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Chapter 129 The invincible blockbuster "Hero" is released!
After a long meal of nonsense, Cao Qing, who fell asleep in Jin Xiaoxiao's arms, finally saw Jin Xiaoxiao's face turned normal after waking up.

Jin Xiaoxiao, who was completely reluctant to be really angry at Cao Qing, Cao Qing just coaxed her a little, and it was considered as comforting her.

In the evening, the two had a light meal together, watched a movie secretly, and then in the evening, the two had a relationship with each other in a kiss and kiss goodbye.

But even so, due to the existence of Lin Zhiling and Jin Xiaoxiao's current desire to enter married life, even if the two have just had a relationship, in the next long period of time, the two will be more than before. Except for a little bit of intimacy, the rest of the time they still get along quite peacefully.

It can be said that even if they have a physical relationship, they don't know that the relationship between Jin Xiaoxiao and Cao Qing is still more like a comrade-in-arms relationship at work and fighting side by side, rather than a state of passionate love between lovers.

Except for the occasional lingering on the bed and physical intimacy, their daily relationship is completely unaffected.

That is to say, in such a state, the days passed quickly and peacefully for a short period of time. On November 2002, 11, that is, on the Singles’ Day before Double Eleven, the "Detective Chinatown" The movie is just a large-scale publicity campaign going on nationwide, and it has begun to lay the groundwork and publicity for its official release in more than a month.

In fact, if you really want to be in a hurry, the movie "Detective Chinatown" can be released in theaters across the country at the same time around mid-December.

However, compared with the consequences of doing so, Cao Qing would rather delay this time for one month, and adjust the release time of the movie "Detective Chinatown" to around January 2003. After all, according to what Cao Qing learned According to the news, the movie "Mobile Phone", which was supposed to be released next year, was filmed by Feng Xiaogang a year earlier for some reason.

So this also led to the fact that the month of December 2002 should really be regarded as the most intense month for mainland movies in these years.

According to the release time of the films released by the two directors Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang, the blockbuster "Hero" by Zhang Yimou will be released first. The premiere time of this film is December 2002, 12.

On this day, the mainland super blockbuster "Hero" directed by Zhang Yimou, which directly swept all the box office records of domestic films in history, will be released.

And the next day, just one day after the domestic blockbuster "Hero" was released, Feng Xiaogang, who is not afraid of death, will also directly release his movie "Mobile Phone", and compete frantically with Zhang Yimou's "Hero" for the box office.

Of course, judging from the box office results of these two movies in the original history, Feng Xiaogang's movie "Mobile Phone", which was supposed to win the box office champion in the Mainland next year, will definitely be beaten by Zhang Yimou with the blockbuster "Hero". Crushed to pieces.

But even so, Feng Xiaogang's movie "Mobile Phone", which earned a total of 5600 million yuan in the mainland box office in its original history, would not be too bad at the box office.

It can even be said that if there was no hero movie in 2002, even if the movie "Mobile" directed by Feng Xiaogang was released one year earlier, it is estimated that it can compete with "The Lord of the Rings: The Lord of the Rings 1". Who is the real number one in the mainland box office of the year.

However, during the time period at the end of 2002, no matter how strong Feng Xiaogang's "Mobile Phone" was, it seems that it will be directly crushed by the movie "Hero" at the box office. After all, even the movie "Mobile Phone" The box office can reach the same level of 5600 million yuan when it is released next year, which is four times lower than the box office of "Hero" directed by Zhang Yimou, which is only a fraction of Zhang Yimou's "Hero".

You know, in the original history, the total box office of mainland movies in 2002 was 9 million. Among them, the box office performance of "Hero" alone accounted for 2.5 million yuan, which abruptly accounted for more than 2002% of the mainland's annual box office performance in 25. , This record is unprecedented, and it will be difficult for anyone to come.

In such a fierce competition situation, Cao Qing has no idea of ​​blindly joining the battlefield in an attempt to compete with "Hero". After all, even if his movie "Detective Chinatown" won the box office in the end, But what's the need for such mutual consumption?
Cao Qing would rather let his film be released one month at night, so as to easily become the 2003 box office champion in the Mainland, rather than rushing to release it in such a hasty release and insisting on competing with Zhang Yimou's "Hero".

Seeing the hot promotion of "Detective Chinatown", "Hero" and "Mobile Phone" are about to compete, and all the attention of the domestic media is focused on this, Cao Qing has once again entered his own rhythm state at this time.

After all, the blockbuster "Hero" is about to come out, which means that the era of blockbuster movies is not far away. In just over a year, the first ultra-long IMax stereoscopic 3D movie "Polar Express" in history will soon be born. in Hollywood.

Regarding the film "The Polar Express", it was directed by Robert Zemeckis, who directed the super movie "Forrest Gump" that swept the Oscars, on November 2004, 11, also known as Robert Zemeckis in Chinese. Directed by a famous director, it is not only a masterpiece created entirely by computer CGI (computer three-dimensional animation) technology, but also a total of 10 million US dollars was spent to make the film, which can be called a masterpiece. It can be compared to half the production cost of "Titanic".

And not only that, this IMAX3D blockbuster based on the story of Chris Van Allsburg's (Chris Van Allsburg) children's novel of the same name, it directly creates the most realistic and immersive full-scale movie since the beginning of the film. A movie with wide field of vision and high-quality stereoscopic effects perfectly presents a dreamy fairy tale world for the audience.

The most important thing is that this movie is different from ordinary Hollywood animated movies. Its director Robert Zemeckis deliberately set up many scenes in the movie similar to riding a roller coaster, allowing the audience to experience heavy snow, strong winds, It is simply thrilling and thrilling.

If it weren't for the time when this movie was released, there would be only 3 theaters all over the world with 75D screens and IMAX screens, otherwise the global box office of this movie would never be only 40 million U.S. dollars, almost It is only [-] billion RMB, but it is very likely that James Cameron's "Avatar" after five years will directly sweep the world with a super box office of more than one billion US dollars and tens of billions of RMB.

After all, five years later, when James Cameron's movie "Avatar" was released, in North America alone, there were nearly 3000 large 3D movie screens, and the number of IMAX giant screens was also It's close to 200 yuan, which is nothing compared to the time of "The Polar Express" in 2004.

And it is precisely because of understanding the general trend of the future, knowing that although 2D flat movies will not be extinct by then, 3D movies are the real direction of future movies. At the end of 3, when the great era of 3D movies was still far away, Cao Qing had already begun to work hard to build a digital movie content that belonged to his own company.

Even in his heart, Cao Qing still has an ambition, that is, to successfully produce a real 5D movie of his own within 3 years, and strive to get the movie "Avatar" in advance before the movie "Avatar" wantsonly harvests the global box office. The global ticket warehouse is harvested for early adopters.

And soon, apart from worrying about the progress of the company's 3D digitization work every day, he was editing and modifying the movie "Detective Chinatown", adding post-production special effects and soundtrack to the movie bit by bit. Tian finally officially waited for the release of the first mainland blockbuster "Hero".

Of course, it's not just this movie "Hero". To some extent, Cao Qing's last movie "Cohabitation in Time and Space" can actually be called a blockbuster, but compared with the performance of the movie "Hero" However, Cao Qing's "Cohabitation in Time and Space" was a bit inconspicuous, so it was "Hero" that was really regarded as the first blockbuster movie in the mainland.

And that was the day when the movie "Hero" was released, Cao Qingjian did not deal with his own film soundtrack work, but chose to go to the cinema with Jin Xiaoxiao to watch the movie.

When watching this movie, Jin Xiaoxiao didn't say much, but at the moment when she walked out of the theater after watching this movie, she chatted with Cao Qing seriously about the connotation of the movie.

"Mr. Cao, it seems that this movie will be the absolute enemy of our company's upcoming "Detective Chinatown" movie."

"Didn't you know about the connotation of the movie with me before? I couldn't answer you too accurately in this regard, but after watching the "Hero" directed by Zhang Yimou, I really felt that a movie The connotation is actually very important.”

"It's like "Hero" directed by Zhang Yimou. Although it seems a bit empty in terms of plot, the various pictures and colors of this play really brought me a sense of shock. It can be said that apart from Apart from "Farewell My Concubine" directed by Brother Chen Kai, this film directed by Zhang Yimou is definitely the best Chinese film I have ever seen."

"Although there are not many dialogues in this movie, I still understand a lot of cultural connotations with the support of the strong images in the movie."

"Your Huaguo culture pays attention to layers, and this film really achieves this. It not only advances layer by layer, and each layer tells a new truth, but also has a unique classic of Huaguo ink painting. The oriental style is really unique and outstanding, even more fascinating than many Hollywood blockbusters."

During the speech, Jin smiled and even had a somewhat emotional tone. It is rare to have some understanding and understanding of what this Huaguo movie is about.

Hearing Jin Xiaoxiao's words, Cao Qing couldn't help shaking his head and laughing:

"Man, this whole life is spent wearing a belt and keeping one breath. Your words are really hard to accept for a filmmaker like Zhang Yimou who is also among the top four directors in China, hahahaha .”

"What is "Hero"? This movie is the best Chinese movie you have seen since Chen Kai's "Farewell My Concubine". Then where did you put my "The Grandmaster"?"

"However, I'm not angry at your words. After all, this movie is indeed quite good, and it is different from the literary movie "The Grandmaster" that requires a deeper Chinese culture to understand. For someone like you, although you are proficient For girls who have Chinese culture but actually have a Korean system inside, "Hero" may be easier for you to like a movie that does not have a strong color style."

"And it's not just you. I feel that this movie will soon be liked by those European and American countries overseas. After all, in their eyes, the so-called oriental culture in China should look like this."

After finishing speaking, Cao Qing couldn't help complaining again:

"Actually, if you want me to make an evaluation, I think that although the movie "Hero" is good everywhere, there is absolutely no problem in terms of shooting techniques and color art. Even director Zhang Yimou can be said to be far behind in these aspects. far surpassed me."

"However, I think this movie is actually a bit fake, and this movie is assholes and nonsense just from the logic of the script, but this is a problem with the screenwriter, not Zhang Yimou himself. After all, he is an excellent filmmaker. Cinematographer and director, not master storyteller."

"If you don't talk about the story, in fact, I also think that this movie has reached the pinnacle, whether it is in the aesthetics of color expression or in the artistic conception of the ancient Chinese culture in it."

"There are two scenes in this movie that amazed me, the first of which is when the pavilion chief and the sky compete with each other."

"In this movie, not only the qin rhyme is antique and the rain is pattering, but also the scene where two people are constantly coming and going, frantically fighting to the death under the raindrops dripping from the blue eaves, is really true. It made me understand how beautiful the scenes of heroes discussing swords in Gu Long's novels I've read before would be in reality."

"The head of the pavilion and Can Jian competed swords on the lake. The lake was clear, surrounded by mountains, and the mountains and forests were colorful. These two people danced lightly in such an environment, as beautiful as a Chinese ink painting."

"And the second clip is the emotional entanglement between Can Jian, Fei Xue, and Chang Kong. The feeling that I have known each other is like the "Evil in the West" directed by Wang Jiawei back then. The vastness of the Gobi, the etherealness of fluttering clothes, or the entanglement of true and false love and hatred, all of which are quite fascinating."

"But although the colors of the pictures in this movie are extremely stunning, the story is the main body of a movie after all, so even in front of Zhang Yimou himself, I still say that, that is, the movie "Hero" is indeed A very beautiful movie, not only beautiful scenery, but also beautiful cultural connotation, but the logic of this movie is completely rubbish!"

As he spoke, Cao Qing's tone gradually became angry.

"I think he should find a good screenwriter instead of letting this kind of garbage story ruin his whole directing art every time."

With such a sentence, I made a final summary of Zhang Yimou's "Hero". After finishing speaking, Cao Qing stopped discussing this movie with Jin Xiaoxiao. in their original work.

Even the news that Feng Xiaogang's "Mobile Phone" chose to delay its premiere in theaters for a week under the pressure of "Hero" at the box office, Cao Qing didn't pay attention, let alone continue to watch it. , but directly immersed in the soundtrack of his last film.

For the current Cao Qing, among the film directors in Huaguo, apart from Zhang Yimou who can make him feel like an enemy, Chen Kaige and Feng Xiaogang, two slightly inferior characters, have long since ceased to be so concerned by him.

(End of this chapter)