May 1st was supposed to be a day off for slacking off.

But everyone in the film industry feels the situation is very grim.

Lu Ban’s movie is more than just a box office hit.

The clues behind this movie are surprising.

On the famous role-playing website "Duo Le Me", several hot replies were updated under the question of how to evaluate "In the Mouth of a Madman".

[Filmmaker A Ping]: I take back my previous comment. In the Mouth of a Madman is groundbreaking for the horror film industry and even for domestic films. Its content is not only limited to the work, but also extends beyond the work. This combination of reality and fantasy and blurring of boundaries is very novel. It can be said that the viewing experience of the entire movie reached its peak when the secret was revealed in the last part. To be honest, I am a little curious now. Are we actually living in a novel and are we just characters in the novel, controlled by others?

[My name is Teacher Zhao]: I think there are only a few people who can evaluate this movie rationally. Most people are still in a state of chaos as if their brains have been stirred. If you think about it carefully, is Lu Ban, who is shocking us with one movie after another and transforming our cognition, very similar to the novelist in the movie? After watching this movie, I really thought seriously about the possibility that I am a fictional character. Of course, if this is the plot of a novel, then perhaps Lu Ban is the absolute protagonist of this plot, and I am just a faceless extra who flatters him.

[Deep Blue Melancholy: My face hurts a bit. I originally thought that according to the normal production speed, Lu Ban’s movie would not be available for at least two years. I didn’t expect it to be released in half a year. Did this guy secretly save more than a dozen movies and release them one after another? This doesn’t give other directors a way to survive. Someone shoots well and quickly, how can others surpass him? It’s unreasonable! ]

However, more people are still shocked by the movie.

In Lu Ban’s previous films, the discussion of the fourth wall was very shallow. In most of the films, the actors ignored the audience and performed completely immersed in the film’s worldview. The relevant themes of the films would not make the audience feel that it was “acted”.

But in "In the Mouth of a Madman", the interaction between the novelist and the protagonists, and the main storyline of the film, clearly break the fourth wall of the horror story in the film and connect reality and fantasy together. The audience can think that this movie is the story of the novel "In the Mouth of a Madman" and the novelist is independent of the story, or they can think that the novelist is also a part of the story. This is a movie about how a novel is completed.

This easily leads to a question: are the audience watching the movie characters in an event called "In the Mouth of a Madman"? Is the world we live in real?

Bai Qiquan came back from the premiere completely stunned.

He got up very early today because he hardly slept last night. His dreams were all about spiders crawling all over people's bodies, men in suits with their heads twisted, and vicious dogs with tentacles for heads exploding.

When he woke up in the morning, Bai Qiquan rubbed his eyes.

He suddenly saw a man in a suit standing in his dormitory.

Hearing Bai Qiquan's movement, the other party turned his head.

"Fuck!"

Bai Qiquan sat up as if he had been electrocuted, his head almost hitting the wall. A tremor swept through his body, and he even felt his hands and feet twitching.

"What are you doing? It's like you've seen a ghost."

The man in the suit asked.

Only then did Bai Qiquan realize that this was his roommate.

"Why are you wearing a suit?"

He asked with a trembling voice.

"Oh, I found an internship before, and I have an interview today, so I got a suit."

The roommate laughed.

"oh……"

Only then did Bai Qiquan feel relieved.

Then I fell into that inexplicable sadness again.

"Tell me, is it possible that we are just a part of a book, and the whole world is fiction?"

He suddenly asked his roommate.

"ah?"

The other party didn't understand and asked back.

"Forget it, you don't understand."

Bai Qiquan shook his head.

He now felt like the first scientist to understand the heliocentric theory. Everyone else was still in ignorance, and only he had glimpsed the truth.

He lay on the bed, picked up his mobile phone, and searched for knowledge about the end of the universe, the end of time, and the destruction of the earth.

"Did you know?"

Bai Qiquan asked his roommate again.

"Know what?"

My roommate didn’t understand again.

"The sun will expand into a red giant in five billion years, and then the earth will be completely engulfed, and human civilization will be destroyed!"

Bai Qiquan said seriously.

"Oh, five billion years, that's still a long time ago."

The roommate suddenly wondered if Bai Qiquan was seriously ill.

"Are you really okay? Do you want to go see the school doctor?"

"It's okay, I'm fine..."

Bai Qiquan waved his hand, lay down again, and searched for some thought experiments such as the brain in a jar and the Ship of Theseus. He became depressed again.

This situation continued throughout the night.

A few buddies in the dormitory found Bai Qiquan and played a few games at a fixed time. After he lost five games in a row, he forgot about the destruction of the universe, the end of time, and the brain in the jar.

"I won't go to bed if I don't win today!"

Bai Qiquan clicked the mouse repeatedly and opened the next one.

Then he pulled an all-nighter again.

…

On May 1, the box office of "In the Mouth of a Madman" reached 170 million, setting a domestic first-day box office record for horror films.

Moreover, as the holiday continues and word of mouth grows, its box office continues to rise.

On the second day, the box office of "In the Mouth of a Madman" reached 200 million, and on the third day, the number became 250 million. This is a rare movie that has continued to grow at the box office with sufficient pre-promotion.

It is worth mentioning that before this, the domestic box office was a military-themed movie with a total box office of more than 5 billion, and the total box office of the starring role exceeded 8 billion.

Now, according to data calculations, the box office of Lu Ban's "In the Mouth of a Madman" is likely to exceed 3 billion and reach 4 billion. Combined with "The Wailing", he can almost become one of the top five directors and actors in the country in terms of total box office.

Under such circumstances, mainstream media also began to follow the hot topic of Lu Ban.

After the Golden Week ended and Lu Ban’s film “In the Mouth of a Madman” grossed 1 billion yuan at the box office, he received a call.

The other party was the person in charge of the program team of Shonan TV Station, who invited Lu Ban to participate in an interview program to talk about his creative experience.

Lu Ban accepted it with pleasure.