Huayu: Hard fight against Zhang Weiping at the beginning

Chapter 281: Propaganda
At home, Xu Fan noticed that Feng Xiaogang looked a little depressed since he entered the door.

"Old Feng, what's wrong with you? Are you unhappy?"

"It's okay, don't worry about me, I'll think about something..."

Feng Xiaogang had no desire to confide in Xu Fan. He moved a chair to the fish tank by himself and thought about things while watching the fish.

Anyone who has ever kept fish knows that watching fish is addictive.

Many women don’t understand. What’s so good about a shabby fish tank with a few fish in it? Sometimes the fish keeper can stare at it for hours.

Feng Xiaogang was new to the game and didn’t know anything, so he was just figuring things out.

The fish he raised were not any rare species, but just common ones such as budgies, peacocks, red lights, zebras, etc.

Then he sadly discovered that the tiger was bullying the peacock and biting the peacock's most beautiful tail into pieces.

Tiger skin is so lively.

Damn, I get angry just thinking about this. He had specifically asked about this at the beginning, and the fish seller told him that they could raise both species together.

Feng Xiaogang unexpectedly ignored it. He suddenly had a feeling that this tiger skin was like himself, and those peacocks were like those unambitious guys in the circle.

They are destined to be eliminated by themselves.

I am a meat eater.

When he came back, he went to the flower, bird, fish and insect market and bought a few Three Lake Cichlids. These fish are particularly beautiful, and novice fish breeders like beautiful ones.

After the water was turned on and the temperature was about right, Feng Xiaogang used scissors to cut through the plastic bag and the three-lake cichlids entered the fish tank.

The fish in the fish tank are already colorful, and they become even more beautiful with these three-lake cichlids.

In particular, the three-lake cichlids are very fast and appear very lively.

Feng Xiaogang sat on a chair and watched the fish in the fish tank chasing and playing. His originally depressed mood had just improved, and then he found that they were not playing, but three-lake cichlids chasing and biting budgies.

Seeing this scene, Feng Xiaogang was stunned. Before he could react, the tiger's eyes had been bitten off by the three-lake cichlid.

This fish is so fierce~
It was then that he remembered that the Three Lakes Cichlids were cold-water fish and carnivorous, and it seemed that they could not be raised together with other fish.

The three-lake cichlid was still chasing the tiger skin, which was hiding here and there. Feng Xiaogang was about to take action when he was suddenly stunned again.

This scene reminded him of the movie he watched today. He was in a bad mood all because he secretly went to see "Crazy Stone".

Although I had expected it, I was still shocked after watching the finished film.

"Stone" is so well shot. Every scene and rhythm of the film is so appropriate.

Especially the choice of actors, each role is just right, which not only shows that the actor has a good eye for actors, but also the ability to train actors.

Zhang Guoli is very clear about the level of his son, and he actually performed well in this play. That can only be the credit of the director.

Ning Hao's appearance made him feel a great sense of crisis. In the fish tank, the three-lake cichlid was still chasing the tiger skin, and that tiger skin looked very much like himself at this time.

The back wave of the Yangtze River pushes the front wave, and the front wave dies on the beach.

……

Zhang Chen woke up slowly in bed. Last night, in order to wait for the first day's box office, they had dinner until after one o'clock in the morning. Finally, the box office figures came out.

"Crazy Stone" grossed 780 million on its first day, which is not a bad result.

Its competitor during the same period, Seven Swords, had a first-day box office of 880 million, just 100 million more than Stone.

Judging from the numbers, "Stone" lost, but in terms of cost, "Seven Swords" cost 1.4 million, while "Stone" only cost 800 million, so it is obvious who wins and who loses.

Ning Hao burst into tears with excitement. He knew in the cinema during the day that the box office of "Stone" would not be bad, but he couldn't help crying when he saw the numbers.

In fact, the first-day box office of "Stone" is not as high as that of "Black 2", but it is different. "Black 2" is a sequel movie and it naturally has its own traffic.

"Stone" is his own movie, and the protagonists are all amateurs. It is not easy to achieve such a result.

Several people wanted to go celebrate, and Huang Bo was particularly active among them, but Zhang Chen couldn't stay up late, so he left early.

It takes him several days to recover after each all-nighter, which is unbearable. I don't know if those guys played all-night again last night.

In just one day, word of mouth for "Stone" had already spread.

Overwhelming praise.

Zhang Chen looked through the comments on the Internet. He admitted that the company did public relations, but it was obvious that many of them were just fabricated comments.

At the same time, the news that they had dinner in Guijie Street last night was also published. The reason was that they were so happy that they paid for the diners in the entire Jingui mountain city.

At that time, many diners came to congratulate us. Many of them had just finished watching "Stone" and came to eat. They didn't expect to see the main creators here. That kind of atmosphere, plus everyone started chatting after drinking, regardless of whether they knew each other or not.

On the Internet, the first popular quotes were from the movie:

I'm gonna give you a lung!

This is a branded product, Baleno!

What do you like about him? Is he better than Big Brother? Is he better than me?

Don't touch me!
Quality, pay attention to your quality!
Come on, kid, call your daddy.

First you insulted my personality, and now you insult my intelligence!

The style of "Stone" is very suitable for young people's temperament. These golden sentences quickly became popular on the Internet, and "Stone" became known to more people.

The media also praised "Stone"...

[A low-cost comedy illuminates the dark Chinese film market]

[A masterpiece adapted from a play]

【Chinese films need more Ning Hao】

["Crazy Stone" is a victory for the common people! ]

[A low-budget movie tells us that comedy doesn’t need to be crazy or stupid]

[“Stone” tells us why the script is called the foundation of a play]

A large number of media outlets have expressed strong recommendations for "Stone", and many print media have given "Crazy Stone" their front-page headlines.

What is rare is that this time even the film critics praised "Stone".

Well-known film critic Zhou Limin wrote in his column:

"Crazy Stone" is a good story, a good story that makes people applaud.

Guess what I saw in it. It was not a collection of jokes, nor was it Hong Kong Island’s shit and fart. Instead, it was black humor - typical black humor.

But unlike Director Feng, Ning Hao is obviously better than his predecessor Feng Xiaogang in terms of comedy. The jokes are more frequent, but not stiff. In this regard, Director Feng should really learn from his juniors.
Let's talk about the structure:

Among the currently known film genres, martial arts films, police and gangster films, science fiction films, horror films, all types of films have fixed routines.

How the plot develops, how the emotions progress, how the characters are set up, at what point in time the first conflict should be triggered, and when the final decisive battle will take place, these are all fixed routines, just like a composition with a given topic.

Hollywood summed it up more thoroughly, calling it the 'three-act structure' or the 'three-part structure'.

But Crazy Stone is different. He is like a martial arts genius who breaks out of this shackle and creates a new martial arts...

Here, I boldly predict that Ning Hao will definitely become the best comedy master in the country.

I envy Xingchen Entertainment very much. This company is really amazing. It has produced two directors in total, one is good at horror films and the other is good at comedy films. I personally think that Ning Hao's future achievements may be higher than Zhang Chen's...

Zhang Chen was right, Ning Hao was really a genius!

Zhou Liming wrote a long paragraph in his column, strongly recommending "Stone" and praising Ning Hao.

But it can be seen that he has not seen "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"...

haha~
(End of this chapter)