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Internet tycoons prefer "The Three-Body Problem". Naturally, it is not attracted by the plot, and it has nothing to do with the special effects.

The fundamental reason is still some of the concepts stated in the book, which are consistent with the laws of Internet business.

For example, the term "dimensionality reduction attack" became widely circulated later. It is to use one's absolute advantage to put competitors in a completely unsurvivable environment to achieve strategic goals. It is a way of destruction for the attacker against the defender. of blow.

The attack by four-dimensional creatures mentioned in "Three-Body" on three-dimensional creatures like humans, or the attack by three-dimensional creatures like humans on ants (like two-dimensional creatures), the defender is completely unable to resist, and the process is very short, and they are instantly defeated. destroy.

Of course, this is the content of the third part, but it is almost a true portrayal of the competition among Internet companies.

For example, high-frequency applications can quickly defeat low-frequency applications because the former has high user activity, which cannot be compared with the latter. A typical case is Penguin, which relies on QQ's high number of users and high activity to dominate the world.

Another example is the "survival concept", which is simply a truth in the Internet industry. The Matthew effect of "winner takes all" is too obvious. Basically, two or three giants can carve up the entire market in one segment.

Among these concepts, the most famous one at the moment, which is talked about and regarded as a classic by many Internet tycoons, is the "Law of the Dark Forest" described in the second part of "The Three-Body Problem".

Its basic theory is: "Any inconspicuous small civilization can quickly surpass itself through the Big Bang of technology on a cosmic scale."

This point can be said to make many Internet business leaders feel sad.

Since mankind entered the Internet business era, in just twenty or thirty years, industry giants have changed hands several times.

In the United States, giants like Yahoo were quickly surpassed by Google. Google also faces a serious threat from Facebook.

In China, there were first four major portals, and then the rise of Baidu.

However, Baidu, which once had the largest market value in China, quickly fell to the bottom of BAT, with a market value not even half of that of the first two.

It is said that shopping malls are like battlefields, and the competition between Internet companies can really be described as "rising and falling in an instant"!

The universe described in the book "The Three-Body Problem" is such a very cruel and even dark universe, with a strong color of Darwinism.

The ecology of Internet companies is actually basically the same. What they admire is "whoever has a strong fist is the one who has order."

That is to say, there are only two volumes of "The Three-Body Problem" published so far. If you see the arrogant sentence "Destroying you, what does it have to do with you?" in "The Three-Body Problem III", I don't know how many Internet tycoons will applaud and take it as their motto. .

Having already written about this, how can they not praise "The Three-Body Problem"?

With the blessing of such an influential group of "tap water", the box office results of "The Three-Body Problem" naturally exploded. It grossed 71.31 million on the first day of its release, setting a new single-day box office record for domestic films and shocking the Chinese entertainment industry.

Various media outlets sent reporters to major theaters to record the event.

In Beijing, at the Wukesong branch of the China Film Red Cinema Line, an old man was lining up in the crowd, looking relaxed.

The reporter came forward and said: "Hello, uncle, can I interview you?"

"Yes, you say!"

"Excuse me, please come over and queue up. Which movie do you want to watch?"

"Hey, what I'm talking about is, of course, "The Three-Body Problem". Could it be that I'm watching "The Letter of Voting"?"

The reporter was stunned, but he didn't expect that the uncle would praise and slap him. If you are so nagging, you are too topical.

"Why do you say that!"

"The directors in Xiangjiang don't know how to make historical dramas. They're just made up. I don't like watching them! The only actors they have are the same ones over and over again. It makes me tired of watching them!"

"Then when you watch "The Three-Body Problem", do you prefer director Jiang Heng's work?"

“It’s not that I like it that much, it’s mainly because other directors’ films are not good to watch either. They are so mysterious that I didn’t know what to say after watching them for a long time. Then they scolded the audience at every turn, saying it was our problem that they couldn’t understand…! "

The retired man from Beijing opened up his chatterbox, but he was very talkative. From time to time he made some surprising remarks, which made the reporters stunned for a while.

In Hangzhou, local media went to a cinema near West Lake for an interview. The reporter randomly stopped a young man who looked elegant.

"Can I interview you?"

"Uh, okay!"

"May I ask what your job is?"

"Programmer!"

"Where do you work?"

"Ari Company!"

"Oh, that's awesome!"

At this time, Ali had been listed in Xiangjiang in 2005 and was considered a well-known local company.

The reporter asked why he came to watch the movie. The programmer's answer was that he made an appointment with his girlfriend to watch a movie together in the evening. Of course, Jiang Heng's blockbuster was his first choice.

When the reporter asked the reason, the programmer said: "Because Director Jiang's movies are always of a very high standard. They are very standard commercial movies. They don't have plots that are hard to understand. They really consider the audience too much." I think from this point of view, it is worth learning from many companies, and they must consider the needs of customers..."

This guy was also talking so eloquently that the reporter was confused. Is he really Ahri's... programmer? Can all programmers say this?

Similar interview scenes occurred in many theaters in mainland China.

Most of what was reported in the next day was that "The Three-Body Problem" triggered a movie-going craze, and it was hard to get a ticket in the theater.

A few days later, Shanghai reported that a grandmother in her sixties lined up to buy tickets for her grandson.

This was the third day that the grandmother came to buy tickets, but she couldn't buy any every time.

The reason was that her grandson was still in elementary school and missed the weekend when the movie was first released. If he wanted to watch it, he had to wait until the evening.

Unfortunately, the movie was so popular that she couldn't buy any tickets every time.

When the reporter asked her why she bought tickets for her grandson, the grandmother replied that she heard that there were many pictures about the universe and galaxies in the movie, and she hoped to expand her grandson's interest in astronomy...!

It can be said that many of the super high box office since the movie was released were contributed by parents bringing their children to watch the movie.

The reason, of course, was because there were many scenes about the earth, Jupiter, the sun, the solar system, comets, nebulae and many other cosmic bodies in the movie.

This is the first time in domestic movies.

Many parents believe that this can cultivate their children's interest in science, and then bring their children to watch the movie.

With many factors combined, the box office of "The Three-Body Problem" has exploded, quickly breaking through 300 million, 500 million, and 700 million. Looking at this momentum, it is not difficult to break through the 1 billion mark.

Under such box office dominance, the previously released "The Warlords" was instantly extinguished, and it could not make any waves.

A few days before the release of "The Three-Body Problem", China Film Corporation also counted the box office of "The Warlords" and reported it to Chen Kexin.

Later, they were too lazy to do this.

After all, no matter how they counted, the growth would not be much.

On the Huayi Company side, Wang Zhonglei, Feng Xiaogang and others were shocked and lucky, because at the beginning, they considered letting "Assembly" be released during the Lunar New Year holiday, and there was a heated discussion about how many days to leave between the film and "The Three-Body Problem".

In the end, Feng Xiaogang felt that the risk of releasing it during the Lunar New Year holiday was too great, and finally decided to release "Assembly" during the Spring Festival holiday.

Now it seems that it really escaped a disaster!