"Mr. Zhou, can you tell us about the recording site of "Thompson's Talk Show" at that time?"

"That's what you see on the show. ”

"Zhou, may I ask if the kung fu you showed in "The Matrix" is completely something that you really have? Can you really dodge bullets?"

"My kung fu was practiced from a young age, but I couldn't dodge bullets. So, Once Upon a Time is a kung fu movie, while The Matrix is a science fiction movie, not a kung fu movie. Of course, because of the foundation of kung fu, it will make it easier for me to complete the filming than ordinary actors. ”

"Mr. Zhou, some people question that you are making false propaganda, claiming that the boxing champion Ah Long received a huge amount of money and then cooperated with you, how do you explain this?"

"Nonsense!"

…………

Saturday, July 28th, at 7:30 a.m.

When the "Matrix" propaganda team led by Zhou Baoshan walked out of the hotel in Chicago, the sun shone on Zhou Baoshan's body, the reporters' cameras clicked to take pictures, and countless microphones stretched out, eager to stuff into Zhou Baoshan's mouth......

Zhou Baoshan, accompanied by his assistant and interpreter, walked for more than ten minutes from the hotel elevator through the lobby to the outside to get on the bus, answering seven or eight questions, and then they finally got into a car at the door of the hotel, temporarily isolating the reporter outside.

Looking at the reporters who still refused to give up outside, through the car window and glass, they were still stretching out the microphone to ask questions loudly, listening to their extremely fast English, the smile on Zhou Baoshan's face that never faded became even brighter at this moment - the ten minutes just now were more than the reporters he had seen in the four or five days before he came to the United States!

The car starts up and heads to the next event location.

Through the rear window, he could notice that many reporters had rushed back to their cars, and then started their cars to catch up!

Zhou Baoshan smiled, suddenly took out his mobile phone, and called Du Yihua, who was in another car not far behind, and when the phone was connected, he said, "Sister Hua, I want to start learning English, can you help me arrange it?"

…………

Zhou Baoshan is red.

Big red and purple.

"Thompson's Talk Show" was originally a talk show that ranked among the top three in the United States, and its own influence was quite large, and "The Matrix" was released for seven days, not only won $50 million at the box office in the first two days of the week, and topped the North American box office list of the week in one fell swoop, but also had a pretty good box office performance in the next few working days after the start of this week, which surprised a number of Hollywood studios and professional film critics in the United States, and began to have a considerable number of viewers and fans in North America.

As the main character and actor of the movie, Zhou Baoshan naturally began to have many people paying attention.

What's more, the label of the boxing champion on the boxing king Aaron is indeed not very watery!

In this way, a number of factors come together, a real battle that takes place at the recording site of a TV show, and whether it is the process of the incident or the final result, it can be regarded as extremely shocking.

The mysterious Chinese kung fu, which seems to be a little weak, the Chinese kung fu superstar directly PK the American boxing champion on the spot - this kind of news is simply of interest to everyone.

As a result, Zhou Baoshan became popular in one fell swoop.

Of course, the vast majority of ordinary American people don't think too much, the live video of the show does not have the slightest shadow of rehearsal, the development process of things seems so real, and the fast and terrifying attack power shown by China Zhou when he defeated the boxing champion Aaron in the final period is also very convincing, so the vast majority of the American people, whether they watched the TV show at the time, or then watched the replay, or after seeing the video of the show on the Internet, they immediately threw themselves into the five-body worship of the Chinese kung fu superstar with such strong actual combat ability- However, the public opinion circle in the United States is not jealous!

Fake hits!

Aaron collected the money and deliberately lost!

This kind of talk appeared on the Internet almost immediately after the show aired - and in fact, it was almost inevitable!

In front of such a video, countless people will be directly conquered and kneel directly, but some people actually have strong confidence in boxing, the boxing champion, or the boxing king Aaron.

They simply didn't believe that the weak-looking Oriental face could really defeat the boxing champion Aaron so easily. I don't even believe that the so-called Chinese kung fu is so magical!

They are especially superstitious and worship absolute power!

Of course, although many reporters then captured the agent of the boxing champion Ah Long like capturing Zhou Baoshan, and then blocked the boxing champion Ah Long himself - the scars on the corners of his mouth are still there, proving that the fight was really fighting, not a complete drama, but in the face of the reporter's interview, the boxing champion Ah Long chose not to make any response!

In fact, they are also dumb and eat coptis, and they can't tell if they have bitterness.

The matter of receiving the money, of course, is true, and it is indeed a matter between a real fight and a fake fight, but the boxing king Ah Long was indeed very angry at the fact that he was knocked down by the other party so quickly, so then he broke away from the pre-planned script and began to play on the spot!

If you just follow the script, how to deal with and guide public opinion in the future, in fact, Colombia already has an absolutely complete plan. Following that plan can not only make Zhou Baoshan an instant hit, but also will not affect the reputation and status of boxing champion Along.

And the temporary change of the script of the boxing champion Aaron, if he wins, resulting in the complete failure of this plan in Colombia, of course, it will lose money, and it is estimated that the lawsuit will be fought at that time, after all, you took the money, but in that case, it will not damage his reputation as a boxing champion!

But things were depressed, he didn't expect that he actually lost, and he lost so completely!

At this time, of course, you can tell the story of the money you have taken, but in that case, the dirty water will certainly be poured on Colombia and China Zhou, but first, he will face a lawsuit, and it may not be possible to lose a lot of money, and second, his career will definitely be greatly affected.

And, at the end of the day, if you say it's a fake fight, okay, do you dare to do it again?

So, weighing the pros and cons, after completely calming down, boxing champion Aaron had no choice but to accept the advice of the agent team behind him: keep silent about this matter!

After communication, the Colombian side also promised that it would not carry out targeted propaganda on this, and China Zhou would never deny his strength on any occasion, but would unify the rhetoric into "Aaron's strength is actually very strong, he may not be familiar with Chinese kung fu".

So, boxing champion Aaron shut up, and the whole United States was hotly discussing Chinese kung fu.

The popularity of China Week in North America soared overnight like a rocket!

And such an influence, of course, was fed back to the box office of "The Matrix" for the first time - in the first week of release, two days, "The Matrix" won $50 million at the box office, and in the first five days of this week, five working days, a total of $27.26 million was won at the box office, according to normal market logic, on Saturday and Sunday, the film won another $12 million to $15 million at the box office, which is no problem at all! In other words, in the second week of release, the box office exceeded 40 million US dollars, which is not a big problem, and the total box office exceeded 100 million, just next week!

However, because "Thompson's Talk Show" was broadcast on Friday night, it got the highest ratings of 12.63 million at that time, and in the following 24 hours, not only did the rebroadcast of the show win an astonishing 10.45 million viewers, but the number of clicks on the Internet was as high as more than 20 million!

As a result, the box office of "The Matrix" on Saturday suddenly rebounded against the trend!

Or it can be said that the audience in North America seems to have suddenly met the face from the East - Zhou Baoshan until this time!

And with such a familiar fulcrum, all of a sudden, everyone began to re-examine such a science fiction movie from the East - at this time, when everyone began to pay attention, the previous series of promotional combinations launched by Columbia for this movie really began to enter people's attention, and even began to enter the hearts of many people.

This science fiction movie is said to be the most outstanding brain and human apocalyptic movie of all time?

It is said that this movie has an extremely good apocalyptic setting?

It is said that this movie has extremely wonderful fight scenes?

It is said that the worldview and world structure of this movie are full of oriental philosophical thinking?

It is said that the heroine who is also from the East has a particularly sexy figure?

It is said that the picture of this film is extremely unique and full of color aesthetics?

By the way, the most important thing is that this film seems to have unusually high scores on movie rating networks such as IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes at the same time?

Reputedly......

Various are said.

It is not a lie that a person's popularity can drive the box office of a movie, or conversely, the popularity of a movie can drive a large number of stars.

Anything, to develop from a small number of people to a large number of people, needs a tipping point, needs an opportunity - this is the power of propaganda!

There is no doubt that it is entirely possible for the same movie to do well in publicity, or to do well in publicity, and to double or even double the box office!

And because North American audiences are indeed naturally a little blind to faces from Asia, and they will subconsciously look down on non-Hollywood and non-American films, so although Columbia Pictures and Oriental Dream Pictures have invested huge amounts of money in the promotion and distribution of "The Matrix", and there is also the gimmick of director Li Qian, the overall momentum of the movie is still completely incomparable with the first-line Hollywood super productions!

Even, it is no exaggeration to say that the total box office of about $78 million in the first two days of the film and the first five working days of this week really relied entirely on Li Qian's name and wave after wave of hard advertising from the distributor - the curiosity-seeking audience accounted for a considerable proportion.

But now, "Thompson's Talk Show", three-second KO boxing champion Ah Long, Chinese kung fu, this wave of propaganda came out, and Zhou Baoshan was remembered by Americans at once.

As a result, "The Matrix" suddenly went from only relying on hard advertising to attract a part of the audience, and suddenly became the hottest topic in the entire North American region!

It is equivalent to saying that after a full week of release, "The Matrix" suddenly became popular!

On Saturday, this movie, which had already shown a certain decline and was judged by many theaters to start reducing the film schedule in the future, suddenly began to become popular.

In just one day, this movie, which had already begun to recede, won an astonishing box office of $34.51 million in North America - seeing this data, almost all box office forecasters and major Hollywood studios in North America were shocked!

The box office on Saturday of the following week was actually higher than the box office of its first week!

And on various networks in the United States, the discussion about the clip of Zhou Baoshan knocking down the boxing champion Aaron on the "Thompson Talk Show", and the discussion about "The Matrix", suddenly became hot!

Moreover, it is almost more than 95%, which is full of praise for this movie!

There are those who praise it as the most outstanding science fiction movie since the existence of movies in mankind, those who praise it as an incomparably outstanding action blockbuster, those who praise Li Qian as an outstanding film director, and those who praise Zhou Baoshan for being handsome and handsome!

In short, you are popular, at this time, when you go to the movies again, you will suddenly find that this movie is simply good anywhere!

And wait until the next day, Sunday, although all theaters are not daring or willing to reduce the schedule of "The Matrix" at this time, no matter which movie theater you go to, all the shows about "The Matrix" are still hard to find!

Although on the afternoon of this day, "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" held a large-scale, star-studded world premiere in Los Angeles, which attracted the attention of media and fans around the world for a while, and according to the distributor Universal Pictures, the early ticket sales of this film after zero o'clock were unusually considerable, and many movie tickets were sold out early, but even so, Zhou Baoshan and "The Matrix", which suddenly became popular , still rising unstoppably, successfully grabbing a lot of attention and heated discussions from the dinosaurs that are about to land around the world.

And when this day passed, "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" certainly became one of the hot spots in the film industry because it won a whopping $7.33 million in advance, but on the second Sunday after its release, it did not show any decline at all, and once again swept the box office of up to $36.82 million "The Matrix", but it became the first focus of the entire North American film market this Monday!

The box office was $98.59 million the next week, and the total box office was as high as $149.16 million in nine days of release!

It was only after this box office came out that many people suddenly realized that "The Matrix" from China will not only definitely become the box office dark horse in the North American market this year, but also has the ability to challenge a giant like "Jurassic Park 2"!