Chapter 1078 The Sinking of "The Taiping Wheel" (Part 1) (55)

This year, Jiahe has two movies for the Lunar New Year, "The Couple 2" and "Wrath: Serious Case"

Not counting the Lunar New Year period, to be precise, it will be released in early November and mid-November.

The box office and reputation are both good, especially "Rage: Serious Case", which has a box office of over 500 million within ten days of its release, setting a new box office record for Hong Kong police and gangster films... Maoyan predicts that the final box office will exceed 800 million!

As for "Lao Qian 2"...

It hasn't been released yet, so I estimate that the box office will be lower than that of "The Furious Case". After all, the dramatic conflict aspect of the script of "The Good Man 2" is weaker than that of "The Good Man", and it lacks a very important gimmick.

It was just a marginal cyan scene that was deleted - after all, it had to go through censorship!

The original Korean version of "Old Man 2" was banned under 19...

In addition to a scene where the heroine strips naked and a sex scene between the male and female protagonists, violence and foul language are inevitable due to the particularity of the film's subject matter...

Why do we have this?

In fact, Korean movies have been leaning towards cyan since Chun Doo-hwan introduced the 3S policy in the 1980s. No matter what type of subject matter, as long as a passionate scene can be included, he will never let it go.

Therefore, at the end of "New World", Huang Zhengmin complained, "What else can theaters have besides C-level movies?" ’…

In this creative atmosphere, cyan has become an important symbol of Korean movies!

In fact, until now, the Korean film industry is still mass-producing a bunch of vulgar movies every year. Infidelity and incest are daily topics. The theme of "should I fight this or not?" can make a movie...

This situation lasted for twenty years!

Yes, for twenty years, twenty years of focusing on cyan films, the aesthetics of a generation have been affected.

The depiction of cyan in most Korean movies is meaningless and is nothing more than a cultural inertia...

However, when there are enough of one thing, the creator will force some particularly meaningless things to become meaningful.

As a result, Korean directors have learned a magical skill: turning the meaty scenes into the most critical events.

For example, in "Old Man 2", the heroine is asked to take off her clothes and sell her meat. This is an extremely legitimate reason to take off her clothes to prevent hiding cards.

In the first part of "The Wife", the scene of the heroine's big breasts is also...

Does it make sense?

There are still some, let’s just talk about online articles. Works that drive well will always be favored...

In fact, except for "The Red Mansion", China's four major classics have relatively few descriptions of these, the other three are all about Chi Guoguo. I still remember "Three Kingdoms", when Cao Cao entered Wancheng and asked, "Are there prostitutes here?" Then...the tiger general's beloved son was ruined.

Ahem, bringing it back, Chen Xi mentioned "The Taiping Wheel".

The producer of this drama is Nick Cheung, Wu Yusen’s old teammate and one of the representative figures in Hong Kong...

"I heard that Wu Yusen wanted to make "The Wheel" in the 1980s..."

"This theme is indeed quite old-fashioned..."

To put it simply, "The Taiping Wheel" is indeed an old theme decades ago. The best era for its birth was in the 1980s. At that time, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait had just reconciled and Taiwan was open to family visits. Along with the sad scenes of veterans returning home, When Taiping Wheel makes its grand debut, the effect will definitely be 10,000 times better than when it was released in the 21st century.

It’s just that Wu Yusen couldn’t take the photo at that time!

In that era, there was no CG. You had to use models and add swimming pools to create waves to simulate the end of a ship. The best effect you could achieve was roughly on the same level as the original Ultraman and black and white Godzilla you watched when you were a kid. …

"I heard that the investment cost exceeds 400 million!"

"The two parts together... it's estimated to be more than 200 million, less than 400 million!"

"It's hard to say...he used so many stars..."

Shen Xudong shook his head: "No one can use it!"

"So sure?"

"Wu Yusen's reputation has been ruined by the two parts of "Red Cliff". It is shameless to split a movie into two parts to harvest the box office! And it has ruined his goodwill...Wu Yusen is not only not ashamed, but also eats the marrow. Zhiwei, when he was working on "Taiping Wheel", he started working on the first and second episodes again."

"Maybe there was too much material taken..."

""Titanic" is known as the 'Titanic of the East', and the original version of "Titanic" was not cut into two episodes..."

After listening to Shen Xudong's analysis, Chen Xi nodded and whispered: "No wonder..."

"What's the wonder?"

"No wonder you want "The Marquis of Huaiyin" to be released on the same day as him... Make it clear, you are bullying!"

Shen Xudong was very calm: "Yes... I just bullied him!"

…

"Peace Wheel" has not yet been released, but it has already been promoted with great fanfare - a guaranteed release of 1 billion!

In fact, Brother Song watched "The Wheel of Peace" (Part 1). To be honest, he was under a lot of pressure...

He knows movies...

The subject of "Taiping Wheel" is difficult to shoot!

The painted boat of the last days sank in the quicksand. The lonely minister and evil son are a metaphor for generations.

If this subject doesn't work well, don't do anything about it, and just wait for an unprecedented filmmaker to appear.

Wu Yusen tried to wrap the infighting between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the feud between China and Japan, and the antagonism between brothers in the panacea of ​​love to smear this apocalyptic ship called the "Taiping Wheel"...

He finally fell from a first-rate Hong Kong director to a second-rate Hollywood businessman.

After all, he doesn’t understand 1949, mourns for Jiangnan under the Peach Blossom Fan, and is superficial about love.

It can only be said that the Hong Kong director really doesn't understand Chinese history, and he treats all big-picture themes like "Red Cliff", two episodes, just like TVB.

He thought he could shoot 1949 by spending some money and doing some hard work?

In that era of life and death, the Chinese nation almost had to make a choice between cutting off its own meridians...

Carefully select big stars to join the Lunar New Year show, taking into account the box office of mainland China, Japan, Taiwan and even South Korea...

But it’s useless, you are wrong in choosing love as the theme!

It's a pity that Song Ge didn't have a second choice - "One Step Away" was won by Wanda with a guarantee of 1 billion...

So... what to do?

Smash marketing, engage in publicity...

It’s really a big fanfare!

I bought a bunch of hot searches to warm up, and found countless marketing accounts to write soft articles...

Then, I encountered the great success of "Interstellar" - "Interstellar" was released on November 14th. In the first week, "Interstellar" was able to crush it with a box office of 202 million. In the second week, "Interstellar" It won 219 million at the box office, directly surpassing the 145 million of "The Couple 2". In the third week, "Interstellar" still won 148 million at the box office...

The total box office directly surpassed "Old Man 2" - "Interstellar" was released for three weeks, with a cumulative box office of 578 million, while "Old Man 2" only had 502 million...

That was the "Old Man" series, the first one with a box office of 180 million, ranking among the top three movies of the year!

I can only say that "Interstellar" is indeed fierce...

"Interstellar" has dominated the discussion recently, so... relatively speaking, the hot search for "Taipei" is embarrassing...

At least someone is paying attention...

It's useless. On December 2, "The Wheel" (Part 1) was released on its first day, and it won 31% of the film schedule, and the theaters gave it 38,000 screenings. It can be said that we don't take it seriously!

However, the box office on the first day was less than 25 million...

The moment he saw the box office on the first day, Brother Song knew it was over!