This director needs to apologize

Chapter 354 Escape from the Shark’s Mouth
China seems to have a tradition of acting and directing. After an actor's career reaches its peak or reaches a bottleneck, it is customary to transform into a director, and the results are generally good, at least no worse than those of professional directors.

What's interesting is that the acting skills of top directors are generally not average. Sun Wangquan and Wang Xiaogang both have the title of Best Actor, and even Chen Huaikai's occasional cameo roles are impressive.

There are no barriers between actors and directors in China, and there is no hindrance in jumping back and forth.

Therefore, after Lan Yu's report was released, Chen Yiming was contacted for the book in a short period of time. There were not many company bosses, but more actors.

Apart from my old friend Gu Yuehe, the most important person is Boss Shen Ming, the three-time best actor.

Chen Yiming has a very good relationship with Shen Ming. Not long ago, he was invited to guest star in "The Thirteenth Floor". At that time, he came and went in a hurry. After shooting the few scenes, he said goodbye that evening. Even Chen Yiming's dinner was postponed. Lost.

The two of them had a close relationship, and they didn't communicate much, but it was very useful to speak up when something happened. Shen Ming spoke directly on the phone, and Chen Yiming agreed readily.

In fact, Chen Yiming is still a little surprised. In addition to being the chairman of the Film Association, Mr. Shen also holds many social positions. He often goes back to school to start classes. In the past two years, he has starred in, participated in, and invested in film and television projects without interruption. It is true. It's hard to believe that he still has the energy to lead another big project.

You must know that he is almost sixty years old.

Chen Yiming didn't ask much about the reason on the phone. To put it bluntly, he just refused to accept the old man. Asking would only add to the embarrassment.

In the current traffic era, it takes 10 minutes to watch a movie and 2 hours to watch a TV series. Everything is swallowed up without any explanation. Coupled with the inherent anti-authority characteristics of the Internet generation, the ecology of the entire circle is changing. .

In short, classics are no longer classics, standards are no longer standards, and the sweeping monks of the previous generation have really become floor sweeping monks.

They are also seniors who have retired. Some are poor and willing to play supporting roles, and some are old men who are ambitious and ambitious. Boss Shen belongs to the latter.

In his early years, Shen Ming was famous for being arrogant. When looking at his peers, there were only a few that he could look up to, and he himself did have the ability to lift his chin to look at others.

It is naturally impossible for such a person to acquiesce to the comments that some netizens have placed on him, such as "Emperor Professional", "Everyone plays Shen Ming", and "The Most Overrated Movie King" because of his age. Come down.

Shen Ming also specifically asked Chen Yiming that it must be a current or future story, not a costume film or a period drama.

Chen Yiming murmured in his heart that it was probably because his cooperation with Sun Wangquan failed to achieve the goal. The period drama actually had a high box office, and Shen Ming's performance also received widespread praise.

However, the subject matter is too far away from current movie fans, making it difficult for young audiences to relate to it, which inadvertently weakens the appeal of Shen Ming's performance. On the contrary, Shen Mingduo takes the blame for the character's negative words and deeds.

There is no way, it has always been difficult for the audience to completely separate the character from the actor. If an actor is allowed to gain fans because of his likable character, he must assume that the negative role will bring bad luck to the actor himself.

This wave of actor Shen can be regarded as breaking the boat. You must know that an actor leading a movie project is a task that requires a lot of energy. It is completely different from daily filming.

This kind of behavior is equivalent to an actor holding the three positions of producer, director and starring in one, which is more troublesome than a director raising his own funds, directing and acting.

After getting Chen Yiming's script, Shen Ming needed to contact investors to raise funds for filming, find a suitable director and behind-the-scenes team, and form a team of actors willing to accompany him.

Promoting all this as an actor is more than twice as difficult as full-time directors and producers.

Chen Yiming agreed readily, but after hanging up the phone and thinking about it, it was really not easy to find a book that met Boss Shen's requirements.

His age, status, and qualifications naturally eliminated a large number of popular themes. The only ones that Shen Ming could accept were dramas, and those starring the old man.

Another counter-version choice, Chen Yiming could only shake his head and sigh, he was really asking for trouble.

Fortunately, this choice was not urgent and there was still some buffer time. He created a new folder in his computer labeled Boss Shen and dug the hole without filling it with soil. This matter was considered over.

After Chen Yiming added several more folders to his computer, the day for the preview of "The Usual Suspects" soon came.

Thanks to Platinum's unremitting efforts to popularize it, large-scale test screenings have become the standard for the promotion and distribution of movies in China's theaters. Some overseas movies have been forced to follow the local customs, and even overseas blockbusters that were released domestically before the local ones were There are real cases.

To a certain extent, Chen Yiming has used his personal power to change the entire industry, and he has lived up to his reputation as a time traveler. Unfortunately, no one recognizes his "contributions."

Lao Niu's plan for "The Usual Suspects" was a moderate seven-day and twenty-city test screening, which was not excessive.

Wang Wei started the road show with trepidation, and it was also difficult for Platinum Jue's publicity team. The cast of "The Usual Suspects" had nothing to do with luxury. Even the most famous one, Duan Yining, was not as popular with the audience. It's far from the top. Apart from him, the director is a newcomer, and the other two leading actors are "older newcomers." Standing together, you can't find a few popular topics. In desperation, Lao Jia came up with a side idea and begged Da Zhuang for a long time to move Xiao Qi out. He was starring in a scene and was not good enough to join in.

So the men in the main cast only had to attend every now and then, and it was Xiao Qi, a large female vase, who accompanied director Wang Wei all over the country, and she was considered a deviant.

Chen Yiming himself still had to focus on the post-production of "The Thirteenth Floor". Due to his lack of resources, he only attended a few test screenings in Shanghai. The day he went there was already the third day of the official release.

At that time, all aspects of the film's evaluation had already been released. Generally speaking, it was in line with the previous predictions of Lao Jia's team. Broad Bean scored 8.3, which is already a very good score for a Chinese drama film directed by a young director.

Chen Yiming saw the enthusiasm of movie fans at the theater, but most of them were not directed at him, but went straight to Xiaoqi.

This girl is extremely popular, even faster than An Xixi in "Love Letter". Several sets of cross-dressing in the movie were uploaded everywhere on the Internet in just a few days. It is the three types of costumes with various styles, especially The tight-fitting stills that she aimed at on the ground hit the target of the current mainstream audience's preferences, and it is suitable for both men and women.

A movie about a monk, but the only female vase became popular first. Things developed so strangely.

Just a few days after it was released, some viewers asked Wang Wei if there would be a follow-up to Xiao Qi's role, and when and what year it would be filmed.

Qi Xiaoqi's information has been scrutinized by netizens. Even the clips of her acting in Shakespeare plays when she was studying abroad were dug up and posted online, not to mention that the girl has a good family background and is not a major. Origin.

The appearance is good, and the "original sin" comes with it. With the two bonuses, the traffic will naturally explode.

Chen Yiming was also asked by the media how he discovered Qi Tian and why he gave such a brilliant role to the inexperienced Qi Tian.

The implication is obviously that there are hidden rules here.

Chen Yiming answered in detail, "Now that you think the character is outstanding, doesn't it just prove that Director Wang's choice is right? This is just a supporting role with a small role, and the production time is very tight. Xiao Qi was actually called to save the scene. Yeah, the contract wasn’t even signed when I joined the group.”

Of course, Chen Yiming was subsidizing Xiao Qi's sedan chair, but since the girl was one of his own and a future benefactor, Chen Yiming was willing to support her.

Who asked his elder brother to give too much?

"The Usual Suspects" took in 4000 million at the box office on its first day, which is certainly far from the current single-day box office record of over million, but given its cost, cast and subject matter, it is already an unexpected success.

What's even more rare is that after successfully breaking through 4 million in the first four days of the week, the trend during the next week was still strong, with a box office of nearly 1.5 million in three days. Before the release of "Transformers 1", the box office was pushed to 4 2.5 million, the cost will be recovered successfully, and you can watch the storm with a smile from now on.

As the popularity of the movie grew rapidly, the members of the Monk Group also began to "emerge", and the two handsome uncles Yu Hewei and Xu Yajun gradually attracted attention and popularity.

Some experts have defended Chen Yiming's new assertion of betting on genre films from an alternative perspective. The excellent results of "The Usual Suspects" show that the new generation of audiences does not only like handsome men and beauties or special effects blockbusters, they are also happy to see the acting skills of the Mesozoic generation. Pai's superb performance, of course, requires a screenwriter of Chen Yiming's level to allow them to take advantage of it.

It can be seen from the road show itinerary of Yu and Xu that the planned schedule of running half a week and resting half a week has become one stop a day without interruption. Lao Jia has plans to further increase the number to two stops a day in the future.

It's obvious that these two handsome uncles are going to be popular.

Another person whose popularity has soared is actually Lin Dongfu, who only appears in a few scenes. The uncle's old man accent is so good that he can't suppress his pretentious style on the big screen. As long as he appears, everyone else is a supporting role, even Lao Duan No exception.

This kind of charm is completely unmatched by small-screen TV dramas, so Lin Dongfu received a rare electric shock and gained a popularity that would be difficult to reach even if he made ten TV dramas.

The media with good intentions deliberately tried to block Zhang Weiping and asked him to express his opinion on the success of "The Usual Suspects". Zhang was still very tough, saying that this is just a one-time realization of Chen Yiming's past influence, and "The Usual Suspects" has changed. "People" showed their true colors.

Zhang Weiping's prediction for Transformers 4 was not wrong. In fact, most people in the industry have similar opinions to him. On the first day of its release, "Transformers 4" broke three records: zero-point screening, first day and single day, pushing the daily box office directly to 1.6 million.

It is foreseeable that the weekly box office record of "Mulan" will not be guaranteed. As for the total box office, various professional channels are generally optimistic that Change 4 will lead the road to 20 billion single-film movies in China.

However, among the series of expectations, there was still a few surprises, and that was "The Usual Suspects". Despite the impact of a certain great white shark, it still scored 2.5 million the next week, and the total box office successfully exceeded 4 million. .

Especially in the four days after the next week, under the premise that the film schedule was significantly compressed, the single-day box office was still stable at around 4000 million. In other words, strictly speaking, "The Usual Suspects" was not significantly affected by "Transformers 4" Influence.

A gorgeous escape from the shark's mouth was staged.

(End of this chapter)