Huayu Zhihao

World Premiere of Chapter 171 "Hero"
After Chen Hao celebrated his 19th birthday with Dameitang, he did not go to the United States immediately, but stayed for a few more days, because he received an invitation from Zhang Weiping to attend the world premiere of "Heroes"!
The significance and far-reaching influence of "Hero" on the mainland film market is self-evident, and Chen Hao also wants to stay and witness this super giant that opened the era of mainland blockbusters!
On December 2002, 12, "Heroes", an epic martial arts masterpiece that has been prepared for three years, with an investment of up to 14 million U.S. dollars, will be held in the Great Hall of the People in the imperial capital. World premiere.

"Hero" can be said to be well-known to the public since it was hyped at the beginning of the year, and countless people have been aroused curiosity in their hearts.

In order to meet the requirements of the Oscars, "Hero" had a trial screening in Pengcheng for a week in October. At that time, I just wanted to finish the show in a low-key manner and get the Oscar qualification, so I didn't even notify the media. Of course, this was also to prevent piracy.

At the beginning, the staff put up the big sign for the screening of "Hero" in front of the movie theater. Many movie fans didn't realize it. Later, when everyone found out, countless audiences queued up every day to buy tickets to watch "Hero".

Because there are only two screenings per day, and only 50 people are admitted to each screening, this absolute shortage of supply has made movie tickets a super-sought-after commodity.

The ticket dealers raised movie tickets from 50 yuan all the way to 300 yuan, 500 yuan, and finally the highest price of 800 yuan, setting a record for the ticket price in the mainland!
While competing with pirates, the film studio also fought a battle with ticket dealers.

In order to prevent the movie tickets from falling into the hands of these ticket dealers, a few days after the screening of "Heroes", a new policy was introduced, which is the "certificate-to-ticket" policy. With an ID card, only one movie can be bought. ticket.

Once this kind of measure came out, it was really effective. Not only did it control the opportunism of many criminals, but it also forced the migrant workers who lined up for pirates to obediently go to the cinema to watch movies by themselves.

It can be said that anti-piracy has been guarded against all the time since "Hero" was finished, and this test screening also made the film crew feel like an enemy.

They chose to test-screen in Pengcheng just to participate in next year's Oscar selection. The distributors wished that the audience would be as small as possible, and they also took some ruthless measures to prevent piracy.

During the test screening, not only ordinary audiences became strict security targets of the theater, but even relevant leaders who watched the film were no exception, and had to undergo very strict security checks.

The security inspection standard of the theater is that any electronic-related items cannot be brought into the theater, because the audience is afraid of sneaking pictures with pirated commercial pinhole cameras, and audiences are not even allowed to bring a pen into the theater.

Such unheard-of anti-theft measures have also made movie fans flock to "Hero", which can be said to be a good marketing tool!

Now on December 12th, "Hero" held its world premiere in the Imperial City, which naturally attracted the attention of movie fans all over the country and even overseas.

It is expected that more than a thousand people will attend the premiere in the Great Hall, and Chen Hao was also notified to enter the venue an hour in advance.

When Chen Hao came to the entrance of the great hall, he was immediately engulfed by flashing lights. There were as many as 400 domestic and foreign media present today!
"Director Chen, what do you think of the box office prospects of this "Hero"?"

"Director Chen, do you think "Hero" can be as successful in the Olympics as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"?"

"Director Chen, when will your new movie start shooting?"

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When the media reporters saw Chen Hao appearing, they immediately asked questions, wanting to hear something from Chen Hao.

"Hero" has been hyped for so long, it is another three-year painstaking work of the National Teacher, it is also a gathering of superstars from both sides of the strait and three places, and it is a super blockbuster of 3000 million US dollars.

Obviously, the expectations of the media and the Chinese people have been raised high. Looking at "Hero" now, the box office and the awards are going to take it all.

Not only to get a record-breaking super box office, but also to win the Oscar statuette, otherwise I will be sorry for the current lively scene like a raging fire.

But who knows what the outcome will be.

And Chen Hao, as a newly emerging director of commercial films, has gained fame in the United States and became famous in the first battle, so he naturally became the target of everyone's questioning.

But Chen Hao just smiled, cooperated with the reporter to take pictures, and then directly entered the hall. Today's protagonist is "Hero" and its crew, so Chen Hao is not too busy.

After entering the venue, Chen Hao was stopped.

"Sorry, please store all your watches, mobile phones, video cameras, cameras and other electronic products, as well as bags, here. These things cannot be brought into the venue." The staff said.

Chen Hao raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, shook his head with a smile, but still cooperated and took out the phone and deposited it.

Going further in, Chen Hao saw a row of inspectors, holding detectors similar to those of the staff in the airport, scanning back and forth between people in front of them to prevent people from bringing contraband into the venue to record pirated copies.

Chen Hao was speechless secretly when he saw this, this anti-piracy version is really perfect.

Not only that, the film studio also jointly offered a reward of 400 million bonuses to prevent theft from the distributors who bought the audiovisual copyrights, and up to now, the distribution departments of major theaters have not even seen the complete "Hero" sample.

Like movie fans, they can only get a glimpse of the real picture when the movie is officially released nationwide.

This anti-piracy strength is absolutely unprecedented!

After passing the second security check, Chen Hao was able to enter the venue, and then found his seat in the second row.

At this time, the entire venue was packed to the brim, and the premiere of more than a thousand people was indeed not bragging.

The scene is also grandly and majesticly arranged, surrounded by huge stills in red, green, blue, white, and black that symbolize the style of "Heroes".

Standing on both sides of the rostrum were a hundred big men dressed as soldiers of the Qin Army, dressed in black and armed with weapons, looking very mighty.

These "soldiers" were specially selected by Yi Suhao, a fan of the national division and a famous connoisseur of classical art, from among the 5000 students of the Imperial University of Physical Education.

Their height is between 1.79 meters and 1.82 meters, which meets the requirements of Chinese honor guards.

As the auspicious time has come, Guoshi and the five leading actors of the film Li Lianjie, Wei Zai, Manshen, Chen Daoming, International Zhang and martial arts director Cheng Xiaodong, photographer Duke Feng, costume designer Wada Huimei and other internationally famous big names are on the rostrum Sit down with one word.

On the wall opposite them was a huge banner reading "Cheer for Huaxia Movies, Cheer for the Oscars", which seemed to remind these people at all times that "heaven will send a great responsibility to everyone".

So far, no Chinese-language film in the mainland has won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Even if Chen Kai’s "Farewell My Concubine" won the Palme d’Or, it also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

But it just didn't win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" did get it, but many people think that it was made for Americans, and it can't be regarded as a real Chinese film!
(End of this chapter)