Actor: My Entertainment Era

Four movies were released on the first day of this year.

"Journey to the West: Upheaval in Heaven", "Macau", "My Ex" and "Where Are We Going, Dad".

As academic actors, both Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei really don’t understand why “Where Are We Going, Dad” can be released in theaters as a movie!

"Where Are We Going, Dad" was a phenomenal variety show last year and was extremely popular, but no film company expected that this thing would actually be released in theaters during the Spring Festival!

电视综艺节目从10月11日开播，到12月27日收官。12月9号到13号，花4天半的时间拍完大电影，1月31号上映。

This production model made film critics and producers say they couldn't understand it, and caused huge controversy inside and outside the industry.

When he was puzzled, Zhang Yuanjun saw the registration notice for the film "Where Are We Going, Dad", and the film type was clearly written with the word "documentary".

It turns out that this is how the documentary is understood!

The movie "Where Are We Going, Dad" grossed 9400 million on its first day and 2.56 million in its first three days.

These are two completely unreasonable numbers.

Coupled with the 3.2 million first week sales of "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven" and 7300 million of "Macau Storm" in the same period, the entire Spring Festival period was completely crazy.

Some theaters even add stools in the hall to sell tickets.

At present, it seems that the biggest winners during the period are "Journey to the West" and "Where Are We Going, Dad", and the market is basically driven up by these two movies.

But the two movies dislike each other.

"Journey to the West" was criticized by netizens for having a "bad story and poor special effects." The film's official Weibo commented: "At least this is a movie, and it has more conscience than those bullshit TV shows that dare to be shown on the big screen after only five days of filming. !”

The director of "Where Are We Going, Dad" quickly responded on Weibo: "Is it a bad movie to shoot in five days? Did you know that Taiwan has been preparing for "Where Are We Going, Dad" for a year! Did you know that the column team has been preparing for this project? Eight months. Do you know that it took three months of filming for the father and the children to have such a tacit understanding? Do you know how many all-nighters our post-production team had to stay up and how many versions we changed to achieve this effect! Not to mention the big movie "Where Are We Going, Dad"? How good it is, at least it’s real, natural and joyful without being filled with cups! Thank you for your support!”

With the two films fighting like this, if you ask Zhang Yuanjun who is on his side, he will side with "Journey to the West" without hesitation.

All the film education Zhang Yuanjun received told him that movies should not be like "Where Are We Going, Dad".

The response from the director of "Where Are We Going, Dad" didn't go over well with him. He sold miserably, but he didn't respond to the outside world's doubts about whether "Where We Are We Going, Dad" counts as a movie.

He cannot understand and will not support a "movie" like "Where Are We Going, Dad". Similarly, he also feels that recording a concert and putting it in a theater violates the definition of a "movie".

From a cinema's point of view, whatever is shown on the screen is shown, as long as the audience buys a ticket and enters the theater.

But from the perspective of a movie actor, Zhang Yuanjun cannot agree to put this kind of thing in the cinema.

And he especially hates the banner of "Who is your boss if the audience likes it?" at this time.

Audiences still like salty and wet movies, but can they enter theaters?

Producer Liu took a break until the third day of the new year and plunged into the post-production of "Miss Bai" with Xue Xiaolu.

It was also on this day that Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei finally got the final script of "The Secret of the Dragon".

"Have the actors been decided?" Zhang Yuanjun asked Wuerfan's coordinator and assistant director Sun Ye.

"No." Sun Ye said without any shame, "This may not determine the script. With you and Yifei, we can script other actors."

This is what the industry does all the time. Only when there is a script can we cast actors. People like Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei who get involved during the creative stage of the story before the script is written are in the minority.

"It can be started in August, right?"

"Yes!" Sun Ye confirmed by patting his chest.

"It's good if you can."

Sun Ye hesitated: "When did we sign the contract?" Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei only signed an agreement of intent with "The Secret of the Dragon", and the formal actor contract has not yet been signed.

"Just talk to your agent." Leave professional matters to professionals.

"The filming time of our drama may be relatively long." Sun Ye said.

"As long as it lasts, please give me more time." Zhang Yuanjun used this kind of scene to prevaricate Sun Ye, and then joked, "My salary should not be high."

Sun Ye could only smile awkwardly and thought to himself: "You have the highest salary in the country!" But he still said: "It's okay, it's okay. Then we'll talk to the agent later."

The meeting with Sun Ye basically meant that Zhang Yuanjun's New Year's holiday was over.

Zhang Yuanjun brought two good cigarettes with him the next day and went to see Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Yimou is a real workaholic. He has to focus on the post-production of "Return" after finishing it. In addition, he is also promoting three projects at the same time, including "Pieces of a Woman", two domestic films and one Hollywood film. Co-production.

When Zhang Yuanjun arrived at his studio, he was smoking and chatting with his employees. It seemed that workaholics would also take a break.

"Don't take it for granted, sometimes folk remedies really work." They were talking about folk remedies for treating serious illnesses.

Zhang Yuanjun happened to arrive and was asked: "What earthworks do you have there?"

Zhang Yuanjun thought about it for a moment: "I don't remember anything else, but I remember making soup with bitter melon roots to treat diarrhea. This is not called a folk remedy. Bitter melon is basically a medicine, but I didn't understand it at the time and used it as a folk remedy."

"Bitter melon root soup? I can't even think about it."

Zhang Yuanjun smiled and said: "It is indeed very unpleasant to drink. I was forced to drink it twice when I was a child. The soup swirled in my stomach and I vomited."

After chatting together for a while, Zhang Yuanjun and Zhang Yimou began to talk about "Pieces of a Woman".

In the past ten days, Zhang Yimou has been thinking about Zhang Yuanjun’s proposal to film Zhou Ning’s entire delivery process in one long lens.

The more he thought about it, the more he thought it was feasible.

"We will build the couple's house first. After the house is built, we will walk through the site to see if we can take pictures. When will you have time?"

"We will be working on this movie after the new year, and we are just waiting for your preparations from the director."

"Okay, I'll urge you to set up the scene." Zhang Yimou said. After talking about setting up the scene, Zhang Yimou said, "The start-up time of yours is very troublesome. It will be started in May and it will tell a story about winter. This will make a lot more The cost will be higher, and it will be harder for you actors to act."

Zhang Yuanjun didn't know, "There is no way. In August, Yifei and I signed a drama for Wanda. The filming of that drama will take a long time. "Pieces of a Woman" can only be shot in the summer."

The two sat together and talked a lot. This was the first time that Zhang Yimou had an in-depth chat with Zhang Yuanjun. He found that this young man had a very profound understanding of drama, both from the perspective of text creation and from the perspective of performers.

Zhang Yuanjun also saw the most sincere love for movies from Zhang Yimou.

Although many people later said that he was kidnapped by capital and his level dropped.

But if you don’t really love movies, you wouldn’t be able to do what he does.

He will probably be like old Martin, who will keep filming as long as he can still move.

The two chatted for a long time and didn't leave until the afternoon. (End of chapter)