The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 228 Box Office War
Although the promotional caliber of "Tang Detective" is a suspenseful comedy, most viewers have no concept of this label, and can only see comedy through the trailer.

For comedy movies, especially comedies starring Wang Baoqiang, everyone has fixed expectations for this type of comedy. Is it nothing more than a remake of "Tai囧"?Another road comedy?At most, add some elements of solving crimes.

But they got a suspenseful story above the serious level in "Tang Detective", and the comedy elements are not hindered. This is a pleasant movie-watching experience.

Sometimes a good movie-watching experience does not necessarily depend on how high the quality of the movie is. As long as the quality of the movie exceeds your expected movie-watching expectations, you can also get extraordinary fun.

Because DreamWorks has no intention of delaying the opening of the score, the Douban score of "Tang Detective" was released soon.

8.1 minutes

This score is a new low for a DreamWorks movie, but it's actually quite high.

Comedy movies have always been a relatively mainstream genre in China. With small and big golden themes, even if the quality is not very good, as long as you can make the audience laugh, you can get the box office. Whether it is market acceptance or box office ceiling, it generally surpasses other movies. Type, all schedules are his home games.

There is a gain and a loss, because comedy movies are more easily accepted by the market, so they are often viewed with stricter eyes and standards on rating websites, and their ratings are significantly lower than other types.

A score of 8 for a domestic comedy film is already considered a classic comedy. Although conventionally, this score should continue to decline, but it will basically not be lower than 7.5, which can be called high anyway. It is divided into comedy, you must know that the Douban score of the classic road comedy "People on the Journey" that created the "囧" series is only 7.8 points.

[We haven't produced a decent detective story for a long time. "Fatal Identity" has a strong Agatha style, but it can't be said to be a detective movie.

And the combination of Tang Ren and Qin Feng, one rational, one emotional, one serious and one harmonious, placed in a foreign environment, naturally sparked a spark of passion.Coupled with the switch between comedy and suspense, laughing loudly one second and getting chills the next second, and at the same time having the "magic stroke" of the hospital shootout, and the big reversal at the last moment, this peculiar movie-watching experience is indeed amazing. I haven't seen it in other comedy genres.

In addition to congratulating Director Chen Sicheng for making a comeback, I would like to congratulate DreamWorks again. Congratulations to Chen Jingxing, DreamWorks' undefeated golden status is still preserved.

Although the Douban score of "Tang Detective" is "only" 8.1, which is less than 8.5, setting the lower limit of DreamWorks' works - I feel awkward after typing this paragraph, haha, but this is not exactly the legendary relationship between Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks where?
Closer to home, although the score is "only" 8.1, it is definitely regarded as a superior work among comedy-themed movies. I think "Tang Detective" is definitely a good movie.

Before the film was released, many people were actually betting whether "Tang Detective" would be the first bad film of DreamWorks. In fact, I also tended to think that "Tang Detective" would be the first film produced by Chen Jingxing. Word of mouth "Waterloo", fortunately I like to be slapped in the face, in this respect I like to be slapped in the face, just like I am poisoned milk.

I have to say that although I have always thought that I am an audience that can think independently, I don’t think I will become that kind of blind-obedient fan, I have never considered myself a fan of Chen Jingxing, at most I can be regarded as an admiring fan of his movies.

However, now I really have a tendency to unconditionally trust Chen Jingxing's vision. This director has a very high bottom line and standards even for the films he invests in. This makes me look forward to "Operation Mekong" even more.

In the end, the film left obvious foreshadowing and buttons. There should be a sequel, and it may even build the so-called "Tang Detective" universe. Thinking of Guo Xiaosi's "Illusion City", it is also known as a trilogy. The projected movie "Matrix" is also said to be a trilogy. Huaguo movies are now popular trilogy. I don't know whose trilogy can be famous in film history? 】

This highly praised long-film review is more representative of the audience's viewing experience of "Tang Detective", that is, the characters are pleasing, the interesting combination of solving crimes, the suspenseful story above the standard and the fusion of comedy are more ingenious. Created a relatively new theme in China.

With the blessing of high word-of-mouth, the film's box office also performed well.

After three days of release, the cumulative box office reached 2.2 million, and on the third day of release, that is, the box office fell by less than 20% on Monday, and its share of the market also showed a gradual upward trend.

Of course, even such impressive results cannot conceal the true star of the film market these days—"Fantasy City", which has earned 4.3 million box office in four days of release, and the two films have jointly created a small climax in the summer.

However, the word-of-mouth of "Fantasy City" seems a bit extreme, with serious polarization, both praises and criticisms. In addition, Douban has not released it for four days after its release. Most of the media and experienced audiences can actually judge that "Fantasy City" "The producer definitely spent a lot of money to control the reviews.

Preventing the audience from getting real word-of-mouth feedback, so as to use a powerful publicity campaign to lure passers-by into the movie theater, this is the purpose of the control and review strategy for movies like "Fantasy City".

Although the method is not ingenious, it is very useful, and it is very suitable for the kind of high-profile movies with strong publicity. Therefore, although the box office of "Fantasy City" has a downward trend in the first three days, it is still strong and there are not many bad movies. Matched diving and crash phenomenon.

However, on the fourth day, although the ratings were still not released, but because the number of viewers who had seen the movie was already large enough, the critics could no longer suppress the audience's spontaneous comments and word-of-mouth spread, so the word-of-mouth of "Illusion City" began to deteriorate rapidly. Monday's box office plunged in half.

On the fourth day of the release of "Fantasy City" and the third day of "Tang Detective", the two films ushered in the intersection of the box office. Not as good as the opponent's situation.

As a result, Maoyan Movies increased the box office of "Tang Detective" to 8 million, while "Illusion City" dropped to 9 million. Obviously, compared with the strong box office curve of "Tang Detective", "Illusion City" dropped somewhat on weekdays. It exceeded everyone's expectations.

With the emergence of box office crossovers, the attacks on Chen Jingxing, DreamWorks and the main creators of "Tang Detective", led by Wu Tingxuan and other fans of "Fantasy City" on the Internet, became more and more violent.

Even the producer of Fang Jianghe Culture, the director of "Fantasy City", and the producer and screenwriter Guo Xiaosi all stood up and accused "friends" of hiring trolls to blackmail "Fantasy City" on the Internet, pointing the finger at DreamWorks and Chen Jingxing , Dressed up as a victim of being hacked by the whole network.

Obviously, the drop in the box office shattered their previously confident box office dream of 15 billion, which made them a little unbalanced.

(End of this chapter)