The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 484 Fans' hatred and "Interstellar"

With the introduction of the comic blockbuster "Wrath of the Titans" to the mainland a month late in the North American market, the box office war led by "Inception" and "The Earl of Wulong Mountain" in the National Day file has basically come to an end.

Although there is a routine key extension, the data will not change much. Chen Jingxing's ninth film "Inception" ended the National Day journey with a box office of 28 billion.

This result is slightly worse than last year's National Day file "The Martian", although "Inception" has surpassed "The Martian" in all aspects in terms of word-of-mouth and ratings.

The Douban score of "The Martian" is 8.7, and the imdb score is 8.2, while the scores of "Inception" are 9.4 and 9.2, which is the pinnacle of Chen Jingxing's directorial career.

However, as far as the audience is concerned, "Inception" is indeed worse than "Mars". For example, the score of "Inception" on the ticketing platform Maoyan is 9.3, and it is only 9.0 on Taopiao.

You must know that on Taomao, it is not the kind of movie that can get more than 8 points, and there are many more than 9 points.

The main reason is that many movie-watching groups do not have a good movie-watching experience for "Inception", a movie with a multi-line narrative, high-density information, and high-speed rhythm.

If you don’t keep up with the plot, you will find the plot in the second half of the movie inexplicable, and all the climax points that are talked about by movie fans, such as the hero’s love for his wife, and the protagonist’s team’s love for Chen Kun, the heir to the business empire. If you read it, you may not get it.

Chen Jingxing actually expected this kind of situation. When "Inception" was introduced to the mainland in the previous life, the box office was less than 5 million, and the number of viewers was only 1400 million. Hollywood blockbusters are dominated by young audiences. Of course, this is also related to the insufficient number of screens.

To reach a box office of more than 20 billion, it must attract a large number of non-movie fans, as well as a wider age group. The buzzword on the Internet is "sinking the market".

Those who can get it will naturally call it a magical movie, and those who can't get it will feel baffled. This is the price of an overly complicated story and structure.

This is why not only Huaguo, the top movies in the world box office rankings are basically kingly plots, single-line narrative, and the story cannot be too complicated.

However, the overseas box office performance of "Inception" is still relatively bright. Because of the race, the films of Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks have always been relatively deep in Asia, and they have won a box office of 1.7 million US dollars in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

Coupled with the US$1.6 million in North America, the estimated box office in Europe can reach 1.4 million, and the US$4 million in China, the global box office can still exceed US$9 million, which will be second only to "Matrix II"'s 12.9 10.2 million and "Gravity" at [-] billion, becoming Chen Jingxing's third highest-grossing film.

This is actually the reason why Chen Jingxing's reputation as an international director has become more and more famous after the "Center of the Earth", "Mars" and "Matrix" series, and his appeal in overseas markets has also become greater.

However, although Chen Jingxing could accept it, many movie fans, as well as Chen Jingxing's fans, were a little bit aggrieved that the domestic box office of "Inception" did not exceed 30 billion. It can only be said that the vision of many fans is indeed too high.

Immediately afterwards, a statement that "domestic audiences don't know how to appreciate high-quality movies" naturally came out.

Chen Jingxing was so frightened that he hurriedly put out the fire.

Although Chen Jingxing already has too many lice and is not afraid of being bitten, after all, the Lord really can't control his fans. With his current achievements, there are countless hateful comments from fans.

There is no well-known director at home and abroad who has not been slammed by "Jing Fan", including domestic stars, who have been picked by his fans like picking fruits in a vegetable market. Every time Chen Jingxing has a new film casting, his fans Just like the draft, it is natural to belittle and criticize many stars.

It's just that celebrity fans are still looking forward to their idols being able to board Chen Jingxing's boat, so they are still low-key and restrained, and know how to endure humiliation.

Just wait until one day Chen Jingxing makes a mistake, and the sins committed by his fans these years are the evidence of the occasion, and he is afraid that he will face large-scale ridicule and counterattack.

It's just that although Chen Jingxing can't control the fans' hatred, it also depends on whose hatred he is pulling. He still has a sense of proportion. Other star directors can't offend their parents, let alone throw map bombs.

But it’s not easy to end in person. You have to tell the truth, "The film structure is too complicated, the amount of information is too dense, and it is not friendly to the audience. The box office of 28 billion is already very good, and I am very satisfied." Business, to give people the handle to hype the topic.

Maybe this statement will become discrimination against the audience's IQ the next day after it is posted.

Although Chen Jingxing himself does not think it has anything to do with IQ, but to explain it, what kind of movie-watching habits, drama-watching mode, reading volume, age group are too complicated and lengthy, and it is not a small composition. Sexual language is not suitable for online PR, and may even be counterproductive.

So he resorted to the traditional method of using celebrity news to divert public attention and set up online issues.

Suddenly, the news that Luo Chen would participate in the prequel movie "Resident Evil" of "The Walking Dead" produced by Universal Pictures was revealed.

Afterwards, insiders confirmed with certainty, and then it was rumored that Luo Chen would play the male lead in "Resident Evil", and there was another news that it was not the male lead but the second male lead, and then Universal Pictures began to deny it again, In the end, Luo Chen also formally denied it.

A melon that spread to the entire fan circle made everyone eat with gusto.

After all, even if Luo Chen soars again, no matter how international movie stars are, the domestic fandom is still the same, and there are still opponents.

Unless it's an old drama player with no fans, or simply taking the Tsing Yi route, any celebrity has an opponent. Whether Luo Chen goes high or low, he will always attract reactions from fans of his opponent.

But of course this melon was not fabricated by Chen Jingxing. The marketing department of Dreamworks only disclosed the matter that was not known to the outside world and had already ended. Of course, it was also discussed with Luo Chen.

The prequel "Resident Evil" movie led by Universal did think about inviting Luo Chen to join.

After all, the IP of "The Walking Dead" itself is dominated by Chinese people and people of yellow race. Out of prudence, Universal also considered the Chinese and Asian markets—it is feasible to introduce this kind of film as a sub-account film—and wanted to find a East Asian faces are quite reasonable.

Luo Chen is the leading actor in three of Chen Jingxing's works. Although the first two works are considered low-cost works in the early stage, they are still well-known internationally. It is easy to understand that Hollywood chose to invite Luo Chen to join.

Luo Chen was actually moved by this. Facing the olive branch of Hollywood, and the script has the participation of DreamWorks, it will not be a bad movie. Few stars can hold back.

It's just that the role given by Universal was not the leading actor, but a supporting role. Although the role was not low, Luo Chen consulted Chen Jingxing's opinion, and after thinking twice, he still refused.

Ten years ago, even five years ago, he would definitely not let this opportunity pass by.

The Hollywood dream of domestic stars has always been there. Even if it is a humble supporting role, Hollywood really wants to invite domestic actors. This kind of thinking is normal in the mentality of looking up to Hollywood.

It's just that Luo Chen belongs to the DreamWorks department after all, and can even be called Chen Jingxing's direct line. Although Huaguo movies are still far behind Hollywood, he still has to look up to others, but for Luo Chen, this kind of looking up angle is flattened. Quite a few.

In particular, the global box office of "Inception" has exceeded 8 million US dollars. It is not very acceptable to play the leading role in this kind of global hot movie and play a supporting role with you.

It is not uncommon for Hollywood to discriminate against Asians. Of course, this is also related to ethnic groups. What percentage of the population is white?What proportion of African Americans?What proportion of Asians?

In the film and television industry, the discrimination against Asians is more severe for male Asians, while Asian women have more opportunities.

But Chen Jingxing did not intend to use the producer's right to speak to ask Universal Pictures to give the male lead to Huaguo actors.

One is that the protagonist of "Resident Evil" is set to be an officer of the US Special Forces who has committed a crime. It is not suitable for this character to use Chinese actors. If he has to use Chinese actors, he may have to change the character Change the script.

The second is that there is no requirement for casting rights in the agreement. In the cooperation agreement of "The Ninth District", it is stated that the male and female protagonists are determined by DreamWorks and must be actors from Huaguo.

"Resident Evil" was originally the story of the North American line of the world view of "The Walking Dead". The domestic TWD series of films used Chinese actors. The TWDB line DreamWorks, which is in charge of Universal, has a part of the investment share in addition to participating in the script creation, and the rest is non-interfering. of.

Therefore, Chen Jingxing has no position to criticize Universal Pictures.

Instead of being a supporting actor in Hollywood, it is better to make Huaguo's own movie and be the protagonist in his own movie, and it is not impossible to go abroad to do face painting overseas.

As a director, Chen Jingxing had this kind of thinking. Hollywood studios had invited him to make a film very early on, but he was still not tempted.

It's not surprising that Luo Chen had similar thoughts at this time.

Of course, at present, only a first-line actor like Luo Chen who is directly related to Chen Jingxing has the right to think this way.

Therefore, many celebrities and even top fans in China were relieved or even ridiculed Luo Chen, and some even felt that it was not Luo Chen who rejected Universal, but Universal who rejected Luo Chen.

After all, one of Luochen's opponents, Wu Tingxuan, the second-generation returnee, played soy sauce in Hollywood's comic blockbuster "Mutants: Hellfire" last year, even though it was only 5 seconds long, and it was Huaguo Special offer, but fans have also blown it.

Many people must have no way to understand that someone would reject the role of the second male lead in a Hollywood blockbuster.

However, in order to divert the anger of his fans that the box office of "Inception" was not as good as "my expectation", and to help director Chen Da offend his parents, Chen Jingxing not only pulled out Luo Chen's melon to divert attention, but also released the space trilogy Final project approval and casting news.

And the name of the movie was released at the same time, "Interstellar".

As soon as the news came out, it went straight to the top of the hot search, completely sweeping away the aftertaste of "Inception".

Countless movie fans asked Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks' Weibo, and their joy was beyond words.

After "Center of the Earth" and "Mars", as well as the launch of Tiangong-[-] and the lunar probe, Huaguo's space fever is raging.

Before, I had been speculating whether the last part of Chen Jingxing's space trilogy was the moon or where. Now that the name was announced, it naturally attracted a lot of discussion among movie fans and aerospace enthusiasts.

Of course, Chen Jingxing's fans naturally also started traditional projects - worrying about casting roles like picking vegetables in the vegetable market.

Seeing this, Chen Jingxing was a little relieved. Instead of continuing to help him gain hatred from his parents, he might as well gain hatred from the fans of these celebrities in the entertainment industry.

(End of this chapter)