Produced by Anle Pictures, produced by Jiang Zhiqiang, directed by Liang Lemin, and starring Wang Dani, Gu Tianle, Lin Jiadong and Yang Qianwei, the movie "Mui Yanfang" will be released nationwide on November 12, and will be opened in advance this weekend, and the daily 100 Cantonese versions of the movie are limited to opening, and Mei Jie fans can grab tickets in advance.
Jiang Zhiqiang, the film's executive producer, recently opened a multi-city roadshow with lead actor Wang Dani, and came to Chengdu yesterday (November 3) to share the story of the film in front of and behind the scenes with the first audience.
Filming "Mei Yanfang" is purely for the sake of wishing, not afraid of controversy
Jiang Zhiqiang is the most successful producer in the Chinese film industry, Time magazine called him "Asian hero", and films such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hero" produced by him once opened the era of commercial blockbusters of Chinese films, and also helped director Ang Lee to successfully go to the world. He is highly respected in the industry not only for the successful expansion of commercial genre films, but also for daring to help newcomers and literary film directors complete their film dreams, and is a filmmaker with both business vision and emotional pursuit.
"Investing in movies is two hands, and if a movie makes money with its left hand, you can free up your right hand to make some different types of movies." When interviewed by reporters, Jiang Zhiqiang said that "Mei Yanfang" is a movie made with his "right hand", not to make money, nor to use old friends to play the love card, but for a promise of the year.
It turned out that in 2003, Mei Yanfang had invited Jiang Zhiqiang, hoping to make a movie for her, when Jiang Zhiqiang and Zhang Yimou were preparing for "Ten Faces Ambush", they designed a heavyweight heroine role for Mei Yanfang in the script, but unfortunately, because of Mei Yanfang's physical reasons, the cooperation could not be achieved.
Because of the gratitude of Many Years Ago, Mei Yanfang had repeatedly released a film platform for her company, Jiang Zhiqiang often remembered this agreement after that, and finally decided to shoot this "Mei Yanfang" in 2016, hoping to let more fans who like Mei Jie have a chance to remember her, and also hope that more young generations who do not know Mei Yanfang can understand Mei Jie and remember Mei Jie through this movie.
I hope more people see it, and ask fans to add heat to Sister Mei
Jiang Zhiqiang introduced that "Mei Yanfang" is not an "authentic" biopic, nor does it show Mei Jie's life in an all-round way, and the choreographer just chose a theme to show the personality charm and professionalism of a generation of superstars. He also admitted that he did not have high box office expectations for the film, but hoped that the film would be seen by more people, and he has made every effort to deploy the film's global distribution plan.
When communicating with the audience after the screening, he also admitted that the current popularity data of the film on major social platforms is not satisfactory, hoping to use the word of mouth of the first wave of audiences to let everyone promote more and add more heat to the movie.
Although wang Dani, a newcomer from the model, is the first time to act in a movie, her performance is remarkable, and she plays Mei Yanfang, who has both gods and gods, and many Meijie fans often think that they have seen a real person reappearing after watching it. The audience exchange meeting scene is not like other movies will have a lot of questions about the film, more audience is to stand up to express their gratitude to the two creators, as well as express their thoughts about Mei Yanfang.
Two female fans also showed their collection of Performance Costumes worn by Mei Yanfang when she participated in the Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs in 1988, and commemorated a generation of superstars with everyone.