At the moment when this turmoil intensified, [Journey to the West] was also released for two weeks, and the box office in the second week fell, but the attendance rate has remained at about 65%, and the total box office has reached 980 million, which is about to break through the billion mark, which can make those film and television companies in the circle greedy.

According to Huayi's contract with the studio, it is a May Fourth split, which means that a [Journey to the West] has brought Li Mu a revenue of 390 million, and this value continues to increase, and the final box office may exceed 2 billion.

You must know that this box office has been able to enter the top 30 of the Chinese box office list.

It doesn't seem very high, but don't forget, these box office movies have a high investment, a movie is at least hundreds of millions, and the investment of [Journey to the West] is only 50 million, which is definitely rare.

In the eyes of insiders, Li Mu once again completed the "counterattack" of small investment and big return

In the third week, the box office irrepressibly dropped sharply, and the attendance rate continued to decrease, Li Mu could not do anything about it, so he could only continue to wait for the crew to run the publicity, the Chinese film market actually has potential to be tapped, especially in some third- and fourth-tier cities.

At this time, CCTV 3, a program called Art Tea Party, was broadcast, that is, the episode where Li Mu talked about Journey to the West.

As soon as the show was broadcast, Mr. Zhang blew up, stood up and jumped up and down, and even accused Li Mu of tampering with famous books by name, and even CCTV did not escape his saliva.

There is only one reason why Mr. Zhang can be so violent, Li Mu really touched his bottom line, Sun Wukong is his lifeline, Li Mu's Journey to the West has completely subverted the image of Sun Wukong, Sun Wukong has become a supporting role and a chess piece from a hero who stands up to the sky, and the Jade Emperor, who has always been cowardly, has become a chess player who directs the country.

Cutting off people's financial routes is like killing their parents, obviously, if it goes on like this, Mr. Zhang's financial path will be cut off, so he is afraid and angry, and he is bound to drive Li Mu out of this circle.

For this reason, he launched all the relationships that could be used, and wanted to unite against Li Mu, and the bombardment of public opinion on the Internet has not stopped.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that netizens didn't buy his anger, partly because they read Li Mu's account and felt that he made sense, but most of it was because Mr. Zhang had done too much over the years and his appearance was too ugly, so that netizens were bored.

The character of Monkey King is the hero of their childhood, yes, but they can't help but consume it for decades!

As for some of the insiders he united, most of them are so-called cultural people and scholars, and there are only two kinds of people who are really willing to stand with him, first, they are really miserable, and they finally found a chance to fight the autumn wind, and second, if they want to be famous, they will be familiar with Li Mu's fame.

If you are really still in the circle, how can you take the initiative to jump into the quagmire? It's too late to hide, now Li Mu's popularity is booming, and he is the owner of the studio, in this circle, maybe one day there will be a chance to cooperate?

Take a look at the actors who have participated in "Jiang Ye" and "Journey to the West", not to mention the starring roles, even many supporting roles are popular, such as Huayi's An Jing, after playing Chao Xiaoshu, it can be said that he soared into the sky.

Li Mu didn't bother to pay attention to it, but continued to lead people to run roadshows and do publicity.

It is worth mentioning that Li Mu's episode of CCTV 3 not only increased the ratings of the entire program, but also the number of hits on the video website after the event was also high, and it received rave reviews.

Some netizens who were originally prejudiced against [Journey to the West] also deliberately made up the tickets, and after watching this movie, they couldn't help but be moved by the plot in it.

As a result, after the box office of the third week of [Journey to the West] experienced a decline in the first two days, there was a substantial increase, and even made people wonder if it was swiping tickets, but when I really entered the screening hall, I found that there was no "ghost ticket".

A farce gradually came to an end, [Journey to the West] was released for 43 days, and the total box office reached 2.3 billion, temporarily ranking first in the box office list of the year, of course, the next is the Spring Festival schedule, this record will soon be surpassed.

But no one will deny that [Journey to the West] is a successful work, whether it is from the box office or word of mouth, in which Jiang Yingyue, who plays the Zixia Fairy, has also become the new national goddess in one fell swoop.

Originally, the Spring Festival was coming, and Li Mu was going home for the New Year, but the CCTV program team called again, saying that he wanted to ask him to record a special program for the Spring Festival.

Originally, He Chunxiang was a little unhappy, his son had been busy for a year, and he hadn't returned home a few times in total, and suddenly he had to run to the capital again?

Li Ping was very supportive: "What are you talking about? In the woman's opinion, my son is going to do business, CCTV! Can CCTV be on casually?"

CCTV's position in the minds of Li Ping's generation is absolutely irreplaceable, just like they play mahjong on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve and watch the Spring Festival Gala.

Li Mu packed some things and prepared to go to the capital, Wang Ziwen went back half a month early, Lao Wang still didn't know that his daughter lived under the same roof as Li Mu, but he simply thought that his daughter was going to work in the magic capital, and he had long urged his daughter to go home, and even proposed to find a job for his daughter in her hometown...........

..............

"Brother has worked hard, hurry up and get in the car, it's cold outside!" It was still Bei Simiao who came to pick up Li Mu.

Li Mu was not polite, and when he got into the car, the whole person shuddered, and laughed at himself: "The winter in this capital is too cold, it seems that I am really an authentic southerner." ”

"Haha, I'll get used to it after a few more years, and there are a lot of southerners in our unit, who said they weren't used to it at first, but after a few years, they felt that there was no heating at home and they were not used to it!" Bei Simiao said with a smile.

Li Mu suddenly thought of a picture and said with a smile: "I am a wolf from the north, but I froze into a dog in the south." ”

Bei Simiao was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "You, you're really a ghost, how did you come up with this? No wonder the angle of watching Journey to the West is different from others." ”

"Actually, it's not just Journey to the West, my views on reading books are quite biased. Li Mu shrugged and said.

"For example?"

"Romance of the Gods?"

This time, Bei Simiao sent Li Mu directly to the hotel, the director was already waiting there, and when he saw Li Mu coming over, he politely greeted him.

"It's hard work, it's hard work to run for the New Year, it's really hard to ..........."

Li Mu waved his hand: "Hey, it's not hard, aren't you also busy? ”

"Haha, you kid............ It's too real!" the director laughed with Bei Simiao.

The three of them made a pot of hot tea in the hotel.

"Xiao Li, that's the case, this is a special program for the Spring Festival, a total of 14 episodes were recorded, and it was broadcast from the beginning of the Lunar New Year, for a total of seven days. The director explained.

Li Mu nodded, that is to say, this is a completely new show, and he has a number in his heart, since it is a program during the Spring Festival, some particularly dark topics must not be talked about, and it seems that a manuscript must be prepared in advance.

"Okay, I'll take a moment to write out the manuscript first, and then you can help me see what can't be reviewed, and I'll make corrections. ”

The director was overjoyed, what he was most worried about was that Li Mu was too self-serving, and finally broke up unhappily, hey, it's difficult to be on CCTV.

After sending off the director and Bei Simiao, Li Mu began to create a new document on his laptop, "Journey to the West You Don't Know".

Journey to the West seems to be a mythical story, but it is actually full of the author Wu Chengen's satire on the current situation of the imperial court officialdom at that time, and there are many creepy truths hidden in it.

So in the Ming Dynasty, there was actually no Journey to the West in the four famous novels, because Journey to the West was a banned book at that time.

It took Li Mu almost two days to finish sorting out the manuscript, and then after the review and revision of the CCTV program team, he finally sorted out the content of the fourteen episodes.

On the day of the recording, the two hundred seats were all left and right, Li Mu changed into a blue robe, stood behind a podium-like podium, and went straight to the point, introducing the process of the show.

"I've told you before that the origin of Sun Wukong is doubtful, and today, I'll tell you about the biggest rich second generation in the Journey to the West world, yes, this rich second generation is also Sun Wukong. ”

"Why do you say that Sun Wukong is the second generation of the rich? As I said before, the Water Curtain Cave is a luxury villa customized by the Jade Emperor for Sun Wukong, and what about a group of monkeys? That is, his attendants and servants. ”

"Of course, as a rich second generation, Sun Wukong eats, drinks and has fun every day, and he must also inherit his historical mission, what is this mission, we will talk about it later, buy a pass for the time being..........."

"Huh~~~~" The audience is not happy, why do you sell Guanzi again? Is it a habitual break of context?

Li Mu just smiled and continued: "Let's take a look at what Sun Wukong did after inheriting the luxury villa of Water Curtain Cave, the original book has clouds: The Monkey King is happy and innocent, and he has three or five hundred years." One day, during the wedding banquet with the monkeys, I suddenly became sad and fell into tears............ Note that this is the first time Sun Wukong has cried, that is to say, Sun Wukong has been in the Water Curtain Cave for more than 300 years, and some people may wonder, it is clearly written for 3500 years, why do I think it is more than 300 years? Because Sun Wukong made a big fuss in the underworld, and his yang life in the book of life and death is 342 years. ”

In other words, Sun Wukong has been in the Water Curtain Cave for more than 300 years, why did he suddenly cry and say that he was afraid of death? Note that the original book did not say that because he saw the old monkey die, he was afraid and wanted to live forever, that is the statement of the TV series. ”

"Is it possible to make a bold assumption here, Sun Wukong knows that the time is almost up, and if he wants to inherit his historical mission, he will say goodbye to the days of freedom, so he suddenly cried?"

As soon as these words came out, the audience was stunned, how could they still explain it like this? But after listening to Li Mu's words, I felt that it made sense, after all, the TV series is also adapted, and judging from the original work, there is indeed such a possibility.

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