The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 304 Released Nationwide
"Damn it! Director, you're really bright in doing this!"

Lei Jiayin stared dumbfounded at the dozens of strange buildings on the barren Gobi hills.

It looks like a white football half-up and upside down, which looks quite sci-fi.

"It's quite big inside this tent..." Lei Jiayin exclaimed again when a group of people entered the hemispherical house.

The hemispherical houses are like modern tent-style hotels.The inside is very luxurious, with refrigerator, sofa, shower, hot and cold water, wireless network and other equipment. On the side of the hemisphere facing the scenery is a huge floor-to-ceiling window, where you can see the "spectacle of Mars".

"At that time, the crew members who filmed this scene will be able to live in it, and two people can live in one room, which will cost a lot of money..."

Facing the exclamations of "The director is awesome!" and "Long live the boss", Chen Jingxing was quite satisfied.

This situation of filming in an extremely desolate place is a great psychological test for the actors and crew, and it is his duty to create a comfortable environment for the crew.

Of course, this is not to say that he has nowhere to spend his money. Although the hemispherical houses in front of him and the attached water tanks, generators and other equipment cost a lot of money, it is not impossible to recover the cost.

First of all, because the shooting location was changed from the originally planned Middle East to China, this part of the budget is relatively more generous.

Secondly, after discussing with the local government, he suddenly came up with the idea that this place is next to the famous Yadan landform "Devil City" in western Xinjiang. This place itself is a tourist area. As a result, tourism value is still worth developing.

Therefore, DreamWorks signed a cooperation agreement with the local travel agency, and anything built here during filming, including tents for accommodation, should not be dismantled, and tourists can be received.

Since tourists are going to be received in the future, it is natural that this accommodation will be well built, so these very sci-fi "hemispherical tents" were built.

"If you have any comments, please bring them up quickly. Let's see what is still missing, and tell us what you need now. When the time comes, the crew will come here to shoot, and the construction period will last at least one month. When the time comes, you must be prepared for what you want to bring. The materials in this place It's not easy to replenish..."

Chen Jingxing brought the actors, several assistant directors, and the heads of each group here not to shoot directly, but to let them get acquainted, give some opinions, and see if there is anything that needs to be added. What to bring, it will take a long time to actually start shooting.

The filming of "The Martian" will not start until at least half a month later, because it is only half a month before the release of "Gravity". Actors must participate in the final announcement of the film.

……

"This scene is really big enough. If I glanced at it, there must be more than 200 reporters?"

"You don't even want to see what kind of movie this is. The six princesses sent reporters to broadcast it, and the leaders of the space agency all showed up. This must be an enhanced version of "Operation Mekong"?"

"The main reason is that "The Mekong" was screened a little before? There were also a few media meetings, and the media and film critics who were supposed to come basically watched it during the screening, so the premiere was not too big..."

"Why didn't "Gravity" do screenings? I was looking forward to it last month, when I would receive the screening tickets, but there was no news, and it was screened nationwide."

"Me too. There are also fans asking me in private messages, asking me to tell me if it's worth it after watching the scheduled screenings, and then they decide whether to buy advance tickets, but there has been no news of the scheduled screenings."

"Could it be that you intend to create a sense of mystery like "Mirage"?"

"I don't think so. I tend to think that DreamWorks thinks that "Gravity" doesn't need to be screened. Isn't the movie in our country just for word-of-mouth marketing before the screening? To increase attention, increase pre-sales and then sell it. Isn't that the role of forced film arrangement?
Is "Gravity" useful?The title of the most expensive domestic film has been on the top for more than a year, and it is the first domestic space-themed film, and the names of DreamWorks and Chen Jingxing are placed here, plus the trailer is amazing and suspenseful. The audience's expectations are high, and they all want to see something new. The pre-sale is so hot, and the film schedule is also the first in the crush. Why bother to take the risk to get some screenings?

In case something goes wrong with Dianying's word of mouth, it will be self-defeating instead. "

"makes sense……"

Outside the cinema hall, several film critics gathered together to chat enthusiastically.

Cheng Hongtao paused for a moment, but took the initiative to move forward.

"Yo, isn't this Si Da? But I haven't seen you for a while."

"Why didn't I see you at the screening of "The Mekong" last time?"

Cheng Hongtao smiled and waved his hands: "I'm just a little transparent, if I want to go, I have to be given some screening tickets?"

Someone immediately retorted: "Isn't it hypocritical? You are so transparent that we can't live anymore. I'm drooling just looking at your number of fans."

Cheng Hongtao continued to be modest: "Hey, it's all false, it just caught up with the good times and took a wave of opportunities."

"Pretending to be struck by lightning, you made such a big splash two months ago, and the media called you a well-known film critic 'Records Department', how about you, are you leaving the team and wanting to become a regular?" A bunch of them They are all online film critics. To be precise, they are all well-known film and television bloggers. They are different from the traditional film critics who post professional film reviews on big media, including regular online media, or even work directly for the media.

Maybe film and television bloggers like them don’t necessarily think highly of them in their hearts, or they don’t feel that they are worse than traditional media film critics, but there is still a chain of contempt that everyone implicitly admits, and Ye Luzi secretly feels that he is a wild Lu Zi, film critics are only self-proclaimed by them, or by fans, it is different to be called a film critic by the regular media.

It may take a few more years of development before they can truly establish "professional self-confidence" and think that they are film and television bloggers and self-media people. Film critics are old-fashioned, and I don't bother to wear this hat.

Although Cheng Hongtao was pleased when he heard this, he didn't show any joy on his face. Two months ago, Chen Hongtao and another media film critic were concerned about whether the May [-]st movie "Love in Seattle" was a plagiarism of the Hollywood movie "Seattle Night". The passionate line-up of Sleepless even sparked a lot of discussion, and many viewers and passers-by, including fans of the actors of "Love in Seattle" joined the debate.

Although Cheng Hongtao did not win in the end, he gained a lot of money and attracted a lot of attention. Many netizens who held the same concept as him began to pay attention to him, and even became his fans.

Speaking of the controversy two months ago, several people began to chat about this topic.

"Actually, I think the most is that the themes are somewhat similar, and the final ending can only be said to be a reference."

Cheng Hongtao continued to resolutely defend his point of view: "Too tolerant of plagiarism is an important reason why domestic films are bad. Simple plagiarism must be disguised as reference and tribute. As a film critic, he is influential. If it is still so Blindly fooling around will only make many viewers who don’t have the ability to think independently also take it seriously.”

"What you said is taking yourself too seriously. It's not that no one has watched "Night Never Sleeps." Going online will only suppress creation, you are a dead duck with a hard mouth..."

"Okay, okay, stop!" A chubby film critic hastily stopped the argument: "You two are going to have an argument, fight online, this is the premiere of "Gravity", be careful not to be caught People were driven out."

This slightly chubby person who "persuades fights" is also a film and television blogger with the online name "Bering Xia". He and Cheng Hongtao started operating a self-media account on "Headline News" at the same time. He has known Cheng Hongtao for a long time and has a good relationship. Also been good.

"Bering Xia" knows that Cheng Hongtao's style is to be picky about domestic films, and he has his own filter for foreign films. In fact, there are not many film critics like Cheng Hongtao, and even he has similar political views with Cheng Hongtao.

It’s just that he usually restrains himself and tries not to bring his own political spectrum into film reviews, or in other words, he doesn’t have such a strong filter based on his own political views, whether it’s for domestic or foreign films. .

And another film and television blogger who had a dispute with Cheng Hongtao called "Martian Guest", this is not the first time that Cheng Hongtao has a disagreement with Cheng Hongtao, and the two are vaguely enemies.

It's just that the two of them seldom meet directly on the Internet, usually through space, that is, articles under their own accounts, or on Douban, Zhihu and other platforms, using "some film critics", "some people This kind of allusion came from a strange atmosphere, and gradually even the supporters of the two of them knew that the two were the opponents of "love and kill each other".

Unexpectedly, these two deadly enemies would get together at the premiere of "Gravity". "Bering Man" smiled inwardly, with a helpless look on his face, he said: "You two are not compatible by nature. You fought on Zhihu before, and you fought again in "The Jungle Book", don't you fight again after "Gravity"?"

The "Martian guest" standing opposite Cheng Hongtao retorted: "I don't have time to chat with others, I just don't like the double standards of some people."

Several other film critics looked at each other with smiles in their eyes, while Cheng Hongtao had an unnatural expression.

Cheng Hongtao was critical of "Operation Mekong". He bluntly said that this movie just borrowed from and synthesized the routines of the same type of Hollywood movies. Old-fashioned, but also nakedly playing the main theme of chicken blood.

For this reason, "The Martian" had a high-intensity confrontation with Cheng Hongtao under the question of "Mekong River".

Then the Hollywood special effects CG blockbuster "The Jungle Book" was released. Cheng Hongtao praised this movie, especially for its "miraculous" and "unsurpassable" CG technology.

And "The Martian" posted a yin and yang article, connoting that Cheng Hongtao would not be obsessed with old-fashioned stories when facing Hollywood movies, and would not be obsessed with replacing old cartoons decades ago with real people and filming them again. Instead of entangled in the main theme of preaching from beginning to end, instead, the CG special effects were singled out and exaggerated, and the licking was too naked.

This actually made Cheng Hongtao a little embarrassed. His style of film criticism has always been to highlight the strengths of foreign films and the weaknesses of domestic films. He even does not criticize many domestic films that are really well-known, and does not directly "reverse it". Black and white”, so it is still restrained.

But I didn't notice it for a while, "The Mekong River" and "The Jungle Book" were released not far away. The logic in his two film reviews is indeed a bit self-deprecating, especially when it was exposed by "The Martian". The double standard is indeed true. It's been exposed.

Fortunately, there are not too many fans of "The Martian", even less than Cheng Hongtao, and their influence is average, so the damage caused is not great.

"Okay, it's time to enter the scene. You two will have to watch the movie seriously later. I'm looking forward to you going back to write movie reviews." "Bering Man" continued to poke the fire secretly.

Cheng Hongtao's expression returned to normal, and he said sternly: "I've always told the truth, and there is no intentional opposition. I am really strict with domestic films. Isn't the role of film critics just to spur? But I never target any Movies, my film reviews have always been rational, objective and neutral. Didn’t I praise "Black Mirror"? As long as "Gravity" is really well-made, I am so full that I have to slander a movie? Me and Meng The factory has no enmity with Chen Jingxing."

"Okay, okay, I got it, you are the embodiment of objectivity and neutrality, hurry in, which row is your seat... Our tickets should all be together..."

(End of this chapter)