Chapter 241 Supporting Movies Released One After Another, Cheng Long's Version of Xiao

Chapter 241 Supported movies released one after another, Cheng Long's version of Xiao Feng

"Oh, it doesn't matter."

"Originally, this is a plan to support young directors, not to make money."

"The success of "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" is an abnormal situation."

"Look at Liu Dehua, the Asian rising star director, who has also invested in six movies, isn't it "Crazy Stone" that has made a splash?"

"Han Yan's situation is normal, don't put too much pressure on him."

"Newcomers, the first movie is to try and make mistakes."

"Now in our light and shadow era, the tree attracts the wind, the media will write about it as soon as there is something, and it is normal to gloat over misfortune."

"Don't pay too much attention to these."

Wu Yuan received a call from Li Xiaoping during the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3".

On the phone, she reported to Wu Yuan some recent domestic events.

It was mainly about the release of Han Yan's new movie, which had a very poor box office performance and was followed by many media reports.

Some ridiculed, some laughed, and more gloated over misfortune.

Although the media did praise Wu Yuan, a top international director, it does not mean that the media will only say good things when writing about the era of light and shadow.

Zhang Yimou is so awesome. "Hero" became the hope of Chinese directors and had a box office of 250 million yuan, but the media still criticized it.

"Curse of the Golden Flower" was criticized by many entertainment media.

Wu Yuan's era of light and shadow was naturally not immune, and was still the focus of the uncrowned king.

The achievements before the era of light and shadow were too conspicuous.

From "Departures" to "Stealing Hearts" "If Love" to "Your Name" and "Painted Skin"...

And "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" released last year.

Although there are not many movies produced, every movie has paid back, and some of them even made a lot of money.

This production return rate is not ordinary high.

Most film production companies in the industry are envious to tears.

I don't know how many laymen, after seeing how profitable the Light and Shadow Era is, have resolutely invested a lot of money in the mainland film market.

Since 2004, various mainland film production companies have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, wanting to get a share of this emerging market, which has greatly promoted the development of the mainland film market.

However, most of them are pioneers. Although they have produced many movies and enriched the viewing options of mainland movie fans, their box office performance is very average, and losses are common.

Now mainland movie fans still buy pirated discs first when watching movies. Only when the movies are made by really famous directors and superstars, they think it is worthwhile to go to the cinema and spend money to watch them.

This has led to higher and higher box office for top blockbusters, and it has gradually become not a rare thing to break the 100 million box office (regardless of whether it can make back the money after breaking the 100 million).

But the box office of the top movies is cliff-like.

It is getting easier and easier for blockbusters to break the 100 million, or close to over 100 million, but the box office of the second-tier movies below has suddenly dropped below 50 million, and 95% of the domestic movie box office is struggling below 50 million.

Even 50 million is rare, most of them only have 20 to 30 million box office.

There are almost no 50 to 80 million.

Most of the new capitals have suffered heavy losses in film production. They were fooled by producers, invested high costs, and returned low income. A batch of film companies that were established less than two years ago went bankrupt.

I don’t know how many bosses hate Guangying Times. It’s all because of the big sales of Guangying Times’ movies that they have the illusion that this market is easy to make money. As a result, they rushed into the market and lost all their money.

Now Guangying Times finally has a movie that loses money. It will be ridiculed by all kinds of people.

This can also calm their jealous mood a little.

Even as big as Guangying Times, not every movie can make money!

Wu Yuan didn’t react to this. He would not put pressure on Han Yan and other supported directors whose films were not released because of the ridicule of some newspapers and so-called "industry insiders".

Since he decided to do this young director support plan, he never expected to make money. The 30 million was purely spent to train young directors for mainland films.

He had a calm mentality from the beginning.

On the contrary, Li Xiaoping was a little impatient and asked Wu Yuan to comfort her.

After comforting her and asking her not to put pressure on other directors, Wu Yuan hung up the phone and put his attention back on the set.

The crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" has returned to Los Angeles.

They have been filming in the studio these days.

Although it is a studio, this studio is very large, with a height of ten meters and a length and width of several hundred meters. The "Black Pearl" can be directly dragged into the studio for filming.

The scenes shot these days are the scenes where Xiaofeng led his men to capture the Black Pearl and captured Captain Jack and handed him over to Lord Beckett.

There is also a scene where Xiaofeng was attacked and killed on the ship.

In short, Xiaofeng's scenes on the ship were concentrated and planned to be shot in one go.

Cheng Long, the leading actor, naturally joined the group for intensive filming.

Unlike Chow Yun-fa's version of Xiao Feng, Cheng Long's version of Xiao Feng has a much different look.

After all, he doesn't look like Chow Yun-fa.

In terms of clothing, Cheng Long wears a tattered Ming-style armor.

This is a set of golden arm armor. Originally, the Chinese history consultant of the crew suggested wearing cloth armor. Cloth armor was very common in the Ming Dynasty army and was used on a large scale.

However, Wu Yuan took into account that the story background is in Singapore. Although Xiaofeng's character setting is a pirate who was born as a defeated Ming Dynasty general, it is too hot to wear cloth armor in tropical and subtropical areas.

So it was changed to a set of arm armor that existed in history but was not equipped much.

This kind of arm armor looks good and fits the impression of most Chinese people on ancient generals.

In addition to this set of armor, he also wore a Ming Dynasty flying saucer hat, which immediately made his image uglier.

The official name of the flying saucer hat is "big hat". Its appearance is similar to the helmet of the Mongolian army. It is widely used in the Ming Dynasty army.

Considering the scorching sun when going out to sea, just like most pirates in the Caribbean wear hats to block the sun, Xiaofeng also has to have a hat.

He is not bald. Wu Yuan really dislikes the bald look of Xiao Feng in the movie. Although it looks more fierce, it is indeed a bit too ugly.

This time, Cheng Long has a tied-up image.

As a general of the Ming Dynasty, his hair and skin are inherited from his parents, so of course he has to tie his hair. Wu Yuan absolutely does not use the rat-tail hairstyle, which is too ugly.

But in order to fit the background of fierce pirates and many battles, Cheng Long's face is still painted with a lot of scars, especially a scar extending from his left eye through his nose to his right cheek, which looks very hideous.

The only thing that Wu Yuan is not satisfied with is that Cheng Long is still a little shorter, and he does not look tall and burly at all. His momentum can only be supported by the armor on his body.

Fortunately, he is famous enough in Hollywood and has left a deep impression on the audience.

As long as they see his face, the first thing that fans think of is that he is good at fighting and can play a pirate.

At least he doesn't need to be like Chow Yun-fai, who has no global fame and can only rely on ugly makeup to increase the sense of substitution of his character.

When the audience sees his bald head full of scars and his fierce eyes staring at people, they can have the impression of a "fierce pirate" and "king of Caribbean pirates".

Of course, Jackie Chan also needs this.

As we all know, Jackie Chan's literary drama is really average.

On the set, Wu Yuan had to teach him how to play a "fierce pirate".

What bothered him most was that Jackie Chan had a scene of quarreling with Keira, and the most important thing in this scene was Xiao Feng, not Elizabeth Swan, the vase.

Although he didn't like Chow Yun-fai very much, Wu Yuan had to admit that Chow Yun-fai's acting skills were much better than Jackie Chan's.

Chow Yun-fai was good at playing the pirate king's sinister and scheming character, but Jackie Chan had a hard time playing it.

In the studio that was decorated as a pirate ship cabin, the light was dim and yellow.

Kyla, wearing a Southeast Asian style, or more precisely, a Singaporean style, stood in the middle of the cabin.

Cheng Long, wearing a Ming-style lining, washed his hands and took out a betel leaf and stuffed it into his mouth.

"You admitted it."

"Admitted what?"

"The goddess of the sea."

Kyla's expression was quite right, with confusion in her doubts, and she didn't understand what Xiaofeng said at all.

But Cheng Long's expression was a little bit off.

The deepness of a person full of conspiracy and intrigue, the feeling of intriguing eyes, Cheng Long couldn't act it out at all.

Wu Yuan sighed, "Ka!"

"Jackie, eyes, you have to pay attention to your eyes!"

"What kind of person is Xiao Feng? He is not just a simple pirate king. He is different from ordinary pirates."

"He used to be in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. He was a general who experienced the chaos of the late Ming Dynasty. He is good at playing tricks and is full of conspiracies and bad water."

"If he is not smart enough and does not play conspiracies, he would not be alive until now, let alone become a pirate king in Singapore."

"So your eyes must be more sinister. Have you seen a snake?"

"Just like the eyes of a snake, people feel their hearts at a glance. "I was so cold that I didn't dare to look him in the eye."

"You should read more of this character's biography and experience more of his characteristics."

Perhaps because he felt that what he said was a bit empty, Wu Yuan simply gave an example: "Just like the villain played by Mads Mikkelsen in Rush Hour 3."

"Although he looks gentle, his eyes are so cold that people are intimidated. You can tell at a glance that this person is definitely very bad and full of bad intentions."

Cheng Long wiped the sweat from his forehead. It was indeed a bit stuffy in the studio, but his sweat was more because of his poor acting skills and too much pressure.

It's really hard to shoot a literary drama with Wu Yuan, a director who can get the top three European awards.

Even if Pirates of the Caribbean 3 is a commercial film, Wu Yuan also holds him to high standards.

This feels completely different from shooting a movie in his comfort zone, Rush Hour 3!

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I know, I still owe two chapters, I won't steal them, I will continue to update, and I will maintain three updates in the next four days. 7 days should have 21 chapters, but now there are only 19 chapters, so I will make up for two more days of three updates, and then return to three chapters a day, two chapters a day.

I didn't expect that I would sleep for 14 hours..