Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 212: Breaking 4000 million on the first day (4/4)

"The plot is too ridiculous!"

"Where did Shen Yan get the courage to try to extort money from Lust, Caution?"

“Selling the collective memory of the era!”

"The music video is so long, it's not even a movie!"

A lot of bad reviews...

Moreover, the short reviews on the first page are basically all negative reviews!
It is obvious that I was targeted maliciously.

This is what happens when you mess with a big director.

Shen Yan doesn't really care about Douban reviews. In the original time and space, "Determination to Run Away" scored 8.9 on Douban, and "Good Things" scored 9.0 on Douban, but still not many people have seen it...

All of them combined are still not as many as the number of viewers of "Nezha" in one day.

And as time goes by... or as youth films become more and more popular, and all kinds of youth films are released, everyone will come back and re-rate them!

By the way, on Weibo, Ma Yili and Shen Yan’s relationship dominated the trending headlines—#ShenYan: Ma Siling is my mentor#…

At the same time, a number of media outlets began reporting on the story of how Shen Yan, Wen Zhang, and Ma Yili met...

No doubt, I spent money...

Not only did the publicity company spend money, Ma Yili also asked familiar media to report well.

After all, Shen Yan is very popular.

In a sense, it can also be regarded as a promotion of Ma Yili and Wen Zhang's ability to judge people!

It also explains why Ma Yili played the adult heroine in "My Girlhood"...

……

"What are you looking at?"

“Look at netizens’ comments…”

Shen Yan smiled and handed the phone to Shi Shi: "Take a look at this..."

Shi Shi took the phone and glanced at the title: "A melodramatic youth romance drama... Is this a bad review?"

“Yes, it’s a bad review…”

"Then why are you laughing so happily?"

"Interesting..." Shen Yan explained: "He tried his best to set the tone... But I guess he hasn't seen the movie at all... He can only talk nonsense based on the plot... It reminds me of the movie "Even if Kafka turned into a beetle, he still couldn't enter the castle"..."

"What?"

"This movie doesn't exist...it's just a fabrication!"

Tian Ye, a Beijing film reporter on night shift, was bored and did an experiment: he made up a movie title - "Even if Kafka turned into a beetle, he still couldn't enter the castle", concocted a cast list using the English names of his colleagues, "stole" illustrations from "The Color of Pomegranates" by former Soviet film director Parajanov to design a poster, made up a plot, and added it to the Douban movie library.

One day a year later, Tian Ye accidentally opened the relevant link, and something unexpected happened: in one year, nearly 2500 people wanted to watch it, 207 people said they had watched it, and many people wrote film reviews.

A lot of people say '200 classic movies you must watch in your lifetime!'

Shi Shi was surprised: "How can I write a review for a movie that doesn't exist?"

"Just some random nonsense... a little bit of postmodernism, stream of consciousness, and then some of my own opinions..."

"You haven't even seen the movie, what can you think?"

"It's very simple. You can write, 'I finished watching this movie late at night, opened the curtains, blew out my last puff of smoke, and a moist feeling suddenly surged in my heart.'..."

"I don't understand..."

"This is called pretending... You don't understand..."

Shen Yan took back his phone and looked up the reviews for Overheard 2... Douban rating: 7.9...

Quite high!
……

"Overheard 2" is based on a Hong Kong financial crime case and tells the story of the stock market!

The key word in the film's theme is "manipulation," and the characters in the film are all trying to manipulate others or escape being manipulated by others... Zhuang Wenqiang has always had a special liking for financial stories, and later directed "Gold Finger"...

At first glance, Overheard 2 has a lot to offer: celebrities, investigation and counter-investigation, financial warfare, conspiracy theories, and action scenes.

But too much to watch means there is nothing to watch.

It's actually a very boring movie.

Guo Fan and Chen Xiao came over: "What are you looking at?"

Shen Yan: "A review of Overheard 2..."

“…Isn’t it pretty?”

“The general feeling is that there is no sense of surprise...no innovation..."

“It’s hard for Hong Kong films to be innovative anymore!”

Shen Yan suddenly recalled something and said, "Actually, I always thought Overheard was a political film!"

"what?"

"Hong Kong is a well-known international intelligence center, also known as the spy capital..."

Chen Xiao's eyes widened: "The city of spies?"

"You don't know?" Shen Yan was surprised. "During the Cold War, the three major spy centers were Hong Kong, Berlin, Germany, and Istanbul, Turkey... Later, the Cold War ended, but many things were left behind. In the early years, the British established a huge spy agency in Hong Kong. It was nominally called the "Political Department" of the Hong Kong Police Force, but in reality it was independent of the police department and dispatched by MI5. Its English name is Special Branch. When it was first established, it had about 200 people. Most of them were selected from young Hong Kong people who came from poor backgrounds but studied hard, got into prestigious universities, and received a complete Western elite education. They used British citizenship and high salaries to lure them to work for the British."

"I've always been curious why Hong Kong directors don't shoot these... This stuff is so interesting!"

Guo Fan hesitated for a few seconds, then said, "Maybe... worried that it won't pass the trial?"

"Who knows... Oh, by the way, 'The Accidental Murder' has passed the review, and Andy Lau has been confirmed to star in it!"

"… Passed review? Did you change the ending?"

Shen Yan nodded: "The Film Bureau's opinion is that we should shoot first... After we finish shooting, we can consider the release!"

"What do you mean?"

"Give it a cooler time slot...probably early November or something..."

Chen Xiao couldn't help but interrupt: "What is 'The Accidental Murder'?"

"A movie, a crime thriller..."

Guo Fan explained: "Liu Dehua made a guest appearance in our movie. Brother Yan wrote a very awesome script and was planning to invite him to star in it..."

"What script? Can I act in it? Any role is fine!"

“…There’s no role suitable for you in this book…”

Shen Yan interrupted: "You can let him play the police chief's son... the second-generation official..."

Guo Fan nodded: "That's fine..."

Chen Xiao muttered, "Why do I feel like this isn't a good role?"

"You still care about this?"

"That's right... I'm able to work with Andy Lau..."

As they were talking, Shi Shi and Yang Siwei came over, looking a little excited: "Mr. Li just called and said that today's box office is likely to break 4000 million!"

Shen Yan shook his head: "I can't get there!"

"How did you know?"

Shen Yan pointed at his phone, his face full of confidence: "I have data to support this. You see, I've been keeping an eye on the box office... The New Film Association predicts today's box office will be around 410 million. For my films, the New Film Association's share is generally around 10% to 12%... In other words, today's box office should be between 3500 million and 4100 million!"

As soon as the words fell, several people received text messages...

A very simple line of words: Including the results of the midnight show, the first day box office was 4147 million!
Then several people stared at Shen Yan...

"I'm not wrong. Minus the 180 million from the midnight show, isn't it less than 4000 million?"

(End of this chapter)