At first, I just wanted to make money

In fact, it is not necessary.

The inventory of Shen Xudong's investment and film production in the past few years has been assembled into an inventory, and then appeared in various soft articles!

Some of them were written by the company, most of them were spontaneous...

Shen Xudong is too fierce this year, "Cao Cao", "Zhao Zilong 2", "On the Journey", "Returning to 20" and "The Ancient City".Five plays in a row are selling well!
And they are all phenomenal sales—"Cao Cao" 2.07 million, "Zhao Zilong 2" 1.68 million, "People on the Journey" 1.76 million, "Back to 20" 2.67 million...

The box office of "Exquisite Ancient City" exceeded [-] million in the first weekend.

The box office is just a show off, and the key word of mouth is not bad!

A bunch of netizens praised Shen Xudong as 'the savior of Chinese movies'...

Oh, "Exquisite Ancient City" scored 7.8 points on Douban, and Mtime.com also gave it a score of 7.7, with the highest praise: "Unexpectedly good."There are no faults in all aspects. Such a project is not easy. '

Also, "Jingjue Ancient City" definitely represents the top level of Chinese commercial films and industrial productions today. The narrative is smooth, the plot is ups and downs without losing humor, the scenes and props are magnificent, and the performance of the actors is also very good...Congratulations to Liu Ye, and congratulations to the world Domineering, found the most suitable Hu Bayi! '

In fact, most audiences are very tolerant of Chinese movies, the premise is that you have to let them see sincerity, hard work...

If the movie itself gives them some surprises, it will naturally be highly praised...

Are there any surprises in "Exquisite Ancient City"?

Nonsense, the scale alone has shocked all the audience—there are zombies, fire snakes, and the queen of perfection...

The special effects part, all green screen parts and pure CG parts, CG characters and real-life interaction parts, all of these, did not show a "cheap feeling" from the beginning to the end, which is particularly commendable!
In terms of genre, Chinese sci-fi or monster films have always been difficult to solve the problem of convincing the audience or getting into the film quickly, or in other words, no matter how they are shot, they will look fake.

Because we watch too much Hollywood, many viewers feel that science fiction or monster movies should be like so-and-so. This is incomprehensible. How do we shoot? Superficially imitating Hollywood can’t solve the problem of audience’s inner acceptance. This is a problem of acceptance aesthetics. , was once incomprehensible...

However, the art concept of "Exquisite Ancient City" refers to the Great Northwest in the 90s of the last century. From the perspective of art and historical atmosphere, it is very complete and the degree of completion is also very good.

Especially the scene design of the black sandstorm and the exquisite ancient city are very shocking!
Not to mention that people are immediately brought in, at least there will be no drama.

Moreover, embroidered shoes also appeared in the egg part-leading to "Longling Miku".

What's not to like?

Oh, the reason why it didn't score 8 points is because... many people said that it was 'more than a little worse than "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "National Treasure" and "Mummy"...

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"In the beginning, I was under a lot of pressure, because the original book "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" was too popular. I heard that the sales of the original book alone exceeded [-] million..."

The creators of "Exquisite Ancient City" promote the film.

No matter what movie, when promoting, actors must have a "uneasy" → "courage" → "work hard to adapt" → "integrate into one"...

If you don't blow it, how will the media report it?
How does the audience know that you put a lot of effort into the character?

Liu Ye... is really amazing. During this period of time, he is really crazy about acting!
This side filmed "Lan Yu" and the other filmed "Happy Street";
This side filmed "Blood Romance" and the other filmed "The Promise";
This side was filming "Curse of the Golden Armor" and the other side was filming "Dark Matter";
Rehearsing and touring drama "Amber" here, filming "Beauty Grass" and "Surrender to the Innocent Girl" over there...

I heard that while filming "Exquisite Ancient City", I also had two TV series "The Year We Lived" and "A Woman's Epic" in my hand, and by the way, "Nanjing!Nanjing! "Reshoot work...

But... there is nothing wrong with his presence!

Being an actor is just a job, just like some people only do one job, and some people have to work two or three jobs a day, can it be said that the former job must be better than the latter?
So, sexting has never been a crime, but if you tell me how you worked so hard, put all your heart into it, sacrificed yourself for a role, and then acted like this dick?
I just think you're either too good or a liar.

Most of the actors in the later generations have done too many dramas when their own strength is insufficient, resulting in a collapse in quality...

To put it bluntly, even if they devote themselves wholeheartedly, they may not be able to guarantee the quality!

However, Chen Hao did sacrifice a lot, which is shared by both the director and the actors:

Liu Ye said: "Chen Hao wants to lose fat and build muscle. In addition, there are weapon training and physical training. The crew specially invited a whole team from abroad to train us. I practiced with Jiang Wu for two weeks, and both I couldn't bear it anymore, Chen Hao persisted for three full months... Besides, as long as she continues to play Shirley Yang, she has to keep training..."

Chen Hao himself was quite embarrassed: "No, in fact, the training is quite interesting, and it can be used not only in the "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" series, but also in the "Republic of China" series, which began to arrange a lot of fight scenes for me..."

Xu Ke said: "The sequel will start in September, and the script has already been completed...We are considering whether to shoot three consecutive films..."

"The next one will of course be "Longling Miku"...No surprises, it will be released in the summer of 2010...and then one will be released every other year..."

"Remuneration... From the next film onwards, all their remuneration will be converted into investment, we must guarantee the production..."

Oh, there are still many media and reporters who are more concerned about the conflict between Xu Ke and Wu Yusen - the publicity team previously issued various press releases to promote the news of Xu Ke and Wu Yusen's duel again.

Yes, "Exquisite Ancient City" and "Red Cliff" are separated by two weeks, but they also belong to the same schedule, so they must belong to competitors...

Moreover, it also broke the news that Xu Ke wanted to make a movie about the Three Kingdoms in 95. At that time, the ideal candidates in his mind were Zhao Yun and Li Lianlian, Zhou Yu and Liu Dehua, Kong Ming and Zhou Xingchi, big and small Qiao Guan Zhilin, Li Jiaxin, but the director of the final project became Wu Yu Mori...

The reporters secretly asked Xu Ke about "Red Cliff", Xu Ke was very frank: "In fact, we have grabbed many subjects, not just "Red Cliff". He and I are good friends, and I look forward to his "Red Cliff". We have many different views on Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao, Zhou Yu, and "Battle of Chibi". It's not that he took the lead, and whoever can shoot will shoot. Everyone is very happy when the shoot is good, but if the shoot is not good , just... hehe."

"You didn't watch the movie in advance?"

"I have two projects in my hands, "Taking Tiger Mountain Out of Wisdom" and "Di Renjie", and I also want to supervise the production of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern". Do you think I have time to care about others?"

"...Then will you shoot the Three Kingdoms theme in the future?"

"Depending on the situation, no one can say for sure..."

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Xu Ke really didn't give Wu Yusen any face - everyone was very happy when the filming was good, but if the filming was not good, it was just... ha ha.

The next day, a bunch of portals used this passage as a headline...

In short, the pressure is completely on "Red Cliff"...

Oh, "Exquisite Ancient City" broke 1.87 million in three days, and reported 2.88 million in the next week. After ten days of release, the cumulative box office was 2 million, which is only 2.92 million short of the 400 million box office record of "Mobile Phone [-]"...