Just when "I'm Not the God of Medicine" was a box office hit and was well received both in real life and online, there were a lot of discordant voices on Weibo.
On Weibo, a long article posted by a professor of biology who claimed to be internationally renowned directly criticized Cheng Yong's behavior of purchasing generic drugs on his behalf.
"Cheng Yong should be ashamed of what he did!"
The title is direct enough and more powerful than most critical voices.
In the past, no matter which film critic or public figure criticized "I'm Not a Medicine God", they would not question Cheng Yong's behavior of helping patients purchase the medicine, because no one is stupid. If they object to this behavior, they will be criticized by excited netizens.
scum.
And what this professor wrote was unkind.
"As a biopharmaceutical researcher, I often see people recommending the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine" recently, and I went to watch it because of its reputation, but I was really disappointed.
The main line of the story mainly tells about the social problem of the sky-high price of genuine medicines that many people cannot afford, taking medicines to the point of bankruptcy, or waiting to die if they don’t take medicines. The male protagonist Cheng Yong imports generic medicines and illegally sells them due to some strange combination of circumstances.
Medicine has saved thousands and hundreds of lives.
There are some parts that people find very touching, such as: Is it wrong for me to just want to live? Is it wrong to take generic drugs? I took medicine to the point of bankruptcy, but there are no patients in that family? Do you have the heart to arrest people?
This is what I want to point out. What I want to say is that this reflects people's selfish psychology and the national character problem of putting personal interests first.
Everyone does not want to die. In the face of death, everyone's mind becomes very fragile. It seems reasonable to seek any possibility of survival. However, no matter what the reason is, selling fake medicines, illegally smuggling imported generic medicines, and selling
The act of piracy has never been justified and will never be justified.
I am also very pleased that some sensible viewers have pointed out that the cost of the pharmaceutical process is huge, and the sky-high price of drugs has indeed made many people suffer and bankrupt many people. However, this is the law of the market, not a shady operation. People have spent real money and time and effort.
It is pitiful to develop things to help people and bankrupt everything, but this is the basis for maintaining social orderism, the basic condition for a virtuous cycle of pharmaceutical research and development, and the foundation of human development.
Just think about it, the survival of human beings to this day is due to the continuous development of human medicine. The eradication of infectious diseases such as plague, Black Death, Ebola virus, and AIDS is the result of people's continuous investment in research and development of new drugs.
The reason why humans have such a high survival rate today is due to the positive effects of sky-high-priced drugs.
In other words, every person who has lost his fortune is a contributor to the eradication of diseases. In other words, without their bankruptcies, maybe you and I would have been ravaged by the disease today and would have died a long time ago.
I think Cheng Yong should be ashamed of himself. In order to save those thousands and hundreds of people, he may have killed tens of thousands, even millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of people in the future.
People who take illegal generic drugs should also feel ashamed of their actions while taking them, and at the same time thank those who buy genuine drugs for their contribution to society. Without them, everything would be ruined, society would have no tomorrow, civilization would not progress, and the quality of the people would not be improved.
, is the beginning of a vicious cycle..."
Li Qian read this one of the most popular Weibo posts word for word. It was full of thousands of words and seemed to be well-founded.
Yes, medicines are developed by drug dealers, and they spend a lot of money and time.
"I bother!"
Li Qian looked at this expert's Weibo with disdain, "It's a shame that we deserve to go bankrupt if we take medicine together. The stability of social order, the progress of civilization, and the improvement of people's quality are all the work of drug dealers. Without drug dealers,
Everyone is going to die and society can’t progress. That’s because of science!”
"Director Li, suddenly there are so many critical voices, and they are all speaking for the drug dealers. Could it be that Lao Hua is behind this?" Xu Zheng asked a little worried.
There has been a lot of negative news, and the crew needs to discuss it together and at least have a unified tone. After all, the subsequent road shows and interviews will definitely involve this.
"There is no doubt that the drug dealers are unhappy because they are inseparable. In the past few days, drug dealers have been labeled as black-hearted capitalists." Li Qian said.
"This is troublesome. Naihua is a big company. I checked and found that its market value is US$150 billion, ranking in the top 30 in the world, higher than Sinopec, Coca-Cola, and Google." Xu Zheng said worriedly.
Li Qian nodded, "Yes, with a market value of US$150 billion, that is a real giant. Looking at the world, it is a top company."
"But I think, Director Li, you don't seem worried at all." Xu Zheng asked.
"worry about what?"
"..."
Xu Zheng was speechless. A giant with a market capitalization of US$150 billion is looking for trouble for you. What are you worried about?
Huang Bo, Hu Ge and others were also very surprised. It was clear that Lao Hua was dissatisfied with the portrayal of medical representatives in "I'm Not the God of Medicine" and thought he was trying to hack them. Why was Li Qian not worried at all?
Looking at their expressions, Li Qian took the opportunity to understand and smiled nonchalantly, "We are not in the same industry, so I'm afraid of their attacks. I didn't blackmail the pharmaceutical company, and even beautified them. Speaking of which, you should thank me.
And Laihua is awesome, but we have a backer, so what are we afraid of?"
"backing?"
Everyone's eyes lit up.
Li Qian smiled and said, "The people are behind us. With this backing, what do we have to fear?"
"..."
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Judging from the situation on the Internet, there is a lot of movement, and it is not just a troll. I took a cursory look and basically all wrote "reasonable and well-founded". In addition, these people are all
Experts and students in pharmaceuticals, biology, and chemistry first put themselves in the position of a savior, saying that R&D costs more, and then criticize the movie. If they add a group of trolls, some rational viewers will
If you unconsciously agree with what they say, you will inevitably be asked questions about this in subsequent promotions, so everyone should be prepared and don't talk nonsense.
"Then where should we go to talk?" everyone asked.
Li Qian thought for a while and said, "Don't criticize drug dealers. The audience can criticize, but we can't. There's nothing we can do about it. As a public figure, we can't talk about many realistic things, and we can't stand on the side of drug dealers."
Speak up, otherwise you will slap yourself in the face."
Together they discussed how to deal with the media and the audience. After staying there for more than an hour, everyone went back to their rooms to rest.
Li Qian then also received a call from Du Yang, asking how to deal with it.
"Let's promote it as usual, just increase the intensity."
"Does it need to provoke a conflict between the audience and the drug dealers, and completely push the drug dealers to the opposite side of the audience?" Du Yang asked on the other side of the phone.
"No, this is too deliberate and unnecessary."
Li Qian shook his head and hung up the phone after talking for a while.
To be honest, Li Qian was surprised that so many people in the pharmaceutical-related industries were encouraged to speak out about the fate of drug dealers.
As I said to Xu Zheng before, he did not criticize drug dealers, but instead beautified them. The real drug dealers were far more evil than the ones in the movies.
Li Qian also did his homework before filming the movie. Gleevec is the most expensive drug in the world in China, and not even a little bit.
A bottle in China seems to cost 25,000, which is less than the nearly 40,000 in the movie. The price in the movie is to highlight the difference with the price sold by Cheng Yong.
Most of the prices in other countries around the world are more than 10,000 yuan. The cheapest one is in Nanbang Bar, which costs 9,000 yuan a bottle.
Of course, there are various domestic taxes, including 17% value-added tax, 5% tariff, and 20% turnover tax.
The so-called turnover tax actually goes into the pockets of certain people layer by layer.
Since Gleevec can sell for 10,000 in other countries, and Nanbang even sells for 9,000, it means that this price is the bottom line that they can accept.
To do the math, we don’t need the lowest price of 9,000. Taking Mi Lijian’s 13,000 as an example, even if we add various taxes of 17%, 5%, and 20%, it’s still only 18,500 per bottle.
There is a difference of 65 million yuan between 18,500 and 25,000 yuan.
If we calculate it as 10,000 bottles in most countries, it would be 14,200, which is a full 10,000 difference.
Interestingly, the relevant departments did not negotiate the price at all when importing Gleevec, so how to set the price?
The pharmaceutical company quotes an FOB price, and when it arrives in China, plus customs duties, value-added tax, and the money earned by various dealers, it becomes the final selling price.
Where is the difference between the price of 6,7,000, or even 10,000 in dozens of countries?
Maybe the pharmaceutical company took part of it, and another group of people took part of it, and just divided the difference?
Li Qian was just guessing. As for the real reason, even if it wasn't, it probably meant something similar.
Is there anything wrong with Lai Hua? There is definitely one. The movie is actually beautifying them.