Chapter 987 I'm Not Old

Shuntian Prefecture, a movie theater projection hall.

"The Matrix" on the big screen has come to the final period.

Qin Wei pursed his lips tightly and looked at the big screen with incomparable concentration.

When the screening first started, he had already looked at it by the light of the screen. Even though it had been released for more than ten days, it is said that no matter how good the film is, it should cool down, let alone a weekday. However, this theater may have something to do with its location in a prosperous area. From a rough look in this screening hall, the attendance rate is still nearly half.

And after the entire two-hour broadcast, no one left the scene halfway.

Exclamation, admiration, buzzing every few minutes.

Qin Wei actually took it far more seriously than they did.

As early as when the movie was just released, he already wanted to come over to see it, but he never came, and he was a little hesitant-not to mention, this is the first time he has really pissed him off in the past few years. The one who caught it was Li Qian! From the bottom of his heart, he is absolutely unwilling to contribute even a penny to the films of Li Qian and Minghu Culture!

Moreover, there is also a hidden worry. As soon as Li Qian's movie was released, many reporters blocked him and asked him various questions to stimulate him, trying to get some of his evaluation of the movie out of his mouth.

Of course, if he can attack aggressively, or even attack Li Qian aggressively, that would be great—don’t even think about it, Qin Wei VS Li Qian, and catch up with "The Matrix" then It's hot, as soon as this news comes out, it will explode within three minutes!

So at this time, Qin Wei was really afraid what if he was bumped into by a reporter when he ran out to watch the movie? Among other things, I just took a photo of myself in the movie theater, and it was all covered in mouths that I couldn't explain—a photo, and the reporters could immediately explain it as "Qin Wei is now Watching "The Matrix" in a movie theater, after being discovered by a reporter and asked about his impressions, he responded with silence"!

Look, I immediately praised "The Matrix"!

What's more, if you went to watch a movie of Li Qian's deadly enemy, Qin Wei would feel ashamed even after watching a few words of criticism - in case someone responded, who told you to watch it! No need! not welcome!

What a shame!

The severance letter back then had already made Qin Wei feel extremely humiliated and humiliated. It was simply the heaviest slap in the face he had ever received in his life! If he came to the movie theater and was humiliated again, he felt that he would have no face in the domestic movie circle in the future--I am not Zhao Meicheng's thick-skinned guy like a wall!

However, after thinking and thinking, hesitating and hesitating, he finally came.

The domestic box office of this movie has soared upwards, breaking all domestic film records, and also breaking all domestic box office records, that's all, to this day, Li Qian already has such an appeal, With that status in the world, but this movie is such a big hit in North America, it won't fall against "Jurassic Park 2" - except that the first week of "Jurassic Park 2" was too fierce , it even has the upper hand!

This immediately hit Qin Wei's key point.

To put it bluntly, he has been making movies for 30 years and is known as a master both domestically and internationally. In recent years, he has actually lost his ambitions. From the point of view of Chinese films, from his own position in Chinese films, the goal is a bit lofty. He also tried to make Chinese films well, go out and earn ticket money for foreign audiences. The promotion of Chinese culture is secondary, the key is , earning money from foreigners, that's really cool, that's the real fame and fortune.

From a personal point of view, in fact, I am getting old and earn more money.

Moreover, the domestic film circle praised art films back then, and he was the best at making art films. Now times have changed, and business is king. As the leader of the entire domestic film circle, he also tried to bring China's domestic commercial films to the world. Let’s get up—the saying that if you are not in your position, you will not seek your own affairs is often applied in reverse. Once a truly capable and talented person takes that position, he always wants to do something that is consistent with his identity.

Therefore, earn more money, prepare for retirement, make another contribution to Chinese films, bring out the commercialization of Chinese films, and then go out and earn more money from foreigners—for yourself and the public, these are all good things Son.

And if you want to earn money from foreigners, if you want to earn more, what is your goal?

North America!

He has already conquered Europe. Since he started to be active in Europe, until "Red Light District" is regarded as a peak, whether his art films or commercial blockbusters like "Gate of Life and Death" in these years, he has always been well-known in Europe. Good, the box office is also selling well.

In Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, "The Gate of Life and Death" sold very well, which proves that his films still have a market and are very popular in this pan-Chinese cultural circle.

However, he has been unable to enter the North American film market for a long time.

The best-grossing "Gate of Life and Death" is ahead of "Gourd Baby" and "The Matrix", and it can still be blown up, but now, it's not worthy of giving people a shoe!

And film directors like him, to be honest, have been greatly influenced by European literary and artistic films since they were young, so they are really tireless in their pursuit of film art, but on the other hand, in Their growth period was the period when Hollywood films quickly captured the global market.

Over the years, Hollywood has been almost invincible. Even Europe, which they originally regarded as a temple, has gradually become the back garden of Hollywood movies after entering the 1990s!

The art films with high box office have gradually become lonely. Instead, those Hollywood commercial blockbusters have become popular in Europe, and they have reaped coveted box office one by one.

So even though he has always believed in and worked hard to pursue the art of film, even the palace of art film in Europe has been breached by Hollywood, how could Qin Wei not see it?

To put it bluntly, although he is touted as an art master by the numerous art film lovers in China, deep down in his heart, he has never been willing to compare himself with those gangs who only know how to bury their heads all day long to shoot something that no one can understand. Also no one likes the so-called art film guys in the same category.

He believes that movies are an art, but he also believes that movies must make money.

So in his opinion, aren't your Hollywood movies awesome? Then I sell the movie to the United States, sell it to North America, and get a big box office there, that is really awesome!

However, even if he took the commercial route and invested heavily in making commercial films, from "The Gate of Life and Death" to "Golden Terrace", his two commercial films were hardly successful in North America.

This made him very frustrated for a while.

However, at this moment, Li Qian actually succeeded!

This surprised him again!

When he learned how Europe admired European literary and artistic films and made art films, in his heart, those European film masters were simply amazing and almost unsurpassable. When he wanted to make money to watch Hollywood and make commercial blockbusters, he had to admit that their Hollywood movies were really awesome.

After two consecutive failures to hit the North American box office market, especially "Golden TV" failed in China, he once felt that Chinese movies, from the perspectives of conception, story, and actors, are likely to be natural. It is not easy for North American audiences to accept.

So, after "Golden Terrace" hit the street, he took a break. Recently, he is trying to conceive a new story, and this story, from the very beginning of sketching, he has been considering whether to invite a Hollywood star to be the leading actor. It’s a matter of course—it’s taken for granted that this play must be a foreigner’s play, and it can take place in China, but it must be told around a foreigner.

Therefore, he has been searching and collecting information related to Marco Polo recently.

In his opinion, filming a "Marco Polo" and casting Hollywood's first-line stars may be a good way to break into the North American film market!

However, at this time, "Gourd Baby" came first, followed by "The Matrix".

The pure Chinese story, starring an absolutely oriental face, has achieved great success at the box office in North America one after another——Qin Wei couldn't believe it when he heard the news for the first time!

So, without telling anyone, he quietly ran over to buy a ticket and entered the venue.

The movie is really good to watch!

Even though Qin Wei came here with all kinds of disbelief and doubts before coming here, after watching the movie for less than 20 minutes, he was sure that the movie would definitely be very good.

Characters, shots, colors, and even special effects are all top-notch.

The exquisite texture that an excellent movie can bring to the audience from the first shot, this movie is no worse than the top Hollywood blockbusters!

Therefore, the inner examination and questioning are put away for the time being.

He began to watch the next hour and a half with a sense of awe, with a learning mindset—not disappointed at all!

So much so that when the movie finally ended and many audience members left their seats excitedly discussing the plot, Qin Wei still sat there steadily, full of emotion in his heart.

He has seen "My Sassy Girlfriend". At that time, Li Qian was still relatively immature. Even if it was a simple urban romantic light comedy, he could handle it pretty well, but in fact, there is room for faults and improvements. places, still many.

When it came to "Huang Feihong", after all, it was against the stage. He also took the time to watch it. The camera, the screen, and the scheduling of the actors have been greatly improved. But to be honest, in Qin Wei's opinion, if It's not that his story is really super good, his movie wouldn't look so good!

However, now, in his third movie that I saw, his skills seem to have improved by leaps and bounds, and even... can be described as reborn!

Story arrangement, mirror image style, and screen scheduling are all excellent!

Already the master of masters!

Sitting blankly on the seat, he couldn't help thinking: "No wonder it's such a hit! He found the key to telling the story to both Chinese and Americans with great accuracy!"

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When the audience was almost gone, the staff of the theater had already walked in to clean up briefly. When they saw that there was still an audience sitting in the seat, they reminded loudly, "It's over, the next show will be shown soon, if you need to watch it again." If you do it again, please go out and buy a ticket."

Only then did Qin Wei wake up suddenly and came back to his senses.

After snapping on the big sunglasses enough to cover half of his face, and putting on a mask, he got up and left.

Well, in the case of Marco Polo alone, it is easy to make an oriental landscape film, and it needs to be shot with a bit of depth. It is also easy to look at China at that time from the perspective of a Westerner, but the story is...

This needs to be considered again.

In addition to the projection hall, he walked out of the aisle, thinking about something wildly, while walking slowly, suddenly, the flash light was turned on.

Qin Wei was startled at that moment.

When I looked up, I saw a reporter with a microphone in his hand. He should be interviewing the audience just now. For some reason, he was spotted by a photographer.

At this time, the person who took the photo just now greeted him loudly, "It's Director Qin Wei!"

There were people talking softly in the rest area of ​​the movie theater. Although it was not noisy, it was definitely not quiet, especially when there were reporters interviewing, it seemed noisy. But when the voice came out, the rest area was immediately quiet—the reporters and photographers with cameras all looked back at the first time.

Qin Wei walked out quickly.

The reporter's eyes were shining, and he ran over with great strides, and put the microphone in front of Qin Wei, "Hi, Director Qin, did you watch "The Matrix" just now? What's your opinion on this movie? Director Qin, Director Qin ...Have you heard the news that this movie has hit the box office in both North America and Europe? Can you share your thoughts on this? Just a few words..."

Qin Wei ignored it and rushed out the door quickly.

If he wasn't worried about his image, maybe he would have to run away.

Walking out of the cinema, he waited until he came to his car, got in the car, and finally got rid of those reporters. Then, without taking off his sunglasses and mask, he started the car and drove away from this place. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief before he dared to take off his sunglasses and mouth mask.

However, this is clearly not the end.

More than two hours later, he was at his desk at home writing his impressions of watching movies this time, when Hu Fei called and connected, his voice was a little excited, "Old Qin, go to see "The Matrix" "?"

Qin Wei let out a "hmm".

"What do you think?"

"It was well shot."

"You are not stimulated, do you have any ideas?"

"Yes, but not yet mature."

There was a "snap" on the phone, probably Hu Fei couldn't help but slapped the table excitedly, and then his voice suddenly became high-pitched, "Great! My Brother Qin, Brother Qin, I just Waiting for you to have an idea!"

"If you have any ideas, you can talk to me at any time! Funds, I will give you as much as you want, actors, whoever you want, I will give you whoever you want, if not, I will kneel at the door of someone's house, and I will invite you too! Uh... ...Uh...Except for Li Qian, I really can't invite this one! But for others, I'll take anyone whoever I want!"

At this moment, Hu Fei on the other end of the phone was too excited to be himself, but Qin Wei on the other end of the phone had a calm expression, or in other words, he was actually extremely calm in his heart.

It seemed that a great determination had been made, but afterward, the whole person calmed down instead.

Calm to the point where there is no wave in the ancient well.

Facing the phone, he said slowly: "I also feel that I am not old enough to be eliminated. Then make a play to prove that I am not old!"

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Recently, I have seen everyone's complaints, in the book review area, in the chapters, and in the reader group.

Allow me some time to adjust slowly.

Even if it's a wrong cut from the beginning, at least this part has to be rounded, right?

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