China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 216 You don’t understand me at all
Yesterday, Wu Baige was at Wuhou Temple and film industry bigwigs such as Han Dong were tasting wine and discussing the Three Kingdoms.

There was thunderous applause at the scene, and actors and reporters all praised him and his "Red Cliff".

In just one day, his mood fell from the clouds to the bottom.

The first batch of viewers who entered the cinema to watch "Red Cliff" yesterday have already begun to curse on the Internet.

"The pacing is a mess, the scenes are a mess, everything is a mess. I'm afraid the director himself didn't even understand how the Battle of Red Cliff was fought, right?"

"I don't understand the meaning of this film at all. In the era when the Three Kingdoms were divided at the end of the Han Dynasty, you told me that you wanted to express peace? What's the difference between looking for gold in a cesspool?"

"A good subject is made into a popcorn movie. Oh no, I'm sorry, I insulted popcorn movies. At least popcorn movies can cheer me up."

"The lines are incredible. It's a very humorous movie."

"Comedy movies should be made by Mr. Xing. Wu Baige, if you just keep making your police and gangster movies, it will be over. Why should you imitate Mr. Xing in making funny movies?"

"Cao Cao wanted to sleep with Xiao Qiao, so he launched a war."

As a result, these domestic audiences can't appreciate the charm of his movies at all, they only know how to find faults, which is really vulgar!
What makes Wu Baige even more annoyed is that "Red Cliff" not only received a poor reputation, but also had unsatisfactory box office results on the first day.

After his repeated attacks in Hollywood, it was clear that no one dared to film with him anymore, so he still stayed in Hollywood for a few years.

The No. 1 epic movie in the Chinese film industry was born.

A Hollywood blockbuster is his dream.

Everyone thought that Wu Baige would bring us an ancient war blockbuster and vividly show the excitement of the Battle of Red Cliff to the audience.

He really broke the defense.

Cao Cao, who composed poems at his peak, and Mei Zhoulang, who was both literary, civil and military, are not reflected in Wu Baige's "Red Cliff".

He had achieved certain success when he entered Hollywood in his early years. Then he thought he had established a firm foothold and publicly stated that he would never make another Chinese-language film in his life.

He believes that Hollywood movies are decades ahead of Chinese-language movies.

However, the money provided by the mainland was too much, with an actual investment of 6 million yuan.

The skinny reality gave him a painful slap in the face.

As a director who has made great achievements in Hollywood, he believes that returning to China to make Chinese-language films is equivalent to making literary films for the chief tribesmen in Africa to watch.

How can a bunch of rubes understand his advanced film art?

For the sake of so much investment, he reluctantly returned to China to direct "Red Cliff".

Cao Cao didn't look like a hero at all, more like a leader in Tongluowan.

Because he really doesn’t want to come back to make Chinese films.

I plan to make a real blockbuster to let the backward audiences in China see what kind of movie is qualified to be called a blockbuster.

Zhou Yu didn't have Mizhouro's high-spirited and bold self-confidence at all, and only melancholy could be seen between his brows.

As high as people's expectations for "Red Cliff" were before, they are now disappointed.

Wu Baige originally thought that his "Red Cliff" would receive rave reviews and explode at the box office after its release.

It is really difficult for the audience to buy this kind of "Red Cliff".

Since the release date is not during the summer vacation, April 4 is a very unpopular release date.

In addition, Wu Baige's confrontation with Li Yu across the Taiwan Strait last year made many mainland netizens see clearly Wu Baige's true face of looking down on mainlanders.

The above two factors caused the first-day box office of "Red Cliff" to be lower than that of "The Original Time and Space".

The original box office of "Red Cliff" on the first day was 2700 million yuan.

Now one day has passed, and the box office on the first day has barely exceeded 2000 million yuan.

For a huge production with an investment of several hundred million, the box office on the first day was only 2000 million, which was already considered a disadvantage in the first battle.

The rise of Station A has also indirectly affected the subsequent box office of "Red Cliff".

Station A has a ghost and animal area, as well as a film and television area.

Some UP owners in the film and television area started making videos to complain after watching the movie "Red Cliff".

Station A is currently one of the most popular video websites in China, with tens of millions of daily active users, which is stronger than the smaller websites that came later. The UP host's complaints about the movie dissuaded a large number of viewers who wanted to go into the cinema to watch "Red Cliff".

Among these UP masters, the one who output the most fierce firepower was the later famous director Bi, Bi Zhifei.

As we all know, Director Bi's films are not good at filming, but his film reviews are very professional.

In the past, Director Bi only wrote film reviews in places like Blog.

After Station A became popular, he began to move to Station A and became a film critic UP.

Not to mention, Director Bi is doing a prosperous career as a film reviewer for UP.

After registering the account for a few months, I posted less than 20 popular movie review videos and already accumulated 60 followers.

In the past few days, many fans have left messages asking Director Bi to comment on "Red Cliff".

Director Bi watched "Red Cliff" once in the cinema and began to output "Red Cliff" and Wu Baige when he got home.

Director Bi spoke frankly in the video and directly concluded that "Red Cliff" is a super bad movie.

Wu Baige is a director who worships foreigners and favors foreigners.

Obviously, the romance of "Red Cliff" can only be understood by the Chinese and East Asian countries in the Confucian civilization circle.

However, Wu Baige deliberately catered to the tastes of foreigners and made the movie neither Chinese nor Western, making it look like a movie with four different characteristics.

Director Bi also pointed out the shortcomings and disadvantages of "Red Cliff" one by one, which was not only insightful, but also well-founded.

I'm not going to brag about it, but Director Bi's film reviews are indeed top-notch.

Next year he will become a member of the college student representative jury of the 11th "Five Ones" Project for Spiritual Civilization Construction, which shows his influence in this circle.

Director Bi's film review received over 10 million views on Station A in just a few days, becoming the most popular video on Station A.

The extremely high popularity started to make Director Bi’s film reviews out of the circle.

Director Bi's reputation not only shocked Station A.

In Tieba, Tianya, and major film forums, Director Bi was even considered a god by netizens.

Major media outlets also began to follow up and report on this matter.

The box office results of "Red Cliff" are starting to go downhill

It barely broke 100 million in one week of release.

By the 8th day, the single-day movie box office had dropped to about 1200 million.

If this trend continues, Wu Baige should not fantasize about becoming the number one Chinese-language director. It would be good if the movie could have a box office of 2.5 million after its release.

Currently, the highest-grossing movie in the Mainland is Zhang Yingmou's "The City of Gold" with a box office of 2.91 million.

The dream of surpassing Zhang Yingmou and becoming the first Chinese director was completely shattered.

By the way, if Wu Baige can't stop the decline, even breaking 2.5 million may be a luxury.

Wu Baige really broke through his defense, and he was anxious.

After learning that a film critic named Bi Zhifei's "Red Cliff" review went viral on the Internet, it had a huge negative impact on "Money Holding".

Wu Baige directly attacked Director Bi: "As a student at Beijing University, do you know what a movie is? What qualifications do you have to comment on my "Red Cliff"."

When the reporter asked that many real viewers also had low opinions of "Red Cliff", Wu Baige said in a strange tone: "Domestic audiences have been exposed to too few international blockbusters and do not understand the charm of international blockbusters at all.

I dare to assert that if the taste of domestic audiences cannot be improved, the Chinese film industry will never catch up with Hollywood. "

In the past, it would take ten years for the audience to understand "The Promise" under Director Chen, but now with Wu Baige, domestic audiences don't understand international blockbusters at all.

They all express the same meaning.

It's not my problem if the movie doesn't look good, it's your problem.

It's because your level is too low and you can't understand my movie at all.

Wu Baige's arrogant speech caused an uproar in the public opinion field.

(End of this chapter)