A different director [entertainment circle]

In the past two years, with the expansion and maturity of the Huaguo film market, the industrial film system has gradually improved, and quite a few wonderful works have indeed emerged in China, especially the quantity and quality of commercial films have improved significantly.

Different from the world in Qin Yan's memory, the world Qin Yan lived in had a lot of restrictions on foreign films, and they had to pass the review of relevant departments before they could be introduced into the country.

Many films were directly shot down in terms of subject matter, content, and scale. Even if other works were imported into China, most of them would be cut down.

But because of the global satellite network that exists in this world, the review/verification system in this world is more open.

Relevant departments have discovered that no matter how the review conditions are restricted, no matter how the footage of the movie is deleted, as long as the global satellite network exists, domestic audiences can have unlimited access to foreign film and television works.

Those elements that have always been disliked by relevant organizations, but which go deep into the essence of the soul, make foreign film and television works particularly attractive.

In addition, overseas websites are emerging in endlessly, as long as you can surf the Internet, you can easily obtain film sources.

Qin Yan now understands why the country imposed so many restrictions on film imports back then.

The modernization time of Huaguo is still too short, at least in the last 30 years, Chinese people are not confident enough about their own culture.If no restrictions are imposed, the discourse power of film and television works will be completely controlled by the West.

These Western film and television works are like sweet candies, indeed delicious and attractive, but for Chinese people of this "age", they have no ability to distinguish, and eating too much in one go will cause obesity.

In the past few years, domestic films have confronted international works, and domestic film and television works have always been at a disadvantage.In several important periods every year, foreign films dominate.

The annual ultra-high-speed growth of the domestic movie box office market, more than half of which flows into overseas markets, has indeed disappointed many people.

When will Chinese-language movies rise? It has become an appeal for more and more people.

But this kind of confrontation is not all a bad thing for the development of the film.

At least in the past few years, relevant organizations have understood that no policy can restrict the development and exchange of films.

Instead of letting foreign films flock to domestic audiences, it is better to introduce works in an orderly manner.

As for how to import works, anyway, restrictions and deletions are useless, so we can directly import the original version, but the relevant departments have introduced a grading system for film and television works.

The country has no way to tell everyone what kind of movies they are suitable for watching, and the people will not believe it.

Therefore, the relevant agencies have given the right to choose to everyone and every family, at least allowing parents to have a reference standard when watching film and television works for their children.

On the other hand, precisely because of the emergence of the grading system and the need to compete head-to-head with international film and television productions, domestic film productions have also begun to develop and develop their own characteristics.

One of the characteristics is that the continuous flow is king. Although the foreign industrial film system is more mature, there are cultural barriers after all, and domestic actors and stars can still support the sky.

These film and television works no longer brag about their high quality, but focus on the expression and shaping of characters, attracting a considerable number of audiences.

In layman's terms, it is traffic works.

At the beginning, Qin Yan also thought about this problem.In his previous life, Qin Yan was quite dissatisfied with popular works, otherwise he wouldn't be so independent in the circle.

However, the current Qin Yan can accept this calmly.

The common people love to hear and see, and he, Qin Yan, is considered the oldest.It's just that Qin Yan will provide another answer, and then leave the choice to the audience.

Qin Yan's answer is that domestic film and television works take another path - the quality path.

There are many filmmakers who are full of ambition and unwilling to give in, so they constantly improve their own strengths and create better works in all aspects.And Qin Yan's previous films provided a good template.

In September 14, the second part of "Hou Yi" was officially released. It not only achieved the second highest domestic box office of the year, but also achieved outstanding overseas results, especially in the Chinese cultural circle near Huaguo. wave.

The works of some other film and television companies have also gradually established their reputation internationally.

Because of backwardness, you will be beaten, and because of the most primitive interests of capital, many film and television works began to try to go overseas, trying to earn money from foreigners, and Huaguo gradually got rid of the title of "film and television desert".

Even though they saw the continuous development of Huaguo movies, everyone missed Qin Yan's works more and more, and hoped that "Hundred Schools" would be released as soon as possible.

As time continued to approach, everyone also began to go crazy about Aite Jinmeng Company.

During the past half a year, Qin Yan seemed to have completely disappeared, and did not promote his new movie at all.

However, on May 2015, 5, on such an ordinary day, Dianjinmeng Company suddenly released a news on the Internet——

"@秦墨director, hello. Our company's movie "Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin" has been scheduled for July 7th. I hope we can bring the audience a wonderful and memorable summer vacation."

This may also be the first time that Jinmeng Company took the initiative to send Weibo to completely crash the server.

It's a pity that Dian Jinmeng is still not the main character, everyone's first attention is Qin Yan and his "Hundred Schools".

"That's great, I've been waiting for it for more than two years, and Qin Yan's "Hundred Schools" is finally going to be released."

Various uncle parties also appeared one after another: "I heard from my uncle that "Hundred Houses" has already passed the review, and now there are so many theaters in Tenghui, as long as Qin Yan is willing, it should be released at any time."

Everyone was very excited, because they knew that since Qin Yan chose to confront Dian Jinmenggang, he would never back down.

They have even begun to imagine the tragic failure of the Golden Dream Company's film.

There is no news about Qin Yan's movie, so Dianjinmeng must start promoting the movie, right?

Because of curiosity and traffic, netizens and news media began to investigate the situation of "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin".Among other things, the name of the movie alone is enough to make many people feel sick and nauseated.

"Dian Jinmeng is shameless, what about Jing Ke's assassination of the King of Qin? Doesn't this clearly imply that Qin Yan is the cruel, tyrannical, extravagant and lustful King of Qin? And he just said that he wants to 'assassinate' Director Qin."

"I have to say that there is something really interesting about the golden dream. Who doesn't know that Director Qin's film is about a hundred schools of thought, and the one who burns books and confuses scholars is the king of Qin. This allusion is quite flexible."

"What kind of face does Golden Dream want? Since they decided to delay the release until the last month, it shows that they have no bottom line."

"I'm wondering what movie Jin Meng will bring out to fight Director Qin. Aren't they afraid that their own movie will hit the street?"

With the deepening of the investigation, everyone found that this matter was far more complicated than they imagined.

Because Dianjinmeng is a listed company, its financial statements will be published every quarter.Every investment, especially the investment of tens of millions in movies, must be an important disclosure item, and there is no way to fake it.

Netizens and entertainment media of good deeds found the information of "Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin" in Dianjinmeng Company's financial statements.

But it is clearly written in the column of the investment amount in "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin" - 500 million yuan.

What's happening here?How could Dianjinmeng use 500 million yuan to make a movie to compete with Qin Yan.

This is completely different from the movie confrontation that everyone imagines.

According to everyone's original expectations, even if the quality of "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin" is not as good as Qin Yan's "Hundreds of Houses", but because of the existence of such a bet, everyone will definitely pay attention to Jin Meng's movie.

It doesn't even need to be advertised, there must be a swarm of movie fans in China buying tickets.This saves millions of publicity fees!

The quality of your movie is good, and word-of-mouth is easy to ferment, and there is even a [-] in [-] chance of surpassing the quality of "Hundred Schools".

You guys will turn around completely when you touch Jinmeng!

Everyone is looking forward to a strong showdown, but now you click Jinmeng and tell me: "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin" spent 500 million?

What good-looking movie can 500 million make?There is no director in this world...

Well, Qin Yan's filming of "Ancient House" was only a few hundred thousand.Director Qin also said that it was a work of the right time and place, a miracle that could never be replicated.

"Do you think there is a possibility? In fact, Golden Dream Company never thought of fighting Qin Yan at all."

"I think so too. Dianjinmeng just wants to find a reason to delay this bet."

"But the question is, is there any benefit for him to do so? Why didn't they admit defeat earlier and insist on delaying until now. Don't they know how many people are scolding them on the Internet? No one will watch their movies in the future. "

"You guys underestimate the disgusting aspects of Golden Dream Company. He was able to drag "Hundred Schools" for a year, and this is already his greatest success."

"The technology of movie special effects is changing with each passing day these days. If you compare the movies of a year ago with the movies of today, do you think they are comparable? Also, some foreign netizens asked about the large international special effects companies before, and they all denied it. Produced the special effects of "Hundred Houses". This means that "Hundred Houses" is really produced by our country's stronghold special effects."

"The time difference of one year has already made "Hundred Schools", which Qin Yan worked so hard to shoot, unable to keep up with the expressiveness of the screen."

"Also, I think the idea of ​​Dianjinmeng may be more disgusting than we thought. Have you forgotten when Dianjinmeng said that its movie will be released?"

"July, what's wrong?

"Look at the movie schedule in July."

"My God, these are fights from some fairy movies."

Because the country cannot restrict the inflow of foreign films, there is no "Summer Domestic Protection Month" now, and every summer holiday is a place where global movies are fought.

Several special effects movies that everyone is looking forward to this year will be released. Marvel's superhero series and "Fast and Furious 7" have already been scheduled for summer vacation.

Every year, there are movies that rise to fame during the summer vacation, and there are also movies that disappear.

Domestic commercial films have fled the summer vacation, and their films are not willing to challenge this Shura field.

"Oh, it's not easy for "Hundred Schools" to break through the siege in the summer vacation."

After seeing these movies, the audience has already lost confidence.There is no way, foreign commercial films have been strong enough in recent years, and these are series films, which have attracted even more attention.

"Didn't you see that there are no movies in China that dare to hit the schedule?"

"Although I look down on Dianjinmeng Company, I have to say that this time, Dianjinmeng won, killing two birds with one stone. What an impact it has had on Qin Yan."

"I think you're probably underestimating Jiang Deshan, the boss of Jinmeng Company, who is called 'Jiang Fox' in the industry. This is more than killing two birds with one stone, it should be killing three birds with one stone."

"If it really follows the original plan and Dianjinmeng releases a normal work, it will definitely need pre-publicity."

"Which of the current movies is not pre-set and pre-heated a few months in advance, and then the pre-sale starts."

"But didn't you find out? It's only one month before the release of "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin", which means that Dian Jin has given up the promotion period at all."

"How much did they lose by giving up the promotion period? It's just a cost of 500 million yuan. And it's really hard to say how much of the 500 million yuan was spent on the movie. But for Director Qin, the loss is immeasurable."

This is the plan of Dianjinmeng Company. To be precise, it is the "Destroy Qin" plan formulated by Jiang Deshan himself.

What's more, what ordinary audiences don't know is that there are several foreign films released during the summer vacation, among which are works introduced by Jiang Deshan through other channels.For the simultaneous global release, Jiang Deshan spent a lot of energy, just to gather Qin Yan's "Hundred Schools".

Jiang Deshan also knew that after this battle, the signboard of Dianjinmeng Company was completely destroyed.

But Jiang Deshan is not irrational either.In the past year, Jiang Deshan transferred and shorted Dianjinmeng through various methods, and Dianjinmeng is now only an empty shell left.

Instead of keeping this rotten signboard, it's better to let it play its final role - drag Qin Yan into the water, let Qin Yan taste the despair of failure!

I'm afraid there is no one else in this world who knows how much Jiang Deshan hates Qin Yan, wishing to eat his flesh alive, wishing to burn his bones to ashes!

After hearing these analyses, netizens were completely outraged.

"Hearing what you said, I think it's really shameless to order Jinmeng Company."

"Couldn't we be able to help Qin Yan do something? Director Qin is a gentleman and abides by the agreement, but is used by the other party instead. Is it true that people are bullied by being kind?"

"If it's true to everyone's guess, I will definitely go to the cinema to support Qin Yan's movie when it is released."

"I think so too. This incident has caused such a big stir in China, everyone will definitely support it, and the impact on the box office should not be particularly large.

"But if it is true, as rumored on the Internet, "Hundreds" has an investment of more than 20 billion yuan, and the domestic box office needs at least 70 billion yuan to pay back. Is this possible? Director Qin's goal from the beginning was the foreign market."

"There is indeed enthusiasm in China, but it's different abroad. I just checked on the Internet in other countries, and many people didn't know about it. When the "Hundred Schools" project was announced, there were still many people paying attention. It's all forgotten now."

"Foreigners don't pay much attention to the films of our country, and with these blockbuster films surrounding them, how can Qin Yan's "Hundred Schools" compete with these international films?"

Everyone on the Internet is making suggestions for Qin Yan, and everyone has become accustomed to Director Qin's silence.If Qin Yan continues to disappear, one less day of publicity time will be lost, and the competitiveness of the box office will be even weaker!

Enthusiastic netizens have already started to make suggestions for Qin Yan. Qin Yan posted a Weibo half a year ago, and the number of messages began to surge again.

Those who win the hearts of the people will naturally win the world.

Everyone thought that it would take a day or two for Qin Yan and Huayan Company to respond, but within half an hour, Qin Yan suddenly appeared on Weibo.

Qin Yan: "Hundred Schools: Prosperity" will be released simultaneously worldwide on July 7, please stay tuned.

And at the same time, Shuidi Video, Guaiweidou, Weibo and other major online platforms released the first promotional video of "Bai Jia: Prosperity"!

Qin Yan may not have thought that Jiang Deshan would hate him so much, but he has always used the most sinister speculation to guard against his enemies, and he has prepared various plans.

The public relations department of Huayan Company has been on standby for a long time. As long as there is any disturbance in Dianjinmeng, it will contact the major platforms to release the promotional materials that have been prepared.

Raising soldiers for a thousand days, using them for a while!

When everyone saw the promotional video, their hands trembled with excitement.

Director Qin, you are so fast this time, does Mr. Xie know?Is this really that we can watch videos without charging money?

This kind of worry only lasted for a moment, and everyone put it aside and pressed the play button.

A man in a long black suit, with his hands behind his back, stood on a high platform with his back to the crowd, and said in a deep and majestic voice: "This world is my world after all, and these pedantic people are not allowed to fan the flames everywhere."

"Since they don't understand my great cause, there is no value in continuing to exist."

After finishing speaking, the soldiers at the bottom of the steps showed their weapons one after another, and the cold light in the hall, all the soldiers said in unison: "No!"

This long shot alone is enough to make people excited.No one thought that although the movie was called "Hundred Schools", the background of the filming would be the Qin Dynasty.

In history, after Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, Prime Minister Li Sicai wrote a letter suggesting that Qin Huang change his name to "Zhen".

And judging from the Qin Huang's conversation just now, the next plot should be that the Qin King burned books, robbed Confucian scholars and wiped out hundreds of schools.

This period of history is familiar in China, and it is also considered to be an event that had a particularly bad impact on cultural inheritance after Qin Shihuang unified the six countries.

No one thought that Qin Yan's first promotional video would use this angle as the starting point.

It is obviously a "work supported by Huaguo culture", but the cultural inheritance will be broken as soon as it is opened?Bold and exciting enough, I like it!

And the shot from the back alone is enough to make everyone excited.Some people didn't even care about the plot behind it, and paused to take screenshots. The back of King Qin might not be too good-looking, right?

The audience felt that they had already guessed the next plot, it was nothing more than a non-commissioned officer from the Qin State, going to kill the heirs of various schools.

Useless are scholars, how can they resist in front of soldiers?But then everyone realizes that they were really wrong.

Facing the elite soldiers of the Qin State does not mean that the apprentices of various schools of thought will be arrested without a fight.

"You Legalists have always been valued by Emperor Qin, why did you betray Great Qin?"

"The king of Qin is extremely tyrannical, what qualifications does that thief Li Si have to represent the Legalists?"

"In this case, the generals will obey the order and kill!"

Just as the soldiers charged towards the heirs of the Legalist School with their weapons in hand, all the scholars suddenly recited in unison: "There is no rule without rules. [1]"

In an instant, a huge translucent city wall was formed between the soldiers and the Legalist scholars!Separate the two sides, the soldiers have no way to skip half a step.

The translucent city walls are lifelike, just like the real thing!

Seeing this, the audience in front of the screen howled completely.

This is not a simple historical movie, it is fantasy!Before the audience could sort out their excitement, the scene changed again.

On the other side, the alchemist team of Qin State is starting to arrest Confucianism, one of the two great schools in the world.

The alchemist possesses the unpredictable power of gods and demons, and for a while, there are gusts of gloomy wind, ghosts crying and wolves howling.

This picture alone brings visual impact to people. With the cooperation of sound and picture, the audience also feels fear.

The students of Confucianism recited a sentence in unison: "If you don't speak, you will have strange powers and chaotic spirits."

The barren mountains and wild forests that were dense and dense like purgatory just now were instantly emptied.

This does not mean that only descendants of various schools of thought and foreign alchemists have extraordinary combat effectiveness. Qin's army naturally also has its own confidence-the power to kill.

The bloody murderous aura condensed by the soldiers is enough to condense into all kinds of weapons, beasts and birds of prey!Flocking towards students from hundreds of schools who have mastered all kinds of unimaginable methods.

The promotional clip lasted only a minute or so, and it only showed the scenes of the legal, Confucian, and vertical and horizontal schools fighting against the Qin army.

But it was enough to get the audience's blood pumping, they were so excited.

In fact, concerns about the theme and plot of "Hundred Schools" have always existed since the establishment of the film project.

Although Qin Yan shouted "Invincible" and "Niu X" on his lips, not everyone wanted to see traditional literary movies.

No matter how good the filming is, the audience of literary and artistic films is still narrow.Just like "Born in Silt" is no match for "Fortress Earth" in terms of box office.

Moreover, "Hundred Family" is also a "national cultural support film and television project". This honor has made everyone convinced that the form of the film is greater than the content.

But in the promotional video, they actually saw Qin Yan deconstructing history in a fantasy way, how could they not be excited!

In fact, the history and mythology of China have always been inseparable. It can be traced back to Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs" and "Heavenly Questions", and it has also been passed down to "Liaozhai" and "Journey to the West" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Mythology is the most magnificent wealth of every nation, and mythology is also the display of a nation's imagination.

Now they couldn't help but want to go to the cinema to see how Qin Yan reshaped the whole story.

Did not make them wait, because Weiweidou has already opened the pre-sale channel of "Hundreds: Prosperity".

Qin Yan has already obtained the release rights of "Hundreds" in July, no matter whether Dianjinmeng Company will release it as scheduled, Qin Yan has a corresponding publicity plan.

Of course, Dianjinmeng also invests in theaters, so it stands to reason that they can also hear the wind and grass.

However, Qin Yan personally negotiated with the theater company this time, and let the theater directly watch the finished film of "Hundred Schools".After watching it, the theater representatives realized that Qin Yan played too much this time, and it is very likely to succeed.

Dian Jinmeng also contacted them, promising them various benefits to inform him.But in front of this terrifying "Hundred Schools", everything seems unimportant.

Representatives of theater chains signed non-disclosure contracts one after another, without leaking any news at all.

Even the schedule and share of the film have been negotiated, and now the pre-sale of the film starts immediately as soon as the news comes out.

Seeing this series of operations, the domestic audience was stunned.

It didn't look like there was any preparation. It turned out that Director Qin had already laid a net in a place where no one could see.

Director Qin, it's still Director Qin!