With the release of "Chosin Lake" for half a month, the box office has ridden the wind and waves all the way, continuously surpassing "Reunion Four" (4.2 billion), "Tang Detective 3" (4.4 billion), "The Wandering Earth" (4.6 billion), has reached the fourth place in the box office of film history, just one step away from the 5 billion mark.
And Chen Kaige, the first director of "Chosin Lake", when promoting the film before, commented on a passage of Wu Jing, the first star of the film, which was also turned over by the media and made various interpretations:
[The enthusiastic response of the audience is the greatest affirmation of the work.] However, in addition to a good work, in addition to a team that can tell stories and tell history well, it is also inseparable from the blessing of good actors' acting skills. Especially Wu Jing, he is not only the top pillar of the Wu family, the main backbone of the Seven Lian, but also an actor with excellent acting skills! 】
But even if the box office of "Chosin Lake" is high, Xu Ke and I will not use Wu Jing anymore.] Wu Jing is now both an actor and a director, and sometimes one person finishes the job, and Xu Ke and I both feel that we are a bit "redundant". 】
[In the future, if you want to cooperate, you can only invite him to the next crew dinner.] 】
Director Chen Kaige said this, and the audience laughed loudly.
These remarks are obviously a compliment to Wu Jing for holding both positions and working hard.
Of course, many times, what is said in a joking tone is often the words of the heart, the tone that seems to be joking, just to be less open and straightforward.
On the other hand, the phrase "even if the box office of "Chosin Lake" is high, I no longer want to cooperate with Wu Jing", in fact, even if it is serious, it is also the common sentiment of people.
From 2017, Wu Jing's self-written and self-directed "Wolf Warrior 2" exploded, refreshing the box office of film history from 3.4 billion to 5.68 billion, and setting a record of 160 million viewers who have not been able to match so far.
His personal label is already too obvious, and all the films in which he participates in important roles are first turned into "Wu Jing's films", while people ignore other actors, and even the directors and screenwriters of the film, which is the real superstar trait.
Such a superstar trait, before the entire Chinese film industry, only Jackie Chan and Zhou Xingchi at their peak fully possessed, and Jet Li basically had it. The other actors in the film, the writers and directors, are all tools around their center. Therefore, well-known directors with a little self-esteem will even avoid working with superstars as soon as possible.
The reason is very simple, for the famous directors of Zhang Yimou /Chen Kaige/Wong Kar-wai/Lee An, even if they are such as Chow Yun-fat, Andy Lau, Liang Chaowei, Ge You, Gong Li, who are recognized as top acting and star-studded celebrities, they are still the tools in famous directors' films. These recognized hall-level actors cannot suppress the light of those famous directors when cooperating.
The cooperation between famous directors and top superstars is bound to have one side make major concessions and be willing to retreat to the position of tool people. For example, the movie "Hero", first of all, is the film directed by Zhang Yimou, and jet Li, the first male protagonist's personal label, is very weak, far less than his Huang Feihong series.
Jet Li, as an internationally renowned kung fu superstar, has a martial arts top in the level of thesis drama, and has achieved the profession of pure actor to the extreme, but because he basically did not light up the skill point of [director], he and famous directors can still cooperate.
Jackie Chan or Zhou Xingchi, who has produced his own films and produced countless box office blockbusters, can't talk about it at all: "A crew, who has the final say?" It's such a simple and straightforward contradiction.
Therefore, although Jiang Wen debuted in Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum", since the continuous director of "Sunny Day" and "The Devil is Coming", after winning the international award and shocking the international film world, it is no longer possible to cooperate with these famous directors.
Because an actor who has had successful directing experience, it is difficult to be a pure tool for other directors, unless it is "Guan Yunchang" and "Turandot" that he has made a cameo or made a human feeling.
And "Let the Bullets Fly" Although the two big coffee movie emperors, Zhou Runfa and Ge You, zhu lian, made a lot of contributions, but everyone knows that this is still Jiang Wen's film first.
In contrast, Wu Jing is already a well-known good talker in the industry, and after the nuclear explosion of "Wolf Warrior 2", the performance in the past few years is not only modest and cautious, but also can be regarded as humble.
Similar to the "Climber" crew, for the obviously outrageous plot design, character lines, he made suggestions, and after making up for it wholeheartedly, he still honestly obeyed the arrangement of the choreographer.
Therefore, like-minded young directors like Wu Jing and Guo Fan in "The Wandering Earth" can cooperate very harmoniously, interact with each other, learn from each other's strengths, and make progress together.
However, what about the big director who has already achieved fame in the industry?
Even if Wu Jing follows the rules and does not say a word in the crew, his existence as the first protagonist of the film itself has given them great pressure: there are quite a large number of audiences, first of all, to pay attention to this movie for Wu Jingcai, and to buy tickets for Wu Jingcai, which they themselves know.
Director Chen Kaige since "Farewell to the Overlord", since then for many years the work is lackluster, the career has fallen into a bottleneck period, and even perennial people have been the same "joke" type of doubt, "Farewell to the Overlord" is not he can shoot?
And now, with "Chosin Lake" divided into two parts, is expected to roll over the tens of billions of box office of the heavy industry military blockbuster, the box office performance on paper, even more than the director Zhang Yimou, who has been far ahead of him for many years, should have completely raised his eyebrows and returned to the list of China's top directors indisputably.
Of course...... No matter how the film exploded at the box office, from the perspective of the vast majority of film fans and audiences, it was first determined that this was [Wu Jing's film], and no one else could grab the first prize.