Chapter 1484 Difficult to meet expectations
Friday, September 2nd is the premiere of "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer".
As Li Lianjie's first official film in Hong Kong and the first Kim Yong martial arts movie adapted by Yin Jun, "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" has attracted the attention of many reporters and movie fans.
Li Jiaxin, the original junior sister of "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer", is still a thirteen-year-old girl.
Yin Jun stuffed Wen Bixia directly into it.
Originally, it was more suitable for Guan Zhilin, but thinking that Guan Zhilin's most important role is Aunt Thirteen. If she had a role in "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" first, there would definitely be some confusion in "Huang Feihong" in the future, which would be detrimental to creating classics.
Wen Bixia is 17 years old, which is just right for Yue Lingshan's innocence and looks absolutely perfect.
Although Wen Bixia is not very old, she is the most popular among young female stars in Asia.
In addition to the great devil who was a few years ago, she can still meet everyone during the summer vacation every year, she is also the captain of the Happy Girls Group, with fans all over Asia.
In this regard, Li Lianjie is not as good as her.
But for those who watch movies, Li Lianjie, who performed three Shaolin series, is more appealing than Wen Bixia. At least adults will watch "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer" because of Li Lianjie.
However, during the premiere, the reporters discovered some wrong clues.
At the premiere, except for the male and female protagonists, producer Wen Jun came, and deputy director Xu Ke came, but director Hu Jinquan did not.
The announcement to the public is that Director Hu Jinquan is at home and has no way to participate.
But early the next morning, the second generation of free newspaper "Pear" in Xiangjiang published a large number of conflicts in the crew of "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer".
The reason why Hu Jin couldn't come is actually that he had a conflict with a queen of the Qilin Group.
As long as you see the "Queen", you don't have to guess more and know who it is.
It is said that after filming "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer", Hu Jinquan edited a version himself and was about to get a copy from the copy factory. But by chance, Le Yiling went to Kirin Film Company that day.
After hearing that the editing of "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer" was completed, Yu Zheng invited Le Yiling to take a look.
Le Yiling himself prefers the entertainment industry, and is also written by Yin Jun, and there are Wen Bixia and Yin Jun highly recommend Li Lianjie, so Le Yiling sat happily in the screening room and served as the first audience of "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer".
After watching the two and a half hours of movies, Le Yiling's face was dark when she came out.
She grabbed the fat little boy Wen Jun who was accompanying her and scolded him, saying, "What are you doing?" This style and expression method, such procrastination and slowness. Did you live ten years ago?"
Wen Jun was full of grievances and did not dare to defend himself.
Finally, Yu Zheng said something, and heard that the final edited version was made by Director Hu Jinquan himself.
Then Le Yiling ordered without hesitation, re-editing the movie, looking for... to find Zhang Yaozong to edit... That deputy director is Xu Ke, right? Let him go together!
Hu Jinquan, who heard the news, expressed strong dissatisfaction with Yu Zheng in the company.
Because Yin Jun agreed, he was responsible for editing the movie.
Now Le Yiling didn't ask him, and he didn't even ask him to make changes. What does this mean?
Yu Zheng was amused and cried, so he could only explain to him that Yin Jun must be the biggest outside.
But in the company, what President Le said is more effective than Jun Shao.
She said she wanted to change it, but she wanted to change it, otherwise it would be impossible to release it.
After some arguments failed, Hu Jinquan left angrily and did not even come to the premiere.
Everyone doesn’t know what Hu Jinquan’s version looks like, but after reading the versions of Xu Ke and Zhang Yaozong, most of them think it’s pretty good.
Although it is not amazing enough, the sharp style, elegant and free fighting, and the finishing touch of rafting and singing "A Laugh in the Sea" all satisfy the fans.
Jin Yong gave "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer" 80 points in the newspaper the next day.
This surprised book fans because the plot of "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" has been very changed, and Jin Yong hates others' revisions to his own novels the most.
"It must be a bit difficult to condense such a novel of millions of words into a 90-minute plot. As for now, the overall structure of the story is still good. What I experience most is Yin Jun's "A Laugh in the Sea". It is really the song I vaguely in my dream. For this, I can't lower the score."
All right.
In fact, Qilin Culture still paid a price for asking Mr. Jin to say this.
In addition to buying the copyright of Jin Yong's novel and TV series remake for 5 years, the payment for the old man was as high as HK$1 million.
For the sake of money, Jin Yong certainly wouldn't be so stupid and would talk nonsense.
However, after all, there have been too many changes, and many original martial arts fans still don’t feel satisfied after watching it.
It can also be seen from the box office effect.
The box office of "The Swordsman" in Hong Kong in the first three days was only HK$13 million, less than 70% of the previous "Happy Ghost 2". The box office of the entire Asia was only HK$1.2 billion, far inferior to the previous movies such as "The Detective", "Happy Ghost 2", and "Mr. Zombie 3".
This made the ambitious Xu Ke and Li Lianjie suddenly confused.
Especially Xu Ke.
With Kim Yong's martial arts book, adapted by Yin Jun, starring Li Lianjie and Wen Bixia... Such a powerful combination is only 13 million on the first weekend?
I can't even rank the top ten this year!
As Xu Ke Studio's first movie, "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" is far less outstanding than McDonald's first movie "The True Character of Heroes"!
...
The news reached Yin Jun, and he was having lunch with Wen Bixia.
After going to the premiere together last night, Wen Bixia slipped into Shi Xundao's mansion and moved into the house.
Of course, she lives in another building and is not with Yin Jun.
As Wen Bixia grows bigger and more beautiful, Yin Jun and her have less and less intimate contact.
It’s not that Yin Jun doesn’t like Wen Bixia, but that he doesn’t want to change the relationship between the two without completely calming down or not knowing how determined Wen Bixia is.
Anyway, Ayu is still young, and if she grows up in two years, she will have time to regret it.
"Brother Jun, why do I look at you not at all surprised?" Wen Bixia put down her phone and said in surprise.
The phone call fee and monthly rent cost are not cheap at all, but Wen Bixia naturally owns one, and Yin Jun also chose a good number for her. Except for the fixed number segments of the first three digits, the last eight digits are directly her birthday.
"Is it Shi Lansheng who called you?" Yin Jun asked slowly while eating.
"Well, it's her." Wen Bixia smiled, "Sister Lan is a little anxious. They thought Xu Ke's studio would become a hit this time, but it doesn't look like it now... I heard that the people in Xinyi City were a little sarcastic last night, and Xu Ke was in a bad mood."
"Their mentality is wrong." Yin Jun said lightly.
"Whoever encounters such a thing will have an unbalanced mentality, okay?" Wen Bixia gave Yin Jun a blank look. "Now someone is talking about it outside. Xu Ke claimed to be very creative and thoughtful, but he actually messed up your notebook and wasted my performances and Li Lianjie and I!"
"I'm not talking about it now." Yin Jun picked up a piece of chicken for her and said, "During the filming process, Xu Ke couldn't help but interfere with director Hu Jinquan's work, which seemed impatient. When my sister asked Xu Ke to re-edit, he did not refuse at all, nor did he communicate with director Hu Jinquan, which also seemed impolite and modest."
"But Director Xu Ke is indeed very talented!" Wen Bixia, who had worked with him, defended her.
"Talentedness alone does not mean success. On the contrary, sometimes you need to compromise and grasp the overall situation to succeed." Yin Jun smiled slightly, "Xu Ke's current talent is not enough to drive his ambition, so I asked him to learn from director Hu Jinquan. Unexpectedly, he couldn't hold back even before he finished a movie."
"Then what you mean is... Xu Ke can't use it anymore?" Wen Bixia asked directly.
"No." Yin Jun said, "Last night, I watched the edited version of him and Zhang Yaozong. It was very beautiful, the fight was elegant and sharp, and it had a fairy spirit. Let him hone two more dramas and slowly let him improve. His future is still unlimited."
"Strange, since it looks good, why can't you succeed?"
"Because it is still Jin Yong's novels in its core, it has not formed its own ideas." Yin Jun explained, "Any classic is not easy to make. It is equivalent to having a framework for the director before it was filmed, and he can only create it in this framework. People like Xu Ke have a wild idea and are most afraid of constraints, so it is normal for him to be unsatisfied this time."
"Whether it succeeds depends on who it is compared with." Wen Bixia shook her head, "This time the global box office should not be less than 200 million or 300 million, right? If this is not enough, then Xu Ke really thinks too much."
Yin Jun smiled but said nothing.
In fact, it would be better to teach Xu Ke a lesson like this.
If he became arrogant in the first movie, he would only become more and more domineering and more stubborn in the future movies.
Although Xu Ke is also a genius, his understanding and interpretation of heroes in his previous life have been deviated a lot later.
His best work is still the Huang Feihong series.
The rest, such as the Di Renjie series, are just showing off special effects, and in terms of the plot, they are not worth pondering at all.
If he was ambitious and gave him a blow, then Xu Ke realized his shortcomings and became more cautious in making movies later, that would be a blessing for movie fans.
Chapter completed!