Chapter 430: "Room" Is on Sale
At the beginning of August, all preparations for "Room" were ready. Shanhe did not delay and immediately started filming the movie at Chuhe Studios.
The project investment of "Room" was 70 million US dollars, which seems to be a lot, but in fact most of it was the salary of Shanhe and his wife.
Shanhe's basic copyright fee of 10 million US dollars, the fixed salary of 25 million US dollars for directors and screenwriters, plus 15% of the box office share, have accounted for half of the investment.
In addition to Hathaway's salary of 20 million US dollars, the global box office share is 5%.
The couple conservatively earned hundreds of millions of US dollars through the filming of this movie.
The funds actually used for production are just over 10 million, and the later publicity costs are estimated to be not much.
The name of Shanhe and his wife plus the bonus of the original novel of "Room", this movie is naturally attractive to the public.
The huge remuneration of the couple is worth it, and Disney and Chuhe Film and Television are very happy to pay them.
Today, Shanhe and his wife have become a real thigh. Holding them, there is almost no risk in making money!
Although there was no opening ceremony or press conference, the news was still known to well-informed reporters and then spread to the world.
The Shanhe family is one of the important sources of gossip for the global entertainment media, especially after the exposure of Little Bear, the Qiu family no longer deliberately hides the child. The little brat Qiu Yanche is known as the "world's number one rich second generation" and is very popular in countries around the world.
As Little Bear grows older, the family can't keep him in the courtyard all the time, so they always take turns to take him out to see the outside world.
The paparazzi keep a close eye on this family, so street photos and short videos of Little Bear and his family always appear on the Internet and gossip media from time to time.
Little Bear is very curious about these paparazzi who often follow him and do nothing for him.
These people are really stupid. What are they doing with a big tube following me?
Once when he was walking with his grandfather in the alley, he even took advantage of the time when Qiu Jiang bought him pancakes and ran directly to the paparazzi with Doudou.
Thus, a scene that Qiu Yanche would regret for the rest of his life happened when he grew up!
The paparazzi captured the scene of the little bear wearing the pure cotton crotchless pants made by his grandmother, with beanies and little Jiji exposed, standing with his hands on his hips facing the camera with great momentum.
The photo spread all over the global network the next day, immediately amused the global public, and quickly gave birth to a large number of "little bear parties" on the Internet.
"Haha... the little bear is so funny, look at his little expression, it is a perfect match with the crotchless pants!"
"I burst out laughing, Bernier definitely inherited Hua Xia Qiu's talent for comedy!"
"Haha... I also had similar photos when I was a child. Shanhe's family is so down-to-earth, no different from us ordinary people. This will definitely become the biggest black material for the little bear in the future!"
"These pants are so cool! They are convenient and cool, and they perfectly show the boy's momentum. Why not promote them in the United States!"
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Because of the moment when the little brat stood with a bear, "open-crotch pants" became popular in Europe and the United States!
You know what, there are fashion designers who get inspiration from it. Of course, the actual effect is not as bold and imposing as the little bear, and a lining is added inside!
The Qiu family was also very happy about this, and Hathaway was even happy for a whole day!
At this time, the little bear liked his own photo in the computer very much, and he just shouted to the screen:
"It's me, it's me! It's the little bear!"
He even vividly restored the pose in the photo in front of several laughing elders!
Once again, the whole family laughed upside down.
Xie Meiyu picked up her grandson and kissed him,
"Grandson, don't face the camera like this in the future, everyone will laugh at you!"
"Grandma, the little bear is good-looking!"
"That's right, my grandson is still very imposing in open-crotch pants!"
"Haha..."
Shanhe asked the reporter who took the photo for an original copy afterwards to keep it as a record of the little bear's growth.
This photo became Qiu Yanche's biggest "black history" in the future, making the handsome and humorous Qiu look back with regret!
Speaking of the start of the filming of "Room", this is the first time that Shanhe and Hathaway have worked together, and naturally there is no shortage of reports from media around the world.
Therefore, there are more interpretations of Shanhe's work that has not yet been released.
"Hua Xia Qiu came to compete for his wife's Oscar..."
"Hathaway played a mother after becoming a mother, which is both a true performance and a breakthrough!"
"Hua Xia Qiu chose a realistic theme again after "Dallas Buyers Club". He is not satisfied with the success of commercial box office and is still seeking breakthroughs!"
"The happiest woman in the world is Hathaway. She has a perfect family, a wealthy elder who gets along well with her, a genius husband who loves her, and a little bear that everyone loves!"
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The underground space setting of the studio isolated the outside world's discussions. The atmosphere of the "Room" crew was very contradictory.
This is a story with depression, because it happened in the midst of sin, and the shooting scene was naturally filled with sadness and melancholy.
But the crew members were surprisingly relaxed. Compared with "Youth is Easy", the shooting of "Room" was a skit, and everyone felt almost no pressure.
As a director, Shanhe was also very relaxed. He was confident about the shooting of "Room".
His personal experience in Austria, his experience in writing novels, and his memory of the original film all gave him a strong control over the entire film.
As soon as the filming started, he even used Wong Kar-wai's shooting method, putting aside the script and shooting plan, and arranging the shooting scenes according to Hathaway and Jacob's emotional performances.
This brought great convenience to Hathaway and Jacob's performances.
For Hathaway, she has been preparing for the role of Elizabeth for nearly a year.
Her observation of the Fritzler family and her personal experience of getting along with them gave her a deep understanding of Elizabeth's experience.
With more than a month of training and life experience as a foundation, she quickly brought the spiritual Jacob into the performance atmosphere.
The performances of the two actors had almost no running-in period, and they entered the rhythm on the day of shooting.
It was the photography, lighting and behind-the-scenes work of the crew that slowed down the shooting progress.
They need time to fully understand Shanhe's ideas!
However, Shanhe is not in a hurry. With constant discussions and communication, the progress of shooting is still not slow.
In the Shanhe plan, this scene of the mother and son alone in the basement will be immersed in warm warm colors. The mother and son are bathed in light anytime and anywhere, and even have some fairy tale fantasy feelings.
The lens focuses on the local part of the room, and a large number of close-ups and close-ups are used to highlight the narrowness of the space.
Even static lenses are used to stabilize the picture to show the living conditions of the mother and son in a small space.
Of course, motion lenses will also be used at the right time to highlight the tense and intense scenes in the play.
Like the novel, Shanhe still uses the child's perspective to shoot the whole story, so that the audience can feel the visual experience more immersively and bring emotions into the encounter of the mother and son.
Let the audience feel the situation of the mother and son more intuitively, and enhance the audience's resonance and understanding of the film.
He hopes to use this lens language to tell the audience that this is a sad story born under sin, but it has extremely pure true feelings!
After walking out of the basement, Shanhe plans to use cold tones for lighting.
The camera turns to the perspective of mother Elizabeth, and more long shots will appear in the scene, and the angle will become wider from narrow.
Let the audience withdraw from the interdependence of the mother and son, and watch the future of the mother and son as a bystander.
He wants to tell the audience that society is cruel and human nature is too complicated. It is not enough for the mother and son to get rid of being hurt by laws and judgments alone!
They need to face more obstacles to escape from the dilemma of their hearts and reintegrate into human society.
Shanhe hopes to use the language of the lens to describe a fact: humans need a higher moral system to maintain some innate pure emotions!
The filming of "Room" is going more and more smoothly in the Chuhe Studio.
In mid-August, the entire basement scene has been half completed. According to this progress, the filming will be completely completed in September.
At the same time, the novel of the same name of "Room" has also opened online pre-sales on Amazon.
Since "Room" entered the recommended list of Amazon Bookstore, it has instantly soared to the top of the list. The group of book fans and movie fans that Shanhe has accumulated before is too large!
The global storm caused by "Youth Yi" two years ago is still vivid in the public's mind, and the expectation for the new work "Room" can be imagined.
As soon as the online pre-sale was opened, the "Room" page of Amazon Bookstore was clicked by countless eager Shanhe fans.
On August 18, in one day, the pre-sale data of "Room" exceeded 1.5 million copies, and Amazon China alone contributed more than 200,000 pre-sales.
After "Youth Yi", it broke the pre-sale record of Amazon's literary books again!
In the following seven days, the pre-sale data continued to rise amid the constant promotion of Scholar Press and Amazon, and finally stopped at the terrifying number of 3.4 million.
On August 25, the day when "Room" was put on sale worldwide, the shrinking physical bookstores around the world ushered in a rare sales boom.
Major bookstores in countries around the world are well prepared. They unanimously use the sales of "Room" as a means of publicity to promote the reading charm of physical books to book lovers.
"Only paper can carry the weight of culture!"
"With the fragrance of books, you can experience the moving of books!"
"Reading is a kind of enjoyment and also a kind of inheritance. Books not only bring you peace and pleasure, but also respect and inheritance of knowledge. Whether it is given to yourself or relatives and friends, it is a very tasteful gift."
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In addition to various promotional posters of "Room", there are various promotional slogans for physical books in the bookstore.
For the bookstore, Shanhe's new book release is the most glorious moment for physical books. They hope that this glory can help them resist the erosion of the Internet and bring more living space to physical books!
The rampant Internet has indeed brought a huge crisis to the offline publishing industry.
Not only because many people are used to reading books with mobile phones or computers, but more people have lost their hobby of reading books because of the rich and colorful online entertainment!
At the headquarters of Shanghai Xinhua Bookstore, Zhou Yuedong, who is over 50 years old, looked at the rare bustling scene with a lot of emotion.
He is about to retire. As one of the oldest employees of Xinhua Bookstore, he has witnessed the entire contemporary history of Chinese literature.
The 1980s' oil-fried hot, the 1990s' sunset glow, and the gradual decline of the new century all passed through his mind one by one.
Here, countless writers' works have been published, and hundreds of writers have held on-site signings.
Zhou Yuedong is no stranger to famous writers such as Wang Anyi, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, Ma Yuan, Liang Xiaosheng, and Mo Yan, who just won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year.
But the one who impressed him the most was Shanhe. This child's talent and achievements are too outstanding!
He was deeply impressed by Shanhe's first diary-style novel, "From the City to the Field", the first cry of a thirteen-year-old child!
Because this book was personally recommended to their Xinhua Bookstore and the Education Department by his old friend Zhao Changtian, he even remembered Zhao Changtian's words at the time:
The child who wrote this book is only thirteen years old and is still a junior high school student. This is a genius!
At that time, no one cared. There are so many geniuses, but only a few can truly realize their talents!
But Lao Zhao was right that time. After the first book was put on the shelves of Xinhua Bookstore, this child began to rise incredibly.
For more than ten years, he has been writing tirelessly, constantly refreshing the ceiling of China's publishing industry and literary circles.
Since "Young Us", every novel that has been put on the shelves has caused a wave of sales, which has continued and grown!
Zhou Yuedong still remembers Shanhe's on-site signing here decades ago.
That was Shanhe's first on-site signing. He was still a minor at that time, with a green face, but his behavior was very mature and he already had the demeanor of a writer.
He was very sincere from beginning to end, and was also polite to readers, book fans and bookstore staff.
He had a great chat with me!
At that time, Zhou Yuedong knew that this child had unlimited prospects. After Shanhe left, he said to everyone:
This child may very well be the future leader of Chinese literature!
Even with this mental preparation, Shanhe's later experience still made him amazed again and again!
He not only fulfilled his prophecy in China, but also broke the barriers of the Western world to Chinese literature around the world, and strongly won the crown of European and American literature.
His style of writing and genius imagination even made the global public crazy about him!
At this time, Shanhe is not even 30 years old. In the next few decades, he will be a global leader!
The last Chinese genius like this can be traced back to Su Shi and Su Dongpo, which really makes Chinese people proud!
Perhaps it is also a kind of luck of the times to witness his genius journey!
"Mr. Zhou, our physical books still need writers with appeal. Look at this scene. It has been a long time since we last saw it. It would be great if there were more Shanhe in the country!"
"It is a blessing to have such a person. How many more do you want!"
Zhou Yuedong looked at his successor beside him and responded with a smile,
"Xiao Li, the bookstore will depend on you in the future. Keep going. I don't believe that books will disappear from people's lives."
"I will! I also believe that the spring of physical books will come again. Novels like "Room" can only reflect its charm to the greatest extent when you hold the book in your hands!"