I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 139 Hong Kong Movies (44)

“You can open a movie account on Douyin and release some materials whenever you want…”

At this point, Shen Liang remembered: "We can also take some photos of the audience's reactions when the film is released..."

“Anyone watching?”

"There must be!"

Shen Liang was talking about the extremely awkward movie reaction clips in later generations...

This thing has become commonplace for film crews in later generations.

They even came up with a lot of new tricks, such as at the screening of "Parma: A Dog's Tale", the dogs in the audience got teary-eyed when they saw the touching scene...

Yes, you read it right, the dog’s eyes were wet!
The dogs were brought in to act...

It also added the words 'Perhaps they understand true empathy'...

Convinced...

Of course, there is also the most classic "Zhang Yi shocked 800 times in one day!"

Three sets of short video promotions: "Huo Siyan sheds tears", "Wu Jing visits the set", "Zhang Yi is shocked"...

This marketing strategy actually started with "Ex-Files 3"...

"Ex-Files 3" made everyone cry, and the focus of movie promotion began to shift to short videos.

The short video marketing success of "Ex-Files 3" mainly relies on two types of videos: one is the audience crying in the cinema, and the other is the clip of Han Geng playing Zhizunbao and Yu Wenwen eating mangoes. Regardless of the type of video, the brainwashing background music "Dignity" is often used to exaggerate the emotions to the extreme.

Yes, this is called emotional marketing!

"Time Travel Cohabitation" can completely replicate this kind of marketing routine...

It’s really more direct, borrowing the marketing of “Hello, Li Huanying”…

Compared with domestic films of the same period, the marketing of "Hello, Li Huanying" is really a dimensionality reduction attack - major short video platforms have released materials, and seven or eight hot searches are "Hello, Li Huanying"...

You can’t play this thing without money!

Just like "Hotshot", the money spent on the marketing of this thing is probably enough to make a "Clause 2" and "Speed ​​​​"!

"Speeding Life 2" may not work, so "Boonie Bears" will do...

By the way, there is a topic called #《Speeding Life 2》misogyny#…

So funny!
Is it misogyny if there are no female characters?
Then there are no heroines in "Changjin Lake", "Eight Hundred", "King Kong River", "Crazy Alien" and "Speeding Life"...

Yes, war movies have nothing to do with women, so what does racing have to do with women?
Can this fucking horse also punch?
By the way, objectively speaking, "Hot and Spicy" is still quite touching, even though there is no plot...

Ahem, that's too far off topic...

Xu Zheng was curious: "Are short video platforms useful?"

"What do you think? It can help Mr. Yu and Mr. Wei to become famous!"

“…I’ll seriously consider it!”

……

Xu Zheng needs to consider not only the issue of material placement, but also which platform to choose as the main material placement platform...

At present, Tencent has invested a lot of money in short videos, and the number of users of Kuaishou is higher than that of Douyin.

It is impossible for him to decide to bet on Douyin based on Shen Liang’s words alone... It doesn’t matter, Shen Liang will promote "Super Time Cohabitation" during the live broadcast anyway.

The wrap-up party is over...

Shen Liang felt a little regretful. After all, he had been with this group of people for more than a month and he still had some feelings for them, especially Jing Tian.

It took away a lot of Shen Liang’s first time…

First kissing scene, first time as a couple on set… first time with a sister who is eight years older than me…

Therefore, boys must protect themselves when they are outside!

By the way, on the night of the wrap party, the two did not rekindle their relationship. Jing Tian left the crew that night to record "Youth Hostel"...

Shen Liang simply got drunk and passed out...

So much so that I still had a headache when I was live streaming the next day.

"Yes, at the wrap party yesterday... I wanted to show off and get everyone in the crew drunk, but I made a mistake..."

"Although our director is a woman, she is from Inner Mongolia. I can drink a lot, but compared to her, I am nothing... Let's put it this way, if she is a king, I am at most a gold..."

"Drinking parties are indeed popular in the industry, but I usually don't participate... Mainly because I debuted too recently... I'm just a small character... Usually, when the big guys meet, they won't let me participate."

"What do you want to talk about? Comments on the Lunar New Year movies...Okay, I'll just say a few words..."

"Legend of the Demon Cat? I won't comment on Director Chen. After all, I am a public figure... I advise marketing accounts not to take advantage of his popularity... You will have to bear the consequences at your own risk!"

"I read the public opinion on "Youth"... Director Feng really challenged the subject matter and got what he wanted... For a movie, the director's position is important or unimportant. As long as he dares to shoot and can shoot, and let everyone know that it exists and has these differences, it is a good work. Telling a good story and creating a few typical characters is a qualified movie. If it can also trigger some thinking, it is a masterpiece!"

"'Blood Machine' and 'The Thousand Faces of Dunjia' are indeed quite disappointing..."

"These two movies are full of embarrassment from hair to toenails... It feels like Hong Kong movies are full of aliens... They are so bad that I am too lazy to talk about them!"

"I haven't watched the other movies... I won't talk about them to avoid being scolded... I think Jackie Chan can definitely play the story of a hero in his twilight years. Logan is a very typical story of a hero in his twilight years... There are also Clint Eastwood's movies, Gran Turismo and Unforgiven are very typical narratives of a hero in his twilight years..."

"David Lynch also made a movie called 'Mr. Street's Story'...it can last for another ten years? Bullshit!"

"Ah? Jackie Chan said that himself? Then... just pretend I didn't say that!"

Before the release of "The Foreigner", he publicly said: I will retire when I can no longer fight, and I can hold on for ten or twenty years...

By the way, Fang Shimin is one of the producers of "Bleeding Steel", so this project was actually brought together by Jackie Chan’s son.

This crappy movie, supposedly a Jackie Chan-style action comedy, added a bunch of confusing sci-fi elements, making the film a mess!
Then a netizen asked, "If Jackie Chan asks you to go, will you go?"

Shen Liang hesitated when he saw this question: "Looking for me? It's unlikely... I'm not from Taiwan, nor from Hong Kong, and I'm not a top star... How could they look for me?"

“What happened to Hong Kong movies?”

"That's a good question... Let's talk about one thing. In the past, Hong Kong movies had martial arts, kung fu, action, gunfights, zombies, costumes, spoofs, ghosts and cult classics, horror, romance, art, and Category III movies... They all had them!
The themes of Hong Kong movies nowadays are nothing more than police and gangster films, and the content is basically about drug eradication and anti-crime… Hong Kong can only sell a little over 10 million at most, it doesn’t matter, they can sell it in the mainland for another 600 or 700 million, count the money and call it a day, and repeat the same thing next year!”

"The declining Hong Kong filmmakers are not pathetic. On the contrary, they are extremely lucky to have encountered the rising second largest film market in the world and fully enjoyed the market dividends that are like boiling oil on a raging fire... Apart from anything else, the "Macao Fengyi" trilogy has earned more than 25 billion in box office. If this data was put in the 90s, director Wang Jing might have needed to shoot 50 "God of Gamblers" to achieve it!"

"As for the decline of Hong Kong films, a famous Hong Kong director said this in an interview with mainland media: The great Roman Empire disappeared, so it's no wonder that Hong Kong films are declining..."

"By the way, Hong Kong filmmakers love to use censorship as an excuse. Don't mainland filmmakers have to face censorship? They complain all day long about not being allowed to shoot this or that... In the final analysis, if you can't adapt to mainland audiences, it's useless to pretend to be highbrow. You will just be eliminated by the market!"

"I'm very confused. In the past, Hong Kong films were mainly sold to Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea, and generally didn't care about what happened in the mainland. They lived a comfortable life. They can continue to shoot for these markets. Why do they have to bring up the mainland?"

"Will I be banned for saying this? Hehe..."

(End of this chapter)