Chinese Entertainment's Shining Star

"The super science fiction masterpiece "Interstellar" will be released on time at midnight on the 24th!"

"The online pre-sale of "Interstellar" exceeded 30 million US dollars, ranking first among all Christmas movies!"

"The Christmas season ushered in a science fiction masterpiece, "Interstellar" takes you to appreciate the infinite charm of the vast universe."

"Want to experience the charm of interstellar travel? On December 24th, go to the cinema, "Interstellar" will give you everything you want!"

Whether it is paper newspapers or magazines, or online media, or even on TV channels, people have been able to see advertisements about "Interstellar" from time to time in recent times. Many people who are not interested in movies know that a good science fiction film called "Interstellar" will be released during the Christmas holiday.

The North American box office exceeded 30 million, which directly proved the public's interest in this movie.

In the eyes of many film companies, Nie Wei with his new movie "Interstellar" is like an unparalleled general on the battlefield. Now he is just accumulating his momentum step by step. When the momentum reaches its peak, he will suddenly attack and chop his opponent into pieces.

"Hmph, the higher you stand, the harder you fall." Some people commented with a sour feeling in their hearts.

But there are still people who agree with this statement.

Although the media and film critics are now touting "Interstellar" as the best science fiction movie in the past ten years, which has attracted the attention of countless audiences, at the same time, it also gives the audience a very good impression of this movie.

But it cannot be ignored that the tastes of film critics are probably not consistent with those of the audience. What they think is good may not necessarily be considered good by the audience.

Now it is so high, but when the audience enters the film industry with full expectations, they find that the movie is not as good as they thought, then they will naturally turn this disappointment into anger and vent it on the movie.

This is a very terrible thing.

You know, originally a movie with an 80-point score is good enough to be called excellent, but because the audience's mental standard is 90 points, after watching the 80-point movie, they feel that the movie is not satisfactory at all, and will naturally give it a bad review.

There are too many bad reviews, which will create a false impression that the movie is very bad, even if the movie can be rated 80 points.

On the contrary, if a movie only has 60 points, it can still attract audiences by promoting how bad the movie is before it is released. As a result, they go to the cinema with the intention of seeing a joke, but find that the movie is unexpectedly good, at least much better than the 10 and 20 minutes they expected, so they will give it a good review.

Too many good reviews will also create a false impression, that is, this movie that can only be considered passable is very good, at least much better than the movie with 80 points.

Many good movies are killed by such praise, and the box office plummets. After waiting for a few years, people will find that the movie is really good. At that time, a lot of people will come out and say that they owe the director a movie ticket, but by then, the director may have changed his career to sell pork.

Nie Wei is not afraid of being killed by praise, he has full confidence in his movie.

This "Interstellar" may be difficult to surpass "Inception" in box office, but Nie Wei believes that it is definitely not bad in terms of word of mouth, and it may even be better.

Compared with the pseudo-sci-fi like Inception, "Interstellar" is a real hard-core science fiction, and it has a lot of real science as support. Such a movie will definitely make science fiction fans extremely satisfied.

Many young people in China also celebrate Christmas. The 24th is Christmas Eve. On the 23rd, you will see many people holding a beautifully packaged small box in their hands, most of which are filled with an apple.

Christmas in China is actually not very related to Europe and the United States. Chinese people will not hang socks on the head of the bed when they sleep at night, and parents will not get up in the middle of the night to give gifts to their children. They will not eat turkey or gingerbread. At most, merchants will put a Christmas tree full of colorful lights at the door to attract customers, but there will be no gifts for children under the Christmas tree.

Chinese people do not believe in Santa Claus at all. The reason why Christmas has become popular in China is just that merchants want to sell goods and young people want to find a reason to celebrate.

Europeans and Americans will not send any so-called apples on Christmas Eve, because this is completely invented by the Chinese. Many Chinese businessmen like to play with homophonic words the most, such as apples on Christmas Eve, which means eating apples to keep safe, or eating peaches when you are sick and hospitalized, because it can make you escape from the disease quickly, but in the final analysis, these are all nonsense made up by merchants in order to sell their goods.

However, this is also a tradition passed down by our ancestors. Chinese people believe in this. The blessing of homophonic characters is deeply engraved in the bones of every Chinese.

Many cinemas also expanded their business on this day. The stores in the cinemas also began to put a lot of beautifully packaged fruits. Some young couples who were going to watch the midnight show but didn't buy apples would buy two after seeing them, and then give them to each other, waiting to eat apples while watching the movie when they walked into the cinema.

Huang Mo is a single dog. No one gave him an apple, but he still bought one for himself.

In addition to apples, he also bought popcorn and Coke. As a loyal science fiction fan, he was fully prepared to watch a big show in a while.

Nie Wei's "Interstellar" has been promoted for these days, which has aroused the appetite of countless science fiction fans. Film critics have praised this movie to the sky, and countless science fiction fans are eager to go to the cinema to enjoy this movie.

The IMAX-3D movie tickets for "Interstellar" have been sold out long ago. Even though it costs as much as 120 yuan, Huang Mo, who only earns 2,000 yuan a month, still booked it without hesitation.

At this moment, Huang Mo was full of superiority when he saw a couple who kept looking for scalpers to buy IMAX-3D movie tickets.

So what if they show their affection? I can watch 3D, but you can only watch 2D.

Time passed by little by little, and it was 23:40 before he knew it. The cinema also opened admission as soon as possible. Huang Mo took out his smart phone and showed the ticket QR code to the ticket seller. The latter used a special scanner to scan it, and the screen over there showed Huang Mo's personal information and movie tickets.

"Mr. Huang, IMAX Hall No. 1." The film industry staff said politely.

Huang Mo smiled and thanked him. Why did he like to watch movies in the film studio under the Star Cinema Line? First, because the IMAX theater of Star Cinema Line is the best, and it is also the theater line with the most IMAX theaters in the country. Second, it is because the service attitude here is very good.

When going to other movie theaters, many staff members look like they are busy and don’t ask me. Unlike the staff of Star Cinema Line, they are trained like the service staff of high-end brand counters, enthusiastic and polite.

With his own food, Huang Mo found the No. 1 screening room familiarly and quickly found his seat inside.

The location is very good, in the middle of the fourth row, which is the most golden viewing position in the entire screening room. In order to grab this position, he specially picked a luxurious Internet cafe with a price of 20 yuan per hour and spent a whole night to get it.

After he got the ticket, he posted the ticket and the location on his WeChat Moments. Someone immediately asked him if he would sell the ticket and was willing to double the price. But when Huang Mo saw the message, he just curled his lips. Not to mention doubling, even if it was ten times or a hundred times... a hundred times, he might really consider it, but doubling was obviously impossible.

The movie started soon.

In the first ten minutes, Huang Mo felt a little bored. There were no super cool special effects and the plot was very bland. Apart from the "ghost" that made him a little interested, he was about to doze off.

However, as the male protagonist Cooper discovered the institute and the professor told him about the "Save Humanity Plan", Huang Mo became more energetic.

As the plot developed, Huang Mo gradually immersed himself in the movie. He was excited by the passionate soundtrack of "Starry Sky" and yearned for the universe because of the mysterious and eternal sound of "STAY".

The blue earth, the rings of Saturn, the spherical black hole, the planet covered with seawater...

There are countless sciences, anti-gravity formulas, relativity, multi-dimensional space. Huang Mo has long gone from being drowsy at the beginning to being energetic, and his eyes are shining.

As the film gradually reveals the mystery, he feels goosebumps all over his body. One link after another, the plot that once made him feel boring or indifferent, finally brought him a deep shock.

After nearly three hours, when Huang Mo walked out of the cinema again, the shock in his eyes still did not dissipate. It is worth mentioning that he had a bucket of popcorn, a cup of Coke and an apple in his arms. From beginning to end, he was so busy watching the movie that he completely forgot to eat these things.

There are many science fiction fans who were shocked by this movie like Huang Mo. For example, this hardcore science fiction movie is really something they haven't seen for many years.

The professional terms in the movie deeply fascinated these science fiction fans. After watching the movie, they even felt that they benefited a lot.

"I'm praising Interstellar, the best sci-fi movie of the year!"

"Not just this year, this is the best sci-fi movie I've seen in the past ten years. Interstellar really moved me as a sci-fi fan for twenty years."

"The above person is exaggerating, can it be better than Inception?"

"They are not in the same category, so they can't be compared. Inception is a suspense movie in the guise of sci-fi, while Interstellar is a truly authentic sci-fi movie!"

"Anyway, Inception is the best sci-fi movie in history, so those who praise Interstellar should just forget it." Go to sleep. "

"Inception is the best and I don't accept any rebuttal."

"Interstellar is the best. Those who are brave enough should go to the cinema and watch it before you speak out."

"I've seen it, it's very good, but I still think Inception is better."

What surprised many people was that fans of Interstellar actually quarreled with fans of Inception, and the purpose was very simple, just to prove who is the best science fiction movie. For this matter, this group of people quarreled from the super topic to the official forum of Huayi, and from the official forum of Huayi to Nie Wei's Weibo.

They wanted Nie Wei to stand up and give them an answer.

Nie Wei did stand up and respond, but he didn't answer the multiple-choice question, but left a sentence.

"Don't impose your own ideas on others. Respecting other people's choices is also respecting your own choices."

After arguing for a whole night, the top three hot searches on Weibo were all related topics, but because of Nie Wei's words, it was quiet.

But the popularity of Interstellar has reached a new level.

Soon, the first-day box office of Interstellar was released. In China, it took in 370 million yuan on a single day, setting a new first-day box office record in the mainland.

In North America, the first-day box office of Interstellar was 32 million yuan, which was quite satisfactory, but it still became the single-day box office champion of the Christmas season without any pressure.

Although there was no big surprise in the box office, in terms of word of mouth, Interstellar led the Christmas season with a big advantage.

With a Rotten Tomatoes freshness of 99 and an IMDB score of 9.7, it is definitely the strongest word-of-mouth start for science fiction movies in the past decade.

Keanu, the out-of-date superstar, has regained his second spring in his career. Max Films received more than ten international brands to endorse Keanu on the first day of the film's release. For a time, Keanu seemed to have returned to the era of the hit "The Matrix".

And Zhang Ziyi's fame in North America has also risen sharply with the release of the movie. Not only has her Facebook followers increased by millions, she has also received many product endorsement invitations.

Of course, what made this woman happiest was that within just one week of the movie's release, she received no less than three invitations to celebrity gatherings.

When she received the invitation, she knew that she had entered the upper circle of Hollywood, and her celebrity status was finally recognized by this circle.

This made Zhang Ziyi very happy. After so many years, she finally made it in Hollywood.

Of course, the most direct witness to the popularity of the two is the salary. Keanu has the name of a superstar, but in fact he is out of fashion, so when filming "Interstellar", Nie Wei only gave him a salary of 5 million, which is the market price, and Zhang Ziyi was cheaper, only 2 million to get it done, this is also because of her popularity in "Inception". You should know that when filming Inception, Zhang Ziyi's salary was only 1 million.

With the popularity of "Interstellar", Keanu's external salary quotation has risen to 10 million, and he also wants a share of the movie box office, which is completely the price of a hot superstar.

Zhang Ziyi is not bad either, her salary has risen to 5 million, reaching the level of Hollywood's first-class female stars.

Of course, these are just bids, and the two have no plans to take on new dramas for the time being, but it is undeniable that this offer, which is recognized by the market, has proved the rise of their status in this circle.

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