Director’s Legend

On New Year's Day and New Year's Day, Shao Shuaijun spent his busy filming, while the outside world was still buzzing. James Cameron, the king of the world, has spent more than 40 days with his masterpiece "Avatar", which has swept more than 1.5 billion US dollars in the world, which is already the second largest movie in the history of the world.

In the following screenings, whether he can break the record of "Titanic" directed by himself has become the focus of attention of fans all over the world. In this era, under the influence of Shao Shuaijun, a little butterfly flapping its wings, "Avatar" is no longer as popular as in the previous life. After passing through the fresh period at the beginning, the trend has begun to decline.

No way, many people have seen the mx-3 effect of "mx-3 Yupu Tuan", and their expectations for "Avatar" have dropped a lot. This made Shao Shuaijun feel a little sorry for Cameron, but since he was reborn, there have been many people who have been sorry, and he doesn't care about one more Cameron.

But even if it is not as popular as in the previous life, "Avatar" in this life still breaks many records, especially in the mainland. The record for the first week was RMB 422.9 million held by "Old Boy", and the record for the second week was also RMB 191 million held by "Old Boy". "Avatar" was replaced by 105 million RMB.

Compared with "Oldboy", which had a wild first week at the box office and then fell like a dive, "Avatar" had a steady start and a relatively stable trend, and the decline was not obvious. Four weeks later, "Avatar" has already won 670.8 million yuan in the mainland. If it continues to follow this trend, it is no longer a luxury to surpass the 801.2 million yuan record of "Old Boy".

In other words, "Old Boy" is about to give up its position as the box office champion in the Mainland after only a month or two.

"Shao Shuai's army will eventually lose to Cameron. In the battle between the old and the new world kings, Shao Shuai's defeat is imminent!" - "Southern Metropolis Entertainment Weekly", which is afraid that Shao Shuai's army will not fall, boldly predicts that the champion of mainland movie history will be "Avatar" . Nandu Weekly estimates that the final box office of "Avatar" may exceed one billion RMB!

"The storm of "Old Boy" is sure to be blown out, and "Avatar" is wreaking havoc on the Chinese film market." - "Chutian Metropolis Daily" also advocated "Avatar".

""Avatar" with a production cost of 500 million US dollars is comparable to "Old Boy" with a production cost of 0.03 billion US dollars. In the Chinese-speaking circle, Shao Shuaijun is already the king of the trip, shouldering the last barrier against the invasion of Hollywood movies." ——"Beijing Entertainment Letter". [

"The whole world is ravaged by "Avatar", but in terms of revenue ratio, "Old Boy" absolutely wins." - "Yangcheng Evening News". Seeing that "Avatar" surpasses "Oldboy" and is not far from reaching the top, it is meaningless to cling to "Oldboy" as the champion of mainland film history.

"Avatar" took five years to make, and "Oldboy" took two months to make.

The total investment of "Avatar" exceeds 500 million US dollars. "Old Boy" invested 20 million RMB and there is still a surplus.

"Avatar" used mx-3 technology, expression capture technology, and top-notch special effects. "Old Boy" did some makeup, and the computer edited the film.

The production team of "Avatar" is led by Cameron, with Weta Digital, the gold medal soundtrack, gold medal screenwriter, and gold medal props team. Songs, all old songs...

The final conclusion is. The revenue ratio of "Old Boy" is more than ten blocks away from "Avatar". It is expected that filming a time-consuming and labor-intensive film like "Avatar" can make ten times the profit with a film like "Old Boy".

When this comparison was concluded, the Chinese media frantically reprinted it. It seemed that only in this way could "Avatar" and Hollywood's mountain of pressure on Chinese movies be forgotten. Mtime.com is even more prominent with red headlines. The status of "Old Boy" is not lost to "Avatar".

When Shao Shuaijun was chatting one day and opened Mtime.com, he saw this comparative data. And a concluding headline from Mtime.com: ""Old Boy" defended the honor of Chinese-language films, propping up the big sky with a small cost, not losing to "Avatar" Hollywood big production, Chinese-language films are fearful and fearful, glory is with you and me !"

See this title. Shao Shuaijun suddenly became furious, and directly called the headquarters of Mtime.com through a dedicated line.

Shao Shuaijun's number is a special number, which is recorded in the company, so the operator recognized Shao Shuaijun at that time: "Shao Dong, hello, how can I help you."

"Go and let Marila answer the phone!" Shao Shuaijun said with suppressed anger.

Ma Rila is now the general manager of Mtime.com, and soon, Ma Rila's panting voice was heard: "Shao Dong, are you looking for me?"

"Who told you to post the scarlet headline on Mtime Online?"

Marila heard Shao Shuaijun's bad tone, and replied cautiously: "It's me, Director Shao, did something go wrong?"

"Remove the title immediately, and replace it with this sentence, 'Salute to "Avatar", ashamed of the title of king". In addition, ask Dream Chasing Entertainment to hold a press conference. I will return to China to attend the press conference tomorrow. I will talk about "Old Boy" Express your views on the box office of "Avatar"." After speaking, Shao Shuaijun hung up the phone directly. [

To be honest, as a Chinese-speaking director, he very much hopes that Chinese-language films can rise in the world, and even more hope that there will be a Chinese-language film to defend the throne of the box office champion of Chinese films and prevent Hollywood from overwhelming them. However, it's not through this way of putting gold on your own face, it's not clamoring for us to fight for a big box office with a small cost.

If you lose, you lose. There are so many excuses to say.

You can compare the income, but why not compare the content, technology and sincerity of a movie? "Avatar" is a film that Cameron has honed his sword for five years and made it with his heart. He can try his best to defeat it and surpass it, but he can't just surpass it by talking about it.

No one will be happy if such a movie is over their heads, and Shao Shuaijun is not happy to be surpassed by "Avatar", but filmmakers must learn to face up to the excellence of others, and then be brave enough to make a movie that surpasses "Avatar". At least. Shao Shuaijun himself thought so.

He accumulated mx-3 technology with "mx-3 Yupu Tuan", accumulated traditional filming technology with "Inception", and accumulated expression and motion capture technology with "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". He is learning, learning the most advanced shooting technology, because he deeply knows that future movies are not just content and theme contention. It is also a competition for technology.

However, a country, a language, or a film of an ethnic group cannot rely solely on the strength of one person. Hollywood does not have Cameron, Spielberg, and Nolan. And Michael Bay, and a whole bunch of great directors. Chinese-language films cannot be just the Three Musketeers, nor can he be the only one to accumulate technology.

Shao Shuaijun has self-knowledge, his current prosperity is due to cheating. Whether he can continue his path as a great director in the future depends on what he has learned so far. The same is true for Chinese-language films, which are developing very rapidly in China. With a population base of more than one billion, it is not impossible to surpass the United States and become the world's largest ticket warehouse in the future.

Because the demand is increasing, more and more movies have reached a high box office, but I look back. Chinese-language films are still at the production level of Hollywood in the last century, especially the level of special effects and sci-fi productions. Do Chinese-language films have the same?

No!

Maybe one or two have special effects, maybe one or two sci-fi themes, but that doesn't mean much. There isn't a huge base buildup. It cannot be said that this aspect has developed.

In fact, it doesn’t matter whether there is or not. The important thing is that Chinese-language filmmakers need to see whether they have seen it or not. Only when they see it can they remember and know that they should fill in this part.

Rubbed his forehead. Shao Shuaijun directly called the assistant directors of the two crews and asked them to take over the crew temporarily. And he took a special plane that afternoon and returned to China.

"Why did you come back in such a hurry?" Li Xiuxiu came to pick him up. ask.

"Have a press conference. There are too many people advocating "Old Boy" recently. I'll cool them down." Shao Shuaijun also hasn't seen Li Xiuxiu for more than half a month, and misses him even more. Now that he is hugging Li Xiuxiu, he feels that his anger has calmed down a lot.

Li Xiuxiu chuckled and said, "Aren't you happy when others praise you?"

"Do I need to be flattered, do I care about that little flattery? I just wish that everyone would forget about me, so that I can enjoy life quietly and stay away from the hustle and bustle!" Shao Shuaijun said half jokingly and half emotionally. One day, thousands of people will pay attention, and in this life, tens of millions of people will pay attention, but still want to live an ordinary life.

In the past, Shao Shuaijun read Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged", which said that those inside want to come out, and those outside want to go in...

Perhaps, this is the reality of Nai.

Or, is the slut just hypocritical?

"You can't live an ordinary life now. You know, the news that you are going to hold a press conference has spread. There were already a lot of reporters outside the Dream Chasing Film and Television Base, but now it has increased several times. The old lady's business should be good today, hehe."

"Or we won't go back and find a hotel to stay in. It feels really uncomfortable to be stared at."

"Why don't you go to the elder sister's house?" Li Xiuxiu said, the elder sister refers to Shao Shuaijun's elder sister, and if "elder sister" refers to Li Bingbing.

"Alright, by the way, let me express my condolences to the distressed life of the single people."

"What are you talking about, my eldest sister already has a partner."

"I have a date, who is it, why didn't anyone tell me?" Shao Shuaijun pricked up his ears and asked.

Li Xiuxiu said with a smile: "Of course you don't know. As long as you make a movie, your topic cannot be separated from the movie. You have to go crazy when you talk about household chores. Besides, it is something that has only been confirmed recently. Cai Xiaoyun knows, her brother Cai Shufeng has returned from serving as a soldier, and is now the vice-captain of the Criminal Police Brigade in Taifeng District, Beijing, and met my elder sister through Cai Xiaoyun's introduction."

"Cai Xiaoyun's brother? Well, I have to take good care of my elder sister. Tonight, no, tomorrow night, please invite Cai Xiaoyun and her brother to have a meal."

"Okay." (To be continued...)