China Entertainment: Indulge in Vanity Fair

Chapter 265 Why not use Korean actors?

"Ah, why do korean movies always make gangster, corruption, love, fringe movies? Why don't they make blockbuster movies with 3D special effects like He Fang? Bastard, we are already behind the poor neighbors, whoever makes movies should go die."

"Hey, let the shopkeeper pretend to be here again, can't we ban Chinese movies from being shown here? Why can their movies be shown here, but our movies can't be shown here?"

"Is it useful to complain? Our films cannot be screened in China because it is not cost-effective to import our films. Audiences do not buy romance and comedy films, and action films, gangster films, and political films cannot pass the review in China. Therefore, China only Hollywood movies are imported, not to mention Korean movies, even European movies, and almost no movies from island countries are imported.”

"Then why do we want to introduce Chinese films?"

"That's because He Fang's movies are not based on Chinese films, but Hollywood's distribution. It's like we don't buy rice from island countries, but island countries sell rice to the United States, and the United States sells rice to us. That's it. brought in."

"Ah, it's messy."

"Can't we also enter China through this method? Why?"

"Hey, I saw a group of arrogant people yelling here. If I can't make a movie, I can only talk big, lose my temper, and curse. If you have the ability, you can also make "Pacific Rim", "Three Dozens of Bones", "The Origin of the White Snake" and so on. movie."

"Yeah, the CG of "The Origin of the White Snake" is really beautiful. The key is that the love in the movie is so touching. Korean romance movies are far from this. Korean men definitely don't have this responsibility, because I didn't listen to it. similar Korean stories.”

"It's so bad, it's fine to watch Chinese movies, but you still want to slander Korean men, are you Korean?"

"Aren't I telling the truth? Come on, can you tell me about any earth-shattering love stories in Korea? Is it because you men didn't take responsibility? You only know machismo and arrogance all day long, and then pretend to be yourself." Very fierce and strong, swearing the most ruthless words, and raising the most fierce fists. Actually? Not on the battlefield, not on the movies, not on the bed."

"Ah, bastard."

……

He Fang was delighted to see the comments of Korean netizens. Anyway, Korean netizens are just like their national public opinion. They quarrel every day, and then they are arrogant. I am the best in the world.

After watching the ones in South Korea, we will look at the ones in island countries.

Filmarks is an island country's film review website, and "The Origin of the White Snake" is at the top of the list, and it is currently showing films.

The score is as high as 8.8 points, and the favorable rate is very high.

"Odo-san (Father), please put it on my knee. Only China can produce such a touching love story? Looking at this white snake is much more pleasing to the eye than Yamato no Orochi."

"He Gaoyi (that's amazing)... Asian movies still depend on He Fangjun. I went to see the movie yesterday. The beauty of Chinese paintings and the touching feeling of love in a big country are cultures that island countries don't have. Chinese dads are indeed Chinese dads."

"Xin Ji Nai (I can't believe it), He Fang's movie has reached such a height, and it is even better than the "Legend of the New White Snake" I watched."

"Chinese men are so responsible. They are willing to give so much for a woman they love. What about men from island countries? I'm afraid they won't? I heard that men and women are truly equal in China. Many men are afraid of women. I'm really envious."

"I think the touching thing is not what happens to the male lead for the female lead, but that the female lead must find the man in the end, and she repays the same to the male lead. Therefore, love is mutual, not blindly giving by one party. For those who envy the male protagonist to do this, did you follow the female lead to do that?"

"My sister was so touched that she couldn't stop crying. To this day, she still asks me if the two of you are together in the end? I told her that they are together because another TV series "Legend of the New White Snake" has been released, and we are together." .”

"What is love, love is fearless, love is across races, love can give everything, including life. How can this kind of love be described very well, I really like this kind of love that teaches life and death."

"Yes, the islanders are not good at talking about love. We only talk about poignant love, missed love, and painful love, but we don't have this soul-stirring love."

……

The comments from the islanders are not fierce. They are not as arrogant as the Koreans. The islanders worship the strong. As long as others do better than them, they will study hard.

Next, He Fang took a look at the public opinion in Taiwan. Most of the comments from Hong Kong and Southeast Asia were similar to those from island countries. They all praised the film's pictures and touching love.

There are not many criticisms, and the scores are generally above eight points, and the overall is quite satisfactory.

After he finished watching these, it was almost time. The crew all got up, had breakfast and packed up.

The local company also sent someone over, and He Fang gave the other party a big red envelope. After all, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, he would be busy with the crew all day, so he had to show it.

"He Fang, He Fang, He Fang, ah..." As soon as He Fang and the others entered the event site, the female movie fans screamed. Their voices were so sharp that they overwhelmed the male movie fans.

But the male movie fans are not admitting defeat.

"Fan Bingbing, Fan Bingbing, Fan Bingbing... ah, ah..."

"Saowuqing Drum Team, black and empty and muddy! (Friends in Seoul, happy new year!)" He Fang took the microphone and uttered a sentence in Korean, and then the audience screamed.

"Where, where, where..." the scene shouted in unison, tsk, it really looks like a pyramid scheme brainwashing scene.

Fan Bingbing and the others opened their mouths slightly, stunned. When did He Fang learn so much Korean?

He Fang told them last time that the fastest way to get closer to local movie fans every time they go to a place is to learn a few words of the local language, but they didn't take it seriously.

Now let's see where it is called out, the effect is awesome.

"Is the movie good?" He Fang asked, the sentence was in Chinese, and someone translated it.

A normal exchange followed, with fans asking questions of interest to them.

For example, a fan asked He Fang: "Director He Fang, is it expensive to make such a movie? Is it difficult to make?"

This is technical, so easy to answer.

"The cost is not bad, about 2 million yuan. This CG production is very difficult, and now only the United States and China's Huying Group can do so well in the world, because we use a full set of equipment from the United States, and some American The company’s equipment is not necessarily newer than ours.”

He Fang's introduction, once translated, turned into a production fee of 350 billion won (the exchange rate of RMB to Korean Won in 2013 was 175.28), and then the audience unexpectedly said "Oh".

Because the production cost is not high, 350 billion won is equivalent to a production cost of less than 3200 million US dollars.South Korea's 2012 box office champion "League of the Lost Treasure" reached more than 8200 million US dollars at the South Korean box office.

That is to say, their market can afford movies made in this way, so their audiences were surprised and thought they couldn't afford to make them.

"Since the production cost is not very high, why can't South Korea produce such a movie? What do you think is the reason?" Korean movie fans are also strange, and they even asked the Chinese director such a question.

How did He Fang answer?He could only shrug his shoulders: "Sorry, I can't answer this question, because I don't know much about Korean movies. Of course, if a Korean film production company wants to make a movie with good CG special effects and low cost, they can come to us The production company is absolutely exquisite and cheap."

He Fang is openly soliciting business and letting Korean films go to China for post-production. This is probably not acceptable to South Korea, because Chinese films still had to find Korean teams to do post-production.

Why is South Korea's technology still lagging behind China's all of a sudden?

"Director He Fang, your movie can quickly become popular all over the world, do you have any experience to introduce?"

"Experience? My trajectory is clear to everyone. The biggest experience is to make films that are liked by audiences all over the world. I have no other experience." Who will really pass on experience?Of course... no experience to pass on.

"Director He Fang, do you usually watch Korean movies? How do you comment on Korean movies?" Some audience members asked He Fang this way.

"Look, I've seen most of the good Korean movies. Like "Memories of Murder", "Old Boy", "Peppermint", "The Melting Pot", "Han River Monster", "Sassy Girl" and many other Korean movies I've seen them all."

"As for the evaluation of Korean movies, it can be said that the production of Korean movies is very good, and has a strong Korean culture. The globalization of Korean movies in recent years also proves that the development of Korean movies has achieved good results."

He Fang appropriately praised Korean movies, but what he said was basically the truth. If he hadn't traveled here, the most eye-catching movies in Asia are Korean movies.

"Have you ever thought about cooperating with Korean films, such as co-production, such as using Korean actors? I heard that you used island actors in "X-Men", why didn't you use Korean actors?" This question is very sharp.

"This question is very good. In fact, the "X-Men" that I will take over is a continuation work, that is, this movie must be sold at the box office, so as to continue the "X-Men" series. Therefore, I Suggested to the producers that some actors can be selected in high-grossing countries and regions, which can drive the local box office."

"And China and the island countries are currently the second and third largest box office markets in the world, so actors from these two places were selected. It is a pity that Fox can't choose more actors, otherwise it will definitely cast actors in Korea. However, I believe there will be a chance next time.”

He Fang avoided the question of whether to cooperate with Korean films or Korean actors, and even pushed the issue of not choosing Korean actors for "X-Men" to Fox, which has nothing to do with him.

……

Of course, in addition to asking these serious questions, there are also some unserious questions about where to look.

For example, a movie fan asked about the evaluation of Korean food, which made everyone very embarrassed. Is there food in Korea?How to evaluate?

So I can only describe it with words like 'great', 'not bad', 'okay' etc.

Some people even cared about He Fang and the emotional problems of several leading actors, and asked what kind of object they liked.

For example, ask He Fang what kind of woman he likes, and Fan Bingbing what kind of man he likes...

He would ask all kinds of weird questions, but fortunately, everyone was a battle-tested person and could fool them.

After several activities in theaters and shopping malls, there will be interviews with TV stations and questions and answers from the media.

The questions are almost the same, some are about creation, such as modeling, CG images, performances, stories, some are about interesting things on set, some are about personal issues, and some are about opinions on the industry and the market.

This time they did not participate in the recording of any variety show, because today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and no variety show will be recorded on this day, so they went to a commercial event together at 07:30 in the evening.

When it was almost nine o'clock in the evening, they were catching a flight to Tokyo.

Of course, it is impossible to charter flights. He Fang is not used to continuous charter flights. It doesn’t matter if you spend more than 20 yuan for a charter flight, but you spend hundreds of thousands continuously... He is not the kind of super rich second generation.

It was past [-] o'clock when we arrived at the hotel in Tokyo. Everyone was really tired after running for a day. This hotel has hot springs for soaking. You can go to the hot springs to relieve fatigue.

So, He Fang returned to the room and took a shower first, then took the room card, mobile phone, lighter and cigarettes, wrapped in a towel and went to the hot spring.

Who knew that as soon as he walked to the hot spring pool, he saw Pan Zhilin and Yan Ran, wrapped in a bath hanger, it was very attractive.

"Hey, you two are so fast?" He Fang was very surprised.

"Ha, yes, we also want to soak in hot springs." Yan Ran replied.

"Well, this is a real hot spring. It smells like sulfur, and the water is misty like a fairyland. Have you chosen a pool?"

"Not yet, I'm looking at this sign." Pan Zhilin pointed to the sign.

He Fang also leaned over to take a look, "Well, if you want to be quiet, you can go to the side. I'll go to the pool inside. It's just 40 degrees. It's too hot to bear, and it's too cold to be afraid of catching cold. You can choose slowly. .”

After He Fang finished speaking, he took his things and left.

Under the dim light of the night, the water mist is lingering. He Fang soaks in the pool, then leans against it, and lights a cigarette. It's really comfortable.

Suddenly, he heard the sound of water, someone went into the water?

He is so biased, and at this point, there are still people coming to grab the pool?

Then, he saw a person appearing in front of his eyes...

Tsk tsk, both of them don't talk, it's so exciting and wonderful to do something in this environment, so what should we say?
(End of this chapter)