Huayu: Director started with art films

"Get ready to turn on the machine."

Li Yishu sat behind the monitor, watching the armored Dawn on the warship, and shouted through the intercom, "Three, two, one, turn on!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Fei personally operated the jib, first taking a close-up shot of a hand holding the hilt of the sword, and then the camera slowly moved and began to move backwards, from shooting a hand and the hilt, gradually revealing the armor, and then to Liming himself.

After the filming, Zhao Fei began to rotate the jib, and the camera moved from bottom to top, gradually covering most of the warship.

This shot is from near to far, from low to high, to show the majesty of the warship.

Zhao Fei has been following Li Yishu for many years and has long been accustomed to his imaginative shooting angles, so this shot was taken very well.

"Crack!"

Li Yishu shouted while holding the intercom, and then looked at Director Xie Jin beside her: "How about it, Director Xie, can we take this shot?"

"It's very exciting. We only need to reshoot the scenes of Cao's camp and edit them later to show the gap between the Sun-Liu coalition and Cao's army."

Xie Jin gave a thumbs up.

This shot from near to far, on the one hand, shows the height of the warship of Sun Quan’s army, and then it is also convenient to take a bird’s-eye view of the entire Cao camp’s water fort that stretches for hundreds of miles in Hengdian.

It highlights the strength of Cao's army and creates a sense of dark clouds pressing down on the city, threatening to destroy it.

As the two were talking about the next shot, Han Sanping suddenly came over and called out, "Director."

Seeing that Han Sanping wanted to talk to her about something, Li Yishu said, "Director Xie, please continue filming."

"Well, go ahead." Xie Jin nodded.

After a while, Li Yishu and Han Sanping arrived at an empty space nearby. He asked, "Uncle San, what's the matter?"

Han Sanping said: "There's news from Japan that the box office of The Emperor and the Assassin was only 8 million yen in the first three days in Japan, which is about 530 million US dollars."

After a month of promotion, "The Emperor and the Assassin" was first released in Japan. Kadokawa Publishing is still very confident about this film.

On the one hand, Brother Chen Kai still has some fame, although not as famous as he was in Asia after winning the Palme d'Or in history, but with his many years of directing experience, plus the atmosphere he has created, and the fact that the movie is about Qin Shi Huang, there is no problem for him to achieve high box office results in Japan.

For the above reasons, after Kadokawa Shoten spent millions of dollars on publicity, the box office on the first day exceeded 2 million yen.

The box office reached 6 million yen on Saturday and Sunday, and 8 million yen in the first three days.

For a foreign language film, this number is actually quite good.

But this is a movie with an investment of nearly 4000 million RMB, which is equivalent to nearly million US dollars.

Li Yishu puffed her lips, trying to hold back her laughter, and said, "The box office revenue in the first three days was nearly 4000 million RMB, which is pretty good."

"Yishu, don't tell me you don't know how bad the box office is."

Han Sanping rolled his eyes. The other person was obviously trying to hold back his laughter. Did he really think he couldn't see it?
"It can't be said to be bad. The box office revenue was over 500 million U.S. dollars in the first three days. If we can maintain this performance, we should be able to make to million U.S. dollars before the end of the theater."

"But yesterday, Monday, the box office was only 1 million yen!!"

"what?!"

Li Yishu looked at Han Sanping in surprise: "Only 1.5 million yen?"

"Yes!"

Han Sanping sighed: "Many Japanese film critics have criticized this movie for being incomprehensible. Some Japanese experts who study the history of the Qin Dynasty have also criticized Chen Kai for making this movie that is seriously inconsistent with history."

As the first emperor of a unified China, Qin Shi Huang is still popular in Japan, but only among relevant experts, scholars and enthusiasts.

Ordinary Japanese people don't know much about the history of the Qin Dynasty. They watch this movie for the "epic war scenes" promoted in the film. However, the film is too stream-of-consciousness, and the war scenes are not only few but also not spectacular enough.

Even though Brother Chen Kai reproduced the Qin Dynasty's soldiers' costumes and chariots based on the Terracotta Warriors unearthed by archaeology, which is eye-catching, but for the Japanese, they don't care about these, they only care about whether there are epic war scenes.

This movie has none of that.

Qin Shi Huang was crazy and insane. Zhao Ji, played by Jiang Wenli, not only changed from Qin Shi Huang's mother to his childhood sweetheart, but also fell in love with Jing Ke for some unknown reason.

It's a complete mess.

"Alas! Brother Chen Kai has suffered a huge setback this time. If the domestic box office doesn't do well, I'm afraid that in the future..."

Han Sanping sighed again, really not knowing what to say. Although his relationship with Brother Chen Kai was average because of Li Yishu, he was from the Beijing Film Studio after all, so naturally he didn't want the other party's movie to have such a miserable box office.

Seeing Han Sanping sighing, Li Yishu shook his head slightly. From when he knew that Brother Chen Kai was still filming "The King of Qin" in the same style according to the original history, Li Yishu knew that the great director Chen was going to fail again.

Li Yishu remembered that in his previous life, Brother Chen Kai spent more than 70 million US dollars to shoot this "The Emperor and the Assassin". Most of the funds were used to build the Qin Palace, but the global box office barely exceeded 10 million US dollars, most of which came from the Japanese market.

This time the funds turned into nearly 4000 million US dollars, and the box office took in more than 500 million US dollars in the first week. At this rate, it is estimated that the box office should reach or million US dollars before it is withdrawn.

This is much better than the previous life.

After a little thought, Li Yishu roughly guessed the reason. It was not because Chen Kai filmed well this time, but because of Li Yishu's presence, the potential of Chinese-language films in the Japanese market was increased.

I guess Kadokawa Books is definitely using itself to hype up its products.

In fact, Kadokawa Shoten actually did this!

They are trying to smear Li Yishu and specifically raise Chen Kaige's status in China, saying he is the enemy of the godfather of Asian movies and that he is one of the fifth generation of Chinese directors along with Li Yishu and Zhang Yimou...

And they are worthy of running a bookstore. They use ambiguous words to hype up their films. The godfather of Asian films should not have too many enemies. Anyway, those who compete with him at the film festival can be called speed. The fifth-generation directors themselves have a group of people, and Li Yishu is just one of them.

But Japanese audiences don’t know this and actually think that Chen Kai is some big director on par with Lee Yi-su. The box office revenue exceeded 500 million US dollars in the first three days, and it can be said that more than half of them were attracted by this publicity.

Han Sanping said, "The Emperor and the Assassin will premiere in Yanjing the day after tomorrow. I'm leaving tomorrow. Do you want to go and see it?"

"I'm not going."

Li Yishu shook his head. Although his relationship with Chen Kai had eased, it was not good enough for him to support him. Not to mention that he still remembered that the leading actress was Jiang Wenli. She and her boyfriend Gu Changwei had to quit the show together in "Farewell My Concubine" and had to temporarily replace the actress and photographer. Li Yishu still remembered this grudge.

"Well, if you don't want to go, then don't go."

Seeing that he was not going, Han Sanping did not say anything. He knew that the relationship between the two was not good. He mentioned it just to ask, but he had no intention of forcing the other party to go, not to mention that he did not have the ability to do so.

Time passes little by little.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

Yanjing, People’s Grand Theater.

The premiere of "The Emperor and the Assassin".

Premieres were not actually popular those days, but when Lee Yi-su premiered "Sword Rain" that year, it attracted a lot of reporters and media, as well as friends in the circle, which led to a wave of premieres.

Brother Chen Kai is a very concerned person, and since the box office in Japan has been declining sharply, the Beijing Film Studio specially arranged a premiere at the People's Grand Theater.

The purpose is to improve the domestic box office performance. This will not only make Brother Chen Kai look better, but most importantly, it will prevent overseas investors from lacking confidence in domestic film directors.

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At this time, both sides of the red carpet were crowded with onlookers, fans and a large number of reporters.

"Fangyan, Fangyan! (Wang Zhiwen, the character name in "Over the Hook")"

"My name is Wang Zhiwen."

"I don't care what his name is, I just like his dialect performance, he is a role model for men of my generation!"

"It's Jiao Yulu, Jiao Yulu is here, Jiao Yulu! (Li Xuejian, who became famous for playing Jiao Yulu in 90)"

"..."

As actors and celebrities who had only been seen in movies and TV in the past appeared one by one, the onlookers excitedly shouted their names or the names in their movies and TV shows.

When Brother Chen Kai finally came on stage with Ni Ping, the atmosphere at the scene reached its climax. Let's not talk about Brother Chen Kai. He is definitely famous, but he is a behind-the-scenes worker after all, and most people at the scene don't like him.

The main popular person is still Ni Ping. As a popular host of CCTV, "Variety Show" made her famous overnight. Later, she hosted the Spring Festival Gala and became a household name.

She is beautiful, tall, amiable, and graceful in her dealings with others. Not only is she loved by children, she can be said to be the dream lover of the vast majority of Chinese men.

Ni Ping's appearance naturally attracted cheers from men on both sides of the red carpet.

The red carpet walk did not last too long, only half an hour in total. With the arrival of Chen Kai and Ni Ping, a group of people entered the venue one after another.

The fans who had spent a lot of money to buy the movie tickets walked in with great excitement. Most of them were young people, each of them brought their female companions, and they couldn't stop bragging about how much they had spent to buy the tickets for the premiere.

Nowadays, buying movie tickets is not uncommon, but buying tickets for movies with celebrity actors appearing is rare!
According to the words in "Blood Romance", this is called "showing off", especially when you bring your girl along, it will definitely be very impressive.

"Thank you to all the audience, reporters, and film critics..."

Ten minutes later, all 500 seats were filled.

The host stood in front of the screen and spoke the opening remarks non-stop, then shouted: "Let's applaud the director Chen Kai and the film's creators."

As Brother Chen Kai led everyone out, there was warm applause from the audience.

This gave Brother Chen Kai, who was originally feeling depressed because of the dismal box office in Japan, a bit more confidence.

The Japanese don't understand China's history, nor do they understand Brother Chen Kai. It is normal that the box office in Japan is dismal, but in the domestic market, Brother Chen Kai is a great director respected by everyone.

The box office will definitely exceed 100 million!
"Thank you all for coming to our premiere..."

Brother Chen Kai was polite at first, and then he said with great enthusiasm: "It took me several years to conceive this movie. When I was writing the script, I revised it more than ten times in a row. Finally, I completed the current version, which I think is the best version!"

“I don’t know how many people know what triggered the First World War, but I can tell you here that it was the Sarajevo incident!”

"Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, the heir apparent of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, were on an official visit to Sarajevo, Bosnia, when they were shot and killed by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip."

"This incident led directly to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia, thus triggering World War I."

"The story of Jing Ke assassinating the Emperor Qin is no less a revolution than the one that ignited two thousand years of Chinese history."

"For this film, we adopted the performance style of Shakespeare's stage play to interpret a plot that happened 2,000 years ago and was enough to change the history of China..."

I've been saying a lot of nonsense, but the movie I made is absolutely amazing and absolutely great!

I have to say that Brother Chen Kai is a really good eloquent person. Many people know the story of Jing Ke assassinating the King of Qin, whether it is in history books or folk tales. This is not some unpopular history.

But few people explore the story of "The Emperor and the Assassin" from the perspective of "the greatest assassin of all time" and "capable of changing the course of history."

The emotions of the audience were all aroused, which made the director make bold statements, and he even said that "if Jing Ke succeeds in assassinating Qin", it will change the future history. With such remarks, who would not be looking forward to seeing this epic war masterpiece and the performance style of Shakespeare's stage plays as soon as possible?

Nowadays, what is Western is good and this has always filled the hearts of ordinary people.

The famous European Shakespearean style, combined with Chinese legendary stories, the greatest assassin of all time and the greatest emperor of all time, the grievances between the two, and the epic war scenes, are really heart-stirring.

After more than ten minutes, as each member of the creative team talked about their own mental journey of making the movie, the movie finally started showing at 10.30:.

The 162-minute film takes the audience from the beginning, when they see the majestic Qin Palace, to the excitement and anticipation, to the confusion of finding out that Zhao Ji is not the mother of the Qin King but his childhood sweetheart, to the Qin King's crazy laughter and movements...

These are all acceptable.

After all, it is Shakespeare's performance style, so it is normal to be a little different.

But when the movie ended and the war scenes were only about ten minutes long and not even as good as the TV series Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the audience's expectations were completely cooled.

"What a crap movie! It's so fucking bad!" (End of this chapter)