director of the millennium

Chapter 307: Hollywood’s olive branch, “Red Cliff” will be released!
Wang Xueqi is very popular, he is so popular that he is so popular that he is red-hot.

The character of Commander Li is too majestic and upright, and fits the public's impression of "Chinese soldiers" very well.

He is funny but also very responsible. Even in the lonely and dark space, he can give people a sense of security. It seems that with him, all difficulties are not a problem, even if he is "thrown" in space. .

Dr. Li Wei, played by Gong Li, can be said to have played a decisive role in successfully returning to Earth. Even after he sacrificed his own life in exchange for Li Wei's survival, he would continue to experience hallucinations in the form of hallucinations. Appearing inspired Li Wei to persevere.

The most important thing is that although the character of Commander Lee is in space, he is very grounded.

He will also miss the beautiful scenery of the Northeast in winter, miss the big lake where he often goes fishing, and also want to return to the earth.

But he is the leader of the entire team, and he carries the responsibility of everyone on his shoulders.

So he gave up his own life to let Li Wei live and save Li Wei.

It was precisely because of his sacrifice that Li Wei found the meaning of life, allowing her to think of him and his teachings every time she faced a desperate situation and seemed to be about to die, and rekindled her desire to survive.

The character of Commander Lee is so heroic that it is difficult for people not to have a favorable impression of this character after watching the movie.

Wang Xueqi, who played this role, naturally became popular in China quickly.

Before starring in "Gravity", Wang Xueqi was not well-known, even though he was the leading actor in Chen Kaige's "Yellow Earth".

He has always worked hard in the field of TV dramas and acted in many popular TV dramas, but his fame is limited to middle-aged people.

It's different now. Through the movie "Gravity", he has become famous among young people in one fell swoop.

More importantly, with the very popular role of "Commander Li", Wang Xueqi seems to have successfully opened up his acting career in Hollywood!
Although Wu Yuan's movie has not been released in North America, it does not mean that no North Americans pay attention to it.

On the contrary, the Big Six in Hollywood, as well as other second- and third-tier film and television companies, are all paying attention to the release of the movie "Gravity."

Let's put it this way, if there is a Chinese director who can promote Asian actors in the international market, only Wu Yuan can do it.

It was Wu Yuan who single-handedly introduced Liu Yifei to the international market and became an internationally renowned actor and singer.

The Big Six in Hollywood are not fools. After seeing Wu Yuan bring out Liu Yifei, they will of course pay attention to Wu Yuan's actions and the actors in his hands.

Without him, Hollywood is said to be very open and welcomes outstanding film professionals from all over the world to come and make a career, but it is still a white man's world.

It is impossible for other ethnic minorities and even white Europeans to gain power in Hollywood.

Hollywood can tolerate a non-white or non-American gaining fame in North America, whether as an actor or a director, but it cannot tolerate him touching the power of Hollywood.

Wu Yuan has now come into contact with the dangers of this taboo area.

Although Liu Yifei's popularity is also due to the channels behind Disney and the big Disney project "Pirates of the Caribbean", Liu Yifei's economic contract is under Wu Yuan's banner.

During the cooperation, Disney was very happy to help Liu Yifei promote her reputation, because this would make the box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" better.

But now that the cooperation is over, Disney has immediately turned its back on him and doesn't want Wu Yuan to promote more Chinese actors in Hollywood.

There can be Chinese actors who have made a name for themselves in Hollywood, but they cannot all be artists under Wu Yuan's banner.

Otherwise, wouldn't Wu Yuan become the "father" of the Asian community in Hollywood, suddenly emerge as the seventh force outside of the six major ones in Hollywood?

Damn it, no native-born black man in the United States dares to do this. Will Smith is famous all over the world, and he does not dare to form a small black group.

How could the Big Six of Hollywood tolerate Wu Yuan doing this?
Therefore, they are always watching Wu Yuan's actions in China and paying attention to the situation of the movie "Gravity".

The movie itself is actually not bad. If you look at it outside of the Chinese identity, "Gravity" is a Hollywood-level science fiction movie. At most, the script is better and has a bit of an Oscar-level feel. It’s not like I’m going to criticize Hollywood.

But the actors in this movie are different.

It's okay with Gong Li. She has already been trying to cooperate with Hollywood and want to break into Hollywood.

Now if Gong Li can become a god in China with the movie "Gravity", Hollywood will not mind attracting this Chinese superstar to develop in North America. After all, she has a vast Chinese market behind her.

The same goes for Wang Xueqi.

Even with the movie "Gravity", he gained more favorability from the Chinese public than Gong Li.

The six Hollywood stars know how useful an actor is with public favorability and mass support.

In front of the camera, Will Smith is humble, humorous, loyal to his family, and loving to his children. He does not have any bad habits of black people. The style he displays is simply that of a top ten idol. Without the guidance of the Big Six behind his back, who would believe it?
Now, a Chinese actor whose screen image is similar to that of Will Smith and who has won a lot of national favorability in China has appeared. How can the Sixth National Congress have no ideas?
"Gravity" had a box office of 1.65 million in the first three days of its first weekend in the mainland. In its second week, the box office did not even drop but rose. In one fell swoop, it took in a weekly box office of 2.26 million.

This kind of box office performance has also attracted the attention of the six Hollywood majors. The box office of 4 million yuan is not a small sum of money even for Hollywood.

Immediately, Warner and Universal, two major Hollywood companies that had entered the mainland market relatively early and had offices in the capital, offered an olive branch to Wang Xueqi.

They can accept a few more Asian faces in Hollywood, but they cannot accept that these new Asian faces are all people under Wu Yuan.

Yes, they want to draw Wang Xueqi into their camp first, work for them, and open up the Chinese market for them, instead of serving as Wu Yuan's general and helping Wu Yuan conquer the North American market.

Wang Xueqi, who was running a road show with Wu Yuan, soon received exciting news from his agent.

"Warner Bros. Pictures invites you to audition for their "Inception" project next year. There is an important supporting role in the script, Saito, who is a big Japanese businessman!"

"Universal Pictures invites you to audition for "Green Zone." Universal has added the role of an Asian soldier in this movie. Considering that you have experience in many Chinese military-themed TV series, you are invited to audition. !”

"Teacher Wang! This is a Hollywood movie project!"

Facing the manager's excited screams, Wang Xueqi was not as excited as the manager. Instead, he kept a very calm attitude. He just shook his head, pushed the manager away with his hand, and walked out directly. room.

"Dong dong dong..."

Hearing the knock on the door, Wu Yuan suspiciously signaled his assistant Xiao Zhang to open the door.

"Teacher Wang, what is this?"

Xiao Zhang was surprised to see Wang Xueqi standing outside the door. It was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and he would have a roadshow in another city tomorrow. Why did Wang Xueqi come to see Wu Yuan now?However, his movements were not slow and he introduced Wang Xueqi into the room sideways.

Seeing him, Wu Yuan was also a little confused, but before he could ask, Wang Xueqi said: "Director Wu, I have something I want to ask you to help me with..."

He told Wu Yuan all the news about Hollywood inviting him to audition.

In Wang Xueqi's view, his current achievements are obviously due to Wu Yuan, and Wu Yuan is the person most familiar with Hollywood in China. Faced with this sudden invitation, he still wanted to ask Wu Yuan's opinion.

Wang Xueqi, who is over 60 years old this year, has maturity and stability as his most indispensable strengths.

After listening to Wang Xueqi's account, Wu Yuan didn't think anything was wrong, and said with a smile: "It's pretty good!"

"It's a good thing that Hollywood can offer you an olive branch. It shows that they are optimistic about you and the Chinese fundamentals behind you!"

"Now Hollywood is paying more and more attention to the Chinese market, thanks to the good example Yao Ming set in the NBA."

Since Yao Ming was elected to the NBA, the entire NBA league has taken off in China. The league alone can earn hundreds of millions of yuan in China a year. Yao Ming's Rockets rely on Yao Ming alone to support the entire NBA. Team finances.

This has made countless North American capitalists re-examine the land of China.

This is a land containing countless wealth.

The premise is that they must hold the key to this land before they can enter this land and make a fortune.

For Hollywood, the key is actors with Chinese faces.

"Director Wu, what do you mean, can you give this a try?" It was only then that Wang Xueqi's tone finally showed a hint of excitement.

Even veteran actors in their 60s want to make progress.

"Of course!" Wu Yuan nodded affirmatively: "If you want me to give you advice, my suggestion is to go all out to conquer the movie "Inception" and forget about Universal's "Green Zone"."

The Japanese businessman Saito's character in "Inception" is quite good, at least much better than Wang Xueqi's Chinese special version of "Transformers 3", right?
Wu Yuan had no idea that Wang Xueqi would give up his wings and fly solo. In his plan, there was no place for Wang Xueqi in the Light Age.
It's a good thing that a Hollywood project is actively approaching him now.

"Warner probably wanted to please the markets of both countries at the same time, so it inserted a Japanese businessman character into the script, and this role is quite important."

"Then they ask you to audition for this role, and they want to use a Chinese actor to play it, so that they can capture the Japanese and Chinese markets at the same time."

Wu Yuan sighed as he smashed his mouth.

It can also be seen from this aspect that Warner really has no confidence in the movie "Inception". It is really afraid that the movie will lose money, so it has decided to please the Japanese market in the script. After all, Japan is the second largest market in the world. Big movie ticket warehouse.

Now I want Wang Xueqi to play this role, just because I saw the exaggerated results of "Gravity" in the mainland, and I hope Wang Xueqi can protect "Inception" again.

As for the rumored "Inception" being a project that Hollywood is not optimistic about and Nolan doesn't have enough money, that's really funny.

Given this opportunity, Wu Yuan would have intervened long ago.

In fact, the "Inception" project is not short of money at all. Nolan's own company, Legendary Pictures and Warner, almost completed the investment, leaving only a few scraps, which were given to an independent company that has cooperated many times. movie company.

"Okay." Wang Xueqi nodded solemnly: "Thank you, Director Wu, for your suggestion. I will seriously consider it."

Wang Xueqi stood up and said with a smile: "Then I won't disturb Director Wu's rest."

The next day, Wu Yuan, Wang Xueqi and Gong Li continued their road show.

They have high hopes for this movie. The final box office performance of this movie will not only affect their present, but also their future.

At least Gong Li and Wang Xueqi have enjoyed the benefits of this movie and received many audition invitations from Hollywood.

Of course they hope that "Gravity" will do better at the box office and add a solid score to them.

At this moment, the action above finally took effect.

In first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangfu, Chengdu, Suzhou, and Hangzhou, primary schools, middle schools, and high schools immediately organized group movie viewing activities under the arrangement of a thin notice.

Nowadays, autumn outings, spring outings, and watching movies are still group activities that major schools must arrange every year.

Primary school students wearing red scarves, junior high school students and high school students in school uniforms, in class units, led by their teachers, came to the cinema near the school to watch the space science film "Gravity" together.

For these students, this movie-watching experience will definitely plant a seed in their young hearts.

This movie is really shocking.

Whether it is the loneliness rendered in the movie, the beautiful space, or the meaning of life displayed by the heroes and heroines struggling to survive, they are all shocking.

Perhaps, they are unable to understand some of the profound meanings contained in this movie at once, just like when most people watched "Avatar" for the first time, they did not immediately understand the implicit relationship between the colonists and the victims in the story. Ideological conflict among the colonists.

But everyone can still be attracted and moved by the movie's gorgeous special effects and "simple" main story line.

Not only these students, but also major state-owned enterprises and public departments also organized collective observation activities.

It is easier for adults to understand this movie than for children.

Compared with the previous organized viewing of various patriotic educational films, fatherly love, and maternal love educational films, the space disaster film "Gravity" brought them an incomparably better viewing experience.

Sometimes things promoted by administrative power are not necessarily bad things.

At least this group viewing arranged by the Ministry of Culture made most of the students and public officials who watched the movie extremely satisfied.

However, it would be even more perfect if there wasn’t the 500-word review I was asked to write after watching the movie!
Many children walked out of the cinema happily. After hearing from the teacher that they were asked to write their thoughts after watching the movie, their happy faces immediately wrinkled into a bitter gourd look.

The box office of "Gravity", also supported by this wave of effective forces, rushed to the exaggerated and unprecedented figure of 5 million yuan!
But, at this moment, the wolf came.

"Red Cliff", a super costume war blockbuster that has also been in preparation for several years and has been publicized to everyone, is about to be released!

　I had a good sleep yesterday, so comfortable.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)