The movie "33 Days After Love" is a very standard chick flick.
The term "chick flick" comes from abroad, and refers to those love movies with relatively light and romantic plots, mostly with female characters as the core, and men relegated to supporting roles.
This type of movie is basically more fashionable and targets young audiences. Most of the plots start with the heroine being lost and unlucky, and then she wins the man's heart through self-confidence, self-reliance or other advantages, and finally ends with a happy ending.
To put it bluntly, it can be understood as a cool film about women's counterattack. Female viewers love to watch it, but male viewers generally don't dislike it either.
Many well-known actresses in Hollywood made their careers from this kind of movie.
For example, Sandra Bullock, who is known as a box office dynamite and is currently the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, has several chick flicks. Even the widowed sister also filmed a chick flick "The Nanny Diaries" in 2007.
For very practical reasons, there are too few opportunities for actresses to single-handedly carry the box office or act as a star in commercial films.
Chick flicks are one of the few choices they have, so even if they are the most popular in Hollywood, it is difficult to say "no" to them.
This is even more true domestically.
Fortunately, Hong Kong, aside from the golden age of Hong Kong films, from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, chick flicks were actually popular.
The representative work is Sammi Cheng's "Skinny Man and Woman", which had a box office of 40 million+ in Hong Kong and ranked second in the year, second only to Xingye's "Shaolin Soccer".
Later, Miriam Yeung, who moved from the music world to the film industry, also preferred to make this kind of movies. During the decline of Hong Kong movies, there were very few new-generation actresses who could compete with Zhang Yunu and Twins.
During this period, Zhang Yunu and Twins' A-Yan Choi also made chick flicks, but without Zheng, Yang's performance was outstanding.
Zheng has better grades and has more works, while Miriam Yeung is very consistent with the movie. Her personality is a bit carefree, and she is nicknamed "The Laughing Aunt", which is more lovable.
As for mainland chick movies, they came out later.
It is generally believed that the first standard mainland chick movie was "Perfect", which was produced by International Zhang in 2009.
It can be said that International Chapter took the scriptures from Hollywood and followed suit, and the box office results were not bad.
It's just that the international chapter was unlucky. The next year, it caught up with Sanzhongmen, and its reputation plummeted, and it became a bad name on the street.
For this kind of light comedy movie, the audience's demand for watching the movie is not strong, and the actor's reputation and appeal are very important. If the popularity among the public is bad, the movie will be useless.
Therefore, the original space-time international chapter was dormant for several years, and it was not until "The Grandmaster" was released and its reputation picked up that it released "Perfect".
Even so, her reputation was not good and she did not achieve good box office success. Later, she did not continue to make similar chick flicks.
Instead, she played the role of a 15-year-old girl in her forties...
After "Perfect", several chick flicks were made in the Mainland, but not many of them were representative.
The one with the best performance should be "Singles" starring Gao Yuanyuan at the beginning of this year, with two handsome Hong Kong guys, Principal Gu and Ng Yen Cho, and directed by Johnnie To.
The plot mode is still frustrated - meeting true love - tossing - and satisfying, and the box office is still acceptable, it will exceed 100 million, plus other income should be able to earn, it is said that the film studio is also interested in making a second part.
Apart from that, Fanxing is currently working on "33 Days of Love".
To be honest, when this movie was first proposed last year, not many people cared about it.
The script was adapted from a network of the same name, so its fame only goes so far.
Although Damimi was very popular and starred in several movies, not many were released at the time, and the outside world was not optimistic about her box office ability.
The film industry as a whole is more optimistic about the film than director Cao Bo. His previous film "On the Road" is one of the rare low-budget comedy masterpieces in recent years. Coupled with his TV series resume, the outside world still has expectations for him.
However, after several of Damimi's movies were released one after another this year, the good box office results made the outside world become more and more optimistic about her.
Especially "Now You See Me", which grossed US$540 million at the global box office, or nearly RMB 3.5 billion.
Although this movie is a Sino-US co-production, because it is controlled by Fanxing, it is also considered a Chinese-language movie by the industry, so "Now You See Me" has become the first Chinese-language movie in the history of global box office.
Considering the overall volume of Chinese-language films at present, it may be difficult to break this record in a short time.
Da Mimi played the second female lead in this movie, and her performance was even better than that of the first female lead. It was a strong boost for her, giving her enough confidence to compete with those big stars.
In addition, Liu Tianxian staged a dark horse counterattack in "The Girls We Chased Together in Those Years", which also brought a lot of popularity to Damimi to a certain extent.
It is also a low-budget love movie, and it is also a small-budget love movie. Can Damimi create her own box office miracle like Liu Tianxian?
It can be said that Damimi is much more popular than when Liu Tianxian's "Girls We Chased Together in Those Years" was released.
Of course, the pressure is also greater.
Needless to say, if the movie becomes a hit, Da Mimi will prove that she cannot carry the box office alone and will only be able to support her. In the next two years, she will be suppressed by Liu Tianxian, and she will also be criticized by the fans.
The collective taunting of the masses.
This is absolutely impossible for Damimi to accept, and the same is true for her fans.
As I said before, both Xianmi and Xianmi have their own advantages in terms of fans.
Liu Tianxian has a huge number of fans, and there are countless passerby fans. Some media have done relevant voting statistics in Tieba, Tianya and Real Neighborhood.
On a comprehensive basis, Liu Tianxian has more than 35% more fans than Damimi.
For passers-by who are not fans, the preference ratio between the two people is 7:3, that is, out of a hundred people, 70 people prefer Liu Tianxian.
At the same time, it is worth mentioning that Liu Tianxian has a high proportion of male fans, while Da Mimi has a larger number of female fans, and they are relatively more loyal.
Many fans of Liu Tianxian may only watch the works and not even pay much attention to the stars themselves, but many fans of Damimi are willing to pay attention to their idols online and offline, are extremely active, and will support her from various angles.
Honey.
Some professionals have done analysis on two types of fan behaviors.
Most of Liu Tianxian's fans are male fans. Compared with female fans who like to chase stars, male fans will not deliberately engage in star-chasing behaviors.
They don't particularly care about their idol's achievements and works, and they are not necessarily willing to spend real money and time to support her. They only imagine that she is their wife.
So Liu Tianxian has many fans and is very popular, but her commercial value may not be as good as Damimi.
In addition, Liu Tianxian has always been in the leading position in the fairy honey battle, because fans are in a high profile, relatively Buddhist.
But Damimi is different. Her fans are basically female fans, and she follows the path of female independence + dedicated career. Compared to Liu Tianxian, a national goddess who is loved by boys, she is more favored by the same sex.
In the fan group, female fans are obviously more professional than male fans, and they are also willing to support their idols in terms of money and time, and their cohesion is very high.
At the same time, because Damimi is chasing after Liu Tianxian, her fans are very aggressive and want to overthrow Liu Tianxian.
This resulted in that although Liu Tianxian had more fans, they could not hold off Da Mimi's fans.
In online quarrels, you can defeat many enemies with a small number, and the business side will increase your support, directly widening the gap between you and Liu Tianxian.
It is no exaggeration to say that during the release of "33 Days of Love", Damimi's fans taught the entire entertainment industry a lesson about the fan economy.
During the filming of the movie, Damimi's fans began to cooperate with the film crew, always paying attention to the film information and cooperating with Fanxing's various promotions.
It is said that during this period, the major fan leaders had to hold meetings in the online group every half a month, and called each other from time to time to discuss how to cooperate with the movie promotion.
They have formed multiple departments, some for internal fan promotion, some for external promotion, and the art team is responsible for poster design and photo PS; the copywriting team is responsible for promotional slogans and various related words; the diplomacy team is responsible for post forums with major stars.
Build good relationships; the charge team is responsible for promoting promotional posts on Tianya, Tiefa, Weibo and other major platforms...
In short, everyone performs their own duties and strives to help promote the film in every aspect. That is called a profession.
After the film was released, fan groups in major cities organized large-scale collective viewing activities.
In addition, family and friends will be invited to support, and there is even an internal lottery to encourage fans. It is said that some fans have watched the entire movie more than ten times.
"Love Is Not Blind" broke 50 million on the first day, 100 million in three days, and 180 million in the first week.
Although there are various factors such as timing bonus, movie quality, star marketing, theater support and other factors, Damimi's fans still take the greatest credit.
Even Fanxing internal staff did not expect that one day, the audience would not only consume for celebrities, but also work for them.
However, Cao Xuan was not too surprised.
"Far Cry", a small-budget horror film with a bikini selling meat, which was originally produced by Damimi, has a box office of more than 90 million yuan, all thanks to the support of her fans.
Damimi also set a precedent by her own efforts, allowing people to see what "fan movies" are. Later, the traffic became very popular, and fan movies emerged one after another. It is difficult to say that she was not inspired by this incident.
As for Cao Xuan, although he didn't appreciate this approach, he didn't stop it.
The reason is that even if Damimi doesn't do it, someone will sooner or later do it. With the rise of the Internet, the popularity of fan circle culture, and the influx of capital, the traffic era is unstoppable, and sooner or later there will be a day.
From a selfish point of view, Cao Xuan does not reject this method, and the top players promoted by Fanxing are not a form of capital to create stars.
Traffic is not a bad thing. The real culprit of disgusting people is the capital behind the scenes. Therefore, North Koreans will not reject traffic, but try to master the correct and reasonable use method.
Let’s talk about the movie “33 Days After Love” itself. The original movie “Far Cry” has a box office of more than 90 million.
Nowadays, Damimi’s popularity is much higher than that of the original time and space, and Fanxing’s theater platform energy and promotion level are not comparable to those in Hong Kong at a low cost.
Not to mention the quality of "33 Days of Love", the original time and space was a dark horse, but now with various bonuses and advantages, even Cao Xuan doesn't know how far it can reach.
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For Cao Xuan, he knew that "33 Days of Love" was a dark horse, and its box office success was not beyond his expectations.
But in the eyes of outsiders, the 180 million box office of "33 Days Later" in its first week is no ordinary horror.
You know, even though this movie is very popular, there are only so many highlights. The outside world's estimate is 150 to 200 million, which is already very optimistic about Damimi.
Normally, if a small-budget movie with this theme can exceed 100 million yuan, it will be a big profit.
If the movie's box office can meet expectations, or even exceed 200 million, even if it is not as good as "The Girls We Chased Together", it will definitely be considered excellent.
However, even the experts who were most optimistic about Da Mimi, and even Da Mimi herself and her fans, never expected that "33 Days of Love" would be such a hit.
180 million in the first week, and the current industry estimate is 500 million+. The specific number depends on subsequent trends.
After all, it is a low-cost dark horse, and it even has a very strong fan bonus for the first time. It is also unique in the industry. Everyone has no experience and cannot predict the increase, so they dare not make a judgment easily.
But even so, unless the movie collapses, it will definitely surpass "The Girls We Chased Together".
And based on the current reputation of the movie, the chance of an avalanche is very low.
The score on Time.com is 7.5, and there are many discussions on Weibo and Tianya, and there are even a lot of golden quotes.
In later generations, there are personal designs that celebrities like to use very much, and some film and television dramas also like them, and they will deliberately create similar plots and lines to trigger discussions.
To put it simply, it is some clear understanding of society and life, which has certain truth and can arouse resonance among outsiders.
Many movies in the Beijing circle like to do this. Wang Shuo and Feng Pengtong are both masters of it, and the movie channel has a lot of classic lines and golden sentences.
The author and one of the screenwriters of "33 Days After Love" is called Bao Jingjing. She graduated from Nortel Literature Department and is actually half a screenwriter.
The film follows the line of literary youth, so it is inevitable that the lyrics will be awkward. Young people will find it reasonable and compelling, so there will naturally be no shortage of praise.
In fact, from a pure plot point of view, "33 Days of Love" doesn't have much to say. The highlight lies in the character design and lines. I feel like I can substitute for the characters.
Commercial films strive for refinement rather than perfection, and there is no need to pursue everything. While ensuring the lower limit, as long as the selling points are polished, the box office and reputation will not be too bad.
"Love Is Not Loved" is a typical example!
It's not a heart-wrenching film and television classic that makes you want to watch it dozens of times, but honestly speaking, its quality is definitely not bad, and its features and advantages are outstanding.
Coupled with the excellent marketing positioning and the right time (Singles Day + excellent schedule), the right location (Star Cinemas), the people (fans) and the aura of growth, it is not incomprehensible that this movie has become a phenomenal hit.
However, no matter how the outside world analyzes it, the results of "33 Days of Love" are certain.
Although the box office began to decline the next week, it was generally within the normal range. In other words, if nothing unexpected happens, the movie has a very high chance of exceeding 500 million.
Damimi is crazy happy!
No matter how big-hearted she was, she never thought that this movie would become such a hit.
Even Fan Xiaopang, the first sister of Fanxing, regretted not picking up this book, but one thing is that her beautiful and delicate appearance is actually not suitable for this kind of chick movie.
Even Da Mimi is a bit "acting ugly" and turned into the plain-looking Huang Xiaoxian who was disliked by her ex-boyfriend in the movie.
This kind of personality is carefree, optimistic, and has a sharp mouth, which is more suitable for Damimi. She is actually a sharp-tongued and informal Beijing girl.
This role does not require high acting skills, the only difficulty is the lines.
The large sections of dialogues and confessions in it put the actor's line skills to a certain test, and Damimi's lines have always been a weak point.
Her voice is not unpleasant, but it is dry and emotionless, and she has no skills in using lines. She is like a robot memorizing a script.
Yang Mi's original voice actually sounds a bit like a royal sister's voice, but I don't know why. For a while in the early days, she often spoke with her voice raised, which was a kind of artificial, delicate sheep voice.
Because of this incident, she was criticized in public by Cao Xuan, but later she honestly changed her attitude.
Liu Rui once found her a line teacher and a vocal teacher, who specifically studied and practiced her line skills consciously, and she was somewhat improved and honed.
It's hard to say that it's excellent, but it's quite satisfactory. Without deliberately criticizing it, it can still be considered qualified.
At least it's enough for TV dramas. For movies, if you use more feeling and some technical assistance, it won't stretch your crotch.
Boss Cao has basically given up on her and Liu Tianxian. His talent is limited to this, and his love and hard work for acting are not enough.
Now he will no longer ask the two of them to hone their acting skills and maintain their standards. He will be very satisfied if they can continue to make slight progress.
One day, if there is a good script, the theater guarantor may be able to recommend the Hundred Flowers Best Actress for the popular award.
As for the actress who won authoritative awards based on her true strength, Cao Xuan dare not say that the two of them will have no future in their lives, but it will be difficult before the age of 40.
For these emerging actresses, all his expectations are now on Guo Zhenni. Zhao Xiaodao also has good momentum and ability. At least now he is willing to work hard to figure it out. It's hard to say who will win the movie, but he may not have a chance in the movie.
As for Liu Tianxian and Damimi, they don’t need to think about developing into a powerful group for the time being. They can continue to be Fanxing’s top aces.
Damimi’s biggest competitor is Liu Tianxian, but her role model is actually Fan Xiaopang.
It also didn’t have a good start, it was also catching up later, it was also burdened with some controversies, it was the same that it had excellent business ability, and it was the same that it was ambitious.
Before Three Beauties of Stars, Damimi was actually called Xiao Fan and Fatty.
Therefore, Fan Xiaopang has a different status in Damimi's heart. Now even Fan Xiaopang is jealous of "33 Days of Love".
From Da Mimi's heart, it feels no less satisfying than surpassing Liu Tianxian's "We Chased Girls Together in Those Years".
After realizing that "33 Days of Love" is likely to become her landmark masterpiece, Damimi directly transformed into a desperate thirteenth mother, hoping to do her best to make the movie perform better.
Damimi has many problems, including being petty, bad-tempered, a good liar, snobbish, and with low professional skills, etc. But she also has something that many celebrities can't do.
In order to get the upper hand, he is willing to risk everything at work!
After deciding to go all out, Damimi visited 17 cities in 23 days, a total of 36 theaters, plus two program recordings and four media interviews.
The average sleep time per day is less than 5 hours. At the peak period, I even only sleep 2 to 3 hours a day. Most of them sleep on transportation.
Her madness made the male protagonist Sun Jian cry out of exhaustion. After persisting for half a month, he said he needed to take a rest.
Director Cao Bo managed to hold on and was with him throughout the whole process, but in the later stage his whole mind was confused and confused, and the eyes he looked at Damimi were full of fear and questions.
Are these bitches human?
Damimi is of course a human being. As a leading actress, she received more attention than the director and the leading actor, and she was even more labor-intensive and tired.
During the promotion period for more than half a month, I lost several pounds. The makeup around my heavy eye circles was not able to cover it up, and my face looked tired to the naked eye.
But her eyes are bright and her spirit is extremely excited!
"Love Is Not Blind" had a series of successes, and it took in a box office of almost 150 million in the next week. By early December, the box office successfully exceeded 400 million. The key was extended for 20 days, and the breakthrough of 500 million was basically certain.
Damimi becomes the king in one battle!
She is the only actress in the entire entertainment industry to have a box office of 500 million yuan, not to mention that a few months ago, she also had a movie "Now You See Me" with a box office of 800 million yuan.
With an annual box office of over 1.3 billion, he ranked first in the entertainment industry in 2011. His box office was higher than Cao Xuan’s this year.
Even if Cao Xuan has "Eagle Eye" released in December, it's hard to say that the box office can surpass "33 Days of Love". After all, this movie is already expected to hit the top five Chinese-language movies.
If we say that before, Da Mi Mi was still a little behind Liu Tianxian and several Da Hua.
After "33 Days of Love", the gap was evened out. Da Mimi, like Liu Tianxian, can be compared with other big flowers.
Even the media and many Weibo gossips said that there is no need for Xianmi to represent 85 Flowers. The two of them are already the only ones who have come out alone.
Fourth Double Soldier + Fairy Honey!
Among these eight people, apart from Hu Jing, who has semi-retired, Li Bingbing and Zhao Zhao, who have had no hard results in the past two years, the other five can be regarded as the ceiling of mainland female stars in the entertainment industry.
The other famous female stars are all below them. How to rank them will depend on their performance and popularity.
This statement has not been recognized by everyone. After all, strictly speaking, the rise of Xianmi Movie was this year, and the qualifications are still a bit weak.
However, there were not many objections and denials. Even if they felt that their qualifications were still relatively low, the others did not have an overwhelming advantage over the two of them.
At least in terms of box office and popularity, Xianmi is not much different from the big stars, and even has a slight advantage. The only weakness is the awards and influence in the industry.
When evaluating actors, individual awards can never be ignored.
Zhou Gongzi has three gold medals in Grand Slam + Hundred Blossoms Best Actress, and the International Chapter is only one Golden Horse short of being able to collect all the Chinese Grand Slams. Fan Xiaopang is the weakest, but he also has a Golden Horse Best Actress, and this year he won another with "The Wind"
Hua Biao is a movie queen.
As for Xianmi and Xianmi, the only thing that they can use is the golden eagle who divides the pork between Damimi and Shihou.
Therefore, although the two have performed well in the past two years, they have been overshadowed by a few big stars. The main reason is that they cannot win enough personal awards to prove their personal performance.
Maybe they are very popular outside, but their evaluation in the industry and their casting rankings among major directors are always lower than a few big names.
At least for many roles that require acting skills, they will consider Zhou, Zhang, Fan, or even Li, Zhao, from other actresses, and Xian Mi will probably not be in their casting range.
It is precisely because of this that unless the box office of two people is so high that they ignore everything, they will always be a head lower than those big spenders.
To put it bluntly, the two are just stars, "products" that can be copied, rather than irreplaceable top actors.
Of course, this is a bit exaggerated. Not everyone can easily copy and replace Xian Mi. Although the two are not movie queens, they have left many people with impressive works and screen images.
At least for Damimi right now, the demand for transformation is not that high.
After all, she is only 26 years old now, so she doesn't have to worry about getting older in a short period of time. It's not too late to consider this matter again after she turns 30.
As for now, you can enjoy the joy of victory and success.
She had been exhausted these past two days and was still thinking about whether she should call Liu Tianxian and just opened her mouth and said: "How do you know that my box office revenue is almost over 500 million."
I'm so mad at her!
Damimi, who was sleeping soundly in the back seat of the business car, had a proud smile on her face, and the director Cao Bo next to her sighed.
"The show is a hit, and the demons are stunned..."
Shaking his head, Cao Bo gave her a blanket and asked the driver to drive slower so that she could sleep more and the road would be more stable.
Bracing himself, Cao Bo went to the Internet to read the reviews of the movie. Unexpectedly, he saw the Xianmi family arguing on Weibo.
Damimi's new drama is a hit, so her fans will naturally mock Liu Tianxian.
Of course, the fairy fans are not innocent either. When "The Girls We Chased Together All Those Years" was released, they also brought Da Mi Mi along with them. The two sides went back and forth, fighting each other in a turn-based manner.
"Love Is Not Blind" is expected to exceed 500 million, and the total box office in the mainland is expected to enter the top five Chinese-language films. Fans of Da Mimi often use it to make a fuss about Liu Tianxian.
Fans of Liu Tianxian were not convinced.
Although the mainland box office of "Girls We Chased Together All Those Years" was only RMB 300 million, the box office of Hong Kong and Taiwan plus the box office of other Asian countries was also RMB 150 million, so it's not much less than RMB 500 million.
On the contrary, "33 Days of Love", although the box office in the mainland is very high, the box office performance in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Asia is average. It has a little trouble outside of South Korea, and the others are equivalent to nothing.
Therefore, Tianxian fans believe that the box office gap between the two movies is not big. On the contrary, "Girls We Chased Together" also has Asian influence and is even better.
The two sides were quarreling so much that it has become a scene on Weibo, but this is considered a daily routine. If there is no quarrel one day, everyone will not be used to it.
Cao Bo switched to his trumpet and secretly liked a few opinion bees. Although he had worked with Liu Tianxian before, he was completely on Damimi's side.
The reason is naturally very simple. When a single director meets a beautiful star, he will inevitably have other thoughts.
However, Damimi didn't have any feelings for him. Even though she was interviewed and said she wanted to fall in love, the only person she really cared about was Liu Tianxian.
If she didn't step on Liu, how could she have the energy to think about a man...
