Chapter 393 Good Biographical Films

This year's Lunar New Year movie season is dominated by "2012".

When the release date of this movie was just announced, most of the films originally scheduled to be released during the Lunar New Year holiday chose to move their release dates.

For example, the Taiwanese movie "Turning Point, Ashin" was released in November.

This movie is hailed as the most explosive, youthful and eye-catching "hot-blooded and fresh" movie in Taiwan this year, starring Eddie Peng.

There is also "Racing Legend", which is claimed to be the first racing movie in mainland China and starred by "Mou Nanlang" Dou Xiao.

What is the first domestic 3D live-action movie "Furious "!
At the end, Gu Wei actually discovered that there is another movie called "2012 is Coming", which is a doomsday comedy based on the Mayan prophecy of the end of the world in 2012, starring Big Eyes Li Jing, Rong Xiang, Zhang Daming and others.

This really opened his eyes, but he didn't need to watch it. Just by listening to the name and subject matter, he knew it was a bad movie. A doomsday comedy? It must be a joke!

Although there are no major blockbusters in November, there are too many small and medium-budget films scheduled to this month.

There are also Hollywood blockbusters coming to disrupt the market, such as "The Last Airbender" which will be released at the end of October, and "Real Steel" which will be released in November.

Some have adjusted their release dates, while others are stubborn. For example, the Indian movie "2012 Idiots" chose to be released at the same time as "".

The filming of Lu Yang's "The Blade of the Assassin" has been mostly completed and is about to come to an end.

In the original time and space, "The Blade of the Assassin" claimed to have taken 21 months of script adaptation, 11 months of preliminary preparation, more than a year of formal shooting, and 1 years of post-production. These numbers reveal the difficulty of the production process of this film.

But now, with the support of Star Films and Television Company and sufficient preparation in the early stages, the time required to shoot this film has been greatly shortened.

After all, the film shooting of Star Films is increasingly tending towards the Hollywood industrial model.

This can be seen in the production of "Eternal Sword" and "Ghost Blows Out the Light". A crew was divided into two or three groups and started at the same time, which greatly reduced the time required for shooting while ensuring the quality of the film.

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In the villa, after returning from the Shanghai Theatre Academy media conference, Liu Yifei and Gu Wei rejected the dinner invitation from Han Sanping, Wang Changtian and others.

The two of them stayed at home and lived their own life.

"Senior, do you have any extra invitations to the premiere of 2012?"

Liu Yifei answered a phone call and came to Gu Wei and asked.

"I think so. I'll ask Song Ge. He is in charge of this matter." After saying that, he picked up the phone and made a call.

After a while, after getting Song Ge's reply, Gu Wei asked, "How many do you need?"

"Just one will do." Liu Yifei said with a gesture.

After hanging up the phone, Gu Wei was a little curious about who Liu Yifei asked for the invitation letter for. You know, all her good friends and girlfriends had already received the invitation letters in advance, and she didn't forget anyone.

"I asked on behalf of Hu Ge. To be exact, Hu Ge asked for Tang Yan. Hehe." Seeing Gu Wei's confusion, Liu Yifei said with a smile.

"Tang Yan? Has the filming of Xuan-Yuan Sword been completed?"

"Yes, it's reported on the Internet. It took half a year to shoot and it has just been wrapped up." As she spoke, Liu Yifei raised her cell phone and showed Gu Wei the wrap-up photo.

Sure enough, Hu Ge, Liu Shishi, Tang Yan and others were in the photo, and the title had the word "Finish" written in big letters.

In fact, the filming of "Xuan-Yuan Sword: Scar of Sky" was announced to be completed two days ago. Tangren Film and Television also used the popular "Startling by Each Step" to promote the film. However, Gu Wei was busy with the movie premiere and didn't pay any attention to it.

"Senior, last time you invited Hu Ge to join Xingchen Films, did he respond?"

In this life, due to the existence of Gu Wei, there were no scandals between Liu Yifei and Hu Ge after they finished filming "Legend of Sword and Fairy", so the two of them have always kept in touch and have a good relationship, and Gu Wei also appreciates Hu Ge.

Hearing the young lady mention this, Gu Wei shook his head and said, "He is still a little reluctant to leave Tangren and is still struggling."

“That’s right. After all, he was trained by Tangren. He has played most of the leading roles in TV series produced by Tangren over the years.

It is human nature to repay a favor, just like me, I signed with the company and gave you my people. "

Liu Yifei spoke slowly, and the more Gu Wei listened, the more he felt something was wrong. My goodness, didn’t I sell the person to you?

"Tangren Film and Television's influence in the film industry is still too small. They are backed by Hong Kong capital, and the mainland film and television industry will not easily cooperate with them.

If Hu Ge continues to stay at Tangren, he can only stay in the TV drama industry. As for the film industry, it is estimated that there is no hope. "You know, in the "Xinhai Revolution" released during the National Day holiday, Hu Ge was able to get a role second only to Cheng Long and Li Binbin, which represents Tangren Film's determination to impact the film industry again.

However, the movie flopped badly at the box office and Tangren ended up in failure once again.

This can be explained by just looking at Liu Shishi, who became famous with "Startling by Each Step" and even won the Most Popular Award at this year's College Student Film Festival, but still cannot get the leading role in a big-budget movie in the industry.

However, there have been recent rumors in the circle that Guangguang is preparing to launch a new movie project, and the heroine seems likely to be Liu Shishi.

Furthermore, Cai Yinong has been busy with his personal relationship matters recently, and the company has suffered from severe staff turnover behind the scenes and management problems.

Gu Wei thinks that it is not a wise choice for Hu Ge to continue staying in Tangren. If he stays any longer, he will probably become a nanny in the future.

"What should I do? How about I talk to him when I see him at the premiere?"

"Um, that's fine." Hearing this, Gu Wei nodded and gave a response. He couldn't let Gu Wei tell him again. You know, there are countless people outside who want to join Xingchen Film and Television. If other people knew that Gu Wei recruited Hu Ge twice, it would probably bring him bad reputation.

The two of them discussed it and finally decided on the matter.

Afterwards, the two of them had nothing to do, so they started browsing domestic gossip news.

During the period of promoting "2012" abroad, the mainland entertainment industry was also very lively.

First, after this year's Busan Film Festival, Wang Zhonglei of Huayi Company signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the six major brokerage companies in South Korea in Busan.

Wang Zhonglei and the co-general manager of the agency and others attended the signing ceremony and delivered a speech.

“Through this strategic cooperation, we can establish an information exchange platform between the two sides to share information in the entire entertainment field, including movies, TV series, brand cooperation, media cooperation, etc.

I believe that in the future, my country’s outstanding artists will be able to enter the mainstream Korean market and develop, and at the same time, many outstanding Korean artists will be able to join mainland film and television projects, of course, including Huayi’s projects.”

As soon as this cooperation was announced, there was a barrage of criticism in China. The reason why Korean Wave became so popular in the mainland later was not unrelated to the indulgence of these companies.

South Korea is quite happy about this. How big is their own market? How big is the mainland market? If we cooperate with each other, we will definitely benefit.

In addition, something happened in the mainland film censorship area. The movie "Qian Xuesen" was not approved when the project was first launched. The reason given by the General Administration was that it leaked state secrets.

This made netizens a little confused. How could making a movie be related to this?
Talking about this movie, Gu Wei feels that when it comes to making biographies in China, it feels like going backwards in time.

In the original time and space, Gu Wei saw that the Americans made "Oppenheimer" and he was thinking, why can't we make such an excellent "Qian Xuesen"?

Yes, we have "Qian Xuesen", but to be honest, this work is mediocre. The reason why online comments say that the movie "Qian Xuesen" is good is because Qian Xuesen himself is awesome, not because of how awesome this movie is.

On the contrary, this movie has many historical flaws, and based on the director and screenwriter's superficial understanding, they try to show Qian's awesomeness by belittling the people around him. To put it bluntly, they lack basic knowledge. The group portrait of scientists in "Oppenheimer" has no such problem at all.

In "Qian Xuesen", the greatness of scientists is highlighted by denigrating others. A similar phenomenon is also seen in "Meritorious Service", a work about another hero of the two bombs and one satellite, Yu Min.

For example, as soon as Yu Min arrived at the factory, he was immediately given a warning by the workers at that time: In order to deliberately create plot conflicts, "Meritorious Service" fabricated such a plot. The battle-hardened veterans showed disrespect for the scientists and even deliberately gave them a warning by refusing to shake hands with Yu Min.

Afterwards, a scene of finding tires was specially arranged to show Yu Min's scientific knowledge, and then the ice was slowly broken, and Deputy Captain Ma gradually began to respect Yu Min.

This was actually just forced drama for the sake of dramatic conflict. Scientists were such treasures at that time, how could any commander or soldier not respect them?
This is a very funny plot. It can be seen that the director, screenwriter and other creative staff have no knowledge of relevant scientific knowledge and industrial processes, and only rely on their own imagination to create conflicts.

On the contrary, the movie "Out of the Blue" shows the history of that time: the soldiers fetched water for the scientists and saved the canned food for them to eat. The veterans who had experienced the Korean War had the deepest understanding of the gap in weapons and equipment. They loved these scientists like babies, let alone respected them after "proving" them.

There is another detail in "Out of the Blue". As soon as the scientist arrived at the base, the soldiers rushed up to shake hands with him. It was so glorious.

Therefore, whether it is the "Meritorious Service" and "Qian Xuesen" which have decent reputations, or the well-known "main melody bad movie" "The Climbers", there are similar "invented plots" that are too annoying and I have to say them out.

Scientists are great, and soldiers are equally great. Using this "praise one and demote the other" approach to highlight the image of the protagonist is not what a good screenwriter and director should do.

"If I have the chance in the future, I will also make a work to promote the nation's great scientists."

Hearing Gu Wei say this, the young lady turned her head and looked at him, but said nothing.

Instead, he turned around, picked up the cat next to him and started petting it.

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(End of this chapter)