On December 5, 2008, the movie "Mei Lanfang" directed by Chen Kaige and starring Li Ming, Zhang Ziyi, Sun Honglei and Chen Hong was officially released, and with a box office result of 42.18 million in the first weekend, setting a record for the best results of Chinese literary films in recent years.

China Film spokesman Weng Li believes that the final box office of "Mei Lanfang" is expected to reach 120 million.

On December 12, 2008, the kung fu movie "Ip Man" starring Zhen Bullet officially landed in major theaters, not only did the box office easily exceed 30 million yuan in the first three days of the first weekend, but also received almost "one-sided" praise, and relevant institutions predicted that the total box office of the film is expected to exceed 100 million yuan.

In the face of a bumper harvest at the box office, the leading actor Zhen Dan modestly said in an interview with reporters: "In addition to the joint efforts of everyone, we would like to thank the fans for their strong support."

On December 18, 2008, the film "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" directed by Feng Xiaogang was officially released nationwide, and easily won 15 million box office on the first day of release, and the national box office exceeded 80 million in the first weekend and 2.3 million viewers, ranking third in the opening record of new films in 08.

On January 9, 2009, directed by Li Mu, Tom Hanks, Li Mu, Liu Yifei, Marion Cotillard, Hong Jinbao, Michael Fassbender, Ken Watanabe, and Cillian Murphy starred in the movie "Inception", which officially landed in major theaters across the country, with a film schedule of up to 70%, and on the first day of release, there were repeated long queues of audiences across the country to buy tickets.

The person in charge of UE International Cinema told the media: "The audience who came to the theater to watch "Inception" was full, and the movie tickets of the day were sold out in a very short time.

The person in charge of Wanda Cinema in Beijing said: "The movie "Inception" completely detonated the enthusiasm of the whole people to watch the movie, and the theater was crowded, and the scene was comparable to the Spring Festival!"

In Goose City, the reporter came to Xingmei Cinema early in the morning and saw that the audience waiting to watch "Inception" had already lined up.

In Yangcheng, a viewer told reporters that he ran five movie theaters in Yangcheng before he successfully bought a ticket.

Even CCTV sent a number of reporters to theaters across the country to track and report on the grand release of the movie "Inception".

On the morning of January 9th, director Chen Kaige and his wife Chen Hong appeared in Wanda Cinema in Beijing, looking at the crowds of ticket buyers and the long queue of ticket buyers, director Chen Kaige couldn't help but feel emotional.

Once upon a time, when his movie "Wu Ji" was released, it also had the same infinite scenery, and also broke seven box office records of Chinese films in a row - the box office record of the screening, the box office record of the first day, the box office record of the single day, and the box office record of the first weekend.

It's a pity that later they were met with organized smears and attacks, and this group of people is simply shameless! But even so, his "Wu Ji" was still the national box office champion that year!

Recently, when he heard many people discussing Li Muxin's movie "Inception", he often mentioned his "Wuji" in passing.

In fact, when you talk about it in detail, the two movies really have some similarities.

For example, the two movies also have the title of "the most expensive Chinese movie in history".

His "Wu Ji" cost $42 million to publicize, while Li Mu's "Inception" cost $120 million to produce.

For example, the directors of the two films are also internationally renowned directors.

With the movie "Farewell My Concubine", he became the first Chinese director to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival.

And Li Mu's movie swept $1 billion at the global box office.

When "Wuji" was released, the media were saying that foreign directors could make "The Lord of the Rings" with a large investment, but Chinese directors could only make "Wuji" with so much money!

There is no doubt that "Wu Ji" is the movie that hurts him the most, and it is also the one he minds the most and is the most sensitive.

Recently, he heard some media report on the premiere of "Inception", saying that he hoped that this time director Li Mu would not use an investment of 120 million US dollars to make a new "Wuji", and hoped that Li Mu would not follow the director of Chen Kaige

Footsteps.

These reports made director Chen Kaige extremely angry, and at the same time, he also had a deep curiosity about Li Mu's "Inception".

"Will it? Will Inception be attacked like Infinity?"

"What will the audience say about this film?"

"What will the media say about this film?"

"If the movie was released and encountered the kind of malicious comments I encountered back then, how much stronger would Li Mu's response be than I did back then?"

"He'll be even angrier than I am! After all, he's just a young man who hasn't experienced a major setback."

With such an extremely complicated feeling, Chen Kaige took his wife Chen Hong to Wanda Cinema together.

At the beginning of the movie, Tom Hanks wakes up from a beach and is taken to a villa where he meets an old man with gray hair, and with the old man's memories, the story officially begins.

"What is the most powerful parasite? Is it bacteria? Is it a virus? Or intestinal worms?"

"What Mr. Cobb means ......"

"It's an idea, it's tenacious, it's infectious, once you have an idea in your head, it's almost indelible, and as long as it's complete and understood, it's deeply rooted there, somewhere deep in your brain."

"And people like you are here to steal?"

With the sudden departure of the rich Saito, everything in the room began to shake slightly.

Then everything in the camera, Tom Hanks is sitting on a chair and falling asleep, while Saito, a wealthy man who has just left in a hurry, is lying on his side on the bed in the same room, the camera turns again, and the character played by Li Mu is also asleep.

Director Chen Kaige suddenly had a flash of inspiration:

"Is that dialogue scene in the movie actually in a dream? Could it be that the two protagonists seem to be introducing the rich man to how to steal dreams, but in fact, the rich man himself is the target of the two protagonists' dreams? Yes! The two protagonists are here to steal the dreams of the rich!"

"Do you understand?" Brother Chen Kai whispered to Chen Hongdao beside him.

Chen Hong shook his head.

Chen Kaige suddenly thought a little pessimistic: "A good movie also needs a good audience to get a good box office and good reputation, Director Li Mu has real skills, I'm afraid that he will make the same mistake as me back then, that is, overestimate the audience's ability to understand."

Sometimes even if it's a good movie, if it can't be understood by the vast majority of audiences, it will still be scolded for being incomplete!

Next is the protagonist Cobb's wife suddenly appears and disrupts the protagonist's plan, Li Mu's character is tortured by Cobb's wife who is shot by the non-vital point, and Cobb decisively shoots Li Mu's character in the head.

It turns out that when a person dies in a dream, he wakes up from reality.

The dream failed, Li Mu played the role to wake everyone up, and the assistant began to shake the protagonist Cobb, and then everything in the camera, there was a sudden big shock in the dream.

Director Chen Kaige's heart suddenly moved at this time, and he thought, "This is - parallel montage? It's kind of interesting!"

Obviously, reality and the situation in the dream are interrelated, and if there is a certain situation in reality, there will be a certain change in the dream.

Then in reality, the protagonist Cobb was slapped in the face, and Cobb flew out directly in the dream.

Originally, whether it was the plot in reality or the plot in the dream, it was not too tense in itself, but when the two time and space were linked together, the tension was instantly filled.

Brother Chen Kai sighed that Li Mu, a kid, did have something to do as a director, and at the same time thought with pity: "I'm afraid there won't be too many audiences who can understand this, and the audience will scold you if they don't understand it, this movie still looks a little obscure."

In the dream, Saito is crushed to death by a collapsing beam, and then he immediately wakes up in reality.

In reality, Cobb is pushed into a bathtub filled with water, which is done in slow motion, and then the camera cuts to a dream.

Cobb stood in the hotel lobby with a faint sound in his ears.

This moment was already felt by almost all viewers

The correlation between reality and dreams, everyone is extremely excited about what will happen in the dream space.

Almost everyone began to hold their breath.

At the moment when Cobb officially entered the water in reality, the water in the dream suddenly poured into the windows of the hotel in all directions.

Chen Kaige thought in his heart, "Well, this montage is very clever, not bad......

"Awesome!"

The discussion next to him interrupted Director Chen Kaige's train of thought.

"Holy! It's beautiful!"

"The two planes are constantly switching but not chaotic at all, so that people can understand the correlation between the two planes at a glance, in reality, the protagonist enters the bathtub, and the protagonist is flooded in the dream, and I look forward to this kind of suspense that will be revealed immediately."

"The complex story is simple to tell - director Li Mu has improved again."

"That's awesome, but could it be a little more enjoyable? How about a dream within a dream?"

"Huh? Do you understand everything?" Brother Chen Kai lowered his head again and asked his wife beside him, "How is it, do you understand this time?"

Chen Hong nodded: "There is a situation in reality, there will be a reaction in the dream, reality and dreams are related together, this movie is very good!"

"Holy, it's a dream within a dream!" At this time, someone suddenly said next to Director Chen Kaige.

It turns out that the real space that everyone thought just now is still a dream, but it turns out to be a dream within a dream! It turns out that the real real world is actually on a speeding high-speed train!

After the failure of Inception, Saito approached Cobb in order to help implant an idea for the heir to a giant corporation, and in exchange, Saito allowed Cobb to return to the United States legally - and so the main plot of the film officially began.

Cobb found his father-in-law for help, and his father-in-law recommended a genius Chinese female student played by Liu Yifei, who was responsible for the role of a dream builder.

Streets of Paris, coffee houses.

Liu Yifei: "How realistic do the details of a dream have to be to convince the other person that they are in reality?"

Cobb: "We always dream and feel real, right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something is wrong, and let me ask you a question, you never remember the beginning of a dream, do you? It's always all of a sudden."

Liu Yifei: "I think so."

Cobb: "And how did we get here?"

Liu Yifei: "We just started ......"

Cobb: "Come to think of it, Elaine, how did you get here, where are you now?"

Liu Yifei: "Are we dreaming?"

Suddenly the streets of Paris began to explode, everything exploded, windows, stalls, tables, benches, floors, buildings.

"If it's just a dream, why are you blocking it!" Before the words could be spoken, the two were already drowned by the explosion.

The static explosion on the streets of Paris, the mirror moment of the heroine Liu Yifei, the weightless struggle in the rotating corridor, the upside-down city that flips and erects upside down, the collapsed building that looks like an apocalyptic scene in the deepest dream "Lost Domain", and the spinning top that I don't know if it will stop at the end.

"Gone?"

"Did the last spinning top fall down?!"

"I guess it's fallen! I remember that it seems to have started to turn unstable at the end!"

"I didn't fall! Maybe the male protagonist's wife is right, in fact, the whole movie is a dream of the male protagonist, and now his wife is waiting for him to wake up in reality!"

"Damn, I think it's possible!"

"It must have fallen! After the screen goes black, there is the sound of a gyroscope falling to the ground!"

"Is there one? Why didn't I hear that?"

"There must be!"

"This is director Li Mu's most awesome movie, right?!"

"Director Chen Kaige can only make the epic bad movie "Wuji" with 40 million US dollars, while director Li Mu can make the epic sci-fi blockbuster "Inception" with 120 million US dollars! I think maybe we have wronged Director Chen before, if his budget is as much as 120 million US dollars, maybe "Wu Ji" can also be made into a classic!"

"Pull it down! Really give Chen Kaige director 1

For $200 million, he can shoot a six-hour version of "Wu Ji"!"

"Maybe it's 3 "Wuji"?"

"Hahaha, incisive!"

"This movie is awesome! No, no, I'm going to brush it again!"

"This movie will definitely go down in history, and I personally feel that it is even better than "The Matrix"!"

"Better than The Matrix?"

"That's right, but it's just my personal feelings!"

"It's not your personal feeling, because I also think this film is even better than "The Matrix"!"

"I feel like it's in the top 10 in the world!"

"That's an exaggeration, isn't it?"

"No, top five!"

"It's possible to get the first three!"

"In short, Director Li is awesome this time, I feel that Director Li is directly a god this time!"

In a public place like this, of course, Chen Kaige and his wife are fully equipped with caps and masks, so no one around recognizes the two of them.

At this moment, almost all the audience at the scene were full of praise for "Inception", and Chen Kaige's mood became extremely complicated when he listened to the discussion.

On the one hand, he knows that this movie is indeed very awesome, and on the other hand, it is not awesome to that extent, right?

And:

"This movie has so many layers of dreams, the structure is complex enough, right? It stands to reason that not many audiences should be able to understand and be willing to watch such a complex movie, but why was "Inception" not only not scolded by the audience who couldn't understand it, but even blown into the sky?"

"Comparable to The Matrix? It's just overthinking!"

"Moreover, there are also a large number of viewers who can't understand it, so why do the viewers of "Wuji" scold because they can't understand the movie, and the audience of "Inception" starts shouting because they can't understand the movie? Why?"

The most important thing is that the big screen is dark, and at least sixty percent of the audience is lying on their chairs, and everyone is discussing the plot with their friends.

This...... That's too much of an exaggeration, right? Is it really so reluctant to leave?

Can't you even see the movie when it's over?

It wasn't until the cleaning aunt came in to clean up that the audience reluctantly left the screening hall.

Director Chen Kaige has also made movies for a lifetime, and to be honest, I have never seen this kind of situation. The movie is obviously over, but most of the audience will not leave until the cleaning comes in, and most of the audience, especially the male audience, is almost all discussing the plot that they just watched.

The box office of "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" looks like it can exceed 300 million, but Li Mu's "Inception" looks like a box office of 400 million is possible!

At 12:35 in the morning, Li Mu was already at the night meeting with Zhou Gong's daughter, but Liu Yifei was woken up by Li Mu's sudden nervous pumping, she was unhappy, and saw Li Mu's mobile phone screen suddenly light up, she took it curiously, and found that it was Zhongying who sent an email.

Liu Yifei knew that this must be the first-day box office data of the movie "Inception", so he couldn't help but open it curiously, skipping other unimportant analysis parts and directly scanning the most important numbers in that row.

"78 million!"

"Smack!"

Liu Yifei directly slapped Li Mu awake.

"What are you doing?" Li Mu, who was suddenly awakened, said a little unpleasantly.

Liu Yifei said excitedly: "The box office results on the first day are out, 78 million!"

"78 million is 78 million, what are you excited about?" After speaking, Li Mu turned over and fell asleep again after a while.

It's just 78 million, what's the excitement? The box office of "Detective Chinatown 3" on the first day was 100 million!

Liu Yifei looked at Li Mu, who was sleeping again soon, and was speechless! The box office on the first day, 78 million! That's the reaction?

"Actually, Li Mu didn't wake up completely at all!"

Early the next morning, Li Mu woke up and immediately looked for his mobile phone, he wanted to see the box office data of his own movie yesterday, and the data must have come out. As for the one who woke up briefly in the middle of the night last night

He had long forgotten about it.

The things you do and say while you're asleep are the easiest to forget.

"78 million? Awesome!"

Li Mu woke up Liu Yifei as soon as he was excited.

"What are you doing?" Liu Yifei asked with a yawn.

"Our movie, the box office on the first day, 78 million!" Li Mu said excitedly.

Liu Yifei turned over and continued to sleep and didn't forget to say, "Well, 78 million is 78 million, why did you wake me up? I don't know if people don't get enough sleep and are disturbed, will they get up angry?"

Li Mu: "?"

"78 million, that's the reaction? Still angry when you get up?"

The outside world is also paying attention to the box office results of "Inception" - Han Sanping, Wang Zhonglei, Wang Zhongjun, Wang Changtian, Chen Kaige, Zhen Bullet, Wu Yusen, Feng Xiaogang, everyone looked at the 78 million number and lost their minds for a short time.

Especially those filmmakers who are having a movie released or are about to be released, these few have shown special attention to the box office results of "Inception".

So when the box office results of the first day of "Inception" finally came out, almost everyone in the film industry was surprised.

"That's 78 million!"

"The data shouldn't be wrong, but the box office in our country can already have so much?"

Next, on Saturday, January 10, "Inception" won a total of 93 million box office across the country!

On Sunday, January 11, the national box office of "Inception" was 101 million yuan!

The single-day box office has exceeded 100 million!

""Inception" won 101 million box office on the third day of its release, and the first film in the mainland film market with a single-day box office of over 100 million was born!"

As soon as this news came out, the whole country was in an uproar.

Almost at the same time.

The crew of "Ip Man" is holding a banquet in Beijing to celebrate the total box office of the movie exceeding 100 million.

More than a month after the movie was released, the box office finally broke 100 million, and Zhen Dan finally saw that a brilliant future was beckoning to him, and as a result, he immediately saw this report on the box office data of "Inception".

"Well, 101 million yuan - what? Daily? The single-day box office exceeded 100 million?"

Zhen Dan has watched the news more than ten times over and over again, reading word by word like reading comprehension questions in the college entrance examination, for fear that he has misunderstood, maybe it is not a single-day box office of over 100 million, but a total box office of over 100 million?

But the most bizarre thing is that even if the total box office exceeds 100 million, it is a very exaggerated number, right?

Because the movie "Inception" has only been released for three days so far!

Is the domestic film market really so big?

It shouldn't be!

Director Chen Kaige also saw the relevant reports.

At that time, he was aimlessly browsing the news, but with a casual glance of his eyes, he suddenly saw the words "Inception" and Li Mu, and of course, the amazing number - 101 million!

"Single-day box office - 101 million - - broke 100 million in a single day?!" Chinese Net

"Could it be a mistake? I'm confusing the total box office with the single-day box office, right?"

Director Feng Xiaogang is also paying attention to the box office data of "Inception", at this time, "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" has created his best box office results since the film, and the news of breaking 100 million yuan in 6 days some time ago also caused a lot of sensation across the country, and it was also on the national hot search, but Li Mu's single-day box office directly exceeded 100 million?

exceeded 100 million in a single day, and the box office in the first weekend was 270 million in three days, and the total box office was 800 million!

Director Wu Yusen, who will soon release "Red Cliff (II)", also saw the relevant news, and he also felt very incredible.

Once upon a time, it was a very awesome honor in the mainland 100 million yuan club, and once upon a time, there were not a few movies with a box office of more than 100 million every year, but now in the blink of an eye, the single-day box office has reached the level of 100 million!

Has the mainland film market developed to this extent?

If this development continues, it is possible to surpass the North American market in the future!

Director Jiang Wen blurted out after seeing the relevant news: "It's really awesome!"