Huayu: I'm reborn, but you still force me to be a scumbag?

Chapter 167 Box Office Record
She wasn't the only one who wanted to know this question.

Because ten minutes later, there were many posts on the Film Academy's BBS discussing why Jiang Wen made this sudden trip to Beijing Film Academy and came to personally greet Chen Nuo with such fanfare. What was the purpose?
Could it be that they hit it off right after meeting each other in Shanghai not long ago, and thus had any subsequent cooperation?

Not only on the Internet, Jiang Wen's arrival this time really alarmed many people.

Almost as soon as they left the campus, the leaders of the School of Performing Arts, who had just received notifications from various parties, started asking about this matter.

For a time, the Beijing Film Academy was in an uproar.

But the hustle and bustle of the outside world seemed to be in two different worlds from the two people in the Alpha car.

Ever since Chen Nuo got into Jiang Wen's car, the two of them never mentioned the Film Academy again.

Chen Nuo was only thinking about his Wang Tianxiang, and Jiang Wen was only thinking about the promotion of his "The Sun Also Rises".

The two talked through these two things on the way to meet Wang Jiawei.

Jiang Wen meant to ask Chen Nuo's company to use the water army they had trained and formed through "Crazy Stone" to help him promote his new movie. As for the expenses, he would not lose a cent.

As for the matter of Wang Tianxiang in "The Sound of Wind", he had already written down Chen Nuo's request, and he would go and ask about it later.

In a word, if you help me with this matter, I will take care of your other matter, just wait. My Jiang Wen's reputation is definitely better than your Chen Nuo's, and Huayi and the like are no problem.

If someone else had taken on such a big responsibility, Chen Nuo might not have believed it.

Jiang Wen said that he really believed it.

The two of them immediately reached an agreement.

Chen Nuo was also resolute and decisive. Before the car arrived at the meeting place where Wang Jiawei was, he had already called Qi Yuntian and told him about Jiang Wen's contact person, asking the company's marketing department to help Brother Jiang take care of the matter.

Jiang Wen was also very happy when he saw this. He patted Chen Nuo on the shoulder and said, "Brother, you are so righteous. I will not let you down either."

Chen Nuo sighed, "Brother, you are so righteous, I believe in you."

They had already hit it off because of the incident with Takeshi Kitano, and now, facing their own interests, Jiang Da and Chen Er looked at each other with a liking.

Fortunately, the car arrived at the destination, otherwise the two of them would probably have been beheaded and burned with yellow paper, and then went to Liangshan together.

When they arrived at the place, Chen Nuo discovered that Wang Jiawei was really angry this time.

It was a huge effort. Not only were all the relevant departments of Zedong Films called in, but also people from the mainland distributor of Blueberry Nights, Shanghai Film Company, and all the dubbing companies in Beijing were gathered together.

Together with the actor representative Chen Nuo, and the two voice actor representatives Jiang Wen and Dong Jie, it can be said that all four parties are gathered together.

Men and women filled the huge conference room. It seemed that they were determined to find out the reason why "My Blueberry Nights" failed at the box office during the May Day holiday.

What could be the reason?
What else could be the reason?
If it weren't for Director Wang's friendly support and no reward, Chen Nuo would have just walked away.

What a waste of time.

As the distributor, Shanghai Film Group distributed half of the film's copies to theaters nationwide, half of which were original and half were dubbed, but the dubbed version turned out like that.

I almost couldn't make it through the movie when I went to see it last night, and Janice Man even kept mumbling "baaaaah" for more than an hour in the theater.

Not to mention the reviews online.

These three words "Wang Jiawei" have almost become synonymous with "no conscience".

In this case, it would be a miracle if the box office is good in the next few days.

Chen Nuo knew so much about this only because the water army department formed by Qi Yuntian included the work of public opinion monitoring.

According to the briefing he saw, the controversy and polarization caused by the movie "My Blueberry Nights" during the three days of May Day were unprecedented.

In fact, during the three-day May Day period, "Blueberry Nights" did not have any decent competitors.

Compared with "The Mute", which is also an art film but was directly attacked by Wuji, it can be said that it is the same person but with different fates.

Wang Jiawei thought that he could create a box office record for art films in the mainland by relying on his reputation, the quality of the film, the awards it won, and the popularity of the male lead in mainland China.

Therefore, the filmmaker went to the extent of swallowing its pride and inviting superstars to do the dubbing, providing a way for middle-aged and elderly audiences who do not like to read subtitles to watch the film.

All of these are well-intentioned and deeply touching.

But unfortunately, at this point, there are almost as many people criticizing it as praising it.

In the conference room of Zedong Film's BJ office, Chen Nuo looked at Wang Sunglasses' dark face and just wanted to say, if he had known this would happen, he would not have done it in the first place.

Wang Mojing had made sufficient preparations for this meeting, and he did more than just listen to his subordinates' summaries like Chen Nuo did.

He actually asked someone to collect almost all the mainstream comments on the Internet.

These include all major blogs, including Sina, Sohu, Net1, and Yahoo.

There are also Tianya Forum, Mop, and Douban, which has already begun to show its influence.

Finally, it was printed out and bound into a stack of A4 paper. A beautiful receptionist who spoke very standard Mandarin sat in front of a crowd of more than people and read it one by one.

Cruel!
Before he finished reading the third one, Chen Nuo saw Dong Jie's eyes were filled with tears.

"Who is Dong Jie? Who sent her out to pollute the earth?"

"I just want to ask, is Dong Jie a human or a machine? Why does he make such a stupid sound?"

"When Dong Jie spoke, my ears and brain were destroyed by her."

"Wang Jiawei really treats the mainland audience as his own sons. He thinks he has a trump card in his hand and can make us all bow down and obey him."

When the little beauty finished reading, Wong Kar-wai interrupted and said, "Let me interject. The review I'm reading now was posted by a very famous film critic on Sina Blog. The number of hits has exceeded 40 in the past three days. The comments are almost unanimous in agreement. Okay, continue."

The girl at the front desk continued, "I know Wong Kar-wai is awesome. I also know that he won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and is very proud of himself. I also know that a great Hong Kong director like him has omnipotent power in the mainland, but can he bully others like this?"

"We mainland audiences can indeed do our best to see the superb performances of Chen Nuo and the Cannes Film Festival winner. But, Director Wang, can you please give us some space to appreciate the movie?"

"Tell Dong Jie to shut up and get out of this movie, that's what you can do for us."

The cruel public execution was too much for Dong Jie to bear. She ran out of the meeting room crying.

The beautiful girl who was reading the words was a little overwhelmed, but Wang Mojing next to him said three words expressionlessly: "Keep reading."

Chen Nuo looked at Jiang Wen next to him, only to see that he also had a blank expression on his face. He could only sigh inwardly that a man cannot be a hero without cruelty.

Then he put away the smile on his face.

Then he read a long speech, criticizing the dubbing version. The people from the dubbing company were already fidgeting, and the faces of the other parties were not very good either.

Chen Nuo was listening with great interest when the beautiful girl who was reading the lines suddenly looked up at him.

Chen Nuo was a little confused by her shy look, and then he heard the beautiful girl say, "Currently, our rating on Douban is 5.5 points. The top five most liked reviews are as follows."

"An Ran: Watching Chen Nuo and Emma, ​​I felt as if I was watching the New York version of Chungking Express. Especially what Chen Nuo said at the end, in fact, it is not difficult to cross the road, the most important thing is who is waiting for you on the other side. I really can't find a man more suitable to say this than Chen Nuo. His melancholy and innocent eyes have murdered many girls' hearts. PS: I know that many people have eaten shit on the dubbing version, but the movie itself is innocent. Stop giving it 1 star, okay?"

After reading it, the beautiful girl looked at Chen Nuo again and said, "This post has the most likes, a total of 2611." At the same time, she added in her mind that one of them was liked by me.

"Fang Qiangqiang: This is Wang Jiawei's best film after In the Mood for Love. I finally understand why we saw so much news about Cannes last year. At that time, I thought it was an exaggeration by the domestic media. But after watching it, I realized that what Li Yang said in the interview should be true. Anyone who knows a little about movies should know that Chen Nuo's performance is almost impossible to replicate. I even doubt whether Chen Nuo can perform it again. It is worthy of the love of the majority of filmmakers in Cannes. From today on, anyone who still doubts Chen Nuo's acting skills, please block me directly."

There were too many words to read. She took a sip of water and continued reading: "No such person: Compared with Emma Stone's slightly immature performance, I like Natalie Portman's effortless sexiness. She is in her 20s, but she plays the mature role of a woman in her 30s. I think this is a breakthrough performance. Emma Stone is really too young. Finally, I still have to say that Cannes really owes Chen Nuo an actor."

“Floria: Chen Nuo, who sells blueberry pies in New York, is very much like He Zhiwu, the man in Hong Kong who eats expired honey and gives pig massages late at night. Oh, New York, New York, you gave him all the mystery and tenderness contained in your night, and let him come out to seduce everyone?”

Holy shit. What the hell.

Who is this?

Chen Nuo got goosebumps. After filming "Blueberry Nights", he gave himself a score of 9.

But after filming The Dark Knight, he changed the blueberry score from 9 to 7.

It's just a little more than passing.

Therefore, he felt a little uncomfortable when he heard these people praising Blueberry after watching it.

But Jiang Wen patted him on the shoulder, lowered his voice, and said, "My wife and I went to see it the day before yesterday. You are not bad, boy."

After hearing Jiang Wen's words, Chen Nuo's uneasy heart suddenly calmed down.

It seems that my 7-point performance is quite acceptable.

"Numb: The dubbing version goes to hell, and don't let me see Dong Jie's name anywhere in the future."

After saying the last sentence, Chen Nuo felt that Dong Jie, who had just returned, was about to cry again.

Chen Nuo actually felt that she was somewhat wronged.

When dubbing that day, Chen Nuo felt that this woman had not received any professional dubbing training and her acting skills were probably not that good either. Wang Jiawei was simply forcing her to do the job.

It's like you know a person can't swim, but you still ask him to be a lifeguard. Then someone drowns, can you blame him?
But then Wang Jiawei said, "Ms. Dong, are you done crying? Is this the result of your practice? I gave you two months to practice. And this is how you ended up? I only gave Nuozi half a month, so he could memorize the script before joining the crew. What about you?"

Dong Jie lowered her head, tears falling again.

Okay, Chen Nuo understood. He was lazy and incompetent, so he couldn't blame anyone.

The following meeting time was garbage time in Chen Nuo's opinion.

Several parties blamed each other, and in the end, apart from asking the dubbing company to bear the corresponding responsibility, no one found out who the culprit behind the scene was.

Later, Wong Kar-wai asked him and Jiang Wen to express their opinions respectively.

Well, Chen Nuo just said a few perfunctory words. Just like Jiang Wen.

Wang Jiawei ultimately boasted about the quality of the film and the performances of the actors, pushed all the responsibility onto the dubbing, and asked people from the Shanghai Film Company to notify theaters to stop playing the dubbed version, and to urgently work overtime to copy the original soundtrack and send it to theaters across the country.

Chen Nuo felt that it was a good way to make up for the loss.

At least this will prevent the reputation from declining further. As for the specific impact on the final box office, we can only leave it to fate.

May 5th is the day when the showdown between "My Blueberry Nights" and Spider-Man 4 begins.

But after the meeting, Chen Nuo almost forgot about Blueberry Night.

Because Ning Hao, Gao Qunshu, Qi Yuntian and others went together to scout the location for Feng Sheng and determine the shooting location.

In addition to attending classes, he had to go to work in the company, which made him miserable.

Wang Jiawei also seems to be suffering.

The ambitious plan was hit hard by the dubbed version. Although the reputation stopped falling and rebounded after the entire soundtrack was replaced with the original sound, an art film is still an art film.

It is also an art film with English subtitles.

How can such a low-budget love movie compare with Spider-Man 3, which is suitable for all ages, hot and exciting, and popular all over the world?
As soon as it was released on May 5, Spider-Man 4 easily took the box office championship of the day from Blueberry Nights, and directly raked in more than 3 million at the box office.

In the first weekend, the box office rose instead of falling, and it directly won nearly 3000 million. After one week of release, the box office of Spider-Man 3 has reached 7000 million. It is a foregone conclusion that it will break the box office record of Spider-Man 2 in the mainland.

At this time, Blueberry Nights, which was released three days earlier, had just managed to reach 1500 million at the box office.

So much so that when Chen Nuo saw those media headlines in the newspaper, he sneered.

"After 13 days of release, My Blueberry Nights broke the mainland box office record for art films - Beijing Daily."

"It conquered the audience with its performances, and "Blueberry Nights" proved the mainland art film market with its box office - "China Film News"

"Chen Nuo and Wang Jiawei use their strength to fight back against online haters. Who says 1 plus 1 is less than 2? - West China Metropolis Daily"

"Chen Nuo's face is so classy, ​​Wang Jiawei knows how to create a dreamy and alienated look for him, which is the key to the success of "Blueberry Nights" - Southern Weekend"

"Wang Jiawei's worst movie, a mix of old chicken soup and a little freshness, a capital-letter sultry. However, the male and female protagonists saved this old wine in a new bottle. The kiss at the end is a shot that will go down in history - Ta Kung Pao."

Perhaps these print media have also contributed to the trend. Ever since the original version of "Blueberry Nights" was released, its rating on Douban has been rising.

In the first weekend, the score dropped from 5.5 to 6.7.

In the second weekend, it dropped from 6.7 to 7.4.

It is obvious that China's vast number of young literary and artistic people seem to be fascinated by this film directed by a Hong Kong director in the United States, in which mainland actors and white girls have a romantic relationship.

At first, people just praised the acting, but later some people began to analyze the metaphors in the movie and even reviewed the history of Chinese in the United States.

Well, Douban's most hilarious over-interpretation in later generations gradually took root under the guidance of "Blueberry Nights".

However, the power of literary youth in the early 21st century is still strong. After all, the romantic 80s and the struggling 90s were not over for long, and the authors of scar literature have not yet been lying in piles of old papers waiting to die.

In the last bit of time before the arrival of the traffic era, "My Blueberry Nights" actually allowed the literary and artistic youth to hold on and show a hint of perseverance under the powerful pressure of "Spider-Man 3".

当5月30日进入播放末期的时候，蜘蛛侠3在内地卖出了创超级英雄片记录的接近1.5亿票房，而《蓝莓之夜》居然也来到了2500多万，将内地艺术片由孔雀创下的1300万记录活生生的提高了1200万。

At the same time, the Douban score reached 7.9.

Not bad.

This also seems to have laid more confidence for the release of "My Blueberry Nights" in North America.

Before Wang Mojing went to North America, he gave Chen Nuo a good hug.

Sure enough, no matter how good a director of an art film is, he doesn't want his film to lose money.

The United States is Emma Stone's territory, and it might not be a good thing for the yellow boyfriend in her movies to go there and get involved, so Chen Nuo stayed in the country with peace of mind, preparing for all kinds of things.

Qiuzhuang selected the location on May 5th. Under the enthusiastic invitation of Chedun Film and Television Base, Ning Hao and his team finally chose Hengdian.

There is no other way. In terms of cost performance, crew costs, and the discounts offered, Hengdian is still the best choice. Everything in Shanghai is really expensive. I will wait until I have money next time.

The one-to-one restored Qiuzhuang was built in Hengdian. At the same time, the adapted script was completed as scheduled and handed over to Chen Nuo.

Even Liu Yifei came back from the Arctic and started special acting training.

The acting teacher that Chen Nuo arranged for Liu Yifei was Mr. Zhang Songwen, the owner of a small courtyard in Shunyi District and a famous place of redemption for failed actors in later generations.

Everything seems so orderly.

Then, Chen Nuo woke up early one morning, looking at the white ceiling, and suddenly remembered that his elder brother, with whom he almost became sworn brothers a month ago, had not yet replied to his message.

Didn’t we agree that it would be up to him?
Recalling the mutual affection between the two of them in the Alpha, Chen Nuo couldn't help but have an inexplicable feeling.

No, it's impossible. How could my brother lie to me?

He picked up his cell phone and called the man.

Jiang Wen's voice was still deep and full of energy: "Nuozi, why are you calling me so early? Tell me what's the matter."

Chen Nuo was silent for three seconds, then said, "Jiang...where is Wang Tianxiang, the one you promised me?"

"Wang Tianxiang? What Wang Tianxiang?" Jiang Wen's voice sounded extremely surprised. "Nuozi, which woman are you talking about? I don't know her."

　It is said that Liu Tianxian and Liu Xiaoli are both the ex-girlfriends of the male protagonist of this book? I don’t know what’s going on, you guys go check it out!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)