You don't understand the happiness of the director

It only takes more than ten minutes for Wang Quan to walk from the courtyard house to the cinema.

The movie theater is located in the bustling Dashilan Pedestrian Street. It was originally the Daguanlou Movie Theater. It was built in 1907, only two years after the birth of Chinese movies. It was one of the earliest movie screening places in the Qing Dynasty.

Wang Quan’s father, Wang Qiankun, was a projectionist in Daguanlou Cinema when he was young, and accompanied Daguanlou from a state-owned unit to a public-private joint venture, and finally into his own private company.

In the 1980s, Wang Qiankun was quick-witted and bought antiques. When he had money, he bought the Daguanlou Cinema where he used to work and renamed it Dawang Cinema.

At that time, the film industry was definitely not as profitable as antiques. Lao Wang purely because of his love for movies, Wang Quan was also influenced by Lao Wang since he was a child. He came to the cinema every day after school instead of going home, and watched whatever was on, so He has developed his super reading volume and deep love for movies, and movies are his childhood.

In the 1990s, Lao Wang suffered heavy losses due to an eye drilling operation. He was sad and left the antique business altogether. He used the remaining money to buy some shops and several buildings. The shops were rented out. At the same time, he focused his work on the operation of the movie theater.

Lao Wang made a series of renovations to Dawang Cinema, introduced the most advanced projection equipment from the United States, built a super-large screen theater, improved the viewing environment, enriched the cultural heritage of the theater, and finally became one of the super theaters in Beijing.

It's a pity that the TV industry's spring and the film industry's cold winter. In 1991, the total annual box office in the mainland was still 3.1 billion. By 1999, it was only 810 million.

The reason why it is called a movie theater is that in addition to showing movies, it also occasionally rehearses opera programs for survival, such as Peking Opera, Bangzi, and cross talk.

During this period, relevant departments also made market-oriented adjustment efforts. For example, starting from "The Fugitive" in 1994, 10 Hollywood blockbusters were introduced every year in the form of box office splits.

In 1995, the Film Bureau even adjusted the production qualifications, and the production rights were gradually delegated to the private sector, but the decline in the mainland film market remained unchanged.

Until the end of 2002, "Hero" turned out, opening a new era of Chinese-language commercial blockbusters. In 2003, the total box office in the mainland was 1 billion, in 2004 it was 1.5 billion, and in 2005 it was 2 billion!

With this growth rate, Wang Quan can't wait to travel directly to more than ten years later, the era when the box office in the mainland is tens of billions is the most suitable stage for him!

The Dawang Movie Theater has arrived. It is antique and has the charm of Ming and Qing architecture. The old building a hundred years ago no longer exists, but the old man chose to decorate it according to the original style, so it was also used in the movie "Farewell My Concubine" Selected to shoot a scene, Wang Quan had the honor to watch.

After entering, they were all familiar faces. Earlier, Wang Quan also worked here as a holiday worker.

"Yo, the young master is back home!"

"When did you come back, master?"

"The boss is not here, this is an inspection for my father~"

The employees were very familiar with Wang Quan, and after playing around for a while, Wang Quan paid the money and asked them to give him a piece of "Fearless" for 38 yuan per ticket, which is slightly higher than the average ticket price, but because there are members , so it only costs 28 yuan.

Ever since he went to university and was able to make money by shooting commercials himself, Wang Quan has the awareness of supporting the box office. Although the movie theater is owned by his family, he went in without buying a ticket, so that the film studio did not earn the 10 yuan it should have earned. , which is not appropriate.

The most recent show was half an hour later, and it was a big show in hall 600. The theater was big and the screen was big, so it was more enjoyable to watch.

During the waiting period, Wang Quan observed the audience. There were crowds and crowds, and most of them came to see "Fearless". This is the charm of blockbuster movies. Of course, it has nothing to do with the schedule.

The end of the new year is approaching, and around New Year's Day to the first day of the new year are considered New Year's holidays, which are much better than the summer holidays that are still not in the weather.

You can understand the strength of the Lunar New Year file by looking at the movies released at the end of the year. First, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (Ha 4) started, followed by the song and dance blockbuster "If Love" directed by Chen Kexin, and then " Lord of the Rings director's new King Kong.

At the same time, there were three domestic films interspersed, namely Liu Zhenwei's "The Great Sage of Love", Zhang Yimou's "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles", and "The Promise", the only domestic film in 2005 with a box office of over 100 million~

In 2005, the box office of domestic films ranked 1st, 5th, 7th, and 8th, and imported films ranked first and second at the box office.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, he could go in and watch the movie. The clerk selected the best movie viewing area for him. After he went in, the surroundings were filled with people one after another. By the time the movie officially started, the 600-seat big movie hall had already 70% to 80% attendance.

And after the movie started, people came in one after another, almost filling the theater hall. A girl wearing a hat and mask came in halfway, and seeing that her seat was taken, she ran to the back corner helplessly.

Wang Quan didn't pay attention to other people, and enjoyed the movie immersively. The movie opened with the middle-aged Huo Yuanjia in a competition ring with foreigners, and then started flashbacks from his childhood.

The plot begins with a ring match with Huo Yuanjia's father Chang Wei when he was young. Soon, the child grows up, and Huo Yuanjia grows up to be brave and ruthless, and behaves perversely. , can you stop it?" This person's domineering and confident character was fully exposed.

Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, Huang Feihong with thick eyebrows, big eyes and elegant demeanor would have such an arrogant day. I feel that Li Lianjie's performance is very breakthrough. It is not difficult to get a best actor nomination for this film.

Later, the scene where Huo Yuanjia PK Master Qin exploded the whole audience, watching people's whole body tense up, and they dare not breathe. Seeing the highlights, Wang Quan could not wait to press the pause button and analyze the shooting frame by frame techniques.

The sense of shock, the destructive power, hurt even the audience watching him. Sure enough, action movies have to be made by professionals to look good. Needless to say, Li Lianjie, the national martial arts champion, after Master Qin beat Huo Yuanjia and Ye Wen, He is also a practitioner.

Even after Baye Yuan entered Hollywood, the standard of Hollywood action movies has been greatly improved, and it is no longer a rigid model of you punching and kicking, but there is still a big gap with this war.

Later, Huo Yuanjia experienced a big setback of destroying his family, his personality began to change, and he initially possessed the demeanor of a generation of masters.

Although it is very routine, although it allows people to see the end at a glance, this is not a suspense film. "Know the end when you see the beginning" cannot be a panacea to belittle the viewability of a movie, not to mention that Huo Yuanjia's life ending is well known.

It is precisely because Master Huo's ending is well known that he was poisoned and died miserably, so Wang Quan believes that this is not a commercial film in the strict sense. Such an ending greatly limits the final box office performance.

In the end, it was so cruel, even if you like the previous action scenes, it is difficult to do it again and again, so the real Huo Yuanjia will never be as good as the fictional Chen Zhen.

The director also knew this very well, so he designed a RB warrior who understood righteousness. In the end, this warrior was overwhelmed by Huo Yuanjia's martial arts spirit, and announced in public that the poisoned Huo Yuanjia won. This is a cool compromise. The point is to give the audience an emotional outlet.

Even if Huo Yuanjia's story is filmed by Wang Quan, he has no more suitable solution for the time being, unless it is changed by magic, but then the audience may be happy, but the descendants of the Huo family may not be happy.

Even if it's just an adaptation at this level, Wang Quan feels that the descendants of the Huo family will probably be dissatisfied.

After watching the movie and walking out of the cinema, Wang Quan found that there was still a director's cut version of "Fearless" in his video library. The release version was 101 minutes long, while the director's cut version was 141 minutes long, and he could make up for it when he went back.

Many movies have to be shortened for the convenience of movie theater screenings and to seize more films. Sometimes they can cut masterpieces into rubbish. Like this Huo Yuanjia, in order to arrange more fight scenes, some emotions are not in place. place.

Just as he was thinking, a girl's voice suddenly came from behind, "Hello, Wang Fugui!"

When Wang Quan turned his head, the girl behind him took off her mask and showed a fierce look in her eyes.

Wang Quan was pleasantly surprised at first, and then pretended to be angry, "What did you call me!"

"King! Rich! Noble! You pay for my number one girl!" The girl rushed over with bared teeth and claws.

Wang Quan hugged the angry Xiaoli, and turned around twice, "Girl, have you gained weight?"