Chapter 222: Hot sale on the first day, public opinion gradually rises

With a first-day box office of 2084 million, "Source Code"'s second-day box office result of 2417 million did not seem so shocking.

The box office revenue of 2393 million on the third day made people start to get used to it.

After all, once money reaches a certain stage, it is just a string of numbers.

But for some people, this string of numbers may not be surprising.

But for another group of people, the box office performance of "Source Code" is related to another thing.

"Director Wang! Director Wang! What do you think the final box office of Source Code will be? Can it exceed the 2.687 million of this year's box office champion Transformers?"

"2.687 billion?"

Wang Hao looked at the reporter who handed the microphone to him and smiled.

"It's OK. I have confidence in our Chinese film market. The box office is just over 2 million. We should be able to break this record soon, maybe this year."

This was Wang Hao's answer to media reporters during a roadshow.

Then these words appeared in the entertainment sections of major news media, and of course they were interpreted to a certain extent.

[2 million is not bad, young director Wang Hao made a bold statement that the box office of the movie will exceed that of "Transformers". ]

[Breaking the box office record within a year, is Wang Hao confident or arrogant? 】

[The goal is to earn 3 million yuan, Wang Hao intends to become the most successful commercial film director in China. 】

【Wang Hao said that the story of "Transformers" is monotonous and it is a fast-food movie with no nutrition! 】

Well, the later the news came, the more articles there were with titles that had nothing to do with the content.

However, when reporting on this matter, most media still put Wang Hao's "Source Code" and the recently released "Transformers" together as the focus of their reports.

It’s not the news media’s fault for making trouble. After all, the only movie in China that can compete with “Transformers” is “Source Code”.

Although movies directed by other directors may also be box office hits, they are not science fiction films.

However, the act of comparing "Transformers" with "Source Code" and Wang Hao's remarks have hurt the fragile hearts of some people.

In 2007, China's national strength and economy are still on the rise, and the people's patriotism has not yet reached its peak. Therefore, some news media and public intellectuals who advocate overseas society are naturally rampant.

These people, relying on their own fame and the limited knowledge of a large number of people, blindly promote all aspects of overseas society, especially European and American society, on China's now less developed Internet and major news media.

From economy, culture, to politics, education, and even military and technology, extremely corny praises are given in all aspects.

Moreover, they will use China as a negative example to compare themselves with other countries, and by belittling their own country and praising other countries, they will gain a so-called sense of superiority and become leaders of public opinion who open their eyes to the world.

Among these, the cultural field is naturally within their focus.

In the eyes of these people, Hollywood movies are the artistic essence of the beacon civilization, and they all showcase freedom, democracy and progress.

Domestic films are backward and ignorant. The only ones they can watch are those made by the fifth or sixth generation of directors that have won awards at overseas film festivals.

In their eyes, it was reflection, exposure, and facing up to the reality, and it was slightly related to progress.

As for the others, those commercial films shot by Zhang Guoshi, Feng Dapao and others, what the hell are they?

Until an unusual director like Wang Hao emerged in the Chinese film and television industry.

When the box office performance of "Source Code" continued to rise and began to closely catch up with "Transformers", which was the number one movie on the mainland box office list, these public intellectuals began to panic.

If the box office performance of "Transformers" is surpassed by "Source Code", China will have its own, better science fiction movie.

Then, wouldn’t the remarks that “China has no soil for science fiction” and “Chinese people are ignorant and always hold on to the ideas of emperors and generals” be self-defeating?

Therefore, when the box office of "Source Code" was still steadily rising on the third and fourth days, someone finally spoke up.

[A stinking thing wrapped in a sugar coating! ]

This is a movie review posted on Douban by a not-so-famous college literature teacher. The content of the review directly points out the fearless spirit shown by Zhang Ying in "Source Code".

Of course, in the description of this well-known professor, this spirit is definitely not "fearless", but rather brainwashed, ignorant, blindly obedient and without self.

“It is hard for me to imagine that a man who claimed that he loved his fiancée very much would not shed a tear after learning that his beloved had died.

Even if he showed a little sadness, I couldn't see it on the lead actor's face.

I don’t know whether this is because the leading actor’s acting is not good enough, or if the script and director required it this way.

But this is undoubtedly extremely depressing to human nature. What era is it now? Do we still have to do the kind of thing where people pass by their homes without entering and sacrifice their own families for the sake of emotional output for everyone else?
This is completely treating soldiers as cold tools, it is a loss of morality, a distortion of human nature, it is simply disgusting!"

In addition to this person, there is another so-called folk scientist who has ridiculed the "source code" plan in "Source Code" in various forums, and bluntly stated that it is all pseudoscience.

Things like "subconscious therapy device", "dream network" and "halo effect" are completely untenable and are misleading.

With these two people taking the lead, those people and organizations that were also hostile to "Source Code" immediately gathered around like cats smelling blood, and began to speak out and build momentum for them.

This also caused a slight impact on the originally popular "Source Code".

At least those fans who have not yet gone to the cinema to watch the movie have been disturbed by these public opinions and have become hesitant.

In this matter, the distribution and publicity departments of Galaxy Film and Television also responded very quickly.

After all, when Wang Hao first established the company, he paid great attention to Internet publicity and set up an Internet publicity department within the company, which is the so-called "water army".

Now that negative public opinion about the movie "Source Code" has first fermented on the Internet, they certainly want to show the role they are paid to play and fight back against these guys.

At the very least, this momentum must be curbed. Otherwise, if public opinion is allowed to continue to ferment, it may really have an impact on the box office performance of "Source Code".

(End of this chapter)

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