Chapter 121 Response and Rebound
Chapter 121 Response and Rebound
When the total box office of the movie "Fatal Call" was rapidly approaching the 6000 million mark, two people who had nothing to do with it were involved again.
The cause of the incident can be traced back to an anonymous post on the Internet.
It is impossible to verify who posted the post, but the content of the post is very interesting. The poster used the public opinion that Wang Hao hired someone to take photos for him, and listed those people in film history who might have been photographers.
This involved Lu Chuan and the great poet Chen.
The former was because of his film "Looking for the Gun", which was nominally shot by him, but in fact the scene was controlled by the more powerful Jiang Wen, which made the young director cry out of grievance.
As for the latter, we have to mention "Farewell My Concubine", a masterpiece that cannot be avoided in the history of Chinese films.
Compared with this, it is hard to believe that "The Promise" released not long ago was directed by the same director. Therefore, the argument that "Farewell My Concubine" was directed by Mr. Chen has regained its market.
Such remarks naturally displeased the petty-minded director Chen Dashi, and he immediately published them in the media, instantly attracting a lot of attention and attracting the public's attention.
At this point, the public opinion attacks on Wang Hao in reality and on the Internet have completely become unsustainable. They can increase the intensity of the attacks again, but that also means spending more energy and money, which is not cost-effective.
You can fight when the wind is in your favor, but don't get involved when the wind is against you.
However, Wang Hao's response did not stop just because the enemy stopped. When the negative news about him on the Internet began to be gradually covered up by new entertainment events, and when the box office of "Fatal Call" began to decline, another wave of posts surfaced.
"Shocked! The "Fatal Call" you didn't understand."
“In-depth analysis of the hidden Easter eggs in “Fatal Call”!”
"In one minute, I will show you the sci-fi movie series "The Heart Labyrinth" and see the big game played by director Wang Hao."
Similar analysis posts began to appear on major film forums, and the content of the analysis was well-reasoned and logical.
The post starts with "Buried", the first film shot by Wang Hao, and analyzes the hidden connections behind "Buried", "The Shallows" and "The Call" frame by frame, especially the Easter egg plots, which vaguely outline the vague grand background in front of the readers and reveal the tip of the iceberg of the science fiction movie universe.
The outline of this background and the analysis of the Easter eggs naturally attracted the attention of a large number of science fiction and movie fans.
People are all curious and have a desire to peek. Wang Hao's "Heart Labyrinth" trilogy is like a puzzle, which makes those interested viewers unable to help but watch "Fatal Call" twice or three times, and start to dig into the details more carefully.
And this attention to detail actually allowed them to discover a lot of new and interesting content.
For example, a netizen found a poster of Han Duoduo as a surfer athlete in "Fatal Call". The poster was posted on a billboard at a bus stop somewhere. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't see it.
What's even more amazing is that after watching "The Call" for the third time, a movie fan discovered that when Ma Chenggong was hiding in Yu Yingying's house, the TV was broadcasting a shooting case in the financial center, and the rolling news below was about an armed rebellion somewhere in Africa and the important role of the Chinese peacekeeping force in it.
This exactly corresponds to "Buried Alive".
Such a subtle and exquisite connection instantly excited many fans of "The Fatal Call".
How can I describe that feeling? It was like the Marvel fans of later generations, when watching "Iron Man", saw the appearance of Nick Fury in the final movie easter egg, and heard from him the words "You are not the only superhero in the world", and felt a shudder of electricity all over their bodies.
They saw Wang Hao's sincerity in film production as a director, and also sensed his ambition. They even vaguely felt that they seemed to be witnessing the beginning of a miracle in the history of Chinese cinema.
Perhaps we Chinese will also have our own science fiction film series, just like "Star Wars" or "Terminator".
This naturally aroused the enthusiasm and support of more movie fans, and their enthusiasm was reflected in the real world, that is, the single-day box office of "The Call" actually began to rise against the trend.
On February 2006, 2, the eighth day of the first lunar month, "Fatal Call" had a single-day box office of 5 million.
On February 2, the ninth day of the first lunar month, the single-day box office was 6 million, and the total box office exceeded 503 million.
On February 2, the tenth day of the first lunar month, the single-day box office was 7 million.
On February 2, the single-day box office was 8 million, and the total box office exceeded 496 million.
……
Finally, the time came to June 2st.
Amid the astonished gazes of many filmmakers, the total box office of "Fatal Call" surpassed that of "Huo Yuanjia", which had the support of big-name stars, and was the first to reach the 100 million yuan mark, becoming the first movie this year to break the 100 million yuan box office mark.
At the same time, it also left its name on the Chinese film box office rankings in 06.
As for Wang Hao, he also successfully broke into the billion-dollar directors club with this first theater movie in his life, and was barely able to stand side by side with Zhang Guoshi, Feng Dapao, and Chen Shishi.
Of course, the contribution of "Fatal Call" is not limited to this.
It used its success to tell the vast majority of mainland film and television practitioners that we can also make our own good movies and our own science fiction blockbusters.
It turns out that so-called blockbusters do not necessarily rely on big directors, big stars, and big productions.
Sometimes mainland actors and mainland directors can also be successful.
So after "Fatal Call" raked in 100 million yuan at the box office, many film and television companies in China began to secretly set up projects, imitating the model of "Fatal Call", trying to take advantage of the science fiction film craze that the other party had set off and get a piece of the pie.
Of course, Wang Hao knew nothing about these things.
But even if he knew, he wouldn't care.
After all, science fiction movies are not that easy to make, and the more people invest in this type of film, the more they develop the market and cultivate audiences. This is actually a good thing for science fiction filmmakers like them.
You have to know that he has a special effects company to support, and it is not enough for him to shoot science fiction movies alone.
As for what Wang Hao is busy with now, the movie box office successfully exceeded 100 million, so he is naturally busy with the celebration party.
(End of this chapter)