Rebirth 96: Begin the life of a monster from kindergarten

In the evening, Zhang and his party came to the hotel as scheduled and met with Han Shanping.

Even if Zhang Yixing is an ordinary person in later generations, he has long known this person who always leaves his name in a movie.

At this time, although Han Shanping was still the deputy director of the group, he had already exercised the power of the top leader and was in charge of the lifeblood of the film and television industry.

He is behind major productions such as Zhang Yimou's "Hero", Chen Kaige's "The Promise", and Feng Xiaogang's "The Banquet".

In 2002, Zhang Yimou's "Hero" created a box office myth.

Before this, there were no blockbusters in the Chinese film market, and two-thirds of the annual box office was taken away by foreign blockbusters.

Fortunately, "Hero" was successful and achieved outstanding results in overseas markets. In the eyes of China Film Group, Zhang Yimou's films are a bulwark against the "indiscriminate bombardment" of imported blockbusters.

Han Shanping even did not hesitate to praise it, saying that "Hero" has a box office legend that no film will surpass in 20 years.

But no one expected that in less than three years, the box office myth of "Hero" would be ended by an animated film.

"Kung Fu Panda" created a historic overseas box office record. Although Han Shanping was slapped in the face, he also achieved real political achievements.

Before "Kung Fu Panda", he was struggling with Zhang Yimou's other blockbuster "House of Flying Daggers".

"House of Flying Daggers" is also a major production promoted by him. China Film Group personally intervened in the film's accounting and distribution to protect the film. For this reason, it did not hesitate to move "Spider-Man" and "Harry Potter 3".

I just didn't expect that even under the policy of Domestic Protection Month, "House of Flying Daggers" still failed at the box office, and the box office and reputation were far behind "Hero".

Who would have thought that Zhang and his party would step into the film industry at this time and pick up the ears of the big guys from the ground.

They were originally not optimistic about animated movies. Who would have thought that miracles would happen right under their noses.

what reason?
In addition to the strength of DreamWeaver Culture, it is naturally “the leadership of China Film Group”!
Now Zhang Yixing has released another movie. Although Han Shanping is a little disdainful of this small production, given that Zhang Yixing's life experience is truly legendary and his record in "Kung Fu Panda" is really impressive, he can't help but have feelings for him. I have great expectations, and I mentioned Zhang Yixing a little bit when this movie was being developed.

Although "A Little Thing About First Love" is about first love, it is more precisely about secret love.

After some suggestions and understanding of the review standards, Zhang and his party placed the male and female protagonists at the same age. They met in the first year of high school and expressed their feelings when they graduated from high school. There was no bloody plot that was not suitable for students. Overall, It is a youthful and positive theme.

Han Shanping raised his hand to say hello to the reviewers, and the film passed review.

Zhang Yixing, relying on his young age, asked shamelessly: "Uncle Han, there is no need for a knife in the movie, right?"

Han Shanping chuckled. He still had a good impression of this little guy who was running rampant overseas.

China has some well-known literary and artistic figures overseas, but most of the content spread is centered around some bad things happening in China.

Although many novels and movies are based on facts, literary and artistic workers are always accustomed to "art comes from life and is greater than life" and magnify these bad things infinitely, but foreigners like to watch these things.

Literature is not only a form of critical realism, but film is also the same.

Han Shanping said with emotion: "Chinese people like to follow the crowd. The first director who filmed the ugliness of society did it with compassion. But after he won the award, a group of people will film the ugliness of society, but not Not because of compassion, but because I want to win the prize! What’s even more embarrassing is that another civilization has the right to select!” Zhang Yixing was noncommittal about his words. This issue is so big that it involves all aspects of national ideology, etc. This is not something that can be changed by personal will, and he has no intention of being the first person.

Anyway, in his eyes, the trophy is not as important as the actual box office, and the judges' evaluation is not as important as the audience's evaluation.

Moreover, in Zhang Yixing's eyes, ugly movies are also full of political color.

No matter how ugly countries flaunt freedom and human rights in movies, they are nothing more than empty slogans.

The freedom of "zero dollar shopping" and "shooting every day"?
Native extermination and shooting of black people for human rights?
Zhang Yixing scratched his head and said: "Well, Uncle Han, if I want to shoot crimes, disasters or other subjects in the future, I will shoot them in the country of monsters!"

Han Shanping glanced at Zhang Yixing in surprise and said, "You are quite smart!"

Where is the cleverness! This is just what many later directors did.

Zhang Yixing does not want to waste foreign films such as "Train to Busan", but when the time comes, they will definitely be placed in a foreign setting.

Moreover, movies like "Train to Busan" are indeed not suitable for the Chinese background. Zhang and his party believe that once zombies besiege the city, it will be difficult to reproduce the scene in the movie. There will only be a group of quickly mobilized soldiers to fight off the zombies.

After eating with Han Shanping, they chatted for more than half an hour, and then they left together.

Zhang Yixing has nothing to worry about with the release of "A Little Thing About First Love". All that's left is song recording and movie promotion.

A week later, Jay Chou finally finished recording the English rap part of the song "Baby".

Next, Huang Lei personally found a group of handsome guys and beauties from the film school, and acted as director to direct the MVs for Zhang Yixing's two songs "A Little Sweet" and "Baby".

The shooting scene of the MV is relatively simple, basically continuing the school background style in the movie. The protagonists are naturally Zhang Yixing and Shu Chang. These two songs are originally meant to serve the movie.

Jay Chou suggested that he could also direct the MV, but Zhang Yixing sternly refused.

Jay Chou cooperated in filming the MV for "Baby" and then returned to Wanwan.

After the two song MVs were completed, Zhang and his party quickly returned to Yueshan City to welcome the start of their second year of high school.

In September, Jay Chou released the album "Still Fantasy", which contains the theme song "Chrysanthemum Terrace" he composed for the movie "The City of Gold".

He would not have thought that this song would be parodied by netizens and become a popular song of the "Chrysanthemum Cult".

Since then, the Chrysanthemum Sect is no longer limited to niche ridicule, and has completely become a popular sect. From then on, no one can take the word chrysanthemum seriously.

In the same month, Han Han criticized modern poetry, saying that modern poets just use the Enter key to interrupt good sentences, and there is no need for them to exist. This is exactly the same as later generations of netizens who ridiculed poetry.

Zhang Yixing laughed it off.

Since the song "Meet in 1998" came out, he has never written a poem again! (End of chapter)