During the promotion of the new album, Liu Yifei was inevitably asked about Brother Hu's car accident.
From here we can see the unprofessionalism of Liu Yifei's management team, or Liu Yifei's own "hard-heartedness".
When asked about Brother Hu's car accident, her performance was very amateurish, and she was ill-prepared at first glance.
She hesitated and said: "I sent him some blessing text messages because I didn't want to go...well...I hope he can recover well and I don't want to disturb him too much."
"Then did you contact me again after filming "Sword of Immortal"?" the reporter asked again.
Liu Yifei just said: "Because everyone is really busy..."
The reporter was smart enough to brush this issue off without delving into it further.
Even if you say some nice polite words in this situation, you have to tell the truth.
It was because Tang Ren had been speculating on Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Ling'er that Liu Yifei had to keep a distance from Brother Hu.
In August, a talent show called "Dream of Red Mansions" became popular.
This is an actor selection event held for the new version of "Dream of Red Mansions", and there is a strong online demand for Liu Yifei to play Daiyu.
However, Liu Yifei denied it at the promotion site: "I have not received an invitation. I will not compete for this role for the time being. It is purely a rumor."
When asked about arrangements other than the new album, Liu Yifei said: "My role in "Animal World" has been completed, and I still have some commercials to shoot in the next few months. I don't plan to join the group for the time being, and I still have a lot to learn. "
She planned to go to the theater to report after finishing the album promotion, and then learn acting again from the theater teacher.
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The reputation of "The Banquet" premiered in Venice has spread back to China.
The general response from the Venice audience was "movie-like".
"Hamlet" is too famous in the West.
"The story is not difficult to follow and it is easy to see that it is based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, but overall it is not particularly exciting."
"Whether it is in terms of plot or structure, "The Night Banquet" is too Western, and it feels strange to mix it with the background of ancient China. If you take away the period setting of the background, it is difficult to tell that this is a Chinese movie."
Does this mean that Feng Xiaogang made a play of "Hamlet", but Western audiences didn't buy it?
After the crew of "The Night Banquet" returned to China, they held a nationwide screening tour, touring places such as Yangcheng, Lin'an, Fengtian and Chang'an, and then held a world premiere in Beijing.
The next day, the main creators appeared in Shanghai to build momentum for the film.
Ordinarily, with such a heavy film promotion task, they should be very busy. However, at 10:30 pm, Huang Xiaoming and Zhou Xun actually appeared in the studio of "Animal World", led by Wang Zhonglei.
The crew hasn't finished work yet, so the two of them won't be disappointed.
"I'm not disturbing your filming, are you?" Wang Zhonglei greeted Xu Ke and others.
"No, no." Xu Ke shook hands with the three of them enthusiastically.
Although Huayi has not invested in "Animal World", judging from others, it cannot drive people away.
Huang Xiaoming and Zhang Yuanjun have met a few times, and they are considered acquaintances, but not familiar with each other.
But this junior’s grades are really good!
After two TV series, he was the leading actor in a movie that grossed 54 million in theaters.
Let alone Huang Xiaoming, any young actor would be jealous of this achievement.
Regardless of whether he is pretending or in nature, Huang Xiaoming is really warm and thoughtful.
Zhang Yuanjun and he were just acquaintances at most, but he was very positive towards him in the studio. Those who didn't know better thought they were good friends for more than ten years.
"How do you play this game?" Huang Xiaoming held the crew's prop card.
"Just play your cards, compete with rock, paper, scissors, and win the stars in everyone's hands."
"It's that simple?"
"It's that simple." The game of "Animal World" is still rock, paper, scissors. "However, when you and a group of people are locked in a room to play this kind of game, and the loser may die, this The game is no longer just a game, it will be more tense and exciting."
"I can't explain this game for a while. I'll invite you to watch the movie when it comes out next year. You'll know after watching it." Zhang Yuanjun finally said, "It's almost the same."
Wang Zhonglei and the other three didn't stay long, and left in about half an hour.
"We have the opportunity to work together." Wang Zhonglei told Zhang Yuanjun in front of the crew.
It's just a polite word, who would take it seriously?
After Wang Zhonglei and the others left, Xu Ke quickly organized people to film.
"Hurry up, take more pictures."
The results of "The Night Banquet" will not be bad. Feng Xiaogang's audience popularity is the best among mainland directors.
The reputation of the Lunar New Year movie has accumulated for more than ten years, so that the audience will buy a ticket and go to the cinema when they see the three words "Feng Xiaogang".
Therefore, although "The Night Banquet"'s first-day sales of 12 million is amazing, it is actually to be expected.
12 million, which is Feng Xiaogang’s best first-day box office result since he started filming.
It is also the best first-day result for any movie released this year.
In order to attract more audiences into the theater, Huayi has taken a new measure - every audience member who buys a ticket can receive a "red envelope" that can be used to deduct 60 yuan in cash from online shopping on a certain website. Starting from the movie premiere, 400,000 red envelopes will be given out within a month.
This trick seems to be promoting a movie, but it is actually promoting a certain treasure.
Moubao is really not popular right now, and online shopping is not generally accepted by the public.
It is a good way to attract customers with the golden signboard of "Feng Xiaogang Movies", but I don't know how much a certain treasure will give out for this 60 yuan red envelope.
When a movie is just released, unless it is particularly bad, its reputation will last for two weeks. At that time, "The Promise" only lasted two weeks before its reputation collapsed.
The same goes for "The Night Banquet".
The film's reputation began to collapse after its second week.
Most of the first viewers admitted that the film was good overall, but "this is a problematic movie."
Among a dozen viewers randomly interviewed by a magazine, the vast majority did not dare to say that this was a "good-looking" movie.
Professional film reviews came out later, pointing directly to the issue of screenwriting.
"Bad screenwriting directly leads to bad lines. Those lines that are semi-colloquial and semi-literary, some are disgusting, and some are hilarious. For example, in 'The Lonely Singer', a sword dance moves all directions, and acting is really my strength." The lines like this really make me suspect that this national first-level screenwriter has watched too much of Qiong Yao and Yu Qiuyu.
The original script of "The Night Banquet" is called "The Prince of Swords" and was written by Qiu Gangjian. This teacher's representative works include: "Rouge Button", "People in New York" and "Ruan Lingyu".
After the original script was handed over to Huayi, Feng Xiaogang wanted to adapt it, but Qiu disagreed, so Feng asked Sheng Heyu to write the script.
Sheng is also a great mainland screenwriter. His representative works include: "Toward a Republic" and "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty".
The effect of the adapted script is not accepted now, but it cannot be said that filming according to the original script will be better.
Looking at Qiu's previous scripts, we can see that his critical thinking is very good, even avant-garde.
But such a script cannot be sold and does not meet the needs of Huayi and Feng Xiaogang.
The problem of "The Banquet" can be summed up in one sentence. It is probably that the director's literary quality is not enough to bring Shakespeare's story to the Chinese screen.
Maybe Feng Xiaogang didn't think clearly.
Blockbusters are for making money.
"Hero" and "The Promise" are nothing less than this.
However, perhaps Feng Xiaogang wanted to prove himself artistically too much, so "The Night Banquet" neglected the story and its rhythm, and fell into the quagmire of formal aesthetics.
From "The Night Banquet", you can see Feng Xiaogang's twists and turns.
I actually watched this movie, and it wasn't very good, but it wasn't that bad.
(End of chapter)
