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Chapter 701 Spring Festival Champion

Although it failed to surpass "Crazy Alien" in the first day box office, "The Wandering Earth" has undoubtedly become the most promising movie in this year's Spring Festival.

The word of mouth for the movie exploded, with a Douban score of 8.6, an audience score of 9.6 on Maoyan Professional Edition, and a score of 9.7 on Tao Piaopiao, ranking first among the eight movies released during the Spring Festival.

The entire Internet is praising "The Wandering Earth", saying things like "awesome special effects", "touching story", "a benchmark for domestic science fiction films", etc.

Countless viewers who have watched the movie turned into tap water and promoted "The Wandering Earth" for free.

In fact, many people have this idea. If they have seen a good movie but their friend has not, they will feel a little proud and then recommend it to their friend very seriously.

"The Wandering Earth" is undoubtedly such a good movie that is worth many people showing off and recommending to people around them.

[After watching the trailer, I thought it was a high-concept, low-cost film, but it far exceeded my expectations.

I never thought that Chinese people could make such a real "hard science fiction" movie. Guo Fan is awesome, Xiao Poqiu is awesome! 】

[The plot is passionate, the imagination is fantastic, and the pictures are magnificent. This is probably the first time that Chinese people lead all mankind to save the world on the screen. It’s really cool to watch! ]

【Go watch The Wandering Earth, you must go!
If I can give it 200 points, I will give it 500 points! 】

[This is a true Liu Cixin original-level plot, a movie that is truly full of Chinese core but can connect to the world's universal values. I cried while watching the last twenty minutes, for the sake of the plot and for the fact that Chinese science fiction has finally made it.

Salute to humanity! 】

[To be honest, I went to the cinema for Gu Wei and Wu Jingjin at first. I wanted to watch a comedy, but I didn’t want to miss their second collaboration. The result really shocked me.

I never thought that this was a science fiction movie made by Chinese people. It feels much better than "Wolf Warrior 2".

The grand worldview, the frozen world, the Earth, Jupiter, planetary engines, both the special effects and the plot are at the top level of domestic science fiction films.

No, it should be said that it has surpassed all domestic science fiction films and is unique!
The theme has also been elevated from patriotism to saving the world.

I won’t say much more, it’s awesome! 】

[There were a lot of people in the cinema on the first day of the Chinese New Year. The theater for "The Wandering Earth" was basically full. Not surprisingly, everyone went in laughing and came out with shocked expressions, and many even shed tears.

If domestic science fiction films can reach this level in the future, why would we need to watch Hollywood? We can do it ourselves.

[I went to the cinema with my bestie. I wanted to support Gu Wei's new movie, but we both cried our eyes out. It was such a pity that my grandfather died, and Liu Peiqiang sacrificed himself to save the earth. Gu Wei's works will never disappoint! ]

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Driven by its high reputation and high attendance, on the second day of the Chinese New Year, "The Wandering Earth" had a national screening rate of 24%, surpassing "Crazy Alien". The box office reversed the decline and earned a super high box office of 4.05 million, undoubtedly becoming the box office champion of the day.

“.I am not surprised at all that [The Wandering Earth] has achieved the current success.

Before the film was released, I said that this was a groundbreaking work in the field of domestic science fiction films and a benchmark.

It’s normal that everyone likes it so much.”

At Shanghai Jinyi Cinemas, the crew of "The Wandering Earth" is holding a fan meeting, and Gu Wei has just answered a question from the audience.

"I noticed that in the movie, the coalition government's speeches were always in French instead of English as in normal movies, and there were very few European and American faces in the space station scenes. What was the consideration behind this?" After one question was answered, another audience member stood up and asked.

Although it has only been two days, the plot of "The Wandering Earth" has been analyzed frame by frame by its fans, who are guessing what the various shots represent.

"Let me talk about this." Guo Fan took the microphone.

“In fact, there is no special consideration. The official language of the coalition government in the movie is French because French is the first written language of the United Nations in reality.

The usage of French is very rigorous, and rigorous and important documents such as legal texts are written in French internationally.

At a time like this, when the survival of the Earth is at stake, the United Nations government cannot afford to make any mistakes in its instructions, so it is only natural that the solemn, full and rigorous French language would appear."

What Guo Fan said makes sense, but French is the first written language and English is the first spoken language.

Of course there are some other considerations for not using English, but it is difficult to say it directly.

Not long after, the meeting at Jinyi Cinema ended, and the main creators of "The Wandering Earth" came out of the cinema and got in the car to go to the next roadshow location.

Although the roadshow activities have been arranged quite intensively in recent days, the film's performance is so good that everyone feels like they have been injected with chicken blood and does not feel tired at all.

At night, in the hotel room, Gu Wei came out of the bathroom after taking a shower.

On the sofa in the living room, Meng Ziyi, wearing light yellow pajamas, sat cross-legged, holding a pad, and sliding her fingers slowly.

"What are you looking at?" Gu Wei sat down next to her and put his arms around Sister Meng's slender waist.

".Maoyan has raised the box office forecast for our film to 41 billion."

"Not surprising, I've said before that The Wandering Earth deserves this result."

"Today, many people posted some negative comments online. I read them carefully and found that many of them were just talking nonsense."

"What did they say?" Gu Wei asked curiously.

"Look." Meng Ziyi clicked twice and slowly slid his finger across the screen.

[It’s really tacky. The most important thing for a science fiction film is never technology, but imagination and aesthetics! ]

[The special effects are not awkward, but the execution of the action scenes is awkward. I can't understand the cause and effect and what is actually going on. I'll take this opportunity to learn from Cameron while he's giving me some polite compliments! ]

[What the hell, with this level of ideology, let's not make a sci-fi movie. You're not afraid of being laughed at by foreigners. I'm really impressed! ] [Old men and young men are collectively celebrating saving the earth.]

[It is still far from the kind of high-level science fiction film I expected, full of humanity, scientific wisdom and aesthetics.

Once again, I sigh that Kubrick is really awesome, Ray is so worthy of respect, and Nolan is really irreplaceable! 】

"How could they do this? We worked so hard to achieve the current effect, but they belittled it to the point of being worthless." Meng Ziyi's face was puffed up, and the way she pouted while speaking was also very cute.

"Haha, that's normal~
There is no perfect movie in this world.

You have to believe in species diversity. There are all kinds of people in this world. No matter how well you do, there will naturally be people who like you and people who hate you.

When we make a movie, it’s enough as long as the majority of ordinary audiences like it. We don’t need to pay attention to those “self-righteous”, “attention-seeking” and “people who have been kneeling for too long”.

They can only revel in their own world.

Of course, I am not saying that those who don’t like our movies are necessarily bad, it’s just that most of the comments you read are from people who have been kneeling for too long and can’t stand up anymore.”

Gu Wei put his arm around Meng Ziyi's waist and inserted it through the gap in her clothes.

"You're right. It's not worth it if they try to make me angry." Meng Ziyi put the pad in his hand aside and turned to look at Gu Wei.

Then he smiled mischievously and slowly lowered his head.

In the following days, the box office of "The Wandering Earth" continued to rise. Starting from the second day of the Chinese New Year, the daily box office exceeded 5 million for five consecutive days. Its strong box office performance shocked many domestic filmmakers.

At the end of the 7-day Spring Festival holiday, the total box office of "The Wandering Earth" reached 23.8 billion yuan, and Maoyan once again raised its box office forecast for the film to 45 billion yuan.

Compared with the absolute top movie "The Wandering Earth", "Crazy Alien", which won the single-day box office championship on the first day, seemed a bit weak in the later stages.

The total box office during the six-day Spring Festival holiday was 6 billion yuan. The daily box office fell rapidly, and the box office expectations dropped from 13.8 billion yuan before the release to 40 billion yuan, which disappointed many people.

[Crazy Alien] has average word of mouth and a Douban score of only 6.6, so after getting the highest score on the first day, the box office has been declining.

When they were filming "The Wandering Earth", "Crazy Alien" was next door to them, and Gu Wei had also seen this movie.

In fact, to put it simply, "Crazy Alien" is a qualified New Year's comedy.

The main reason why audiences are dissatisfied now is that the early publicity was too much and everyone had too high expectations for the combination of Ning Hao, Huang Bo and Shen Teng.

It's like you found a state banquet chef and hoped he would cook you a banquet, but he ended up serving you a plate of fried rice.

Although the taste was good, the gap in my heart was too big and I naturally felt dissatisfied.

Ning Hao's first two crazy comedies, "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Racing", both use coincidences to make impossible things happen in an irrefutable way, thus creating funny and absurd comedy effects.

The underlying logic of [Crazy Alien] is also the same, but there are some loopholes in the processing, which makes people feel that it is forced to be funny, lacking the natural feeling of comedy effect caused by the coincidence of fate.

The reputation and ratings of this drama are not as good as the previous two.

It is only because Ning Hao is now a big comedy director in the domestic entertainment industry, and the starring actors Huang Bo and Shen Teng are the top stars in the field of comedy movies, that they can get such high box office results during the good period of the Spring Festival.

But then again, even if the word of mouth was not good and the box office did not meet expectations, "Crazy Alien" did not lose money.

Because long before the movie was released, the producer Bad Monkey had already signed a guaranteed distribution contract of 28 billion with Lekaihua Pictures.

Ning Hao had already put the money in his pocket, but Baoqiang suffered. The final box office of the movie was less than 28 billion yuan. Not only did he not make a penny, he even had to lose some money.

"Speeding Life" is the movie with the best reputation in the Spring Festival period except for "The Wandering Earth".

The box office in 6 days was 13 billion, which is not much different from "Crazy Earth", and it is slowly catching up.

Han Han has truly established his brand through several films he has directed.

Even if a low-rated movie like "Four Seas" is produced later, "Speeding Life 2" can still restore its reputation.

[The New King of Comedy] is undoubtedly a bad movie in terms of its performance. The box office dropped by two-thirds after the first day, and it was widely criticized online.

Zhou Xingchi was a little too anxious. He signed a bet agreement with New Culture Company, guaranteeing each company's annual profit, otherwise he would lose money.

So after "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" failed to achieve the desired results, he hurriedly started this "The New King of Comedy".

It seems like they are just trying to rehash old stuff to make money.

Due to the rush, the filming of the movie was relatively rough and it felt like an online movie.

".The guarantee is a gamble. It is normal to win and lose. Besides, the movie is still in theaters. It is uncertain how much the box office will be in the end. There is no need to be sad now.
You can arrange your schedule yourself, and I will reserve a small portion of the investment share for you.

Thank you, this is what you should take."

After finishing the roadshow and returning to the crew of "Life Events" to film, Gu Wei called Bao Qiang, mainly to discuss with him the filming of "Detective Chinatown 3" in the first half of the year.

As a result, after just a few words on the phone, Baoqiang started complaining to him about his failed bet on "Crazy Alien" and the criticism he received for his performance in "The New King of Comedy". Gu Wei had no choice but to comfort him with a few words.

[Detective Chinatown] This series of movies has reached the third film, and Wang Baoqiang must be given a share of the investment.

In fact, he should have given it in the second part, but Wang Baoqiang was going through a marriage crisis at the time, and Gu Wei helped him a lot, so he didn't feel comfortable mentioning it.

Now that they are going to shoot the third part, it is impossible for Gu Wei to follow Xu Zheng's example and replace him. There is almost no one in the entertainment industry who can replace the role of Bao Qiang, so he simply spoke up before Bao Qiang asked.

(End of this chapter)