Big names rise

The name of the new Chinese film award has not yet been determined, but it should be of the "golden" generation. Hong Kong has a golden statue, Taiwan has a golden horse, and the mainland has a golden rooster. It seems to be a custom. Not only China, but Europe also has golden bears and golden lions. , Palme d'Or, it seems that the general film awards start with "gold" is the consensus of filmmakers all over the world.

Talking about this, He Mu was still a little worried, "This year is the Year of the Dragon, which is a very good year, but this year's award is definitely undecided. If it is awarded next year, it will be the Golden Snake Award. It's too shameless. If the year after that Even the Golden Horse, it definitely won’t work, it has the same name as Taiwan, and then the Golden Goat? The Golden Monkey?”

Han Sanping waved his hand, "There is no need to name the award in any year. It will take some time to prepare for this award. It may not be held until 14. The selection of excellent films in 13 years will be established this year, that is, in 12 years. Golden Dragon, Golden Snake, If you choose one of the three golden horses, you must choose the golden dragon."

"But isn't the biggest award in the domestic cartoon industry also called the Golden Dragon Award?" Li Wenhua interjected.

He Mu introduced, "This is my good buddy Li Wenhua, the director of "A Little Thing."

"Mr. Li has admired his name for a long time. It's a pleasure to meet you." Han Sanping said with a smile. As a big shot in the domestic film industry, Han Sanye didn't have a condescending sense of superiority when facing Li Wenhua. This is rare. He Mu It is estimated that Han Sanye should know who He Mu's uncle is.

He Mu said to Li Wenhua again, "The weight of comics in the domestic cultural and entertainment industry is too small, and the popularity is basically limited to the comics industry and those readers who especially like Chinese comics. Even the Golden Dragon Award of the film festival and their It is not a big deal that the Golden Dragon Award has been renamed."

Han Sanping wants to do his business.He Mu also took Li Wenhua to go through some membership procedures, the two parties parted ways, and He Mu promised.On the day when Han Sanping's "Golden Dragon Award" (tentative name) is held, he will definitely bring Xiao Hetang's artists to join him, regardless of whether he is nominated or not. Han Sanping is very happy to hear that. The artists under Yihe Xiao Hetang's banner have almost covered a small half of the mainland entertainment industry.He must hold the first session with great vigor, so that his name and this award will last forever in history.

After coming out of the directors' association, Li Wenhua proposed to go to the movies.Now that the advance shows of "1942" and "The King's Feast" can be seen in the capital, He Mu understands what he means, although the box office of "A Little Thing" is just like this, and it will never exceed 2000 million.Later "1942" and "The King's Feast" had very little influence on it.But it is very important for "Thailand" behind Mizuki. If the competitiveness of the two films is limited, "Thailand" can perform better.

The two sneaked into the movie theater and Li Wenhua bought the tickets. After all, He Mu is a celebrity. They watched "The King's Feast" first. Zhang Zhen is He Mu's good friend and has a good relationship with Liu Ye.But He Mu has to admit that this film is a bit boring and a bit mystical.It seems that the "Hongmen Banquet" by Feng Shaofeng and Liu Yifei with the same theme looks neat.

Of course, if you delve deeper into the connotation of the movie, maybe "The King's Feast" will be more chewy. After calming down, He Mu can see a lot of bright spots in the movie, but it is obvious that ordinary audiences are nervous about this movie. "The King's Feast" obviously didn't buy it. The attendance rate of the movie was very high, but that's because it was an early show, and those who couldn't wait to watch the movie were basically die-hard fans of the director or the leading actors. From the comments and many viewers who left early, it can be seen that this movie is unpopular.

In comparison, Feng Xiaogang's "1942" movie-watching process, which assembled a luxurious lineup of Zhang Guoli, Chen Daoming, Li Xuejian, Zhang Hanyu, Fan Wei, Zhang Mo, Xu Fan, Feng Yuanzheng, Adrien Brody, etc., was smoother.

Feng Xiaogang started out making popular movies. His movies don’t have much connotation or profound artistic techniques. This is the main reason why people all over the country like his movies, and it’s also the key to him becoming the most popular director in the Mainland. Although "1942" is about disaster, humanity and history, it is a literary film that is not vulgar, noisy, or contrived, but it does not have too complicated narrative techniques, and Feng Xiaogang may not be able to play those things.

Except for some superfluous side plots, a bit for the purpose of "showing off the stars", the rest are very good. Some people on the Internet criticized the film for involving the Great Leap Forward and three years of natural disasters. The narrative of the film is smooth, and the emotion is sincere and profound. The little girl Wang Ziwen who played in "Girls in Art School" played a very good landlord daughter. As a filmmaker, He Mu can give an "excellent" evaluation. In Feng Xiaogang's film Among the works, He Mu feels that he is second only to "Assembly".

Given that "The King's Feast" is too self-indulgent, and "Lost in Thailand" is low-cost, "1942" may dominate the schedule for a period of time. He Mu is optimistic that the film's box office will surpass "Tangshan Earthquake", but the box office will exceed One billion, He Mu thinks it is still unrealistic. After all, this is a movie about suffering. The audience who are willing to go to the movie theater to understand this period of history is definitely not as many as the audience who just want to have fun in the movie theater. The popularity of "1942" is too much lower than the summer file "Zibuyu 2", and even "Painted Skin 2" is slightly inferior.

I have to say that He Mu still somewhat overestimated "1942". The film was released on November 11, accounting for 29% of the national film schedule, and it has been above 35% since then, and it has taken away "Life of Pi" For all the imax shows, He Mu thought that the box office in the first week should have exceeded 35 million, but no, the box office in the first week was only 1.33 million.

Worse than "1942" is "The King's Feast", which was released on the same day. The box office in the first week was only 3900 million. Not counting the box office failure, it was unanimously criticized on the Internet. The gap is even more reduced to a joke, being laughed at as a unit of measurement is not counted, "The King's Feast" also fell into a scandal of hiring sailors to score points on movie sites such as Douban, and Lu Chuan also admitted it himself, which is even more serious , not only the netizens abused, but even the Directors Association issued a statement criticizing that director Lu Chuan, who was once a young and successful director, seemed to have fallen into some unbearable situation.

When "The King's Feast" was criticized and "1942" received mixed reviews, it highlighted the excellent quality of "Life of Pi", which was specifically reflected in the box office. "Pie" won the weekly box office champion, When "1942" was first released, the film schedule of "Youth Pie" was only half of that of "1942", but under such circumstances, "Youth Pie" still scored a good score of 1.69 million. 1942" has surpassed "Lust, Caution" at the box office, Hua Yi, who is full of confidence, has been poured cold water head-on.

Under such circumstances, the promotion of "囧囧 in Thailand" also kicked off in the final stage. The three gods of "囧囧" took "囧囧" to Changsha to record "Happy Camp", and then ran around non-stop to promote... ( To be continued..)

ps: ps: Thanks to the rudder owner shashazhuzhu for the two rewards~