Chapter 370 Different Reactions

Seeing the three people walking away from him without giving him any face, Lu Chuan felt embarrassed and filled with hatred.

From childhood to adulthood, he had never suffered such humiliation in public.

For Lu Chuan, who was proud and extremely concerned about his reputation, this was no different from slapping him twice in public.

But when she thought of the identities of those three people, Lu Chuan felt frustrated again.

Because he felt that even if he wanted to retaliate, he seemed unable to do it.

At this time, the expressions of the people in the audience were different. As a film investor, Qin Hong was a little annoyed, but he was more suspicious and angry towards Lu Chuan.

Although he didn't know much about movies, even as an ordinary audience member, he felt a little uncomfortable after watching "Jinling Jinling".

Now, senior people in the industry like Jiang Wen, Zhang Yimou and Han Shanping left the movie directly after watching it, without giving him any face at all, which made him feel that there must be something seriously wrong with this movie.

He felt that he had been somewhat fooled by Lu Chuan, and was also angry that he had been blinded by Lu Chuan's fame.

He invested 80 million yuan in real money in "Jinling Jinling", and including the publicity and promotion, the cost has exceeded 100 million yuan.

He thought that this movie could officially announce that Xingmei had begun to enter the field of film production, but now he feels that it might be a dud.

So at this moment, the look in Qin Hong's eyes when he looked at Lu Chuan, who was laughing awkwardly on the stage, was not as friendly as before.

In addition, Feng Kuazi and the Wang brothers looked at each other, and saw a hint of anger in their eyes.

People in the Beijing circle, especially those who come from big compounds, may have all kinds of problems, but there is one thing they cannot deny, that is, they have straight butts.

They were not like Qin Hong who didn't understand movies. They could tell at a glance that "Jinling Jinling" was so crooked.

If it weren't for the fact that Lu Chuan had worked at Huayi and they still had some affection for him, and if it weren't for the fact that they had some affection for him because of his father, they would have wanted to slam the door and leave like Jiang Wen and Zhang Yimou did.

Lu Chuan's father is not only a so-called famous writer, but also a member of the film review committee and a director of the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Organizing Committee.

So his father is not just a writer, he also has numerous connections and considerable power in the film industry.

"This Lu Chuan might be in trouble this time." Wang Zhongjun said angrily.

Originally, he was very optimistic about Lu Chuan, so he even offered generous compensation to poach her from China Film.

But after "Kekexili", he received widespread acclaim in the circle, which made him a little proud, and he insisted on leaving and wanted to start his own business.

This film "Jinling Jinling" was a collaboration between Sichuan Production, which he founded, and Star Media. Of course, Star Media was the one that paid for it, and Sichuan Production was only responsible for production.

He didn’t think much of it before, but after watching “Jinling Jinling”, Wang Zhongjun always felt that the name Sichuan Production had a strong style.

When Lu Chuan was preparing to shoot "Jinling Jinling", he also approached Huayi, but Wang Zhongjun, like Han Shanping, was not optimistic about whether he could grasp this subject matter.

So there was no investment, but unexpectedly he turned around and approached the wealthy Xingmei.

"He doesn't have the talent of poet Chen, but he has his arrogance and conceit. He is a typical person with high aspirations but thin talent." Feng Kuazi said bluntly.

“Forget it. He has nothing to do with our Huayi anyway. Even if he gets into trouble this time, Xingmei and his father will help him clean up the mess.” Wang Zhonglei continued.

At this time, Feng Kuazi pondered for a while and said firmly:
"Boss Wang, Zhonglei, I don't want to wait any longer. When I get back, I'll ask Zhenyun to adapt his novel into a script. We'll start preparing now."

"Aren't you currently filming If You Are the One 2? How can you have so much energy to prepare for ?"

"If You Are the One 2 was easy to shoot and didn't take up too much of my time and energy. I've wanted to shoot for a long time.

Now that I have seen Lu Chuan's "Jinling Jinling", my desire to shoot "1942" has become even stronger."

Originally, he really wanted to bring the Tangshan earthquake to the screen, especially after 08.

When he went to contact the Tangshan authorities, he found that Jiahe had already taken the lead.

This made him feel regretful and helpless. If it were other companies, he could ask Huayi to communicate with them to see if they could give up the project or even collaborate together.

Just let him be the director.

But if it is Golden Harvest, there is no hope at all.

Sometimes he felt regretful that his relationship with Liu Zhou had become so strained. After all, Liu Zhou's status was now far superior to his.

But who could have imagined at that time that Liu Zhou would be able to rise so quickly and achieve such great success in just a few years?

Therefore, the lessons Liu Zhou taught him helped him to control his temper a lot. It is true that one should not bully the poor young people.

Of course, Feng Kuzi also thought about passing a message through the Wang brothers to ease the relationship or even bow his head.

It's not shameful to bow down to one of the top bosses in the circle.

But the other party didn't even give the Wang brothers any face and just poached Huayi's artists.

Therefore, Feng Kuazi gave up the idea.

Fortunately, after Liu Zhou became a big boss, he seemed to be too lazy to bother with a small person like me, and never deliberately made things difficult for me.

But Liu Zhou's two interceptions, no, it should be said that he was the first to get there, made him very uncomfortable.

This was the case with the original "Assembly" and it is also the case with this time's "Aftershock".

After learning that Golden Harvest was already in communication with Tangshan regarding the filming of Aftershock, Feng Kuzi felt the same as when "Assembly" fell into the hands of Golden Harvest.

I felt a chill in my heart, as if I had lost something very important to me.

Although this feeling was very bad, he did not think that Jiahe was deliberately going against him, because both times when he had this idea, Jiahe had already taken action.

Therefore, Feng Kuazi can only think that great minds think alike.

After failing to make Aftershock, Feng Kuzi had no choice but to turn his attention to 1942.

In fact, he had wanted to make this movie for a long time.

He and Liu Zhengyun are very good friends. When Liu Zhengyun was conceiving the novel "Revisiting 1942", Feng Kuzi wanted to adapt it into a movie.

Feng Kuzi is not as arrogant as Lu Chuan. Although he is almost fifty years old, he still feels that he is not confident enough to film this story well.

Therefore, Feng Kuzi wants to wait a few more years, accumulate more experience, and then try to make a classic.

Therefore, when he heard that the young boy Lu Chuan wanted to make a movie reflecting the Nanjing Massacre, he sneered.

In his opinion, Lu Chuan had talent, but not much.

Because of his father's relationship, he thinks he is good enough just by being praised by others. He is totally ignorant. With his level of ability, he still wants to make a good movie, unless the sun rises from the west.

If it was Liu Zhou, Feng Kuzi would not dare to make such a conclusion. Although Liu Zhou was young, he felt that Liu Zhou was a little weird, or a genius. Such people often could not be inferred by common sense.

Even Ning Hao, Feng Kuzi felt that he had the potential to make a good movie on this subject.

At least Ning Hao is more humble and doesn't act pretentious all the time, unlike Lu Chuan, who seems to think that filming "Jinling Jinling" is a piece of cake.

Without such a sense of reverence, it would be strange if he could make a good movie.

But the movie shot by Lu Chuan still exceeded Feng Kuzi's expectations.

The movie they made is not only bad, but also crooked at the bottom, which is even more intolerable than a bad movie.

This was simply unacceptable to Feng Kuzi, who grew up in Beijing and received patriotic education and influence from childhood.

He didn't know whether Lu Chuan was ignorant and wanted to be unconventional in the movie, or whether Lu Chuan herself was just crooked.

But no matter what the situation, Feng Kuzi now hates this man from the bottom of his heart.

He couldn't stop the release of "Jinling Jinling", but he felt that this kind of movie shouldn't be the only one on the market.

So whether it was out of his own ideas or a sense of mission as a director, he felt that he had to film "1942".

Although this movie does not mainly reflect the atrocities of a certain army, it at least takes place during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and can also allow the audience to remember this painful history.

Wang Zhongjun naturally didn't know about Feng Kuzi's complicated psychological activities, but seeing his determined look, he nodded and agreed.

"No problem. I'll take care of whatever needs to be prepared when we get back. Just focus on finishing filming If You Are the One 2."

"If You Are the One" sold nearly 300 million yuan during last year's Lunar New Year holiday, so it was natural that a sequel was scheduled for this year.

Because of the success of the previous film, the revenue from product placement has already recovered all the investment in the film before the sequel even started shooting.

In other words, the movie was pure profit at the box office.

So now Feng Kuazi is Huayi's cash cow, and as long as his demands are not too excessive, Wang Zhongjun will satisfy them.

Of course Wang Zhongjun also knew about the movie "1942". Feng Kuzi had mentioned it to him a long time ago.

Since he wants to shoot it, let him shoot it. Besides, Wang Zhongjun thinks that the movie "1942" should not lose money.

At this time, not only did the guests in the front row have blank expressions on their faces, they even looked ugly, and the ordinary audience in the back row also looked at each other in bewilderment after watching it.

They felt that the movie "Nanjing Massacre" was very different from what they had learned about the history of the Nanjing Massacre in the past.

At the beginning, they even doubted whether their previous understanding was false, but they saw Jiang Wen and Zhang Yimou leave early before the ceremony was completely over.

This made them discuss in a low voice with the people around them, and then they found that not only themselves, but many people seemed to have that awkward feeling.

Now they realized that it was not that their understanding was wrong, but that there was something wrong with the movie "Jinling Jinling".

At this moment, Lu Chuan on the stage looked at the expressions of the people below and finally felt that something was wrong.

The expected applause did not appear, but instead some voices of discussion arose one after another.

Lu Chuan also realized that "Jinling Jinling" did not seem to be generally recognized by everyone.

Now he had no time to be angry about Jiang Wen and the other two not giving him face, and even forgot some of the remarks he had prepared in advance.

Lu Chuan simply said a few words with an awkward smile, then took over the host Tu Wei's job and directly announced that tonight's premiere was officially over.

After seeing off the guests, Lu Chuan was no longer as calm as before. She anxiously found Qin Hong and her father to find out what was going on.

If something bad really happens, you can also prepare countermeasures in advance.

On the other side, Han Shanping and Zhang Yimou left in a car.

On the way back to the hotel, Han Shanping said:
"What do you think of this film?"

Zhang Yimou thought for a moment and said:

“Lu Chuan was quite creative, and it was obvious that he wanted to be different in his filming techniques, but he made a particularly big mistake, which was to let the male lead Lu Jianxiong die.

Lu Jianxiong's death interrupted the Chinese perspective in the movie, resulting in the Chinese perspective being divided into the soldiers' perspective in the first thirty minutes and the women's perspective in the refugee camp in the later part.

These two perspectives are disconnected and have never been unified.

Although many people appeared later, due to the lack of a unified perspective, the Chinese people's perspective was scattered and fragmented.

The perspective of the Ichiban people is only from Kadokawa, so it is very complete. Therefore, when the audience watches the film, their experience of the Ichiban soldiers overshadows that of the Chinese people, which makes the audience feel uncomfortable. "

Zhang Yimou paused, then continued:

“I think Lu Chuan not only has problems with the narrative, but is also too ambitious.

The ambition of the movie "Jinling Jinling" is particularly obvious, which is to make it into a epic production like "Schindler's List".

So he designed a lot of characters in the movie, but because there were too many characters, each one could only be briefly touched upon, which led to a lot of problems in the characterization of the characters.”

Han Shanping was somewhat surprised that Zhang Yimou could analyze so many things. In fact, he just had something to say that he couldn't help but want to hear how Zhang Yimou criticized the movie "Jinling Jinling".

Han Shanping didn't know whether Zhang Yimou was being sentimental and therefore only expressed his opinion on the movie itself.

“So, it’s better to be down-to-earth when making movies, and don’t be so ambitious. Otherwise, when your ability cannot support your ambition, the whole movie will collapse!

At the beginning, many people, including me, advised him not to be so anxious and to accumulate more experience before shooting when he was sure of his success. However, he refused to listen and now he has made a movie that challenges everyone’s perception.”

He now has some doubts as to whether Lu Chuan will be hunted down to the capital by the people of Jinling after "Jinling Jinling" is released on a large scale in Jinling tomorrow.

At this moment, Han Shanping suddenly remembered that Liu Zhou had meaningfully advised him a few days ago to watch the movie "Jinling Jinling" carefully.

I thought Liu Zhou was optimistic about this movie, but I didn't expect that he was waiting for me here.

Thinking of this, Han Shanping couldn't help but laugh and scold:

"This Liu Zhou!"

"What happened to Liu Zhou?"

"Nothing. I'll have to talk to him after I return to the capital."

(End of this chapter)