Chapter 537: Cheng Yajie: You can't have no conscience
On the first day of its premiere, "The Wandering Earth", with a screening rate of less than 10% and an attendance rate that barely reached half, only earned over RMB 60 million at the box office, setting a record for the lowest box office for a film starring Li Yi!
Although the first-day box office performance is not completely at the bottom, it is not much better, and it is far from winning the first-day box office.
The number one "Kung Fu Yoga" is 183 million, which is more than three times the difference!
But unlike its poor box office results, "The Wandering Earth" has an exceptionally good reputation!
On the day of the premiere, after the word-of-mouth spread, the movie tickets for the next few visits were sold out. When the major theater chains discovered this situation, they immediately reduced the scheduling rate of other movies and increased the scheduling rate of "The Wandering Earth"!
So starting from the next day, the box office performance of "The Wandering Earth" increased step by step, and it was out of control!
The next day, it received 169 million in box office, which was more than double the previous day. It jumped directly from the last position to the second place in the single-day box office. The first place was still Chen Long's "Kung Fu Yoga"!
On the third day, it received a box office of 324 million, beating "Kung Fu Yoga" and becoming the single-day box office No. 1!
On the fourth day, it received a box office of 498 million. It took only four days to reach a box office of more than 1 billion. Not only did it become the cumulative box office champion for the same period, but the film scheduling rate has also been adjusted from less than 10% to 100% by the theater chain. The score is 35/35, which is higher than "Kung Fu Yoga", which had the highest film schedule on its premiere day!
As the film schedule and box office of "The Wandering Earth" increase, the film schedule and box office of other movies will naturally decrease. Theaters are in business, so naturally they will desperately promote whichever movie is popular, which affects their decision-making. There are only movie tickets that the audience pays for!!
Relying on its excellent strength, "The Wandering Earth" managed to carve out a bloody path in the extremely fierce competition during the Lunar New Year period. It is a typical comeback against the wind, which is amazing!!
The box office performance of other movies has gradually declined after its release. Only Li Yi's "The Wandering Earth" continues to rise, and it rises very fast!
Although the score of "The Wandering Earth" on Douban has dropped, it has stabilized at 8.6 from 9 points, which was not yet released. Not only is the score itself not low, but it is also the well-deserved king among domestic movies of the same theme!
There are hundreds of thousands of short reviews, almost all of which are four or five stars. One review said this:
"The release of "The Wandering Earth" has filled the gap in Chinese science fiction movies, which means that Chinese science fiction movies have officially set sail, ushering in the spring of Chinese science fiction movies. Li Yi single-handedly opened the door to the heavy domestic science fiction movies , Chinese science fiction fans will no longer wander around, because we finally have hard science fiction!"
This comment received hundreds of thousands of likes and was ranked first!
Not only were netizens cheering for the wonderful turnaround of "The Wandering Earth", Huang Bo and other friends in the industry also congratulated Li Yi one after another. Even Brother Chen Long specially called to congratulate Li Yi!
In the past few days when "The Wandering Earth" counterattacked the box office with its monument, the Internet was abuzz, and Li Yi's life was equally lively.
In the past few days, he has been following Cheng Yajie's family everywhere to visit relatives. Whether it is Cheng Yajie's parents or their relatives, they don't treat Li Yi as an outsider at all, not to mention how much they like and are close to him!
Cheng Yajie's family didn't have too much personal influence, so the four days were just enough to complete the trip.
On the fifth day, Cheng Yajie excitedly pulled Li Yi into the cinema. They were going to watch "Shanghai Fortress"!
Because of Li Yi's "The Wandering Earth", Cheng Yajie is now in love with science fiction movies, and she is naturally looking forward to the same type of "Shanghai Fortress" like many netizens!
Li Yi also wanted to watch this movie out of curiosity.
The two people, disguised in disguise, entered the theater and saw that one side of the hall was full and all seats were filled with the audience. The attendance rate was much higher than that of "The Wandering Earth"!
And it is said that because it is of the same genre as "The Wandering Earth" and is highly anticipated and welcomed by the audience, even though other movies in the same period have made adjustments to make way for "The Wandering Earth", the scheduling rate of "Shanghai Fortress" has not decreased at all.
Still in the corner of the last row, Li Yi sat at the back, silently listening to the comments from the audience:
"It lives up to its reputation and is really great. It made me interested in science fiction movies for the first time."
"I just watched "The Wandering Earth" yesterday, and I became interested. I heard that "Shanghai Fortress" and "The Wandering Earth" are similar science fiction films, and the special effects are no worse than "The Wandering Earth". I immediately bought a ticket!"
"Hey! Brother, I am just like you, and I came here after watching "The Wandering Earth"!"
"As for the recent movies these days, apart from "The Wandering Earth", the one with the highest popularity online is "Shanghai Fortress". I'm very much looking forward to it!"
"Although I have always hated Lu Han, because of this subject, I have to watch it, because Brother Yi's Wandering Earth really made me interested in this movie!"
"Hahaha! I am a science fiction fan. I watched Li Yi's "The Wandering Earth" for three days in a row. If I hadn't gotten a ticket on the fourth day, I would have planned to watch it again! I hope this "Shanghai Fortress"
, can not disappoint me like "The Wandering Earth"!"
"..."
It sounds like most of the audience at the scene are those who have watched "The Wandering Earth". Everyone has very high expectations for this movie, thinking that it will be a science fiction movie that is not much worse than "The Wandering Earth".
Soon, the screening of "Shanghai Fortress" began.
At the beginning of the movie, similar to "The Wandering Earth", a simple background introduction is given using voiceover to match the scene.
As for this background introduction, the viewers who watched it immediately frowned!
Whether it's the rhythm, the editing, the interspersed special effects, or even the voice-over, it's all a lot worse than The Wandering Earth!
Many viewers came to watch "Shanghai Fortress" out of their love for "The Wandering Earth", so during the viewing process, they will naturally compare the two together.
However, the movie had just started. Apart from subconsciously frowning, no one said anything and continued to concentrate on watching the movie.
But soon, when the lead actor Lu Han appeared on the stage and began to conduct simulated combat training with several teammates, there was a very unhappy voice in the audience:
"Holy crap! Is this a simulated battle under high-tech technology in the future? It's completely like a déjà vu at an Internet cafe."
"It's so low, it doesn't make people feel immersed at all!"
"Why is Lu Han's acting so impressive? As soon as he appeared on the stage, I realized that even a movie with lots of special effects would not work if the main character didn't have acting skills!"
"My script skills are too poor. There's no tension in the battle. It's not as exciting as watching my roommate play League of Legends!"
"The combat special effects are pretty average. It's not as shocking as "The Wandering Earth" at all. I feel like I'm watching a special Japanese film, Ultraman or something like that!"
"Hey! Who said just now that these special effects look like Ultraman's? Today's Ultraman's special effects are much better than this. Don't insult the special effects film, okay?"
"The special effects are indeed not as good as special effects films, but more like domestic cartoons!"
"I just finished insulting special effects films, and someone started to insult domestic animation again. Can't I just criticize them simply and directly? The special effects are like Tuo Xiang!!"
"..."
After this clip, a very small number of people realized that this was going to be a bad movie. In order to avoid wasting time, they cut their losses immediately and left the theater first.
But the vast majority of the audience were scolded but continued to read, hoping that there would be some improvement in the future.
As a result, when the movie lasted twenty minutes, some audience members left in groups one after another, and by the thirty-minute mark, more than half of the audience in the auditorium was gone!
When it was almost forty minutes, there was an old man with a rather violent temper. He stood up, grabbed the mineral water at hand, and threw it on the ground where the surrounding seats were already empty, cursing and saying.
:
"What the hell is this crappy movie! I almost fell asleep after watching it for forty minutes. The ticket price is more expensive than The Wandering Earth, but the quality is not even worthy of carrying shoes for "The Wandering Earth"! It took six or seven years to get it right.
Just by shooting something like this, is it so easy to launder black money now?"
After he finished speaking, he walked out with anger all over his body. Many of the remaining audience members said that he was too good at scolding him, and then they followed him out!
"Baby, let's go!" Cheng Yajie dragged Li Yi and walked outside. She didn't say anything, but looking at her face full of disappointment and unhappiness, you can tell what she was feeling inside at this moment!
I thought I was here to eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, but instead I was served a plate of candle rat, and the stew was still rotten dead rat. Not to mention how terrible that feeling was!
Li Yi looked back before going out. At first, the auditorium was packed with three to four hundred spectators. Now there are less than five people left at the scene, and two of them have fallen asleep on their seats.
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The noise like that just now didn't wake them up, which shows how good their sleep quality is!!
Li Yi knew that the double-edged sword raised by "Shanghai Fortress" had cut him, and it would definitely be fatal and serious injuries!!!
They originally planned to watch a movie happily, but it was disrupted by this, and the good mood of the two people was instantly gone.
After leaving the cinema and looking at the lively streets and crowds outside, Li Yi and Cheng Yajie's moods improved a little!
The feeling of going to see a bad movie with high expectations and spending money is really terrible!
Not to mention the audience just now, many of them were scolding "Shanghai Fortress" for wasting their time and money. Even Li Yi, who is now worth several billion, felt sorry for the two tickets!
"Baby! No matter it is you or our company, whatever works you make in the future must be worthy of the audience's ticket price and their expectations. Otherwise, you will really lose your conscience. I think there will be retribution!" Cheng Yajie looked at it.
Li Yi said seriously, it seems that she is also feeling distressed about the money spent on tickets!
"Don't worry! Baby, when have I ever been sorry to the audience and let them down?" Li Yi smiled and rubbed Cheng Yajie's head and said: "And believe me, those who don't take the audience seriously, the audience will definitely You won’t take them seriously, the thunder that will strike them is on the way!”
Soon, Li Yi and Cheng Yajie put their unhappiness behind. Now that all the relatives who were supposed to leave were gone, and they were free, Cheng Yajie took Li Yi to live happily in the city where she grew up. We walked around and played until dark before going home.
After returning home and finishing her meal, Cheng Yajie lay comfortably on the sofa, resting her head on Li Yi's thigh, and took out her mobile phone to log in to Weibo.
She originally wanted to see how the box office revenue of "The Wandering Earth" was today, but she found that "Shanghai Fortress" was much more popular than "The Wandering Earth" today. But not surprisingly, everyone was angry about the "Wandering Earth" Conduct various verbal and written criticisms:
"With its illogical plot and awesome and embarrassing performances, this is a very standard bad movie! The door to Chinese science fiction movies was just opened with difficulty by "The Wandering Earth", and was effortlessly closed by "Shanghai Fortress" !”
"Please don't compare this movie with Yi Ge's "The Wandering Earth" when promoting it, but put it in the same genre! It's completely a romance movie covered in so-called science fiction, and the filming is so crappy! Preparation for six Various satellites have been released throughout the year. As soon as Yi Ge's "The Wandering Earth" was announced to start filming, filming started immediately afterwards. The popularity is really 6!"
"Brother Yi opened the first year of Chinese science fiction with "The Wandering Earth", but it was immediately turned into a swan song by "Shanghai Fortress"!"
"The quality of the main film is not as good as in the trailer. It was made independently. It's really hard for you!"
"Originally, I wanted to give "The Wandering Earth" four stars after watching it, but when I saw everyone praising the movie, I
"I gave "The Wandering Earth" three stars just to cool down. However, after watching "Shanghai Fortress" today, I immediately changed the rating of "The Wandering Earth" to five stars, and I want to express my gratitude to "The Wandering Earth" here. "Apologies from all the creative staff! Your movie really deserves to be praised!"
"I went to the cinema specifically to record gun version resources. After recording for more than ten minutes, I really couldn't stand it, so I deleted the recorded ones and left. I talked with colleagues and no one could last more than thirty minutes, so Well, don’t ask for resources out of curiosity, because if nothing else happens, this may be the first movie in the history of Chinese insect movies that does not have pirated resources!"
"I am a poor student. My mother gave me 100 yuan today. I spent 53 yuan to buy a ticket for "Shanghai Fortress". I escaped ten minutes later and felt extremely unhappy! Finally, I spent 38 yuan to buy "The Wandering Earth" "I bought two movie tickets once, and after I came out, I used the remaining nine yuan to buy a bottle of Coke and a few packs of spicy sticks, and I felt much better!"
"I feel relieved to see so many people criticizing this bad movie!"
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The appalling quality of "Shanghai Fortress" aroused the dissatisfaction of all the viewers who abandoned their tickets and entered the theater. You can see their scolding of this bad movie everywhere on the Internet, as well as their further affirmation of "The Wandering Earth"!
With such a peer support, "The Wandering Earth", which had already lost some popularity after a few days of release, has once again been pushed to the forefront, and its popularity has become even higher. Audiences who have not yet bought tickets to enter the theater are more willing to spend money to watch it. Got it!
The next day, the first-day box office results of "Shanghai Fortress" came out. It was more than 98.76 million, nearly 100 million, which was nearly 30 million higher than the first-day box office result of "The Wandering Earth".
But the reputation is completely different from Li Yi's "The Wandering Earth"!
The expected score on Douban, which was originally around 9 points, has also fallen below 3 points, staying at 2.8, and is likely to continue to decline!
Like Li Yi's "The Wandering Earth", "Shanghai Fortress" not only made it to the hot search list the day after its premiere, but also all the information was picked up!
