Chapter 486: The Strength of the Galaxy
Chapter 486: The Strength of the Galaxy
The treatment that "Nezha 2" and Jiaozi, "The Wandering Earth" and Guo Fan have encountered in the industry is actually very inconsistent with the laws of capital in modern society.
If the two of them were American directors, if "Nezha 2" and "The Wandering Earth" were Hollywood blockbusters, creating such strong performance, breaking so many records, making so much money, and having broad prospects, then Wall Street capital would have already treated them as their own fathers.
Hollywood studios will compete to win them over, female stars will express their desire to date them, Internet celebrities will be proud to have dinner and chat with them, and leading capitalists and politicians will also express their opinions:
"I have known Guo Fan (Jiaozi) for a long time."
“I actually discovered Guo Fan (dumplings)”
"Guo Fan (Jiaozi) is my good brother."
Even considering their small town origins, Te Meipo might even meet them in person at the mansion and say, "Guo Fan (Jiaozi) is the pride of the country!"
However, looking at the responses they both received in China, it is fully proved that the domestic film and television industry is completely a closed earthen wall, sticking to backwardness and rejecting advanced productivity.
Even if the time and space change and Wang Hao becomes a new variable, many things remain unchanged.
It's not just these newcomers who are difficult to be accepted. For example, over the years, Wang Hao and the Galaxy Group have not hidden their methods of film industrialization. Just like what Guo Fan did in his previous life, he has revealed all his experiences, gains and methods in film industrialization over the years without reservation.
For almost every movie made, Galaxy Group will release a film production notebook.
In addition, Galaxy Group has also launched more than 10 related technical books.
These can be said to be the hard work of their entire film and television production team and are the important secret to Galaxy Pictures' continued success.
Not only did they open courses related to the establishment of film industrialization at the Beijing Film Academy, they also had no qualms about inviting colleagues to come to the company to learn from them.
However, nowadays, there are film and television production companies like Galaxy Group that focus purely on film industrialization. Although it cannot be said that there are no such companies, they are extremely rare. There are only one or two of them, and they are not large in scale.
Even for the new film forces formed by Internet capital, it is still difficult to promote the industrialization of the film industry within the country.
Even according to statistics from Galaxy Group's information analysis department, in the 2014 annual public opinion report, the number of critical articles against them surged by 210% year-on-year.
The targets of criticism in these articles have spread from Wang Hao personally to artists, directors and even behind-the-scenes workers in the galaxy. The critical dimensions have also expanded from single works to industrial processes, film universe themes, formatted scripts, and even the large-scale application of special effects and the differential treatment of behind-the-scenes personnel at home and abroad.
Yes, the Chinese behind-the-scenes staff of [Oriental Galaxy Movie Metropolis] are cheaper and more useful than those in Hollywood, and this has even become a point of criticism by those people.
Wang Hao saw all of this, but didn't care.
Because this counterattack by the stubborn forces in the entertainment industry is essentially just the ups and downs that the Chinese film industry must inevitably go through during its iteration period, and it is a struggle between people of different eras for the right to speak on aesthetic culture.
Over the past few decades, the creation of Chinese film and television works has always been the responsibility of the director. They are the soul of the film and the controller of a work.
Especially in the 1980s and 1990s, winning awards overseas made me learn the personal artistic expression of directors in the European film and television industry to the fullest.
Now Wang Hao and a group of young people in the Galaxy want to industrialize the film industry and standardize the production process. What is this?
In the words of old-school filmmakers, that means restricting their self-expression, cutting off their power, and driving them off the throne of the local emperor of the crew. How could those guys be willing to do that?
It's not just the old guys. Sometimes, some young directors, or middle-aged directors who are just emerging, find it difficult to ensure that their thinking does not slip.
It’s like 523. When a movie project is launched, they first show off the concept and package the movie into a financial product, saying that they will spend 5 million to make some blockbuster. Then financial operators come in and make a 5 million financial product and put it on the market. The cycle is 3 years.
Then they would take out the money and divide it in half. When there was still a year or even half a year left, they would take out tens of millions from it and make a movie.
Blockbuster movies must have big names, the pay must be high in the contract, and it would be best if the leading actors are 100% happy.
The scene must be built first, and then burned. Burning is not enough, it must be blown up.
Or they could open a shell special effects company in the United States, package the special effects production costs and give them to foreign companies, which would then subcontract them to small domestic companies at a low price.
Finally, use some money to do marketing, buy internet trolls, and increase the box office in the early stages. If you are lucky and the data looks good, you can continue to shoot the next film.
Such a profitable deal can only be achieved under the director responsibility system. Faced with such benefits, which director would not be tempted, unless he really has a sincere heart towards movies and his works.
After so many years of screening, Galaxy is undoubtedly such a group of young filmmakers who are still full of passion for movies.
While traditional filmmakers are still using their old auteur aesthetics to produce films, criticizing young directors such as Wang Hao for their lack of warmth and humanistic care in their films, the creators of Galaxy have begun to embrace the audience, embrace technology, and use more modern management methods and scientific concepts to carry out more grand narratives and express their abundant and real emotions.
The current extension of the cultural front and the intensification of the battle are precisely the most vivid footnotes to industrial upgrading and the confrontation between the old and the new.
What is certain is that there will be many more such incidents in the future.
Some people may not be able to hinder the progress of Wang Hao and others, but they are like a toad lying on your feet - they don't bite but just annoy you.
Of course, the Galaxy Group is not without means of countermeasures.
Wang Hao is not Guo Fan and Jiaozi. He has been working towards the industrialization of film and the science fiction film universe since 05. He is also a reborn person. If he can still be disgusted by some scum, then his ten years of hard work would have been in vain.
Li Kui's "Detective Chinatown 2" does not need the support of those stubborn old seniors and stinky shit in the circle.
After the film achieved excellent box office results on the first day, new generation directors including Guo Fan, Zhang Jinzhan, Rao Xiaozhi, Lu Yang, Zhuang Wenqiang, and Li Qian successively congratulated "Detective Chinatown 2" on Weibo.
When the movie broke 5 billion in 10 days and was heading towards the 20 billion mark, it was followed by dozens of domestic and foreign film and television stars such as Wu Jing, Wang Baoqiang, Jing Tian, Wang Zhi, Bai Jingting, Wang Jingchun, Wang Jinsong, Wang Zhiwen, Cheng Long, Nagasawa Masami, Liam Neeson, Christian Bale, Nicholas Tse, Ma Dongseok, Chen Kun, etc., who cheered for it.
These wave after wave of promotion and support not only opened the eyes of the audience, but also created a hot atmosphere that attracted more audiences to the cinema.
At the same time, the support and congratulations from directors and stars, including the subsequent support from a large number of behind-the-scenes film and television practitioners, were like slaps in the face of those conservatives. Among them, the congratulations from overseas stars were the most lethal.
After all, this is the recognition from their "father". Li Kui has never been just one person. He is not Guo Fan and Jiaozi. Around him, there are a lot of like-minded young people who are still passionate about Chinese film and television, as well as thousands of front-stage and backstage staff who have participated in the film industrialization system.
This is an emerging force that has never appeared before in China's film, television and cultural industry. It is a hurricane caused by the flapping of Wang Hao's wings, and it is also another possibility for China's film and television to move towards a new era.
As long as they are there, there is still hope for Chinese films!
Wang Hao, the leader of the new hope of Chinese film, is now sitting on a plane to Zhoushan with the crew members of "Ball Lightning".
The conflict between the old and new forces in the film and television industry has intensified and the battle line has lengthened. It is far from time for the Galaxy to raise their glasses and celebrate. They still need one victory after another to consolidate their results.
It is foreseeable that those old stubborn people, colonialists and public intellectuals in the film and television circles who have been temporarily suppressed have not given up completely.
They are just accumulating strength to launch the next round of more intense attacks.
But the movie has to be filmed and the champagne has to be popped at halftime.
[Keep going, keep working hard, there is a promising future for Detective Chinatown 2, 20 billion is far from the end, I am still waiting to return to Beijing to hold a celebration party for you @Detective Chinatown 2. ]
Wang Hao sent the edited congratulatory message via Weibo, and then continued to close his eyes and concentrate.
The entertainment industry was in an uproar again because of his congratulations.
In just half an hour, this piece of news rushed into the top 10 of the hot search list, and soon, a large number of celebrities, artists, directors, behind-the-scenes workers, and even many people outside the film and television industry began to like and comment on his Weibo post.
Director Wong Jing gave a thumbs up, Tsui Hark gave a thumbs up, and the CEO of OPPO and the chairman of DJI also expressed their congratulations.
And with Wang Hao's Weibo post as a dividing line, more people in the entertainment industry finally began to follow suit.
Perhaps those conservatives are indeed very stubborn, and there are many stupid and bad people who flatter them, but Wang Hao and the Galaxy Group did not kill all the old "predecessors" at once.
They can still distinguish who is a friend and who is an enemy.
Soon after Wang Hao posted his Weibo, national master Zhang Yimou also updated a Weibo message, saying that the emergence of "Detective Chinatown 2" is another milestone work of domestic films and has extremely important significance for China's film industry.
At the same time, he also did not forget to promote "The Great Wall", which is currently in post-production, saying that this movie will also try to open up more possibilities for the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe".
Zhang Yimou's voice undoubtedly made some stubborn forces in the film and television industry grit their teeth, but they were also unable to do anything to Zhang Yimou.
As for Zhang Yimou, more celebrities in the circle, regardless of whether they have any relationship with the Galaxy Group and Li Kui, have all jumped on the bandwagon.
Of course, it's just to attract attention.
The current situation in the entertainment industry is still in a state of many heroes emerging and one superpower and many strong ones. The Galaxy Group has not been able to occupy an absolute advantage and a great voice in the circle.
[Galaxy Cinematic Universe] is very successful, but their movie box office only accounts for about 25% of the annual movie market.
The old forces in the circle are lacking in succession, but more new forces are entering the market, more capital and hot money are pouring into it, and the Internet platforms are extending their tentacles with their video platforms and massive users. It is still unknown who will win, and there will inevitably be battles between dragons and tigers in the future.
Therefore, most people are still in a wait-and-see stage, especially those celebrity artists who already have a certain fame and status in the circle. It is still too early to ask them to take sides.
Moreover, even if they do not take sides, with their status and commercial value, they can still live well in the circle, so there is no need to offend one party for the sake of another.
So Wang Hao quickly put aside all the intrigues in these circles. He didn't have the energy to worry about these trivial things.
Things in the film and television industry ultimately depend on the works. Only good works can gain the support of the audience. Making good movies is their top priority at the moment.
Therefore, after arriving at the Zhoushan Islands, the "Ball Lightning" crew quickly devoted all their energy to the intense and busy filming tasks.
This is the final location shooting of "Ball Lightning", and most of the remaining scenes are the most shocking scenes in the movie.
Hurricanes, aircraft carriers, naval battles, these scenes require not only strong cooperation from the navy, but also the power of technology.
Fortunately, for this filming, Galaxy Group had prepared for it a few years ago and established the [Oriental Galaxy Film City] branch in Hangzhou Bay.
This place has the largest underwater shooting studio and offshore shooting platform in China, and even in the world. After shooting the required materials in the military port of Zhoushan, the crew moved here and stayed for more than a month.
During the filming process, "Detective Chinatown 2" also achieved frequent success, and without any key extension, its box office successfully broke the record set by Wang Hao's "Wolf Warrior 2". In the end, with a good result of 25.31 billion Chinese yuan, it pushed the upper limit of domestic films up a bit.
CCTV even mentioned this in its news broadcast and gave "Detective Chinatown 2" a few seconds of footage, which made Li Kui very proud.
Anyway, throughout March, most of the news in the entertainment industry was related to "Detective Chinatown 2". With the identity of the protagonist who topped the latest box office list, Bai Jingting has also become a popular top star among young artists in China. A large number of advertising endorsements and luxury brands have come in, and the fashion circle has also extended an olive branch to this young artist.
Thanks to this wave of revenue, Xinghe Group’s artist company Xingdou Culture completed its KPI plan for the next quarter ahead of schedule.
However, with advantages there are naturally troubles. This young man sometimes loses his temper and becomes elated when he achieves some success.
For example, when Wang Hao was about to finish filming "Ball Lightning", he saw paparazzi reports on the Internet saying that Bai Jingting had contacted other brokerage companies in private.
Although the photo was very blurry, it was still possible to tell that the young man in the photo was indeed Bai Jingting.
(End of this chapter)