The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 32 Overseas word-of-mouth has returned to China
The so-called flowering inside the wall is fragrant outside the wall, and the fragrance outside the wall is even more fragrant inside the wall.

In the Internet age, the speed of fragrance transmission has become faster and faster.

After "Comet" was launched on Netflix, the number of broadcasts increased rapidly, and it even became an Internet celebrity movie on the Netflix platform.

"Comet" is like a puzzle game, catering to the fun of solving puzzles of the younger generation of audiences, such as whether the heroine "replaced" in the movie, which of the eight people are "indigenous people" and who are Visitors in the parallel world, when were they replaced, how many different parallel events were created by the choices of the protagonists, etc., you can even analyze the movie frame by frame.

Through the dissemination of young people on social platforms, this movie not only formed a movie-watching trend but also created social topics, and the storm caused by "Comet" abroad was spread back to China, stirring up waves on the domestic Internet.

With 88% on Rotten Tomatoes and 7.5 on imdb, these overseas popularity have become the source of news for domestic media.

Objectively speaking, the reason why Rotten Tomatoes has such a high evaluation of "Comet" is that the number of film critics is not large; It has become a tool for some professional film critics to satirize comic-adapted movies.

The third is that "Comet" is too shabby, and it is a low-cost film visible to the naked eye. In fact, many film critics are not that cold about this film, but considering such a small cost, they generally show mercy.

These three reasons allow "Comet" to surpass most Hollywood sci-fi movies in the past decade on Rotten Tomatoes.

Relatively speaking, imdb's score is not so high.

"The birth of Rotten Tomatoes' highest-rated film of the year is actually a Huaguo movie!"

"American film critics praised, another sci-fi classic was born?"

"Here we come! Rotten Tomatoes' highest-rated movie of the year!"

"What movie broke the record of domestic movies and won Rotten Tomatoes?"

""Batman: Freezing Crisis" was surpassed by this domestic movie?"

"Domestic movies go to the world again!"

"The streaming media giant promotes Huaguo movies, intending to target the Huaguo market?"

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Not only the marketing account is gaining popularity, Station C, the largest video barrage website in China, has set off another round of video craze for explaining and analyzing the "Comet" movie, and at this time, the up owner of the film and television commentary category itself is Station C to promote transformation and strengthen the development of self-made content vanguard.

What's more, someone has already translated the comments on "Comet" on foreign social media and made a video and put it on Station C, and the playback volume is amazing.

Foreign comments are surprisingly friendly, and even if there are complaints, they rarely involve countries.

This is actually determined by the subject matter of "Comet". As film critic Dorian commented, this is a world film. The story itself and the background do not have many cultural elements unique to Huaguo, or the Huaguo culture that audiences in European and American countries think Elements is a story that happened in a middle-class family in a modern city.

So much so that many netizens in the United States even thought it was a movie from South Korea or RB. Except for Chinese and overseas students, not many Americans paid attention to the fact that this is a Chinese movie, because it has appeared in European and American audiences in the past. The Huaguo film and television dramas in sight usually have strong cultural attributes, and few works with purely modern urban themes are known to them.

Even when Hollywood movies involve Huaguo, they will reflect strong elements of Huaguo, such as crowded restaurant kitchens, Chinatowns, red lanterns, long, squinting and hanging eyes, and people wearing bamboo hats. Even the Chinese people with braids have the traditional landscape style of Huaguo. In stark contrast to Huaguo as the first industrial power, the elements of Huaguo in cultural works that appear in front of European and American audiences are basically insulated from modern industrialization.

Therefore, "Comet" was weird and fortunately did not attract the attention of racists and China haters, let alone arouse the stress response of some people.

In this way, the domestic Internet has another round of echoes due to the overseas popularity of "Comet" being resold back to China. The difference is that this time "Comet" has been concerned and discussed as a symbol of film and television cultural output.

Zhihu's question about "Comet" was once again on the hot list.

This time, "What do you think of "The Night the Comet Came" on Netflix on November 11st as the No.1 TV show outside of North America, and ranked second on the Twitter trending list?"

"Laxatives, please note that "Comet" ranked second on the US trend list..."

"It doesn't matter how I see it, look at how Americans see it, the following are random comments I saw from Twitter, not deliberately filtered.

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"Real name is opposed to the high praise in the front row. I think the popularity of "Comet" in the United States is a miracle that cannot be replicated. The reasons are as follows..."

"I'm in the United States, and I just came back home. In fact, the achievement of "Comet" is based on the poor translation. When I first read the English translation, I immediately became popular. I took a few screenshots to show you... …Surprised, Netflix responded to our email, and soon a new translation of "Comet" made by me and a few friends will be online..."

"I saw that some people in the comments said that "Comet" is pseudo-sci-fi. Hehe, such people don't understand what sci-fi is. In my opinion, "Comet" is hard science fiction. The uncertainty principle is involved in the movie. and decoherence theory, and the world built with these two theories has no obvious bugs. It can be seen that the director must have a considerable understanding of physics, especially quantum physics. It is worth mentioning that the director's undergraduate college not only It is Beijing Normal University, majoring in mathematics, it is definitely quite talented in mathematics, and only such a director with mathematical thinking can write logical and complex scripts..."

"The great thing about "Comet" is that he created a universe with dialogue in a house. I think he is completely worthy of the title of science fiction classic. This is the original face of science fiction movies. A few scientific principles can create A story that subverts your three views..."

""The Comet" has a freshness of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. Do you know what this concept is? Of all the comic-changing movies in the past ten years, only one is on par with him. When expanding the scope to science fiction movies, there are only two in the past ten years. The movie ranks ahead of him!  …”

"What do you think? The Huaguo-style blockbusters that have been shot in the past few years are all a waste of money. Those directors who think that they are high-quality and low-level and blame the audience every day should take a good look at how "Comet" tells the story, even the story is told. It doesn’t make sense, what’s the use of a great scene? I’d say it’s better to apply for “Comet” than to hit the Oscars with these so-called blockbusters that have no hope of winning an award, since there’s no hope of winning anyway…”

"To be honest, I could have imagined that one day Huaguo films would go abroad again and be recognized by the world, but I never thought it would be a sci-fi movie. As a sci-fi fan, tears welled up in my eyes. I hope that Huaguo filmmakers will Can be inspired by the success of "Comet", the argument that Huaguo is good at looking backward and the United States is good at looking forward can be stopped..."

This round of popularity from overseas has been superimposed on the popularity of the original "Comet", resulting in more extensive discussions and enthusiasm.

"Comet" has become a topic out of the circle.

After all, good-looking domestic movies and domestic online movies that are praised and loved by European and American audiences and cause a sensation are two different things.

There were even commercials and endorsements that found Chen Jingxing.

Of course he didn't answer.

It's not that he doesn't love money. Even if he doesn't lack money, he won't just turn away the money delivered to his door. It's mainly for the sake of his personal brand image in the future. As a talented director and the future leader of commercial films in Huaguo, Chen Jingxing There are requirements for one's own personality, and advertisements and endorsement products must at least have a certain level, such as luxury cars, yachts, top luxury goods, etc...

It's a pity that the person who came to him for an advertising endorsement this time did not meet his high-sighted standards. This can't be blamed for the domestic manufacturers' "eyes but no eyes". It is really the director's identity that limits his exposure. The popularity of "Comet" The biggest beneficiaries are the actors, followed by the behind-the-scenes creators. If it weren't for Director Chen's appearance and age, which are still topical, there would be no endorsement advertisements coming to him.

In addition, he is thankful that the actor contract of "Fatal Identity" has been signed, otherwise the salary expenditure may increase a lot.

Of course, this round of enthusiasm still brought some changes to Chen Jingxing, and he was urged by Zhang Jingyan to record a talk show before filming "Fatal Identity".

"Southern People Weekly"

(End of this chapter)