Chapter 1048 Pain!

Just in time for the second Thursday in July, on July 9th, Huafei Film and Television spent tens of millions of dollars to hold a grand premiere ceremony for the movie "The Great Wall" in Shuntianfu.

There are many guests and celebrities.

Human thinking has great inertia.

A few years ago, Qin Wei was almost unquestionably the No. He is called Xuanhe, and even in the hearts of many young audiences, he has already surpassed Qin Wei and become the undisputed No. It is also basically admitted that in the Chinese film industry, Li Qian is already number one in terms of power, status, talent, and achievements.

But admitting Li Qian and admitting Li Qian, Qin Wei may not be the number one in many people's hearts, but he is still another banner of the entire Chinese film besides Li Qian.

Even in the minds of quite a few people, although they cannot deny the great achievements Li Qian has made in the past few years, they still insist in their hearts that Li Qian is "still a bit worse" than Qin Wei!

Regardless of the inertia of thinking, or the subconscious dislike and rejection of the newly emerging commercial film box office theory, there are quite a few people in the Chinese film industry who hold this kind of argument and perception.

Of course, looking at it from another angle, despite Li Qian’s punches and kicks in the past few years, he has created a great situation, won awards, and became emperor, and he has become the only one in China at the box office. The whole world dominates, and what's even more amazing is that after Minghu Culture completed the acquisition of Colombia, Minghu Culture has become the only film industry consortium in the world's film market today that has its feet on the two major markets of China and North America. Absolutely It is the existence of the extremely powerful big boss level.

However, he has risen so fast that many people have not yet adapted to the achievements and status he achieved in his last work, and soon made greater achievements.

Gradually, his achievements have been beyond the reach of others who struggled for a lifetime. Therefore, the comfort, admiration, and excitement when he looked at the "newborn calf" of the younger generation at first gradually turned into displeasure, scrutiny, and suspicion, and then later Li Qian, a tycoon and master who is not yet thirty years old, has already made many people in the industry resent him. Almost mentioning him, no matter what it is, will subconsciously frown first.

To put it bluntly, the qualifications are too shallow, and people are not convinced.

Of course, Li Qian didn't care about that either.

He doesn't care how some seniors in the industry evaluate him, and he doesn't care that those awards have deliberately neglected him again and again in the past two years.

Because he knows better than anyone else that in the face of the surging tide of film development in the whole world, if instead he cares about those self-entertainment behind closed doors, there is only one possibility, that is, like in another time and space, from special effects , to motion capture, to 3D, and so on, wave after wave of development trends have been perfectly missed by Chinese movies.

So he could only follow behind Hollywood's ass from now on, toddling a little bit, but he couldn't catch up. He could only put such a big domestic market, but he was being beaten all the time-of course, he didn't know What's more, not too long after his death, Wu Jing, who has been half-popular for so many years, made "Wolf Warrior 2".

But in fact, even if he knows it, and if he weighs it carefully, in his opinion, it is just that Chinese filmmakers have finally begun to touch some domestic commercial film practices and routines through various experiments, but it does not mean that Chinese films have caught up and even surpassed it.

Because your movies can only be sold at your own home, and foreigners will not buy it, but Hollywood blockbusters can come to your home to easily collect money.

Far away.

Li Qian has always believed in his heart that the path of "technology first, then art" he is taking is correct. He even couldn't understand that when those seniors saw him, they persuaded him one after another. Achievements, I have earned a lot of money, and if there is no shortage of money, it is time to try artistically. What kind of psychology is it out of? Maybe they are doing it for a talented young man like Li Qian, but It's a pity that he devoted all his attention to commercial movies and making money.

Or maybe in their view, only art films are considered real films.

But in Li Qian's opinion, only those movies that are liked by the broad audience can be called good movies.

Moreover, although he is not short of money, he deeply knows that if a film market and a country's film industry want to develop, the stimulation of box office sales, that is, the stimulation of profits, is the most important thing!

So, he's happy to make himself the red cloth that makes the eyes of all pit bulls bloodshot!

Look, Li Qian has made money, look, Minghu Culture has made money.

Look, Li Qian is making money again, look, Minghu Culture is making money again.

look……

Everyone's eyes were red, and they came in to make movies one after another. Of course, some people will subconsciously carry out some inferior imitations, and some extremely commercial pure hype, but after a long time and many times, there will always be people who will patiently do it. After pondering and analyzing how Li Qian made money from his films, one after another, there will always be someone trying to find his own new path.

At that time, there will be more and more outstanding filmmakers in Chinese films, various blockbuster films will emerge in endlessly, and various film categories will compete for excellence, and the entire domestic market will become a sea of ​​red. Get out, go to the global market and shout...

Of course, for the time being, all of this is just a fantasy, which only exists in Li Qian's mind.

Pulled away again.

In fact, judging from the way of the last few movies, Qin Wei may not have fully understood what a good movie that everyone loves to see in this era looks like, but as the most famous movie director of the previous generation, he is also a big fan of literary movies. However, he has long understood that the most important criterion for measuring the success of a movie is the success of the film. From this point of view, Qin Wei is actually one of the filmmakers with the deepest knowledge and early insight, and he is worthy of his title as a master.

What's more, after losing one, he couldn't think of a way to defeat the enemy for the time being, and couldn't figure out the idea of ​​​​making a movie right now. He actually thought of playing the "Sino-foreign cooperation" method at this time, which is indeed a way to open up China. This is the first of its kind in the movie--no matter how you say it, Daniel Jackman is a genuine Hollywood first-line star, let alone ordinary people can't afford it, even if they can afford it, if they don't have the name of an international director like Qin Wei, they may not be willing Come to China and play such a game with a Chinese director.

Hollywood's first-line stars have never been short of film contracts and invitations.

In fact, as early as more than a year ago, when Li Qian heard that the project that Qin Wei was preparing would invite first-line Hollywood stars to star, and that the movie would revolve around the theme of the Great Wall, he was taken aback.

But thinking about it carefully, he was relieved again.

When the world mentions China and the Chinese nation, no matter whether it is Chinese or foreign, they will definitely mention the Great Wall and the Yellow River—this has almost become a symbol of the Chinese nation.

For a Chinese movie, it needs to be a blockbuster costume movie, and there must be a lot of action scenes. The Great Wall is almost bound to be a big topic that comes to mind first.

It's just that at the time, Li Qian had no way of knowing what angle Qin Wei would start from, what kind of story he would tell around the Great Wall, and whether it was similar to Zhang Guoshi's "The Great Wall".

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At the premiere ceremony, all the main creators of "The Great Wall" were all red.

Although Hu Fei was chatting and laughing happily with the guests from all walks of life, Qin Wei's thin face was also full of smiles rarely, while Liu Yan, who stood beside the two of them in a long dress, seemed to be fading away from the "Little Swallow" period. That immature feeling is really becoming the backbone of the new generation of Chinese film industry - a successful actor, an actor who has worked with the great director Qin Wei, and an actor who has already started his own film when he was less than thirty years old. Film investment, and the investor and producer of a big director of Qin Wei's level from the very beginning.

Compared with them, the smile on the face of Daniel Jackman, who is standing beside the translator, seems somewhat perfunctory—he has seen a lot of premieres, but it is rare for all the people around him not to speak English.

Of course, Hu Fei didn't know how much thought Hu Fei spent on this premiere ceremony, and how Qin Wei showed his outstanding status in the Chinese film industry through this premiere ceremony.

Maybe, even if he knew, he didn't care.

This time I came to China to attend the premiere of "The Great Wall" and the following ten days of various promotions, which were the terms that had been set as early as when I signed the contract - including the ten days of promotion after returning to North America The schedule, these are also included in his salary.

But the film has already been filmed, and it is difficult for him to have high box office expectations and reputation expectations for a Chinese film, especially, even if the film is a big hit in China, it is still extremely difficult to sell it in North America. It is a difficult thing, and as long as the film cannot be sold in North America, the success or failure of the film in the Chinese market will have almost no impact on his subsequent career.

Therefore, as an actor, since he has signed a contract and received money, he must abide by the contract and perform the contract. 》 Promotion in China, Japan and North America.

But this matter only needs to be done step by step, and it doesn't take much thought.

What he was thinking about now was the dinner tonight.

Because they had met on many occasions before, and had several mutual friends, Daniel Jackman and Liao Liao were familiar with each other before, and they could barely be called friends—a female singer and an actor, There is no conflict of interest between the two, and the lover of the other party is an internationally renowned director, and later bought a big Hollywood company like Columbia, becoming one of the few film tycoons in the entire world, then Even if you don't deliberately try to please, at least with Daniel Jackman's head who can be mixed up in Hollywood, he will never go against each other.

So, everyone is friendly.

Just during this time, after Liao Liao finished his grand concert tour in North America, he was tired and went back to China to rest. He was in Shuntian Prefecture, so before coming to China, Daniel Jackman called Liao Liao in advance. After communicating with Liao, Liao Liao readily expressed that he would entertain him as the host. After a few words, Liao Liao understood her subtext, and even smiled and said that Li Qian would be there at that time.

Daniel Jackman is content, thanks again and again.

Such a dinner, of course, is not enough to bring the relationship between each other much closer, but American society also has a great human element. Having the opportunity to have a meal with the director of "The Matrix" and the big boss behind Columbia's scene, communicate with each other at close range, and communicate with each other. Of course, it will only be beneficial to my future development, and will not be harmful.

Although Daniel Jackman is already a first-line superstar in Hollywood, in the eyes of laymen and movie fans, he no longer needs to make a smile to anyone. On the contrary, it should be the film company and producers who take the initiative to invite him to play a certain role. However, Daniel Jackman, who has worked hard in Hollywood for many years and is now in the front line, is very clear in his heart that he is not qualified enough in front of the real boss.

What is a real boss?

The president of the seven major Hollywood film companies, a major producer who has successively released several works with a cost of over 100 million and a North American box office of over 300 million US dollars, and one of the few big directors in the Hollywood circle.

These people are the real bosses.

Not to mention the first-tier stars, even if they reached the top-tier superstars, in front of these people, they would at best maintain a superficial level of equality.

As for the three identities mentioned above, Li Qian can almost be regarded as having all of them.

It can be said that he is the only one in the entire Chinese film circle. In Daniel Jackman's view, he must be treated with caution, and he is even worth paying attention to.

The movie started. Although there were Chinese and English subtitles, Daniel Jackman could half understand the plot of the whole story, but he also praised many special effects scenes in the movie. He couldn’t help but think: Sure enough. It is worthy of spending huge sums of money to send it to the United States for special effects!

And with his more than ten years of experience in Hollywood, when he sees certain scenes, he can't help but turn his head and look at China Qin who is sitting not far away, thinking: This great Chinese director's The lens is still very particular, and it really deserves to be a director who has won awards in Europe.

Then, when the screening was over, I went on stage amidst the applause of the audience, sat with the other main creators, was watched like a gorilla in a zoo and asked questions intensively, and with the help of a translator, I calmly dealt with all this—from beginning to end , Daniel Jackman has a very dedicated smile on his face.

The premiere was over, Daniel Jackman greeted his manager, and was about to leave in the car. At this time, China Hu heard the voice from here, but ran over quickly, and warmly sent an invitation in English. "Daniel, I have arranged a dinner party tonight. Everyone will come over and have dinner together. Please come!"

Although Daniel Jackman was used to seeing the Chinese way of eating together to exchange feelings when he was filming in China before, he would not refuse under normal circumstances, but obviously not today.

He first expressed his thanks with a smile, and then said regretfully, "But I'm afraid it won't work today. I made an appointment before I came here. I want to have dinner with my Chinese friend Liao. You know, Liao and I are good friends." My friend, and his lover Li, is a great director that I have always wanted to visit. So, sorry..."

Hu Fei's English is good, and he understands it directly without a translator.

Then, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

As for Qin Wei and Liu Yan who were walking over, firstly, they missed more than half of what they heard, and secondly, their English could not be understood directly, so they had to wait for the translator next to them to give a complete translation.

And after listening to the translation, the smile on Qin Wei's face suddenly disappeared.

Liu Yan lowered her head, as if she was both embarrassed and didn't know what to say.

Of course, the moment she lowered her head, she subconsciously couldn't help turning her head to look at Hu Fei and Qin Wei.

Unlike her own salary of two million Chinese yuan for starring in Qin Wei's movie, Hu Fei spent ten million dollars in real money to invite Daniel Jackman to star in "The Great Wall"—— It is said that in Hollywood, the current salary of Daniel Jackman is only around 7 million to 8 million US dollars.

In this regard, it is said that Hu Fei and Qin Wei took the translated script and rushed to the United States to visit in person, and then persuaded and invited earnestly while offering a high salary, which finally convinced Daniel Jackman , so that he agreed to go to China to participate in "The Great Wall", a Chinese film that is said to be released on a large scale in North America.

As a result, the Hollywood superstars who paid a lot of money for themselves, no matter during the filming period or now, from Hu Fei to Qin Wei, and then to the entire crew, they all hold him high, lest one of them is not well greeted, It seems that I have been slow to wait for the big Hollywood stars, but after coming to China this time, I only saw a little loophole, and they quickly climbed up along the line of Liao Liao, and went to "see" Li Qian.

For this reason, without hesitation, he turned down the dinner that was carefully arranged for him here!

At this moment, Hu Fei's face was darkened, as if he was holding back his dissatisfaction and was not easy to vent. Although Qin Wei said he was a little better, he just put away his smile, but the blue veins in the corners of his eyes were showing.

Liu Yan thought to herself, they don't know what it's like to feel now.

Of course, no matter what they think, at least in Liu Yan's view, this matter should be quite embarrassing to them - although they know that Daniel Jackman must be because they don't understand the grievances between Li Qian and Qin Wei It was only because of this that he spoke out the arrangement so openly, but it was precisely because of this that the face was so real!

Such a pain!