Depressive Screenwriter

Weathering with You was released on the last day of July. Among the hundreds of millions of yuan invested in films released that day, besides Weathering with You, which had an investment of 500 million yuan, there were two other films with investments exceeding 100 million yuan.

However, as of today, neither Su Yan, nor Dimensional Pictures, nor the Xia Country film market believes that these two films pose any threat to Su Yan.

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In his previous life, Su Yan actually hated celebrity idols the most.

But in Xia Country, he is currently the biggest celebrity idol, bar none.

However, unlike the situation in his previous life, Su Yan not only has far more traffic, but also his reputation and creative ability in the eyes of Xia Country movie fans, as well as the probability of producing hit dramas, are the highest in the market.

Strictly speaking, Weathering with You is a mediocre work in Su Yan's eyes. If Your Name is given a score of 100 as a baseline, then Weathering with You, in his personal opinion, would only get 70 to 75 points at most.

But after all, he started in the film industry with Makoto Shinkai's works. Su Yan has always been one to finish what he starts. The disaster trilogy and everything else will all be filmed and released in Xia Country; it's only a matter of time.

But his fans are too enthusiastic.

Even though there were only a few advance screenings a few days before the official release on the 31st, his fans still raved about it after watching.

Many people even praised the film online, saying it was no less impressive than Your Name.

Finally, on the afternoon of the film's release, Weathering with You accounted for 46% of the day's screenings, with pre-sale box office exceeding 500 million yuan. In almost every cinema in second-tier or higher cities in Xia Country, you could see groups of students on vacation lining up at the cinemas early in the morning.

At seven o'clock in the evening, the premiere of Weathering with You began.

The plot of this film is relatively simple, and the location and setting are still in Tokyo.

The teenage protagonist runs away to Tokyo alone, where he meets another girl of similar age, Hina. During their interactions, he discovers her ability:

She can make the rain disappear and the sky clear.

Of course, the first half of the story is about the male and female protagonists, two teenage boys and girls, who, after some hardships, finally gain a foothold in Tokyo with their own weather-altering abilities. Hina helps many people with her ability as a 'sunshine girl' and earns the money she needs to live in Tokyo.

But as the plot progresses, the unique setting of Japanese works, where convenient abilities often come at a price, begins to appear.

Changing the weather and angering nature will only bring greater and more extreme weather in the end.

In the end, if you want to calm these extreme disastrous weather conditions, you need Hina, as a priestess who can trigger the ability to create sunny weather, to sacrifice herself.

The main storyline is about the male protagonist discovering the drawbacks of Hina's ability after meeting her, and ultimately choosing to save Hina, allowing Tokyo to be submerged by extreme torrential rain that won't stop for ten years.

In Su Yan's previous life, the ending of Weathering with You was very controversial.

Because according to normal people's thinking, is it worth it to let a city with tens of millions of people be submerged, causing more people to suffer and even lose their lives in the disaster, just to save a teenage girl?

But Su Yan's drama FZ in Xia Country has a similar scene.

Is it right to sacrifice two hundred people to save three hundred?

The answer is given in FZ. Kiritsugu Emiya used a command spell to have Saber destroy the Holy Grail, which explains the answer.

So in the cinema, a group of viewers saw the male protagonist finally make the decision to pass through the torii gate and go to the sky to save Hina.

The two fell from the clouds, hand in hand in free fall. Xia Country movie fans who had not experienced a similar scene in Miyazaki's Spirited Away were immediately shocked by this final shot.

On the first day of Weathering with You's release, the total box office in Xia Country was 800 million yuan, setting a new record for Su Yan's film opening day and also the third-best single-day box office record in the history of the Xia Country film market.

Su Yan, who was far away in Tokyo, was not blinded by the dazzling box office results.

The film's opening score of 5 points and the constant arguments about the plot on the internet actually explained a lot.

Su Yan's predicted situation appeared. The fans of Weathering with You, as in the case of the film's release in his previous life, began to diverge.

"So isn't the male protagonist just selfish? For the sake of his beloved girl, he chose to save her and let Tokyo be flooded."

"Heh, I just like this kind of male protagonist. I'm tired of those compassionate and saintly protagonists. Why should Hina sacrifice herself for Tokyo? When she was struggling to survive in Tokyo, the people in the Tokyo area didn't treat her very well!"

"Exactly, Hina just has the ability to stop this disaster, but does she necessarily have to sacrifice herself to save others just because she has this ability?"

"But the ending is actually that the male protagonist chose to let a city be flooded in order to save the female protagonist, which is too ridiculous."

"It rains every day and will continue for ten or twenty years, so there is plenty of opportunity for the residents of the Tokyo area in the movie to evacuate. People won't necessarily die, it's just a big economic loss."

"Only? Which is more serious, a human life or such a big economic loss?"

"You are clearly just ordinary people, but you always stand so high and speak. If I were the male protagonist, I would never let the girl I like die for strangers. Even if Hina saves Tokyo, no one will know her sacrifice."

"So what are you arguing about? Su Yan, the old thief, didn't make it depressing this time and chose to let the female protagonist live, and you're still not happy. You're really hard to please."

"What's there to argue about? This isn't real, it's just a movie. Tokyo in reality is fine, and the old thief even has two villas in Tokyo. You're taking it too seriously."

"Exactly, just enjoy the movie. In the middle of the movie, isn't the scene where Hina slowly walks out in the heavy rain on the rooftop, prays in the wind and rain, and then the sky clears and fireworks bloom beautiful? Why argue about whether she lives or dies?"

"Don't be brainwashed all the time, always thinking about sacrificing yourself for the greater good. The male protagonist is an ordinary person, and Hina is also an ordinary person. They just want to live and be with each other. Even if they are not great enough, they are by no means insignificant."

"Exactly, support Su Yan's movie, I will watch it at least three times!"

Late at night, Su Yan breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the fans' comments on the film online.

The dispute and disagreement among fans were within Su Yan's expectations, but his reputation in Xia Country was so good that even if the plot of Weathering with You did have some controversial points, most fans would not be too concerned about them, given Su Yan's previous performances.

Of course, this is also related to Su Yan's modification of some embarrassing plots in the original script of Weathering with You.

Weathering with You is fine, the original script only had some minor details that were embarrassing, which were easy to delete. Like the female protagonist's famous line in Suzume, 'I would xxxx the world without xxx,' Su Yan really couldn't hold it back in the cinema in his previous life. If that movie were to be replicated in Xia Country, that line would definitely be deleted without thinking.

Su Yan didn't fall asleep until he had read these comments online until midnight.

Su Yan can definitely accept criticism, he also criticized this film in his previous life. As it stands, the situation after the release is much better than Su Yan expected.

The next day,

Although the reputation of Weathering with You is not as good as Your Name, and the ending is also controversial.

Regardless of which side you are on, everyone actually recognizes that this film is definitely an excellent work. Those who like it think it is a masterpiece, and the male protagonist's choice at the end meets their psychological expectations.

Those who don't like it don't necessarily demean it, they just feel that Weathering with You is not as good as Your Name, but the word 'excellent' can still be applied to this film.

A film with an excellent lower limit and considered a masterpiece at the upper limit will definitely set off a viewing frenzy on Saturday that is no less than Friday.

On Saturday, the box office was 840 million yuan, a slight increase.

The total box office exceeded 700 million yuan in two days, accounting for more than 65% of the total box office in the same period, and the release data of Weathering with You once again silenced the Xia Country film industry.

When will this guy Su Yan ever flop?

When will someone be able to defeat him head-on?