Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 509 Direct Response (13)

At the hotel, Yang Mi seemed particularly interested in this matter, so Shen Yan had to explain: "Guo Degang deliberately stirred up trouble, asking me who is prettier, you or Liu Shishi... I already said we're friends, there's no need to compare, but he kept pressing me, so I changed the subject..."

"So, you really think Liu Yifei and Fan Bingbing are beautiful?"

Shen Yan was surprised: "Is that even a question? Isn't that common knowledge?"

"...Then why do you never contact them?"

"Just because someone is good-looking doesn't mean I have to contact them? Do I have to contact Matsushima Kaede and Yuzuki Tina too?"

"I know Matsushima Kaede... but who is Yuzuru?"

Shen Yan stood up: "Let me show you her work!"

Then...the two admired Yuzuki-sensei's work...

Of course, I appreciate it with a learning attitude.

By the way, let me tell you something. Back then, Zhang Yimou wanted to make a film called "Ju Dou," and he needed a kind of repressed sexual perversion and sadism. But he didn't know how to do it, so he imported 50 films related to perversion from abroad through China Film Group and hid in a guesthouse near Rendinghu Lake, studying them one videotape after another.

Most of these videotapes came from Japan!
The major shareholder of "Kiku Dou" is Japanese, the production manager is Japanese, and a Japanese screenwriter participated in the script adaptation. Therefore, "Kiku Dou" contains many elements with strong Japanese aesthetic characteristics...

From this perspective, studying foreign art films is a tradition among directors!

……

Actually, the film market in September was quite sluggish…

On the one hand, there aren't many good movies being released, and on the other hand... the summer movie season is so popular that people's enthusiasm for watching movies has declined.

It's a real glut of terrible movies!
"Very Lucky", "Elysium", including "The Smurfs 2", "A City"...

The only thing worth mentioning is probably "Silent Witness"...

It's the movie where my aunt won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress, starring Sun Honglei, Guo Fucheng, and Yu Nan…

Fei Xing's script is very well written. Although it has a certain knock-off feel, the plot twists and turns and still manages to make sense. It's really impressive!

Then, director Fei Xing was valued by Huayi Brothers and chosen to direct "Candle in the Tomb: The Lost Valley" and "The Lost Caverns," which directly ruined the movie "Candle in the Tomb: The Lost Valley"...

"The Lost Caverns of the Dragon Ridge" was simply turned into a web movie...

Huayi originally had the adaptation rights to four books in the "Ghost Blows Out the Light" series, so they simply stopped planning to film "Kunlun Shrine" and "South China Sea Ruins".

Cinemas are hoping to make a killing during the National Day holiday!

However, at the theatrical screenings, most of the original managers and executives predicted that "Goodbye Mr. Loser" would gross between 6 and 8 million yuan, and did not believe that the film could take the top spot at the National Day box office...

They still have more faith in "Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon," after all, Tsui Hark's previous film "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame" grossed 3 million yuan at the box office!
Moreover, "Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon" is a 3D blockbuster with a budget exceeding 100 million yuan.

In comparison, "Charlotte" had a production cost of less than 2000 million...

Huayi Brothers will definitely go all out this time. Last year, they lost to Shen Yan's "The Big Shot" during the National Day holiday, they also lost during the Spring Festival, and they lost even more badly during the summer holiday...

During an interview at the Shanghai International Film Festival, Huang Zhonglei said, "I'm still a leader in the industry!"

Leading or not leading...

We need to look at the results!
This year's National Day holiday film season is the best arena...

"Out of Inferno," "The White Fox," and "The Magic" are purely supporting films.

The only ones that actually made it to the table were "Goodbye Mr. Loser" and "Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon"...

Then... posts exposing Zhao Youting flooded the internet.

Just call him a "resource guy"! And he's a "resource guy" from Taiwan.

Incidentally, Zhu Yanpin and Wu Yusen's "support Taiwan and suppress the mainland" strategy also went viral!
Many people are willing to believe these things, a mix of truth and falsehood—Zhao Youting does indeed have excellent resources; calling him a male version of Jing Tian wouldn't be an exaggeration at all…

He debuted in "Black & White" alongside Zhou Yumin, one of the two male leads, and even won a Golden Bell Award.

His second work was the film "Monga," which unfolds from his perspective, so he is the male lead.

Later, he starred alongside Huang Bo in the film version of "Black & White," alongside Yanzi in "Love," and was also the male lead in "Caught in the Web." Then, he was the male lead again in the highly anticipated and commercially successful "So Young"...

Now he's landed the lead role in "Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon"...

Many independent media outlets have also reported that "initially, they wanted to cast Shen Yan as a supporting actor to Zhao Youting, but Shen Yan flatly refused!"

Anyway, there are already voices online calling for Zhao Youting to "get out of the entertainment industry"!
In addition, the theme song of the movie "Charlotte's Trouble" is also quite powerful - Shen Yan asked Lin Junjie to sing a version, and he also sang a version himself.

Na Ying's song "It's Not Easy to Have Someone Who Loves You" also became popular during the promotion of the movie "Goodbye Mr. Loser"...

……

"Personally, I quite like fantasy and suspense movies like 'Detective Dee,' and they did send me an invitation... but I didn't go!"

"Is it because of Zhao Youting?"

"Yes! Is Zhao Youting exceptionally handsome, a great actor, and extremely popular? I'm sorry, I can't tell."

At the premiere of "Goodbye Mr. Loser," Shen Yan was interviewed backstage by the media, who mentioned the casting for "Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon"...

Shen Yan responded directly.

"I'm not just a simple actor; I'm well aware of many things, I just don't say them!"

Shen Yan continued, "...I think we mainland filmmakers should have some backbone. If someone doesn't cast you as the lead, just organize your own project. It's not like you can't find investors."

"So, Taiwanese filmmakers are really consciously suppressing mainland Chinese filmmakers?"

"...Can't you see it?" Shen Yan was speechless. "You guys are in the media too, don't you know about this kind of thing yourselves?"

"But in 'The Big Shot,' you played the villain for Wu Jing, and this time in 'Goodbye Mr. Loser,' you're playing a supporting role for Shen Teng..."

"How can that be the same? Jing is an action actor, and I'm not... Besides, 'The Big Shot' is going to be made into a series... As for 'Charlotte,' you'll understand why I'm playing a supporting role after you see the movie," Shen Yan paused, then added, "Teng will be the king of comedy!"

Shen Yan has said more than once that Shen Teng will be the next generation's king of comedy...

The media is immune!
So, what they asked was: "How much box office do you think 'Goodbye Mr. Loser' will generate?"

Shen Yan thought for a moment: "It's guaranteed to surpass 'American Dreams in China,' but as for the upper limit... I dare not predict!"

"So high?"

"Come on, this is the first movie starring the King of Comedy. Back then, Stephen Chow dominated the box office with 'All for the Winner' and became the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong... Ten years later, when we look back at Shen Teng's film career, if 'Goodbye Mr. Loser' can't surpass 'American Dreams in China,' that would be big news!"

"...So we'll write it like this?"

"Go ahead and write... If there's anything else, ask me all at once. I have ten minutes left before I go on stage."

The reporters went straight to the point: "...What do you think about Wang Fei and Li Yapeng's divorce?"

"I only found out about this from the news. This has nothing to do with me, right?"

"So...did Director Feng invite you to the Spring Festival Gala?"

Not yet…

(End of this chapter)