The Spring Festival has not yet arrived, but Christmas in the West has already arrived. k update

I don't know when it began, the Chinese people began to celebrate the foreign festival. A few days ago, Christmas trees and portraits of white-bearded old men were hung in front of major stores. Some merchants have also taken advantage of the approaching two festivals to increase their discount promotions.

As for foreign countries, there is no concept of the Spring Festival at all. They celebrate Christmas and New Year's Day, which is the equivalent of the Chinese New Year.

And as usual, at this time period, it is also the time when some blockbuster big-budget films are released together, the end of the year.

"Resident Evil", "Spider-Man", "Star Wars" and some other films started a promotional offensive in advance. And "Pirates of the Caribbean", although it was promoted a little later, is also very strong. Lao Mouzi has made up his mind this time, and he is ready to have a good encounter with these movie giants from Hollywood!

And his behavior, in the eyes of those colleagues in China, is tantamount to madness.

You must know that it is an indisputable fact that domestic films started late and have low quality. Compared with Hollywood, which has a history of nearly 100 years and has produced countless classic films and big-name actors, the history of Chinese cinema is only a decade or two, and most of the films produced are small productions. Although there are also awards such as the Golden Rooster Award and the Hundred Flowers Award in China, its influence is not comparable with Hollywood at all.

A work by a Chinese director, which is itself labeled as "low quality" in the international film industry, will not have any market at all. A few years ago, one of the few works that won awards in the international film industry was also Lao Mouzi's "Red Sorghum". But speaking of which. This movie is just considered to be very "distinctive" with Chinese characteristics, and it does not have universal representative significance, so there is nothing to be proud of.

And this time, Lao Mouzi directly used the same magical theme as popular Western movies, and he actually smashed it for more than 500 million yuan, which is not crazy in the eyes of his fellow domestic directors? Although the pre-publicity momentum for "Pirates of the Caribbean" was also strong, few people expected the film, and most of those media were cynical.

For example, a certain domestic director once said in a public press conference without directly specifying: "Now in China, I am competing with Westerners in the same genre." It's simply an unrealistic fantasy, an act of a madman. ”

In the face of all this, Lao Mouzi scoffed at it and ignored it at all. Something he shot himself. He knows best in his heart, whether it is good or not, it is not up to these short-sighted guys to have the final say.

Abroad, some media have also paid attention to this new film directed by a Chinese director. But apparently their attention is not high, and occasionally a few small articles are also about this film in a mocking tone. In the words of one media outlet, this is "a film that spends a lot of money, but the content is not what it is." "I haven't seen the movie yet, so I made such a comment, which shows the depth of the Western media's preconceptions about Chinese films.

Of course, everything depends on the final facts.

December 24th. Christmas Eve.

For Westerners, it's a night of revelry, no less lively than the Chinese New Year. Especially for many young people, they always have endless energy and countless good ideas to enjoy this wonderful evening.

Partying, drinking, dancing, playing video and, of course, going to the movies.

At this time, movie feasts are like scrambling to log in to major theaters. Taking Mi Guo as an example, his cinema system is relatively mature. When a movie is made, as long as the quality is good enough, it can always be released simultaneously in major theaters as soon as possible. And the people of the United States also have a better habit of watching movies. Compared to China, where only first- and second-tier cities have cinemas, the number of cinemas here is much higher, and the hardware conditions are much better. …,

On this Christmas. Including "Resident Evil", "Star Wars" and many other blockbuster movies, all appeared. Before that. These films have already done enough in the early stage of promotion, just waiting for the box office war to start at this moment today. But this year, the difference is that a film from China is also participating in the competition.

This film, of course, is "Pirates of the Caribbean". Mixed with so many big-name films, it clearly printed the word "zhangyimou" in the director's column, which is the only film directed by Chinese.

Can it succeed? Will you be able to get a piece of the pie under the siege of these masterpieces? Everything needs to be watched and watched.

From two o'clock in the afternoon, the Christmas strong files of major theaters will be released at the same time, compared to those big-name films, "Pirates of the Caribbean" is not in a good position, it is a midnight show. This time is basically the time for young people to carnival, and there are probably not many young people left to watch movies in the theater. There is no way, to be able to enter the theaters in Europe and North America, Lao Mouzi has done his best. It's impossible to compete with those big guys for prime time.

The domestic release will be another week later. For a well-known reason - audits.

The censorship of domestic films is notoriously strict and slow. Although it does not have as perfect a classification system as abroad, in fact, the review of movies in China is stricter, and the filtering of bad information is more detailed. Warcraft, a well-known game developed by Blizzard, is a stark example of this. When this game was released in China, it can be said that it went through a lot of hardships and many revisions before it was finally allowed to be listed, and some of the special effects in it were also modified beyond recognition.

If it weren't for Lao Mouzi's many good friends in the system and gave him a lot of help, I'm afraid that even if the release was postponed for a week, it would not have been achieved.

The movie is released, and Lao Mouzi can't do anything now, just sit at home and wait for news.

At this moment, he looked a little uneasy, such an emotion had not appeared in him for more than ten years. At this time, he was clearly a primary school student waiting for the test results.

"Director Zhang, don't be so nervous, don't worry, you can't go wrong with the results of this film." Liu Yufan said with a smile, turned around and took out a bottle of red wine from his wine cabinet, poured two glasses and handed him a glass casually.

"Thank you." Lao Mouzi took the wine handed over by Liu Yufan, nodded at him, and then took a small sip, the fragrant red wine went down, and Lao Mouzi's mood seemed to be relaxed.

At this time, not only him, but also many domestic film companies are paying attention to the trend of this film.

Of course, their mentality is complicated. As competitors, they don't always plan for the success of this film, after all, the domestic market share is so large, and his success means his own failure, which is obviously not what they want to see. But from the perspective of domestic film peers, this time Lao Mouzi is so proud to enter the international film industry, but they are even more Lao Mouzi can give a boost in the international market, and by the way, they also help them get out of the evil breath that is knotted in their chests! It's a very contradictory mentality.

Of course, as an ordinary audience, their mentality is much more relaxed. If you like it, you can watch it, and if you don't like it, you don't watch it, it's a very simple thing.

Tommy is a movie fan, a movie fan in the truest sense of the word. At the age of 18, like many boys of the same age, he likes to sit in the theater with chicken rice flowers in his arms and enjoy the big screen. He especially likes war, science fiction, disasters and other films with a strong visual impact. Therefore, today's Christmas, he made an early appointment with a few friends who also like to watch TV, ready to enjoy a feast on the new film. ..., since the Christmas blockbusters are released at the same time, Tommy and his friends have bought a set of tickets, which is the kind of ticket that can be seen from beginning to end. Of course, this kind of welfare is not often encountered, and only when it encounters strong files such as summer or Christmas files, theaters will launch this kind of promotion.

Today there are Tommy's favorite "Star Wars" and "Resident Evil", for these two films, Tommy has long read the poster promotion, and his yearning for it is not a day or two.

Tommy chose the prime time from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m., and although this time is the most crowded and can be a little crowded, Tommy likes the feeling. Watching a movie is only interesting because of the feeling of having a lot of people. Staying at home and watching videos? In Tommy's opinion, it was boring.

At seven o'clock, Tommy and his friends walked into the theater and found their seat number and sat down.

Tommy's location is good, it's eight rows of ten, which is a very comfortable viewing position, and he is very satisfied.

The lights in the theater went dark, and the film was officially released.

The first to appear was Resident Evil. The pre-publicity of this film is very impactful, especially catering to the appetite of some young people, thinking about those zombies, Tommy finds it exciting.

The plot of the film is very tight, and it grabs everyone's attention from the beginning.

"Oh my God, those zombies are horrible!"

"Run, he's coming!"

As the plot progressed, there were bursts of screams in the theater.

This is indeed a great movie, and it can be said that he created a precedent for zombie movies. During the more than an hour of screening time, the audience followed the camera and passed the addiction of fighting zombies. Of course, there are a few girls who are scared to cry, because the picture of the film looks a little too bloody.

The next "Star Wars" series has made science fiction fans addicted. The cosmic battleships, sci-fi weapons, and fierce fight scenes all made these fans addicted!

This year's Christmas season seems to be better than ever, and each of these films is so wonderful that before you know it, it's midnight, and these young people don't feel tired at all!

Soon, it was the turn of the last film.