"Director Su Changqing, can you explain in detail the bet with Director Takeshi Kitano?

At the press conference the afternoon of the next day, a large part of the questions revolved around the bet between "Bad Boys' Sky" and "Moving Labyrinth".

Takeshi Kitano has a habit of going home at night, no matter how fooling around.

When I left Onodera in the middle of the night last night, the reporters who were waiting rushed up, and the big-mouthed Nobuyoshi Araki directly said about the bet between the two: "I will honor the bet from Saturday." ”

The reporters were afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and the headlines on the entertainment pages of major newspapers the next morning were bluffing headlines such as the Battle of Kings and the Peak Lore.

Su Changqing woke up in Roppongi this morning, and saw that the newspaper was a little regretful, it was originally to cooperate with the publicity, but now it has caused chaos to the Japanese distributors.

However, the publisher called early in the morning and was very happy: "Changqingjun's trick is too clever, the audience's curiosity will be aroused, and it will definitely be able to increase the attendance." ”

Stirring up a fight to increase attendance, whether this will be too optimistic, it depends on who promotes.

Su Changqing specially reminded: "I am a foreign director, maybe the audience's patriotic feelings have also been mobilized." ”

The Japanese obviously have a different way of thinking: "Although director Takeshi Kitano is excellent, he doesn't represent Japan, right? I don't think watching his films has anything to do with patriotism." ”

This reason also makes sense, in the past two years, the box office of Hollywood films imported by the mainland has generally exceeded that of domestic films, and it cannot be said that domestic audiences are not patriotic.

"The bet between you and Director Takeshi Kitano is very topical, and the reporters will definitely report on it continuously, which is tantamount to a free advertisement. ”

This is true, and newspaper advertising costs can be saved a lot.

Su Changqing couldn't help but start to suspect that this was really deliberately planned by Kitano and Araki, these two guys have been in the Japanese entertainment industry for twenty or thirty years, and they should know this well.

Not to mention anything else, there are many quirks and scandals of Takeshi Kitano and Nobuyoshi Araki, and it seems unlikely that others will know about them if they don't take the initiative to say it.

In the entertainment industry, topicality is very important, we have to maintain the popularity of the media, there are topics to be on, and there are no topics to create topics.

Whether it was intentional or not, anyway, now that Takeshi Kitano and Su Changqing are rubbing each other's heat, at least the media is very interested at the moment.

Life is like a play, directors are often good actors, Su Changqing is obviously not very good at this, he wraps himself too tightly, and he is unwilling to become the talk of others after dinner.

Since the topic helps the film to promote and improve the box office, of course Su Changqing did not explain at the press conference, and the more vague he was, the more interested everyone was.

If this is really Takeshi Kitano and others playing a media game, they will be regarded as laymen if they explain it, and maybe they will be scolded behind their backs: "This straw bag actually spoils its own good deeds." ”

There are many similar entanglements and misunderstandings in the entertainment industry, and the parties just don't clarify, which makes the people who eat melons anxious, but in fact, they are all the way.

"Director Takeshi Kitano is a senior whom I really respect, I love his work, and I know that he has a collection of some of the best French wines. ”

Su Changqing began to do tai chi.

"Do you mean you're going to win this gamble?"

"I have also prepared a good Chinese baijiu, and I hope to have the opportunity to share it with Kitano seniors. ”

"You mean you might lose?"

"There is a poem by Su Dongpo in China, 'Victory is happy and defeat is joyful', and my friendship with Kitano's predecessors cannot be measured by victory or defeat. ”

The circle was confused, and some questions could not be avoided, so Su Changqing spoke Japanese in a mess, and finally the reporter lost patience and gradually focused on the work.

Because Japan's distribution system is not as complex as in China, there are no so-called premieres, screenings, roadshows, film viewing meetings, internal movie viewing and so on, and reporters do not understand the plot like ordinary audiences, so the problem is basically limited to the information revealed in the commercial.

Because of the cast of Chinese, Japanese and South Korean, the question quickly focused on whether it was anti-American.

Su Changqing was annoyed by this question, and felt a little like stepping on, so he simply repeated what he said to Wang Shuo here: "This is an anti-war film, you can't think of rice country as soon as you mention anti-war, that's not fair." ”

Japan translates the United States into the United States, and we don't know where to start translating it into the United States, and the adjectives are rarely used in the name of the country, and I feel that the meaning of praise is overflowing.

At this time, it is not a good topic to be anti-American, so Su Changqing tried to avoid it and refused to follow the reporter to pull it up.

The Cold War has just ended, and the United States is in full swing, although the Plaza Agreement has made Japan a bit miserable in recent years, but people don't care, and these reporters are also stirring up trouble.

Because of the nature of their work, journalists don't like mediocre topics the most, they expect interviewees to make mistakes, and they are also happy to provoke sensitive topics, depending on whether you pick them up or not.

A reporter asked: "Your previous work "Taiping" was successful at the North American box office, and "Moving Labyrinth" does not seem to have a plan to be released in the United States, why? Is it because of the sensitive subject matter?"

Su Changqing is also prepared for this topic: "This is mainly a film for Chinese, Japanese and Korean audiences, if it is accompanied by English subtitles, I doubt that European and American audiences can distinguish that these are actors from three countries, then the theme of the film becomes ambiguous." ”

As a result, the headline that came out of the newspaper the next day actually was: A famous Chinese director claimed that the audience in the United States could not understand "Moving Labyrinth".

This is also a summary of God.

Of course, Su Changqing knows that reporters are difficult to deal with, but it is not very difficult in China at present, and it is really a good opportunity to exercise in Japan.

And after drinking it with Takeshi Kitano and Araki in one night, the senior players are not trying to find a way to deal with reporters, but playing the game tacitly with them: I publish the material for you to report, I am famous for you to sell newspapers.

On the second day of his visit to Japan, Su Changqing attended several events and visited the Japan Filmmakers Association, all of which were arranged by the distributor to attract reporters to create topics.

The Japanese media is highly developed, and they have a measure during the propaganda period, which is to count the number of topics in the newspaper, as long as it is not sharp criticism, the more the better.

In the evening, he attended a reception hosted by the Film Critics Association, where Su Changqing won their Best Screenplay Award, and Takeshi Kitano was also present.

Because of the presence of a large number of reporters, the two did not interact much, and they looked like a big war was about to break out.

Takeshi Kitano secretly grimaced at Su Changqing.

"They thought we were going to fight, and I loved it. ”

Sure enough, it was deliberate, he must have thought that Su Changqing understood the intention from the beginning, and everyone tacitly understood it.

On Friday, July 12, "Moving Maze" was released at the same time as "Bad Boy Sky".

On this day, Su Changqing did not continue to participate in public activities, and under the leadership of Nobuko Maeda, he visited Sensoji Temple with Ximen Xiong and Liu Yufei.

This is the oldest temple in the Tokyo area, and like the Shaolin Temple, it was burned down several times, and the existing temple was built by Tokugawa Ieyasu for more than 400 years.

The temple's landmark building, the Fenglei God Gate, was rebuilt in a shorter period of time, only more than 30 years.

The situation is similar to that in China, the wooden buildings are basically the same fate, and the oldest existing wooden structure complex is the Forbidden City, which is only 600 years old, and all the articles touting how to preserve ancient Japanese buildings are largely blind and nonsense.

Su Changqing took a photo with everyone at the Wind Thunder God Gate.

In the evening, he and Nobuko Maeda went to a movie theater and watched "Moving Labyrinth" and "Bad Boy's Sky" in succession.