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Chapter 375 "Kung Fu Panda 2"

In May and June of this year, the domestic market was really smashed by Hollywood.

"A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Guan Yunchang" are simply unstoppable.

The earliest release of "Thor" made 9000 million box office.

"Fast and Furious 5" 2.5 million, "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" as of May 5, the mainland received 31 million, and the daily growth is still gratifying, and it is heading towards 3 million.

Panda Abao received 5400 million on the first day on Saturday, 9 million in 3 days, and 4 million in two weeks.

The word of mouth of "Guan Yunchang" has been rotten. In the later stage, it was changed to Jiang Wen's publicity card. Zhen Zibao was too embarrassed to say that he was playing Guan Yu, and the final 1.5 million was dismal.

You know, the production and publicity cost of "Guan Yunchang" is as high as 2.5 million, and the salary of Zhen Bullet alone is 2000 million.

The achievement of 1.5 million can be said to be a loss.

The popularity of "Kung Fu Panda 2" has attracted the attention of the audience and the industry.

There has never been an animated film that has been so turbulent in the domestic market, so the audience has shouted: "Where is our animation film?"

"It is obviously a Chinese element, why can't we make it?"

It would be good if all the vigilance and criticism are like this, at least it will have a certain spur effect on domestic animation.

But the bad thing is that some people make use of it.

An artist surnamed Zhao wrote in newspapers and Weibo that he wanted to boycott "Kung Fu Panda 2": "The goal of my boycott of "Kung Fu Panda 2" is to alert people to cultural invasion and cut its box office! I swear, I will let "Kung Fu Panda 2" "The box office is halved! Give the studio a [-]% discount!"

This kind of statement was actually affirmed by a well-known professor at Peking University: "Hollywood took away Chinese symbols, and continues to conquer you with your symbols."

There is no need for Dreamworks or Cheng Yu'an, but anyone who has watched "Kung Fu Panda" knows that these two are sensationalizing.

Cheng Yu'an was still busy with the crew of "Alliance of Thieves" day and night, so he didn't pay attention to the controversy outside.

Assistant Xiao Zheng told him about it and asked him if he wanted to respond.

Cheng Yu'an didn't want to pay attention to this kind of thing.He resisted?Can he resist it?
But DreamWorks still wanted Cheng Yuan to say something. This artist surnamed Zhao had been on stage since the first part of "Kung Fu Panda" and said he would boycott it. Now he jumped out again. DreamWorks was afraid that he would affect the box office of "Kung Fu Panda 2".

So, Cheng Yu'an said a few words on Weibo:
"Movies, as mass media, of course allow anyone to express their opinions. Whether you like it or not, expressing opinions is your freedom."

"Recently, I heard that two teachers wanted to boycott "Kung Fu Panda". I thought that if you don't like this movie, you should not watch it if you don't watch it. Movie theaters are free to come and go."

"But after seeing the banner of "cultural invasion" raised by this teacher, I realized that some people are using the banner of nationalism to cover up their cultural inferiority."

"If you can't watch "Kung Fu Panda" and think it is a cultural invasion, then you should refuse to watch any movie. Because the movie itself is an imported product, if you take any domestic movie, I can tell the audiovisual language it uses In which Western movie did it appear first."

"Even the oil painting that this artist teacher is famous for is a 'cultural invasion' of the West."

"I always remember my teacher Professor Hou Keming taught me, he said, don't take yourself too seriously, you are just a filmmaker, don't think you are smarter than others. So I never express opinions on things other than movies , because I don't understand."

"This teacher may not know that the opening of the film market is one of the conditions for my country's accession to the WTO. In recent years, we have lost almost all the lawsuits in the WTO on the opening of the film market. The Sino-US film agreement is about to expire. Further opening up of the film market is the general trend. At this time, it is either stupid or bad to raise the banner of nationalism and demand a boycott of Hollywood."

Cheng Yu'an's external image has always been very positive, the image of Mr. Pianpian.

"Either stupid or bad" should be the most hated thing Cheng Yu'an can say in the eyes of the audience.

Cheng Yu'an's voice made the movie fans who had been supporting him all the time excited.

Then some movie fans dug out the bottom line of this artist.

Born in classical oil painting, he is well-known in the contemporary painting circle, but then turned to performance art.

Attempt to personally kidnap the image of the national treasure panda.

In 07, China International Fashion Week held a panda fashion show, using 33 sets of panda costumes to interpret many representative figures of Chinese society: migrant workers, ladies, star-chasers, beggars, mistresses, corrupt officials and so on.

It became famous for a while and was criticized for vulgarizing fashion shows.

In 09, the fashion show was moved to Paris by him.

As a result, it was sprayed as "traitorous and humiliating".

The Administration for Industry and Commerce also rejected his panda trademark application.

There is no such thing as 50. If netizens in later generations know about this situation, they will be scolded for 50.

Once the old bottom is exposed, it will be easy to handle:
"I asked him why he didn't boycott other movies, but only boycotted "Kung Fu Panda". It turns out that it's all about business."

"DreamWorks made the panda so well, and the film's spread is wider than his fashion show. Didn't DreamWorks and Cheng Dao clearly block the way of making money for him?" Some people were angry.

"Every time I encounter this kind of thing, I will think of the line in "Big Watch": 'Maverick, grandstanding.'"

"Others have made good things with kung fu and pandas. We should reflect and criticize ourselves, instead of burying our heads in the sand and turning a blind eye. We should catch up instead of shutting them out. This is the real truth. cultural confidence!"

The crowd was outraged, and the artist was afraid to speak out.

Because no matter what he says, fans will label him as "you are only in a hurry when others block your way of making money".

Because of this Internet scolding war, the results of "Kung Fu Panda 2" ushered in a climax. By mid-June, "Kung Fu Panda 2" broke 18 million in 4 days after its release, temporarily ranking as the annual champion for 11 years.

The runner-up is "Pirates of the Caribbean 4", which broke through 4 million box office together with it.

The girlfriend called and blamed Cheng Yuan: "Don't quarrel with people on the Internet." Liu Yifei is the kind of person who doesn't respond.

"I didn't quarrel with him, I didn't even swear." Cheng Yu'an still listened to his girlfriend in this regard, "Where are you? Why are you so noisy."

"I'm in the backstage of "Base Camp" and recorded "Those Years" today."

I only heard a voice from the other end of the phone: "Yifei, it's your turn."

"Hey, I'm here. Let me tell you something. The program team may connect with you later, so please talk about it."

Variety shows have scripts, don't believe any surprise connections, they are all notified in advance.

"Well, what questions will they ask me?"

"I don't know, you just say what you can say." Then I hung up the phone.

(End of this chapter)