China Entertainment: Indulge in Vanity Fair

Chapter 205 This Situation Was Deliberately Destroyed

The fireworks are beautiful, the New Year's Eve is very lively, and the whole city is beautifully decorated with lights.

He Fang and the others drank very late on the boat that night, and it was past two o'clock in the morning when they returned to the hotel, so everyone had no other ideas, and fell asleep at the hotel.

On New Year's Day, early in the morning, He Fang was woken up by the hotel's wake-up call service, and he regained his composure with the "Happy New Year" on the phone.

After I went to wash up, I picked up my phone and looked at it. There were a lot of New Year's greeting messages.

It is impossible to reply one by one seriously, so I had to make up a short message and send it to the group.

At this time, he suddenly saw a text message about the box office information. The domestic box office was narrowed yesterday on New Year’s Eve, and only got 2108 million. This is also understandable. Yesterday, everyone had a New Year’s Eve and watched the Spring Festival Gala at night. Who would go to the movies? ?
It is really good to get more than 2000 million box office in this way. Three days before the Spring Festival, the domestic box office won a total of 9888 million yuan, which is equivalent to 1454 million US dollars, which is not bad.

Since one night has passed, the global box office has also been released. In the first three days in North America, the first day was 1060 million, the next day was 1077 million, and yesterday was 1129 million.

The rest of the world saw 2650 million on the first day, 2692 million the next day, and 2822 million yesterday.The rest of the world took in a total of $8164 million in the opening weekend.

In the end, the total box office of "Pacific Rim" in the first three days of the world was 12884 million US dollars, totaling 1.28 million US dollars.

Although it's not a big hit, it's not bad, let's look at the performance in the second week and seven days.

"Happy New Year, Boss, Gong Xi Fa Cai." He Fangcai walked out of the room and found several waiters in the corridor wishing him New Year greetings.

"Happy New Year, Happy New Year, get rich, get rich." He Fang took out a red envelope and gave each of them a red envelope.

"Thank you boss, I wish the boss a prosperous year of the dragon, with the spirit of the dragon and the horse, the dragon and the tiger leaping, the dragon and the tiger, the dragon and the phoenix dance, and the dragon and the wind bring good luck!"

"..." He Fang took out a few red envelopes from his handbag again, and was confused by these messy blessings, "Get rich, get rich."

……

Well, anyway, they have been giving out red envelopes before leaving the hotel, and after they left the hotel, they gave out red envelopes to the driver and security personnel again.

Today their schedule is to go to three theaters first, then there will be media interviews, and in the evening there will be a reception with invitations from the Hong Kong film and television industry.

The first theater they were going to was the AMC Theater in Pacific Place. There were quite a lot of people watching it, and the attendance rate was very high, which was very good.

When the movie was over, the crew appeared, and the scene burst into warm applause.

"It's a good shot."

"He Fang is so energetic, win glory for me!"

"Chris, so handsome!"

……

"Thank you, thank you for your enthusiasm, let our film creator say a few words for everyone, okay?"

"Good!"

He Fang took the microphone: "Is the movie good?"

"nice."

"Okay, I'm relieved to hear you say that. This is the first time I've come to Hong Kong to do publicity. You are the first batch of audience I have contacted. You give me a great feeling. Thank you for your likes. I strive for In the future, I will make more and more good-looking movies for everyone. Thank you, you guys."

"come on!"

The host took over the conversation: "Director He Fang, I really want to ask another question, why didn't you take part in this movie yourself? We have seen that there are very few movies you have participated in."

"Ah? Do you think I'm handsomer than Wu Jing? I'm more suitable for matching with Teacher Fan Bingbing than him?" He Fang asked back with a smile.

"Haha..." Everyone who understood laughed.

The host spread his hands, "Wu Jing is also very handsome and suitable for acting. I mean, we haven't seen you in a long time."

"I want to act too, but my energy doesn't allow me to. I tried it. Being a director and starring at the same time is tiring, and it often makes people confused. A blockbuster like "Pacific Rim" doesn't allow me to try and make mistakes. Because the cost of trial and error is too high." He Fang explained.

"I also want to ask a question, are the domestically-made aircraft and aircraft carriers in the movie real? Have the mainland secretly planned them?"

"Then you asked the wrong person this question. I'm not in the military industry, so I really don't know. I hope it's true, because I like it too."

"Meaning a baseless figment of the imagination?"

He Fang glanced at the host and smiled mysteriously.

"It can't be said that there is no basis. Although some things are unknown, they can be deduced through some clues..."

He Fang can't say it's just based on his imagination, because once he said that, some people would say, 'Look, this is the product of a Chinese director's daydream, what are you proud of? '.However, he can't say that there is a root cause. Doesn't that mean that he knows some secrets?
"What about the monster?"

……

In the next communication, the host was quite professional, he could take care of all the main creators, and the questions were gentle.

The last link is the interaction with the audience, answering a few questions, and then drawing lucky audiences to give red envelopes, each creator draws ten lucky audiences to give their own red envelopes, and the three luckiest audiences in the audience will give Mechs and Monsters Figures.

The event didn't take long, only about half an hour. After all, people still have to open their doors for business. How much turnover is half an hour on the first day of the Lunar New Year?

In addition to this theater, they also went to two other theaters. The accompanying propagandists took some photos and recorded some videos and sent them to the media respectively.

There was no media to interview the activities of these three theaters, because the crew held a press conference in the afternoon, and they didn't need to come to the theaters.

The press conference was still arranged at the Shangri-La Hotel where they stayed, so they went back to the hotel after finishing the activities.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, dozens of media gathered in the large conference room of the Shangri-La Hotel, and He Fang and his party appeared on the scene in time.

The host briefly introduced: "This is the media briefing of the "Pacific Rim" Hong Kong promotional station, mainly to answer media reporters' questions about the "Pacific Rim" movie. Ask."

The host pointed to one of the reporters in yellow clothes, who took the microphone.

"Director He Fang, when you came to Hong Kong yesterday, you said 'look down on Hong Kong people', and arrogantly said that you could write whatever the reporters wanted. May I ask why you disrespected Hong Kong people?"

He Fang clicked off, and pulled the microphone closer.

"I guess you don't understand the specific situation yesterday, and many people don't understand it. Because your reporters always use out-of-context methods to gain attention and news."

"Actually, I don't really want to explain it, because you will distort the report if you explain it. There is no so-called journalistic spirit in Hong Kong. It's just Fei Tuzeng who keeps talking. So, you go and understand every sentence between me and the reporters yesterday. Say it again."

The reporter immediately asked: "What is the spirit of journalism you are talking about? Hong Kong is a very internationalized place. We don't have the spirit of journalism. Does the mainland have it?"

"As a reporter, you don't even know what the spirit of journalism is? The spirit of journalism is to seek truth from facts, convey the truth of the news to readers or audiences as much as possible, and let the audience judge for themselves whether it is right or wrong. But what are you? The truth is covered up, and then readers and viewers are guided by the journalist's values ​​and viewpoints."

He Fang counterattacked sharply.

"..." The reporter opened his mouth suddenly, but remained silent for a while.

Before the reporter could refute, the host said wittily, "Next, okay, the beauty in red."

"Director He Fang, since you said that the news should tell the truth, then what is the truth behind why you suppressed "The Legend of the White Snake" and forced Director Cheng Xiaodong and Jet Li to bow their heads?"

He Fang spread his hands: "This is at the press conference of the movie "Pacific Rim". The mainland is very clear about the matter, but you Hong Kong media don’t follow up and report, choose to blame me if you don’t listen, then I can’t do anything about it, I’ll just explain it once, don’t ask me again in the future.”

Then He Fang recounted the old story again, clearly explaining that it was not who wanted to suppress "Legend of the White Snake", nor did it necessarily force Cheng Xiaodong and Jet Li to bow their heads, but they were the ones who made the mistake first, giving Hu Ying to He Fang The damage done is great.

After this matter was finished, the host didn't give the reporter another chance to ask questions, so he was the next one.

"Director He Fang, why do you basically not have Hong Kong actors in your movies? Is it because you look down on Hong Kong actors? Or is there another reason?"

"Don't always interview me with the greatest malice, as if I am a heinous villain. In fact, I am the biggest victim, and I am the most wronged one. I remember the question you mentioned. I answered it before, and since you asked it again, I will answer it again, and don’t ask this question again in the future.”

"The reason why there are no Hong Kong actors is very simple, because I have a language barrier with Hong Kong actors. I can't understand vernacular, and the director can't communicate effectively with the actors on the set. How can we cooperate?"

He Fang asked back.

"You guys can communicate in English. Hong Kong actors are all good at English," said the reporter.

"Do you communicate with your parents in French or Russian when you get home? Why can't your family communicate in Chinese? Why don't Hong Kong actors ask Hollywood directors to speak vernacular to them when they go to Hollywood?"

"I have been in Hollywood for eight years. I have never heard of a crew adapting to the language of an actor. Only an actor learns the local language in order to perform well so that the whole crew can communicate with him. Give me an example. For example, which Hollywood star can't speak English, and then Hollywood will praise this actor to the sky."

As soon as He Fang finished answering the host, he shouted: "Next, the gentleman with glasses."

"Director He Fang, what do you think of the decline of Hong Kong movies since the handover? Not only Hong Kong movies have declined, but Hong Kong as a whole has not moved towards a more prosperous situation. What do you think?"

"..." He Fang was stunned, "My reporter friend, your question has less and less to do with the "Pacific Rim" movie. I am a director, not a politician or scholar. Is it a bit too much for you to ask me this question? gone?"

He Fang looked rogue.

"Can you talk about your point of view from the standpoint of your director?" the reporter insisted.

"Okay, then I will answer this question that has nothing to do with the movie. If the questions after that have nothing to do with "Pacific Rim", we will refuse to answer."

"First of all, there are many reasons for the decline of Hong Kong films, such as the loss of Taiwan and Southeast Asian markets, such as the dilemma of Hong Kong films being pirated to the death of genuine ones, such as the shortage of talents... In short, there are many reasons. This has something to do with returning or not. Doesn't matter? I think so, but not much."

"Where is it? It is because of the return that some people blocked the international market of Hong Kong films, causing the original market to be lost. The loss of the market will reduce the profit and the production cost will become lower and lower. There is this relationship in it, it is undeniable. "

"This has something to do with what you said later, just like some Hong Kong people feel that the return is not as good as the colonial period. That's because you have been blocked and destroyed by some external forces economically, and some people are here to support and oppose you politically. Forces undermine political stability, and your textbooks are constantly revised culturally...this leads to political instability, cultural torn, social development turmoil, and always fails to develop."

"Look at yourselves. You longed for it when you had no political power and democracy. Now that you have it, you can't control it. You are secretly being manipulated by others to destroy one or more political parties. As long as there are any policies that are beneficial to your development There are legislators from other political parties who oppose it, just for the sake of opposition, undermining the policies that benefit your development. Therefore, in the past few years, you have not been able to adjust policies and seize opportunities in the face of development. There's a good reason why you guys think you haven't lived your life before."

"Many problems are very clear, that is, some people are not reconciled after losing this colony. So, they even made it a mess by means of external containment and internal destruction. Don't you understand it yourself? If there is no one with such a vision , then I’ll point it out for you.”

"Okay, that's the end of this question, let's go to the next one. By the way, don't keep asking me, our actors are sitting next to us."

The host nodded, "Okay, next."

……

He Fang's answer was very sharp, he didn't have any scruples, after all, you can't hide from people like them, otherwise they always feel that you have some ulterior motives that you can't say.

This is also the reason why some of us always complicate simple problems. In fact, the cause is very simple. Some people are not reconciled to repaying the land, and then use their years of influence in this area to mess up the environment on this land. .

There are two ways to mess up, one is external sealing, and the other is internal tearing.Only by making this land poor, the people on this land will miss the time when they were colonized.

……

At eight o'clock in the evening, still at the Shangri-La Hotel, Stephen Chow came first, and he was quite supportive of He Fang.

"Director He, do you know? Many people in Hong Kong watched your press conference this afternoon, basically everyone in the entertainment industry. Two sentences can make it clear, you are amazing."

"Haha, it's actually not complicated. Just like making a movie, you have to export a kind of value to the audience. You just need to insert it quietly, and the audience can't see it. But a knowledgeable person can see it at a glance. .”

Zhou Xingchi gave a thumbs up, "It's still those of you who have this kind of environment who understand this better."

The two were chatting when Jackie Chan also came.

"Hey, Brother Jackie Chan, Happy New Year, Gong Xi Fa Cai." He Fang clasped his fists with a smile.

"Yeah, Gong Xi Fa Cai when we meet, I'll check to see if I still have any red envelopes." Jackie Chan also immediately searched himself, according to the custom here, when someone tells you Gong Xi Fa Cai on Chinese New Year's Day, you have to show it to some extent.

"Come, come, come, red envelopes." Fortunately, Jackie Chan's assistant handed him a stack of red envelopes.

"Haha, thank you, big brother, I wish you good luck in the year of the dragon, the spirit of the dragon and the horse, the leaping dragon and the leaping tiger, and the prosperity of the dragon and the phoenix..."

"Come on, let the dragon and the phoenix be auspicious, who am I going to go with? The press conference in the afternoon is so good, I must come over to talk to you. Now Hong Kong is messed up, and we can't control anything else. But can Director He give an idea on the film?"

Jackie Chan is very sincere.

"Ah? This... We don't dare to come up with ideas, but it's okay to communicate." He Fang is not disgusted with the development of Hong Kong movies.

People take advantage of the advantages. In the eyes of some people, no system, no power, no democracy is as good as the actual benefits.Whoever gives them real benefits, they will say whoever is good.

Hong Kong is like this. If things get better and better after the return, then they will naturally return to their hearts.But now it is getting worse and worse being messed up by the UK, so they miss the past.

Therefore, it is in everyone's interest to help Hong Kong make films well.

"Okay, wait a minute and the main personnel of our film association will come, so you can tell everyone. You have done a good job in China, and you have indeed led Chinese films to a new path. Our Hong Kong films also need a new path. Otherwise, when our generation gets old, Hong Kong movies will be completely dead."

(End of this chapter)