The entertainment industry shouldn't be like this

Chapter 222 The "tragedy" that happened due to hilarious laughter (two in one)

On May 5st, the box office results of the midnight show have not yet been released, and many film reviews about "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance" have already come out.

Shen Zhenyi leaned in Wang Wei's arms to read the movie reviews.

——Yesterday, director Lu Le refused to let him go because he had to rush to shoot a key scene, so Shen Zhenyi couldn't accompany Wang Wei to the premiere.

No, early in the morning, he had to accept Wang Wei's "punishment".

In short, after the "punishment" was over, the lazy girl gave Wang Wei a coquettish look, and then began to look through various movie reviews——

"It's a movie with style."

As soon as the first film review came up, it showed its purpose.

Shen Zhenyi glanced at it and found that the author was Yang Lan, who had always been her and Wang Wei's supporter, so she couldn't help but smile knowingly.

"If you watch this movie with the intention of watching a traditional story of gifted scholars and beautiful ladies, then you will most likely be disappointed."

"Because this movie discards all established concepts when dealing with familiar ancient stories, and even ignores traditions—of course, there are many traditional cultural factors in it: Chinese painting, martial arts, pairing, etc., which add color to the film Quite a few; but at the same time, various postmodern techniques emerge in endlessly.”

"This is precisely the biggest charm of this movie—to deconstruct the traditional relationship with the relationship of modern people, to deconstruct the traditional cultural life with the cultural life of modern people, and to smash all the lofty and sanctimonious things to pieces!"

"There is so much material stuffed in, but there is no sense of disorganization. On the contrary, whether it is an almost completely subverted character image or an unexpected and reasonable reversal plot, the audience will easily accept it and laugh from beginning to end."

"All of this is not only due to the excellent performance of the actors, but also the result of the director's careful design. And this movie has such careful design almost everywhere..."

However, at the end of the film review, she couldn't help but make some complaints about Wang Wei——

"The only thing that makes me very dissatisfied is that the director 'murdered' a lot of beauties in this movie. I only hope that he will not develop such a bad habit in the later movies, otherwise I will send him blades on behalf of the fans... "

Seeing this, Shen Zhenyi chuckled, "It seems that our face-controlling film critic lady has a lot of resentment towards you!"

"It's okay." Wang Wei shrugged, "Compared to other film critics, her 'dissatisfaction' is the mildest."

"It won't be so miserable, will it?"

Following Wang Wei's pointing, Shen Zhenyi saw a thick stack of newspapers on the right, "You don't want to say..."

"Yes, these are bad reviews!"

Shen Zhenyi turned her head to look at the few favorable newspapers on the left: "..."

Wang Wei didn't seem very interested in the good words of film critics, but found the bad reviews more interesting, so he picked up the film review on the right and read it——

"No matter how talented a director is, when he transitions from one genre to shoot other themes, he will shoot some strange things. This time, I have also seen it."

"This movie should not lose all the underwear left, and even make a small profit-after all, it is clear that the investment is not large, and the fan support accumulated by Wang Wei's previous movies can return Ben."

"But this is definitely Wang Wei's most rubbish work ever, and it can even be called useless. Maybe its midnight box office will be very good, but after that, it will definitely plummet. Wang Wei really won the Tianma Award for Best Director It’s a curse—no, I’m already worried about his future considering he started filming this movie before he won the award…”

"That's too much to say!"

Shen Zhenyi angrily interrupted Wang Wei's newspaper reading.

When she saw the columnist, she became even angrier, "Isn't this film critic always supporting your films? Why did he turn his back so completely this time, and collect money?"

Wang Wei curled his lips: "This probably means that love will disappear, right."

Shen Zhenyi ignored this guy's interruption, and opened another newspaper——

"Wang Wei's movie is an adaptation of his grandfather's classic costume work "Three Smiles". , the whole movie became vexatious."

"I very much doubt that Director Wang Da will be so angry that he will come to life after seeing his film adapted into such a ghost."

"It is doomed to be a disgraceful failure. Wang Wei must have burned his brain to make such a film, right? He was so aura when he made the first few films, and how sad he was when he made this film...he should be dedicated to this film. Shame on you!"

Scrolling down, the following film reviews are more vitriolic than the other——

"The plot is full of holes, the characters are crazy, I don't know what kind of story it is trying to tell, I just know that I am not moved at all, joy, sadness, anger-nothing at all, well, there is still anger, because this is more than an hour The ordeal put my poor ass to the test..."

"To tell you the truth - I hate this movie, the absurd looks, the exaggerated plot, the acting, I can't bear to watch it..."

"Congratulations to Wang Wei, finally entered the ranks of bad movie directors..."

"Maybe Wang Wei has burned all his talents in "The Silence of the Lambs", and this is just the beginning of his mediocrity?"

If Wang Wei were to help them sum it up, it would probably be what a certain teacher surnamed Li said in another time and space: like sitting on pins and needles, like a thorn in the back, like a thorn in the throat.

Shen Zhenyi also sighed, and muttered: "So, love will really disappear!"

——This is the film critic!
When they love you, their literary talents will turn into flowery compliments, boasting you high and thinking of themselves higher than normal.

But these guys who love the new and dislike the old will always abandon you when you don't expect it. Instead of loving and conniving before, they suddenly become extremely strict and criticize your works that are still passable; A compliment, suddenly turned into a well-thought-out, vitriolic criticism—

In Wang Wei's career as a director, film critics appeared as angels at the beginning. For this newcomer who turned out, they never spared their praise. Of course, this is also because of Wang Wei's debut director style It is indeed rare for a fairly mature newcomer.

It can even be said that Wang Weineng created a legend at the Tianma Awards at the beginning of the year, to a certain extent, thanks to the tolerant attitude and unanimous praise of the film critics.

But now, "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance" has received terrible feedback from the film critics. Except for Yang Lan and a few other film critics who have given it good reviews as always, most film critics have almost criticized Wang Wei's new film as useless.

I don't know if someone is secretly fueling the flames. This kind of criticism has not only been limited to this movie, but has even spread to the Tianma Awards ceremony at the beginning of the year.

—— More than one film critic questioned, "With Wang Wei's performance in this film, is he really qualified to make history?"

The only good thing is that I don't know why the old man Charlotte didn't say a word, otherwise, with his full firepower, Wang Wei might be scolded bloody!

However, Shen Zhenyi, who experienced almost all negative reviews from film critics for the first time, still had her heart suspended, and raised her head and asked, "Speaking of which, you really don't plan to respond to such a public opinion situation?"

Wang Wei, however, was an old god, and slid his hand down, throwing out a sentence amidst the girl's panting, "No need, the audience will help me respond."

……

"This is really a tragedy!"

The strongest competitor in the same period, Ma Kui, the director of "Aliens Wandering the Earth", does not think that the word-of-mouth of "Tang Bohu" may be saved.

Especially when you have your own film on the side for comparison.

Compared with Wang Wei's treatment, most film critics praised his sci-fi comedy——

"Full of unconstrained imagination and philosophical meaning, full of black humor, ironic and exquisite..."

"A farce caused by various misunderstandings between aliens and earthlings, absurd but full of irony..."

"It is rare to use the mix and match of sci-fi and comedy elements to create a film with a considerable sense of contrast, which is considered to be quite creative..."

"The sci-fi scene is convincing, the jokes are even, and the plot logic is self-consistent. It's a very good comedy this year..."

——Well, he admitted that for publicity, China Media has stuffed money.

But so what?
It's not uncommon for film critics to get paid to post reviews, but that doesn't mean they speak out of conscience.

Well, that seems a bit hypocritical to say so.

But for film critics, if the level of the film itself is not good, even if the other party puts money, they will not accept it.

This is mainly for their credibility considerations.

After all, the profession of film critic actually depends on fame.It is impossible for them to disregard the reputation they depend on for a small sum of money.

——Unless, it is a sum of money that is large enough for them to retire directly.

Of course, China Media would not spend such a large amount of money, so the unanimous praise of film critics proves that Ma Kui's film is indeed worthy of praise.

At the same time, it also proves that Wang Wei's movie is indeed surprisingly bad-otherwise, even if someone pays to discredit him, he would not be able to achieve such unanimous bad reviews.

To be honest, Ma Kui is quite curious. If he is not busy with publicity and can't get away, he really wants to see for himself how bad Wang Wei's comedy is.

Of course, being unable to pull away does not prevent him from gloating——

Sometimes it is not a good thing to gain fame and fortune too early, look at it now, no matter how bad they make a movie, they will not attract overwhelming criticism from film critics;
But when faced with a genius who is always creating miracles, film critics will be somewhat demanding.As long as you are not above average, you will be reduced to garbage by them.

Ma Kui believes that he is not the only director who will take pleasure in this misfortune-this is not the darkness of people's hearts, but purely due to human nature.

Like him, a comedy director, it is almost impossible... No, it is impossible to win the Tianma Award at all;

However, Wang Wei, a boy in his early twenties, relied on a thriller that should not be seen by the Tianma Awards, not only won the trophy smoothly, but also won several trophies, which made people explode with envy.

Originally, he was not very happy that his film and Wang Wei's new work were arranged in the same schedule. After all, under the shadow of a famous tree, more than one famous director became cannon fodder under the light of this "genius".

But now, he just wants to sigh, China Media is really too wise-what is more interesting than breaking the myth of a genius's invincibility?
……

"The myth of Wang Wei's invincibility is shattered? Dude, you only read the movie reviews in the newspapers, and haven't read the audience's word-of-mouth survey?"

Lin Yongqiang of Sky Cinemas, and a deputy manager, are currently touring the largest cinema in the capital.

The deputy manager has always been against adding more films to "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance". Today, seeing the overwhelmingly negative reviews in the newspaper, he couldn't help but come over to mock Lin Yongqiang's eyes.

However, Lin Yongqiang waved the questionnaire to the audience in his hand, feeling that he had made the right bet again.

The reason for this kind of confidence is that the reputation of the audience is completely different from the reputation of film critics.

"Why did you come to see this movie?"

This is a very common question in movie questionnaires.

Through the statistics on this issue, although it cannot be said to be completely accurate, it can roughly evaluate the star's box office appeal, the effect of the publisher's publicity, and the audience's reputation.

And in the answer to this question, "Because the director is Wang Wei" was originally far ahead-this is normal, the fans must be the first to support the movie-but as time goes by and today, the answer "friend recommendation" The proportion is rising rapidly.

This is the word-of-mouth effect, and any precision marketing cannot match the power of word-of-mouth effect!
And why do audiences strongly recommend this movie?

Lin Yongqiang smiled and gave an example——

"Yesterday, I watched it myself, and I happened to come across a very interesting thing, which can explain the problem very well."

"When I watched the movie for about half an hour, a man sitting in front of me suddenly said to the girl next to me: You can laugh when you smile, can you not shoot my thigh when you laugh, can't you shoot your own ?”

"The woman let out a cry, sorry, the filming was wrong - don't be afraid to say, half of the audience at that time was amused by this dialogue."

"What's more interesting is that the man has a girlfriend. She followed up and said, you just let someone take pictures. Look how she is smiling. How can she know where her legs are..."

The deputy manager was taken aback when he heard this, and subconsciously asked, "What about later?"

Lin Yongqiang laughed and shook his head: "Later, of course, the girl who laughed like an idiot didn't dare to slap other people's legs. Instead, she stuffed her mouth with popcorn, but the popcorn was soon sprayed out by the next laughing point, and it turned out That man couldn't take it anymore, and said that you should continue patting my legs..."

"Hahaha……"

The deputy manager couldn't help laughing too.

Smiling and laughing, he couldn't laugh anymore.

——He knew exactly what this scene meant.

He is not a very dogmatic film critic, or, including him, the management of any theater chain has the greatest value understanding of a comedy is to laugh!
As long as it can make the audience laugh, even if the critics are all negative, the box office can sell like crazy just relying on the word-of-mouth effect.

Just as he was about to say something, there was a sudden commotion in the theater, and someone even shouted for an ambulance.

Both he and Lin Yongqiang's expressions changed.

"what happened?"

"what happened?"

Not long after, the store manager came to report the sudden situation: "It was a child watching "Tang Bohu", eating popcorn while watching a movie, laughing, and accidentally choked. Fortunately, there is someone around who knows how to rescue, otherwise I'm afraid something bad will happen!"

The store manager thankfully wiped off his sweat after speaking, no matter what, it would be a tragedy if someone died.

He also gave a suggestion to the two bosses: "I see, should the company suggest that audiences who watch "Tang Bohu" should be at least children, and the purchase of popcorn should be restricted..."

Hearing this, the deputy manager's first reaction was not to scold how ridiculous the suggestion was, but to lament in his heart—God, this time the film critics might lose face as a group!

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