Chapter 974 Chen Hao's Works

There are no fancy animation effects, no unique designs, and even nothing that conforms to the trend.

A bird's-eye view of the Great Wall, and then four big Chinese characters appear on it.

"Chen Hao's work."

Yes, Chinese characters, Chen Hao's work, this is the opening picture placed in front of the Paramount logo. At the beginning of the movie, the majestic Great Wall, a few seconds of pictures, accompanied by the appearance of four big characters, this logo that belongs to Chen Hao alone, is the only one qualified to surpass Paramount. Huya Times chose the lesser of two evils. Since it can't beat Paramount, it might as well give the core leading position to Haozi.

Along the way, even people like Tian Ge, Tang Feng and Kuang Zhonghai who were born with a golden key in their mouths couldn't help but get excited. This is their own business, and there is an essential difference between the business achieved on the shoulders of the family. They have no lack of success and the joy of success.

In Huya Times, they get the recognition of all the elders in the family and the envy and admiration of all their peers. In the past, everyone thought that the film and television entertainment industry was a side path, a side path that was not worth mentioning, and at best was used for fun. In recent years, the world's film and television entertainment and cultural industries have developed rapidly. If you go to Hollywood to watch all the movies produced last year, more than 80% of them have the presence of Huaxia Capital. Not to mention the domestic ones, which can be compared with the new energy and high-tech industries. Chen Hao let everyone know that a movie can bring a company a ten-digit profit. You must know that this does not include the stock appreciation of your company after listing. Compared with the stock prices of those large companies and large industrial chains, the money invested in film and television is real money.

As far as Chinese people are concerned, Bruce Lee is undoubtedly a superstar of the era. Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and Chow Yun-fat have also made the world know Chinese movie stars to varying degrees.

Ang Lee has been recognized by Hollywood as a Chinese American. John Woo was once a top director in Hollywood. Lao Mouzi has made countless attempts to win Oscars. They have all achieved varying degrees of success, but that is in a certain aspect.

Chen Hao is completely different today. The movie is a Chinese movie, made in the Hollywood way. Apart from that, everything else belongs to China. The producer Chen Hao, the screenwriter Chen Hao, the director Chen Hao, and the leading actor Chen Hao, no matter who they are, must admit that this is a Chinese movie. The only point of contention is whether the content of the movie is in line with Western culture or Eastern culture. If it is the former, even if it succeeds, Hollywood does not need to worry about Chinese media publicity. If it is the latter, the difficulty of success will be doubled.

The "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" of that year was a typical display of Western culture with an Eastern background. Although the martial arts flying over the eaves and various fighting shots are all Chinese style, if you look at the core of the story and the character background of all the characters, you will find that it has nothing to do with Eastern culture.

Whether Chen Hao is successful is a label of the times. Although it is the beginning of the new year in China, there are still quite a few eyes on Hollywood. The Shawshank Redemption is definitely the first in the new era to take away a certain amount of attention from TV news during the New Year. In the 1990s, when the Internet and cable TV were scarce, everyone would start watching TV series broadcast from morning to afternoon on the first day of the new year. At that time, you would feel that watching five or six episodes of popular TV series a day was an extremely pleasant thing. Now this model continues and no one pays attention to it. Not to mention watching it in front of the computer, you can watch as many episodes as you want with your mobile phone.

On the plane, in addition to this group of people, there were also two reporters from the Imperial Court TV station. Along the way, they also interviewed everyone. The travel time is undoubtedly the best interview opportunity. Compared with the media waiting at the airport after the plane landed, the reporters from the Imperial Court TV station got off the plane and leisurely got on the car to the hotel to transmit the first-hand information back to China.

There was no grand premiere.

There was no long red carpet.

There were no many stars to support.

After arriving at the hotel, everyone took a break and slept to adjust the time difference. It was not until the evening that Chen Hao, Xiao Di and the entire crew appeared in the public eye.

Compared to China, which is still the New Year stage, the attention in the United States is relatively higher. Everyone has great expectations for "The Shawshank Redemption". Even those who don't expect it to be so good expect that this film can be the focus of media and public opinion like Chen Hao.

No guests were invited, only the main creative staff of the crew booked a hall in a movie theater near Beverly Hills. Regardless of whether it is a leading or supporting role, all invitations were sent out in the name of Chen Hao. Everyone worked hard to create this work, and the achievement belongs to everyone. Today is the time to test the results and the moment for everyone to witness it together. It is obviously more in line with Chen Hao's mood at this moment, whether it is a grand event or a closed-door event with one's family.

The domestic online pre-sale tickets are gratifying, and no one is worried about the box office there. With Chen Hao's appeal, even if it is a documentary, everyone can willingly pay for tickets to support it.

The pre-sale ticket situation in Europe, South America, Australia, parts of Africa and Asia can only be described as satisfactory, not bad, and there are no surprises. Overall, the pre-sale results are slightly below normal.

North America is of course the main battlefield. Although there will not be specific data on the online pre-sale tickets and the first premiere ticket sales so soon, the people who have sent out the information have still given back some specific information.

In several major cities in the United States, many people from Paramount and Hu Sanye have been sent out to various major cinemas. They will summarize and report the scenes of everyone buying tickets and exchanging tickets online before the start. The overall situation is still very good. The first show is almost sold out. In the future, according to normal rules, the attendance rate will continue to decline. Before the entire premiere, there were no surprising scenes. Of course, there were no frightening scenes. Everything was normal, which was no different from the situation before most movies were released. The media who were waiting for some surprises can only wait with disappointment for the situation after the movie is actually released.

In the main creative team, except Chen Hao and several post-production personnel, no one has seen the finished film. After the production was completed in Sanya, Chen Hao bought a huge amount of insurance in the United States. Everything was done with the pre-release security measures of superhero and big IP series movies. Some people even ridiculed him for being too arrogant. No one is willing to pay attention to your film. You don’t have to be so nervous. No one will do anything to your film. You think too much.

The movie was broadcast on time, a movie without a heroine, any special effects and action scenes.

With such a positioning, it was deliberately exposed before the release. It was a strategic publicity. Everyone wants to see what your movie, Haozi, who is so sure that it will become a classic, will look like. You don’t have a beauty, you don’t have special effects, and you have given up the action scenes that everyone thinks you can perform very well. Then tell me, what will your film rely on to conquer us, your and Will Smith’s acting skills? Then you have to have a story that is so strong that everyone must recognize it. Do you have it?

The facts give them the answer.

Yes, not only yes, but the story is so powerful that it cannot be added. Today, I watched the power of this film, and with the previous publicity and expectations, in the seemingly plain plot, countless small and powerful points are woven together to form a line, forming a very powerful story axis. When freedom becomes a kind of bondage, how should we face life?

In the more than two-hour film, except for the scene where Andy climbed out of the sewage pipe and stood up in the river to face the heavy rain, the scene with open arms was very powerful. The whole play was told in a leisurely manner. It seemed plain but intoxicated. At first, it was a little tipsy, gradually became intoxicated, and finally completely drunk in the power conveyed by this film.

A ray of sunshine when everyone was drinking ice beer on the terrace, at that moment, this sunshine really shone into the hearts of all the audience.

In the last scene, the sunset at the seaside, Andy and Red, two old friends, reunited, walked towards each other on both sides of the sunset in the camera, and the picture was frozen here. The whole film of "The Shawshank Redemption" ended here.

Chen Hao didn't even need to look at the reaction of the audience outside. In his own screening room, many people had never seen the finished film and were completely shocked by it. They were professional insiders and could feel the power of the film. You couldn't imagine how the screenwriter of the film had a brain, how he came up with such a film, and how the director shot it. There was no exciting picture setting, but the exciting little plots were used to connect the dots into a surface, a very beautiful picture.

Finally, the word of mouth of the audience completely unfolded this two-dimensional aesthetic picture, forming a three-dimensional story, and perfectly conveyed the emotions in the story to everyone, so that they remembered to leave the screening room two minutes after the film ended.

"Where is MOUSE?"

The media were waiting at the door of the screening room that Chen Hao had reserved. Many of them had watched the first screening. They didn't know what to say. This was really a perfect film. It was the most appropriate in this exaggerated era. If it was released 20 or 30 years ago, people might not have felt it so deeply. Now, young people from 50 or 60 years old to teens and 20s can find resonance in the film. It seems to be about a person in a prison, but in fact, it is about the whole society.

When Will Smith walked out of the screening room, the flash made him regret for a moment that he didn't leave with Chen Hao. After watching the finished film, he knew that the film must be popular, but he didn't expect it to be so popular. The explosive effect was so good that it exceeded the limit of his guess.