China Entertainment: I have been a director since 05

Chapter 322 Director Guan offers another contribution! A script that makes Ning Hao blush!

The release of "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" has brought the movie releases in May completely into the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period.

Because the reviews this movie received were surprisingly good.

Perhaps it's the natural support that gamers have for this movie, or perhaps it's the familiarity that the leading actor in Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" brought to everyone.

After two days of release, the movie’s box office is about to reach 30 million RMB.

Many industry insiders believe that the most important thing about this movie is the successful casting.

The leading actor, Jake Gyllenhaal, is indeed quite popular in mainland China. The villain is Oscar winner Ben Kingsley, who is also a familiar actor.

Overall, the film received pretty good reviews on the first day of its release. At least the action scenes and the time-travelling special effects were very pleasing to the eye. Some female audiences also thought that the film was full of exotic atmosphere and that the male lead was quite handsome.

This is enough.

It’s a pity that the investment is too large and there may not be much profit.

The box office of "Iron Man 2" has exceeded 2 million in 4 days, but the subsequent development has become extremely slow. The piracy phenomenon makes it difficult for Iron Man to create a peak of million.

After all, this movie was released a week earlier in the North American market.

The pirated version leaked out a long time ago, but only a few people went to the cinema to support it.

"How to Train Your Dragon" was released in mid-May. As an animated blockbuster produced with pure 3D film technology, although it received overwhelming praise in North America and overseas, its taste in the domestic market was clearly below expectations.

After all, this year,

"Avatar" has raised the tastes of Chinese audiences.

"Source Code" inspired the viewing enthusiasm of Chinese audiences.

"The Father" has aroused great expectations from Chinese audiences.

This means that How to Train Your Dragon has only grossed 1.3 million yuan after two weeks of release.

As for other movies, they can only follow behind these three movies and eat dust.

"The Father" is about to be released, and the promotion has been launched in all directions.

Although it was to promote this movie, Guan Ling continued to put IQ pressure on the audience that they might not understand the movie, while combining "The Father" and "Inception" for promotion.

Guan Ling even directly posted her face on Weibo.
"If you don't read the analysis of these two movies, I don't think you will understand them at all until the end!"

This promotional method is extremely offensive, but everyone can tell at a glance that the director is Guan Ling.

Hey! There's really nothing to refute!

After all, our IQ has been crushed before. The original "The Suspect" confused everyone once, and then "The Ming Dynasty" made everyone listen to the commentary to understand the lines. Although Director Guan made several cool movies and won several awards in the meantime, everyone knows that Director Guan is going to insult their IQ again.

Hey guys... I'm looking forward to it!
Is this a masochist?!

But it is undeniable that countless people in the circle want to see what kind of movie this is that caused a war of words at the Cannes Palme d'Or this year!
"In fact, it's not a good choice to release your movie on June 6," Ning Hao came to Lingyun Media. "The World Cup comes every four years, and even Hollywood blockbusters don't dare to compete with the World Cup. Why are you still going ahead with it?"

Ning Hao smiled.

"The box office expectations for the movie 'Father' were not high to begin with. 200 million is the maximum."

Guan Ling doesn't really care. "I won't put too much pressure on the cinema chain regarding the scheduling of the films. All my pressure is on Inception."

"There's a World Cup, and you still want to get 200 million? And it's an art film."

"It's not pure art." Guan Ling denied Ning Hao's description, "And as I said, 200 million is the maximum. Last year's Palme d'Or movie only made more than 200 million. It's mainly about selling copyrights and building reputation."

"When you talk about selling copyrights and building reputation, I am speechless."

Ning Hao said, "I just got a reply yesterday. The review of No Man's Land was rejected again."

"I told you at the beginning that there is no need to force things. It's normal that your movie was rejected."

"I just want to calm down. Do you have any scripts for me to shoot?"

Ning Hao bared his fangs.

"You, you didn't listen when I tried to persuade you. Now you are numb."

Sometimes Guan Ling thought this guy was quite ridiculous.

As they were talking, Ning Hao suddenly saw a script on Guan Ling's desk.

“You wrote a new one?”

"I bought the copyright from Japan two years ago. I wanted to get the script a while ago, and I just finished it a few days ago when I came back."

"Hiss..." Ning Hao slapped his forehead in envy, "Your script is really outrageous. You said you would make it, and you made it. A romance movie? I've never seen you make one."

"You'll know if you take a look."

Guan Ling smiled and said, if you haven't read the original novel, it would be easy to think that this movie is a romance when you see the title of this movie.

After all, the name of the script is "Confessions".

Ning Hao didn't hesitate after hearing this. He took the script and started flipping through it.

The more Ning Hao looked, the more confused he became.

I originally thought it was a script for a romance movie, but as I read on, it felt a bit like "Suspect X".

Orthodox reasoning?

This is the story after the murderer is discovered.

The heroine's child died.

Then she wanted revenge.

Ning Hao was inevitably attracted by this beginning, and he couldn't wait to read on.

An ordinary junior high school, ordinary students, wanton noise, and a storm that lasted for months.

The only daughter who died.

And the murderer seems to be a junior high school student.

What is the relationship between this beginning and "Confessions"?
Ning Hao always felt something was wrong.

He had finished filming "No Man's Land" a long time ago and wanted to use objects to represent people and tell a story about animals.

Ning Hao wanted to film the good and evil of the characters in the film.

He also wanted to say something through this road movie about the Northwest.

So he didn't even use the multi-line narrative that he was best at, but instead switched to a single-line narrative shooting method.

Black allegory.

This idea was very strong and clear in Ning Hao's mind, so when Guan Ling told him that he could consider continuing to make commercial films, he declined.

However, from November last year to May this year, it was rejected after being submitted for review twice.

Ning Hao really felt uncomfortable.

Especially since Guan Ling helped someone win the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. Although he couldn't compare to Guan Ling, the difference in circumstances made Ning Hao wish he could turn into Sun Wukong.

So annoying!
But when Ning Hao saw the script of "Confessions", his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Director Guan will also be shot!"

This was Ning Hao’s first thought, and this thought immediately made a smile appear on his face!
Because Ning Hao saw the heroine say to two junior high school students that the milk you drink contains the blood of AIDS patients, and within a few months you will be infected with the virus.

This thing is so exciting!
Director Guan is so brave!

I felt balanced all of a sudden. Director Guan would also be rejected. I was so happy.

There's no way this thing would pass review!

He looked up at Guan Ling, who didn't care at all and was making tea for him. Ning Hao's mood inexplicably became a little better.

But my curiosity about the script did reach its peak.

What's below?
Continuing to read on, I found that the script is not a single-line narrative, but a mixture of flashbacks, chronological order, and intercalations, although it is a bit messy.

But Ning Hao could clearly see the overall evolution process and clear context of the three students and the case.

The arrival of the new teacher wants to solve this problem, but the plot continues because one of the two students who "drank AIDS blood" was bullied on campus and the other was afraid to go to school at home.

Occasional flashbacks let Ning Hao know that the communication between the new head teacher and the teacher of the previous daughter who died may mean that the new teacher also knew the news that the previous teacher's daughter drowned. But she always wanted to save the classmates who were not going to school at home.

Then the plot became extremely explosive. The student became manic because of the teacher's frequent home visits and killed his mother with his own hands.

Then he smashed his house to pieces! He went completely crazy!
The feeling of happiness grew stronger.

Ning Hao's mind was filled with the sound of "banned films".

This made him feel relaxed, and everything in his heart calmed down, leaving only curiosity about the plot.

How interesting a script can Guan Ling write?
Continue watching, two minors teased, threatened and frightened a four-year-old girl until she fainted.

And then in order to avoid problems.

When the little girl opened her eyes, the crazy kid threw the child into the swimming pool without blinking.

The two children even discussed the issue of the Minor Protection Act themselves, believing that even if they were found out, they would not be breaking the law.

In other words, the little girl died and died...

It's just a waste of life.

Seeing this, Ning Hao felt like something was stuck in his throat and he clenched his fists.

But it opened again quickly.

After that, Ning Hao saw that there was no blood from AIDS patients at all. It was all a scare tactic.

This caused the mad child to kill his own mother.

Another child was so frightened that he took extreme measures and even wanted to blow up the school with explosives to kill the classmates who bullied him in order to attract his mother's attention.

All of this was still known to the former class teacher, and the explosives eventually killed his beloved mother.

"..."

After Ning Hao finished reading the script, his original joy disappeared in an instant.

All that's left is confusion.

He was even a little stiff.

Everything about this script made him feel depressed, pessimistic, dark, and even sad...

Unless there is something seriously wrong with your brain, it is highly unlikely that you would be able to write such a script.

This was the only thought that suddenly flashed through Ning Hao's mind.

"Extreme perversion..."

After watching the movie, he actually felt a kind of violent aesthetics.
But it was really hard for him to understand why Guan Ling would write something like this.

After a long time of calming down, Ning Hao raised his head and showed his excited side.

"Director Guan, are you going to be rejected by the review as well?"

Ning Hao sang this sentence almost in a singing tone. Just a few words, with a beginning, a middle, and an end, as well as the erhua sound, it was obvious how excited Ning Hao was at the moment.

"You look quite happy."

"That's right. Although this movie is shocking, I really want to see Director Guan get humiliated. It will be very interesting!"

"Then it seems you can't wait. Who said I have to submit it to the higher-ups for review?"

Ning Hao pointed at the script, looking shocked.

"Then what's this?"

"You're lucky," Guan Ling said, "You just happened to come across this movie made for Taiwan."

"Huh? Last year at the Golden Awards you said you would help Taiwanese films. Are you going to give me this script?"

Ning Hao's face turned green!

This change from excitement to unexcitement made Ning Hao's face turn red, and he also felt a strong sense of malice.

"Yes," Guan Ling said, "It's similar to The Crucible. This kind of movie needs to be seen in China. If one more person sees it, there may be one less tragedy. Taiwan happens to be a good choice, that's all."

"have to!"

Ning Hao felt how clownish he was.

"But you are making a contribution again! You are really a bodhisattva. If Taiwan wants to develop the film industry, you should make it big."

"Since we can't film it in China, let them practice. It won't hurt anything."

Hou Hsiao-hsien, Ang Lee and others have all asked Guan Ling that she would definitely not forget what she had promised.

But Ning Hao was unhappy. He had just felt comfortable for a few minutes, but suddenly he was back to the time before liberation.

The resentment of being rejected all the time rushed straight to the top of my head!

Ning Hao's forehead went numb.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. Ning Hao asked directly, "Where's mine?"

"Let's talk about it later. I still have to think about yours."

Guan Ling had just finished one and was too lazy to think about this.

"Then think about it quickly. Since No Man's Land has no hope of being released for the time being, I have to work. Otherwise, how can Director Guan make money?"

"Do I lack money? What I lack is knowledge." Guan Ling laughed, and suddenly his voice stopped.

"Don't tell me, I actually have a script."

"What script?"

“Red and professional.”

"That's great, I'll brainwash you!"

Ning Hao's eyes lit up. You didn't let me shoot Dark Fable, and you're going to kill me again for being so popular and professional? !

"Wait a minute, I'll ask someone to look for it. The script has already been written. We're just waiting for someone to shoot it."

Guan Ling flipped through it and quickly contacted Chen Guofu and took out the script that Chen Guofu had skipped.

Ning Hao took a look.

It’s “Never Gone”.

……

On May 5, Lingyun Media held a celebration banquet for "The Father Trapped in Time".

It is mainly to celebrate the Cannes Grand Prix and also to celebrate You Benchang winning the Best Actor Award.

By the way, it will also pave the way for the final sprint of publicity in the last ten days.

The industry leaders received the news early on, and some practitioners from all over the country boarded planes to Beijing.

Ever since Hou Hsiao-hsien learned that Guan Ling had written it, he has been waiting for the call.

You Benchang won the Best Actor award, and both Shanghai Theatre Academy and Shanghai Film Studio were proud of it.

Ren Zhonglun also arrived very early.

He is now increasingly looking forward to closer cooperation with Guan Ling, but he doesn't know where to start for the time being.

At the celebration banquet, everyone was toasting.

Even You Benchang drank a lot.

It was because of his age that many people were afraid that You Benchang would be knocked down on the spot, so they didn't force him to drink too much.

Although we didn't talk too much about the market share issue, we at least reached a consensus that the industry would pave the way for Guan Ling's "Inception".

The only one who was most excited was Hou Hsiao-hsien.

After a long wait, the first collaboration between the Taiwanese director and Guan Ling is finally about to begin.

(End of this chapter)