This director is vindictive.

Chapter 182 The Master of Keeping Balance is to give everyone a good beating, right?

Shengshi Pictures is about to go public. Of course, when I say "about to go public", it actually takes at least a few months.

Fan Binbin didn't know why, but when he heard that the company was about to go public, he became weak.

He was completely obedient to Chen Mo.

To put it bluntly, once Shengshi Pictures goes public, it is conceivable that the shares that Chen Mo had previously distributed to them will definitely increase in value.

Although she also owns a lot of companies, the meaning is completely different!
In fact, Chen Mo had no idea what the plot of "Cell Phone 2" was about, but the problem actually lay with the name.

The reason why he didn't let Fan Binbin take this movie was mainly because he felt that although this kind of movie seemed to be a high-quality project in the entertainment industry, after all, it was Feng Dagang's movie, and it was a sequel, so it was sure to make money.

However, although Fan Binbin’s role in this movie cannot be said to be dispensable, it is definitely not particularly important either.

Even if I acted, to be honest, there wouldn't be much benefit. There's really no need to get into trouble for a few small things.

It's just like suppressing one problem only to have another one pop up. Fan Binbin's problem has been solved. Well, it's not a big deal actually. Even if she took it, it would definitely be different from her previous life.

After all, Chen Mo had given Fan Binbin several preventive measures in advance. If Fan Binbin still didn't solve the root cause of his problem, then Chen Mo would have deserved it.

Without that dark background, even if Lao Cui made a fuss, Fan Binbin would not be the first to bear the brunt of the trouble.

But this matter is indeed disgusting.

The reason why we say that when one problem is solved, another one pops up is because it is the New Year and the Spring Festival movie season is coming, and it is the 29th day of the lunar year, Valentine's Day.

"Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom" will be screened in advance soon.

This movie is starred by Zhao Liying. When she took on this role, she mentioned it to Chen Mo.

However, Chen Mo really didn't have much impression of this movie. She just knew that it seemed that she and Mr. Feng met in her previous life because of this movie.

But Chen Mo was not worried at all. He was quite confident about this.

Chen Mo really didn't remember the movie "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom" clearly, but as long as you don't remember it very clearly, then it is probably not a particularly good movie.

However, Xiao Zhao's TV drama resources can be said to be the richest among his confidantes, but his film resources, especially the resources of the leading role.

In fact, Chen Mo really didn't treat Xiao Zhao badly. Among his many confidantes, Zhao Liying was the first to be with him. Although Xiao Zhao had never played the leading role in Chen Mo's movies,

But she played the most supporting female roles.

The other party took the initiative to find Zhao Liying for this movie because she is indeed very popular. After all, "The Journey of Flower" and "Princess Agents" made her the queen of TV dramas.

It’s just that Chen Mo really didn’t want to attend the premiere of this movie.

Why? Because given his status, 99% of the media reporters, the film "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom", and even Zhao Liying would probably not let him go.

Media reporters will definitely interview him and ask him what he thinks of the movie, and the "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom" crew and Zhao Liying will definitely hope that Chen Mo can help with publicity.

However, Chen Mo had never seen this movie before, and didn't know what it was like, but he didn't have much memory of this movie in his previous life, and it was released in the same period as "Operation Red Sea", "Detective Chinatown 2", and "Monster Hunt 2".

You don't even have to think about it to know that it must have been messed up.

Otherwise, it’s impossible that you don’t have any impression of it, right?

What would he say then? Would he help with publicity against his conscience? He, Chen Mo, the honest and trustworthy young man, was not that kind of person!

But Xiao Zhao is still looking forward to walking the red carpet with Chen Mo, so what can he do?
I had no choice but to go.

The most important thing is that Chen Mo had an even worse premonition, that is, judging from the early promotion of this movie, Zhao Liying was actually the first shot in their promotion of this movie.

This is understandable, after all, she is indeed the popular queen in this film.

But honestly, the Queen of the Kingdom of Women? Wouldn't Fan Binbin, Zhang Yuqi, or even Jing Tian be more suitable than Zhao Liya?

Chen Mo was also a little annoyed. Why did he just let it go?
Maybe it's because I think her costume in this movie is beautiful? Or maybe it's because the identity of the Queen of the Kingdom of Women is full of sexual tension?
No, Chen Mo quickly shook his head, it is definitely not like that, yes, no!
"Actually, why do you want to release this movie during the Spring Festival?" Chen Mo was actually a little confused, although he didn't know what the final box office of the movie was or what its reputation was like.

But this year's Spring Festival movie season can definitely be said to be a battle of gods!

There are all kinds of genres, and they are all box office hits!
"Monster Hunt 2" and "Detective Chinatown 2" are sequels that sold very well with good reputation and box office. As for "Operation Red Sea", just look at "Wolf Warrior 2" and you will know how capable you are. How dare you squeeze in? Chen Mo really doesn't understand it.

"Because 'Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom' is actually a fantasy romance film, and this year's Spring Festival holiday coincides with Valentine's Day," Zhao Liying explained.

"Hey, why do you have to challenge the difficulty of hell?!" Chen Mo said helplessly.

"Are you so pessimistic? You haven't even seen the movie yet." Zhao Liying said somewhat dissatisfiedly.

"Don't you see how many of the leading actors in your movie can carry the box office?" Chen Mo said helplessly.

Although many times, we cannot just watch the actors in a movie, in fact, we cannot ignore it either.

"Monster Hunt 2" was a huge hit in the front seats and was both critically acclaimed and commercially successful. Just take Bai Baihe for example. She is indeed the current box office queen of domestic films.

And "Detective Chinatown 2" by Wang Baoqiang also had a high box office.

"Operation Red Sea" is a mainstream movie, and the male protagonists in it are also movie stars, and they are frequent contributors to blockbuster movies!
What do you have in "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom"?
Although Zhao Liying is very popular, that is a TV series.

Mr. Feng? Or Guo Fucheng? Or Xiao Shenyang?

Stop it! Even as a director, Zheng Baorui is not good enough!
"What about me? What about me?" Zhao Liying asked with a guilty conscience but some reluctance.

"You? What hit movies have you starred in?" Chen Mo asked bluntly.

"Then I have to try the big screen." Zhao Liying said with some lack of confidence.

On the day of the premiere, Chen Mo and Zhao Liying walked the red carpet hand in hand. To be honest, looking at Feng Shaofeng's smiling face, Chen Mo looked at Xiao Zhao beside him, whose face was rosy due to the nourishment he had given her last night, and inexplicably felt a very strange sense of excitement.

Of course, in this life, even if Feng had the courage, he would not dare to have any improper thoughts about Xiao Zhao.

Even if there is, they certainly wouldn't dare to show it.

Chen Mo and Zhao Liying naturally became the most watched focus of the entire premiere. On the one hand, it was because of this movie. Although Zhao Liying did not seem to be the biggest star, she actually had the highest popularity.

It’s no wonder that Zhao Liying is the main star in the film’s promotions.

With the arrival of Chen Mo, the director and leading actors of "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom" came together to greet him.

Zheng Baorui still held Chen Mo's hand and said with a smile: "Thank you Director Chen for coming. I hope Director Chen can give me more guidance!"

Chen Mo said naturally: "Okay, okay!"

But I don’t know if you will be so welcoming and grateful after the movie is over.

Soon, "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom" began to be screened.

For Chen Mo, this movie was still relatively fresh to him. In fact, the special effects were quite good. Chen Mo also thought Zhao Liying's performance was good at the beginning, but then Chen Mo had a weird feeling.

Zhao is too small, and he really lacks some "royal spirit" when playing the King of the Kingdom of Women!
Perhaps the director himself knew this, so when promoting the film, he said that the setting was a story of a young girl king's first love and her first love with Monk Tang.

Key point: girlish feeling!
From this point of view, there seems to be nothing wrong. According to the plot, she lost her mother at a young age and was raised by the Imperial Master. She calls her Imperial Master "Mom" and is both a minister and a mother. The Imperial Master is mature, prudent, and serious. She always puts the overall situation and the country first.

Well, it's probably equivalent to the role of regent.

The king himself seems to be not in charge of the government and is a bit afraid of his mother, the national teacher.
She doesn't even have the confidence to shout "wait". If you say from this point of view, the script sets her up as an immature and undomineering young king, which seems to be fine.

Perhaps what he wanted to express was that the queen also goes through a process of growth, and she is not born with domineering side, so Tang Seng is also her tribulation, allowing her to grow and mature!

However, this setting itself is perfectly fine if you put it in other film themes, but the problem is that it uses the gimmick of "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom" and then leads to the situation where it wants a girl's first love while also satisfying the domineering side.
Chen Mo felt that even he himself could not imagine what kind of person that was.

Therefore, a sense of separation is created. The audience has already had a deep-rooted impression of the Queen of the Kingdom of Women. You want to change this deep-rooted impression with a movie. If you don't die, who will die?
Chen Mo couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for Xiao Zhao.

The movie is over, what can I say about the plot? If we put aside the gimmick of "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom", it can be considered barely passable, but when it is connected to "Journey to the West", it is a bit out of place.

In addition, in recent years, there have been too many movies on the theme of "Journey to the West", and the audience has long been aesthetically fatigued. Unless it is particularly awesome and good, even Stephen Chow's movies will fail, let alone your movies, Zheng?
"How is it?" Zhao Liying was still unaware of it and looked at Chen Mo expectantly.

Chen Mo felt a little tired.

"Pretty good, right?" Chen Mo couldn't bear to say it to his face, so he could only say it perfunctorily.

"Is it really that bad?" Zhao Liying knew Chen Mo too well. If the movie was really good, he would definitely not react like this.

"The special effects are quite good, but the plot is a bit... So this is actually a romance movie?" Chen Mo asked back.

Zhao Liying opened her mouth, but in the end, she said nothing.

When Chen Mo asked this question, he actually made his attitude clear.

That’s right, in his opinion, “Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom” is just a love movie under the name of Journey to the West.

There's nothing wrong with a romance film, but the problem is, Tang Sanzang and the Queen of the Kingdom of Women are in love? This is a bit difficult to grasp as a theme, my friend!

From Chen Mo's objective point of view, just from the content, is "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom" really a bad movie?
It's hard to say what Chen Mo's film is, except that it's mediocre, but not bad. Whether it's the slogan "Love one person or love all beings" or the discussion about abortion, regardless of whether its theme is convincing, profound, or appropriate, it's easy to see that the director has thought about the film.

Its gorgeous special effects also dwarf those of many domestic films. In these two respects, it surpasses many domestic films. Even so, the film's flaws are fatal. The characters, including the bizarre design of the Imperial Master, the River God disguised as a woman, and the dull-witted Sun Wukong, are all eye-opening. The clichéd comedy inserted to cater to the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival is only passable.

Even if the comedy in the early stages of the film is well-placed, the plot from the "Abortion Spring" onward is rather awkward: the late-stage love story between the Imperial Preceptor and the River God has little to do with the main plot, the villain's dark turn is far-fetched, and the final ending, which relies on Tathagata to resolve the situation, is even more mediocre. All in all, this film isn't bad, just disappointingly mediocre.

By the time audiences could see two or three Journey to the West films released every year, the nostalgia had long since worn off. When audiences jokingly complained about "that monkey coming back," the anticipation for the film had been significantly reduced.

The movie ended and it was time for the media interview.

Chen Mo was not originally an insider, and this movie had nothing to do with him, but there was nothing he could do.

Who made him famous?
So, as soon as the movie ended, many media reporters gathered around.

After watching the movie, these media reporters actually have some intuitive feelings about the movie and know that this movie is definitely not a good one.

Because of this, they were more interested in interviewing Chen Mo.

After all, when Chen Mo promoted his movies before, he was famous for "telling the truth" for good movies and "being sarcastic" for bad movies!
Chen Mo’s reputation not only includes his own movies, but also his evaluations of the movies whenever he promotes them.

"Director Chen, after watching "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom", what do you think of this movie?" The reporter hit the nail on the head, just wanting to see what you, Chen Mo, would say.

They all had something to write about, anyway.

Chen Mo felt somewhat trapped, and he secretly complained in his heart that he should not have come earlier.

Now that’s good, I have to coax her well when I get home at night.

"Overall it's pretty good, the special effects are great!" Chen Mo said, and then shut up amid everyone's expectations.

Zheng Baorui was dumbfounded and Zhao Liying was almost crying.

The media people were all excited and thought the evaluation was simply great.

You're just like me! Even if it's a movie starring your confidante, you're still merciless!
In particular, Zhao Liying's expression was out of control for a moment, and was captured directly by the sharp reporters with their cameras.

It's a familiar recipe, and it's a familiar taste.

Even Chen Mo didn't hide it at all.

In "The Legend of the Demon Cat", Chen Mo was acting weird for more than half a month, but it is still vivid in my mind!

On the crew of "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom", everyone is in the entertainment industry. Who can't understand whether Chen Mo's words are a compliment or an insult?
I thought I had invited a big director to come and support me, but I didn't expect that he would directly hit me in the heart.

Let them feel so regretful! And the key point is that Chen Mo's vision is notoriously sharp, not only for his own movies, but also for the film and television works he invested in.

The last time he made such an evaluation was in "The Legend of the Demon Cat"!

There's no way I can be happy about this.

"Okay, don't be angry. I can't speak against my conscience, right?" When returning, Chen Mo looked at Xiao Zhao who had been keeping his head down and silent, and said a little embarrassedly.

"But is it really that bad? So bad that there's nothing good for you to say?" This was what made Zhao Liying angry.

"I told you! The special effects are great!" Chen Mo said as if it was a matter of course.

"That's it? Didn't I act well?" Zhao Liying asked Chen Mo stupidly.

"It's not that it's gone, it's just that for other movies, audiences can accept mediocrity, but for a movie based on Journey to the West, it's really just like that. As for you, the setting of this character is very problematic! You have a girlish feel, but the problem is, no matter how girly it is, you have to bear the title of a king!

"Add to that the original, most famous role of the Kingdom of Women in Journey to the West, and you left such a deep impression on the audience. Unless you give an exceptional performance, you'll never be able to remove that filter!" Chen Mo sighed.

"Your film has a lot of flaws in terms of plot and casting. Why don't you choose Guo Fucheng to play the Monkey King and Xiao Shenyang to play Zhu Bajie? What were you thinking?" Chen Mo said again.

He was even a little embarrassed to complain. It could be said that these actors had lost all their characteristics when playing these roles.

Highlights? Where are the highlights?
Oh, not really. The special effects are indeed much better than many domestic films, at least they are not cheap ones, but the special effects cannot cover up the problems in the plot!

Chen Mo's review of Journey to the West: Kingdom of Women: The special effects are the only highlight!

"Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom" received poor reviews at its premiere, with renowned director Chen Mo bluntly complaining: "Aside from the special effects, it's worthless!"

"It's the same familiar recipe, the same taste. Chen Mo's spicy reviews are back. First there was "The Legend of the Demon Cat" and then there was "King of Women". Chen Mo once again sheds tears and wins over the beauty!"

"His vision is as sharp as ever. First, Zhang Yuqi starred in "Legend of the Demon Cat," and then Zhao Liying starred in "King of Women," and neither escaped Chen Mo's harsh criticism!"

That evening, Chen Mo's comments were fabricated and reported by the media.

The two films "Legend of the Demon Cat" and "Kingdom of Women" have many things in common. Both are starring Chen Mo's confidantes, and both received scathing reviews. Chen Mo praised the former for its "magnificent visuals" and the latter for its "excellent special effects!"

But who the hell actually praises a movie like this?

For a moment, Chen Mo once again became the main character.

The crew and investors of "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom" almost vomited blood. It is estimated that the C language behind it has already reached the maximum level!
What is this? The first sword on the shore is to kill the one you love?
(End of this chapter)