New Age Artists

Chapter 320 The Era Jiang Wen Misses (33)

Shen Santong's analysis time and time again is well-reasoned and well-founded.

Yu Dong does not agree that Zhang Yimou hates Jiang Wen. At most, because of personal experience, Zhang Yimou must have common topics with Li Min, and he may not necessarily be biased towards Jiang Wen.

The film festival’s tendency is also very clear.

In addition, "Lust, Caution" is no longer about trying to please the West, but about actively cutting its own throat.

In comparison, "The Sun" is bound to lose.

Jiang Wen looked grim.

He was deeply provoked by Shen Santong on the issue of faith.

If it were someone else, he would have taught him a lesson long ago, but Shen Santong’s words were weighty and his analysis was all factual.

I have no intention of paying attention to any issues of faith because I have bigger problems at the moment.

It took Zhang Yimou five years to polish the film "The Sun". Zhang Yimou was going to be the chairman of the film festival jury and had the grand prize in his hands, but now it seemed that he was going to lose it.

How embarrassing!
At the end of last month, about ten days ago, the English poster unveiling ceremony of the movie "The Sun" and the official website launch ceremony were held.

The host asked a question: What do you think of the impact of Zhang Yimou's role as a judge on your film?

Jiang Wen thought for a long time and uttered this sentence: Planning is up to me, success depends on 'planning'.

Looking back now, it was so embarrassing!
Jiang Wen was a little bored. He didn't want to discuss the movie with Shen Santong anymore. He wasn't in the mood.

He said hurriedly, "You guys chat first, I'm leaving."

After Yu Dong sent Jiang Wen away, he came back and poured a cup of tea for Shen Santong.

He looked at Shen Santong pleadingly: "What about the box office?"

He doesn't accept any awards as long as the box office is high.

The publicity and promotion have already been spent, it’s all money.

Shen Santong didn't have the heart to criticize Yu Dong: "The box office depends on the publicity and promotion. But in my opinion, no matter how good the publicity and promotion is, it will be difficult to exceed 100 million. Even 40 or 50 million is already considered good."

Yu Dong smiled bitterly. Without Jiang Wen, he said directly, "Six hundred copies are going to be a waste of money?"

Shen Santong nodded sympathetically.

Since he had promised 600 copies, it would be difficult for Yu Dong to go back on his word.

Shen Santong even felt that Jiang Wen left early because he knew that they were going to discuss the box office and he didn't want to listen.

I don’t want to know Yu Dong’s difficulties.

Jiang Wen is not an ordinary person. He has a background and a master.

Not to mention six hundred, Yu Dong promised one thousand, and even if the box office prospects are not ideal, he has to fulfill his promise.

People are different.

An art film like "The Sun" cost 50 to 60 million yuan.

At Shen Santong's level, a lot of information flew to his ears involuntarily, and he knew a lot of details.

It was filmed in 05, with Taihe Film and Television initially investing 3000 million yuan.

After spending 1800 million, less than one-third of the film had been shot.

Taihe withdrew its investment and the remaining 1200 million yuan could not be received, so the filming of the movie was suspended for a while.

Han Sanping brought in Mr. Yang from Hong Kong Island, who agreed to invest but he demanded that the box office share should be before Taihe, and invested 2200 million.

After Yinghuang invested 2200 million, the money was still not enough, so Jiang Wu and Zhou Yun added 7 million, 8 million and 400 million respectively.

Jiang Wen has won awards as an actor and a Cannes Grand Prix as a director, and has a high status in the circle.

Most people think that if Jiang Wen doesn’t kneel, he will be out of place in the circle.

Think more.

In fact, people like Jiang Wen are like the Eight Banners descendants who went to study abroad and wrote a few anti-poems when they came back. The clan office would think that he was their own child who learned new ideas outside and was just playing around.

Try someone else?
People are also different.

If Jiang Wen were to say so, even if he had been cosplaying for thirty years, he would have thought that only his children had personality.

Moreover, Jiang Wen is a disciple of Xie Jin, who is a third-generation director with extensive connections.

Even if "The Sun" loses money, Jiang Wen will not lack investment.

I guess Boss Yang will invest in another one.

It's more about convenience than making money.

Yu Dong was not giving up: "How much do you think the box office will be?"

Shen Santong thought for two seconds: "About 20 or 30 million. After all, it's Jiang Wen's movie, and some people will watch it."

Yu Dong put on a mask of pain on the spot and looked at Shen Santong pitifully: "Save me, you said it depends on the release, show me a way! It will cost me nearly 10 million just for the release! How can I possibly make a profit!"

My heart bleeds, this is all money!

Shen Santong sighed: "Who do you think the target audience of this play is, or what kind of movie is this?"

Yu Dong admitted frankly: "I don't know! I don't understand!"

Shen Santong told him: "The audience of the movie "The Sun" is actually very narrow. This play is about the history of the first thirty years, and it is about Jiang Wen's own sense of disparity."

Some things are hard to say.

Many of Jiang Wen’s films are about the pain of marginalization in his group.

An important feature of Chinese history is taking action against interest groups.

Generally speaking, the founding emperor of a unified country, as well as the early and middle periods of a dynasty, can do it.

Dasong is an exception.

It does not mean that it wants to rule the world together with the literati, but that it came to power in an illegitimate way and has no legitimacy.

Zhu Xi presented the theory of the orthodoxy of Shu Han, and a certain group in the south of the Yangtze River quickly monopolized the right to speak in the court.

The Ming Dynasty also had a similar landmark event, known as the North-South List Case.

To be precise, it was a case of favoritism and corruption among the gentry in Jiangnan.

The essence of the Jiangnan fraud case is that a certain group in Jiangnan wanted to monopolize the imperial examinations again and then monopolize the court.

They want to recreate the lawless power of the Great Song, or even go a step further with the tax-farming system.

Unfortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang was just old, not dead.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty came to power in a legitimate way. It can be said that after the Tang, Yu and other three dynasties, the Ming Dynasty was the best.

The three dynasties of Tang and Yu refer to Tang Yao, Yu Shun, Xia, Shang and Zhou.

The founding emperors of the Qin, Han, Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasties were nothing in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, who started with a bowl.

So Zhu Yuanzhang picked up his sword and chopped. Zhu Yunwen came up and stupidly believed it, so he was gone.

Zhu Di continued to chop his way through the Jingnan Rebellion.

With the rise of the Donglin Party, it was no longer possible to take action against interest groups, and the Ming Dynasty came to an end.

The Chinese have gone through four to five hundred years of industrial history in the West in just sixty to seventy years.

The first thirty years and the last thirty years are not only industrial history, but also a history of constantly wielding the knife against interest groups.

The first pot of gold from industrialization is not the scissors gap.

People who have this idea are too naive and are deceived by the sleight of hand.

Didn’t the Qing Dynasty collect agricultural taxes?

Doesn’t the Republic of China accept it?
Collect them all.

The key is not the gap, but to reduce the peaks and fill the valleys.

It can cut off the reach of those who hold power.

Why did so many elites return from the first thirty years?
Give up the good life in a foreign country and live a hard life here.

These elites were not stupid, they saw the possibilities of industrialization.

This is the only way after other powers have developed.

The emphasis on the scissors gap is to conceal the peak-cutting and valley-filling.

In the last thirty years, interest groups were marginalized one after another and sent away in batches.

When the next thirty years began, the first blow was actually taken by Jiang Wen's group.

I didn’t realize it at the time, and like many interest groups, I felt I could hold my ground.

However, there were too many smart people among the old Chinese, and they kept coming one after another, leaving no chance at all.

Many individuals in Jiang Wen's group benefited from this, but the group as a whole suffered.

Life is still good, but the status has been lowered.

Just like at the beginning of the last three decades, some writers and economists were able to participate in making rules.

After solving the problem, Todai continued to move forward and constantly overcome existing problems, and this system became better and better with each use.

The economists at that time couldn't keep up, and they suffered a mental breakdown, cursing all day long.

They actually live a good life, but they can't accept the gap.

Constantly reminiscing about the glory days when the rules were made.

Essentially, the same is true for Jiang Wen.

Take Shen Santong for example. He couldn’t enter the city in the first thirty years.

He simply cannot be a director and has no qualifications to choose this profession.

Looking at Jiang Wen and his group of young men from wealthy families, one could only stare in envy.

We also have to be careful to constantly emphasize the rules, hoping that the other party will abide by the rules and not bully others.

In the past, making movies was a privilege. Even now, the most you can do is take an exam.

You have to be an academic to qualify.

It would take 10 years for Xu Guangtou to have a chance to make a movie after external forces entered the market.

Once the Internet comes into play, anyone can become a director.

So it is normal for Jiang Wen to be elitist.

Not to mention rural areas, even children in ordinary second- and third-tier cities cannot be exposed to the things he has been exposed to since childhood.

Whatever others talk about will go in, and they can talk about anything.

Living in this kind of environment, it’s hard not to have a superior outlook.

The fact that there are so many interpretations of Jiang Wen’s films in later generations is actually a wonderful cognitive misalignment.

Jiang Wen missed their centralized position.

There are some things that only they can play, and some professions that only they can engage in.

The later generations enter because they are dissatisfied with the current situation and therefore miss the past.

In addition, with the development of the economy and the improvement of industrialization level, nine-year compulsory education has been popularized and university enrollment has expanded.

Many children from ordinary families also have the illusion that they are elites.

This is a wonderful misunderstanding.

Jiang Wen misses the first thirty years because he could be the protagonist.

Ordinary people also mistakenly believe that they are the protagonists.

For Shen Santong, he does not miss the 1980s and 1990s, let alone the first thirty years.

Productivity is limited. As the popular saying goes, poverty brings sorrow.

As for the 1980s and 1990s, he thanked his parents for the hardships they endured.

He thanked his grandparents for the hardships they had endured in the first thirty years, and he just needed to keep moving forward.

Shen Santong would not say these things.

Jiang Wen himself might not have thought about this.

Shen Santong is used to thinking about issues from the perspective of interests.

Jiang Wen might just be making movies; his background determines his way of thinking.

Shen Santong further explained the audience of the movie "The Sun": "The audience of this movie is too small, mainly targeting the children of the courtyards who felt a sense of gap in the first thirty years."

“At most, we’ll add some art film enthusiasts.”

Yu Dong was desperate: "With so few people, how can an art film sell at the box office?"

Shen Sandong said: "It is best to focus on the real history in publicity and promotion, and not be vague. The movie itself is very stream-of-consciousness."

"If we want to achieve higher box office sales, we need to see if we can mobilize college students or white-collar workers, who consider themselves elites and are dissatisfied with the status quo."

"Of course, you also have to be mindful of the media, which tends not to like the film, as they didn't like the first thirty years."

The media are also a group with a gap, but they don’t like the first thirty years.

Not to mention beautification, any recollection is a suppressive attitude.

Yu Dong wanted to kill himself by hitting his head against a wall!
Whether it is Lust, Caution, or Jiang Wen, I am just giving my own analysis, just one person's opinion.

I have a fever again. Please take care of yourself. I think the last two times I had a fever were both positive.

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(End of this chapter)