At first, I just wanted to make money

Regarding the gap between Chinese and American films...

In fact, our generation has really caught up with a good time.

My first exposure to Hollywood blockbusters were "Titanic", "Jurassic Park", "Shawshank Redemption" and "The Matrix", which are masterpieces that are worthy of being recorded in film history!

Therefore, the subsequent Hollywood productions made people complain!
Indeed, it has completely reduced to an assembly line-like model production...

"Fast and Furious 10", "Transformers: Rise of the Super Warriors"...

The plot and dialogue are extremely retarded.

The lines all wanted to be copied from Marvel-style gags. The actors were greasy and told a joke that everyone knew in reverse. But when the narrative really needed to be told, the actors recited the lines as robotically as AI...

So bad!
But, to be honest, in terms of production standards, Hollywood movies can be said to crush most domestic films...

Hollywood movies are basically still superhero movies with large investment and big production. Because Hollywood movies are aimed at the global market, the production cost of these movies can easily reach hundreds of millions of dollars. Therefore, no matter in terms of production scale or special effects level, it is difficult for domestic movies to compare. In terms of production quality, Hollywood wins...

Why can't it be sold?
Hollywood films are like industrial prefabricated dishes produced by assembly lines, such as KFC and McDonald's. The quality is high, but it is difficult to make changes and innovations...

In fact, both Hollywood and Hong Kong have their own problems.

Because their old movies are still great to watch now!
Bringing it back, Shen Xudong continued: "I think the first sign of the rise of local movies is not to break into the international market, but to first occupy the local ecological niche. You have to make local audiences like local movies...

In the early years, our film industry loved to cater to Western tastes.

The logic is that external recognition → bringing glory to the country → local audiences will be attracted to watch.

However, under this logic, external recognition is more important than local recognition. Not only are local movies given an exotic color, but over time it will create a fixed impression that foreign culture is superior to local culture. Is it a joke that local culture still wants to develop? "

"When you don't take good care of the local audience, you just want to break into the international market, and you won't have the last two."

"So, I think we need a group of people who don't care about external recognition and only serve local audiences so that Chinese films can gradually regain lost ground in the country."

"Don't talk to me about cultural export. Many people think that local recognition alone is useless. External recognition is really good! I have always believed that cultural export is spillover, not catering."

After a pause, Shen Xudong added: "The film market in mainland China is larger than the film markets of the third to tenth countries in the world combined. Of course we must focus on the mainland market."

"What you call overseas markets are actually the "golden billion people" in developed countries, especially North America. But to be honest, whether Chinese films can be accepted by this market is obviously a matter of national politics and has nothing to do with film production. Da, no matter how good you are at filming, people just won’t give you a screen!"

"Then why did many previous movies sell well overseas?"

"...Because I have a sense of curiosity..."

……

Starting from "囧囧", a group of online self-media denounced the overseas box office of domestic films...

Indeed, whether it's "Thailand" or "Tang Detective", the overseas box office is quite low...

"One Shot to the End" was okay, and it took over 1000 million U.S. dollars at the overseas box office.

Of course, it is still not as good as the Three Kingdoms series - "Wolong" has a global box office of more than 3 million US dollars, of which overseas box office is close to 1.4 million US dollars!
Accounting for more than 40%!

When it comes to "Thailand" and "Tang Detective", you can only live in a nest?

In fact, the Three Kingdoms series did not do well at the box office in Europe and the United States, mainly relying on the Asian market!

Overseas audiences, especially European and American audiences, are not used to reading subtitles...

——People don’t need to read subtitles.On the other hand, it is really difficult for things like comedy to go abroad - there is only one Chaplin.

But the self-media doesn’t care about this. They draw the conclusion from the box office data: Chinese movies are regressing.

It's very sad!
It's quite normal. These self-media companies either charge money to do things, or they are purely reflecting on their psychology...

There is a saying that goes like this: During the days when Taiwan had a power outage, China’s major Internet platforms suddenly became clean...

……

"The Hobbit" failed to challenge, "Detective Chinatown" still held the single-day box office title, and then "Les Misérables" was released...

No, no!
"Les Misérables" is a musical...

Naturally contrary to the aesthetics of Chinese audiences!
On the first day of release in the Mainland, less than 10% of the films are scheduled, so the box office will naturally not be much higher!

Oh, the reason why I mentioned "Les Misérables" is because it was released on February 2, and "Detective Chinatown" was released for 28 days, with a cumulative box office of 19 billion, exceeding the 13.41 billion of "Avatar"...

Officially crowned No. [-] in film history...

The next day, all the entertainment newspapers went crazy. The headlines of the entertainment pages were the news that ""Tang Detective" surpassed "Avatar"...

"Avatar"'s three-year record has been broken!
Of course, it’s just the mainland market…

That was exciting enough. Shen Xudong posted on Weibo, "Come on Chinese movies!" '

Then there are many netizens who question whether "Tang Detective" breaks the record of "Avatar" without gold content. The reason is that "it relies largely on the expansion of market capacity."There are many more movie screens now than when "Avatar" was released, and the market is much better.If "Avatar" were released now, the box office would definitely be more than 20 billion! '

There are also many netizens who say, "Avatar" holds the world record in film history, while "Detective Chinatown" only broke the mainland box office record. What's there to be proud of? '

Then... a die-hard fan of Shen Xudong directly replied, "It's useless to find 1 reasons. The facts cannot be changed. "Tang Detective" broke the record of "Avatar" in the mainland!"Don’t give in and hold it in! '

It's hard to say whether he can hold it in or not. Anyway, Shen Xudong has been keeping a low profile recently...

After the promotion, he did not go to the seminars on "Tang Detective" organized by the General Administration and the Film Association...

The reason is simple: too tired and going on vacation!

I did go out - to Hong Kong...

Chung Lifeng and Sammo Hung discuss restarting the "Five Lucky Stars" series...

Shen Xudong can understand the restart of "Once Upon a Time" and "The Wind and Cloud". After all, this thing is a big IP and has an audience base;

A reboot of "Best Partner" might as well be done...

Police and robbers + comedy…

They are all things that I am good at!
"Five Lucky Stars Series"...

are you crazy?

"Five Lucky Stars Series" is a Hong Kong film from the 80s. Both the plot and the sense of the times are very outdated - in a word, it no longer meets the requirements of the times!
In fact, this series is ready to end after filming the third part - at the end of the third part, when more than 100 new and old faces from Hong Kong films walked out of the elevator, we knew that this might be the final chapter of this series. Director Sammo Hung asked Everyone came out once to say goodbye to the audience.

But Jiahe wanted to use the "Five Lucky Stars" series to compete with "The Best Partner", so it continued with several series...

It can be said that the sequels to "Five Lucky Stars" have exhausted all its potential!