Chapter 27 Overcoming the Toughness
Monday morning, November 7th.
Wang Meng received the box office results on the last day of the first week, with the box office reaching 1.86 million that day, 180,000 less than yesterday.
This result is not only Wang Meng, but also Mr. Han San and Yu Dong breathed a sigh of relief, and it seems that they had held on.
However, Wang Meng was somewhat regretful. "Harry Potter" had more than 9 million yuan that day, but he only killed the total of four days of "This Man from Earth" in one day. In this way, the mainland box office champion in a week was missed.
However, "This Man~" ranked second with a score of 5.5 million.
It is also from today that China has begun to take this movie seriously. Director Wang Meng was finally dug out and began to appear in major newspapers, forums, and film review websites.
"【The victory of the young director, Chinese film successors are there.】"
"I won't comment on the content of "This Man from Earth". Let's talk about the director who contributed the most to this film. It is not difficult to find that viewers who watch this movie carefully will find a strange name..."
"A student in the 2004-level director department of Shanghai Opera, a young director under the age of 21 - Wang Meng."
"It can be said that the wonderful script and the fantastic ideas have made such a small-cost, high-box-office and almost a well-known film. The director and screenwriter in it is this student director under the age of 21. Since last week, I unanimously agreed that science fiction is something that Midi Hollywood can afford. However, the appearance of this film has broken my fixed thinking and slapped me loudly in the face. However, why is there no dissatisfaction, but I am happy..."
"As you all know, this month when Hollywood blockbusters are raging, it is precisely because of such a movie that has saved us the last inch of lost ground. At this moment, he is a hero, a hero in the Chinese film industry..."
"Finally, I think we should have more tolerance and encouragement. The author has seen a lot of criticism reports. Here, I also hope that all colleagues will give us the future of domestic films a forbidden front. Please do not kill the future of a Chinese science fiction film..."
———【Chinese Movie】Editor Sun Chengmin
This is not the first to praise Wang Meng, but in Wang Meng's opinion, it is the most objective one. Other reports either praise a flower or criticize it for nothing.
Until the second week of its release, the box office of "This Man from Earth" reached 14 million in the second week. It was incomparable to the number one "Harry Potter" with nearly 40 million, but under such pressure, few domestic directors can achieve such a box office.
So not only the media began to report on this matter, but even many well-known directors in China participated in the show of their presence.
Among them, Wang Meng accidentally offended a well-known director, which was a documentary inserted this month, "The Ancient Tea-Horse Road: Drum" directed by Tianzhuangzhuang.
The film was hit by Harry and This Man and got a desperate box office.
"Some young directors do not care about the real situation of society and do not understand the true meaning of artistic films, but rather show off the so-called 'science fiction' by taking advantage of the situation. I think this is a bad phenomenon. What is movies? Movies are art, the seventh largest art in the world, not so ignorant, and I really don't understand what it is to shoot a 14,000-year-old nihilistic existence..."
——【Famous Director】Tianzhuangzhuang
When a gossip tabloid report and reports such news, everyone knows who they are talking about, so all the monsters and monsters who are disliked by Wang Meng for a moment ran out.
Wang Meng didn't know who he had offended. Although the legal system of this society is quite outstanding, there is no way to suppress newcomers with power or rely on seniority and age to suppress newcomers.
However, the three of them became tigers, and as they talked too much, the audience's blind obedience also appeared, causing the box office to fall rapidly in the days before the third week.
However, the director also offended people. This was jointly released by Sanye and Yu Dong. In addition, the connections of the Shanghai Opera Director Department, when a report from Lao Lu appeared, all the criticism stopped for a while...
"As the director of the Shanghai Theatre Director Department, I absolutely agree with the film "This Man from Earth". It is not because as the producer of this film, the audience can see carefully that this is not only a breakthrough in domestic films, but also a breakthrough in our young new director. This attitude of daring to break the rules and the determination to not be afraid of failure are worthy of advocacy, and it is also a manifestation of the rapid development of our country..."
——【Director of the Director Department of Shanghai Theatre】Comrade Lu Lao
"I don't think it's sensationalism. Not only that, we should advocate and learn. We not only have literature and art, but also dreams, and science fiction is the greatest manifestation of dreams...
——【Deputy Director of China Film and Television】Han Sanye
"This movie has its own meaning and needs careful appreciation."
——【Famous Actor】Pan Hong
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Until the profitable big shots came out to speak, those opposition opinions lost their fulcrum in an instant, and the box office in the second half of the third week began to rebound.
After all, everyone is not a fool, and the quality of the movie can still be seen. With the novel themes and the refreshing "new science fiction" method, the box office this week was not very large, reaching 12 million.
Based on the three-week box office, "This Man from Earth" has won 31.5 million, which is really rare. If it is expected that the box office will reach more than 40 million. As for the 40 million, it depends on the specific performance.
At the same time, some gossip magazines with strong mining skills actually brought Wang Meng to the sky. The news about "Bears" was dug out, and their relationship with Jiang Shuying was also dug out.
What, "If you don't follow the rules, young directors are unwilling to inherit their comics and magazine industry, but instead take a unique approach and make great strides towards the director's dream..."
What, "Working through hardships, the young director and his childhood sweetheart completed a great movie together. This is the victory of love, this is the witness of the same boat through thick and thin..."
Even Warner ran out to join in the fun, "The main song of the new album of the famous singer Lao Lang, a talented young director Wang Meng personally took it, and took you to experience "You, the deskmate"..."
The ups and downs of these two weeks have made Wang Meng grow a lot. This is the name of being famous, not being famous in the Shanghai Theater School, but a slight reputation across the country.
At this moment, Wang Meng recalled Ning Hao, who was famous for his previous life, "Crazy Stone". Although he didn't know if Ning Hao would become famous for his "Crazy Stone" in this life, that is, next year.
However, I think both of them had the experience of becoming famous all over the world, so Wang Meng began to think about how Ning Hao was like in the previous life, and he repeatedly made steady progress, thus becoming a famous director?
However, Wang Meng has shortcomings, but Ning Hao really has that strength? He is just lucky to take advantage of the opportunity, and he has the biggest shortcomings - age.
Therefore, although Wang Meng has become famous these days, there are still no investors coming to Wang Meng to make movies. This is a naive and unfavorable thing! Most people's perception is that Wang Meng has left the dog, shit, luck.
As for asking him to make a movie with money? Haha... stop making trouble.
Although I was lost, Wang Meng didn't care. If you didn't come to me to make a movie, wouldn't I continue to shoot? As long as the box office share of "This Man from Earth" is collected, I have to start my early plans.
You can’t rely on others, you can only rely on yourself. Sometimes you can fall against walls and move on the mountain, and rely on yourself to rely on yourself.
So, Wang Meng has been free recently.
Not only now, even if I continue shooting, I don’t have any money, but I’m also a little bit suddenly recently. If I don’t have a foundation, it’s better to settle down. Besides, I’ve been in this world for more than three months, and I haven’t been with my family well, and I have an extra girlfriend…
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(To be continued...)
Chapter completed!