China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 521 Gains and losses without fighting over one city or one pool

"The Magic City International Film Festival opens with a bang! "The Wandering Earth" is a hit in Shanghai!"

"Take the earth to wander, and the 700 million science fiction blockbuster will compose a magnificent epic for mankind!"

"The screening of the summer war blockbuster "Apocalypse" has received overwhelming reviews, and the highlights are revealed: bloody and heroic, shocking scenes!"

"Guo Fan + Wu Jing, the ace combination creates another domestic science fiction masterpiece"

""The Wandering Earth" was high-octane throughout and the special effects were perfect. The entire audience stood up and applauded after the screening!"

""The Eight Hundred Revelations" received rave reviews and was hailed as the most powerful war movie produced in China!"

"Things after watching "The Wandering Earth": Stubborn, sincere, brave, and noble, DreamWorks' sci-fi imagination seems to have no end!"

"The review of "Eight Hundred Revelation" has been released! The hard-core war scenes have been restored, and the plot is so real that it can be called a tearjerker!"

Chen Jingxing clicked on one of the news items and read the comments.

[This word-of-mouth has exploded, that word-of-mouth has exploded, word-of-mouth has exploded everywhere, and it hasn’t even been released yet, but you are marketing so hard?]

There is a certain sad atmosphere lingering in the theater, which makes people feel heavy.

After hearing Chen Jingxing's complaint, Guo Fan thought about it and laughed a little: "It's true, it's a bit funny when you think about it carefully, but the overall mood creation is pretty good, enough to make people ignore it. You can see it more carefully than me."

[Haha, it’s not like you don’t know the skills of the marketing factory. The patriotic factory plus Guo Fan, a main theme professional, plus Captain Langya, the flavor is too strong. Captain Langya is going to save all mankind this time.]

"But these are all details. Overall, the quality is above the standard. The reviews are a little exaggerated but not excessive."

["Eight Hundred Revelation" is definitely not marketing, it is really good-looking, and it is not meant to be criticized. I think it is not inferior to "Operation Red Sea" and "Wolf Fang II", it is even better-looking, and has a richer humanistic atmosphere]

Chen Jingxing's evaluation weight is higher than that of Guan Hu. It would be strange if the media did not report it extensively. Naturally, people cannot take advantage of it in vain.

For example, in the previous life "Eight Hundred", an important scene was cut out after being stuck by the film bureau and after a long and exhausting effort - the Japanese civilian reporter who was hanged.

Compared with the "Eight Hundred" in the previous life, except for the many changes in the cast, the general plot line of "Eight Hundred" in this dimension does not have much difference.

As for saluting the little girl, shouting slogans, lyrical slow motion, singing opera, giving a thumbs up, etc., these overly sensational scenes are not a shortcoming for commercial films.

A civilian reporter in the Lend-A-Lease was angry when he saw the atrocities committed by the Japanese army on the other side. He did not agree with such bloody aggression by the Japanese army, so he cursed the invading army in Japanese on the river bank.

It can be seen from this movie that the production cost of 550 million claimed by Jingying Film is not very high.

On one side, it tells the real atrocities committed by the invaders, and on the other side, it tells a fictional story of a victim accidentally killing a good person from the enemy country. Is it to make both sides appear to have back and forth, and to make China appear less like a perfect victim?

It's just confusing.

Wouldn’t that mean making wedding clothes for competitors?

It turns out that the film bureau is quite merciful, otherwise he would definitely teach Jingying a big lesson again.

…

Chen Jingxing and Guo Fan really didn't have time to watch "The Eight Hundred Revelation". After all, this movie was screened simultaneously with "The Wandering Earth" yesterday, the first day after the opening of the film festival.

If this clip had not been deleted, Chen Jingxing would definitely have allowed DreamWorks' marketing department to teach its opponents an unforgettable lesson.

Guo Fan gave a relatively high evaluation from the perspective of film production. His expression was a little solemn: "The film production level itself is already the highest level in the film industry. The money was not wasted."

"The overall story is really good. The emotional exaggeration is a bit overdone, but this is not a shortcoming. It's just that the last plot where the British soldier in the concession was moved and then cursed the Japanese and fired a gun was a bit nonsensical."

Although there have been a lot of online movie reviews and feedback, you still have to experience it yourself before you can fully understand it.

The main reason why Chen Jingxing was able to remain calm and criticize the movie was that he was no stranger to the story, and he didn't really read it more carefully than Guo Fan and others.

To be honest, Chen Jingxing, who was an ordinary viewer in his previous life, felt that this confusing plot was incomprehensible, and the screenwriter and director couldn't come up with this plot if they didn't have enough brains.

"I think it's even more tragic than "Red Sea" and "Spike II", but the sensationalism is a bit excessive." Xiang Xuan said thoughtfully.

Guo Fan, as one of the few commercial film directors in China, naturally knows this, so his expression becomes more solemn.

After being discovered by the rented people, they thought he was a Japanese spy, and he was hanged to death by the angry people.

Excessive sensationalism is what film critics or fans think. This type of shortcoming does not affect the box office for ordinary viewers.

The two movies are separated by half a month, which is theoretically not enough to have a fundamental impact. After all, the first two weeks are basically when a movie can make the most money at the box office.

[It’s about to be released anyway, why are you anxious? The more good movies there are, the more the audience will benefit.]

[I have been looking forward to "The Wandering Earth" for a long time just after watching the trailer. Master Wu has become an astronaut this time, and my family Maizi...]

[DreamWorks is playing hunger marketing again]

Chen Jingxing put down his cell phone and said to Xiang Xuan: "Knowing ourselves and our enemies means we can fight a hundred battles, so let's go and have a look. Isn't Lao Guo going to a road show tomorrow? Invite him too."

However, Chen Jingxing was afraid of trouble. After all, if he was invited to watch the screening, if after the screening, reporters asked him questions about his views on the movie, would Chen Jingxing be able to derail him? Of course, he would mainly praise him.

Unlike Guo Fan's more solemn expression, Chen Jingxing didn't have much reaction. To be precise, the movie did not surprise him.

However, hiring a top foreign special effects company to produce it doesn't mean anything, and it has no necessary connection with the final presentation effect. As a director who has been making heavy industrial movies since joining DreamWorks, Guo Fan knows this all too well.

[Various media, film critics]

The special effects team of "Eight Hundred Revelation" invited four Hollywood special effects teams to jointly create it. He had known this for a long time, because Jingying Film also hired Mo Lai to be responsible for the special effects production, but the post-production workload of DreamWorks was too much.

It was too big and couldn't spare the manpower and resources, so I declined Jingying.

There are still many screenings of "The Eight Hundred" in Shanghai, some of which are press conferences. Basically, as long as Chen Jingxing reveals his secrets, Jingying Film will definitely invite Chen Jingxing and others to attend.

Tragedy is not necessarily bad for the box office. To a certain extent, it is also a tear-jerking element, which can enhance the emotional impact and enhance the audience's movie-watching experience.

But in fact, this shortcoming is not important, because the overall quality of "Eight Hundred Revelations" is indeed excellent, especially the first half. Chen Jingxing can score 8 points or even higher. The second half is a little slow, but it is also

Can score 7 points.

[I'm not surprised that "The Wandering Earth" has such a good reputation. The setting itself is very attractive. The imagination and execution ability of the writers of DreamWorks are still trustworthy. "The Eight Hundred Revelations" has such a good reputation? I

I think I need to wait and see again]

It probably means that even the civilized colonists cannot stand the atrocities committed by the Japanese invaders.

Mr. and Mrs. Guan Hu, who attended the opening of the film festival, quietly left after the screening of "The Wandering Earth", without allowing reporters to catch them and ask about their experience of watching the movie.

There are invaders on both sides, and the invader on one side was moved by the army of the victim country to beat the other invader. It was also placed as a close-up at the final result. It is very speechless when you think about it for a moment. I can only say that the idea is a bit strange.

[My classmate bought a ticket for the screening yesterday and said it was really good to watch, shocking and touching. It’s best to bring tissues with you when watching it, as it will really make you burst into tears]

It can only be attributed to the fact that some literary and artistic workers are not down to earth and do not have the self-movement of a sense of right and wrong.

Chen Jingxing was a little disappointed.

[There are too few screenings of "The Wandering Earth". We have screenings of "The Eight Hundred" here, but not of "The Wandering Earth"]

[The sour chicken came so quickly, but unfortunately the more severe the PTSD attack, the higher the box office of DreamWorks]

Not only do you get what you pay for with special effects, but the director and production team also need to understand special effects, be able to do less wasted work, and establish an industrialized production process.

He had thought in a bad way that the censorship standards in this dimension were much larger than in his previous life, and since the censorship was passed a year in advance, Jingying Film might be able to keep some of their favorite passages.

Today's netizens are quite sensitive.

A Japanese who opposed the massacre and violence stood on the side of the ordinary people of China, but in the end died at the hands of the people of China. What is the significance of fictionalizing such a character and story that has no prototype in history?

What does it want to satirize? Victims become perpetrators? Satirize nationalist fanaticism? Or is it anti-war?

Even if you are satirizing nationalist fanaticism, you cannot satirize the victims? What’s more, it is a satire based on fiction.

[Everyone said they have watched "The Eight Hundred", but what about "The Wandering Earth"? Aren't they all showing it? Why is no one talking about "The Wandering Earth"?]

But it is impossible to say that there is no influence on each other.

"The Wandering Earth" has invested hundreds of millions of dollars, and even the second part has begun to enter the preparation stage. You can imagine the pressure on Guo Fan. This is a project that can only succeed but cannot fail.

The disadvantage of the schedule is already a headache. Seeing that the opponent is still so powerful, it's strange that I don't murmur in my heart.

Chen Jingxing comforted him: "Don't worry, I'm not worried at all. I'm still encouraging you to make a sequel. What are you worried about?"

Taking a long-term view, what I want is a movie series that can continue forever. Even if the box office of "The Wandering Earth" is suppressed by "The 800", it doesn't matter, there is no need to compete for gains and losses."

(End of chapter)