Huayu: Director started with art films

Not only were the audience confused, but even the reporters, film critics, and invited guest filmmakers all had strange looks on their faces.

The texture of the film is still very good. The scenes, layout, costumes and props are all very exquisite, and the pictures are also beautifully shot, especially the ninety-nine steps of the Qin Palace and the huge empty square, which are the highlights that make people's eyes shine.

But apart from these costumes and props, there are no other advantages.

The plot is fragmented and the story is confusing. The actors' acting is very good, but it's a little too crazy.

You said that a fake eunuch like you, Lao Ai, was a little crazy just to make his son the emperor. Why was you, Qin Shihuang, also so crazy?
Although no one has ever seen what Qin Shihuang looked like, nor do we know what kind of person he was, but a glimpse of him can give us a rough idea of ​​the whole picture. He was able to unify the six kingdoms and rule the world. He was the first emperor in hundreds of years during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Even if he is a madman, he is a war maniac, not a mentally ill person who speaks and moves like a clown!
The movie was over, and the audiences either had solemn expressions or frowned, and some even looked unhappy.

Brother Chen Kai naturally couldn't see the expressions of these people, but he continued to stand up with a smile under the arrangement of the host.

The host took the microphone and shouted: "After watching the movie, did you think it was good?"

No one answered!

Brother Chen Kai's face changed slightly, and the host was also very embarrassed.

But fortunately, some people from the Beijing Film Studio and the main creators of the crew all shouted, "It's great! It's great!"

Although the voice was not loud, it attracted many people, and they shouted "beautiful" one after another.

This made the host feel relieved, and he decided not to have this kind of interaction anymore. He quickly said with a smile, "Yes, that's right. Director Chen's filming of "The Emperor and the Assassin" is really wonderful. Director Chen, can I ask you a question?"

"can!"

"I saw a very long staircase in the Qin Palace in the movie. I wonder how many steps there are?"

"There are 99 steps in total."

"99, does it mean that everything comes back to one?"

"That's right. Our crew specially invited relevant experts to design and build the Qin Palace. Our film invested a total of 3 million RMB, more than half of which was used to build the Qin Palace..."

After some back-and-forth communication, the host was ready to start asking questions according to the order of the activity. But before he could open his mouth, a young man suddenly stood up and shouted loudly: "Director Chen, I want to ask you, do you know that your filming is so bad?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole place burst into laughter!

The reporters and film critics sitting in the front rows also laughed out loud.

Chen Kai's face was livid at this moment, and the host quickly said, "Dear audience friends, there will be a question and answer session next. Please keep order and follow the procedures of the premiere."

"No need to ask, it's a terrible movie. Qin Shi Huang talks like a lunatic, that's all. I'm not good at history, but is Qin Shi Huang's mother called Zhao Ji? How come she suddenly became your childhood friend..."

"This audience, this audience, please don't speak nonsense!"

"I spoke nonsense? Why didn't you say anything when he was taking random photos?"

"..."

The host and the audience started arguing.

Brother Chen Kai was so angry that he felt like he was going to have a heart attack. He immediately grabbed the microphone and shouted, "Security, where are the security? Get the guy out! Get him out!"

The security guard who was maintaining order outside immediately ran in, saw the young man standing in the audience, and immediately ran up to grab him and tried to pull him away.

"No need for you to pull me, I can walk by myself!"

The young man pushed aside the two security guards, walked out of his seat with his head held high, and walked down the stairs while shouting, "We are the men of Beijing. If you have something to say, you should speak your mind. Today I am going to say this: this movie is a terrible piece of shit!"

"well said!"

I don't know who shouted, but the audience immediately started to make noises.

Many young people not only applauded, but also criticized loudly.

"bad movie!"

"What are you filming!"

“No historical knowledge at all!”

"Adaptation is not random editing, and parody is not nonsense!"

"..."

Seeing the mess at the scene, Brother Chen Kai gritted his teeth in anger: "Rebellion! Rebellion! Everyone is rebelling!"

Unable to bear it any longer, he threw the microphone away and turned away.

"Old Chen, Old Chen!"

Ni Ping quickly chased after him.

Li Xuejian, Wang Zhiwen, Jiang Wenli and other main creators looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

Han Sanping couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so he stood up and walked over, took the microphone from the host, and said, "Dear audience friends, today's premiere ends here. Thank you all!"

After saying that, he handed the microphone to the host and hurried out.

The premiere was so bad, one can imagine how bad the subsequent public opinion would be. As the director of the Beijing Film Studio and one of the film's producers, Han Sanping naturally had to make emergency preparations early.

The audience left cursing, thinking that they had spent a lot of money to buy the premiere tickets, but it was really a huge loss.

Reporters, film critics and colleagues all had a great time watching the film. Many reporters have already thought of tomorrow's headlines:

"The Emperor and the Assassin failed at the premiere, Chen Kai threw down the microphone and left in anger"

But these days, newspapers are still mainly official media.

I think with the advice of the superiors, the newspaper article would not be so explicit.

At least the newspapers from the past few days would not do that. After all, these days are National Day. Although it has not yet been designated as a legal holiday, National Day is a big day.

"The Emperor and the Assassin" is the first historical blockbuster to be released in China. Excessive criticism is not a good thing.

But it’s hard to say in a few days.

Backstage at the People's Grand Theater, Ni Ping finally stopped Brother Chen Kai.

He was heard angrily saying, "I am so pissed off. Listen to what they are saying! They don't understand art at all. I am performing in a Shakespearean style, a dramatic interpretation. There is no culture at all!"

"Okay, okay, everyone has different feelings when watching a movie. Some people like it and some don't. This is normal. I didn't hear you just now because you left. There are still people who support you."

Ni Ping quickly calmed down Brother Chen Kai and coaxed him like a child.

This calmed down Brother Chen Kai's angry mood.

At this time, Han Sanping came over and said with an unhappy look on his face: "Old Chen, how could you suddenly give up after what happened just now!"

"Director Han, I'm not quitting. You just heard how rude those audiences were!" Brother Chen Kai said angrily, "I've been making movies for so many years, and I've never seen such a group of audiences."

"okay!"

Han Sanping scolded, "I'm not talking to you about the audience's problem now, I'm talking about your problem! This movie has such a huge investment, the consequences of box office failure, I don't need to remind you, right?!"

Hearing this, Brother Chen Kai's face changed slightly. How could he not know the consequences of box office failure?

With an investment of nearly 4000 million US dollars, the film was considered a waste in Japan, and the final box office is estimated to be just over million US dollars. It is probably unlikely to make million US dollars in China.

Even if we count it as 1 million, it's only 3 million US dollars at the box office. According to the investment return ratio of 1.2:, the movie will need at least million US dollars to break even or make a profit.

Now, let alone making back the money, I have lost so much that even my mother doesn’t recognize me anymore.

When he thought of this, Brother Chen Kai had a headache: "It's all the fault of that damn Kadokawa Book Company. If they had promised me to go to the Cannes Film Festival and win the Palme d'Or, I wouldn't have had so many troubles!"

Han Sanping rolled his eyes: You're the only one to win the Palme d'Or? In all these years, only Li Yishu has won it once in China. Do you think the Palme d'Or is easy to get?
"Now is not the time to talk about this. I will contact the reporters and ask them not to tell anyone about what happened today. You should also be more careful and don't do this again in the future!"

Han Sanping scolded, "Nowadays, the movie underwriting system is no longer the same as before. In the era of market economy, movie box office is closely related to the audience. If you don't change your bad habits, you will suffer a great loss sooner or later."

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Brother Chen Kai was about to retort, but Ni Ping beside him pulled him back, so he had to hold back his complaints.

"Okay, Ni Ping, take Lao Chen back first. I have to go and arrange things for the cinema chain and try to increase the box office. Otherwise..."

Han Sanping sighed heavily.

If I had known earlier, I shouldn’t have invested in Chen Kai’s film!

Originally, at that time, Beijing Film Studio had prepared a sum of money to invest in Li Yishu's "Red Cliff of the Three Kingdoms", but Li Yishu not only directly asked for more than 40 million US dollars in funds from Japan's Toho Co., Ltd., but also included the investment of their Beijing Film Studio and Bayi Film Studio.

This means that Toho Co., Ltd. alone has fully invested in the film, and Lee Yi-su used her own film remuneration as a stake, which is equivalent to approximately 6200 million US dollars.

Because they didn't invest much money to shoot "Red Cliff", the money prepared by Beijing Film Studio was finally given to Chen Kai's "The Emperor and the Assassin", which was almost tens of millions of RMB, all of which was the money they earned from following Li Yishu.

With the current situation, let alone making money, it is hard to say whether you can even get your money back! !
the next day.

All major newspapers reported the grand premiere of "The Emperor and the Assassin". What an epoch-making historical masterpiece, it used Shakespeare's performance style to interpret a different Qin Shi Huang, and there was also an extremely restored Qin Palace, with exquisite costumes and props...

From the costumes and props to the actors' acting skills, almost everything was praised, except for the quality of the plot.

Because this is not something to brag about at all!

Who wouldn't curse after watching this chaotic plot?
In other words, the meaning behind it is different. There are Japanese investors as well. If the movie does poorly at the box office in its first week, maybe no one will come to invest in domestic films in the future.

The people above informed the news department to avoid the film’s reputation from collapsing on the first day.

In fact, there is still some effect of controlling reviews.

The premiere of "The Emperor and the Assassin" was held on September 9th, and the film was officially released the next day on National Day, which happens to be Sunday today.

At present, when the two-day weekend has not yet been fully implemented, most state-owned and private enterprises have one day off on Sunday.

Today is a holiday and it is National Day. In addition, with the publicity from major media some time ago, many people chose to go to the cinema to watch this big production which cost 300 million RMB.

The box office exceeded 1000 million on the first day. With the ticket price at 10 yuan per ticket, a full 100 million people went to the cinema that day.

They are mainly concentrated in the four most economically developed cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

This box office result made Brother Chen Kai very excited.

With 1000 million on the first day, there is still great hope that the box office will exceed million later.

However, the next day was Monday, a working day, and the box office dropped to 700 million. The figure was a bit low, but the decline was not serious.

Moreover, with further media publicity, the box office decline in the following days was not significant.

By Friday, the box office had exceeded 3000 million RMB. After six days of release, this result is still very good.

If it remains stable for a month, it shouldn't be a problem for the box office to exceed 100 million yuan.

However, the blocked word of mouth finally collapsed after a Guangzhou newspaper publicly criticized the movie "The Emperor and the Assassin", and the word of mouth finally collapsed.

Various film critics and filmmakers have begun to criticize the film for being so-so that it does not even understand the most basic historical figures. Even if you want to create a childhood sweetheart, you should not use the name Zhao Ji.

Does a woman from the State of Zhao have to be called Zhao Ji?
Didn’t you know that in history books, Qin Shi Huang’s mother was called Zhao Ji?

Although Zhao Ji is not a name but just a title of a woman from the State of Zhao, both scholars and ordinary people basically regard Zhao Ji as the mother of Qin Shihuang.

At this time, Zhao Ji, Qin Shihuang's childhood sweetheart, suddenly appeared. Who could accept this?
History professors, ordinary movie fans, and film critics have all been scolding Chen Kaige and finding trouble with this movie.

As for portraying Qin Shi Huang as a madman, few people said so in the newspapers, because at present Qin Shi Huang is more of a "tyrant". A few years later, when Zhang Yimou directed "Hero", some people said in the newspapers that he was whitewashing this eternal tyrant.

The real subversion of Qin Shihuang's image had to wait until the advent of the Internet age.

"What a crappy movie!"

Jiang Wen walked out of the cinema with an unhappy look on his face. He didn't expect that Brother Chen Kai had been making movies for so many years and spent hundreds of millions of RMB, but in the end he made such a bad movie!
"Well...it's actually okay." Xu Qing smiled awkwardly. She was just an actress and couldn't afford to offend the big director Chen Kai.

“Is this also called good?”

Jiang Wen immediately looked at Ge You and asked, "Old Ge, do you think this movie is good or bad?"

"There are a thousand Hamlets among a thousand people..."

"Well, it's useless to ask you."

Jiang Wen shook his head, and finally looked at Zhou Xiaowen, the director of the film they were filming, "The Song of Qin", and said with a smile: "Director Zhou, are you relieved now? This film is so bad, and our film will definitely be well received and box office after it is released!"

Director Zhou Xiaowen forced a smile and said, "I am more worried."

"how?"

"We are also filming the story of Qin Shi Huang, and our plot..."

Zhou Xiaowen wiped the sweat from his forehead.

The plot of their movie is also very strange. Qin Shihuang's beloved daughter Princess Liyang falls in love with Gao Jianli, a friend who grew up with Qin Shihuang.

If it was just the two of them having an affair, that would be fine, but the important thing is that Princess Liyang later married Wang Jian's son Wang Ben.

Because the princess was not a virgin, Wang Ben not only cut off the princess's breastfeeding parts on the wedding night, but also chopped off her limbs and head.

If this plot happened in ancient times, it would be so hilarious.

Even if he disliked the princess, she was Ying Zheng's most beloved daughter!
Qin Shihuang, who unified the six kingdoms, had even his own daughter humiliated and killed by Wang Ben. If he didn't kill everyone, what would happen?
So how many heads does the Wang family have to pay for the compensation?

I really learned from someone who shouted, "What if I wipe out ten clans?" (End of this chapter)