China Entertainment: Director’s happiness is so simple

Chapter 479 Lifting the sedan chair

Actually, it’s about “lifting the sedan chair”.

Two years later, John Woo himself admitted it personally.

John Woo's "Wind Talker" failed miserably, causing a major Hollywood company to close down, and he returned to China in despair.

But he can cash in on his past reputation and direct top-level projects in the Chinese film industry such as "Red Cliff". He has hundreds of millions of investments at his disposal. He has the choice of first-line stars and powerful actors from the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places, and the producers arrange the best. schedule.

So of course Director Wu felt that he could do it again, and his self-awareness was completely inflated.

Moreover, as a Xiangjiang director who is married to a wife from Wanwan, he seems to be full of contempt for the mainland film industry, and even regards the mainland investors who have invested huge sums of money as "taken advantage of".

In 2010, after filming "Red Cliff", he even gave a public interview in Singapore with director Zhu Yanping, who has served as chairman of the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards Organizing Committee for many times, and talked about how to use mainland funds to take advantage of the situation and team up with Bay Area filmmakers. A "long-term plan" to support the new generation of Hong Kong and Taiwan and suppress mainland actors.

He even said directly:

They want to take advantage of the opportunity to direct co-productions, including the opportunity to be nominated for the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, to lure successful mainland stars into supporting roles for the young Hong Kong and Taiwan artists they are trying their best to support.

It is to try to rank the roles and roles of Hong Kong and Taiwan artists before mainland stars, so as to give investors from all parties the illusion: "The most popular mainland actors can only play supporting roles for the new generation of Hong Kong and Taiwan; mainland newcomers He is even more unworthy of playing the leading role."

Therefore, it can not only directly suppress the popularity and prospects of newcomers from the mainland, but also rapidly increase the popularity and commercial value of newcomers from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Therefore, "Painted Skin" directed by Chen Jiashang, starring three mainland actors Zhou Gongzi, Xiao Yanzi, and Chen Kun, was a hit at the box office. John Woo was even regarded as a "traitor" and reprimanded him in person: "It destroyed the unified stance of directors from Hong Kong, Taipei and Taipei." .

So I think Chen Jiashang, who came to this time and space, also encountered this situation.

Wu and Zhu also publicly mentioned that for mainland stars who are willing to cooperate and carry sedans for newcomers in Wanwan, they can be appropriately "rewarded" with a nomination for the Wanwan Golden Horse Award or the Hong Kong Film Awards, in order to encourage more mainland stars. Follow the example and rush to carry the sedan chair for the new generation of "Heavenly Banquets" (Ethan Juan, Zhao Youting, Peng Yuyan) that Wanwan highly praises.

It's so naked and unabashed.

The movie "Red Cliff" is the "proud work" they mentioned.

At this time, the most popular actress in the Mainland, Xiao Yanzi, who became a household name in "Huanzhugege", played the second female lead "Sun Shangxiang".

We found a 30-year-old model from Wanwan, Lin Chiling, who acted for the first time, and paired her with Chao Wei, an international actor, to play the leading female role, "Xiao Qiao."

Let Song Jia, a mainland actress who failed to compete for "Xiao Qiao", play a minor maid.

Lu Wei, the top mainland screenwriter who created the scripts for "Farewell My Concubine" and "Alive", was completely inconsistent with John Woo's creative concept. His original script was directly thrown into the trash can by Director Wu.

If it weren't for the fact that mainland producers had invested hundreds of millions of dollars and had a considerable degree of supervision and restraint on John Woo,

Let him not dare to be too messy when arranging the plot,

So according to Director Wu's original intention, I'm afraid it's more than just arranging the sex scene between Chao Wei's version of "Zhou Yu" and "Xiao Qiao".

In this way, Ling Chiling is equivalent to "stepping on the little swallow to rise to the top", and she has become one of the first-line actresses in the Chinese film industry. Since then, various top fashion resources and movie heroines have appeared one after another, and she has been famous for more than ten years.

Through this cooperation, Xiao Yanzi has gained more connections in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film circles, and will have more resources in the future, including nominations and winning opportunities at the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Bay Area Golden Horse Awards.

As for Song Jia, a mainland actress who has starred in many TV series, her status and resources in the film industry will always fall behind Ling Chiling, who became a monk halfway and overtook in the back row.

The reason why John Woo made such wild remarks in 2010 was that he even shouted the above remarks.

In fact, it was the Japanese market that saved the life of "Red Cliff".

"Red Cliff" was released in mainland China and failed miserably at the box office, not even exceeding the cost.

But Japanese movie fans have a blind love for the theme of the Three Kingdoms.

The box office was extremely high.

John Woo then felt that he could do it again, and then he spoke wildly.

When a series of public interviews and videos between Wu and Zhu were exposed, it caused an uproar across the Internet. They were awarded the "Golden Crow Award" by the Tianya Forum, the most popular forum at the time, which ruined their reputation.

When the Mainland and Hong Kong and Taiwan co-produce film and television dramas, various incidents of unequal treatment and friction have been going on for many years and occur from time to time.

In the end, the mainland film and television industry, which has advantages in capital, platform, and market, often simply "stops playing with them (the Hong Kong and Taiwan circles)" after repeatedly suffering losses and being taken advantage of.

In 2014, "Peace Wheel", which also invested a huge amount of money and gathered stars from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places, was a complete failure in box office reputation and directly won the "International Director" who was awarded the "Lifetime Achievement Award" by the Venice Film Festival. , and this time he was invited out of the mainland film industry.

Like "Red Cliff", the mainland's investment accounts for the vast majority, but the main actors are mostly a group of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars, and even two Japanese movie stars.

A movie that actually allowed a Japanese mixed-race actor to play the role of the eternal Chinese sage "Zhuge Liang" is probably unprecedented, and it is unlikely that there will be another one in the future.

It's just that in the original time and space before 2014, the mainland management and mainland filmmakers knew this and had no choice but to do anything.

But now is not the original time and space.

At this time, the mainland film industry is undoubtedly the number one star.

Even throughout Asia, the stars are like giants.

So some people called directly and asked Lu Ping'an, the big brother in the mainland, to have a word with him.

Lu Ping An was speechless about this.

You dug the pit yourself, and you jumped into it yourself.

Now you accept me as your big brother and want to drag me into trouble?

What are you thinking!

Of course, as the "big brother" in the Mainland, Lu Ping An must pay attention to this matter from a public perspective.

So that night he sat down with Han Sanpin and drank tea.

Lu Pingan said directly: "These people from Hong Kong and Taiwan have ulterior motives."

Han Sanpin was also a little helpless.