At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 532 Walking on Thin Ice
"Manslaughter" held five premieres, and Gong Li attended one of them, but he came in a hurry, and then flew back to North America...

Awards season is in full swing…

The PR teams of Judi Denk, Helen Mirren, and Kate Winslet are all working hard—really applying for that sentence: Hollywood has a lot of good actors and movies every year, but each project’s There is only one statuette, who is it for?That depends on their own means.

Acting is just an entry ticket.

If you really want to break into the mainstream, what you need is means...

Gong Li itself has little chance of winning. So far, only the Los Angeles Film Critics Association has awarded the best actress, and the New York Film Critics Association and the Boston Film Critics Association have awarded the best actress to Helen Mirren...

Of course, "Carol" did well at the box office.

As of December 12, the cumulative box office of "Carol" in North America has reached 12 million US dollars!

Overseas is even better - also as of December 12, the overseas box office has reached 12 million US dollars...

You must know that "Carol" has not yet been released on a large scale!
Moreover, same-sex films are banned in many countries and regions.

Shen Xudong compared the original time and space, and roughly concluded: North America should be able to break through 2000 US dollars, and the global total will be around 5000 million US dollars...

It is definitely not as good as the 1.78 million of "Brokeback Mountain", but it will definitely be much higher than the 4027 million US dollars of the original time and space!

The reason is simple: In the original time and space, when "Carol" was released, gay movies were no longer exciting enough.

Come back, at such an urgent juncture, Gong Li probably doesn't have time to fly back to do publicity...

Very good, no time to promote "Manslaughter", also means no time to promote "Golden Armor".

Oh, "Manslaughter" had a box office of 6800 million in its first four days, which failed to break records, but the discussion was directly at the top...

Not only netizens are discussing the perfect crime, major portals including paper media are also discussing whether the heroine of "Manslaughter" is right or wrong...

A bunch of film critics, experts, and professors have expressed their opinions...

Lin Lingdong was a little confused, so he made a movie, which was obviously a crime movie, but he enjoyed the treatment of a blockbuster movie, which attracted the attention of the whole country!
At the road show, a bunch of media asked him why he wanted to shoot like this...

"That's how the script was written..."

"But Ayu is a criminal... She killed someone, so she wasn't punished?"

Well, this is the point of controversy: After all, we believe that evil can prevail over good. Even in movies, we still believe in the distinction between "innocent" and "guilty". After all, killing someone and beating someone is "guilty", whether you are what reason.

Lin Lingdong was speechless: "This is just a movie, a crime movie. We made the movie completely according to the genre... and Ayu's family is actually a victim..."

……

Shen Xudong wrote on his blog: How to make a perfect crime?
The most important thing is to erase the alibi...

In "Manslaughter", the protagonist set up a four-layer deception.

The first level is to deceive the police and forge confessions.

The second layer is to produce alibi at the fastest speed, from banks to hotels, to ATM machines, mobile phone numbers; hotel owners, restaurant owners, drivers, electrical dealers, clerks, everyone is "brainwashed" by her invisible ", making an alibi...

But she understands that this is far from enough, so the third layer is to rely on the knowledge gained from watching movies to continuously train her family how to respond to police inquiries, how to collude confessions without arousing suspicion...

For 26 days, this woman exhausted all her ingenuity and effort to race against the entire law enforcement system.

When her daughter was tense in the face of the police, she showed up in time and easily resolved the suspicion.

He was suspected, questioned and even beaten by the police again and again.

The mood of the audience also fluctuates and waves.This is not just sympathy for the weak, but also a review and reflection on the entire legal justice.

The spearhead is actually the government's grassroots judicial corruption, where people get what they want, and corruption is rampant...

The mother of the rich second generation is a high-level judicial system, and the persecution of the protagonist's family has become more and more serious.

In the end, the youngest daughter couldn't bear the torture and told the truth.

Then, the protagonist's hole cards came one after another: In fact, she never believed that her family could deal with the experienced police...

She resisted all the hardships by herself—she dropped the corpse.It was placed in a cement mixer, poured into concrete, and a new police station was built.

All the police dug up was the body of a dead dog...

So far, all suspicions are just conjectures, like boiling water melting snow, self-defeating.

Therefore, the villain of "Manslaughter" is actually the grassroots justice...

The overall logic of this creation is like this, I don't have any hidden thoughts...

The most exciting part of a suspense crime film is the local part.

I've seen a lot of people say that this movie teaches bad viewers...

I think this label is a bit too much. "Manslaughter" is actually an entertaining film. From the very beginning, we didn't want to express any deep themes, just to entertain the audience.

I didn't expect any profound artistic expression...

Otherwise, it will not be scheduled to be released on the Lunar New Year file.

……

Shen Xudong posted this blog mainly in response to the public criticisms of a bunch of bigwigs in the industry - accusing movies of teaching bad audiences...

This must be responded to. If the retired big leader is alarmed, "Manslaughter" will have to be released with just a word, and if it alarms the Internet monsters-parents of children, it is estimated that it will also be screened...

By the way, we have to spread the news that the cost is 8000 million...

The real cost of "Manslaughter" is 4800 million, and the income from pre-roll ads and embedded ads is about 3000 million, so the shooting cost is actually less than 2000 million...

As for the cost of publicity, there are also sponsors, which basically offset it.

Gong Li is the same as "National Witness", signed the basic remuneration + profit sharing model
Why blow 8000 million cost?
You have to blow up the cost a bit, so that everyone will not be too jealous when they know that you are not making money...

Otherwise, a report is really too much!

The General Administration is actually quite difficult, knowing that what I did was offending others.

So apart from those obviously politically sensitive films, their attitude towards most directors and films is "no civil case, no official case."

At that time, Jia Zhangke was sued for filming "Xiao Wu" and was banned for five years - Lao Jia's "Confusion" mentioned this past event: "On January 1999, 1, I was called by the Film Bureau to talk , I was 13 years old that year..." While waiting in the office, he accidentally found a copy of a document on the table: "It seems to have my name on it. I was as excited as Jiang Gan stealing a book, and no one was around , I picked up the document and read it, and what was copied on it was actually a report about my movie "Xiao Wu" on the movie version of Taiwan's "Dacheng Daily".

This doesn't surprise me. What's amazing is that next to the main text, someone handwritten a few lines of small report: please pay attention to this matter, the bureau leaders should not let such a movie affect our country's normal foreign cultural exchanges. "

"After reading it, I hated it from the bottom of my heart, and the evil grew out of my guts. After I stabilized my emotions, I saw the signature on the small report: XX..."

It was later confirmed that the person who wrote the complaint letter was actually Wang Bin, and Wang Bin was Zhang Yimou's literary planner, who planned "Heroes" and "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles"...

Lou Ye's filming of "Suzhou River" did not involve politics, and no one sued, so it was just an ordinary ban, and no punishment was imposed on the director himself

Including "The Devil Is Coming" - it is said that someone wrote an anonymous letter to the competent authority, distorting Jiang Wen's motivation for making this movie...

Damn, "Manslaughter" is naturally problematic, if someone takes eye drops...

In short, "Manslaughter" was released for 7 days, and the box office exceeded 1100 million. When "Golden Armor" was released, "Manslaughter" still won [-] million box office in a single day...

At this time, the cumulative box office of "Manslaughter" is already 1.3 million.

Therefore, even if "Golden Armor" was released, the theaters still gave "Manslaughter" 20% of the film schedule...

But... on the one hand, the box office is selling well, and on the other hand, the publisher is walking on thin ice...

Shen Xudong even swore: "You who are on horseback, never make this kind of movie again!"

(End of this chapter)