0224 [Wind Premiere]
"The Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival Series Reports in China Film Forum: Wan Xiaohu criticized Chinese films for lack of imagination, and fantasy movies and animated movies should not be reduced to the last place."
"The annual Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival is held in Jiaxing. As a supporting event for the film festival, the China Film Forum, a high-end academic seminar in films, has successfully held many high-standard seminars... Wan Xiaohu, the most internationally influential director among the sixth generation of directors, actively appealed at the two seminars."
"Chinese films should go from reality to fantasy, and make imagination the dominant position of films. This is the type that a mature film market should have. At the same time, Wan Xiaohu also called for improving the industry status of animation talents, supporting the animation industry, and allowing Chinese animation to truly take off, rather than staying in discussions."
Since it is a seminar, what is said is naturally supported and opposed by some.
"Wan Xiaohu said some truth, but we cannot ignore it. The tradition of Chinese films is humanistic care. Movies without humanistic care cannot be considered successful even if they get a high box office." said a fourth-generation director.
"Our Chinese animation industry is relatively pure, just for children to watch. Westerners are different from us. They have stronger low-level and interesting things, so they like cartoons. We in China don't have to learn it." A famous film scholar.
"I think Wan Xiaohu is a little crazy and looks too seriously at business. In fact, strictly speaking, he has not made much achievements in business. He has not even been able to make a movie of $50 million. According to what he said, blindly launching a big production and blindly fantasizing is not a random idea." A leader of the radio and television industry.
Liu Moumou, a professor in the Department of Directors of Shanghai Theater, learned that Wan Xiaohu said at the seminar, he criticized mercilessly: "Young people are often blinded by temporary success. When I watch his movies, I am just a sloppy movie "Infernal Affairs", and the others are representatives of vulgarity. He is even more vulgar than Feng Xiaogang. Now he has learned a little bit of fur from the United States and shows off his vulgarity. If you want him to go to the United States to make movies, he will not be able to do it. He can't deceive Americans."
However, before the professor finished his long speech, the reporter gave him a copy of information.
"Mr. Liu, I have a data I got this afternoon. It is currently the most authoritative box office data website in China. Mtime Time Network, which jointly records Chinese film data, released North America from October 31 to November 2, three days of box office over the weekend," he said.
"Time Network has always been paying attention to the film data of Chinese films, Chinese films and Chinese filmmakers. This issue of data was released because "Saw" directed by Wan Xiaohu in the United States was released last weekend."
Professor Liu interrupted with a shady face: "What's wrong with you, a reporter? What do you want to say? My time is very precious."
The reporter quickly said a long story short: "Sorry, Mr. Liu, that's it. "Saw" was released on 2,315 screens in North America, and it won a super box office of 18.28 million US dollars, ranking third in the North American box office list. This is also the best opening score for Chinese-language movies in North America. The cost of this movie is only 2 million US dollars!"
Professor Liu's face quickly turned cold: "So what?"
"Didn't you say that Wan Xiaohu can't deceive Americans?"
"You journalists will take things out of context. I have something to do. You guys quickly leave my office..."
The reporter didn't know how embarrassed Professor Liu was at this moment. He enjoyed the pleasure of suddenly slapping these old guys who relied on their seniority and felt superior to others.
Of course, Wan Xiaohu didn't know how excited the reporters were. He stood at the door of the cinema where the premiere of "The Sound of the Wind" and responded calmly to a group of reporters blocking him.
Today is the 4th, and "The Sound of the Wind" premieres.
Just earlier, Mtime Time released the North American weekend box office list.
Because of the mainland review of "Saw", the movie did not receive much attention, and the reporters were excited as soon as the data was released.
Last weekend, "The Legend of the Bear" was released in the second week for $20.02 million. After several previews, "The Legend of the Bear" followed "The Legend of the Bear" for $19.4 million this weekend. The third place is the first Hollywood movie "Saw" directed by Wan Xiaohu.
With 18.28 million, it is slightly behind the first two movies.
More importantly, because Wan Xiaohu is not famous, there are only 2,315 screens for "Saw" and "Legend of the Bear" with more than 3,000. Therefore, "Saw" with a cost of less than 2 million US dollars and a box office of over 10,000 US dollars is particularly amazing.
Such amazing data makes Wan Xiaohu’s personal fame seem to have installed a rocket booster, which is even more exciting to the upcoming "The Sound of the Wind".
When the reporter asked Wan Xiaohu about this, Wan Xiaohu seemed particularly calm: "Small-cost horror movies have always been popular in Hollywood to make big tricks. It is actually not very exciting to be able to achieve such results. Of course, the first time I tried to make movies in Hollywood, from the previous preparations, it was not very perfect. I was still very happy to be able to achieve good results."
The reporter asked Wan Xiaohu again if the next step was to enter Hollywood. Wan Xiaohu shook his head: "I don't know yet, I haven't planned anything. Now I just want to think quietly for a while and digest the insights that "The Sound of the Wind" and "Saw" brought me."
Afterwards, Wan Xiaohu refused to say more. Today is the premiere of "The Voice of the Wind", and the popularity should be in this movie.
After sending the reporter away, he moved his neck, Wan Xiaohu also turned around and entered the cinema.
Huayi Brothers are responsible for receiving guests.
"Tiger, congratulations."
"Congratulations, congratulations, the Hollywood director."
"Little Tiger is amazing."
Many familiar directors came in to support them and gathered with Wan Xiaohu to chat and compliment each other before the movie began. Soon the main creators of the movie arrived one by one, and all the stars surrounded Wan Xiaohu like the moon.
"Director, it's awesome. "Saw" made a lot of money in North America."
"Brother Hu is a genius who has not been out of one thousand years!"
Wan Xiaohu laughed: "Okay, don't flatter me. After "The Wind" premiered, someone criticized you for being poor in acting and deducting bonuses!"
"No way?"
"The director is really good at telling jokes."
"I'm like a joke teller?"
Talk and laugh, soon, everyone arrived, the cinema gate closed, the lights went out, and the big screen lit up.
Dangdangdangdang!
Several logos ended and the plot started.
First, we introduced the historical background, namely the establishment of the Wang Puppet Government, and then an airplane appeared, flying swaying in the sky, passing through the beautiful rivers and mountains, overlooking the swaying continent of China. Suddenly, it seemed that it was hit by a missile. The plane suddenly fell and the camera advanced rapidly.
The texture of the entire lens is made through special effects, which creates a strong impact on the large screen, causing many viewers to shrink back immediately.
With the falling of the plane, the earth relies on mountains, rivers and rivers to form two huge traditional Chinese characters "Wind Sound".
A strong sense of visual experience of Hollywood blockbusters.
Gives a strong impact.
As the plane flew smoothly to the ground, the names of the main creators emerged one by one. Finally, through the plane, we saw the brightly lit place, and fireworks bloomed. Let it go naturally. The close-up of the fireworks entered the next shot. The Double Tenth Festival of the Wang Puppet Government.
The big scenes of more than 3,000 extras make the whole picture look very realistic.
Many viewers exclaimed below that this is the feeling of a blockbuster. From the costumes and shapes of the characters to the decoration of the interior buildings, they are all exquisite and sophisticated, rather than shoddy like other anti-Japanese war films.
However, before the audience could enjoy enough, Yao Chen's guest-starring female killer appeared, and directly hit two shots to assassinate the senior executives of the Wang Puppet Government. The blood splashed onto the camera, and the sudden blood came, which scared all the audience. This is assassination, without any rendering, no preparation, abrupt and natural.
A few short strokes.
There was no more sound in the entire cinema and it was immersed in the plot.
"It's so fragrant. This is a spice. It's transported from Ceylon. Baniu likes it the most..." The female killer was arrested and arrested during the interrogation. During the interrogation, Wang Zhiwen laughed very treacherously.
And Baniu is a fierce dog.
The female killer insisted not to say anything. The next moment, the spice was poured on the female killer, and Baniu's chain was also loosened.
"ah……"
Wang Zhiwen walked out of the interrogation room and heart-wrenching screams came from the room.
"hiss."
Many viewers in the cinema took a breath of air conditioning.
"It's indeed a movie that was almost banned, it's so bloody!"
Wan Xiaohu listened to the audience's exclamation and smiled slightly, and the real blood was still behind.
It is impossible for a movie to be full of tension and relaxation. Therefore, the movie is qualified. Then it transitions to a relatively straightforward plot. Several main suspects and interrogators appeared one by one, and in the limited space, each person's personality was portrayed in just a few strokes.
The unrestrained Gu Xiaomeng, the dignified and elegant Li Ningyu, the gloomy and arrogant Wu Zhiguo, the smooth and timid Jin Shenghuo, the calm and crazy Takeda, the vicious and lackey Wang Tianxiang, and of course the Rabbit Master Bai Xiaonian.
Inside Qiuzhuang, a torture game was staged, and a scene of catching the old ghost was torture game.
There is the joy of indoor actors exercising their acting skills.
There are aerial photos of Qiuzhuang, black sea, green mountains, gray castles, and so many beautiful and magnificent mountains.
The tension and relaxation are moderate and tightly linked.
The plot that is more complex and reasonable than the original "The Sound of the Wind" makes people unable to tell who is the old ghost at all. In the trailer for the first version, many people know that "Sister Yu" should not be the old ghost, but this is Wan Xiaohu's intentional method, using the suggestiveness of publicity to confuse the audience.
The audience does not believe that Li Ningyu is an old ghost, but the plot of the movie just implies that she is.
The audience guessed it was Gu Xiaomeng, but in the plot of the movie, Gu Xiaomeng was arranged to be unrevolutionary, and he was obviously not a revolutionary.
With Bai Xiaonian, Jin Shenghuo's death, Li Ningyu, Wu Zhiguo and Gu Xiaomeng attacking each other, everyone wanted to clear their suspicion, and it seemed that there was no chance to send out intelligence.
"Who is the old ghost? How can the information be sent out?" Question marks appeared on countless viewers' heads.
Chapter completed!