Chapter 357 Settlement of Accounts!

“Bang!”

Zhang Weipin threw the newspaper on the desk again.

“When it comes to marketing, Lu Ping’an is the best!”

Zhang Weipin was speechless.

He had never expected that things would turn out like this.

Not only him, but even Lu Ping’an himself had never expected this.

The original promotion plan for “The Bucket List” was to create a “list” craze at most, and use the Internet to drive the viewing mood.

This is based on the comparison between “The Bucket List” and “Curse of the Golden Flower”.

In Lu Ping’an’s view, this time he used “The Bucket List” to benchmark “Curse of the Golden Flower”, and he was not completely sure that he could crush “Curse of the Golden Flower” at the box office, after all, the gimmick of this movie was indeed very high.

If it was like “House of Flying Daggers”, “The Bucket List” would kill it without any other marketing.

So the biggest goal he set at the beginning was box office victory, followed by a complete victory in word of mouth, and then using word of mouth to contrast Lao Mouzi.

Aim for the best and get the middle.

After all, this is just a matter of the film industry.

Unexpectedly, Lin Xiaohui suddenly appeared in the middle.

Then things got out of control and began to develop in the social field.

During this period, Lu Ping'an had already considered the "change of taste".

So he contacted Lin's father's old unit early.

And Lin's father was indeed very helpful. His last wish list was indeed "high-end" wishes such as tomb sweeping, which made the old unit directly agree to cooperate and help.

So the matter ended well.

In this regard, Lu Ping'an felt lucky and was actually thinking about something.

As a director, he has achieved this point. This is the first time that his work has such a social response.

This is not a good thing, because movies are movies. If they are mixed with too many other things, they will change.

But this is also a good thing, because from the director's own point of view, he can use his work to promote some good aspects of society, which is also a great achievement.

It's just that Lu Ping'an has no time to think about the deep understanding of this issue for the time being.

Now, he just wants to settle the account!

Zhang Weipin has been jumping around for so long. Now that the winner has been decided, it's time to settle the accounts!

Lu Pingan called Wu Guohua directly: "You can start!"

"Understood!"

Can he be killed?

As long as Zhang Weipin and Lao Mouzi have not completely broken up, he can basically be killed.

Lao Mouzi will not sit idly by and will definitely help.

So this time, at most he can only suffer a big loss, unless he really goes too far in some places and even Lao Mouzi can't save him.

But Lu Pingan thinks it's unlikely.

So after hanging up the phone, he continued filming and stopped caring about domestic affairs.

In China, the public opinion in the film industry has begun to change again.

The protagonist of this criticism has become "The Golden Armor".

Since the release of this movie, there have been many criticisms, but basically they only stay on the movie itself.

It's not well shot, the plot is bad, the lines are not good, etc.

Everyone scolds, but the scope is controllable, and it doesn't hurt Zhang Weipin.

But now it's different.

Now that The Bucket List has had a great impact on society, Curse of the Golden Flower will naturally be criticized.

And the most talked-about point this time is actually the super unscrupulous marketing method of Curse of the Golden Flower.

Earlier, when Jia Zhangke was promoting Curse of the Golden Flower at Peking University, he raised an issue.

"I want to see whether people nowadays want to watch more good people or Curse of the Golden Flower."

At that time, Good Man of Three Gorges and Curse of the Golden Flower were released at the same time. When such a topic was raised, the society would naturally smell the smell and look at it.

Now the answer is obvious, gold is obviously more attractive than good people.

It's just that for the vested interests, it's enough to just watch this result, and they can't say it directly, let alone use it.

But Zhang Weipin of New Picture didn't act like a human being at all this time.

He actually used such a vulgar and unscrupulous method of "Watching Curse of the Golden Flower will bring you wealth, and watching The Bucket List will bring you bad luck" to openly market the movie.

He openly used "gold" to promote money worship and superstition in society.

He has no shame at all!

At that time, the social impact of "The Bucket List" was not that big, it was just a good movie.

Now "The Bucket List" has set off a "list fever" at the social level, and set off a high-level thinking about "death and life" at the social level.

Now let's look back at Zhang Weipin's actions.

This directly made Zhang Weipin's personal reputation fall to the bottom again.

Not only is he vulgar himself, but he also made Lao Mouzi vulgar.

Now everyone knows that Lao Mouzi made a movie about Huang Jin and Naizi.

Jia Zhangke even directly mocked: Lao Mouzi has been ruined by Zhang Weipin!

Jia Zhangke naturally can't stand Zhang Weipin, and few people in the entertainment industry can stand this guy.

At the same time, the theater chain of Lu Ping'an also gave "Still Life" a lot of screenings. Although the effect is not very good, Jia Zhangke naturally has to return the favor.

So he scolded Zhang Weipin fiercely.

"This guy doesn't understand movies at all, and has no respect for movies at all. Zhang Yimou was blind to work with him until now."

As soon as the news came out, other people quickly stood up to support him.

They said that Zhang Weipin only knows how to promote movies, and that he interferes too much with movies, etc.

This time Lu Ping An won in a magical way, so naturally everyone wanted to come and push him down.

Of course, everyone should hold back on criticizing Lao Mouzi. After all, he is now one of the Olympic directors, and he has a good past, so he should be careful.

Zhang Weipin also saw this point.

He knew very well that Lao Mouzi was his amulet and cash cow.

It didn't matter if he was scolded, as long as he protected Lao Mouzi, he could break everything.

So in China, these people scolded him, just like tickling him, which was not a big deal for him.

Anyway, Lao Mouzi was in his hands now, and he still had the evidence against him, so it was almost impossible for the two to be separated.

In terms of interests, "Curse of the Golden Flower" and the first two blockbusters were scolded, but they did make money.

Making money is better than anything else.

So it's useless for you to scold Lao Mouzi.

If you have the ability, go and scold Lao Mouzi.

As a result, you dare not scold too much, you are tired of looking back and forth!

So he didn't care about the criticism from the outside world, but instead promoted "Curse of the Golden Flower" more vigorously.

"Curse of the Golden Flower" can't beat "The Bucket List" in domestic box office now, this is a fact, but we still have foreign box office.

Although "The Bucket List" has good box office in both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Southeast Asia.

But can you go to North America?

Don't tell me that the copyright has been sold and a North American version will be made in the future.

This is completely different from Chinese films landing in North America!

Who can promote Chinese culture and tell Chinese stories better than Lao Mouzi now?

Only Lao Mouzi!

And your Lu Ping An will only be adapted by others, the two are one level apart!

In addition, who holds the North American Chinese film box office record?

It's still Lao Mouzi.

This time "Curse of the Golden Flower" may break the record.

After all, foreigners like this.

Zhang Weipin is full of confidence and raised his hand to start the next soft text marketing.

Then, the assistant reported: "Oscar nominations are out!"

"Really? Has our "Curse of the Golden Flower" been nominated?"

"It wasn't nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, but there was one other nomination, Best Costume Design."

Zhang Weipin was a little confused. He submitted the Best Foreign Language Film, but was nominated for Costume Design?

But at least there was one nomination, which was good.

But he seemed to remember something and asked: "What about "1937"?"

"Eleven nominations."

"What!"

Zhang Weipin's eyes widened. Before he could think about it, a man in uniform came to the company.

"We are from the tax bureau."