Chapter 835 Why do tyrants become heroes?
This thing is rare in the United States.
"Come on, how about you try my craft?" Liu Xiaoli said, picking up a piece of potato and putting it in Fang Minghua's bowl.
Fang Minghua tasted it.
“Well, it tastes good,”
"Then eat more. It's rare to get this kind of food in the United States." Liu Xiaoli greeted her attentively.
Indeed, nannies in San Francisco don’t know how to do this, and Li Li doesn’t even know how.
After eating and chatting for a while, Fang Minghua was about to say goodbye and leave. Liu Xiaoli politely excused himself and drove him to the hotel to rest, this time in an ordinary Buick car.
After dinner in the evening, someone came to pick him up to attend the premiere.
This time it is not Liu Xiaoli, but a man named Alex, who is the director of the office of the North American branch of Shengshi Film and Television, and is responsible for the reception of guests on the "Hero" tour in the United States.
The young man was less than thirty and graduated from George Washington University with an MBA. He was very talkative. Along the way, he explained the entire tour arrangement process to Fang Minghua in detail, and also explained the process of the premiere.
The premiere of "Heroes" was held at the Alice Tully Hall of Lincoln Center in New York. When Fang Minghua arrived, the film's creative staff and invited guests arrived one after another.
The creative team of "Hero" and several main actors, including Zhang Yimou, Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, all attended, but Zhang Ziyi was not present, replaced by Shu Qi.
Without "My Father and Mother", Zhang Ziyi is still an unknown Yidian student.
Among the guests, directors Pierceberg and James Cameron were also invited to participate, as well as three young actors from "Harry Potter".
At this time, Liu Yifei was no longer the girl next door wearing a T-shirt and shorts that she saw at home at noon, but instead put on a white bubble skirt, looking youthful and beautiful.
Liu Xiaoli naturally followed. When she saw Fang Minghua, she just said hello and didn't talk much.
However, when Liu Yifei saw Fang Minghua, she immediately followed him closely, calling "godfather" non-stop, and Liu Xiaoli retreated to a corner where no one was.
Now all employees of the North American branch, including the "Harry Potter" crew, know that Fang Minghua and his wife recognize Liu Yifei as their daughter, so there is no need to make a fuss.
Famous movie stars Marlon Brando, Angelina Jolie, singer Britney Spears, etc. came to support the event.
Of course, these actually have nothing to do with Shengshi Film and Television. They are mainly operated by Warner Bros. behind the scenes.
Why didn’t you see Chen Kaige? !
After Fang Minghua shook hands with everyone and exchanged greetings, he felt surprised. Finally, he asked Wu Tianmin. The other party smiled bitterly and said that Chen Kaige called just now and said that he was not feeling well and would not come.
Fang Minghua naturally didn’t want to ask further.
Liu Yifei has been following Fang Minghua and heard their conversation. When others were not paying attention, she quietly said to Fang Minghua: "Godfather, Director Chen lost his temper in the room yesterday."
"Losing your temper?"
"Well, I faintly heard something when I was passing by. Didn't Zhang Yimou just film "Assassination of Qin" and put up such a big show?"
Jealous?
Fang Minghua also guessed it.
Now at home and abroad, Zhang Yimou has steadily surpassed Chen Kaige. It is understandable that he feels uncomfortable.
But there’s no need to be so obvious.
For example, if you pretend to be sick today, it also seems too small-minded.
But in front of Liu Yifei, a little girl, Fang Minghua couldn't say this, so he just whispered: "Sissi, don't tell others what you saw."
"Yeah, I just I told my godfather, but my mother didn’t tell me.”
“That’s good.”
Of course, this was just a small episode that no one noticed.
According to the arrangement, the first thing was to watch the movie. Everyone entered the screening room, and Liu Yifei sat next to Fang Minghua.
Soon, the movie started and Fang Minghua watched it seriously.
Before traveling through time, he had watched this movie more than once, and now he was watching it while distinguishing the similarities and differences.
Not much has changed. It's just that Ru Yue, played by Zhang Ziyi, was replaced by Shu Qi.
Think about it, the director has not changed, the production team has not changed, the actors have basically remained the same, and even the script has not changed much, so the result will be basically the same.
Wu Ming and King Qin each told a story, and the last story was the truth. It adopts a narrative structure similar to "Rashomon", showing multiple versions of events through the narration of different characters.
But when the film was about to end, Fang Minghua suddenly realized that what was being filmed now seemed different from what it had been in history.
In the original movie version, Wuming was captured without mercy, and hundreds of ministers in the palace shouted in unison: "Kill the king, kill the king!"
Wuming finally died in the rain of arrows from Qin soldiers like locusts.
But now the movie screen has changed. It seems that there are dozens of seconds more footage.
Thousands of arrows were fired, and Wuming died at the gate of the palace. King Qin shed tears in his eyes.
Suddenly, many ministers below laughed loudly and bowed to King Qin: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, you have escaped another disaster!"
King Qin smiled but did not answer, but there were still tears in his eyes. He only said one thing: "A generous burial!"
This shot is interesting.
Fang Minghua sighed secretly.
The King of Qin is still a tyrant after all.
"Congratulations, king, you have escaped another disaster!" This sentence tells the audience: all of this may be a trap!
King Qin knew that he could not dodge this sword, so no matter how he dodge, he could only use his nameless chivalry to hit him!
Make heroes with heroes.
Politics is politics, people are people, King Qin has always been the hero!
The concept and style of this movie are instantly up to the mark.
Hmm.
Not bad.
It seems that Zhang Yimou has gained quite a lot after studying abroad for several years.
When the lights came on in the theater, warm applause broke out.
"Does it look good?" Fang Minghua asked Liu Yifei with a smile.
"It's so beautiful, godfather, I also want to make martial arts movies in the future!" Liu Yifei said.
So beautiful? !
But you can’t even ask a 13-year-old girl to explain such profound truths.
"Okay, when you finish filming the Harry Potter series, you will grow up and make martial arts movies too!" Fang Minghua said.
“Thank you, godfather.”
Liu Yifei smiled sweetly.
After watching the movie, the main creative staff talked about their feelings and some details during the filming. After several years of living and working in the United States, Zhang Yimou's English has become very fluent.
Of course, I would like to first express my gratitude, thank you to the film and television company, thank you to the staff, thank you to the crew and actors, including the screenwriter Fang Minghua.
The last item is to answer reporters’ questions. After Zhang Yimou finished answering reporters’ questions, the host handed the microphone to Fang Minghua.
Immediately, reporters swarmed in and asked Fang Minghua about his thoughts when he wrote the script "Hero".
At this time, a middle-aged reporter said something loudly. It seemed that the host did not ask him to ask questions, and he was a little anxious.
But what he said was not in English, and Fang Minghua couldn’t understand it.
"Reporter, tell me." The host was also considerate and immediately called his name.
The middle-aged reporter squeezed to the front and switched to English: "Mr. Fang, I am a reporter from AFP. As far as I know, the Qin Shihuang depicted in the movie is a tyrant in your country's history books. Why is he portrayed as a hero in the movie? "
This question again!
(End of this chapter)