How bad was Jiang Wen's filming?
To put it simply.
Hong Kong had the Sunglasses King, while the mainland had Jiang Wen.
The biggest feature of these two filming was just one word.
Compensate!
Almost everyone who studied directing knew their names.
However, the market did not mean that people would definitely look for you to film just because you were famous.
Although these two were quite famous in the film industry, to be honest, if they were really filming, not many people would dare to invest in them.
The reason was simple. They were afraid of losing money.
Jiang Wen and the King of Sunglasses were known as the two peaks of the Hong Kong and mainland film circles that lost money. They clearly used their historical records to tell everyone a truth: We're serious about losing money!
Of course.
These two guys 'movies could at least win awards.
The reputation was good, but the box office was not high.
However, word of mouth was very flexible, and it was very common to be praised but not popular.
A movie with a total of ten people watching it, even if it scored ten points and had a good reputation, what was the use?
Jiang Wen was the most obvious example.
Before shooting Let the Bullets Fly, the movies that this guy had made were almost losing money.
Otherwise, it would be banned and couldn't be screened.
It was only because he had a deep network in the industry and was also an actor at the level of the Best Actor that he was struggling to support himself.
But even so.
When Jiang Wen was filming " Let the Bullets Fly," he had compromised with the market.
He had no choice.
No matter how much he pursued art, he had to consider a realistic problem.
What was art?
Skills are your skills, while skills are your eating skills.
If an artist couldn't support himself, he wouldn't be an artist. He would be a hooligan!
He could continue to be happy for his ideals, but the investors would not give him that opportunity.
This was actually the same principle as when the King of Sunglasses started to dabble in some commercial films in his later life.
To put it bluntly.
He had to return to reality.
………………
On the grassland.
Although Chu Sheng had publicly ridiculed Jiang Wen, whether it was Little Chef Huang and the others or the audience in the live broadcast room, they all felt that what he said made sense.
Because Jiang Wen was indeed such a person!
When he was filming, he was actually enjoying himself.
As the saying goes, loneliness is a person's revelry, and revelry is the loneliness of a group of people.
For directors like Jiang Wen and the King of Sunglasses, if their movies were to express something that resonated with what the audience needed to see, they would be " Let the Bullets Fly " or " The Grandmaster."
If there was no resonance.
They were " Evil Will Not Suppress Good " and " Eastern Evil and Western Poison ".
"Teacher Chu, are you saying that you invested in Director Jiang Wen's movie?”
Teacher He looked at Chu Sheng and asked in surprise.
Chu Sheng nodded and smiled bitterly."At that time, I was young and ignorant. I met that fellow, Jiang Wen, and we became friends regardless of our age. After that, he always tricked me into investing money in him. Sigh, after investing for so many years, I seem to have only earned once.”
"Hahahaha!"
Everyone laughed.
As celebrities in the entertainment industry, they naturally understood what Chu Sheng meant.
Just like he said, Jiang Wen's movies had been losing money all this time. It seemed that only Let the Bullets Fly had made the investors money.
For others, that might be a good thing.
But to Chu Sheng, it was meaningless.
The money he earned from Let the Bullets Fly paled in comparison to the money he had lost over the years.
Inexplicably, everyone felt that Chu Sheng was Jiang Wen's friend who had been tricked by him. Finally, one day, he stopped. Chu Sheng was still a little unused to it.
"Haha, but seriously."
Chu Sheng smiled and said calmly,""Although Old Jiang is very arrogant, his movies are actually quite good. As for whether they can get the approval of the market, there's nothing we can do about it.”
Hearing Chu Sheng's words, Little Chef Huang and the others nodded.
As actors, they could understand Chu Sheng's words very well.
As the saying goes, existence makes sense.
No matter what kind of work it was, it had its own market.
He couldn't deny the meaning of this work just because he didn't like it. That would be a little too much.
To put it bluntly,
In this industry, the good and the bad were mixed, and the goal was to strive for perfection. However, as long as there was an audience for any work, there was no way to not allow them to exist.
Moreover, it was a movie with artistic pursuits.
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