At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 791 How old are you?
Golden Harvest Cinemas, which is laid out throughout Asia, is currently the largest cinema in Hong Kong and Singapore. Malaysia and local companies jointly operate, accounting for 32% of the market share. Thailand and Vietnam are also jointly operating, accounting for 18% and 22% respectively. share...

In the Mainland, Golden Harvest Cinemas ranks fourth in terms of total number of screens and third in total revenue

Wanda, which ranks first, has 89 theaters and 762 screens. So far, the total box office in 2011 is 15.5 billion;
Then there is China Film Xingmei, with 166 theaters, 855 screens, and a total box office of 14.8 billion;
Golden Harvest has 95 theaters, 620 screens, and the Shanghai United Cinemas, which exceeded 12.9 billion with 12.4 billion, won No.3...

Moreover, Golden Harvest's Shenzhen flagship store has an annual box office revenue of more than 8500 million, BJ's flagship store has an annual box office revenue of more than 6200 million, and the flagship stores in Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Nanjing have an annual box office revenue of more than 5000 million.

The flagship stores in the five major cities are all among the top [-] in the theater's annual box office...

The box office revenue of the flagship stores in Chengdu, Chongqing, Qingdao, Xi'an, Fuzhou, Xiamen, and Zhuhai has exceeded 3000 million!
In addition, the planned second- and third-tier cities are making efforts.

In other words, Golden Harvest Cinemas belongs to the large cinemas, you... directly blocked it?
Zhang Weiping told the media, "From "Three Shots" to "Hawthorn Tree", New Picture and Golden Harvest both had publishing contracts, but they violated the contract twice. The contract stipulated that the box office should be settled within a certain period of time, but they delayed twice and seriously breached the contract. " I warned them about "Three Shots", but "Three Shots" was delayed, and "The Hawthorn" was like this again, so this time it is punishment, and the audience should not go to Golden Harvest to watch "Thirteen Hairpins", because they can't do it. '

Shen Xudong laughed directly...

This shit is called an egg hitting a rock-you can't do it!
……

The company, high-level executives are discussing Zhang Weiping's move...

"Golden Harvest Cinemas owes money?"

Gao Jun shook his head: "How can we owe money? Our theaters pay the bill, no matter whose film it is, even if it is an American blockbuster, we have to wait one to two months."

"Then why did he say that?"

"He just wanted to find fault...Our "First Love" box office was so good that it attracted most of the media coverage. He wanted to bring topic to "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins"!"

Chen Xi couldn't help asking: "What's wrong, 'I have a sex scene with Bell' isn't enough?"

'I play a sex scene with Bell' is a very important means of publicity for "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling". In addition, Zhang Weiping promotes the sex scenes in various movies...

Like a neuropathy!
Under his propaganda, a good movie about national disasters suddenly became a green movie.

Gao Fenfen is more concerned about another matter: "Then he really won't give us the key to "Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling""

"Do you think he dares?"

"He's crazy... who knows?"

Gao Jun continued: "Last year, when he released "Three Guns Surprise", there was a conflict with our "October Siege". At the end of the first week, "Three Guns" reduced the share of accounts by 5% to the theaters. Two points, and three points for movie theaters, isn’t this an obvious way to encourage theaters to line up more “Three Shots” to win the box office? Because “Fortress Besieged” has a high investment cost and the pressure to recover is high, “Three Shots” was shot cheaply.”

"But it's legal, right?"

"It's legal, but it's immoral to do so. Now that we don't want to raise the price of movie tickets, and don't want to help the producers to seek benefits, are we going to be punished?"

The more Chen Xi listened, the more he felt that it was outrageous: "Who is he going to punish? He doesn't know that his movie won't be shown. Can we have more "First Love" and other movies?"

Gao Jun laughed happily: "I'm used to being overbearing..."

"How do we respond?"

"Just respond normally... By the way, what's Xudong's attitude?"

"...I called him and he said he was fishing. Don't bother him with such trivial matters!"

Hearing this, Gao Fenfen took out her mobile phone: "Is this still a trivial matter?"

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"Jinling Thirteen Beauties" was actually adapted by Yan Geling based on "Vautlin's Diary" - Vautrin recorded in the diary that some of the Nanjing civilians who fled to the safe area at that time were indeed brothel women. In 1988, Han Sanping As the director of Emei Film Factory, I once made a version of "Refuge" with director Zhou Li, and the screenwriter was also Yan Geling. That was the initial version of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", only three beauties...

In Yan Geling's "Thirteen Beauties of Jinling", the story sets up more dramatic conflicts, such as exchanging the lives of 12 prostitutes for the lives of 13 female students, and also replaced the protagonist with a fake pastor John Miller, creating a The anti-hero protagonist, moreover, the location of the story was changed from Jinling University to a church...

With such a change, the core contradiction of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" is similar to the trolley problem. What it wants to discuss is: in the face of the disaster of the massacre of the city, is there a distinction between life and life?Is every life equal?

Should the brothel women who trade in flesh and blood be sacrificed?And the life of a female student (virgin) is more precious?
Who is more worthy of survival, a prostitute or a schoolgirl?
Its core is similar to Maupassant's "Ball of Fat"...

The background of "Ball of Fat" is the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. The Prussian army captured the city of Rouen, and ten people fled in the same carriage.Among these ten people are the big bourgeoisie, businessmen, and nuns, all of whom can be called decent people.

Unlike Ball-of-Fat, she is a whore.

The ladies insulted her as a disgrace to the society, and the men talked about it secretly to bring down Ball-of-Fat.Until they felt hungry, and Ball-of-Fat brought enough food.The lords and wives held back for a moment, accepted the food presented by Ball of Fat, and started to compliment her instead.

The car drove to a small town occupied by Prussian soldiers.The soldiers named Suif to sleep with, but Suif refused to commit himself to the soldiers because of his patriotism.All the people in the same car were detained.

So, the whole car began to persuade Suif to accept the soldier's request.Ball-of-Fat accepted in desperation.

When Ball-of-Fat returned to the car, the original praise turned into swearing and indifference.This time, all the people in the car have prepared sumptuous food, except Suet Ball.And this time, Ball-of-Fat starved in the corner, whimpering to Cornidet's Marseillaise...

The suet ball in "Suet Ball" is forced, and Shisanchai is active...

If "Thirteen Hairpins" were changed to a minor girl, there would not be such a big controversy!

In addition, some thirteen beauties were brainwashed by priests, female students, and several leading collective PUAs, and were forced to commit themselves...

But in this way, there will be no great side of human nature!

Shen Xudong doesn't like this movie because it has no sincerity at all, only old men flattering the western perspective.

Generally speaking, movies about Nanjing must at least have a main perspective of family-country-ethnic narrative, but the protagonist of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" is a white American, and it is Bell who plays John Miller who finally completes the character's growth and transformation. Chinese men are all dead - whether it's Instructor Li, Mr. Meng or George Chen, you just can't get emotionally invested in this character...

So, from the very beginning, this movie is a 'worldwide' perspective, not a national narrative!
In other words, the movie was aiming for an Oscar from the very beginning...

(End of this chapter)