Millennium director

"Legend of the Gods" is a top-notch big-budget bad movie!

The cast of this movie looks pretty scary.

Li Lianjie, Fan Binbin, Louis Koo, Huang Xiaoming, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Xiang Zuo, Hua Zhao, Xu Qing, Zu Feng, Angelababy...

Look, they are all big stars!

But, this movie, made by Boss Xiang in order to praise his son, is a "Night of the Gods" event, and it is about "going to heaven and earth to show off his magical powers". The daily box office was 80 million yuan, and the cumulative box office in the first three days was 200 million yuan, and then the total box office was only 279 million yuan.

200 million in the first three days of the first weekend, and the total box office in the following month was only 70 million. This shows how bad the reputation of this movie collapsed three days after its release. Fans who went to the theater to watch the movie for the first time criticized it on the Internet. How dirty, how regretful I am after watching this movie.

Well, Wu Yuan's only impression of this is that Lei Zhenzi, played by Xiang Zuo, is ugly and tends to dominate the audience.

It can only be said that Boss Xiang is really rich. He is a producer and has invited so many well-known film actors from both sides of the Taiwan Strait to study with the prince, but he still failed to make the prince famous.

This once again proves the mantra in the industry - Xiaohong relies on support, and big red relies on life!

Even if you spend hundreds of millions on your boss to make an IMAX 3D blockbuster, it will be even harder to make your own son famous.

In fact, "Legend of the Gods" is only regarded as a money-making game for capital, rather than a cultural commodity. The filming of this movie was mainly to "launder money". No one still knows the production cost of this movie. How much, and how much was actually spent on filming.

This is also an old routine of Hong Kong-funded films, an old operation.

This is why Wu Yuan hates the film capital of Hong Kong Island and hates some directors and some actors in Hong Kong Island.

They are really disgusting, and they specialize in destroying the booming film market in mainland China and disrupting market order.

But the good news is that 201y" is coming to an end. As the mainland film industry becomes more and more important, the supervision from above is becoming more and more strict. If you want to make false accounts at will like in previous years, you will have to play yin and yang contracts. The harder it is.

There will be fewer and fewer movies like "Legend of the Gods", which can be considered a good thing.

After confirming the schedule of "Ready Player One", the second good news soon came. The film successfully passed the approval for release, and it was still uncut.

Even though Wu Yuan deliberately did not talk about politics in the movie, and deliberately blurred the background of the story, only setting the background in 2045, and no description of the country, the boss was still very reasonable.

Although the General Administration's review has become more and more stringent in recent years, and some films that could have passed review in the 1990s cannot pass review now, but a great director like Wu Yuan still has some limitations. Privileged.

Some subjects that may be a bit sensitive for a young director can be filmed by a big director, and they can even step over the line, and the bottom line is very flexible.

From Wu Yuan's perspective, this is a good thing, but from a young director's perspective, it's quite depressing.

It's a pity that Wu Yuan didn't have time to care about this. After "Ready Player One" passed the review and was finalized, the movie also entered the warm-up promotion period.

"Legend of the Gods" held a special release press conference in Beijing on April 21, and is planning to do several promotional activities in June. Naturally, it is not inferior to others in the era of light and shadow.

On April 18, 2016, the crew of "Ready Player One" also gathered in Beijing and held a special press conference to announce the release date.

At the press conference, the male lead Peng Yuchang and the female lead Liu Yifei became the focus of interviews by reporters, asking various questions in an attempt to get some spoilers or behind-the-scenes stories from them.

Fortunately, although Peng Yuchang is young, unlike Tom Holland, he is not a big colander.

Not to mention Liu Yifei, she is extremely familiar with how to keep a movie secret and prevent spoilers during the promotion period.

As for Wu Yuan, the major reporters did not dare to attack him, nor did they expect to get any official spoilers from him. The director's majesty was still very scary.

At the press conference, when reporters from the media interviewed Wu Yuan, they were most curious about one thing - why Wu Yuan chose Peng Yuchang, a little-known newcomer, as the leading actor.

Although he has done this before using pure newcomers to make movies (Hu Ge was a pure newcomer when filming "Your Name"), but that was a long time ago, and Wu Yuan at that time was not considered a top player. The great director is also a director who has just debuted.

Since then, Wu Yuan has never used a pure newcomer actor as the leading actor.

Ten years later, Wu Yuan's last two films, whether it is Chen Xingxu in "Riding the Wind" or Peng Yuchang in "Ready Player One", Wu Yuan has boldly used newcomers. Does this mean that Wu Yuan's casting method has changed? After a change, he who used to love to use veteran actors is now learning from Zhang Yimou and starting to train new actors?

Faced with such questions from reporters, Wu Yuan responded as follows:

"It's not that I deliberately cast new actors, it's just that in the two recent movies, the male protagonists were all teenagers aged 17 or 18, so I had to look for suitable candidates among new actors under the age of 20 before finally selecting them. "Peng Peng."

I have always believed that actors serve roles, rather than roles serving actors. Nowadays, some actors in their thirties in the industry are still playing young people of 17 or 18 years old. This is really unacceptable to me. "

"Although Peng Peng is young, he is indeed a very talented actor. During the filming of "Ready Player One", he was growing every moment, which also gave me a sense of accomplishment."

"This also makes me understand why director Zhang Yimou likes to use new actors. Training actors is indeed a very interesting thing. Maybe I will also discover some new actors to star in the filming of movies in the future."

"Of course, everything is random, it all depends on the needs of the character."

Not to mention, after successively casting two new actors, Peng Yuchang and Chen Xingxu, Wu Yuan did become a little bit interested in training new actors.

In the past, he didn't like to use new actors very much because he felt that the new actors were too immature and he was not very good at training actors. Liu Yifei had to teach by words and deeds for more than ten years before he was able to train them. He was not like Zhang Yimou or Chen Kaige who was very good at training actors. director.

But in the past two years, Wu Yuan discovered that with the passage of time and the proficiency of directing skills, he can actually train actors now. Without him, he can only be familiar with it.

In this case, he naturally no longer rejects it, and will even take the initiative to try to use more new actors.

After all, the entertainment industry in recent years has been completely dominated by young talents and popular actors. It is true that these actors cannot get into Wu Yuan's face, so he might as well discover new talents himself (End of Chapter)