China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 232 5 billion in 6.7 days, the movie with the best score of the king
After returning to the world of source code many times, the male protagonist played by Andy Lau finally found the terrorists, but because of the sudden appearance of the female protagonist played by Song Jia, he was distracted, and was eventually shot by the terrorists. The heroine played was not spared either.

The male lead played by Andy Lau is lying in a pool of blood, and as far as he can see, is the female lead who is also lying in a pool of blood. Li Mu’s version of the female lead is called Lin Na. The male lead said, Lin Na, stay by my side, stay with me , Lin Na shed tears, the hero Andy Lau, named Shi Wenzhou in the movie, said: "Everything will be fine, this is not over yet."

The heroine also said this sentence to him before, and now the protagonist said it, which means that the protagonist has made up his mind to save the heroine, including the passengers on that train.

Even if this is meaningless and useless work in the eyes of people in the real world, because in the eyes of people in the real world, these are dead people, and people cannot be resurrected after death.

At this time, the male protagonist may faintly feel that the source code creates a parallel world, and maybe think that the female officer and the crippled officer are right, and the source code creates only a virtual world, but this does not affect his desire to save everyone and make peace with him. The heroine's determination to be together.

No matter what people in the real world think, at least in his eyes, this is a group of real people.

When the broadcast was here, Andy Lau secretly turned his head and glanced behind him, and found that most of the audience's eyes were on the big screen. Except for a very few people who were whispering to their friends, most of the rest were in a very good state. silence.

This is a clip that Andy Lau likes very much, and it is also where he felt that he performed very well during the filming. He thought that the audience might like it too, so he couldn't help turning his head to see the audience's reaction. Unfortunately, most of the audience did not like it. There was no reaction, and I don't know whether the audience likes it or not.

If it is a comedy movie, the audience will not be able to help bursting into bursts of laughter when it reaches the hilarious point.

If it is a visual blockbuster, when the most shocking picture is broadcast, the audience will "I am grass" again and again.

But "Source Code" is very troublesome. The audience will neither burst out laughing nor "I'm sorry", so do the audience like it or not?
At least Andy Lau was a little uncertain.

Back to the movie plot.

Next, the male protagonist, named Shi Wenzhou in the movie, returned to the siege fort again, and told the female officer and the lame doctor who were anxiously waiting for the result: He found the suspect!

The special police in the real world are dispatched immediately, the suspect is quickly captured, the crisis is resolved, the lame doctor is full of ambitions, and the revolution triggered by the source code is just showing its brilliance. The protagonist bluntly stated that the lame officer had no intention of letting him return to the world of source code again, and the female officer said that she had not yet received an order.

The hero asks the female officer to send him into the source code world again, and then ends his life after 8 minutes. The female officer sympathizes with the hero’s experience, and also understands his treatment of Lin Na—that is, the woman who has died in her eyes. feelings, so she agreed to help the lame doctor.

The male lead said: "I'm begging you, I'm begging you to send me there, and then turn me off... 8 minutes is enough!"

The female officer hesitated. Doing so might ruin her future, but in the end, conscience prevailed, and the male protagonist entered the world of source code again.

After the actor solved all the crises cleanly, he took out all the money on his body, betting that the comedian played by Zhou Xingchi would not be able to make the whole train laugh, and the comedian accepted the challenge.

While the comedian was trying to make everyone laugh, he called the heroine, Lin Na, to the entrance of the carriage and asked her what she would do if she had only one minute left in her life.

Lin Na said that she would count down, but the protagonist said that he would kiss her again, and then he actually kissed her.

In the real world, when 8 minutes are up, the female officer presses the red button to end the protagonist's life.

The picture freezes at this moment, the camera zooms out slowly, and everyone on the train is laughing.

In the theater, Zhou Xingchi next to Li Mu was watching very seriously, Liu Yifei shook Li Mu's hand, and Liu Dehua on the other side turned his head to look behind him again.

This is his favorite scene in the whole film. He didn't feel deeply when shooting it, but he was deeply shocked after seeing the edited scene. At this moment, he wants to know whether the feelings of the audience are the same as him.

But obviously this time he still failed to do what he wanted, not because the audience didn't like it, but because he simply couldn't know what the audience really thought.

Most of the audience is just staring at the big screen in front of them. Unless you have mind reading skills, it is impossible to know what the audience really thinks.

Do you like it or not?

Perhaps the only way to get an answer is to ask the audience after the movie is over.

When the scene of the main character lying on the life support system with only his upper body left was broadcast, there was a lot of exclamation in the theater, and many audience members were whispering to each other, but compared to the whole film, one or two such exclamations seemed to be nothing at all. It means nothing.

The screen returns to the car again.

In the freeze-frame picture, the hero and heroine are still kissing together, and then the picture moves. After the switch is pressed in the real world, the world of source code has not disappeared—the source code has created a brand new world!

Liu Yifei is among the passers-by that the hero and heroine meet after getting off the car. In the movie, she is still called Liu Yifei, but her identity has changed from a celebrity to an ordinary salesperson.

When Liu Yifei appeared on the stage, the atmosphere in the whole theater suddenly became extremely lively, everyone looked very excited, and many people happily discussed with the people around them.

At the end of the film, the female officer suddenly received an email, which said that he and the female officer prevented a terrorist attack together, and also named the terrorist.

The female officer took the mail to find Dr. Lame, but just saw the news of the capture of terrorists being reported on TV, so she believed the content of the mail.

The email said:

"If you can get this email, it means that the source code is better than you and the doctor expected. You think you can reproduce the past events in 8 minutes, but you don't. You have created a brand new world. If I guess right If so, somewhere in the source code world, you will find Captain Shi Wenzhou who is waiting for a mission, promise me to assist him, and do me another favor, tell him everything will be fine."

The movie is over.

Looking at the subtitles that began to appear on the big screen, Andy Lau felt complicated.

"Source Code" is the most serious, devoted and promising work he has filmed in recent years. If nothing else, this should be his highest-grossing work since his debut, but...

These are all theoretical, and now he is not sure what the audience thinks.

Decades of working experience told him that in many cases, the reality is not that your most promising movie will definitely get more recognition and get the highest box office.Things that look good but get poor grades, things that don’t look good but get good grades happen every [-] million days in this industry.

He is very optimistic about "Source Code", one is that he really likes the plot of the movie, and the other is that it is a work written by Li Mu.

Li Mu is a very amazing young man. In the ever-changing film industry, he has never failed since his debut. Andy Lau does not believe that "Source Code" will be Li Mu's first failed film by such a coincidence.

So "Source Code" has a high probability of success, but where did the audience get the most enthusiastic response during the film's broadcast?
It was Li Mu's face that appeared when the protagonist looked in the mirror, it was the audience who found Zhou Xingchi's figure in the train carriage, or it was Liu Yifei who suddenly appeared at the end of the film.

On the contrary, the episodes he is most optimistic about, the plots that he is most satisfied with, have not seen any special reactions from the audience.

So the audience only like the clips where Li Mu, Zhou Xingchi, and Liu Yifei appear?Or do you like the whole movie as much as you do?
Just when Andy Lau was still not sure about the audience's reaction, behind him, a large number of audience members stood up spontaneously, and then enthusiastic applause sounded from every corner of the theater.

Andy Lau sensed something, he stood up hastily, turned around to face the audience behind him, what caught his eyes were excited, excited, warm faces, everyone seemed to be applauding.

Andy Lau kept clasping his hands together to thank all the audience, and all the main creators on the scene also thanked the applauding audience,

The lights in the screening hall were turned on, Andy Lau, Fan Wei and other main creators walked to the stage quickly, and the host first handed the microphone to Andy Lau.

"thank you very much……"

After saying these four words, he stopped, because the applause from the audience continued.

"Thank you so much...Thank you all for coming to the premiere of "Source Code" and thank you for liking the movie..."

When Andy Lau said "thank you very much" for the second time, the applause gradually subsided, and everyone began to sit back in their seats one after another.

In fact, during the screening of the film premiere, the audience will usually stand up and applaud at the end of the show: firstly, most of the people who can come to the premiere have a certain recognition for the main creative team; Individuals will instinctively give a little face to those who are close to them.

Therefore, the applause of the audience at the movie premiere does not mean that the movie must be really good. Only after the movie is officially released, in an ordinary theater without the main creator of the movie, ordinary audiences can still stand up and applaud spontaneously after the movie ends. Movies are truly phenomenal movies.

There are very few films in history that can reach this level.

Domestically recognized, "Avatar" directed by Cameron is counted as one, and "Gravity" directed by Li Mu is also counted as one.

When these two films were released, after the film was played, there were really many theaters where the audience spontaneously stood up and applauded enthusiastically.

At that time, almost everyone was deeply shocked by the epoch-making 3D technology of these two films.

But that's not to say that the applause at the premiere was really meaningless.

From the duration of the applause, the proportion of the audience applauding, the number of audience members standing up spontaneously, etc., it is still possible to see the audience's recognition of a film.

Just like the current "Source Code", when the subtitles just started to appear on the big screen, a large number of ordinary audiences stood up in the theater, followed by very warm and extremely lasting applause. After the interaction, the applause on the scene did not stop, and even Andy Lau's initial speech was interrupted by this applause.

By the time you get here, most people can already see the huge potential of this film.

On the stage, Andy Lau, who had greatly increased his confidence, worked hard to interact with the audience; off the stage, Liu Yifei leaned into Li Mu's ear and whispered, "If there really is a parallel world, what career would I be?"

Li Mu thought about it for a moment, and said, "Star!"

Liu Yifei smiled and said, "How do you know? Maybe I really became a salesperson? Or a pet doctor?"

Li Mu's eyes fell on her face, he stretched out his hand to brush away a strand of hair hanging down his cheek, and said, "Don't you usually look in the mirror? Look at yourself, such a beautiful face, if you really become a salesperson , I'm afraid scouts across the country can break through the doors of your part-time job store."

"Nonsense, I'm not as beautiful as you say, you are..." Liu Yifei smiled and punched Li Mu, "You are...beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

After a while, Liu leaned over again and asked, "What about you, if there were parallel worlds, what would you do?"

Li Mu said very seriously: "I think I will still be a director, but I may not have such a big achievement now, and I may only be able to control a small crew with an investment of 5000 million at most. He was fired because of the heroine's words, let's meet in general, who can say for sure?"

Liu Yifei smiled and said: "That's really tragic, the dignified director Li Da was fired because of the heroine's words."

Li Mu smiled and said: "Let's say it's miserable, sometimes I may feel very aggrieved, but most of the time it's still very comfortable, don't take the director position that can get 5000 million investment projects too seriously. In my eyes, among other things, how many actresses are willing to...do you know for a role without a few lines? — Master Xing, what do you think of this movie?"

Sensing Liu's gaze, Li Mu suddenly stopped talking and changed the subject, chatting with Zhou Xingchi next to him.

Just now Zhou Xingchi watched the interaction between Li Mu and Liu Yifei, and suddenly thought of many past events in his mind, and then an inexplicable feeling of regret flooded into his heart.

It just so happens that "Source Code" tells the story of a parallel world, and he couldn't help thinking: "Maybe in the parallel world, I have the opportunity to live happily like them! Should I?"

After the premiere, there were a lot of comments about the movie on the Internet that night.

"No spoilers, a masterpiece, highly recommended!"

""Source Code" made it a complete joke for someone who said before that Li Mu was a director who relied on huge amounts of money to make "Inception" and "Gravity" with 1.4 million US dollars! " The investment in Source Code is very small. Many domestic directors can raise this level of investment, but except for Li Mu, no one can make a sci-fi film of the level of "Source Code"! Li Mu previously gave to colleagues across the country Demonstrated how to make a top sci-fi blockbuster with more than 1 million US dollars; this time Li Mu used 3000 million US dollars to demonstrate to his counterparts across the country that there is no investment of more than 1 million US dollars, he Li Mu is still the king of science fiction movies in China! "

"No, the director of "Source Code" doesn't seem to be Li Mu, right?"

"Yes, but he is a soul!"

"Highly recommended! The cast is strong - Andy Lau, Fan Wei, Yang Ziqiong, Li Mu, Zhou Xingchi, Liu Yifei, with this cast, let me ask you, is it worth watching in theaters?"

Soon some netizens raised doubts.

"Starring Li Mu, Zhou Xingchi, Liu Yifei? Robot answer? Where are Li Mu, Zhou Xingchi, Liu Yifei?"

"That is, if there are really these three people, can the crew not desperately promote it?"

Soon some netizens explained:
"Actually, what he said is really true, these three people have really shown up, and Master Xing has quite a lot of roles in it!"

And then, the entire internet went viral.

"I don't care, there are really these three people? Then I must go and see!"

"Nice, I thought I'd watch it later, now? Anyway, I can't wait, so I'll buy a ticket right away!"

"After looking through many posts, running several forums, and browsing several post bars, it seems that the word-of-mouth of "Source Code" has really exploded. I will watch it tomorrow!"

"It is said that at the premiere, Li Muwen gently brushed Liu Yifei's hair, and the audience at the scene were so sweet!"

"It's true. I was at the scene. At that time, Master Xing was fascinated by the scene of the two of them showing their affection. Thinking of Master Xing's relationship experience, I felt that scene was very sad."

……

Andy Lau finally felt the joy of starring in Huashang films.

"Source Code" premiered on Wednesday, with a single-day box office of 1.425 million.

On the second day, Thursday, the single-day box office was 1.134 million.

On the third day, Friday, the single-day box office was 1.221 million.

On the fourth day, Saturday, the single-day box office was 1.572 million.

On the fifth day, Sunday, the single-day box office was 1.352 million.

The film was released for five days, and the domestic box office was 6.7 million. Although this included a certain amount of ticket subsidies, this box office figure still surprised Andy Lau and Liu Tianwang.

His previous two consecutive films only had a total box office of 6000 to 1.5 million, but "Source Code" broke [-] million in a single day!
His previous highest-grossing film was "Di Renjie: The Empire of Heaven", which was released last year and directed by Xu Ke, with a total box office of 2.86 million. As a result, "Source Code" broke this record in just three days after its release!

"House of Flying Daggers" was considered a box office miracle that year, so what is its total box office? 1.56 million!Now "Source Code" can reach 1.57 million box office in a single day? !

(End of this chapter)