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

Chapter 637 The Sinking of the Taiping (23)

"If I were in that situation, I would jump too. It's better to die than live in pain!"

After filming the scene where she jumps off the Zhuxian Terrace, Yang Mi's emotions were a bit turbulent...

Sitting in Shen Yan's lap, she was getting a little into character.

For the audience, this plot point was quite intense!
Because if you jump down, you'll know that Princess Bai Qian of Qingqiu has returned.

As viewers, from the perspective of the three lifetimes, we know that Ye Hua has always loved the same person, including Su Su, who was a mortal.

However, as a mortal, Su Su could only experience the negative consequences of her unequal relationship with the Crown Prince, including but not limited to: the Crown Prince's neglect, the difficulties caused by the Heavenly Court, and the persecution by her rivals...

It's quite heartbreaking!

Shen Yan hugged her and comforted her, "I won't let you experience something like that!"

Yang Mi looked up: "What if Shi Shi forces you?"

"Shi Shi..." Shen Yan was stunned: "No, sis, you're taking this out of character. Shi Shi isn't crazy, why would she gouge out your eyes?"

"...What's wrong? Why are you hugging me? Are you afraid of rumors?"

"I'm afraid of rumors... What a joke! Do you believe I'll kiss you right now?"

"I do not believe!"

"If you don't believe me, fine..." Shen Yan quickly changed the subject: "Go touch up your makeup first, we still have to shoot later!"

"Then kiss me!"

"...Let's go to the premiere of Wu Jing's 'Wolf Warrior' together later!"

Yang Mi became interested: "Did you invest in 'Wolf Warrior'?"

"Hmm, half of them have been cast!"

"I heard from them that there's now a secondary market for film and television investment..."

"I know!"

The secondary market, in this context, refers to the market where investors pay a premium to purchase shares…

Generally speaking, the film investment process is as follows: Select a film to invest in → Understand the film project information and investment contract → Determine the subscription amount → Sign the contract → Transfer funds to the production company's account → Wait for the film's release → Dividend distribution after the film's release → Accounting firm calculates the dividends → Transfer funds to the bank card specified in the contract…

This process will take at least a year!
Even Shen Yan's "Riding the Waves" is an example.

Because of the waiting time for the movie to be released and the subsequent profit sharing, this process will take at least a year!
Normally, it takes more than a year for a movie to go from project initiation to release, but the cycle for "Duckweed" was only five months.

After a film is released, the largest share of the profits comes from the box office revenue. The process from when the film leaves theaters to when the theaters make the payment takes three to six months.
Then there's online new media copyright, television copyright...

These things all take time!

The emergence of the secondary market is a good thing for many film and television companies facing cash flow difficulties…

A movie with a budget of 6000 million, you have a good relationship with the production team, you've been working with them before, and you invested 50%, which is 3000 million…

Then you contact the secondary market and sell half of your investment, which is 25% of the investment, for 3000 million!
You broke even right away!

Regarding the secondary market, Shen Yan's attitude was clear: "I don't really approve of getting involved in these things!"

"What?"

"This approach leads to many directors taking their scripts and ideas to seek funding..."

"Making movies costs money!"

"...But once you've made money, will you still diligently polish your work?"

Oh, the two chatted briefly, and after finishing filming their afternoon scenes, they went to Shanghai together…

The premiere of "Wolf Warrior"! ...

Wolf Warrior's biggest competitor, The Crossing, has sunk!
As of December 6th, "The Crossing" had grossed 72 million yuan in its first four days of release…

Oh, The Crossing is being released two days early, on Tuesday, December 2nd!

On its second day of release, it was overtaken at the box office by "Women Who Flirt Are the Luckiest," even though the latter had 10% fewer screenings than the former!

Many people say that the poor box office performance of "The Crossing" was due to the distributor, Le Shi, being passive and uncooperative...

In all honesty, Zhang Zhao really did his best!

We secured 38% of the screenings and arranged 4.2 screenings on the first day.

As a result, the box office on the first day was only 2406 million...

"Women Who Know How to Flirt Are the Luckiest" has 1700 million views.

Even so, Zhang Zhao still managed to secure a 30% screening share for "The Crossing"...

Later, "The Crossing" flopped at the box office, and many self-media outlets expressed sympathy. Huang Zhonglei also posted, "Regardless of the interpretation, we all need films like 'The Crossing' that evoke nostalgia!"

Damn it, bragging doesn't cost anything.

If he really thought it was so "necessary," why didn't Huayi Brothers take over the distribution of "The Crossing"? LeTV would have simply handed it over.

It doesn't matter who issues this stuff!
The subject matter itself isn't of much interest to the general public, yet they still cast Zhang Ziyi, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Huang Xiaoming, Song Hye-kyo, and Tong Dawei as the leads…

Which of these actors has box office appeal?

By the way, many people say that 'The Crossing' failed at the box office because society today is indifferent to the not-so-distant history that happened on this very land!'

This is utterly ridiculous. Not only is the movie terrible, but instead of looking for the reasons themselves, they're blaming the Chinese people. Unbelievable!
As a commercial film, its primary quality should be that it is "entertaining".

Just because a work has a certain moral attribute (a special era, a historical tragedy, etc.) does it mean that the audience should pay attention to it and that it should have a high box office. This is a form of moral coercion.

Similarly, there are films like "The Chinese People's Volunteer Army" and "Operation Jiaolong"...

If "the current audience's indifference to history" is the independent variable, it leads to "the box office failure of historical films".

If this logic holds true, then all historical films, regardless of their quality, should have significantly lower box office returns compared to other genres.

But that's clearly not the case. "Aftershock" did well at the box office, as did "The Battle at Lake Changjin" and "Operation Red Sea"!
By the way, Shen Yan posted a comment under this question: "The Crossing is a blockbuster, but it is a blockbuster that is far behind the times."
It is an epic, but it is an epic that is not up to par.

Its plot is long and boring, its pacing is slow and disjointed, its acting is old-fashioned and artificial, and its dialogue is infuriating. Why would the audience buy into it?

You say traditional methods don't work, but how did the Titanic remake do at the box office?
You say period dramas aren't good, but how did "Assembly" do at the box office?
Ultimately, the film's quality is problematic. It's normal that you like it; I don't really dislike it either. But to say "to each their own" while simultaneously mocking the audience for not knowing what they're looking for is a bit much!

He was just giving a simple reply, but who knew that some film critics would say he "didn't understand sentiment" and "lacked respect for his seniors"...

Since you put it that way, Shen Yan will not hold back.

He posted directly on Weibo: "The Crossing, some people say it reflects that era?"

I seriously doubt which era this refers to!

Look at the characters in the movie: a Kuomintang officer, the daughter of a comprador capitalist, a prostitute from old Shanghai, a Kuomintang soldier, a former Japanese military doctor…

Can they represent the vast majority of Chinese people of that era?
What stories can unfold in their lives besides their desperate struggle and elimination?

"Yes, we can sympathize with them for being caught in the vortex of the times, but their little joys and sorrows are nothing compared to the suffering of the vast majority of people in old China, where corpses were everywhere. The whole movie, with its pretentious sentimentality and heavy didacticism, makes it impossible to see the future. But in 1949, the new China was founded, the Chinese people stood up, and we have a future. Unfortunately, we can't see these things in the movie."

"The fundamental reason is that the protagonist's fate cannot resonate with the audience, which is a fatal flaw for any work that aspires to make achievements in literature and art."

"No matter how you look at it, 'The Crossing' is a failed film. It has a narrow scope and a limited vision... The narrative pacing and editing are a complete mess!"

(End of this chapter)