Chapter 349 Popular Overseas
South Korea has also remade "White Snake", which is the 1960 version of "White Snake Lady".
The genre of this film is horror and fantasy, the soundtrack is comparable to that of "Liao Zhai", and the plot is even more imaginative.
It is said that White Snake, who has practiced Taoism for thousands of years, accepted the instructions of the devil and transformed into a beautiful woman to seduce the saints in Buddhist temples. The saint broke the precepts and affected the process of making Buddha statues. The deeply in love White Snake is reluctant to kill her husband. In anger, the devil turned the white snake into stone.
Later, the white snake's deep emotion moved Guanyin Bodhisattva, who cast a spell to transform the white snake back into human form, and continued to live happily with the saint and his son.
Because the film was shot a long time ago and the actors are older, the effect is naturally not very good. It can only be said that Koreans are quite receptive to Chinese mythology.
"The Origin of the White Snake" has a beautiful style, a touching story, and a "sense of fate" about the past and present life. The content of the film will definitely beat all Korean dramas. It is also the most popular 3D film at the moment. It set off a movie-watching craze as soon as it was released. The IMAX 3D version is even more popular. It's hard to get a vote.
As for the most important North American market, the box office performance is also good.
First, Jiang Heng's reputation accumulated over more than ten years has made many audiences accustomed to watching films directed by him. Unless Jiang Heng makes three or four films in a row, it will be difficult to break this box office appeal.
The second is of course the extremely beautiful visual effects. It can be said that the beautiful scenery shown in "The Origin of the White Snake" is not only far beyond what people can see in reality, it is also the "National Geographic Magazine" or various other things on the Internet in later generations. Even filtered landscape photos cannot match the beauty in the film.
As for the touching love story in the film, European and American audiences also like it, but they are not as enthusiastic as audiences in East and Southeast Asia.
Therefore, the box office of "The Origin of White Snake" in the first three days of the North American market was more than 71 million, and the total box office should be over 200 million US dollars, ranking among the top ten in the annual box office rankings.
In addition to the box office success, Jiang Heng and Jing Tan's acting skills in the film were also widely praised.
Many film festivals and film awards took the initiative to contact Jiang Heng and invite him to sign up to participate in the exhibition. If you want to become a movie king or movie queen, you should be able to get one.
Jiang Heng is not very interested in this thing, but he can't stop others from making progress, just let the staff report normally.
At this time, the secretary walked in and said that the Academy Awards organizing committee had called again, saying that as long as Jiang Heng was willing to attend, Jiang Heng would definitely win the best actor award at the Academy Awards in April.
"talk later!"
Seeing the secretary hesitate to speak, Jiang Heng smiled, "What else did they say?"
"They said that you are the most famous big shot in the Hong Kong film industry, so you should support us!"
Jiang Heng smiled, leaned back slightly, smoked a cigarette and said: "It is precisely because I am a big boss that I don't want to compete with those little actors for the title of Best Actor! This thing is of no use to me, but a little actor If you get it, your acting career may be changed!”
When the beautiful female secretary heard this, her eyes became bright and she said with admiration: "Director Jiang, you are really well-organized!"
Jiang Heng smiled and said nothing more, just waved her hand and asked her to go about her business.
He really didn't want to think about that. After more than four months of intense shooting, "Legend of the Little Soldier" was completed just before the year.
After the new year, Jiang Heng will have to arrange post-production special effects production.
The film is scheduled to be released in the summer, and time is not as tight as usual.
In addition, he has been thinking about what to make in his new film recently.
As for the themes, there are just a few.
In the science fiction genre, "Three-Body 2" is waiting for a suitable candidate for "Zhuang Yan", and "The Wandering Earth" will have to wait a few years.
For the mythical genre, "The Origin of the White Snake" has just been filmed, and there have been enough other mythological stories filmed in the past few years.
After two films of "Pacific Rim", a mecha movie, there is no more stories to be filmed on Earth. We can't counterattack to the monsters' lair, right? Then the sense of substitution is lost.
Jiang Heng thought about it over and over again and felt that it was too risky to continue filming, so he just put it aside for now!
As for monster movies, I feel that the market atmosphere in China is still a bit poor.
After thinking about it, it seems that "The Company of Heroes 2" is more suitable.
And filming the second part, a group of beautiful angels are indispensable!
Such as Kesha, Hexi, Yan, etc., are all extremely beautiful beings. It is really not easy to find suitable actors.
Only by using "virtual actors" can we perfectly interpret the beauty of these characters.
For his "super microcomputer", this is a very simple operation.
But in terms of real-world technology at the moment, the amount of money it takes to make a super-realistic, perfect character is absolutely sky-high.
In the eyes of others, Jiang Heng's behavior is absolutely "crazy". In movies and TV dramas, he plays the protagonist with a passerby's face, and there are many scenes where the ordinary-looking Leng is called a "peerless beauty".
Aunts can play beautiful women, making the male protagonist "obsessed".
Why spend a lot of money on "virtual actors"? I don’t understand it at all!
"Director Jiang, Miss Liu Yifei is here!" The secretary came over to announce.
"Invite her in!"
In fact, given the relationship between the two, there is no need to report it.
But Liu Yifei was afraid of bumping into Jing Tan, and Jing Tan was also afraid of bumping into Liu Yifei, so the two of them would tell Jiang Heng's secretary or assistant every time before coming over, otherwise it would be embarrassing if they "crash".
Not long after, Liu Yifei walked into Jiang Heng's luxurious office.
The young lady wore a black bottoming shirt, a camel hooded jacket, black tights, black leather boots, a black baseball cap and sunglasses, with her long hair loose.
Carrying a white bag makes you look beautiful and dashing!
"Isn't it beautiful today?"
"Hmph, when will I stop being beautiful?"
Jiang Heng smiled when he heard this, knowing that Liu Yifei was holding her breath.
After all, Jiang Heng, she and Jing Tan each made a love movie. As a result, the reputation and box office of "A Chinese Ghost Story" were far lower than that of "The Origin of the White Snake".
The Nie Xiaoqian she plays is outclassed by Jing Tan's Xiaobai in every aspect. It's no wonder she is in a good mood!
"why are you laughing?"
The young lady had an "angry" expression on her face, "It seems that you don't look down on me, Xiaoqian. Forget it, I'll just go be a lonely ghost!"
Then he made an "angry" face and pretended to leave.
Jiang Heng hurriedly stood up and hugged him, smiling and saying, "Are you really angry?"
Liu Yifei turned around and scratched Jiang Heng's neck with her soft white hands, making a bared teeth expression from time to time, as if the little fox demon was about to bite someone.
"You were so careful when filming "White Snake", but "A Chinese Ghost Story" was just messing around!"
Speaking of this, Liu Yifei seemed really sad.
"She has played so many good roles over the years. You said it would be more suitable for her to play her true self. I didn't say anything, and I didn't fight for it.
I have filmed many special effects blockbusters over the years, but there is not a single character that people will never forget! "
When Liu Yifei said this, she actually shed tears.
Jiang Heng couldn't bear it when he saw this.
Thinking about it carefully, it is indeed a bit unfair.
She racked her brains to think of any roles or films that would be suitable for her.