Seeing that Director Chen didn't say anything, Chen Hong continued to ask, "How much box office do you think "Interstellar" can have?"
"I don't know!" Director Chen didn't want to answer.
However, the more he didn't want to answer, the more Chen Hong asked: "You guess one, how much is the expected box office?"
"I can't guess." Director Chen had a straight face.
When Chen Hong was happy, she said deliberately: "I think if we don't talk about global box office, we should be able to have 1 billion yuan if we talk about the box office in China."
"1 billion?" Director Chen seemed to hear the huge joke and sneered, "How is it possible?"
"Why is it impossible?" Chen Hong couldn't help but continue teasing. "Why are there so many whys? Impossible is impossible!" Director Chen snorted coldly.
When Chen Hong heard this, she continued to deliberately say, "I think it's possible."
"Ha." Chen Hong sneered, "If you don't talk about anything else, just say "Interstellar" is a foreign language film, and it can't exceed 1 billion."
"Then why did "Avatar" break 1 billion?" Chen Hong retorted.
"Avatar is "Avatar", "Interstellar" is "Interstellar". Can Wang Shu be compared with Cameron?" Director Chen sneered.
"Why can't it be?" Chen Hong continued to retort, "Wang Shu is now the Oscar director of Zhuang, and there are not many directors in the world who can Zhuang, why can't it be?"
"Ha." Director Chen sneered, "What do you know? Can Wang Shu compare with Cameron in Lianzhuang? Let me tell you, he is far from Cameron."
"The two are not directors of the same level at all."
"The two are not directors of the same level at all."
"Why aren't you a level director? Lianzhuang Oscars! Lianzhuang!" Chen Hong retorted. "Ha!" Director Chen continued to sneer, "If you say you don't understand, you just don't understand. In this regard, don't question me, you don't have my authority." Chen Hong choked when she heard this. Director Chen is Director Palme de Palme, and she has no relevant honors. If she wants to say this, she really can't refute it.
Since she couldn't refute, she was too lazy to refute, and then returned to the original question, "Then do you tell me how much box office can "Interstellar" achieve?"
"I don't know." Director Chen answered this question with a pity.
"Then I guess it's over 1 billion." Chen Hong said. "Impossible!" Director Chen immediately retorted. "That's that although it can't reach 1 billion, it's about the same as 1 billion!" Chen Hong responded. "Ha!" Director Chen sneered and continued to cherish his words as if he were gold.
Chen Hong analyzed on his own: "Although it is a bit difficult for our domestic market to break 1 billion movies, with the situation of "Interstellar", it seems that it is not weaker than "Pacific Rim", and maybe it can really break 1 billion!"
"Impossible!" Director Chen was unwilling to see "Interstellar" exceeding 1 billion yuan in the domestic box office, so he continued to refute.
As we all know, "Interstellar" is a foreign language film.
If the domestic box office exceeds 1 billion, it will slap many directors in the face, especially the face of him who is not in the face of Wang Shu.
At that time, many people will say that Wang Shu can earn 1 billion yuan in domestic theaters when shooting a foreign language film. In contrast, some domestic directors are always boasting that the box office is only 200 million yuan in Chinese films.
Compared with it, many people will be unable to bear their faces.
"Then tell me how much box office can "Interstellar" have? Just guess a number." Chen Hong.
Director Chen listened to his words and stopped talking.
When Chen Hong saw this, she felt it was boring, so she didn't ask any further.
Soon, the two of them came to the theater to buy tickets and walked in.
As the beginning of the movie, Director Chen did not think there was anything special. The film was just a scene of the male protagonist working and raising children and having family trivial matters.
But as the plot progressed, his body, which was originally slumped in his seat, sat up unconsciously.
Chen Hong's eyes were always on the screen. She was watching the video seriously from beginning to end, but she didn't notice director Chen's strangeness.
The movie "Interstellar" tells the story of the near future, the earth is facing a serious environmental crisis, food is almost exhausted, and human civilization is facing collapse. Former NASA astronaut Cooper discovered a series of strange gravity anomalies in his daughter Murphy's study that led him to a secret NASA facility. Scientists use the newly discovered wormhole near Saturn to send astronauts to distant galaxies to find planets suitable for human habitation.
After Professor Brand's persuasion, Cooper decided to leave his daughter and travel through the wormhole with other scientists on the spacecraft "Eternal" to visit three planets that may be suitable for human habitation. In this process, they experience the singular effect of time expansion, that is, time passes much slower than Earth on certain planets. Astronauts not only have to face the extreme environment of unknown planets and the mysterious power of black holes, but also stick to their hopes for the future of mankind in despair and loneliness.
The film shows the courage and wisdom of human beings in the exploration of the universe through shocking visual effects and profound thematic discussions, and also triggers deep thinking about the fate, love and hope of mankind.
Finally, after crossing the black hole, Cooper accidentally entered a supercube in five-dimensional space, conveying information to his daughter through gravitational waves, helping mankind find new hope.
Although it is a commercial film, it is also very artistic.
Whether it is multi-threaded narrative or time jumping, they are important characteristics of the narrative art of this movie.
The film intertwines the storylines of the protagonist Cooper at different time stages through complex interweaving of time and space, forming a grand science fiction epic. This narrative method not only tests the audience's thinking ability, but also shows director Wang Shu's unique insights on the art of film.
Secondly, visual effects and music design are also important manifestations of the artistic nature of "Interstellar". A large number of special effects and visual effects in the movie show the fantasy and spectacular scenes in space, making the audience feel as if they are there. The grand, profound and moving soundtrack style adds strength to the emotional expression of the film and plays a crucial role in the narrative.
In addition, cultural connotation and social significance are also important parts of the artistic nature of "Interstellar". The film involves many scientific concepts and philosophical thinking, such as time travel, relativity, black holes, etc. These contents not only add science fiction to the film, but also bring profound thoughts and inspiration to the audience.
At the same time, the film explores the survival and development of human beings, calling on people to pay attention to environmental and resource protection, which has certain social significance and humanistic value.
So, this movie is not a pure commercial film, but a film that combines business and art.
As a director, it is not difficult to see this.
And, this type of movie is also a type that he has always wanted to shoot but never made.
Any famous director in the mainland advocates art films without exception and looks down on commercial films.
Even if you make a commercial film, you still want to mix artistic elements into it.
But, there is almost no ability to make a good movie with this technique.
But even so, it has never changed. Even by 2025, most commercial movies will have a preaching flavor.
Art is not art, business is not business, and the preaching taste is strong.
No one bought tickets to go to the cinema as an unjust species, and he blamed this audience for not being able to do so.
It's such an environment.
It is undeniable that there are also many directors like Hollywood.
But in Hollywood, in addition to this type of director, there are also some directors who specialize in commercial films, B-level films, etc.
These directors usually do not have the right to modify the script freely and shoot the entire process according to the script.
Most of the videos presented are pure commercial films.
No matter whether these commercial films are good or not, they are relatively pure as commercial films.
In China, there is no living space for such directors. To be precise, it is not none.
The director of short dramas, the various bloody short dramas he shoots are very commercial.
More than two hours passed in a blink of an eye, and Director Chen and Chen Hong walked out of the cinema one after another.
When Chen Hong saw Director Chen silent all the way, she couldn't help but ask, "How does this movie... feel?"
It's the end of October, and the capital has entered winter. Director Chen is wearing thick clothes. When he heard this question, he did not answer, but continued to move forward silently. "Hey, I'll ask you something." Seeing this, Chen Hong chased after him.
Director Chen did not keep silent at this time. He looked up at the surrounding scenery and sighed, "It's okay."
In the original timeline, Director Chen did not comment on "Interstellar" like this. He kept blowing the movie to the sky.
Even if you are interviewed by the media, you still praise this movie.
And he would praise him for a little reason.
No mistakes, one poem, one post, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one read!
That is the professional knowledge that others cannot understand. He thinks that people with culture know a little bit, which is better than others.
The more I brag about this movie, the more I highlighted that he understood it, the more he seemed to be more powerful than others.
"Is that okay?" Chen Hong was a little surprised when he heard the words.
I thought this was not director Chen?
Don't Director Chen find fault with Wang Shu's movie?
Why is it okay?
Director Chen nodded without explaining.
The movie "Interstellar" is both commercial and artistic, and this is the film he always wanted to make.
Now when I see Wang Shu not only shoot the video he wants to shoot, but also very well shot.
It's just a joke that makes you a joke.
But if he lets him play Wang Shu's movie, the arrogant director Chen can't do it.
It is impossible to blow, at most one word is OK.
He wanted to make such a movie, not to make commercial movies, but to combine business with art and make commercial art films.
"Mei Lanfang" is called this.
However, "Mei Lanfang" failed in the box office, and he went to Europe's top three and failed.
So both in business and art are in a state of failure.
Now Wang Shu's "Interstellar" makes him feel that business and art are well combined, but the movies of this style he made are not this kind of taste, which has caused him to suffer a significant blow.
He did not doubt that Wang Shu could make a movie of this style.
First, Wang Shu is good at making science fiction films.
Secondly, Wang Shu is a director of Lianzhuang Oscar and is good at making art films.
Thirdly, Wang Shu is the first director in a domestic theater chain to have a single-film box office of over one billion yuan, and is also good at making commercial films.
He is good at making art films and commercial films. Now he has made films that combine business and art, which is well-founded.
This made Director Chen unable to help but think, is it because he is not good at commercial films?
So, using artistic techniques to make commercial films has less flavor?
When Chen Hong saw this, she said, "I think this movie was very good. I just said it could exceed 1 billion box office. Now I really think it is likely to exceed 1 billion."
"Hehe." Director Chen sneered and said, "Do you think the 1 billion box office is a cabbage? If you want to have it?"
"You are also a producer, and you don't watch so many films in China every year. It's difficult to break 100 million, let alone 1 billion."
"You really dare to say "Interstellar" can break 1 billion!"
"Why don't you dare to say it?" Chen Hong retorted, "The movies that others can break 1 billion do not mean that the movies that Wang Shu can break 1 billion do not mean that the movies that Wang Shu can break 1 billion."
"Aren't many people thinking that "Pacific Rim" has only 300 million or 400 million box office?"
"What's the result? It's broken 1 billion!"
"Ahead, there weren't many people who thought that "Pacific Rim" had a box office of only 300 million or 400 million?"
"What's the result? It's broken 1 billion!"
"In my eyes, this "Interstellar" is better than "Pacific Rim". "I think many people will have the same idea as me." "Since "Pacific Rim" can break 1 billion, "Interstellar" can break 1 billion." "Ha." Director Chen continued to sneer after hearing the words. "Isn't it?" Chen Hong asked immediately when she saw Director Chen's attitude.
Director Chen smiled and said, "Not to mention the release date of "Interstellar", just say that the release date is not a schedule that can exceed 1 billion."
Chen Hong was stunned when she heard this.
"Interstellar" was released on October 28, and it is not a good schedule both after the National Day and before the New Year.
According to this analysis, it really lacks the potential to exceed 1 billion in box office!
In the original timeline, "Interstellar" was released in North America on November 7.
It is October 28th now, not counting the year, only looking at the month, which is almost a few days away.
It's just that this time is a normal schedule for science fiction films in North America, but it's different in China.
The domestic emphasis is on May Day, National Day, New Year, and Spring Festival. "Interstellar" doesn't happen to be a single one.
In China, a movie does not have a good schedule and often has a bad box office.
So…
Chen Hong was silent and didn't know how to refute it for a moment.
After a while, he said angrily: "Even if there is no box office of 1 billion, there will be a box office of hundreds of millions."
This time, Director Chen did not sneer and refute, but took silent steps.
After watching "Interstellar" in the cinema, he certainly knew the quality of the movie.
It can be said that if it were not a foreign language film, but a Chinese film, and there was a good schedule, maybe it could really create a box office miracle again.
Although he understands in his heart that the quality of Interstellar is online, Director Chen has his own pride.
Even if you know it in your heart, you won’t admit it in your mouth. (This chapter ends)