New Age Artists

Chapter 597: The prototype of the Hundred-Year and Thousand-Year Series, the prehistoric world also has technology
After finishing the filming materials, Chen Chexi found Shen Santong writing and drawing, and advised him: "You should take a break."

"Oh, you see, this operation method is very interesting." Shen Santong handed a report to Chen Chexi, intending to give her some advice.

Shen Santong is still learning. He does not think he is invincible and still has many shortcomings.

Chen Chexi discovered that Shen Santong was studying the National Day film industry report.

Internal report of Santong Entertainment.

Chen Chexi took a look and said, "A shiny matrix release?"

Shen Santong nodded: "Yes, this model is quite advanced, point-to-point in various places."

Chen Chexi said: "We have similar ones."

Shen Santong shook his head and said, "Not quite the same. We have cinema chains and are in competition for other reasons, and our share of the film revenue is also high. Guangxian is only involved in production and distribution, and they also have deep connections in the media."

"Moreover, this model takes time. It is not something that can be built overnight. It requires costs to operate. Building relationships with local media and cinema chains not only requires resources, but also time. The longer the time, the deeper the local relationships."

Chen Chexi caught Shen Santong's focus. She was very capable: "Are you researching this? Buying tickets?"

How did "Painted Skin" surpass "Legend of White Snake"?
Guangxian made its move at the critical time and in the critical screenings, and relying on its comprehensive efforts with the relationship with the theater chains, it won "White Snake" without any bloodshed, and "Painted Skin" surpassed the single-day box office.

Shen Santong commented: "The method is very clever, the money spent is not very high, but the effect is very good. "Painted Skin" got the golden slot, "White Snake" did not, so one is increasing while the other is decreasing. Just buy a little more and it will attract customers. Most audiences will believe in the box office data and think that the high box office has its reasons."

Chen Chexi herself didn't object, but she knew Shen Santong was against it. The company knew that Shen Santong was not a gentleman, but he was a bit of a germaphobe: "Isn't this operation not very good?"

Shen Santong said: "You have to learn normal methods and small tricks. There are many techniques worth pondering. It is not enough to simply throw money at it. It requires efforts both online and offline. If the gap between the two films is too big, I am afraid that we will have to spend money on people in important positions."

"Of course, there is not much difference between White Snake and Painted Wall. By boosting online reputation and promoting offline distribution, it can indeed have a very good effect."

Normally speaking, if a movie is a big hit at the box office and has good reputation, the cinema chain should not praise one and criticize the other. However, the interests of cinema chain staff and cinema chain are not the same, and bribery by unofficial enterprises is more common.

Chen Chexi has been around Shen Santong for a long time and has come up with this idea: "In essence, The Legend of White Snake is not a good movie. It's because the movie is not good. A good movie can break everything."

Shen Santong often said "A good play can be broken", as long as the play is good enough, no one can suppress it.

"It's still difficult to create a clear gap." Shen Santong said: "White Snake is at best a movie made with a lot of money, but at least it allows the audience to see where the money was spent."

"It has many flaws, but it is not considered a bad movie in the current domestic film market. After all, Yangzi is just an outsider and needs to prove himself and his sincerity in making this movie well, otherwise he would not have spent so much real money."

"From this perspective, 'Legend of the White Snake' is not a bad movie. The production attitude is what the current film industry needs. It's much better than 'Butterfly on the Shoulder', isn't it?"

"Zhao Yazhi's Bai Suzhen seems to have come from heaven to the human world, while Huang Shengyi's Bai Suzhen seems to have come from heaven to the human world. This is indeed a bit insulting."

"Yes, that's true." Chen Chexi nodded involuntarily. This Tian Shang Ren Jian was too mean.

Now she is also involved in publicity and promotion. As a practitioner, her perspective on issues is different from that of ordinary audiences and actors.

It is understandable that "Legend of the White Snake" has a large-scale public relations program.

For a movie of this scale of investment, the pressure to recover costs is quite high. Others would do the same, but they would not put it on the table.

Although it is not as good as the worst, "White Snake" is indeed better than "Painted Skin".

The special effects of White Snake are very good, not compared with the key plays of Santong Entertainment, but compared with other domestic films.

The main reason is that "Painted Skin" is even worse.

They are all girls, and their names are all flowers. The fresh girl is called Peony, the arrogant sister is called Peony, the loli is called Cuizhu, and the big boss is called Aunt.

What the sisters love most in the boudoir is to discuss various gender relationships in the tone of the post-21s generation in the 90st century.

My aunt is a psychopath who hates men. It's no surprise that both the fresh girl and the tsundere sister like the male lead.

The big boss's aunt crammed all kinds of lustful and mature women's thoughts on the spot.

If "White Snake" is Huang Shengyi's heaven and earth, "Painted Skin" is everyone is flirting, it is at the level of a small hair salon.

Shen Santong said: "The two plots of "White Snake" are contradictory. 'Fahai catches the monster' takes over the main plot, and the plot is sacrificed for Li Lianjie. The love between Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian is only summarized in a few short shots, and the true meaning of the Legend of the White Snake is not revealed."

"In the final analysis, it's because they don't trust the audience. In fact, they don't need Jet Li. The combination of Huineng and Huang Shengyi is a popular young actor. Huang Shengyi's image in "Kung Fu" is very classic. The plot of catching monsters is downplayed, and the focus is on the relationship between Bai and Xu. The box office will not be bad."

"This is because the producers do not believe in the audience's aesthetic ability, nor do they understand the audience's basic qualities. They underestimate the audience and only imagine what the audience likes, but in fact the audience does not like it."

Shen Santong is not trying to whitewash "White Snake". Both are shit. It's just that "White Snake" is dry cow dung, so it still has some effect.

Moreover, the means by which "Painted Skin" won were dishonorable.

It doesn’t matter if your movie is not good enough, as long as it is better than the good ones.

For example, the method used by novel websites to cheat on votes is to cheat to get into the top ten. If six of the top ten are not cheated, then these six are just stepping stones for the other four.

If there are nine that are not swiped and one that is swiped, the one who swiped the ticket should not be too proud, because the other nine will highlight its value.

You can cheat by posting votes, comments, chapter articles, and even messages on Tieba, certain discussion threads, and WeChat public accounts that recommend novels.

Most readers will be influenced by public opinion and will read to this extent that they can almost mistake the fake for the real thing.

With years of practice, you can always attract real people to come in, then set up a group and mobilize book friends to do voluntary work, and gradually you won’t have to spend money.

After a long time, the fake becomes real.

You can make money not only by swiping tickets, but also by selling tickets.

Some of them are simply books from monthly ticket merchants, which can not only be used by themselves but also sold for money.

As long as the novel is not very bad and is at the level of a masterpiece or a great masterpiece, it can basically be indistinguishable from the real thing.

It’s okay to be very bad, as long as you are thick-skinned enough and work hard for years.

Normal readers are also confused. After reading for a year or two, who wouldn’t be confused?

One of the important reasons why "Man Jiang Hong" had such a high box office was that it suppressed "The Wandering Earth 2".

The "Wandering Earth" series is a unique science fiction film and a heavy industrial film. It does not need to be qualifiered as "domestic". It is the only science fiction film in the world.

Are Hollywood's space operas, such as "Moon Rebels" and the like, considered science fiction films?
Is it worthy of comparison?
It doesn't matter if "Man Jiang Hong" doesn't have any gold content, as long as "The Wandering Earth 2" has some.

When the audience saw that the box office of this movie was firmly ahead of "The Wandering Earth 2", it went without saying that it must have its merits.

I never thought that they were just cheating and launching a sneak attack.

Once you buy a ticket and are not satisfied with the show, you cannot get a refund.

If the movie doesn't have enough gold content, just follow the ones that have gold content. Besides, the profit of movie is greater than that of novel, and the production time is shorter, so it only takes one month.

Chen Chexi asked: "Should we try it later?"

Speaking of which, if Santong Entertainment were to swipe, it would definitely become a big swipe.

The entire industry chain has unique advantages.

Of course, she was just talking, knowing that Shen Santong would not agree.

Sure enough, Shen Santong said: "I will issue a document that we must not produce and sell our own products. It is their business to do so, but we cannot do it."

Other peers can’t control what they do, but Santong Entertainment is definitely not allowed to do it.

His opponent is not a certain colleague, but the entire industry, or even the future public's overall disappointment, disgust and despair with culture.

Shen Santong wrote down his thoughts in a small notebook. The future of the film industry, as well as the entertainment and cultural industries, will probably have three hurdles.

The first is the rapid expansion of film and television capital at present.

The off-stage tactics used in "White Snake" and "Painted Skin" are just the beginning. When the theaters are fully united and the forces of production, distribution and theaters are united, then it will be blatant.

Shen Santong believed that by then, even his movies would be stepped on.

But no matter what, Santong Entertainment can't do it.

You can’t be arrogant, you can’t enter into yin-yang contracts, and you can’t manipulate stock prices.

The second barrier is the Internet.

It’s not about the Internet capital coming in, but about Santong Entertainment continuing to maintain its original intention in the future Internet era.

In the midst of complex public opinion, we can remain unshakable and focus on content.

This stage also includes fan circles, and actively participating in controversial social topics, especially with the rise of the self-media era.

These are shortcuts, but they are also dead ends.

The fan circleization of movies will lead to self-production and self-sales, and box office, film reviews, and "audience comments" will all be unreliable.

Audience comments should be put in quotation marks, they are all water army.

For example, the movie "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" stars Xiao Zhan. A fan circle movie is a fan circle movie, and it just wants to use fans to lure passers-by into the theater.

And there are different words of speech for different bloggers.

I am not an entertainment blogger, I tend to be a general blogger, the following are "My parents never go to the cinema on the first day of the new year, this time they said they want to watch The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Can you believe it was my dad who called me to choose a seat for him this morning with his phone", "My grandfather never watches movies, but he must watch martial arts movies".
It's not a direct recommendation, but it gives me the feeling that taking parents and grandparents to watch "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" on New Year's Day is a good choice.

What is true?
What is fake?
I can't tell the difference.

This method can make money at the beginning, but when the reputation of the fan circle collapses completely, the audience will not trust anyone and will only accept recommendations from offline friends.

The first week’s box office is not reliable. We have to wait until the next week to see the box office trends.

This means that all movies will be labeled as untrustworthy by passers-by and must first prove that they are not scams.

Because of the iteration of fan circle rhetoric, even self-affirmation can become one of the rhetoric.

Socially controversial topics should not be touched upon.

There were profits in the early stages, but the problem is that they were not sustainable.

There are many social issues on Douyin, Huhu and Weibo.

If you want to exhaust your mental energy, just eat the emotional garbage on these platforms at night. Not only will you be full, it’s free too.

If we make movies like this that tear society apart, then there is no meaning for the movies to exist.

Why spend money to go to the cinema when you can eat shit everywhere?

And there are many digital beings on the Internet who eat shit and talk to themselves. This is how they work.

How many normal people are there?

Real people have to spend money to buy movies, and using subject matter to touch upon social issues gives people the feeling that there is no difference between the film industry and the cesspool of cyberspace.

When seeing a cesspool in front of you, a normal person would walk around it.

The third hurdle is the collapse of “elite” culture.

The word "elite" should also be put in quotation marks.

There are many people who claim to be elites but don’t like to do things, including those in the cultural and media fields. They are the descendants of the fifth and sixth generations of directors and are influenced by external narratives.

Female themes are one of the products.

This hurdle is also the most critical. The fan circle of movies is still an internal contradiction, while this one is an enemy-enemy contradiction.

They are indifferent to the country's development achievements and just follow the baton from outside.

Eating what you poop out is not only stupid, but also bad.

The biggest basic part of the movie is the socializing between men and women.

This group of people will buy tickets no matter what movie is playing in the cinema. It would be best if they can kiss and hug each other, but if not, it's okay to just kill time.

As long as it's not a movie that makes people break up after watching it, it's basically fine.

"What's wrong with you?" Chen Chexi saw Shen Santong looking painful.

Shen Santong briefly talked to Chen Chexi about it, but he didn't go into details, and the focus was on the general direction.

He is not afraid of people knowing, and he will organize it later and study and discuss it on the intranet.

How can it not be painful?
Santong Entertainment is the leader, and he is the first to bear the brunt.

It is not easy to get away with it cleanly. If you want to keep going, you must cherish the company's reputation.

It’s okay to make mistakes, but there must be no problem with your attitude.

It's painful and happy.

This is also a great opportunity. As long as it is not affected by these factors, the market of Yida University is large enough for Santong Entertainment to thrive. And as long as it surpasses the "three levels" and does not fall into the trap, it will have an advantage compared to its peers.

Chen Chexi could understand the first level as he already had some clues. He also had some ideas about the second level, but he had no clue about the third level at all.

Throw out the least picky audience members?
It goes against the instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm.

"That's impossible. Who would destroy themselves?"

Shen Santong opened his mouth, unable to explain for a moment.

There really aren't any movies like this in general.

After all, couples are the least picky audience. Would film practitioners be so stupid?

But the facts prove that it is true.

The reason for this self-destructive sentiment, after all, is the source of thought. Western narratives, especially those of the United States, are permeated with self-destructive sentiment.

After checking the accounts, netizens from Dongda University found that the people of the United States are really tolerant and are worthy of being the obedient citizens who lasted for so many years in the Middle Ages.

I can also fully understand the widespread self-destructive sentiment. Under that kind of environment and pressure, it would be abnormal for people not to be a little crazy.

How can social consciousness that follows this kind of social reality avoid self-destruction?
After sending Chen Chexi away, Shen Santong tidied up the room and sighed.

A lot of things happened during this National Day besides movies.

One is the death of Steve Jobs.

Two merchant ships, Huaping and Yuxing 8, were also attacked in the Golden Triangle waters of the Mekong River.

It has been confirmed that all 6 people, including 8 Chinese crew members on the Huaping and 7 Chinese crew members on the Yuxing 13, have died.

Shen Santong was in mixed feelings and had an idea.

Make some contribution to the Chinese in the third world. This incident not only kills people, but also slanders them as drug dealers, ruining their innocence.

I have done so much, but I don’t get the respect I deserve.

It's not only anger, but also sadness.

Cultural weakness has reached this level!

Shen Santong had this idea when he was working on "Inception", that is, to speak out the achievements openly, and that China's development has brought peace to the region.

In this way, the murderers who have harmed and slandered the compatriots who have made contributions will have strong enough public opinion to eliminate them.

As long as the people work and live normally, it is a contribution, not only to the country, but also to the world.

Because the path China is taking is for both itself and the world.

"Long live the People's Republic of China" and "Long live the great unity of the people of the world" complement each other.

Working abroad, especially in some underdeveloped countries, is a great contribution, which naturally includes working in Siam.

Such contributions should be expressed through popular cultural works.

Shen Santong was full of thoughts and muttered to himself: "Besides, the Siam incident was an accident, but it was not an accident."

It's not his conspiracy theory. If you go back a little further in time, you will understand.

A year earlier, in April 10, the first Mekong River Commission summit was held in the Siamese coastal city of Hua Hin.

Two years ago, in 09, the United States came up with the TPP, the predecessor of which was the "Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement".

Three years earlier, after the severe impact of the 08 financial crisis, the world economy began to recover, and the engine of recovery was Todai and the surrounding areas.

The industrial adjustment of the University of Tokyo has already begun, with economic structural adjustment and economic transformation being carried out.

In foreign trade, the first trading partner should preferably be one that is right next door and within the range of military force.

Therefore, in the struggle surrounding Southeast Asia and the South China Sea, the tragedy is a broken thread.

It’s not that someone is behind this, but the pressure from the two major blocks will be transmitted layer by layer. There is no problem with the general direction of Dongda, but Siam is like a sieve.

Not every country's officials share the same interests as the majority of the people. To be precise, under the Tokyo system, only a minority of people are united.

From the perspective of national interests, it would be best for Siam to follow the lead of Dongda University, but this may not be the case for certain interest groups.

There are many interest groups including the royal family, the military, the Chinese, and the Siamese natives.

As the nation revives, it will not be smooth sailing to regain the lost influence, glory and power bit by bit.

But this kind of thing cannot be simply described as a "necessary sacrifice", this is the case for many families.

It's quiet at night.

Shen Santong knew that this matter would have a result.

For those who work and live normally abroad, if something happens to them, especially something fatal, there will basically be a result.

I won’t brag about any system, but there are KPIs for local embassies.

As for those that were routed via wires or illegally accessed, there is nothing we can do about it.

Because these people gave up their legal status when they left the country.

Helping is a favor, not helping is your duty.

In fact, why should we help people who have betrayed their country?

Those who stay will live better and better, and those who run away, especially those who run away full of hatred and resentment, will have their lives become more miserable. This is a good thing for national cohesion.

After all, happiness comes from comparison.

In other words, as long as one does not give up his or her identity, even if he or she is an anti-China person, he or she will be protected, and if there is a trial, it will be held by the University of Tokyo.

If you work and live normally in a foreign country, there must be an explanation if something goes wrong.

Maybe due to various reasons, we cannot eradicate it completely, but we will definitely deal with those that are visible, and the rest will not be forgotten.

When the time comes and the wind blows, there will definitely be an explanation.

Many thoughts emerged in Shen Santong's mind, and he took out a small notebook from the bedside.

Don't be satisfied with just one profile.

I want to shoot a century-long series, similar to "One Hundred Years of Solitude".

Compared with Latin America over the past few hundred years, first there was colonization and then there was the dark history under the Monroe Doctrine, the historical path of Southeast University is tortuous, but its future is undoubtedly bright and upward.

Step by step, walk out of the darkness and quagmire.

Focusing on several generations, individuals and families, and reflecting this, it must be a very good play, because the changes in China over the past century are so huge, so earth-shaking, and so completely transformed.

It is just an idea at the moment, and literary and artistic works are soft power after all.

Shen Santong not only wanted to capture the historical sense of the era, but also wanted to capture the emotion of moving forward. The timing is not yet ripe, and perhaps we have to wait ten years, around the age of 20 or 21.

Even though it’s only ten years, for China, these ten years are simply a different era.

Since he wanted to think about it, he might as well let it go and extend the time dimension.

From the primitive times when heaven and earth were not yet separated, to the mythological legends of deification, and then to the detailed and credible ancient history, from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to modern times, and then to the present day.

Show the vitality and vigor, show the continuous advancement of technology, and show the continuous improvement of productivity.

There was productivity in the ancient times. The calendar was the most advanced technology at that time. Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs, which shows that there was a medical system before that. The so-called farming, traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine, and the Book of Changes were the high technologies of that time.

The ancients used time and empirical data to summarize a set of theories on treatment, stargazing, feng shui, and prediction, which were extracted from countless data.

In the words of later generations, a prescription for treating a disease that is constantly used by people is equivalent to a paper being cited. The only difference is that the information carrier and the speed of transmission are different, but the internal iteration is similar.

There is no need to discuss or explain, just record it honestly.

Naturally, different people will draw conclusions from it about why China has come to where it is today, gain strength from history, and come to the conclusion that it will inevitably continue on this path.

Because we have to acknowledge a fact: over hundreds and thousands of years, the opponents at the poker table have been constantly changing, and China has also been changing, yet it seems to have always been there.

10 month 14 day.

Another day's work is over.

Chen Chexi reminded: "Public opinion is pointing at you, do you want to issue a statement?"

There have always been people saying on the Internet that the Siamese military is the mastermind behind all this and is deeply involved in the Golden Triangle, prostitution, gambling, and drug-related criminal industries.

Li Weiguo in "Inception", Zhou Dengfeng in "Wolf Tooth", and especially Wolf Warrior, all kinds of rhythms have emerged.

Let Wolf Warrior save us.

Shen Santong pursed his lips and said, "Let them talk."

(End of this chapter)