Chapter 431 Slap in the face
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Zhang Chen was talking about the box office in Dong Jianqiang's office over the past two days, and then received a notice from the secretary: "Mr. Zhao Bangshan is visiting~"
"Uncle Benshan? What wind has blown you, the great god?"
Zhang Chen was still a little surprised when he saw that it was Zhao Bangshan.
"I have something to talk to you~"
Zhao Bengshan did not exchange too much greetings, but came up and went straight to the point.
Zhang Chen and Dong Jianqiang looked at each other: "Do you want to cooperate with us to develop movies?"
"To be precise, Benshan Media~"
"Oh, what type of thing? Do you have a script?"
Zhao Bonshan spread his hands: "No, I dare not shoot it, and the box office of my previous comedy movies was not good~"
Zhang Chen smiled bitterly: "Then you~"
"At the premiere, did you say that other film and television companies can deeply cultivate a track? Benshan Media decided to respond to your call and deeply cultivate the comedy movie track, but I hope to cooperate with Xingchen Entertainment for the first movie..."
Zhang Chen smiled bitterly again: "There is no problem in cooperation, but there must be a project first~"
"Aren't you preparing a movie version of "Wulin Waizhi", I think this is enough~"
This time it was Zhang Chen and Dong Jianqiang's turn to wonder. This matter has not been announced to the public yet. How did the other party know?
Zhao Bonshan also knew the two of them’s doubts and took the initiative to say, “When the premiere that day, I chatted with your crew members of "Wulin Waizhi" and they said~”
So that’s it~
This is reasonable.
Just...
"Then how are you going to cooperate?"
"The project is led by you, Benshan Media participates in the investment, and some actors are produced at the same time..."
"The actors you are talking about are your apprentices?"
Zhao Bonshan nodded: "Yes, don't think they are acting in sketches, their acting skills are actually good. The TV series I handle are basically starring my apprentices..."
Zhang Chen did not doubt this. He always felt that the acting skills of sketches were OK, and sometimes even beat TV actors.
"Let's do this, I have a plan, listen to see if you have any opinions~" Zhao Bonshan didn't expect that the other party would have a plan so soon, and he seemed to listen.
Tong Jianqiang also wanted to hear what plan Zhang Chen came up with after a while.
"I am planning to make a series of "Wulin Wai Chuan Movie". Two movies are currently scheduled. The first movie we will be the main investor. Benshan Media will participate in the investment. It mainly tells the story of "Wulin Wai Chuan". Your apprentices can make guest appearances and set a fixed identity...
When the second movie next year, Benshan Media will participate in the investment and tell the stories of your apprentices. The story is no longer bound by the inn, but can be a journey in the world. Of course, if the cooperation is good, we can continue to cooperate in the future..."
Zhao Bonshan hesitated a little, "Are there any other conditions?"
He didn't believe that Zhang Chen would be so good. According to the current cooperation method, it was equivalent to Xingchen Entertainment taking the initiative to help him train his apprentice, and using his own IP.
"There are indeed other conditions..."
Zhang Chen rubbed his hands: "I heard that you opened a TV series called "Rural Love". Xingchen Entertainment must be an investor and enjoy the investment rights of subsequent works..."
Zhao Bonshan looked at Zhang Chen, you boy, it turns out that he is waiting for me here.
It doesn’t matter to Zhang Chen, it was originally his intention to do so, and it doesn’t matter if he didn’t succeed.
Zhao Bonshan asked again: "What about us?"
"Benshan Media also enjoys the investment rights of the "Wulin Waizai" series of movies. You and your apprentices can also make guest appearances in the third season of the TV series version..."
"Where is the investment rights of the TV series version?"
"Sorry, this is impossible~"
"Wulin Waizai" is a gold mine, so it is impossible for Zhang Chen to give it up.
It is already a perfect end to the investment rights of the movie version.
After all, "Wulin Waizhuan" is a mature IP.
Zhao Bonshan was also thinking that he thought it was normal for Zhang Chen to be unwilling to give up the investment rights of the TV series version.
"Wulin Wai Chuan" is a mature IP proven by the market. The possibility of success of the movie version is very high. Benshan Media can participate more insurance than it can do.
As for the guest appearance in the third season, that's all right.
Only when you are familiar with each other, you can take the lead in the second part.
And the other party is willing to hand over the dominance of the second part to himself, which is already very sincere.
On the contrary, my own "Rural Love" has not been tested by the market, so the other party has taken risks in investing.
"You will suffer a little~"
"If we don't talk about this, the movie version of "Wulin Waiji" may not be successful. Everyone is taking risks. If you really think I am at a disadvantage, if I have something to do in the Northeast region in the future, you can just help..."
Zhang Chen actually has other ideas, such as having a "Happy Comedy" with the TV station, but there is no need to say now. If the cooperation between the two parties is happy, it can naturally be put on the agenda. If it is not happy, it may be possible for people to pick peaches now. "Okay, that's all."
I heard that it was just a matter of peace in Northeast China, Zhao Bonshan agreed without thinking much.
This is nothing to him.
After passing Shanhaiguan, there was something wrong with Zhao Bonshan.
He can help even King Liu, why can’t Zhang Chen?
Send Zhao Bonshan away, Dong Jianqiang has the opportunity to ask: "If you do two movies at once, will you be sure to succeed?"
Zhang Chen looked confident: "There is a high probability that he will not lose money. The national popularity of "Wulin Waichuan" is still good. As long as the script is not bad, the audience will definitely be willing to support him."
As for the second movie, he actually has an idea, which is "The Laughing Jianghu".
"The Big Laughing Jianghu" has a good box office, but its reputation is poor. After all, it is Zhu Yanping's work!
Switch the director to Wang Jing and revise the script, there should be no problem.
As for "Country Love", it is a big gold mine, and 17 films have been filmed.
Although the more you shoot, the worse it gets, it is certain that you make money.
As he was talking, the public opinion director knocked on the door outside, his tone was a little anxious: "Director Zhang, Manager Huang, a large number of negative comments on "Silent Land" suddenly appeared on the Internet..."
The public opinion group is the former online group, and now it has been renamed.
The two followed to the public opinion group, and the other party showed them the data personally.
"About yesterday midnight, there have been many negative comments about "Silent Land" on the Internet."
"What do you say, let me see~"
Zhang Chen browsed the comments and mostly said something strange, not good-looking, and said there are many loopholes, and there is no particularly favorable evidence.
"Do you know who did it?"
In fact, you can probably guess who it is without asking.
The only one "Superman Return" is still released in June. The publisher is China Film Academy, so it is definitely not what they did.
The only ones that can become competitors in July are "Dragon and Tiger Gate" and "Night Banquet", which are most likely "Night Banquet". Huayi has always liked to make small moves.
Sure enough, the result of the reverse tracking of the public opinion team is similar to what he guessed.
This thing is actually easy to check. There are only a few naval army teams in the circle, and they know each other, and you will know just by asking.
It seems that these two companies have joined forces.
"Try to suppress the bad reviews on the Internet. If they pass bad reviews, we will get good reviews~
In addition, prepare some bad information, and we will go back after their movie is released~"
Since Oriental Film and Huayi are in the first day of the lunar calendar, Xingchen Entertainment will definitely be on the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar.
"I'm already doing this, the real trouble is this..."
As he said that, the public opinion director opened another web page and called up a video.
The video is a reporter interviewing a professor at the University of Communications:
"In my opinion, "Silent Land" is a completely bad movie. The whole movie only knows how to be mysterious and has no thoughts on human nature. Such a movie is cultural garbage..."
When I look at it almost, close the web page and open another one, the same interview:
"I don't understand how such a movie can pass the review. The whole movie is full of blood and violence, and there are scenes of children being killed. I suggest that minor protection agencies pay more attention to this movie..."
There are many similar videos:
"I can't see any positive things. The so-called commercial movie is to serve their own preferences, which is equivalent to spiritual opium. After watching the movie, we can't get any enlightenment..."
"I don't understand why Zhang Chen wanted to make such a movie. If it was in the initial stage and was short of money, it was understandable.
But he is now a successful and famous director, why should he still make such works? I think he should pay more attention to the issues that the people care about, but I can't see these in his movies..."
"The vulgarity of the movie is a very serious problem. I hope the relevant departments will pay attention to it..."
""The Silent Land obviously plagiarizes the setting of "Should the Breath". Such a plagiarized movie can also be released openly. The relevant departments must do something..."
"You cannot abandon artistic quality for the sake of the commercial nature of the movie. This is a regression of literature and art..."
A lot of old peddlers jumped out to accuse Zhang Chen and his movies, and Zhang Chen was both amused.
The public opinion director is also adding: "These are generally experts and professors from some art schools. I just knew about it. These people held a seminar on "Silent Land" yesterday~"
"Symposium? What to discuss?"
"It's probably about studying how to discredit us."
The director of public opinion was about to say in detail when Zhang Chen's phone rang.
When seeing that it was called by Teacher Fu, Zhang Chen signaled to wait for a while, and then answered the phone first.
"Teacher~"
"Zhang Chen, Professor Huang from our school held a seminar on "Silent Land" to target you. Do you know this?"
Zhang Chen frowned: "I know about the seminar, but this is the first time I know that the convener is a professor in our school. Why is he targeting me?"
Teacher Fu said in one sentence: "He is Wang Xiaoshuai's mentor~"
It turns out that the root is here.
This is to help your students stand out.
Last time the battle between literary and artistic movies and commercial movies, I broke Wang Xiaoshuai.
In the fairy tale text, this is to beat the young man and the old man came, and the elder of the sect took action himself. "But don't worry, I have asked Director Tian Zhuangzhuang to help you..." Fu Donglai felt deeply that he was incompetent and could not help the students, so he also invited the elders of the masters.
The opponent of the old monster of the Nascent Soul must be the old monster of the Nascent Soul~
Zhang Chen suddenly said, "No, Teacher Fu, I want to hear what conclusions they can draw. I am not going to be good at this matter. Don't implicate you, Director Hetian..."
"Uh~"
"Don't worry, if it cannot end then, I will ask you, Director Hetian to take action~"
When hearing that Zhang Chen meant, Teacher Fu had to give up.
He was really angry when he hung up the phone.
He also held a seminar and thought he was Zhang Yimou.
Two years ago, "The Ambush on Ten" plus the eight minutes of the Athens Olympics, Zhang Yimou was scolded to the hot search.
A group of cultural people thought it was not enough to curse, so they organized a seminar and grouped a scolding~
Now the same thing happened to him, Zhang Chen, and I have never seen anyone bullying like this.
Zhang Chen is not Zhang Yimou, so he is not going to be abusive to them.
Isn’t it just a verbal war? Readers like to read this the most.
But he still wanted to maximize the benefits: "Don't worry about these people's remarks for a while, let them ferment for a while~"
"Are you going to take the opportunity to hype?" The public opinion director understood it.
"Well, the movie is released, and it just happens that there is no topic. They are willing to serve as cannon fodder by themselves. Why don't we do it?
But don't pay attention to it for the time being, let the bullet fly for a while~" "Okay, I will pay close attention."
If a movie wants to achieve a box office miracle, it must be out of the circle.
There are many ways to get out of the circle, such as hype scandals, topics, and female celebrities fighting each other, which can also trigger a war of verbal war.
Feng Xiaogang likes to use this trick the most~
Now there is another Zhang Chen.
The only thing he has to do now is wait for the topic to spread slowly, and if necessary, the public opinion team can even help spread.
The media loves to watch the fun, and soon such remarks were reposted in large quantities.
The box office of "Silent Land" is still rising steadily, but there are a lot of accusations in the academic world.
These academic tycoons have mastered certain media resources and began to frequently speak out in various media, singing "Silent Land".
Many people were still watching at first, but when they saw Zhang Chen not talking back, they also joined.
There was a rumbling sound on the Internet.
No mistakes, one poem, one post, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one read!
In the chaos, a piece of news broke out in Hong Kong media - Wang Jing appeared in the cinema, suspected of watching "Silent Place" ~
The following is a picture of Wang Jing leaving the cinema.
Someone interviewed Wang Jing, and Wang Jing admitted frankly: "I did go to watch it, of course I have to watch it. Everyone is rumored that the atmosphere of this film is first-class. I just want to learn and learn. As a director, you have to keep learning to make progress. As a result, you will sooner or later be abandoned by the market..."
No one asked Wang Jing to do this, this was Wang Jing's spontaneous behavior.
When the interview was broadcast, it immediately caused an uproar.
Directors are still very taboo to do this. Even if you want to watch, you will hide in a private theater and watch it alone, otherwise it will be easy to be said to be inferior to whom.
In the circle, fame is money. If you don’t perform well enough, then you will go to someone else’s money.
Ye Weixin has been getting closer to Wang Jing these days, so he asked him for a special question.
"Why do you do this? Are you not afraid of paparazzi raising high and slashing low?"
Wang Jing shrugged indifferently: "It doesn't matter~"
Ye Weixin hesitated for a while, and finally said: "Yesterday, Zeng Zhiwei looked for me~"
Wang Jing looked at him with disdain: "Did you tell you about the Biaochen Alliance?"
"Have you also looked for you?"
Wang Jing spat: "What is he? He is going to stand up for him, and he doesn't think about who I am holding now~
I kept saying that Zhang Chen targeted the Hong Kong circle, can he represent the Hong Kong circle? Or can Wu Yusen represent the Hong Kong circle?
Jiahe is in full swing now, and she has three dramas at the same time. Which company dares to do this?
I want me to say that Zhang Chen is not targeting the Hong Kong circle, he is saving the Hong Kong circle."
After saying that he glanced at Ye Weixin again: "Beware, what others say is what? Do you can't understand who gives you food? What is the real benefit? What falls in your pocket is the real benefit, and the others are fart~"
Ye Weixin knew that Wang Jing had always been a mother's character, but what he said was indeed reasonable.
He was still wondering why Wang Jing was trying to hold Zhang Chen's stinky feet, and it turned out that the other party was trying to help him in time.
Do you want to keep up with me?
As the saying goes, adding icing on the cake is worse than giving timely help~
The next day, Ye Weixin's interview appeared in the media, ""Silent Land" has a good reputation in the circle, and it is said that the atmosphere is very good, so I went to watch it once, and it was really amazing. Director Zhang Chen's grasp of the atmosphere is much more than me..."
In a club somewhere in Hong Kong Island, Tsang Chi-wei's face turned pale after seeing this interview. "I just knew that these two failed people were unreliable. I was talking about the Hong Kong films that revitalize Zhang Chen's stinky feet..." Wu Yusen had to be deeper, "What about Sanmao, what about him?" Zeng Zhiwei did not answer, but shook his head.
Fatty Hong obviously didn't deal with Zhang Chen, but he seemed to look down on them, and he was not very interested in joining the Daochen Alliance.
At the same time, in a KTV, Qi Xiaofu was gathering.
The brothers laughed and laughed, each hugging the beauty and touching her hands, but Cheng Long clapped his hands and blasted the women out.
Everyone knew that there was something serious to say, so they all got together.
Cheng Long then said seriously: "Big Boss, there is actually no big conflict between you and Zhang Chen, it is all a battle for face.
There is no need to be so irritating. With his status in the mainland film industry, it is not good for us to offend him. "
Seeing Cheng Long's head up, the others also advised, "Yes, big guy, there's no need, everyone just have a meal~"
Hong Jinbao didn't speak.
No words meant a default.
Seeing Hong Jinbao didn't speak, Cheng Long knew his attitude.
He was afraid that his elder brother would be terrified.
Just not have a head of iron.
"Find an opportunity, I will be a middleman, help you to make peace. It is better to resolve enemies than to make a deal~"
"Is he so easy to talk to?"
"Don't worry, others are not bad."
Cheng Long thought he was still a little embarrassed, but Liang Jiahui was still there. Liang Jiahui was Zhang Chen’s favorite actor and the relationship between the two was very good. "Okay, then that's all. I'll go and talk to him." Cheng Long took a lot of money. "Okay OK, please call the woman in quickly, I can't wait~" Yuanhua's active atmosphere.
Hong Jinbao listened to his brothers praise him for being able to take it and let it go, and knew that they were taking care of their own face.
Actually, he had already wanted to open it.
In the past, Zhang Chen was a mainland director, so it doesn’t matter if he fights with his hands.
They are now the head of Jiahe, a big boss, and if they still don’t know each other’s appearance, they are ignorant, and they have let down the good intentions of their fellow brothers.
Zhang Chen's momentum is too strong.
I won’t talk about "Hurricane Rescue" and created a new genre of action movies.
After that any newcomer in his company filmed "Kowloon City" can also beat "Kill the Wolf", and that newcomer is now filming "The Lonely Agent".
He learned from the side that this is likely another movie called "Hurricane Rescue", and Hong Jinbao suddenly felt old.
He has succeeded and fell down, so he can think about it easily~
The 1980s were his peak period, and he created kung fu comedy and spiritual kung fu. When it comes to this, everyone has to give him a thumbs up.
In addition, he is righteous and willing to let the people below stand out. Everyone has to call him "Brother Sanmao" wherever he goes.
Cheng Long is the eldest brother, he is the eldest brother, and he is incredible for a while.
In the 1990s, everything went wrong and I missed more than a dozen movies in a row.
"Ghosts' feet", "Dragons and phoenixes", "The Man by the Pillow", "The Face", "The Street of Fire", "Ghosts Bites", "Swearing to Never Forget Love", and "Elf Change", one movie was released, and once reached the point where there was no drama to be filmed.
Although there is no title of ‘box office poison’, it is just a walking box office poison.
No one dares to ask him to film, and no one dares to ask him to direct the show.
'Brother Sanmao' has changed back to'Sanmao' and has seen all the feelings and feelings.
Later generations thought that he entered Hollywood bravely because he had no food to eat in Hong Kong and had to go far away.
But people always have two friends.
He was in a downturn, and the people around him also reached out to help.
Cheng Long invited him to direct "A Good Man", and Tang Jili invited him to be the male soccer player of his American TV series "Crossing the River Dragon", and even won the all-American TV Championship at the same time.
After the millennium, he became famous again by playing the villain.
...
The time comes to the third week. "Silent Land" successfully exceeded 100 million on the eighth day of its release, but the low box office growth rate has slowed down to the naked eye.
Zhang Chen felt that the time was almost right, and another professor happened to make a remark: "The plot of "Silent Land" is serious. There is such a serious problem in the country. What about the People's Liberation Army? Where is our People's Army~"
If it weren't for the repeated determination that the professor himself did not know him, he would almost think that it was an infernal Affairs mingled within the enemy.
Zhang Chen ‘can’t bear it anymore’ and replied below: This professor, have you watched “Silent Land”? The background of this film is obviously abroad. Where did the People’s Liberation Army come from?
This reply was regarded as the beginning of Zhang Chen's slap in the face, and soon he wrote another blog:
A word is popular on the Internet recently - down-to-earth.
I originally thought this was a very simple thing, but in recent days I have read many comments from experts and professors, which is very eye-opening.
Dear experts and professors, some accused the film of lack of humanistic care, some said that I made commercial films for the box office was a regression in the art of film, some said that I copied it, and some said that it was wrong for me to encourage film companies to deepen their genre films~
Please, are you living in the cloud?
You seem to have no idea what the world looks like.
"Silent Land" is a commercial movie. Commercial movies pursue box office. Is this wrong?
It’s like if you praise literary and artistic movies, then go for awards. Isn’t this a natural thing?
Comedy movies should make people laugh, youth movies should make people miss, and suspense movies should bring the audience the pleasure of decryption. Isn’t this a genre movie?
You must think I am farting. After all, you are fans of art films and have always been hostile to commercial films.
But I can also say that "Silent Land" has exceeded 100 million in eight days, which shows that the people like it.
The people like to hear it, you don’t like it, who are you?
I would like to ask all the experts and professors, is the movie satisfying the people or to satisfy you?
You keep silent is that commercial film is a regression in film art. Can you represent film art?
Or, do you really understand movies?
How many people like to watch the art movies you praise, I'm afraid you are the only ones, right?
Dear experts and professors, you can ask your children whether they like to watch so-called art films or commercial films?
If the entire market really works according to your ideas, that is the end of the movie.
In fact, I have said a lot about commercial movies and art movies last time. Last time I said that no one can convince the other person. Why not play their own things?
If you praise art movies, you can shoot them yourself, as long as there is a sucker, you are willing to provide funds.
I recommend commercial movies and it is my own business, and whether it is a loss or a profit has nothing to do with you.
Isn't it better for everyone to walk on one side?
Why do you have to look like you're going to die? You must kill commercial movies.
Later, I gradually figured it out~
I might have moved someone's cake~
Or, maybe I have moved a certain circle of cake~
They can't make movies like "Silent Land". If you extend it, they can't make movies like "Pacific Rim".
Why do these people emphasize that they must make art films? Because art films require recognition from people in the circle.
Who is the person in the circle?
It's them~!
They are the ones who have the right to speak.
Why hate commercial films?
Because commercial films deprive them of their right to speak.
It's very simple. All commercial films are only box office theory, which is equivalent to opening up a new upward channel.
If you don’t come to the Wharf, don’t come to listen to the opinions of your predecessors, and then you will succeed in a movie. What are we?
Isn't this a job?
So it must be done.
Follow this angle, why are you always targeting me?
Because I am not from this circle.
They don't understand "Silent Land" and "Pacific Rim" that I've tinkered with.
My existence shows their incompetence. They can't suck blood from me. Of course I'm not happy.
So, these so-called artists are not opposed to film art at all, they are simply opposed to it for their own interests.
Dear experts and professors, please shut up~
Don't stand on the commanding heights of morality and criticize commercial movies. If you are really capable, you will defeat me in the field I am good at. I look forward to the day when you slapped me in the face~
Zhang Chen did not leave any affection this time, and the professor from his alma mater also retorted~
Slap in the face!
He didn't leave any of the background in the academic circle.
(This chapter ends)