Superstar Couple

  Chapter 141 The Rising Trend

  "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was loved by Western audiences in previous lives.

  Western audiences may not be able to understand the righteous deeds of the knights in the Eastern martial arts culture. However, in this film, the heroic deeds and idlers are no longer the focus. Their sorrows and gains and losses between the world and the world are the focus of their thoughts.

Moreover, Thomas felt that the director of this film did not always focus on the development of conflicts. He often consciously or unconsciously crossed the main line of the story with the secular society and customs of the time, so as to find them. The inextricably linked connections provide space for imagination.

   "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" does not have the arrogance of ordinary martial arts movies. Instead, it is a deep contemplation and implicit search for the humanistic connotation of the rivers and lakes. And it is this, thinking is loved by Westerners, but not by Eastern movie fans. This film in the past life was cold and hot, maybe it has something to do with it.

  Thomas naturally did not know that this film was a classic Zhang Le almost copied from his previous life. After watching it, he developed a heart of admiration for the young director who was only twenty-five years old. No, the director was only twenty-five years old, and he was only twenty-four years old when the film was made.

  It is hard to think that a twenty-four-year-old young director can make such a wonderful film.

  The whole film interprets Chinese classical aesthetic traditions and emotional concepts to a new level from another, more modern and brand new angle.

  From the perspective of film language, whether it is photography, stage art, motion design, recording, music and other audio-visual elements, they also fully reflect the director’s deep style and praise and love for Chinese classical culture.

  Thomas can't imagine that a twenty-four-year-old director can make a movie so perfect.

  Watching the entire film, Thomas sat in his seat and was silent for a long time, and then did something that surprised him. Buy a ticket and watch another one. And to his surprise, the tickets for the next game were sold out.

   was on fire. Three days after "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was released in North America, the bottom test was on fire. The statistics on the box office directly made Paramount's people dumbfounded.

  Increase publicity and increase the number of theaters.

  The number of theaters has more than doubled from the previous 1,000, and has won more than 2,000. This number is absolutely unmatched by any Chinese-language movie.

  And this film not only caused a sensation in North America, but also caused a sensation in Europe and other regions after it was released. A Chinese classical martial arts style is slowly brewing in the world film world.

  Chinese-language films have gained popularity abroad, not only won the jury award at the Cannes Film Festival, but also caused a sensation at the box office. This broke everyone's cognition. For a while, Chinese-language movies have become so awesome.

  It is not once or twice that Chinese-language films win awards in Cannes. Although there is some confusion as to why Zhang Le, a director who is good at shooting commercial films, can win awards in Cannes, because those who win awards in Cannes have almost nothing at the box office.

  However, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is so popular at the foreign box office that countless people feel unbelievable, just like a dream. No one thought that a film that won an award in Cannes would be so popular in North America at the box office. To put it in a sentence on the Internet, that is: this thing is unscientific!

  Chinese-language movies have gained popularity abroad, which undoubtedly satisfies the self-esteem of Chinese people. It's not just your Hollywood movies that can plunder in China. My Chinese-language movies can also be rampant in your North American market.

  And a week later, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" almost miraculously won the weekly box office championship. There was an uproar abroad, but the domestic people lost their voice, especially the people in the movie circle.

  Won the award at the most noted art film festival, and also win the box office champion of the week in the commercial North American market. How did Zhang Le do it?

  The Chinese-language movie has won a weekly box office championship in North America for an unprecedented rate, and it is still a movie with a strong oriental flavor. How can a classic martial arts film do it?

  If it is a modern action movie, everyone may not be so surprised, but a classic martial arts movie, so that foreign film and television companies are a little bit certain of the North American market.

  Domestic film and television companies have not studied the North American film market. In order to cater to the North American market, they have also shot countless films that please North American movie fans, and even cheekily imitated them, but almost all of them have suffered box office fiascos.

  Martial arts film, this type of film that is becoming more and more difficult to shoot in China, was actually shot by Zhang Le, a new director who has only filmed two films, and used it to make a splash in North America.

  Many filmmakers feel a faint pain in their heads. It is not caused by envy, jealousy and hatred, but because they don’t understand. why is that?

  "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has a double harvest at the international box office and word of mouth, and the expectations of domestic fans for this film have reached a commanding height.

  This film must be unique in its combination of art and commerce, otherwise it won’t win the highly artistic Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize, and it will also win the weekly box office champion in North America.

  Therefore, the public expects this film, even countless filmmakers are expecting it.

Eight days after    was released in North America, it was released in China on July 2.

  But what worried Zhang Le did not happen. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is far more popular at the domestic box office than abroad, and its reputation is also excellent. Although many fans said that they did not understand it and were not as enjoyable as they thought, they still regarded this film as a classic.

  Thinking about Zhang Le and then it became clear.

  Previous life "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" had a pitiful low domestic box office, and the reason was not the problem of the film itself.

Because one of the production units had a conflict between another film and the distribution unit in charge, the film was suddenly postponed at the last moment before it appeared on the screen. This postponement was a full 3 months and missed the film’s release. Good schedule. This just provided a good opportunity for illegal pirates to take advantage of it. For a while, pirated VCDs flooded the market. To a large extent, it impacted the film's subsequent release, causing a huge loss in box office revenue.

  Times, piracy, and there are many disputes on copyright, which led to the extremely low domestic box office of the film. If it were not for these reasons, the domestic box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" would not be less than 20 million.

   Obviously, there is no such problem now. Although there are still piracy in China, it is not as rampant as the previous life. And the timing of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is very good in the release schedule. When it was released in China, the expectations of domestic movie fans for this film were just high.

  What’s more, Zhang Le’s version of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has one more honor of the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize and won the weekly box office championship in North America. This kind of honor has been able to attract countless people to the cinema.

  Furthermore, the box office appeal of the film’s director starring is very strong.