Rebirth of the Director in Korea

Last year’s “Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War” brought the audience back to the years of war. The director Jiang Di Kyu used his lens to clearly and truly cruel the war. One side was shown in front of the audience.

Videos made with care can always be appreciated by the audience. The Production crew of “Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War” consists of more than 200 staff members, and more than 25,000 people were used for shooting. Extras’ pure production costs are also as high as 13 billion Korean Won, and the film just set up a location to spend 2 billion. Apart from this movie uses a large number of CG computer production special effects, vividly and thoroughly showing the war blasting scenes. .

It is precisely because of this kind of “craftsman” spirit that since the release of “Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War”, the number of viewers in the two days has broken through 1 million, and the number of viewers in the 7 days of the screening has increased. It is the breakthrough of 3 million people. It can be said that the South Korea movie in 2004 belongs to “Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War”. The hot movie scenes, the hot crowd of moviegoers, and the final success of this war The number of viewers of the movie was fixed at 11.75 million, becoming the second South Korean movie with more than 10 million viewers, surpassing the movie “Silmi Island” and successfully boarding the No. 1 movie history in South Korea. The throne of blockbuster movies.

If it is said that the number of South Korea movie viewers in 2004 belongs to “Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War”, then the first half of 2005 is similar to “Silmi Island” and “Tae Guk Gi”. : “The Brotherhood of War” has no such phenomenal movie.

Although the two movies “Enemies of the People 2” and “Marathon” in the beginning of 2005 delivered perfect answers, only “Marathon” had more than five million viewers, and it was finally fixed at 519. Ten thousand, it is considered that the beginning of 2005 stimulated South Korea’s media. At that time, many media said that ‘2005 is another year when South Korea’s film industry is booming, and it is not a problem for the number of viewers to exceed one hundred million’.

From the beginning of 2005 until the beginning of August, the number of box office viewers has been maintained by “Marathon”. The optimistic 2005 in the media population did not open its arms to filmmakers. At this time, the media’s tone changed and they began to collectively succumb. The originally optimistic and healthy film industry seemed to disappear instantly, replaced by the sluggish film industry and the number of movie viewers.

Because of the unfolding of this topic, many media have joined in this big discussion, and various expert commentators have resorted to their best efforts to say how miserable this year’s film industry is. How miserable, it seems that the entire industry will collapse tomorrow.

The media reporters are unscrupulous, and TV programs come to join in the fun. Experts from all walks of life sit in front of the camera, and Barabara’s professional vocabulary confuses the audience.

Compared with reporters’ jockeying behavior, people in the film industry also have a lot of worries. Although they are in a competitive environment, the healthy and orderly development of the entire film industry can only drive it. If everyone develops together, if the film industry is broken, then they are not far from being unemployed.

But these worries and doubts were broken with a film released in August, and this film was called “Welcome to Dongmakgol”.

Actually, before the release of “Welcome to Dongmakgol”, it was a kind of non-existent film. Although CJ Entertainment has a strong publicity, the media is not optimistic about this film, especially the film’s budget. It’s high, and the director Park Kwang-hyun, who directed the movie, hadn’t heard of it much before, so the media generally treated this movie coldly.

However, when the number of viewers of the movie exceeded one million in two days, and after the viewing record of “Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War” was equalized, when the movie was released on the 3rd day, the popularity remained unchanged. There was even a certain increase. The number of viewers on the 3rd day reached 580,000, and the cumulative number of viewers reached 1.59 million. When breaking 2 million was in sight, the media had already gone crazy, because the momentum of watching this movie was definitely not better. The results of “Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War” are poor, so it is not impossible that the number of viewers will exceed 10 million!

In 2005, the South Korea film industry finally produced another phenomenal film, which undoubtedly shocked the spirit of people in the film circle, because everyone saw a bright future.

Park Kwang-hyun and Jung Hyuk-jae, the names of the two have also appeared in front of people in the movie circle for the first time.

Speaking of Park Kwang-hyun, everyone is still a bit impressed. After all, this circle is so big. In addition, although this movie is his first feature film, he has directed the movie “Four It is a story in “Fang Lu Enemy”, so when it comes to Park Kwang-hyun, everyone is no stranger.

It’s just that the name of Jung Hyuk-jae is a little bit unknown. People who know a little about Jung Hyuk-jae introduced it to the people around them, and everyone has a little bit of it in their hearts. Some understanding, it turns out that this was a screenwriter and director of a TV series before!

If it is said that in the entertainment industry, singers, TV series actors and film actors are an obvious hierarchical pyramid, then although there are such hierarchical divisions in the director circle, the boundaries are very blurred. The main reason is The term director is too broad.

Many of the directors who are engaged in film directing are also transferred from TV advertising circles, TV dramas, etc., so there is no such thing as who looks down on others.

The director’s circle is not large, so many news spread very quickly. From Jung Hyuk-jae into everyone’s sight, some information about him is well known by many people. When I learned that Jung Hyuk-jae, the investment in the movie “Welcome to Dongmakgol”, was also involved, and the share was not too small, some depressed little directors turned their eyes and put their minds on him. …..

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It was already past 8 o’clock in the evening when I returned home from work. I opened the door and saw that he was greeted by the cute smile of his younger sister. Seeing such a healing smile, Jung Hyuk-jae I felt that the fatigue on my body seemed to disappear in an instant.

Hanging the coat and hat on the hanger at the door, Jung Hyuk-jae reached out and rubbed the top of the younger sister’s head, and asked with a smile, “How is it, did you have a good day today?”

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“en!” Hearing the words of the big brother, Jung Min-joo tried hard to nodded, and then said with a smile: “Brother, when we went to the movie, we also ran into classmates from school. I heard that I was a big brother. When director Jung Hyuk-jae’s younger sister, you didn’t know their eyes, they all looked straight!”

As I said, Jung Min-joo smiled happily.

“Did you tell them that the big brother was the director?” Jung Hyuk-jae couldn’t help but say with a smile when the younger sister looked happy.

“Aniyo, it’s not me, Im Yoon-a said it!” Jung Min-joo defended himself.

Is there any difference? You tell Im Yoon-a, as soon as Im Yoon-a broadcasts this missy loudspeaker, he naturally sells himself, Jung Hyuk-jae said in his heart.

“Also, many girls among our classmates consider you big brother their idol?”

“Why?” Jung Hyuk-jae felt very strange.

“Because you are handsome!”

Well, as expected, this is a face-seeking world.

After talking and laughing for a while, Jung Hyuk-jae went to cook and sat on the pot, ready to make a simple meal in the evening. As for the ramen pot pot proposed by the younger sister, Jung Hyuk-jae rejected it. If you eat For ramen, it’s better to drink a bit of soup to be more substantial, because there is no nutrition in those things.

After all this was done, the younger sister was watching TV in the living room, while Jung Hyuk-jae went back to her bedroom, turned on the computer, logged in to her mailbox, and took a look. It almost didn’t scare him. jump.

In addition to a few work emails, Jung Hyuk-jae was shocked by more than a hundred new emails. After reading a few of them, Jung Hyuk-jae got a general understanding of these emails. , It turns out that these all are voted for their own movie project books, but the number is a bit too scary, because the configuration of this computer is a bit outdated. The moment the mailbox is opened, Jung Hyuk-jae almost feels that the computer has a Kind of feeling about to explode.

Jung Hyuk-jae is not surprised how his mailbox was exploded. If you want to know your private number in this circle, you just need to ask a few more people.

What makes him strange is that he has not said about investment in the circle, or the news of receiving film project books, how can these people think of investing so many project books for themselves?

Jung Hyuk-jae glanced roughly at all the film project books. There were no film titles he was familiar with, nor creative films that made him shine. Jung Hyuk-jae turned off the browser with lack of interest. Jung Hyuk-jae went back to the kitchen to prepare for today’s dinner.

The two had dinner, Jung Hyuk-jae and younger sister sat on the sofa together and watched TV very rarely.

Jung Hyuk-jae recalled the last time I watched TV by myself. It was more than a month ago when “My Lovely Sam-soon” was first broadcast. Jung Hyuk-jae and the members of Production crew Watched the first episode of the TV series together.

Here Jung Hyuk-jae just sat down, and the phone on the table rang very annoyingly at this time. Jung Min-joo glanced at the big brother beside him, and said: “Brother, answer the phone and see who is calling you!”

Jung Hyuk-jae picked up the phone and glanced at the display screen, with some doubts in his heart, “Kang Jae-kyung -ssi, is the production crew calling me at this time, is there anything going on there?”

The person who called Kang Jae-kyung, the manager hired by the company last time, is currently his The main job is to follow the company’s only artist Lee Joon-ki to shoot with the group to solve possible problems in Production crew.

Every week before, Kang Jae-kyung would regularly report to Jung Hyuk-jae about his work for a week. There has never been a sudden phone call like today. If it’s not a production crew If something goes wrong, Jung Hyuk-jae can’t figure out the purpose of Kang Jae-kyung’s call.

“President, the current situation is that there are two investors in the movie “The King and The Clown”, one is Cineworld, and the other is EaglePictures. It’s just one of the investments today. Fang EaglePictures suddenly said that he was going to divest, but this time he gave everyone a completely unprepared.”

Kang Jae-kyung said on the phone quite helplessly, with a bit of unwillingness in his words. Reluctant.

As the manager of Lee Joon-ki, the first thing he must consider is the future development of his artist. Although Lee Joon-ki is just a newcomer newer than the newcomer in the entertainment industry, The debut work is the protagonist of the movie, and this kind of treatment is rare in some large companies. From the acting learning in the film preparation stage, to dance learning and group rehearsals, Kang Jae-kyung has been closely following Lee Joon-ki.

It’s been a while since the filming of the movie started, because the preparations are relatively sufficient, so in terms of the progress of the shooting and the quality of the shooting, the movie “The King and The Clown” can be said to be very fast .

I experienced some difficulties before the filming started, but didn’t expect the film to encounter the investor withdrawal in the middle of the filming. Everyone was dumbfounded.

“No, how could he withdraw his capital halfway? Before the auction, shouldn’t the funds of the two investors be remitted to a third-party insurance company?” Jung Hyuk-jae asked.

“It should be that way, it’s just that the two investors are remittances in stages. This time EaglePictures was suddenly preparing to divest, which suddenly made Production crew and Cineworld particularly passive. It was originally scheduled to be today. The shooting schedule in the afternoon was canceled.” On the phone, Kang Jae-kyung introduced.

“Lee Joon-ki is still in a stable mood, right?” Jung Hyuk-jae asked caringly.

“His mood is okay, but he is affected by the suspension of Production crew, and his mood must be uncomfortable with that’s all.” At this point, Kang Jae-kyung couldn’t help but be lightly sighed.

In the past few months with Lee Joon-ki, the young guy’s persistence and hard work, he has always seen it in his eyes and remembered it, saying that opportunities are for those who are prepared. Yes, a character like this time in “The King and The Clown” is like tailored to him, so suitable. It’s just that we haven’t waited for this opportunity to play its role, but Production crew has already fallen into a halt. Not to mention that the filming will not be released. It is a particularly hanging thing to be able to finish the filming.

“What about Cineworld? Production crew has seen the investor divestment. They can’t just ignore it. You know that their investment in the entire movie is not small, right?” Jung Hyuk -jae asked.

“It was originally true, but there was such a mess at this step of the shooting. It seems that Cineworld is no longer ready to add it anymore.” At this point, Kang Jae-kyung said It feels big for a while. It was a good thing, because of the sudden situation, good things turn into bad things. This is something that nobody didn’t expect.

“And during the filming process, Director Lee Joon-ik always wanted to invest more, because he wanted to make the film’s pictures and music more beautiful, but such negotiations did not get EaglePictures understands, so the contradiction between the director and the investor has always existed.”

Next to Kang Jae-kyung, Jung Hyuk-jae has not listened much anymore. He only knows about this movie. There is a problem with his capital chain, and I seem to be able to choose to plug in at this time. You must know that this is “The King and The Clown”!