This actor just wants to verify.

Chapter 942: So simple that people like it (asking for monthly votes)
Of course, this comparison is unfair to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, after all, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was a movie made eight years ago.

Over the past eight years, the size of the film market has been growing in most countries and regions.

Especially in the Chinese film market, the box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in mainland China was only 1500 million, but now "Your Name" has 5 million.

The box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in Japan was also average that year, with sales of only 8723 million yen, while "Your Name" was more than billion yen, or million yuan.

The main reason is that although "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" claims to be Chinese culture, it is not actually made for Chinese people to watch. Naturally, it will not sell well in areas with the influence of Chinese culture.

On the contrary, 1.28 million were sold in North America.

"Your Name" was released in many countries and regions outside of China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, and only earned 9000 million RMB, or more than 1300 million US dollars at the box office.

It's almost a ten-fold difference.

FC Pictures is not strong enough in terms of distribution, and "Your Name" is indeed not so suitable for Europe and the United States. It does not feel aggrieved at all that it only earned a few million dollars at the box office in North America.

Michael Bay can only pin his hopes on "Source Code".

It’s just that “Source Code” couldn’t get the import quota from China this year, so it will definitely have to wait until next year to be released.

Things are so outrageous that even Hao Yun, when making movies in Hollywood, has to follow the quota system as long as he does not obtain the qualifications for co-productions.

"From a director's perspective, what do you think of my performance in the movie 'Inception'?" Leonardo felt that Hao Yun had more say and would look at the matter more objectively.

What I mean is, do you think I look like an Oscar-winning actor?

It’s like Wong Tai Sin asking you whether I look like a human being or not.

When asked this question, Nolan would only say, we will conquer the world.

Go to hell.

"The performance is very good, but 'Inception' is a blockbuster, and it's hard for you to get what you want." Hao Yun understood what Leonardo meant.

"What a shame, I tried so hard." Leonardo was like some people's girlfriends who had been deflated.

"Hey, don't be like this. This will be a great movie. Whether it wins an award or not will not affect its greatness!" Hao Yun hurriedly comforted.

If Nolan finds himself defusing Leonardo, he certainly won’t let himself off.

Sometimes an actor's state is to do it all in one go.

"Great?" This word is a bit exaggerated, even more so than winning an award.

“Yes, this movie is obviously the director’s tribute to Borges. These carefully designed psychedelic plots, the connection between dreams, and the connection between dreams and reality are very similar to Borges’ novels.

Labyrinth and mirror are Borges' famous labels.

The biggest difference from the novel is that Nolan used extremely exaggerated visual elements to restore the vague and magical dream.

This is simply a... well, it will definitely go down in film history, and will become a landmark event in film history like "Blade Runner" and "The Matrix"! "

Leonardo was stunned by the fright and was filled up by Hao Yun again.

Nolan came over to give Leonardo some encouragement, only to find out that he had already been beaten up.

I feel like there is something green on my forehead.

I don’t know why, but these people from ancient times to the present, both in China and abroad, immediately get excited when they hear about leaving their names in history.

The same goes for An's father. It is said that he did not work as hard as he does now when he was a secretary.

Now, not only does he actively participate in teaching as the Chinese dean, he also goes to other universities to give lectures, trying to increase the influence of the Confucius Institute in Paris.

This time, his future son-in-law came to the Confucius Institute to give a speech, which attracted many students from Paris.

Mainly from the University of Paris VII, but there are also schools like the University of Paris VIII.

Compared to the University of Paris VII, which enjoys international reputation and influence in the fields of medicine, science, humanities and social sciences, the University of Paris VIII offers film and audiovisual arts majors at both the undergraduate and master's levels. It is the first choice for many students who want to study film in a public university.

When I heard that this year's Golden Lion Award winner was coming to give a speech, I was quite excited.

The film industry is not that rebellious, and masters are respected in any occasion.

Hao Yun discussed the time with his father-in-law and decided to arrange three exchanges.

The first session is about China, which mainly talks about Chinese culture.

Especially the part that foreigners find difficult to understand, because of this misunderstanding, it is easy to form prejudice.

For example, they think that Chinese people have no faith.

This is indeed a prejudice.

Or it is a narrow understanding.

The other thing is to talk about some cultural things.

Hao Yun had no intention of convincing anyone.

Many academic masters who have come out of China have tried to do so, but with little success.

Hao Yun’s perspective is very unique.

Looking at the foreign students in the audience, he mainly told some short stories.

The general principles are all written in books.

If people really want to understand the great principles of your country, they just need to read books.

Since you don't want to understand, it's useless for you to talk till your mouth is broken.

The existence of prejudice, apart from the persistence of some inherent concepts, is actually more of an emotion of fear.

The threat theory becomes more and more popular as you become stronger.

It is not the case that, as some wise experts say, we should just let our horses rest in the mountains, steadily engage in product processing, and happily become the world's factory.

Naturally, you will no longer be disliked by outsiders.

Since big principles are useless, it’s better to make the lecture more cheerful.

At least they listened to the story with great interest, without even realizing that they had learned a lot about Chinese culture and the ideas that Hao Yun wanted to convey from the story.

Of course, the most important thing is that the speaker is knowledgeable and speaks French well enough.

Hao Yun feels that if he consolidates his knowledge a little, he can take the DELF or CATTI exams, and there are also TFS-4/TFS-8 certificates for French.

New certificates are waiting for him to get. Although he is knowledgeable, Hao Yun refused to answer any questions related to Zheng Zhi during the lecture.

This is hard to explain, and it is not his place to explain.

It is difficult to understand what the people who have something in their minds and then go out and talk nonsense are really asking for. Maybe they themselves are also very confused.

Maybe I feel that I have been abandoned by the times and have not received the glory I deserve.

So it hits off with those people outside who want to hear this kind of complaints.

The first day was very effective.

There were just too many people coming, which was not quite what Hao Yun expected.

There are not many students in the Confucius Institute. The entire institute has grown from a few dozen people at the beginning to two or three hundred people now.

But there were hundreds of people coming to listen to his lecture.

For the second film lecture, even more people came, almost a thousand, so we had to communicate with the University of Paris VII to move to the auditorium.

There are not so many concerns when talking about movies.

Moreover, Hao Yun does not need to teach others from the perspective of the entire Chinese film industry. He just talks about his film concepts in combination with his own works, just like reporting on his work.

Even from a global perspective, he is a successful director.

"Buried" made more than 30 million U.S. dollars with 3 million U.S. dollars, and "Whiplash" made more than 1 million U.S. dollars, and also made 30 million U.S. dollars in Europe and the United States.

"Your Name" cost less than 2.65 million U.S. dollars and has currently generated million U.S. dollars in box office.

Hao Yun has become a miracle in the film industry by making small investments to achieve big results time and time again.

It's better than those big directors who spend $100 million or $200 million and make a movie that grosses $600 million or $700 million.

There were many people at the scene who aspired to be directors but could not find the money to make movies. They not only listened to the lectures carefully, but also took notes frantically.

It's so damn useful.

There were even quite a few people from the film and television industry who went there to sit in.

Among them are the connections Hao Yun has accumulated at the three major European film festivals, such as Javier Giannoli, who was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 with "When I Was a Singer".

In the early 90s, he began to get involved in filmmaking and shot a number of short films, from which he already showed his sophisticated narrative skills.

His 1998 short film "The Interview" also won him the Best Short Film Awards at the César and Cannes Film Festivals.

He and Hao Yun have more common topics.

In terms of subject matter, Javier's films have always revolved around love, the French's favorite theme.

Commercial films are his main research subject.

Hao Yun is unique in the field of romantic commercial films.

Except for the box office explosion of "Titanic", most of the romantic movies only make tens of millions of dollars at most. Hao Yun's "Those Years", "Painted Skin" and "Your Name" are all outstanding commercial films even in the world film industry.

Javier Giannoli didn't just come to support his friend.

He also listened to the lectures very seriously and learned something of his own from Hao Yun's ideas.

Hao Yun did not talk about how "Hello! Mr. Tree" won the Golden Lion Award. He simply talked about how to make money by making movies.

It is so simple that it deserves praise.

On the third day, Hao Yun talked about music with students from the Confucius Institute.

His performance skills are not amazing, but they are still quite good. He played several instruments on the spot, such as guitar, erhu, suona...

Hao Yun's guitar skills are the best among all the instruments he plays. He has been playing it for seven years and his level is now better than that of his teacher Li Meng.

Since last year, it has become difficult for him to gain any attributes from Li Meng.

If you count it, it has been a long time since I saw Teacher Li Meng doing anything immoral.

The huqin had no intention at all, but the sound of the piece was so heartbreaking that the students who were playing the erhu wanted to cry.

When the suona comes on stage, I don’t recognize the sound of the suona at first, but when I listen to it again, I feel like a person is in a coffin.

After the performance, let’s talk about his Chinese songs, English songs, and instrumental music.

Talking about some interesting musical stories in ancient China, you can find the heritage of this ancient civilization at random.

The fourth game is even more interesting.

Although Hao Yun had already announced that this time he would only talk about Chinese cuisine and cook a dish on the spot, and those who were not interested did not need to join in the fun, many young people still crowded into the scene.

I guess few people can understand why a director like him would talk about food.

There is also a Chinatown in Paris, such as the Choisy Triangle, but some of the Chinese traditions there have long since changed. It can be said that they have adapted to local conditions and kept pace with the times.

Therefore, those who attended the lectures truly experienced what Chinese cuisine is.

No matter how it tasted - there were too many people to share the food with everyone - at least the cooking process was an eye-opener for everyone.

It’s worthy of being eaten by ancient emperors.

In fact, Hao Yun disclosed in detail all the secrets of a secret palace dish on the spot. If you follow his process and study it more, you can really make it almost exactly like this.

Hao Yun gave a total of five lectures at the Confucius Institute.

The last session was an interactive exchange, where we talked about China, movies, creation, and even "The Martian", which sold quite well in France.

The film will probably be screened in the winter.

In order to promote the movie, Michael Bay will work with Hao Yun to screen suitable actors from around the world.

When Hao Yun was busy organizing five exchange meetings for his father-in-law, An Xiaoxi was always with him.

But it's impossible to be with you forever.

After all, An Xiaoxi has to go back to promote "Sword Rain", which is not as popular as "Your Name".

The decline of martial arts films is no joke, but I don’t know if the combination of Hao Yun + An Xiaoxi can save "Sword Rain".

(End of this chapter)