I'm not just a director

On the day of the release of "Let the Bullets Fly", Jiang Pei'an did not create such a big scene like "The Promise".

The only difference is that he brought several satellite broadcast trucks to the scene.

In six provinces, including Xin'an Province, there was also an exclusive live broadcast on Weibo.

Of course, it cannot be rebroadcast when the movie is being shown.

Otherwise, people across the country don’t need to watch the movie and can just watch the live broadcast.

Jiang Pei'an chose the Workers' Stadium as the venue for the premiere press conference, and the huge space was quickly occupied by fans who came from all over the country after hearing the news.

"Hey, if I had known I could watch the live broadcast at home, I would have watched the live broadcast at home."

Looking at several satellite broadcast trucks parked outside, someone complained.

"Please, is watching the live broadcast at home any better than watching it live?"

"It's still great to be there. You can see celebrities and interact with them."

"You give me the ticket, go home and watch the live broadcast, and I will give the ticket to my friend."

The young man made a casual comment and was immediately dissed by the people around him.

Jiang Pei'an's premiere ceremony was huge. When he appeared on the stage, the entire workers' body was cheered by fans.

"Director Jiang!"

"Director Jiang!"

"I like you so much, Director Jiang!"

Fans shouted Jiang Pei'an at the top of their lungs in the audience.

As we all know, Jiang Pei'an hosted all the premieres of his movies by himself.

Today is certainly no exception.

“Thank you, thank you all for coming, I saw many old friends coming to our scene.

But most of them are new friends, but as you can see, it's New Year's Day and the entertainment industry has been very busy recently.

Even at our premiere this time, not many friends from the entertainment industry came to support us...

Maybe they can't spare the schedule, after all, there are indeed a lot of movies released recently. "

Jiang Pei'an stood on the stage and gave the opening greetings as if chatting like homely, which immediately made everyone happy.

To be honest, there are indeed so many movies released recently that movie fans don’t know which movie to watch.

Not only that, almost every movie released has a press conference.

In addition to the main creative team at the press conference, the organizer often invites many stars in the entertainment industry to promote the event.

This is a very common operation. After all, you need to rely on the influence of celebrities to sell movie tickets.

"Let the Bullets Fly" did not invite celebrities to take the stage. The only ones performing and appearing on the stage today were the main creative team.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Peian introduced the creative team who appeared on the stage.

Among them, Ge You and Jiang Wen are the most popular.

Of course, Feng Xiaogang, who failed at the beginning, was also invited to participate in the event.

After all, he is also an actor.

Feng Xiaogang has no movies released this year, so he is happy to watch the competition between the few movies in the Lunar New Year festival.

In fact, it was exactly the same in the original time and space.

In 2005, the Lunar New Year film was mainly directed by Director Chen's "The Promise". Although it was criticized quite a lot, it couldn't hold up the high box office.

In the end, it became the box office champion of domestic movies in 2.1 with a box office of 2005 million.

It was also from 2005 that Lunar New Year films entered the era of competition between the three major directors, Lao Mouzi, Chen Dadao, and Feng Xiaogang.

The actors are represented by Ge You, Liu Tianwang, Fa Ge and others. These people basically monopolize the Chinese New Year film market.

From 2006 to 2012, except for Lao Mouzi's "Three Guns to Surprise".

Feng Xiaogang's first few films and "Undisturbed" were comedies, while the others were basically blockbusters of the bitter-hateful type.

In addition to the three major directors from the mainland, there is also Chen Kexin from Hong Kong who has been tirelessly getting involved.

In 2005, as the Hong Kong director with the keenest commercial sense, Chen Kexin's "If Love" also participated in the competition for Lunar New Year films.

In addition to bringing Mr. Zhou an Academy Award and a Golden Horse Award trophy, Chen Kexin also successfully opened up the mainland market.

In the following years, the films he directed or produced, including "The Name of the People", "October Siege" and "New Shaolin Temple" also participated in the competition for New Year films.

In fact, the wave of Lunar New Year films that began in 2002 coincided with the gradual rise of the Internet.

During this period, the public's voice has expanded unprecedentedly, and coupled with the general decline in the standards of major directors, art workers who used to be superior have received countless comments and criticisms.

Unlike Hong Kong films that focus on both art and commerce, mainland films used to be more along the lines of art films.

Lao Mouzi's films have amazed the world from the very beginning.

Since "Red Sorghum" won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1988, almost every film since Lao Mouzi has won awards from the three major European film festivals.

It has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film several times.

For example, the film "Alive" directed by the director in 94 only won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

But it is still considered by domestic audiences to be Lao Mouzi's best film.

Times are progressing bit by bit, and people's movie-watching experience is constantly setting higher standards.

"I was not invited here this time. I am a serious actor in this crew. Hello everyone, I am actor Feng Xiaogang."

The people on the stage introduced themselves one by one.

Feng Xiaogang stood up, and then everyone introduced themselves.

As a host and director, Jiang Peian has always been dominating the conversation.

Everyone talking on stage was all about the more interesting things during the filming process.

The audience in the audience burst into laughter, and the audience in front of the TV and computer were naturally happy.

The process of interacting with everyone did not last long, and the "Spark Song and Dance Troupe" arranged by Jiang Pei'an also started.

The three top singers from Spark, headed by Zhou Peng, Zhang Jie and Zhang Liangying, will take the stage directly.

When these three people came on stage, the entire work hall immediately turned into a concert scene.

The audience took out the light sticks they had prepared and flew them in the air.

The three people each sang two songs, and the fans in the audience were even more entertained.

"Sing one more song, sing one more song!"

"It sounds really good. I really like the three singers from Xinghuo."

"Damn it, I made a lot of money, I didn't expect to hear my Brother Jie singing this time!"

The fans in the audience shouted the names of their favorite stars and urged them to sing another song.

Jiang Peian appeared on the stage at the right time. He pressed his palms and made a quiet gesture.

Of course, the audience present also saw Jiang Peian take the stage, and the atmosphere was not as chaotic as before.

"I can understand everyone's mood, but we are going to watch a movie this time. We haven't watched the movie yet, so you plan to listen to the music all the time?"

As soon as Jiang Pei'an said these words, someone in the audience immediately reacted.

Yes, I am here to watch a movie this time, and my main mission cannot be changed.

Seeing that everyone in the audience became quiet, Jiang Peian said to everyone at this time:

"Thank you everyone for waiting until now, then we will come to the most important part of today!" "Let the bullets fly!"

"fly!"

"Let it go."

After hearing Jiang Pei'an's words, the people in the audience were extremely excited.

……

"Let the Bullets Fly" is about two hours long.

While the movie was playing, the live broadcast was interrupted, causing people in front of TV sets and computers to rush around anxiously.

"Damn it, this is too outrageous!"

"Let me take a look, just one look!"

"Just go to the cinema to watch it tomorrow. You want Director Jiang to lose all his money."

Many people commented on Weibo.

The topic of the premiere of "Let the Bullets Fly" has also directly rushed to the Weibo hot search list, and it is still rising.

There are tens of thousands of topics about the movie "Let the Bullets Fly".

The quality of a movie can be seen from the audience's state while watching the movie.

Therefore, while the movie was playing, Jiang Pei'an secretly strolled around the infield alone, observing the audience's reaction.

The movie has been playing for half an hour, and the audience is still in high spirits, amused from time to time by Jiang Wen's naughty lines and Ge You's exaggerated performance.

Seeing the audience's reaction, Jiang Peian suddenly knew something.

In the audience, there were media editors writing on their notebooks from time to time.

For an excellent work, both the rhythm and the plot are well controlled.

After everyone watched "Let the Bullets Fly", they felt very satisfied and happy.

This is the positive value that movies provide to people.

Some newspaper editors and reporters were full of excitement.

This movie made them see something different.

Something different in Chinese movies.

They kept writing and drawing in their notebooks, trying to record their first feelings after watching the movie.

Some editors even keep holding their notebooks and typing on the keyboard while watching movies in order to grab manuscripts and popularity.

Not long after the movie finished playing, I posted the article I wrote on Weibo.

"A year later, we waited for Jiang Pei'an again. (There are spoilers, so read with caution!)
His last movie "Painted Skin" was good enough, but it only had two audiences: people who like celebrities or people who like commercial movies.

This time Jiang Pei'an has practiced smarter, and he allows audiences of all levels to see good enough things.

This time Jiang Peian hid his ambitions under the superficial comedy baggage.

"Let the Bullets Fly" is a commercial film, but it is more artistic than most domestic art films.

After making money, you are still standing, and if you hide it deeply, you will stand straighter.

There are many memorable points in this movie. I am not talented, so I only found the following points:

Talented directors often have one thing in common, that is, they have quite a lot of personal preferences and knowledge areas, and they use them in their own movies.

This time Jiang Pei'an, as before, incorporated a lot of personal interests into the movie.

For example, horse-drawn trains:

Many people may find it strange when they see the horse-drawn train in the title sequence.

In fact, the earliest railways ran this kind of cars.

Railway tracks were first designed for horse-drawn carriages, especially in mining areas where there were many horse-drawn coal cars running on the tracks. Later there were steam locomotives.

Of course, it was quite strange to use horse-drawn trains in China in 1920.

This is to tie in with the plot, and to create a sense of strangeness.

Sanlaima is visually free, unrestrained and impactful, which is also the style Jiang Peian wanted to give to this film.

To make a digression, whether China is filming costume films or modern films, the horse breeds used are basically foreign sports horses.

Chinese love horses are relatively short in stature, and their coats are not that good. Sometimes they look very time-traveled.

But making a movie is also reasonable.

All in all, this is a movie that makes people gain a lot from watching it, and people of all levels can understand it, and everyone can see the part they understand.

Through this movie, I seem to understand Jiang Peian's slogan of 'make money while standing'.

At the same time, the movie "Let the Bullets Fly" also reminds me of another recent popular movie made by a great director.

To be honest, I really don’t like the great director’s movies. They are all full of mist and mystery, and they are not as hearty as “Let the Bullets Fly”…”

This editor who watched the premiere of "Let the Bullets Fly" is indeed a talent. He just updated his Weibo account and immediately attracted a large number of fans.

"Damn it, is it true or not? Are you saying something so mysterious?"

"They are probably the trolls invited by the crew. Is the movie that good?"

“I was also there, and the blogger was typing right next to me, and the sound of the keyboard was so loud that I couldn’t even hear the lines.

Yes, I am the small bench where the blogger sits. "

There are many people online paying attention to the movie "Let the Bullets Fly".

Especially when the live broadcast was interrupted during the movie, it caused a wave of "hate".

As the saying goes, love is as deep as hate, but everyone pays no less attention to the movie.

It didn’t take long for more and more movie reviews about “Let the Bullets Fly” to appear on Weibo.

After reading the movie reviews, many viewers felt itchy in their hearts and wanted to go to the cinema to check it out to see if it was as good as the critics said!
Therefore, when the movie played at midnight, many people came to the theater and queued up to buy tickets.

"Holy shit, what's going on? It's already twelve o'clock, are there still so many people in the cinema?"

"Dude, what are you here to see, "Let the Bullets Fly"? Me too!"

"I'm late. I knew I would have lined up at ten o'clock. I didn't expect this movie to be so popular!"

If it is normal for movie theaters in big cities in Beijing to be full, then movie theaters in some second-tier cities are also providing a fire for the hot market.

Because of the popular situation in the cinema, many reporters went out overnight to capture the explosive scene.

Jiang Pei'an finished the premiere ceremony after watching the movie and chatting with the audience for a while.

"Thank you everyone. I have already booked a hotel. Let's go get something to eat first."

Jiang Peian smiled and said to everyone.

"Director Jiang, don't you pay attention to the box office?"

Jiang Wen asked curiously.

In his mind, as soon as the movie is released, he can't wait to check the box office every hour.

Jiang Peian smiled slightly and said:
"Whenever there is a calm moment when something big happens, it's our box office. It will definitely not be able to escape. We don't have to worry. The results will naturally come out tomorrow night."

"Awesome, so calm."

Jiang Wen gave him a thumbs up. (End of chapter)