"The Promise" cost 300 million yuan. Among all Chinese-language films released so far, it is the film with the highest investment cost.
At the same time, as a masterpiece that Director Chen has worked hard for many years, it has attracted much attention from the outside world.
Cao Xuan has been in the limelight in the past two years, and "Xiu Chun Dao 2" is another 150 million movie sequel. However, compared to "The Promise", the momentum is still slightly inferior.
Again, if you are not a person of this era, it is difficult to understand the praise that many media and movie fans have for Director Chen.
Although "Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin" and "Lü Bu and Diao Chan" had a certain impact on him, his divinity was not damaged.
Lao Mouzi has had excellent box office results in the past two years, but its reputation is not good, so in the minds of countless people, Director Chen is the number one director in China.
The reason why the box office is not as good as Lao Mouzi is because he did not make a blockbuster movie. If he did make a blockbuster film, he would definitely push Lao Mouzi to the ground and hammer him.
I said before that the audience has a lot of expectations for "Xiuchundao 2", but it also depends on who it is compared to.
If the audience's expectation for "Xiu Chun Dao 2" is [1], then the expectation for "The Promise" is not [10], it must be [5]...
Therefore, the initial box office performance of "The Promise" was better than that of "Xiu Chun Dao 2".
Under a certain amount of film schedule, the box office still approached 50 million in three days, and the box office performance was extremely impressive.
In contrast, the reputation has completely collapsed!
As long as they are normal people who have watched the movie "The Promise", 90% of them will be unable to conceal their anger and desire to complain, and will express their anger and complaints online and offline.
"The Promise" cursed like crazy...
Cao Xuan's phrase "I can't understand it, but I am deeply shocked" became popular all over the country overnight with "The Promise" and became the most popular buzzword nowadays.
When "Xiu Chun Dao 2" was released, some media conducted an interview with offline theaters. Nearly 36% of the audience chose the latter among the two options of "satisfied/dissatisfied".
In the offline voting of "The Promise", 77% of the audience expressed "dissatisfaction", which is more than twice that of "Xiu Chun Dao 2".
In the most exaggerated single theater vote, 94% of the audience voted "Unsatisfied" for "The Promise".
"The Promise" has become a recognized bad movie!
Before this, many people had speculated what the title "The Promise" meant. Director Chen kept it secret, saying that "The Promise" is in everyone's heart, and they will find their own understanding of "The Promise" after watching the movie.
The famous film critic "Yao Zhu" from the Tianya Film and Television section gave an extremely accurate evaluation of "The Promise" after watching the movie.
Wuji: Extremely boring. At this moment, an online video called "Tragedy caused by a steamed bun" began to circulate on the Internet. It quickly became popular all over the Internet. Blogs, portals, and QQ spaces were all reprints of this video.
"... Please tune in to Legal Online's 2005 special edition: A murder caused by a steamed bun.
On a certain day in a certain month in 2005, a bizarre murder occurred in a certain city. A masked knight killed the general manager of the Circle Entertainment City in full view of the public...
When Wu Huan revealed his motive for committing the crime, people around the world couldn’t understand it, but people around the world were shocked.”
The online video producer named Hu Ge not only combined the "The Promise" movie and CCTV's "Legal Online" program, but also used Cao Xuan's famous memes that had just become popular.
The video is extremely satirical and completely strips away the movie "The Promise". In terms of logical structure, the plot of this video is even better and smoother than the movie.
Countless netizens gave crazy likes, which was like a loud slap on Director Chen’s face.
Director Chen, who was frustrated with being scolded these days, finally broke his guard and angrily denounced Brother Hu, threatened to take him to court, and also made another famous quote.
"One cannot be so shameless"
Director Chen publicly spoke about the lawsuit, which made the already popular video even more popular.
Some professional film critics and practitioners have also begun to take the lead. They may not think that "The Promise" is well shot, but they can see the rise of grassroots voices from this video.
Until then, no matter how fierce the criticism is on the Internet, the right to say whether a movie is good or not lies in the hands of professionals such as film critics and the media.
Today's video allows them to see that their right to speak has been challenged and affected, so they have left one after another.
However, where there is opposition, there is support. The majority of netizens and some media who just watch the excitement and don't take it too seriously are on Hu's side.
CCTV, which was also involved in "infringement", also publicly stated that this kind of secondary creation is very interesting and will not sue Brother Hu, making Director Chen even more narrow-minded.
But when it comes to the public figure who supports Hu Ge the most, it must be Liu Yan.
This bitch is crazy!
Others also considered Director Chen's status. Even if Cao Xuan had various concerns, it would be difficult to break up in public, especially since his catchphrases were popular and he didn't want to stand out too much.
But Liu Yan was different. She had been in the whirlpool of public opinion about "The Promise" before and almost killed the movie. She finally calmed down for a while when it was released early.
Now seeing that Director Chen was bullying the weak again and comparing his feelings to others, Liu Yan became angry.
She conducted CCTV's clarification interview in person, and then went to Wu City, Hubei Province to conduct an exclusive interview with Brother Hu.
It's not that there were no media interviews before. Brother Hu initially made some clarifications, but after being tricked, he learned to be smart and didn't dare to agree easily. But he also knew Liu Yan's deeds, so he believed Liu Yan.
Liu Yan did not let him down. Not only did she completely analyze what happened, but she also hired a lawyer to explain whether Brother Hu had caused any infringement.
Although there is no final conclusion, the image of Brother Hu that has been created is that of a very normal playful character, but he was overbearing by Director Chen.
After watching the feature film, everyone thought that Director Chen couldn't afford it!
With Liu Yan leading the charge, a large number of media and netizens took sides, and Hu Ge apologized. Due to public opinion, Chen Daodao gave up the prosecution.
Really, Cao Xuan was convinced.
In the public opinion of "The Promise", Liu Yan simply showed off the audience and repeatedly caused heavy damage to "The Promise". Except for the person involved, Director Chen, everyone's limelight was stolen by her.
Even Cao Xuan, who said famous quotes, and Hu Ge, who made the video, are not as good as her. She is called "the toughest woman in the entertainment industry" by thousands of netizens.
Liu Yan's fame has soared and she has become the most popular host in China, and she can even be temporarily removed from the show.
Many outsiders are also speculating that Fanxing is behind Liu Yan's fierce pursuit of "The Promise".
In this regard, Cao Xuan felt that he was wronged. Why should he deliberately target "The Promise" because of its bad performance?
But he really couldn't explain this clearly.
After all, Liu Yan is indeed under the banner of Fanxing. She can dance like this only because Cao Xuan is her backer. More importantly,
The reputation of "The Promise" has collapsed, and the box office of "Xiu Chun Dao 2" has soared.
In the words of a netizen: "I first watched "Xiu Chun Dao 2" and thought it was quite satisfactory. After watching "The Promise", I thought about the plot of "Xiu Chun Dao 2". It is simply a masterpiece. I bought the ticket and watched the movie twice.
Great experience.”
As a result, many viewers and movie fans who were poisoned by "The Promise" rushed to "Xiu Chun Dao 2" to wash their eyes.
Of course, there are also those who choose to watch "The Great Sage of Love", but regret it and slap themselves in the face after watching it.
It's even worse than "The Promise"!
At least "The Promise" has a passionate scene, and Zhang Yunu's appearance is so eye-catching, but "The Great Sage" has such an ugly character that she almost went blind.
But one thing to say is that this evaluation is not very objective. Although the movie "The Great Sage" is a bit nonsensical and a hodgepodge, and even aliens are introduced, it is not without any merits.
The emotional line is relatively complete. If you can ignore some logic and sensational flaws and put yourself into it, you can still be somewhat moved.
In the whole movie, only this emotional line is somewhat interesting, but it's a pity that the actor was wrongly chosen.
The acting skills of the two male and female protagonists who are singers are still inferior, especially the male protagonist Chef Xie, who is too raw in handling such sensational scenes.
Comparing the same type of Star Master in "Westward Journey", he was immediately turned into a scumbag.
If two actors with mature acting skills can be replaced, the effect will be better, but the box office may not be as expected.
Now in the entire Lunar New Year period, "Xiu Chun Knife 2" has left nothing behind, with a box office of 70 million in the first week, and a box office of 128 million after half a month, temporarily ranking first in the Lunar New Year period.
In contrast, although "The Promise" started out very strongly, after its reputation reversed, it was overshadowed by "Xiu Chun Dao 2".
It was even snatched away from the box office by "The Great Sage" and Lao Mouzi's literary films.
Currently, "The Promise" is released two days less than "Xiu Chun Dao 2", but the box office has not exceeded 100 million, and the film schedule is still declining.
If it continues like this, let alone returning to its original position and surpassing "Xiu Chun Dao 2", it is not impossible to even be overtaken by "The Great Sage".
Let's put it this way, most of the new viewers who go to see "The Promise" are curious about how bad this movie can be and want to challenge their own weaknesses.
Then, while scolding the movie for being bad and scolding myself for being stupid, I would buy a ticket for "Xiu Chun Knife 2" to calm down.
There's no way, it's all because of the good support from my colleagues.
Under such circumstances, Cao Xuan was really confused. After all, in the absence of evidence, whoever benefits the most is the biggest suspect.
Cao Xuan guessed that Director Chen might already hate him, but it didn't matter.
Other well-known directors have had their ups and downs and stumbles, but they have also produced masterpieces. This one really hit the top right from the beginning.
Then it fell all the way and never got up.
The only film "Changjin Lake" that broke the box office record, he was not the main director, and the limelight was completely stolen by Wu Jing.
The audience jokingly said that Wu Jing saved him.
For a great director to be like this, not to mention an entertainment tycoon like Cao Xuan, he is worthy of being an actor with some capital.
Director Chen is still claiming that no one will be able to understand "The Promise" within five years, and is trying to save himself a lot of respect.
Regarding this, Cao Xuan still admires Director Chen as a prophet in the atmosphere, but only the actors can understand it.
As for the plot of the movie "The Promise", let alone five years, even seventeen years later in 2022, not many people can understand it.
Perhaps in another seventeen years, a peerless genius will emerge and re-deconstruct Director Chen's masterpiece, restore Director Chen's reputation and prove his innocence.
