"Isn't it a bit inappropriate to talk about Africa on this stage?"
In the face of the host's question, Fang Qiu looked at the main crew on the side and Director Chen Xiaogang, who was sitting next to him, a little embarrassed.
"It's okay. Just say it."
Director Chen Xiaogang laughed heartily.
In fact.
Before the premiere, Director Chen Xiaogang had a general idea of the various processes and Q&A scripts, so he was not surprised that the host would ask this question. Instead, he was quite happy.
After all, the hottest topic on the Internet was that Fang Qiu had gone to Africa to treat malaria. This topic seemed to have nothing to do with the movie, but it was likely to create a topic that could attract more people at the premiere. All kinds of film critics and reporters could use this question to do things. At that time, he could use such a simple question to attract everyone's attention, so that more people could pay attention to the movie itself.
To put it bluntly, this was a deliberately created publicity point.
Here.
With the director's permission, Fang Qiu didn't dare to say anything. He directly picked up the microphone and told the whole story of Africa.
Everyone listened quietly to the end.
Of course, because this was purely for the sake of creating a publicity point, everyone just nodded in understanding of Fang Qiu's story. After talking for a while, they returned to the main track.
"Everyone knows that this is the first time in your life to star in a movie, and it's a movie directed by Director Chen Xiaogang. In addition, you are so popular now. Why don't you predict the box office of our movie 'Yang Yizhi'?"
The host continued to hold Fang Qiu tightly, with no intention of letting him go.
Hearing this.
Fang Qiu was suddenly confused.
He had never considered this problem before.
Moreover, if he said too much, people would say that he was too arrogant. If he said too little, he would look down on Director Chen Xiaogang. How should he answer this question?
While he was hesitating.
Fang Qiu turned his head to look at everyone, hoping to get some hints.
But in the end, everyone looked at him with a smile.
This time, Fang Qiu completely held back.
"Why are you looking at me? I don't understand."
Fang Qiu was helpless.
But over there, the host, all the media reporters, and special fans were waiting for his answer.
He couldn't let the premiere continue in such an embarrassing way.
"Hiss …"
Fang Qiu took a deep breath and thought about it.
The 24-hour pre-sales had already taken first place, with a minimum box office of 200 million yuan. Such an amazing pre-sales result had never been seen before. Since the pre-sales were so amazing, the total box office of the movie should be at least several times higher, right?
Five times? One billion?
Thinking of this, Fang Qiu immediately denied.
Since he was going to say something, he had to say something big to prove his confidence and encourage everyone. Even if he couldn't achieve his goal in the end, he would at least be slapped in the face.
Since he had already slapped so many people's faces, it was time for him to be slapped in the face once.
With that thought in mind.
"How about this."
Fang Qiu opened his mouth and said, "I'm just cheering for everyone and myself. Speak louder."
Everyone smiled and nodded. They were all looking forward to seeing how big the so-called "big" was.
"Two billion."
In everyone's expectation, Fang Qiu said.
Hearing this.
Everyone in the audience gasped in shock!
Two billion?
Are you kidding me?
How many people did he have to get to watch it to achieve such a box office?
Moreover.
As a famous director, the highest box office of Director Chen Xiaogang's film was only 500 million yuan. Considering the development of the film industry in recent years, which led to a rapid rise in the box office, it was already very good to have one billion yuan in the end.
How dare he say two billion yuan? He was too bold, wasn't he?
Not to mention the main crew.
Even Director Chen Xiaogang, who was sitting next to Fang Qiu, was completely speechless when he heard this number.
"You really have confidence in me."
Director Chen Xiaogang said with a wry smile.
Hearing this.
Looking at the expressions of the main crew, Fang Qiu was stunned again.
What was going on?
Why did everyone react like this?
Then he turned his head to look.
The film critics and media reporters sitting in the audience were all quickly taking notes in their notebooks. It was obvious that they were remembering what he had just said.
On the stage.
"Two billion yuan?"
The host was also shocked after hearing this, and then immediately said with a smile, "It seems that the quality of our movie is very high. Fang Qiu is so confident. What about Director Chen? Is he confident?"
Fang Qiu quickly handed the microphone to Director Chen Xiaogang, with no intention of continuing to answer.
Seeing this.
Director Chen Xiaogang shook his head with a smile and took the microphone. He could only follow Fang Qiu's words and continued, "I unconditionally believe in all the members of our main crew and the audience."
"Okay, thank you, Director Chen."
The host stood up and applauded.
Then, after the host continued to ask some questions about the shooting of the movie, the Q&A session finally ended.
He got off the stage.
Fang Qiu sat in the middle of the first row again.
"Boy, you really dare to say that."
Director Chen Xiaogang said to Fang Qiu with a wry smile.
"Did I say less?"
Fang Qiu asked with a puzzled look.
"My highest prediction is 1.5 billion yuan."
Director Chen Xiaogang whispered in Fang Qiu's ear.
Hearing this number, Fang Qiu was suddenly stunned.
He knew that he was bragging.
But.
He had no choice.
Before this, he didn't pay attention to the box office at all, so he had no idea about the prediction of the box office. Who knew that the final prediction would be like this?
"But it's okay. At least you said something to make it up. It's not blind confidence."
Director Chen comforted him.
Fang Qiu smiled bitterly.
If he had known earlier, he should have come earlier. If he had known these problems earlier, he could have prepared earlier and dealt with them earlier.
Now, he had already said it, so he could only admit it.
"Next, it's the movie premiere."
After the main crew stepped off the stage, the host said, "Before the premiere officially begins, everyone has three minutes to prepare."
After that, he stepped off the stage.
Under the stage.
The media reporters, film critics, fans, and stars who had been sitting for a long time all got up and rushed to the bathroom.
This was the premiere. It was very disgraceful to leave the venue during the screening to go to the bathroom. No matter whether the movie was good or not, since they came to participate, they must watch until the end.
Therefore, everyone rushed to the bathroom.
Of course, the toilet used by stars and the main crew was different from the toilet used by others.
Three minutes later.
Everything was ready. The lights in the theater dimmed and the big screen immediately began to play.
At this moment, everyone in the theater was like an ordinary audience, staring at the screen, looking forward to the plot of this movie.
The opening.
It was different from the ordinary martial arts movies.
Instead, it was like a military movie. As soon as it came out, thousands of troops and horses were arranged in formation, standing in front of the magnificent city gate. Then the sound of horses and spears suddenly sounded, and some words began to appear on the big screen.
"After Zhu Yuanzhang killed Chen Youliang, in October of the 25th year of Zhizheng (1365), he attacked Zhang Shicheng. With a powerful force, he conquered Tongzhou, Xinghua, Yancheng, Taizhou, Gaoyou, Huaian, Suzhou, and Anfeng, and drove the forces of Wu out of the Jiangbei area!"
The scene changed.
Chaos of war could be seen everywhere. Ordinary people were hiding and escaping in the chaos of war.
"In May of the 26th year of Zhizheng (1366), Zhu Yuanzhang issued a declaration denouncing Zhang Shicheng; in November of the same year, Hangzhou and Huzhou surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang one after another, and Pingjiang became an isolated city."
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The text analysis ended.
The scene on the big screen changed from the chaos of war to green mountains and clear waters, as if the previous golden spears and horses were all a joke.
Looking carefully, in front of the distant mountains and water.
A middle-aged man dressed in ordinary attire was standing in front of an incomparably clear lake, admiring the beautiful scenery of the mountains and rivers.
Beside him.
Many people in ordinary clothes were guarding on the side.
One person stepped forward.
The middle-aged man turned his head. It was Zhu Yuanzhang, played by Teacher Li Baoguo!
It had to be said.
Teacher Li Baoguo matched the character Zhu Yuanzhang quite well in terms of temperament, age, and appearance.
That kind of feeling of power without anger could only be seen in the emperor.
"Teacher Li Baoguo is really suitable to play this role."
"The key is still the acting skills. Teacher Li Baoguo overlaps perfectly with this role. Coupled with his veteran acting skills, he directly brought this role to life as soon as he showed up."
…
Everyone was whispering.
Of course, those who talked the most were the film critics.
For them.
Every detail of the whole movie was the point they wanted to pursue.
The stars who came to support didn't feel any pressure. They just watched the movie, and the comments and so on had nothing to do with them. The members of the main creative team were very nervous.
They were afraid of being criticized by the film critics and the media. Several of them kept turning their heads to look at the film critics and media reporters, wanting to see what they thought of the movie.
Sitting in the middle of the first row, Director Chen Xiaogang was also very nervous.
However, compared to the others, he was also a little proud in his heart, because he had already seen the complete version of the movie before, so he had a very high rating for this movie in his heart, at least a little higher than the other movies he had filmed.
Therefore, he felt that this movie would definitely be well received. But no matter how confident he was, it was inevitable that he was nervous. After all, everyone's taste was different. The movie he liked might not be liked by the media reporters and film critics.
Watching carefully.
In the whole main creative team, the most relaxed were Fang Qiu and Li Baoguo, who were sitting on both sides of Director Chen.
Although the two of them were also here to watch the quality of the movie, the quality of the movie had nothing to do with them. Anyway, the two of them were very famous. Even if they messed up, there would still be a lot of opportunities in the future. Hence, the two of them were very serious.
Only when they were really immersed in it could they see the shortcomings of this movie from the perspective of an ordinary audience.
On the big screen.
The movie was still playing.
After a rather profound conversation, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was standing by the lake enjoying the beautiful scenery, couldn't help but open his mouth to recite a poem.
But at this moment.
"Whoosh."
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