You made me a superstar

Chapter 407 The Sensation Caused

"Friends of Yangcun, it is undeniable that the graphics of "Superman 2" are amazing, but please give "Infernal Affairs" a little help, please? "Infernal Affairs" needs your help!"

""Infernal Affairs" was treated unfairly! Not only was it sniped by "Superman 2", but it was also suppressed by major theaters and peers!"

"This is the evidence we have collected in major cities these days. There are videos and recordings..."

""Infernal Affairs" is now in its darkest moment! We can accept that "Infernal Affairs" does not top the box office charts of Chinese movies, and we can also accept its failure, but we cannot accept that it was bullied and eventually dropped early. It's a disgrace!"

"..."

In the early morning of February 22.

The Chinese film industry is still shaking.

More and more evidence points to the fact that "Nightwalker" is stealing the box office of "Infernal Affairs" in various ways, seemingly "reasonably".

The stolen box office was very vague at first, in the range of 300 million to 500 million per day, but as more and more data became clear, the stolen box office became more and more detailed.

August 120th: box office [-] million!

August 170: [-] million at the box office!

August 2th: The day "Superman 210" was released, with a box office of [-] million!

August 230: [-] million at the box office!
……

August 600: [-] million at the box office!
When the astonishing data was presented in front of all the netizens, the netizens were beyond shocked.

But then, a lot of people started to feel a light dawn!
"The popularity of "Infernal Affairs" on the Internet is itself the popularity of a popular classic movie. How could the box office be completely wiped out by "Superman 2"? This is completely unreasonable!"

"No wonder the box office is so poor. It turned out to be stolen. My God, didn't the underpants of the movie "Night Walker" be stripped out? The daily box office of "Night Walker" that didn't steal the box office is only a few million?"

"It has been released for so many days, and the daily box office is several million. The popularity of "Night Walker" on the Internet itself is not as good as "Infernal Affairs". Later, it suddenly turned against the wind, and the box office skyrocketed every day. This is all fans. What a fool!"

"It's so fucking dark. People like Zhou Yang have people stealing the box office! Aren't other small directors even worse? No wonder there are only a few directors in the Chinese film circle, and they were all "killed" by someone! "

"That's for sure..."

Three o'clock in the morning.

On the major movie networks, Weibo, and major portal websites, the discussion on this vicious box office stealing incident has not decreased, but has become more and more lively.

Click on the homepages of major websites, and the title of the homepage must be ["Infernal Affairs" steals the box office! ] and other news reports.

Although some media tried to use some other headlines to cool down this matter, they failed in the end. Zhou Yang fans from all over the world did not want to cool down this matter at all. higher.

[A number of theaters denied the operation behind the scenes, claiming that it was instigated by temporary workers! 】

[The culprit of the incident is directed at Zhao Sicheng, the former director of the Huaxia Directors Association! 】

[Zhao Sicheng's attitude is extremely arrogant, facing the questioning, he once threatened: "You have the guts to come and arrest me, extradite me? Have I broken the law? I have a US green card, what do you have?"]

【…】

Four fifteen in the morning.

When Zhao Sicheng's arrogant voice was exposed on the Internet, netizens couldn't believe it at first, and then they scolded Zhao Sicheng furiously on the Internet.

"I fuck your mother! Traitor!"

"Depend on!"

"What a fucking beast, traitor!"

"The account book is gone!"

All kinds of nasty things filled the headlines of the major Weibo, which once paralyzed Weibo.

When Weibo officials saw that this matter was about to get out of control, they immediately banned countless accounts, but the staff found that no matter how they were banned, the scolding became more and more, so they finally had to give up and let it go. This matter fermented!
"I'm afraid this matter will be escalated into an industry event, or a social event!"

The person in charge of the Weibo official muttered to himself after seeing this incident.

When the fans' anger is ignited, it is difficult to extinguish it for a while.

Fans who have nowhere to vent their feelings tried their best to find outlets related to Zhao Sicheng, but they found that Zhao Sicheng's Weibo IP address itself was located in the United States, and Zhao Sicheng's family, including some relatives, seemed to have premeditated I went through the procedure of renunciation of nationality a year ago and moved to the United States a long time ago.

Fans who had nowhere to vent their anger could only rush to the official Weibo of the China Film Association and curse.

The staff of the China Film Association could only post a Weibo to clarify, but they were still scolded by a group of angry fans.

05:30 in the morning!
The scolding stopped a little bit, and everyone's attention was attracted by another popular article.

""Superman 2" came to China, and it was aimed at "Infernal Affairs"."

"Whether it's from the film schedule, from the publicity when the film was released, from the box office and popularity, everything is aimed at "Infernal Affairs"."

"On the surface, this is a box office battle, but at a deeper level, this is a premeditated culture war!"

"I don't know if you have noticed that many things around us have begun to be Westernized? Do you feel subtly that some European, American and Western things are good things, while our own things are bad things? "

"On the one hand, we are really not up to date, and we will be beaten when we lag behind. On the other hand, haven't we thought that there are a pair of invisible hands that are grabbing our habits and hobbies and diverting our attention. Then, we see What they see is what they want us to see, what we hear is what they want us to hear?"

"..."

An article titled [A Brief Talk on Cultural Invasion from "Infernal Affairs", China now and China more than a hundred years ago...] was posted on the homepage of Huaxia Weibo.

The author of the article is Zheng Changhong, a postgraduate student in the History Department of Yenching University.

Once this article was published, it captured everyone's attention, making angry fans suddenly realize, and then even more furious.

The article uses the dispute between "Infernal Affairs" and "Superman 2" to point out the differences and commonalities between China more than a hundred years ago and China now, and borrows the filming of "Superman 2" and Zhao Sicheng's arrogant attitude. The veil of "Cultural War", and from a very objective point of view, to explain the Western culture's plundering of Chinese culture and the import of ideology...

In the past, when such articles appeared, no one paid attention to them at all, and they were even regarded as alarmist.

However, after the incident of "Infernal Affairs" appeared, this article awakened countless Chinese movie fans, feeling both sad and shocked.

Immediately afterwards, emotions were ignited like a flame, just when there was nowhere to vent...

"The older generation of directors is suppressing the younger generation of directors!"

"Director Zhou and I have been treated like this before!"

"Some directors of the older generation, with only one hand covering the sky, must follow the path set by them, otherwise, they must suppress you."

"Do you still remember those banned directors? They were brilliant in the past, but now, they have more or less fallen?"

"Rotten, rotten, rotten to the bone!"

At seven o'clock in the morning, Feng Kai posted an article on his personal Weibo titled [Does Huaxia Movies Have a Future? 】The accusation!

The accusation is full of questioning, almost tearing the face, targeting the China Directors Association, and even very aggressively posting the real names of some directors on Weibo.

The article was shocking, and made the fans' eyes widen after reading it. The fans who had calmed down became angry again, and once again rushed into the Weibo of the China Film Association.

In just a few minutes, the Weibo of the China Film Association was paralyzed, and finally had to temporarily close the comment.

"Friends come and have good wine
若 是 那 豺 来 了

It was greeted with a shotgun..."

Eight thirty in the morning on August 22.

During the commercial time of the first screening of "Superman 2", the singing of "My Motherland" by Grandma Zhang Xia appeared.

The singing voice is an advertisement for Polaroid that spent nearly 2000 million yuan, but apart from the words Polaroid on the upper left, there are no pictures or videos about the phone. Only Grandma Zhang Xia sang "My Motherland" The last few lines of the lyrics and some classic pictures of the old beauty in "Those Things That Rabbit That Year".

After hearing "My Motherland", the movie fans sitting in the screening hall felt stunned for a while...

Afterwards, some movie fans stood up consciously.

Although it is no longer possible to refund tickets at this time, when the once-crowded "Superman 2" was officially released, it lost nearly a quarter of its fans.

The ticket windows and screening halls of "Infernal Affairs" were full, just like the grand occasion of the premiere!

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

"cheer up……"

"This incident is so big that the higher-ups have to take it seriously, but we "Night Walker" are the victims, and we are completely used as guns..."

"Zhou Yang is too irrational. Why can't he sit down and discuss things carefully? He must make such a big fuss. How can it end now?"

"And Feng Kai, nothing happened at first, but now that he makes such a fuss, our Huaxia Directors Association has been pushed to the forefront!"

"What kind of cultural invasion, this is completely a figment of the hype of "Infernal Affairs"..."

"If you ruin your job, no one will get any benefits..."

August 22.

ten o'clock.

China Film Association.

The leaders of the relevant departments sat in the office and checked the association's information over and over again.

Cao Bangguo patted Django on the shoulder, heaved a long sigh, and looked at the security personnel standing at the door, his eyes revealed a trace of gloomyness that could not be seen through.

Django nodded.

But he remained silent throughout.

When those people in the office called him, Django walked in with his head down, in a trance.

Soon after...

Django came out in a daze.

After Jiang Ge came out, the leaders of relevant departments said a few words to Cao Bangguo and others.

When Cao Bangguo faced the leader, he had a bright smile on his face, and he cooperated with various investigations very seriously, and even felt that he was wronged.

The words are "Young people are all young and energetic", "Actually, there is no contradiction, at most it is a disagreement of ideas", "We have not done well in many places, and I will publicly apologize. There was indeed some bureaucracy before, which is unacceptable"" That's right, that's right, you're right!" "I'm not familiar with Zhao Sicheng, really, since we kicked him out of the association, we've been keeping a distance from him."and so on.

After the relevant leaders collected evidence and left, Cao Bangguo sighed again, and patted Jiang Ge on the shoulder again, "It's okay, you can go back and have a good rest."

Django bit his lip, but his face was extremely pale.

After seeing no one around, he twitched all over his body.

"I... Uncle, I... actually contacted Zhao Sicheng, Zhao Sicheng... I know Zhao Sicheng..."

His tears flowed down suddenly.

The shame and despair that had plagued him for days finally broke him down.

However, in the middle of speaking, Cao Bangguo stopped his voice.

"Have you told them these words?" Cao Bangguo asked seriously, looking at the direction in which the leaders left.

"No, uncle, I... I have been listening to you, I have said what I should say, I have kept my mouth shut... But my conscience... these days, I have been unable to sleep, I feel like a Like a traitor, doing things that shouldn't be done, I hate, even hate Zhou Yang, but he...he is at least a Chinese, I do this, I..." Django felt something stuck in his throat, It was very uncomfortable, but he still said these words. At this moment, he looked like a helpless child.

"You're just being used."

"Go back and get a good night's sleep. The future hope of Huaxia Film is all on you. This small hurdle is nothing. No matter how bad the performance of "The Departed Walker" is, I still have a new script..."

"This matter ends here, no one should mention it..."

"Don't worry, Zhao Sicheng will not betray you, in the future he may still..."

Looking at Jiang Ge's appearance, Cao Bangguo shook his head, not feeling any surprise, not even the slightest change on his face.

However, after speaking halfway, he was silent and stopped talking.

"Uncle, you, you don't know, you know? Before you were here, you knew me..." Jiang Ge first looked guilty, but when he saw Cao Bangguo's expression, he became astonished, and then seemed to think of me. Something generally widened its eyes.

Faced with Jiang Ge's astonishment, Cao Bangguo did not speak, but patted him on the shoulder again, shook his head and left the association.

Django stands alone.

I just feel that at this moment, I feel cold all over my body, as if all the familiar people around me have become very strange at this moment, and he is trapped in the fog, unable to see any truth clearly.

(End of this chapter)