This time for Wang Zhengfei's new film, Gao Yan also made a statement. This time "After Ascension" will be Star Entertainment's annual drama in 2007. Everything must take the filming of "After Ascension" as the top priority, and all resources and money will be used.
The crew of "After Ascension" is the top priority for recruitment.
Neither Liu Yu, who was filming "Who's in Charge of My Youth", nor Ning Hao, who was preparing to film "Ip Man 2", had any objections to this. Wang Zhengfei's realm was really far away from them. When they joined the company, Wang Zhengfei
His position is already very stable. No one can shake the position of Wang Zhengfei's first brother, so from the beginning, they have been accustomed to this, accustomed to the company's resources, satisfying Wang Zhengfei first, and then their situation.
Gao Yan has set up a special fund, which can be allocated to Wang Zhengfei at any time as long as he needs it. There is no upper limit. Basically, whatever Xingchen Entertainment has, they can raise it for him. Of course, this is just a way of saying it. It is really impossible.
If there is such a thing, with the current financial resources of Xingchen Entertainment, even if "After Ascension" is shot on the scale of the top Hollywood blockbusters, it will be easy to handle. Wang Zhengfei is not worried about this at all.
If there is a cost that can be compared with Hollywood blockbusters, there is only one, and that is stunts. This time Wang Zhengfei really plans to burn money, and it will be a big burn. Compared with the last time in "Qin Shi Mingyue"
At that time, the financial strength of "After Ascension" this time was dozens of times that of that time. Using the financial standards of Hollywood blockbusters and the production costs of mainland China to produce special effects, the effect is not amazing at all, it should be said to be exaggerated.
According to the information given by Yang Guang, if it can really burn money according to the standards of Hollywood blockbusters, the effect will definitely be far better than that of "Qin Shi Mingyue". Even if it costs so much to make 3D, it will be enough to make the character's eyebrows and hair.
It is clearly visible. Although it is not as exaggerated as the Japanese "Final Fantasy", you must know that "Final Fantasy" claims that the characters have half as much hair as real humans, but it turns out that such exaggerated special effects cannot save "Final Fantasy".
"Fantasy" was a complete failure at the box office. If you think that America's simple outrageous story and plot combined with countless stunts can dominate the world, and that the stunts are invincible, then you are wrong. Even if the plot is a bit lame,
That's not the plot, and the most important thing is that no one has any idea about the plot of the Hollywood blockbuster. It's just that today this American saved the earth, and in two days another American will save the earth. The earth again and again
was saved by the Americans, but for a movie like "Final Fantasy" adapted from a popular game, the audience itself has considerable expectations for its plot, and it is obvious that the director went in the wrong direction.
The one that the audience valued most was cut off, so no matter how exaggerated its 3D effects were, it could not save the box office failure of "Final Fantasy".
But it is undeniable that the importance of stunts, especially fantasy blockbusters like "Ascension", is inseparable from stunts. Without stunts, "Ascension" would be doomed, so Wang Zhengfei will pay special attention to "Ascension"
Regarding the stunts in "After", this time Wang Zhengfei spent endless money on the stunts in "After Ascension". At least this view has been recognized by Gao Yan. Gao Yan also felt that it was necessary to increase the stunts in "After Ascension"
invest.
Gao Yan has also tasted the benefits of rampant stunts. He finally understands why Hollywood companies are investing in blockbusters one after another. Countless blockbusters with rampant stunts have been released one after another. This benefit is not just a little bit. It is the biggest problem that plagues the development of Chinese movies.
What is the reason? In fact, it is basically because the screenwriter is not strong enough!
There are many directors who are unable to find suitable works to shoot, let alone excellent works. Therefore, many directors can only make some bad movies. It is not that there are self-produced and self-marketed directors like Wang Zhengfei, but
There are only a few, but most directors have to wait for the arrival of excellent scripts. This is why Ning Hao has not made a film for several years since "Crazy Stone" just to wait for "Crazy Racing".
Those excellent works basically have a good story and creativity. For example, "Infernal Affairs", a rare masterpiece in recent years, actually has a very good script, which ultimately made "Infernal Affairs" a box office hit.
If the script is not good, it will be difficult to sell it at the box office, and at least the reputation will not be much better!
But Hollywood blockbusters are different. Although the plots of Hollywood blockbusters are really tangled, except that Americans saved the earth again today, they will save the earth again tomorrow. They are lackluster. Although there are many classics, the blockbuster model is like this, but
The audience bought it very much, because everyone had given up on the plot and just watched the special effects in peace.
The probability of a good script appearing is too low. Except for monsters like Wang Zhengfei, most good scripts often come from the inspiration of screenwriters. As a result, there are not many outstanding movies in a year, but other movies can still sell well.
, relies on movie stunts, but movie stunts are not. Basically, as long as you are willing to spend money, movie stunts are not bad. This has caused more and more companies to invest in the ranks of blockbusters, and the stunts are becoming more and more realistic. Screenwriters
On the contrary, its effect is actually reduced invisibly.
It allows blockbuster movies to be mass-produced. Of course, these blockbuster movies may not necessarily be excellent movies, but no one can deny that it is not about making money. In fact, Gao Yan's purpose is only to make money. Anyway, he doesn't think he is very elegant.
He only feels that he is just a businessman full of money. As for elegance and so on, he should let others take responsibility. He only needs his movies to be successful.
Of course, it’s not that mainland film directors can’t see this road, but they’ve just seen it, so they’ve been tinkering with Chinese-style blockbusters in the past two years. But just because they can see it, doesn’t mean they can do it. The Chinese market is actually
With such a big country, it is really difficult to support Chinese blockbusters, so they can only make some attempts now. First make some Chinese blockbusters to let Chinese audiences get used to the feeling of watching so-called blockbusters, and then they can make a lot of money.
question.
Facts have proved that this method is quite effective. In just five years, Chinese movies have grown from a box office of over 100 million US dollars to over 100 million US dollars. This shows that this idea of cultivating the market first is actually very correct. The market does need to be cultivated, and
Is it a good education? Don’t Chinese people have money? Yes, just looking at the average, it seems that they don’t have much money, but in fact there are still a lot of rich people. What’s more, the proportion is not high, but the total number is huge. What’s more, if you look at it,
Watching a movie is not really a luxury purchase. The potential of this market is very huge. Once you become a habit of watching movies, you can’t quit it, especially blockbusters. If you don’t go to the cinema to watch them, you won’t be able to experience that kind of thing.
It is a shocking audio-visual experience, which forces them to go to the cinema to watch blockbusters. Drama movies can be bought and watched at home, because the main thing to watch is a plot, but blockbusters actually do not have too complicated plots and are straightforward.
If you don't go to the cinema to watch that kind of content, you are destined to not be able to enjoy it to the fullest.
This is a strategy, lose money and make money. Of course, Wang Zhengfei does not need to go through this moment. Wang Zhengfei's sudden emergence has advanced the process by several years, and with the support of huge foreign markets, others are still cautious.
When Wang Zhengfei was groping for the road to blockbusters, he had already relied on huge financial support to boldly open up the road to blockbusters. Wang Zhengfei's emergence actually caused the film market to prosper in advance, and at this time in the same period
The box office of his movies is much higher than that of the movies that Wang Zhengfei knew in his previous life. This is all due to the influence of Wang Zhengfei, a time traveler. Although Wang Zhengfei, a time traveler, has also accidentally brought out a series of works, eating up
It has created a lot of film markets, but at the same time, cultivating more markets will not only destroy it.
Therefore, when the bosses of a certain film company found out that the box office of their company's works was much higher than they expected, they were so happy that they felt so happy. This was far beyond their imagination.
But they didn't know that this was the butterfly effect brought about by Wang Zhengfei, whom they hated so much.
However, the popularity of "Qin Shi Mingyue" and "Snow Leopard" made Gao Yan determined to follow the road of blockbusters. Any reputation is just a cloud, and making money is the king. Just like Zhang Jizhong, he was scolded bloody
, but in fact it is not yet a success. Of course, it would be better if it could have both word-of-mouth and box office. For example, Wang Zhengfei's "Qin Shi Mingyue" and "Snow Leopard", "Qin Shi Mingyue" itself is actually
It doesn’t have too profound humanistic connotations, nor does it reveal the darkness of people’s surnames or anything too profound, but just for a commercial film, this is enough, and the subsequent "Snow Leopard" also left many people speechless.
This is a film about the nation's resistance against Japan. If it has no connotation, how can a film about sacrificing one's life and blood for the nation not have as much connotation as a film about a person's surname?
When the country is facing death, all the ugliness and glory of the human surname will be vividly reflected. All aspects of life are clearly reflected in the war. No one can say that it is not the case. This is the perfection of commercial films and literary and artistic films.