Chapter 182 Box Office Failure
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Chu Yue also has his own idea, but for a long time, since the filming of this drama started, he always felt that this drama made him feel that it was not very right! If he insisted on conveying his feelings, it would be like walking and walking. Things that were originally very rhythmic suddenly became messy, and he didn't know whether to use his left foot or his right foot first!
This felt very frustrating. Even though he knew it was wrong, he couldn't find out what was wrong! But he felt that it was not because of his own thinking, but because there was something wrong in the shooting. He seemed to have not moved in the direction he wanted, but was a little deviated.
But what exactly is it? He couldn't think of it. Some things are indeed not something that can be imagined by thinking about it. Inspiration is the most important thing. But it is normal for Chu Yue to have such a feeling. This is only the second time he is a director. His first drama was a great success, but that does not mean that his first drama was completely correct and completely grasped his style.
Even if it is completely correct, it will grasp his own style. That does not mean that his second drama can be copied step by step. Even if it is copied, he may not be able to bring all the good ones. This is a problem of not having much experience.
After thinking for a long time, he couldn't figure out where the problem was in this drama, so he had to give up. If there was a problem, it would never mean that he could grasp the core of the problem. Otherwise, wouldn't every keen director become a genius?
This unpleasant feeling always lingers in his mind until the film was finished. It still lingers. It was like a shadow covering him, giving him some ominous premonition about the play!
"Butterfly Love Flower" was released in July. Chu Yue did not go to enjoy the play. It was not that he didn't want to go, but that he didn't have time to participate. The premiere of this play. He had to invite Ling Ling, Xia Zai and others to support him.
The premiere scene was very prosperous and boring. When the media saw that Chu Yue was not present, they immediately made random guesses. Some thought Chu Yue and Adu turned against each other, while others thought Chu Yue was like this. There were all kinds of statements emerging one after another. This is the consequence of every move of the superstar!
But Chu Yue didn't care about the speculation from the outside world at all. He just focused on the late stage of "The King of Heroes". The late stage of "The King of Heroes" is very troublesome, and the late stage of martial arts is mostly troublesome, and no one denies this. It seems that in the soundtrack, Chu Yue had almost no inspiration this time. As a member of the black and white film team, Guan Yaodong has worked with Chu Yue for not only once. Seeing that he was so distressed, he was not anxious, but just comforted him: "A Yue, don't think too much. I can do this soundtrack."
After a few days of work, the results of "Butterfly Love Flower" came out, and the box office was not bad. The box office on the first day set the highest local single-day box office record for Chu Yue's works, reaching five million. However, on the third day, the box office dropped to two million, which shows the influence of reputation. Even so, it also made Chu Yue another film that exceeded tens of millions in three days.
However, after Lin Ling selectively gave him some comments and opinions about this drama, Chu Yue was a little confused. Almost everyone agreed that this drama was not above Adu's level. Perhaps it was Adu's first time doing such a human-ghost relationship and did not adapt immediately. Among them, Chu Yue's fans complained with resentment: "Kevin performed well in this drama, but this drama was screwed up!"
To be fair, Chu Yue's performance in this drama has only maintained his current level, and he is not as extraordinary as he did in "First Line Service" and "Love Unfinished". Moreover, "Butterfly Love Flower" is not as bad as his fans criticized.
There is no doubt that his view of eccentric fans cannot be used as a standard. He understands this very well, but there are always several sounds in the world, and the sounds from all over the world are mainly concentrated on several points: "This drama is not as expected, which is quite disappointing, but overall, it is also a drama worth watching!"
What is surprising is that such a disappointing drama was a very disappointing one. The final box office in Japan was as high as 25 million US dollars. To be honest, this is almost all relying on Chu Yue's appeal in Japan. Until now, no one can deny his appeal in Japan, and no one can deny that Japan will become another very important source of box office for him.
However, the box office of this drama in the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three regions was disappointing, far from meeting expectations. The Chinese star who invested in this drama expected that the box office of this drama in the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three regions of the Taiwan Strait and the three regions of the drama in the local area was only 17 million yuan, which unexpectedly reached 28 million in Taiwan, and only 40 million in the mainland, almost all set a record for the box office of Chu Yue. If it weren't for the Japanese market supporting it, Chu Yue, the superstar, would have been criticized by the media.
Why did the box office hit a new low? This is the mainstream voice of major media over the past few days, and they have analyzed the reasons for the failure of the box office of Chu Yue. The most typical comment can also explain it to them: "The Butterfly Love Flower" is a subject that Du Dapao has never been very good at, human-ghost love. Although it is essentially a love drama, Adu's achievements in love are obvious to all. Although he has always had a good box office, he has never been able to achieve classics! Gangster films, police and gangster films, that is his nerve-stimulating point!"
Of course, Luo Zhaoqi is the one who made such a comment. This guy has become more active in recent years and has become a newcomer after famous film critics such as Shi Qi. He has opened columns in several publications in succession: "Adu's ability to play tricks is admirable, and he has never been afraid of packaging it in essence. But people have mistakes and horses have stumbles. This time, he failed to play with his fingers like his arms. The key is that he was too cautious and deliberately avoided anything that might be similar to other people's ghost dramas! In fact, this is not necessary, precisely because of his deliberate intention, the drama itself seems deliberate."
"The Big Boss is more like a two-part story. But "Butterfly Love Flower" repeats that way. The results obtained this time are not consistent, and they have a counter-effect. Fortunately, this has not had much impact! But this drama is just a work with a slightly lower level and is far from failure. But from the film, the first half is inevitably dull, and the thriller atmosphere is too heavy, which may have a great impact on the box office. There is no shortage of romance in the whole drama, especially with Zhang Baizhi and Chu Yue snuggling at the end to watch the sunrise. As the sun emerges, Chu Yue gradually fades away. A butterfly swings around her. Seeing it, it will make people unable to help but shed tears! I can only comment this way, Adu lost his thing in this drama and failed to grasp the new one."
This comment indeed raised the question of that drama very accurately. Chu Yue felt something was opened when he saw it. This thing seemed to quietly touch some wonderful things in his heart, vaguely waking him up something!
After thinking for a long time, Chu Yue slapped his palm up and his eyes widened: "I understand, I finally understand why something is wrong! No, I want to stop after production and perform a reshoot!"
"Don't be anxious, think about what is going on. Think twice before doing everything!" Lin Ling calmly reminded him next to him that although she didn't know what was wrong with Chu Yue, she thought she had to make sure what she did before continuing.
"It's like this..." Chu Yue thought about it, drank a glass of water in anger, and told her in a deep voice about her shooting feeling on the crew: "This article by Archie reminded me of a lot of things. I was too deliberately pursuing something different from the previous martial arts and "Lost", without a sense of rhythm, and even at some point my thinking was a little confused. More importantly, I lost my own things. Although I don't know what it is, my feelings told me that I did lose or give up anything in this drama!"
"Oh, what do you think you are good at and what is your thing?" Lin Ling suddenly stared at Chu Yue with interest. She tried to understand what the directors were thinking. But Chu Yue pondered for a moment but couldn't answer, so she had to change the way: "What do you think you like most when you are a director?"
"I, Chu Yue, was so excited that he fell into deep thought. He remembered the feeling of directing "Lost" and the feeling of doing "Historical Forbidden". He felt that he seemed to like to experience that feeling of mastering. Yes, mastering the film, mastering the plot, mastering the whole world he created, and likes the sense of creativity and accomplishment from nothing.
Fierce? No, no. So exciting? It seems to be a little bit? The feeling of extreme skydiving flashed through his mind, and he suddenly realized that he liked the feeling of being refreshing. Yes, the film was as exciting as possible, as enjoyable as possible, as refreshing as possible. It was not that he wanted to pursue a very strong and fast pace, but that compact feeling!
Thinking of this, he looked at Lin Ling and understood what she meant. Yes, isn’t his “Lost” recognized as the most powerful pure action movie in the past decade? That drama gives people the feeling of being refreshing, without any stimulation or concealment! This is his position in the directorship!
He understood what was wrong with "The Forbidden"!
If there is any mistake, it must be corrected and it must be made up for it! Chu Yue thought about it for a day and determined where the film needs to be refilmed. After the director's ideas were unified, he immediately discovered that "The Forbidden of Xia" was indeed a bit messy and the rhythm was chaotic. If it was refilled, at least 30% of the shots needed to be refilmed!
"Thirty to four percent? Kevin, you're crazy. The film has been filmed. What else do you need to do for re-shooting?" Guangying was surprised at the first time. Facing Chu Yue, who asked for an additional budget for re-shooting in front of him, he was speechless: "If you do a re-shoot now, you will have to invest at least 20 million yuan. With the promotional budget, the investment in this drama will really exceed 100 million yuan. Do you think this is really good?"
A re-shooting budget of 20 million yuan! This was completely within Chu Yue's expectations, but he was not sure whether Light and Shadow would agree to this condition: "In order to have a higher level of this drama, I think it is absolutely necessary to re-shoot it!"
"Impossible, your investment in the drama is very high. If you add this budget, you will have the company's heart to kill you!" Ten Yue's pregnancy decisively denied Chu Yue's suggestion: "And, don't forget that the release time of this drama has been determined, and it will be too late to re-shoot. The level of this drama is now, and it is absolutely impossible for the company to add budget now. After all, the drama has been filmed, and if you spend such a large amount of money to re-shoot, it will only prove that you are not a director's material and waste tens of millions of yuan!"
In terms of additional budget, ten months of pregnancy is to put it bluntly. If you are still in the shooting process, you will be rushing to Chu Yue. Additional budget is definitely not a problem. However, after the filming has been completed, such a large-scale reshoot is required, which is definitely something that no company can accept rationally and emotionally - as a director, what have you done?
Besides, can a movie make a better movie? It may not be possible that the more you shoot, the worse it will be. At least, in the history of the Hong Kong film industry, there have been almost no such large-scale movies, absolutely nothing!
The plan for re-filming was completely terminated, and Chu Yue finally realized again that the director was actually just the God of the set. If he changed his place, the film company was the God of the director. Now he also understood why some very famous directors also made bad movies. Sometimes it was not entirely the director's problem, but the problem from the film company was even bigger.
He can guarantee that as long as the filming is re-filmed, "The Forbidden" will be at least several levels in all aspects. But this is a favorable thing, and the film company is unwilling to agree to it - they would rather spend 200 million to film the film than spend 20 million to film again after the filming!
"The Forbidden" is over!
A miserable defeat must have happened to Chu Yue's works, which Chu Yue can assert. However, this may not be a good thing. At least, he can learn more after learning a lesson. Sometimes, the experience learned from success is far less precious than the experience learned from failure!
Chapter completed!