Chapter 941: Simple Enough to Deserve a Thumbs-Up (Asking for Monthly Votes)

Chapter 942: Simple enough to make people like it (asking for monthly tickets)

Of course, this comparison is unfair to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", after all, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was a movie eight years ago.

In the past eight years, the scale of the film market in most countries and regions has been growing.

Especially in the Chinese film market, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" only had a box office of 15 million in the mainland, and now "Your Name" has 500 million.

The box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in Japan was also average, only selling 87.23 million yen, while "Your Name" was more than 10 billion yen, or 800 million yuan.

The main reason is that although "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" claims to be Chinese culture, it is actually not made for Chinese people to watch, so it naturally cannot sell well in the areas where Chinese culture is influenced.

On the contrary, it sold 128 million in North America.

"Your Name" was released in many countries and regions outside China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, and only earned 90 million yuan, or more than 13 million US dollars at the box office.

It is almost a ten-fold difference.

FC Pictures is not strong enough in the distribution, and "Your Name" is indeed not so suitable for Europe and the United States. It does not feel wronged that it only got a few million dollars in North America.

Michael Bay can only pin his hopes on "Source Code".

It's just that "Source Code" cannot get the import quota from China this year, and it will definitely have to wait until next year to be released.

Things are so outrageous that even Hao Yun, who made a movie in Hollywood, has to follow the quota system as long as he does not get the qualification of co-production.

"From the director's point of view, what do you think of my performance in the movie "Inception"?" Leonardo thinks Hao Yun has more say and will look at this matter more objectively.

The implication is, do you think I look like an Oscar winner?

It's like Huang Daxian asking you if I look like a human being.

When Nolan was asked this sentence, Nolan would only say that we will win the world.

Go to hell.

"The performance is very good, but "Inception" is a blockbuster, it's hard to make you happy." Hao Yun understood what Leonardo meant.

"What a pity, I've tried so hard." Leonardo was like someone's girlfriend who was deflated.

"Hey, don't be like this, this will be a great movie, whether it wins an award or not doesn't affect its greatness!" Hao Yun hurriedly comforted him.

If Nolan found out that he deflated Leonardo, he would definitely not let him go.

The state of an actor is sometimes just one-shot.

"Great?" This word is a bit exaggerated, even more exaggerated than winning an award.

"Yes, this movie is obviously the director's tribute to old Borges. These carefully designed psychedelic plots, the connection between dreams and dreams, and the connection between dreams and reality are very similar to Borges' novels.

Labyrinths and mirrors are Borges' famous labels.

The biggest difference from the novel is that Nolan uses extremely exaggerated image elements to restore the vague and magical dream.

This is simply a... well, in short, it will definitely be remembered in film history, and it will become a landmark event in film history like "Blade Runner" and "The Matrix"! "

Leonardo was stunned by the bluff, and he was filled up by Hao Yun again.

Nolan came to give Leonardo a daily boost, only to find that he had been beaten before.

I felt a green tinge on my forehead.

I don’t know why, these people from ancient times to the present, as long as they mention leaving their names in history, their brains immediately heat up.

The same is true for An’s father. It is said that he was not as hard-working as he is now when he was a first secretary.

Now he is not only actively involved in teaching as the Chinese director, but also goes to other universities to give speeches, and tries to enhance the influence of the Confucius Institute in Paris.

This time his future son-in-law came to the Confucius Institute to give a speech, which attracted many students from Paris.

Mainly from Paris VII, but also from Paris VIII and other schools.

Compared with Paris VII, which enjoys international reputation and influence in the fields of medicine, science, humanities and social sciences, Paris VIII has film and audio-visual arts majors at both the undergraduate and master’s levels, and is the first choice for many students who want to study film in public universities.

I heard that this year’s Golden Lion Award winner came to give a speech, and I was a little eager to move.

The film industry is not so rebellious, and the masters are respected in any occasion.

Hao Yun discussed the time with his father-in-law and decided to arrange three exchanges.

The first one was about China, mainly about Chinese culture.

Especially the part that foreigners can't understand very well, because of this misunderstanding, it is easy to have prejudice.

For example, they think that Chinese people have no faith.

This is indeed a prejudice.

Or a narrow understanding.

The other thing is to talk about some cultural things.

Hao Yun didn't intend to convince anyone.

Many academic masters who came out of China have tried to do that, but with little success.

Hao Yun's angle is very unique.

Looking at these foreign students in the audience, he mainly told some small stories.

The big truths are all written in books.

If people really want to understand these big truths of your country, just read the books.

Since you don't want to understand, it's useless for you to talk.

The existence of prejudice, in addition to some inherent ideas that have been continuing, is actually more of a fear emotion.

As you become stronger, the threat theory will have more and more market.

It is not the case that, as some wise experts say, we can just let our horses go to the south mountain, do product processing in peace and stability, and happily become the world's factory.

Naturally, we will no longer be disliked by outsiders.

General principles are useless, so it is better to make the lecture more cheerful.

At least they listened to the story with great interest, but they did not realize that they had learned a lot about Chinese culture and the views that Hao Yun wanted to express from the story.

Of course, the most important thing is that the speaker is knowledgeable and speaks French well enough.

Hao Yun feels that if he consolidates his knowledge a little, he can take the DELF or CATTI exam, and there are also TFS-4/TFS-8 certificates for French.

New certificates are waiting for him to get.

Although he is knowledgeable, Hao Yun still refused to answer any questions related to Zheng Zhi at the lecture.

It is hard to explain this, and it is not his place to say it.

It is difficult to understand what the people who have something in their minds and run out to speak nonsense are after all, and they may be confused themselves.

Probably because he felt that he was abandoned by the times and did not get the glory he deserved.

So he hit it off with those outside who wanted to hear such complaints.

The effect of the first day was very good.

It was just that there were a little too many people, which was different from what Hao Yun thought.

There are not many students in the Confucius Institute. The entire institute has grown from dozens of people at the beginning to two or three hundred people now.

But there were hundreds of people who came to listen to his lectures.

The second lecture on movies attracted even more people, directly thousands of people, and he had to communicate with Paris VII to change to the auditorium.

There are not so many concerns when talking about movies.

Moreover, Hao Yun does not need to give lectures based on the height of the entire Chinese film. He just talks about his film ideas in combination with his own works, just like reporting work.

Even if he looks at the world, he is a successful director.

"Buried" made more than 30 million US dollars at the box office with 3 million US dollars, and "Whiplash" made more than 1 million US dollars, and also made 30 million US dollars in the United States and Europe.

"Your Name" cost less than 10 million US dollars and has currently created a box office of 265 million US dollars.

Hao Yun has become a miracle in the film industry by winning big with small investments time and time again.

He is better than those big directors who spend $100 million or $200 million to make $600 million or $700 million at the box office.

There were many people who wanted to be directors but couldn't find the money to make movies. They not only listened to the class seriously, but also took notes like crazy.

It was so damn useful.

There were even many people in the film and television industry who went to listen to the class.

Among them were the connections Hao Yun had accumulated at the three major European film festivals, such as Javier Giannoli, who was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 with "When I Was a Singer".

In the early 1990s, he began to get involved in filmmaking and shot many short films, from which he had already revealed his skilled narrative skills.

And the 1998 short film "Interview" also won him the Best Short Film Award at the Caesar and Cannes Film Festivals.

He and Hao Yun have more common topics.

In terms of subject matter, Javier's films have always revolved around love, the most beloved subject of the French.

Commercial films are his main research object.

Hao Yun is unique in the field of romantic commercial films.

Except for the box office explosion of "Titanic", most romantic films have a box office of tens of millions of dollars at most. Hao Yun's "Those Years", "Painted Skin", "Your Name", etc., are all outstanding commercial films even in the world film industry.

Javier Gianoli did not just come to support his friend.

He also listened to the class seriously and learned something of his own from Hao Yun's ideas.

Hao Yun did not talk about how "Hello! Mr. Tree" won the Golden Lion Award. He simply talked about how to make money by making movies.

It was so simple that people gave him a thumbs up.

On the third day, Hao Yun talked about music with the students of the Confucius Institute.

His playing ability is not amazing, but it is still superb. He played several instruments on the spot, such as guitar, erhu, suona...

Hao Yun's guitar level is the best among all his instruments. He has been playing for seven years. His level is now better than his teacher Li Meng.

Since last year, it has been difficult for him to get any attributes from Li Meng.

If you count, it has been a long time since I saw Teacher Li Meng violate morals.

The huqin was originally unintentional, but the sound of the erhu was heartbreaking, and the students who played it wanted to cry.

The suona came on stage. I didn't recognize the sound of the suona at first, but I was already in a coffin when I heard it again.

After the performance, we talked about his Chinese songs, English songs, and instrumental music.

Talk about some musical anecdotes in ancient China, and they are all the heritage of the ancient civilization.

The fourth show was even more interesting.

Although Hao Yun had already announced that he would only talk about Chinese food this time and cook a dish on the spot, and those who were not interested did not need to join in the fun, many young people still squeezed into the scene.

It is estimated that few people can understand why he, a director, talks about food.

There is also a Chinatown in Paris, such as the Choisy Triangle, but some Chinese traditions there have long changed. It can also be said that they are adapted to local conditions and keep pace with the times.

Therefore, the attendees of the lecture truly experienced what Chinese cuisine is.

No matter how it tasted - there were too many people, so we couldn't share it with everyone - but at least the cooking process was eye-opening.

It was indeed what the ancient emperors ate.

In fact, Hao Yun detailed all the secrets of a secret dish made in the palace. If you follow his process and do more research, you can really make it almost right.

Hao Yun gave a total of five lectures at the Confucius Institute.

The last one was an interactive exchange, talking about China, movies, creation, and even "The Martian", which sold well in France.

This movie will probably be auditioned in winter.

In order to promote the movie, Michael Bay will work with Hao Yun to select suitable actors from around the world.

When Hao Yun was busy organizing five exchanges for his father-in-law, An Xiaoxi was always with him.

But it was impossible for him to accompany him all the time.

After all, An Xiaoxi had to go back to promote "Sword Rain", which was not as popular as "Your Name".

The decline of martial arts movies is not a joke, but I don't know if the combination of Hao Yun + An Xiaoxi can save "Sword Rain".