Chapter 1477 Difficult to Meet Expectations

Friday, September 2nd, is the premiere day of "The Swordsman".

As Jet Li's first official film in Hong Kong, and as the first Jin Yong martial arts movie adapted by Yin Jun, "The Swordsman" has attracted the attention of many reporters and fans.

Li Jiaxin, the junior sister in the original version of "The Swordsman" is still a thirteen-year-old girl.

Yin Jun stuffed Wen Bixia directly inside.

Originally, Guan Zhilin was more suitable, but thinking that Guan Zhilin's most important role is Thirteenth Aunt, if she had a role in "The Swordsman" first, there would definitely be some confusion in "Once Upon a Time" in the future, which would be detrimental. Create a classic.

Wen Bixia is 17 years old, which fits Yue Lingshan's innocence perfectly, and her looks are absolutely passable.

Even though Wen Bixia is young, she is one of the most popular among the young female stars in Asia.

In addition to being the big devil a few years ago, and now meeting everyone every year during the summer vacation, she is also the leader of the Happy Girls group and has fans all over Asia.

In this regard, even Jet Li cannot compare with her.

But for moviegoers, Jet Li, who has performed in three Shaolin series, is more popular than Wen Bixia. At least adults will go to see "The Swordsman" because of Jet Li.

However, during the premiere, reporters discovered something wrong.

At the premiere, in addition to the male and female protagonists, producer Wen Jun and assistant director Xu Ke came, but director Hu Jinquan did not come.

The public announcement was that director Hu Jinquan was ill at home and was unable to attend.

But early the next morning, Hong Kong's second-generation free newspaper "Pear News" published a large article on the conflicts between the crew of "The Swordsman".

The reason why Hu Jinchuan couldn't come was actually because he had a conflict with a certain queen of the Qilin Group.

As long as you see the "Queen", you don't need to guess too much, you know who it is.

It is said that after filming "The Swordsman", Hu Jinquan edited a version by himself and was about to get a copy from the copy factory, but by coincidence, Le Yiling went to Qilin Film Company that day.

After hearing that the editing of "The Swordsman" was completed, Yu Zheng invited Le Yiling to take a look.

Le Yiling herself prefers the entertainment industry, and Yin Jun is the screenwriter, including Wen Bixia and Yin Jun, who highly admires Jet Li, so Le Yiling happily sat in the screening room and acted as the character of "Swordsman" The first audience of Jianghu.

After watching the two and a half hour movie, Le Yiling came out with a dark face.

She grabbed Wen Jun, the fat boy who was accompanying her, and scolded her, saying, "What the hell are you filming? This style, this expression, this delay and slowness. Did you live ten years ago?"

Wen Jun was filled with grievances and did not dare to defend himself.

Finally, it was Yu Zheng who said that the final edited version was made by director Hu Jinquan himself.

Then Le Yiling gave the order without hesitation to re-edit the film and find... find Zhang Yaozong to edit it... Is that assistant director Xu Ke? Let him come too!

Hu Jinquan, who came after hearing the news, expressed strong dissatisfaction with Yu Zhengshi who was in the company.

Because Yin Jun promised that he would be responsible for the editing of this movie.

Now Le Yiling didn't even ask him, and didn't even let him make revisions. What does this mean?

Yu Zheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he could only explain to him that Yin Jun must be the biggest one outside.

But within the company, what President Le said was more effective than Jun Shao.

She said she had to change it, and she just had to change it, otherwise it would be impossible to show it.

After arguing with each other to no avail, Hu Jinquan left angrily and did not even come to the premiere.

Everyone doesn't know what Hu Jinquan's version is like, but after seeing Xu Ke's and Zhang Yaozong's versions, most of them think it's pretty good.

Although it is not stunning enough, the fierce style, elegant and free fighting, and the finishing touch of rafting and singing "A Laugh in the Sea" all satisfied movie fans.

Jin Yong gave "Swordsman" 80 points in the next day's newspaper.

This surprised the book fans because the plot of "The Swordsman" has been greatly changed, and Jin Yong hates others making random changes to his novels.

"It must be a bit difficult to condense such a million-word novel into a 90-minute plot. For now, the overall structure of the story is still good. What impressed me the most was Yin Jun's story "A Laugh in the Sea" is really the song that vaguely appeared in my dream. Just because of this, I can't even lower my score."

All right.

In fact, Qilin Culture still paid the price for Mr. Jin to say such words.

In addition to spending a lot of money to buy the rights to remake Jin Yong's novel and TV series for another five years, the retouching fee for the old man was as high as 1 million Hong Kong dollars.

For the sake of money, of course Jin Yong would not be so stupid and talk nonsense.

However, after all, there have been too many changes, and many original martial arts fans are still not satisfied after watching it.

This can also be seen from the box office results.

The box office of "The Swordsman" in the first three days of the first weekend in Hong Kong was only 13 million Hong Kong dollars, which was less than 70% of the previous "Happy Ghost 2". The box office of the whole Asia was only 120 million Hong Kong dollars, far inferior to the previous "Hot Hands" Detective", "Happy Ghost 2", "Mr. Zombie 3" and other movies.

This made the ambitious Xu Ke and Li Lianjie suddenly confused.

Especially Xu Ke.

With Jin Yong's martial arts book, Yin Jun's adaptation, starring Jet Li and Wen Bixia... such a powerful combination, only 13 million in the first weekend?

It’s not even in the top ten this year!

As the first film of Xuke Studio, "The Swordsman" is far from as good as "A Better Tomorrow", the first film of McDonald's Studio!

…

The news reached Yin Jun, who was having lunch with Wen Bixia.

After going to the premiere together last night, Wen Bixia sneaked into Shi Xuandao's mansion to stay.

Of course, she lives in another building, not with Yin Jun.

As Wen Bixia gets older and more beautiful, Yin Jun's close contact with her becomes less and less.

It's not that Yin Jun doesn't like Wen Bixia, but that he is unwilling to rashly change the relationship between the two before he has completely settled down or doesn't know how determined Wen Bixia is.

Anyway, Ayu is still young. If she grows up in two years and wants to regret it, it will be too late.

"Brother Jun, why do I see that you are not surprised at all?" Wen Bixia put down her phone and said with some surprise.

The call charges and monthly rental fees for mobile phones are not cheap at all, but Wen Bixia naturally owns one, and Yin Jun also chose a good number for her. In addition to the first three fixed number segments, the last eight digits are directly It's her birthday.

"Is it Shi Lansheng who called you?" Yin Jun asked slowly while eating.

"Well, it's her." Wen Bixia smiled, "Sister Lan was a little anxious. They thought that Xuke Studio would become an instant success this time, but now it doesn't look like it... I heard that Xinyi City's People, there was some cynicism last night, and Xu Ke was not in a good mood."

"Their mentality is wrong." Yin Jun said lightly.

"Whoever encounters such a thing will have an unbalanced mentality, okay?" Wen Bixia rolled her eyes at Yin Jun, "Now there are people outside saying that Xu Ke falsely claims to be very creative and thoughtful, but he actually messed with your notebook. It’s a waste, and the performance of myself and Jet Li was wasted!”

"I'm not talking about now." Yin Jun gave her a piece of chicken and said, "During the filming process, Xu Ke couldn't help but interfere with director Hu Jinquan's work, which seemed impatient. And my sister When I asked Xu Ke to re-edit, he didn’t refuse at all, and he didn’t communicate with director Hu Jinquan, which also seemed impolite and modest.”

"But Director Xu Ke is indeed very talented!" Wen Bixia, who has worked with him, defended.

"Mere talent does not mean success. On the contrary, sometimes you need to compromise and grasp the overall situation in order to succeed." Yin Jun smiled slightly, "Xuke's current talent is not enough to drive his ambition, so I let him He studied with director Hu Jinquan. Unexpectedly, he couldn't hold back even before finishing a movie."

"Then you mean...Xuke can't use it anymore?" Wen Bixia asked directly.

"Not really." Yin Jun said, "I watched the edited version of him and Zhang Yaozong last night. It was very good-looking. The fights were elegant and sharp, and there was a sense of immortality. Let him practice two more dramas and slowly let him go. As he progresses, his future is still limitless.”

"Strange, since it looks good, why can't it be successful?"

"Because at its core it is still Jin Yong's novel and has not formed its own concept." Yin Jun explained, "It is difficult to remake such classics. It is equivalent to giving the director a framework before filming. , he can only create within this framework. People like Xu Ke have wild and unconstrained ideas, and what they fear most is constraints, so it is normal for him to be unsatisfactory this time."

"Whether you are successful or not depends on who you compare with." Wen Bixia shook her head, "This time the global box office should not be less than two or three billion, right? If this is not enough, then Xu Ke really thinks too highly of himself. .”

Yin Jun smiled and said nothing.

In fact, it would be good to teach Xu Ke a lesson.

If he drifts off in the first film, he will only become more and more domineering and opinionated in subsequent films.

Although Xu Ke was also a genius, his understanding and interpretation of Xia in his previous life had many deviations later on.

His best work is still the Once Upon a Time series.

The rest, such as the Detective Dee series, are just showing off special effects. In terms of plot, they are not worth scrutinizing at all.

If he had been given a head-on blow when he was just ambitious, then Xu Ke would have understood his shortcomings and become more cautious in making movies in the future, that would be the blessing for movie fans.