my time as a director

Although the box office is definitely not low for a biographical film, it still disappointed Cheng Kai.

More importantly, for a low-budget movie like The Moon, it got 1250 million on the ninth day.

Judging from the box office, he lost to Li Qian, a young man, which made him a little hard to accept.

But fortunately, the news reports from the media were mild, and he was relieved that he did not embarrass himself.

As for the other party, Li Qian was quite laid back.

Every day is a regular road show, interviews with TV stations and portal websites. I am a little tired, but I still have enough rest time. I don’t have to keep spinning, which is a little easier.

On the morning of the tenth day of the show, that is, Saturday the 6th, Li Qian and the others came to the CCTV building to record the movie channel Huaguo Film Reporting Program.

This is one of the programs with the highest ratings on the movie channel. There are quite a lot of viewers watching movies on the movie channel in this era. In addition to showing some TV movies produced by CCTV, popular movies and classic old movies that have just been drawn will also be played. piece.

Although each episode of this program is only 20 minutes long, it is broadcast during prime time at night, and there are still many viewers.

Backstage, Tang An also met the host Tu Wei, who had already met at the last premiere.

"Hi Miss Tu!"

"Hello, Director Li, Hello, Brother Bo, Teacher Lu, and Sister Tao, we meet again."

Tu Wei smiled and asked them to sit down.

"It is an honor for our program team to invite Director Li to participate in the show. After seeing the moon on the premiere day, I watched it twice again. It was really good."

"Miss Tu, you are welcome. The movie channel is the highest-rated movie and TV channel in China. I am also very honored to be able to participate in the program." Li Qian smiled and said.

Li Qian has heard several TV and Internet media hosts say similar things. The most exaggerated one said that he watched it five times and couldn’t sleep for three nights in a row because the movie shocked him so much that he was thinking about life all night. .

The interview on the movie was the day before yesterday. The movie had only been released for seven days, and I watched it five times in seven days.

Watching a movie requires thinking about life for three nights, how fragile the mind is, so stop doing it as soon as possible.

Tu Wei covered his mouth and smiled, "Director Li is really polite."

After greeting each other for a while, this is the second time for Huang Bo to come for an exclusive interview. The last time was at the beginning of last year. Because of Crazy Stone, he became famous in one fell swoop and won a Lily Award for Top Ten Actors.

The Lily Award is not well-known. This is a TV movie award hosted by the movie channel itself, and the selections are all TV movies.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the show was officially recorded. It was also a talk show. There was no audience, and everyone sat around and chatted.

"Welcome to the world of light and shadow. It is said that life is like a drama, but drama is also like life. There are also sorrows and joys here, and there are ups and downs in life. There are similar stories for you and us. Life in miniature is waiting for your participation."

After some opening remarks and introducing Li Qian and the others, we got to the point. After all, we only have 10 minutes.

According to international practice, I first asked Li Qian how he came up with the idea of ​​making such a sci-fi movie.

"Actually, the last Frequency of Life and Death had a little bit of sci-fi elements, so I thought about making another real sci-fi film, but due to the cost and various factors, I can only make low-cost movies."

Li Qian laughed and said, "Sci-fi with a small budget, if there are certain special effects, then you have to cancel the contract expenses from other aspects, so I thought the content of the movie would be limited to a limited number of scenes, and the actors would save less pay. Many viewers think the same thing, they want to shoot a story about the survival of the trapped astronauts on the moon or some planet, but this must show the two scenes of the astronauts being killed and rescued. Special effects are definitely indispensable. Our cost cannot support.

After thinking for a long time, I considered the factor of human cloning. Two identical people living alone on another planet, what kind of sparks would they collide with? After passing out other genres such as comedy, I thought of the story of the moon. "

Following Li Qian's explanation, Tu Wei kept nodding his head slightly, "There are no stunts, no action scenes, but he told a story with a strong sci-fi flavor so much, it is thought-provoking. There are many clones in movies now. Discuss, Director Li, do you think that one day in the future, how should we treat human clones?"

Li Qian said, "Actually, the explanation has been given in the movie. In the background world, the earth already has mature human cloning technology, but it is banned. Energy companies also secretly create human clones to serve as tools in order to save costs.

It is precisely because of the bottom line of morality that human cloning is prohibited, so the best way is not to clone. In addition, there may be dozens of cloned humans who also have human values, attitudes, personality and emotional characteristics. Even with hundreds of identical clones, no one can give an absolutely proper solution. "

This kind of thing has no solution at all. The audience of the movie Moon is watching from the perspective of two clones, so they will stand on their side and sympathize with them.

However, if it is true in reality, the vast majority of people will dislike human cloning, and will panic and be afraid.

Like the final narration in the movie, the press calls clones monsters.

For energy companies, human cloning is just a tool for them. Like chickens, dogs, cattle and sheep, they work for themselves and kill and eat meat without any psychological burden.

Can ordinary people agree that clones are of the same kind as themselves?

Impossible, what if dozens of clones of yourself suddenly appear, with all your memories, robbing you of the same identity, wives, children, jobs, parents, relatives, and friends?

This is the same as in Li Qian's memory of a series of films called Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The main character is the orangutan. It is estimated that the audience is on the side of the orangutan in their hearts when they watch it.

but.Think about it from another angle, the orangutan in your laboratory has become intelligent, and finally wants to rebel, what should you do?

No matter what happened in it, the orangutans and humans went to war, and 99% of the humans wanted to kill the orangutans.

People who are not of my race must have different hearts, not to mention humans and orangutans are completely two kinds of creatures.

Human cloning, or the cloning of the moon, is more suitable to be called artificial human. From a biological point of view, it is not the same creature as human beings.

But the whole world has no definition so far, and it doesn't make much sense to discuss things that cannot happen under the current situation.

However, more and more people are discussing this topic on the Internet, and even some students and professionals in various fields such as biology, psychology, and anthropology have expressed their views.

Anyway, it didn't happen, so you can say whatever you want, it won't cause any consequences, just make fun of it.

Some extreme viewers said that at that time, clones should be mass-produced to replace human beings, controlled by programs and genes, and let them do all the dangerous and hard work. Humans only eat, drink, play, and manage these clones. That's it.

The other extreme says that clones should be given the same citizenship, social status, rights, and obligations as ordinary people.

The enthusiasm for the moon on the Internet has not diminished, and in the movie market, the box office has continued to soar.

After Friday, the next two days of rest were another 2840 million.

Throughout the second week, it won 8540 million in a single week, and it was released for 11 days, with a total box office of 1569 billion.

The trend is very strong, not because Mei Lanfang's release has a big impact, but because the attendance rate is only in the early 40s, and the attendance rate and average number of people per game are even higher in the first week.

After Mei Lanfang’s 1000 million on the first day, it was only 1180 million on Saturday, and the increase was very small on the rest day. On Sunday, it dropped to less than 860 million, leaving only [-] million.

3040 million in three days, compared to the 4090 million of the moon in these three days, was completely crushed.

Li Qian, who was already on the road show in Ninghang, was not too surprised by the result.

Even after the first day, the media still praised Mei Lanfang, but he was not worried at all.

This is a movie supported by the Ministry of Chemical Affairs, and the pre-determined Olympic film, of course the treatment is different.

For the Oscar award, the domestic rule is that the Oscar does not select all domestic films and pick a good one, nor does the director himself send the film to the award, but the country selects and only sends one.Some years have not been delivered yet.

Basically, it’s about seniority. Zhang Yimou has competed in the Olympics six times, and Cheng Kai has already made it twice, but Farewell My Concubine was selected by Xiangjiang.

In addition, it also depends on whether there are any special events. This year's Olympics is the Olympic Documentary Building Dreams 2008

For so many years, it has been extremely difficult for domestic films to make their way to the Olympics. The bigwigs above can't figure out which one is the "good movie of Huaguo" for the judges.