China Entertainment please answer! 1997

Chapter 80 Ordinary Netizen Ma Huateng Gangzi
Everything went smoothly, just as Jin Xiaoxiao predicted in the office a few days ago, without any surprises, the box office of the movie "The Hangover" began to rise in a straight line on the second day of its release, and it was popular in major theaters. The average amount of films scheduled within also began to increase crazily.

83, 92, 99, 110, [-], up to yesterday's highest box office of [-], Cao Qing's second movie "The Hangover" is like a rampage Like a big wild boar, he crazily crushed all the obstacles in front of him.

So far, on August 15th, "The Hangover" has only been released for a week, and it has already won nearly 700 million box office nationwide.

Moreover, watching the movie "The Hangover" is still able to achieve an astonishing performance of close to 31.3% of the movie's attendance rate even though 70.00% of the national theaters are scheduled. It is very possible for this movie to break through the 2000 million box office. .

Under such circumstances, although the relationship between Cao Qing and the major movie theaters is as close as Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Yimou, the big shots in the movie industry, the managers of the major movie theaters still called Cao Qing to express their congratulations , and at the same time chatted about his next movie.

At this moment, the interpersonal relationships commonly used by Chinese people become insignificant in front of money.

Even though Cao Qing had no friendship with these people at all before, as long as his next movie doesn't fail, these people's attitude towards him will be far more familiar than that of ordinary friends.

As the saying goes, when money stands up and speaks, even if it is the truth, you have to choose to remain silent.

In the past few days, with the box office of his second movie "The Hangover" making rapid progress, Cao Qing finally realized this matter.

In the president's office of Tengda Film and Television Entertainment Company, Cao Qing sat peacefully in his own president's chair, looked at the computer screen with a smile, and browsed one by one on the Tianya forum about "The Hangover" on the Internet. Fan reviews of movies.

For the movie "The Hangover", most of the comments in the Tianya forum are praises. After all, Cao Qing is standing on the shoulders of giants to review this movie, and the movie in the original world was directed by Todd. Directed by Phillips, Justin Barsha, Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms starred in the film, which earned a full $4.88 million worldwide. Super high grades.

Although the timeline at that time was 2009, and now it is only 1999, there is a full ten-year gap between the two, but no matter how the prices are soaring and inflation, and whether it is at this time in China and other regions in terms of box office spending power Whether it is far lower than Europe and the United States, but even if the box office is weakened by a hundred times, the film directed by Cao Qing is still a big killer in today's China.

Especially after Cao Qing eliminated some American humor from this movie, and added some funny clips from Ning Hao's later film "Heart Blossoms on the Road", this movie was destined to be a hit from the day it was released. Success, in one fell swoop, made Cao Qing a famous and great director in China.

Cao Qing kept scrolling down the mouse and scrolling through the praises and comments on the movie "The Hangover" and the director of the movie on the Tianya forum, feeling very happy.

Of course, he also directly and selectively applied retinal filters to those abusive and negative comments about his movie that appeared from time to time on the Tianya forum.

"Hehe, vulgar, three views are not correct, bullshit~"

"How can a man's three views be wrong if he indulges once before getting married? Besides, I didn't mention the mainland. I clearly set the characters for these protagonists as having a background in studying abroad. It is not normal for people who have studied abroad to have an open personality. ?"

After a long time, finally tired of watching Cao Qing who praised and commented on the Tianya forum, he turned off the computer casually, smiled and said.

However, although he didn't care much about this kind of comment, in order to avoid being attacked by those media people in the future, Cao Qing made a phone call to those media people he knew after thinking for a while.

On the phone, Cao Qing seriously explained to his media "friends" that the protagonist of this movie has a background of studying abroad and values, which is not the same as most mainlanders today, and Cao Qing, as a director, is not This notion is not supported.

After some explanations, nearly 10 yuan suddenly disappeared from Cao Qing's private account the next day.

The follow-up result in exchange is that although some tabloids bought by other filmmakers are still hyping to smear the values ​​​​of Cao Qing's film, and even directly attack Cao Qing personally.

However, after many media and newspaper science popularizations with Cao Qing on the phone, those movie fans who understand the righteousness did not attribute these problems to Cao Qing, but clearly realized that the reason for these problems was only because of the openness of overseas Chinese. .

Moreover, such things as pre-marital bachelor parties have never existed in China, and have always been available to those degenerate hedonists in European and American capitalist countries.

Even in response to this issue, the "Beijing Evening News" specially invited several famous film critics to explain this issue in the latest issue, and spent a lot of space to tell the national audience that movies are innocent and art is innocent.

And the pre-wedding bachelor party described in this "The Hangover" movie does not exist in China, but it is indeed a custom of some families in Europe and the United States. This is a degeneration that belongs exclusively to capitalist society.

Of course, the "Beijing Evening News"'s hard work has nothing to do with Cao Qing specifically. Although some of the factors are related to Cao Qing's missing 10 yuan, the most important thing is to discuss this kind of money. Questions can provide news value and popularity for their evening papers.

Otherwise, not to mention the little money that Cao Qing evenly distributes to the major media people, even if Cao Qing gave all the missing 10 yuan to the Beijing Evening News, it would definitely not be worthy of an Evening News editor-in-chief personally inviting film critics The treatment of people who write manuscripts.

In any case, after the turmoil of this period of time, the "Hangover" movie, which was successfully cleared of the "Three Views" crime with the help of major media, became even more popular for a while.

Those attacking and smearing during this period not only failed to suppress it, but even added some help to its explosion.

And some grass-like film critics saw the momentum of the hangover, and changed their previous cynicism and insulting attitude, and began to praise the film instead.

"Thank you Cao Qing, a 21-year-old director, for bringing us an excellent audition experience.

About this movie, I only have one feeling, this movie is very Hollywood.

Although it cannot be said that there is such a profound educational meaning in this movie, this movie is undoubtedly going the same way as Feng Xiaogang, that is, it is absolutely commercialized, and it is all about striving for more box office, which is the so-called explosive movie. Popcorn movie.

As a professional film critic, I feel lucky that such films can appear in our country. After all, a film and television industry that only has literary films and art films is absolutely sick and wrong. Adding a certain amount of commercialization can be like mixing sardines Like the catfish in the film, it stirs up all the lifeless movies in our country. "——Mai Mang, a well-known film critic
Immediately after film critic Mai Mang's speech, a comment appeared on the Tianya Forum that received countless replies. This comment came from an ordinary netizen named Ma Huateng.

This Ma Huateng agrees more with the attitude of "The Hangover" than that of the well-known film critic Maimang, so he said.

"Recently, I've been hearing about this movie not called The Hangover from different friends, but because I was busy with work a few days ago, I didn't have time to watch it. I didn't go to the cinema until I was a little busy with work today. Read it again.

After watching it, I think I agree with my attitude towards this movie. In the process of watching this movie, I actually watched the whole movie as smoothly as my fingers slipped through silk.

In this process, I don't need to do too much complicated thinking, and I don't need to think about some useful and useless philosophical issues. Anyway, I just follow the film and laugh all the way. It is a rare relaxing time for workers.

As the simplest movie viewer, I may not know how to appreciate and evaluate movies, but I think I like this relaxed and hilarious feeling. I think a really good movie can make people think , You have to have this simple and relaxing experience. "—— Ma Huateng, an ordinary netizen on Tianya Forum
In addition to Ma Huateng, among the many Tianya forum comments, a netizen who is suspected to be a certain director Feng Da's trumpet also gave a hot comment.

"As a man, after watching this film, I only have one feeling in my heart, that is, ah, it turns out that men are such creatures that suddenly realize that even if a man has a deep love in his heart, he still has a wife for three years." Fixed girlfriends, but they can still have a carnival because they want to say goodbye to being single and put aside the boring life around them.

After watching this movie, I realized that it seems that a man's upper body and lower body can really be separated.

In this movie, the protagonist and his friends use the title of bachelor party to experience a completely different life from usual.

They temporarily deviated from their normal life track, they rode on the wild Tibetan mastiff that they usually dare not touch to show off their power, even pulled out their own teeth, stripped people and stuffed them into the trunk, went to the casino to gamble crazily, Having wedding revelry in the church, and looking at the beautiful scenery of the casino from the rooftop, in such an environment, they may have a new view of life on the whole world.

In addition, after watching this film, I sincerely feel that domestic films need more commercial films that are only for the box office. And a movie that can't make the audience happy and happy during the viewing process is obviously never a good movie. "—Ordinary Netizen Gang Ye

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I didn't pay much attention to the comments of those netizens and film critics. Compared with these things, Cao Qing was busy again at this time.

Probably because of seeing the results of "The Hangover", regional distributors such as Hong Kong Island, Bay Bay, Japan and South Korea who originally planned to introduce this film for a while these days have all called Cao Qing, urging him to send a copy of the movie "The Hangover" to him as soon as possible.

Because of this, although he also cares about the evaluation of his film by film critics, Cao Qing, who has been so busy during this period, does not have much energy to care about these things.

He was busy until late August, when the movie "The Hangover" was about to be released, and he finally finished his many problems.

On September 16th, the movie "The Hangover" was officially released. During the entire screening period, "The Hangover" had the highest screening rate on August No.37.8. On this day, "The Hangover" had an average screening rate in major theaters The rate was as high as 140%, and this day was also the highest single-day box office day for the movie "The Hangover", with the box office revenue of this day reaching a full [-] million.

Speaking of which, the movie "The Hangover" has a total of 32 days of release. The production cost of the film is 430 million, the publicity cost is 50, and the cost of copying and transportation is almost 20. The total cost is exactly 500 million. Cao Qing is completely Did not leave a penny for the system shooting funds.

After counting the box office of the movie "The Hangover" when it was released on the last day, its total domestic box office this month is 2135 yuan, even if you don't count the next Hong Kong Island, Bay Bay, At the box office in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, this movie has made a profit of more than 4700 million so far, and the total box office of Hong Kong Island, Japan, South Korea and other places will certainly not be too small.

To achieve such an excellent result, even the director Cao Qing couldn't believe it. Such a box office revenue has even surpassed the "Glass Bottle" directed by the action superstar Cheng Long a few months ago. Countless people have broken their glasses.

"Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations Brother Qing, your second movie is successful again, for this your little cutie has prepared a big gift for you."

"What do you think this gift is?"

On September 16th, Cao Qing, who was preparing for the celebration banquet, unexpectedly received a call from Yin Tao's office far away in the mountain city early in the morning.

You know, since the two separated in January this year, although Cao Qing often chatted with her and talked on the phone, and even flew to see her at the end of April this year, under normal circumstances, the time for Yin Tao to call They are all on time.

This time is usually in the afternoon, sometimes it may be noon or night, but she really rarely calls early in the morning.

With a little surprise in his heart, Cao Qing smiled and said to the other end of the phone:

"So, what is the surprise you want to give me, Little Cherry? Could it be yourself."

"You guessed it, it's me."

"I applied for Beijing Film Academy and passed."

On the other end of the phone, Yin Tao's voice was particularly joyful and joyful.

"Eh... didn't you tell me that you planned to apply for the military art exam? Why did you suddenly change to Beiying, and you didn't tell me?"

Regarding Yin Tao's choice, Cao Qing, who had always thought that Yin Tao would apply for the military art examination, couldn't help feeling a little dazed at the moment, and couldn't help asking.

"Hey, before I met you, I originally planned to apply for the military arts exam, but I seriously thought about it some time ago. If I really applied for the military arts exam and got selected, I would not be so free to come out to meet you in the future. "

"Besides, when I wanted to join military art, I planned to join the army art troupe. Now that I have started making movies and have a new career choice, I don't need to go to the army art troupe anymore."

"In this way, not only will I be able to join your company to help you, but I will also be able to do my favorite career as an actor. It's the best of both worlds."

Through the microphone of the mobile phone, Yin Tao's gentle and sweet voice came to Cao Qing's ears clearly.

His mind was a little confused, Cao Qing's heart skipped a beat, and it was the first time he clearly felt how the original life trajectory of the people around him was disrupted by his butterfly wings.

(End of this chapter)