Cultivate a male god: After listening to persuasion, I became a top-notch

Chapter 533 Let art belong to art!

[Friends, my new film "Buried Alive" will be released globally soon... What should I do next to make "Buried Alive" successfully enter the Oscar selection process and impress the Academy Awards jury? 】

As soon as Li Youzhi's shaking hands post was released, the comment area was immediately occupied by "hahaha"!

During this period, Li Youzhi was in EMO, but as the old saying goes - happiness based on the pain of others is true happiness, and Leziren netizens were really having fun!
What's going on with Li Youzhi's bid for the Oscar? Maybe those self-media and entertainment news media just for the sake of profit didn't know what was going on, and just edited an article and published it just for the sake of popularity.

But Lezi people are very knowledgeable.

Not only Men'erqing, but also this fan group, which has always been famous for abstraction in domestic entertainment, has been adding fuel to the flames and pushing things to develop in an increasingly outrageous direction throughout the entire process.

Especially these days, when I see some veteran actors in the entertainment industry or well-known film critics have left the show, taking advantage of the upcoming release of "Buried Alive" to gain traffic, they are seriously analyzing whether Li Youzhi can win the Olympics. How do people feel about topics like success?
It made fun of the entire entertainment industry!

Seeing that Li Youzhi, who had been pretending to be dead for this period of time and ignored the outside world and closed himself off, suddenly appeared and seemed to have accepted the consequences of his own contribution to the flames, people were laughing to death.

"Hahahaha, I'm finally willing to show up! Don't panic, I'll let you downstairs tell you what to do!"

"Pfft hahaha, am I really the one upstairs? Thank you for my little brother. If you want me to say this, I think the Wolong Fengxia down there is more knowledgeable!"

"You guys, I almost killed you for playing. You are still playing now. Even I, a senior fun person, can't stand it anymore. Hahahaha. I would like to advise my little brother Li Youzhi. Don't panic, little brother. , Oscars are like that, it doesn’t matter whether you get it or not. After all, there is no precedent before. If the quality of "Buried Alive" can maintain the same state as your previous live broadcast, even if it doesn't win the Oscar, no one can. What the hell, we will always support you - verbally and at the box office!"

"It's a bit difficult for "Buried Alive" to successfully enter the Oscar review process and impress the Academy Awards jury. After all, even the Oscars themselves probably don't know what kind of movies and filmmakers to award the awards to, but this It doesn’t stop us from setting a small goal – to make the box office of “Buried Alive” exceed one billion!”

"Ah, yes, yes! I suggest that I push the box office of "Buried Alive" to more than one billion. The box office of big Hollywood productions is very sluggish now. I guess if we have a global box office of one billion this time, we will definitely be able to get it. As long as you can be shortlisted, you’ll have a good chance of winning the prize?”

Beep!
Receive a suggested task (for the box office of "Buried Alive" to reach 6 billion at the global box office). The difficulty of the task is stars. After completion, you will receive an A-level reward treasure chest!
Li Youzhi's eyes lit up when he saw the person in the comment area giving him an A-level task.

What Brother Zhi wants is your words!
You bunch of scum, after playing for so many days, you have done something human and said something human, right?

You guys have caused such a big thing, and now Brother Zhi is already riding a tiger.

If the box office fails this time and the Oscars are not won again, where will Brother Zhi put his old face?
With this in mind, Li Youzhi casually liked the suggested comment, took a screenshot, and posted it to the top of the comment area manually.

"Copy that, listen to your advice! But I can't handle box office matters myself, so I have to ask for the support of all my friends! See you there at the premiere of "Buried Alive"!"

If Li Youzhi had said these words a year ago, Yi Lezi's urinary nature might have been ignored or simply displayed.

But it’s different now,

What's going on now?

In the past year or so, first "Nezha" was crowdfunded, and then Waguang Audio-Visual was launched. Basically, Lezi netizens were more or less involved. Even some senior fans relied on their trust in Li Youzhi, and their net worth directly increased more than ten times or dozens of times after two stud games!
Other fans become poorer as they chase stars, but when it comes to Li Youzhi... his own wealth and fame do not match the growth rate at all, but his fans are really fat.

Hiding wealth in powder can be said to be,

Following Li Youzhi's call, the comment area instantly exploded.

"Don't worry, little brother, see you there or see you!" "We, the fun people, have booked the Chongqing premiere venue!" "Isn't it just the box office? We, the Chengdu night club, have also taken care of the Chengdu group!" "That's all, don't worry, brother!"

After glancing at the comments section, which could be described as rich and powerful, Li Youzhi nodded with satisfaction.

It’s not in vain that Brother Zhi took you flying for such a long time.

Very good, very energetic!
Seeing that his box office base had been settled, Li Youzhi directly picked up the phone and dialed Liu Yun's number.

After re-arranging the schedule of publicity and distribution activities for several important domestic ticket offices with the unexpected Liu Yun, they picked up Tu Susu...

In the next few days, Li Youzhi, with Tu Susu at his side, officially started a nationwide road show.

First going north and then south, there was a fan meeting all the way, and in a blink of an eye it was the premiere day of "Buried Alive".

Although "Buried Alive" is still officially on the summer vacation schedule, in fact, after two rounds of pre-release promotion activities, the summer vacation schedule has reached the end. It's almost September, and the season has already entered autumn.

Shanghai, Dawan Film and Television Center, the scene of the domestic premiere of "Buried Alive".

Seeing that the venue was already overcrowded more than half an hour before the first show of the premiere, which was at 10 o'clock, Tu Zheng and Liu Yun, who were in formal attire as distribution representatives, both said, "Good guys."

"Hey! Our Xiaozhi has no one with this box office appeal now. When I first met this brat three years ago, I never dreamed that such a day would come to me. Hey Xiaozhi, don't you remember when you were in "The Kite"? "The crew was just a kid, and a group of classmates were like gangsters. Now they are considered to be powerful people in the Chinese film industry, and they are T0-level film and television stars!"

Beep!
Received the amazing value of [Relieved] added by Liu Yun, 55 points, 55 points, 55 points...

Standing backstage and looking at the audience who were entering the venue, and listening to Liu Yun's sigh beside him, Li Youzhi couldn't help but feel happy.

"Brother Liu, what you said is just insulting me. Others don't know what's going on with me, but you should know! So many people are supporting me, it's all thanks to the topicality of this film. To be honest, "Buried Alive" "I originally wanted to make this film for fun, so I didn't even dare to ask you to support me when I was making this film. I just thought that if it didn't turn out well or there was no market, I would just keep silent. Forget about pretending to be dead.

Unexpectedly, I just let a group of idiot fans lead me to the rhythm. In fact, if it weren't for this wave of popularity for competing for the Olympics, "Buried Alive", a niche film, would definitely not be as popular as it is now. Even if it is Previously, "The Wandering Earth" and "Nezha" had poor box office reputations. "

With the five-sense-enhancing halo on, Li Youzhi pouted at Liu Yun when he saw several people entering the premiere ceremony with notebooks and serious faces that definitely didn't look like an audience.

"And you see, on the surface, there is a lot of enthusiasm for watching movies, but the popularity of Chong Ao, which is artificially created by fans, may have made many people sour. Secretly, they are hoping that I will overturn. Brother Liu , I am really walking on thin ice now..."

Seeing Li Youzhi huddled in the middle of the big curtain backstage, his face full of bitterness, Tu Zhengle's fangs on the side came out.

He knew from the beginning that Li Youzhi was being manipulated by netizens. And to put it bluntly... when the matter has developed to the point where it is now, he, the agent publisher, also has an unshirkable responsibility. After all, in order to save publicity and distribution expenses, there is also an element of Tu Zheng adding fuel to the flames.

Otherwise, relying on a group of netizens to set the pace without the endorsement of a distributor like Qiang Sheng Film and Television, people’s tricks of deception will soon be exposed by serious entertainment media.

Tu Zheng, who is used to seeing Li Youzhi succeed when he wants to succeed, is so happy to see Li Youzhi being so frustrated now!
Even at this moment, a joyful joy was freely flowing in his blood.

"What kind of thin ice are you walking on? You spent hundreds of thousands to make the film "Buried Alive" at almost no cost. This time the announcement mainly relied on your fans to build momentum, and it was featured on more than a dozen movies in a row Hot search, we didn't spend a penny. The total publicity expenses are just a dozen road shows you held in the past few days, and some media management.

According to the full budget, this film did not even cost 10 million yuan. Looking at the current status of the booking platform and pre-sales, the box office is 500 million yuan. It is not difficult to earn 1 billion yuan in the first month. If those who make movies can walk on thin ice like you, then the damn river in China’s film industry will be so frozen! "

After waving his fingers and doing some rough calculations for Li Youzhi, Tu Zheng patted his forehead.

According to the current trend, the film "Buried Alive" will not be considered a box office success. A net income of more than 200 million is stable, and 500 million is not a dream.

This only counts the domestic ones, not the foreign ones!
"The premiere in the United States is also today, do you believe it? At this time, the first show over there should have already been broadcast, right?"

Hearing Tu Zheng's inquiry, Li Youzhi raised his hand and looked at the old seagull that had been following him for many years.

Seeing that the time was almost half past nine on the other side of the ocean, he smacked his lips.

"Maybe... I hope... there will be good results after the premiere over there."

……

at the same time.

The capital of California, United States, Sacramento.

At the Huggins Cinema located on the commercial edge of the city, the audience for the premiere of "Buried Alive" has already arrived.

Watching the last audience member hurried into the screening room with popcorn and Coke, Evans, the sales manager of Huggins Sachs City Cinema, waved to the popcorn boy.

"Eddie, how many snacks were sold just now?"

Unlike large Class A theater chains, as a Class B theater, Huggins Cinema's main source of operating income is not movie tickets - but food and beverage revenue.

Unlike movie box office, theaters do not have to split this part of the revenue with distributors, and the profit margins on popcorn and soda are surprisingly high!

Take Hudgens for example; H&U, Hudgens' own popcorn brand, is very popular among movie fans because of its unique taste and special butter ratio, with profits as high as 75%!

But the profits of H&U popcorn are not the most outstanding among Huggins’ rich snack lineup.

The tie-in juice drink "Fruit Flavor" is the real profit maker!

This flavored drink made with concentrated apple pulp can even maintain a profit of over 4.5% on a large cup. At a price of $ per cup, every drink sold can contribute more than $ in net income to Huggins Cinemas everywhere.

In order to sell more popcorn and drinks, Huggins took great pains.

For example, reducing ticket check-in entrances and increasing the boring time for viewers to wait in line. They set up a catering and snack buffet in the screening hall, and even opened a separate fast food restaurant in the most conspicuous position on the first floor for the audience to eat after the midnight show...

As for movie tickets?
A movie ticket sells for 20 yuan in the first week of release. According to the rules of the American film and television market, 80-90% must be shared with the distributor. What a devil!

"Sir, the film released today is a bit niche. It is a low-budget thriller starring a Chinese director, and the attendance is average. I saw only 78% of the attendance at the first show, and only 20 or 30% in total. People? For snacks... let me take a look."

Facing the manager's inquiry, the popcorn boy hurriedly operated the backend of the vending machine for a few times, and then reported;
"Before the opening, H&U sold 9 barrels of medium barrels and barrels of large barrels. Thirty-four servings of various flavored drinks were sold..."

"Shet!"

Upon hearing this sales situation, Evans, who looked down and couldn't see his toes, raised his hands with his fat belly and cursed;
"Damn it, I knew I shouldn't believe that British guy's bad mouth! The ticket price is fifteen yuan, even if we give us a forty percent share, we can only earn six yuan per ticket. This Damn it, cost us at least twenty servings of popcorn! Eddie, I have a hunch that our sales bonus this week will be a chilling figure. If snack sales don't reach seven thousand dollars this week, let's go. When that British guy Zhou came to renew his contract, I broke off his dentures and told him to take his damn Chinese movie into the Pacific Ocean!"

Ding!
Just when Evans was cursing the sky with his belly full, suddenly the popcorn boy's sales machine issued a clear prompt in the background. Watching the screening of "Buried Alive", which had just started less than 10 minutes ago in Hall 1, the sales record of a large cup of "Fruit Grape" came out of the snack vending machine. Evans blinked and was Fat blue eyes.

Although self-service vending machines are installed in the screening hall to facilitate customers to purchase snacks during the movie viewing process, in fact, the usage rate of the vending machines in the screening hall is not high.

Self-service vending machines in the United States are not like those in China, which can use various online payments. Most vending machines require a credit card...

It is definitely not a good experience to operate a vending machine in a dark screening room, find the magnetic strip of the card and enter the password under the glare of the light.

Therefore, at the end of the day, there are often not many snacks in the vending machine - especially during the movie viewing process. Some customers are even willing to go to the bar to buy snacks and miss Hudgens' poor movie selection. Operate that annoying vending machine.

So now, seeing the big glass of juice sold, Huggins was a little confused.

Similarly, looking at the large glasses of juice sold just after the movie started, the popcorn man smiled and shrugged his shoulders.

"Some unlucky guy must have spilled his juice right after the movie started, poor guy."

Ding!
Ding!
Ding! !

However, before he could finish his words, a series of transaction prompts sounded like exploding beans!
Looking at the various juice sales reminders on the sales panel, all from Screening Room No. 1, Evans and the younger brother looked at each other.

WTF?

Could it be that the movie being shown now has the power to dehydrate the audience?
The audience in Auditorium 1 was not actually dehydrated.

But the wooden coffin buried deep in the ground on the big screen, as well as the hysterical people struggling to survive in the wooden box, made them feel as if their souls had been pulled into that sweltering and desperate wooden box!

The plot of "Buried Alive" is actually as simple as it is outrageous. A man is buried deep underground, and then he discovers the props in the wooden box bit by bit. He uses these items such as lighters, knives, and a mobile phone with only one bar of signal and half battery to struggle to survive. . This is a story of trying to escape against the fear of isolation, poisonous snakes, KB elements, capital without conscience, and bureaucrats who are indifferent and even full of lies.

But this simple script is anything but simple.

In the wooden box, every aspect experienced by the protagonist is crucial. The props and events unfold little by little, the tension of the drama is superimposed layer by layer, and the suspense is always deepening and deepening, making people unable to stop!

Struggle, desire for life, anger, fear, suffocation, despair, all the emotions that should be felt were vividly displayed by Ryan in that small and cramped space.

There were only about twenty people in the screening room, and it was already ten minutes before the movie started.

The first part of the plot of "Buried Alive" has begun; in the depressing wooden box, the poor man full of tension, panic, confusion and other emotions is trying to accept the current situation.

He used the warped nails on the coffin board to cut the ropes that bound his hands, and using the dim light of the lighter he carried with him, he found a mobile phone whose interface text he could not understand at all.

At this time, the poor guy was using the weak signal to frantically ask for help from the outside world.

In order to prevent the last cell phone signal from disappearing, he huddled on the side of the wooden box in a rather awkward posture. His body was covered in patches of dirt, sweat and vomit.

"COMEON, COMEON, COMEON... Shet!"

Looking at Li Youzhi's dirty face reflected on the big screen by the dim light from the phone, the audience in the first row couldn't help but grunted and swallowed a mouthful of saliva as they sympathized with what he was going through.

Some viewers couldn't stand the anxiety coming from the big screen and stuffed juice straws into their mouths.

It was in this gurgling sound of juice that the damn 911 call was finally answered by the poor guy in the box.

"Hello, this is 911, how can I help you?"

"Hey! I'm buried. You have to save me. I can't breathe. I'm buried in a coffin! Save me!"

"Sir, are you saying that you were buried in a coffin? Are you in the funeral parlor now?"

"No! Damn it, I'm in Rilac! I don't know where exactly this is in Rilac, but I'm now packed in a box and buried under the sand. Can't you locate it? Find my location ,help me!"

"Um... Sir, let me ask you to clarify something. We are Georgia's 911. We are sorry about what happened to you, but there is really nothing we can do to help you. Also... if you are in If you are bored in the middle of the night, please fuck your own ass. I wish you a happy life.”

"FK! FK!!! Ah, ahhh!!!"

The first row of the screening room.

Looking at the call on the big screen that was mercilessly hung up by 911, and the poor man huddled in the box who was having another mental breakdown, hysterically banging and scratching the box, a bearded audience member released his arms around the shoulder of the female companion. arm...

He raised the juice drink in his hand!
Tons tons tons tons tons...

After pouring up to 500 ml of juice into his extremely thirsty throat in one breath, the big man still felt that his breathing was not smooth again.

After shaking the drink glass, he saw a layer of ice cubes at the bottom that had not yet melted. He tore open the cover of the drink and raised his neck.

"Damn, this movie makes me want to stop and I feel suffocated! Ruili, my dear, can you get me another drink? Add more ice cubes, I really need these elves to relieve my anxiety right now!"

Faced with his request while chewing ice cubes, the female companion sitting next to him also licked her lips.

Shaking the bottomed drink in his hand, he cursed.

"Damn it, if I had known we should have stopped buying big buckets of popcorn..."

Angrily, she put her favorite H&u popcorn on the chair. The woman with pink braids raised her buttocks, took VISA, and walked towards the beverage vending machine where several customers were already lined up...

Standing at the door of the screening room, looking at the vending machine that had only about twenty viewers but had been used more than a dozen times in the first fifteen minutes of the movie, Evans' plump face trembled.

Taking a deep breath, he waved to the popcorn boy who was obviously blindfolded.

"Go! Call that idiot Trevor and ask them to go to the print shop early tomorrow morning. Ask him to re-make the premiere poster of "Buried Alive" so big that it can hang from the second floor of the theater to the first floor! Before ten o'clock tomorrow morning, Replacing the current poster that doesn't even cover my wife's ass! I want a "Buried Alive" flyer that's so big it can even cover Kardashian's ass and look for those brats wandering the streets in Sacramento. Guys, put these damn flyers in every mailbox in every neighborhood over the next week!”

"FK! I swear, this is the first time I love a Chinese movie so much! Look at that embarrassed face on the screen, it looks so damn like God!!!"

……

Beep!
Received amazing points, 3012920 points!
Shanghai, Dawan Film and Television Center.

Li Youzhi raised his eyebrows when he heard the system's crisp account entry prompt.

5, 9, 12,

Hey!
Li Youzhi couldn't help but feel happy after counting up this wave of stunning values ​​from across the ocean.

Good guy, the first screening in North America has not yet ended. There are more than 120,000 viewers, and it has earned more than 3 million in surprise points.

It seems like "Buried Alive" has stabilized its reputation in the United States!
"Classmate Xiaozhi, classmate Xiaozhi?"

Just when Li Youzhi was secretly happy about the premiere in the United States, the beautiful host who was responsible for organizing the premiere ceremony called him gently twice.

His thoughts were interrupted, and Li Youzhi, who came back to his senses, turned his attention to the host and made an apologetic gesture.

"What was the problem just now?"

"Oh, this is Xiaozhi. Our audience is very curious and asked you what is the reason that makes you so confident that the film "Buried Alive" will compete for the Oscars. Can you tell everyone in detail about this film? After the film was shot, as a director and starring, what were your thoughts and feelings about the film? "

Nodding to the host, Li Youzhi, who was standing on the stage, picked up the microphone and glanced at the audience.

"Actually, the impact on the Oscars started as an own goal created by my fans."

"Ha ha ha ha,"

Seeing him formally respond in public, the scene immediately burst into laughter.

Looking at the few spectators in the crowd who even had fake smiles, Li Youzhi became happy:
"At first, just for fun, everyone used AI to make a poster, and then irresponsibly touted it, saying that this film would be my Oscar-winning film. At that time, I didn't actually think so. After all, the Oscar has been around for so many years. It is very stingy to award the Academy Award, which represents the highest honor in the American film industry, to Chinese artists. Even the deceased Bruce Lee was excluded from the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award for one reason or another.”

"but."

Looking at the audience gently, Li Youzhi smiled and shrugged.

"Conventions always need to be broken by someone, and the world will not stay in a certain concept or a certain state forever. Although the production cost of "Buried Alive" is not large, I feel that I told a good story and provided The key role in this story gave a self-satisfactory interpretation. In my opinion, the film award is to recognize and affirm those who have made efforts in the film industry, so that this industry can add more possibilities and this art. Proof of becoming more colorful.”

"If all factors such as ethnicity, skin color, and political factors are put aside, I have confidence in "Buried Alive"! To borrow a famous saying from Rome, give to God what is God's, and to Caesar what is Caesar's. If politics belongs to politics, art belongs to art. I think "Buried Alive" should be included in this year's Oscars."

Having said that, Li Youzhi smiled modestly and waved to all the audiences below the stage.

"Of course... I don't care about this. After all, the art that the masses like is the real art! This applies to any country, any region, and any era! And today, what is the quality of "Buried Alive"? The right to judge does not belong to me, but to you!”

With a wave of Li Youzhi's hand, all the lights at the scene were extinguished.

The curtain behind him suddenly opened...

(End of this chapter)