After turning around, Zifeng reluctantly sent Han Fei away, feeling a little gloomy along the way and not saying a word.
Han Fei smiled and rubbed her head: "Silly girl, it's not like I won't see you again. When you have free time, you can come to me at any time."
"Yes." Zifeng waved goodbye.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, September 30th is here. After more than a month of publicity, "I'm Not the God of Medicine" has been quite effective. The pre-sale box office on the first day also exceeded 30 million. Although this figure is far from the
It's lower than Han Fei's previous films, but considering the impact of the epidemic, it's pretty good.
For a long time after the epidemic, most people will not appear in crowded public places if it is not necessary. After all, the virus is only controlled, not completely eliminated. Just look at the current situation abroad and you will know that there is still a long way to go.
It has not reached the point where the swords and guns are stored in the warehouse and the horses are released to the south.
Of course, the pre-sale data is only a basis, and not all viewers will buy tickets in advance. Most viewers will buy tickets on a temporary basis and will buy tickets when they want to see it.
Therefore, the 30 million pre-sales did not make Han Fei find it difficult to accept. On the contrary, he was very grateful for the support of so many viewers.
Naturally, the premiere will be held in one's own theater, which is also a good publicity opportunity. In order to cooperate with the publicity, in addition to the 200 reserved for some film critics and media reporters, the 1,000 tickets for the premiere are 800.
All were drawn through a lottery.
Everything is ready, all we need is the east wind.
The Bird Theater was particularly lively today. Many viewers did not know that Han Fei had bought the theater. They were just curious as to why the decoration style of this theater suddenly changed so drastically.
"[I'm Not the God of Medicine] is premiering, and ticket checking has begun." The staff shouted, and the radio began to announce at the same time.
However, most of the audiences who came to the theater only bought tickets at midnight, and only a few had premiere tickets. Holding premiere tickets at this time is undoubtedly a very enviable thing.
The thousand-person screening room for the premiere was quickly filled up, and there was no host this time. Han Fei stood in the center of the stage and bowed slightly to everyone.
There was thunderous applause for a while, and many viewers suddenly lamented that this epidemic has been very difficult for everyone. Many people's lives have undergone earth-shaking changes. When they came to the cinema again, they suddenly felt as if they were déjà vu in another world.
Later, the main creators of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" also appeared on the stage to communicate and interact with everyone. However, perhaps due to the epidemic, many viewers were still a little reluctant to let go.
Due to the epidemic, Han Fei did not arrange any games with close contact with the audience.
"I'm Not the God of Medicine" began to be screened in such a tepid atmosphere. At the beginning of the film, Cheng Yong, played by Shen Yiming, perfectly interpreted what a middle-aged man's crisis is.
The business is in trouble, his father is seriously ill, his wife is divorced and he has to take his son to the United States. Everything tells the audience that he is a loser.
At the same time, Lu Yiyi, played by Han Fei, also appeared on the screen. Undoubtedly, judging from his appearance, he is also a loser, and judging from the dialogue between them.
Lu Yiyi wanted Cheng Yong to help him bring medicines from India. To put it bluntly, it was smuggling. In order to lure Cheng Yong into thinking that this was a profitable business, he even told him the price difference between genuine medicines and generic medicines.
Obviously, this is a man who appears to be loyal but is actually very scheming.
"Hey, this guy looks familiar, right?" Some viewers suddenly realized that this wasn't Han Fei. At first, Han Fei's appearance and performance made people think that he was just an ordinary passerby.
As a film critic, Fanghua has always paid close attention to Han Fei's movies in the past, but her focus in the past was on the story and special effects. To be honest, she has never commented much on Han Fei's performance, because in her opinion Come to think of it, Han Fei's past performance can only be regarded as passable. It is still far from the performance of those movie kings and actresses, and it is not worthy of her words to comment.
However, this time, the role of Lu Yiyi made Fanghua unable to help but start taking notes from the moment he appeared on the scene.
"At 8 minutes and 57 seconds in the video, Lu Yiyi made his first appearance. He was wearing a mask, so that he couldn't see his face clearly at first. However, from his appearance, he looked like a middle-aged man living in distress. It wasn't until he took off the mask that he could see clearly. It turns out that this actor is Han Fei."
"Judging from the rivalry scene between him and Shen Yiming, Han Fei is not inferior at all, and there are surprises!"
The film continues. Cheng Yong originally rejected Lu Yiyi's request to smuggle drugs. The first reason was that the money was too little, and the second reason was that smuggling was illegal. Shen Yiming's performance also vividly demonstrated the wisdom of a middle-aged man. Cheng Yong is by no means a A fool, on the contrary he is very smart.
He even went to the hospital to ask the doctor about generic drugs. He had his own way of acting and would not be easily influenced by outside forces.
If it were not for the pressure of life, perhaps Cheng Yong would not have embarked on the path of selling generic drugs.
The pen in Fanghua's hand almost never stops. Over the years, she has developed the "unique skill" of writing while staring at the screen.
"There is no bitterness and hatred at the beginning of the film. On the contrary, the pace is very fast. Cheng Yong is a person who has no sense of awe for life. Everything he does is to make himself and his family live a better life. This can be seen from his attitude towards life. The owner of an Indian pharmaceutical factory said: Money is life, life is money, and you can see it."
As recorded in Fanghua, "I'm Not the God of Medicine" has a fast pace, and even though the story is relatively heavy, it doesn't make people feel bitter and resentful.
Originally, many viewers were worried that this movie would be a literary film made by Han Fei to win awards, as many reports said.
In the first half of the film, the audience actually enjoyed watching it. It felt like they were watching a comedy with many funny lines and scenes.
However, in the second half, the entire estimated structure changed. From the moment Cheng Yong sold the generic drug channel to Zhang Changlin, the entire movie seemed to be covered by a dark cloud.
The tragic situation of Lu Yiyi made Cheng Yong decide to return to his old career. He came to India again. Someone was using smoke to kill insects on the street. Cheng Yong seemed to be in the clouds, as confused as he felt at the moment.
Someone pushed two statues in front of him, one after the other, passing in front of Cheng Yong.
Fanghua's eyes lit up. Although she didn't know what the two statues represented, she believed that the appearance of these two statues here was definitely not accidental and must have a meaning.
Cheng Yong came back with the medicine, but Lu Yiyi was dead. It was suicide. Cheng Yong just stood there blankly. He remembered that Lu Yiyi once told him that when he first got sick, he wanted to die every day, but Ever since his son was born, he didn't want to die, but he still died.
Maybe he couldn't bear the pain, or he couldn't see hope. He once had hope, which was given by Cheng Yong and destroyed by Cheng Yong.
Cheng Yong found the pastor and Liu Sihui again, and Huang Mao also came to help. When they heard Cheng Yong said that a box of medicine only cost 500, they all showed relief.
Then Huang Mao also came back. Except for Lu Yiyi, he would never come back.
Then Huang Mao also died in a car accident. Cheng Yong was heartbroken. He yelled at Officer Cao: What was wrong with him? He just wanted to survive!
Yes, this line is also the core of the movie "I am not the God of Medicine". It is just to survive. When a person is almost dead, wouldn't it be too ridiculous to talk to him about the law?
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Just like the counterfeit medicine dealer Zhang Changlin once said: There is only one disease in the world, and that is the disease of poverty.
That’s right, not being able to cure diseases, not being able to go to school, and not being able to support the elderly are the three most difficult social problems in China to solve at present. Some diseases can often be cured, but many people choose to wait for death.
It's just that it can't be cured.
In the end, Cheng Yong was caught, but the audience did not feel happy. On the contrary, they felt panicked. Yes, Cheng Yong did make money by selling generic drugs in the early stage, but at the same time, it was also because of his drugs that the rescue
Got many patients.
In the later stages, Cheng Yong even gave money to patients to buy medicines. In the eyes of the audience, he had completed his self-salvation and should not be convicted.
At the end of the film, Han Fei once again led the creative team to the stage to bow and thank the audience, who responded with warm applause.
The success of a movie depends on whether it can resonate with the audience. Although "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is about leukemia, for viewers who have just experienced the epidemic, there are only four words: empathy.
The premiere is over, and the following midnight slots have also begun to be fully screened. What is more interesting is that the eleventh slot, which was extremely popular in previous years, has now become two or three kittens. Except for "I am not the god of medicine", other
They are all low-budget movies, and even movies released in August are still being screened.
There is only one reason, that is, there is no film source, and everyone is afraid of being affected by the epidemic. This has resulted in many theaters showing only the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine" in the entire zero-hour slot, and the audience does not even have other choices.
However, based on his original attendance statistics, Han Fei indeed found that the audience's mood for watching movies was not high. The worst attendance rate for his previous new films was 60%, but now it is less than 50%.
It’s only 48.5%, and the situation of other theater chains will not be better than this data.
Obviously, many viewers are still in the self-protection stage after the epidemic. The imagined revenge consumption did not appear. Instead, viewers became more cautious.
This is not a good thing for the entire film industry. Just imagine, the attendance rate of Han Fei's films is so low, can anyone else have such appeal?
At the same time, after the premiere, many viewers also rated "I'm Not a Drug" online and left many comments.
However, what many people did not expect was that the score of "I am not the God of Medicine" was actually as high as 9.3, which is terrifying.
You know, this is a domestic film. Since mainland films entered the commercial film model, many viewers have fallen into a strange circle. It seems that only films from the last century are good films.
Ratings for movies in the past ten years have been relatively harsh, and a high score of 9 or above has not been seen in nearly ten years.
So many netizens said that Han Fei must have asked the navy to improve the rating, otherwise it would not be so high. They did not even read the reviews at all, let alone go to the cinema to see if the movie was as good as what was said online.
Okay, anyway, as long as your rating exceeds 9 points, it must be brushed, and I will spray you.
However, soon, at about 2:15 in the morning, the rating on Douban changed again. This time it dropped, but overall it was relatively stable. In the end, the rating of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" was fixed at 9.1 points.
And this time it wasn’t just the people at the premiere who commented, more and more long comments appeared in the comment section of Wandou.com.
This makes the audience who have not watched it yet become curious, what kind of film can get such a high score of 9.1? Could it be that, as the media has said before, this film is Han Fei's attempt to compete for awards.
A literary film? Otherwise, how could the ratings of commercial films be so high?
But after reading the reviews, I found that almost all of them mentioned one thing: the pace is fast. Obviously this is a commercial film. However, can commercial films really make high-scoring movies?
On the other hand, Han Fei also got the box office data of zero o'clock, 25.63 million, which is not a lot, but it is better than Han Fei imagined. After all, the attendance rate is there. The only thing that can achieve such results is the number of films scheduled.
It’s really fierce!
This also made everyone breathe a sigh of relief. This movie was so difficult. During the early filming of the documentary, many crew members suffered psychological breakdowns. Later, they gradually recovered after undergoing psychological counseling.
After finally finishing filming the film, we encountered an epidemic and couldn't release it.
Later, Han Fei refused to play "I'm Not the God of Medicine" for free on video websites, and even refused 2 billion in direct revenue, which once pushed the film to the forefront.
It's not too much to describe it as ill-fated. Now that it has finally been released, the zero-hour box office is equivalent to the monthly exam report card. Although it is not satisfactory, it can be said to be reasonable.
However, what everyone, including Han Fei, did not expect was that starting from noon, the attendance rate of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" has been rising all the way. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the attendance rate reached 60%, which can be regarded as returning to normal levels.
During the prime time period after 8 p.m., the attendance rate even exceeded 85%. This is a rhythm that is about to explode.
Online comments about "I'm not the God of Medicine" are becoming more and more enthusiastic. Originally, realistic themes can easily resonate with the audience. Coupled with the reasons for this epidemic, everyone is paying much higher attention to drug prices than before.
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In addition, the quality of "I am not the god of medicine" is there, so it is normal for it to be hotly debated.
The happiest thing is naturally the various theater chains. The previous business can no longer be described as bleak. It completely gives people a sense of deja vu that if they continue to operate, they will lose their underwear.
Now it's better, the theater lobby can finally see the bustling crowd again, and many theater owners almost cried when they saw this.