At first, I just wanted to make money

"The Promise" is really a blockbuster with far-reaching influence. It is not an exaggeration to say that it was the one who brought down the boom in costume blockbusters...

Of course, "The Promise" just happened at the right time!
Everyone knows that the upsurge of Chinese costume blockbusters is temporary. Chinese films cannot rely on one theme forever in the international arena for a long time, but now overseas audiences like this, and everyone can only temporarily use these things to sell their own things first. , and then slowly seek change, which requires a process.

This process may be 10 years, or 5 years, or shorter...

From the perspective of film history, "The Promise" is just one of the accelerators.

But... no one wants to bear such a crime.

Director Chen has caught up!

So, two big news stories came out quickly, "People can't be so shameless" and "Waterloo Overseas of "The Promise" Embarrasses Chinese Costume Action Movies"...

The former is very embarrassing, but at least there is a saying of 'suspected copyright infringement of the film' to save his respect...

The latter is more embarrassing!
Zhang Weiping's "Golden Armor" and Huang Zhonglei's "Night Banquet", they can't lie, and their words are very pertinent, saying "some influence" and "embarrassing situation"...

This time, Director Chen, not to mention ruined reputation, at least ruined his reputation...

Of course, the circle still... supports him.

At least, there is no problem in finding investment - there are so many investors, but Director Chen only has one.

Besides, although "The Promise" failed, no one has ever said that "The Promise" has no artistic value or merit...

Purely from an artistic point of view, "The Promise" has the beauty of poetic drama...

The grand proposition of "freedom, love, and destiny" is explained with a dramatic character's fate.In this sense, "The Promise" does have the shadow of ancient Greek tragedies and Shakespeare's tragedies in the same strain!
Pull back, circle in and out...

People inside the circle may still want to help him gain respect, but outside the circle... who cares about you?

——You sell a movie ticket for 80 yuan...

"Have you hurt all the people who worked hard for "The Promise"? Then I spent money to watch the movie, and my heart was hurt. What should I do? You hurt the audience, why don't you say it?"

"And 'Can't people be so shameless?' I want to say, 'Movies can't be this bad!'"

"Spent [-] million to make such a movie, are you not guilty?"

The above is aimed at the remarks of 'people can't be shameless to this extent'...

By the way, there are still claims to be made...

Producer Chen said, "The "The Promise" film crew is very angry at the fact that Hu Ge edited the original work "The Promise" through video without permission and maliciously vilified "The Promise". The serious infringement of property rights has caused great damage to the reputation of the director and the box office of "The Promise", which has a very bad influence on the audience.We firmly sue! '

I thought it would scare people, but the incident of "The Promise being returned" also broke out...

Various ridicules from netizens:

""Hero" can be sold abroad after being packaged, but "The Promise" was returned by Hollywood immediately after seeing it."

"I'm still stubborn now. Is "The Promise" filmed for the future? Hollywood has returned the product, and it's still going for the Oscar, what is it for?"

"I don't understand. Since it was filmed for people in the future, why not show it in the future?"

Anyway, the whole internet is mocking "The Promise" and Director Chen...

Then a lot of people in show business came forward.

Director Chen Guojun: The film and television industry is the career of young people and should be supported.Can't accept criticism, can't be tolerant to newcomers, even make a big fuss, use trivial things to maliciously hype, and show the "dominant spirit" of not allowing others to say that he is not good.The current state of chaos in the Chinese film industry is due to the fact that there are too many directors like Chen Dadao who only want to make money and hype, which has brought the Chinese film industry to the most dangerous moment.

Lu Chuan also said, "The current situation of literary criticism in the Chinese film industry is not perfect. Over-promotion of films has become more and more common. Driven by interests, the public's reaction and film criticism are becoming more and more out of touch."Under such circumstances, it is not appropriate to sue a vulnerable person. '

The Hong Kong director was rather 'confused': 'I don't understand where Director Chen is angry', 'The Promise is so ugly, someone made a spoof, it's too late to welcome, why sue? '

By the way, there are still many media who also stand Hu Ge in this wave:
"West China Metropolis Daily": In fact, the "Steamed Bun Murder" concocted by Hu Ge was not malicious in itself, and it was not used for commercial purposes. "And so pissed off?

"Shanghai Youth Daily": Everyone has the right to think, and no one has the right to deprive them of it.Director Chen dares to sue Hu Ge, can you sue everyone who scolds "The Promise"?
Hehe, it was really possible, people reported all the content related to him on station B... Then station B was taken off the shelves!
Speechless, Sixth Teacher was ridiculed by the whole network, and they didn't do that!

There are so many artists and celebrities of the older generation active in station B, they don’t mind negative comments;

So you can't touch it?
Ahem...

……

In a small restaurant, Shen Xudong introduced Han Yan to Ning Hao: "This is Ning Hao, the director of "Stone"... This is Han Yan, the director of "Life Events". Both of them are young talents..."

Before Shen Xudong finished his sentence, Chen Xi complained directly: "Why do I hear you say this, so awkward?"

"what happened?"

"You are only 22 years old, don't use the term young talent!"

"...Forget it, let's get to know each other..."

Shen Xudong didn't bother to make a formal introduction.

Ning Hao and Han Yan... chatted with each other...

Mainly Han Yan asked, Ning Hao answered...

After all, Ning Hao can be regarded as a little famous - "Incense" and "Green Grassland" seem to be among the ranks of the sixth generation of independent directors.

Well, Ning Hao's "Stone" has finished the post-production, and now...wait for the release!

Shen Xudong chatted with Chen Xi: "A World Without Thieves, should we leave it alone?"

"...The Huayi Brothers control the publicity and distribution, so let's not get involved!"

Chen Xi changed the subject: "Brother Huayi has offended China Film this time!"

"Offend China Film?"

"Huang Zhonglei confirmed that "The Promise" has been returned!"

Shen Xudong smiled: "I think China Film should thank "Mantou"!"

Chen Xi pondered for a while, and then took it for granted...

That's right, "The Promise" is the film with the largest investment in Chinese film history (about 3.4 million yuan), surpassing "Hero" that year.

The main controlling investor is China Film, which is the beginning of Han Shanping's blockbuster project!
"The Promise" is actually an attempt to commercialize and industrialize under the special attention of the General Administration.

Therefore, the beginning of "The Promise" is "only success is allowed, no failure is allowed"!
From this point of view, Director Chen also received a military order.

Now...if this happens, not only will Director Chen's reputation be damaged, but it will also be hard for China Film to explain.

As the initiator of the project, Director Han was going to be approved, and it just so happened that "Steamed Bun" appeared, and this was the best excuse - because of a spoof, "The Promise" failed.

Therefore, China Film later expressed its position: it will not be soft on the alleged infringement of "Mantou", but it must find a solution that does not lose dignity.

In what way?
No one knows, and there is no prosecution anyway...

Of course, the temporary situation is that Director Chen stated that he wanted to send a lawyer's letter, and Hu Ge was under a lot of pressure...

Both Han Yan and Ning Hao watched "The Promise", and when they heard Shen Xudong discussing the movie with Chen Xi, they couldn't help asking: "I really can't figure it out, how could "The Promise" be so bad?"