The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 195 Is "The Mekong River" suitable for the Spring Festival?

Regarding the concerns of several people, Chen Jingxing naturally understood that since "Red Fan District" launched the Lunar New Year show, the movies in this period, and of course the Spring Festival show that evolved later, were basically monopolized by comedy movies.

Even derived a special term - Lunar New Year film.

Although some action films made by Cheng Long have also been released in Lunar New Year, many of his action films also contain comedy elements. Even if the plot is aside, just watching the fighting action can get a sense of humor, except for some bitter and bitter hatred. In addition, Cheng Long's other films can be classified as kung fu comedies-like the suspense and detective comedies created by Chen Sicheng, they are very suitable for the Lunar New Year and Spring Festival.

Even the box office explosion of the Spring Festival stalls in the past two years has expanded the boundaries of the types of movies accommodated in this schedule, including historical, costume, and mythological non-comedy movies. They can also get a share of the Spring Festival stalls , but obviously "Operation Mekong" is not within the tolerance range of the theme of the Spring Festival file that normal people recognize.

Especially Qin Zhonghe and Guo Fan are the creators of the film, and they both know that many plots and images in the film are not suitable for all age groups. If it is not supported by the Ministry of Public Security, under normal circumstances, it will definitely not pass the review.

For example, at the very beginning, the Chinese crew members were massacred. This is bitterness and hatred.

Although the process of catching drug dealers is very enjoyable, gun battles, explosions, hand-to-hand combat, chasing brothers and sisters, in short, all the commercial elements that should be found can be found in it, but this cannot conceal the bloody scenes in the film, and the control of D products-and it is still children.

The plots and scenes such as the suicide bombing of child soldiers are completely an R-rated movie. Even in the North American market with a classification system, R-rated movies will not steal the limelight during Christmas and Thanksgiving.

If Chen Jingxing hadn't come here through time travel, he would have the same idea.

However, Chen Jingxing had experienced the counterattack process of "Operation Red Sea" in his previous life.

No matter how bloody the Mekong River is, can it be as bloody as "Operation Red Sea"?
There are also child soldiers in "Operation Red Sea".

Moreover, the sacrifice in "Operation Red Sea" is even more tragic and sensational.

"Operation Red Sea" was able to counterattack "Tang Detective 2" in the Spring Festival file-"Tang Detective 2" has a good public opinion, and it is not recognized as a bad movie.

In addition, there is the counterattack of "The Wandering Earth". These examples are enough to illustrate what types of movies are suitable for the so-called Spring Festival, and what the audience likes to watch during the Spring Festival-these are just the wishful thinking of filmmakers. limit.

There is only one answer to what movie audiences like to watch during the Spring Festival: it is a good movie.

Of course, this good movie definitely does not refer to a good movie in the field of art films, but an excellent commercial film.

But even after listening to Chen Jingxing's decent analysis, and even finding out Brother Cheng Long's action movies to prove that there is a market for action movies during the Spring Festival, Qin Zhonghe and Guo Fan are still hesitant.

In fact, if Qin Zhonghe had heard Chen Jingxing's suggestion that went against common sense in the film industry before, he would definitely not have adopted it. It can be said that you can’t take risks. The release of this kind of blockbuster movies is about being prudent and unremarkable.

But after going through "Source Code", the aura that shrouded Chen Jingxing's body became thicker and thicker. Many things are like this. Sometimes the point is not whether what is said is right or not, but who said it.

Moreover, Chen Jingxing originally scheduled "Source Code" to be in late April. From the outside world, no one thinks that this is a good schedule. After all, Chen Jingxing is not a young director. With the current appeal and qualifications, if "Source Code" is scheduled for the summer vacation, it will definitely be a seed player. It is only for others to avoid him. There is no need to schedule it for the off-season such as April and May.

But it was in this off-season that they set a box office record in film history, and they couldn't accept it. Therefore, Qin Zhonghe and Guo Fan would unconsciously pay attention to Chen Jingxing's suggestion, no matter how counterintuitive his ideas were.

In this way, Qin Zhonghe returned to Guoying with hesitation, while Chen Jingxing and Guo Fan returned to DreamWorks.

Guo Fan signed a five-year contract with DreamWorks for three movies. Of course, the focus is on making three movies. If five years is not enough, it can be extended.

However, "Operation Mekong" is not included in the three film contracts. The film contract in the contract can be a project confessed by DreamWorks, or it can be a project found by Guo Fan himself-the premise is to obtain the approval of the DreamWorks "Project Approval and Content Review Committee". "examination passed.

The Project Approval and Content Review Committee is a newly established department of DreamWorks in this round of company expansion and reorganization. It is directly under the President's Office, and the animation projects of its holding subsidiary, Mo, must also be reviewed by this committee. Only after passing the approval can the project be approved .

Of course, there are only two or three big cats and small cats in this committee at present, that is, Chen Jingxing, Xu Wenshen and a few producers, and they basically belong to Chen Jingxing's monopoly.

This is not the right to speak that Chen Jingxing obtained by using his identity and power as the chairman. Who made all the film projects released by DreamWorks so far be written and directed by Chen Jingxing himself, and from one success to another, others Naturally, he could only obey Chen Jingxing's thoughts. If anyone had a different opinion from the boss, he would be ashamed to raise it, and would even doubt himself—this phenomenon has become more and more serious since "Source Code" broke the record.

Even Xu Wenshen, who used to raise some objections, showed Chen Jingxing's attitude of attacking him wherever he went. Of course, there may be reasons for his appointment as president.

Guo Fan originally set up a film and television company after filming "You at the Same Table", intending to find a script that he was interested in, but he did not expect to be dragged into the car of DreamWorks by Chen Jingxing halfway, and with the help of "Operation Mekong" The shooting exhausted all his energy and time, and he was delayed in finding the script.

Now that the filming of Mekong River has been finished, he also intends to continue to look for inspiration and stories again. Unexpectedly, Chen Jingxing, a capitalist, didn't let him take a break. He started asking him if he had any plans for the next film after the wrap-up banquet.

He could only shake his head and smile wryly: "I just finished working on the Mekong River, and I haven't had time to find projects yet." In fact, his company has also bought the copyrights of several novels, but he thinks they are too light.

(End of this chapter)