screen age

Chapter 232
In fact, speaking from the real situation, it is really difficult to define whether "BJ Meets Seattle" is a literary film or a commercial film...

If it is a commercial film, obviously, the whole process of the two people plus a happy ending is enough to illustrate this point, and the film's operation mode and final box office also show that this is a very good commercial film. But if you want to say that this is a literary film, there is nothing wrong with it, because the story development route and context of the hero and heroine in the movie actually have the feeling of some literary film.

Now that Chen Xi encountered a similar problem, this was naturally the answer.

In fact, Chen Xi's previous "Front and Cloud" can also be regarded as a literary film if it is carefully considered, but the film's strong commerciality and box office have overshadowed its brilliance as a literary film.

Chen Xi actually plans to shoot a real literary film this year, but he has to wait until after "BJ Meets Seattle" to shoot that film.

"Director Chen, "BJ Meets Seattle" is a movie in which the heroine was a mistress at the beginning. Now mistress has become a social topic and widely discussed by everyone. How will you deal with this mistress? In fact, many people are paying attention to the question asked by the reporter, and in everyone's eyes, this kind of question has almost become a minefield, and they will worry that it will be difficult for Chen Xi to truly understand this matter. Get out.

After all, if something is really touched, the result may still be worse.

Chen Xi said: "As for the final treatment of the movie, I would like to ask everyone to wait until the movie is officially released before going to see it, and then discuss it. I don't think my movie violates basic morals. Knowledge is based on the male and female protagonists. There are some interesting things in the story line of the story... It is true that most people will hate the identity of Xiaosan, but what I will let everyone see is an interesting story rather than an interesting position."

What Chen Xi said is very flattering. Indeed, sometimes because of the strong influence of the movie itself, the creators of the movie are required to have some natural standpoints when creating. The movies they make themselves It will also have an influence.

The typical example of this is the Korean movie "The Melting Pot", because this movie has brought about extensive discussions on the protection of vulnerable groups and even amended the law for this. Of course, this is impossible in China. Don't you see "Blind Mountain" , "Blind Well" are all banned?

However, in the movie "BJ Meets Seattle", if you really want to scold the attitude towards the mistress in it or insist on being too tolerant towards the mistress, then you can only start from some special angles, and basically Belonging to the level of real nonsense...

After all, in the movie, she never praised Xiaosan's behavior from the beginning to the end. On the contrary, this Xiaosan was injured because of the past events. Of course, Xiaosan was indeed in the top position, but after taking the position, she found that life was far from the same as she imagined. So this matter itself does not carry a truly unacceptable stance towards the mistress, so it is really unnecessary to criticize the movie's attitude towards the mistress from such aspects.

... "Director Chen, the box office of "33 Days of Broken Relationship" you filmed before has achieved a big breakthrough, and finally reached the box office of [-] million movies, so now you are also a similar type of "BJ Meets Seattle" I think How much box office can I get?"

The issue of the box office is always one of the issues that reporters like to focus on the most. For example, now... After hearing this issue, Chen Xi was slightly silent, and then he said: "The box office of "33 Days of Broken Love" is affected by many factors. , especially related to Singles’ Day, so the box office has also increased... My requirements for the movie "BJ Meets Seattle" are actually not low, and it should be more than 1 million. This is my box office goal... "

The goal of 1 million yuan was placed before "33 Days of Broken Love". Many people would think that Chen Xi was talking about it at the time, and that his confidence in himself was too much, but for now For Chen Xilai, everyone heard that his goal is to have a box office of more than 1 million yuan, so you will only think that this goal is actually within the range that Chen Xi should be able to achieve. It just depends on the final result of "BJ Meets Seattle". How's the box office going...

So after hearing what Chen Xi said, basically everyone didn't directly raise any strong doubts. Instead, everyone is just remembering what Chen Xi said before.

But soon someone refuted it, but this person did not refute that Chen Xi's "BJ Meets Seattle" could not get a box office of 1 million yuan. A little too conservative? After all, the box office of your "33 Days of Broken Relationship" has already exceeded 2 million yuan, and according to calculations, the total box office of Chinese movies within this year will exceed 50 billion. Against this background , don't you think "BJ Meets Seattle" may create a bigger miracle at the box office?"

Chen Xi shook her head slightly: "These things can only be decided by the market and can only rely on the market to give us an answer! For myself, I certainly hope that there will be some miracles, but hope belongs to hope and truth belongs to reality." The truth."

At this time, someone began to ask Chen Xi about the entire Chinese market: "Director Chen, you once reprimanded some old-fashioned filmmakers at the directors' meeting, so what do you think is the future of Chinese films? Are they mainly commercial films or Mainly literary films?"

Chen Xi smiled: "I want to correct you, I didn't scold anyone at the directors' assembly, I just said it too quickly, and others have already pointed at my nose and scolded me, so I have to speak out It’s just a rebuttal, and I can’t talk about criticizing anyone... As for the future market situation of Chinese films, I think commercial films must be the mainstream, and this has been settled since the reform of the theater system!”

"The market of the Chinese film market will only grow upwards. Although we said that the box office market has not recovered after the heavy losses at the end of the last century, after several years of recuperation, many things have gradually recovered."

In fact, this is indeed the case. The Chinese movie box office had a yearly capacity of 1991 billion in 21 before inflation even occurred. When it reached the box office of 2 million yuan, "Shaolin Temple" also rushed to the box office of 1 million yuan with a ticket price of a few cents earlier. It can be seen that Chinese people do not lack enthusiasm for watching movies. It is a pity that the Chinese film market has declined due to various reasons. In 2000, the box office revenue of the entire country was only 8.5 million yuan... At that time, countless filmmakers could not see the hope of releasing it.

Later, China did not regain some vitality until two years after the reform of the theater system in 2004. By 2009, it should not be a problem for the annual box office to reach 50 billion.

Chen Xi said: "Our movie box office capacity is now close to 50 billion, and I believe it will exceed 100 billion, 200 billion, 300 billion in a few years... Under such a box office market, our focus will only be Commercial films are not literary films, no matter how optimistic literary films are to them, they really cannot bear the burden of tens of billions of box office a year, and we will be powerless to fight back Hollywood movies by then!"

"So this is exactly what I am more worried about!" Chen Xi said: "To be blunt, the biggest gap between us and Hollywood is still the overall strength of the film industry. Our industrial capabilities are not up to standard, so even if the future The movie box office market is already enough to support our big investment, but our movie level may not catch up. Discourse movies may even follow the old path of Taiwanese movies, and finally become a situation where only small fresh love youth movies can survive... This is the case. It's something I don't want to see! These things need each of us filmmakers to encourage each other."

Such a passage may be considered alarmist. After all, there is indeed a market for commercial blockbusters in China, but if you look at them after a few years, various domestic commercial films do not sell many, but more. There are still youth comedies such as "Little Times", "The Year in a Hurry", "Heart Blossoms", etc... Regarding Chinese blockbusters, everyone's enthusiasm is declining, which is really dangerous.

The subsequent development of the film did confirm what Chen Xi said, so after everyone really saw that the reality and what Chen Xi said were on the same track, many people were more convinced of Chen Xi.

... After a press conference was held in Beijing, many people were paying attention to the film, including Zhuang Guofei and others, but these people were more critical.

"Filmmakers who invert social values ​​to benefit, please touch your conscience first!" There are even a few mouthpieces that say such words, but such words are not contagious to everyone, after all, everyone is People with the ability to judge, of course, know that the movie has not yet been released, so it is absolutely foolish to say that it reverses social values!
So what everyone is looking forward to now is how the real performance of this movie will be.

After Chen Xi’s press conference in Beijing, the entire crew arrived in Vancouver and was ready to start filming. There are also many unacceptable situations here, and because of the differences in Chinese and American laws, the crew’s big and small affairs will also increase. Moreover, coming to a foreign country is not a home game, and it is still a vicious capitalist country. The consumption of the crew is also painful for Chen Xirou.

But the good news is that the filming progress of the film is not bad!

(End of this chapter)