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Chapter 716 "Infernal Affairs 3" sparks controversy!

In a blink of an eye, the National Day Golden Week is here.

According to the agreement with domestic audiences, "Infernal Affairs 3" will be released as scheduled.

At the same time, the production of "Coco" is basically over, leaving only the final review part.

The review is divided into two parts, one is an internal review, and the details are checked over and over again. If there are any minor problems, there is still time to correct them. If the problem is found after the release, it will be Over.

Another is to submit for review to film agencies in dozens of countries around the world.

Movies released in some countries and regions do not require censorship. For example, in some states of the United States, theaters can release them at will, but some conservative states require censorship, especially animation films. If they are not strictly classified, they will worry about children. cause adverse effects.

At the same time, "Coco" and "Peppa Pig" were also sent to the Italian animation exhibition. This animation exhibition will be held for a month, and thousands of animation productions around the world will gather and submit. The sponsor will discuss and watch the submitted works in advance, so that high-quality cartoons can be nominated as soon as possible.

On the second day of the exhibition, Li Zhifan got the news that "Coco" was nominated for the Best Animated Feature Film at the Italian Animation Festival, and "Peppa Pig" was nominated for the Best Animated Series.

Both animations were nominated, and Simon was the most confused.

In his opinion, it is impossible for a cartoon like "Peppa Pig" to be favored by the judges, right?
And this animation has caused a lot of controversy on the Internet. Some people think it is a return to basics, while others think it is a retrograde work at this time.

If the same plot and the same content are replaced by 3D production, I am afraid there will not be so many complaints.

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domestic.

"Infernal Affairs 3" earned a box office of 1.2 million on its first day of release.

It won the first place on the first day of the National Day file, but with the release of "Infernal Affairs 3", the trend of netizens' comments has taken a turn for the worse.

"Excessive!"

"A peerless rotten movie with a lot of beautiful actresses and beauties, but it's a scumbag sequel that overdraws the super IP of "Infernal Affairs" to swindle money. One undercover agent after another is blindly undercover and undercover. The undercover is unimaginable, divorced from reality, outrageously mentally retarded, and pretentious. MD , Chen Guanjun shot himself in the neck and he didn't die? He still has a split personality? It's thunderous! Li Zhifan keeps winking, a mess of big bad movies, Li Zhifan is here, and he made such a bad movie to fool people!"

"No wonder it was released so soon. It turned out to be a spoof. I really wonder if Li Zhifan filmed it!"

"It's a living person for a while, and a dead person for a while. I don't understand a lot of places. Is it because I have a low IQ?"

"The third part is really a continuation. Why are there so many characters and so many clues in such a mess? I like Li Zhifan very much, but there is no need for you to appear in the third part. The main characters are Chen Guanjun and another policeman who decides to investigate him. Now, Li Zhifan, wouldn't it be great if you can be the director safely and steadily?"

"It's such a nonsense movie. Zhou Shilei is ranked fourth in the cast, but the whole story is presented from his point of view from beginning to end, and the span is too big. The first part is actually what happened in the middle two months. The sudden skipping of these two months made me feel dazed in the cinema, and I couldn't take it back later, so I endured watching it in the cinema."

"Tiger-headed snake-tailed, fall short!"

"Shadow, hehe! From then on, Zhou Shilei has been ruined in my heart!"

"Zhou Shilei's image is still suitable to play a gangster from the mainland to Xiangjiang, and his performance is too inconsistent with the mainland police."

"I don't know what to say, I don't know what to add Zhou Shilei to, but I still use him as the perspective, the most annoying thing is that he uses his accent!"

"The Infernal Affairs series ended like this, it's really ruined. But Chen Guanjun played a good role, and the limelight in this one has finally overshadowed Li Zhifan."

"To tell this kind of story, it's better to leave room and keep it mysterious. Jiang Hai was suddenly added to play Sir Yang. In the end, Nima was still a double-faced undercover agent, which confused me."

"..."

Although the negative reviews on the Internet are many times more than the first and second parts, and many times the sum of the first and second negative reviews, there are also many positive reviews. After all, Li Zhifan has made drastic changes to the third part. , It’s just that the audience habitually brought the perspective to Chen Guanjun or Li Zhifan, which made them not used to it.

Moreover, Zhou Shilei's role is far less than that of Chen Guanjun, so there are many blanks and transitions in the middle, which will make some audiences not understand who is the protagonist.

In fact, if you watch the third movie directly without the first two movies, you won’t have such a problem, because this kind of movie narrative technique using the third person’s perspective is not new. The narrative perspective of many movies is the son, but The protagonist of the story is his parents, this kind of audience can accept it, why not in "Infernal Affairs 3"?
Or because this part of the audience has become accustomed to the first two stories.

With Li Zhifan changing the narrative method, smart viewers can still understand it at once. When they see the bad reviews on the Internet shouting "I don't understand" and "the dog's tail continues", they immediately become righteous keyboard warriors and fight against bad reviews. keyboard dog.

""Infernal Affairs 3" is actually the prequel and sequel of "Infernal Affairs 1". There are three bright characters behind the black screen in the middle: Six months later, everything has been explained. If you don't understand it, you probably didn't read it carefully and didn't bring it with you. From the perspective of the brain, this movie is the IQ of screening the audience in the true sense."

"The third part actually perfectly interprets the meaning of the so-called "Infernal Hell". The self-punishment comes from the depths of the soul, and it is always lingering in the demons, unable to extricate itself. The plot is also the most intricate and confusing one among the three. People have to use their brains to judge the hint and logic of every detail. The whole story uses the illusion technique of split personality, which achieves the director's goal very well. The editing and arrangement are very reasonable and full of taste. Infernal Affairs, these three works are worthy It is called a milestone of Hong Kong-style police and gangster movies."

"Second time, I didn't understand after watching the premiere. I went home and watched the first and second parts again. I made a lot of notes and homework compared with the third part. When I watched the third part again , I can barely understand, there are a lot of interlaced timelines using memory techniques in the middle, and Chen Guanjun's split personality, and there are so many characters on the stage, it seems very chaotic. But this one is more classic, and the artistic achievement is even in the first More than one chapter, Zhou Shilei has a lot of connotations, I am afraid that netizens have to study it carefully."

"Zeng Yuanjiang is like a god! He thought of everything, and Jiang Hai's death in the end was not worth it."

"There is no time, no space. Time and space travel freely in this film, which makes the story more regular. The conflict between good and evil is extremely obvious in Liu Jianming. He constantly denies his self-identity and fantasizes as a good policeman Chen Yongren, typing Morse code in a nursing home. It sadly shows that he really wants to be a good person. Yang Jinrong's final identity exposure and death are also interesting. The ending is really good, the fate of the three young people intertwined for 12 years, Chen and Liu enjoyed the nostalgic singing side by side..."

"..."

For audiences who watch movies just to relax, rather than to use their brains to think about the connotation of the story, watching a movie may really not be suitable. Even if there are already plot analysis and spoilers on the Internet, it still cannot attract their enthusiasm and interest. .

As a result, the box office of "Infernal Affairs 3" began to decline rapidly from the third day.

This phenomenon was expected by Li Zhifan a long time ago, but whether the combined box office of the trilogy can exceed that of "Wolf Warrior" is also what he thinks.

But at present, it seems that it is impossible.

The combined box office of the first two films reached 47 billion. With so many negative reviews, the third film has already formed a trend of collapse. Whether it can break 10 billion is a problem. It is still difficult to think of breaking 13 billion.

But even so, "Infernal Affairs 3" also earned 5.7 million box office during the seven days of Golden Week, of which 1.2 million was contributed on the first day, which means that it only sold 4.5 million in the next six days. This is the worst failure since Li Zhifan set foot in directing.

But Li Zhifan did not mention or make any news about "Infernal Affairs 3". The fast blog only announced it on the day of its release, and judging from the content, it is completely written by the studio and is extremely official. This cannot be doubted , is there any inside story in the third part?
With such doubts, many netizens came to ask this question:
"Zhifan, was the third part forced to be filmed?"

"Did the sponsor blackmail you?"

"Yeah, otherwise, how could it be so much lower than the expectations of the first and second parts?"

"And so many characters have been added, could it be that someone brought money into the group?"

"It shouldn't be possible? Both Zhou Shilei and Jiang Hai are good friends of Li Zhifan, and Jiang Hai is also an artist under Timeline, so how could it be a sideways character?"

"I think Jiang Hai's performance is very good, and the role of Sir Yang is also very necessary. After all, Chen Yongren is dead and cannot be resurrected. We can only film his memories. In the follow-up, there must be a person of justice and Liu Jianming. Just now! It’s just that the role of Zhou Shilei is a bit inexplicable, and it also involves the mainland, but it’s better not to be involved.”

"It's impossible not to be involved. The story of the third part is already after Xiangjiang's return. Whether it's the police or the community in Xiangjiang, they have to be under the leadership and command of the capital, otherwise it will be too discordant."

"..."

After all the messages and questions, Li Zhifan finally spoke up.

He posted a very "cold" message on Kuaibo:

"Since it's the third part, if we still follow the routine of the first and second parts, I'm afraid I will suffer more criticism and complaints. I am a person who likes challenges and don't accept the same. The third part may not be so perfect. But if you want to understand him, you can’t do it once or twice. If you don’t understand it now, you will understand it after watching it in a few years. At that time, you will only miss the scene of watching this movie in the cinema even more Of course, those who haven’t watched it will also regret why they didn’t go to the cinema.”

As soon as this quick blog was posted, many netizens came to leave comments.

"Five years? Oh my god, what a long wait?"

"What exactly is it, Li Zhifan, why don't you write a book and explain it clearly!"

"Yes! If there is any mystery, then this movie is no longer a police movie, but a brain-burning movie!"

"At the beginning, I thought, even if the third part is that the police and the robbers are fighting non-stop with guns on their shoulders. In the end, the villain dies and the good guy wins. I would be happy to watch it with popcorn, but now... …Sorry, I’ll wait until it’s online and watch it again!”

"It's not that difficult to understand. I have already understood it. Let me add another word: I am a PhD candidate at MIT."

"Damn, is there a crowd upstairs? People with high IQs are really awesome, tell us quickly, what's going on?"

"I can only say that this third part is the same as the first two. There is no extra scene, and the connotation is very rich, which reflects the attitude of the central government towards Xiangjiang. Heck, I can only say this. .”

"Thinking too much? Isn't there just one Shen Cheng? Although he is the main perspective, a mainland police can represent the central government?"

"Did you read it carefully? From the beginning to the end, it was said that Shen Cheng was a police officer? In the end, it was only said that his code name was Shadow, whose shadow, don't you know?"

"Oh, I see! . . . No, I'll have to go see it again!"

"..."

Li Zhifan's quick blog was immediately reposted by major media, which successfully drove up the box office of "Infernal Affairs 3". From the next day, the box office, which was about to drop to less than 3000 million, unexpectedly increased against the sky. To 8000 million, attendance has more than tripled.

Although there are still many viewers who can't understand, some went to watch it for the second or third time, and some went to see it for the first time, but everyone went to watch it with an IQ test attitude.

After reading it, some people continued to criticize it, and some regretted it, and began to write positive reviews.

Usually the audience hates spoilers the most, but in "Infernal Affairs 3", it has become a different phase.

Even if the spoilers are almost the same, some people still can't understand, because these spoilers contain the viewer's interpretation and thoughts. There are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand readers, and everyone's interpretation and sense of the same movie is different. It is different, so even if you read other people's interpretations, you will not agree with this interpretation when you read it yourself, and may even produce new interpretations.

In the third week of its release, "Infernal Affairs 3" finally broke through the 10 billion mark. The release time is only one month. The final box office growth may be like squeezing toothpaste. However, the total box office of the trilogy has exceeded 60 billion. Things to see.

On the same day when the timeline celebrated the 10 billion mark, Li Zhifan posted another message on his fast blog——

由他指导、监制、制作的好莱坞动画片《寻梦环游记》，英文名《Coco》，即将全球上映，已定的有：墨西哥为10月25日；美国、菲律宾、克罗地亚、新加坡、加拿大、葡萄牙为11月15日；中国为11月17日；法国、德国、英国、意大利为11月25日、西班牙、阿根廷、以色列、巴西、荷兰、日本为明年1月1日上映。

The first place to be released is Mexico, and it is only 9 days away from today.

(End of this chapter)