Millennium director

"It's reasonable for Wu Dao to achieve this result.

"Now Director Wu is the only one who has never failed, right? Director Zhang Yimou's "Three Guns" was also a mess."

"Don't mention it, director Yimou's new movie "Hawthorn Tree Love" will be released on the National Day holiday. I don't know if I will miss it again this time."

"This year's National Day schedule is really intense. In order to avoid "Interstellar," all the movies originally scheduled for September have been moved to the National Day schedule."

"Starting from "Detective Dee: The Empire" on September 29, Wu Yusen's "Sword Rain", Donnie Yen and Su Qi's "Fist of Fury", and the Hollywood blockbuster "Suicide Squad", plus Yimou The director's "Hawthorn Love" is a big battle!"

"I don't know who can kill him, but I'm optimistic about "Tongtian Empire"!"

"Isn't it possible that "Interstellar" will beat other movies in the same period until the National Day release?"

"Director Yimou may have avenged his shame."

Watching the discussions among these netizens, Wu Yuan was happy while holding his mobile phone.

After entering the era of smart phones, he finally found some of the feeling of the mobile Internet era in his dream. This is much more convenient than having to carry a laptop with him before.

"Because of the appearance of "Interstellar", this year's National Day movie is really bloody."

Wu Yuan was somewhat gloating and said to Liu Yifei who was doing yoga: ""Sword Rain" and "Fist of Fury" will probably be used as cannon fodder."

“‘The Expendables’ has Jet Li’s appeal, so it should be stronger, but not by much.”

"The big picture still depends on "Hawthorn Love" and "The Sky", but the premise is that by then, they can grab food from the mouth of "Interstellar"."

A batch of movies that were originally scheduled to be released in mid-to-late September have all been moved to the National Day period. Fortunately, there are no gift films to be released during the National Day period this year, which is a window period.

But there was "Interstellar" in the past, which put a lot of pressure, and "The Empire" came later. These movies sandwiched in the middle are also very stressful.

Including Zhang Yimou's "Hawthorn Tree Love", although this time he has returned to the field of literary and romantic films that he is best at, but in the face of such a luxurious competitive lineup, coupled with the decline of literary films in recent years, the Internet is now the least optimistic This is the movie.

Can two pure newcomers, plus Zhang Yimou, create miracles?

Compared with "Empire of Heaven" which has many big names such as Andy Lau, Lau Jialin, Li Binbin, Liang Jiahui, Deng Chao, etc., it is really not enough!

However, Wu Yuan feels that "Hawthorn Tree Love" has the potential to fight.

In the eyes of mainland movie fans who have just experienced the double baptism of "Inception" and "Interstellar", the special effects scenes of "The Empire" may not be able to meet the audience's expectations, and will inevitably be compared to those who have just watched Hollywood science fiction blockbusters. Mainland audiences bring some psychological gap.

And this psychological gap will give a considerable negative reaction when it comes to box office performance.

In comparison, "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" is a very pure love drama, relying entirely on the story and characters to unfold the plot of the movie. Mainland movie fans who have had a "big meal" should have a refreshing taste like this After-dinner dessert, it will produce a good chemical reaction.

"Brother, are you more optimistic about "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree"?" Liu Yifei, who was doing yoga, heard Wu Yuan talking to himself, stopped what he was doing, and asked curiously: "Brother, the media are talking about it now , the era of literary films is passing."

"is this real?"

In the past two years, there has been a lot of talk on the mainland Internet that the era of artistic films has passed.

From the mainstream media to netizens and movie fans, many people are badmouthing literary and artistic films, feeling that the glorious years of mainland literary and artistic films from the 1990s to the beginning of the 21st century are gone forever.

The era of the fifth and sixth generation directors has faded away. Now is the era where box office is king, and it is the era of the seventh generation directors (represented by Wu Yuan).

Rather than making a movie that can win awards but doesn't do well at the box office, people are now more willing to see blockbusters that are well received at the box office.

Liu Yifei didn't say anything about this "impetuous" view, but she was still a little unhappy in her heart.

She loves literary and artistic films very much, and she hopes to star in some literary and artistic films in the future to win awards.

Why can’t literary films be good?

"It won't work anymore." Wu Yuan shook his head: "The era when awards were king has passed."

"Just like reform and opening up set off an economic wave."

"After being completely commercialized, mainland movies are now fully aligned with the economy. Everything is inferior, except for the high box office."

"In the past two years, the attention paid by Europe's three major majors in mainland China has obviously dropped by several orders of magnitude, and participating in mainland movies produced by Europe's three major majors no longer attracts so much attention."

"I think back then, when senior brother Wang Xiaoshuai and I went to the Berlin Film Festival, I just won the Best Newcomer award, and major domestic media rushed to report on it."

"Now? Even if someone wins the Best Director, it will only be popular for three or two days. Only by winning the Palme d'Or, Golden Bear, or Golden Lion will it gain attention."

"However, literary and artistic films will not die. Whether it is China or the global film market, there will always be a need for literary and artistic films. The touching of people's hearts and the baptism of souls that they bring to people cannot be replaced by commercial films."

"I believe that there will still be outstanding literary and artistic films emerging in the future, and there will also be outstanding literary and artistic films that will receive higher attention and popularity than commercial films."

Well, such as "Hello Mr. Tree" and "Into the Dust".

"This matter has nothing to do with you, so you don't have to worry about it." Wu Yuan sighed: "The overall environment is not something that one or two of us can change."

"Sissi, I know you like to watch literary films, and you also want to make literary films."

“If you have good books in the future, just shoot them, and you don’t need to consider the market environment.”

"You are qualified to do whatever you want."

"I'm backing you up."

"Yeah!" Liu Yifei smiled with satisfaction, nodded her head heavily, and then stuck out her tongue and said: "Hey, it's too early to say this now. I'd better finish the movie "Young You" first."

"Young You" has already been approved within the company, and Li Yang, who has read the script, is also happy to take over the film. He is even a little ashamed. Wu Dao's approach is indeed extraordinary.

Now Li Yang is already doing preparatory work for this movie and looking for actors.

Although Wu Yuan made some deletions in the script to emphasize the shining point of the heroine, the male protagonist of this movie is also very important.

But in the current mainland film industry, it is really not easy to find an actor suitable for "Young Man".

Regardless of the mixed reputation of Prince Qianxi in later generations, it is really not easy to find an actor of his age who can replace the opportunity to star in "Young You".

It can be seen that Prince Qianxi still has two brushes.