Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 384 Always coming up with new tricks! (24)

Dilraba regretted asking the question afterward…

She also sensed that something was amiss…

After all, she and Shen Yan didn't have any real relationship.

But she was really curious if she didn't ask.

I just passed by Shen Yan's room and, as if possessed, knocked on the door...

Yan Ge was a little confused...

No, what is my relationship with Jing Tian? Is it any of your business?

We're just ordinary colleagues!

Shen Yan really wanted to call her a 'lunatic'!

But looking into her clear, yet foolish, big eyes, I decided to let it go…

He glanced at her, somewhat speechless, and asked, "Is this question important to you?"

"...I am...I am..."

"curious?"

"right…"

After thinking for a moment, he said, "You know, the investors in our show, including 'My Love from the Star,' are all Jing Tian's company..."

Dilraba instantly realized: "So, you were sexually harassed?"

"...What unspoken rules? Do you think I'm that kind of person?"

"That…"

You can think of it as a temporary partner…

"friends with benefits?"

Upon hearing this term, Shen Yan sighed helplessly, "...Don't you know it very well?"

"But don't you have a girlfriend?"

“Sometimes, when emotions run high, it’s hard to…” Shen Yan waved his hand: “Never mind, I’ll demonstrate, come sit over here!”

Dilraba, not understanding why, sat down...

"Sit on my lap!"

"what?"

"Don't you not understand?"

Dilraba blushed and sat down, then Shen Yan began his demonstration…

It was nothing more than demonstrating a technique...

Shen Yan stopped what he was doing, smiled, and asked her, "Do you understand now?"

Dilraba ignored him and buried her head in his chest...

Shen Yan threatened, "If you don't come down, it won't just be a little bit!"

Dilraba remained motionless, simply wrapping her arms around his neck…

Okay, this isn't a question, it's clearly an expression of dissatisfaction at not bringing her along!
……

The promotional campaign for "The Silent War"...

Pretty weak!
Before its release, a premiere was held in Guangzhou, and then a few people came to Shanghai and held a premiere there as well.

Gone!
There was absolutely no post-screening promotion...

Perhaps the production company felt that the cast, including Alan Mak, Felix Chong, Tony Leung, and the three Golden Melody Awards, was enough to attract audiences!
Then on August 7th, "The Silent War" grossed 16.5 million on its opening day...

Failing to take the box office crown – "The Criminal" narrowly edged out its rival with 1720 million yuan…

Meanwhile, news broke that *The Criminal* had been released in Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Singapore. Its opening weekend box office exceeded $3.2 million, surpassing *The Expendables 2* in multiple markets and second only to *The Bourne Legacy*…

In particular, it opened in Thailand with a box office of nearly $60.

(The original "Bad Genius" opened with $140 million in Thailand... and grossed $380 million in total!)

The publicity team immediately spread the news all over the internet…

The key point is that in the Hong Kong market, "The Lynx" grossed over HK$700 million in its opening weekend...

The movie "The Criminal" is called "The Lynx Special Forces" in Hong Kong—Hong Kong people say "cheating" is "going cats"...

The release date of "The Criminal" in Hong Kong was "deliberately" 7 days later than in mainland China. This intentional avoidance of "synchronization" is actually a form of suppression!
Who told Shen Yan to speak the truth about the decline of Hong Kong films a while ago?

You think you're so smart?

It's self-deception. Everyone is clearly happy, yet they try to shift the blame by criticizing the mainland's censorship system every day...

Are you trying to force us to admit that we're incapable?
Oh, everyone, please take a look at this set of filing documents:
"The Law Hunter" is adapted from the 1974 Happy Valley cardboard box murder case, while "Rainy Night Outlaws" is based on the story of "Rainy Night Butcher" Lam Kwok-wan—it seems that when Hong Kong films can no longer rely on characters like "Crippled Ho," "Lei Lok," and the "Four Great Detectives," they've resorted to using former Hong Kong "Ten Great Unsolved Cases" as source material…

This is the ultimate example of "rehashing old material." After all, anyone familiar with Hong Kong films knows that "The Trial of the Corpse in the Cardboard Box" and "Dr. Lamb" were already made based on these two stories 30 years ago...

And you still won't admit you lack creativity?

In addition, it is normal to suppress Shen Yan. Andy Lau and Jackie Chan have also been suppressed to varying degrees. Andy Lau's films such as "Endgame", "Moscow Action", "Lives of Omission" and even "Mr. Red Carpet" have been suppressed in terms of distribution scale and release time. In particular, "Lives of Omission" was released half a month later than the release time in mainland China!

Including "The Wandering Earth 2", the Hong Kong release date was three weeks later than the mainland release date.

The reason is simple: as Hong Kong stars, they have made a great contribution to the mainland film industry.

In other words, they are too close to the mainland…

Regardless, "The Lynx" did very well at the Hong Kong box office, with total box office revenue expected to exceed HK$2000 million!
Flowers bloom outside the wall, but their fragrance lingers inside!

Shen Yan posted on Weibo: "The Hong Kong version of 'The Criminal Investigator' has been renamed 'The Bobcats Special Forces.' At first glance, it seems to be the NBA's Bobcats team. I didn't invite Jordan to make a cameo appearance, did I? Later I found out that in Hong Kong, 'Bobcats' means cheating. Is that true? Can a Hong Kong native explain this to me…?"

Hong Kong natives…

Then several Hong Kong people spoke up, "It's true, we call 'The Bourne Identity' 'The Bourne Identity'; we translate 'Inception' as 'The Hidden One'..."

"I think the most classic is *The Matrix*, which we translated as *The 22nd Century Murder Network*..." "And *The Shawshank Redemption*, which we translated as *Flying High in the Dark*..."

Then many Taiwanese netizens joined in.

"Here's a question: What movies are 'The Shawshank Redemption,' 'Inception,' 'The Vampire Diaries,' and 'The Defender'?"

Correct answer: *The Shawshank Redemption*, *Inception*, *Twilight*, and *Top Gun*...

Regarding "The Sting" (1995), there's a background story. In 94, Taiwan imported a relatively successful film, "The Sting" (literally translated as "Stimulation"), which won multiple Academy Awards in 1973 for "The Sting" (also known as "The Deception"). A year later, when "The Shawshank Redemption" was released, the distributors felt the plot was similar to "The Sting" (roughly a high-IQ revenge story), so they called it "The Sting 1995." And that's not all; in 1998, another film, "Return to Paradise," with its prison scenes, was translated as "The Sting 1998" in Taiwan and "Return to Eden" in mainland China…

This matter has become a trending topic...

And more and more netizens are joining the discussion!
Even Hu Ge, Shi Shi, and Yang Mi have joined.

Hu Ge said, "I was talking to a Taiwanese friend about Transformers, and he told me that his favorite character was Iron Bull. I didn't realize it at first, but later I found out that Iron Bull is Optimus Prime!"

Shi Shi was busy liking posts…

Yang Mi said, "Once I was browsing a DVD store in Hong Kong, and I hadn't heard of any of the movies. The most unexpected one was 'The Emperor Has No Words,' which is actually 'The King's Speech,' yes, 'The King's Speech'!"

Shen Yan later added: "The translation of 'Leon' as 'The Professional' is quite fitting, supposedly because of Jacky Cheung's song 'This Winter Isn't So Cold'..."

Yes, it stayed on the trending topics list for a whole day!

The publicity team for "The Silent War" was completely baffled...

No way, your Weibo post has sparked so much discussion?

The key is that I didn't spend a single penny!
Okay, let's not compete with Shen Yan in marketing!

Shen Yan... felt quite wronged. These past few days, aside from giving interviews, he'd been staying home—Dilraba had moved in too...

After solving the mystery, she took the initiative and went straight home with Shen Yan!
Shen Yan didn't know what to say...

I can only thank myself for having the foresight to buy several properties!

(End of this chapter)