Chapter 270 Throne, if you go up, you won't come down!
As the Lunar New Year festival continues to be hot, the time has come to 2011 and the new year has arrived.
But in the new year, the film market is still the same as before.
"If You Are the One 2" has collapsed in terms of reputation. Compared with "I Am Legend"'s 288 million in the second week, "If You Are the One 2" only received 130 million, and 334 million in two weeks, a complete avalanche.
As for "The Orphan of Zhao" and "The Great Laughter", both are hovering around 150 million, and they have not had much box office for a long time.
Although "Let the Bullets Fly" has already received 591 million in box office in four weeks, and 600 million is just around the corner, it only had less than 70 million left last week.
Unless "I Am Legend" collapses like "If You Are the One 2", "I Am Legend" will almost overtake "Let the Bullets Fly" this week.
500 million in 11 days, unrivaled at the box office.
Although "Let the Bullets Fly" is better in terms of reviews and reputation, as it has been released for so long, various metaphors in the movie have been explained.
For example, in the beginning of the horse-drawn train, because the background of the story has a strong revolutionary plot, and it was also the period of the Revolution of 1911, the metaphor of the horse-drawn train is essentially the Revolution of 1911 changing the soup without changing the medicine. On the surface, it is under the guise of "democratic republic", but in its heart
But it is still the same autocracy as before.
Because the first train in China seemed to be horse-drawn, not steam-powered.
There are also Echeng and Cancheng. Echeng is dangerous and Cancheng is rich.
Echeng is the negative side, and Kangcheng is the positive side, which means that people live a healthy life and a moderately prosperous society, but they have not achieved it, which shows that a moderately prosperous society only exists in Jiang Wen's ideal.
Huang Silang threw his hat to the revolutionary Zhang Mazi on the bunker, which meant the transfer of power. The hat was an official hat.
After pushing and pushing, in the end, it could not escape the category of revolution. Some people even dug up a hidden thread in the movie. Huang Silang and Zhang Mazi are both veteran revolutionary parties.
When he gave the mine to the fake Zhang Mazi, Huang Silang said that there were only two of these limited edition mines. The first one exploded during the Revolution of 1911, shocking the sky, shaking the earth, and making ghosts and gods weep.
Heaven, earth, ghosts and gods are another metaphor. Anyway, any line in the movie can be interpreted in various ways.
Not only did Huang Silang know what type of landmine the Revolution of 1911 was, but he also owned the only twin landmine. His identity was immediately revealed, and he was an old revolutionary party.
In the movie, Huang Silang also mentioned that he had a relationship with Zhang Mazi 20 years ago.
As a result, Zhang Mazi's identity was also revealed. He was a former revolutionary party, but because the revolution had changed, he became disappointed with the authorities and finally became a bandit.
Is Jiang Wen also disappointed with the authorities?
Huang Silang was a former revolutionary party, but after the revolution, he occupied the county seat and the dragon-slaying warrior turned into an evil dragon. He was a corrupt revolutionary party, so Zhang Mazi, a new revolutionary party, slayed the dragon again.
There are all kinds of interpretations on the Internet, which could add up to a book.
Li Qian is also studying this movie, but the focus of his research has nothing to do with the content of these metaphors.
Jiang Wen has become a god among some literary and artistic youths and pseudo-literary youths. In their eyes, even Wang Jiawei, who has won many international awards, or Li An, who has won an Oscar, are not necessarily better than Jiang Wen.
But before, it was only a deity in the hearts of some viewers.
However, the movie "Let the Bullets Fly" has managed to become a god in the hearts of the public, pseudo-literary youths, ordinary literary youths, and great literary youths, and it has also been officially recognized. It is simply perfect.
As the saying goes, you can make money even while standing.
He stood up, not surrendering to Optoelectronics, but hiding the gunpowder in the bullet under the shell of comedy and business. He stood up straight and allowed Optoelectronics to accept it.
The word-of-mouth spread of the movie is probably like this. The quality and commercial attributes of the movie quickly won the favor of the public. After a short wait and watch, the majority of literary and artistic young people immediately bowed down and surrendered after seeing Ning Caishen's words "The Jiangwen Dynasty is coming!"
, fell to the ground in admiration, and then some great literary and artistic young people also came out to express their stance.
Of course, there are also high-minded literary and artistic young people with relatively high "ideological realm" who denounce Jiang Wen for betraying his ideals, being corrupt, and worshiping money.
But it's still a minority.
Being able to cater to all audiences is a place worth learning.
Moreover, despite the fact that Jiang Wen invited Ma Xiaogang to make a cameo, this film also satirized Ma Xiaogang.
Zhang Mazi wanted to make money standing up, but Master Tang was willing to kneel down to make money, and the person he knelt on was Huang Silang, who represented the ruling class.
Although Master Tang is played by Ge You, the real Master in the movie is indeed the character Ma Xiaogang.
Of course, I don’t know if Jiang Wen thinks this way, but this kind of argument is also common on the Internet. After all, there is only a director in the industry like Ma Xiaogang who is similar to Jiang Wen, but he is tacky.
Ma Xiaogang, who has been keeping a low profile in the past few days, has been harassed by reporters frequently. However, due to lack of capital and confidence, Huayang Media has also arranged some reporters to cooperate and rescue Ma Xiaogang, saving Ma Xiaogang embarrassment.
When asked how he felt about Jiang Wenhan's connotation of ridiculing him, Ma Xiaogang almost left the scene in anger again.
It wasn't enough to use Li Qian to attack him. He had already kept a low profile and took the initiative to become invisible, and then started to drag him and Jiang Wen into trouble.
"The weather is so cold now. This journalist friend, please don't freeze your brain. I also made a guest appearance in "Let the Bullets Fly". We are good friends with Jiang Wen. There is no such thing as sarcasm."
Ma Xiaogang retorted that he was not polite to these reporters.
The bad mood got worse again, and the resentment towards Li Qian got worse, and it was estimated that it would last for at least half a month. Thinking of this, Ma Xiaogang couldn't wait to rush over during the New Year holiday.
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Li Qian could only sympathize with Ma Xiaogang's tragic experience, and secretly said "Shao Rui" in his heart, and then said "He deserves it".
As a joke, every time I see Ma Xiaogang's dark face in online news, I find it funny.
However, as the movie has been in theaters for half a month, various interpretations of "I Am Legend" have also come out.
Moreover, all of them focus on zombies, and a long film review titled "Who is the Alien" on Douban became a hot topic of discussion.
"In various zombie movies, they are aliens who kill humans and destroy the world. At this time, there are always heroic figures among humans who stand up to eliminate them and save humanity. However, no one has ever thought about what it would be like to stand in their perspective.
, what should this story be like?
When people all over the world have two eyes, those with only one eye are aliens. However, if people all over the world have only one eye, then are people with two eyes aliens?
From a human perspective, zombies are aliens, and the hero wants to save them. However, if you look at them from a zombie perspective, the movie becomes as follows.
There was a heroic king, and he had a beautiful princess. In the city where they lived, there was a demon. He hid in a lair that no one knew about and conducted horrific experiments. Every day during the day, he would come out and plunder.
their food and other stuff.
One day, he used a trap to catch the princess and experimented on her, hoping to use evil potions to turn her into a demon like him. The brave king used all his wisdom and led the brave soldiers to go straight to the demon's lair.
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But, in the end, the devil used a bomb to kill them all, and the devil's accomplices also escaped with the evil potion. Think about it from another perspective, isn't it interesting, in fact, the male protagonist is the villain, the alien?"
After reading this nonsense movie review word for word, Li Qian really wanted to say something, Plath is awesome!
This ability to make something out of nothing is simply terrifying. He will definitely get a perfect score in reading comprehension in the college entrance examination, and even the original author cannot compare with him.
This kind of film review is obviously evil and funny, but I didn’t expect that there would be a large group of people below to agree with it.
“Damn it, it’s horrifying to think about it, it turns out that the male protagonist is the villain.”
"It seems like this is really the case. 99% of the people in the world have turned into zombies. There is only one protagonist left in the whole city, and humans have become aliens."
"Zombies are also transformed from humans, and their speed, strength, etc. have been improved in all aspects. It can be regarded as the evolution of humans. Then other people who have not evolved, including the protagonist, are not aliens?"
"Zombies can be seen as evolved humans, while humans are just unevolved monkeys?"
"I went, so we turned into monkeys?"
"No one has the IQ of a monkey, and a zombie is just a beast at most."
"I'm not sure. The zombie boss has human intelligence. Is it possible that other zombies can also evolve wisdom?"
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Li Qian was speechless. Do these people really think so, or are they just following the trend?
Isn't this just like when "2012" was released, a large group of netizens spread the word that the end of the world would come in 2012?
Can we say that they really believe in the end of the world? Of course it is impossible, unless they are fools.
However, it seems that more and more people are following the trend. This long comment has been reprinted everywhere, on Weibo, Tianya, Maopu, Goupu, and Bhu, and some people have improved on it.
After widespread dissemination, what they understood was seen as a metaphor for what Li Qian wanted to express deep in his heart.
This time Li Qian finally understood how Mr. Lu Xun felt. If he saw his article being interpreted in various ways, he would probably feel the same way.
That’s not what I said!
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Li Qian came to Yangcheng and Shenzhen to promote the film and was invited to Sun Yat-sen University to hold a meeting for college students. At the meeting, the students immediately mentioned this hot topic on the Internet.
To be honest, as the discussion became more and more heated, Li Qian couldn't tell whether the audience was just following the trend or if they really understood it.
However, facing the college students, Li Qian still explained patiently and told a story.
"Once upon a time, there was a country where it always rained. People who drank the rainwater would become crazy. Everyone in the country drank the rainwater except the king. So everyone in the country pitied the king very much, saying that the king's spirit was...
question, and forced the king to drink this rainwater. Later, the king also went crazy. Everyone was happy and everyone became the same kind of normal people.
So in this story, the king is a minority, and he is the only one. Compared with the whole country, he is a special one, but everyone thinks, who is a normal person and who is an alien?"
It's a very simple story and easy to understand. No one will think that crazy people are normal people.
The student who asked the question sat down angrily, but then a female classmate asked, "Hello Director Li, except for the male protagonist and the dog who broke into the zombie's territory in the movie, the zombies did not actively attack the male."
The protagonist is the male protagonist who first kidnapped the lover of the zombie leader, and then caused the zombie leader to take revenge.
And when the male protagonist caught the female zombie, the male zombie leader braved the sun and rushed out to look at the male protagonist, indicating that they were in true love. His lover was captured. Was his counterattack wrong? "
Let me ask you, what kind of brain circuit is this?
Human beings are indeed the most complex creatures in the world, and you never know what they are thinking about in the next second.
A few days ago, a large group of movie fans pitied the dog. Now they say that the actor deserved the trap he got caught in. He first captured someone else's wife, and the zombie leader was right to save his own wife.
"Ahem."
Li Qian coughed lightly, organized his words, and said in simple and direct words, "First of all, I want to say that this classmate's thoughts are very dangerous. The mutated zombies are no longer human beings. At most, they are just...
As a new species, we as a people must first look at the problem from a human standpoint.
Just like when a cat eats a fish, the cat will not think that it is wrong to attack the fish. Lions and tigers will never think that there is anything wrong with eating a small animal such as a deer or sheep if it does not attack them."
There is no big reason or anything lofty, it is simple and crude.
Another classmate then asked, "Since zombies are a new creature, they are also a member of nature, and their existence is reasonable. Why must we destroy them?"
Even if the universal term exists and is reasonable, it is not a leverage.
Li Qianzhen doubted whether these students were here to make a fuss.
He really guessed it right. As a top student of 985 University, he is arrogant at heart, even a little extreme. Some people think that Ma Qingyang and Ma Huaqian are just standing in the spotlight, and I can do it.
For these arrogant people, what could be more satisfying than those who succeed in arguing and have nothing to say.
Even if you are arguing, you will feel a sense of accomplishment if you win.
Of course, most of them are not malicious and just want to compete with you.
This is no longer an issue about movies, it’s about debate and philosophy. Coincidentally, Li Qian also participated in a debate competition when he was in college.
However, Li Qian did not use a dialectical method to reason, but said something simple and crude.
"Please ask this classmate to come up."
What are you going up for?
The student was a little strange, but he walked out of his seat with excitement and was ready to go on stage.
When he was halfway there, Li Qian smiled and said, "If existence is reasonable, then you come up later and I will beat you. If I beat you, it will exist. Isn't that also reasonable?"
As soon as these words came out, the student who was about to walk onto the stage stopped.
When other students in the audience heard Li Qian's vulgar answer, they burst into laughter, and some even booed.
"Come up quickly."
"Don't be afraid, 110 has been dialed. Li Qian doesn't dare to call. If you call, I will call the police for you."
"It's too late to call 110. I'll call an ambulance for you."
"Hahaha......"
The booing in the audience made the student feel a little embarrassed, and Li Qian also looked on with a smile.
Seeing that he refused to leave, the audience booed again, and he went down amidst the boos.
Li Qian shook his head secretly. He was still too shy. If he were him, he would go up and see if the other party dared to fight. If he dared to fight, he would hit him back and then say that existence is reasonable.
It was quite interesting. Li Qian had a good lecture on "principles" with the students for a while.
Perhaps it was the first time they met Li Qian, who was so vulgar, and he was different from the celebrities who talked about truth in the past, so the students became more and more enthusiastic.
However, there are also people who think quickly and understand the original question.
"Director Li, the zombies in the movie have developed intelligence, so it is possible for other zombies as well. Compared with humans, zombies' physical fitness has been improved in all aspects. They are completely evolved versions of humans. Instead of developing an antidote, it is better to make humans become
Wouldn’t the evolved new human beings be better?”
"Are you willing to become a zombie?" Li Qian suddenly asked.
"I..."
The student hesitated for a moment, then nodded bravely and said, "If it means becoming a fully evolved new human being, I am willing."
"However, there are only a very small number of intelligent zombies. There is only one in the entire Demon City. Not one zombie in a million may evolve intelligence. Even assuming that after a long time, these zombies will regain their original intelligence, you can't
It has to go through such a beast-like process, and I think 90% of people will definitely not accept that they become a mindless beast."
"Can't we live in peace?"
"How to live in peace? Zombies will actively attack any living creature, including humans. Humans will also want to restore zombies to adults. New humans who have evolved wisdom are the leaders of countless zombies. They hold great power. If they change back, they may become inhumane.
Ordinary people with no power, are they willing to give up their current status..."
When it comes to the movie itself, Li Qian will explain it carefully to them.
"This is an irreconcilable contradiction. Just like monkeys and humans coexist, the reason is that monkeys will not want to turn people back into monkeys, and people will not take the initiative to attack monkeys. In the movie, the hero is so horrified after discovering that the zombie leader is intelligent.
, and did not hesitate to die with him, the purpose is to destroy the "new human beings" who already have wisdom.
Because zombies without intelligence can still be dealt with. Once intelligence is gained, human beings will really face extinction if the number of people and physical strength are not occupied. Think about it, assuming that there are 100 billion zombies in the world that will actively attack humans.
Lions and tigers, led by some wise leaders, invade the city. Can humans resist it, and what price should they pay?
This is still a lion, tiger, or 100 billion gorillas, and they are intelligent, can use tools, weapons, and can assimilate humans."
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Although it was a boring question and not nutritious, it was just a matter of chatting with others.
There will be a live video of the meeting, and although it has been posted online, there is still a large group of netizens arguing and busy with the topic of the new human race.
However, it had no impact on the movie, and the box office continued to surge.
Last week, due to the three-day New Year's Day holiday, the box office hit 288 million in a single week. There was a slight drop in the third week, but the decline was still stable.
In the third week, "I Am Legend" took in a total of 158 million box office!
"Let the Bullets Fly" received 30 million in its fifth week, and its total box office exceeded 600 million, reaching 621 million.
"If You Are the One 2" only received 50 million at the box office in its third week, and it still maintained a trend of diving every week, with a total box office of 384 million. Compared with the other two movies, it was completely insufficient.
A Hollywood movie "The Chronicles of Narnia" was also released this week, with a box office of 40 million in three days.
However, whether it is a new film or "Let the Bullets Fly" which exceeded 600 million, they all eclipsed the astonishing box office of "I Am Legend".
159 million in the third week, plus 518 million in the first two weeks, and the total box office reached 677 million after 18 days of release!
677 million, breaking the box office record of Chinese-language movies set by "Tangshan Earthquake" with 673 million!
It is another record, and it is a very important record. The Chinese film box office top spot, after Zhang Yimou, Han Sanping, and Ma Xiaogang, has ushered in the fourth record breaker.
Moreover, I am afraid that no one will come after him. Once Li Qian sits on this throne, he will never come down.