Chapter 941 The highest-grossing film in Chinese film history
"Who is this person?"
In the car driving, Scarlett Johnson, after listening to Tina Fey's translation on his co-pilot, couldn't help but put a little anger on his pretty face, "Our video has no competition with him, right? Why did he stand up and say that?"
The person she asked about was naturally Duke. Duke gently patted Scarlett's hand and said, "I have some understanding of the film industry here. This director has always liked to criticize some people or movies, so he was given a nickname called 'cannon'."
"'cannon'?"
Since Duke uses a literal English translation, Scarlett can understand the meaning of this word. After thinking about it, he couldn't help but smile, "It's a very appropriate description."
Duke still knows what kind of person Feng Dapao is. Every time he sets off a cannon, he has his own purpose. Most people know that Feng Dapao is a very outstanding commercial director, but rarely knows that he is also a good hype.
The most typical thing is to withdraw from the film industry and director ranks. Feng Dapao has said it many times, and I am afraid he doesn’t even know it. In recent years, Feng Dapao’s movies have been released, and he will say that he is about to retire...
Of course, Duke would not care about Feng Dapao's use of his movies for hype. After all, the other party's firing is not without benefits, and it can be created by Warner Greater China.
The Mercedes-Benz RV gradually slowed down and slowly stopped at the entrance of the Crown Holiday Hotel. After the door was pulled open by the door kid, Duke's two bodyguards immediately rushed over from the car behind. While taking their luggage, they also gave the door kid a certain amount of tip according to Western practice.
Looking up at the square words on it, Scarlett Johnson couldn't help but sigh, "This is not very famous Chinese city, so congested."
As soon as she finished speaking, she couldn't help coughing a few times, unconsciously pinched her nose, and her brows also frowned tightly.
Duke turned his head and looked at the gray sky. He naturally would not forget this city, which is famous for its springs. The air in the city has a faint smell of indescribable smell. If he looks up, he always feels that something is blocking the sky.
He remembered it very clearly. In the same time as he lived in this city, the city's air pollution index ranked among the top three almost every time.
Originally, Duke left the crew and brought Scarlett Johnson to this city, hoping to see another hometown. However, the air quality today is too poor and it is obviously not suitable to go out.
“The original tour plan was temporarily cancelled…”
In the presidential suite, Duke said to Tina Fey and Scarlett Johnson who were packing his luggage, "See if the air will improve tomorrow."
Perhaps it was because I had been unacceptable to the local environment after coming to China, or perhaps it was really stimulated by the air, and after Scarlett went upstairs, he would cough a few times from time to time.
"Cough...cough..."
Clenched his fists and put them to his mouth and coughed twice. Scarlett Johnson hung Duke's coat on the hanger and said, "I can't even understand why you are here."
Tina Fei looked at Duke with curiosity. She followed Duke to China far more than Scarlett Johnson, but she had never seen Duke become interested in such a city.
Of course Duke would not tell the real reason, but just shook his head slightly, "You won't understand."
Scarlett Johnson came over and pulled Duke up and sat on the couch, "When did you like to play mysticism too."
"A few days ago, I read the city's brochure in Shanghai..."
Seeing Scarlett looking at him with doubt, Duke replied casually, "Then dream of coming to this city to have fun."
"Is this the reason?" Scarlett's head shook. She knew what kind of person Duke was. She didn't believe it at all, "Will you be influenced by dreams?"
Tina Fei packed up her things and walked towards the study, while saying, "I'm going to work."
Duke nodded. After coming to China, his workload has not decreased, especially many cooperations between Lucasfilm and China require review, and these are basically Tina Fei's preliminary processing. It will be summarized into his hands in the end.
Scarlett handed over a glass of water, Duke took it and drank it, walked to Tina Fei's already well-organized laptop and pressed the boot button.
After getting another glass of water for Duke, Scarlett followed him, "Do you still have to work?"
“Our publicity hype for that Mr. Cannon has begun.”
He picked up the mouse and clicked on the browser, Duke stared at the monitor screen and said, "I want to see how the response is on the Internet here."
Some time ago, the main publicity point of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" in China was undoubtedly the super high box office in China, but such publicity could not be maintained at a high popularity for a long time, and fresh and interesting topics are indispensable.
Many media are hyping Feng Dapao’s remarks, but on social media and under the clever guidance of the Warner Greater China public relations department, the remarks of Chinese movie fans and netizens are showing a one-sided trend.
The Feng Dapao believed that "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" was lively, but the people's hearts were not enough.
"You show me a lot of fun, I'm not satisfied, I watch it with people's hearts. Whether it's movies or performances on stage, you need to be dedicated."
This is what Feng Dapao said on Weibo later, and was bombarded by countless movie fans and netizens, yes, it was customized privately, and I left before I finished watching it.
More and more sharp remarks appear on the Internet, and there are voices of criticizing Feng Dapao on the online social media.
"Not to mention Director Feng's opinion is pertinent or not, but judging from the level of domestic film production in China, there is indeed a long way to go before Hollywood in the United States. Each country has a different film style. Almost no other country can reach the Hollywood blockbusters in the United States. Chinese films are far behind in technology. This is something you can catch up with after-effort, but in terms of sincerity in making movies, you should also learn from American blockbusters."
"Now, the phenomenon of shoddy Chinese films is very common, and commercialization is serious. They are all criticized by domestic audiences. If you watch bad movies once, you are deceived, and then you are really stupid. Supporting domestic products is worthy of advocating, but ignorant support for domestic products will only spoil Chinese films. It is also Chinese films that disappoint the audience time and time again. They still don't repent, and they are more utilitarian than the other. I am afraid that fewer and fewer people are willing to pay in the future."
In fact, in Duke's view, Chinese films can develop in two directions. One is to form their own unique style and avoid following the trend and making them uninformed; the other is to develop commercially, but sincerity must be sufficient. Blockbusters should feel like blockbusters. Don't use the banner of blockbusters to create a four-dimensional character. What will be defeated will only be the reputation of the entire Chinese film.
Some Chinese netizens are still relatively rational and do not attack them by walking.
"Director Feng is sometimes confused and sometimes awake. Not long ago, he criticized variety shows such as "Running Man" and received countless likes and support. Now he belittled "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and has attracted countless criticisms. Evaluating a movie is everyone's freedom, and Director Feng is no exception. It's just that 'bad students don't study well, but the best students are blamed for learning too well'."
There are also movie fans who are not polite.
"The domestic directors are not good at it. Now they feel uncomfortable when they see Duke Rosenberg making money... But they don't think about whether the box office of all of them combined can compare with the box office amount created by Duke Rosenberg alone?"
Movies are never just good enough to make a big shot. The excellent publicity and marketing of "Star Wars: The Force Awakening" is undoubtedly the key to the current box office. Feng Dapao has helped "Star Wars: The Force Awakening" in some ways.
After three days of 1 billion rmb box office, in the next ten days, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" still couldn't find any rivals in the Chinese cinema market, and it was a completely dominant situation.
However, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" cannot continue to maintain a super high popularity of one billion rmb in three days, which is also impossible. After the first three days of screening, the popularity inevitably declined to a certain extent, but in these ten days, it also received a full billion rmb.
After thirteen days of release, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has achieved a box office of more than 200 million rmb, without any suspense, surpassing Duke's other film "Avengers" with a score of 1.997 million rmb, becoming the most popular movie in Chinese film history!
Similarly, the Chinese market is also the North American market, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens produced the highest box office market.
The title of the world's second largest box office market is well deserved.
Although "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is hot all over the world, and the box office and surrounding products are selling wildly, Duke is not in a good mood because after visiting this city famous for its springs and visiting for only half a day, Scarlett Johnson felt obviously uncomfortable in his throat and his cough gradually became more intense.
Although the doctors thought the problem was not too serious, Duke decided to end the unpleasant trip.
"I want to go back to Los Angeles."
The always gray sky here also made Scarlett feel very bad, "I miss Malibu and our Duke Manor."
Now "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has been released in China for nearly half a month, winning a box office of more than 200 million rmb, which has exceeded his and Lucasfilm expectations. Various publicity work is coming to an end, and it will not be of much use to stay here.
"Okay, my dear." Duke pointed her forehead lightly, "We're going home."
The past is gone after all, and Duke is not the kind of person who entangles the past. This kind of problem has been figured out decades ago. (To be continued.)
ps: It will end in the past few days. I am thinking about the ending carefully. I can't end it like the previous one. There is only one update every day for the time being. I guess the five chapters will end.
Chapter completed!