I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 749: A Good Start

"To be honest, the level of most directors is actually limited. They are unable to achieve the true elegance and vulgarity. In fact, most film directors are not truly elegant, but rather "elegant". Many films that the film industry and many film critics consider to be highly artistic ultimately only have a small audience group."

“Don’t always think about ‘using good movies to guide the audience’s aesthetic taste’. The most important thing is to attract the audience to the cinema.”

"The mainstream audience will always be young people around 20 years old. We must not let young audiences lose confidence in domestic films."

"Remember, cinemas are for audiences to watch. Directors can shoot whatever they want. We can't control that, but we can choose not to watch."

Shen Liang talked about some criticisms of the industry, and then the topic shifted to Xu Zhiyuan's favorite "A Sun".
"In recent years, I have particularly liked A Sun, but your subsequent films don't seem to be in this direction?"

Shen Liang nodded and admitted: "A Sun is a very special movie for me..."

"special?"

"First of all, it is not a commercial narrative in the traditional sense, but it is a hit. Secondly, that movie proved my talent as a screenwriter... Since then, if I express my opinions in the preparation stage of many movies, everyone will listen carefully..."

“But your subsequent films did not follow this path… Was it because of capitalism?”

"Not really... Mainly because I don't have that much desire to express myself..." Shen Liang thought for a moment and said, "I don't even have the idea of ​​becoming a director..."

"why?"

“…No reason, I’m not that narcissistic, and I don’t have the mentality to prove myself…Besides, I think being a producer is pretty good.”

"Will you still make movies like A Sunny Day?"

"Who can say for sure?" Shen Liang shrugged: "Maybe one day I'll see a good script and then organize a group..."

……

Xu Zhiyuan's attitude towards Shen Liang was to look at him as an equal, unlike the way he looked at Ning Hao, who was scrutinizing or even looking down on him - at the beginning of the conversation, he had the inevitable prejudice as a literary youth, and was almost heartbroken: How could such a good independent director go for the mainstream theme 20 years later?

However, Xu Zhiyuan is really not a good interviewer. He didn’t even talk about “Keep You Safe” in detail…

I feel like being on one of his shows is not as good as the line in "Four Poisonous Uncles" 'Is your movie about selling insurance? I'm here to keep you safe!'

This thing is at least a joke!

It doesn’t matter. “13 Invitations” is not very popular.

But there are really not many decent interview variety shows...

As for The Round Table...

Been there once already in August.

To be honest, the publicity effect of appearing on a variety show is not even as good as that of Shen Liang hosting a live broadcast!
——Shen Liang’s live broadcast attracted over 3000 million people online. The number of people online on general long video platforms is simply not that high.

In addition to his live broadcast, there are thousands or even tens of thousands of special broadcaster accounts that specifically capture what he says during the live broadcast...

So, he tore up "The Tomorrow War" by hand, and it spread all over Douyin, Kuaishou, and Xiaohongshu within 24 hours...

Including the cast of "Keep You Safe" mentioned during the live broadcast...it soon became known to the entire Internet.

"In the movie Keep You Safe...at first we were going to ask Liu Yan to play the heroine Han Lu...but her age was not right, after all, Liu Yan is already in her 40s..." "We wanted to find an actress who was slandered by various pornographic rumors...then Liu Yan must be the first to be slandered. About fifteen years ago, I heard someone say that Liu Yan sold her body to get promoted. After 15 years, no one has dug up her dirty history..."

"Wang Sicong doesn't understand the entertainment industry. In fact, if she is really isolated by the entertainment industry, it might actually prove that she is a pretty good woman.

Being isolated doesn’t mean it’s bad. It depends on who is isolating you. If you are isolated by a bunch of rubbish, then you are a good person! "

"In fact, according to my standards, the Golden Rooster Award that year should really have been given to Liu Yan!"

"For the heroine of "Keep You Safe", we finally chose Naza..."

"She was also subject to various obscene rumors..."

"Why didn't we choose Huang Bo as the male lead? Let me put it this way... Actually, when we were filming The Wandering Earth, we tried to find many first-line actors, but they all rejected us... Do you understand what I mean? I'm not that familiar with Mr. Huang Bo... And I owe Brother Jiayin a movie..."

Oh, Dong Runnian has a good relationship with Huang Bo. His first play "The Man Caught by Light" was starred by Huang Bo!
Therefore, many fans of Huang Bo mentioned why Huang Bo was not the lead actor in "Keep You Safe"...

However, most people don’t care about this…

They are more concerned about the actors who rejected "The Wandering Earth"...

Shen Liang was not a fool, he just said: "All you need to know is that we have contacted most of the suitable actors, and in the end only Wu Jing agreed to join!"

……

The box office of the movie "Keep You Safe" is good - there are 9000 real advance screenings every day, and most of them are at pm...

It earned over 1500 million at the box office for three consecutive days.

The reputation is very good, and the scores on the two major ticket purchasing platforms are both over 9.5 points, which can be said to be rave reviews...

It will be released nationwide on September 9th.

On the first day, the films "The Journey Home" and "Keep You Safe" both accounted for 22%, and "Ordinary Heroes" also accounted for 21%...

"Iron Will" is 14%.

There is not much difference in the film schedule!
At the end of the first day, "The Journey Home" had 5080 million, "Ordinary Heroes" had 1400 million, and "Keep You Safe" had 6500 million, temporarily ranking first.
This result is a bit unexpected.

It’s not too low, but a little too high - "A Thousand Miles Home" was also screened, with a box office of 900 million and good reputation...

The key point is that "The Journey Home" is a large-scale mainstream commercial film, the kind that was promoted on the news broadcast.

I didn’t even do “Keep You Safe” on the first day…

Of course, the most unexpected thing is "Ordinary Heroes". Bona also plans to replicate the box office miracles of "The Captain", "The Bravest" and "Chinese Doctor"!
Bona Film Group produced the film with an investment of RMB 2.5 million. Yu Dong was the producer and producer, Chen Guohui was the director, Li Lianhua, Feng Shaofeng and Huang Xiaoming were the main actors, and the supporting actors included Lin Yongjian, Zhang Yishan, Na Zha, Hu Bingqing and many more…

The first day box office was only 1400 million?
The key word of mouth is not good either, Maoyan predicts the total box office will be 2.04 million!
Bona made a lot of money this year except for the Spring Festival movie "Watergate Bridge". It has lost four films in a row: the first one was the Spring Festival movie "Four Seas" directed by Han Han, starring Liu Haoran and Liu Haochun, the second one was the summer movie "Mozart from Outer Space" directed by Chen Sicheng, starring Huang Bo and Fan Wei, and the third one was the Mid-Autumn Festival movie "The End of the Sea is the Grassland" directed by Er Dongsheng, starring Chen Baoguo and Ma Su...

But Yu Dong is not in a hurry at all. Dante Lam's "Point Break" is currently being filmed in Hong Kong and is expected to be released in the summer of 2023. There is also a main theme movie "Operation Red Sea 2: Killer Whale Operation"...

Shen Liang has joined the crew of "Beasts Clawing at Straws"...

(End of this chapter)