Chapter 164
WeChat has 2 billion, and half of the entertainment industry is silent
On the third day after the movie was released, netizens who liked or hated "Zhao Jiang" were arguing fiercely on various platforms. This also includes the black water laid by competitors and the press releases issued by the film's publicity department. The continuous controversial content attracted a large number of people who were just there to watch the fun.
Ling Suisui not only looks at compliments, but also pays attention to negative comments. She will not simply categorize all the netizens who raise criticism as "being paid to smear her". After all, no matter how great a star is, it is impossible to be liked by everyone.
[Cloud rating for the last month: ★★★★★]
[In my opinion, this is the best movie during the Spring Festival. The fighting scenes are exciting, the literary scenes are delicate and moving, and the line "The sun has set" is enough to be recorded in the history of domestic entertainment films. The God of Year is great, no need to say more. ]
[Jiujiu's rating: ★★★★★]
[It's a shocking movie after watching it. The epic war scenes allow you to feel the sincerity of the creators. ]
[Neverwinter Jingshan Rating: ★★★]
[It is obviously a popcorn commercial film. The plot is only worth one star. I'll give it one star for Ling Sui's acting skills, and another star because Tang Bing is a new director. ]
[The amazing Sophis-chan's rating: ★★★★]
[After watching the video, I was immediately attracted by Ling Suisui's acting skills. The charm of an actor really comes from her works. I deducted a star to give her some room for improvement. I am very optimistic about her future performance]
【Qingran score: ★★★★】
[I originally wanted to watch a comedy during the Spring Festival, but I changed my mind when I saw a super cool poster at the cinema. The plot is not original, but it is definitely worth the money. I plan to watch it a second time. ]
[It’s catnip!] Rating: ★★★★★】
[The female general in the novel finally has a concrete image. It is suggested that domestic entertainment film and television dramas also follow suit. The standard answers are all written in the movies. Words like fine clothes, vigorous horses, heroic and dashing are never exclusive to male protagonists. ]
[Yongwei Sama rating: ★★]
[The movie itself is three stars, a mediocre commercial film, one star deducted for excessive marketing, and it’s a bit annoying to see it everywhere]
[A Chrysanthemum Moon Rating: ★]
[Please 0ss stop lending money to the actress. From Jinbang to Zhaojiang, they are all Tang Bing's pendants. It's really embarrassing that you can't walk alone]
[Tenjinin Kankai rating: ★]
[The lead actress' acting is really unbearable, if you have any conscience, please stop acting]
【A song score: ★】
[This kind of crappy movie is the box office champion during the Spring Festival... There is no hope for domestic films]
[Hu Hu score: ★★★★★]
Why are there so many low-star reviews all of a sudden? It turns out there is a surprise when you click on the homepage. Our Zhaojiang actually has two theme songs, one is "The Mandate of Heaven", which you can listen to in the cinema, and the other is the heartbreaking sound of the black acid breaking defense]
[Piao Piao Piao rating: ★★★★★]
[I was too lazy to give a rating, but when I saw someone gave a low rating, I came to make a review. Forget about questioning other things, but it really made me laugh when you said Ling Suisui’s acting was bad. It’s a pity that you are blind at such a young age.]
[Xijiangxing Rating: ★★★★★]
[After watching the movie which left me wanting more, I really wanted to know more about Princess Pingyang Zhao’s life. In the movie, Sanniang is the absolute protagonist, but in the ending credits, she didn’t even have her own name. I felt a little sad at that moment. I think maybe deliberately not naming it is part of what the movie wants to convey. ]
[Smoke rating: ★★★★★]
[“A good movie can touch the soul”, thanks to Ling Suisui’s performance in Zhaojiang, I understand this sentence. Thanks also to Tang Bing, under the narrative perspective of the female director, Pingyang Zhao became the real protagonist. ]
【So let’s give a rating: ★★★★★】
[I personally think that the artistic value of Zhao Jiang has been underestimated due to its high box office. There is no need to label all popular movies as sinking market. There are indeed commercial routines, but Ling Suisui's perfect performance is enough to make up for it. ]
[Maisi's rating: ★★★★]
[The quality level is much higher than the films of the same period, the narrative angle is very comfortable, and we need more female directors. ]
[kelly rating: ★★★★★]
[Zhao Jiang is trying to create a realistic image of a female general throughout the film. Ling Sui's face is always gray, the close-up shots of her hands are also very rough, and her eating manners when she is just casually dealing with a meal can be described as terrible. At the end, Tang Bing finally put on the makeup for her to play the "female lead". She was so beautiful, and it fits our imagination of a "princess". However, the accompanying line was "The sun has set".
The sun had set, and her days of galloping on horseback were over. The brave and fearless general finally had to succumb to the rules of the patriarchal society. Whenever I think back to this scene, my heart still aches. I want to describe it as "broken feeling", but I feel that this overused word does not suit her performance. In short, thousands of words can be summed up in one sentence: Ling Suisui’s acting skills are superb. ]
[Lime mint rating: ★★★★★]
[When I first finished watching the movie, I felt that the ending was a bit abrupt. I was not quite used to this sudden ending, but after looking up historical information, I understood it. Pingyang Zhao did nothing wrong and had never lost a battle, but his military power was so abruptly taken away and he disappeared from the history books.
Everyone is talking about the sun setting, but I feel that the part about looking at the map has taken root in my heart. The image of a very ambitious and vital female character, contrasted with the broken helplessness at the end, directly maximizes the irony of history and film. I can't think of anyone else who could have filmed this except Ling Suisui. ]
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The above is only a small part of the countless film reviews. Ling Suisui has watched them all and accepted all of them, whether good or bad.
Having the courage to listen to all voices actually requires a lot of courage in the domestic entertainment industry. This means she has to face all the comments head-on so she can discern the information that is useful to her.
Because of this, the personalities of many artists become more and more extreme - either they automatically filter out negative comments and only listen to compliments, causing their mentality to expand wildly; or they are suppressed by malicious voices, feel that the whole world dislikes them, are surrounded by depression, and finally develop mental illness.
She specially created a small account to like and collect content that she thought was valuable. Qi Xiaoqing was sitting next to her and found that Ling Suisui could even calmly read the film review that said her "acting skills were exaggerated" at the beginning, and even gave it a thumbs up. She had a new understanding of the boss's psychological quality.
This is not a character setting for the audience to see, Sister Sui really doesn’t care!
Qi Xiaoqing couldn't help but ask, "Forget about the previous ones, just treat them as honest advice that hurts the ear... These few people are just brainlessly slandering you, aren't you angry, sister? Don't hold it in your heart."
Especially those who say she has no acting skills, are you sure they didn’t copy and paste the words used to describe their protagonist here?
"Not bad." Ling Suisui continued to swipe his phone without changing his expression. "The less a person has, the more he cares about things."
She asked her in passing: "Xiaoqing, if someone said that you couldn't afford eggs, would you get angry and want to prove yourself, showing all kinds of income proofs? Do you get anxious when someone says that?"
Qi Xiaoqing blurted out without thinking: "That's definitely not the case. I just think he has a problem with his brain."
She understood a little bit, and this logic also applied to Ling Suisui.
No wonder not only is Ling Sui not anxious, but her fans are also quite calm... It is certainly impossible to say that every fan is so calm, but compared to other fans who would easily mobilize a large number of troops, be broken by a little bad word, have sensitive skin all over, and are used to being carried away by themselves, this fan is already very calm.
When the overall public opinion is still in favor of "Zhao Jiang", fans don't care so much about the negative voices. Smart big fans will come out and write short essays, saying that we should not regard all controversies as bad things. More noise will create more topics!
The more anxious others are to break down their defenses, the more popular "Zhao Jiang" and Ling Suisui become. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Ling Sui's Weibo data exceeded 2 billion.
When this data was screenshoted and released by a marketing account, half of the entertainment industry fell silent.
You know, these days, if an actor's drama has over 100 million viewers on Weibo, fans can say it's a "hit drama". If it reaches 300 or 400 million, it's a "national hit drama" - by the way, this standard was raised by Ling Sui when she was filming "Game On".
Everyone originally thought that Ling Sui’s Weibo index peak of 500 million last year was already scary enough, but no one expected it to be even higher! There are still so many undiscovered passers-by plates!
The national popularity represented by 2 billion Weibo points is really scary, causing many netizens to sigh that if we talk about influence, we still have to look at the movie. Especially during the Spring Festival, this is what we call the real national attention.
To be honest, even Ling Sui's career fans who wanted to buy shares in her didn't expect her to become so popular.
This feeling is complicated to explain. If we compare the career development of a star to academic advancement, it's like a child who has skipped a grade and entered junior high school thanks to a hit gaming drama. She is the youngest in the class, and parents hope that she can be admitted to the best high school in the city. As a result, she quietly took the college entrance examination and easily won the provincial top spot.
Sui Si was afraid that having too high expectations would put pressure on Ling Sui Sui, but facts proved that she was too narrow-minded.
Who would have thought that the total box office of this movie would exceed 1.2 billion in just three days!
Three days, it’s only three days! Ling Sui has risen from a newcomer in the film industry to the 13th place on the Chinese female star box office rankings! No one dared to imagine how terrifying the cumulative box office would be by the time "Zhao Jiang" was released...
It can be said that since the release of "Zhao Jiang", the platform's estimated box office has continued to rise. 2 billion was the data before the release, and now the estimate has doubled, directly soaring to 4 billion.
People in the industry are frantically calculating: if the box office is 4 billion, how much money can Tang Bing make after splitting the profits? This is just domestic!
According to reliable sources, "The King's Avatar" will be released in Hong Kong and Macau in a few days, and the overseas distributor is Dyland.
When mentioning DeLand, everyone’s first reaction is the amusement park, and DeLand Films is one of the world’s top film companies that can sell its works to the whole world.
Zhang Yun already had some overseas connections, and Bradshaw also acted as a matchmaker in order to do Ling Suisui a favor. Due to the game's popularity overseas, Diland was very interested in Ling Sui's work, but Tang Bing kept insisting on the price and waited until the film was released in China before signing the contract.
This was a very risky decision - if the domestic film box office was not as good as expected, Tang Bing would lose her negotiating advantage, but she made the right bet.
How could she not be confident about the work she had worked so hard to create? By raising the price, not only would she earn more, but it would also increase Diland's attention to the film's promotion and marketing, and help raise Ling Sui's value significantly, killing two birds with one stone.
However, neither the industry nor the creative team themselves are optimistic about the overseas box office of "Zhao Jiang" and only regard it as a bonus.
After all, in recent years, it has been extremely difficult for Chinese-language films to break the 10 million US dollar box office in the North American market. The highest-grossing film overseas earned $210 million, but it was made more than 20 years ago.
Diland was willing to buy "Zhao Jiang" from other companies, firstly for Ling Suisui, and secondly because he was attracted by its fighting scenes. If you look at the overseas box office rankings of Chinese-language films, the most popular ones are all action films, and those who can make it in Hollywood are all action actors.
For a time, whether Ling Suisui could make a name for himself in Hollywood like his predecessors became the most concerned topic among those in the industry who knew the news.
Ling Suisui is unable to respond to these speculations for the time being. After all, "The King's Avatar" will not be released overseas until next month. Although Dilander promised "an unprecedented opening scale for Chinese-language films," all predictions are false until the actual box office figures come out.
Entering Hollywood? It depends on how to get in. Anyway, Ling Suisui will definitely not take the lead.
On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Ling Suisui and Tang Bing attended the premiere of "Zhao Jiang".
Well... in order to maintain confidentiality, Spring Festival movies like to move their premieres to a later date. This is not a precedent set by their crew.
As soon as she appeared, screams were heard from the audience and the sound of shutter clicks could be heard. Ling Suisui followed Tang Bing and waved to the audience, sparking more enthusiastic interaction.
Tang Bing teased: "You are so popular, this is all because of you."
"It's all thanks to the teacher."
Ling Sui walked to the middle, looked at the number of people on both sides, and quickly gave up the C position to the teacher.
After some polite but irresistible pulling, Ling Sui was finally pressed by Tang Bing to the middle position.
Tang Bing: "You are the protagonist in front of the screen, and I am the director behind the scenes. Who will carry the image of the movie? Of course it's you. Don't be so pretentious with me. Just stand here."
Well, the teacher has given the order, and Ling Suisui has no choice but to obey.
Although she had expected that she would be published a press release that was full of lies...it didn't matter. Even when she breathed, people would despise her for emitting carbon dioxide. She was responsible for global warming.
In the previous part introducing the content of the movie, Tang Bing and Ling Suisui spoke according to the script. The content of the media interview was also reviewed in advance, and it also clarified several outrageous rumors about "Zhao Jiang" in recent days.
For example, because Ling Sui's horse riding scenes were too exciting, some people questioned whether she was riding a fake horse.
This rumor was well-founded, saying that fighting scenes on horseback were extremely difficult to shoot, that other actors were using fake horses, and that it was just false marketing to deceive the audience... Anyway, Ling Sui was speechless.
They said she was riding a fake horse, but could you please post a photo? In the past, when people spread rumors, they would at least start with a picture, but now they just make up stories out of thin air, right?
Using other film crews as analogies does not mean that it takes too long to shoot "Zhao Jiang". To be honest, if it weren't for the need to take good care of Geerile and polish its shots over and over again, Ling Sui would have finished filming at least two months earlier.
Tang Bing also said on the spot that there were indeed some shots in the movie that used prop horses, and some special effects were used, but those were scenes where the horses were injured. As for the shots of Ling Suisui riding a horse, drawing a bow on horseback, and swinging a sword on horseback, they are all 100% shot with real horses, and the relevant highlights will be released on the cooperating online platform.
Yes, don’t forget that Ling Suisui joined the crew several months in advance, and "Zhao Jiang" even has its own documentary. Judging from the current box office and discussion, three... no, four platforms including Fruit TV are all vying for it.
Now that all the promotional content has been publicized, the next step is interaction with the audience.
Other movies might have a few extras who would flatter the film crazily in the name of the "audience", but Tang Bing didn't do that. She is confident in the quality of the film and dares to answer real questions from the audience.
Tang Bing was fully prepared and even thought about how to respond to the points that might be criticized. But the few audience members mentioned earlier were more concerned about Ling Suisui himself than the content of the movie.
There were no such things as difficulties or criticisms. The only things left were the hundred and one ways to praise Ling Sui.
Well… before the premiere, there were still scalpers selling admission tickets, and the asking price was in the five figures. Regardless of whether others care or not, Tang Bing cleared out a group of on-site staff after hearing about this incident, and reviewed the list again. The concentration of real audiences on the scene was still relatively high.
However, after watching the movie, I became a fan of Ling Suisui on the spot, but there is nothing I can do about it.
Tang Bing glanced at Ling Suisui, who made an innocent expression. It was not her fault that she was too charming!
——Jokes aside, Ling Sui still seriously guided the direction of the audience's questions, hoping that everyone would pay more attention to the content of the movie and stop asking about her personally.
Audience A: "I want to ask Director Tang, there is an uploader who analyzed the film saying that the instrumental music at the end is actually the drums at Princess Pingyang Zhao's funeral. Is this what you want to express?"
"Regarding the interpretation of the phrase 'the sun has set', does it mean the end of her career as a general, or the end of her life?"
Tang Bing replied: "When the film is completed, the right to interpret it does not belong to me alone. Every audience can have their own understanding. I will not destroy any possibility."
"But if you mention the fanfare, then it's not. A real funeral fanfare is a grand scene. The ancients treated death as life. In fact, I thought about filming Sanniang's funeral, but later gave up."
"Ah, why?"
"Because the budget is not enough." Tang Bing answered frankly, "When the princess is buried, there must be feathered drums in front and back. Feathered drums are a kind of feather decoration. This prop must be customized. In addition, the seven military music pieces have been lost. If we want to play them, we have to ask someone to compose them specially. The musicians at the funeral have to wear special clothes. It's a big scene."
The audience was very disappointed: "Will there be a next one?"
Tang Bing shook his head. How to shoot the next one? In fact, except for the funeral, "Zhao Jiang" almost filmed all the historical records about Pingyang Zhao.
If a sequel is to be made along the timeline... that would be pure imagination and would have little to do with Hirayosho himself.
Audience B: "Director Tang, I really like your female narrative perspective. I'm still in high school and I really want to apply to the directing department of the film academy. Can I hear your experience in this area?"
Tang Bing: "If you mean 'female narrative perspective', unfortunately, I don't know what this term means specifically, and I'm still trying to figure it out. The only thing I can be sure of is that I just shot a very complete female character, and I got this kind of evaluation."
Ling Sui lowered his head, trying hard to control the changes in his expression.
This way of answering...can be considered a "tribute to the classics".
After several audience members asked Tang Bing questions, the topic turned to her again.
Ling Sui was asked many details about her performance, the most common question being "What were you thinking about when filming xxx?" On these issues, she basically recited what was in her script notes, plus a little bit of on-site recollection.
Someone mentioned: "Some people on the Internet say that you are the best female star at filming fighting scenes. With just a few moves, you have broken the dreams of many actresses to become warriors. Can you share with us how you practiced your fighting scenes?"
Ling Suisui first said: "Well, I think it's hard to add the word 'best' to performance, because it's not something that can be quantified. Then I hope that my performance can let everyone see the charm of fighting scenes, let more actors and directors participate, and play a role in inspiring others instead of shutting others out."
This is not just a compliment, Ling Suisui really hopes that domestic fighting dramas can take off from now on. Can one person making a cake be as efficient as a hundred people making a cake? Only when fighting scenes are given more and more attention can the efforts she has made before be of greater value.
She is not afraid of being outdone by others, and competition can motivate her more.
The premiere had a limited duration, and the main creators were about to leave, but they stayed a little longer despite the reluctance of the audience.
The last question, the audience asked Ling Suisui: "If you traveled through time and space and became Li Sanniang, what would you most want to do?"
oh? Tang Bing raised her eyebrows. This question is not easy to answer.
Many answers flashed through Ling Sui's mind, but some of them were absolutely inappropriate to say out loud, so she paused for about a second.
After thinking about it, she said, "I'll find a way to leave my name behind."
Very good, this is in line with the content and theme of the movie. She is really a little publicity genius.
After leaving the screening room, Tang Bing asked her, "Is this really your first reaction?"
"...Of course it's a little higher than this goal, just a little bit higher."
Ling Suisui and Tang Bing looked at each other and instantly understood each other's thoughts.
If it were really possible to travel through time, who would obediently work for Li Yuan for nothing?
——As expected of a teacher-student team, they think alike!
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