On the morning of December 14, the box office data for the week was released. In this week, with Zhang Ran's strong appeal, the box office of the movie soared, achieving an astonishing result of 134 million in three and a half days, and the number of moviegoers exceeded 4 million, ranking first on the list.

In the first four and a half days of the first week, "Thorn Tomb" achieved a box office of 34 million at the national box office, with a crowd of 1 million, ranking second; "Fengyun" ranked third in the first four and a half days of the first weekend, with a national box office of 30 million and nearly 900,000 moviegoers.

The Hollywood blockbuster "2012" has been released for a month, and it still collected a box office of 21.45 million yuan, ranking fourth, and Zhang Yimou's "Love" won 15.43 million box office with a good reputation, with a total of 36.78 million, ranking fifth.

"One Person's Lights" was a good box office, but the word-of-mouth has completely collapsed. Zhang Ran's previous movies had a very high rating on Douban, except for "Time Prisoner", which was only 7.6, other movies were above 8 points, "The Aviator" and "Three Fools" even exceeded 9 points, but the score of "One Man Makes a Lantern" on Douban is now only 6.6 points, and almost all of the popular short reviews are bad.

"It's been a long time since there has been a good movie like "One Man Puts on the Lights", which can make people sleep so soundly, and if you watch a few more movies like this, it is estimated that insomnia can be gradually cured for a long time. When I woke up, I found that I was halfway away and had just woken up halfway from sleep. "One star - Shaolin sweeping monk

"The main plot design of the story is still relatively clear, but the first part of the movie is too dull. However, as the plot develops, the more you get to the back, the more exciting it becomes. The movie as a whole is very exciting, paying tribute to many masterpieces!"

"The unbridled narcissism and showmanship of the academic school obscure the original intention of the film. It's too tiring for ordinary audiences to peel off such a heavy gorgeous coat to get a glimpse of the director,——'s innocent heart!"

"It was painful to watch "One Man Puts on the Lights" in the cinema. The movie is the plaything of the Lower Riba people, and the sun and spring and snow are very bad. I really don't understand it! My level of appreciation may only be at the level of "Three Fools". "Two stars - dragonmen according to the plan

At the same time that fans gave bad reviews, experts and professors in the critics or academia who were unwilling to be lonely jumped out and posted articles one after another, and their articles were almost all bad reviews as Zhang Ran expected.

A few days ago, Zhang Yimou told Zhang Ran about one thing, when the movie "Alive" was just filmed, there was almost no good talk in the circle, and some people even said that "Alive" was a garbage film, what was filmed, how could Zhang Yimou make it like this? I don't even understand the language of the movie.

In fact, the reason why "Alive" was scolded is because the film style is particularly similar to Xie Jin's films, and the weapon used by domestic critics to oppose Xie Jin in the 80s was Zhang Yimou and their fifth-generation directors, but now Zhang Yimou has made a Xie Jin-style movie, which is simply a slap in the face in the eyes of experts and professors, and it is driving history backwards, so naturally there is a lot of scolding.

However, after "Alive" was banned, these people immediately reversed their stance and began to frantically tout "Alive", because the higher "Alive", the harder the government's face will be beaten.

This is the case in the domestic film critic industry, many times the review of works is not the movie itself, but the ass, as long as the ass sits on their side, even if it is very ordinary, it can blow to the sky; if the ass is inconsistent with them, even if it is a masterpiece, they can scold Xiang.

The success of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games made Zhang Ran a lackey of the government in the eyes of many people, especially in the eyes of many cultural people, they didn't dare to take the government, so they could only use Zhang Ran to be angry, so no matter how well "One Man Puts on the Lights", Zhang Ran is destined to be scolded.

In "One Man's Lights", there is a very important character "Deputy Director Liu", who is a complete public security scum and a national moth. At the beginning, he instigated two trainee police officers who did not know the taste of life to beat a high school student who was not honest when he arrived at the police station, and the student was beaten into a fool. Later, as the story unfolded, everyone knew that Deputy Director Liu was involved in dark stocks in the ** place, and was also identified by **Miss ** to participate in ** on the spot. The arrogance and arrogance of this character is written, thus revealing some serious and thought-provoking questions in a suggestive way.

However, in the movie, Deputy Director Liu was directly removed by Zhang Ran, and the relevant plots were also deleted, in the eyes of experts and professors, Zhang Ran belonged to self-castration, and felt that he did not have the courage to criticize social reality and the system, and they all seized this point to criticize Zhang Ran.

Zhu Dake was the first to jump out and published an article in the newspaper "No Aesthetics, No Thought", criticizing Zhang Ran: "Zhang Ran chose such an original book that deeply reflects reality and shows human nature, but he simply and neatly eliminated all the elements that refer to social darkness and show social reality, and the whole movie has no value at all except for a few cheap tears mixed with misfortune." ”

Dai Jinhua, a professor at Peking University, said in the article "Only Love Touches the Heart": ""A Man with a Lantern" strips away the strength of the original criticism, the depth of human nature and the breadth of society, leaving only love, which inevitably becomes an ordinary literary romance film. ”

Chinese opera teacher Yin Shanshan published "The Adaptation of Literature to the End" on her blog, in which she wrote: "As a leading figure in the Chinese film industry, Zhang Ran's taste and vision in literary appreciation are very mediocre. ”

Unlike the criticism scolding, the film industry is basically quite open, especially the directors. "A Man with Lights" may have shortcomings as a movie, but as peers, everyone understands the direction of Zhang Ran's experiments, and also knows the significance of these attempts, and more importantly, what Zhang Ran presents in the movie is really good.

Jia Zhangke also stood up and supported Zhang Ran on Weibo: "There is a lot of cultural criticism in China, whether it is talking about music or art, many people's opinions are very good, but there are almost no requirements for aesthetics in movies.

Experts and professors are a little confused, what is the situation, why are they all on Zhang Ran's side, even Jia Zhangke, a literary film director, is on Zhang Ran's side?

After some thought, they came to a conclusion that Zhang Ran had a cinema in his hands, and these directors didn't dare to offend Zhang Ran, so they could only stand on his side. As a result, a group of people began to exclaim that capital had kidnapped the movie, and the future of Chinese films was worrying!

Zhang Ran didn't make any response, and he didn't have time to respond at all, he was taking the leading actor of the movie to do roadshows in various cities across the country. Speaking of roadshows, there is a saying in the circle that "Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Wucheng become Hangzhou", that is, the eight cities of Beiping, Modu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shancheng, Wuhan, Rongcheng, and Lin'an are the eight major box office warehouses of the film and the important town of film promotion. The domestic film roadshow basically revolves around these eight cities and radiates to the surrounding areas.

In the past two years, as the film market has become increasingly popular, new box office cities have been emerging, such as Suzhou, which ranks ninth, and Xi'an, which ranks tenth. Now the roadshow basically has to go to 20 cities, or even more, and the cycle of the roadshow is generally 10 to 15 days, so the roadshow schedule is very tight.

Zhang Ran likes roadshows, and his movies basically have roadshows except for "Tangshan Earthquake". In Zhang Ran's view, the roadshow can have zero-distance dialogues with audiences from different regions and different professions, and can listen to the voices of the audience.

At least this time, many viewers complained to him that "One Person's Lights" is not as good as the previous movies!

On December 17th, the crew of "One Man Puts on the Lights" ran six cinemas in Rongcheng, and it was already ten o'clock in the evening after the roadshow, but Zhang Ran and they didn't rest at all, they flew directly to Lin'an, and it was two o'clock in the morning when they entered the hotel.

Zhang Ran took a comfortable hot bath, came out of the bathroom, and poured directly on the bed.

Zhang Jingchu, who was looking at her mobile phone, made a straight face, stabbed Zhang Ran's arm, and said, "Someone on the Internet claims to have been raped by you!"

Zhang Ran sat up suddenly: "Huh?"

The serious expression didn't last for a second, Zhang Jingchu giggled, and handed the phone to Zhang Ran: "Take a look!"

Zhang Ran looked at it fixedly, it was a post from Tianya gossip, with the title "Hong Haocheng publicly admitted that he was raped by Zhang Ran".

What kind of joke is this? Rape Honghoro, I'll go, do I have such a heavy taste?

Looking at the content of the post again, Zhang Ran couldn't help laughing.

It turned out that the night before yesterday, when Hong Hao was asked how to evaluate "One Man Puts on the Lights" on Mango Satellite TV, he mercilessly criticized the movie and fired at Zhang Ran: "How good is "One Man Makes Lights", let Zhang Ran spoil it like that, Zhang Ran is a second-rate director, and he can't shoot anything profound at all. Do you know that the things in Zhang Ran's movies are all leftovers from other people's games decades ago, "2001: A Space Odyssey", "The Godfather", etc., there is nothing new at all, he is imitating and plagiarizing, which is really cheap. Some of the scenes in his movies are too unwatchable, what kind of drama, it's just. I feel that the whole person has been forced by Zhang Ran!"

Hong Hao's words were too mean, and she usually liked to satirize Zhang Ran, Zhang Ran's fans had long been unhappy with her, so they posted her words to the world's gossip and gave her a sensational title.

In the gossip of Tianya, Zhang Ran belongs to the existence of a pet, and his popularity is probably only matched by Zhou Gongzi in Northern Latitude. Therefore, after this post was sent, a tall building was immediately built, and the gossip girls ridiculed Honghao Xiang.

"I'm laughing to death, Zhang Ran, you are so pitiful, do you hear? Aunt Hong can watch your movies and you rape her, isn't this a naked hint? She is confessing to you!"

"Dizzy, why did this old woman rape her, and the people who were YY would be disgusted, is it for the sake of the gods?

"Aunt Hong, you described it too wonderfully when you commented on Zhang Ran's new movie! The scene of the little national teacher raping you is really unimaginable, even Brother Chen Kai couldn't bear your huge weight at the beginning, how can you make Zhang Ran embarrassed!"

"Oh my God, Aunt Chief! With your size, it is estimated that the handsome guy who will be sentenced to life imprisonment will consider whether to start when he sees you, not to mention my little national teacher!"

"Although I don't like the little national teacher very much, but the famous female ruffian, you look at the female students brought out by the small national teacher, that image and temperament, you can't insult other people's aesthetic vision so much!"

"Oh my God, how strong does this body have to be to make Aunt Hong X?"

Seeing these comments, Zhang Ran leaned back with a smile, and the mouths of netizens were really poisonous. However, when he noticed that the program on Honghoro belonged to Mango TV, the memories of his previous life suddenly appeared in his mind, and he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and a huge uneasiness hit him like a tide!