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Chapter 274 The first round: Wu Baige and Wu Yuan’s verbal confrontation!

【Er Wu is coming with force! The best summer season ever! 】

[The strongest July release, "Red Cliff" and "Gravity" are both released! 】

[The blockbuster month of 2008 is confirmed. Hollywood directors have returned to China to make new films. Who can be better? 】

At the end of 2007, a big news quickly detonated the mainland entertainment industry.

Wu Yuan and Wu Baige's new films are super blockbusters with an investment of 300 million, and they are both scheduled to be released in July.

Although the two movies are still staggered by half a month and are not strictly considered simultaneous movies, it is still very exciting news to be released together in the same month.

"Red Cliff" is Wu Baige's first Chinese-language war blockbuster, returning to the Chinese market after 12 years since entering Hollywood with "Broken Arrow" in 1996!

"Gravity" is the first mainland science fiction blockbuster to compete with Hollywood standards. It is also Wu Yuan's new film released three years after "Painted Skin".

Both films have attracted much attention, have profound backgrounds and rare themes, and are unprecedented blockbusters in the mainland film industry.

Even the producer is the same person.

Han Sanping is not only the producer of "Red Cliff", but also the co-producer of "Gravity" with Wu Yuan.

Han Sanping, who was promoted to chairman of China Film Group, brought two super bombs to everyone as soon as he took office, rekindling enthusiasm for the already cooling Chinese blockbuster market.

Although there is still more than half a year until the release of these two movies, after the news of the scheduled release, countless eyes across the country have been focused on these two movies.

Without any behind-the-scenes footage or trailers leaked, the plots and content of these two movies have become hotly discussed topics among movie fans on the Internet.

"Red Cliff" Just by looking at the title of the movie, you will know that it tells the story of the Battle of Red Cliff in the Three Kingdoms.

Although Wu Baige has learned from the experience of turning a war movie into a very petty movie about friendship on the battlefield.

But the current Chinese audience still believes in Wu Baige.

After all, he has been in Hollywood for ten years. Before Wu Yuan came out, he was the most successful director from Hong Kong to Hollywood.

Most Chinese movie fans believe that the failure of "Wind Whisperer" should be attributed to the poor script. In addition, Wu Baige does not understand American war blockbusters and has no relevant shooting experience, which is why he made this failed work. This is not his normal level.

This time Wu Baige returned to China to film "Red Cliff", which tells the story of the Three Kingdoms that is familiar to Chinese people. It is one of the most famous classical battles in China. I believe he will be able to avenge his shame and make a classic Chinese war blockbuster.

Well, Wu Baige himself thinks so too. "Red Cliff" is what he wants to use to avenge his shame and kick his reputation as "unable to make a war movie" into the garbage!

Wu Baige, who was also busy with post-production work, rarely found time to accept interviews from some media reporters.

"I think the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, especially the Battle of Red Cliff, best expresses our Chinese spirit of loyalty. For example, the friendship between Liu Bei, Guan Yunchang, Zhang Fei, and Zhuge Liang, That sense of loyalty is very strong in the play.”

"In addition, apart from this, this scene is also the one that best expresses our Chinese wisdom."

"For example, there are several different battles in it. For this kind of battle, I hope to use some of Sun Tzu's Art of War as much as possible. Every formation, every formation, every killing formation, every breaking formation is shot very realistically. Wonderful."

"In mainland terms, this movie is a war blockbuster with very grand scenes!"

"My biggest purpose in making movies is to bring the audience back to the cinema. If the audience only watches DVDs at home, the film industry will definitely not prosper."

"Now only one or two domestic directors' films can be sold internationally, and there is no international market for Hong Kong films."

"Someone told me that they hope I can come back and make a Chinese-language film to reopen the Chinese-language film market."

"So I came back with this Red Cliff."

""Red Cliff" is very special. It is different from all other war films. I also added modern emotions to look at history."

"I hope that Zhou Yu, Xiao Qiao, and Zhuge Liang are all young in the play. I hope to retain more of the traditional beauty, but also have a modern temperament. I hope that the audience, young people, will have a sense of empathy after watching it."

"Put yourself into the perspective of the high-spirited Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang, and the independent and beautiful Xiao Qiao, and look at that special and turbulent era."

"Why didn't Zhou Yunmao act?"

"He asked for five million US dollars and made more than a hundred conditions. I can't give him the money. It's as simple as that."

In this interview, Wu Baige responded a lot, and in the interview he also talked about his love and appreciation of Chinese culture, and said that he had always dreamed of making a movie with a pure Chinese cultural style.

I want to make a movie that can show the wisdom, personality, culture, and spirit of the Chinese people.

It's a good meal, not shabby.

This kind of words can only deceive mainland audiences who currently receive relatively little information.

If Wu Baige really liked Chinese culture and wanted to make movies that reflected Chinese culture, he would not have stopped making Chinese films after successfully entering Hollywood in 1996 until he could no longer survive in Hollywood. , only then did I think of the banner of "Chinese Culture".

Besides, when he was filming movies in Hong Kong Island, he didn't remember that China has great rivers and mountains, and the movies didn't reflect much of the Chinese spirit and style.

Whether it’s “A Better Tomorrow” or “A Better Tomorrow”, they are both typical Hong Kong Island shootout movies!

It can only be said that Wu Baige could only lick his face and say shameless words in order to eat a bowl of rice from the mainland.

Hey, the current Chinese audience is just fine with this. The contemporary Chinese people, who are extremely lacking in national self-confidence, really need some remarks that praise and praise Chinese culture, especially from the mouths of such "returnees", then It’s even more exciting.

It's like taking a bite of ice-cold watermelon on an August day, feeling refreshed from head to toe!

I don't know how many viewers and netizens made up their minds after seeing this exclusive interview report to go to the cinema to watch "Red Cliff" and appreciate the Chinese classical world and great rivers and mountains through the lens of a famous international director.

If you ask them to spend money to go to the cinema to watch a movie made by an ordinary domestic director, they will definitely not be willing to do it and feel that they are losing money.

But if you let them spend money to watch a Chinese-language film made by a "returnee director", it will be well worth it. After all, this is a director who has been gilded overseas.

Of course, in this exclusive interview, Wu Baige also mentioned another director who has also become gilded overseas.

"Another Director Wu?"

"I know him. He is very young, has done well in movies, and is very famous in Hollywood."

"The "Pirates of the Caribbean" film he made is a great fantasy blockbuster, and I have also seen it."

"This time he dared to try a science fiction theme. He was really brave. Many big directors in Hollywood dare not make science fiction films."

"Competition? I think there should be no competition between us."

"'Gravity' is a science fiction movie, and 'Red Cliff' is a costume war movie, and they were released half a month apart, so there is no competition at all."

"I wish him well and hope his movie does well as well."

Look, what a level of saying this is.

When I first heard it, I seemed to be in good spirits, and even praised Wu Yuan a few words. It felt like a family of Chinese directors enjoying themselves.

But after a closer look, I found that it was full of pitfalls.

Mentioning that Wu Yuan is young is nothing more than showing off his status as a senior, while also implying that young people are inexperienced and immature.

He praised "Pirates of the Caribbean" as a very powerful fantasy blockbuster, which was nothing more than a hint that Wu Yuan had only proven himself in the field of fantasy films, and his level of performance in other films may not be certain.

He also said that it was a very courageous act for him to try to make a science fiction movie. Many big Hollywood directors couldn't do it. He also secretly said that Wu Yuan didn't know the heights of the world and had a plan to die.

Finally, he also wished "Gravity" good results.

The word "ye" is very clever. Only when "Red Cliff" is successful can the word "ye" be used to bless "Gravity".

The charm of language can be said to have been mastered by Wu Baige.

Reporters, especially entertainment reporters, have always been interested in watching the excitement and not taking things too seriously.

Of course, the reporters from Guijing immediately understood the profound meaning of Wu Baige's words, but they pretended not to understand and sent the video and manuscript to the Internet verbatim.

Moreover, they took the video of the interview and approached Wu Yuan who was filming "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die" in Yanjiao.

The heavy snow cannot hide the passion in their hearts.

The cordon set up by the crew and the patrolling security personnel could not stop these reporters from their enthusiasm for interviews.

In order not to affect the normal filming of the crew and prevent these reporters from being blocked outside the set, Wu Yuan, who originally did not want to accept any interviews, had to take a break at noon to accept a brief interview.

Wu Yuan is not the kind of person who takes things easy. In addition, he is young and there is nothing to be criticized for making arrogant remarks.

After seeing the interview video with Wu Baige's words, Wu Yuan was a little annoyed and said on the spot: ""Gravity" is China's first science fiction blockbuster, and I am very fond of this movie. Confidence."

"I know that this kind of science fiction blockbuster has never appeared in our mainland."

"But Hollywood science fiction movies have already formed a complete system."

"I have studied in Hollywood for a long time and have worked with many big companies in Hollywood. I have a fairly good understanding of the science fiction film industry system. I believe that I can bring a film to the Chinese audience that is not inferior to the good ones. Sci-fi movie coming to Hollywood.”

"After all, I am doing well in Hollywood, and I have a global box office of two to three billion US dollars. I have no shortage of connections and resources."

"Directors such as Spielberg and Cameron who have made great achievements in science fiction films, I have consulted with them in private."

"There should be no one in China who knows Hollywood better than me!"

"If I can't do it, there probably won't be any other director in China who can make good science fiction films."

The corners of Wu Yuan's mouth were slightly raised, and he looked at the reporters with a half-smile.

He didn't mention Wu Baige a word, but every word he said touched Wu Baige's heart deeply.

Being driven back from Hollywood in despair was the most painful thing for Wu Baige.

He laid out in front of Wu Yuan the profile of a great director and senior in Hollywood?

This is the dung beetle lighting up the toilet - looking for dung!

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