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Chapter 439: The Great Wall: Part 1 was released, with a box office of million on the first day

The movie "The Great Wall: Part Two" is definitely the most watched movie this year.

On the day of the film's release, Li Yu, Da Tiantian, the film's heroine, and other leading actors including Fu Dalong disguised themselves as ordinary audience members and donated a few movie tickets.

Although they had already seen the final cut of the movie, the mentality of watching it in the cinema and watching it within the company after it was released was definitely different.

Going to the cinema gives you a better sense of the atmosphere for watching movies.

Da Tiantian is generally in a nervous mood.

In the first part, her role was not particularly important, but in the second part, she is the absolute heroine. She has a heavy burden in the movie.

"Calm down, you've acted really well."

Before entering the screening room, Li Yu noticed that Da Tiantian was a little nervous, so he comforted her.

To be honest, Li Yu thinks that Da Tiantian’s performance in “The Great Wall” series is really good.

Of course, the premise is not to compare Da Tiantian’s acting skills with those actresses who are famous for their good acting skills. After all, Da Tiantian’s main focus is her appearance and money.

Moreover, for this kind of commercial blockbuster, it's fine as long as the actors' acting skills are not so bad that the audience is distracted.

With Li Yu's support throughout, Da Tiantian's performance in "The Great Wall" is definitely above the passing line.

After entering the screening hall, Li Yu, Da Tiantian and others found their seats and sat down.

They were considered to have arrived relatively early, and within a minute after they sat down, the number of viewers in the screening room increased.

The cinema that Li Yu and his group came to is a very famous cinema in Beijing. The screen in the screening room is more than 20 meters wide and more than 10 meters high, and can accommodate nearly 400 spectators.

Before the movie was shown, leading actors such as Da Tiantian and Fu Dalong, who disguised themselves as audience members, found that the attendance rate was surprisingly high.

Basically, except for some particularly bad and undesirable seats that were empty, the rest of the seats were full of people.

A rough calculation shows that there are about three hundred forty to fifty people in this screening room.

After a while, the movie officially began.

After the logos and dragon logos of investment and production companies such as Hualiu Company and China Film Group appeared, the plot of the movie was seamlessly connected to the previous part.

At the end of the first part, it is mentioned that the First Emperor burned books and buried scholars alive. Those Confucian scholars he buried alive were equivalent to the ancient version of public intellectuals, who had received benefits from the heavens or had been brainwashed, and were questioning their bodies every day.

However, the First Emperor's Crown Prince Fusu was a very kind and Confucian person.

He advised the First Emperor to stop burning books and burying scholars alive, which angered the First Emperor.

The audience is very familiar with this kind of plot because it is similar to the history that everyone knows.

The First Emperor originally wanted to send Fusu to the north to supervise Meng Tian's army to guard the Great Wall border, so that he could see how fierce the foreign enemies were.

At this time, the Qin princess played by Da Tiantian volunteered to guard the border.

In the setting, the Qin princess played by Da Tiantian is the person most like the First Emperor, and is not at all as kind and weak as Fusu.

So the First Emperor sent his daughter and son Fusu, who were most like him, to the north.

The plot is still similar to the historical one, except that there is an original character played by Da Tiantian.

When he arrived at the border, Fusu, who usually devoted himself to reading books of sages, realized that the northern border was far more dangerous than he had imagined.

He always felt that his father was wrong to build the Great Wall on such a large scale and at the expense of the people's efforts.

In his opinion, those people on the grassland were "barbarians" who couldn't even make armor and bronze swords. Why did they need a famous general like Meng Tian to lead an army of 300,000 elite soldiers to suppress them?
In short, when he arrived at the Great Wall, his cognition was completely overturned.

Even more subversive are the powerful enemies outside the Great Wall...

120 minutes later, the film "The Great Wall: Part II" conquered the audience in the theater with its explosive plot and top domestic production standards.

Many viewers looked excited when they left the theater. Not to mention them, even Da Tiantian, who had already seen the final cut, was still excited when she watched the released version today.

"Li Yu, you took such a handsome picture of me. I look so beautiful, cool and handsome."

Da Tiantian said excitedly.

The battle at the Great Wall in the second part is very exciting and thrilling. Da Tiantian is no longer the cheerleader who jumped off the Great Wall with a hula hoop on her neck to die, but a female general clad in armor and with unparalleled archery skills. She is naturally cool and beautiful.

Fu Dalong's concern was more profound than Da Tiantian's. He asked Li Yu curiously, "Director Li, if there is a third part of The Great Wall, what will the plot be like? Did the First Emperor and the Qin State really defeat the Emperor of Heaven?"

"There won't be a third film. The Great Wall is just a commercial special effects film. To put it bluntly, it's a popcorn movie.

You don’t need to delve into it so much, or the audience won’t be satisfied if you continue filming.”

That’s what a cool movie is like, just stop at the right point.

It wouldn't be fun if you took it too seriously.

For example, in "Avengers", Thanos said that he caused half of the population in the universe to disappear randomly because there were not enough resources to be distributed, which triggered countless wars for resources in the universe.

As long as half of the population disappears, there will be enough resources to be divided, and the remaining people will enter a happy world without war.

The Avengers, composed of the protagonist group, successfully killed Thanos and prevented his plan.

The universe returns to a state of high population and low resources, and the number of people who die in the war may not be less than those killed by Thanos with a single snap of his fingers.

You can't just film those cruel plots that the audience doesn't like to watch, right?

If you really want to shoot it that way, you might as well start a new path and make an art film.

For a popcorn movie, it is enough for the audience to see the protagonist defeat the boss and feel happy.

The next day, the rating of "The Great Wall: Part II" came out, which was similar to the first part, only 8.5 points.

A special effects blockbuster that can make the audience feel good will definitely be a commercial success.

So it’s no surprise that The Great Wall: Part II grossed a staggering 1 million yuan on its first day.

The first domestic movie with a single-day box office of over 100 million yuan was born.

"1 million on the first day, a new milestone for Chinese-language films. Li Yu's film has once again broken the first-day box office record for Chinese-language films."

"The Great Wall is so strong. It is worthy of being a work that Director Li has spent so much time polishing."

"The Great Wall grossed 1 million yuan on its first day, and audiences in major cities across the country reported that it was too difficult to get tickets."

Even Wu Jing and others who were far away in Siam were almost shocked when they learned about the first-day performance of "The Great Wall: Part II".

"Director Li is really amazing. He made 1 million on the first day. When will I be able to catch up with Director Li?"

Wu Jing sighed.

His "Wolf Warrior" grossed over 6 million yuan, and the highest-grossing film directed by Li Yu himself, "The Great Wall: Part 8", grossed over million yuan.

Wu Jing originally thought that if he worked hard, he might be able to surpass Li Yu at the box office like Wang Jing.

After the release of "The Great Wall: Part Two", he felt that he could finally wake up from his Spring and Autumn dream.

1 million on the first day, how can he compare with others?
If Li Yu were here, he would think Wu Jing was being a little self-deprecating.

Although Wu Jing could not catch up with Li Yu in the first-day box office, there was no problem for him to surpass Li Yu in the single-day box office.

His "Wolf Warrior 2" grossed over 9000 million on the first day, and its highest single-day box office was 4.26 million.

The Son of Destiny is no joke.

(End of this chapter)