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Chapter 181 "Embroidered Spring Knife" Finished

The release time of "Embroidered Spring Knife", Chen Xizhong has also gone through many considerations and deliberations, and it is tentatively scheduled to be released during the period from August to September.

In this way, there is more time to calmly arrange many things before the release.

Recently, the company's publicity department has spent a lot of effort to hype "Xiu Chun Knife". It is relatively easy to hype the film "Xiu Chun Knife", because now that Chen Xi's reputation has come out, and Chen Xi has always It is a pity that the name is packaged in the way of packaging the director, which is quite successful.

Now Chen Xi's popularity is almost close to that of a second-tier star. As time goes by, this number should increase. Using this packaging method is actually effective. At least, a large number of people will I am very concerned about what Chen Xi will do next, what type of his new movie will be, and what breakthroughs will be made.

After "Embroidered Spring Knife" transitioned to filming literary dramas, Shu Chang also came.

"Director Chen, thank you for giving me this opportunity." Shu Chang is indeed very polite, and I can feel it when she speaks, and what she said should come from the heart, which makes people feel more sincere.

"It's okay, but you have to play well, this is my request."

Chen Xi is serious.

Shu Chang nodded: "I don't dare to guarantee whether it will be good or not, but I will do my best."

Chen Xi smiled: "It's fine with your words."

After Shu Chang joined the group, the movie "Xiu Chun Knife" has also completely entered the track. When shooting some literary dramas in "Xiu Chun Knife", Chen Xi is mainly looking for that feeling, which is the feeling of each character and his relationship with each other. It is not easy to find such things that are consistent with each other. When it comes to specific things, it is the result of the cooperation of the actors and all the surrounding teams that need to be photographed.

Chen Xi has also started to pay attention to some other things recently, such as the official release of "Xiu Chun Knife" and the current pre-effects of "Raid".

"Raid" hasn't participated in too many film festivals so far. Occasionally participating in one or two is the kind that is well-known. It may not really get much effect, but at least it can't be judged by others just because it shows up at the film festival. Steal the stuff from the movie...

Needless to say, this possibility really exists.

Especially for some small film festivals, you don't know what kind of prying eyes will exist inside. These people will really steal your things and circulate them outside...so you don't want to participate indiscriminately.

But judging from the film festivals he has participated in so far, the market response of "The Raid" is indeed good. At least those who have watched this movie have basically expressed their liking for "The Raid".

"Raid" has one of the most important advantages in terms of external export distribution: the offset of cultural discounts!

Cultural discounts exist in many cases, especially in Chinese cultural products.

There are many things that cannot be understood by two different nations and groups.

There are many things where the differences in the details can also cause misunderstandings.

An important theoretical basis for the fictional law of the dark forest in Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem" is mutual suspicion among civilizations.

Therefore, it is not difficult to explain why, even when Xiangjiang movies were at their most brilliant, the main scope of radiation was Southeast Asia and East Asia... and most of the Hong Kong movies that Americans like to watch also have a kind of novelty psychology. Europeans are different. European movies and TV shows are only superficially inferior to those of the United States. In fact, the level of European film and television, at least in terms of art, surpasses that of the United States and Hollywood, especially the British TV series, which basically represent the human TV series. highest standard.

Such a Europe has an ability to appreciate Chinese literary and artistic films, but this kind of appreciation is more or less accompanied by a novelty-seeking psychology of appreciating a different culture and conflicts.

And Southeast Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia has many overseas Chinese, and East Asia is the radiation circle of Confucian culture...

As for why American movies can conquer the world, this is because American movies tell not American stories, but human stories. They use special effects to conquer movie fans, and the so-called universal values ​​of the United States wrapped in them have also passed through the American Emperor, a human being. The packaging of a powerful country unprecedented in history and possibly unprecedented has gained a deep-rooted influence.

Of course, the commercial films in the United States, such personal heroism, such and such such as the United States is always saving the world... If these bullshit things do not have special effects, they will be piles of yellow shit.Americans use special effects, the most powerful thing that belongs to the film industry, to smash cultural discounts, and then infuse their own values ​​into everyone's heart little by little.

Shattering the cultural discount, what is it?
This is the human story, something that universally appeals to all human beings, and violence, action, beauty, these things are common to all human beings.

The Raid is one such film.

Unrestrained violence, full of graceful sense of movement, and various choices of human beings in the face of life and death... This is "Raid".

Cultural discounts do exist, but in fact they are relatively speaking, because sometimes the existence of cultural discounts increases the mystery of a movie, and also increases the appearance of a movie. At that time, many literary and artistic films in China were made because of such things that people in European and American countries were curious about, and then they were not aware of some of the things in them, but they found them novel and interesting. In addition, the quality of these films themselves was very good: Chinese literary and artistic The film's foundation is really not covered, it's just gradually being submerged under the wave of commercialization.

So at that time, there was a situation where the most ugly and backward side of China was desperately shown to Westerners. Some fifth-generation directors were also rated as traitorous directors. Of course, things in the world are not so black and white. This question has to be looked at from two perspectives.

The master of Japanese movies back then, Akira Kurosawa, was also regarded as a traitor by the Japanese at the beginning...

"Raid" is now launching some overseas promotions. The guiding ideology is to show the feeling of "Raid" in front of everyone, and to show the "human story" of the movie in front of everyone. According to this guiding ideology, "Raid" So far, the overseas publicity has been relatively limited, but it still has some influence.

The filming of "Embroidered Spring Knife" has gradually entered the final stage.

Compared with martial arts, the shooting of literary dramas focuses more on the expression of emotions, and the emotion that needs to be conveyed should be maximized. Relatively speaking, compared with the lack of physical strength of martial arts, it is more It's getting better, so when May comes, the shooting speed of "Xiu Chun Knife" is also at a rapid pace.

Until May 5th, the filming of "Xiu Chun Knife" officially ended, and all the scenes were completed. In everyone's eyes, most of the details of "Xiu Chun Knife" have been done to the best. From Chen Xi's From a perspective, the same is true: "Xiu Chun Knife" has also achieved the ultimate in restoring and enhancing the original movie to some extent.

His "Embroidered Spring Knife" is somewhat different from the original version. There are relatively few differences, but they still exist. The main difference is that Chen Xi's version of "Embroidered Spring Knife" is a little tighter in some plot connections. One point, and the other is that the details of history are more exquisite, and the fighting scenes are more reasonable, especially in the group battle scenes, Chen Xi tried his best to achieve the word "reasonable" to the extreme!

Therefore, Chen Xi was quite satisfied with the film "Embroidered Spring Knife".

After the filming is completed, the film has entered the stage of editing and publicity warm-up. In addition, Chen Xi has also begun to prepare for the new film: his current state is that he cannot stop at all, because of the urgency of time, Chen Xi always feels It seemed as if there was a whip whipping behind him, so that he could only keep moving forward.

Next, Chen Xi felt that after the movie "Xiuchun Knife", as long as the box office of this movie did not hit the street in the end, then after "Frontier Wind and Cloud", "People on the Journey", and "Xiuchun Knife" With the accumulation of movies, Chen Xi, as a celebrity, as the IP of the director that everyone is looking forward to, has also become popular. In this way, Chen Xi can also plan to release his own works that are not of such a standard.

Now these movies, when they are filmed, are actually not low-profile, but there is a problem, that is, the final box office of these movies will not be very high, probably below 1 million yuan. Of course, these figures are in the eyes of some people. It seems that it is already quite powerful, but Chen Xi feels that it is not enough. He needs a higher box office and earns more money before he can unfold the real movie grand plan he imagined.

In fact, in his head, there are too many movies with a box office of more than 13 million, and there are too many of them with low investment. Even "Lost in Thailand" is a horror work with a box office of [-] billion... But these movies need A specific time and environment are required. If the conditions are not ripe, these movies will not only not have a high box office, but will be released in advance and be wasted... Because of these reasons, Chen Xi has been waiting for his own fame. Accumulation, waiting for my fame to accumulate to the point where many people flock to a movie because I directed it.

For this goal, Chen Xi has been working hard, and judging from the current situation, she is gradually maturing.

May has officially arrived, the bell of the Olympic Games is approaching, and now many things in the entire entertainment industry are also moving closer to this center, and many stars are also singing carols for the Olympics, but Chen Xi is now immersed in "Embroidered Spring Knife" and the new movie thing.

(End of this chapter)