The Crown Prince of Huayu!

Chapter 97 The grudges and hatreds between great directors (please subscribe)
The general director of the Olympic Games has been selected.

In the final round of the election, the team led by Zhang Yimou defeated the team led by Li Eucalyptus.

Han Jiadong did not accept Zhang Yimou's proposal in the end, but Zhang Yimou still wanted to put Han Jiadong's name in the election for the same general director position as himself.

Then he was beaten back.

The Olympic Organizing Committee did not give Han Jiadong or Han Sanpin any face.

Zhang Yimou had no choice but to assign Han Jiadong the status of chief designer and deputy director.

Chen Kaige, who was also invited to run for chief director, read a poem on the spot, and then nothing happened.

Compared with Zhang Yimou who directly brought a truckload of plans to the site, including the original creative works in both Chinese and English versions bound into a volume, Poet Chen did not have any specific plans and was ultimately eliminated in the first round as expected.

Zhang Yimou had a very complete statement for each of the 22 projects inspected by the Olympic Organizing Committee, and there were corresponding emergency plans for each link. In the end, he won 22 first places among the 20 projects, and there was no doubt that he won the first place. The total score of the round is first!

The confrontation between the two ended again with Zhang Yimou's victory.

Speaking of which, the two of them had a bad relationship from the first time they met.

At that time, Zhang Yimou first arrived in the capital and was very interested in everything, especially movies.

So Zhang Yimou, who saw a foreign movie for the first time, seemed to have opened up a conversation, and excitedly pulled his roommate Gu Changwei to share it with them.

It happened that Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang were passing by.

Chen Kaige said: "Grandma Liu has come to the Grand View Garden."

That condescending tone... How could he have the nerve to say in his autobiography "Young Kai Ge" that the beautiful mountains and rivers and natural customs of Yun Province soothed his soul when he went to the countryside, and made him realize how unbearable his behavior of reporting his father was, Do you dare to face your true self from now on?
After Zhang Yimou was stimulated by his words, he, who was already silent, became even more silent and worked harder.

I had no money to buy books, so I copied them by hand and copied more than 200,000 words.

But later on, the two actually had a honeymoon period, and they both recognized each other's strength.

Chen Kaige once wrote in his book that when he saw Zhang Yimou's photography at a film festival, his first reaction was: This person is not an ordinary person.

When Zhang Yimou took over the position of cinematographer for "Yellow Earth", because the director had been undecided, he also took the initiative to recommend Chen Kaige to Xi Film Studio who was working at Beijing Film and Television Children's Studio at the time.

This movie won many awards for both of them who were just starting out at the time.

Chen Kaige's evaluation of this cooperation is: It gave us a little feeling.

But as the two collaborated again on "Parade," their ideas clashed.

Chen Kaige wanted to express his personal romantic heroism, while Zhang Yimou wanted to focus on the simple masses.

In the end, because no one could convince anyone, this very fragmented work was produced.

It was also after filming this film that Zhang Yimou began to transform himself into a director, and then began a brilliant director career at home and abroad.

Chen Kaige still has the casual romance of a great poet. He also works as an actor and participates in various poetry gatherings everywhere.

When I heard the news that Zhang Yimou won an award abroad, I just said lightly: "He? He's just my photographer."

But he doesn't know that compared to photography, he can't compete with him, but compared to directors, others are still better than him.

But since then, he also began to secretly compete with Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Yimou won the other two of the three major European film festivals, and he devoted himself to the most prestigious Cannes Film Festival.

"King of Children" failed, and "Walking and Singing" comes again.

In the end, he finally made "Farewell My Concubine", which was enough to leave his name in film history, and he won the Palme d'Or in one fell swoop.

So he started to live like a great poet again, making commercial films and short TV series. Until Zhang Yimou made "Hero", he couldn't sit still anymore and was ready to retaliate with "The Promise".

But he didn't expect that before "The Promise" was released, he would lose again at the Olympics.

As for the future, the two will definitely not stop competing.

Perhaps, the so-called competition is just someone's unilateral wishful thinking.

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"Master Dong, the role is almost decided. Can you give me a look to see if it's suitable?"

After getting the script, Guangguang moved very quickly. Within half a month, they finalized the main role in "My Love from the Star" and even called Han Jiadong to ask for his opinion. Han Jiadong originally didn't intend to interfere with their casting, but when he saw that in the information they sent, the male lead was played by Zhang Han... the information showed that he was still named Zhang Han, so he replied: "This one is called Zhang Han." I don’t like it when it’s sweaty.”

Wang Changtian didn't dare to ask why he didn't like it, and immediately said he would change roles.

When he hung up the phone, he was still a little confused and couldn't figure out how this newcomer had offended the prince.

But it doesn’t matter if you don’t know the cause; knowing what to do is the key.

Called Li Xiaoping and gave instructions about changing roles, and also gave orders for refrigeration.

Li Xiaoping was also a little puzzled when she heard this: "Isn't Mr. Dong from Nortel? How did Zhang Han, a successful actor, offend him?"

Wang Changtian shook his head: "Who knows, maybe young people have met in some nightclub."

Li Xiaoping looked regretful: "It's a pity, I'm quite optimistic about Zhang Han."

Not to mention handsome, his real height is definitely over 180cm and he has long legs. He is considered to have the best potential among the male artists signed by the company.

Otherwise, the company would not give him such an important role as the male protagonist to a newcomer.

In addition, their company can only be considered a new company in the entertainment industry. The artist business has just started, so there is no need to think about becoming famous stars. They can only go to schools to look for new talents.

I finally found a good one, but I still have to keep it refrigerated...

Fortunately, it's still early before the start-up time, otherwise it would be difficult to find a replacement.

After Han Jiadong hung up the phone, he suddenly thought of the drama that made Zhang Han and a certain woman popular.

There are two top celebrities, both of whom are bad artists... It seems that we have to buy the copyright in advance.

I glanced at the notice from the school asking me to pick up new students, and before I knew it, the summer vacation was coming to an end.

In contrast, the summer vacation is about to come to an end.

Compared with previous years, this year's summer vacation has set a record, with six movies having a box office of more than 50 million.

Last year there were only two.

Going back even further, it was not even until three years ago that a "Pearl Harbor" box office reached 50 million.

The highest box office of a single movie was almost double that of the previous "House of Flying Daggers".

Among them, apart from "300", the one with the highest box office is the just-released "Seven Swords", shot by Hong Kong martial arts director Xu Ke, with a total box office of more than 80 million.

Is this a big box office?

Compared with its cost of 1.4 million, it is really not much.

In addition, it only had a box office of around RMB 5 million in Hong Kong, so it ended up losing almost RMB 100 million!

Han Jiadong went to the cinema to watch it in his previous life, but he didn't go to the torture this time.

But if you want to say it's bad, is it worse than "The Promise"?
The box office of "The Promise" was more than twice that!

From this we can also see the benefits of publicity and film arrangement.

The release date of "Seven Swords" is already considered very good.

"Madagascar" and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" are scheduled to be released on the same day. In addition to taking care of Han Jiadong's "300", it is also to leave enough space for "Seven Swords".

It is guaranteed that "Seven Swords" will have no strong enemies in the two weeks before and after its release.

But after all, it is just a Hong Kong film. It cannot be promoted as overwhelmingly as a mainland blockbuster. Naturally, it cannot be fully booked in terms of film schedule.

The result was that it didn't attract enough viewers in the first place.

In the most critical first week of release, it only took in more than 20 million yuan at the box office, which was even worse than "Initial D".

Once word-of-mouth collapsed, the box office fell in half.

In the previous life, "The Promise" was also criticized by many people, but it took over 70 million at the box office in its first week!

Accounting for 42% of the total box office!
"Seven Swords" only accounted for 31% of the box office in its first week.
Therefore, in terms of jumping speed, "Seven Swords" only gives "Wuji" shoes.

　The next chapter may be a bit late, so don’t wait if you want to get up early tomorrow.

　　
　
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