I am a director, but I have the skills of an actor

Chapter 212 Celebration Banquet, Screening
The words of the film critic at the premiere of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" represent the views of almost all film critics.

The next day, many of the film critics who had received red envelopes, probably out of love for movies, went against professional ethics and criticized "The Richest Man in Xihong City" online.

From the pictures to the actors, everything was criticized. Li Xiaoli was so angry that she yelled at the people below her in the office. She couldn't find anyone, just accept the money and not do the work, and she did the opposite!
The film critics criticized it, and some premiere audiences followed suit, but they only criticized the plot of the movie and nothing else.

And Lu Bing - became popular. Reporters reported everything he said at the premiere, word for word, making Lu Bing an instant controversial figure and a hit.

Many people think that Lu Bing's words are correct. Movie types are different. You can't expect a comedy to make me think about life after watching it.

Some people think that Lu Bing's words are nonsense. If that's the case, then just put up a PPT and it's still a movie, but it's just not for the public, it's for specific fools.

Lu Bing has become a 'famous' director instantly.

"The Richest Man in Xihong City" has been in constant discussion since its previous promotions, and now the director has become a controversial figure. Many people are curious about what kind of movie it is. Go watch it, just like buying a lottery ticket.

So, the premiere box office was 100 million!

The first-day box office of 100 million is nothing to films by great directors such as Wan Qingshan and Zhang Yimou, but for other directors, this first-day box office is a lot of money for many movies by the time it is released. Unreachable box office total.

After the premiere day, there was a lot of criticism of the movie on the Internet, and there were also people who supported it, but there were still too few people who criticized it.

There were more criticisms, but the box office did not decrease but increased the next day, reaching 400 million!

Because on the night of the premiere, NetEase Blog selected a list of six winners, then contacted the six people, transferred the money, and took a photo of the transfer receipt and uploaded it.

Stimulated by winning the grand prize of [-] yuan, many viewers watched "The Richest Man in Xihong City" with the mentality that they would watch other movies, so they might as well watch this movie and maybe win the prize.

This angered the movies in the same period, and they all cursed.

This kind of publicity will not attract many people who have no intention of watching the movie.

But for the audience who originally planned to go to the movie, but had decided to watch other movies, the attraction is particularly great. If they were going to go to the movie, they might as well win a prize by the way.

On its third day of release, "The Richest Man in Xihong City" grossed a box office of 600 million in a single day.

Compared with before, the total box office in the market in a single day has not increased much at all. These box office fees are all attracted from movies in the same period.

After being sucked up at the box office for two consecutive days, the production companies of other movies couldn't sit still, especially the ones that had just been released for a few days. They followed suit and went to major blogging companies to hold lottery draws.

It has been a few days since the movie was released, and this activity will make the audience who have watched the movie very dissatisfied.

Audiences who have watched the movie before are dissatisfied, and these film production companies cannot control it. If they don't do it, the movie box office will be sucked up by "The Richest Man in Xihong City".

After a lottery was held for these movies, the box office of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" dropped sharply, with a single-day box office of only more than 800 million.

But Li Yancheng didn't care. Anyway, based on the box office in the past few days, the movie has already made a lot of money.

Besides, for a while, he couldn't think of any way to continue to attract box office.

Li Yancheng had no choice. The box office of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" dropped every day.

More than 20 days after its release, the box office couldn't move any more, so it was released.

It was only released for more than 20 days, but the movie held a celebration party because the box office reached more than 8000 million!
At the film's celebration party, Wan Qingshan, the producer, couldn't help but show up, so he also showed up.

At the celebration feast.

After Lu Bing and others came down after smashing the ice sculpture, Wanqingshan waved to Lu Bing.

"Director Wan!" Lu Bing walked over quickly.

"Do you have any plans to take a break next time?"

Lu Bing's eyes lit up and he said quickly, "No, Director Wan, if there is any work for me to do, I can start tomorrow."

Wan Qingshan smiled and said, "Then you can start working tomorrow, I have already asked Sun Yao and the others to write the script.

Brother Cheng and I have agreed that this time he will be the producer, you will direct, and Yan Dong will take the photography. You two will continue to cooperate. Regarding the new movie, I will contact Brother Cheng later. "

Two days after "The Richest Man in Xihong City" was released, Wan Qingshan went to the company and told Sun Yao and others about the plot of "Charlotte Troubles" and asked them to write the script. Then he called Li Yancheng and Yan Dong. , tell them about the new movie.

In "Charlotte Troubles", Wan Qingshan planned to delegate all the power. He only told Li Yancheng that Qingshan Film and Television Company would account for 50% of the investment share. The rest, including the film budget, soliciting investments, soliciting sponsorships, and finding actors, would all be left to Li Yancheng. Do it.

"Director Wan, thank you, thank you." Lu Bing thanked with an overjoyed smile.

He now has a very bad reputation in the film industry. At Nortel, his teachers called him to criticize him because of "The Richest Man in Xihong City".

But he has been in a daze a few years since he graduated, and he doesn't care about these scoldings.As long as you become famous, everything will come.

Famous, he is famous now, but the fame of one movie is not enough. If there is another movie that is a big hit at the box office, he will have more choices in the future.

"Just take a good shot. Okay, you are the protagonist today, so I won't delay you."

Afterwards, Lu Bing took the wine glass from the waiter's tray and went to chat with others.

Wan Qingshan was pulled aside by Wang Changtian and Han Sanping, and started chatting.

Han Sanping looked at Li Yancheng, who was chatting with Zhang Zhao in the middle of the lobby, and said with a smile, "Qingshan, you, the producer, have made many people in the industry hate you."

Li Yancheng's publicity helped "The Richest Man in Xihong City" attract a lot of box office revenue from movies of the same period.

In order to survive, the movies of the same period had no choice but to follow suit.In a chain reaction, subsequent movies will also be organized into lottery events, because if you don’t do it, others will.

It's just like the ticket replenishment activity. If you don't do it, you'll just have to wait to die.

In all kinds of lottery activities, giving away money is just childish. They have all given away cars, and some even give away houses.

This can be regarded as starting a movie promotion war, and no one wants to be left behind in the promotion.

Therefore, when Li Yancheng was in the industry, some people loved him and some hated him.

Love, of course, is because of the activities he initiated, and some movies followed suit and made money.

What I hate is that the promotion activities have not competed with the movies of the same period, and those film promotion companies, because of Li Yancheng, how many promotion companies have racked their brains to come up with eye-catching promotions.

"Director Wan, can you lend me your producer? I would like to ask him to teach the people in my company."

Wang Changtian used to think that Li Yancheng was just a producer who was promoted by Wan Qingshan and had little ability.

But this announcement shocked him, and he was very dissatisfied with Enlight Pictures' announcement.

From Wan Qingshan before to Li Yancheng, damn, a director and a producer can do more publicity than the people at Enlight Pictures.

"Mr. Wang, I'm afraid this won't work. I've asked him to prepare his next movie. He will be the producer, and the director will still be Lu Bing."

Han Sanping and Wang Changtian's eyes lit up. They didn't care about the criticism of Lu Bing from the industry and the audience.

Although they can't understand that a movie like "The Richest Man in Xihong City" can actually have a box office of more than 8000 million, a movie that can make money is a good movie for investors, and a director who can make investors money , is a good director.

"Director Wan, if you need my help with the new movie, just ask." Wang Changtian said quickly.

"Mr. Wang, Director Han, I don't care about the new movie at all. Li Yancheng is in charge of everything. If you want to invest, you can send someone to contact him.

As for the cooperation in "The Richest Man in Xihong City", I don't think he would refuse. "

A hint of joy flashed in the eyes of Han Sanping and Wang Changtian. Wan Qingshan could tell them about the new movie. After saying this, as long as he got in touch with Li Yancheng, the investment should be stable.

"Haha, Director Wan, now your Qingshan Film and Television Company is the number one production company in the industry.

With a great director like you here, a director whose first movie grossed 8000 million at the box office, and a gold medal producer, no company in the industry can match it. "

Wang Changtian was so happy that the new movie was funded, and he almost ran out of words of praise.

"Mr. Wang, Mr. Wang, you don't dare to take this seriously. Our company is just a leather company with two or three cats."

Wang Changtian smiled and did not continue to praise him. At this time, Han Sanping's eyes flashed and he asked in a low voice,

"Qingshan, Lu Yang has been with you for half a year. What do you think of him? Is he capable of directing movies?"

Wan Qingshan's eyes widened in surprise. Han San must have gone crazy trying to promote a new director. Lu Yang had only graduated half a year ago and only had experience working on the crew of "Huo Qubing", so he wanted him to direct the movie.

"Director Han, he,,, small-budget movies are okay, but big-budget productions definitely need training."

Wan Qingshan was about to say that it was inappropriate, but he realized that there was no need to be a bad guy. Anyway, China Film Group was not short of money, so small-budget movies could lose money.

Han Sanping smiled happily.

Wanqingshan, Ning Hua, Lu Bing appears again, "Painted Skin" should be fine, then we have to add Ur Fan. If Lu Yang is also successful, then this group of young commercial directors will take the lead.

After the celebration party for "The Richest Man in Xihong City", Wan Qingshan continued to work on the post-production of special effects for "Huo Qubing".

"Huo Qubing" actually doesn't have many special effects. After all, there are no gorgeous battle scenes. It only needs to render the scenes of war scenes and some trivial special effects.But Wan Qingshan made two editions of "Huo Qubing", so it took a long time.

It wasn't until early May that the finished film was released.

As soon as he heard from the people below that the film was finished, Han Sanping eagerly invited Wang Changtian, Jiang Zhiqiang, and Hillier to come and see the finished film.

In the small screening room of China Film Group Corporation, within 2 minutes after the screen came on, expressions of excitement appeared on the faces of Han Sanping and Xi Lier.

Han Sanping had been a director before, and Hillier had been a producer in Hollywood. The two of them were very knowledgeable about movies.

An expert will notice at a glance that the structure and color of "Huo Qubing" are very different from Wan Qingshan's previous films.

In Wan Qingshan's previous movies, the color and structure were not outstanding. They can only be said to be quite satisfactory and just a simple presentation of film language. But this time it is different. It feels like a master.

"Qingshan, you learned all of Zhang Yimou's techniques on the set of "The Golden Armor"," Han Sanping exclaimed in a low voice.

"How is this possible? Director Zhang's skills are not so easy to learn.

In fact, this movie, if you say it is my movie, it is better to say it is a movie between me and Zhao Xiaoding. He helped me a lot in terms of color and mirroring. I would not have been able to make it without him. "

"Haha, the photographer helps the director. Isn't it normal for him to help you? According to what you say, Zhang Yimou's movies are also movies of Zhang Yimou and Zhao Xiaoding."

Wan Qingshan laughed at Han Sanping's words and did not answer.

Han Sanping didn't say anything more and continued watching the movie.

The main plot of "Huo Qubing" is the historical record of part of the Battle of Monan.

The first ten minutes of the plot describe Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordering Wei Qing to lead the army to attack the Xiongnu, the relationship between Huo Qubing and Qing Yan, and some small details of the plot highlight Wei Qing's pride, as well as Huo Qubing's arrogance.

However, history is history, but in order to highlight Huo Qubing in the movie, in the middle of the plot, the Han army fought smoothly against the Huns, but later, Zhao Xin surrendered to the Huns, and Su Jian fled for his life, causing the Han army to fall into crisis, so Huo Qubing took over With 800 men, he broke away from the army.

The following plot is all about Huo Qubing's war. He captured a Huns to lead the way, crossed the desert diagonally, and penetrated deep into the Huns. He supported the war with war, and forced the captured Huns soldiers to become his subordinates. After traveling hundreds of miles, he broke into The royal court of the Xiongnu captured Yi Zhixie's family members and many high-ranking Xiongnu officials, leading to a great victory in the war. Then he returned to Beijing and was named the Champion Marquis by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

The plot is very simple, but under Wanqingshan's control of the fast pace, and with the warriors fighting all over the screen, and the 800 light cavalry soldiers like a long black dragon going deep into the Xiongnu, the overwhelming war makes people excited to watch, which lasts for two years. After the half-hour movie ended, Hillier was still unsatisfied.

After the movie ended, except for Hillier who praised Wan Qingshan for making an epic war movie, Han Sanping, Wang Changtian, and Jiang Zhiqiang all looked confused.

Wang Changtian and Jiang Zhiqiang felt that this movie was awkward and exciting from the audience's perspective, but they felt very depressed after watching it. After watching it, they never wanted to watch it a second time.

Han Sanping, on the other hand, looked worried and muttered in his heart, "I didn't understand the market too much, or Wan Qingshan had no experience in making blockbusters, so I messed up."

The first ten minutes of the movie were okay, but in the middle when the Han army and the Huns fought, it felt like a different movie.

The Han army initially defeated the Huns, but under the camera, the scene did not have a sense of victory, but only cruelty - trapping and killing the Huns, and the wounded Han soldiers killed their fellow soldiers for medicine.

Later, when Yi Zhixie, played by Hu Jun, defeated the two armies of Su Jian and Zhao Xin, it was the same, only ruthless.

If it weren't for the fact that there were so many war scenes, it was a two-and-a-half-hour movie, and the battle continued for most of an hour. Han Sanping would have thought that Wan Qingshan had made a literary film about human nature.

The subsequent plot is even more outrageous. From the moment Huo Qubing leads 800 light cavalry to break away from the army, the scene becomes very depressing. The chilling tone and the black clouds produced by special effects flash across the sky for a moment, as if it gives people the feeling that the great devil is born.

The plot that followed for more than half an hour was even more difficult for Han Sanping to accept.

Huo Qubing actually stopped me because his lieutenant advised him not to leave the army. He coldly asked, "You are mine!" ’ Then, he killed the lieutenant who had blocked the sharp arrow for him with one sword.

When Huo Qubing forced the Huns, played by Hu Ge, to lead the way, he was beaten, whipped, and subjected to a series of cruel tortures.

Because some of his subordinates thought he was too cruel and tried to dissuade him, Huo Qubing ordered him to be dragged away to suffer the same punishment as the Huns played by Brother Hu.

The plot of fighting on the stand is even more cruel. If the Hun soldiers are captured and do not surrender to attack the Huns with Huo Qubing, they are ordered to be buried alive. This is fine, but once someone in the 800 Han army is injured and unable to move, he will be killed on the order of Huo Qubing.

In the middle of the journey, Huo Qubing even abused the surrendered Huns.

For this character, if he hadn't known that Wan Qingshan played Huo Qubing, Han Sanping would have thought that Wan Qingshan played a psychopath.

Han Sanping rolled his eyes, and Hillier, who kept praising the movie, whispered, "Qingshan, come out with me."

After walking out of the screening room, Han Sanping immediately stopped and asked in a low voice in the corridor,

"Qingshan, didn't you say before that the plot should be based on history? How could you play Huo Qubing so well?"

Han Sanping couldn't say the next words in front of Wan Qingshan.

"Not like Huo Qubing as imagined, but more like a war madman with a twisted heart."

Han Sanping was hard to say, but Wan Qingshan said it directly.

Han Sanping's eyes narrowed slightly, "Qingshan, you clearly know the problem, why are you still filming like this?"

"Director Han, the script was written by Lu Wei based on historical records and my opinions.

Looking at the historical records of Huo Qubing, he was an illegitimate son who was abandoned by his father when he was young. When he grew up, he became arrogant and dared to shoot Li Guang's son in front of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

He didn't know how to cherish the soldiers. The soldiers had nothing to eat and he was still wasting food.

Brutal, he was able to take captured Hun soldiers as his subordinates, which must have used extraordinary means.

In addition, he could lead 800 light cavalry to kill more than 2000 Xiongnu soldiers and capture many high-ranking Xiongnu officials. He must also be cruel to his soldiers, and would abandon those who were injured and unable to move.

I fit the role of Huo Qubing very well! "

Han Sanping was silent for a moment, then whispered, "Qingshan, what you said is right, but Huo Qubing is not like this in the hearts of the audience. You said before that the audience cannot accept historical changes, then you..."

Wan Qingshan laughed dumbly and said, "Don't worry, Director Han. I know that the domestic audience cannot accept Huo Qubing like this, so I made two versions of the movie. This is the foreign version. The domestic version still has some minor issues that have not been resolved.

It's just that as soon as you hear that the movie is finished, you rush to get people to watch it, so I can only get the foreign version. "

Han Sanping breathed a sigh of relief.

"Why did you think of making two versions again?" Han Sanping asked curiously.

Han Sanping discovered that Wan Qingshan always likes to make two versions of movies when making movies. There are two versions of "Ip Man", and now there are also two versions of "Huo Qubing".

"When I was filming at the Wuxi Film and Television Base, I suddenly thought of the foreign war movies I had watched before, and found that the protagonists in their movies were rarely great, glorious, and correct characters, and they were not too good to be human.

The male and female protagonists of foreign war dramas will always have shortcomings because they like to describe human nature in war dramas.

In addition, foreign countries are not like us who follow Confucianism and like to talk about benevolence and righteousness. No matter what they say on the surface, they will only respect the strong in their hearts.

Therefore, I contacted Lu Wei and asked him to work overnight to write another script, describing the cruelty of war, humanity under the threat of death, and Huo Qubing's powerful and brutal script. "

Han Sanping looked deeply at Wanqing Mountain and said with a smile, "Then you got it right. Hillier was full of praise for the foreign version."

Wan Qingshan smiled and whispered, "Director Han, you will be the one to discuss the copyright fee with Hillier later. I don't have much experience in this kind of thing."

"Don't worry, this is for me."

After saying that, Han Sanping wanted to go back to the screening room, but as soon as he left the film, he thought of something and stopped immediately.

“Qingshan, Colombia only has the right of first refusal for copyright under the same conditions.

Aren’t you just about to take “Painted Skin” to the Cannes Film Festival?Why don't I talk to Hillier slowly and you take "Huo Qubing" to the Cannes Film Festival and invite some film producers to take a look and see what their bids are. "

Wan Qingshan thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, but the Cannes Film Festival is not long ago, so I will have to trouble you, Director Han, with regard to film review."

"Haha, why don't you bother me if your movie is reviewed? If you send it over, they will review it immediately."

When Wan Qingshan didn't answer, Han Sanping understood what he meant. Wan Qingshan didn't want to get too close to the people from the General Administration.

So he continued, "I will take the movie for review in a moment. It should be completed in the next few days and it won't delay your trip to the Cannes Film Festival.

But you have to get the domestic version out as soon as possible. After all, if the review of the two versions is separated for too long, it will be a bit troublesome. "

"Don't worry, Director Han. As long as there are some minor adjustments to be made for the domestic version, it can be completed in the next two days."

Han Sanping nodded, turned around and entered the screening room, started talking to Hillier, and then they talked about copyright fees.

As soon as Han Sanping opened his mouth, he packaged up all overseas copyrights for US$8000 million, which shocked Hillier. Colombia was also an investor in "Huo Qubing", but he knew the total investment.

8000 million U.S. dollars, even if all costs are recovered, there will still be profits.

Of course, Hillier did not agree with this price, so he countered with Han Sanping for 3000 million US dollars!

$3000 million is just fooling the devil.

The price difference was too big, so the two went to Han Sanping's office to talk slowly. Wang Changtian and Jiang Zhiqiang also followed. Wan Qingshan left China Film and continued to focus on the special effects for the domestic version.

(End of this chapter)