my movie years

Chapter 385 The peak of director’s career
After more than a month and a half of filming, "Daydreamer" was successfully completed. After returning to the capital for a finals banquet, the crew officially disbanded.

A few months later, they will gather again and follow Zhang Hao to work on "My Motherland and Me". The cornfield project is basically a continuous process.

"Daydreamer" requires almost no special production, and post-production can be completed easily. Zhang Hao later shifted most of his work to "My Motherland and Me".

Since May, "The Dark Knight Rises" has finally come to an end in theaters and has begun to be released one after another.

Let’s talk about the domestic box office first. It received a total of 33.57 billion box office, equivalent to 4.79 million U.S. dollars, setting a box office record for Hollywood movies in the Chinese market.

In North America, "The Dark Knight" grossed US$7.11 million, ranking third in North American box office history, behind "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" with US$9.36 million and "Avatar" with US$7 million.

In the end, the film successfully grossed US$21.03 billion at the box office, surpassing "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens" and ranking third in film history.

The top two are both works by James Cameron, "Avatar" with a box office of 28.47 billion US dollars, and "Titanic", which has been re-released many times, with a box office of 22.01 billion US dollars.

As the global box office total of "The Dark Knight Rises" finally settled, the film media around the world went crazy.

Because this year is a rare time when two powers compete for hegemony, but both win. "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Avengers: Infinity War" fought to the death, and both achieved dazzling results.

"Avengers: Infinity War" took in a global box office of US$3 billion, successfully ranking fifth in the global box office rankings.

The fact that one of the two films ranked third and the other ranked fifth is enough to illustrate the problem.

As a result, some media speculated that if the schedules were staggered, would the performance of the two films eventually surpass "Avatar"?
Of course, this is just a guess. After all, the box office war and the two-power struggle for hegemony have come to an end, and the center of the stage has been given to other movies.

The "New York Times" in North America carried the title "The runner-up is the biggest loser" and detailed the process of the battle between the two movies, saying that "Avengers 3" met "The Dark Knight Rises" at the wrong time.

The newspaper also criticized "Avengers 3" and said that the Chinese faction headed by Zhang was a threat to Hollywood and even the entire North American culture.

Uh... I just don't know how Bruce Wayne, a pure North American superhero, feels when he becomes Zhang Hao's accomplice.

Naturally, Warner media was not to be outdone, and repeatedly promoted Batman as a superhero who can single-handedly fight against the Avengers, which is more in line with the North American spirit.

Then the two parties, plus the neutral media, united with North American netizens and fell into an endless quarrel.

Compared with the complicated situation of the North American media, the Chinese media or Asian media are much simpler, and they are basically all talking about Zhang Hao.

At this time, whoever takes the risk of insulting Zhang Hao will attract attention, but they must also be prepared to be tortured by insults.

The Internet is now full of praise for Zhang Hao, especially after Zhang Hao continues to break various records and has two films in the top ten at the global box office, he has reached his peak.

"Director Zhang is the number one director in the world and will not accept refutation."

"Director Zhang's status lies not in the fact that he has made good films with high box office, but in the fact that he has brought Chinese-language films to a world-class level."

"Wake it clear, while it's true, The Dark Knight Rises is a Hollywood movie."

"A Hollywood movie produced by a Chinese team? Director Zhang is awesome..."

Of course, there are those who praise and naysayers.It's just that in this mainstream wave of tout, it didn't make much splash, and was submerged in the saliva of Internet public opinion.

As far as Zhang Hao's personal director career is concerned, apart from not winning the Oscar for Best Director, he has reached the peak of his career.

Zhang Hao can't win the director's Oscar if he wants to, unless he makes some movies that people like.

As a decent director who is highly praised by his superiors, Zhang Hao naturally cannot imitate the sixth-generation directors and film his own ugliness and bad qualities to please foreigners.Isn't this the same as outsiders saying your mother is ugly when you are away from home?
Although Zhang Hao has always said that movies should return to movies themselves, movies have such a huge influence that it is impossible to just talk about movies.

Especially for a director of Zhang Hao's level, any movie will evoke various associations, so be careful.

In the past few years, through the release of "Gravity", "The Martian" and "Inception", Zhang Hao has established a good image on the film level.

So next, we need to continue to maintain and complete the task of image promotion.

While he was busy with the post-production of "Daydreamer", Zhang Hao also participated in several meetings of the Chinese Filmmakers Association and had several meals and chats with the big guys from the Central Propaganda Department.

When a certain director was chatting with Zhang Hao, he mentioned the process of China's film industrialization and asked how many years it would take for it to catch up with the level of North America.

"I think if we don't change the fundamentals, it will be difficult to catch up." Zhang Hao said truthfully.

The director became curious and signaled to Zhang Hao: "Please talk about it in detail."

Zhang Hao didn't hide it, and said bluntly: "In fact, in the current film industry, except for me and a few directors, most of them are small workshops.

There is no scale, industrialization, and systematization. This is a big problem.

In addition, there is a shortage of talents and professional talents, which makes many jobs impossible to do. "

"Do you have any plans to improve this aspect?" the director asked.

"I have always said that the movie itself is a face-building, a business card." Zhang Hao first set the tone and explained his position to avoid offending others later.

Then he said: "First of all, we need to investigate the chaos in the industry, such as box office theft incidents, which occur repeatedly, and various methods of money laundering through movies that also occur from time to time. These must be punished emphatically.

Secondly, strengthen the training of the talent team. The few people sent to Hollywood every year to learn are not effective at all. The most important thing is to change their brains.

Secondly, implementing a system of separation of production and broadcasting to completely separate the production and release links can effectively combat industry monopoly and the breeding ground for bad movies.

The rest, the market and audiences will decide where our films will go in the future. "

The director was very serious and wrote down what Zhang Hao said in his notebook: "I have written it down, and I will organize your thoughts into documents and respond to them above.

By the way, what is your opinion on the film rating system?Many people say that it is because we do not have a rating system that China lacks film creation capabilities. "

Zhang Hao shrugged and said: "Those who say this either have bad intentions or have no ability and can only blame the environment.

I also think that the review system of Scissors has always given me a headache, but I also think that the grading system is not a good system.

If you don’t understand, I won’t comment. "

"Okay, thank you for the advice..."

The director finally responded to what Zhang Hao said. Zhang Hao didn't know whether it had any effect. This was not something he could decide.

System reform in any industry cannot take too big a step, otherwise it will easily lead to problems.

(End of this chapter)