New Age Artists

Chapter 349: Frustrated Jiang Wen, Times Have Changed (23)

Shen Santong built a large pool in the suburbs.

After many experiments, the color of sea water was blended.

The pool walls were paved with dark tiles, and with the addition of food coloring, they looked like sea water.

Forget about transporting pristine seawater from the sea.

He doesn't need to wash the rice, there is no need for this operation.

Moreover, this is low-cost and the water can be changed at any time.

In addition to the large pool, he also built a small pool.

With the help of the small shark model in post-production, scenes related to shark chasing and death are presented.

I have accumulated a lot of skills in shrinking models for shooting through the "Red Cliff" project.

After filming a scene, Fan Bingbing enviously said during a break: "These idols from talent shows are so popular. Jiang Wen is really good at keeping up with the trend."

Shen Santong nodded in approval: "It's a very good promotional method, except that the audience doesn't overlap much."

Resolved the doubts from the previous life.

Jiang Wen went to the Rocket Girls 101 formation night to promote "Hidden Man" and many people felt it was out of place.

It’s still the “Zhang Muzhi” filter.

Making money is not shameful. When it comes down to making movies, it comes down to audiences going to the cinema to support it.

You need to have an attitude, or in Fan Bingbing's words, "keep up with the trend."

Five handsome men from Dragon TV's talent show "Come on! Good Man" attended the premiere of "The Sun".

As a guest audience member, you can walk the red carpet, leave autographs, and have a seat closer to the front.

The producers used the popularity of idols like Haonan among young people to promote the movie.

And these idols want to take this opportunity to get to know the director and producer.

The fan circle phenomenon already exists.

Good Man attended the premiere of "The Sun" and was supported by a group of fans.

To support the idols, show how popular they are, and make directors and producers pay attention to their brothers.

Fan Bingbing laughed: "Not overlapping with the movie-going crowd? That's too mean. I think the box office of Sun will be bad."

Shen Santong said: "The media used to like Lust, Caution, but now with the premiere of Sun, they hate it even more."

After the premiere and the movie, some media outlets became even more critical of Jiang Wen.

Missing the first thirty years is a stance that some media outlets don’t like very much.

Without any external influence, he consciously criticized The Sun.

It's not something that comes out of nothing.

A large number of media outlets said they “didn’t understand”.

After the premiere of BJ, Jiang Wen was still stubborn and said that it was not the movie's fault that he could not understand it.

When it premiered in Shanghai, "The Sun", which bears a distinct historical imprint, also sparked a debate among the Shanghai media about "it's incomprehensible".

At the press conference, reporters raised questions about this.

Jiang Wen obviously restrained his arrogance and said modestly: "The audience is very smart. In fact, this is the media's concern. But the result is that this worry does not exist."

Shen Santong could only say that Jiang Wen was too optimistic.

Not only the media, but the audience will most likely not understand it.

But it had nothing to do with him and he continued filming.

He didn't even attend the premiere despite Yu Dong's invitation, he just recorded a video to show his support.

09 month 21 day.

The Sun is now in full theaters.

Yu Dong prepared more than 600 copies to stimulate the box office as much as possible.

However, "The Sun" was a box office failure within a week of its release.

Not only the media couldn't understand it, the audience didn't understand it either.

The box office trend is gradually becoming clear and is not ideal.

The final box office revenue was no more than 30 million.

The production cost of this film is reported to be 60 million.

When Jiang Wen was promoting his movie, a reporter again asked him about the audience's complaints about not being able to understand the movie.

Jiang Wen is a little too modest: "I think a movie is a success if it can inspire people to think."

The Sun team will not bring in any questions related to Lust, Caution.

No mention of Li Ammonium is allowed either.

Wrong!

The Venice Film Festival was defeated by movies like "Lust, Caution".

Jiang Wen knew why, but the media didn't mention it and the audience didn't know either.

At this point, even if he wanted to break up, he couldn't say it.

Saying that Li An is a traitor and a second devil can win an award?
Can't say.

If he won an award in Venice for "Lust, Caution", or if the movie was a great success in both word-of-mouth and box office.

There were things he could have said, but he couldn't say them now.

It won no awards and had no box office success.

He failed to win the award, and the media criticized him as a loser. The box office of "The Sun" was not good either, and any criticism Jiang Wen said about Lee Min was not strong.

Even if it's the truth.

The more he criticizes "Lust, Caution", the more people will say that Jiang Wen can't afford to lose.

Jiang Wen wanted to kill the thief but was powerless and extremely depressed.

The phrase "Planning is up to me, success depends on 'planning'" that was shouted before the film festival became the biggest joke.

Now he can only pray that the box office of "Lust, Caution" will not be too high.

Otherwise, he will be crushed by both awards and box office.

9 month 28 day.

The crew of "The Shallows" finished filming and finished work.

The crew held an outdoor cinema for activities and watched "The Sun" together.

There are more than 600 copies, which take up a lot of screen time.

The box office was not good, and theaters began to withdraw the film.

Many copies were only shown a few times, and Yu Dong, who suffered heavy losses, gave Shen Santong several dollars.

Fan Bingbing said excitedly: "The box office of "The Sun" is less than half of its cost. I didn't expect it to be so bad."

The big pool scene was almost entirely her solo performance.

The number of crew members began to decrease, and if we rounded it off, we could be considered to be in a world of just two people with Shen San.

It’s so nice to watch a movie together.

Shen Santong said: "Let's analyze why it didn't work. It can be considered a lesson learned."

Fan Bingbing watched for half an hour and got annoyed. It was not good to watch, so he said absentmindedly, "Jiang Wen is so miserable."

The two left, and Shen Santong said, "It's the investors who are miserable. The overseas copyrights haven't been sold, and the box office is not good either."

Even if Jiang Wen did not mention a certain ethnic group, the overseas copyright of "The Sun" would be difficult to sell.

Dongda may not know what its most valuable asset is or who the greatest person is, but its enemies know it very well.

It is unlikely that other countries in the Western world, except for the United States, would screen a film like "The Sun".

Although there are many jokes about nipple hair, that is only in the context of the University of Tokyo. If it were a smaller country, the grass on the grave would have been three feet tall long ago.

The country still has some autonomy.

Of course, Jiang Wen is Jiang Wen.

Audiences complained that "The Sun Also Rises" was incomprehensible, and at most they said it was not to their taste, but no one said it was a bad movie.

Jiang Wen's films have texture and are not shoddy products.

Fan Bingbing asked curiously, "I noticed that you have been writing and drawing in recent days, and you have also revised some of your filming plans. What do you have to say?"

Shen Santong shook the notebook in his hand and said, "Learn from the failure of The Sun and make The Shallows a good movie."

Say a thousand words and ten thousand words.

Todai is a very free and open society.

Air-to-air combat is not going to work.

Concepts must be implemented, and narrative can only be a by-product of a successful film.

First of all, the movie must look good, this is 1, and the rest are 0.

"The Sun" is a bit like Xu Guangtou's later "Reverse Life", and its audience is too narrow.

The audience of "Reverse Life" is people from first-tier cities, with an annual income of hundreds of thousands, who have suffered a p2p crash and are so poor that they only own one house in first-tier cities.

A larger group is anxious young people in first- and second-tier cities.

But why don’t anxious young people watch short videos, or save their money for a spicy hot pot, and spend money to watch a movie like "Reverse Life" which cost 208 million yuan?
There is no mention of the platform at all, only competition among riders.

Just internal fighting?

When young audiences are fools!

The audience determines that it is difficult to succeed.

Fan Bingbing asked: "What references can The Sun provide for The Shallows?"

Shen Santong said: "What do you think is the best part of "Sunny Days"?

"Sunshine" is director Jiang Wen's debut film, adapted from Wang Shuo's novel "Ferocious Animals".

It's about BJ in the early 20s, when school is closed and there's nothing to do.

The teenagers, most notably the boys from the military compound, found their own fun.

The story of how they squander their excess hormones by fighting and making trouble.

Fan Bingbing has basic film and television analysis skills: "It's well shot, with good color tones. I heard it was shot in winter, and a lot of effort was put into creating a sunny atmosphere."

"Sunshine is easier to understand, but the plot of The Sun is too confusing and there is a sense of alienation."

Shen Santong nodded: "In "Sunshine", we can feel the passion of the creators. They are not nostalgic for the good old days. This is the youth of people like Wang Shuo and Jiang Wen."

"In the 70s, except for Wang Shuo and Jiang Wen, everyone else had already started working at their age, so they had no extra hormones to release."

"That's what happens when you have nothing to do. In that era, not many people had the conditions to do so."

"Times have changed. 'The Sun' was released in 94. At that time, audiences watched whatever was made."

"Jiang Wen's group is very superior and has the first-mover advantage."

"Now, in 07, Wang Shuo, once a leading figure in the Beijing circle, is almost a dead dog."

"This is a great honor for Han Han, who has a background in the Shanghai literary circle. Times have changed."

(End of this chapter)