Coquettish Rebirth

"Even if you don't know Chinese history, you can watch "Heroes" the same way, because just like the slogan of this film says, all history is contemporary history—Washington, the first president of the United States." "I didn't say the above sentence——Washington, the first president of the United States" Ah bah!Of course, this was not said by Washington, but by Spielberg!

Jia Hongjian asked all kinds of acquaintances to come over to join him, of course he used this method!How can he increase the interest of American audiences in such an ancient Chinese historical film?Of course, we must first think of a suitable promotional slogan, and then we need to attract a bunch of people with celebrity influence to come and watch it, so that through trust in the stars, ordinary people can feel interested, right?From another perspective, assuming that such a film is about American history, although it seems that the United States has no history, let’s pretend that there is such a story about the Civil War or why the White House is the White House—the British Expedition in 1814 The army came to clean up the United States, but they beat the Americans all over the place, and finally set fire to the White House. If it hadn't happened to be raining, the White House would have been gone.Later, because the White House was burned and blackened everywhere, I had to paint it with white paint to cover it up. Later, I thought it was beautiful, so it was called the White House!

Assuming it is such a historical story of "Why is the White House called the White House", even if it is filmed by Americans, but when this film is released in China, many Chinese people will murmur at the first time-we don't know American history, Will this film look incomprehensible?Will it look boring?Shall we choose another movie that we can watch without thinking?Like Michael Bay's "Transformers"?If you see it, consumers will misunderstand it all of a sudden!Similarly, when reading Chinese history novels, Jia Hongjian can read them very happily, and Jia Hongjian who also reads time-traveling novels is very happy.However, Mark Twain's "Wisconsin Yankee in the Arthurian Dynasty", which is also a time-traveling genre, made Jia Hongjian stumbled, because he didn't understand the British Arthurian Dynasty!Moreover, the names of each person seem troublesome. If it weren't for the title of the originator of time travel in such a novel, how could he read such a novel?

There are always cultural barriers, so Jia Hongjian is like the gimmick of "traveling through the originator of history".It is necessary to give the American people a curiosity and a willingness to come and see it, and to find a reason for them to come and spend money to suffer!And this reason came from his mouth, of course it didn't come from Spielberg and a series of people!And what is Jia Hongjian's slogan?That is the topic of "all history is contemporary history"!If you really say this sentence, it was actually said by an Italian historian named Croce, and it is very appropriate to use it in this place!Why is it appropriate?Because after Jia Hongjian re-edited the film, it was a bit "indicative" of the current situation in the United States!

How do you call it a bit alluding to the state of the United States at that time?It's very simple. If you look at it in the United States, the United States has foreign troubles after 911.The domestic government needs to be stronger, it needs to violate certain personal rights, and it needs to send troops to Afghanistan. Can be more resistant to foreign aggression?At this point.As long as the United States always regards anti-terrorism as correct, and when the American people have not planned too many troubles caused by anti-terrorism, it is also in line with the general direction of American political correctness!

Originally speaking, this was something Jia Hongjian and Zhang Yimou considered when designing the plot.And now not only has this aspect been strengthened, but also a little bit of stuff has been done on the other side-for example, in foreign countries, is the United States as strong as Qin?So are those messy countries in the Middle East conquered by the United States and transplanted American democracy?The world will be peaceful?Is it just like King Qin’s defense in the movie, how many people would die if we were fighting from several countries all day long? ?Is this peace?

From this point of view, Jia Hongjian was a little ahead of time to find a reason for the US invasion of Iraq!This can be regarded as conforming to the general direction of American political correctness as much as possible, right?This should be able to make Americans feel that this film has some connotations as much as possible, right?This should try to make Americans feel that this film is worth watching, right?What?Does the United States not have such a strong politically correct environment as China?fart!The political correctness of the United States is consistent, and many times it requires more political correctness than China's!For example, the issue of racial equality is sometimes overkill!Even when it comes to criminals.You can’t even mention the skin color of the criminal, you can only mention a series of things such as age and gender. Isn’t this too cautious?But if you are not careful, you will be accused!At the same time, there are two wars in the United States after entering the new millennium. Who dares to say that it should not fight?The various media in the United States no longer have the same anti-war slogans as they did during the Vietnam War in the 70s. Everything is shouting that the United States will win, and everything is shouting "usa! usa!" Is this politically correct?

And in terms of people's hearts, the United States has just been destroyed by people sent by the so-called Taliban with a plane.Then the common people in the United States were immediately frightened. How could they not applaud the fact that the US government wanted to send troops to eliminate potential enemies?After all, if you don't allow troops to be sent, one day in the future, terrorists may cause trouble in your place of work.Maybe he will die!Would you rather die yourself to ensure that terrorists have the freedom to carry out terrorist attacks?Isn't this crazy?So it can be said that after Jia Hongjian made such slight modifications, the overall artistic conception of the film was tailor-made for Americans!Even when Prince Dan of Yan Kingdom sent Jing Ke to assassinate the King of Qin, Jia Hongjian tried to choose words when he was so provocative when he translated them. Doctrine" hook!

But in this way, will there be a mismatch between the Chinese voice and the English subtitles?If the actors are asked to re-dub or something, will it cause the mouth shape to not match?What's wrong with the mouth shape?Jia Hongjian and the others can edit it!Speaking of the difference, wouldn't it be enough to cut in some shots from cameras that couldn't reach the mouth?For example, a shot was originally a long shot that kept shooting the actor's face, but now when the lines start to change, the shot is cut directly to the side and rear, or the shot is shifted to the face of an "audience" like Jing Ke, Is this okay?This way the shape of the mouth won't match, right?You should know that Jia Hongjian and his team have more than 3000 meters of film, which can be cut in any way!

And after such an editing, Dana, the crown prince of Yan Kingdom, looks like Osama bin Laden!The inspiring lines that he said really reminded ordinary people of terrorists!So the prince of the Yan Kingdom found a guy with high martial arts skills to assassinate Qin Shihuang, Jia Hongjian changed it a little bit, and it became "Bin Laden of the Taliban" instigating "terrorists" to "assassinate the United States" !So in this way, should the United States engage in the Yan Kingdom?Shouldn't it be impossible for this to happen again in the future?It is a must!

Soon, when Spielberg and others recommended this film, the momentum of sincere publicity picked up!On the other hand, didn't Jia Hongjian and the others still publish advertisements in print media, especially newspapers?This advertisement also began to serve as the most basic science popularization of China's pre-Qin history!In such an ad that takes up half of the page, the most obvious and central one is a map of China, but it shows the suggested map of the Warring States Period.Then I drew the borders of Qin State and the surrounding countries when the story happened, and then wrote a sentence on it-"The prince of Yan State did not want his country to be annexed, so he did everything possible to recruit the Chinese version of Asa Xin, carry out state terrorism and directly decapitate the king of Qin. Can terrorism defeat Qin? Can King Qin crush Yan?" Then, this is combined with the recommendations of Spielberg and others!Is this attractive?

The matter of why King Qin annexed the six countries is very important in China, but it is not important here!Laomei didn't understand why Qin Shihuang wanted to annex them, and she wasn't interested, so what Jia Hongjian prepared for them was the most powerful state of Qin against the state of Yan, which was playing state terrorism!In this way, Americans will be a little rushed to read fables, right?Does this have meaning?

Sure enough, after such a publicity, theater operators all over the country really urged Jia Hongjian to hold another preview.And after Jia Hongjian and the others did it again, the response from the audience was much better!8% of the viewers who have watched it all at once are a little rushed to attribute this film to a magical film!As soon as they saw this, the film managers at the cinemas at that time were begging to buy a copy as if they were hugging Jia Hongjian's thigh!All of them boasted about Jia Hongjian's high level, and said they would release a large number of films at the same time.As a result, according to the last statistics, such a Chinese-made film with only an investment of 3000 million U.S. dollars was screened in 2000 theaters in the United States at the same time!Although two thousand theaters are still incomparable with "Infernal Affairs", but don't forget, because this film will hit the Oscars next year, it is all pronounced in Chinese, and then it has English subtitles!This made Lao Meizi, who was not used to watching pirated discs, start to learn to read subtitles at once, quickly watched the performance of the actors and then quickly read the subtitles... This is quite difficult.So such a foreign film can be screened in 2000 theaters at once, which is really good!

Don't forget how many movie theaters were there when a foreign language film like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" started showing?It all started with small-scale screenings!So after such a comparison, we can see that after such a transformation of Jia Hongjian, it played a really big role!At least it gives the theater the feeling that it is better than "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" back then!