalist friend may not know much about me, although I have won technical awards, but I am actually an actor, and I will also have two TV series and a movie next year, so I have never been behind the scenes!"
The young man obviously didn't want to give up, so he picked up the microphone and asked: "I heard rumors that you have a close relationship with Huayi boss Wang Zhonglei, can you participate in this movie this time, do you also have his help?" As soon as these words came out, the reporters present exclaimed, this question is really too polite! It was simply a direct question to ask Cao Ping if he had gone through the back door.
Cao Ping's face had turned cold, and before he could speak, the hot-tempered Feng Xiaogang picked up the microphone and shouted: "Which media are you a reporter from?
This is under the camera, Cao Ping hurriedly stopped Director Feng who came out for himself, if this incident caused a conflict, wouldn't it be in the hands of the reporter?
Cao Ping picked up the microphone and explained briefly, saying: "I have a good relationship with Zhonglei, and I can enter the group through his introduction, but I have also tried the play, not what you think, of course, there are other reasons, it is inconvenient to say here, I still hope that everyone will pay more attention to the movie." ”
That's enough, the reporters present all whispered, speculating about Cao Ping's background, and the host saw that the situation was wrong, so he hurriedly ended the press conference.
"What are you doing here, you provoke them, you must not be annoyed to death?" Feng Xiaogang said to Cao Ping as he walked backstage.
Cao Ping and Feng Xiaogang only had one meal, and he had always thought that Feng Xiaogang was a very strict person, and his triangular eyes stared at people, which always made people panic. But after having a meal together, he found that Uncle Feng was still relatively straightforward and a person who could afford to joke in private. Feng Xiaogang stood up for himself just now, which clearly reflected this. While walking backstage, Cao Ping said with a smile: "Since he has already asked, there is no way to do it? ”
"You'd better be careful! Now these grandsons dare to scribble anything, so I can't do it, I'll give you a message. It can be seen that Feng Xiaogang is still quite cautious about reporters.
"Thank you, don't use it, I'll do it myself!" Cao Ping didn't care about the reporter, he had already seen the reporter's unit clearly just now, go back and let Song Xue contact him, just don't let him scribble.
It's just that the development of things exceeded Cao Ping's expectations, although Song Xue was asked to say hello, but the next day's online news actually appeared on a large page about the nepotism of the crew of "Lao Paoer", and there were actors who grabbed roles and other news, although they did not name names, but a large number of suspicious words also made netizens quickly focus on Cao Ping.
The crew that had just started came to a halt because of this incident, and they were sent news after bragging with Director Feng, which made Cao Ping very angry. But although he was angry, he did not lose his mind, and while letting Song Xue deal with it urgently, he also followed the movements of these news and posts on the Internet, and he soon noticed that something was wrong.
After discovering that the attention of netizens ran to Cao Ping, a large number of water armies began to appear on the Internet to lead the topic to criticize the movie "Lao Paoer" and even the corruption of Huayi Company, and Huayi's public relations team began to tear up, and Cao Ping found that this thing was not quite right. This should be deliberately done by someone, and he is not the goal, someone should be deliberately rectifying Huayi.
The crew has been surrounded by the media who have flocked to the scene, and the scene can't be filmed, so Cao Ping took Director Feng's car to Huayi Company and asked about the situation on Zhonglei's side.
After arriving at the company, Wang Zhonglei was also in the Ministry of Information while staring at the movements on the Internet, while mobilizing relations to deal with the matter urgently, Feng Xiaogang also mobilized friends in the circle to investigate what went wrong.
Although the online water army is working hard to lead the topic to spray Huayi, the focus of netizens has always been more limited, and in the afternoon, the trend of public opinion changed back to spraying Cao Ping and going through the back door.
When a group of trolls who didn't know the truth ran to Cao Ping's Weibo to spray, Cao Ping knew that he could no longer delay until he found out the identity of his opponent. I called Sister Dao, and within two hours, all the news searches related to this incident on the Internet were deleted, and none of them could be found!
Such a vigorous and resolute processing speed made all the media and netizens who watched the traffic soar before they could react, and the incident was suppressed by such brutal methods. Many online gossip media that are preparing to take advantage of the second round of popularity, when they are preparing to publish newly compiled news releases with shock, insider information and other eye-catching news articles on the Internet, they are all reminded that there are prohibited keywords and are not allowed to be uploaded. And the Internet trolls and trolls who were waiting to tear it up all found that they couldn't find a single piece of relevant news! This unnatural phenomenon made many people who didn't know why think that something was wrong with the Internet, but more smart people wisely kept their mouths shut.
When there were unbelievers in the media circle who inquired through the relationship but were told that it was a direct order from the Cyberspace Administration of China, they knew that they could not continue to investigate, and all the media invariably began to replace the prepared manuscript with the news of complaining about the Spring Festival Gala.
There is no media person who has been in the entertainment industry for a long time who does not have a keen sense of politics, and this incident that was strongly extinguished before it became popular made the media people involved smell a little wrong. Although the wind and waves have calmed down on the surface, there is still an undercurrent in the media circle. Everyone knows that the steel plate is mentioned, but you need to know who the steel plate is to avoid not kicking it again in the future.
Huayi is a veteran private enterprise, mixed for so many years, everyone knows it well, knows that it does not have so much energy, Feng Xiaogang is even more impossible, no matter how he is also a commercial film director, when several bigwigs in the media industry got a little hint from above, they all came back to warn their subordinates that Cao Ping's black material must not be exploded in the future, and the name Cao Ping was remembered by all media people for the first time.
This is the first time Cao Ping has shown his skills in the industry, and just once, he has suppressed the entire media circle!