I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 829: "Shushan" Promotion (13)
"30,000 Miles of Chang'an"...

Many people say it is not true...

But this is an animated film, not a documentary.

Viewing "30,000 Miles from Chang'an" as a historical documentary is a wrong perspective.

It's like using the standards of history books to evaluate "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" or "Water Margin".

"30,000 Miles from Chang'an", a movie, re-annotated and interpreted the poem that almost all Chinese people can recite, allowing almost all the audiences who have watched the movie to finally understand the true meaning of this poem that they have recited for a lifetime - the knowledge learned many years ago began to attack the soul.

Especially the part of "Song of the Wine", even though many audiences knew it by heart, they were still moved by the lines, pictures and performance and couldn't stop crying...

However, this movie means nothing to Shen Liang.

When he invested, he just wanted to make some money...

At that time, he was not yet a famous film and television investor, so he only invested 20%...

It should still be a premium investment...

But it definitely made money.

……

The cast of "Shushan" is very rich, with as many as hundreds of people. Even Li Yingqiong's father, who only appeared once, was played by Zhou Yiwei!
In terms of lineup, it is second only to "The Founding of a Republic" and "The Founding of a Party".

The main reason why the actors are willing to come is because of the appeal of Xu Ke + Shen Liang + "Shushan".

Mr. Xu visited "Shu Mountain" three times, this gimmick is too big!

In recent years, film and television works with fairy tale themes have become common, and several ancient idol fairy tale masterpieces are born every year...

But these works are generally lousy!

It’s always about gods falling in love and gods arranging marriages.

The purpose of cultivating immortals is to become immortals. It often takes hundreds or even thousands of years for those who cultivate immortals. There is no time in the mountains, but a thousand years have passed in the world. Time is the least valuable for practitioners, and thousands of years will pass by if they are not careful.

On the road of spiritual practice, there is fate but no emotion. Friendship can be moving, but one cannot be moved. Being moved will bring disaster. This is the "biggest taboo" in spiritual practice. In traditional stories, whether it is "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" or "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl", they all tell us that one should not be moved by emotions during spiritual practice.

Compared to the current fairy tale dramas "The immortals are pursuing love, the gods are in love, the king of gods is busy chasing his wife..."

The setting of "The Legend of Zu" has won the audience's applause!
"The Legend of Zu" has become the pinnacle of domestically produced fairy tales, and its scenes of flying with swords, floating fairy mountains, etc. are enough to put the so-called fairy tale dramas to shame.

Being able to fly with a sword does not require walking; being able to use magic weapons does not require fists or feet; all kinds of magical weapons shine brightly. This is what a fairy tale drama or a fantasy drama should look like.

Now, "Shushan" is here again!

It has been 22 years since the last release of "The Legend of Zu".

The people in charge of publicity are Shen Liang, Tsui Hark and Lu Yang...

Shen Liang started: "From the beginning we set the format of a trilogy... The story of "Shushan" is very long, we must adapt it! And the biggest problem with the original Shushan is that its value orientation and concept of right and wrong are not consistent with modern society..." "Because it is a novel from the 1940s, the writing style is very old-fashioned, there is an absolute concept of good and evil, good people are good no matter what they do, bad people are wrong no matter what they do, even if the treasure is handed in late, they will be labeled as "greedy."

"In fact, modern chivalrous novels have gradually moved towards dialectical materialism and historical materialism since Jin Yong and Gu Long, but Mr. Huanzhu's "Swordsman of Shu Mountain" still looks at moral good and evil in a static, isolated and one-sided way..."

Lu Yang also said: "…I also watched a little bit of "Shushan", and I particularly hate Yu Yingnan. Let me give you two examples. Mi Mingniang spent decades guarding the Nanming Lihuo Sword, but ended up making wedding clothes for her; Huo Wuhai practiced Taoism for hundreds of years, being burned by the meridian rays every day for decades, and ended up making wedding clothes for her as well.

These two old masters who have been enlightened for hundreds of years, due to their lack of luck, have to worship Yu Yingnan as their master before they can enter the Emei Sect.

Zen Master Xiaoyue found the Broken Jade Hook and refined it for many years, but when he met Master Miaoyi, he was robbed and given to his son... I didn't understand at the time, what does "bad fortune" mean? "

Shen Liang added: "However, "Shushan Swordsman" did create the general outline of the school of immortal cultivation novels based on Pingjiang Bushoushen's "Jianghu Qixia Zhuan". The Yuanying, Yuanshen, Neidan, flying swords and magic weapons all came from "Shushan". Later, various writers carried forward and promoted them, and they continued to reach higher realms, but in fact they did not jump out of this big framework."

As for Tsui Hark, he said: "When I was shooting "New Shushan Swordsman", Hong Kong movie special effects were in their infancy. At that time, I was exploring blue backdrops and green backdrops while shooting. When I was shooting "The Legend of Zu", these things were already mature. I expected that 4000 million would be enough... During the shooting, we kept overspending and ended up spending more than million Hong Kong dollars... The market response was very bad!"

"This time, more than 20 years have passed... There is no need to say much about the technological progress. The plot is very compact and modern..."

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In fact, Tsui Hark’s “The Legend of Zu” was heavily criticized in Hong Kong!

A bunch of film critics criticized it in various ways: "There is no rhythm at all. The film "Swordsman" was so tense and exciting, but "Shushan" is a fight from beginning to end without taking a breath, which makes people's optic nerves sore and brain nerves tired..."

"Shushan" relies on special effects to make the fairyland look as sci-fi as outer space. There are also several small mountains floating around the top of the mountain, like satellites. It looks good at first glance, but it gets boring the more you watch it..."

'The whole film tells a vague story in this imaginary space. In the technological age, Tsui Hark wanted to keep up with the trend of the times, but he lost himself.'

'In the midst of the boundless splendor, The Legend of Shushan makes people feel helpless. The end of a hero and the old age of a martyr are the saddest things. The wind is whistling and the Yishui River is cold. Once the hero leaves, he will never come back.'

In fact, there was another important reason why Tsui Hark was able to raise 8000 million to shoot "The Legend of Zu": "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was a great revelation: as long as the film is well made, the actors don't have to speak English to make the film an international one.

That’s right, thanks to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon!
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon grossed $2.18 million worldwide. It should be noted that the total box office of the Hong Kong film market at that time was only HK$10 billion...

The most important thing is that the box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in Hong Kong did not reach 1500 million Hong Kong dollars!
Moreover, Hong Kong filmmakers do not have a high opinion of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

This is quite normal. The label of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is martial arts and the world of martial arts. The Chinese concept of the world of martial arts is that one hides in the city, escapes into the world of mortals, but is not afraid of it, because the world of martial arts is in one's heart.

Tsui Hark's martial arts novels are all about the joy of revenge and the night rain in the rivers and lakes!

It is "grand ambitions and hegemony are all talked about in laughter, which is no better than a drunken moment in the world"!
Back to the promotion…

In Shen Liang's opinion, the biggest competitor of "Shushan: Origin" is "Investiture of the Gods Part 1"...

Regarding the release dates of these two movies, "Shushan" was filmed last year and it was officially announced in advance that it will be released on July 7 this year!
At that time, "Fengshen" was still in the unfinished stage...

——Something happened to Beiwen, and the investment rights of "Fengshen" were transferred...no one took over!
Later, Maoyan teamed up with Tencent to take over the distribution

However, the theaters' expectation for this drama is 5 to 8 million yuan, which does not pose a threat to "Shushan"!

In fact, everyone thinks that the biggest rival of "Shushan" is "Super Family" which will be released on July 7st...

(End of this chapter)