"It's so touching. Brother Chao played the role so well. I feel like that child is his own son. I guess he doesn't treat his children that well."
Walking out of the cinema, Tong Liya was lamenting the plot of "The Pursuit of Happiness" she had just watched.
"As I said, actors are performing. Could it be that those who play father and son really have to be father and son to perform." Li Qian shook his head.
Tong Liya curled her lips in dissatisfaction, "Let me use an analogy!"
"Okay, if others hear it, they will think that Brother Chao has an illegitimate child. His extraordinary performance is probably more likely to have a similar experience." Li Qian said.
"Yes." Tong Liya nodded.
Deng Chao's experience is quite rough. Ten years ago, in order to earn medical expenses for his family, he fell into a low period of not choosing to act. It is somewhat similar to the male protagonist in the movie who rushes for work, except that Deng Chao is a son.
rather than the father.
Whether it was yesterday's premiere or the audience's reaction just now, Deng Chao's performance was almost perfect.
However, Li Qian watched the film once when it was being edited, and watched it again at the premiere yesterday. Today, Tong Liya just came back from filming in Vancouver. She was jet-lagged during the day, so she took Li Qian to watch the movie in the evening.
I've watched it three times in a row and it doesn't make much sense anymore.
"Let's go back."
"I want to go shopping some more."
"You've just been filming for a few months and taking a long-distance flight. Don't you feel tired?"
"I'm not tired. I'm not tired at all during this filming. Director Xue was worried that I would lose weight due to fatigue. It's much more relaxed than other crew members." Tong Liya said with a relaxed smile.
For the filming of "Beijing Meets Seattle", she deliberately put on some fat and became plump. During the filming, Xue Xiaolu was worried that she would lose weight because of being too tired. She felt very relaxed every day, more relaxed than any other crew she had worked on before.
There was no other way, so Li Qian could only accompany him for nearly two hours before going home exhausted both physically and mentally.
After going home and fiddling with it for an hour, it almost fell apart.
However, Tong Liya has grown some flesh on her body and feels much better, just right from top to bottom.
"Yaya." Li Qian rubbed Tong Liya's smooth body and gasped.
Tong Liya arched her arms in Li Qian's arms, opened her lips slightly, and said a lazy note, "Well..."
"Don't lose weight anymore."
"no."
"This is just right. If I lose any more weight, I will be too thin."
"I don't, you just do it for your own pleasure!"
"I do it for your good health. It's not good if you are too thin."
"No, I will lose weight starting tomorrow."
"..." Li Qian felt the wonderful touch on his hands with some regret.
Suddenly, the mobile phone on the bedside rang.
He glanced at the name and saw that it was Wen Muye calling, but Li Qian didn't answer.
After ringing for a while, Tong Liya poked her head out of Li Qian's arms and asked, "Why don't you answer the phone?"
"I don't have any time." Li Qian said confidently.
Feeling the hands on her body that never stopped, Tong Liya spat angrily, "Not serious!"
Lying on top of Li Qian, she reached out and pressed the screen of her phone. After answering the call, Tong Liya lay back down again.
"Hey! Who is it?" Li Qian could only turn his head and shout into the phone.
Wen Muye on the other side of the phone was a little strange. He looked at his phone and saw that he was calling Li Qian. He didn't dial the wrong number. Why did he ask who he was?
Didn't you save your phone number?
Wen Muye didn't think about it carefully and quickly replied, "It's me, boss."
"What's wrong? What happened?" Li Qian asked.
It's late at night, it's past 11:30, and I'm not going to rest, so I'm making some damn phone calls.
"Boss, I just read the online reviews tonight. Some people said that the sensationalism and inspiration in the movie are too deliberate..."
Wen Muye rambled on a lot, talking about some of the bad reviews about the movie that he had seen from places like meager, forced, and funny.
"Don't worry about it. Some people don't like even the RMB. No movie can be liked by everyone."
After chatting for a while and comforting Wen Muye, Li Qian took out his hand and hung up the phone.
Put your hands back and continue...
Half an hour later, at 12 o'clock, the phone rang again.
Wen Muye's urgent voice came from the mobile phone, "Boss, are the box offices out?"
"Wait a minute, the distribution department will send you a message after getting the data." Li Qian said patiently.
He hung up the phone and shook his head, "Just like a young daughter-in-law who is about to get married."
Tong Liya smiled and said, "This is normal. It's the first movie."
More than ten minutes later, Li Qian received box office information from the distribution department on his phone.
Almost at the same time, Wen Muye's call came again.
Li Qian had no choice but to answer the phone and spoke first, "43 million on the first day."
Wen Muye, who was on the other side of the phone, looked at the phone and was stunned. He hadn't asked yet.
In the blink of an eye, his text message came, and he said quickly, "Boss, I received a text message from the distribution department. Did you disturb your rest? Good night."
After saying that, he hung up the phone before Li Qian.
"..."
Li Qian was stunned, shook his head and threw the phone on the bedside.
"Pfft..." Tong Liya couldn't help laughing.
"Why are you laughing? Let's have another round and you'll be on top." Li Qian very generously let Tong Liya ride on him and dominate him.
...
The next morning, in the office, looking at Wen Mu's wild grin, Li Qian said angrily, "43 million, you can rest assured now."
"Hey, I'm disturbing the boss's rest." Wen Muye smiled sheepishly.
Yesterday, when it was released in the evening, although "The Pursuit of Happiness" had a good reputation, there were still some different voices.
The main negative comment is that it is too sensational, sensational for the sake of sensation, and inspirational for the sake of inspiration.
This is an inspirational film, and its main selling point is inspirational. If there is a problem in this aspect, it will undoubtedly be a major blow to the box office.
At that time, Wen Muye was frightened. After returning home from the road show, I spent the whole night reading online reviews, whether it was Douban, Tieba, Bihu, Tianya, etc., I read the reviews of the movie over and over again.
Whenever I see voices criticizing a movie, I feel panicked, so I called Li Qian at around 11 o'clock.
As soon as 12 o'clock in the morning arrived, I couldn't wait to call Li Qian to ask about the box office. It wasn't until I got the box office data that I finally felt relieved.
After being happy for a while, Wen Muye calmed himself down, "Now that I think about it, I was too nervous yesterday. It was hard to find a negative review among dozens of positive reviews. The boss is right, there are people who don't even like the RMB.
Let alone movies, no movie can be liked by everyone."
"It's your first time, so you'll inevitably be nervous. Once you have experience, you'll be fine next time."
Deng Chao next to him smiled and said with some doubts, "Some people don't like any RMB. Who doesn't like RMB?"
"ah..."
Wen Muye was also stunned by this question, "Yes, who doesn't like RMB?"
Yesterday Wen Muye didn't think much about it, but now that he thinks about it, there is indeed something wrong with Li Qian's words. How come no one likes the RMB.
Next to her, Tong Liya also looked at Li Qian, "Yes, how could someone not like RMB?"
"..."
Li Qian was speechless. This was just an analogy.
We are almost catching up with the Chinese teacher. He is not Lu Xun. There is a need to get to the bottom of every sentence.
"Of course...it's true. A lot of companies engaged in foreign trade and export want the RMB to depreciate. I don't see that the Federal Reserve deliberately wants the RMB to appreciate." Li Qian finally came up with a reasonable explanation.
"But why is this?" Deng Chao's doubts became even more serious.
"Because..." Li Qian talked about international trade in detail.
"I see."
The three of them suddenly understood the pros and cons of RMB appreciation.
But Deng Chao spread his hands and asked with a strange look on his face, "Why are we talking about international trade so early in the morning?"
Tong Liya said angrily, "You have to ask yourself."
"Did I ask?"
"It's you."
"Maybe it's because I ate too much in the morning."
"..." Deng Chao was depressed.
Tong Liya comforted her, "Brother Chao, as soon as I came back yesterday, I went to the cinema to watch "The Pursuit of Happiness" in the afternoon. You acted so well, you looked more like your biological father."
Why did he bring up this issue again? Li Qian was worried that Deng Chao would feel uncomfortable thinking about his deceased father, so he joked, "It's just acting. Zhang Hanyu also played his father, and he acted like a father and son."
Deng Chao's face immediately fell, "Can you not mention it?"
"Ha ha......"
Li Qian tried hard not to laugh and said, "Okay, okay, stop talking. You should go and do your business. Don't keep the road show audience waiting for too long."
The two of them also have road shows. Feature films pay more attention to publicity. After all, they are not blockbusters. They can attract audiences by relying on big productions and big scenes.
...
The popularity of "The Pursuit of Happiness" has brought the summer season back to the familiar scene dominated by domestic films, and its popularity is much higher than that of "Pacific Rim" in July.
After all, it was just a Hollywood popcorn movie. The popularity of the movie on the Internet was not as great as the subsequent criticism of the heroine Jingtian.
However, the movie market in August is not only "The Pursuit of Happyness", but also "Tiny Times: The Age of Aoki" released on the same day.
Two episodes of this series were shot consecutively. The first part sold over 400 million yuan in Liu Yue. Lay's struck while the iron was hot and released the second part in August.
The second part of the big bad movie was shot together and is basically not much different from the first part.
Before the film was released, the Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Film Association, as well as a group of filmmakers and critics, called on audiences and theaters to boycott the second film.
However, it was of no use. The second part still sold 54 million on the first day, which was 11 million higher than the 43 million on the first day of "The Pursuit of Happiness".
When the first part had such a bad reputation, the second part was able to sell over 50 million yuan, which was a slap in the face to most people in the industry.
However, the criticism and scolding he faced became more and more intense.
Fans of "Tiny Times" have also shown strong fighting power, fighting with various filmmakers and critics online, especially on Weibo.
Famous film critic Zhou Liming posted on Weibo, saying that if most fans of "Tiny Times" want to afford the things in the film and live the kind of life in the film, they have to find "old people" to work as mistresses.
It is only possible because this is the implicit value of the film.
As a result, I was immediately besieged by fans: You are the onion, don’t be jealous all the time, do you think you can make movies? Do you think you have the money to create a movie called "Tiny Times" by yourself? You are old.
, you don’t deserve to live in this new era!
To be honest, it's quite fun for Li Qian to read the comments of these fans. There are so many talented people among them.
Fans also said that Mo Yan stole Guo Jinming’s Nobel Prize in Literature.
It even blows the movie to the sky: I think "Tiny Times" is a divine film. The narrative structure of this film is extremely excellent, and it completely surpassed "Pulp"; the use of color is used to the extreme, and it overturns "Red Desert";
The long shots are magnificent and far surpass those of "I am Cuba"; the editing is so good that it makes "Breakdown" look childish and ridiculous; the expressiveness of the realistic part makes "Bicycle Thieves" eclipse; the structure of the surreal part makes "Angel of Death"
" has become an undisputed scum; the use of sound and picture made "Last Year at Marienbad" bow its head severely; the theme concept is so profound that it makes "2001: A Space Odyssey" seem superficial and artificial.
To be honest, if you brag to this level, you are either crazy, sick, or just trying to disgust people.
...
The success of "Tiny Times 2" has also given major companies a glimmer of hope.
In today's film industry, no company can compare to Future Pictures, which owns Li Qian, and with its directors, other companies are completely helpless.
The major companies have simply lost their competitiveness and cannot compete in terms of film quality.
This situation once made them despair.
But now, "Tiny Times" has given them new hope and direction. Since they can't compete with quality, they should find another way.
As for what Li Qian told them before, that they would not be the rivals of Tanuki and Penguin in the future, he simply ignored it due to the success of "Tiny Times 2".
"They also use high-quality movies to suppress the money-making movies that follow the trend. I want to see what Li Qian uses to suppress them this time!"
Huang Zhongjun is full of joy at this time. It doesn't matter that "The Pursuit of Happiness" has a good reputation. The box office on the first day is still more than 10 million less than "Tiny Times 2".
Despite the poor reputation, the box office of the sequel exceeded that of another highly acclaimed movie, which also gave Huang Zhongjun and the others greater confidence. Otherwise, they would have been a little afraid that Li Qian would come to gather their films.
...
Just when "Tiny Times 2" was a hit with numerous controversies, mainstream filmmakers and institutions were criticizing it, and major companies were intensively preparing their own follow-up movies, the film market continued to advance at a furious pace.
"The Pursuit of Happiness" relied on its high reputation to sell 218 million yuan in its first weekend.
And "Tiny Times 2", which had an even higher first-day gross of 10 million, only had a box office of 180 million in its first weekend.
Although it was a big hit for a small- to medium-budget movie, it disappointed major companies.
But fortunately, at least they were not beaten by the highly praised "The Pursuit of Happiness". They can completely accept this situation.
However, the following Monday, the single-day box office of "Tiny Times 2" plummeted to 13 million.
"The Pursuit of Happiness" still received 35 million on Monday, with the decline stable within 40%.
Throughout the second week, although there were new films such as "Agarwood" and "Guild Wars" released, "The Pursuit of Happiness" also received 260 million in seven days.
The trend of "Tiny Times 2" is also in line with the poor reputation, with sales exceeding 100 million in the second week.
In the third week, the box office completely plummeted, with a total of 17 million in seven days and a total box office of 297 million.
However, "The Pursuit of Happiness" grossed 150 million in its third week, and its total box office has reached 628 million.
From a lead of 11 million on the first day, the difference was doubled to 300 million more than half a month later.
Such a huge disparity immediately extinguished the unrealistic ideas in the minds of major companies.