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Chapter 459 I can't understand it!

The time is a bit rushed, but it doesn’t really matter to the “hero”, because except for Han Fei, no one else has much influence in North America, so there is no time for publicity. Almost all the publicity is by local Chinese and overseas students. The following spontaneous behavior.

Han Fei also got in touch with some international student volunteer teams and participated in some local promotion activities. The effect can only be said to be average, and it can only be said that talking is better than nothing.

It was actually Han Fei's "I'm here, I conquer" remarks that really brought the "hero" into the eyes of American audiences. In the eyes of American people, Chinese people are often very restrained, even a little cowardly. If you praise them, they will even humbly say "I am not, I don't"

Han Fei is different, he should be the first Chinese person who dares to say this in Hollywood.

Although the Americans are not happy with Han Fei's high-profile behavior, they are more curious. After all, the box office of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" in North America is still very good. Many people also know Han Fei through this film, but this The guy from the east is not exactly bragging, he still has two brushes.

Therefore, in mid-March, "Hero" was screened in North America. There was no so-called premiere ceremony, because it was unnecessary, and the cast of all Chinese actors could not play a very good publicity role.

Chris is not completely bragging, "Hero" got the screening specification of Hall 2300 on the first day of its North American screening, which is close to the treatment of Hollywood A-level production.

"Hey, do you have a cigarette, buddy?" Chris was a little restless in the office, and he couldn't help being nervous. "The Wandering Earth" and "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" have been going smoothly in the past two years, but that's all. A firm foothold in Hollywood does not depend on the success of just one or two films.

The former giant MGM has gone bankrupt, not to mention their small company, the only thing recognized in Hollywood is performance, or the same sentence, either win an Oscar or win the box office.

As for Han Fei's remarks that both the box office and the Oscars are needed, Chris does not admit it. He only cares about the box office.

"Here, try our Huaxia cigarettes." Wen Qi handed it to Chris.

I often stay up late in the film crew, so cigarettes and coffee are almost indispensable. Originally, Jiang Qinghou was also an old smoker, but once when I went home, my daughter disliked him and said that he stinks. This guy actually quit, hey, Daughter slave!
A group of old smokers in the meeting room began to smoke, Han Fei and Jiang Qinghou slipped out, brought a cup of coffee, and drank quietly. In Han Fei's opinion, the only advantage of Los Angeles is that you can look up See the stars.

"Should it start over there?"

"Ah."

At this time, more than half of the Chinese audiences were sitting in most of the screening halls in North America. For the movies from China, they showed their support as always, just because of their sense of recognition.

Lao Ma still took his wife and children to watch this movie for the first time. Since watching "The Wandering Earth", their family has become a fan of Han Fei. They have also watched "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" after that, and they have also watched it before. Shocked by the vivid CG animation special effects, but it is not enough to enjoy, after all, it is not the original taste of Huaxia movies.

This time "Hero" was released in North America. When he got the news, Lao Ma pre-booked the tickets. He prefers the original Chinese movies.

Soon, the movie started, and the two huge red Chinese characters immediately caught Lao Ma's attention.

Some American audiences were confused when they saw these two words, so they curiously asked the Chinese audience around them what it meant.

"Hero!" A Huaxia student explained.

"Oh, that's how it is." The foreigner spoke Northeast dialect.

"can you speak Chinese?"

"Yes, I have been in China for five years, but I can speak but not write. You know, Chinese characters are the most difficult characters in the world, none of them."

After chatting for a few words, the theater returned to calm, with only the sound of horseshoes on the stereo. This version of Hero has an English translation. Han Fei spent a lot of money to hire an agency in the United States that specializes in English dubbing for foreign language films. The cost is not cheap, 200 million US dollars, if this price is replaced by domestic film and television companies, it will definitely not be paid.

But the money was definitely worth it. Many foreigners were worried that they would not understand the lines, only to find that there was an English dubbing, and the quality of the dubbing was much better than expected.

The plot of "Hero" is actually not completely understood by American audiences, but the use of color in it is really fascinating.

From the very beginning, the front of the Qin Palace was completely black, and then the entire screen of Zhao Guoshu was covered in red.

After the Battle of Maple Leaf Forest, the golden leaves were flying all over the sky, which amazed all the audience in the United States.

"Oh my God, this picture is so delicate."

"It's amazing, how did you make this picture of dancing leaves?"

There were exclamations in the theater, both in Chinese and English. Hearing the surprised expressions of these American audiences, Lao Ma couldn't help but feel a sense of pride. Look, this is our Chinese movie, which is no worse than your Hollywood movie.

Of course, compared to the scenes that American audiences pay more attention to, more Chinese audiences watch the connotation of this film. Everyone is familiar with the story of Jing Ke's assassination of Qin Dynasty.

In this story, the king of Qin was embarrassed by Jing Ke and lost all his face, completely inconsistent with his image of an emperor through the ages, and Jing Ke was also a parallel importer, so he was so close to the king of Qin that he couldn't kill the king of Qin.

But in the "hero" story, it is completely different. The abilities of Changkong, Canjian, and Feixue are magnified. In fact, he looks more like a knight than an assassin.

In fact, what Zhang Yimou originally wanted to adapt to the original version of "Heroes" was Jin Yong's work, but he was not authorized. In the end, he used the story of Jing Ke's assassination of Qin. The characters are all great heroes, for the country and the people, they gave up their hatred, not because they don't hate, but because the people of the world will no longer suffer from the war.

At the moment when Wuming stabbed King Qin with the hilt of his sword, his spiritual realm had already broken away from the category of an assassin. It is no exaggeration to call him a hero.

Lao Ma watched with enthusiasm. This is what martial arts movies look like in his mind. Before, many Chinese movies were either vendettas or family grievances. It was really fun to watch, but what about after the fun?It seems that there is no picture that can be remembered by people, let alone the resonance in the spiritual world. After all, this is not ancient times. It is against the law to kill people when they are happy with each other.

"awesome!"

"Unbelievable, I have to recommend to my friends, this movie is really worth watching."

"Why, I feel like I haven't understood it yet? No, I have to read it again later."

Coming out of the theater, some American audiences were also talking about the wonderful scenes, while many Chinese audiences were discussing the deep meaning of certain pictures.

"Have you noticed that the story told by Wuming is different from the story told by King Qin, the clothes worn by all the actors and the colors of the entire set are different. Is there some kind of meaning in it?"

"When you put it that way, it seems to be true. Why are the colors different?"

Gradually, many Chinese audiences were confused. What exactly did Han Fei's crew want to express in the end?It can't be just a coincidence, can it?If there is no deep meaning, why bother to change all the color schemes?Expensive all right.

"Why don't we see how domestic websites interpret it?"

"good idea!"

So soon some foreign students opened the domestic website.

There are actually many interpretations of color, but the most convincing one is the post by the famous film critic Fanghua.

"Actually, it's not just ordinary audiences. Many friends in the circle also expressed that they didn't understand. Let me also talk about my understanding here."

"First of all, at the beginning of the film, the entire picture is in black and white. In fact, it is the first layer of the film: colorless. On this level, Wuming narrated the process of defeating Changkong. Wuming told King Qin that the reason why he was able to defeat Changkong , because his sword is faster and more focused, and in turn, the reason why King Qin was able to sweep Liuhe is because Qin's army is of higher quality."

"The second level: red, which is the story of Wuming who broke the broken sword and Feixue. In this story, everyone is dressed in red. Red represents desire (possessiveness, jealousy, killing intent) ) In this story, Can Jian and Feixue are narrow-minded beasts devoured by desire, and they were finally defeated by Wuming because of killing each other."

"The third level: blue, that is, Qin Wang said: You underestimated me, Qin Wang can see his mind through the words of Can Jian, blue represents reason, and is closer to the truth, but it is only close to the truth. , does not mean that this is the truth, many people are blinded by the word rationality, they only believe in the most likely outcome, and never believe in miracles, but miracles do happen in this world."

"The fourth level: white. In this story, Wuming told the real scene when he met Can Jian and Feixue in the library. White represents truth and peace. At this time, Wuming has already begun to waver. He is murderous, and he met the King of Qin just to take revenge, but at this moment, Wuming remembered the story that Can Jian told about him assassinating Qin on the way here."

"Fifth level realm: green, that is, Can Jian and King Qin. In the palace of King Qin, there are all scenes of green curtains. It is also here that Can Jian suddenly realized that he gave up assassinating Qin for the sake of the world, because he believed that only King Qin could end the war. Dominate the world."

"In addition, I would like to apologize to the audience for the comment that Wuming stabbed King Qin with a sword hilt before. Now that I think about it, I was actually too short-sighted. The sword that Wuming stabbed King Qin was not He had to stab, combined with the lines: This sword, the minister must stab. After stabbing this sword, many people will die, but the king will live. Those who die, please remember, the king, that is the highest state."

"Actually, the real meaning is to warn the King of Qin, don't think that you can do whatever you want with the power in your hands. Once you implement tyranny, there will be thousands of unknown people in the world who will come to assassinate you again. Obviously this is a warning to the King of Qin. Although the King of Qin understands At the highest level of swordsmanship, where there is no sword in the hand and no sword in the heart, he has no choice but to complete Wuming."

After reading the film reviews, many Chinese viewers were dumbfounded, what the hell?Are we watching the same movie?Or is the IQ gap between people already that big?
"Such a wonderful film review must be translated into the United States, so that American audiences can also have a look at the connotation of this movie."

As a result, some overseas Chinese students began to repost Fanghua's film reviews on foreign film websites, such as Rotten Tomatoes.

Not to mention, many American audiences actually watched the movie for a long time, but after reading the movie reviews, they found that they didn’t seem to understand it at all. It has been recognized by many American audiences.

But in contrast, Americans still prefer a more intuitive picture impact, and most of the comments left by American audiences on Rotten Tomatoes are.

"Great kung fu scene, well, the special effects shots are great."

Then, there is no more. For them, the more direct visual experience is actually more important than the spiritual core, which will directly affect whether they will go to the theater to watch this film.

The rating on Rotten Tomatoes has also been fixed at 7.8 as the number of commenters has increased. What is more interesting is that this rating is actually higher than that of the domestic Pea.com.

After another day, Chris finally got the box office statistics of the first day of "Hero"'s release. His box office expectations for "Hero" are actually not as high as "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". I am very happy, after all, this is a Chinese movie.

However, soon he froze in place, Jiang Qinghou's English was not very good, but he knew where to look at the box office, so he grabbed it and started counting.

"one, ten, hundred"

The first-day box office of 1560 million US dollars is still somewhat different from the first-day box office of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", but this gap is actually negligible.

What this means, Jiang Qinghou may not understand, but Chris knows very well that this movie will explode.

"Hey, buddy, why are you going?" Seeing that Chris rushed out without saying anything, Han Fei thought something happened to him.

However, Chris turned back and waved his arms at him, excitedly saying: "Money, bills, hey man, I smell the smell of bills, oh, you always do miracles!"

That's right, in Chris's opinion, this is a miracle, because no one can explain other than a miracle, what else can make an authentic Chinese movie achieve such a high box office in the North American market!
Obviously, he is going to discuss with the theaters to increase the number of theaters and screens that will open "Heroes". With the attendance rate exceeding 70%, Chris will soon increase the number of theaters where "Heroes" will be screened in North America. increased to 3500, and the number of screens increased by a quarter.

(End of this chapter)