In front of a movie theater, Hu Ge squatted on the side of the road, smoking a cigarette melancholy. The smoke drifted away in the wind, just like the special movie ticket he bought for 80 yuan.
What am I doing here?
Why should I watch this movie?
What can I do with 80 yuan?
Most viewers who have watched "The Promise" will have one thing in common - confusion. After the confusion, they often develop a sense of anger, anger at the time and money they have wasted.
"Oh shit!"
Hu Ge stomped the cigarette butt on the ground. The more he thought about it, the more unhappy he became. His surging desire to create urged him to do something.
He returned to the small rented building as quickly as possible. There was still a room full of audio equipment. He ran to the second floor, turned on the computer, and turned around in his mind a few times before deciding on the form of the work.
I’m going to make a video this time!
Hu Ge is a big player in the audio industry and well-known in the industry. His nature in making videos is similar. He quickly got started after finding the software tools.
I first spent three days writing the script. After writing it, I felt that something was missing and needed to be improved, so I logged into Maimai, which has a universal chat group.
It’s all the top 100 UP masters in Maiwo!
He remembered that he had a buddy who studied law, so he shouted: "Are the brothers from the University of Political Science and Law here? Ask for help online!"
After a while, someone replied: "Yes, what's going on?"
"I want to make a video and need some information on legal procedures. Can you help me?"
"Tell me first..."
The two chatted privately.
After the chat, Hu Ge still remembered that there were several sisters who played dubbing, and shouted: "Are there any sisters who like dubbing?"
"What?"
"I want to ask you for a favor!"
So we chatted privately.
After he stirred things up, the group became curious and asked questions one after another. Hu Ge didn't hide it and said: "I feel very unhappy after watching "The Promise" and I want to make a prank video."
boom!
"What a bad movie!"
"It sucks!"
“It sucks!”
"I spent 100 oceans!"
"Brother, hurry up, let me know if you need anything, I have some channels to get resources."
"Do you want to use makeup? It's free for me!"
"Call me if you need to shoot!"
"Is there any cooking part? I can be a substitute!"
oops!
Hu Ge felt warm in his heart, as if he had arrived home, and said hurriedly: "Thank you everyone for your kindness. I accept your kindness. I will try it myself first. I will definitely find you if I need it!"
He gathered those who had resources, those who studied law, and those who played dubbing, into a small group and began to plot a big plan.
…………
"The Promise" broke records after it was released.
The premiere box office reached 21.15 million yuan, breaking the 18 million yuan of "Titanic". Two days later, it grossed 25 million yuan in a single day, breaking the 22 million record of Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu".
But at the same time, the reputation of "The Promise" is rapidly collapsing.
"In addition to the exquisiteness of the picture, there is only a bunch of carefully polished Shakespearean dialogue. Every sentence seems to be full of philosophy, but it is mysteriously dry and tasteless.
One word: Silly!
Four words: Pretending to be mysterious!"
"There is no climax, no touching - but the creator himself was touched. Fortunately, it is still a little entertaining. In the second half, something like 'You ruined my chance to be a good person' made the audience burst into laughter, and he said
With a funny sentence, the theater was instantly filled with a happy atmosphere."
"The philosophy that the film strives to exaggerate is not as mysterious as we imagined, but seems a bit funny. The dreams recalled in Guo Jingming's "Fantasy City" are more sincere and touching than "The Promise"."
"I can see how more than 200 million were burned, but overall, it is out of control, the plot cannot be prioritized, the performance is too exaggerated, and some passages and dialogues are even as different as Gao Xiaosong's movie.
Reliable.”
These are criticisms from the media and film critics.
Orthodox and regular.
If it were just that, Director Chen wouldn't be so angry, because everyone is in the circle, and they have to accept criticism or praise. If that was just that, "The Promise" would be just an ordinary bad movie, and it would be over after the quarrel.
But the uncertainty of the Internet is revealed.
Hu Ge, an unknown person, used his skills with two knives to overturn this epic blockbuster worth more than 200 million yuan, elevating the incident to a level recorded in history.
In the original time and space, the media scolded, film critics scolded, and the audience also scolded.
The audience has no channel to express their opinions and can only post online. The Internet also lacks an authoritative film review platform and is scattered and disorganized. But it is different now. Maiwo's review section assumes the role of an authoritative platform.
Netizens came in a swarm to rate it, and in the blink of an eye there were hundreds of thousands of people.
The score dropped again and again, and one week after "The Promise" was released, it had reached 4.4 points.
"Finally there is a film that can catch up to House of Flying Daggers!"
"Standing on the shoulders of giants, shit. There is Shakespeare's masterpiece Macbeth as the basis, and Akira Kurosawa's immortal work Spider's Nest can be used as a reference. It is difficult to make a bad film, but Director Chen did it.
Shit."
"Personally, I really don't like to give one star. After all, it is the result of a large group of people's careful work. However, there is really nothing that can add points to this film. By the way, I would like to ask, can I give it zero stars?"
"You are too picky. It is not easy for people to make movies. I gave it one more star!"
"General Guangming, suffers from Li Yapeng-style dementia, wears a huge ugly flower armor, and has a severely big tongue;
Kunlun, at first, could only crawl but not walk, and crawled faster than Shenzhou VI. It had a seriously big tongue;
Wuhuan, always holding an itch to scratch, sometimes extending the index finger, sometimes extending the thumb, severe tongue enlargement;
Manshen, because she is the wife of the director, she played the role of a god who controls destiny. Her hair was blown upwards by the electric fan. She is not too tongue-tied, but she is very artificial..."
It was sprayed to the sky by netizens.
"The Promise" is still in the promotion period, and the main creator is still running road shows across the country. How can you get a score of 4.4?
Chen Hong felt that she was angry with Yu Jiajia, but she was so disrespectful, so she called to question, Yu Jiajia hummed, haha, you are not polite at all, you are not beautiful anymore, why should I be polite to you?
…………
On December 24, "The Promise" will be released for ten days.
In the morning, the review editors of Maili Video are busy.
This year, community users have experienced another surge, especially after the great aesthetic debate, and the number of registered users has exceeded 60 million.
Seemingly stimulated or inspired, there are more and more topics about ideology, whether in communities or videos, which makes editors tremble with fear.
While everyone was reviewing, suddenly a burst of laughter sounded like a "quack, quack, quack," like a duck quacking.
Um?
Everyone looked at it and didn't care, but after a while, they started "quacking" again and couldn't stop having fun.
"What are you doing?"
"What are you looking at?"
"You are so talented, look at this!"
The scriptorium soon became a duck farm.
"Awesome! Oh, it's one of the top 100 creative works, so why don't you give me a recommendation?"
"Push push push!"
So, the editor passed the review and went straight to the homepage.
Hu Ge found that his work was successfully uploaded, so he shared it with the community, and the community also recommended it to the homepage. If he has traffic, he can close the ecosystem.
There are 60 million registered people, half of whom are registered in [Classmate Directory] with their real names.
There are actually 30 million+ users, all of whom have seen this short video of only 20 minutes: "A Murder Case Caused by a Steamed Bun"!