Chapter 568 What is the Crisis

Chapter 568 What is the Crisis

Chapter 568 What is the Crisis

The extra-long trailer of "The Three-Body Problem 1" hooked many viewers right from the opening scene.

It was a wilderness covered with rocks and coarse gravel underfoot. Four or five figures in grey cloaks were struggling to trudge through the wilderness against the wind and sand.

Suddenly, the orange-red light surrounding them intensified and turned into a dazzling white.

Several people hurriedly looked up, revealing the horrified faces of Shi Qiang, Ding Yi, Luo Ji and others, and their cloaks also caught fire without fire.

The camera tilted upwards and aimed at the top of their heads. The incandescent light filled the entire frame. Three spherical luminous bodies could be vaguely seen hanging high in the sky.

【disaster!】

Two large characters with a red background and a black border appeared in the center of the screen, and then the scene switched to a chaotic scene on the busy streets of New York, with vehicles colliding, pedestrians clashing, and supermarkets being looted...

This situation not only happens in New York, but also in other countries and cities on the earth, including Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, and Egypt.

Their reaction seemed to foreshadow the coming disaster.

【war!】

The new images show the roar of gunfire, explosions and flames. Liu Peiqiang, code-named "Leng Feng", leads his Wolf Warriors team to fight in a pile of metal ruins.

The fully armored members of the Wolf Warrior team, wearing more advanced exoskeleton armor than in "Wolf Warrior 1" and "Wolf Warrior 2", appeared on the screen, attracting the attention of many young male audiences.

They stared at the cool steel warriors almost without blinking, watching them shuttle among the metal wreckage, using guns, electricity, fire, arm swords and iron fists to kill the strange-looking enemies that looked like biochemical mutant zombies.

【die! 】

Amid the sad background music, Han Duoduo leaned over the corpse covered with white cloth, tears streaming down her face and crying bitterly.

Under the gloomy sky, a group of people dressed in black stood solemnly in front of the densely packed tombstones in the cemetery.

[When the earth will be destroyed, when mankind faces a crisis]

In the fast editing, clips from the movies released in the second phase of the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe" "War Crisis" flashed one by one, evoking the audience's ups and downs, happiness and sadness when watching these movies.

Where should we go from here?

In the United Nations hall where representatives from various countries gathered, it seemed that they were discussing some issue. Everyone on the scene looked very excited, but no one could reach a consensus.

In different countries around the world, people's reactions are also different.

The trailer gives several edited clips here, showing looting and smashing on the streets, rich people equipped with large amounts of supplies and powerful firepower in luxurious villas, and people kneeling in front of statues and praying, muttering to themselves.

Finally, the trailer went black and fell into silence for a while.

Just when everyone began to wonder if their viewing devices were broken, something or text seemed to flash briefly on the monitor for one or two seconds and then disappeared.

In order to see it clearly, some viewers immediately rewound and paused the video. Some lucky people successfully captured the screen where the content flashed and read its content accurately.

It only has 5 words -

[You are bugs! ]

"So we are bugs?"

Shi Qiang sat at his desk, wearing formal attire, looking at the audience in front of the screen and asked this question.

The trailer did not give an answer, but only gave the specific release date of "The Three-Body Problem 1" at the end, which is July 2017, 7.

At this point, the first super long trailer of "The Three-Body Problem 1" has ended, and it has also left a lot of suspense for countless movie fans and audiences.

As one of the most well-known science fiction film IPs in China and even internationally, the news about "Galaxy Cinematic Universe" and "The Three-Body Problem 1" has naturally attracted a lot of attention.

Correspondingly, the appearance of the super-long trailer will undoubtedly attract many film and television bloggers and film critics to interpret it.

Of course, some of these bloggers also use the promotional methods deployed by Galaxy Pictures, but the traffic and popularity of this matter itself are there, and even if Galaxy Pictures does not conduct public relations, people will still gather around.

Compared with the half-knowledge of ordinary audiences, these people will undoubtedly see more information from the super-long trailer of "The Three-Body Problem 1", and even refer to the previous clues in the movie universe and the original novel to guess and deduce the specific content of "The Three-Body Problem 1".

For example, some bloggers speculated based on the content of the trailer that in "The Three-Body Problem 1", there will be a situation where "Three-Body aliens" will attack, and the countries on Earth will unite under the pressure of life and death to fight against the aliens together, and defeat the opponent after paying a huge sacrifice.

This is basically a very clichéd plot of fighting aliens like the Hollywood movie "Independence Day". However, although it is clichéd, this type of movie has never appeared in China before, so it is still very interesting.

However, some bloggers analyzed that this is just "The Three-Body Problem 1" and not "The Three-Body Problem 2".

Moreover, there is a third stage [Dark Forest] in the movie universe. The aliens, as the big villains behind the scenes, will not die so early, so the ones causing trouble in "The Three-Body Problem 1" should still be the ETO organization that appeared before, and Evans, the leader of the ETO organization's advent faction who has been arrested.

Some bloggers also analyzed that the trailer of "The Three-Body Problem 1" cannot be fully trusted. It is possible that they will release some fake clips in the trailer like Marvel, and the scenes in the trailer will not appear in the actual movie.

Anyway, there are many different opinions, but at least the public's attention has begun to focus on this. On the one hand, they are waiting for the crew of "The Three-Body Problem 1" to release more official news, and on the other hand, they are looking forward to the release date of this movie to come soon.

Before the main meal is served, an appetizer may relieve their hunger a little, and at the same time release more information about "The Three-Body Problem 1" to whet everyone's appetite.

Anyway, the Sino-Korean co-production "Train to Busan", which was released on April 2017, 4, successfully reaped the first wave of dividends.

A week before "Train to Busan" was released, the Hollywood blockbuster "Fast and Furious 8" was released.

As the sequel to a well-known Hollywood movie IP, "Fast and Furious 8" created enough hype before its release. Not only did it spend a lot of money on publicity, it even brought out the deceased Paul Walker to create a tribute and remembrance drama.

This also led to the fact that "Fast and Furious 8" earned 4.19 million Chinese yuan on its first day of release, and 13.71 billion in the first three days, becoming the best-performing Hollywood movie in China in 2017. Although the audience's evaluation of this movie is mixed, as a commercial blockbuster and action movie, "Fast and Furious 8" is still excellent in terms of scenes.

The movie retains the usual features of the series, with many adrenaline-pumping racing scenes.

From the ten-minute-long opening scene of "a broken car chasing a luxury car", to the "thousands of cars galloping" in New York, ice racing, submarine battles and other scenes.

The special effects are well-made overall, some of which are star-studded fantasy works, and the scenes are also very spectacular. There are also scenes shot in China, which makes mainland audiences feel as if they are personally on the scene and fully enjoy the thrill brought by speed and passion.

If this situation continues, "Fast and Furious 8" will undoubtedly achieve impressive box office results in China. This was also the case in Wang Hao's previous life. In the end, the box office of "Fast and Furious 8" in the mainland was as high as 26.71 billion Chinese yuan.

Although this is not as good as Galaxy Group's "Detective Chinatown 3", it is also a relatively bright spot after the decline of many Hollywood movies in domestic box office performance.

Just seven days after "Fast and Furious 8" was released, "Train to Busan", the penultimate work of the second phase of the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe", was released.

This movie also received a huge investment from Galaxy Pictures in its promotion. Of course, its momentum is not as high as the global promotion of "Fast and Furious 8", but at least it is not weak in Asia.

Moreover, "Train to Busan" has a unique gimmick in the country, that is, its zombie theme itself.

This theme has never been seen in any movie released in China.

There has never been a zombie-themed disaster film released in the mainland before. The only one that can be compared to it is perhaps the zombie-themed movie that dates back to Hong Kong, but that was also released in Hong Kong.

Therefore, when a large number of viewers first learned about this movie, they thought that it would not be released in China, after all, there was the obstacle of radio and television censorship.

As for saying that "Train to Busan" is a science fiction film, the zombies in it are no less than feudal superstitions, but isn't "Resident Evil" also a science fiction film, and it also failed to be released in China?

However, a turning point came. Just two months ago, "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter", directed and written by Paul Anderson and starring Milla Jovovich, was released in China.

This opened a loophole in the review process. Coupled with Galaxy Group's own influence in the industry and their relationship with the higher-level radio and television departments, it was natural for "Train to Busan" to pass the review.

A movie with such a special theme, coupled with the background of the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe" and the popularity of "The Three-Body Problem 1", naturally attracted a large number of audiences to buy tickets and go to the cinema.

On the first day of its release, "Train to Busan" directly achieved a good result of 3.27 million Chinese yuan, successfully surpassing the previous "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter" and breaking the domestic box office record for this type of film.

At the same time, the news spread back to South Korea, causing great shock in the Korean film industry again.

Those Korean filmmakers are almost shocked. The films produced by Galaxy Group and CJ Entertainment in recent years have shown these Korean filmmakers with impressive results that the vastness of the Chinese film and television market is beyond their imagination.

In contrast, although Hollywood has always been their dream paradise, wanting to enter it seems to be an unattainable dream.

The box office revenue of "Train to Busan" in its first week (3 days) was 10.4 billion Chinese yuan, which added weight to the scales in favor of Korean filmmakers to further lean towards the Chinese market.

To be honest, in the eyes of these Korean filmmakers, the movie "Train to Busan" is not that good.

The movie is nothing more than a very old-fashioned Resident Evil zombie story.

Shi Yuzheng, played by Kong Yoo, took his daughter Soo-an (played by Kim Soo-an) on the KTX406 train to Busan, preparing to reunite with his wife.

Also in the same carriage are Lee Jang-ho (Ma Dong-seok), who is about to become a father and nicknamed "Beast Cop", his pregnant wife Seong-kyung (Jung Yu-mi), high school baseball player England (Choi Woo-sik), and cheerleader Jin-hee (An So-hee).

After the train started moving, a strange woman hid in the train toilet. After hesitating for a while, she injected herself with a gray-green potion. Then when the conductor slammed and opened the door, the woman who had turned into a zombie attacked the conductor and quickly infected him with the same kind.

In this way, the virus began to spread rapidly in the closed train, and soon spread to the carriage where the male protagonist Shi Yu was.

When he saw that the carriage was in chaos, Shi Yu hugged his daughter and started to flee. On the way, he met Li Changhao and his wife. Together they fled in the narrow train room and found that the infected people could not open the doors themselves and only responded to sound and light.

At the same time, everyone also learned through the radio and Li Changhao's internal police force information channels that this strange and dangerous zombie was the work of the ETO organization.

In order to save Evans who had been captured by China, they stopped at nothing and released different types of viruses in major cities around the world.

Among them, the virus from Smecta will turn infected animals and humans into zombies, and these zombies are extremely aggressive.

After learning that the next stop of the train, Asan Station, had been occupied by the infected, they could only go to Daejeon Station, which had already been arranged to suppress the infected army.

However, when the train arrived at Daejeon Station, people who got off found that the situation inside Daejeon Station was also extremely critical.

Although there are indeed troops here, the hastily arranged defense line is still precarious in the face of the chaotic situation and dangerous viruses.

Under such circumstances, a large number of selfish people began to rob trains, wanting to rush to the next Busan Station, which might be safer.

During this process, Shi Yu did the same thing, but he got separated from his daughter Xiu'an in the chaotic crowd, and Xiu'an was almost hurt by the zombies that broke into the safe zone.

Fortunately, Li Changhao and his wife rescued Xiu'an in time and sent her back to Shi Yu. However, during the subsequent escape, everyone was constantly faced with the test of human nature.

In the process of protecting his daughter, Shi Yu gradually realized the fragility and preciousness of life. From a selfish person who only considered himself, he became more and more brave and responsible.

Eventually, there were fewer and fewer survivors. Fortunately, Li Changhao's superior told him that Busan, the terminus of the train line, had been cleared of zombies and was currently a safe place.

So everyone decided to go to Busan. On the way, they encountered severe attacks from zombies. In order to protect his daughter, Shi Yu was unfortunately infected, but he entrusted his daughter to Li Changhao and his wife at the last moment of his life, and used his body to block the zombies, thus winning a chance to escape for the only three remaining people.

Finally, Li Changhao and his wife took the little girl Xiu'an off the powerless train, passed through a tunnel, and successfully arrived in Busan, where they saw the army and official rescue workers and welcomed hope of life.

For such a simple story, some Korean filmmakers even thought it was not as good as their previous special effects blockbuster "The Host", but in the end the box office gap between the two was overwhelming.

With the movie "Train to Busan", Galaxy Group once again proved that if the local film industry in the Asia-Pacific region wants to grow and develop, it must rely on the increasingly open Chinese film market.

If you want to rely on the Chinese film market, you must first change your attitude towards Chinese film culture and this country.

(End of this chapter)