This year's Christmas movies, "The Legend of Ah Fei" and "The World of Truman" have attracted great attention.\.\After the premiere of the two movies, film critics have given high praises, believing that they are rare Hong Kong films in recent years.

The only difference is that "The Legend of Ah Fei" is very popular but not popular. Although the critics and peers agree that it is a good work, most viewers who have watched it think it is a bad movie.

In the first few days of its official release, due to the box office appeal of starring Leslie Cheung, Andy Lau, the strong praise from media film critics, and the publicity offensive created by Deng Guangrong's cruel money, the attendance rate of "A Fei" was very high, and even several scenes were full on Christmas Day.

But after the audience who had watched the movie cursed and spontaneously made negative publicity to their relatives and friends, the box office of "The Legend of Ah Fei" fell in a jumping-off style in the second week of its release.

After only 11 years of release, Xinbao Theater couldn't hold on anymore and forced "The Legend of Ah Fei" to be released in advance, with a box office of over 9 million.

The box office of more than 9 million is not too low, but the problem is that the investment in this movie is more than 40 million, and the production cycle is more than a year. If you want to recover the box office from the overseas market, you have to wait for a year or two.

Deng Guangrong invested all the money he earned in the past few years, and part of it was a mortgage loan, but he had to wait nearly 3 years to recover the investment. What is the difference between this and losing all his money?

What's more, it is still unknown whether "The Legend of Ah Fei" can earn back the box office through overseas markets.

After the box office statistics of "The Legend of Ah Fei" were found, investor Deng Guangrong spit out his blood and was admitted to the hospital to recuperate.

Two years ago, the low-cost "Mong Kok Carmen" sold well, and later received several nominations for the Academy Awards, making director Wong Kar-wai a celebrity, and many investors rushed to spend money to shoot movies for him.

Now, when the news that Deng Guangrongqi was introduced into the hospital in "The Legend of Ah Fei" spread, Wong Kar-wai seemed to have become a plague god, and everyone who saw him avoided him.

"Not Ying Zhijie has done it?" Liu Zhenwei added wine to his good friend Wong Kar-wai.

Wong Kar-wai smiled bitterly and said, "Even if Boss Deng can tolerate me, I have no shame to stay there. What's more, "The Legend of Ah Fei" is so miserable. I guess Ying Zhijie is about to close..."

"It won't be enough to close the door. Mr. Deng can still afford to lose tens of millions," Liu Zhenwei comforted. "Don't blame yourself too much. No one can guarantee that he can make 100% of money by filming. The money you and I made to Mr. Deng a few years ago have also been tens of millions. We don't owe him anything."

Wong Kar-wai rubbed his messy hair and said distressedly: "Actually, "The Legend of Ah Fei" is the most satisfactory work I have in recent years. But why do the audience just don't like it? If you want to shoot those big-ticket movies like shit, I will do it, but what's the point of shooting it?"

Wong Kar-wai is really not bragging. Many blockbuster movies and scripts have been written by him over the years. He knows the routine of commercial films and how to make the audience happy, but when Wong Kar-wai takes the guide, he is unwilling to shoot according to this routine.

There is a guy named Jiang Wen in the future in the mainland. If you follow the good reputation of "Let the Bullets Fly", it will be a good box office hit. But this guy is not. He has to create a "One Step Away" to express his thoughts and artistic pursuits.

If you really want to shoot an art film, then just shoot it well. But Jiang Wen clearly finished writing the story summary before starting the filming, insisting on learning to shoot without a script by King of Sunglasses, and saying that if there is a script, it will affect performance.

As a result, the screenwriter team of nearly ten people was able to get the script out that day. Several leading actors had made up every time and realized their general lines today.

Not only that, Jiang Wen also encouraged the actors to tamper with the lines and plots, and he would accept it as long as the modification was wonderful. In the end, he created a chaotic rhythm and a fragmented main line. Many ordinary audiences couldn't hold on in the screening room for the first 30 minutes, either leaving early or watching it so hard that they fell asleep.

Liu Zhenwei knew Wong Kar-wai's skills very well and comforted him: "I understand what you mean, and I know you are talented, but who is willing to invest if you don't have money? You also went to watch "Trumen's World" yesterday. In order to compromise with the box office, Mr. Kang also made large-scale edits to the script. Some of the original good ideas and plots may affect the audience's viewing experience, and they are all invalidated during shooting and editing."

"So he is the big boss, and I am just a small director of an art film." Wong Kar-wai smiled self-deprecatingly. His views on Kang Jianfei were very contradictory. He understood Kang Jianfei's everything for the box office, and despised Kang Jianfei for not having artistic pursuits. Because "The World of Truman" could be filmed better, but in order to cater to the commercial market, many vulgar funny plots were added, which simply reduced the artistic quality of the film.

Liu Zhenwei said: "I'm afraid you won't have the chance to direct the show in a short period of time. What are your plans in the future?"

"I'm a cross-border rat now. I guess no one wants me as a screenwriter. What are my plans?" Wong Kar-wai said helplessly, "I want to teach at the Academy of Performing Arts."

Liu Zhenwei said: "Aren't you teaching in the Performing Arts Academy now?"

"I mean full-time lecturer." Wong Kar-wai said.

"It's just a failure, there's no need." Liu Zhenwei said.

Wong Kar-wai smiled and said, "It's mainly because he wants to adjust and change his mind. Maybe he will come out to make a movie again one day."

Liu Zhenwei thought for a while and said, "If you have a good idea, you can tell me that I will help you invest in Mr. Kang at that time."

"He is willing to vote?" Wong Kar-wai asked with a smile.

Liu Zhenwei smiled and said, "Sometimes he is generous and has a very accurate vision."

Mr. Kang Jianfei, who has a very accurate vision, has been praised by film reviews every day during this period.

"The World of Truman" is absurd plot and the style is like Kafka's novel. This kind of film is naturally very easy to be favored by professional film critics. But what is rare is that most ordinary viewers can also understand it and resonate with this film.

Not only Lu Xinsheng, rich businessmen, officials, vendors, students, housewives... who are not bound by life?

The same plot will have different changes in the eyes of different audiences. Everyone thinks that the film is a metaphor for his own life. When the protagonist grabs the ship and sails to the other side, the audience unconsciously takes himself into the role, and unlimited recognition and touching brews in his heart, fantasizing that one day he will break through the shackles and regain freedom like the protagonist.

Except for the audience with low cultural literacy, most young people, especially intellectuals and white-collar workers, regard "The World of Truman" as a classic worship.

The famous female writer Li Bihua started writing a prose-like impression: "The World of Truman" uses a style similar to a fairy tale to metaphorize the depression and constraints of modern people's lives through absurd and unruly plot...

How many people, like puppets, live a monotonous and repetitive life day after day. How many people have tried to make changes and have the courage to break free from the predetermined track...

Maybe you and I all had a moment of impulse, driving a sailboat like the protagonist, trying to break through all this.

At that moment, life was shining.

And how many such moments in your life can have such glory, riding a boat on the boundless blue shore...

When I went through all the hardships and sailed to the end of the world, I heard a clang of a wall.

Fantasy is broken, return to reality!”

"Movie Biweekly" is much more rational, from creativity, scripts to light, and cameras, analyzing the entire film little by little, and praising "Trumen's World" and its director and starring actors from head to toe.

What surprised Kang Jianfei the most was that some people actually believed that "Trumen's World" contained profound political meanings.

The film relates to Kang Jianfei's origin and experience, and believes that the Truman in the film is Kang Jianfei himself. The Taoyuan Island that locks the protagonist is alluding to the mainland. The reality TV show is a satirizing the ten-year catastrophe. The protagonist's wife and friends' hypocritical betrayal refers to the ten-year movement, and people criticize each other, even the couple turned against each other and slaughtered each other. In the end, the protagonist fled by a boat, which refers to Kang Jian flying to the sea and smuggling to Hong Kong. The boundary of the studio symbolizes the border blockade...

After reading this review, Kang Jianfei only had one feeling in his heart: This is really nonsense!

It turns out that "The World of Truman" is not only an inspirational film, but also a political satire. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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