Chapter 318 It's just a matter of fact! (2/4)
"Our Victory" is heavily promoted - a work commemorating the 70th anniversary of the anti-French dilution designated by the General Administration...
There were two news broadcasts at the meeting.
Moreover, the movie channel broadcasted the "Our Victory" movie gala in full...
Of course it's not as good as "My Motherland and Me" - it caught up with CCTV's National Day Gala, and a bunch of actors from the crew came on stage to sing.
However, five directors including Amou, Shen Changlin, Ning Hao, Yang Qing, and Su Lun, and more than 200 actors from across the country starred in it. The lineup is huge, and it can be called a national-level film, and public attention has always been high!
It will be released on September 3rd to coincide with the 70th anniversary. Otherwise, if it is directly entered into the National Day schedule, it will definitely become the overlord of the National Day schedule.
Returning to the topic, Lao Guo continued: "However, "Bottom Hot Girls" has reached expectations with more than 400 million..."
"That's right... By the way, where is the box office of "Nie Yinniang"?"
"…8 million on the first day, but 15% of the film schedule was given... I'm really sorry for this film schedule!"
Shen Changlin smiled: "...This kind of movie itself is used to please the author himself. Even if it is placed in the sequence of Hou Xiaoxian's works, "The Assassin Nie Yinniang" is mediocre enough!"
"Have you seen it?"
"Well... after all, I won the Cannes Director Award, so I definitely want to take a sneak peek... I saw it halfway and immediately jumped away!"
This is not to say that all auteur films are masterpieces. Of course, auteur films can maintain a certain uniqueness of their own works, including a unique way of expression, and even this way of expression is incomprehensible to most people.
The public often does not fully agree with these unique works, and may even criticize them, but this does not mean that what the public criticizes must be a masterpiece.
"Nie Yinniang" is really a mediocre author's film. The mediocre thing is that although it externalizes the author's inner Tang Dynasty, it is not moving because there are almost no people in the film.
The promotion of this movie is very interesting. Before the release, it focused on promoting "unprecedented success in Cannes". After the release, it was "Did you understand?", "If you don't understand, watch it again"...
Why do ordinary viewers have to force themselves to watch commercial art films that they are not interested in?
Do you reimburse me for movie tickets?
"Director Hou Xiaoxian is getting old too!"
"Indeed!" Shen Changlin continued: "The screenwriter of "The Assassin Nie Yinniang" is Xie Haimeng, the third generation of the famous Zhu family... scholar!"
"Which Zhu family?"
"Zhu Xining and Zhu Tianwen's father and daughter, including their son-in-law Tang Nuo, their family has a very high status in Baodao's literary circles. In a place as big as Baodao, it goes without saying that the Zhu family has good connections. By the way, "Sad City", "Sad City"
The screenwriter of "Dream Life" is Zhu Tianwen... Therefore, Xie Haimeng can be the screenwriter of "Assassin Nie Yinniang" just after graduation!"
The disgusting family knows how to come to the mainland to make money. If they can't make money, they say that the mainland audience is a jerk and won't appreciate it. Her original words: "The history of Chinese people watching movies is too short and they don't have enough experience in watching movies. They don't treat movies like this."
There is still no complete and systematic understanding of things!'
Arrogance is written on your face!
But... the box office of "Assassin Nie Yinniang" in Baodao was pitifully small!
"...I'm telling you..."
Guo Songjiang nodded: "By the way, Ma Boyong cursed "Assassin Nie Yinniang" and was exposed!"
"Exploded?"
"He said he didn't want to watch "Nie Yinniang", and then he got scolded!"
"Scold him...why?"
Guo Songjiang shook his head: "I don't know, maybe I think I should go to the theater to support my work that won the Best Director at Cannes!"
"Yes, we should indeed support it!"
"ah?"
"You must watch "Assassin Nie Yinniang" in a movie. Otherwise, if you watch it on a computer, you won't be able to watch it at all. Only in a movie theater, with the cold wind blowing, you may insist on watching it because you feel sorry for the ticket price!"
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Well, Ma Boyong was not scolded for commenting on the movie "Assassin Nie Yinniang"...
He is a film critic for 'Sina Movies'.
After Cannes, Sina Movies commented on "The Assassin": "Nie Yinniang" is a surprise. I was worried that the old-school story would not produce anything new, but I didn't expect that the director didn't want to tell the story at all, and his skills were not used in traditional narratives such as character relationships and plot twists.
. Breathtakingly beautiful scenes, smoke farmhouses, green mountains and green waters, ancient Tang Dynasty style... It uses Eastern traditional implicitness and difficult-to-understand classical Chinese dialogue to create an innovative martial arts masterpiece with an unprecedented artistic conception.
It's outrageous. It was written by Sina Film Review... Just reading the first half of the review, without mentioning the name of the movie, I thought it was talking about "Tiny Times"...
To give an analogy, a writer painstakingly wrote a novel and sent it to a publishing house. After receiving the manuscript, the editor praised it: "I thought you couldn't write about such an old subject, but I didn't expect you didn't want to tell the story at all. Look,
Look at the writing of this character, the layout is clever and dense, the writing style is as floating as floating clouds, as powerful as a startling dragon, the calligraphy is powerful and natural, the iron painting is silver hook..."
What do you think after hearing this...
Isn't this a curse?
Ma Boyong couldn't stand this kind of film review, so he forwarded it directly and commented: This film review is so well written that I can strongly feel the author's cry behind the words. I decided not to watch it. In addition, many directors in China are just bad.
It is the traditional narrative ability to tell a story honestly and smoothly.
And then...got fucked!
The promoter of "Nie Yinniang" felt that Ma Boyong was targeting "Nie Yinniang", so... they attacked him!
The film studio and a number of related people are waiting to complain - the film company feels that he has great influence, and publicly saying "I decided not to go to see it" may affect the box office...
'In Cannes, "Nie Yinniang" received a standing ovation from the audience. It's hard to get a ticket! Your country is still reporting on pornographic pressure...'
'Tarkovsky said that his narrative level also needs to be improved, and he hopes to learn from the prince who is good at telling stories. He has already roped in Ingmar Bergman to sign up.'
'Ma Boyong knows nothing about Hou Hsiao-hsien's movies, or even movies at all!'
This is crazy...
Shen Changlin was very unhappy...
I really want to post a short essay to reply, but...it's not appropriate.
He said, maybe "Nie Yinniang" will become a topic. Once it becomes a topic, theaters will definitely increase their film schedule...
Forget it, let it be released quietly, and then put it down! However, he still wrote a paragraph: "Recently researching the film market, I found that the Chinese audience's literary aesthetic is greater than their aesthetic aesthetic. This is good. Storytelling is the most basic of commercial films."
The most important thing is that I think we can try to make a movie by referring to storytelling and Zhang Hui style models!'
I thought it was very obscure, but it was still criticized by many netizens, especially ‘film critics’:
'Are you satirizing "Nie Yinniang"?'
'I don't think movies must focus on narrative. Many well-known directors in film history do not emphasize narrative in their films, or even deliberately weaken narrative, but their films do not lack aesthetic and ideological value because of this.'
'There are thresholds for appreciating art, and we should refer to the opinions of professionals. For example, for Nie Yinniang, we refer to the opinions of domestic and foreign film critics and film practitioners. If they are generally better, we think it is a bad film. What we are thinking at this time should not be
:They are showing off. Instead, they should think: Where did I go wrong?'
This is crazy...
Shen Changlin responded directly: "So, we must be superstitious about authority? I am particularly disgusted with not being able to satisfy the audience, so I just scold the audience -" The history of Chinese people watching movies is too short, and they have insufficient experience in watching movies. They are not interested in such things as movies.
There is no complete systematic understanding yet''
'It's 2015, what movie has the audience not seen? The reason why movies can become the seventh art and become popular around the world is very simple, because movies are not made for professionals. If everyone says they are bad
The film, the professionals say yes, should the professionals consider what went wrong?'
'Movies are a kind of entertainment for the masses. The criterion for judging entertainment by the masses is whether they like it or not. As for artistic achievements, that is a matter for "experts in the circle". Does Van Gogh's high status mean that I must like his paintings?'
'Furthermore, I have said bluntly that art films can not focus on narrative, but at least tell the story. There are many excellent movies that do not focus on narrative, but they at least tell the story clearly. As for the artistic conception, it depends on different people's opinions... I would like to add
: With the level of text and interpretation of "Nie Yinniang", it is quite rare to be intoxicated by it, and it is even rarer to be able to feel the artistic conception of Tang poetry... This kind of person's level is beyond my reach!'
The other party immediately replied, 'You also said that people in the industry recognized it...'
'Since it is approved by insiders, it means it is a niche subject. Why do you despise it after everyone said they didn't like it after it was released nationwide? Do you want to block everyone's mouths and force everyone to say good things?'
Shen Changlin has been very restrained and did not directly comment on "Nie Yinniang"...
There are so many sexy tricks in the promotion of this film that the promotion team posted six long articles on the Internet to explain the story of "Nie Yinniang" - which means that if you want to understand it, you need to read the six long articles first!
The netizen who was criticized by him was anxious, 'Well if you have the ability, you can also win a Cannes award!'
Chapter completed!