China Entertainment 2000.

Chapter 247 Treasure Director

At the end of 04, as "A World Without Thieves" and "Kung Fu" were released on the Lunar New Year schedule, the Chinese film market ushered in another wave of moviegoers following the summer vacation releases of "Monster" and "House of Flying Daggers."

With four domestic blockbusters released a year, coupled with the support of Hong Kong films such as "Ghost of the Dead" and "New Police Story," the prosperity of the mainland film market is visible to the naked eye.

Those working in the film industry are all excited about this.

Moviegoers are full of complaints that movie tickets are too expensive.

When "Monster" is released in the summer, it is even more difficult to buy tickets. If you get tickets from scalpers, a movie ticket that costs more than 20 yuan may cost hundreds of yuan.

It's the end of the year, and movie tickets for "Kung Fu" have been sold by scalpers for hundreds of dollars each. It's really too much to do twice a year.

With the Lunar New Year movies hitting theaters, professors, scholars, and experts have begun to make suggestions to the media for the Chinese film market.

The audience started a new round of battle to grab tickets and complain about the show.

Officials continue to pursue ticket scalpers and pirated discs with repeated orders.

For a time, the film and television industry was abuzz with excitement and excitement.

But Jiang Liu, a director who is now very popular in the film and television industry, has never shown up to participate in this film industry event. He is hard at work polishing his next work.

He didn't bother to attend the first awards ceremony held by Yixin Company - the Yixin Starlight Ceremony.

I couldn't personally present the first Yixin trophy with [the colorful fairy holding a star high] to the first winning actor.

He also failed to attend the second annual meeting of Yixin.

He personally distributed a 100 million yuan bonus to Luo Zhenyu, which was enough to shock outsiders.

Gaolan Road, old bungalow.

Jiang Liu frowned and looked at the monitor.

The scene on the monitor is a restaurant decorated by art and props staff.

The story that was staged was that the father of Yang Li, the character played by Fan Binbin, held one of the pair of chopsticks upside down and was unable to hold a quail egg.

Caesar at the dinner table saw this and helped Yang Li's father drop the chopsticks he held upside down.

This plot is to tell the audience that the efficacy of the medicine Yang Li gave her father to treat neurological atrophy is degrading.

Caesar's IQ is very high.

Caesar's extremely affectionate behavior towards Yang Li's father shows that Caesar fully understands that he is a member of this family.

This scene is difficult to perform. The movements and eyes of one person and one ape must show several emotional changes.

At the very least, when Caesar discovered Yang Li's father's behavior and corrected the chopsticks, everyone and the ape saw the sadness in each other's eyes.

I don’t know if this plot was changed by Jiang Liu from the original version of eating poached eggs with the fork backwards to holding the chopsticks backwards to hold the quail eggs, which made the actors feel awkward or something else. The performances of Tony Leung Ka Fai and Wang Baoqiang have never met Jiang Liu’s requirements.

"do it again."

Liang Jiahui, who was wearing old man makeup, clumsily picked up the quail eggs, while Caesar just stared at him.

After Yang's father failed one after another, Caesar stretched out his fat fingers to take the chopsticks and turned his head. Yang's father suddenly realized something and looked at Caesar in shock.

Jiang Liu leaned over and looked at the monitor, chanting crazily in his heart, changing his mood to feel a little sad and sad.

Liang Jiahui seemed to hear Jiang Liu's thoughts. He opened his mouth but said nothing. He silently stretched his chopsticks from the quail eggs to the pig skin.

Jiang Liu scratched his head. He felt lonely, but it was conveyed to the audience more through his movements, not his eyes.

"Let's do it again during the break." Jiang Liu straightened up and said with waning interest.

"Apes" is a commercial entertainment movie, but the core of the story is no worse than "Monster".

The actor's performance is a very important part. If you want to shoot well, you should strive for the best. The old house is not the Jiangyin Bridge, and there is plenty of time for him to spend. The crew took a temporary break, the actors discussed the script, and Jiang Liu asked his assistant for a thermos.

Feeling the hot tea warming my stomach all the way, the venue manager personally brought an acquaintance.

"Why is President Li in the Magic City of China now?" Jiang Liu stretched out his hand to Li Meijing in surprise.

"CJ Group has carried out a lot of business in China in recent years. CJ Entertainment China Branch was established and has a series of cooperation with Magic City TV Station. However, this time I was invited to participate in Magic City TV Station's 2005 Oriental Xiyingmen event. .”

Jiang Liu understood and nodded.

At this time, the relationship between China and South Korea is still very harmonious.

Accordingly, the two countries have cooperated in many business aspects.

In terms of film and television culture, the governments of the two countries encourage co-productions of films, and "Monster" and "Up" are outstanding co-productions.

In addition, many domestic provincial stations have signed cooperation agreements with the three major Korean TV stations, and they often go to Korean TV stations to learn advanced experience.

CCTV has broadcast many Korean dramas such as "Miss World", "Watch and Watch", and "The Beggar Prince" a few years ago.

Generally speaking, China's accession to the WTO further opened up the country and required foreign investment to help develop its economy. Developed countries took a fancy to China's huge consumer market and came uninvited, and finally hit it off.

After walking around the set, I saw that Jiang Liu's crew was still so orderly, chaotic but not chaotic. Li Meijing smiled and said, "Director Jiang, you know, not long ago, "Monster" was finished in Korea."

"I heard that President Li's investment was very successful."

"It's all Director Jiang's credit." Li Meijing said with a blushing face.

"Monster" landed in South Korea in July and did not end its screening until November, with a cumulative screening time of 7 days.

According to data released by the Korea Film Promotion Council, "Monster" was released in South Korea for 121 days, with 1301 moviegoers.

This number of moviegoers is more than 1200 million more than the nearly 100 million moviegoers of "The Flying Taigeuk Flag", making it the box office champion in Korean film history.

A Chinese director shot a movie set in South Korea and won the box office championship of Korean movies.

To achieve this achievement, it is probably as difficult as having an Asian actor stand on the Oscar podium through a role in a white movie.

Therefore, when she saw Jiang Liu again a few months later, Li Meijing looked at Jiang Liu with admiration in her eyes, as if she were looking at a unique treasure.

In her heart, she really compared the river flow to a treasure.

Because the box office appeal displayed by Jiang Liu's movies has only been seen by one person in these years, Steven Spielberg.

Compared to Steven Spielberg, Jiang Liu is younger.

Thinking that the profession of director has always become more popular with age, the corners of Li Meijing's mouth couldn't help but rise.

Jiang Liu had fun with Li Meijing for a while.

To be honest, he couldn't figure out whether Li Meijing was really happy from the bottom of her heart, or if it was just an affectation on the surface.

As far as he knew, Li Meijing had certain patriotic feelings.

The reason why the Korean film industry has caught up with Hollywood after 2000 is inseparable from the vigorous promotion of Lee Meijing.

Without her, Bong Joon-ho's "Parasite" would never have swept Cannes, Golden Globes, and Oscars that year.

Given her patriotic sentiments, she shouldn't be so happy that "Monster" topped the Korean box office.

Or maybe he was mistaken and Li Meijing was just a businessman using patriotism as a cover?

Jiang Liu couldn't understand it for the time being.

(End of this chapter)