Gu Biao still underestimated the immune resistance of people in this era to American blockbusters.

He knew that this film would enter the mainland in 86 and would definitely set off a wave of praise.

But in his imagination, the kind of state of gain and loss that his eyes are reluctant to blink, for fear of missing the wonderful plot, will only appear when he can get the scene of a fierce gunfight between man and machine.

Who knows, just an opening music, and the opening prefix, have already amazed the audience.

And the first climax came just 30 seconds after the feature film started.

"!"

"Hiss......"

"Damn!

It turned out that just the moment when Schwarzenegger crossed over, the naked state, the explosive tension tendon flesh that only showed the front of the body, and the 45-degree oblique shoulder deltoid muscle had already made the female customers, who accounted for nearly half of the total audience in the venue, scream one after another.

There was a chorus of boos and face-coverings – yes, even face-coverings, because everyone was covering them stiffly, almost as loudly as slapping themselves. First, she was too excited when she covered it, and secondly, she was afraid that the people around her would not hear her covering her face in the dark.

However, almost all the female viewers invariably spread their fingers when covering their faces, just making a gesture.

Such a muscular one-meter-nine world-class strong man, which woman doesn't want to see it.

Some female viewers who are sullen, a little knowledgeable, and know the background of the film can't help but think in their hearts: I heard that she is a bodybuilding world champion many times, and it really deserves its name......

Among the audience, about one percent of the people know the background and plot of the production in advance. They are either very few of them can afford to buy a video recorder, or they have the channel to go to the video hall to see the pirated English original resources (of course, no one has done sinicization of pirated versions in the 80s).

More of them are from relatives and friends who have video recorders to do their homework in advance, and families who can really afford video recorders must be far from 10% in 86 years.

And when the women covered their faces one after another, these audiences naturally jumped out to show off and suppress the surprise of others, in order to show that "my brother already knows the plot", "That's how American films are made, don't make a fuss, this is art", and by the way, maintain the silence of the theater.

The despised person quickly borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, stopped making a sound, and spontaneously watched the play quietly, lest he miss the lines.

And just this one shot, the impact is not only the "world bodybuilding champion's fruit" This is a highlight, Arnold finally stood in the hilltop park overlooking the panoramic view of Los Angeles at two o'clock in the morning, and it made the audience of other concerns, with an almost worshipful attitude, sighed at the level of Los Angeles's "bustling metropolis".

This point, even "First Blood", which was released at the same time, has no effect, after all, the story of "First Blood" takes place in a small town in Montana, which is in the countryside of the United States, and it is nothing more than jungle survival and wilderness shootouts, but it is not as lively as a metropolis drama.

And for the Chinese in the mid-80s, even watching the prosperity of the American metropolis through movies is already a kind of enjoyment in itself - although this kind of enjoyment, the American and the audience has no feeling at all, because they have seen too much.

This is the unique enjoyment of the Chinese at this time, because the Chinese are still worshipping high-rise buildings and the power of real estate capital. Ken Takakura's "Manhunt" was able to become popular seven years ago, and it was somewhat because it showed the background of the city's prosperity itself, which was completely untired of being watched by Chinese over and over again.

Of course, in the eyes of Gu and other knowledgeable Chinese, Los Angeles is a large, tiled rural village, and there is no comparison with a three-dimensional city like Tokyo.

But many scenes in "The Terminator" are shot at night, and when it comes to night scenes, the effect is completely different. Because you can only see the lights in the night view, and you can't see the height of the buildings in the distance, you can give people a shocking feeling as long as the interior is bustling and brightly lit.

Just like many Douyin users who posted in Los Angeles in later generations, they imitated Kobe's lines: "Have you ever seen Los Angeles at four o'clock in the morning?"

Then with a VLOG taken from the porthole when I took a night discount plane to Los Angeles, I saw a large area of endless square lights, shining like a galaxy, and the effect was more shocking than other cities.

Arnold's shot of standing on a hilltop park overlooking Los Angeles is also the same, making all the male viewers in the venue feel a little weak in their legs.

"It's too bustling......"

In the more than two hours of watching the movie, waves of climaxes will come frequently.

snatching clothes from Schwarzenegger's first bloody bare-hand killing of thugs;

to the first Chinese actor Li Lianjie also crossed over naked (but they were all half-length shots, and the lower body was not photographed);

After seeing Schwarzenegger 10 shots from a shotgun for the first time, he still stood up with a blank face and a cold face.

Even the audience thought that the heroine and the second male were safe, but they were slaughtered by the Terminator of the entire police station.

Screaming wave after wave.

The last two most shocking waves, of course, were watching the slightly damaged Schwarzenegger, who went back to a hotel to heal his own injuries, cut half of his arm with a blank face, and gouged out his flesh and eyes, revealing the sparkling alloy white bones in the flesh of his arm, as well as the real eyeballs in the shape of infrared cameras.

and even the mechanical alloy skeleton chasing scene after the body was burned by the blasting fire at the end.

Since the eyeballs were gouged, the children have all trembled with their backs to the screen.

As the movie ended, countless people were not willing to waste even the little time they had in line to leave, and they discussed it noisily with each other.

"American blockbusters are not the same......

"The disco bar, the dance hall in our city compared to foreigners, that's really a comparison of goods - the sound effects, the atmosphere, the lighting. Let's take a broken tape recorder and dare to open a dance hall. ”

"Hey, you have a problem with your focus, what is the scene in this film, such as a dance hall and bar?"

"I didn't say what it was, I just said that people pluck their roots and pluck their hairs. ”

Chinese Do you know that this film was actually made by our big Chinese boss, that James Cameron, a great American director, is just a part-time worker!"

The person who was able to say these things during the discussion was obviously the one who had seen pirated English videotapes or inquired with wealthy relatives.

If this topic is discussed in a movie theater in a foreign country at this moment, everyone may stay at the level of "this is what our big Chinese boss invested money to shoot".

After all, Gu Biao's identity is a Hong Kong businessman.

However, because it is in the old nest of Qiantang, there are more people who know how to do it and people who are honorable, so they will directly emphasize that "this is Gu Biao's investment in the auction".

As for the title, it goes without saying, the words "big boss in China" can also be omitted.

Who doesn't know who Gu Biao is, do you still need to introduce your identity?

"A group of laymen who came to see the excitement temporarily, and they didn't even know that "Terminator" and "First Blood" were filmed and distributed by Gu Ao. I am an insider, and the leader of my sister-in-law's classmates is China Film Import Company.

Look at the old-fashioned films that can be imported in China a few years ago? These two films, I heard that Mr. Gu waved his pen casually and directly gave them to China Film at the price of cabbage for imports, so there are two advertisements for Gatorade and Tiankun learning machines!"

……

"It seems that I have been out of touch with the grassroots for too long, and I didn't expect that so many accustomed points can become the hot spots of the audience's fanatical attention and worship. There is still a long way to go to build cultural self-confidence. ”

After leaving the theater, this was Gu Ao's biggest emotion.

Mina originally had a similar mentality to him, but since her husband is self-examining, she must change her position and comfort her: "It's not as bad as you think, although the prosperity of the United States and the excitement of gunfights do make many people admire, but after all, these two films are invested and filmed by you and released by you." This is already much better than a movie with a 100% pure American background that makes people worship like this.

Let's shoot more in the future, even if Hong Kong films don't have this foundation, let's invest and invite American directors. The proportion of links provided by Chinese companies in the industrial chain is gradually increasing, such as using Chinese framing, mixing Chinese actors with sand, and opening special effects companies in China, which can always build cultural self-confidence. ”

Listening to Mina's analysis, Gu Biao's mood also improved a lot.

Since you always have to find someone to worship when you are poor, it is better to worship Brother than to waste the value of national worship to worship the real Americans.

In just ten days after that, Gu Biao took Mina to visit the mountains and rivers in Qiantang every day, and played all the scenic spots. Anyway, it's not suitable for work if it's a big New Year.

Ten days later, he also called the director of China Film Import to learn about the box office situation of these two films and the feedback from various places.

After all, Gu Biao only knows more about the situation in Qiantang, Hujiang and other places, and the other places still have to look at the data of China Film Company. The quality of the box office has nothing to do with Gu Biao, of which forty percent is the income of China Film imports, and sixty percent is from theaters. Gu Biao just wanted to know about the spread and the delivery rate of the bundled ads.

It's a pity that the current data statistics are very slow, and China Film Import can only give some preliminary estimates.

"Mr. Gu, I'm sorry we don't have specific data, but we have offices in the top 20 major cities in the country, before the tenth day of the new year, it is basically often full, recently because most of the units have gone to work one after another, the daytime field may be empty, but after four o'clock in the afternoon it is still full.

At present, in second-tier cities and above, all state-run and China Film systems, "The Terminator" and "First Blood" have a combined film scheduling rate of 95%, and other films are only 5%, and "The Terminator" performs better, after all, the drama is more lively and prosperous. So on the third day of the Lunar New Year, the film scheduling rate was five or five at the beginning, and now it is four or six, "Terminator" six and "First Blood" four. ”

It is not too exaggerated to have full movie theaters in the 80s, mainly because movie theaters in this era are positioned as state-run public infrastructure, and there are no commercial theaters.

Therefore, in a big city like Qiantang, there are only about 20 theaters in total, all of which are filled with the whole city, and 30,000 people can watch one at the same time.

But after so many days, the data is a bit exaggerated.

Gu Biao roughly calculated, just by the Lantern Festival, a total of 2 million people in Qiantang City have watched these two American blockbusters, of which "Terminator" should have more than 1.2 million viewers, and "First Blood" has also exceeded 800,000.

As for other small cities, the situation should be completely different, mainly because of the expensive copy, so many small cities have only one theater, and then only one copy of one of the films. They need to wait for another part of the Linxian Theater to finish, and then exchange the copies under the instructions of their superiors before they can put another one.

But in any case, even according to the algorithm of the mud, in cities above the provincial capital level in China, until the Lantern Festival, at least 30 million ~ 40 million people have watched any of these movies. Counting the lower-sinking markets in cities below the third tier, there are 50 million.

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