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

Chapter 979 Nobody Cares (33)

Quite speechless...

Can a celebrity's status be determined by the seating order at an event?

But that's exactly what they did!
They probably thought "Hidden Man" would definitely be a huge hit...

Indeed, Jiang Wen's work, which had been dormant for five years, was promoted during a period of various variety shows, and he even appeared in the finale of "Produce 101"...

There are plenty of praises for Peng Yuyan, and the film itself gives him close-ups of his muscular physique, even having him do a naked parkour scene, using various nude scenes of him and the female lead Xu Qing as a marketing and promotional tool...

"Hidden Man," the final installment of Jiang Wen's Republican Era trilogy, is a commercial blockbuster that garnered immense attention from the moment it was conceived!
The male lead who can play the role in this movie…

Peng Yuyan is at the height of his career!
However, Shen Yan didn't give him any face during the live stream:

"An actor claims to learn a new skill with every film, but he can't even speak Mandarin properly!"

"They speak with a Taiwanese accent from the moment they open their mouths... Many of our directors, producers, and investors are too lenient with these kinds of people! You should know that British, Canadian, and Australian actors working in Hollywood, and even Germans, Italians, and Eastern Europeans, all have to learn American-accented English..."

“The ‘hard-working’ persona has been marketed almost since the beginning of the industry, claiming that he learns a skill for every movie he makes, but he can’t even speak Mandarin well… Does that mean he has no talent?”

"If you don't have talent, don't become an actor!"

"The box office performance of 'Hidden Man' is definitely not going to be good... How can it be a box office hit with an unsuitable actor?"

Netizens mentioned that the release date of "Hello Mr. Billionaire" was moved up...

"For 'Hello Mr. Billionaire,' a Taiwanese company initially bought the film and television adaptation rights, requesting the casting of a certain actress. However, I directly bought the stage play adaptation rights and insisted on using Shen Teng and Ma Li. The Shen-Ma combination is the eternal god!"

"The main reason for moving up the release date is that I didn't want to be released on the same day as 'Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings,' since I really like the 'Detective Dee' series!"

Shen Yan is telling the truth!
He really likes the "Detective Dee" film series!

Extremely chuunibyou (a Japanese term for someone with delusions of grandeur), eccentric, and with amazing visual effects.

Most importantly, the film series is incredibly imaginative!
You see, the protagonist's fighting skills are within the range of ordinary people, basically the same as Zhang Zhen's character in "Brotherhood of Blades"...

But its enemies are something else entirely.

"Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon" features humans who have transformed into amphibians; a foreign high priest; a witch doctor; and the ultimate sea monster, the Deep Sea Dragon King, who can easily crush the Tang Dynasty navy. It's a bunch of gods and immortals inside and out.

In "The Four Heavenly Kings", the enemies are a curse from the sky, a demon from the Western Regions, and his mother's boundless Buddhist Buddha's palm, as well as a group of gods.

In other words, Di Renjie's opponents are either Cthulhu's kin or a whole host of gods and Buddhas, the kind that even Sun Wukong couldn't handle!

He actually managed to finish filming it!
"Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame", "Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon" and "The Four Heavenly Kings" are all about planting plot holes and being as exciting as possible in the first half.
The second half ended as it came...

It feels like the screenwriter is kneeling on the ground, begging you to throw your brain away...

He couldn't explain it either, so he could only spout nonsense and ramble on...

Science cannot explain it!

But they spent a lot of money filming it, so if you don't agree, you're not giving them face.

This could also be considered a scientific explanation: In "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame," was the spontaneous combustion of human bodies due to the application of natural combustion-enhancing liquids or animal extracts...?

The powerful Deep Sea Dragon King in "Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon" who caused humans to mutate into new species is actually a sunfish; the half-human, half-fish Deep Diver was made by drinking poison. After drinking a couple of mouthfuls of virgin urine, he was fine, but his cheeks disappeared and he instantly became a freeloader.
"The Four Heavenly Kings" is even more awesome. The whole movie can be summarized as Di Renjie's group vs. Uchiha Madara: Cthulhu himself + ancient technological creature Gundam + divine golden dragon!

How can you win like that?

To put it simply, the Detective Dee series is different from ordinary movies.

It's that kind of thing where you go all out to dig a hole and spout nonsense, regardless of how it ends in the last twenty minutes...

At worst, we can just use deus ex machina!
It feels like when Tsui Hark is making movies, he's thinking: to hell with logic, to hell with plot, I just want gods, monsters, fantasy, magic, and giant monsters...

Of course, from the audience's perspective, it's pure nonsense...

Silly and rambling!
in addition…

Tsui Hark must be a fan of the "Daiyu Mystery Horror Series"—no matter how terrifying the beginning of this series is, the last few pages explain all the supernatural and bizarre phenomena back to a scientific explanation!

Of course, whether a circle is good or not is another matter!

……

"Hello Mr. Billionaire" has moved up its release date, directly competing with "Hidden Man"...

Jiang Wen... was quite annoyed!
Many people say that Jiang Wen doesn't care about box office returns when making movies!
Really not!
When "Gone with the Bullets" was released, the premiere was held at the Olympic Sports Center, with the American IMAX giant screen.

When "Hidden Man" was released, he went to the stage of "Produce 101" to promote it;

When "If You Can Do It, Then Do It" was released, I opened an account on Bilibili to listen to people's nonsensical and absurd video edits...

I actually opened an account on Bilibili...

It seems he frequents Bilibili in private, and has been misled by those sycophantic film reviews like "A 10,000-Word Explanation of Let the Bullets Fly" and "Did You Really Understand 'Let the Bullets Fly'?"...

Damn it, six hours of explanation, word by word!

Shen Yan's approach is quite clear: "Hello Mr. Billionaire" and "Dying to Survive," which has been in theaters for a week, are joining forces to attack "Hidden Man"!
"Dying to Survive" has been in theaters for 10 days and its daily box office is still stable at over 1.5 million yuan - its total box office has exceeded 25 billion yuan.
Is "Hidden Man" a rival?
Hard to say...

The key point is that "Hello Mr. Billionaire" was initially scheduled to be released on July 27, but was suddenly moved up to July 20!
"Hidden Man" will be released on July 13th...

The originally planned two-week gap has been shortened to just one week!
Of course, if "Hidden Man" is good enough, then "Let the Bullets Fly" 2.0...

That’s okay too…

The key issue is that "Hidden Man" is pretty bad...

On the day of its release, its Douban rating dropped from 8.2 to 7.2!
Its box office performance also fell short of "Dying to Survive," which grossed 1.32 million yuan on its opening day, while "Hidden Man" earned 1.22 million yuan on its opening day…

The following day, "Hidden Man" continued its daily box office decline: 1.06 million yuan; "Dying to Survive" earned 1.92 million yuan.
On the third day, July 15th, the daily box office of "Hidden Man" simply dropped to 81 million!
Maoyan's prediction for total box office revenue has also dropped from the initial 7.5 million yuan to 6 million yuan...

Many people describe "Hidden Man" as being like a restaurant serving a bowl of noodles with soybean paste: the bowl is from the old Beijing era, which is exquisite; the chopsticks are the same ones used in restaurants in the past, which is authentic; the sauce is Liubiju yellow soybean paste, which is genuine; the waiter speaks with a Beijing accent, and his clothes and chairs are all from the past, which is retro.

But this dough has clumped together!
What's even more embarrassing is that the media's focus wasn't on "Hidden Man"...

Whether it's good or bad, it certainly generated buzz and some people tried to manipulate you, but compared to another movie... the controversy it sparked...

Oh, and another movie is Asura!
Even during Shen Yan's live stream, he talked about "Asura"!
(End of this chapter)