Chinese Entertainment 2017: Starting from the Top Writers

Chapter 95 King Bomb Attack
This night overturned Lin Li's perception of Chen Duling.

That night, he realized how crazy a girl could be when she took the initiative!
The final result was that when Chen Duling woke up the next day, she raised her tender little white hand and indicated that she wanted to take half a day off.

Lin Li looked at Chen Duling with amusement as she lay paralyzed on the bed, seemingly without the strength to even move a finger. He thought that this silly girl was really naive and playful.

I thought he was so powerful, but it turns out he only has these three tricks.

But his experience was really good, and it showed another side of Dudu, which was really great!
Maybe I'm used to seeing the cold expression on Dudu's face, so when she changes into a charming and seductive look, this extreme contrast is too alluring.

It feels good, I will come again next time!
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In the following week, the filming progress of Tragedy continued to advance. According to this progress, it is estimated that it should be completed about a week ahead of schedule before the end of summer vacation.

But at this time, another thing attracted the attention of the entire entertainment industry.

The much-anticipated movie version of Three Lives, Three Worlds took in more than 4.2 million yuan after a week of release, but in the new week the box office fell precipitously, showing a typical trend of a fan-oriented movie.

The most important thing is that Wolf Warrior 2, which was released a week before Three Lives, had a huge box office in its first week, but actually experienced a decline in the second week.

The popularity and public discussion continued to soar. Not only did many fans watch the film twice or three times, but various official organizations also organized groups to watch the film.

At this time, all the film and television companies in the circle could not sit still, this was a big shark!
Especially after the box office of the big IP "Eternal Love" which was thought to have a chance to suppress Wolf Warrior 2, fell in the second week, Wolf Warrior 2 staged a miraculous trend, shocking everyone.

At this time, everyone was thinking, what exactly caused Wolf Warrior 2 to have such a phenomenal box office performance?

Lin Li looked at the box office data on his phone, which showed that the movie had reached 12 billion yuan in just 34 days of release, and he sighed. It must be said that Liu Yifei was unlucky enough to have encountered such a big bomb.

Otherwise, given the situation of Three Lives, it should be no problem for "Eternal Love" to get a box office of around 1 billion.

As for the current discussion about why Wolf Warrior 2 can get such a high box office?

He didn't find it strange at all.

Please recall the basic situation of Chinese films before the release of "Wolf Warrior".

With Raise the Red Lantern as the starting point, mainland films entered the era of the so-called fifth generation of directors. This group of people followed a creative path based on scar literature and plunged headfirst into the realm of art films and author films.

What are the common tags for this type of movies?
It’s a niche movie. Don’t talk about it being a classic or winning so many awards. Are there many people who can really watch it?

If there are too many, the guy who used to pull the curtain in the art troupe will not be able to get out.

Who is this bastard?

Feng Xiaogang, an artistic bacterium that broke through the siege of a group of artistic cells, laid the paradigm for mainland comedy films in the market-oriented era, and low-cost comedies have become the most popular subject matter among the public.

By 2000, another troublemaker appeared, Li An.

His Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon completely drove the mainstream directors in the mainland crazy. Like a black-eyed chicken with its feathers blown off, they rushed to shoot a bunch of incomprehensible things, especially a certain director named Chen.

Zhang Yimou was the first to use "Hero" to bring mainland mainstream films into the so-called blockbuster era, which is based on piling up manpower, setting up scenes, and lacking content.

In addition, there was an outlier among this group of people, a genius, and his personal favorite, Jiang Wen.

But his films are essentially those of an author. The desire for self-expression is no less than the hormones flowing in his films, and the movie Let the Bullets Fly, which made money without any effort, now seems to be more of an intentional accident on his part.

His genius depends entirely on his mood.

After 05, two forces emerged in the gap between this group of mainstream directors.

One is a group of young directors headed by Ning Hao. Most of them are famous for comedies and romantic comedies. In addition to Ning Hao's Crazy series, Xu Zheng's Embarrassing series has also become popular.

The popular "33 Days of Broken Love" led to the rise of romantic comedies and youth pain movies, but most of these directors were just trying to fish in troubled waters and fill in the numbers. Ning Hao, who had the highest gold content, also followed the path of the fifth generation of directors in the later period and pursued self-authorial expression.

Another force is the group of Hong Kong directors who went north. They brought their love of Hong Kong flavor and the petty-bourgeois sentiment unique to Hong Kong Island into the mainland, but the results were mixed, even incongruous.

Do you think they made money? Yes, they did. But do you think they produced any phenomenal works?

It seems that apart from the film The Warlords, which made everyone realize it later, there is no other representative. Then, after 09, the so-called emerging capital poured into the film and television industry. After various attempts, they urgently needed to find a universal formula to make quick money. This method was soon discovered by a "giant".

Guo Xiaosi and his Little Times have truly opened up a smooth road to making money through traffic IP.

From then on, traffic stars + big IPs have been running rampant in the film and television industry, while the fifth-generation directors who were enjoying their former glory have collectively fallen into creative slackness, or collective confusion, and cannot even produce reliable author-type films.

As for young directors, some of them have fallen into self-degradation in the traffic boom, like a certain fortress, or they have chosen to actively avoid it or do it perfunctorily.

The film market began to go into complete chaos 11 years later.

The Great Warrior, the Palace, and the magical variety show movie, variety show! Big! Movie!

Lin Li didn't know how these words could be connected together.

Later, when traffic movies began to decline, they struggled for a while and added magical or science fiction elements, such as Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back and Grave Robbers' Chronicles. Speaking of Grave Robbers' Chronicles, does anyone remember Love Apartment Movie?

Of course, the movie version of Three Lives, Three Worlds is also counted.

Lin Li was now curious about the mood of those people who contributed the ticket price of no less than fifty yuan.

The rapid collapse of the popular movie was not only due to its own shoddy production, but also an unexpected variable that no one could have imagined, and that was Wu Jing.

Is Wu Jing really good? Does he have Zhang Yimou's aesthetic attainments? Does he have Zhou Xingchi and Feng Xiaogang's understanding of comedy? Does he have Jackie Chan's unique style?

No, he didn't have any of that. He just used the most diligent and responsible attitude and applied the management model he learned from the army to the process of filming and producing the movie. He just studied what the audience wanted to see, and he just chose to meet the audience's needs with the utmost sincerity.

The success of Wolf Warrior helped big studios like Bona find their direction. They began to shoot truly genre-specific action movies based on official endorsements, and then Mekong and Red Sea were released one after another.

At the same time, Wolf Warrior 2 has further consolidated the aesthetic standards of domestic action films. From now on, any so-called action film or military action film that fails to reach the standards of these films will have no chance of success.

Therefore, Wu Jing’s Wolf Warrior 2 actually represents a watershed in the development of China’s film industrialization, because the movies before Wolf Warrior and the movies after Wolf Warrior are obviously two different concepts.

Not to mention, Wu Jing almost relied on his passion for expanding genre films and the mentality of promoting juniors to waste money on Guo Fan, who later came to make money, and then opened up the road for China's hard science fiction films.

Yes, he thought it was a gift. He didn’t believe that Wu Jing could predict that The Wandering Earth could become so big.

Unless Wu Jing is also a reborn person like him!
In addition, I have to mention Ning Hao here. He also supports new directors. Why does it seem that his influence is not as great as Wu Jing's? Because Ning Hao's direction is still his authorial expression. He has not embarked on the path of industrialization like Wu Jing, so he has not broken through the circle drawn by the fifth generation of directors.

Why did Wolf Warrior 2 achieve such good results now? Regardless of whether it was a blind cat catching a dead mouse or not, in terms of actual performance, it was the first one to stand out in the era of chaos in Chinese films and brought a different movie to the industry.

It was the first film shot with an industrial approach, and the first to truly cater to the needs of the audience instead of putting itself in the position of a condescending preacher to educate the audience.

Wolf Warrior 2 is also the first to benefit from the country's rising period of development. It has the right time, right place, and right people. If it fails, then there will be no need to mention the typology and industrial development of Chinese films.

Thinking of Guo Fan, Lin Li couldn't help but have some other thoughts. It seemed that Guo Fan was still a nobody now.

He believes that Guo Fan is a Nietzschean superman, a powerful figure at the top of the current Chinese film industry.

His directing ability is overwhelming for domestic commercial film directors. No one, whether senior or junior, can surpass him.

Apart from the Wandering Earth series, he made other films just to make some money.

Use all your professional knowledge and vitality to complete an IP, like a movie monk.

Later, after he became famous through The Wandering Earth, a staff member of his team said in an interview that his current high-intensity work state was very likely to lead to sudden death. If this really happened, it would be a real regret in film history.

The filming of The Wandering Earth started in May this year, and he also asked Xu Fei to pay attention to it.

Thinking of this, Lin Li took the matter to heart. After he finished working on the movie, he would go and meet this milestone director in the history of domestic cinema, and give some money to this beggar before Wu Jing did.

But speaking of it, since Tianxian's movie flopped so badly, should he give her a call to express his concern?
After thinking about it, he decided to give up. After all, he couldn't say with a clear conscience that she acted well, the movie was good, and she just didn't have good luck?
He, Lin Li, is nicknamed the honest and reliable young man, and he cannot tell lies!

(End of this chapter)