176. Box office explosion(1/3)
At this time, many people were paying attention to Xu Shi's movie box office status, including Zhang Zhen and a group of people.
These people used to force Xu Shifa to fail, then withdrew their investment, and then spread rumors online, which led to Xu Shi's first negative storm at that time.
After that, Xu Shi also made a strong counterattack, causing these people to suffer huge losses. At least it is not that easy for them to insert into the film industry now.
So these people also have a lot of hatred for Xu Shi, thinking that it is to make Xu Shi's movies fail.
After all, this can not only hit Xu Shi, but also prove that they are right, rather than being like a clown.
When the pre-sale box office of 100 million yuan broke out, these people's faces looked very ugly, after all, this was far beyond their expectations.
At this time, they began to yearn for a sharp decline in the box office of Xu Shi movies, after all, there are many such things.
At the beginning, due to promotion and some actors, some movies were extremely high in pre-sale box office and first-day box office, but their reputation declined and the box office plummeted. There are many such things.
But after the movie was released, Zhang Zhen began to search for comments online, and then found that the comments online were all positive. Even if there were some negative reviews, it was not because of the quality of the movie. Instead, it was said that Xu Shi was lying. The movie was not an action movie that was promoted, but no one said that the movie was not good.
Although Zhang Zhen had read the script as an investor at the beginning, he didn't read it carefully at the time. He couldn't understand it anyway, and it was just a little bit like it.
So he was not very clear about the specific content. He naturally felt uncomfortable when he saw such comments.
After thinking for a while, Zhang Zhen began to contact a few people and was preparing to find some navy soldiers to give Xu Shi some negative comments online.
However, Zhang Zhen also knew that many netizens now have the ability to distinguish themselves from the navy, and they are not as hard to tell the difference as they were at the beginning.
So he did not look for those navy soldiers who made all negative comments, but instead found some professionals, just following the existing bad products.
This also led to the popularity of discussions in Xu Shi's movies instantly surpassing "Super 4" the next day.
Some filmmakers who have really watched this discussion are also actively involved in these discussions and express their inner emotions.
Especially in some posts that scold Xu Shi, they are extremely active. There is no way. Now many people have the urge to kill Xu Shi. It's so terrible.
Zhang Zhen did not expect that the navy he found actually helped Xu Shi from the side, which made him so angry that he almost vomited blood.
On the same day, the official website of Jingwumen Company, which had just been completed, was instantly paralyzed.
A specially set up movie section that was complaining about was directly captured by many netizens not long after the movie was released.
Liu Biao is a film critic. His daily job is to provide some manuscripts to some manuscript clubs and specifically evaluate some movies. However, most of them write content based on the needs of customers, and many of them are not what he wants to express. After all, he also needs to make a living and cannot do it completely according to his own preferences.
He was optimistic about "Super 4" at the beginning of this movie battle, not for anything else, because he himself is a superhero movie fan.
He watched "Super 4" first. The effect of the movie is really good, and it is worth looking forward to it. However, after thinking about it, there is nothing to write. Basically, it is all special effects, and the plot seems to be expected.
Then he went to Xu Shi's "The Matrix: The World of Truman" with an optional mood.
But after watching this movie, he felt a strong desire to talk deep down. He wanted to write something, which was completely different from his mood after watching "Super 4".
He didn't sleep well when he was sleeping at night, and all he thought about was the plot of the movie, especially Truman's final choice.
He didn't know what Truman would choose in the end?
Or he knew how Xu Shihui arranged for Truman to make a decision, but he didn't know how he should make a decision. Such a plot was simply torture people's hearts.
Liu Biao did not get up to run and exercise as usual, but opened the document and started writing the film reviews he wanted to write.
"I believe everyone has watched one of the two movies, "Super 4" and "The Matrix: The World of Truman yesterday, and many people have watched both.
I am a superhero fan myself. I have nothing to say about this "Super 4". I am very satisfied with it. It is much better than the previous few.
But what I want to talk about today is not "Super 4", but another movie.
At the beginning, I watched this movie with an optional attitude, but after watching it, I wanted to say one thing: Xu Shi, your uncle!
Well, after saying this, I finally felt a little more comfortable after I scolded it. Next, I will talk about my feelings after watching this movie.
The whole movie can be said to be creative and shocking, completely like a fable of a modern utopia. After watching the movie, I couldn't help but think of the classic communication book "Entertainment to Death": the general expression of TV is entertainment, and all public discourses are gradually appearing in entertainment and becoming a cultural spirit. All cultural contents are willing to become vassals of entertainment, and the result is that we have become a species of entertainment to die. For entertainment and for fame and fortune, Skynet Company can deprive a person
The most basic right; in order to satisfy your desire to peep, the public can treat a living person as a clown and collude with Skynet Company. Such a pathological society is suffocating and frightening. But when you think about it, aren’t we all Truman too? Maybe one day you will find that everyone around you is acting, you are a “cage bird” trapped in other people’s designs, but the pursuit of freedom is a belief that each of us should not give up. From the other to ourselves, it is the charm of classic movies.
The subsequent Truman's resistance and the hacker organization in the movie confronted Skynet Company, wanting to free the public from the virtual world and not indulge in the virtual world.
Here, my interpretation is like this: What Xu Shi really wants to express is not accusation of the virtual world. This can also be seen from the purpose of hacker organizations that the rise of the Internet is a natural choice for social progress.
But what Xu Shi wanted to express was not to be overly addicted to illusory things. This can be extended to many things, such as unrealistic fantasies?
Of course, these are my personal interpretations. I don’t know if they are correct, but I really feel a lot from them.
Especially at the beginning, the scene was beautiful first, and then it was pulled away, allowing us to see layer by layer, until we ourselves, or the people who looked at us, this picture was always imprinted in my mind, and there was a sense of thriller.
There is also the last choice of Truman. Although Xu Shi made a very inauthentic and his methods were obscene, it has to be said that he seemed to have a thorough understanding of human nature.
Put yourself in your shoes, what would you choose if we encountered such a situation?
This is like some crimes. Even though I know it is wrong, the huge benefits contained in it have made many criminals fall into it and cannot extricate themselves.
There are many truths contained in this movie. Perhaps it is just an over-interpretation of us, but the movie that allows people to interpret this way is a very outstanding movie.
Of course, after saying this, I have to mention the fighting scenes in the movie, which are really exciting. For me, a superhero fan, although the fighting scenes are not as grand as "Super 4", they are more refined, exciting and exciting.
And those special effects shots can be seen. Xu Shi was very attentive when making them and spent all his money on this.
Although it is still a bit petty compared to the special effects of "Super 4", there is nothing we can do about it, after all, investment is here.
Therefore, Xu Shi seemed to perfectly combine art films and commercial films, so that while people can watch it, they can also think about the ideas they want to express in the movie, and allow people to get something from it.
If I scored this movie, 9.8 would be the lowest rating I could give, which is really the best movie I have seen in recent years.
Whether in terms of commercial value or analysis of human nature, this movie has achieved its ultimate goal.
As for some people who say it is a thriller, it can be considered barely. After all, many of the scenes in it are a bit terrifying when they think about it carefully.”
Liu Biao wrote a lot, and thoughts kept coming out of his mind, and there was almost no pause in writing these things.
This is different from when he was working. When he was working, he wrote reviews for some movies, so many of them needed to think carefully, then search for information, search for dictionaries, and find suitable words to describe them.
But he didn't need this movie, as if some of it was in his mind, making him feel unhappy.
After writing these, Liu Biao did not modify anything, and even checked the typos. He posted it online, and it was soon reprinted by many netizens, posting it under Xu Shi's Weibo and the official website of Jingwumen.
Many people who have watched the movie also expressed their opinions below, and the discussion was once very lively.
But this also made many people who have never watched the movie a little confused. What is the situation?
At first it was an action commercial film, but then it turned into a thriller film. Good guy, now it has become an art film.
What kind of movie is this?
Now these people are confused, and they don’t understand how a movie has so many labels.
Many people who were not going to watch it were also curious at this time and wanted to watch the movie in person.
They also read these remarks, unlike the navy army, each with different opinions, which aroused even more interest.
Some people were cheated by relatives and friends to see it, and they broke up with each other as soon as they finished watching it.
This also made Xu Shi's discussion of this movie suddenly become unprecedentedly high, and even some of the popularity of "Super 4" was suppressed.
It was already ten o'clock in the morning on the 28th. Yesterday, I urgently asked someone to restore the official website, but it seemed that I couldn't last long.
As for Xu Shi's Weibo, he had long fallen. Now Xu Shi dared not appear on Weibo, for fear of being caught by a group of angry netizens.
"Dear sister, is it? I'm still angry with me now." Xu Shi said helplessly when he looked at his elder sister Xu Mei.
Since watching the movie the day before yesterday, my elder sister, like some other audiences, has criticized Xu Shi one after another.
At that time, Xu Shi saw that the situation was not good, so he did not attend the thank-you meeting and slipped away directly.
At the beginning, he knew that everyone might not be satisfied with this ending, but he didn't expect that even his elder sister wanted to beat him up.
Xu Mei hummed, "Why don't you give an ending? You have to make it look like you are now? You'll be angry when you look at you now."
"Yeah, I'm angry too. I'm ready to break up with my uncle for two days." Zhao Xiaoqing also said to the side.
Xu Shi waved his hand and said, "Little girl, don't fan the flames here. Isn't it popular for open endings now? This is also an open ending. Isn't this keeping up with the trend?"
"If you don't learn good things, just learn some bad things."
Xu Shi wanted to defend himself, but suddenly he heard a knock at the door, and then Liu Yan walked in.
"Mr. Xu, Manager Xu, the box office has come out." Liu Yan's face was full of joy.
Xu Mei didn't care about being angry with Xu Shi at this time, and hurriedly asked, "How is it? How much is it?"
"As of the early morning, our movie box office was 180 million." Liu Yan said.
"Where is the other side of "Super 4"?" Although Xu Mei felt good about such a box office, she still asked. Now everyone compares their movies with "Super 4", so she couldn't help but pay attention.
"850 million." Liu Yan's words made everyone present feel a little excited and silent again. 850 million, such a box office made people a little desperate.
On the third day, it had a box office of 850 million yuan, while their side was only 180 million yuan, which was an extraordinary gap.
Seeing everyone's frustrated expressions, Xu Shi smiled and said, "This kind of results is actually very good. This release lasts for more than a month. It is no problem for us to recover the cost. In fact, this has achieved our goal, right?"
Although Xu Shi said all the truth, at the beginning they just wanted to recover the cost, they were still a little depressed when they really saw this result.
Xu Mei thought for a while and said, "Why don't we take a look and promote it? See if we can increase the box office more."
Xu Shi shook his head and said, "What should be promoted now has been promoted, and the effect of publicity is not great. The word of mouth that needs to be fermented now. I believe that as long as the reputation is good, the box office will increase. Now all we can do is wait."
Of course, no matter how much I say that, I still have to do some publicity I should do later, but these were all booked long ago, and Xu Shi said that there is no need to add them.
"My aunt, don't worry. I think the online reviews of our movies are still very high. Now our rating is 9.5 points, which is higher than "Super 4". "Super 4" is only 9.3 points now." Xu Xiaoxiao also comforted her.
To be continued...