Chapter 201: Lost at the box office on the first day
The animation battle between Huaxia and Neon, the fight between the local Journey to the West and the foreign Journey to the West, this is a very attractive gimmick in itself, but after all, this is just an animated movie, compared to the live-action movie, the box office of animated movies has always been a relatively embarrassing existence, even if it is a neon animated movie, the box office will not be high, so now Neon is beginning to take more and more of the route of animated live-action movies.
The advantage of this is that the live-action version has a much better box office than the animated movie.
And this fight, although it is a fight between two countries in an animated movie, but because it is an animated film, the box office is naturally not as exaggerated as a live-action movie.
However, even so, compared with the previous animated movies, the box office of both movies is okay, especially the box office of "Journey to the West" reached 32 million on the first day!
On the other hand, the box office of "The Return of the Great Sage" on the first day was only 16.8 million! It was only half of "Journey to the West".
But even so, "The Return of the Great Sage" still set a record for the first-day box office of a domestic animated movie, and this number is already a height that the total box office of many domestic animated movies cannot reach.
"Zhang Liang's First Defeat!" "The Return of the Great Sage" box office is only half of "Journey to the West"!
"Zhang Liang fell off the altar, and the myth of invincibility was shattered!"
"The box office on the first day is 16.8 million!
"Is the Monkey King not beautiful enough to be the reason for the defeat of "The Return of the Great Sage"?"
"Following the hair removal of the Monkey King, the shoehorn face sage came out!"
"Zhang Liang may have created the ugliest Monkey King!"
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At the moment when the box office was exposed on the first day, all major entertainment newspapers published a series of reports in an instant, among which there were naturally all kinds of big books about Zhang Liang's battle, and it seemed that they were very gloating about Zhang Liang's defeat, and they seemed to have forgotten that this was a battle about the country and the nation!
However, compared with media reports, netizens are more concerned about the content of the comments on the two animated films.
"What a handsome Monkey King, neon is really wonderful in terms of character design!"
"The first time I saw a Tang monk with hair......"
"Sun Wukong actually has a great love affair with the white bone spirit, and I am convinced of the screenwriter's brain hole. ”
"What is the white bone calculation, Tang Seng and Guanyin are still lovers for thousands of generations!"
"What about the white dragon horse! It turned into a car directly, silent condolences!"
"The movie is very exciting, but I always feel that it has nothing to do with Journey to the West. ”
"Upstairs feels the same, on the other hand, I prefer Zhang Liang's great sage. ”
"Don't go upstairs, so do I. ”
"Jiang Liu'er was happy to hear all kinds of questions. ”
"Nezha is a woman, Great Sage, are you really okay to slander people like this?"
"The Four Heavenly Kings are sisters, Zhang Liang, aren't you afraid that the Four Heavenly Kings will come to you?"
"Although the box office is not as good as "Journey to the West", I still prefer "The Return of the Great Sage". ”
"Jiang Liu'er's 'Great Sage' I burst into tears instantly, I don't know why?"
"Me too. ”
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On the first day of release, the reviews of both animations were pretty good, and they had their own feelings.
"Journey to the West" is a complete subversion of Journey to the West, and the four masters and apprentices who are directly humanized, as well as various subversive plots and characters, give Chinese audiences a new Journey to the West mode, plus Neon's achievements in animation, both on the screen and in terms of voice actors, they are quite excellent, even if it is the dubbing of Neon language, but it still gives the audience an immersive feeling.
Of course, many people still don't like the subversion of Journey to the West, this kind of subversion is not the subversion of Zhang Liang's "Journey to the West" or "The Legend of Wukong", whether it is "Journey to the West" or "The Legend of Wukong", although they are very subversive, but at least they are based on "Journey to the West", but it just gives people a completely different sense, which makes people have a novel and sudden feeling.
But "Journey to the West" is completely different!
His subversion is a complete subversion, whether it is a character or a plot, such a subversion may seem quite powerful to some people, but for many people, it is inevitable to have a rejection mentality.
Maybe it's because this is a battle about Journey to the West, and it's not even Journey to the West, so it feels different.
Moreover, the kind of pursuit of power that is full of movies and the blackening of those in power seems to be similar to "The Legend of Wukong", but in fact it is not.
"The Legend of Wukong" fights the sky, while "Journey to the West" fights just people, completely different levels and heights.
What's more, there are many things alluded to in it, and there is a meaning of smearing Huaxia if you taste it carefully, which is naturally a little resistant to some Chinese audiences.
And "The Return of the Great Sage" has made many people's eyes shine.
It turns out that animation can do the same!
3D animation movie, so that many Chinese animation people have a new understanding of 3D animation, although many scenes may be simpler if interpreted in a real way, and even many people think that if the script of "The Return of the Great Sage" is interpreted in a real way, it may be better, but when they see those battle scenes, when the red scarf of the Great Sage flutters, they are instantly shocked!
3D animation, with its own advantages of 3D animation!
Also because of "The Return of the Great Sage", many Chinese people also have a new understanding of 3D animation, 3D animation is no longer the kind of cat and dog that appears in the mind when you hear it, but such a vivid and expressive person!
The fluttering red scarf, the scene of the great battle of the heavenly soldiers and generals, the picture of breaking the ice...... Until the end, the scene where the Great Sage recovers his mana and destroys the gods and demons with one stick shocked many people, and also gave many Chinese animation people the idea of trying 3D animation!
Maybe it's because Zhang Liang has too much aura, or maybe it's the aura brought by "Journey to the West" and "The Legend of Wukong", the box office on the first day of "The Return of the Great Sage" is obviously quite good for Chinese animated films, but compared to the audience, the major news media are very unkind to Zhang Liang, and all kinds of reports emerge in endlessly, Zhang Liang doesn't care much about this, all he cares about is the box office, after all, this is all he has to do!
Is it because I didn't do it properly? Or is it because of "Journey to the West", is the box office going to be cold for such a phenomenal Chinese animation work in that parallel world?
Not only Zhang Liang thinks so, it can almost be said that eighty or ninety percent of people feel that Zhang Liang is definitely losing this time, but in fact it is not!
Although the first-day box office is quite important for most movies, not all movies are determined by the first-day box office.
Coincidentally, the counterattack of "The Return of the Great Sage" has just begun. 2