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.
For example, director Chen Kaige's sentence "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.
With the release of "Chosin Lake" for half a month, the box office has ridden the wind and waves, successively surpassing "Reunion Four" (4.2 billion), "Tang Detective 3" (4.4 billion), "The Wandering Earth" (4.6 billion), and has reached the fourth place in the box office in film history, just one step away from the 5 billion mark.
Wu Jing, as a starring actor in "Wolf Warrior 2", "The Wandering Earth" and "Changjin Lake", occupies three of the top five seats in the box office list of film history, and is already the first box office guarantee in today's Chinese film industry.
Since 2017, Wu Jing's self-written and self-directed "Wolf Warrior 2" has 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 yet been able to match.
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 "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.
Moreover, Wu Jing's other films shot in the past four years, in addition to the 300 million investment of "My Father and My Father", and the 1.3 billion investment of "Changjin Lake" were released at the same time, the current box office is 1.5 billion, which has a large surplus.
It is precisely the two films of "The Climber" and "King Kong Chuan" that were not successful in their own quality and were not successful, and wu Jing's "box office bottom line" was measured: two 1.1 billion! Who else?
Other veteran Hong Kong superstars, or middle-aged celebrities of the same age, who is not over 1 billion at the box office, even if there is another successful blockbuster film? Only for Wu Jing, such achievements are even considered "failures".
And "Chosin Lake" this drama, the largest investment in the history of 1.3 billion, more than the previous 1.06 billion investment in the co-production blockbuster "The Great Wall", according to the current market law: "the box office 3 times the investment cost, at least to return the cost", which means that more than 4 billion box office, in order to ensure that there is no loss, as the first producer of Bona Company, how great the pressure.
Therefore, Bona boss, the chief producer of the film, openly said that he was repeatedly rejected, and still asked Wu Jing three times, and he must be "a brother in today's film industry" as a box office guarantee for the film.
In the film, Wu Jing is not only the first protagonist, but also one of the seven major producers: the other six are Bona Company, Bayi Factory, Huaxia Pictures, China Film Company, Shanghai Film Company, and Ali Pictures, all of which are film giants in the industry. Only Wu Jing's Ascend International is a personal company.
As for the companies of Chen Kaige, Xu Ke, Lin Chaoxian and other three directors, they are only in dozens of "co-producers" in the lower gear. The box office revenue of the film, first of all, wu Jing and seven other producers to dividend, the remaining small share, before the turn of others.
Moreover, although Chen Kaige is the first director of the film, he is not the general director, and the two famous directors Xu Ke and Lin Chaoxian are not his assistants, and the three are cooperative partners who perform their respective duties.
In other words: in essence, chen kaige, Xu Ke, Lin Chaoxian and other directors, other actors and screenwriters of the "Changjin Lake" film and other staff members are all working for seven producers, including Boss Wu Jing.
It is actually very common for directors to work for big coffee actors who are also producers/producers, such as "I am not a medicine god", and the work of director Wen Muye is to work for Xu Zheng's boss, but this is for young and middle-aged directors. And for the famous director who has always been proud, the taste is certainly self-evident.
Regarding Wu Jing's actual role in the movie "Chosin Lake", another "leading actor" Yi Yanqianxi, said in an interview: "Brother Jing is still ... His directorial identity and screenwriting function are immediately reflected. 】
Director Chen Kaige since "Farewell to the King", since then for many years the work is lackluster, the box office continues to slump, international awards are no longer, the career is in a bottleneck period, and even perennial people are the same "joke" type of doubt, "Farewell to the King" is not he can make?
In recent years, he has been continuously on variety shows, with Zhao Wei, Guo Jingming and others on the same stage as mentors...
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.
It's just a pity... 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.
Of course, in part, this is also thanks to the help of many "wolf warrior ptsd patients".
From "Wolf Warrior 2" and "The Wandering Earth" to "Chosin Lake", in the domestic market, Wu Jing, who completely broke the myth of the old superstar and completely smashed the hegemony of Hollywood movies, especially the existence that some people are grumbling and hating.
For example, when "Changjin Lake" exploded at the box office, why didn't the "keyboard moralists" from all sides force the donation of other major producers of "Changjin Lake", not to force the donation of Chen Kaige, Xu Ke, Lin Chaoxian three directors, not to force the donation of Yi Yanqianxi, Hu Jun, Zhu Yawen, Li Chen and other major actors, but they had to stare at Wu Jing alone, and frantically shouted "Wu Jing donated money" on various platforms?
Everyone knows that Mu Xiu will be destroyed by Lin Feng, Wu Jing has been as low-key as possible, and even entered the group "The Wandering Earth 2" on October 12, in such a high-profile project, playing the first protagonist of the next box office blockbuster, do not know to get a hot search for themselves.
Helplessly, many "wolf warrior ptsd patients" just refuse to let him go, and they have to set off a wave of controversy, such as what?
Because of this, the group portrait movie that should have been the heroic team of "Steel Seven Company" is really no different from Wu Jing's "big male protagonist movie" in a considerable context. ——"Wolf Warrior ptsd patients" are really for Wu Jing and the whole film, as a free water army that does not need any remuneration at all.
When there was a flood in Linfen and other places in Shanxi, a large amount of corn stored by local farmer brothers was moldy and in urgent need of drying equipment, on October 11, after being forwarded by the media: Wu Jing contacted them at the first time and quickly purchased a batch of machines, of which the first batch of 30 harvesters and 20 dryers were sent to the disaster area overnight.
On October 11, a message came from the disaster area, and on October 13, the machine had arrived. "Wolf Speed", Starry Night Rush to aid the disaster area, this is the response of Wu Jing, a charity pacesetter! (ps: or no hot search on any platform)
In addition, these 30 harvesters, 20 dryers, are only the first batch of supplies. It is reported that wu jing purchased a total of about 160 machines, according to enthusiastic netizens estimated, the total value of more than 3 million yuan, in order to solve the urgent needs of the people in the disaster area, the actual role is far better than simple donations.
I don't know those who have threatened on various platforms: "I donate a hundred yuan, and Wu Jing has to donate ten thousand yuan." I donated 10,000 yuan, how can Wu Jing also donate a million" The "keyboard moralists" are willing to show their donation lists and fulfill their promises.