On January 1, 2020, on this day when the whole country is on holiday, "People in Embarrassment" was released, and that morning, the film reviews of Wang Xiaobai's second movie from major film review media also came out.

There are many theories, with mixed reviews.

The industry's most authoritative film review newspaper "Hu Kan Movie" published a film review called "Extraordinary Embarrassment", saying: "A journey home full of humor, Yu Shan and Wang Baobao in "People in Embarrassment" with the contrast between the identities of the big boss and the small migrant worker amused, and the joke in the journey The movie also precipitates enough evocative warmth, and at the same time, in this seemingly absurd, even a little too dramatic.

In the movie, Wang Xiaobai showed a mature screenwriter's thinking about certain social phenomena, such as the third child, the Spring Festival, and the arrears of wages, etc., which made the film laugh and resonate with the audience's thinking, so that a story of going home for the New Year contains not only warmth and laughter, but also the depth of showing social evils. ”

The film entertainment section of the supplement of Jiangcheng Daily also expressed its opinion: ""People in Embarrassment" is a fresh and interesting road movie, which teaches a lesson to industry peers - it turns out that road movies can also be filmed like this. Wang Xiaobai added his thoughts on this society to it, reflecting the energy of a young director and screenwriter, but the fly in the ointment is that forcibly sensationalism is embarrassing......"

Jiangcheng Daily's film reviews are quite objective, and some media are more mean, and it can even be said that they want to kill people.

The "Film Newspaper", which has many subscribers across the country, directly wrote an article saying that "this is a science fiction movie performed by a group of Chinese people that seems to take place in China", and in the 2,000-word film review, the words of the "Film Newspaper" are extremely spicy, "In this story, the junior is not troublesome, the wife does not mind her husband's infidelity, the teacher is willing to beg for the students, the conductor can run all the hotels to find the owner of the wallet, and the farmer does not want money after being hit......"

"Film Daily" even said in mean language: "I suggest that the name of this film can be changed to "Moving China 2019 Essence Collection". ”

If "Film News" is already a condemnation, then there is also a media called "Bad Movie World", which directly and openly scolded Wang Xiaobai for "showing the extreme male power ideas that are contrary to society to the fullest in the movie, it is a movie with extremely improper views, and it is recommended that the relevant departments strengthen censorship......"

This is the bright knife, which stabbed directly at Wang Xiaobai's heart, wanting to kill him with a knife.

Regarding this situation, Murong Bing asked him if he wanted to speak up and explain, but Wang Xiaobai was also very helpless, there were too many issues involved in this movie, and he couldn't do anything about it.

So, he chose to be silent.

In the case of major media or praise, or scolding, the audience still walked into the cinema as promised.

During the release of "People in Awkward Journey", many media sent invitations, wanting to give Wang Xiaobai and a group of main creators an interview, Wang Xiaobai shirked and was not available, and could visit the two leading actors and directors of "People in Awkward Journey".

Many media outlets were disappointed with this result.

So far, Wang Xiaobai has never been interviewed by any media, and everyone wants to get Wang Xiaobai's blood.

It was also because Wang Xiaobai refused to be interviewed, which caused many big media to give up interviewing Yu Shan and Wang Baobao.

On the afternoon of January 1, Jiang Wenbin, who had been out for half a month, came back.

Jiang Wenbin has been to several places in the past half a month, most of which are mountainous areas, and it is indeed not easy to find a shooting location near mountains and rivers.

So far, it is not without any gain, and he chose two places for backup, but he is still a little unwilling, and he is ready to continue looking for it after New Year's Day.

"Uncle, don't work too hard, I don't plan to do this immediately, I can determine the filming location before the year, and I am very satisfied with the first episode in the first half of 2020. ”

Wang Xiaobai looked at the corners of Jiang Wenbin's mouth that had rotted due to overwork, and comforted.

Jiang Wenbin took a sip of tea and said, "Don't worry, I'm full of expectations for this show, I just want to see what kind of reaction can be caused by the filming of the first episode, I can't wait." ”

Wang Xiaobai said: "By the way, have you thought about the other two main coffees?"

Jiang Wenbin shook his head and said, "I found a few, either there is no schedule, or I am not very interested." I'm interested, but I don't think it's appropriate. ”

Wang Xiaobai was also stumped by this question, there is a host among the three main coffees of "Longing for Life" in the original time and space, but that is different, the "Longing for Life" in the original time and space was filmed by other TV stations, and the host, as the first brother of the TV station, naturally had to obey the arrangement of the station.

Although he now has the support of CCTV's father behind him, to put it bluntly, he is a thigh-hugging person, and those celebrities will not pay attention to him.

Unless he gives enough money.

But the crux of the matter is not that there is no money.

was struggling, and suddenly a phone call came, Wang Xiaobai looked at the caller ID, and he was happy.

It's really sleepy, and someone will come to deliver pillows.

"Hey, Mr. Xiang. ”

"Xiaobai, what are you doing?"

Xiang Ling on the other side was not ambiguous at all, and naturally asked, just like chatting with an old friend.

"Isn't that worrying? ”

"Is it because of those movie reviews? I said that you are still too young, you don't have to pay attention to what those film critics say, they just take money to swear, who doesn't scold people to read their film reviews?"

Xiang Ling knows the routines of this industry, and he doesn't take it seriously at all.

"Thank you, Mr. Xiang. He said and said, "You said that this is a coincidence, if you don't call me, I will also have something to look for you." ”

"Oh, do you have something to ask me for?"

Xiang Ling was a little interested, if others asked him for help, he might directly refuse, but he wished that Wang Xiaobai could owe him a favor.

"It's not counting, it's actually a cooperative thing. ”

He was a little ambiguous.

"What kind of cooperation? It won't be that you want to be on "Happy Logging Tired" and clarify the movie, right?" asked Xiang Ling with a smile, of course, knowing that with Wang Xiaobai's character, it was impossible to take the initiative to participate in Happy Logging Tired.

"It's hard to say too much on the phone, I can only briefly say that some time ago, I got a contract as an independent TV producer from CCTV, ready to produce a new TV program, and wanted to invite Teacher Xiang as a resident guest. ”

He didn't explicitly say that he wanted to invite Xiang Ling to be a resident guest of the reality show, and the reason was very simple. Xiang Ling is the first brother of Tomato Channel, and the two are in competition to put it bluntly, and his plan has been positioned by CCTV as an S-level project, and it is still in the secret stage. Without a written promise, it would be impossible for Wang Xiaobai to inform Xiang Ling of the plan, which is not tantamount to collaborating with the enemy.

Xiang Ling is also a sensible person, although he was shocked when he heard the news, he was even more curious about Wang Xiaobai's plan.

He was silent for a moment and said, "You really can't talk about this on the phone." I don't have anything to do tomorrow, I'll go to your company in person, and we'll have a face-to-face interview. ”

"Okay, then I'll wait for the teacher to come. ”

"Okay. ”

After hanging up the phone, Wang Xiaobai looked at Jiang Wenbin a little proudly and said, "The second main coffee, it's done." ”

……

At twelve o'clock in the evening, Wang Xiaobai worked overtime in the company, and Wang Baobao, Yu Shan, Murong Yanliang, Lu Jiayi and Murong Bing stayed together.

They are all waiting for a result - the first-day box office of "People in Embarrassment".

"It's out! The box office on the first day is out!"

At this time, Xue Ning took a report and ran towards this side excitedly.