my time as a director

"I've seen Li Qian's mouth talk a long time ago. He's not very young, and his tone is not small. It's not the first day I know him. Isn't he always so arrogant and ignorant?"

On December 12, at the Beijing Happy Valley Overseas Chinese Town Theater, at the premiere ceremony of If You Are the One 21, Ma Xiaogang also responded to Li Qian's words of ignoring If You Are the One 2.

Facing dozens of reporters, nearly a hundred industry insiders and actors, and thousands of spectators in the theater, Ma Xiaogang was not at all polite.

Li Qian was so angry that he gave a hammer politely.

What's more, after half a month of scolding, although it subsided, Ma Xiaogang's heart was very irritable, and he would get angry at any point.

Lao Zhi is a big director with a box office of [-] million, you still ignore me?

During the day, Ma Xiaogang was furious, especially the netizens on the Internet, many of them agreed with Li Qian's words!

Ma Xiaogang didn't care about anything, and scolded the media for a long time, which made the reporters in the audience extremely excited.

Material, this is all material, plus the box office competition, this year's end, another news carnival, the year-end bonus is in place, and you can have a fat year.

Seeing that Ma Xiaogang was about to scold enough, the reporters quickly asked, "Director Li has booked the box office champion of the New Year's Eve. I am Legend is also the first end-time sci-fi blockbuster in China. What advantage does Director Ma think of If You Are the One 2? I am a legendary contender?"

"Don't say I'm a legend. The opponent of If You Are the One 2 is to let the bullets fly. What doomsday sci-fi is just a gimmick to me. Just like the frequency of his life and death before, it is also under the banner of sci-fi. In fact, it has nothing to do with it. , and the moon, this time it’s a sci-fi film, the background is on the moon, but it’s just selling sheep’s clothing, the whole drama.

Whenever there is a bit of sci-fi elements, sci-fi movies are promoted everywhere, and those two love movies are also promoted under the name of sci-fi. This is a typical way to deceive the audience. I am a legend. Where there is any shadow of science fiction, I advise everyone not to follow the trend blindly, keep your eyes open. "

"Is Director Ma not optimistic that I am a legend? How much box office does Director Ma think this movie can get?"

"Three or four billion, after all, the movie market is huge now."

"Then how much box office does Director Ma think If You Are the One 2 can win? Can it break the record of the Tangshan Earthquake?"

Ma Xiaogang said quite proudly, "What can I teach myself? Let's keep [-] million. I also believe in the audience's vision."

The reporter continued, "However, as director Li Qian said, the filming and post-production of If You Are the One 2 were in a hurry. You were busy with the Tangshan earthquake. How can you guarantee the quality of the film?"

"Ha ha."

Ma Xiaogang was not angry, he looked straight at the camera in the audience, as if Li Qian was opposite, "I have been in the industry for more than ten years and have been filming for more than ten years. In this respect, it is not up to young people to teach me how to film. Some people should not think that they know everything after making two movies, as for the quality of a movie, the box office is the only data that can quantify a movie, after the box office, you will know!"

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The premiere was delayed for a while, and the whole process lasted almost 10 minutes. It was not stopped until Ma Xiaogang got a little annoyed, and the film began to be shown.

Ma Xiaogang sat under the stage full of confidence. After the movie was shown, the audience's reaction did not disappoint him.

Starting from the trial marriage of Ge You and Shu Qi, the first half of the two people get along with each other for a series of daily life. The typical horse-style humor makes sporadic laughter heard from time to time.

In the second half, it changed from comedy to philosophy, talking about life and death while talking about love, which made the atmosphere a bit serious.

Although the laughter could no longer be heard, Ma Xiaogang laughed, and this was the effect he wanted.

Let the Bullets Fly is called the perfect combination of art and commerce by movie fans, and his If You Are the One 2 is the same.

Love, marriage, life and death, torture life, this is art, the comedy nature of the film itself is business, thinking about life after laughing, isn't this the combination of art and business?

The premiere has ended successfully, and now it's time to talk about the box office!

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On the 22nd, If You Are the One 2 is officially released in China. As a new film, it is still Ma Xiaogang's comedy, and theaters will definitely pay attention to it.

Even if the bullets were sold out, it didn't affect If You Are the One at all, and directly took up 50 of the films.

And after the premiere, praise from various media and film critics can be seen everywhere, and the audience walked into the cinema without hesitation.

Huayang Media has also invested a huge amount of publicity and distribution. After all, the cost is not high, and the advertising placement has recovered most of the cost, and some of it is money.

The day gradually passed, and in the afternoon, if You Are the One 2, under Huayang's powerful publicity campaign, its popularity on the Internet is no worse than letting bullets fly.

Regarding the evaluation of the movie, all of them are all positive.

"If You Are the One 2 is not just about love, the consistent thinking of human nature in the movie is also the connotative beauty that is currently missing in domestic movies.

Topics such as life and death, beauty and ugliness, love and marriage, etc., will make you laugh and cry after a serious discussion. If you have a lover, you must take your other half to the cinema. There is no one of the best domestic films this year!"

"The first half of the movie is a top-notch comedy, and the second half is a top-notch art movie. Ma Xiaogang made the best movie of his career. I think he can say it loudly like Jiang, and stand up and earn money." Already!"

"It's hard to imagine that Ma Xiaogang, who has always been criticized for being vulgar, made such a profound movie. What is love? What is marriage? What does life and death mean? I was already in tears after watching the movie."

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It was Ma Xiaogang's expectation to get good reviews, and unlike pure comedy movies, the theme of love, life and death has also received high praise.

As early as the year before last, Ma Xiaogang was not only satisfied with the title of comedy master, he wanted to be a real film master, try more genres, let outsiders know that Ma Xiaogang is not only good at making comedies, but also art.

Satisfied with watching the outside world's evaluation of the film, Ma Xiaogang really wanted to see Li Qian's expression at this moment.

Li Qian's expression now is really similar to what Ma Xiaogang thought, a look of bewilderment.

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At the Olympic Sports Center, Li Qian, who was waiting for the premiere, checked the news, and was a little dazed looking at the comments on the Internet about If You Are the One 2 Blowing the Sky.

Seeing Li Qian's appearance, Liu Ye, Yuan Quan and the others thought that if you were the one 2 had such a good review, Li Qian was worried.

Liu Ye just wanted to speak, but unexpectedly Li Qian smiled again.

"I go."

Looking at the reviews of the feature film on the Internet, Li Qian was amazed, "This Huayang Media has spent a lot of money. According to this situation, it is estimated that this time it will cost 5000 to [-] million publicity."

"Director Li, are you saying that this was bought with money?" Liu Ye was a little puzzled.

"Or else?"

Li Qian smiled and said, "For so many years, don't you know Ma Xiaogang's reputation in the media and professional film critics? At the beginning of the Tangshan earthquake, because a small number of voices questioned his fortune, he was immediately dismissed by the media and a group of general public figures. Catch it, curse it hard, and make a lot of trouble.

It has just been released now, and the first half of the movie is indeed a comedy, and the second half is about discussing life, love, and understanding life and death, but it does not reach such a high level at all. "

The whole movie does not have a well-formed story at all. The "art" in the second half is a pile of various situations, aerial photography, close-ups, which are metaphors at best. Those who don't know think it is a scenic film for a scenic spot. .

The thoughtless scene scheduling and slightly lazy editing, this has some shadows of art movies.

However, the editing was scattered, the connection of the plot was not smooth, there was a serious sense of disconnection between the front and back, and there was no connection between the play and the play, and the paragraphs. The second half directly became Sun Honglei's special performance.

By the way, it’s not that Ma Xiaogang has never talked about funerals and faced death, but it’s basically a sarcasm. He’s never been so serious, so serious that the whole film only needs a testimonial from an old man, and all other places are placed advertisements It doesn't matter.

At the end of the movie, it was even more outrageous. Sun Honglei sat alone, surrounded by everyone, and he began to talk about his life reading sentiments to the camera, and to his friends and daughters.

Li Qian doubted that Ma Xiaogang didn't put much thought into this movie at all, it was more like Wang Yan's movie, especially Sun Honglei's sentiment at the end sounded like Wang Shuo's sentiment, he didn't have a daughter.