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Chapter 430 If criticism is not free, praise is meaningless!
"Is "The Promise" that bad?"

"Very bad, even more incomprehensible than "House of Flying Daggers"!"

Gong Li sighed: "It's predictable... Now Director Chen, no one cares about him... Moreover, even if someone has an opinion, he won't listen to it for a while!"

Back then, after filming "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin", Gong Li talked to director Chen, mainly to comment on the difference between him and A Mou.

Gong Li felt that their different majors determined their different ways of thinking about creating films.

Although they are both classmates of BJ Film Academy, Chen graduated from the Department of Directing, and Mou graduated from the Department of Photography.

Different majors also determine that they have different concerns in film creation. Relatively speaking, Mou is not good at structuring stories, but if there are good stories, he can well transform them into powerful visual language, and Finally, the story is presented on the big screen.

Director Chen is a director who is very good at studying the story itself. He is very talented, but it is also because he is very talented that when he creates some films, he doesn't care much about other people's opinions, or he doesn't care about ordinary people. Audience Perceptions'…

It is easy to fall into a self-willed situation.

Plus it's full of flatterers all around...

Gong Li continued: "A group of people suppressed him before. I heard that the casting of "Farewell My Concubine" was discussed for two months... After "Farewell My Concubine" was successful, he couldn't hear different voices!"

Shen Xudong nodded: "I'm quite puzzled, "The Promise" is so incomprehensible, the producer... well, I understand!"

Producer?
The producer of "The Promise" is Mrs. Chen...

What opinion can Mrs. Chen have on Director Chen's film?
Even eating, you have to passively attend class...

"Actually, Yimou is the same. Before "To Live" won the Jury Prize at Cannes, on the night of the award, he and the screenwriter discussed the mistakes of the film in the hotel all night... But now, I heard that he rarely discusses the film with the screenwriter. Disadvantages, more discussion on market prospects, including "Curse of the Golden Armor"..."

""Curse of the Golden Flower"? Director Zhang's new film?"

"Correct!"

Shen Xudong froze for a moment, then... remembered Lu Wei...

Lu Wei said that before the filming of "The Golden Flower" started, Lu Wei was invited to read the script and made a lot of comments.

A Mou is a little impatient: put your opinion here first, we don’t care, just put the combination of Zhang Yimou, Zhou Runfa, Gong Li, and Zhou Jielun here, the box office is worth [-] million, do you believe it? Do not believe?
"...Did you pick it up?"

"Um…"

"Then act well...the box office will definitely not be bad."

……

"Curseful of Golden Flowers" is adapted from "Thunderstorm"...

The problem is that the story of "Thunderstorm" is very bloody. It is not a criticism of feudal society or anything.

"Golden Armor"...the story is extremely cruel and dark. It tells about husband and wife killing each other, brothers killing each other, father and son fighting each other, and brothers and sisters chaotically. There are almost no normal people in it.

Extremely unfriendly to the audience!

If it's a pure art film, there's nothing wrong with reflecting these.

The problem is... "Golden Armor" is positioned as a commercial film!

That's not easy to do.

Therefore, he enjoyed the same treatment as "The Promise", and was criticized in various ways. The director even liked to mention the title of "Master of Decoration".

……

Speaking of "Steamed Bread", in just three to five days, it quickly swept the Internet like a virus!
Almost all netizens watched this grand occasion...

The reason is quite simple - Huang Zhonglei spent money to promote it!
It took about [-] days for the original time and space to spread to the extent that it became known to the whole people. Later, Director Chen said, "People can't be shameless to this extent", which accelerated the spread of "Steamed Bread"...

In fact, Director Chen is very anxious about "The Promise"...

Three aspects: box office, word-of-mouth and prospects for the Olympics!
Although the box office will definitely surpass "House of Flying Daggers" - 14 days after its release, the box office is 1.39 million, and it is still early, 1.5 million, so it is not a big problem;

But Director Chen is definitely dissatisfied, the target is "Hero", let alone surpass "Hero", even if it can exceed 1.6 million!
word of mouth...

The reputation is poor, and experts and film critics have given negative reviews. Even CCTV's "Tenth Screening Room" said, "If you have the ambition to express your heart, you don't necessarily have to give up your duty of good storytelling."There's a difference between thought-provoking and puzzling. '

By the way, there is also a man named Shen Xudong chasing after "The Promise" to scold!

You can't refute, because the title of his third blog is "If criticism is not free, praise is meaningless"...

It even quotes Plato's famous saying: If sharp criticism disappears completely, mild criticism will become harsh; if mild criticism is not allowed, silence will be considered malicious.

If silence is no longer allowed, it is a crime to praise less than hard; if only one voice is allowed, then the only voice that exists is a lie.

If criticism is not free, then praise is flattery!
There is no way to criticize "The Promise" for having too much traffic!

Three blogs, each with 200 million hits...

This is also one of the reasons why Shen Xudong is reluctant to remain silent!

Speaking of director Chen, there is still one more worry about "The Promise", the prospects for the Olympic Games are not ideal...

The screenings in North America were not good, and the reputation was poor!
Even if I find a few film critics to blow it up, it's not enough...

Of course, there are still promotions in the country that 'Chinese filmmaker "goes to the Olympics" and "The Promise" has great hopes this year." Professor Yin Hong believes that the film's prospects for the Olympics are very optimistic. '

But he knew it was basically over!
It's okay, just keep reporting these things.

But definitely not happy.

Just as he was sulking in the room, Chen Hong walked in with a dark face. Director Chen didn't want to pay attention at first, but after all, she was his wife and was in charge of the promotion of "The Promise"!
He casually asked, "What's wrong?"

Producer Chen is still very angry "...I saw a video parodying our movie!"

"Spoof?"

"that is…"

Producer Chen couldn't explain it well either, so he simply called the publicity assistant to come in, brought a notebook, plugged in an internet cable, and soon "A Murder Caused by a Steamed Bun" appeared in front of Director Chen...

"A small steamed bun caused a shocking murder. A child who should be innocent has held grudges for 20 years because of a steamed bun. What made his endurance so fragile and his mind so distorted?"

Public security officers were ordered to arrest criminals, but in the end they became good friends with criminals. Why?
The case is complicated and confusing, and the truth is not revealed to the world until the last moment.Please watch the year-end special edition of "Legal System Online": "A Murder Caused by a Steamed Bun"...'

Seeing this, Director Chen couldn't take it anymore, his veins bulged, he picked up the computer, smashed it, and cursed angrily: "What kind of a person! What a person!"

Three minutes later, still panting heavily, he asked, "...who did this?"

Producer Chen explained: "It was a netizen who first uploaded it on a forum, and was later transferred to blogs and major video sites by other netizens... What we just watched was shared by bloggers!"

(End of this chapter)