Chapter 142: First Victory
2,890 cinemas across the country were released simultaneously, each cinema showed at least 5 screenings every day... These are the numbers related to the release of "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum". At this moment, Duane's mind has been circling and cannot be dispersed.
The thick curtains were pulled, and the light from the outside could not be penetrated, and the lights in the room were all turned off, making the bedroom dark.
On the soft big bed, Duan opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling. He could not see anything, but he could not close his eyes to sleep. He drank a lot of drinks at the celebration banquet. Now the alcohol of the white wine seemed to evaporate into his blood vessels. As the blood flowed through his body, he was so restless that he could not fall asleep peacefully. The thoughts in his mind came one by one: he thought about the success of today's premiere, sometimes he thought about how much the box office would be today under this situation, sometimes he thought about the post-production special effects of "Terminator" had been completed, it was time to start its post-production process, and sometimes he thought about having to rest for a while after finishing "Terminator" and doing all the things he wanted to do but couldn't do because he didn't have time.
"call!"
Duan sat up all of a sudden, lifted the quilt and walked out of bed.
He really couldn't sleep.
He first went to the kitchen to drink some water to relieve his thirst, then walked to Su Jin's door with a cup, wanting to see if she was asleep. If she wasn't asleep, maybe the two of them could chat.
"Dongdong"
He knocked on the door twice and called out the name "Su Jin". No movement came from the room.
It seems that he is asleep.
Du An had no choice but to give up the idea of chatting with her, and returned to the kitchen with the cup, then came out of the kitchen with the cup and the kettle with the other hand, and entered the study.
After turning on the computer, Du An raised his hand and looked at the watch while waiting for the computer to turn on. It was past 11 o'clock in the evening.
After waiting for more than a minute, the computer started.
Duane opened his browser, entered Douban, and began to check the audience's comments about "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum". He was thinking about this all the time in bed.
9.5 points
Duan rubbed his eyes, wondering if he had read it wrong.
After a look, it was still 9.5 points.
Du An stared at the score blankly and didn't speak for a long time.
He had long known that the evaluation score of "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum" would not be low. After all, this time it was not a commercial film, but this unreasonable score still made him unexpected that his original estimate of "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum" score was between 8 and 9 points. After all, films like "Farewell My Concubine" were only 9.2 points, and it was very good to get more than 8 points. His previous films have never exceeded 8 points.
But I didn't expect it to be a completely unreasonable score such as 9.5.
Of course, this does not mean that "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum" is so much better than other movies. Now it is only the first day, and the number of ratings is not large. Generally speaking, those who start evaluating a movie on the first day can be regarded as fans of the director of the movie, and their emotions will naturally be biased. Therefore, the evaluation scores for the first three days have never been credible and will be much higher than the normal scores that the film should have. Only when the number of screening days is extended, the number of viewers increases, and the number of reviewers increases, will this evaluation score be objective and true.
But even so, a score of 9.5 points is still a bit scary. Even if you lose it in the future, it is still not difficult to stabilize it at 8.5 points or above.
Duane took a sip of water, calmed down, ignored the score, and began to check the reviews below.
"What needs to fly over is our hearts", "We are all madmen", "How long is the night before dawn", "The sadness of the Nobel Prize in Medicine", "Where is the devil's cave", "Why does freedom become a tragedy", "At least I've tried it"...
I didn’t expect that on the first day, there were so many reviews. After reading the statistics of the reviews, I found that there were 37 long reviews, more short reviews, more than 100 short reviews.
Duane slowly watched one movie review and another.
These Douban people are really personalized. Some people wrote it before, but they were unwilling to write it again and insisted on finding a new perspective. This has also led to many angles in these short 37 reviews: some oppose the now-provoked Internet addiction rehabilitation center from the perspective of electric shock treatment of mental illness, some oppose the tragic situation of Wang Ming finally becoming an idiot, some question the current popular way to diagnose mental illness is too hasty and subjective, some call on people to bravely pursue freedom, and some lament the sadness of the world that we understand how to do it, but we cannot do it at all...
But without exception, basically everyone gave positive reviews and high scores. Duane searched for a long time and found that no one said that this video was a bad one.
He found that the one with the worst reviews also gave 6 points, and then the film review was: "It seems that many people think it's very good, but I don't feel it."
This is a polite statement. Duane felt that the audience might even think that the video was quite boring. Maybe they fell asleep while watching it, but after seeing everyone's promise, they still gave a 6 point.
Duane shook his head: If you want to score one, then just play. Why is it hard to shrink like this? Isn’t it the same as in the movie?
Thinking of this, he opened the login interface, got an account called "Fanfan", and decisively gave a score of 1. In a word, the movie review was "bad movies, I want to sleep."
He said this on behalf of that friend.
After sending it, he turned off Douban, took out his cell phone and tried to call Lu Fanghe, wanting to ask about the general situation of the national premiere tonight.
The phone has been connected, and this workaholic, second only to Shu Yu, has not yet gone to bed.
“Overall, it’s very good!”
Lu Fanghe's voice came from the other end of the phone, and it sounded energetic, with a hint of deliberate repression: "The cinemas in the first-tier cities surveyed averaged 75% in the first game, and the attendance rate of the second game was 70%. Moreover, according to the survey, most viewers liked this movie very much and had a very high satisfaction."
"But I still can't catch up with "Seven Swords."
Du An was stunned by Lu Fanghe's words. Only then did he realize that the distribution manager really took him seriously by beating "Seven Swords" and was so idle that he sent someone to do the market research on "Seven Swords".
"We conducted a five-sample survey on "Seven Swords", and the data are all from the same first-tier cities. The survey results show that the average attendance rate of the first game of "Seven Swords" reached 98%, while the second game of 86%, which is higher than us. However, the audience satisfaction is not as good as us. Some of the audience surveyed even think that the movie tickets are not worth buying, and this emotion does not appear in our audience."
This result was both unexpected and unexpected to Duan: Director Xu Keda's works, and so many first-line stars join the production cost, the production cost is higher than theirs, the promotion cost is higher than theirs, and it is also an orthodox commercial film. The attendance rate of "Seven Swords" is higher than that of "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum". It is not surprising that Duan is not surprised, but it is not as good as them in terms of audience satisfaction... Could it be that he once made a fool of himself to defeat "Seven Swords" and win the May Day championship?
"So have you done a survey on the other videos?"
Duane was both surprised and funny when Lu Fanghe's actions in investigating "Seven Swords", and couldn't help but joke.
"No,"
Lu Fanghe's voice came from the other end of the phone, "There is no need for others."
His words were full of confidence.
He had previously thought that his director Duane's words were a bit unreliable: How to do commercial films in art films? But today's premiere made him see hope that from the situation on the first day, "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum" is the kind of well-known and popular type, while "Seven Swords" is not popular. Therefore, "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum" may really make "Seven Swords" fall down! So now "Seven Swords" is their biggest opponent. As for the other small fish and shrimps like "Make the Head" and "Qinghong", he didn't take it seriously at all.
Chapter completed!