At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 601 On the bar?
The jury mechanism of the three major European film festivals is to award awards from small circles!
Venice Film Festival: 7 judges.

The taste of the chairman of the jury determines the selection of the final award.

In fact, it was Mou who decided the Golden Lion Award!

Jiang Wen returned lonely.

It's really lonely-the overseas copyright failed to sell, so the French copyright was sold.

This film is doomed!

"The Sun Also Rises" estimates that the box office will still not rise this time...

The key point is that the overseas reputation of this film is not very good. "Movie Handbook" and "Sight and Sound" gave bad reviews...

Oh, now, these two film magazines are still authoritative, and after 2020, they will completely succumb to political correctness-in 2020, the top 2001 film critics of "Sight and Sound" directly let "Jeanne Dillman" "ranked first, beating "Vertigo", "Citizen Kane" and "[-]: A Space Odyssey".

In addition, "Moonlight", a parody of "Happy Together", ranked 60th, beating "Chongqing Express", "Yi Yi", "A Brighter Summer Day" and "Metropolis".

"Jeanne Dillman" tells the story of a single mother who works part-time as Lou Feng, and "Moonlight Boy" tells the story of a man's broken sleeve.

In terms of storytelling, technicality, artistry, and status in film history, neither of these two films deserves this ranking. The only thing worth mentioning is probably the social issues it raises...

In addition, the interpretation of "The Sun Also Rises" by mainland film critics is not good - after the release, a bunch of film critics are all 'sexual repression', 'resistance'...

Nima, I suspect that this group of people didn't watch the movie at all...

Where is the sexual repression?
No wonder Jiang Wen doesn't like film critics!

Directly ridiculed 'film critics commenting on movies is like a eunuch going to a brothel! '

Of course, film critics also retorted, "Talking about politics in movies every day, isn't it also a eunuch going to a brothel!" '

Ahem...

About "The Sun Also Rises" failed to win the award, Shen Xudong is still very happy - because things are back to normal.

In the original time and space, a bunch of people commented that "The Sun Also Rises" was incomprehensible, Jiang Wen decided to make a film that the audience could understand, so "Let the Bullets Fly"...

……

"Blockbuster" is coming soon...

It was released for 16 days, with a cumulative box office of 1.24 million and a box office of about 540 million in Hong Kong. Apart from that, there are almost no overseas results...

It's strange to say that a bunch of overseas filmmakers always say 'care about China's pre-Olympic status' and 'care about China's development', but they don't buy any other genres except action movies.

Even those independent films with so-called film festival aesthetics (poor Chinese type) are less bought.

"Brilliant and Splendid" directed by director Weng Shouming fully refers to "The Good Man in Three Gorges", the narrative mode and the way the film is told: long shots to express the so-called cruel life...

Then you can't sell it!

Because of the same themes, foreigners are more willing to look at works from small countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines, which have a sense of freshness.

This has also caused many foundations that originally intended to invest in Chinese independent films to be unwilling to pay...

So those sixth generations can only return to China, but their film market does not welcome them, so what should we do?
One by one clamored for their superiors to study abroad, art films need government support, and new art theaters and the like...

Why didn't you say this before?

Because in the past, relying on foreign income or this foundation, that film foundation can receive money directly!
Pulling back, the domestic income of "Blockbuster" is also sufficient.

The 4000 million yuan accounted for by the theater chain belongs to net profit--production costs, publicity costs, business cooperation, and advertising placements are directly evened out.

After all, it is a modern theme. In comparison, "Embroidered Spring Knife" is a bit difficult.

It is not easy to place advertisements on ancient martial arts, and even the copyright is not very easy to sell. Otherwise, why didn’t Hong Kong shoot martial arts?

——After Jurassic Park was released in Hong Kong at the end of 93, Hollywood special effects films that also relied on visual effects defeated martial arts films head-on!

Therefore, the cost control of "Xiu Chun Knife" is very... harsh, only 2000 million, if it is too much, not a dime...

Enough for Xu Ke to squander - and there are no special effects scenes.

The actors' remuneration has not yet reached 500 million.

……

As one of the three famous writers born in the 80s, Shen Xudong has always had regular fans!
Although the film adapted from his work is only a novella in "Supplements of Relics", Shen Xudong personally acts as the screenwriter and producer of "Xiu Chun Knife", and the director is Xu Ke...

Definitely got a lot of attention!

I just got off the plane and received a wave of interviews first.

""Embroidered Spring Knife"... I didn't plan to cooperate with Director Xu Ke at the beginning, because there was a small problem in the preparation of "The Ancient City", so the filming had to be postponed. It happened that Director Xu Ke had a three-month vacancy, so I simply put the "Embroidered Spring Knife" was taken out..."

"...When I wrote it, I actually focused on creating a plot, the story of three small civil servants... So, it is not bloody, and although there are fights, it is actually closer to a drama."

"When you tell a modern story, there will definitely be many constraints and restrictions, so it's better to tell an ancient story, and there is no such meaning as borrowing the past to satirize the present, but still want to write about the fate of the characters."

"The Chongzhen era at the end of the Ming Dynasty was actually quite interesting. You see, the emperor wanted to make a difference, but the country was already on the verge of collapse. The country's politics were chaotic...In such a period, small people wanted to fight against fate, but they just With very small gravel, even the emperor can do nothing about the historical process, so there is a natural sense of tragedy!"

"...The box office forecast is probably not too high. "Embroidered Spring Knife" is not passionate enough, nor is it martial arts. I think it will be very good if it can get 5000 million box office!"

"Well, the trip to Toronto went well this time. The overseas copyrights of several Golden Harvest action films have been sold..."

"It's unlikely that you will be released in the mainland like "Raid" and "Crime City".

"... Action movies are the banner of Chinese-language movies going to the world. We must continue to do it. Now the action stars who carry the flag are not well-known overseas, so they can only take the bloody and large-scale route. When they become famous, we will definitely Will converge the scale..."

After chatting for a while, Shen Xudong hurried into the car...

He has a lot going on.

In the past few days, Gao Fenfen has sent various text messages, between the lines are Huayi Brothers and Feng Xiaogang...

That's right, the Huayi Brothers wanted to invest in "The Lawsuit" and hired Liu Heng, the screenwriter.

The Wang brothers weighed it up and decided to keep Feng Xiaogang at any cost—promised to invest in "Lawsuit" and "Revisiting the Past [-]"...

Both are great investments!
The cost of "Assembly" is 8000 million, and the cost of "Review [-]" is as high as [-] million!
To go public, Huayi Brothers needs performance.

Then Feng Xiaogang's movie is a golden signboard, they can't give up easily...

So, on to the bar!

Gao Fenfen wanted Shen Xudong to win the screenwriter of "The Lawsuit": "If you come forward, Director Feng will definitely favor us!"

Shen Xudong has no interest in "The Lawsuit": "It's just one more play, it's really not good, let Director Feng work overtime..."

Gao Fenfen was speechless: "Work overtime...Three dramas a year?"

"...Then what's wrong? Qiu Litao has filmed three films for Golden Harvest this year, and he has also filmed two films..." After a pause, Shen Xudong said: "There is a problem with the script of "Lawsuit"..."

"What's the problem?"

"I do not like…"

Gao Fenfen changed the subject: "Have you watched "The Sun Also Rises"?"

"…What's wrong?"

"I don't think it's a good idea to invest in Jiang Wen's movie..."

(End of this chapter)