director of the millennium

Chapter 346 Golden Rooster and Golden Horse

On February 2008, 11, it was sunny.

Tokyo.

In the past week, the well-known Chinese films "Red Cliff Part 400" and "Gravity", which have become famous in Japan, were officially released in more than [-] cinemas in Tokyo.

Rarely, this year, the Tokyo Film Market, which had been deserted for a year, started to become popular. There were long queues in major cinemas. Audiences and fans from Tokyo and surrounding cities and counties were waving their money. , buy movie tickets for nearby shows.

Among them, two-thirds of the audience bought movie tickets for "Red Cliff Part [-]", while less than one-third bought movie tickets for "Gravity".

Compared with ordinary space science fiction films in the eyes of Japanese audiences, the Three Kingdoms-themed "Red Cliff Part [-]" is indeed more pleasing to the audience.

At least on the opening day, more fans chose to watch "Red Cliff Part [-]".

This also made Wu Baige very excited and regained some face.

The Japanese market has always been regarded as Wu Yuan's big box office. Among directors from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, there is no one with such huge box office appeal in Japan as Wu Yuan.

But now this "monopoly" seems to be broken by Wu Baige.

Relying on the two points of Three Kingdoms + Kim Sung-wu that interest Japanese movie fans very much, "Red Cliff Part [-]" triggered a movie-watching craze right after its opening.

On the Internet, Heisei men who watched this movie for the first time are also raving about this movie.

Generally speaking, although mainland audiences are not very satisfied with Wu Baige's magical plot in "Red Cliff", Japanese audiences are still quite accepting.

Even if Xiao Qiao, played by Lin Chiling, is the protagonist, they have no objections.

Originally, Xiao Qiao was a beauty from the Three Kingdoms who was well-known in Japan. The story centered on her and Zhou Yu, so it had nothing to do with it.

As for the phrase "Meng Meng, stand up" that was ridiculed by the mainland audience, because it was re-dubbed, and the word "Meng Meng" lost its flavor after being translated into Japanese, it was not popular among Japanese movie fans. What kind of complaints did it cause?

This made "Red Cliff Part 10" have a very good reputation and box office performance in Japan within three days of its opening. The cumulative box office in the three days exceeded [-] billion yen, and it has gained a lot of popularity among Japanese movie fans.

In comparison, the box office performance of "Gravity" in Japan is relatively mediocre. The three-day box office performance is only 4 million yen. Although it is also showing an upward trend, this kind of hard science fiction movie is indeed the most popular in Japan. There is no good soil.

Japanese movie fans have never been very interested in "science fiction" themes. Whether it is the once globally popular "Star Wars" and "Star Trek", or the later super-realistic and soft science fiction Marvel series of movies, they have failed many times in the Japanese box office market. It can't beat local fresh movies.

Naturally, Wu Yuan could not change the preferences of Japanese movie fans on his own.

However, the Japanese reputation and ratings of "Gravity" are still very high. On the Japanese film review website, the opening score reached 8.5 points, and it is still rising.

In terms of plot depth and ideological depth, "Gravity" is several dimensions higher than "Red Cliff Part [-]". Even the most sophisticated film critic has to admit the excellence of this movie.

Although it was a little worse than "Red Cliff Part [-]" at the box office, "Gravity" was higher than "Red Cliff Part [-]" in word-of-mouth ratings, which can be regarded as a comeback.

But what really makes Wu Yuan proud is the market share that "Gravity" gained from "Red Cliff Part [-]" after the two films were released at the same time.

Judging from the current box office trend, the box office forecast of "Red Cliff Part 40" in Japan is around 50 billion yen, which is 10 billion yen less than the original [-] billion yen.

The Japanese box office forecast of "Gravity" is around 25 billion yen, which is not a lot. At least compared with the more than 100 billion box office of "Your Name", the gap is very huge, but converted into RMB, There are already 1.5 million, and the Light and Shadow Era can get 4000 million.I have to admit that making high-cost hard science fiction movies is really thankless.

In the absence of a global market, "Gravity" only relied on the Asian market, with a cost of 3.5 million yuan. Even including the money from selling European and American distribution rights, it still made about 1 million yuan. It is Wu Yuan who has made movies until now. , a work with the lowest profit ratio.

However, this movie did earn Wu Yuan many other hidden benefits in China.

It is a good thing to awaken the "science fiction dream" of domestic movie fans. It is another good thing to become the business card of Chinese movies. It is another good thing for Chinese-language movies to master the science fiction field that is the crown jewel of movies.

If Zhang Yimou became a national master after the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, opening up a level gap between him and other mainland directors, then Wu Yuan can be regarded as jumping out of the hierarchy after the release of "Gravity". It’s on the same level as Zhang Yimou.

Although the position of national master may not be comparable, it is only half a step behind at most. There is still a clear gap between him and other directors who are not at the same level.

Even the Golden Rooster Award, which had always rejected Wu Yuan, was ordered by the superiors this time to invite Wu Yuan to participate and award "Gravity".

Although the new Golden Rooster Awards will not open until October next year, it has basically been decided that the best picture of next year's Golden Rooster Awards will be "Gravity".

Gong Li will also win the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress for the third time with this film, becoming the first actress to win three Golden Rooster Awards for Best Actress.

In fact, when Wu Yuan received the news, his first thought was not to praise him.

However, the person who notified him was the leader of the Ministry of Culture, and the leader was soft-spoken and had a lot of nice things to say. He also talked about "uniting domestic comrades", which was not good for Wu Yuan. Declined to participate.

But he finally saw clearly that the Golden Rooster was really hopeless. The important awards were either assigned to his junior by the nepotistic organizing committee, or were appointed by the superiors, which had nothing to do with fair selection.

On the other hand, Jinma also sent an invitation to Wu Yuan this year.

It's not "Gravity", but "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die" was shortlisted for the 45th Golden Horse Awards for Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actor. Five nominations for supporting actress.

God knows why "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die", which was not released in Taiwan, received so many nominations.

Anyway, this is not the first time that Golden Horse has done this kind of operation, so much so that some award-winning guests asked soul questions about Taiwan's film release mechanism: "Why have we not seen many of the shortlisted films on Taiwan?"

"More excellent mainland movies should be allowed to enter cinemas in Baodao, so that movie fans in Baodao can also enjoy them."

Look, there are still sober filmmakers in Treasure Island, although not many.

It is also because of this that after receiving the invitation from the Golden Horse this time, Wu Yuan calculated with his fingers that there were still ten years until the 2018 Golden Horse, so he could go to the Golden Horse this year.

Relatively speaking, "the most fair and equitable of the three golds" is indeed more worthy of participating among the three Chinese golds.

However, even if it is the most fair and just Golden Horse, in the original time and space, this year's "The Nomination" will beat "Assembly" to win the best feature film, and beat "Cape No. [-]" to win the best director.

Are you telling me that this award is fair and just?

Seriously, you will lose.

(End of this chapter)