Chapter Eighty-Four: Really Spending Money
As soon as the summer season entered in July, Dao Ma Dan was fully released in Shaw Brothers Theaters.
The movie Shaw Brothers didn't do much publicity, but the movie itself has a lot of publicity.
In the words of later generations, it comes with a hype aura.
Because this is a movie starring three women and talking about national hatred and family hatred from the perspective of women, this alone is enough to cause considerable discussion and cause a lot of reports on TV and newspapers.
Not to mention the protagonists of the movie, except for Ye Qianwen, who is not well-known in Hong Kong, the others are all well-known big stars, and fans say a lot.
Again, the scandal between Qiao Feng and Lin Qingxia, and the relationship between Qiao Feng and Zhong Chuhong are all entertainment gossip that is worth writing about, and the audience likes to see the most.
Therefore, although Shaw Brothers did not have much publicity, it couldn't stand the spontaneous publicity of various media, coupled with a strong fan effect, Dao Ma Dan once again continued the fine tradition of Qiao Feng's production as soon as it was released.
Not only was the box office a hit, but the word-of-mouth was also quite good, and film critics and columnists basically gave high praise to everything.
The well-known female writer Yi Shu wrote a sprinkling evaluation in the column of Ming Pao.
"Screenwriter Qiao Feng's script is paired with Wang Jing, the hottest commercial film director, so that this sword horse not only has a wonderful action interpretation, but also gives the film a sense of old family and country. Through the vision of three women with completely different identities, classes, and cultural backgrounds, they reflect the center of gravity of the concept of Great China, and write scenes of pathetic historical tragedy with literary and artistic feelings. The film focuses on three patriotic women, which is completely different from the pure male individualism in previous films, women are no longer just vases in the movie, irrelevant embellishments, but protagonists, and the dominant.
Bai Sheng, the chief editor of the film biweekly, commented: The film not only has a very exquisite story conception, but also the protagonists and supporting roles are interpreted just right, and the Peking Opera scenes in the film also have a close and wonderful connection with the plot. In "Dao Ma Dan", Bai Niu, who loves Peking Opera, is confined to the female body and cannot appear on the stage, in order to help Hua Jinxiu escape and go on stage for the first time, and Xiang Hong was favored by the overseers to officially take the stage again, and finally in order to escape for her life and her brothers and sisters on stage to sing a play of eight immortals across the sea, these scenes are all advancing with the plot, on the one hand, the story of everyone stealing the documents together is carried out without leaving a trace, and on the other hand, it also shows the heroism and strength of the three women like "Dao Ma Dan". “
Lin Yanni, a female writer with the same name as Yishu, focused on Lin Qingxia, who had cut her neat short hair.
"The media has hyped up too many days, and all kinds of scandals continue, so the film didn't want to watch, but helpless friends dragged it and could only watch it.
The film itself can score 80 points in my opinion, but Qingxia can always make a film with no special feelings impressive. In the light and shadow, Qingxia's face was almost transparent, the white shirt showed her weakness, and the red blood made people pity her.
When she was wearing a military uniform, she was even more handsome than anyone else. Fanghua is peerless, the light moves the world, and the look back is full of energy, and the beauty of neutrality is interpreted to the extreme. I do appreciate this ethereal beauty. There is no fat powder, and the heroic posture is not charming. It's beautiful. So in my opinion, Qingxia's male appearance, I dare not say that there is no one to come, but it is definitely unprecedented."
The film reviews of these three people are the best written, but the most are audience evaluations such as Lin Qingxia is really handsome, Zhong Chuhong is really beautiful, etc.
In the eyes of the audience, this is a good-looking commercial film integrating action, beauty, comedy, and revenge, and in the eyes of professionals, this is a literary drama full of family and country feelings.
Everyone said that it was good, and while pushing up the box office of Dao Ma Dan, it also made other films that were released at the same time and wanted to make more money at the box office in the summer to cry to death.
But you can earn it yourself, and let everyone else die.
Anyway, Wang Jing is so praised that he can't close his mouth happily every day, because every time he talks about the connotation of the movie, he can't get around him as a director.
used to be the media, and the audience said how he was, how high the box office of the movies he made, how he was a big director of commercial films, the creator of the highest box office record, and the holder.
Just when the creators of the movie were enjoying the praise, Qiao Feng left Hong Kong and flew to the United States on the other side of the ocean.
Qiao Feng came to the United States, naturally, for the movie terminator he invested in filming.
In April, the Terminator crew was formed and began filming, two years before the original plane.
In the original time and space, Cameron was ready to start filming the Terminator in 83, but he set the starring role that is the actor of the Terminator, Arnold, Schwarzenegger is filming "Conan the Destroyer", and the start of filming of the film had to be postponed for 9 months, and filming only began at the end of 83.
The starring role in this time and space is still Arnold Schwarzenegger, but the time is a year in advance, and when Cameron is looking for Arnold Schwarzenegger, he has just finished the filming of the last movie Sword of Kings, and there is a schedule.
At this time, the governor's classmates were not well-known, and they used to shoot some trick roles, and it was only nearly three or four years ago that they began to play from role actors to general supporting roles to become the protagonists, but the films that were helplessly made did not make any splashes.
So when Cameron contacted him, he didn't say anything else, just said a salary of half a million dollars, and the governor's classmates agreed without thinking about it.
Half a million dollars!
When Qiao Feng first heard the news, he couldn't help but sigh, the governor's classmates are really cheap now.
This is all worried that Schwarzenegger is unwilling to act, so he deliberately increased 200,000 yuan, otherwise according to Schwarzenegger's previous value, the salary will be at most 300,000 US dollars.
Compared with Cheng Long's current value, it is half worse, and the comparison with the future value is completely adjusted.
However, Qiao Feng didn't come to the United States to see the governor, but to stare at the money bag.
Qiao Feng originally thought that another space-time shooting Terminator only cost 6.4 million US dollars, but now it is still two years ahead of schedule, and the cost should be lower, and he prepared a $7 million enough for Cameron's disaster.
But I never expected that it was only three months after the start of filming, and a third of the film's shooting, Cameron spent three million.
Two days ago, when he called to ask Anne about her accounts, he almost died of anger when he got the news.
I know that you Cameron is a bull who invests more and returns greater, but you can't spend money like this.
In order to keep his wallet from being cleaned up by a disaster, Qiao Feng had to rush to the United States urgently.