Huayu: Hard fight against Zhang Weiping at the beginning

Chapter 344: Sword of Promise

Of course I'm unhappy.

In the past two days, because of Han Sanping's instructions and Dong Jianqiang's request, he had to hide from place to place, for fear of being caught and interviewed by reporters.

The overseas sales of "The Promise" were returned by Miramax, which directly affected the pre-sales of the overseas copyright of "Painted Skin". I was very angry but had no place to vent.

I can only go to private restaurants to eat by myself and dare not appear in public.

I thought this was annoying enough, but my parents would have a fight over "The Promise" while watching a movie.

"The Promise" has already affected his life, and it's a serious impact.

Now even more...

Because of “The Promise”, he was inexplicably accused of being a sinister and despicable person.

I didn't even appear in a movie during the same period, so how can you say I have ulterior motives?

At this moment, Zhang Chen had really had enough.

Damn it, is there any other time traveler in the world who is as frustrated as me?

I can't stand it anymore. Zhang Chen decided not to stand it anymore. You provoked me first.
During the live broadcast, the host was a little stunned. He did not expect Chen Hong to directly escalate the issue to slander "The Promise". Does "The Promise" need to be slandered?

I just wanted to ask your opinion on why you started making personal attacks.

It seemed like I had inadvertently caused a feud between the two of them.

……

In the study, Zhang Chen was writing furiously, no, writing furiously on the keyboard.

He is now a blogging expert who publishes all his ideas through his blog, and has become a banner of Sina Blog.

Sina even wanted to invite him to be the spokesperson for the blog section, but he refused.

It's fine to vent negative emotions in this kind of place, but it always feels bad to be an endorsement.

Soon, an article of several hundred words came out, with the title: Autobiography from a 'scoundrel' with 'ulterior motives'.

A very annoying thing happened today. My parents went to see "The Promise" and they had a fight when they came back.

Because I can't understand it.

I don't want to comment on whether the movie is good or not, but I accidentally discovered that I have become the "scoundrel" with "ulterior motives" as producer Chen called me.

I am very confused about this.

I was just expressing my concern about the current plight of middle-aged male actors in the mainland, and suggesting that domestic directors should try their best to give these male actors opportunities. How did it become "having ulterior motives" and even "being a scoundrel"?

I have said before that some domestic filmmakers are always superstitious about Hong Kong and Taiwan stars. They always say that only Hong Kong and Taiwan stars can carry the box office and have box office appeal.

Come on, they have no box office appeal.

Take a look at our box office records. Are there any Hong Kong or Taiwan films among the first few?
I know that when I say this, someone will definitely refute me. The current number one box office movie "Taken" and the number two box office movie "Hero" both star male actors from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Haha~
Then I can say responsibly that I chose Mr. Liang Jiahui for "Taken", and it’s not because of his box office appeal.

The lead actor of "Hero", Jet Li, is from mainland China. Although the other roles are played by Hong Kong actors, if you look at other films starring these actors, can they reach the box office of "Hero"?
So does the 2.5 million box office of "Hero" have anything to do with these actors?

Speaking of box office appeal, I only recognize two actors in Hong Kong, Stephen Chow and Jackie Chan, and forget about the others.

Let me tell you why I advocate that directors, especially big directors, use more male actors from mainland China.

They are too difficult.

In terms of acting skills, are they bad?
In terms of appearance, are they bad?

They are good in everything, so why are they always playing supporting roles to Hong Kong and Taiwan male actors in movies?

In the past, our film industry was backward. We lagged behind others in all aspects such as costumes, makeup, and props. Our actors didn’t even have a professional makeup artist, so of course they couldn’t compare to others in terms of image.

But it’s different now. Although there is still a gap, it is not that big anymore.

Male actors such as Huang Xiaoming, Chen Kun, and Liu Ye are not inferior to actors from Hong Kong and Taiwan in terms of appearance and temperament, so why do they continue to play supporting roles?

So I hope domestic directors will open their eyes and stop being superstitious about box office appeal. Domestic male actors are really not bad.

And if we really talk about box office appeal, the movie "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog" starring Liu Ye had a box office of 6 million yen in Japan, which really has box office appeal.

But in "The Promise" he is just an insignificant supporting character, Ghost Wolf. Isn't that putting the cart before the horse?

The CEPA agreement stipulates that mainland actors must be included in the main creative team of co-productions, so the spring has come for mainland actresses, who have the opportunity to play the leading female role, but it has become a nightmare for male actors.

It is impossible for a Hong Kong director to let a mainland male actor play the leading role.

In this case, why can't mainland directors and producers give these male actors more opportunities instead of giving the leading role to Korean actors, Japanese actors, Hong Kong and Taiwan actors instead of mainland actors?

I want to say that the profession of actor needs inheritance from the old to the new. If this generation of male actors cannot stand up, it will be difficult for them to stand up in the future.

Every day we say that we hope the mainland film market will prosper and be good, but we do nothing.

……

Zhang Chen wrote something quickly and felt it was good. He didn't check for typos and just clicked send.

After clicking 'Send', I remembered to call Dong Jianqiang to let him know.

After receiving the notice, Dong Jianqiang wanted to kill Zhang Chen, "Uncle, can you please inform me before you do anything in the future..."

Zhang Chen replied lightly: "The arrow is on the string and must be shot~"

Dong Jianqiang wanted to curse, you think you are Chen Lin, but the other party may not be Cao Cao.

Chen Xi also wanted to kill Zhang Chen.

All the specific measures to deal with the situation were handled by Chen Xi. No one knew how much effort Chen Xi had to put in behind the scenes to cooperate with Zhang Chen's every move.

But because of this, if Zhang Chen changed his mind, all of Chen Xi's efforts would be in vain. "Everyone, please pay attention. Work overtime tonight to extract the necessary elements from this blog and organize it into an article. Wait for my news. If there is any change, send it out as soon as possible."

That’s right, in Chen Xi’s opinion, this blog post is a manifesto, and Zhang Chen and poet Chen are about to have a head-on confrontation.

Now that it's right, there's no need to think about anything else, just do it.

All she had to do was get her ammunition ready.

The subordinates were actually quite excited, firstly because the boss was finally going to do something again, and this time his opponent was Director Chen.

Another reason is that preparing negative material for "The Promise" is much easier than preparing other materials, and there is a lot of material on the Internet.

……

In the evening, Director Chen and his wife also learned from other people who the "scoundrel" he mentioned was.

This other person is their son.

His son is also a fan of Zhang Chen.

After reading this blog, Director Chen was furious.

He couldn't see the other points of view expressed in it, only the negative emotions towards him.

The first one was that Zhang Chen’s parents watched “The Promise” and said they couldn’t understand it, and they even had a fight about it.

The second one was that Zhang Chen accused him of preferring to leave opportunities to Korean actors, Japanese actors, Hong Kong and Taiwan actors rather than mainland actors.

"How could there be such a shameless person in the world~"

Director Chen said this warning in advance, which shows how angry he was at the time.

At this time, Zhang Chen didn't know that he had achieved the "shameless" achievement earlier than Hu Ge, but even if he knew, he probably wouldn't care.

In fact, his blog today was already very polite, with basically no particularly sharp words, and it was mainly directed at Producer Chen.

After all, it was not Director Chen who scolded him, but Mrs. Chen.

……

At the same time, the Internet was as lively as the Chinese New Year.

Zhang Chen finally came out again.

Since the release of "The Promise", Zhang Chen has disappeared from the public eye.

At first, it was because he was filming in the United States, but after returning to China, he has been missing for a long time, and there is no evaluation of "The Promise".

Come on, you are a youth idol, how come you don’t have any edge at all?

Zhang Chen said, I don’t want to be a youth idol.

But today, the war broke out without warning.

First, Zhang Chen said in an interview that great directors like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige should give more opportunities to mainland male actors. Then, Director Chen and his wife were asked this question by the host of the film channel during a live interview.

I don't know whether Chen Hong didn't know or did it on purpose, but she directly said that the other party was a "scoundrel" with "ulterior motives".

Then Zhang Chen wrote a short essay overnight, in which he criticized Director Chen and his wife.

Everyone is looking forward to how Director Chen will respond.

Why haven't you updated yet? Waiting online, it's urgent~
……

The next day, there was a response.

However, it was Mrs. Chen who responded.

"Director Chen was very angry. He couldn't believe that there were such shameless people in the world.

At the same time, I doubt director Zhang Chen's motives for slandering "The Promise" so maliciously. Do the four great directors have to become the three great directors or the two great directors?
We invested 3.5 million yuan and spent three years to produce this film, which should not be maliciously slandered. Director Zhang Chen is also a famous domestic director, and he should apologize to Director Chen for his behavior...

In addition, I want to say something to the audience: if you don’t understand, just watch it a few more times, you will eventually understand it…”

Once the response was issued, it was reprinted in major media, including the Internet, print media, and television media...

Even Zhang's father and mother saw it.

I didn't have the chance to ask until Zhang Chen got up for lunch.

"Son, what's going on? Mom and Dad are just complaining a little, it doesn't matter, you don't have to confront the big director over this..."

In order to clarify the whole story, the newspaper quoted Zhang Chen's entire blog. The first sentence that Zhang's father and mother saw in the blog was that my parents had a fight because of watching "The Promise", and they thought their son was venting his anger on himself.

"It's okay, mom. I'm just upset and want to complain~"

"But, is it okay for you to offend a big director for no reason..."

Even if they didn't know much about the film industry, Zhang's parents knew that Chen Kai was a great director and that the award won by "Farewell My Concubine" had political significance at the time.

"It's okay. I know what I'm doing."

Zhang Chen didn't know how to explain it to his parents.

"But people say..."

"Hmm? What did he say?"

"See for yourself."

After reading Mrs. Chen's reply in the newspaper, Zhang Chen was completely furious.

Especially the last sentence - if you don't understand it, read it a few more times~
Who are you talking about?
Are you talking about his father and mother?
Is it bearable, what is unbearable?

He was labeled a "shameless person" and was also implied to be smearing Director Chen out of jealousy, but these are actually nothing.

But you are talking about my parents, where do you get the courage?
Show your sword!
(End of this chapter)