I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 522: One Monkey, One Tie Method (34)

On December 12, "The Legend of the White Snake" and "Wonder Woman 4" were released...

At this time, "Raging Fire" had been released for 6 days and had a cumulative box office of 12.3 billion.

Although the box office exceeded 8 million in the first weekend, it only collected less than 5 million in four working days...

This is normal. "The Crowd" is not cool enough...

In fact, the biggest highlight of "The Crowd" should be the various coincidences and hilarious life farces that happen after the two people exchanged identities.

Indeed, after Zhou Quan (Liu Dehua) returned to Chen Xiaomeng's "doghouse", he proved with practical actions that as long as you are serious, diligent and positive, you can live a decent life even if the conditions are bad and the starting point is low;

Chen Xiaomeng (Shen Liang) also used a good hand of cards to play it badly, which showed that he is a bad actor and deserves to have a bad life.

But the movie didn’t make this the point!
Before the two protagonists had enough fun, Zhou Quan recovered his memory, and then the story took a sharp turn for the worse!

After Zhou Quan came into contact with Chen Xiaomeng, he quickly entered the stage of accepting reality and working together. There were not even many decent conflicts and twists and turns - a "bizarre story" without obstacles and dangers is not convincing.

This resulted in the huge dramatic tension in the basic setting of "The Crowd" not being effectively released at all, and the audience's emotions and feelings were not in place. It ended the whole process in a half-cooked stir-fry...

Therefore, Douban's score quickly dropped to 6.9 points...

But again, the whole movie is good, at least it tells a relatively complete story.

Add Shen Liang and Liu Dehua, 7 billion in 12.8 days is already very good!

The total box office forecast has dropped from 27 billion to 19 billion.
This result is already very good. You should know that the total cost of "The Crowd" is only 1.2 million, and the investment in publicity and distribution is less than 3000 million...

However, it did not meet the expectations of the theaters.
Then, "Red Fox Scholar" and "Wonder Woman 1984" were released...

The two films took up 55% of the screenings, and the combined box office of the two films was almost the same as that of "The Crowd" on the seventh day of its release - both 8500 million!
These two movies are terrible!
"Red Fox Scholar" is not bad, but it is mediocre in all aspects
By the way, there is also a movie called “Monster Hunter”. This movie… makes me speechless!
You clearly know that the market is mainly in China, so why do you still use such a lame joke as "Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these!"?
Foreigners are all of the same character. They want to make money while forcibly defining the audience's aesthetic taste and stuffing in their own personal opinions, and they think no one can see through it.

Want to export culture and be a boss...

Damn it, if you want to make money from the Chinese, first of all: lick me well!

To be honest, Chinese audiences are pretty easy to please, and there's no need to single out China.

For example, in "The Wandering Earth", the protagonist is neither the only one who came up with a solution nor the only one who took action. He is much easier to please than the Americans who have a strong savior complex.

Even with all this, they can't even make people happy. These foreigners are either stupid or arrogant!
In fact, it is understandable why they are so arrogant - we have our own "friendly forces" to defend us.

For example: Director Jia talked about the increasingly weak market of Hollywood movies in China, saying: "We should reflect on whether China's cultural influence and market performance are gradually losing?"

Yes, international directors encourage us to reflect!
It's hard for Director Jia, he's still talking about movies even though he's blind...

If he wasn't blind, he would have insisted on making so many cookie-cutter movies for so many years;

If he is not blind, what does the weak performance of Hollywood movies in the Chinese market have to do with our "cultural influence"?
According to this theory, Director Jia must also think that Cannes' cultural appeal is gradually losing - the Cannes jury praised Zhao Tao's acting skills, but they would rather give four yolks to the Best Actress award than give one to his wife!
These deceivers who steal fame and pretend to have a conscience would make Yue Buqun feel ashamed of himself.

……

"Red scarf? Director, will this red scarf appear again in the future?"

"Did you guess it?"

“…I feel like this prop is very colorful, so it must have a purpose, otherwise the director wouldn’t have given it a close-up shot!”

"So what do you think this means?"

"Wanli is in love? He is a 19-year-old boy..."

"more than!"

"Please tell me about it... I want to learn from it!"

"The red scarf has a strong symbolic meaning. It does not contain any relationship between men and women. Red is the color of the national flag and represents the meaning of the volunteers fighting outside. The little girl threw her scarf onto the car, which also symbolizes that the army and the people will always be connected..."

“Director, you are this!”

Shen Liang gave a thumbs up. The poetry master was very satisfied and patted Shen Liang on the shoulder: "Go and get ready!"

"okay!"

Shen Liang left immediately, just in time to see Wu Jing staring with an expression of disbelief...

They just complained that the red scarf was too conspicuous and could easily expose the target.

Shen Liang also agreed, but when he turned around, he started to flatter the director!

“…My dad told me that the little genius really likes to hear people praise him, but you can’t force the praise. You have to arouse his desire and then praise him!”

"So, you just praised the red scarf?"

"This is my most proud idea, there is no way I'll give it up..." Shen Liang smiled and said, "Let's get ready and start filming!"

Wu Jing was still surprised: "No, how did you manage to have a common language with the director?"

"Each monkey has a different way of tying him up. Understand his temperament and character, and leave him some room to breathe when you speak..."

"Haha," Wu Jing laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his back. "Each monkey has a different way of tying it..."

"What's wrong? Brother, did you eat a toad?"

Wu Jing finally recovered a little and immediately burst into laughter...

After a while, he came to his senses: "...You are so funny!"

"...I won't say any more. I'll go get ready..."

Shen Liang turned around and was about to leave, but Wu Jing asked, "Hey, have you asked for leave?"

“…You mean the Golden Rooster Awards?”

"Correct!"

"I've been invited for two days..." Shen Liang remembered something: "Are you going?"

"The organizing committee invited me to go..."

"Of course, you're the first one!"

"What first person?"

“Number one at the box office!”

"…Do you want to check your box office before you speak?"

"…I forgot. Anyway, we'll be together tomorrow!"

Oh, Shen Liang's box office has surpassed Wu Jing...

"The Furious" has 28 billion, and "Rampage" has 17 billion...

Even without counting "My Hometown and Me", Shen Liang's box office has surpassed Wu Jing.

Wu Jingdao: "I watched "The Crowd"..."

"I also felt that it was unlikely to exceed 2 billion at first. I can only say that the market changes rapidly..."

Well, thanks to "Red Fox Scholar" and "Wonder Woman 1984" and "If the Voice Doesn't Remember" and so on...

It warmed up the market and also gave the box office to "The Crowd"...

These ones are terrible!

Many audiences who go to the cinema would rather watch "The Crowd" a second time than watch these movies!

Maoyan has readjusted the box office forecast for "Raging Fire": 23 billion!
(End of this chapter)