Millennium director

"Director, is it so troublesome to release a movie in Hollywood? Do you have to hold so many premieres?"

In a luxury hotel in the city of London, Wang Xueqi, who is nearly 70 years old, collapsed on the sofa in the living room of Wu Yuan's room, his face full of fatigue.

It is already late at night on October 24th, and the crew of "Doctor Strange" has just finished the premiere in London.

The past week has been a great test for Wang Xueqi.

After the premiere of "Doctor Strange" in Shanghai, he followed the team to Los Angeles to attend the Los Angeles premiere of "Doctor Strange", and then came to London with everyone to attend the London premiere.

Running two cities in five days is actually nothing, but it is not an easy thing to have the Atlantic Ocean between the two cities.

Adding China, this is equivalent to Wang Xueqi crossing more than a dozen time zones in a short period of time and crossing two-thirds of the earth!

This is not an easy thing for an old man who is almost 70 years old. The inappropriate daily and night schedule alone is enough to torture people.

Not to mention that he had to participate in the premiere promotion and face these blond and blue-eyed foreigners in a good spirit.

After so many years in the industry, Wang Xueqi has never complained about the hard work, but this week really made him a little exhausted and a little bit overwhelmed.

"Teacher Wang, you have worked hard." Wu Yuan had to comfort him: "Today is the last premiere."

"Hollywood movies are like this. Generally, blockbusters that are released worldwide will have a premiere in North America and the UK, taking into account the North American and European film markets."

"In recent years, our Chinese film market has also risen, and more and more Hollywood blockbusters pay attention to the Chinese mainland market and will also hold grand premieres in the mainland."

"This kind of thing is indeed very common in Hollywood."

Wu Yuan was also a little helpless. Hollywood movies do like to hold several premieres. This is the "happy trouble" that movies facing the global market must bear.

When Wu Yuan's movies went overseas, they also held premieres in Japan. It's the same reason, paying attention to the local market.

Domestic movies are easy, as they only need to hold a film event, but this also shows that there is only the Chinese market and no influence overseas.

Wu Yuan smacked his lips and said, "When will our Chinese-language films be able to hold premiere events all over the world? This will show that Chinese-language films are really going global."

"Now only you have this ability." Wang Xueqi was not optimistic about this future and kept shaking his head.

As a Chinese actor who has seen the "big world" overseas, Wang Xueqi clearly knows the gap between Chinese and Hollywood movies.

The gap is not the soft power gap between directors, actors, and screenwriters, but the hard power gap in the film supporting industry chain, and this hard power gap cannot be caught up in three to five years.

Not to mention anything else, during the filming of "Doctor Strange", Wang Xueqi could clearly feel the gap in the professionalism of the crew.

Before coming to Hollywood to shoot, the most professional and high-level crew he had seen was Wu Yuan's crew, and when he went to the crew of "Inception", he deeply felt the professionalism of Hollywood.

The feeling in the "Doctor Strange" crew was even deeper, especially when he knew that Wu Yuan's crew backbones were all sent to Hollywood by him to study, which made him feel even more touched.

This kind of behind-the-scenes work, supporting industrial chain, and the gap in the professional level of the roles of the film are really not so easy to be eliminated.

"Take your time." Wu Yuan pursed his lips. He was also very clear about this, but he was more confident than Wang Xueqi: "It took us only more than ten years to rush from the original tenth largest film market in the world to the second and first. In another ten years, these behind-the-scenes film systems can also catch up with Hollywood."

"I have always believed it!"

"I hope so." Wang Xueqi nodded hopefully.

After a few seconds of silence, Wu Yuan changed the subject: "Teacher Wang, after these three premieres, you played the role of Ancient One very well!"

"I see that the invited guests discussed Ancient One more than the male lead Doctor Strange."

"You are going to be really popular overseas this time."

"I am already this age, I don't care whether it is popular or not." Wang Xueqi smiled and shook his head.

That being said, Wu Yuan clearly saw some complacency in his expression.

After these three premieres, Wang Xueqi was indeed very surprised and pleasantly surprised.

The role of Master Ancient One, in terms of the number of shots in the movie, is definitely not the second male lead. From the plot point of view, the significance of this role is like the novice guide in the online game, whose role is to lead the protagonist, teach the protagonist, and then hand over his responsibilities to the protagonist, and then he can die.

Generally speaking, this kind of "guide" role is not very noticeable.

But Ancient One is different.

This role is too cool.

The words "mysterious" and "erudite" are the embodiment of Ancient One.

Coupled with his identity as the "Grandpa of China", he naturally gives Europeans a sense of "hazy beauty".

After all, in the eyes of most Europeans and Americans, the word "China" represents mystery, antiquity, and culture.

The appearance of the character of Ancient One has embodied the country of "Huaxia" in a flesh-and-blood person, which is very eye-catching for European and American audiences and fans.

To a certain extent, the charm of this character is even greater than that of the male protagonist Stephen Strange!

After all, Stephen Strange was an arrogant and unpleasant person before the accident, and he regained his life with the help of Ancient One after the accident.

In addition, although Benedict Cumberbatch is handsome, there are a lot of handsome European and American men, so this is not a rare thing.

But the appearance of a mysterious, powerful, ancient, and knowledgeable Asian "Merlin" in European and American movies is very novel.

Although the movie is called "Doctor Strange", many film critics and media people who participated in the premieres in Los Angeles and London wrote a lot of articles interpreting the role of "Master Ancient One" after the premiere, and talked about this role!

Even on Google search software, the search ranking of "Ancient One" is before "Doctor Strange", and the number of hits on the Google entry of "Ancient One" has skyrocketed in the past week!

These things were collected and conveyed to the "Doctor Strange" crew as soon as possible. Wu Yuan didn't know what other people thought after learning about it, but he was very happy anyway.

This role change is right!

It turned out to be an extremely correct choice to change the movie version of the Ancient One from a Celtic woman back to an Asian elderly man in the original comics!

Whether it is the fans of the original comics, or various film critics and media people, they all recognize this role very much! (End of this chapter)