Chapter 137 Well deserved!
After being a film critic for such a long time, usually, whether a movie can be sold well or not is probably the answer after watching the movie.
To be honest, "Paradise Cinema" does not have the attributes of a big seller!
The pace is slow and tells stories that are far away from the audience.
Even with the blessing of Xu Hui and the Golden Globe Best Picture, the box office of this movie is probably not much higher...
We have to admit that our film market is very immature, and good movies often cannot sell high box offices!
"The Piano of Steel", Huiwen is responsible for the distribution and promotion, and the box office is almost 20 million, which has created a box office record for high reputation domestic art films...
Judging from the most normal situation, the box office of "Paradise Cinema" will exceed 100 million at most.
Audience feedback is the most intuitive expression!
What Zhou Liming is most concerned about is the bunch of gay men he met at the beginning. No one else, these two are so conspicuous!
And he was really tall and sat a little in front of him.
The shorter one spoke first: "…Dear, what do you think of this movie?"
“…Good movie, but I don’t like it!”
The boy wearing gold-rimmed glasses nodded seriously and expressed his expression.
"Why?"
"Not at all the plot I imagined, I feel like there is no ** in the whole article!"
“…Yes, I think so too!”
He nodded vigorously, a slightly shorter person.
Zhou Liming heard it very clearly and couldn't help rolling his eyes. Isn't this a joke?
When the subtitles appeared, the lights in the theater were turned on at the right time, and the man in glasses stood up straight: "Xu Hui wants to change the route now, this is not a movie for us to watch."
"…I think it's the case, too. This movie should be made for those judges, so we don't think it's good!"
"Yes, I still think "Tiny Times" is interesting..."
Hearing this, Zhou Liming couldn't help laughing.
Tsk, if Xu Hui heard this, he would probably be so angry. The movie he had spent so much effort to make was actually considered to be inferior to "Tiny Times"...
At the same time, Zhou Liming even more affirmed that the box office of "Paradise Cinema" is definitely not as high as that of "Tiny Times".
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"Xu Huidun finally abandoned the glitz of previous movies and returned to the most simple nature!"
"When it comes to Xu Hui, what can you think of? Quick editing, sharp and weird movements? Yes, this is also the most basic impression that director Xu Hui gave me."
"Domestic movies need a director who can make good commercial films, and a director who can tell the stories that happen to us safely. Xu Hui has done it very well. The "Huang Feihong" series is like its English name "Chinese Past", "New Dragon Inn" and "Swordsman" lead the audience to appreciate the unique charm of martial arts! "Those Years, We Chasing Girls Together" and "Sunshine Sisters Tao" write a new pattern of mainland youth films!"
"For directors, the thing they may be most afraid of is losing interest in filming, and for viewers, the most worrying thing is that the director we like suddenly becomes we don't know each other!"
"It must be admitted that when I heard that Xu Hui was going to transform into a literary film, especially a foreign language film... I felt an incredible feeling in my heart. Why? Domestic movies are not enough for you tossing?"
"In May, the Cinema Paradise premiered in Cannes. At that time, the Cannes magazine scored 3.8. I was surprised to hear the news, but I still didn't take it seriously. Maybe this movie is in line with the taste of Westerners. Moreover, Al Pacino has many fans in Europe... It's normal for commercial bragging to each other."
"At the American Golden Globe Award two days ago, "Paradise Cinema" won the Best Film Award in Drama, and Xu Hui also became the first Chinese director to win the largest director in the Golden Globe Award!"
"Today, after watching "Paradise Cinema", I understand, I was wrong! And it was outrageous! "Paradise Cinema" is a masterpiece. In layman's terms, this is not a work that looks like this era at all!"
"A very boring story, but it will make people read it in tears. The emotions are full and complicated. After reading it, you will feel a sense of aphrodisiac. I don't know where to start."
"I tried to describe these emotions in several dimensions, but it seemed that once I peeled them away, they changed their taste."
"The hero, Duoduo, has been obsessed with movies since he was a child. He often sneaked to the screening room to collect the cut films and put them in a tin cylinder. He also tried to ask Everte for the films that were "harmonious" by the priest to cut off the kiss scene, but was rejected. Old Everte was the only film projector in town. In order to get into the screening room, Duoduo used all his tricks and finally won the right to enter the screening room and learn to screen movies with Everte."
"A fire burned the cinema, Duoduo tried his best to save Averte, but he was blind. The young Duoduo inherited Averte's career. From a lively and clever little head, he grew up to a handsome boy. He fell in love with a beautiful girl from a powerful family, pursued her with all his strength, stood in front of the girl's window for several months, and finally got the beauty back. But the girl's family strongly opposed it..."
"Duoduo is going to serve in the military. The girl did not show up when the two agreed. In the army, Duoduo called and wrote letters, but never contacted the girl again. Duoduo came back from serving the military and was completely disappointed. Everett said, leave here like a soldier, no matter what job you are doing, love it, like a projector. Leave here, don't come back, don't write letters, don't see me."
"And Duoduo really didn't see him again. Even before Everett died, he said, don't tell Duoduo! After 30 years of separation, when he came to attend the funeral, Duoduo was already a famous director. He met a girl who had already started a family, two white-haired people. When he finally spoke, he realized that the girl had been on the appointment and was deliberately concealed by Everett. He even went to the screening room to find the note left by the girl, but what can I do? Things changed. This was not Duoduo's choice, but it made him."
"Everett put the cut kiss scenes that were then cut into strips and gave them to Duoduo as a gift for death. At the end of the film, Duoduo was alone in the screening room, watching the kiss scenes in these classic videos, passing by one by one..."
"At first, I thought it was because the whole movie started from that paradise cinema, so it was called Paradise Cinema, until Everett said: Life is different from movies, and life is much more difficult! I think it may be because compared to real life, movies are more like paradise."
"Everte's death and the explosion of cinemas mean that the handmade era of films has passed away, and that the era when cinemas once served as the center of the town has disappeared, and what we see is the commercial square and industrial films we see. The viewing of films is no longer a collective fun, echo, but an individual tour and aftertaste. This is also the most important revelation: the era when we used films as a beautiful moment of collective memory, it gradually disappeared, and cinemas could not shine under the cover of industry, but became a memory for nostalgia."
"So, this is a movie about life's sighs, meaningful."
"...Leave here, it is cursed. When you stay here every day, you will regard it as the center of the world, you will believe that nothing will change, and then you will leave. Year or two, when you come back, everything has changed and your concern has been broken, what you are looking for is no longer, what you once were yours has disappeared, you have to leave for a long time, many years later, you come back to find your relatives and friends, and return to your hometown. Life is different from movies, life is much harder. You are still young, the world is yours, I am old, I want to hear your story!"
"I think this is Xu Hui's perception of himself, so he left the movie mode he is most familiar with!"
"I'm 50% sure that "Cinema Paradise" will win the Oscar for Best Picture, for nothing else, just because it deserves it!"
Chapter completed!