"Recently, "Journey to the West - Conquer the Demons" has been gaining momentum. The box office on its first day of release exceeded 100 million, setting a new first-day box office record in the history of Chinese-language films. Topics and controversies about the movie also followed one after another. When I saw the word "Journey to the West", and
When Zhou Xingchi was the director, many viewers thought it was a "family fun" movie and brought their families and children to the theater. Unexpectedly, the movie was filled with horrific scenes one after another, and the children were often frightened to tears. Filmmakers frequently called for "movie classification"
"Made" finally resonated with the general audience."
""Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons" has constant terrifying scenes
, the child cried loudly!
Recently, Mr. Wang, a teacher from a middle school in Beijing, and his family of three chose to watch Zhou Xingchi's new film on the afternoon of the Lunar New Year's Day, hoping to help their children enhance their knowledge of "Journey to the West".
Unexpectedly, only 11 minutes after entering the venue, a water monster jumped out of the water, opened its bloody mouth, and the 7-year-old child next to him cried "Wow".
Mr. Wang comforted the child for a long time, took off the 3D glasses for the child, and gave the child a piece of bread before comforting the child.
When "Three Hundred Children's Songs" appeared in the movie, the child burst into tears and laughed. However, the good times did not last long. When Zhu Gang's ferocious face flashed, the child actually vomited out everything he had eaten. Mr. Shen was not the only one in the theater that day.
Children can also frequently hear the cries of other children."
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Wang Zhongjun looked at his laptop with a gloomy face and clicked on one website after another. He could see similar news everywhere.
"Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" has become a hot spot on Baidu and is now listed on Baidu's homepage!
Several major portal websites also have reports, and the content is almost the same.
Either the children here are scared to tears when watching the movie, or the children elsewhere are scared.
It's not like Wang Zhongjun never thought that the Han and Tang media would do negative marketing for "Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons". Now the schedule of both movies is not enough, and everyone wants to drag the other down.
Huayi's publicity department is already looking for loopholes in "囧", and the specific plan will be released this afternoon at the latest.
If they can produce "囧 in Hong Kong", then there is no reason for the other party to be silent, and Wang Zhongjun has been sending people to keep an eye on it.
But I didn't expect that the other party would move so quickly. In just one day, they were ready to launch such a large-scale negative marketing campaign.
Wang Zhongjun then scrolled through Weibo. Hundreds of marketing accounts were taking the lead. They were all articles criticizing "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" for being too bloody and violent, as if Zhou Xingchi had made a comedy into a horror film.
On Weibo, a psychologist posted: "There are many scenes in the movie "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" that are not suitable for children. According to my incomplete statistics, in the film, water monsters appear, pigs and hyenas reveal their true colors, blood spurts are shot, and there are scenes where Sun Wukong does not appear.
The bloody skin and grinning figures are full of violent and terrifying images, which can cause panic. Children under the age of 12 will experience severe discomfort and may even experience subsequent physical and psychological reactions such as vomiting and nightmares. In addition, this
It is a 3D movie, and the picture will be more realistic. Here I suggest all parents..."
A filmmaker: "In the 1990s, many lousy domestic films labeled themselves "not suitable for children" in order to deceive the box office and attract those curious teenagers!"
An educator: "Children's hearts cannot be destroyed. There is a way to make a fortune. The way is not only about methods, but also morality. It is called a comedy and is called a family movie, but there are a lot of bloody and terrifying scenes in the film. "Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons"
》The film crew’s approach is really unacceptable!”
A certain movie fan's Weibo: "I finally waited for Xingye's movie. I thought I could relax in the cinema during the Chinese New Year this year, but watching it made me feel sick to my stomach.
Horrifying corpses were being roasted in the fireplace. The fish demon ate the human head with its mouth open. The banshee cut off the human flesh bit by bit with a knife and fork and ate it...
These scenes really made me feel like I had eaten shit. I came here to watch a comedy, not a bloody horror movie. I couldn’t even eat my New Year’s Eve dinner!”
Another fan said: "It's really inappropriate for a comedy to be so bloody. When I was watching the movie, I sat next to a mother and a child who was only six or seven years old. Within 10 minutes of the opening, the child was frightened to tears by the bloody scene.
, I didn’t even bring my 3D glasses and I had to go out. There were so many parents with their children that it was impossible to live in the cinema. The children wouldn’t stop crying. It was so terrible!”
Weibo is now the largest social media in China, and scrolling through Weibo every day has become a habit for many people, just like the first thing you did when you turned on your computer was to log in to QQ.
It’s the Spring Festival, and there are five hot searches on Weibo related to the two movies.
The number one hot search topic is "Journey to the West Conquers the Demons. It's too bloody and scares children to cry." It ranks first and is extremely eye-catching.
Teachers, educators, parents...everywhere criticized this movie.
Some filmmakers and entertainment magazine editors even talk about film classification.
He also described "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" as being the same as those movies that rely on scenes inappropriate for children to seduce minors.
Wang Zhongjun now wants to point at his nose and ask, how could this be inappropriate for a child?
The only revealing scene is of Quanguo's Sha Seng.
But that's a man, not a beauty!
Some experts who specialize in Journey to the West even came out and strongly criticized "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" by xjb for indiscriminately changing the classic and ruining the classic. They called on the audience to boycott the movie and even threatened to ask the country to ban film and television companies from remaking the classic.
"Dream of Red Mansions" has a red theory, and "Journey to the West" although there is no Western science or anything like that, there are quite a few experts and professors.
Basically every time these classics are remade, someone will jump out and scold them.
In the 1986 version of "Journey to the West", the famous artist Teacher Liu also said in an interview with reporters that since "Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons" is titled "Journey to the West", it cannot be so wantonly changed. He said that the Sun Wukong in the movie is not the real Sun Wukong.
An hour ago, when Wang Zhongjun was watching the news, there was no such negative news.
He never expected that in such a short span of an hour, the other party would actually reach the point where the whole network would know about it. His actions were too fast and did not give him any time to react.
Wang Zhongjun immediately called the company, packed up and prepared to go out.
Mr. Wang next to him saw that he had just returned from exercise and was hurriedly leaving without even taking a shower, so he quickly advised him.
"Dad, don't worry too much, it's just some negative news."
"What do you know? These negative news are enough to affect the subsequent box office trends!" Wang Zhongjun said with some hatred.
Of course, ordinary negative news doesn't matter, but "Journey to the West" is a family comedy film for the Spring Festival, and Stephen Chow's calling card is also a comedy.
Once it is labeled as a horror film, those audiences who come here for Zhou Xingchi's name, as well as those who plan to take their families and children to watch the movie, will definitely have some scruples.
During the Spring Festival, there are many families watching movies together with their children. One child can influence the choices of several adults.
Seeing that Wang Zhongjun was really anxious, Mrs. Wang also realized the seriousness of the matter and said.
"Dad, this Tang An is very capable. I would like to meet him, but he has already left Huayi when I return to China."
"Don't mention him in front of me."
When Tang An was mentioned, Wang Zhongjun was so angry that he completely forgot that just now he was treating him as "someone else's child" and just comparing him with himself!