Chapter 464: The flames of war ignited
"The Outside" won a box office of 220 million on the first day of release, which can be said to have made many people in the circle look sideways.
You must know that the release time of "The Outside Bureau" is not a good schedule, but because of the number of films, "The Outside Bureau" still won a lot of box office.
On the second day after its release, the number of films scheduled for "The Outside Bureau" went further, reaching 52%, and although the box office has declined, it still reached 180 million.
In the next few days, "The Outsider" was released for a week, and the box office in the first week successfully exceeded 1 billion, which can be said to have made countless people fall through the eyeballs.
If it is a long holiday during the Spring Festival, then this number may not be very good, but you must know that this is the box office obtained in the off-season before the Spring Festival.
Therefore, many media have praised Xuanhuang Film and Television's strategy of avoiding strong competitors this time is obviously very wise and successful.
And in the past few days, "Infernal Affairs" and "Marginal Man" have also carried out the last crazy hype before the release.
Both online and offline are promoted with the greatest efforts, and this time has reached the most critical juncture, which has a crucial impact on the success or failure of the future.
So both sides are singing and I appearing, and they are desperately promoting their respective movies.
Publicity meetings, press conferences, roadshows, no matter which artist is on the show, they must promote the movie they starred in, and from time to time some tidbits of the film shooting and so on.
Although the two films are competitive, they also have the effect of being bundled and influencing each other, and the publicity effect is obviously 1+1 greater than 2.
Even because these two movies hurt each other and competed with each other, they were repeatedly promoted and hyped together, but they overshadowed all the movies in the same period, and there was a situation of double power competition.
The eyes of everyone inside and outside the circle are focused on these two films.
The first day of the Lunar New Year, the first day of the Spring Festival!
"Infernal Affairs" and "Marginal People" were released nationwide at the same time!
is also a blockbuster, but because there are actually more than these two blockbusters released during the Spring Festival, in terms of film scheduling, it is obviously impossible to compare with the first day of the previously released "The Outside Bureau".
However, the previous large-scale publicity still had a certain effect.
"Marginal Man" has the largest number of films, reaching 25%.
This is enough to show that Tianxing's energy in issuance is still strong.
You must know that this is a large Spring Festival schedule.
In second place is "Infernal Affairs", which has 19% of the film schedule, which is enough to show that the two films are still the biggest competitors.
In third place is a new film with the main theme "Fighting Alone" released by Huaying.
And "The Outside Bureau", which has been released for a week and has entered the second week of screening, has been cut in half and cut in half, and only got 12% of the film schedule.
However, for "The Outsider", this is too normal.
Fan Wencheng's mood at this moment is extremely nervous, because although the momentum of "Infernal Affairs" is still suppressed by "Marginal Man", it is still the biggest and most direct competitor of "Marginal Man".
In order to find out about the enemy, or to understand the competitors, Fan Wencheng did not appear in the screening hall of "Marginal Man" today, but bought a ticket for "Infernal Affairs", intending to find out.
Because of the previous critics' reviews and fan word-of-mouth, "Infernal Affairs" has to surpass "Marginal People".
In addition, Fan Wencheng has read the script of "Infernal Affairs", so he really wants to see what the final filming will be.
Entering the cinema, Fan Wencheng was a little surprised by the attendance rate of "Infernal Affairs", and almost the huge theater was almost full.
The screen goes dark and the movie officially begins.
The audience fell silent, and the logo of the Soaring Court Studio appeared on the screen......
The big screen is dark, and against the gray background, the ghosts, gods and Buddha statues set the tone of the whole film.
"The Nineteenth Book of the Nirvana Sutra: The Best of the Eight Hells, Called the Infernal Hell......"
Many viewers frowned, "What is this? ”
"Isn't it a cop movie? How does it feel weird, this beginning. ”
Fan Wencheng knows that the beginning of "Infernal Affairs" can be said to be a perfect fit with the story of the whole film.
The movie played gradually, and the audience's discussion began to gradually subside as the plot of the film progressed, and everyone's attention was attracted by the tense plot.
Even Fan Wencheng is no exception, although he has read the script and knows the general story, the script and the movie are still very different.
The first high tide point of the movie soon appeared, that is, the confrontation between police and bandits, and the exchange of Morse codes, which was so tense that it was suffocating.
The audience couldn't help but hold their breath and stared at the big screen with wide eyes.
Fan Wencheng's mood at the moment is complicated, on the one hand, even if he doesn't want to admit the effect of this film, he has to say that Yang Hao's level is indeed very good.
Just thinking that this film is the biggest and most direct competitor of "Marginal Man", he couldn't be happier.
Especially seeing Chen Yongren played by Lin Xiao, Fan Wencheng's brows furrowed tightly.
He couldn't help but compare the male protagonist in "Marginal Man", Hu Bin, who is also an undercover agent, with Chen Yongren.
As a result, he was very frustrated to find that compared with Chen Yongren, there is a big gap between Hu Bin's character design and performance.
It's not about the gap in actors, but Hu Bin in "Marginal People", in fact, there are not too many opportunities for extreme performance, on the other hand, in "Infernal Affairs", Chen Yongren played by Lin Xiao is almost a play from beginning to end.
His doubts, pain, forbearance, thoughts, etc., all made the audience understand Chen Yongren's feelings at once, and it seems that Chen Yongren is the embodiment of the undercover agent.
On the other hand, Hu Bin, although there was an outbreak as soon as he appeared, he was more for the big scenes.
If there is no comparison of Chen Yongren in "Infernal Affairs", perhaps the unreasonableness of Hu Bin's character and identity is not obvious, but there is harm if there is comparison.
At this moment, Fan Wencheng suddenly discovered that Hu Bin's personality was really far from his identity as an undercover agent.
In fact, it doesn't mean that undercover agents don't necessarily have a character like Hu Bin, it's just that if you want his character to fit the identity of an undercover agent, the movie must justify itself, and obviously in "Marginal Man", he didn't do it.
Another thing that made Fan Wencheng regret it was that Lin Xiao's acting skills could be said to have greatly exceeded Fan Wencheng's expectations.
Especially those eyes, even if they are much better than those actors in active service, no, even better.
Because he still can't think of any actor whose performance can be compared with Lin Xiao's.
This couldn't help but remind him of his doubts about him when Lin Xiao asked him to talk about "Infernal Affairs".
Although Wang Pengfei's performance was also very exciting, Fan Wencheng was still unconsciously attracted by Lin Xiao's eyes.
The eyes that can talk, the eyes that have stories, probably talking about Lin Xiao's way of acting.