China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 556 The Door to Science Fiction Opens

"Ready Player One" grossed 1.2 million yuan on its first day of release.

This result is far behind Li Yu's previous works.

However, no one will doubt that the movie "Ready Player One" is not as good as Li Yu's previous works.

This is a science fiction film. Although the film incorporates a lot of game, animation, and film and television elements, it has a very strong science fiction color.

A science fiction movie directed by a Chinese director earned 1.2 million yuan on its first day of release, which has brought great positive significance to the Chinese film industry.

This means that the era when no one would make domestic science fiction films is over.

Domestic science fiction films can also achieve good results as long as there are directors willing to make them and make them well.

The emergence of "Ready Player One" means that the door to domestic science fiction films has been opened.

“It’s great news for game geeks and movie fans. The director combined classic movies and characters with future high-tech games. It’s really an eye-opener.”

"Is 140 minutes really that short? It just passed in the blink of an eye. Time went by so fast. I wish this movie could be 1400 minutes long."

"Director Li is worthy of being the king of commercial films in China. He combined people's childhood memories and feelings, and made a movie into a chronicle of national pop culture, giving us a sense of fantasy of going back to the past to play classic games and watch classic movies. The movie is simply amazing."

The film currently has a rating of 9 points.

This rating is not as high as those of films such as "Man Jiang Hong" and "The Great Wall".

This is normal. Movies like "Man Jiang Hong" and "The Great Wall" have always been China's strong points.

China has a 5,000-year-old cultural heritage and too much splendid history. These accumulations are enough to support Chinese directors to shoot the world's top ancient history war blockbusters.

Science fiction films are different. They were made popular by foreigners.

Objectively speaking, there have been too many science fiction masterpieces produced abroad, such as "Interstellar", "The Matrix", "Avatar", etc.

With so many classic works before it, people will naturally compare these super classic works with "Ready Player One" when evaluating it.

In the end, most people came to the unanimous conclusion that Ready Player One still has a long way to go to reach those world-class classic sci-fi masterpieces, so they gave it a fair score of 9.

This rating is not shameful, nor does the person who gave the rating mean that science fiction films made by Chinese are necessarily inferior to those made abroad.

It’s just that foreign countries have been making science fiction films for so many years, and there are so many classic works that have been produced.

China's science fiction door has just opened, and it is great to get this rating at its early stage.

The two leading actors, Hu Ge and Fan Xiaopang, were very satisfied with this result.

This is Fan Xiaopang's best-performing film, and also Hu Ge's best-performing film.

The most amazing thing is that this is Hu Ge’s first time making a movie, and his starting point is already so high, which is really enviable.

Even Fan Xiaopang was extremely envious of Hu Ge's film debut.

"Lao Hu, I envy you so much, you have achieved such success in your first film.

Alas, when I think back to those days, I feel a little sad. At that time, we mainland actors were really inferior to others.

Like me, I am known as one of the most popular actresses in the mainland, one of the four Dan and Shuang Bin, but it's useless.

The film circle consists of several small circles such as the Beijing circle and the Northwest circle, which are centered around several big directors.

If you are not in their circle, it is impossible for you to get movie resources.

The situation in Hong Kong is better, as there are policies to constrain them. If they want their films to be shown in mainland China, they must use a certain proportion of mainland actors.

We can go to Hong Kong Island to make movies, but they treat us like inferiors over there.

Using the most popular actors in mainland China to play supporting roles for their newcomers is something you may rarely hear of nowadays.

At that time, I really played a supporting role for new female artists from Hong Kong Island." Fat Fan now feels a little aggrieved when he recalls the time when he played a supporting role for new female artists from Hong Kong Island.

But there was no other way. Playing supporting roles or the second or third female roles were already the best film resources she could get at the time.

Behind her, a large group of people lining up to be supporting roles don't even get a chance.

"Are you pretending to be a senior? You are only one year older than Lao Hu." Li Yu found it inexplicably funny.

Listening to Fan Xiaopang's deeply touching words just now, it was like an old senior who had experienced many vicissitudes of life was telling a younger generation about his experiences and lessons.

In fact, they are about the same age, and the contrast is quite funny.

However, Fan Xiaopang is indeed Hu Ge's predecessor.

Fan Xiaopang made his debut in 97 at the age of 16, and became an instant hit for his role as Jinsuo in "My Fair Princess" in the same year.

Hu Ge, who is only one year younger than her, had to wait until 2003 to make his debut, six years later than her.

Not to mention that Hu Ge didn’t become famous until 2005.

Being in the entertainment industry really depends on luck. Some people were admitted to the acting academy together.

Some people became famous all over the country before they even graduated, while some are about to graduate but have never played a serious role.

We are all human beings, but there is a huge difference between us.

"Do you think our "Ready Player One" has a chance to exceed 20 billion?" Fat Fan asked curiously.

Hugo was also very concerned about this issue and he also wanted to know.

It was his first time starring in a movie and the box office of the movie exceeded 20 billion, which is an achievement worth bragging about.

“I don’t know, it’s fifty-fifty, 50% chance of passing, 50% chance of not passing.

As I said, the movie Ready Player One is just my attempt in the field of science fiction.

As long as you can make tens of billions and guarantee not to lose money, you will be considered a success.

My purpose in making this movie is really not to make a lot of money. If I wanted to make a lot of money, I wouldn’t make this movie.”

The original version of "Ready Player One" had a box office of 12 billion in mainland China.

Li Yu deleted some Easter eggs that only foreigners could understand, and added more Easter eggs that Chinese people could get.

In other words, Li Yu localized the film.

It is certain that "Ready Player One" will be more popular in China after being localized.

The first day’s performance has surpassed the original version.

As for whether it can exceed 20 billion, Li Yu can't say for sure.

In fact, I don’t really care whether the movie can make over 20 billion.

He only knows that his goal has a high probability of being achieved, and that's enough.

“If you have time to ask me whether I can make over 20 billion, you might as well work harder and do roadshows in more cities to boost the box office.” Li Yu said before that superstars and big stars do not add much to the box office.

Li Yu's words were said in a specific context, that the movie was a bad one and that no big star could help.

If the movie is good, the name of the big star will be enough.

Many people have a blind herd mentality, and they listen to friends around them or people on the Internet saying that a certain movie is good and that the starring actor is a certain big star.

He happened to have watched the TV series or movies of this big star before. This kind of people may buy a movie ticket because of the star's name and the good reputation of the movie.

(End of this chapter)