On June 27th, the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional Chinese festival!

The Chinese people who were supposed to take advantage of the 3-day short vacation to go to the tourist attractions around the city poured into the theater.

After all, you can go to the scenic spot at any time, and the movie war in this summer in China this year is not something that can be seen at any time.

As long as the audience is a little curious, they can't help but want to see which of these movies in turn can become the ultimate winner.

After last night's premiere, "Journey to the West" has finally joined this battlefield in full swing.

To everyone's surprise, this "Journey to the West" was even more popular than "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic" when it premiered, and a movie-watching boom broke out all over the country.

This kind of movie-watching craze can not be set off by overwhelming advertisements alone, but more by relying on the word-of-mouth effect of the audience.

Last night, when the first batch of viewers who watched Journey to the West walked out of the theater with red eyes, countless audiences outside the theater who were still watching all asked them whether "Journey to the West" was good.

But before they could say their questions, they were frightened by the red eyes of these audiences.

In particular, there are many girls who, even in addition to the theater, are still sobbing.

It makes these viewers who are still watching feel extremely strange.

Isn't the promotional poster of "Journey to the West" written with comedy, love, and magic movies?

Can someone tell me why all the people who watched the movie came out with grief and even tears?

Is it because the comedy is so good that they all laugh and cry?

So someone couldn't help but ask the staff of the theater: "Hey, may I ask, is Peng Yichen's "Journey to the West" a comedy movie? ”

Before the staff could answer, in front of the ticket counter next to this person, a middle-aged man with red eyes rushed over and shouted, "Another movie ticket for "Journey to the West"!"

"I'm sorry, sir. Tickets for the next show are sold out, and if you want to buy them, only the tickets for the next show, which is the midnight show, do you still want to buy them? The conductor asked politely.

"Buy, must buy. It's a big deal I'll go out for a two-hour spin and come back to see it. The middle-aged man replied firmly.

"Yes, sir. Please grab your movie tickets. ”

The man who just asked if "Journey to the West" was a comedy couldn't help but ask, "Brother, I think you've already watched it twice?"

"Look. The middle-aged man sighed: "I missed this time, I don't know how long I will have to wait to see the movie that made me cry." ”

"Is "Journey to the West" really so good?"

"Nonsense, I've watched it twice, and I want to watch it a third time, do you think it's good. ”

"Is that funny?"

"Well, it's kind of funny. ”

After listening to the conversation between the two, the people around me were even more puzzled, the movie is so funny, why are you still crying?

They didn't understand, and the middle-aged man didn't seem to want to explain, so he turned around and left.

It wasn't until they walked into the playback hall of "Journey to the West" out of curiosity that they understood why the middle-aged man said that the movie was funny and why he would cry after watching it.

They shouted: "Peng Yichen, this big liar! The comedy and funny movie that I said was so good that I wanted to cry when I watched it." ”

After shouting, they were silent again, and everyone silently went to buy a movie ticket for "Journey to the West", and walked into the theater again to reminisce about the helpless and depressed Monkey King's back.

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The day after the premiere, perhaps fans are still immersed in the world of "Journey to the West", and they have a lot to say, but they don't know where to start.

Therefore, there were not many comments on "Journey to the West" on the Internet at that time.

But three days later, the word-of-mouth and comments of "Journey to the West" on the Internet, like an erupting volcano, skyrocketed all the way and became popular all over the entire Chinese Internet!

Almost all movie-related post bars, forums, and even Weibo have all been swiped by the topic of "Journey to the West"!

On Weibo, the topic of ""Journey to the West" has a box office of almost 300 million in three days, ranking first on the hot search list! Even at the premiere of "Transformers 2" to be released on the 29th, the topic that Michael Bay may attend cannot shake the status and popularity of the box office topic of "Journey to the West".

You must know that the national three-day box office is 290 million, especially on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, which has a box office of 120 million in one day, which is far beyond the imagination of many Chinese filmmakers.

Although there were only more than 78 million on the day of the premiere, it did not break the first-day box office record of "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic".

However, the single-day box office record of 120 million in China has been firmly controlled by "Journey to the West". ！

The most critical point is that Journey to the West is not only a high box office that makes everyone frightened, but the reputation of the movie is also very rebellious.

On the most authoritative garlic clove film review website in China, "Journey to the West" scored 9.5 points in one fell swoop, directly ranking first in the domestic movie list!

Although this score will definitely drop later as the number of comments increases.

But you must know that this movie is just a comedy love magic commercial movie, not an ethical film with strong practical significance, not a literary film with profound and obscure connotations, but a nonsensical comedy love magic film!

Peng Yichen's previous highest-grossing film "Full of Gold and Jade" now has only 7.3 points on garlic cloves, and the second-highest grossing "One Man's Martial Arts" now has only 6.8 points on garlic cloves.

That's the normal score for a commercial movie.

But "Journey to the West" is so extraordinary, as a commercial film, it has received such a high review score, even if it is temporary.

It is enough to see how much the audience loves Journey to the West.

"The most unmissable romance movie of your life!"

"God, Peng Yichen's successful transformation of the movie!"

"Upstairs idiot, Peng Yichen has never decided whether the type is good or not, and his movies are never a type. ”

"Upstairs is an idiot, Peng Yichen used to be a director himself, and he shot literary movies, okay. I didn't expect to make a commercial movie, it was so awesome.

"You don't have to fight anymore, anyway, "Journey to the West" is awesome! Damn, I'm really convinced! Lao Tzu hasn't cried since he can remember, but he was actually made a few drops of cat urine by Journey to the West!"

"Scumbags, will I say that I have watched "Journey to the West" twice?"

"I've watched it three times, have I spoken?"

"I've watched it 5 times, and I haven't spoken!"

Fans at night really love and hate Peng Yichen's "Journey to the West", but this hatred is not resentment, but the gap in their hearts caused by the tragic ending of the movie.

From another point of view, this resentment is more of an alternative liking.

can use movies to mobilize the audience's inner emotions, rather than using special effects to mobilize the audience's adrenaline, which is also the effect Peng Yichen hopes to achieve.

Although he attaches great importance to the development of digital special effects technology for films, deep down, he still believes that the core of a movie is in the story, in the characters, and in the plot.

Special effects technology is always just a means to help directors, actors, storytellers, and characters

After all, attracting the audience through special effects shots that stimulate adrenaline outbursts is always only short-lived, and only when the audience is moved from the heart can it stand the polish of time.

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Netizens commented wildly, and all major media outlets were not far behind, all of them rushed to report the news about "Journey to the West".

But unlike the praise on the Internet, it seems that most of the traditional media suffer from selective amnesia.

"Boring, spoofing, and smearing classic masterpieces, this is "Journey to the West"!"

"The movie is very messy, full of mistakes and omissions, and it is an inexplicably bad movie!"

"A hollow and boring special effects blockbuster, nothing but special effects shots!"

"This is a film that seriously discredits the Buddha, the monks, and the monks, and it is full of insults and smears to the identity of the Tang monks and apprentices as 'monks'. Let the Monkey King, who is a monk, 'fornicate' at will. ”

For a time, "Journey to the West" turned out to be the target of collective attacks by traditional media.

It seems that the whole of China has been divided into two worlds, and the online world has praised "Journey to the West" to the sky, and I can't wait to say that it is the first movie in China;

Another world trampled "Journey to the West" worthless, as if it were the biggest bad movie in the world.

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