my movie years

Chapter 256 Controversy About the Top Ten Directors

Entering the second week, because of Zhang Hao's strong box office appeal, coupled with the film's excellent quality and reputation, and its very high viewing quality.

The film maintained a relatively healthy decline in the second week, and the box office decline on weekdays was not high.

The most important thing is that at the end of the year, "Lost in Hong Kong", "The Nine-story Demon Tower" and other surprisingly bad movies.

"Knives Out" looks like flowers blooming on cow dung, which looks delicate and charming.

Famous film critic Hou Jianchun commented on "Knives Out";
"The film pays tribute to the suspense writer Agatha Christie, and Zhang Hao's script is written in a humorous and tight rhythm.

The funny moments and rhythm presented by each actor are very precise, and there is no slack for a moment.

That makes for a 2-hour film to be enjoyed by the audience.

Some of the film's gags are some of the funniest in trying to figure out this ingenious murder mystery.

It remains to be seen whether current audiences are still willing to go to the cinema to see Agatha Christie-esque suspense films.

But "Knives Out" is still a humorous and novel detective film.

Keep some viewers curious and laughing all the way until the last second. "

Zhong Zhong Zhang also commented on the "Beijing Daily": "No matter from which angle you look at it, "Knives Out" is full of the characteristics of the golden age detective story.

In particular, it has many core elements in Agatha Christie's detective novels:
The upper-class life in the mansion of the wealthy family, the father as the creator and guardian of wealth, and a group of parasitic children each have their own problems.

Housemaids and nurses and murder.

And the story told by the director is also a puzzle-solving process in the classic detective genre.

All of this is designed to imbue it with the ritual and drama of a classic detective novel.

But at the same time, we find that the director's ambitions don't stop there.

In this seemingly classical and even clichéd story, the director quietly incorporates a very current issue into it.

This makes this seemingly pure entertainment movie full of politics. "

"Film Weekly" commented: "The box office of the film market continued to grow this year, and three films with a box office of 20 billion were born one after another.

But it can be seen that the quality of most of the videos is actually a little average.

In particular, there are big bad movies like "囧囧 in Hong Kong" that have earned more than 15 billion box office.

We can also witness the tolerance of movie fans to bad movies, but we also need more well-made good movies to appear in the movie market.

In this regard, Zhang Hao is undoubtedly a role model for all directors and film company owners to learn from. "

I don't know if the director will learn or not, but as the owner of a film company, he definitely doesn't want to learn from Zhang Hao.

Because the production model of Tianmi Film and Television Production Company does not meet most of the requirements of short, flat and fast capital.

Zhang Hao is already a well-known fast-shooting director throughout Asia, and even the energy and thought he put into a movie is beyond the imagination of others.

More importantly, with the speed of Zhang Hao's film production, one blockbuster film a year, plus a small production cost at most, is already remarkable.

As for Guo Fan, another director of Tianmi Film and Television Production Company, he only released a movie in two or three years.

Capital cannot bear this kind of low-efficiency film creation work, although this kind of film creation link itself is the law of the film industry.

If Zhang Hao is not his own boss, but works for others, there is a high probability that he will fall into the capital vicious circle and be forced to play the capital formula.

In fact, as far as film production itself is concerned, the production of bad films is inevitable, and excellent production is rare.

Not all movies produced by all Hollywood companies are good movies, and there are no fewer bad movies every year than in the Mainland.

What is really strange about the mainland market is not that there are too many bad movies, but that bad movies have become the mainstream. This is the crux of the problem.

Therefore, in the eyes of many media and public fans, Zhang Hao is very important.

Zhang Hao only did a three-day road show with "Knives Out" and appeared in the first episode of "Happy Camp", after which he returned to filming.

But before returning, he received an unexpected invitation.

A talk show on South Korea's KBS TV station paid a high price for appearances and invited him to the last episode of the show.

"Reject them for me. I'm very busy and don't have time to go to Korea." Zhang Hao said.

Cai Runping explained: "The program team has already arrived in Beijing, and they are very sincere."

Zhang Hao was stunned, shook his head and said with a helpless smile: "All these people are here, it seems inappropriate for me not to go, okay, just look at the arrangement!"

"Okay, it just so happens that the box office of "Knives Out" is still good in Korea, and we can promote it after the show airs." Cai Runping responded and went to communicate with the Korean program team.

The box office of "Knives Out" in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea is not bad. Zhang Hao himself has a strong box office appeal in these places.

The film grossed 3.51 million RMB at the mainland box office, and several places where it was released at the same time also scored a total of 2.18 million RMB at the box office in the first week.

It's not as good as "The Dark Knight", but "The Dark Knight" is a big production of 1.8 million US dollars, and "Knives Out" is less than 1000 million US dollars converted into US dollars.

In the previous selection of the top ten directors in Asia, Zhang Hao was the only Chinese film director on the list. After the list came out.

The rest of the list is basically the director of Little Days, and only one from South Korea is on the list, and one from India.

This list caused strong dissatisfaction among Chinese movie fans, Korean movie fans, and Indian movie fans.

So the netizens of the Three Kingdoms created a list of the top ten directors themselves.

The Chinese list is relatively more objective, but Zhang Hao is still on the top ten list, exactly tenth.

The evaluation of Zhang Hao is also very clear. The future world-class film master is limited by age and qualifications, otherwise he should be the first.

It is worth mentioning that Akira Kurosawa, the director of Little Days, ranks first on the list of China's top ten directors, and the second is Guoshi.

It is also because of this ranking that it has caused a lot of controversy, and many netizens who oppose this list have dubbed it a rape list.

The situation in South Korea is similar to that of Little Days. One director from China and one director from Little Days are selected, and the others are Korean directors.

Zhang Hao is the only Chinese-language film director who has been selected into the list of top ten Korean directors.

And the Indian list is even more interesting. It is all Indian Bollywood directors, and there are no other Asian directors.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, Indian movies are already outside the mainstream of Asia, just like the nature of this country.

But I have to admit that Indian Bollywood has also produced many good films.

What left a deep impression on Zhang Hao was "Three Fools Havoc in Bollywood" and Indian national movie star Aamir Khan.

The ranking competition is just an interesting thing. Individuals have their own evaluations, and they all have their own top ten directors.

But no matter how the selection is made, in the second decade of the 21st century, when it comes to Chinese-language movies or Asian movies, Zhang Hao is always a character that cannot be avoided.

　Doing data at the end of the month, I am exhausted, so I will ensure full attendance first, and then go to work tomorrow to fish for codewords.

　　There will be another chapter in a while...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)