Early in the morning, Wang Wei was sitting at her desk in a good mood, waiting for the release of "This Man Comes from Earth".
Yesterday's spoof movie set a new high for one click on the video website, breaking one million in a single day.
Some people have already speculated that this first spoof movie is likely to break the record of "China Team Wins the World Cup".
Of course, this is difficult.
Everyone knows that yesterday was Friday, which is the beginning of another weekend of relaxation. There must be many people who want to have fun as soon as they get off work.
Online movies are not as good as theater movies, and their lifespan is generally very short. It is good if they can last for half a month.
12 noon.
"This Man Comes from Earth" is now available on Youku.
At the beginning of its launch, the video received more than 200,000 clicks within one minute, setting another record.
This shows that many people are still looking forward to this movie.
However, the number of clicks increased very slowly in the future. Even after a few hours, it was not as fast as the spoof movie on Tudou.com increased in one hour, with less than 600,000 clicks.
Wang Wei couldn't help but laughed three times in the office.
The Youku genuine brand plan failed, miserably!
According to this growth rate, he can announce that "This Man Comes from Earth" has failed and the total number of clicks in the future will not exceed 5 million.
The heads of other video websites who are paying attention to this movie are also gloating about the misfortune, thinking that Gu Yongjiang is really stupid for putting the revitalization of Youku.com on a "sci-fi" movie that was shot in 9 days.
However, this does not prevent them from piracy, but seeing that the movie is not good enough, the piracy speed is much slower.
Compared with the relaxation of others, except for Tang Ze and Gu Yongjiang, everyone on Youku.com is in a gloomy mood.
Gu Yongjiang sighed, feeling a little ashamed:
"Brother Tang, you are indeed the most sane person in the world. There was so much noise on the Internet, and I thought a lot of people would watch this movie. After all, it's free, and it's effortless. I didn't expect there were so few initial clicks." On the contrary, Tang Ze was very satisfied: "Take your time. Good movies rely on word of mouth. Most people probably don't even know the movie is released yet."
"When the word of mouth gets out, the movie will reach the sky in one step. Now we need to pay attention to other aspects..."
Gu Yongjiang nodded: "Brother Tang, don't worry, even for Youku.com's brand plan, I will use my connections and pay to kill some small websites, so that the audience will realize that piracy also has to pay a price."<
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He clearly understood that it was time to "fight", and this was a war for video websites.
He wants to send Youku.com to the top, thereby trampling Tudou under his feet and laying the foundation for the leading video website.
……
Li Yongkang is a film critic in Douban. He is often crazy about excellent movies and praises the dreams that filmmakers create for everyone like a believer.
But he also hates people who make bad movies so much that he wants to ban them from making movies.
This time, he is going to watch "This Man Comes from Earth", which is extremely controversial on the Internet.
If the movie is a bad one, he will not hesitate to criticize the movie and call on people who like his film reviews to never watch Karasawa's movies.
He logged into Youku.com and opened the video ranked on the home page.
The movie begins.
It is a documentary with a usual black background, and white text information is loaded, which is some text explaining historical reasons.
However, there seemed to be additional dubbing here, which was more like a narration, which he found very interesting.
Do you believe in the existence of gods?
Do you believe there is a pedicle?
In other words, do you believe the truth shown to you in the world now?
For example:
Did heliocentrism really come from Copernicus?
Is the legend of coconut cake really just a legend?
Shangdi is said to be a Westerner, why can't he be a Chinese or an Indian?
Is Emperor Kaiser really missing?
……
The introduction of the narration is actually Tang Ze extracting the questions in the movie that subvert common sense.
If we don't look at it through dialogue, these questions will only make the audience feel itchy but helpless, because they don't know either.
There is no doubt that Karasawa's idea of introducing narration was successful.
At least most impatient viewers have decided that, regardless of whether the movie is good or not, they want to see the movie resolve these questions before quitting.
Some people even choose to download the movie because of these questions.
As a result, they found that to download videos from Youku.com, you must log in to a Youku account, which undoubtedly brought a huge number of users to Youku.
The narration ends and Karasawa's face appears on the screen.
Li Yongkang pressed pause, estimated the duration of the narration, which was 45 seconds, and wrote his own evaluation:
A series of questions bring great fun to the movie, and people can't help but explore these questions.
But obviously, the narration is too long!
From this point of view, I think I'm better off without the narration, although the information loading of the documentary will only be longer.
At the beginning of the movie, there was a scene of Tang Ze moving boxes for a full thirty seconds, which made Li Yongkang frown.
He admitted that the appearance of Tang Ze's slightly weathered face in the picture not only did not violate the harmony, but also made him feel inexplicably lonely. The thirty seconds of silence only intensified this loneliness. p>
But this was supposed to be a science fiction movie. The science fiction elements were not highlighted right away. Instead, there were a lot of long shots, which made him suspect that this would be an art film.
Finally, an outsider arrived, and it ended up being meaningless daily conversations for several minutes, which added to the atmosphere of life, but made Li Yongkang pause again and couldn't help but frown.
He had a bad feeling. Wouldn't the talented director who was expected to make a bad movie really fool people?
When he watched the dialogue for nearly 10 minutes, he almost wanted to quit on the spot. He was very disappointed with Tang Ze.
But his movie-watching habits allowed him to continue watching calmly.
It wasn't until Tang Ze raised a question that indirectly revealed his identity that his eyes lit up. He thought of the narration at the beginning and guessed the format of the movie.
Then he became excited and his body couldn't help but tremble. He realized that this movie was likely to be subversive.
Unknowingly, he was immersed in the very speculative dialogue and was no longer disappointed by the lack of science fiction scenes.
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As questions are raised one after another, historical celebrities appear one after another, such as Copernicus, Columbus, Buddha, etc.
Even if it is just a dialogue, he feels that he is completely integrated into the movie and unknowingly brings the movie to reality.
I can't help but wonder, is the truth really like what was said in the movie, and Tang Ze is...
In order to verify the authenticity, he would stop watching and search for relevant deeds on the Internet.
Then he discovered to his horror that he could find clues to some questions in the movie, and he couldn't help but fall into doubt about the world.
Needless to say, he gradually felt that his three views were somewhat shaken.
Then he was awakened by the sound of car horns outside the house and laughed and shook his head.
He is so impersonal, it’s just a movie.
Isn't this Tang Ze's method of making it difficult to distinguish between true and false? It is the charm of this movie?
He took back his disappointment in Karasawa and sang his praises.
At the same time, I understand that the purpose of the previous meaningless dialogue is to add a sense of life and highlight the authenticity, so that people can immerse themselves in the movie.
The performances of the actors are also very good. Whether it is Xu Zheng, Li Jiejian, Feng Yuanzhen or Xu Qing, the performances are extremely natural.
The little girl is also very smart and does not distort the authenticity.
However, Tangze's performance surprised him. He had no idea how a 21-year-old could perform so completely without any trace.
It's like... he is just showing, not performing.
Especially the complicated look Tang Ze looked at Feng Yuanzhen made him wonder if Tang Ze had given birth to a child out of wedlock.
Is this a genius?
No exaggeration at all!
As the plot progressed, the actors' emotions completely burst out, making Li Yongkang watch it heartily.
When Li Jiejian died and the plot was coming to an end, he felt a little sad again.
Finally, Tang Ze looked at Xu Qing, symbolizing that the movie was about to end.
As a result, it is incredible that Tang Ze actually used the method of interactive movies here.
It’s not common, after all, there are interactive games, but this is definitely my first time using a video website.
He somewhat wanted to praise the people who came up with this playback model.
What ending do you hope to have?
Choice 1: Lonely Him
Choice 2: Lonely him and her
Li Yongkang naturally chose 1.
How could such a perfect and lonely person choose to leave with his partner? Then what’s the point of changing it every ten years?
Then, Li Yongkang saw Tang Ze's eyes that seemed to break the fourth wall and freeze on the screen.
He felt a chill all over his body, and the world seemed to be desolate for a moment.
So lonely!
After thousands of years of existence, will the final result be to be surrounded by loneliness all the time?
What is the meaning of the protagonist continuing to live?
Just alive?
This is definitely the most powerful shot in the past ten years!
And how can Tangze perform such a majestic and powerful performance?
Li Yongkang shook his head, he was impressed.
Watching Tangze driving a car away from the empty valley on the screen, I jumped back to watch the second ending.
That look is still there, but when I think of Tang Ze leaving with Xu Qing, it somehow feels a little less interesting.
I had no choice but to go back to the first ending, watch that look over and over again, and be amazed by it over and over again.
Finally, he wrote a title for this movie viewing experience: