On June 15, a new 170-minute version of "Westward Journey" was officially released nationwide.
Although there were serious problems with the promotion strategy of "Westward Journey", which led to high performance and low performance in the first week of screening, and the word-of-mouth score once dropped to below 7 points.
But fortunately, it is only a click-screening, and the strategy of merging the latter two movies into one will indeed make the two movies of "Westward Journey" into one movie, but the time will become longer, and the theater schedule will definitely be greatly improved.
After all, the movie ticket price is the same for a one-and-a-half-hour show and a three-hour show. If the time is short, you can schedule several more shows. The theater chain will naturally know how to choose.
Therefore, "Westward Journey" directly announced that it would be released for half a month, instead of choosing to be released in July, a popular summer season, but in mid-June.
Although there are also movies released in June, real key projects, big-cast, big-budget movies will definitely not choose such a schedule.
For this reason, "Westward Journey" can be considered to be able to resolve the problem of low-ranking films that may arise.
Of course, everything still depends on the response to the movie.
If "Westward Journey" can be a hit at the box office, it will continue until July. Even if theaters want to reduce the film schedule of "Westward Journey", they still need to make careful considerations.
And the box office on the first day is very crucial!
June 15th is actually not a special day. Although the college entrance examination students have finished their college entrance examination, other students still have to study hard for the final exam.
Therefore, June is indeed not a very good time.
However, it is the movie that has attracted the most attention and is the most anticipated at the moment, and it has created countless topics upon screening.
The audience has nothing to worry about, plus Li Yi's appeal is there.
Therefore, perhaps the audience base during this period is not as good as that of the summer period, but the same is not necessarily a bad thing.
Although in the domestic film market, the box office explosion period of a movie is usually relatively short, only about two weeks, but if the movie can indeed gain top-notch reputation, then this explosion period may not necessarily be postponed.
In two weeks, it will be the beginning of the summer season, when student audiences are most enthusiastic about watching movies, so "Westward Journey" still has the potential to compete.
Inside a cinema in Beijing.
It was pitch dark all around, and the light from the screen shone on the faces of the audience, reflecting all kinds of faces.
Half of Chen Jingning's body was squeezed into the arms of her husband Liu Fei, but her eyes were always staring at the big screen.
As fans of Li Yi's movie, they should have come to see this movie when it was screened, but because the two of them did not return from traveling abroad, they missed it instead.
But it's not too late.
The movie has been shown to the end, which is also the climax of the plot.
"The man I love is an unparalleled hero. One day he will come to marry me on the seven-colored clouds. I guessed right, but I can't guess the ending..." When Fairy Zixia said this sentence in the arms of Sun Wukong while dying...
As soon as he lowered his arms and the fragrance was gone, something like broken glass flashed in Chen Jingning's eyes.
Not only her, but also many viewers in the theater.
It can be said that this is probably the moment when all the power accumulated after more than two hours of preparation for the entire movie explodes.
Although there are many people who like Bai Jingjing and Chun Sanniang in the previous comments, it is undeniable that the most outstanding character in "Westward Journey" has always been the innocent one, the one who seems domineering, but is actually against
A girl whose love is full of pure longing.
Why do many people have a special liking for Zixia?
Because Zhizunbao loves Zixia, it seems that Zixia should have left something in Zhizunbao's mind, a drop of tear. Zixia is the woman who can really enter his heart. At this time, it has nothing to do with the initial attraction and beauty.
Zixia is innocent and a completely "silly" woman. Even if she knows that Zhizunbao is telling lies, she still has no hesitation. As mentioned in the film, she is the moth that flutters into the fire, even if she is torn to pieces for the sake of what she loves.
No matter what.
Therefore, she is special.
She is not as rational as Bai Jingjing. Even if she knows that there are other more important things in Zhizunbao's heart, even if she knows that she may not be the only one or the first in Zhizunbao's heart, she still has no hesitation. Love is love, and love is hers.
only.
It's a pity that this world is really beautiful, but she probably never wants to come back.
Because loving someone is so painful.
What she desires is to only envy the mandarin ducks but not the immortals, but she doesn't understand that when she encounters a mandarin duck that is beaten by a stick, how can she protect this love without the ability of immortals?
The Supreme Treasure has become the Monkey King, the Monkey King. He indeed came on the rising clouds. Unfortunately, the Supreme Treasure wearing the golden hoop is just the Monkey King. He is no longer the Supreme Treasure.
Therefore, when seeing this silly woman die, no one can help but feel heartbroken and sad for her.
After the movie ended, both Chen Jingning and Liu Fei were still thoughtful and thinking about the movie.
Although it is close to three hours long, even excluding the opening subtitles and closing subtitles, it is close to 150 minutes. This length is actually not that friendly for a movie, but there are many
People who really look into it won't think it's long.
"It's just nine o'clock. Let's go have some midnight snacks and come back to watch another show. There are some details I want to see again." Chen Jingning suddenly turned to Liu Fei and said.
"It seems that we really have a good understanding. I thought the same thing, but I was worried that you would be too tired. After all, this movie is a bit long!" Liu instead smiled and said to his wife.
For many movie fans, especially those who like this movie, the length of the movie "Westward Journey" is indeed very unfriendly.
Because like Chen Jingning and Liu Fei, there are not a few fans who feel that they are still unsatisfied after watching it and want to watch it again.
In fact, "Westward Journey" is not a particularly friendly film for those who like to watch popcorn movies, because the film itself contains too many factors that hinder understanding, and its storyline and character relationships are too complicated.
The film uses a lot of flashbacks. For some movie fans, if they want to understand the plot, they have to watch it carefully several times!
This also led to the fact that although there were many positive reviews on the first day of the release, many people also found the film to be somewhat confusing to interpret, because when many of them watched it, they just felt that this was a film.
Just a nonsensical comedy.
Because of the on-demand screenings, many movie fans are die-hard movie fans who like to study movies in depth. Otherwise, they would not go and watch this movie before it is officially released.
But this is not the case after the public release. The scale of the public release is not comparable to that of click-and-mortar screenings, so naturally not everyone who watches the movie is the kind of person who likes to study movies in depth.
Therefore, in fact, many insiders are not too optimistic about the first-day box office of "Westward Journey", even if this movie is directed by Li Yi, a bad guy!
