Chapter 572: Ice Bucket Challenge and Charity
On February 28, the 24-day "Heaven and Dragon Slayer: The Demon Sect Master" was officially painted in the interior, and the total box office swiped 624 million Chinese coins, which is equivalent to 100 million US dollars.
This is still a good result in 2o19, when the box office generally exceeded 500 million, but for the shining title of "produced by Xingye", this result can only be said to be unsatisfactory, because the martial arts movies produced by "Xingye" have sold more than 900 million box office except for the failure of "East Becomes West" in the early stage.
600 million and 900 million, it seems that the numbers are just reversed, but the gap in the middle is one-third, which is very amazing!
Soon, strange things began to appear in China, and it was not just one person or two people who said it, but a large number of people said it, saying "Stephen Zhao's fortune has passed", "Stephen Zhao has begun to go downhill", "Stephen Zhao has slacked off", "Stephen Zhao has begun to rest on his laurels and does not want to forge ahead", "Stephen Zhao has begun to get by", "Stephen Zhao has begun to fool the audience"...... And so on and so forth.
What's more, he began to scold: "Making such a bad movie to fool us, we deserve to fail at the box office, and there will be even worse times in the future, wait and see." ”
Many media outlets have also joined in, such as Southern Weekly, which said: "...... For a long time, many people have admired Stephen Zhao as the first talent of the country, and deeply admired his endless creativity and brilliant talent, but the author believes that he is going downhill, which can be seen from the film "Heaven and Dragon Slayer: The Demon Sect Master". We can see that "Heaven and Dragon Slayer: The Demon Sect Master" did not master the skills of adapting the movie, but just extracted the core part of the original work and put it together, the plot was hurried and the scenes were noisy, but the spiritual temperament of the original book was not inherited at all; Other than that, the film is in a low tone. The love is not true, the interests are not high, but it fills up a lot of low-level and interesting jokes, and the film is vulgar; The martial arts design is also flashy and full of inferior special effects...... Stephen Zhao's appearance in this film makes people involuntarily think of Jiang Lang of the Song Dynasty! ”
Southern Weekly's stance has always been anti-Stephen Zhao, so although it has stopped for a long time, it will jump out again this time. Not many people were surprised.
Stephen Zhao is not surprised, dogs can't change eating, dogs must eat, you can't let it eat it.
Therefore, Zhao Xingchi ignored it, and only instructed the company's legal department to keep an eye on it, as long as the other party slandered him or made rumors about him, he would give it a lawyer's letter, so that it could not be killed and annoyed to death. What he has is money anyway.
I have money, I will stone you to death with money.
In fact, being a local tyrant is still very cool!
On March 1, Stephen Zhao came to Beijing University, and he was very low-key all the way, so he was not known by the media. However, his arrival caused a commotion at Beijing University. Because he did not come as a "teacher" this time, but as the "boss of Red Star Media". He wants to make a film with Jingcheng University.
"Making movies at our school?" Principal Qiu Ping was stunned at first, and then smiled: "This is a good thing." No problem at all, if you have any requirements, as long as it is reasonable, the school will strongly support it! ”
Zhao Xingchi immediately expressed his gratitude, and then said with a smile: "I decided to donate 100 million yuan to the school, which is regarded as my support for the cause of education in China." What do you think, Principal? ”
Qiu Ping laughed, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Xiao Zhao, you are very good!" ”
Donating to Beijing University is not a whim of Stephen Zhao, but a plan. Stephen Zhao plans to donate money to support education in China from this year. The annual investment is not less than 100 million. Anyway, by now, he has so much money that he can't spend it all, and he can't spend it in a few lifetimes, so it's better to spend it to help others. As for leaving it to future generations, it is enough to keep a part of it, enough for them to live without worry.
More importantly, Zhao Xingchi believes that future generations should have the career of future generations, if he lives on his ancestor, it would be too wasteful, it is better to be an ordinary person, then he will be more at ease.
can't protect their wealth, they can only let people with ulterior motives die, the sinister hearts of the people, no matter how bad the malice is, it is not too much to speculate.
Coming out of the principal's office, Zhao Xingchi planned to find Huang Yi, but he promised to give Huang Yi a role, and he couldn't lose his trust.
Who knows, as soon as he came out, Lin Meijia, who was guarding the door, reported to him: "Boss, you have been named and challenged!" ”
Stephen Zhao didn't know why, so he asked funny: "What challenge?" Don't tell me someone wants to go alone with me? ”
Lin Meijia pursed her lips and smiled: "Who eats the ambitious leopard dares to find the boss and you go it alone, it is an ice bucket challenge passed from the United States imperialism, Niu Ren, the boss of the crooked entertainment company, responded to the battle, splashed himself with a bucket of ice water, and then challenged you by name!" ”
"What ice bucket challenge? What does it mean to challenge me by name, to splash myself with a bucket of ice water? Stephen Zhao didn't seem to understand.
Lin Meijia smiled and handed him the tablet.
Zhao Xingchi stretched out his hand to take it, and immediately saw the "Ice Bucket Challenge" displayed on the screen, and quickly stretched out his hand to click on it.
The Ice Bucket Challenge, also known as the "A1S Ice Bucket Challenge", requires a participant to post a video of themselves being doused with ice water all over the Internet, and then the participant can ask others to participate in the activity, and can designate 3 challengers. Under the rules, invitees will either accept the challenge within 24 hours or choose to donate $1oo to the A1S (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as ALS) charity. The campaign aims to raise awareness of the rare disease known as ALS, while also raising funds to help with treatment. At present, the Ice Bucket Challenge is popular among the big players and professional athletes in the science and technology industry in the United States, and it has spread to China, and the big players in the Chinese science and technology industry have responded.
ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as motor neuron disease, is of unknown origin, and the muscles of the limbs of people with this disease will shrink and weaken, and finally die of respiratory failure, which is a very strange disease.
Stephen Zhao looked a little creepy.
After reading the introduction, Zhao Xingchi looked down at the list of people who participated in the challenge, those famous bigwigs in the American imperialist science and technology industry basically participated, Huaxia has just become popular, so there are not many people who participate, and what he is familiar with is Niu Ren, the boss of the crooked company.
I just didn't expect it. Niu Ren actually challenged him by name, which really surprised him.
"Boring!"
Stephen Zhao returned the tablet to Lin Meijia and coldly gave his evaluation.
Lin Meijia was puzzled: "This activity is very good, it can not only let more people know about the strange disease of ALS, but also do charity to help those ALS." ”
Zhao Xingchi sneered: "That's right. But this is made by the US imperialists, and we are also doing it, what has become of this? Isn't this kneeling and licking? With this time and energy, it is better to settle down, really do charity, and really care about those patients who have ALS. ”
Lin Meijia saw that his face was ugly, and she didn't say anything more, and instead asked, "What about Niu Ren's challenge?" If you refuse it directly, it doesn't seem to look good on your face. ”
Stephen Zhao was stunned when he heard this.
Truly. Directly rejecting Niu Ren seems to be too faceless, how to say that the two are also good partners, and he has a very good impression of Niu Ren.
However, when he thought of participating in the ice bucket challenge, Zhao Xingchi immediately threw the face problem out of his mind and said to Lin Meijia: "Then don't respond, I will call Niu Ren personally." ”
Lin Meijia smiled bitterly and nodded. And then there was no talking.
She really didn't understand what Stephen Zhao thought. Participating in the Ice Bucket Challenge is kneeling and licking? According to this statement, the United States imperialism has made an atomic bomb, and our Huaxia is kneeling and licking the atomic bomb again, so in order not to kneel and lick, will we Huaxia not make the atomic bomb?
A little naïve, a little naïve!
With Stephen Zhao's knowledge and wisdom. Shouldn't it?
"The boss is that kind of extreme angry youth?" Lin Meijia's mind jumped into such a thought.
Fortunately, Zhao Xingchi didn't know what she was thinking, otherwise he would have knocked her head full of trembling. Extremely angry? How is it possible, I'm a sane man!
Participating in the Ice Bucket Challenge, Stephen Zhao is actually fine, but he is tired of this kind of name "charity". Moreover, it was raised from the side of the US imperialists, which disgusted him even more.
There are so many strange diseases, so many terminal diseases, and so many poor people in the world, all of whom need to be cared for. Don't worry about the rest?
Stephen Zhao believes that the people who took up this ice bucket challenge are out of kindness and are really doing charity, but as many people participate, this charity will become sour.
Is it necessary to do this for charity?
It should be said that it is a good thing that charity in this way has made more people aware of the strange disease of ALS. But we must also see that this kind of charity is just a flash in the pan, because people are very forgetful, and now they remember ALS, but they will forget it all in a few days, and the role it plays is really limited, very little. On the contrary, the negative impact is very large, setting off a trend of exaggeration, wasting water resources, making many people disgusted, and so on.
For a Chinese people, this kind of charity that has gradually evolved into hype is even more important, to say that it is strict, which can be seen that the Chinese people's increasingly impetuous mentality and unconfident spirit.
There are so many injustices in his own country, and the poor people have to take care of them, but they don't care about them, and pretend not to see them; If the American imperialists have any excitement, they immediately follow the trend and immediately **, what is this?
Follow the same trend, Handan toddler!
On the other hand, if there is any excitement in China, will the American imperialists care? People don't look at you squarely, they are the center of the earth, the kingdom of heaven on earth, and I care about you.
Since the establishment of Red Star Media, Zhao Xingchi has been charity every year, in addition to donating large sums of money to poor areas and poor families, he is also physically walking, and the company's people go to the countryside to help people. Stephen Zhao asked himself, doing charity to do his part, let alone Huaxia, even if it is compared to the world, there are not many who can surpass him.
Half an hour later, Stephen Zhao found Huang Yi, who was playing basketball in the gymnasium.
As soon as they met, he asked, "Huang Yi, are you interested in making movies?" (To be continued!)
ps: Bow and thank you for the support of the 4 monthly passes of the two students of "Feiyang 4O84O9" and "丨 Fluttering Wind and Snow丨", thank you so much! PS: No one pays attention to the Ice Bucket Challenge now, and I see that there is very little so-called charity and a lot of hype. As for what to say to make many people remember and pay attention to ALS, I can only hehe, unless someone with relatives and friends around me has this disease, otherwise anyone will really pay attention? There are many strange diseases in the world, and you have to pay attention to each one, can you live or not? We are not doctors, as long as we and our relatives and friends are healthy, and other people have a relationship with us? Kindness can be there or it can be overflowing, but the vast majority of people have to run around for life, tired like a dog every day, and really don't have the capital to pay attention......
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