Chapter 499 It’s All the Audience’s Fault

To be honest, everyone is a little tired of divorce-themed movies this year because the themes are too similar.

If nothing else, just say that the three recent movies "The Way Out", "Divorce Cooling Off", and "Happy Breakup" have already made everyone a little tired of it.

Because this kind of subject matter, you want to be innovative?

But not only did they not innovate, but each of their films focused on the extreme antagonism between men and women.

"My bad life is caused by my marriage."

"If I hadn't married a piece of trash, I might have been a minor public servant by now."

"There is nothing good about men. If there were no men in this society, life would be better."

"A woman who gets married and has children is entering a life of hell. Only if she is unmarried and has no children can she stay safe."

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In short, this kind of extreme opposition will even lead to special hires to make some topical and controversial remarks at the premiere.

For example, during the roadshow of "Cooling Off Period for Divorce", a man stood up and said: "I think women just want rights and don't think about responsibilities. I think it's great that the country has this cooling off period for divorce. My wife was deceived by some pastoral feminists." She wanted to get divorced, but she calmed down after one month of divorce cooling-off period, and now she is living well with me, so I think your movie is too extreme.”

Normally, if someone hates a movie, they will rarely go to see it, and many people will not criticize the creator.

Also, anyone who knows about road shows knows that some of them are just support and are arranged early. These are all minor actors, and their acting skills are quite good.

Why did the movie "Divorce Cooling Off" finally reach a box office of 300 million? ? ?

It's because they took the hype to an extreme.

Even "Divorce Cooling Off" even advertised: "Every woman should watch this movie. If you still want to get married and have children after watching it, you will be a real warrior."

Just eat up all the extreme dividends in this short term, and then use moral kidnapping or even fictional stories to move the audience.

In short, all the movie reviews are: "This movie reminds me of my ex-boyfriend, ex-husband, etc." etc.

Such film reviews are often in the form of short essays, which are basically all about emotional value, and there is no evaluation of the movie.

There are also some movie reviewers who criticized the movie a little bit and were labeled as "men really can't empathize" and so on.

In fact, they didn't even think about it. The director of "Divorce Cooling Off Period" is a male director named Meng Jing. He is good at filming such directors who follow hot topics.

Fifteen years ago, online public opinion was not like this. At that time, there were more blind date themes, and there were even many conversations about men and women. Meng Jing made a movie "Twelve Girls", which was a blind date between the male protagonists. The Story of Twelve Actresses, the box office revenue at that time also exceeded 100 million.

Judging from current public opinion, the male protagonist of "Twelve Girls" is quite carefree, extremely controlling, and even engages in minor domestic violence, but at the time, everyone didn't think so.

Therefore, most filmmakers have no so-called responsibilities. They shoot any topic just for the sake of box office.

For the sake of box office, I can also hate men, and I can also be patriotic.

We all need to talk about it.

But the audience is not stupid. They can be fooled by you once, but they cannot be fooled by you ten times.

Even if your dish is delicacies from mountains and seas, the audience will vomit if they eat it every day.

Therefore, "Happy Divorce" happened to meet the audience's rebellious psychology.

Because when you watch "Happy Divorce", you find that the routine is quite serious.

The main story is that the couple originally got married because of true love, but then they often quarreled over the child. Then the mother-in-law came to see the child but when the child had a fever, she killed the child with local methods. So the couple began to divorce, but there is a cooling-off period for divorce. , experienced various things during the calm period, and finally came to the conclusion that only divorce can lead to happiness.

If you haven't watched the three movies "A Way Out", "Divorce Cooling Off" and "Happy Divorce" this year, then you will think that "Happy Divorce" is okay and the actors' acting skills are also pretty good.

But if you have watched these three movies this year, or even listened to these three movies, then you will think: "Why is this the same routine??"

"I'm really convinced. Does this movie treat people as fools? When the male protagonist's mother used local methods to cover up and insert needles, the male protagonist didn't care at all? The heroine also thinks it's okay?"

"What about your IQ?? I can understand the various feudal superstitions of the old man at home who has not graduated from elementary school. One of your male and female protagonists is a doctor and the other is a forensic scientist, so you just let the old man do whatever he wants??"

"All the men in this movie are bad guys. It seems that the misfortune suffered by women is all the fault of men. Have you found the key to the box office?"

"I can understand that you want to make a movie that criticizes men, but can you also criticize 'The Divorce Cooling-Off Period'? It's not as good as the last movie "The Divorce Cooling-Off Period."

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In short, on the National Day, the first one to collapse was "Happy Divorce".

This time not only the male audience members were scolding, but also the female audience members.

Everyone thinks that this movie consumes the plight of women and at the same time instills soul-dick soup. Who wouldn’t want to criticize it? ?

One movie can be useful for indoctrinating people, but several movies in succession will basically have the same routine, which will make everyone bored.

Just like that, "Happy Divorce" was the first to collapse, because the film's schedule was originally relatively low, so the director Xu Yi's mentality collapsed directly.

You should know that although "Happy Divorce" has not been screened, the film-watching clubs in the industry think that "Happy Divorce" will be a dark horse.

After all, in the entire National Day period, only "Happy Divorce" can be regarded as a realistic theme of gender.

Think about the box office of the previous three films, and this is also in the National Day period. Many people think that although "Happy Divorce" has only 5 screenings on the first day, many people think that it can completely rely on word of mouth to make a comeback.

The result is quite embarrassing.

Not only did the reputation of "Happy Divorce" completely collapse, but the box office data on the second day came out and it was directly sentenced to death.

This "Happy Divorce" did not even compare with "Wukong vs. Erlang Shen", a children's animated film.

The box office on the first day was only 6 million, and the attendance rate was not even 5%, which was inverted at the beginning of the film.

On the contrary, although the reputation of "Anti-Japanese War" also collapsed a little, the box office on the first day was firmly ranked first.

On October 2, the data network was updated, and the box office results of the first day of the National Day were officially released.

The first place "Anti-Japanese War" won 195 million yuan on the first day with a 22% screening rate, almost breaking 200 million yuan.

The second place "A Good Man" won 170 million yuan on the first day with a 20% screening rate.

The third place is "Customized Couple", which won 90 million yuan on the first day with a 16% screening rate.

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The box office of the top three is not too unexpected.

Basically, the first day's screening determines the box office on the first day.

If everyone is surprised, it is probably just that "Customized Couple" did not break 100 million yuan on the first day. Sharp's box office appeal seems to be a little bit worse.

Following closely behind is "Dangerous Liaisons". Although the screening rate was only 9%, the box office on the first day was 35 million. Many people thought that this movie would fail, but the box office was unexpectedly good.

As for "Wrong Love", it also won 25 million on the first day. At present, people have mixed opinions about this movie, but they all say it exceeded expectations.

At least, whether it is "Dangerous Liaisons" or "Wrong Love", the two movies did not completely fall behind when the screening rate on the first day of the National Day was only 9%.

As for "Divorce Cooling-off Period", it completely fell behind, or it has been sentenced to death.

Because with such a box office, it is impossible to have any screenings today.

At the road show, Xu Yi even shed tears. He said to the audience: "If this movie is really bad and the box office is bad, I can accept it, but we made this movie very carefully, and except for a small number of audiences who really don't like it, at least 90% of the audience have good reviews, but it has suffered so much smears..."

In short, Xu Yi's central idea is just one sentence: "There is nothing wrong with our movie, someone wants to harm us."

Of course, Xu Yi just said that someone wanted to harm them and said that they were smeared by the Internet. He didn't say that the audience's appreciation level was not enough.

As for the road show of "Anti-Japanese Unretreat", it was even more interesting. Ouyang Qing almost went all out again.

He believes that he has suffered too much smears in recent years, and many of these smears are people who don't know the inside story and follow the crowd.

Even Ouyang Qing thinks that many people who don't watch movies are following the trend to smear, and some are just for the traffic.

Box office represents everything.

In Ouyang Qing's opinion, too many people were mobilized during the filming of "Resist the Japanese" and the crew was quite large, but every actor was very cooperative, so this movie was made.

At present, this movie is quite successful.

There is no use for small doubts or bombardments from the outside world.

Ouyang Qing even said on the spot: "The success of "Resist the Japanese" proves that the audience's appreciation level is extremely high."

Then, after the data network was updated on October 3, the box office of "Resist the Japanese" collapsed directly.

Normally, the box office of "Resist the Japanese" on the second day should not fall so hard.

It fell directly by 100 million.

That's right.

"Resist the Japanese" won 195 million on the first day, almost 200 million, which made Ouyang Qing and the publicity of "Resist the Japanese" think about whether the box office on the second day could break 200 million.

As a result, let alone breaking 200 million, the box office was only 95 million.

Not only that, after two consecutive days of screenings, basically the reputation has almost fermented at this time.

That is to say, the negative reviews of "Anti-Japanese Unretreat" are increasing sharply. Many people think that Ouyang Qing is completely filming a Hollywood-style revolutionary hero, and even added a love scene, which is simply funny.

Lao Zhong said it more bluntly. She thinks Ouyang Qing is indeed capable, but he is not suitable for filming this kind of main theme film, because he thinks Ouyang Qing does not understand the martyrs at all, and Ouyang Qing's filming is only slightly better than the God drama.

On the contrary, Lao Zhong is quite positive about "A Good Man". She thinks that Master Guo does have many problems, but the good thing about Master Guo is that he has always maintained a level, and Master Guo relies on the script.

A good script can be even more powerful in the hands of Master Guo.

Just like this time's "A Good Man", Lao Zhong basically thinks it is better than what Master Guo has shot before.

In addition, Lao Zhong suggested that Ouyang Qing learn from Master Guo, not always thinking about taking shortcuts, and not being self-centered, not listening to the audience's opinions, and even thinking that he is not wrong, etc.

Not only that, at the roadshow, someone directly approached Ouyang Qing and asked him why he has shot some bad movies in recent years.

As a result, Ouyang Qing was directly angry.

"What's bad about it? How can any of the movies I've made over the years be bad? How can a movie with a minimum box office of over 100 million be a bad movie??"

"I believe the audience is not stupid. If I make bad movies every time, how can the audience still support me??"

"I've said before that the audience's aesthetics need to be guided, and my movies have been liked by everyone over the years. Many people who don't like them just don't have good taste."

"I still hope that everyone can have their own independent judgment ability and don't always listen to others."

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Ouyang Qing said before that the audience's appreciation level is not enough, but he can afford it first. When the audience grows up, they will naturally know whose movie is good.

And this time, Ouyang Qing still means the same thing. He thinks that no matter what, he is not wrong, it is the audience's appreciation level that is not enough.

Under such circumstances, the reputation and box office of "Resist the Japanese" are naturally getting worse and worse.

On October 2, the box office of "Resist the Japanese" was surpassed by "A Good Man".

On October 3, the box office of "Anti-Japanese Retreat" was surpassed by "Customized Couple".

On October 4, the box office of "Anti-Japanese Retreat" was surpassed by "Dangerous Liaisons".

On October 5, the box office of "Anti-Japanese Retreat" was surpassed by "Wrong Love".

In other words, on October 6, the box office of "Anti-Japanese Retreat" was completely ranked fifth.

This is not to say that the box office of other movies is so good, on the contrary, it is just because the box office of "Anti-Japanese Retreat" has shrunk seriously.

You should know that the single-day box office of "Wrong Love" has always fluctuated around 25 million.

As for "Anti-Japanese Retreat", the single-day box office on October 5 has fallen by 20 million.

This made Ouyang Qing so angry that he stopped the road show.

He believed that "Anti-Japanese Retreat" suffered a lot of smears and naked competition among peers, which led to this situation.

Even though Ouyang Qing didn't mention any names, there were only a few movies in the National Day period, so it was clear who he was talking about.

Master Guo.

Ouyang Qing thought that everything was due to Master Guo, and the audience was stupid and only followed what others said.

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… (End of this chapter)