China Entertainment: Indulge in Vanity Fair

Chapter 344 Don't Have Expectations For The Box Office?

He Fang and the others did come, but they went to the dressing room first.Everyone also met the long-lost main creator of the show here, who is to blame for this, he didn't organize a scene in advance for everyone to meet, and had to meet at the premiere scene.

"Director He." Wu Jing came in first.

"Brother Jing, long time no see." He Fang hugged Wu Jing and patted each other hard on the shoulder.

"Director He." Pan Zhilin jumped up and down for the second time. Although she was jumping up and down, her eyes were filled with resentment, like the dark eyes bursting out from the cracks in a drought-cracked rice field.

"Zhilin, long time no see." He Fang also gave Pan Zhilin a polite hug.

If it was Fan Bingbing or Liu Yan, it would definitely be a standard hug, but Pan Zhilin is different, she is young, jumpy, and a bit in love... So... what was originally a simple hug turned into a scratch Clamp it once.

He Fang really admires this little girl, and she is getting bolder and bolder. In He Fang's perception before, she was a pure, lovely, honest and well-behaved person. Why...

There was a warning in He Fang's eyes immediately, but Pan Zhilin responded with provocation in his eyes. This really made He Fang want to pull her down and whip her a hundred times, really can't deal with it?
But in this case... let her go for now.

"Director, long time no see." Zhang Hanyu was next, and the two shook hands without hugging.

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"Director He, you are awesome. "X-Men: Days of Future Past" surpassed "The Avengers" in one month, with 15.96 billion US dollars. What a pity, it was almost 16 billion US dollars."

"It's okay, the release in North America is still postponed, and it will hit the $16 billion barrier."

"Director He, the media are reporting that it is because of Disney's all-out suppression that the price fell below $16 billion. Is it true?"

"Haha, if the person involved doesn't admit it, I don't know either."

... After everyone chatted about the topic of "X-Men", they returned to "Operation Mekong".

"Director, can you predict for everyone, how much box office will "Operation Mekong" get?" Wu Jing asked first.

"It's hard to say. It is estimated that some foreign theaters will suppress the film or box office, so everyone should be mentally prepared." After He Fang asked the hair stylist to fix his hair, he waved it and refused to let it go.

Then he stood up and walked to the sofa next to him, took out a cigarette, and lit it.

"Why?" Everyone was puzzled.

"Heh, how many modern military movies have you seen in China besides Hollywood? Why is this so?" He Fang asked back.

Then everyone was stunned. After thinking about it carefully, it was true, so why?

Everyone looked at He Fang. He Fang took a puff of cigarette slowly, flicked the ashes, and then crossed his legs.

"This kind of military-oriented movie is actually a type that promotes a country's military strength. Why do we only see American military movies in movies? Is it because other countries can't make them?
Maybe it was impossible to take pictures, after all, many countries do not have military equipment like the United States, and the weapons in the pictures are not dazzling enough for fear of being laughed at.However, advanced weapons are not a reason not to make such films, so why do many countries not make such films?Or is this kind of movie made but the global audience can't see it? "

He Fang asked back.

"Because the United States doesn't allow it?" Wu Jing asked cautiously.

He Fang smiled and nodded.

"I heard Director Feng and Mr. Wang say that the United States controls the global publicity and distribution. If they don't give you the publicity and distribution, your movie will not be released globally." Zhang Hanyu said.

He Fang raised his eyebrows and took a breath.

"Both of you are right. How can the United States allow countries other than the United States to promote their military films? So, although our film is released globally. However, don't expect too much from the global box office."

He Fang's words made the people present a little depressed. After all, everyone is an actor and they all go for the high box office, but the result is that there will be no high box office. How can they be in a good mood?

Everyone's depression is unimaginable, but he waved his hand.

"Everyone don't need to be discouraged, this is not a bad thing. Others want to suppress us just to show that what we did made them feel scared and threatened. Isn't this more meaningful than taking high box office?

At our stage, making money is secondary, and doing something that makes the opponent fearful and nervous is the challenge and the fun. "He Fang comforted everyone.

"Director He is right. We earn millions and tens of millions every year. What else is there to be satisfied with? It is an honor to do something that makes our opponents nervous and afraid." Wu Jing immediately echoed.

"I think what Director He said makes sense. Whether it's box office or not is second. It's interesting to be able to make movies with Director He and challenge your opponents together." Zhang Hanyu expressed his opinion.

"I'm just a supporting character. I can just show off in Director He's movie. I don't think so much." Pan Zhilin said with a smile.

As a result, as soon as she finished speaking, everyone looked at Pan Zhilin with a kind of "understanding" eyes. She was stunned for a moment. Could it be that what she said was wrong?
He Fang smiled.

"Since everyone is so supportive, let's play a good project next time and we will be together again." He Fang smiled.

"Haha, then I have to prepare in advance to show my skills." Zhang Hanyu said with a smile.

"Hey, don't get too excited, I'm going to take action, probably Americans don't like it." He Fang said.

"Oh... also... okay, it's nothing... It's a lot of fun fighting people, and it's a lot of fun fighting the sky..."

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Everyone was chatting like this, but He Fang suddenly received a text message, and the name was Pan Zhilin's.

He Fang glanced at her who was honestly putting on makeup, and he opened the text message to read it.

Pan Zhilin: "It hasn't rained for a long time, I heard that the fish ponds are all dry..."

"Pfft..." He Fang couldn't help laughing, and then everyone looked at him.

"Ha, um, I saw a funny news, it's okay, it's okay."

Everyone smiled and continued to make up.

He Fang began to reply to the text message: "The rainy clouds have not drifted back to North America, so there is nothing we can do. Why don't we save the disaster by ourselves?" Pan Zhilin: "It will stain the newly made nails..."

He Fang: "Then what should I do?"

Pan Zhilin: "It's cloudy today with an east wind. The clouds that would rain in North America should have come back. How about some rain secretly at night?"

He Fang: "Would you be too anxious if it rains tonight? The cloud has just floated over, and I have to socialize with Lei Gong, Qi Qi, and the sun."

Pan Zhilin: "It doesn't matter..."

He Fang: "What's the matter? Still acting like a baby?"

Pan Zhilin: "There is no guardrail in the fish pond, or..."

He Fang: "..."

Nima, this woman has advanced, where did she learn these things?It really made He Fang so angry that he could only...

Just when He Fang didn't know how to answer...

Pan Zhilin: "I know there is a safe lounge in the auditorium, I will go there now..."

He Fang: "..."

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At 05:30 in the afternoon, the premiere of "Operation Mekong" is about to begin, and everyone in the crew is full of energy.

Wu Jing is upright, but it is different after going to the army for training.

Zhang Hanyu feels oppressive...

Pan Zhilin is like a freshly moistened flower, full of vigor, ruddy, and excited...

He Fang was full of momentum, but carefully pulled the collar. If the camera was zoomed in, there was a row of tooth marks hidden in the seam of the clothes...

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"Dear audience friends in front of the TV, friends from the media, and audience friends, welcome to watch the "Premiere" program. Today we came to the premiere scene of "Operation Mekong"...

...The following are the main creators of "Operation Mekong", they are..." Jingwei is doing his work skillfully.

He Fang and the others walked on the red carpet, interacted with everyone, posed for photos, took photos with fans, and signed autographs...

In the end, Jingwei pulled him to introduce the movie. This... The introduction is okay, but it is a bit formatted, like the words in the slogan.

Of course, some young people don't like to hear this. They think it's all fake and empty, and the falsehood is very good. They just want to hear the truth and see the truth.

For example, how much money can I earn, what benefits do I have, what problems can I solve...

But in fact these things are viewed in two levels. The first level is that the so-called formatted things are not for ordinary people at all, and ordinary people cannot understand them.The Chinese literati have their own language, which is like the audio-visual language of art movies. The audience seems to understand everything when they watch it, but they don’t understand anything.

Similarly, ordinary people know every word of the manuscripts and materials of the scholar class, but they just read them in a fog.It is normal for ordinary people to criticize this, just like ordinary people criticize literary and artistic films, if you make ordinary people unable to understand, who will they not criticize you?

But the fact is that it is not that people are unwilling to let the common people understand, but that the more knowledge people have, the more they learn to make information two-dimensional or three-dimensional. This makes ordinary people with one-dimensional thinking blind, and they cannot understand. .But we can’t stop making information two-dimensional or three-dimensional just to make it easier for ordinary people to understand, right?Doesn’t that stop the advancement of human thinking?
Some people may ask what is the two-dimensional or three-dimensionalization of knowledge information?Take the simplest example.

One word in English represents one meaning. This is called a one-dimensional language, and the public can immediately obtain accurate information from this language.

But Chinese characters are not like this. Chinese characters are a two-dimensional or even three-dimensional language. A Chinese character can represent one meaning, but it can also represent many meanings at the same time.For example, the word 'water' can represent a kind of material 'water', it can also represent a person's ability is not reliable, it can represent a woman's beautiful side, and it can also represent that some authors write things with bad money ...

This is the reason why South Korea, Vietnam and other countries that used Chinese characters before abolished Chinese characters, because Chinese characters are too advanced, and their people cannot understand, learn, or understand the meaning.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, a group of experts felt that Chinese characters were too complicated to educate the people quickly, so they strongly promoted the abolition of Chinese characters and wanted to make them phonetic.

But from the perspective of human development, the abolition of Chinese characters is a retrogression of civilization. The more information a word can contain, the more efficient it can be conveyed.

Similarly, the audio-visual language of art films is to allow a film of only 120 minutes to express a lot of information.

The so-called agency material documents also have the same meaning, conveying multiple information in words that everyone can understand.

But it doesn't mean that ordinary people don't do practical things if they don't understand others?This is wrong, right?This is like saying that the person who invented writing is wrong and stupid just because you have never read a book and cannot read or understand books. You should scold him, right?
So you have to look at the second layer.

Every year, in order to protect the safety of people's lives and property and maintain social stability, many people indeed sacrifice on the front line. They sacrifice their lives, bodies, money, family...

This second level is what really needs to be shown for ordinary people to see. This is what the movie "Operation Mekong" wants to show.It can't be the rigid and template-style police film of the past, let alone a commercial film like Hollywood.

How to be both political and commercial?This is the biggest highlight of "Operation Mekong", and what He Fang is introducing is exactly this point. First, he will talk about politics in a formatted way, and then he will talk about some commercial selling points.

"I believe you have seen part of the content in the trailer. Those advanced unmanned small tanks, helicopters, small unmanned surveillance and combat machines, T5000 sniper rifles, Type 95 automatic rifles, AK-47 series submachine guns, The M1911 pistol, and even the Desert Eagle, night vision imaging helmets for individual soldiers, ultra-long-distance eavesdropping, palm-sized DJI miniature drones... and so on.

These are all the things that we will show in this movie, fans who love military, this will be a feast for you to watch some domestic military weapons and equipment..."

"Wow, movie fans will be feasting their eyes this time. Is there anything else worth seeing besides weapons and equipment?" Jing Wei asked.

"Of course there is. The movie shows some military content such as jungle warfare, street fighting, and anti-terrorism operations. In addition to these, there are also the demeanor of our police force, and those heroic police comrades who fought on the front line and sacrificed themselves to protect the people of the country..."

"Great, I can't wait to see the movie's premiere... So what do you predict for the movie's box office?"

"As for the box office, I won't predict it. This movie will definitely hit a new high in China, but how high it will be depends on the support of fans. As for foreign countries, it's hard to say."

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(End of this chapter)