Chapter 274 The First Round: Wu Baige and Wu Yuan's Language Exchange

Chapter 274 The first round: Wu Baige and Wu Yuan's verbal confrontation!

[The two Wus are coming! The strongest summer season in history! ]

[The strongest July season, "Red Cliff" and "Gravity" are released together! ]

[The 2008 blockbuster month is confirmed, who will be the better of the new works of Hollywood directors returning to China? ]

At the end of 2007, a big news quickly set off the mainland entertainment circle.

Wu Yuan and Wu Baige's new films, both of which have an investment of 300 million yuan, are scheduled to be released in July.

Although the two films are still staggered by half a month, strictly speaking, they are not movies of the same period, but they are squeezed into the same month for release, which is also a very exciting news.

"Red Cliff" is Wu Baige's first Chinese war blockbuster since he entered Hollywood with "Broken Arrow" in 1996. He returned to the Chinese market after a lapse of 12 years!

Gravity is the first science fiction blockbuster in the mainland that matches the standards of Hollywood. It is also Wu Yuan's new film released three years after Painted Skin.

Both films have received much attention, and have profound backgrounds and rare themes. They are unprecedented blockbusters in the mainland film industry.

Even the producer is the same person.

Han Sanping is not only the producer of Red Cliff, but also the co-producer of Gravity with Wu Yuan.

Han Sanping, who was promoted to the chairman of China Film Group, brought two super bombs to everyone as soon as he took office, rekindling the enthusiasm of the Chinese blockbuster market, which was already cooling down.

Although there is still more than half a year before the release of these two films, countless eyes across the country have been focused on these two films since the release of the release date.

Without any tidbits or trailers being leaked, the plots and contents of these two films have become a hot topic among movie fans on the Internet.

Just looking at the name of the movie, you can tell that Red Cliff tells the story of the Battle of Red Cliff in the Three Kingdoms.

Although Wu Baige has a precedent of turning a war blockbuster into a very petty movie about friendship on the battlefield.

But the current Chinese audiences still believe in Wu Baige.

After all, he has been in Hollywood for nearly ten years. Before Wu Yuan came out of nowhere, he was the most successful director to enter Hollywood from Hong Kong Island.

Most Chinese movie fans believe that the failure of "Windtalkers" should be attributed to the script. In addition, Wu Baige does not understand American war blockbusters and has no relevant shooting experience, which is why he shot this failed work. This is not his normal level.

This time Wu Baige returned to China to shoot "Red Cliff", which tells the story of the Three Kingdoms that is familiar to Chinese people. It is one of the most well-known classical battles in China. I believe he will definitely be able to make up for his previous shame and make a classic Chinese war blockbuster.

Well, Wu Baige himself thinks so too. "Red Cliff" is what he wants to use to make up for his shame and kick his reputation of "not being able to shoot war movies" into the garbage dump!

Wu Baige, who was also busy with post-production, took the rare opportunity to accept interviews from some media reporters.

"I think that in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, especially in the Battle of Red Cliff, the loyalty and righteousness of our Chinese people are best expressed. For example, the friendship and loyalty between Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhuge Liang are very strong in the play."

"In addition, this play is also the play that best expresses the wisdom of our Chinese people."

"For example, there are several different battles in it. For such battles, I hope to use some Sun Tzu's Art of War as much as possible. Every formation, every formation, every killing formation, and every formation breaking are shot very realistically and excitingly."

"In the words of the mainland, this movie is a war blockbuster with a very grand scene!"

"My biggest purpose in making movies is to bring the audience back to the cinema. If the audience only watches DVDs at home, the film industry will definitely not prosper."

"Now only one or two directors in China can sell their movies internationally, and Hong Kong movies no longer have an international market."

"Someone told me that they hope I can come back to make a Chinese-language film and reopen the Chinese-language film market."

"So I came back and brought this "Red Cliff."

"Red Cliff" is very special. It is different from all other war films. I also added modern emotions to look at history."

"I hope that Zhou Yu, Xiao Qiao, and Zhuge Liang are all young in the play. I hope to retain more traditional beauty, but with a modern temperament. I hope that the audience, young people, will have a sense of substitution after watching it."

"Put yourself into the perspective of the high-spirited Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang, and the independent and beautiful Xiao Qiao, and look at that turbulent special era."

"Why didn't Chow Yun-fat act?"

"He wanted five million US dollars and put forward more than a hundred conditions. I couldn't give the money. It's that simple."

In this interview, Wu Baige responded a lot, and in the interview he also talked about his love and appreciation of Chinese culture, saying that he had always dreamed of making a movie with a pure Chinese cultural style.

I want to make a movie that can show the wisdom, personality, culture, and spirit of the Chinese people.

It's for making a living, not bad.

This kind of talk can only deceive the mainland audience who are still receiving less information.

If Wu Baige really likes Chinese culture and wants to make movies that reflect Chinese culture, he would not have stopped making Chinese-language movies after successfully entering Hollywood in 1996. It was not until he could no longer make it in Hollywood that he remembered the banner of "Chinese culture".

Besides, when he was filming in Hong Kong before, he didn't remember that China had beautiful mountains and rivers, and the movies didn't reflect any Chinese spirit or Chinese style.

"A Better Tomorrow" or "Across the World" are both typical Hong Kong gunfight movies!

It can only be said that Wu Baige can only say shameless words to eat the bowl of rice in the mainland.

Hey, the current Chinese audiences still like this. Contemporary Chinese people who are extremely lacking in national self-confidence really need some praise and advocacy of Chinese culture, especially from the mouths of such "returnees", which makes people feel even more refreshed.

It's like eating a bite of iced watermelon in August, refreshing from head to toe!

I don't know how many viewers and netizens have made up their minds to go to the cinema to watch "Red Cliff" after seeing this interview report, and appreciate the Chinese classical world and beautiful mountains and rivers under the lens of an international director.

If you ask them to spend money to go to the cinema to watch a movie made by an ordinary domestic director, they will definitely not want to, and feel that they are losing money.

But if you let them spend money to watch a Chinese-language film made by a "returned director", it would be worth it, after all, this is a director who has been gilded overseas.

Of course, in this interview, Wu Baige also mentioned another director who has also been gilded overseas.

"Another Director Wu?"

"I know him, he is very young, makes very good movies, and is also very famous in Hollywood."

"The Pirates of the Caribbean he made is a very powerful fantasy blockbuster, I have also seen it."

"This time he dared to try science fiction themes, which is really very courageous. Many big directors in Hollywood dare not make science fiction films."

"Competition? I don't think there should be any competition between us."

"Gravity is a science fiction movie, and Red Cliff is a costume war movie, and the release time is half a month apart, so there is no competition at all."

"I wish him well, and hope that his movie can also achieve good results."

Look, how well said this is.

At first glance, it seems that they are in harmony, and they also praised Wu Yuan a few words, which gives a feeling that Chinese directors are a happy family.

But after a closer look, I found that it was full of traps.

When he mentioned that Wu Yuan was young, he was just showing off his seniority, and at the same time implying that young people were inexperienced and immature.

He praised "Pirates of the Caribbean" as a great fantasy blockbuster, which simply meant that Wu Yuan only proved himself in the field of fantasy films, and it was not certain what level he would be in other films.

He also said that it was a very courageous act for him to try to make a science fiction movie, and many big Hollywood directors couldn't do it, which was secretly saying that Wu Yuan didn't know how high the sky was and how deep the earth was, and he was about to die.

In the end, he also wished that "Gravity" could also achieve good results.

The word "also" was very clever. Only if "Red Cliff" was successful could the word "also" be used to bless "Gravity".

In terms of language charm, Wu Baige has mastered it.

Journalists, especially entertainment reporters, have always been interested in watching the fun.

Of course, the shrewd reporters immediately understood the deep meaning of Wu Baige's words, but they pretended not to understand and posted the video and manuscript on the Internet without changing a word.

Moreover, they took the interview video and found Wu Yuan, who was filming "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die" in Yanjiao.

The heavy snow could not cover up their inner passion.

The cordon set up by the crew and the patrolling security personnel could not stop the enthusiasm of these reporters for interviews.

In order not to affect the normal filming of the crew and prevent these reporters from blocking outside the set, Wu Yuan, who originally did not want to accept any interviews, had to take out his lunch break and accept a brief interview.

Wu Yuan is not the kind of person who accepts everything, and he is young, so there is nothing to blame for his wild words.

After seeing the interview video with Wu Baige's hidden message, Wu Yuan was also a little annoyed and fired on the spot: "Gravity is China's first science fiction blockbuster, and I am very confident in this movie."

"I know that there has never been such a science fiction blockbuster in our mainland."

"But Hollywood's science fiction movies have long formed a complete system."

"I have studied in Hollywood for a long time and have cooperated with many large companies in Hollywood. I also have a good understanding of this science fiction film industry system. I believe I can contribute to China's Audience, bring a science fiction movie that is not inferior to Hollywood. "

"After all, I have developed quite well in Hollywood, and I have a global box office of 20 to 30 billion US dollars. I have no shortage of connections and resources. "

"I have consulted privately with directors like Spielberg and Cameron who have made great achievements in science fiction movies. "

"In China, there should be no one who knows Hollywood better than me!"

"If I can't do it, there should be no other director in China who can make good science fiction movies."

Wu Yuan's mouth curled up slightly, looking at the reporters with a smile.

He didn't mention Wu Baige at all, but every word deeply hurt Wu Baige's heart.

Being driven back from Hollywood in disgrace was the most painful thing in Wu Baige's heart.

He acted like a big Hollywood director and senior in front of Wu Yuan?

This is a dung beetle turning on the light in the toilet - looking for shit!

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