Chapter 8 The double explosion of word-of-mouth and box office

The applause of the audience rang out like a heavy summer rain. When the lights were turned on, many women in the audience were already crying.

All of them understood that the film was a huge success.

At the end of the premiere, after seeing Li Tingxiang farewell to all the people, Jin Zhongming found her: "Aunt Li, this is my phone number, I hope you can remember it." ”

Li Tingxiang smiled dumbly: "Wood, I already have your number." ”

Jin Zhongming replied very seriously: "Auntie, that's different. That's the number I gave to my mom and dad's seniors, this

It was for my director. I hope I can do more movies like this as an actor in the future. ”

The next day. Almost all the film critics and reporters who participated in the VIP premiere of the movie "Grandma's Home" praised the film for its excellence. There is even a newspaper that directly said that at least one of the best films in the three major film awards at the end of this year has been booked.

A film review in the entertainment edition of the JoongAng Daily was considered the most fair and appropriate. The exclusive film and television critic of the Central Daily, the well-known director Zheng Zhiyong, commented:

In the film market where computer stunts and violence are rampant, the story of the grandmother can be considered an alternative, and a bit like a fairy tale. However, fairy tales can exist in movies. "Grandma's Home" is a film that tells the story of ordinary, simple, and simple life, without traces of fiction, and at the same time does not fall into childish sensationalism, it is dedicated to hearty laughter and warm touching, which is the effect pursued by "Grandma's Home".

In the movie, the silent dedication and care of the grandmother slowly made the proud little grandson Xiangyu gradually understand the meaning of love, and established a touching relationship with his grandmother. There were waves of laughable and angry conflicts between the grandparents and grandchildren, but they also produced sour and touching love.

Director Lee Ting-hyang intends to shoot films that fully embody the meaning of life. Her films vividly express the unique experience of female directors, that is, they pay great attention to detail and situational development, and they are delicate and moving. I can rest assured here that director Lee Jeong-hyang has qualified to become the best among Korean film directors.

In addition, the actors in the movie are also amazing. The old man Jin Yifen, who plays the dumb grandmother, has lived in a mountain village all his life.

I haven't seen a movie in my life. Jin Zhongming, the actor of the little grandson, is a young actor who grew up in the United States, and he has no acting experience at all. But it's these two people who have never been in front of the camera, and two young actors who are also worthy of admiration, as well as a dozen local mountain people. Such a masterpiece was completed in just twenty-five days. It's really emotional.

Hungry comments like this abound. But although the reviews of the movie are very high, everyone is also very serious about giving a low box office prediction. A warm film, and without a star press, it is really unlikely to achieve too good a box office. One of the highest magazines thought the film was likely to achieve 1.5 million viewers, with most of the rest of the media projections hovering around 1 million.

But just two weeks later, the media that attended the premiere were slapped in the face. And the main force that slapped them in the face was none other media.

In the first week, at the beginning, there were only about 30 theaters, and the showtime was also put into the afternoon. However, what those media didn't expect was that it was their admiration that attracted quite a lot of peers.

As a result, word-of-mouth began to ferment. Starting with traditional media, on the third day, the fledgling online media and netizens began to talk about these topics in forums on a large scale.

So from the third day, someone took the initiative to go to the cinema to ask for information about the movie. And there are more and more such people, and movie theaters are also happy to see that such movies are consuming their fixed domestic film quotas. As a result, more large movie screens began to be added, and movie screening time was gradually adjusted.

On the one hand, the praise of the media, on the other hand, the word of mouth of the audience, finally after the end of the first week, the warm film "Grandma's Home" began to become the mainstream of the film topic. And the particularity of the topic of the movie has given rise to a new mode of viewing: in the last three weeks of the summer vacation, grandparents, grandparents and grandparents bring their grandchildren and even the whole family to go out together, often several people come to watch the film several times.

By the end of the second week, the number of moviegoers had reached 198,000, but in the third week, the number of moviegoers reached 334,000. By the end of the summer vacation, within a month, the total box office of "Grandma's Home" was 872,000.

Of course, this continued until the end of October, and by the time the curtain officially ended, the total number of people in the film exceeded 4 million. The film is also considered to have become a masterpiece of Korean cinema and warmth.

The popularity of the movie not only quadrupled Kim Jong-ming's family's investment, but also brought him great trouble. When you are often walking on the road, there will be white-haired grandparents-level characters walking over, touching your head, and complimenting you on how cute you look. This situation reached its peak after he entered the school, and it was no longer the older people who came to harass him. A group of teenage furry kids at school are harder to serve than the adults, and it's fine if they just want to sign autographs or come over and ask how you feel about making a movie, but in just two months, he has received dozens of love letters.

In South Korea, parents recognize and even encourage their children to fall in love once in junior high school. Seriously, if there was a goddess-level girl, such as Kim Tae-hee, Kim Tae-hee, and Kim Tae-hee, he would have said yes. But at least I have had two little beauties around me since I was a child, and you have to at least reach this level. But in this junior high school affiliated to Hanyang University, the level of Korean female junior high school students is really a shame for South Korea.

These love letters not only made Jin Zhongming tired of himself, but even made the boys in the school worried, for fear that this little star would open a harem in his school. If it weren't for the fact that Jin Zhongming brought more than a dozen minions from the baseball team every time he went in and out, it is estimated that he would have been dragged into a small alley and beaten up by the senior boys.

Life was so boring and bleak that from school to November, in addition to going to play with people who "hated" the baseball team, he just participated in a cookie commercial, and the rest of the time he returned to the normal life of a junior high school student.

But it's okay, early November. After scolding him on the phone, Sika proudly told him that he would be in Seoul on the second weekend of November. Wood was asked to get ready for the ride early.

Kim Jong-ming never admitted that he was a sister-in-control, but after hearing the voices of Sika and Crystal on the phone, he excitedly abused Jung Jun-ha the next day.

PS: The juvenile plot ends soon. It's going to be 05 years and the plot will officially begin. And thank you for the sad memory reward. As an added remark, the book actually puts Sika and Crystal in her sister's shoes from the very beginning. And the true heroine is undecided. Comments are welcome.