Chapter Ninety-Eight: Release
In this era of who is rich and who is successful, the word kung fu has gradually come out of the public eye and is no longer concerned by the mainstream eye.
If it weren't for Lu Lin being a two-billion-dollar director, others would be no matter how beautiful their footwork is, at most they will shout "double click six-six-six" on the live broadcast platform in the future, which will not attract much traffic at all.
But it is different on Lu Lin, who has already been concerned by the public and the media. Now that he has found that his legs are so good, a group of kung fu movie lovers admire him and lament the decline of action movies.
"Lu Lin's three consecutive kicks in the air" topped the hot search list, causing many netizens to feel nostalgic and lamenting the glory of Hong Kong-made action movies back then.
And a few hours later, some netizens made a "Hong Kong film classic leg clip" and uploaded it to the Internet, which contained a large number of classic leg shots, coupled with classic kung fu film episodes such as "Stealing Gong", which was frantically forwarded, which attracted more and more nostalgia from everyone.
As soon as Huayi's publicity staff saw it, they hurriedly played the nostalgic card and wanted to send a press release in Liyang. At a recent media conference, Li Yangzhong talked about some behind-the-scenes stories from the era of Hong Kong-made action movies, but he was unwilling to rub the traffic of his junior brother and refused to answer questions about the Yanjing martial arts team.
Although Huayi and Juli Pictures were slightly dissatisfied, they did not dare to criticize harshly. After all, the hot spot of "nostalgic kung fu films" alone has brought a lot of positive attention to "The Legend of the White Snake", which has been hacked by netizens.
On September 28, the Hong Kong premiere press conference of "The Legend of the White Snake" was grandly held, and Yongsheng's boss Xiang Huaqi attended to help. On the mainland side, the screening time was advanced to 6 pm on the 28th.
At this moment, Lu Lin is doing a roadshow in Fengtian Cinema, and there are countless fans everywhere he goes, including kung fu movie lovers, asking if Lu Lin will star in an action movie in the future.
Some people also asked if he would cooperate with Li Yangzhong and Wu Jing, like Cheng Long, Yuan Biao, and Hong Jinbao back then. Lu Lin's answer is naturally very official and stylized, and if there is a suitable script and opportunity, of course he will cooperate.
The next day, the box office of "The Legend of the White Snake" was released on the first day, and it was only more than 8 million. Although it was only released for six hours on the first day, the result of only more than one million per hour was far lower than the expectations of Juli and Huayi.
What's worse is the collapsing word-of-mouth, with a Douban score of only 4.5 points, and countless one-star and two-star bad reviews. Lu Lin looked at it on the way to the roadshow, and couldn't help but wonder a little.
"Painted Wall" was withdrawn, and there was no reason for the black "White Snake" to be glamorous, and Yu Dong and Han Sanye should not hide their invitation to the water army. Where did this overwhelming bad review come from?
Lu Lin flipped through it again and found that most of the netizens complained that the plot was too bad and the white snake was too sassy. After looking at it for a while, I gradually realized in my heart that Huang Shengyi's "popularity" was too bad!
The inherent impression of ordinary netizens on her should be that she became popular with the dumb girl in "Kung Fu". then relied on a rich boyfriend to go to court with Xing Ye.
In this way, the first impression of the vast majority of netizens is "ungrateful", and with the later "little three" label, it can be said that nine out of nine fans and almost all "passers-by" have been lost.
The popularity of celebrities is a very magical thing. With its protection, some small mistakes that are irrelevant to the festival can be forgiven by the audience and fans. But if you make a big mistake such as "derailment", and lose all the popularity of passers-by, the real star journey will be ruined.
is far from Zheng Yijian, the "Fifth Heavenly King" of the year, who lost a large number of fans because of the collapse of the image of a good man in "Shuangqi Fighting for Face". Recently, it will not take long to see the "Wen Monday", and the current one is Huang Shengyi, who has been infamous for several years.
In this way, Yang Zi actually dared to use Huang Shengyi, who is almost unpopular with passers-by, as the heroine, it seems that it is true love!
Lu Lin's roadshow continued, and "The Legend of the White Snake" also continued to be released, with a daily revenue of 15 million on the 29th, easily winning the championship. But on Friday the 30th, there were only more than 13 million, which is a rather dangerous signal. At this time, Lu Lin's blockbuster "The Alliance of Gods" landed on the National Day on the 11th.
This time, there was no zero-point field, and in fact, with a month's hard money to advertise, coupled with the good reputation saved by the main creative team's roadshow and "The Return of the Great Sage". During the 11th and 17th days of the National Day holiday, it is already recognized by the industry to collect a wave of box office.
On the morning of October 1, most of the movie theaters in some "box office towns" in China were overcrowded. It's a seven-day long holiday, coinciding with the release of blockbusters. It can be said that if you don't go out to travel, your first reaction is to go to the movies.
And when I went to the cinema, I almost didn't want to buy "The Alliance of the Gods". However, there was a boy who wanted to buy "White Snake" at Li Yangzhong, but the girl next to him said: "What's so good about the film played by Xiao San, I hate that kind of woman the most." "When the boy saw that his female companion's face was not good, how dare he insist.
"The Legend of the White Snake" may not be as bad as the online comments, but choosing Huang Shengyi as the heroine is really a failure. It has nothing to do with whether she plays well or not, the audience hates her "public image", and if you don't want to think about it, you will give a bad review, and if you don't want to think about it, you will resist and refuse to watch it, which is the most terrible thing.
and "The Alliance of the Gods" got the vast majority of the film schedules, and the posters and posters were also placed in the most conspicuous position in the theater.
At noon, Lu Lin, who rushed to Jinmen and Pingwanda Cinemas by car, took a look at the Douban score of "The Alliance of Gods", which was only 7.4 points, far lower than the 8.6 of "The Return of the Great Sage". But at least it's passing, and for a commercial blockbuster, this score doesn't drag down the publicity.
Lu Lin flipped through the short comments, and the comments were almost all about special effects exploding, and the plot was funny. In terms of long reviews, there are good and bad ones.
At the top of the long reviews is a three-star film review, "I see Lu Lin going down the mountain, one step at a time, one step lower".
praised "The Return of the Great Sage" at the beginning, and then began to belittle "The Alliance of the Gods", saying that Lu Lin lost the creative aura when directing "The Return of the Great Sage", and actually made a popcorn movie that sells special effects, has a spoof, and has no connotation, which is really a pity.
You must know that talent is like essence, you don't know how to cherish it when you are young, and you can only cry when you are old and feel that the world has changed. There are not many directors in China who can play blockbusters well, and since Lu Lin has this kind of talent, he should make more movies that reflect Chinese culture and win glory internationally.
Although "Night Banquet" and "Golden Armor" both failed, the road of Chinese blockbusters cannot be broken. Chinese don't make blockbusters that reflect Chinese culture, do you have to wait for Hollywood to make them......
After this film review, most of them are five-star long reviews. Most of them praise the plot for being easy and funny, and the special effects are dazzling and explosive, which lives up to the name of the first domestic science fiction film. Either they are fans of Thor and the River God, and they are cute and cute throughout.
On the morning of the 2nd, the box office results on the first day were released, 118 million, once again setting a new record in film history, which attracted countless filmmakers to exclaim.