Chapter 81 81 A Murder Caused by a Steamed Bun
Chapter 81 81. A murder caused by a steamed bun
Brother Hu is an Internet expert. When he has nothing to do, he likes to surf and post on places like Tianya, Chinese Online, and Maopu. He occasionally makes some complaints and puts them on a simple website he made for people to download and read for free.
In order to communicate with fellow fans, he also deliberately left a QQ number on his website homepage and established a chat group.
However, he was not very active at ordinary times, and after two years, there were only a few dozen people in total. Until that day, suddenly a QQ nickname "Old Friend Returns" applied to join the group, and he agreed without thinking.
Then this person joined the group and posted:
For business cooperation, is it convenient for the group owner to add friends for private chat?
To be honest, Brother Hu has never encountered such a request. Someone actually wants to ask him for business cooperation? He's not a liar, is he?
But anyway, idle time is idle, let's see what tricks he is up to, so when the other party sent a friend request, Brother Hu directly agreed.
An old friend returned: [Is this Brother Hu himself? ]
Brother Hu replied: [Yes]
Old Friend Gui: [That’s right, I’m Li Feiyu, a salesperson in the marketing department of Wei Guo Film Co., Ltd. I want to discuss a cooperation with you this time. Specifically, I want to advertise in the video you produced for our company’s upcoming release. Promoting the movie "On the Road to Misfortune"]
Brother Hu was confused. He didn't expect that someone would actually come to advertise for him. You must know that he had indeed produced seven or eight videos before, but the downloads were not very good.
Is there anyone here to advertise? Will this pay for itself?
Brother Hu: [Are you sure? Did you find the wrong person? ]
Old Friend Gui: [Did you make these videos? ]
Then he saw the other party sent him several video file packages. When he saw that the titles were indeed several videos he had produced before.
Brother Hu felt a lot more relieved. At least the other party must have found the right person, so he replied:
[Yes, it’s me]
Old Friend Gui: [Then I found the right person. We really want to advertise in the video you made. Is that okay with you? ]
Brother Hu: [Then how are you planning to advertise? ]
Old Friend Returns: [Specifically, the poster of our movie will appear at the beginning and end of your next three videos, along with corresponding subtitles and voice broadcast]
[Then there is a line of small-print slogans scrolling below the main video, similar to the kind of temporary news that a news program scrolls below]
[For example, at the beginning of the video, it is said that this video is exclusively sponsored by the movie "People on the Road" and will be released nationwide on December 29. It is an audio-visual storm of laughter and an embarrassing Spring Festival travel journey. At the same time, it is accompanied by a promotional poster for our movie]
[Of course, the ending is similar. For example, this video would like to express special thanks to "People on the Road" for exclusively sponsoring the broadcast, and just advertise it again at the end]
Brother Hu thought for a moment and realized that this request was not particularly excessive. Hanging up a photo of a movie poster and adding two slogans could be read in two or three seconds at most, and it would not basically affect the viewing experience of the video feature.
So Brother Hu agreed: [If this is the way to advertise, then there is no problem with me]
Old friend Gui: [Okay, then how much are you going to charge here? ]
To be honest, no one has approached him to advertise, and Brother Hu really didn’t know how much he should pay for it. If the lion opens his mouth and grows taller, what if people stop advertising with him?
So Brother Hu thought for a while and opened a price that he thought was a bit dark:
[Is a thousand dollars okay? ]
Old friend Gui: [Okay, please send me your contact information. Our company will send someone to call you later to confirm the specific details]
Unexpectedly, the other party didn't even make a counter-offer and agreed directly. This money comes too easily! Could it really be a liar?
Brother Hu was a little hesitant to ask him to send him his phone number, but then he thought about it, he was a man in his early 30s and he didn't want anything, so what else could he do to lie to him?
So Brother Hu hesitated for a moment and finally sent his phone number.
As soon as the phone number was sent, a woman with a gentle voice called, claiming to be a salesperson from Wei Guo Pictures, and then verified the specific cooperation process with him in detail.
Finally, I added his contact information and left his address, intending to formally sign a contract with him later, and also gave him two tickets to the advance screening of "The Journey".
After hanging up the phone, Hu’s excitement was still hard to calm down. He didn’t expect that I would actually make money one day by making videos online!
Although it’s only 1,000 yuan, it’s a good start!
He was full of energy for a while. After watching Wuji yesterday, he had the urge to make a video and complain. When he was surfing the Internet in the past two days, he found that many people agreed with him, and he further determined to make a video. Video determination.
I was originally planning to wait until I had the idea ready before doing it, but now I was so happy that my thoughts started to flow.
Forget it, stop dawdling, let’s get started now!
So he opened his computer, created a new document and wrote the title in Word:
A murder caused by a steamed bun
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This QQ wearing the "old friend returns" vest is of course Wei Wu's trumpet.
Because he needed China Film to arrange the film schedule for him, in exchange, the promotion and distribution of the film "On the Road" was also handed over to China Film.
Of course, Wei Wu is unknown now, and there are no stars with box office appeal in this movie.
Therefore, the China Film Group cannot put any effort into promoting the film. Basically, it is just a regular theater posting posters, etc., just a formality.
But it doesn't matter. He didn't expect the publicity there to have much effect, because he had already made plans and planned to bet on "A Murder Case Caused by a Steamed Bun" and use Internet hot spots to attract traffic and promote the film.
To know how popular "Steamed Buns" was back then, it is basically unimaginable by people who have not experienced that era!
Compared with the following "Jia Junpeng, your mother called you home for dinner" and the like, the influence is several orders of magnitude greater. It can even be said to be the originator of Internet pranks and even ghost videos.
To put it bluntly, the reason why "The Promise" is still talked about many years later has to do with this video.
Otherwise, if we say that great directors make bad movies, then Lao Mouzi also made "Legend of Three Guns", and no one mentioned it after a few years. But why does "The Promise" still have so many people talking about it on the Internet twenty years later?
If 3 million people had watched the movie "The Promise" that year, then the cumulative number of people who had watched the video "Steamed Buns" online was at least 5 to 10 times that number.
It took Brother Hu 10 days to create this 20-minute short film. Once it was published, it quickly became popular all over the Internet and became the most popular Internet event in 2005.
Many Lezi people have not even watched "The Promise", but they still spread the video spontaneously and forwarded it to each other using QQ, FTP and other tools. In a short period of time, the number of downloads of this video exceeded the number of views of "The Promise" .
About a week after this video was released, the amount of discussion and popularity about this video on the Internet has far surpassed the movie "The Promise" itself.
You must know that "The Promise" spent 100 million yuan on advertising and promotion, which was 100 million yuan in 2005!
This 100 million advertising fee, coupled with Director Chen's own fame and blessings accumulated over the years, can be converted into at least tens of millions of publicity expenses.
In other words, the popularity and traffic of Brother Hu’s video is equivalent to the publicity effect that can be achieved by spending hundreds of millions of yuan in advertising expenses.
But now Wei Wu only spent a mere 1,000 yuan to advertise in Brother Hu's video, which would at least save tens of millions in advertising fees.
Not to mention 1,000 yuan, even if you add 10,000 yuan to the end, to be honest, it is definitely worth the money!
At that time, Director Chen was originally planning to sue Brother Hu for infringement of the film's copyright (the video directly used many clips from the original film, and it was also a gun version), but because the matter itself was too big and the public opinion was fierce, the matter was finally dropped.
But because of this video, Director Chen was pulled down from the altar. Basically since then, Director Chen has struggled to maintain his reputation as a great director.
But to be honest, in most people's minds, I'm afraid they can no longer be compared with Zhang and Feng.
It's not like Wei Wu never thought about posting this video himself instead of Brother Hu.
But after careful consideration, I finally gave up. Although playing porcelain or even playing "The Promise" is indeed a shortcut to fame, but to be honest, he really doesn't need to rush so far.
After all, Director Chen almost sued Brother Hu in his previous life, and that was because the two of them had no actual conflict of interest.
In addition, public opinion was not good for him, and it was beneath his status to worry about everything, so he chose to break his teeth and swallow it.
If it were Wei Wu who posted this video, and someone sued him for copyright infringement, they would definitely be successful.
When the time comes, if Wei Wu really wants to pay hundreds or tens of millions in compensation, wouldn't that be the end of the world?
Of course, since Wei Wu advertised in this video, Director Chen will definitely also bear a grudge against him, but there is no need to be so afraid.
After all, what’s wrong with me advertising normally? Besides, Wei Wu wasn't stupid, and he didn't just ask Brother Hu to advertise.
In fact, he found ten or twenty well-known video creators and invested money in advertising with them, so that they would not be so conspicuous.
Of course, even if Director Chen would hate him for this kind of thing, Wei Wu would not panic at all. After all, labor and management are also reborn with the system, so I'm afraid of him!
The failure of "The Promise" greatly damaged Poet Chen's vitality. To be honest, his reputation and status were not as good as before in all aspects!
To be honest, if Brother Hu hadn't stepped up to take the lead, Wei Wu would have even wanted to do it himself!
After all, as a newcomer, if he wants to gain attention and expand his reputation, the most convenient and quick way to get to the top is to become a great director.
Why does Wang Jing take out Star Master and scold him every time a movie is released? To put it bluntly, isn’t it just to gain eyeballs and promote the movie?
He doesn't even bother trying to compete with ordinary directors. His direct targets are the three major directors from the Mainland. However, among the three major directors, Poet Chen is relatively the one who has the best reputation.
After all, Zhang Yimou is a national master, and he is soft-handed in winning various awards. If Wei Wu touched him, he would be drowned by spittle.
And there was someone behind Feng Xiaogang. If he touched porcelain, he would have offended Huayi, which was the largest force in the Beijing circle. The consequences were not something that Wei Wu, who had small arms and legs, could bear.
Relatively speaking, Poet Chen was not as honorable as the Imperial Master, and the power behind him was not as good as Feng. Naturally, he was the best candidate for Wei Wu to increase his reputation.
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