Director’s Legend

On New Year's Day and New Year's in January, Shao Shuaijun was busy shooting, but the outside world was still full of rumors. James Cameron, the king of the world, has honed his sword in five years, "Avatar". In more than 40 days, it has swept the world by more than 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, and is already the second place in global film history.

In the following screenings, whether he can break the record of "Titanic" directed by him has become the focus of global fans. In this era, influenced by the fan of Shao Shuaijun's little butterfly, "Avatar" is no longer as popular as it was in the previous life. After the initial period of freshness, the trend has begun to decline.

No way, many people have already seen the IMAX-3D effect of "IMAX-3D Yupu Tuan", and their expectations for "Avatar" have dropped a lot. This makes Shao Shuaijun feel a little sorry for Cameron, but since he was reborn, there have been more people who are sorry, and he doesn't care if there is another Cameron.

However, even if it is not as popular as in the previous life, "Avatar" in this life still breaks many records, especially in the mainland. The first week’s record was 422.9 million RMB held by "Old Boy", and the second week’s record was also 191 million RMB held by "Old Boy", but the third week’s record was replaced by "Avatar" with 135.8 million RMB, and the fourth week was also replaced by "Avatar". "Avatar" was replaced with 105 million yuan.

Compared with "Old Boy"'s wild first week at the box office and then a dive-like decline, "Avatar" has a stable start and relatively stable trend, and the decline is not obvious. Four weeks have passed, "Avatar" has already won 6.70.8 million yuan in the mainland. If we continue to follow this trend, it is no longer a luxury to surpass the "Old Boy"'s 801.2 million yuan in mainland film history record.

In other words, "Old Boy" has only been sitting on the throne of the box office champion in the mainland for a month or two and will give way.

"Shao Shuaijun will eventually lose to Cameron, the king of the new and old worlds, Shao Shuaijun will be defeated soon!"-Lest Shao Shuaijun will not fail, "Nandu Entertainment Weekly" boldly anticipated that the champion of mainland film history will be held by "Avatar" , Southern Metropolis Weekly estimates that the final box office of "Avatar" may exceed one billion yuan!

"The "Old Boy" storm has been determined to be blown out, and the "Avatar" gods descended to the earth to ravage the Chinese film market."-"Chutian Metropolis Daily" also promoted "Avatar".

"Avatar with a production cost of US$500 million is worth a tie with the production cost of "Old Boy" with a production cost of US$30.0 million. In the Chinese-speaking world, Shao Shuaijun is already the king and shoulders the last barrier to resist the invasion of Hollywood movies. -"Beijing Entertainment Letter".

"The whole world was ravaged by "Avatar", but in terms of revenue ratio, "Old Boy" definitely won."-"Yangcheng Evening News". Seeing "Avatar" surpassing "Old Boy" is not far from reaching the top, it is meaningless to be the mainland film history champion of "Old Boy". The media that pursues dreams have taken a different approach and calculated the profit ratio.

"Avatar" was produced for five years, and "Old Boy" was produced for two months.

"Avatar" has a total investment of more than 500 million US dollars, and "Old Boy" has invested 20 million yuan and there is still a remaining.

"Avatar" uses IMAX-3D technology, expression capture technology, and top CG special effects. "Old Boy" painted some makeup and computer repaired the film.

The production team of "Avatar" is led by Cameron, Weta Digital is on the battlefield, gold medal soundtrack, gold medal screenwriter, gold medal props team, "Old Boy" is Shao Shuaijun shoulders, three TV drama directors as assistants, the soundtrack is in addition to an original song Songs, all old songs...

The final conclusion is that the profit ratio of "Old Boy" is more than ten streets behind "Avatar". It is expected that filming such time-consuming and labor-intensive films as "Avatar" can make ten times the profit with films such as "Old Boy".

When this comparison was summed up, the Chinese media reprinted it wildly. It seemed that only in this way could "Avatar", the mountain that put Hollywood on the head of Chinese movies, be forgotten. Mtime.com is even more prominent in the red title, and the status of "Old Boy" is not lost to "Avatar".

When Shao Shuaijun was idle and bored one day and opened Mtime.com, he saw this comparative data. And a concluding title from Mtime.com: ""Old Boy" defended the honor of Chinese-language movies. It supported the big sky at a small cost and did not lose the big Hollywood production of "Avatar". Chinese-language movies are fearless and fearless, and the glory is with you and me. in!"

Seeing this title, Shao Shuaijun suddenly became furious and directly called the headquarters of Mtime.com via a dedicated line.

Shao Shuaijun’s number is a special number, which is recorded in the company, so the operator recognized Shao Shuaijun at the time: "Dong Shao, how are you, how can I help you."

"Go and let Marila answer the phone!" Shao Shuaijun said angrily.

Marila is now the general manager of Mtime.com, and soon, she heard Marila's gasping voice: "Shao Dong, are you looking for me?"

"Who sent the scarlet headline on Time.com?"

Marila heard Shao Shuaijun’s bad tone, and cautiously replied: “It’s me, Shao Dong, is there anything wrong?”

"I immediately withdrew the title and replaced it with this sentence,'Salute to "Avatar", deserved the title of king.' In addition, let Dream Entertainment hold a press conference. Tomorrow I will return to China to attend the press conference, just "Old Boy". Express his opinion with the box office of "Avatar"." After speaking, Shao Shuaijun hung up directly.

To be honest, as a Chinese-speaking director, he very much hopes that Chinese-language films can rise in the world, and he also hopes that there can be a Chinese-language film to defend the throne of Chinese film box office champions and not let the mountains of Hollywood be overwhelmed. However, it is not through this way of putting money on one's face, or clamoring for us to win big box office at a small cost.

If you lose, you lose. How can there be so many excuses.

It can be compared with the income, but why not compare the content, technology, and sincerity of a movie? "Avatar" is Cameron's five-year grind, a film made with his heart. You can try to beat it and surpass it, but you can't just surpass it.

No one would be happy when such a film is overwhelming. Shao Shuaijun is not happy to be surpassed by "Avatar", but filmmakers must learn to face up to the excellence of others, and then be brave enough to make a movie beyond "Avatar". At the very least, Shao Shuaijun himself thinks so.

He used "IMAX-3D Yupu Tuan" to accumulate IMAX-3D technology, "Inception" to accumulate traditional filming techniques, and "Rise of the Apes" to accumulate expression and motion capture techniques. He is studying and learning the most advanced shooting technology, because he deeply knows that the future of the film is not only a contention and subject matter, but also a technology competition.

But a country, a language, and a group of movies cannot rely solely on the power of one person. There is no Cameron in Hollywood, Spielberg, Nolan, Michael Bay, and a large number of excellent directors. Chinese-language movies can't just be the Three Musketeers, and he can't just accumulate technology by himself.

Shao Shuaijun has self-knowledge, and his current prosperity depends on cheating. Whether he can continue the road of being a great director in the future depends on the results of his current studies. The same is true for Chinese-language movies. Now the domestic development is very rapid. With a population of more than one billion, it is not impossible to surpass the United States to become the world's largest ticket warehouse in the future.

Because the demand is increasing, more and more movies have reached high box office, but I looked back for myself. Chinese-language movies are still at the level of Hollywood production of the last century, especially the level of special effects and science fiction production. Are Chinese-language movies the same?

No!

Maybe one or two have played special effects, maybe one or two science fiction themes, but that doesn't mean much. Without a huge base accumulation, it cannot be said that this aspect has been developed.

In fact, it doesn’t matter whether it is there or not. The important thing is that Chinese-speaking filmmakers need to see that they are not. Only when they see it can they remember and know that they should fill this piece. The most feared thing is that they can’t see it or pretend to be invisible when they see it!

Rubbing his forehead, Shao Shuaijun directly called the assistant directors of the two crews and asked them to take over the crew temporarily. And he took a special plane that afternoon and returned to China.

"Why did you come back in a hurry?" Li Xiuxiu came to pick up the plane and asked.

"I have a press conference. There are too many advocating "Old Boys" recently. I will cool them down." Shao Shuaijun hasn't seen Li Xiuxiu for more than half a month. He misses him even more. Now he puts his arms around Li Xiuxiu, and feels his anger has subsided a lot.

Li Xiuxiu chuckled and said, "Are you not happy when others praise you?"

"Do I need to flatter? I care about that point of flattery? I wish everyone would forget me first, so that I can enjoy life quietly, away from the crowd!" Shao Shuaijun said half-jokingly and half-emotionally. Thousands of people will pay attention one day, and thousands of people will pay attention in this life, but they want to live an ordinary life.

In the past, Shao Shuaijun read Qian Zhongshu’s "The Besieged City". The book said that people inside wanted to come out and people outside wanted to go in...

Perhaps this is the helplessness of reality.

Or is the **** just hypocritical?

"You can't live an ordinary life now. You know, the news that you are about to hold a press conference came out. The number of reporters outside the Dreaming Film and Television Base has increased several times. There is a roasted sweet potato stall across the street. My old lady should have a good business today, ha ha."

"Otherwise we won't go back and find a hotel to live in. The feeling of being stared at is really uncomfortable."

"Why don't you go to the eldest sister's house?" Li Xiuxiu said, this eldest sister refers to Shao Shuaijun's older sister, if you say "elder sister" means Li Bingbing.

"Alright, by the way, let me express my condolences to the troubled lives of single people."

"What nonsense, the eldest sister already has an object."

"I have an object, who, why did no one tell me?" Shao Shuaijun asked with his ears raised.

Li Xiuxiu smiled and said: "Of course you don't know. As long as you make a movie, your topic cannot be separated from the movie. You have to be crazy about talking about family affairs. Besides, it is something that has only recently been determined. Cai Xiaoyun knows, her brother Cai Shufeng came back as a soldier and is now the deputy captain of the Criminal Police Brigade of Taifeng District, Beijing. After Cai Xiaoyun's introduction, he met his eldest sister."

"Cai Xiaoyun's brother? Well, I have to give the old sister a good check. Tonight, no, tomorrow night, please invite Cai Xiaoyun and her brother to have a meal."

"Good." (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)