The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 170 Time Magazine
"Chen Jingxing is on the cover of the US edition of Time Magazine!"

"A genius director from my country appeared on the cover of Times and was praised for not using English to cater to globalization"

"Chen Jingxing Times Weekly US Edition Cover and Some Interviews Released"

"Chen Jingxing appeared on the cover of Times, the keyword 'The Biggest Discovery', a bit awesome"

"American time has extensively reported on Chen Jingxing"

"Chen Jingxing Leads Huaguo Commercial Films to Go Global"

"Mystery revealed: the 10 billion space giant is called "Gravity""

""Gravity" is a near-future space science fiction movie"

"Without precedent, DreamWorks makes its first space disaster movie"

"Chen Jingxing clarified that "Gravity" is not Huaguo's version of Star Wars"

"What's a space disaster movie?"

"Editor's Interpretation: my country's space station may be on the big screen!"

At the beginning of 2015, Chen Jingxing once again made big news by appearing on the cover of the US edition of Time Magazine. At the same time, DreamWorks also took this opportunity to let "Gravity" catch up with this wave of enthusiasm.

I have to say that the effect of this transfer from export to domestic sales is really good, at least Chen Jingxing's personal reputation has been greatly improved.

After all, a director is a behind-the-scenes job. Because Chen Jingxing is handsome, young, and the movies he makes are very novel and popular with young audiences, his popularity is already considered high among directors.

Even so, there are still a large number of viewers who have watched Chen Jingxing's movies and even liked one of them, but they don't know much about Chen Jingxing himself.

This is a very normal phenomenon, and many viewers do not pay attention to the creators of film and television works.

But this time, because of being on the cover of the US version of Time Magazine, it triggered intensive reports from media outside the entertainment and film circles, so many people who did not pay attention to Chen Jingxing suddenly discovered that the film "Comet"/"Fatal Identity"/"Signal" The director turned out to be this young man.

Then, through popular science in the media, I learned that two of Chen Jingxing’s cinematic films had grossed hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office in North America. Only then could they be on the cover of the American version of Time Magazine and be called a great discovery in the world film industry, a commercial film of the future. leader of.

This caused a qualitative change in Chen Jingxing's status, and a halo shrouded his body.

Although his box office performance is very impressive, due to his age and seniority, many media or industry insiders, even audiences and movie fans, regard him as a genius director or ghost director. In other words, in the eyes of most people, he is still a newcomer. Director, the positioning of young directors.

But this time, the titles of genius directors or ghost directors in the media are much less. It seems that he is already a big director in the film industry. Regardless of his artistic level, at least in terms of fame and status, he has begun to approach Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang, Wang Molin, Great directors such as Chen Kaige have completely surpassed several well-known so-called seventh-generation directors.

It's just that the generational division of Hua Guo's directors is no longer appropriate, otherwise Chen Jingxing may be the leader of the eighth generation of directors.

In addition to benefiting from Chen Jingxing's personal fame, "Gravity" also ignited a round of small-scale topic discussions.

That's how DreamWorks characterized it-a near-future space disaster movie.

Audiences in Huaguo have seen disaster movies, and they all have similar concepts. They are nothing more than tsunamis, earthquakes, shipwrecks, air crashes, or volcanic eruptions and the destruction of the earth.

The space disaster is a very novel concept. Could it be that the launch of the spacecraft failed?A meteorite hitting a spacecraft?Or there is a problem with the spacecraft - there is a precedent for this. The Salyut [-] space station once broke down, and the ground sent astronauts to repair the space station. Chen Jingxing also felt that this was an excellent subject for making a movie, but this might have to be done by Russia. to shoot.

This has created some topicality for "Gravity". Many fans of Chen Jingxing began to guess the plot of the movie, and even attracted many aerospace enthusiasts. After all, according to some information disclosed by DreamWorks, the movie also involves Huaguo. The Tiangong space station, Tiangong-16 will be launched in 20, and Huaguo's large space station is also expected to be completed [-] years ago.

Some aerospace fans even speculate that it may be the Huaguo version of the Salyut [-] space station incident.

In short, various speculations have indeed aroused the curiosity of many movie fans about "Gravity".

But when the Internet public opinion started all kinds of discussions about Chen Jingxing's appearance on the cover of Time Magazine, the person concerned had already arrived in Thailand, shuttling back and forth between the two film crews.

Both "Operation Mekong" and "Detective Chinatown" were filmed in Thailand, and both films were shot in Bangkok.

Thailand has a tropical climate, with only three seasons of heat, rain, and drought. Even in January, the average temperature is above 1 degrees, so it does not affect normal shooting.

Because the shooting locations are mainly in Thailand and the Golden Triangle area, the conditions of the crew are quite difficult, but most of the actors have undergone more than two months of action training, and they are fully prepared for the shooting conditions.

Although it is the first time for Guo Fan to direct such a large-scale production, he seems to have the talent to control the big scenes, and he has prepared sufficient shooting plans in the preparatory process, and has also drawn a lot of storyboards for the big scenes, so in the During the filming process, he seemed to be able to do a job with ease, which surprised the chief producer Qin Zhonghe.

In fact, Qin Zhonghe's impression of Guo Fan has changed a lot during the preparatory process of the first few months. Guo Fan seems to have a unique obsession with industrial films and extraordinary scheduling ability, which also makes Qin Zhonghe come back again. Once sighed the precision of Chen Jingxing's vision.

Chen Jingxing, as the producer, is actually not a nominal name. He participated in the film from the perfection of the script to the determination of the shooting plan.

Especially the scene of child soldiers and drug control, this is a plot in the first version of the script he provided. Guo Fan made a lot of improvements to the script in the follow-up review of the files and the preparation process, but the two plots are not clear. I agree with Chen Jingxing's setting very much.

It was Chen Jingxing and Guo Fan who endorsed each other so that the script did not deviate from the original movie of "Operation Mekong". After all, many of the plots in it broke the standard. The setting is where this film shines, so no inch is spared.

In the previous plane, the script took a long time before it was finally approved, but in this plane, director Guo Fan and producer Chen Jingxing jointly insisted on it. In addition, Guoying is also the main producer, and Qin Zhonghe also played a comparative role. The great influence caused the script to pass the review of the Ministry of Public Security without spending too much time.

Chen Jingxing stayed in the Mekong crew for more than half a month, and did not return to the capital until the crew moved to Burma for filming.

Because post-production on Source Code is finally complete.

(End of this chapter)