Chapter 302

Leighton is outspoken: "Memoirs of a geisha is like a Geisha: under its beautiful and exquisite appearance, what hides is just a mediocre heart. In fact, tear off its gorgeous coat, Memoirs of a Geisha" There is only a pile of artificial oriental flavor left. It is completely fabricated by Hollywood methods. This alone may offend countless Asian audiences and many oriental culture fans in the United States. However, what is more illustrative is that its compromise on business is just right, and it has become a qualified film. "

The Memoirs of a Geisha, although it only began to warm up in eight theaters in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, set the highest box office record for a single theater this year. When it was released on Wednesday, it had earned US $670000, which is quite good for the Chong Olympic award works.

At the same time, the film critics in the United States also rated the film quite well. The well-known publication film review rated the Memoirs of a Geisha as B and thought that the film had enough charm to attract the audience, which was not inferior to any Roman story in the 20th century.

Rolling Stone magazine also gave a three-star evaluation on the basis of a full score of four stars, praising the film for showing a gorgeous Oriental feast.

The Hollywood report rated B- as "art". Although it has lost the essence of its original work, the film is worthy of respect, and the performance of the actors is excellent, showing the characteristics of each character acutely. The magazine especially thinks that the performance of the * * * has captured the contradiction of the role, from shyness to suspicion to contempt until strong. The perfect combination of these characteristics in a role is unforgettable.

Of course, they have not yet found the displeasure of the Japanese and the resistance of the Chinese.

"Memoirs of a Geisha" has received a mediocre response since its release in Japan. In the latest box office ranking, the performance of "Yi" in the first week is less than the top three. It is only ranked in the top three. This is a certain misunderstanding, "Remember, geisha are neither prostitutes nor other people's wives. We sell art, but we don't sell ourselves. We create a mysterious world. Everything is beautiful. Geisha is an artist and geisha is like a living art."

Geisha are by no means prostitutes. In Japan, the social status of geisha is not low, because most of them are clean, and their skills are good. People love geisha and learn to make friends with geisha. Geisha is a part of Japanese traditional culture and the "quintessence" of Japan. At that time, two women were also geisha from Memoirs of geisha Kuriko Iwasaki, the prototype of small lily, is one of the most famous geisha. American President Ford and British Queen Elizabeth were her guests. You can imagine the status of geisha. If a Geisha was only a prostitute, would there be such treatment?

"Geisha returns to the hundred million records" Since its preparation for shooting, there have been doubts and objections from many aspects. First, there are voices from Japan. They don't understand why they hired three Chinese actors to play Japanese Geisha. Aren't the Japanese themselves more suitable for their own culture? On the other hand, there are also objections from China, and false revelations about the demonization of Zhang Ziyi spread on the Internet It is even more shocking that this is not an extreme act of national complex.

In Modern Japan, geisha is a kind of cultural heritage, and the general Japanese people have high respect for geisha. Therefore, as a Japanese actor, they are not willing to trade rashly when they are not sure whether they can grasp the essence of geisha If the performance on the big screen is not good, it will be hacked out by its own people.

Secondly, for Japanese people, it is very difficult for them to play English films. The main problem is the language. Most of their English pronunciation is really not flattering. For films with large sections of English dialogue, they still hope to invite someone with slightly better English to shoot them. Secondly, their understanding of geisha. Well, foreigners' understanding of a certain culture of love for China and Chinese people's understanding of this culture The understanding of culture is very different. The Japanese don't recognize the American view of Geisha, or they don't want to mention it. Then, the three starring Chinese women are oriental faces (foreigners really can't tell the Oriental) Then, without personal and national views on Geisha, the pressure of role description, and the rare opportunity to make films in Hollywood, of course, it will not be let go easily.

In short, it's Japanese culture to play down. If you play well, it's the highlight of your acting career. It's the same reason that East Asians play each other's national roles in Hollywood.

From the producer's point of view, they obtain roles through audition, and those who are more famous and influential are the first choice. In their eyes, Asians are not very different. If they spend tens of millions on a film just for the sake of black Chinese and disgusting Japanese, it's too funny. This is that the investment is not proportional to the income, which is also too insulting to people's IQ.

In the past, sonny Columbia was a Japanese enterprise. He wanted to black China, but it was impossible to use Geisha, the traditional quintessence of China, to sell it. It was more for the name of profit. Now mark, as a Chinese, considered this issue from the perspective of interests. For every dollar invested, he had to ensure that he had an income of two dollars.

In the competition of the award season, money is not everything, but it is absolutely impossible without money. He can be sure that without continuous capital investment, the five nominations of Capote and the six nominations of Memoirs of a Geisha will not come as promised.

The amount of investment determines the amount of profit. In fact, in the chong'ao demonstration like a textbook, the Weinstein brothers operate all this as a profitable media show. In the process of operating the film chong'ao, they have achieved the role of publicizing the film. The final nomination and award are icing on the cake. Winning with awards and making money without awards are fine, The premise of all this is to choose some films suitable for college taste for investment and operation.

Leighton and Pascal bet their treasure on Capote and memoirs of Geisha, which shows that their vision is good.

Columbia film, as an old giant, needs to revive itself in all aspects. In this annual award season, if the Spring Festival Gala in the entertainment circle is absent, it will not be a sign.

Mixed entertainment circles play the eyeball economy. Whoever has a popular star, who sells movies, and who is in the limelight, they will earn traffic, and their shares will be sought after by the capital market and can borrow more funds.

Like now, with the introduction of a series of strong and effective measures by mm executives, Colombia has entered a stable transition period, their films have sold well again, began to be favored by the capital market, and the stock price began to rise all the way.

Mark and his colleagues managed several major film companies and learned from the practice of News Corporation. They gave high salaries and equity incentives to the head of the film company, signed a long-term contract and defined the authority. Several bosses are members of the joint meeting of the board of directors, which can ensure that the company can be in a long-term stable state.

The long-term stability of fox in the 20th century is related to the few internal battles between the top management and the smooth transition. Murdoch is both a media tycoon and an excellent manager.

Mark expressed support for Leighton and Pascal and agreed to increase investment to make a difference in the award season. However, he still thought it was not appropriate to be arbitrary. He mentioned the matter to the board meeting and discussed it with egger, Megan and David.

It's said that he is fully responsible for the review and approval of film projects. It's not good to stretch out his hand beyond the boundary.

Hollywood seems to have two worlds. On the front stage are blockbusters such as Harry Potter and stars such as Angelina Jolie Tom. Behind the scenes are film tycoons who are in power and control everything. These guys who like to maintain a little mystery not only decide which films to make, but also point out the direction for the future of the film industry.

Hollywood in the past 30 years has been very different from the golden age. The chairman and President of major studios are still important film tycoons, such as Robert Dali and Terry Semir, who have been in charge of Warner Brothers for nearly 20 years, Michael Eisner and Jeffrey casenberg of Disney, Stanley Jaffe and Shirley Lansing of paramount, They are strong people with innovative spirit and can leave a name in film history, but they are no longer the owners of large studios managed by themselves, but highly paid employees. More film companies like to manage the company with strong professional managers.