You made me a superstar

Chapter 280 Word of mouth and box office

It's good to be alive!

This is probably the first reaction of many movie fans after watching "Struggle".

Zhou Yang is like a lunatic.

But he has to admit that his dedication to movies and awe of life are awe-inspiring.

This is the second feeling of movie fans after watching "Struggle".

In the bustling theater aisle, a new batch of audiences came out of the screening hall.

Either in a trance, or with red eye circles, or silent aphasia, or excited.

Depression, claustrophobia, suffocation, despair...

In just two hours, their emotions fluctuated with the movie, experiencing the struggle between life and death, and their hearts almost reached their throats.

At one point, they thought they were in that small space, so they cried out nervously.

Django has been watching these coming out of the audience, not to miss every expression on their faces.

He felt a little bewildered, and his strong unwillingness made him extremely eager to see the disappointment in the expressions of these audiences, and even more eager to see someone scolding the movie.

but……

The longer he observed, the more aggrieved he felt in his heart.

This is a movie that was only filmed for less than a week, and it was hyped by sensationalists!

why?
Why is this happening?

Are these people hypnotized?

this movie……

Django was in a complicated mood, unbelievable and a bit contradictory, and besides, there was a trace of curiosity that he couldn't even express in his heart.

But the pride in his heart did not allow him to bow his head, let alone enter the screening hall to see what kind of movie "Struggle" is and what kind of magic it has.

Isn't this a disguised admission that he is not as good as Zhou Yang, a mud-legged guy who hasn't even studied a day of formal film courses?

Ten minutes past eleven thirty.

It's lunchtime, and it's an unpopular time slot.

However, the screening hall of "Struggle" was still overcrowded, and even many fans in the crowd were spoiling the content of the movie "Struggle".

Django, who left the Wanda VIP room and was about to go back, subconsciously stopped after hearing these discussions.

"This movie may be a godsend!"

"real or fake?"

"Don't believe it, as long as you enter the screening hall and watch it for 5 minutes, you will realize that there is nothing, not even a trace of exaggeration in what I said..."

"Yes, I think so too. When watching this movie, I shrunk my body the whole time, and even touched my head uncontrollably, for fear that sand would fall on my head..."

"..."

After listening for a while, Django finally lowered his hat slightly, and left the auditorium silently, with mixed emotions getting stronger.

When he went back, after eating something random, he immediately boarded the computer and looked at the comments on "Struggle" on the Internet.

The comments that he used to spend money to hire sailors have already been suppressed by all the praises, and even Dai Li, who Jiang Ge regards as his own, suddenly turned his back on his Weibo.

["Struggle" is the best documentary film I have seen in recent years. It is not one of them. Two people and a coffin, plus a few small props such as a mobile phone and a lighter, the mirror space is extremely limited. It doesn't feel boring at all, but it makes people sink into it. The tension runs from 5 minutes after the movie opened to the last second of the movie. Buried in the coffin, but the fingers holding the handle of the chair are constantly trembling, perhaps, it is an instinct...]

Dai Li is very authoritative in the hearts of movie fans.

In just an hour after he posted on Weibo, there were over a thousand comments on it, and many movie fans were attracted by what Dai Li wrote, but most of them crowded together, asking how to grab movie tickets through various channels of.

Jiang Ge's face became very ugly after reading Dai Li's Weibo, and then he saw a friend's dynamic reminder on Weibo.

Jiang Ge subconsciously clicked in, just in time to see Zhou Yilin's Weibo.

[Zhou Yang is a very talented director. He was born to eat this food. Compared with some academic directors, the films he directed are a little more creative. There is no doubt that "Struggle" is quite creative. It can even be said that it is a film that ushered in a new era of documentary films. He used simple and extreme shots to tell everyone that a film can be shot with a camera, but it can also be shot with a mobile phone video. After the coffin collapsed That vague plot was the video recorded by the mobile phones fixed beside the coffin. Under certain circumstances, this blurred feeling turned into a vivid and vivid presentation of reality...]

Zhou Yilin's Weibo was amazed.

Appreciation is written between the lines.

After Jiang Ge finished watching, he felt his face was hot, and he even felt that Zhou Yilin was pointing something!
Especially the words "some academic directors" on Zhou Yilin's Weibo made Jiang Ge feel very dazzling, as if he had been slapped severely.

Angry, unwilling, aggrieved, jealous...

Countless emotions surged in Django's heart.

Eventually, these surging emotions turned into a burning curiosity.

"I still, go and see?"

"No!"

"Don't go!"

He didn't know how long it was before he sat on the chair and looked at the ceiling with absent-minded eyes, as if all the strength in his body had been drained.

That trace of frustration lingered in his heart, but it could not go away for a long time.

..............................

Before "Struggling" was released, there were a lot of doubts and curses on the Internet.

Many professionals are saying that Zhou Yang was lucky enough to make a few movies, and he started to drift away, and even directly cut off movie fans as leeks!
Rubbish goods filmed in a week, packaged and hyped gimmicks dare to be premiered in major theaters. Isn’t this money grabbing?
Although there are endless bad films in the Chinese film industry, they will package these bad films well. The main creative team and distribution units will buy all kinds of hot searches to praise their films, saying how hard it is to make films, and how much the veterans like this script so much , everyone is so serious...

How can Zhou Yang announce his new movie so grandiosely that he only shoots it for a week?
Isn't this putting the label of a bad movie on your face?

However, after the first premiere, the reviews of the entire "Struggle" began to reverse.

Not only is the polarity reversed, but what is even more rare is that many well-known film critics with a vicious tongue gave this film a very high evaluation, and even recommended it as a five-star god on Douban.

Five hours after the show...

Countless voices of questioning and cursing were overwhelmed by praise. Although the only few film critics who had just lost their money were scolding firmly, the comments below were full of scolding. In just a few hours, the fans who had worked so hard to accumulate became In the end, they had no choice but to delete the comment that was worth the money, and began to brag shamelessly, but because they hadn't watched the movie, the praise was not right. , On the contrary, more people scolded, and more people turned off fans.

No one could have imagined that in just a few hours, their film review V number was completely abolished.

The eyes of all movie fans are discerning...

The moment Zhou Yang stabbed his arm fiercely with a knife, they knew that this movie had already blown up the number of so-called "big production" movies in China.

Wanda Cinemas.

No one could have imagined that such a small-budget film could explode with such great energy.

How many pre-sale tickets were sold, how many were sold, and they were sold out in just one hour.

Wang Sikai, the son of Wanda Group, fell into deep thought after seeing the "Online ticket grabbing strategy" on Weibo.

He was very optimistic about Zhou Yang before!
He felt that with Zhou Yang's current reputation in the industry, no matter what movie he made, as long as he didn't mess around, the movie would never rush.

However, "Struggling", an ultra-low-cost movie, really completely exceeded his expectations!
He never imagined that this movie would become so popular.

"This kind of movie can make this kind of word-of-mouth!"

"What a fucking genius!"

Wang Sikai took a look at the rating on Douban, which was already as high as 8.9, and more than 2000 people had commented on it. After more than [-] people wanted to watch it, he sighed speechlessly.

He watched helplessly as the movie scored 5.2 before it was initially released, and it went up to 8.9!

At this moment, he received a call.

The voice on the phone made his expression very wonderful.

"You mean, under the guise of watching other movies, some movie fans sneaked into the screening room of "Struggling" after watching half of it? How much box office will be lost!"

"Is this gang of management dogs eating shit?"

After answering the phone, he looked at a picture that was exposed on the Internet...

Good guy!
An ordinary screening hall was actually full of spectators, and the aisles were packed to the brim.

........................

"Huh? Do you want to cut down on my "Mechanical Man" film?"

"Is this what the publisher means, or what the theaters mean?"

"What do you mean theater?"

"Damn! After the reduction, isn't it the same as "Jin Yiwei"!"

In the early morning of March 25.

Django paced back and forth in the office.

He received a call, and his already irritable mood was instantly ignited.

Even though he knew that "Machina" was going downhill, and the attendance rate in the screening hall was less than half, Jiang Ge couldn't accept that his film schedule was given to "Struggle".

This is a humiliation to him!Naked humiliation!
The phone hung up, and before he could find someone to discuss with, there was a knock on the door.

"It's out, it's out! The box office is out!"

He saw the assistant come in in a hurry, with a very ugly expression on his face.

"How many!"

"Our "Mechanical Man" has 700 million..."

"what?"

"700 million!"

"What about "Jinyiwei"?"

""Jinyiwei" 600 million..."

"What about "Struggle"?"

"..."

After Django saw that the assistant's expression was wrong, he took the report with a cold face.

immediately……

His expression is so wonderful!

(End of this chapter)