Chapter 671: Slap in the face
In the shot, a middle-aged woman said with tears in her eyes: "I rarely go to the cinema to watch movies, but this one I watched with my husband, and today I invited the elders in the family to watch it together, which is really touching and warm!"
Immediately afterwards, an old man in his fifties said excitedly: "This movie truly shows the emotions and kindness of the Chinese, in the past, Westerners had a lot of misunderstandings about the image of the Chinese, in fact, we are a nation that values family affection and affection." www.biquge.info I am very proud of myself as a Chinese and as a member of this nation!"
After a round of interviews, the camera returned to the studio, and the host Luo Jing commented with a serious expression: "Ten years ago, there were not many faces from China on the international screen and stage. Now, China has become the stage of the world, and the world has also become a stage to showcase Chinese culture......"
"News Network" can undoubtedly play a role in promoting the box office of the movie, and the affirmation of the movie by "News Network" will inevitably lead to government agencies and institutions chartering the venue. Of course, while promoting the box office of the movie, it also triggered a crusade against Zhang Ran by the public knowledge, and they shouted one after another, and the government really came out to pay for Zhang Ran, a big five cents!
Originally, the box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" has been picking up, but now with the assistance of "News Network", the box office will be higher and higher day by day in the next few days.
February 14th is Valentine's Day, which is a very important schedule for movies, Valentine's Day.
On this day, the rose vendors are guarding the gate early to occupy the favorable terrain. At many movie theaters across the country, from 8 a.m., there are long queues in front of the ticket gates, and there are long queues waiting in front of the counters selling drinks and snacks. The hall of the movie city is full of couples holding snacks and laughing and waiting for the movie to begin. Many people who couldn't buy movie tickets anxiously asked around if they had refunded their tickets, and even stopped those who had tickets to ask if they were willing to resell them at a high price.
On this day, there are many romance films and horror films released, such as "Wedding 2008" starring Guo Tao, such as "Python Horror" starring Da Tiantian. However, almost no one cared about these films, and almost all of them in the box office had the same voice, "I want two tickets for "Tangshan Earthquake".
For boys, there are two most suitable movies for Valentine's Day, watching touching movies if you want your girlfriend to hide in your arms and crying silently, and watching horror movies if you want your girlfriend to scream in your arms. However, domestic horror movies are so bad that they are not scary at all, and they can't achieve the effect of letting your girlfriend hide in your arms.
As a result, "Tangshan Earthquake" has become the favorite of couples on Valentine's Day.
On February 15, the Valentine's Day box office data was released, and the box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" reached 38.5 million!
This data refreshed the single-day box office of lovers, and also refreshed the single-day box office record of domestic films!
After learning this data, the film industry was in an uproar!
Although the box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" has been picking up in the past few days, in the eyes of many box office experts, the most popular Valentine's Day should be romance and horror films, while "Tangshan Earthquake" is a historical film, or a disaster film, and the movie is so tragic that couples definitely don't like to watch it. They never dreamed that "Tangshan Earthquake" would explode like this on Valentine's Day, and everyone was stunned by this data.
Three days later, the weekly box office data was released, and "Tangshan Earthquake" finally ushered in a big explosion after experiencing a dull first week, achieving a box office of 175 million, and a cumulative box office of 250 million!
This result made fans and industry insiders gasp, and those media and experts who shouted for the box office fiasco of "Tangshan Earthquake" only felt that their faces were hot, as if they were pumped!
After this result came out, the three investors of the film, Century Peak, China Film, and Tangshan, all cheered, the movie was only released for eleven days, and this result was achieved, according to this trend box office, according to the horror reputation of the movie, the box office exceeded 300 million just around the corner, and there is no doubt about 400 million suddenly.
There is no doubt that "Tangshan Earthquake" will once again set a new box office record for Chinese films!
Immediately afterwards, the overseas box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" was also released last week.
In Japan, "Tangshan Earthquake" achieved a box office of 834 million yen, successfully surpassing "Death Diary: L Changed the World" and becoming the box office champion, and "Tangshan Earthquake" in South Korea continued to top the list with 530,000 people, with a total of more than one million people.
This week, "Tangshan Earthquake" completely broke out in Xiangjiang, achieving a score of 11.34 million, becoming the champion of the Xiangjiang box office this week, and this week, Singapore, Malaysia and other Southeast Asian regions have fully exploded, all of which have won the local box office.
Compared with the popularity of the entire East Asian region, the performance of "Tangshan Earthquake" in North America is relatively stable, achieving a box office of 8.3 million, ranking fourth, with a cumulative box office of 22.4 million, directly rushing to the seventh place in the box office list of foreign language films in North America.
The performance of "Tangshan Earthquake" in Europe is uneven, with Europa Pictures promoting in France; in the United Kingdom, Summit Entertainment has a publicity and distribution team, and a large number of Blockbuster stores participate in the promotion; due to the good publicity and distribution, "Tangshan Earthquake" has soared at the box office in the United Kingdom and France, but most of the performance in other regions is mediocre, and some areas can only be described as bleak.
But overall, the performance of "Tangshan Earthquake" is extremely good, with a global box office of $5,500, and the total box office has exceeded the $100 million mark, which surpasses Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu", second only to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hero", ranking third among Chinese films.
The box office outbreak of "Tangshan Earthquake" naturally made fans overjoyed, and on the Internet, Zhang Ran fans and fans of "Tangshan Earthquake" ran to Zhu Dake's blog to leave messages. The netizen who left the first message was the first to reply: "Haha, slap your face!
"Haha, slap in the face! Xie Jin's fans sent congratulatory messages!"
"Haha, it's a slap in the face! Nortel's performance department sent a congratulatory message!"
"Haha, let's slap your face! The people of Tangshan sent a congratulatory telegram!"
"Haha, slap in the face! The people of Qinchuan sent a congratulatory telegram!"
In less than five hours, Zhu Dake received more than 2,000 congratulatory messages slapped in the face, not only from all over the country, but even from Mars and Namek.
Zhu Dake was extremely depressed, feeling that Zhang Ran had too many brain-dead fans, and these brain-dead fans were completely unreasonable, and he really couldn't communicate with them, so he decided to close the blog, but before closing the blog, he wrote a farewell letter: "My blog, which has been open for nearly half a year, was closed after I wrote this farewell speech." My criticism of Zhang Ran is actually completely literary criticism, and I welcome criticism of Zhang Ran, but Zhang Ran has connived at his fans to come to my blog to abuse me in all kinds, and the entire blog has become a public toilet, which has exceeded the bottom line of criticism. So, I decided to close the comment section of my blog after publishing this open letter, because I don't want to hear the noise and abuse. If Chinese films want to develop, they must calm down and withstand criticism. Thank you all for coming. Thanks again. ”
I have to say that Zhu Dake played very beautifully, giving people the impression that Zhang Ran couldn't resist criticism and launched fan abuse, and he was unbearable and had to quit the blog in the end. Sure enough, after Zhu Dake announced his retirement from the blog, critics used it as a point of attack to lash out at Zhang Ran and his fans.
Among them, the writer Lu Yuming's words are particularly ugly: "These people scolded Zhu Dake for having to close his blog, and their behavior always reminds me of the Red Guards back then, and some people in the underworld bullied and dominated the market." These little children grew up in an environment where no one said no to them. In the long run, they can do whatever they like, thinking that whatever they do is a genius practice, then when they grow up, it is terrible. If I want to say that Mr. Zhu has a little miscalculation, that is, he still treats the other party as a cultural person. ”
Fans of Zhang Ran naturally couldn't accept Lu Yuming's words, so they went to Lu Yuming's blog one after another, how ugly they scolded, how vicious they were, either their fathers and mothers, or they were cut off from their grandchildren.
Lu Yanming is a cultural person, where has he encountered this kind of insult, and he almost didn't get his heart attack out.
Netizens' siege of Lu Yuming annoyed director Lu Chuan, Lu Yuming is his father, and it is impossible for him, a son, to sit idly by, not to mention that he hates Zhang Ran very much in his heart. If there is no Zhang Ran, then he is the first person in the new generation of directors, and if he can defeat Zhang Ran, then he will be able to become a leader in Chinese films.
Therefore, Lu Chuan posted a long Weibo in solidarity with his father Lu Yuming, and also @张然: "I know that my father is defending a freedom of criticism. If in the hands of the older generation, we do not have the freedom to criticize, then in the hands of Zhang Ran's group, can we get it? We still do not get it, and it is not wrong to say that they are Red Guards. I hate the Red Guards because they would pump the copper-headed belt in Lao She's face, isn't that what someone's fans are doing right now? Mind your dog!"
Zhang Ran saw Lu Chuan's words at the Olympic Operation Center at noon, and he immediately replied: "Speaking of Red Guards, I think netizens are really not. Because the Red Guards like to button their hats and beat people with some kind of big stick. Now netizens have become Red Guards after scolding a few words, and now they are going to be free, so when they brandished the stick of cultural colonization and attacked Xie Jin and Shanghai Film Studio, the righteous Mr. Lu Yuming went? Zhang Yimou's "Hero" was released, saying that the movie was a cultural necrophilia, that the movie was a fascist aesthetic, and that the righteous Mr. Lu Yuming had gone? Now that netizens scolded Zhu Dake for a few words, he was said to be a Red Guard, who are the Red Guards?
I have always believed that film criticism should start from the film, and commenting on the film without talking about the movie, and talking about ideas all day long can only show the poverty of Chinese film theory and criticism. At present, Chinese film experts and professors are still tinkering with Italian neorealism and French new wave all day long, but the reality is that Italian and French films have been abused like dogs by Hollywood. In order to protect local films, the French government had to introduce laws to limit Hollywood film and television productions to 40%, barely retaining more than 30% of the share. Now Chinese critics say that Hollywood is garbage all day long, and if Hollywood is garbage, then what are these people who have been abused as dogs by Hollywood? Are they not as good as garbage? They keep saying that Hollywood has no art, so what is art? These bullshit experts and professors talk about Chinese movies all day long, but they never really care about what happens to Chinese films, and their criticism of Chinese films only satisfies their inner moral habits, just like the sour and rotten literati in the past who liked to set up chaste archways for widows. They would rather give up 99 percent of the market share of Chinese films, and would rather the Chinese film market be dominated by Hollywood, but also preserve the virginity of film as art. I'll just say three things to these scourges: fuck you, fuck you, fuck you!"