Hollywood is naturally keen on the Chinese market.
As China joins the WTO, its economy has taken off, people's living standards have improved accordingly, and the demand for the entertainment industry has gradually increased.
In a country with a population of more than one billion, as of April 2008, China alone had 45 cinema chain companies with more than 1,200 screens, including a 3D digital projection theater with the movie "Jaws"
After that, there was a crazy surge, and there were already 630 companies, and the number was rising every month.
This is definitely an amazing size.
On the one hand, Hollywood movies look down on Chinese movies, and those filmmakers look down on Chinese filmmakers even more. On the other hand, they are attracted by China's amazing market and have to make some so-called "compromises" and concessions.
"The Righteous Man", before this project was approved, everyone felt that it was a movie made by the DV company to compromise the Chinese market.
[The only superhero movie in history with a Chinese actor!]
[DV company helps the Chinese market to tailor-make superheroes!]
[Promote Chinese culture, cooperate with China and the United States, both bloom!]
【……】
Even when he walked into the cinema, Zhou Yang could still hear similar discussions about these things.
The fans were enthusiastic, sitting in their seats with excitement and anticipation, eagerly watching the beginning of "The Righteous Man", looking forward to the chemical reaction between Chinese culture and DV superheroes, which would eventually ignite the audience!
Then……
When the movie officially started, everyone felt that something was not quite right.
The character played by Chinese-American actor Li Lunshuo in "The Righteous Man" instinctively gives people a feeling of being extraordinarily honest, but with a strange appearance.
The plot roughly tells the story of the Zhengqi Man (played by Li Lunshuo) who received iron-blooded combat training from his father, the God of War (played by Liang Jialiu), and became proficient in various martial arts moves. When he grew up, in order to escape his dark and barbaric hometown and learn more advanced fighting martial arts, he
So he changed his name and came to the United States for a new round of training. During the training, he felt the conspiracy of his father, the God of War, and realized that his mother died at the hands of his father. With the help of his friends, he began to fight for
He wanted to take revenge on his mother, but he didn’t expect that in the process, the mysterious king of the dark world would be resurrected...
Superhero movies.
In fact, the main plot is very simple, with almost no story at all.
It’s a story about a superhero who bears a blood feud, rises up from adversity, and ultimately saves the world.
This is the main plot of the movie "The Righteous Man".
Zhou Yang watched "The Righteous Man" on the screen and unconsciously thought of the "Shang-Chi" in the original world. Although the plot of the original world's Shang-Chi was different from that of "The Righteous Man", the main storyline was very similar.
, and there are really too many places for Chinese netizens to complain...
The male and female protagonists are too ugly. Tony Leung is so handsome, but he gave birth to such an ugly boy. Moreover, his role is suspected of being R-Chinese. Some netizens even made a comment on "Shang-Chi", that is, Banana Man defeats his evil Chinese father.
The story of the old beauty who surrendered to freedom and democracy...
The core is simply broken to the extreme. From the beginning of the project, it was scolded until it was released on Hong Kong Island...
Although the male protagonist of the movie "The Righteous Man" was not so embarrassed, when the female protagonist appeared, Zhou Yang couldn't help but feel that his eyes were a little dirty.
"Oh my God!"
"Is this the fucking heroine?"
"Don't tell me, this is our Chinese beauty?"
"Don't be like this, it's annoying to your eyes. Is this a passerby? He's dressed in a rustic style, with last century's rustic hair, and his eyes are almost narrowed into slits. Damn, don't tell me, this is a girl.
host?"
"Grass..."
Before entering the screening room, the expectant audience immediately widened their eyes when they saw the heroine appear on the stage ten minutes later.
It was as if I had eaten ice cream made of "shit". I was so disgusted that I didn't even know what to say.
Moreover, director Wu Tong didn't seem to realize anything at all. Instead, he gave the heroine a much more special role. She obviously has an oriental face, but her behavior is very Westernized, vaguely, as if to imply that Chinese women are subject to
Influenced by Western culture, it began to move towards the mainstream of the West, and this movie profoundly used the female protagonist to promote the main plot. The heroine tried to die over and over again, and then the male protagonist endured the female protagonist’s glare in order to express his so-called love.
He secretly transforms into a superhero and helps the heroine in various ways. In order to make the theme more profound and show that even "superheroes" also have "human" words such as ordinary people's desires, the hero even ran into a luxury store.
, in the name of fighting crime, he stole a luxury bag and gave it to the heroine for her birthday...
It’s unbelievable, this is something made by Chinese people!
Some fans in the front row really couldn't stand the incomprehensible values conveyed in this movie. Less than halfway through, they felt nauseous and finally forced themselves to continue watching because the special effects of this movie were indeed pretty good.
Yes, after wearing 3D glasses, you even feel like you are immersed in the protagonist's point of view as he falls through the towers. Feel the excitement, especially the steel bars that suddenly hit you.
People can't help but subconsciously dodge back slightly, the stimulation is indeed extremely strong...
Zhou Yang looked at the special effects of "The Righteous Man" and instinctively admired them. Suddenly, he was vaguely worried about whether the special effects of "Spider-Man" could achieve this effect when it was released.
"The core of this movie is really broken, and there are also problems with logic...Except for the special effects, it's like...any student who graduated from Yanying's directing department can make this kind of work..."
"What's going on with Cao Bangguo? He's been assisting in filming for so long and then he ended up shooting this thing?"
In the screening room.
Feng Kai really couldn't sit still.
Over the years, Feng Kai's temper has calmed down a bit, but after seeing the plot and framework of "The Righteous Man", he instantly felt sick.
He couldn't help but complain about the movie. After he finished complaining, he took out his mobile phone, logged into the browser on the mobile phone, and entered Douban when it was stuck, intending to write a negative review first.
But I never expected that after finally getting stuck on Douban, I found that Douban already had hundreds of negative reviews.
"Lets see."
Zhou Yang watched "The Righteous Man" and continued to play.
He seemed to see that the movie seemed to be conveying a "spirit".
This spirit seems to be "resistance to patriarchy" and "resistance to the old feudal era". Borrowing the protagonist's words, he said something like "All people in the world are equal and free, and this is how the world can be unified."
, and the entire article is rendered around this theme...
"Damn it, this movie is insane. This is a Sima thing made by someone with cerebral palsy!"
When the second half of the movie was shot, even though the special effects were still dazzling, a few Chinese fans stood up and left the theater with their children cursing.
The child yelled and didn't want to leave, and wanted to continue watching the exciting fight on the screen. The father just ignored the child's "pull" and dragged him away...
The child even imitated the appearance of the movie "The Righteous Man" in front of all the fans, and started to kick his father with his feet while crying. The cinema was once in a noisy state. After the noise was over, although the entire screening room started
It stopped, but it was clear that fans were already somewhat resistant to watching this movie.
……………………
An hour and a half later.
Zhou Yang and Feng Kai walked out of the screening room.
Feng Kai's face looked very ugly, as if he had eaten a fly and felt sick.
Zhou Yang, on the other hand, silently watched the other fans who came out and cursed.
In fact, when the movie first started playing, the theater was almost packed with people, and even the front row, which hurt the eyes the most, was filled with people.
But by the end of the movie, one-third of the person had already run away...
And those movie fans who can endure this kind of inexplicable and illogical plot will have their world shattered!
Several film critics' mouths twitched slightly.
"I originally thought this was a surprising movie, but no one could have imagined that this movie is basically an Oriental movie for foreigners. At its core, it is a superhero movie made to cater to foreigners. The Chinese language is just to cater to China.
Market, let more Chinese people pay IQ tax, do you really think that Americans show respect for Chinese people? Xie Te, never! Damn it, people just think that Chinese people are like leeks..."
"And this mess of Chinese culture, this..."
"This really makes my head hurt!"
"Damn it, the first Chinese-American superhero, Nima, is this what he is?"
"..."
No one could have imagined that a movie that had been a huge hit and had high expectations since it was scheduled to be released would have fans scolding it in public after its premiere.
These scolding fans couldn't hold back their anger and went to all the major platforms of Douban to criticize. In less than three hours after the premiere, this movie should have been highly praised in the eyes of many people.
The "Chinese superhero movie" score was as low as a crushing 5.9 points, not even the passing mark...
Those few fans who did not criticize forced a smile on their faces when they were interviewed by the media afterwards.
"The special effects of this movie are good, at least not inferior to "Jaws" and "Time Travel". It is the best special effects movie on the market..."
After searching for a long time...
In the end, they could only manage to say something similar to praise.
After saying that...
Suddenly they couldn't say anything more praising the movie.
……………………
noon.
Zhou Yang returned to Huaxing and was about to leave for Delaware to handle the release of "Spider-Man" when he received a call from Zhang Genshui.
Then...
Zhang Genshui stumbled into Zhou Yang's office, his face extremely serious.
"Xiao Zhou!"
"What's wrong, Brother Zhang?"
"The filming of "The Righteous Man" was so bad and many people are criticizing it. Will it affect the market value of Xinghui?"
"It's hard to say. Why do you suddenly ask this question?"
"I want to acquire Xinghui, Xiao Zhou. How about you also invest some shares and we can acquire Xinghui?"
"???"
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