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Chapter 560 Interview (24)

By the way, there is a rumor...

The idea of ​​"Huang Feihong: The Lion of the Western Regions" was "stealed" by Jackie Chan by Sammo Hung - during the filming of "A Good Man", at a certain dinner, he mentioned the outline of the story of "The Lion of the Western Regions" to his senior brother Sammo Hung: During the Qing Dynasty, An ouchi bodyguard was rescued by Indians due to amnesia on the way to the west of the United States to rescue the princess by boat, and then started a big battle with the western cowboys.

"A Good Man" is a movie directed by Sammo Hung and starring Jackie Chan.

In 96, Golden Harvest hoped to create an international work for Jackie Chan after "Red Fan District" and "Police Story 4". , is "A Good Man"...

After hearing this idea, Sammo Hung immediately recruited several screenwriters including Situ Zhuohan, Shi Meiyi, Xu Shalang, etc., and asked them to complete the creation of the entire script. At this time, Yongsheng wanted to make "Huang Feihong"...

"Black Man" is a big hit, and Yongsheng wants Xu Ke and Li Lianlian to cooperate again.

Situ Zhuohan had previously collaborated with Li Lianhe on "Adventure King", which was also produced by Yongsheng. He talked about this idea...

Xu Ke invited Sammo Hung to join him and shot "Once Upon a Time: The Lion of the Western Regions" ahead of Jackie Chan.

Therefore, Jackie Chan's "The Lion of the Western Regions" was renamed "Who Am I"...

"The Lion of the Western Regions" did not hinder the success of "Who Am I" in the global film market the following year.

In September 1998, Jackie Chan successfully entered Hollywood with "Rush Hour"!

Later, "Shanghai Noon" also continued this story...

Therefore, Huang Feihong lost his memory and strayed into an Indian tribe in "Huang Feihong: The Lion of the Western Regions" and Jackie Chan fell into an African savage tribe due to amnesia in "Who Am I?" There are many similarities in the narrative style and storyline of the film.

Some media mentioned this matter, Jackie Chan nodded first: "It is true that he stole this idea from me... I am really angry, but he apologized!"

"We are all so old, how can there be any grievances that we can't let go?"

"I am very grateful to Chang Lin for asking us to play "The Emancipator 2" together. Now we often talk on the phone to discuss the fighting design of the sequel..."

"Then director, is the script of "The Emancipator 2" finished?"

"Still packing the burden, the main plot has been determined... When I finish filming "Eight Hundred", I can almost start it!"

There is a big question, how to integrate the plays of the three brothers?

There must be contradictions. After unfolding, how to recover?

The best way is to kill one, for example, an action, because Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung insisted on their own opinions and were very stubborn, which caused Yuen Biao to die...

But this won't work, if you dare to arrange for Yuen Biao to hang up, can the audience smash the screen directly?
What the audience wants to see is that the old brother will come out of the rivers and lakes three times, and then the gods will block and kill the gods, and the Buddha will block and kill the Buddha...

You are riding a horse to shoot an action movie and you still have to cause trouble for the audience?
Are you out of your mind?

……

On the 28th, Shen Changlin, who had been busy for half a month, returned to the capital. At this time, the box office of "The Emancipator" was already 13.2 billion.

Only three months after the beginning of 2015, there were two works with a box office of over 15 billion!

Headquarters ecstatic...

There are various indications that the total box office this year should be 500 billion!
Returning to the capital does not mean the propaganda is over.

Shen Changlin still has to accept a few interviews to consolidate his strength.

"I think it's mainly because of the audience's support... For the film "The Wronged Man", I estimate it to be around [-] million people."

CCTV's "China Film Report" arranged an interview. Shen Changlin was wearing a white shirt and sitting by the window. The light hit his face, his face was greasy...

"Many people say that I am an expert in box office forecasting, but I am not. My own forecasts are never accurate. The box office of my favorite movies is not high. For example, last year's "Edge of Tomorrow", I liked it very much. I think it can at least win 10 billion, but only took 3 million...Including "Big Hero [-]", I also think it should start with at least [-] billion..."

"The bigger reason... should be the soaring interest of the audience in watching movies. I remember a statistic. In 08, our per capita moviegoing was only 0.4. In the group years, this number has risen to 1.4... It shows that the audience loves watching movies. I am willing to support domestic films, and I think this is the reason why "The Wronged Man" is so popular, after all, I watched it myself, and the film still has many flaws."

"How does Changlin Film and Television plan to develop next? I found that your company rarely releases film orders?"

"The film list... is meaningless. The most important thing in a movie is people. You can't treat it as a management operation. Our next goal is to focus on the three major genres of science fiction, action, and comedy."

"Why these three types?"

"First of all, the content of criticizing society, exploring human nature, and artistic innovation is not the mainstream of movies. Of course we will do it, but we will not focus on it. From a global perspective, these three types are the most mainstream!"

"Secondly, Changlin Film and Television is positioned as a mainstream film company, and our creative direction should be mainstream!"

"So what do you think of fan movies?"

Shen Changlin smiled: "It's very common for fan movies. When the creative direction of movies is coerced by capital and the market, a batch of movies of the same type will be created based on big data, because only such movies are possible. To recover the cost, big data believes that fan movies are the safest, so everyone rushes to make fan movies! Theaters are also willing to give space to such movies..."

"Do you have a lot of dissatisfaction with the theater?"

"I'm not dissatisfied, but recently I've wondered whether the cinema ecology represents the film ecology..."

After a pause, Shen Changlin continued: "For example, like martial arts movies, many people, including me, think that martial arts movies have no market space, but after the upper limit of "Seven Monsters of the South of the Yangtze River", the number of hits in a week is 1 8000 million, as of now, the income after splitting accounts is close to 8000 million... If it is put in theaters, the [-] million split represents more than [-] million box office. But can "Jiangnan Seven Monsters" have a box office of [-] million?"

"What does this mean?"

"This shows that the audience is still there, but they may not be the mainstream audience in theaters, and they are unwilling to enter the theater. This incident has given me a big shock!"

"Shock?"

"The existence and voice of the Internet allow many things to quickly condense, but it has no intermediate buffer zone, just like movies. You feel that there are no other types except for big-selling commercial films and obscure literary films...Actually not, there is still a gap between them. There is a big buffer zone, can martial arts, suspense, and thriller genres focus on the Internet platform?"

"Are you going to do this?"

Shen Changlin nodded: "...We will try, in addition to "Shooting the Condors", we may make several folk tales and monsters...for online platforms."

"A while ago, you paid attention to the battle between online platforms and theaters. Do you have any comments?"

Shen Changlin thought for a while, and said: "I always think that for a work, the meaning of the content is far greater than the carrier."

"But the feelings and habits of watching movies in theaters..."

Shen Changlin interrupted him, waved his hand and said: "Many of our young audiences didn't grow up in movie theaters, they don't have that kind of theater feeling, and they stared at the computer with earphones instead of the habit of watching movies in movie theaters.

We can't force the next generation with the logic of the older generation, and of course I'd defend cinema, but the internet does give productions more room to recycle. "

"So, you think the Internet will replace theaters?"

"Why do we have to use the term replace? Can't they coexist? Just like the development of movies to this day, stage plays and dramas still exist!"

……

In fact, not many people pay attention to the content of Shen Changlin's interview, even movie fans, they are more willing to see Shen Changlin playing a certain actor...

After all, the attention of stars far exceeds that of directors or the film industry.

On the 29th, "Kingsman: The Secret Service" was released, which stopped the three consecutive championships of "The Wronged Man" - the box office of the former was 1.8 million in the first weekend, and the third weekend of "The Wronged Man" was only 1.6 million...

It's normal, this kind of action movie with no depth has weak stamina itself.

This is also the reason why Shen Changlin first judged the [-] million level of "The Emancipator"...

Today's results have far exceeded expectations.

He analyzed the reason himself, the main reason is that the combination of Shen Changlin + Jackie Chan is too bluffing, 5.8 million in the first weekend...

Jackie Chan once again became a box office guarantee with "The Wronged Man", especially under the premise of such a high domestic box office.

Then Hollywood extended an olive branch, and "Rush Hour 4", "Shanghai Noon 3", and even "Kung Fu Dream 2" all announced the approval of the project.

Capital doesn't care whether your reputation is good or not, if you can make money, of course you have to squeeze your wool...

I'm going to shoot "Jedi Exodus" and "Kung Fu Yoga" soon, a bunch of projects...

As for the income, the income of "The Witcher" is at least 1.5 million US dollars. As for Jackie Chan, including the film salary, this wave should earn more than 40 million US dollars...

"The Emancipator" relies entirely on Jackie Chan's appeal overseas. Shen Changlin has a great overseas reputation. He is not even a director of the Hollywood system!
After the "Film Report" interview, Shen Changlin appeared on "Dialogue" and "Chunni's Weekend Time" on BJ Satellite TV. He also accepted several paper media interviews by the way.

Focusing on praising Jackie Chan and working overtime, it really got a few trending searches...

By the way, there is also Naza, who also needs to brag, after all, her fans are as many as 50 million...

(End of this chapter)