There was only one new year movie in the 1998 Spring Festival, which was Feng Pants 'Party A and Party B.
There were too few of them!
In fact, after ten or twenty years of summary, the Spring Festival market was enough to accommodate four blockbusters with a box office of more than three billion yuan and six to eight popular movies with a box office of about one billion yuan.
The total box office earnings for the entire Spring Festival episode were as high as 20 to 30 billion yuan.
This was because people would not only watch one movie. The entire Chinese New Year holiday was 7 to 15 days long. Other than playing cards and drinking, what else could they do?
Watching a movie had become the best family reunion event.
It was also an important way to socialize during the Spring Festival…
Of course, the 20 to 30 billion yuan market was obtained twenty years later when all the major cinemas had matured and there were tens of thousands of large screens in the country.
It was the Spring Festival of 1998, and the market had just begun to open up. Naturally, there would not be so many.
However, a movie of 'Party A and Party B' was indeed too little.
There was a " scale effect " in business. On a commercial street, if there were only one or two restaurants, not only would they not be able to occupy the entire flow of people, but their business would also be relatively bleak.
On the contrary.
If dozens of restaurants were gathered together to form a restaurant street, it would create a group effect. When people wanted to eat, they would think of this place first.
The business became even more prosperous.
It was the same for movies.
This was because a movie only lasted for two hours. It was far from enough to fill the entire schedule.
Under such circumstances.
Ian would also enter this market. Not only would it not form a fierce competition with 'Party A, Party B' and compete with each other for the box office, but it would also increase people's enthusiasm for watching the movie and open up a better market.
Both families had meat to eat!
Because there was too much meat, there was no way to snatch it.
Of course, who could win the box office champion would depend on the quality of their respective films.
However, if there were two movies in the market and one of them was a hit, not only would it not affect the box office of the second movie, but it would also increase the box office of the second movie.
Because…
There were too few movies. If there were only two movies, some of the audience who watched the first movie would naturally choose to watch the second one.
……
Spring Festival!
Ian drew an important line under the lyrics.
It was now mid-September. If they started preparations immediately, they could start filming at the end of October and finish filming at the beginning of January. They could be released on the first day of the first month.
There was more than enough time!
However…
What movie should he make?
Ian stopped writing and pondered again.
It was not that there were too few choices, but that there were too many!
The movies that cost three to four billion yuan in the future were all stored in Ian's head. With his super memory, Ian could remember every detail of the movies.
But it was still the same problem.
Times were different!
First of all, he had to eliminate those special effects blockbusters from 20 years later. He could forget about making a movie like " The Wandering Earth ". The technical level was simply not up to par.
To put it bluntly, the special effects of movies these days were even worse than the so-called 50-cent special effects of the later generations.
Any movie that used special effects could not be selected.
Secondly.
It was the cognitive and cultural differences brought about by the times.
There was a high chance that a movie from 20 years later would not be able to adapt to the environment. Many moviegoers would not be able to understand it at all. For example, could movies like Detective Chinatown, The Richest Tomato, and Crazy Alien be aired now?
No!
There was a 99% chance that he would fail.
It was too advanced.
Ian had a headache.
There were tens of thousands of classic movies, but it was not easy to choose a movie that could adapt to the environment of 1997.
"It's safer to go the route of an inspirational and warm drama.”
Ian didn't hesitate for long and had a rough idea of the direction.
The warmth was just right for the atmosphere of the Spring Festival.
Inspirational was in line with the times.
In the future, feature films might not be so popular, but the movie market in 1997 had not been destroyed by the fast-paced Hollywood special effects blockbusters. Instead, the audience preferred slow-paced feature films.
Compared to visual effects, the audience in this era was more likely to immerse themselves in the story and feel the joys and sorrows of the characters in the movie...
Ian picked up his pen again and wrote a title: "When Happiness Knocks on the Door."
This was a masterpiece that was ranked among the top 100 classic movies in the world. It was shot in 2006, not too far from 1997, so it was quite suitable for the times.
The film was about a father and son who depended on each other to create a happy life in adversity.
In 1981, the protagonist of the film, Will Smith, was a medical device salesman, but because of the economic crisis, his life encountered unprecedented difficulties.
This was because the protagonist was promoting a bone density scanner, and hospitals and hospitals were not interested in this product because it was twice as expensive as an X-ray scanner!
His wife left him and his five-year-old son without saying goodbye.
The father and son's predicament had just begun.
Because they had no money to pay rent, the father and son were kicked out of the house by the landlord and lived on the streets. They slept in trash cans, under bridges, in alleys...
Sometimes, in order to get a bed in the relief center, they had to queue up before 5 pm!
Once they were in the queue, they could spend the night peacefully.
However, if they couldn't make it, they could only continue to wander the streets.
It was in this desperate situation that the protagonist, as his father, ignited a greater fighting spirit. He was determined to change his profession and become a stock broker.
He only had a high school education. In order to pass the National Security Qualification Examination, even college students from Ivy League universities who majored in finance and broking might not be able to pass the qualification of a security broker in the 1980s and 1990s.
However, the protagonist took care of his son, worked part-time jobs to make a living, and studied hard. He gritted his teeth and put the pressure and suffering of life on his shoulders. He worked hard and went against the current...
Ian replayed the plot of The Pursuit of Happiness in his mind and realized that it was a stroke of genius to use it now.
Because…
Although the story took place in America in 1981, the social background was similar to that of China in 1997. In 1997, China was facing the pain of the restructuring of state-owned enterprises. A large number of workers were forced to leave the factory and make a living on their own.
The difficulties he faced in life were very similar to the protagonist in the movie…
This meant empathy!
With such a similar social background, once " The Pursuit of Happiness " was adapted into a domestic setting, the melody was full of warmth and motivation. It was both moving and inspiring.
The world's top 100 classic movies, ranked 17th as a god-like movie, how could it be undeserved?
Such a movie would definitely be a hit during the 1998 Spring Festival!
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