Half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

In the face of the powerful publicity campaign of "Thunder Explosion", neither Zhang Xiao's "Zhu Xian" nor Chen Gang's "The Battle of Red Cliff" made any waves.

Zhang Xiao has no intention of starting a propaganda war with his opponent, and Chen Gang is no match at all.

Seeing that there was still a week left until the release, Chen Gang released the final trailer of "Battle of Red Cliff" online. At the same time, he led the leading actors to launch vigorous publicity in major first-tier cities, and just held fan meetings.

More than thirty performances made the leading actors very tired.

Fortunately, the effect is still very good. Before the premiere of "Battle of Red Cliff", the domestic pre-sale box office exceeded 500 million.

As for foreign countries, Huayi just spent 10 million US dollars to release the ultimate promotional video of "Battle of Red Cliff" online.

Due to the lack of international superstars and promotional tissues, as well as offending Soli Company, Huayi has almost given up on overseas promotion and can only rely on word of mouth to win.

What is surprising is that the overseas pre-sale box office of "Battle of Red Cliff" was quite good, reaching 42 million US dollars, which far exceeded Chen Gang's expectations.

At 00:00 in the morning on July 24, the premiere of "Battle of Red Cliff" finally began after going through many ups and downs.

In order to show support for domestic films going global, Su Changde, director of the Department of Culture, took more than a dozen staff members to the Longda Cinema for the first time.

Originally, "The Battle of Red Cliff" was supposed to premiere at Suoli Cinema. Wang Jun was worried that the other party would make some trouble, so he chose the local theater in China, Longda Cinema.

In addition to people from the Culture Department, Suoli also invited dozens of industry figures to come to the platform, which can be said to be a shining star.

As the director, Chen Gang thanked everyone on stage for coming and briefly explained the difficulties encountered during the filming and release of "Battle of Red Cliff".

Everyone is in the same circle, so naturally they are very clear about the "Battle of Red Cliff" incident. It can be said that this is entirely Huayi's own fault.

Of course, Suoli plays a disgraceful role in these things.

soon.

The movie officially starts.

"The Battle of Red Cliff" starts with Cao Cao, played by Chow Yun-fat, showing off his power in the main hall, forcing the emperor to order an attack on Soochow.

I have to say that Fa Ge's acting skills are absolutely amazing. The Cao Cao he plays is not only domineering and domineering, but also interprets Cao Cao's suspicious character through his micro-expressions.

Chen Daoming also saw the feature film of this movie for the first time, and said in surprise: "Mr. Zhou, it seems that next year's Golden Can Award Film Festival Best Actor will be yours."

Fa Ge smiled and said, "Teacher Chen, thank you for your praise."

Li Xuejian said: "This is really not an award. For us actors, it is not difficult to portray Cao Cao's domineering power. The difficulty lies in the two words 'suspicious' and 'thief'. Although it is just the beginning, we can still

It can be seen that Teacher Zhou acted just right."

Fa Ge said: "This is all thanks to Zhang Xiao's guidance. His directing ability and acting skills are among the best in the world. I asked him on the phone for tips on how to play Cao Cao. This guy has no hidden clumsiness. I learned from him."

I learned a lot there.”

"This is the result that everyone sees now. It can be said that Zhang Xiao has the greatest credit for my ability to perform this effect."

After hearing this, Chen Daoming did not doubt Teacher Zhou's words at all, and sighed: "Zhang Xiao is such a monster. I really don't understand how he mastered his acting skills."

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On the screen, an official scolded Cao Cao and was beheaded by Cao Cao in sacrifice to the flag. The Battle of Chibi also officially began.

I have to say that the first half of "The Battle of Red Cliff" was shot very well, with sharp editing and extremely fast advancement. Cao Cao's team and Liu Bei's team also fought vigorously, and the scene was quite spectacular.

The scenes in which Zhao Yun kills someone with a silver gun, Zhang Fei shouts loudly on Dangyang Bridge, and pushes Cao Cao down with millions of soldiers and horses were also shot very well.

But in the middle period, the scenes of Zhuge Liang's verbal battle with the Confucian scholars were no longer flattering.

Zhuge Liang, played by Takeshi Kaneshiro, is completely different from the Zhuge Liang that people remember as strategizing and winning from thousands of miles away. Except for the fact that holding a feather fan is Zhuge Liang's characteristic, there is almost no similarity.

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Zhou Yu's part in admonishing Sun Quan was also too procrastinating. It was obvious that Chen Gang had a problem with his rhythm control.

In the later period, the Sun-Liu coalition fought against Cao Ren's army for a full twenty minutes. Almost all the methods that could be used in ancient wars were used. It looked very intense, but compared with other war movies, it was not.

Not very prominent.

Similar to "Red Cliff" on Earth, Chen Gang used Cao Cao's "Dan Ge Xing" to bring an end to "The Battle of Red Cliff".

After the subtitles were played, Chen Gang created an Easter egg, which was a clip from "Red Cliff Battle 2", which lasted almost two minutes.

At this point, the premiere of "Battle of Red Cliff" is all over.

"Teacher Li, what's the score?" film critic Cao Huaien asked, looking at Li Rong next to him.

Li Rong is a teacher at Beijing Film Academy and a well-known film writer. Hearing Cao Huaien's words, he replied: "It's 7.5 points. It's quite satisfactory. There are no surprises."

Cao Huaien nodded and said, "I thought I was the only one who felt this way."

Li Rongdao: "Director Chen Gang's ability to control big scenes is obviously lacking, and there is also a problem with the selection of actors. The performances of some actors made me feel embarrassed."

Cao Huaien sighed: "To be honest, what I want to see most is Zhang Xiaolai playing Zhou Yu."

"Stop dreaming." Li Rong glanced at him and said: "As far as the relationship between Zhang Xiao and Chen Gang is concerned, it is impossible for them to cooperate in this life. Even if the two of them can resolve their differences in the future, Chen Gang cannot afford to hire Zhang Xiao.

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Cao Huaien nodded and said with a wry smile: "The key is that Zhang Xiao's director ability is better than Chen Gang, so he will definitely not participate in the other party's movies."

Li Rong smiled slightly and said nothing more.

Chen Gang on the stage led the leading actors to express their gratitude to everyone for coming, and then invited several big names in the entertainment industry to comment.

In such an occasion, everyone will definitely only talk about the good things and not mention the bad things.

The next day, more than 12,000 movie fans on the film review website gave "Red Cliff Battle" a score of 7.7.

“You can watch it, but it’s not that exciting.”

"Although the scene is huge, the war reproduction is not good, and the control of the big scene is very average. Only Fa Ge's Cao Cao stands out."

"7 points, only for the war scenes, other aspects are really hard to describe."

"When superstars come together, without the guidance of a good director, they will not be able to make a film that is easy to fool."

"It was filmed based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there are no surprises."

"For Chen Gang, who is handling such a big scene for the first time, this performance is already pretty good."

"Now I'm a little worried about the overseas box office. Not everyone is called Xiao Shen."
Chapter completed!