director of the millennium

Chapter 139 Road Show and Box Office

Magic City.

Outside the cinema of Xuhui New Film Federation, a large group of audience gathered to watch the movie.

Most of them are young people. At first glance, there are few over 30 years old, and most of their faces reveal a bit of childishness.

"I heard that Director Wu will bring Hu Ge and the others to the theater for a meeting today?"

"Yes, that's why I bought today's movie tickets. I bought them from someone else, 100 yuan each!"

"I watched it on the day of the premiere, and today I will watch it again in order to meet them!"

"Will Liu Yifei come? She is so beautiful, I like her so much!"

"Hu Ge is still more handsome. I have never heard of such an actor before. He is really handsome!"

"Don't you guys think Director Wu is more handsome? Although he is not an actor, he is more handsome than all the male actors in the movie!"

Young people, the topic of discussion when they get together must be relatively easy.

While chatting, they took movie tickets and checked them in one after another, preparing to watch the movie.

After three days of release, there have been many spoilers on the Internet who couldn't help but share the story after watching the movie.

Many movie fans already know the general plot of the movie before they come.

But when they actually sat in the movie theater and watched the more than 100-minute movie, they were still moved to tears by the movie's beautiful and romantic story.

In 2004, a movie like "Your Name" was really too lethal.

It needs special effects, a story, a novel editing technique, a picture full of beauty, and the leading actors are all very good-looking.

It's really hard to find faults.

Most of the girls watching the movie burst into tears while singing "Want to See You".

And the male companion who came with them graciously delivered the tissues they had prepared earlier.

Of course, there are also some boys who cry a lot, and the girls turn to comfort the one who handed the tissue.
Yuan Duo, 21 years old this year, burst into tears after watching the movie.

Although he is a boy, he is more emotional by nature. He would cry when he read some sad literary works, let alone watching a tear-jerking movie like "The Name of You".

The girlfriend sitting next to him was emotionally stable. Although her eyes were rosy, she did not shed tears.

Not surprised, she took out a pack of tissues from her pocket, took out one and handed it to Yuan Duo, "Look, I said I would bring tissues."

Sobbing, Yuan Duo nodded, took the tissue, and wiped away his tears, "It's really touching. Lin Wenjie and Sanye's love is pure, and this rescue that transcends time and space is also very moving."

"Fortunately, they met again in the end, and it was a happy ending."

Her girlfriend nodded in relief as well, and was about to echo a few words when the door of the screening room was suddenly opened and the lights turned on.

Wu Yuan led Hu Ge, Liu Yifei and other leading actors, and filed in from outside the door.

wow——

The audience sitting in the auditorium immediately stood up from their chairs and looked at Wu Yuan and his party excitedly.

"Hello everyone!"

"I'm Wu Yuan, the director of "Your Name"."

Holding the microphone, Wu Yuan smiled and asked the audience: "Do you like this movie?"

Without the slightest hesitation, there was a neat response in the small auditorium: "I like it!"

Yuan Duo yelled the loudest, even breaking his voice.

"As long as you like it." Wu Yuan nodded with a smile, and handed the microphone to Hu Ge and others.

One by one, they introduced themselves to the audience, and everyone was greeted with loud cheers and applause.

After the creators took turns introducing themselves, the microphone returned to Wu Yuan's hands.

"Thank you so much for coming to support our film."

"Then let's talk about this movie."

"After reading it, is there any dissatisfaction?"

Most of the audience shook their heads, but some looked a little hesitant.

Wu Yuan immediately signaled the staff to hand over the microphone to the hesitant audience.

"Well, Director Wu, why did Sanye and Lin Wenjie forget each other?" A girl who looked weak and wore glasses asked: "If they hadn't forgotten each other, they wouldn't have to wait until eight years later to see each other again." Reunion.”

"Because for Sanye and Lin Wenjie, their experience of exchanging bodies is just a dream." Wu Yuan took the conversation and replied seriously:
"Dreams, you will always forget them when you wake up."

"Actually, at the beginning, I imagined that the two would return to a peaceful life. Sanye finally realized her dream and came to the capital to work and live. Lin Wenjie also started a new relationship."

"The two of them missed it after all."

"But this ending was rejected by me in the end, because I thought about it carefully, and the audience might want to see a happy ending, although miss and regret may be more beautiful."

Many voices of relief came from the auditorium.

They will definitely be dissatisfied if Wu Yuan really shoots like this!

"Director Wu, so this is a sister-brother relationship, right? Sanye went to high school three years ago, she is three years older than Lin Wenjie, right?" Another girl stood up and asked with a smile.

Wu Yuan was also happy: "Yes, it is indeed a sibling relationship."

He blinked: "But in reality, Liu Yifei is younger than Hu Ge."

Liu Yifei covered her mouth and smiled lightly, her eyes narrowed as she smiled, and she was delighted to see a bunch of male compatriots in the auditorium.

A boy who was watching a movie alone stood up and asked, "Liu Yifei, I'm your fan!"

"I want to ask, is the scene of stepping on the wine song in the movie actually filmed, and you really stepped on it?"

Unexpectedly, someone would ask this question, Liu Yifei replied with some embarrassment: "It was a real shot."

"Did you really make wine from the koji after stepping on it?" The boy's eyes lit up: "The wine that Lin Wenjie drank later, was it really you who made it?"

Liu Yifei was stunned. What's the problem?
Wu Yuan replied with some amusement for her: "Of course not, the wine to drink later is prepared by the props team, and it is a special wine bought from the local area."

"It tasted so good that we drank it all the same night after filming."

"Woo~~~" A disappointed voice came from the mouths of many male compatriots. They also wanted to ask Hu Ge, how does the wine that Liu Yifei stepped on taste like?
Wu Yuan shook his head and laughed.

Sure enough, no matter what age, men are like this.

After joking around for a while, the main creators answered a few questions one after another.

It was the first time to interact with movie fans at close range. The excitement on each actor's face was no less than that of the audience. No matter how strange the question was, they tried their best to answer it.

This year’s road show is like this. There is no link of making games, taking selfies, or giving gifts. It’s just a 10-20 minute question-and-answer interaction between the creators and the audience.

But both the lead actor and the audience are already very satisfied with this.

It is really too difficult to meet a star now.

Between celebrities and fans, there is no social software like Weibo that can shorten the distance.

In the eyes of most ordinary people, celebrities are people who are aloof and far away from the general public. It is enough to be able to chat with such people face to face.

At the end of the road show meeting, Wu Yuan took the microphone and said to the audience: "Thank you again for your support."

"After the film was released, I actually received a lot of criticism."

"Some professors and experts, as well as the so-called predecessors in the film industry, said that the values ​​of our film are not correct, and it is a bad work to instigate puppy love."

"They said that this movie has no film art at all, it is a movie that promotes petty bourgeois sentiment and the three views are extremely unfair."

"They said that a movie like "Your Name" should be banned immediately. It is a movie that will teach young people badly and ruin the next generation of China."

"There are many more nasty and naked things, I won't say them here."

"What I want to say is that they do not represent young people, nor do they represent audience fans."

"Now that you have seen this movie, can you tell me that it's just a movie, will it really teach you badly?"

The movie fans sitting in the auditorium looked at each other blankly.

Young people are rebellious and disobedient.

They don't agree with the views of those so-called seniors and professors.

Those old ideas are long outdated!

"will not!"

"It's a good movie!"

"I like!"

"Good shot!"

Various voices of support rang out from the audience.

There were more and more echoing voices, and the mixed voices of support gradually merged into the same sentence.

"We love to watch!"

A gratified smile appeared on Wu Yuan's face, and the eyes of several leading actors were also red.

"As long as you like to watch it, that's enough."

Wu Yuan led all the main creators, and bowed solemnly to the audience.

"thank you all!"

Sitting on the bus to Suzhou, Wu Yuan looked absently at the passing scenery outside the window.

The box office results of "Your Name" after its release are very gratifying.

1200 million on the first day, 3200 million at the three-day box office, and 4500 million in the first week. It is no longer a problem for the final box office to exceed 2 million. It is even possible to expect [-] million at the box office.

But as the box office continued to climb, "Your Name" also fell into the center of public opinion.

After all, this movie is a "love" story about two 17-year-old teenagers.

Even if Wu Yuan didn't expose this matter from the beginning to the end, anyone who has watched the movie will treat this movie as a romance movie.

But at the moment in 2004, "puppy love" is absolutely as terrifying as a tiger in the eyes of older people.

For mainland movies, this era is a good one.

The current standards of film review by the General Administration are much wider than those of later generations. Many films that would have been impossible to be released in 10 years can now pass the review.

But being able to pass the review does not mean that the group of old scholars and so-called seniors in the film industry will approve it.

Coming from the 70s and [-]s, they absolutely scorned teen romance movies like "Your Name" and even regarded them as snide.

Many old professors in colleges and some old directors publicly appealed in the newspapers to stop the screening of "Your Name" and block the film.

They believe that the value orientation of this movie is too incorrect, it will affect the physical and mental health of minors, and it will make wrong guidance and instigate puppy love.

And the momentum of this public opinion is not small.

Before "Your Name" was released, the paper media published all the praises of the film from the guests who participated in the premiere.

However, after the film was officially released, the group of old professors and great experts who had been in control of the newspaper's "social commentary" all year round immediately regained the right to speak and criticized "Your Name"!
Can't wait for this movie to die immediately!
The speed at which the wind direction of paper media changes is called a fast one.
Maybe this is public opinion, just like the weather in June, it can change as soon as it is said.

Miraculously, despite the condemnation in the newspapers, the box office of "Your Name" is rising steadily and getting better and better.
Young people who have experienced the changes of the new century and are in line with international standards do not care at all what these old academics think.

Even the more they criticize and criticize "Your Name", the more young people want to see what this movie is about.

The reverse psychology was all aroused.

After watching it, young people couldn't support Wu Yuan in the newspapers, but they supported and praised "Your Name" massively on the Internet, and called on more people to go to the cinema to watch it.

So, in the early spring of 2004, a very strange phenomenon appeared in mainland China.

The major newspapers and media in the mainland published criticisms of "Your Name" by various scholars, professors, and directors, as if this movie was some kind of scourge that would destroy Chinese youth.

On the Internet, however, the evaluations of "Your Name" are all one-sidedly praised and praised, as if this movie is the pinnacle of Chinese love movies, comparable to "Titanic". If you haven't seen this movie, That doesn't deserve to be called a Chinese.
It's amazing.

It also made Wu Yuan quite worried. He was really afraid that the Ministry of Culture would be under pressure and really stop the screening of "Your Name".

Fortunately, Han Dong soon gave him a reassurance.

"Don't be afraid, the above has no opinion on your movie, it's very well done."

"The male and female protagonists haven't really fallen in love, and they haven't even confessed their love. It's not a problem."

"The Ministry of Culture only hopes that the box office of this film will sell better and expand the film market in the Mainland!"

"Director Wu, don't worry about the road show."

After receiving clear support, Wu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that the above is true now, everything is focused on the development and growth of the Chinese film industry!
He confidently led the leading actors to visit nine major cities in China within half a month and held 1-3 roadshow meetings in each city.

Stimulated by his active roadshow, the follow-up box office growth rate of "Your Name" has also remained very stable, with a daily box office of about 1000 million, which is even better than when it was first screened!
Until March 3, when the national roadshow of "Your Name" ended, the film's cumulative box office had reached 16 million!
This result not only became the highest-grossing movie of the year, but also successfully became the third movie in mainland China with a box office of over [-] million!
Wu Yuan, a Chinese director who has made many box office records in Hollywood, has finally become a master in the field of Chinese films, proving his appeal to fans of Chinese films!

Hong Kong Island, which was screened at the same time, did not have such impressive results, but relying on Wu Yuan's popularity as a "Hollywood director", "Your Name" was screened on Hong Kong Island for half a month, and also won a box office of 800 million Hong Kong dollars.

Before the release of "House of Flying Daggers", "Your Name" is destined to become the most dazzling and popular mainland movie in the first half of the year!
And Wu Yuan, who has achieved this good result, is not complacent.

The box office of 1.5 million is just enough to pay back!

The journey of "Your Name" has just begun!
On March 3st, when the mainland audience was still immersed in the tearful love story of "Your Name", Wu Yuan took Hu Ge and Liu Yifei on the flight to Tokyo.

The shameless director Wu Da took "Your Name" from export to domestic sales, and went to counterattack the Japanese film market!
　"Kung Fu", which was released in December of the same year, has grown by leaps and bounds at a box office rate of 12 million per day. I really didn't write 1500 million in random, but I wrote it conservatively.

　　
　　The General Administration is strict on youth romance movies mainly because after "To Youth", many romance movies were approved during that time. As long as they involve high school, the General Administration requires that the male and female protagonists must not have a happy ending in the end. They must break up or miss out. The ending is the fear of leading teenagers to fall in love early.

　　This has really been put on the line.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)