Actor: My Entertainment Era

Chapter 665 Campus Trip

The premiere ended at lunchtime, and Liu Yifei arrived in Jiangcheng at 6 p.m. to continue filming "Wang Xiaofang."

Before Liu Yifei got on the plane, Zhang Yuanjun reminded her: "I'm going to visit the class in a few days. Remember to give me the love letter you owe me. Don't forget the 500 words. If you can't write it well, I'll have to go back and rewrite it."

This provoked Liu Yifei to scold him for being petty.

It’s okay to ask Liu Yifei to play different roles, but to ask her to write 10 different love letters to her husband, she gets a headache just thinking about it.

Liu Yifei has left, but the promotional activities for "Pieces of a Woman" will continue, and the heavy burden falls on Zhang Yimou, Zhang Yuanjun and He Saifei.

Art films don't have big budgets for large-scale road shows, but there are also less expensive ways to promote them.

Campus activities.

With the popularity and appeal of Zhang Yimou and Zhang Yuanjun, many universities are willing to host them for exchanges and screening activities.

On the afternoon of the second day after the premiere, Zhang Yimou and Zhang Yuanjun came to Peking University on behalf of the crew to communicate with Peking University students.

For the next question, a student mentioned the Marvel movie "Ant-Man" which was released in China last week. "Ant-Man" is not a popular IP of Marvel, but the film has earned 4 million domestic box office. The student wanted to ask Zhang Yi What do Mou and Zhang Yuanjun think about the Marvel movies that have become popular all over the world in recent years?

For example, when I was having an exchange with teacher Dai Jinghua at Peking University, several students in the audience asked: "Nowadays, commercial films are very popular, and the living environment for literary and artistic films is getting smaller and smaller. It is getting worse and worse. Do you worry about making literary films now?" The audience’s aesthetics or acceptance is not that high?”

After Dai Jinghua read out the question on the note, he also wanted to hear the opinions of Zhang Yuanjun and Zhang Yimou.

"Because there is piracy in our country." Zhang Yuanjun said something treasonous.

If you want to talk about Chelulu, you should combine it with local characteristics and say something that is suitable for the place at that time.

Zhang Yuanjun took the microphone: "I want to answer this classmate's question from another angle. I think our Chinese audience has the highest appreciation and acceptance of all kinds of films in the world, and we can watch any film."

Zhang Yuanjun smiled: "It doesn't seem good to say this, but it is an objective phenomenon. Because of piracy, our audience has watched too many movies of all kinds in the past few decades. The movie-watching aesthetic cultivated in this way It is very high, so even if we are a single movie market, various types of movies can still find their audience in China. For example, "Saw" has never been released in China, and horror movies are also relatively small. It’s a popular genre, but there is still a huge audience in China who have watched “Saw”, so there is no need to worry about whether the audience will accept it or not like it.”

Zhang Yimou said that he has no such worries: "No matter what type of film, there will always be its audience. From a business perspective, literary and artistic films have small investment and are not likely to achieve high box office, but at the same time, the pressure on literary and artistic films to return the capital and make a profit is not that great. Don’t worry about the audience not accepting it. A good film with proper promotion will definitely be seen by the audience. I never doubt the audience’s taste and acceptance. I have to trust the audience.”

As soon as this sentence came out, the teachers and students in the audience laughed, which was regarded as acknowledging this phenomenon.

They are both experienced in the film industry. Whether they are in top universities like Peking University or in other schools, it is not too difficult for Zhang Yimou and Zhang Yuanjun to deal with this kind of activities.

After Zhang Yuanjun said this, he glanced at Dai Jinghua and Zhang Yimou. The two seniors seemed to have guessed what Zhang Yuanjun was going to say next.

Dai Jinghua did not elaborate on his views on this issue in depth, but just expressed a few words about Zhang Yimou's point of view: "...of course we must consider the feelings of the audience, but at the beginning of creation, we still have to focus on the work itself. If when creating Just thinking about whether the audience likes it and accepts it is tantamount to tying your own hands.”

This question has nothing to do with "Pieces of a Woman", but it's worth answering.

But Zhang Yimou regretfully said that he has never seen Marvel movies: "But I have also heard that their technology is worthy of recognition. Although I have not watched it seriously, since they can sell well all over the world, they must have their It makes sense, I will find time to take a look, and I hope I can answer your question in the future.”

Zhang Yuanjun cannot answer this question in terms of shooting techniques, but as an actor, he has his own perspective: "From a performance point of view, I don't like Marvel movies very much." "I think Marvel's large-scale use of green screen shooting is not good for them. The actor's performance is a great disservice."

"Actors need to really listen, watch and feel, and the crew needs to provide a real environment for the actors to perform. I have seen other works of Marvel actors. To put it bluntly, except for a few, most Marvel actors have worked in films other than Marvel. It was very bad in the movie.”

Zhang Yuanjun almost said that Robert Downey Jr.'s acting skills were poor.

Zhang Yuanjun used the influence of green screen on actors' performances to open up the minds of Zhang Yimou and Dai Jinghua.

The two of them generally agreed with what Zhang Yuanjun said. If there is no real situation, letting the actors act in front of an empty green screen all day long will not help the actors' performance in the long run.

"Actor is a profession that requires imagination, but it also requires reality." This was Zhang Yuanjun's final expression on this issue.

The topic was finally brought back to "Fragments of a Woman" by Dai Jinghua. Although Liu Yifei, the most interesting female lead in this drama, is not present, as the male lead and Liu Yifei's husband, he can answer many questions about Liu Yifei on her behalf.

He even broke the news at the scene that Liu Yifei had learned a lot of maternal knowledge and infant care knowledge in preparation for this drama.

"For a while, reporters asked us if we were pregnant, and our parents and family members also came to ask. We explained that we were preparing for a new drama and were not pregnant. We were also scolded by our family members as crazy."

After the exchange at Peking University, #张元君 criticizes Marvel for lack of acting skills that night became a hot search topic.

"This morning, the crew of "Pieces of a Woman" came to the Peking University campus to communicate with teachers and students. At the event, Zhang Yuanjun criticized the filming methods of Marvel movies for hurting the acting skills of the actors, saying that the performance of Marvel actors in other movies was very poor. "

Zhang Yuanjun didn't know that his words would become a hot search topic at the time.

But Xuanfa, the crew, felt that since he said this, he should just go with the flow and do some marketing.

Why not use the popular Marvel to advertise the low-cost and low-profile "Pieces of a Woman".

This hot search is not considered negative news. For the purpose of promoting the movie, Zhang Yuanjun also agreed that the crew could do this.

Who told our crew to be poor?

If someone else had said this, they might have been attacked by netizens, but it was Zhang Yuanjun who said it. His performance is enough to comment on anyone's acting skills. Marvel fans didn't take Zhang Yuanjun's criticism to heart.

What Zhang Yuanjun said was that Marvel actors did not perform well in other movies, but he did not say that Marvel movies were not good. There is nothing to argue about.

However, there are still some Marvel fans who feel that Zhang Yuanjun's criticism is wrong, saying that there are many outstanding moments of acting in Marvel movies, which made them very touched after watching them.

But when the debate started, it became popular, and the purpose of "Pieces of a Woman" was achieved.

Zhang Yuanjun was even too lazy to respond. He had to continue running campus tours and screening events.

(End of this chapter)