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Chapter 411: The duel between masters is often decided by one or two moves

Wang Baoqiang has been very famous since "Soldier Assault", but he is only famous in the television circle.

The television industry and the film industry are two completely different circles.

Huang Xiaoming, who is known as the No. 1 young actor in the mainland, is quite popular in the TV circle, right? He is almost the ceiling of male actors in the TV circle.

As a result, the film's performance was mediocre and had no ability to carry the box office.

Wang Baoqiang is different after "Detective Chinatown".

In the movie "Detective Chinatown", the wretched uncle Tang Ren played by Wang Baoqiang is absolutely the soul character.

Judging from the box office performance of "Detective Chinatown" which grossed 30 million in four hours, Wang Baoqiang is very likely to become famous in the film industry with this movie.

When "Lost in Thailand" was released, all they had to do was put the limited promotional resources on Wang Baoqiang to achieve twice the result with half the effort, making the movie quickly popular.

To sum up, Xu Zheng no longer blames Li Yu for making him miss the Lunar New Year and Spring Festival films.

Just because the compensation Li Yu gave him was surprising enough.

By the next day, the second day of the Chinese New Year, "Journey to the West" no longer had the head start advantage it had on the first day over "Detective Chinatown".

However, the theaters have scheduled more screenings for "Journey to the West" than "Detective Chinatown".

At this time, the disadvantages of "Journey to the West" when encountering strong enemies became apparent.

With "Detective Chinatown" as a strong rival, "Journey to the West" can no longer be as far ahead as it was in the original time and space.

On the second day of the Chinese New Year, the single-day box office of "Journey to the West" dropped to 55 million, and that of "Detective Chinatown" reached nearly 52 million.

It can be seen that the pie is so small, and the cake that "Detective Chinatown" has eaten up is the cake that "Journey to the West" failed to hold on to.

The performance of "Journey to the West" surprised everyone a little.

Despite having a higher number of screenings, its single-day box office was unable to widen the gap with "Detective Chinatown", and its attendance rate even began to decline, while the attendance rate of "Detective Chinatown" increased compared to the first day.

The reason is that the reputation of "Journey to the West" has begun to polarize.

In the eyes of the audience, Stephen Chow is still the comedy king he used to be, and they have higher requirements and expectations for his works.

Everyone thought that Stephen Chow could replicate classic masterpieces like "A Chinese Odyssey".

As a result, the answer given by Stephen Chow was far from everyone's expectations.

First of all, the romance is not as touching as that of "A Chinese Odyssey".

The male and female protagonists have only had a few scenes together, but their relationship has already developed to the point where they will not leave me unless I leave you.

The audience hasn't even gotten into the play yet, but the actors are already reaching their climax.

As for the sense of humor, there is one thing that can make the audience laugh in the cinema.

To say that "Journey to the West" is a bad movie is really unfair to Stephen Chow.

I can only say that this movie is average and above the passing line.

If there were no strong rivals at the same time, relying on Stephen Chow's fame, he might be able to get very good box office results, but the cost would be overdrawing his reputation and sentiments.

If there are strong competitors and the audience has better choices at the same time, everything will be hard to say.

Wang Jing, who was obviously lacking in confidence yesterday, has become more confident today.

He spoke confidently in a small group of people including Li Yu, Shi Shi, Wang Baoqiang and others: "Based on my decades of experience in the industry, I think this battle is over."

Shi Shi: "Director Wang, you are a little overconfident, aren't you? It's only been out for two days, and you're saying the battle is over?"

There was a big question mark in Shi Shi’s little head.

Wang Jing: "What else? I've already said that I recognize Stephen Chow as the best actor in Hong Kong. At least in my personal opinion, his acting skills are No. 1.

But he wants to transform behind the scenes to be a director. I can only say that his level is really just like that, just average, just passable. I can only say that a passable director is still a long way from being an excellent director. "

Li Yu popped up at this time to join the discussion: "Shi Shi, when masters fight, the outcome is often decided by one or two moves.

As Director Wang said, the battle is indeed over.

You can look at what real audiences on the Internet are saying about these two movies.

Detective Chinatown doesn’t deserve the title of a masterpiece, but it’s more than enough to suppress Journey to the West.”

Half-believing and half-doubting, Shi Shi spent half a day observing the real audience comments on social platforms such as Weibo, and she found that it was exactly the same as what Li Yu said.

There are some viewers who cursed "Detective Chinatown", but they are not many, and most of them praised it.

Obviously, there are many more viewers who criticize "Journey to the West" than those who criticize "Detective Chinatown".

On the rating website, the score of "Detective Chinatown" remains above 8.

Viewers on rating websites hate Wang Jing, the king of bad movies.

Many of the movies Wang Jing has made in recent years can only get three or four points.

If it weren't for Director Bi, the goalkeeper of the bad movies, helping Wang Jing to maintain his bottom line, Wang Jing might really be able to challenge for the number one spot in the worst movies in China.

Unfortunately, Director Bi is too talented. He made a movie that was unprecedented as soon as he debuted, and it will be difficult for anyone to surpass it in the future.

From this point of view, Director Bi has achieved his ambition and his name is worthy of being recorded in the history of Chinese film.

Because both the first and the last place are impressive.

In contrast, "Journey to the West" scored a little over 7, but quite a number of people did not give it a very bad score because of Stephen Chow.

If the director was replaced by someone else, "Journey to the West" would definitely not get a score above seven based on its quality.

On the third day of the Chinese New Year, the decline of "Journey to the West" became more obvious, with the single-day box office dropping to 40 million. "Detective Chinatown" further eroded the living space of "Journey to the West", with the single-day box office soaring to 66.2 million.

This is related to the fact that on the third day of the Chinese New Year, the theaters adjusted the screening schedule of "Journey to the West" and gave the vacated screening schedule to "Detective Chinatown".

Capital reacts very quickly. When they realized that "Detective Chinatown" had higher potential and popularity than "Journey to the West", they began to increase their investment in "Detective Chinatown".

The fact that the box office of "Detective Chinatown" surpassed that of "Journey to the West" obviously caught many people by surprise.

The main reason is that everyone’s expectations of Stephen Chow are too high. They think that even if he can’t produce "A Chinese Odyssey", he can at least produce a movie of the level of "Shaolin Soccer" and "Kung Fu".

"The King of Bad Movies has actually surpassed the King of Comedy? I knew that Wang Jing could make some good movies if he worked hard, but I never thought he would be so good that he could even surpass Stephen Chow."

“Because Detective Chinatown is really better than Journey to the West, I went there with the mindset of watching a cheesy comedy.

After all, Wang Jing has made so many bad movies, I'm used to it.

I didn't expect it to be so surprising. The story is quite innovative, the actors' performances are also very good, and most importantly, the jokes are not awkward.

It’s really good to watch this movie during the Chinese New Year. I and other audience members laughed many times during the show I watched.”

"Director Li and Fatty Wang are right. Master Xing is a top-notch actor, but not a good director. Master Xing is really more suitable to be an actor."

The shock of "Detective Chinatown" overtaking "Journey to the West" has not passed for long, and the audience has discovered that "Detective Chinatown" has gone from overtaking "Journey to the West" to crushing it.

Because on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the single-day box office of "Detective Chinatown" exceeded 70 million, striding towards the 80 million mark.

As word of mouth grew and screenings were cut, "Journey to the West" could no longer maintain its 30 million box office, with its single-day box office falling to more than 20 million.

It took less than five days from the record-breaking 70 million on the first day to more than 20 million in a single day. The speed of the decline is staggering.

At this time, Li Yu was planning a big move to push "Detective Chinatown" to a higher peak.

(End of this chapter)