Chapter 1251 Big Selling and Hard-Working Little Leo
Playing a role full of highlights, Tony Leung Chiu-wai is the most outstanding actor among Chinese actors, and his acting skills can definitely be called the top three.
This time, I won't give you any highlights, and put you in the environment of Hollywood big names. The role has no highlights at least in the first two parts. It is just a small supporting role, which makes people feel like a guest appearance.
In such a role, Tony Leung Chiu-wai needs to use the limited role to breed all the explosive power. At the beginning, Chen Hao actually felt that the only one who could support it with pure acting skills was perhaps Chow Yun-fat. Tony Leung Ka-fai was also good, but Tony Leung Ka-fai's image lacked the ordinariness of a small person. If he wants to play this role, he must be given enough roles to extend it. Unfortunately, this play will not give any supporting role enough roles. As a director, Chen Hao needs to be seated and must be seamless. He needs to understand the characteristics of each actor very well, so that one supporting role after another can have a sufficiently wonderful performance.
That is "Legend of the Galactic Heroes", that is, with the background of Red Dot, Chen Hao dared to make such a big play with this film. China is not short of movies with all-star casts. In several main theme blockbusters, every character is a big star. Looking at the whole film, you need to count the stars besides watching the movie. They all come to guest star and add gimmicks when the film is released.
"Legend of the Galactic Heroes" is different. Chen Hao is very ambitious, and the story he wants to present is also very big. He even thought about giving a separate biography to each character. When that time comes, Tony Leung's role can be filmed in a separate movie, and Andy Lau and Leo's roles can also be filmed in a separate movie, such as past and present, so that the whole movie becomes a brand.
"Star Wars" needs to expand its imagination for so many years, which is the extension of various stories of this brand. The overly thin character lines are destined to make it impossible to extend it as crazy as Chen Hao's film. The pressure on Chen Hao is to reduce the special effects and large-screen movies by a certain proportion. The pressure and difficulty of the latter is undoubtedly greater, and the brand peripheral benefits after success are also greater.
If others can use an actor, it is a good configuration. Chen Hao roughly calculated that this play will be a gathering of actor and actress. Every important supporting role here will be very competitive. They don't seek to make money, but they seek a chance to become famous.
The whole chat lasted for a whole night. The number of people gradually decreased in the middle. In the end, there were only a dozen people sitting around the sofa, drinking and chatting about movies with interest. Many secrets of the year that Chen Hao had never come into contact with were also learned from the mouths of the predecessors.
It was dawn, and the windows and doors were opened to let fresh air into the house, and the dimness blocked by the curtains became sunny. Chen Hao was going to continue morning exercises with Xiao Lizi, and everyone announced that they were dismissed. They didn't experience enough here yesterday, so they could experience and visit casually in the next time.
Early in the morning, there was good news. The ticket sales of the American version of "Departures" were very good. It was rare for a movie to be fully sold out all night on weekends.
Originally, not many people watched the show at three or four in the morning. The good reviews from the premiere, after the first show, spread rapidly like locusts. With the Chinese version of "Departures" as a base, the audience was very confident. Now, those who have watched the premiere have given rave reviews, which has strengthened everyone's confidence in going to the cinema to watch it.
The most important thing that attracted everyone was that many of the audience said the same thing: "I saw everything I didn't see in the Chinese version in this one."
The attraction lies in this. The implicit and tactful expression of the Chinese version made many Western audiences feel unsatisfied. Although they were very satisfied after watching it, they always felt that they were not completely satisfied.
After the first batch of viewers came out, they released this big move. Many viewers who planned to watch it the next day saw that many theaters had opened the mode of queuing for ticket inspection, and it was definitely crowded until the prime time of the next day. When they looked online, as expected, the tickets from 11 am to 12 pm the next day were no longer available.
Some viewers were ready to sleep, so they got up, put on their clothes and headed for the cinema.
Some would meet up with one or two friends, find a bar to drink some wine first, and then go to the show at three or four in the morning.
It was so enjoyable!
If the Chinese version was about the enjoyment of a big explosion after constant repression. Then the American version was crazy about exploding all the repression in a short space. Even the repressed plot had the explosion of Chen Hao, the undertaker. From the picture to the plot, everyone's heart was satisfied. The various rivalry between Chen Hao and Angelina Jolie also satisfied some viewers' desire for the bedroom scenes of the two. The Chinese version of "abuse" was always taken back after a little touch, but the American version didn't care about anything, no matter what level it was rated, it just wanted to release all the places that everyone talked about in this movie. The horror atmosphere did not need to be deliberately created. The whole movie was a horror history of a family.
Little Leo saw that Chen Hao had not changed his clothes, so he knew that he had been drinking all night last night. Many people knew about the big gathering of Chinese artists last night. He gestured to ask if he needed to rest and didn't have to accompany him all the time.
"It's okay, it's nothing." Chen Hao stretched his arms, not affected at all.
"I've heard about the performance of Undertaker, it's amazing!" Leo gave a thumbs up. This thumbs up is not only for the performance. He also watched the premiere last night. At that time, there was no good opportunity to congratulate him in person. Now he made up for his impression.
Some viewers watched the sensuality in this play, and some watched it for its cruelty. As an actor, he saw it more thoroughly. Chen Hao's performance from beginning to end was full, full but not overflowing, until the last scene, there was an explosion of overflow.
As an actor, everyone knows that this method is powerful. It has been a great, great, full-score performance, and there can be an explosion at the end. Everyone knows that this is the best effect, but few actors can always have a full-score performance. At best, everyone tries their best to act, and at the end, there is an explosion to pursue a full-score performance. This is good enough. Chen Hao has raised this step by one level. As an Oscar winner, Leo knows the difficulty of this. It is not self-deprecation. Ask yourself if you can do it?
There is no answer.
Pride told him that he could, but reality denied him to give such an answer. He heard that the filming time of this play was not long, and Chen Hao was not slowly polished from one play to another, but he was always in such a stable and excellent state. This was the scary thing. After watching the premiere last night, Leo was stimulated to a certain extent. In the past, he had to fight with himself to get up in the morning, but today he woke up completely on time.
Although the two protagonists in "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" did not have so many rival scenes, they could show each other's level by acting in the air. It was almost clear that he had to show 100% of his strength to be able to...
Yes, it was possible to keep pace with others.
From the bottom of his heart, Leo gritted his teeth and told himself that he could, and he could lose weight to a point that satisfied him.
This was also the first time that Leo was very ruthless during training, not only in the morning, but also in the afternoon. He no longer resisted the diet arranged by the nutritionist, but looked at the Oscar trophy at home to wipe out his resistance to this meal.
"I can, I can!"
"Come again! Come again!"
Chen Hao was happy to see such a scene. It was his honor and the honor of the film to make a big star and a big movie emperor spontaneously and desperately prepare for the shooting. In addition to the crazy training, Leo did not need anyone to urge and remind him in studying the script and the role. He always maintained the basic qualities of an excellent actor. Since he came to the Galaxy headquarters, he spent at least three or four hours a day studying the script and watching Chen Hao's previous works. He needed to understand Chen Hao's shooting style and then embed the role he needed to play into his style.
If the actor and the director can reach an agreement on the style, they will have a good chemical reaction during the shooting.
Chen Hao practiced with Leo for a while and then quietly withdrew. As a hands-off shopkeeper, he did not need to do the host's behavior of seeing off the guests, but for partners with whom he had a good relationship, he would not think such etiquette was troublesome.
Ninety percent of the artists who worked with him yesterday came, and there were also a few who stayed here. Chen Hao personally went to the cafeteria early in the morning to arrange a sumptuous meal. After they got up and had breakfast, he personally arranged cars to take them away one by one. Everyone congratulated him before leaving. The American version of "Departures" was a big hit at the box office. Until the time they left, from the premiere last night, thousands of large screens that could be statistically analyzed, including the two shows in the early morning and early morning, still maintained an average attendance rate of more than 80%. Everyone was looking forward to the first weekend box office data to be released on Monday.
150 million.
If it weren't for the rating restrictions of this film, everyone would be more bold to guess 200 million. The final box office in North America would be a very brilliant number. It would be great if there was a market in mainland China. It seems that this film can challenge the glory created by "The Shawshank Redemption".
That data is not unsurpassable, but everyone is looking forward to it being broken by "Departures" before the pure science fiction masterpiece "Legend of the Galactic Heroes".