Chapter 532 Walking on Thin Ice

"Manslaughter" held five premieres. Gong Li attended one of them, but he came in a hurry and then flew back to North America...

Awards season is in its climax…

The public relations teams of Judi Denk, Helen Mirren, and Kate Winslet are all working hard - and they really live up to the sentence: Hollywood has many good actors and movies every year, but the quality of each project There is only one statuette, who should I give it to? That depends on their respective methods.

Acting is just the ticket.

If you really want to break into the mainstream, you need means...

Gong Li has little chance of winning. So far, only the Los Angeles Film Critics Association has awarded the Best Actress. The New York Film Critics and Boston Film Critics Association have awarded the Best Actress to Helen Mirren...

Of course, "Carol" did well at the box office.

As of December 12, the cumulative box office of "Carol" in North America has reached 9 million US dollars!

Even better overseas - as of December 12, the overseas box office has reached US$14 million...

You know, "Carol" has not yet been released on a large scale!

And same-sex movies are banned in many countries and regions.

Shen Xudong compared the original time and space and roughly concluded that North America should be able to break through 2,000 U.S. dollars, and the global total would be around 50 million U.S. dollars...

It’s definitely not as good as the $178 million of “Brokeback Mountain”, but it’s definitely a lot higher than the $40.27 million of The Original Time!

The reason is simple: in the original time and space, when "Carol" was released, gay movies were no longer exciting enough.

Come back, at such a critical juncture, Gong Li probably won’t have time to fly back to do publicity...

It's good, there's no time to promote "Manslaughter", which also means there's no time to promote "The Golden Jacket".

Oh, "Manslaughter" grossed 68 million at the box office in its first four days. It didn't break any records, but its discussion was top-notch...

Not only netizens are discussing the perfect crime, but major portals and print media are also discussing whether the heroine of "Manslaughter" did the right thing or wrong...

A bunch of film critics, experts, and professors expressed their opinions one after another...

Lin Lingdong was a little confused. He made a movie. It was obviously a crime film, but it was treated as a blockbuster and attracted the attention of the whole country!

At the road show, a bunch of media asked him why he was filming like this...

"That's how the script is written..."

"But Ayu is a criminal...if she kills someone, is there no punishment?"

Well, this is a controversial point: after all, we believe that evil cannot prevail over good. Even in movies, we still believe in the distinction between "innocent" and "guilty". After all, killing someone and beating someone is "guilty", no matter you are What reason.

Lin Lingdong was speechless: "This is just a movie, a crime genre film. We are making a movie that completely follows the genre...and Ayu's family is actually the victim..."

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Shen Xudong wrote on his blog: How to create a perfect crime?

The most important thing is to erase the alibi...

In "Manslaughter", the protagonist sets up a four-layered scam.

The first level is to lie to the police and forge a confession.

The second level is to create alibi as quickly as possible. From banks to hotels, to ATM machines, mobile phone numbers; hotel owners, restaurant owners, drivers, electrical appliance dealers, and handymen, everyone is "invisibly" brainwashed by her. ", to create an alibi...

But she understands that this is not enough, so the third level is to rely on the knowledge gained from watching movies to continuously train her family members on how to respond to police inquiries and how to make collusive confessions without arousing suspicion...

For 26 days, this woman used all her resourcefulness and efforts to race against the entire law enforcement system.

When her daughter couldn't control herself and became nervous when facing the police, she appeared in time and resolved the suspicion with ease.

Time and time again, I was suspected, questioned, and even beaten by the police.

The mood of the audience also fluctuated. This is not only sympathy for the weak, but also a review and reflection on the entire legal justice.

The target of the attack is actually judicial corruption at the grassroots level of the government, where corruption is rampant...

The mother of the rich second generation is a high-level member of the judicial system, and the persecution of the protagonist's family has become increasingly serious.

In the end, the younger daughter could not bear the torture and told the truth.

Then, the protagonist’s trump card comes one after another: in fact, she never believed that her family could deal with the experienced police...

She endured all the hardships alone - she dumped the body. It was placed in a cement mixer, poured into concrete, and a new police station was built.

All the police found was the body of a dead dog...

At this point, all suspicions are just conjectures, like boiling water melting snow, they are self-defeating.

Therefore, the villain of "Manslaughter" is actually grassroots justice...

The overall logic of this creation is like this, I don’t have any hidden ideas...

The best part of a suspenseful crime film is the local part.

I saw a lot of people saying that this movie teaches bad audiences...

I think this label is a bit too much. "Manslaughter" is actually an entertaining film. From the beginning, we did not want to express any too profound themes, just to purely entertain the audience.

I didn’t expect any profound artistic expression…

Otherwise, it will not be scheduled to be released during the Lunar New Year.

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Shen Xudong posted this blog mainly in response to public criticism from a bunch of industry insiders - accusing movies of teaching bad audiences...

This must be responded to. If the retired leader is alarmed by just saying a word, "Manslaughter" will be released. If it alarms the Internet mythical beast-children's parents, it will probably be released...

By the way, we also need to spread news costing 80 million...

The true cost of "Manslaughter" is 48 million, and the revenue from pre-roll advertising and product placement is about 30 million. Therefore, the shooting cost is actually less than 20 million...

As for the publicity costs, there are also sponsorships, which are basically offset.

Like "Witness", Gong Li signed a contract with a basic salary + profit sharing model.

Why blow the cost of 80 million?

You have to inflate your costs a bit higher, so that when people know you’re not making money, they won’t be too jealous…

Otherwise, one report would be too much to bear!

It’s actually quite difficult for the General Administration, knowing that what you are doing is offending people.

Therefore, except for those films with obvious political sensitivity, their attitude towards most directors and films is that "the people will not take action, and the officials will not investigate."

At that time, Jia Zhangke was accused of filming "Xiao Wu" and was banned for five years - Lao Jia mentioned this past event in "Confusion": "On January 13, 1999, I was called to talk by the Film Bureau. , I was 29 years old that year..." While waiting in the office, he accidentally discovered a copy of the document on the table: "That document seemed to have my name on it. I was as excited as Jiang Qian stealing a book, and I took advantage of no one. , picked up the document and read it, and what was copied on it was actually a report about my movie "Xiao Wu" in the film and drama section of Taiwan's "Dacheng Daily".

This does not surprise me. What is surprising is that next to the main text, someone wrote a few lines of small report in handwriting: Please pay attention to this matter from the bureau leaders. We cannot let such a movie affect our country's normal foreign cultural exchanges. "

"After I read it, I felt hatred in my heart and hatred in my heart. After I calmed down my emotions, I saw the signature after the small report: XX..."

Later it was confirmed that the person who wrote the complaint letter was actually Wang Bin. Wang Bin was Zhang Yimou's literary planner, who had planned "Hero" and "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles"...

Lou Ye's filming of "Suzhou River" did not involve politics and no one complained, so it was just an ordinary ban and no punishment was imposed on the director himself.

Including "The Devil Is Coming" - it is said that someone wrote an anonymous letter to the authorities, distorting Jiang Wen's motives for making this movie...

Riding on a horse, "Manslaughter" is naturally problematic. If someone uses eye drops...

In short, "Manslaughter" was released for 7 days, and the box office exceeded 100 million. By the time "The Golden Jacket" was released, "Manslaughter" still grossed 11 million at the box office in a single day...

At this time, the cumulative box office of "Manslaughter" was already 130 million.

Therefore, even if "The Golden Jacket" was released, theaters still gave "Manslaughter" 20% of the film schedule...

But... on the one hand, it is a box office hit, but on the other hand, the distributor is walking on thin ice...

Shen Xudong even vowed: "I will never make this kind of movie again!"