China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 121 The Counterattack Trend
Soon Han Han published his views on Star Master's movie "Yangtze River No. [-]" on his personal blog:

[The King of Science Fiction filmed "The King of Comedy", but the King of Comedy couldn't make qualified science fiction. 】

"The imagination of "Yangtze River No. [-]" is relatively 'fake'. Zhou Xingchi is a very good actor, but he is not a very good director, at least not yet. If the full score is [-], I will give it a six. Going into theaters with exorbitant expectations."

Three hours later, Han Han published his third film review blog today:

[Comment on "The King of Kung Fu": Li Mu understands Hollywood, but Hollywood does not understand China]

"We should be glad that the director of Cheng Long and Li Lianlian's first big-screen collaboration is Li Mu. "Assassin" is a top-level Hollywood-style visual effects blockbuster carefully crafted by Huaxia director Li Mu; A five-rate American teenager's obsessive journey with resources piled up. If the score is out of [-], I will give it five points and do not recommend it."

In one day, there were three movie reviews, one of which was not praised to the sky, and the other two were stepped into the mud. In addition to Han Han's high topicality, so almost instantly, the topic of comparing the three movies has been swept the whole internet.

"I just walked out of the theater and watched Master Xing's "Yangtze River No. [-]". Now I feel very complicated. How should I put it? It's not a bad movie, but...but I can say that I am running for "Kung Fu" and "Shaolin Soccer" "Have "Nine Grades of Sesame Official" and "Domestic Lingling Paint" entered the theaters?! Cried to death, disappointed! In fact, the movie is okay, but it is true that I feel very upset, I feel cheated."

"One sentence movie review: This is Zhou Xingchi's worst movie!"

"Running to the theater where Zhou Xing walked into with a nonsensical comedy, and Master Xing showed me a super long plush toy commercial."

"Actually, "Yangtze River No. [-]" isn't that bad! Of course, if you enter the theater with the mentality of watching a traditional star movie, then you will most likely be disappointed."

"What the hell is "The King of Kung Fu"? The combination of Cheng Long + Li Lianlian + Liu Yifei + Fan Binbin, and you just showed me this? Get your money back!"

"Three points can't be more, that's right, I'm talking about "The King of Kung Fu"!"

"The King of Kung Fu? I think it's The King of Bad Movies!"

"The King of Kung Fu - epic bad movie!"

"A movie that is comparable to "The Promise"——Comment on the movie "The King of Kung Fu"."

It can be said that whether it is "The King of Kung Fu" by Cheng Long and Li Lianlian, or "Yangtze River No. [-]" by Zhou Xingchi, the word-of-mouth has almost collapsed!

A random search on the Internet, most of them are voices of doubt.

Especially "The King of Kung Fu", it is already an epic bad movie.

In contrast, "Yangtze River No. [-]" is much better. At least many mothers in the theater really cried after watching it, which shows that this movie is still good, but it is different from the expectations of the audience when they walked into the theater.

Compared with the two, the word-of-mouth of the movie "How to Steal the Key" produced by director Li Mu seems a bit too exaggerated, and it can be described as "overwhelming word of mouth".

Browse a related website casually, almost all of them are positive comments.

"People who want to work hard will get better no matter how bad they are thrown into. After watching "The Way to Steal the Key", I am deeply moved. I think this is what a good movie should look like."

"'It's hard to get a little motivated to study, but I'm satisfied as soon as I buy the book, you boy is the most scumbag kind of person!'...! Completely hit...!!!!!!"

"Li Mu is the most amazing director in China. He dared to let Gao Yuanyuan and Huang Bo act as a couple. The key is that after watching it, you still think that these two people really match!"

"Huang Bo's acting skills are as good as ever, and Shen Teng's hair is full of drama. Surprisingly, Gao Yuanyuan's acting skills are not slowing down this time. It is rumored that Director Li Mu values ​​​​Gao Yuanyuan a lot and is willing to spend a lot of energy on making small talk for him. It seems that Director Li has the energy It's not in vain, Gao Yuanyuan's role is very well completed."

"There was no peeing in the audience, and the various details and black humor made people excited and enjoyable to watch."

"I've watched all three movies, and now I've decided to watch "The Way to Steal the Key" for the second time - if the box office of good movies is always crushed by bad ones, then there will be no hope for Huaxia movies!"

"On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I plan to take the whole family to the theater to support "The Way to Steal the Key". This movie is really good and beautiful. When I watched it, I laughed and cried. After watching it, I gained a lot. Maybe this is the meaning of a good movie. Bar!"

"The word-of-mouth of "How to Steal the Key" seems to be blown up, so I decided to watch this one first. Actually, I planned to watch "The King of Kung Fu", but it seems that the word-of-mouth is too bad."

""How to Steal the Key" is so short! But it can't be helped, who let it meet Cheng Long, Li Lianlian and Master Xing?"

""Yangtze River No. [-]" is Master Xing's worst movie, "The Way to Steal the Key" is Li Mu's best movie—just Jiangzi!"

"I like Master Xing's movies very much, but I hope his box office is not as good this time, otherwise I'm afraid he will make this kind of movie next time."

……

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Douban officially released the ratings of the three movies:

First of all, "The King of Kung Fu", which has the most popular pre-sale situation, scored 5.3 on Douban-this score is definitely a bad movie, and the word-of-mouth can be said to have collapsed.

Followed by Zhou Xingchi's "Yangtze River No. 6.3", which has been honed for three years, has a score of [-] on Douban-a score that means the movie can barely be watched.

However, comparing the ratings of Master Xing's other movies, most movie fans have no doubt that Master Xing's new movie is not popular.

Next is the movie "The Way to Steal the Key" produced by Li Mu and directed by Shen Junsheng. Douban scored 8.9 points-a very high score, surpassing the scores of all Li Mu's previous movies. Li Mu's best movie can't be wrong, at least judging from the ratings.

As word-of-mouth of the three new movies continues to ferment, outsiders don't know what other people think. At least Huayi Brothers has become an ant on the hot pot.

"The King of Kung Fu" is a film mainly invested by Huayi Brothers, with a total investment of more than 4 million yuan. As a result, it was compared with Chen Kaige's "The Promise" within a day of its release?
That was an epic bad movie!
Word of mouth is so bad, what if it affects the box office?
This is an investment of more than [-] million yuan!

The film's pre-sale box office results are so against the sky, such a good start, is it about to collapse like this?
But there is no good way.

"Hurry up and find film critics, find well-known cultural celebrities, and spend money to let them speak for "The King of Kung Fu"!
A model of Sino-US co-productions, a great attempt of Chinese cultural influence to go abroad, we cannot allow them to slander for no reason! "

……

night.

Li Mu, who came back from promoting the movie, browsed the news at home, and he was relieved after seeing that "The Way to Steal the Key" had a very good reputation.

Then he saw a video on Souhua.com, the title of the video was very eye-catching:

"Shocked! Liu Yifei boldly revealed that she has someone she likes at the premiere of "The King of Kung Fu"! The fairy sister blushed at the scene!"

Li Mu clicked on the video and found that Liu Yifei first sang "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky", which directly ignited the atmosphere of the whole scene, and then a hostess asked Liu Yifei a question.

When the host asked Liu Yifei who wrote this song, Liu Yifei blushed and replied:
"Actually, this song was written by a very handsome boy I have a crush on."

"Who is that person you like?" The host asked again.

Liu Yifei acted coquettishly on the spot, blushing again: "Stop talking!"

"Yifei's blushing." The host continued to ask after teasing, "Does the other party know that you like him?"

Liu Yifei laughed this time but was speechless.

……

Did Liu Yifei really say that at the premiere? !Li Mu was very surprised, but at the same time very moved.

So he made a call to Liu Yifei's cell phone.

The phone was connected quickly.

"Li Mu?" Liu Yifei said.

"Are you asleep?" Li Mu started the conversation directly like a straight man.

"Not yet—I went to five theaters today to promote the movie, and I'm exhausted. I just got home now." Liu Yifei complained.

Li Mu said with a smile: "Your film crew is too ignorant of sympathy! When we promote "Inception", I will let you go to a theater at most in a day."

Liu Yifei snorted and said: "Other actors go to several houses, so I will go to several houses. I am not afraid of being tired if others are not afraid. By the way, you seem to be very happy today—— um... I know, now everything Everyone on the Internet is praising your "How to Steal the Key", on the contrary, the "Kung Fu King" I chose was almost scolded to death by the audience—you didn't call me specifically to see my jokes, did you?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "Of course not."

Liu Yifei: "It must be! If not, unless you give a more credible reason."

Li Mu: "Well...it's not suitable for talking on the phone."

Liu Yifei snorted, "I think it's difficult to compose now, right?"

"Okay!" Li Mu said, "Then I'll just say it, the reason why I'm happy today is because I just saw the premiere of "The King of Kung Fu". I didn't expect you to sing that song at the premiere, and ...You really said that—do you think I can be unhappy?"

"Hey, let me tell you, don't get me wrong." Liu Yifei, who thought about the situation that day, said anxiously, "I just didn't want to owe you favors, and you asked me to say that, so I just said that, don't you dare Don't get me wrong, it's my truth."

"Be my girlfriend!" Li Mu said suddenly.

"Huh?" Liu Yifei froze for a moment.

"I said..." Li Mu said solemnly, "Be my girlfriend!"

Liu Yifei: "Why did you say this on the phone?"

……

"The King of Kung Fu" has a poor reputation, but the box office is really strong.

February 1:
"The King of Kung Fu" starring Cheng Long and Li Lian scored 1600 million box office on the first day, ranking first in the single-day box office!

Zhou Xingzhi's movie "Yangtze River No. 1200" won the box office of [-] million yuan on the first day, ranking second.

Li Mu's "How to Steal the Key" won the first-day box office of 1000 million yuan, ranking third.

Of the three films, "The Way to Steal the Key" is temporarily at the bottom, but Li Mu's film has the lowest number of films, and the market popularity cannot be compared with "King of Kung Fu" and "Yangtze River No. [-]", so the box office on the first day The minimum is within reason.

In fact, if you only look at the attendance data, "The Way to Steal the Key" ranks first, basically reaching more than 95%.

The attendance rate of "Yangtze River No. 75" is about 90%, and what is surprising is that the attendance rate of "The King of Kung Fu" is also about [-]%.

Let's look at the four-day data of the first weekend of "The King of Kung Fu":
1600 million on the first day.

2300 million the next day.

2200 million on the third day.

1900 million on the fourth day.

The box office received 8000 million yuan in four days in the first weekend. "The King of Kung Fu" tells you that word of mouth and everything are false, only the box office is real!
Let's take a look at the results of the first weekend of Master Xing's movie "Yangtze River No. [-]":

1200 million on the first day.

1700 million the next day.

1600 million on the third day.

1600 million on the fourth day.

It received 4 million in 6200 days in the first weekend. Although many people were scolding, the box office performance was really impressive, and there were even long queues in many places across the country.

In contrast, "How to Steal the Key", which has a strong reputation, has the worst box office performance:
1000 million on the first day.

1400 million the next day.

1400 million on the third day.

1500 million on the fourth day,
"How to Steal the Key" won a total of 5300 million box office in four days in the first weekend.

Although the total box office is still the lowest, the peak box office of the other two films all occurred on the second day of the film's release. Among the three films, only Li Mu's film "How to Steal the Key" has a box office that is higher every day.

At the same time, the Internet began to be flooded with calls for the movie "How to Steal the Key" twice and three times, and because the attendance rate has been maintained at a high position, all major theaters and theaters have also begun to increase the number of "The Keys" by coincidence. The filming of How to Steal the Key.

With the passage of time, "The King of Kung Fu" gradually showed signs of lack of succession, while "Yangtze River No. [-]" achieved stable results, while "The Way to Steal the Key" gradually showed a tendency to counterattack.

(End of this chapter)