Chapter 166 Fire, Fire, Fire (Subscribe)
"Hard Candy is so exciting to watch. It's a high-energy movie throughout. The most important part is that I never expected such a twist."
"Yes, Han Wei is afraid that except for the fact that he was his first love, Han Yanan, nothing else is true."
"Teacher Yu is right. This is indeed a story about two actors, and it is very exciting throughout."
"I want to apologize to Mr. Yu. I admit that I thought it was a cliché story when I first watched the first five minutes.
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“Girls can act like women, but that doesn’t mean they can do women’s things!” Everyone should hear this sentence.
"I say you are an adult, a grown man, if a girl flirts with you, you should pretend you didn't hear it, not encourage her."
"If a kid says, 'Have a cocktail,' you should take the drink away instead of toasting her."
“Are people who do charity necessarily good people?”
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The discussion on "Hard Candy" on Douhu went from small-scale ridicule to large-scale ridicule to small-scale praise to more and more people starting to discuss it and it exploded.
Such a transformation actually took less than 100 minutes.
That is, "Hard Candy" started airing at 8 o'clock and ended at 9:35, and then there was a big reversal on Douhu.
In addition to the discussion, many people are preparing to watch it again.
Just like Gu Tianqi and Feng Ling, they overlooked some plots when they first watched "Hard Candy", but they suddenly understood them when they watched it again.
There was a missing person notice for Donna posted in the coffee shop.
On the way to Han Wei's house, Li Mei flashed a murderous look in the car.
etc.
The second time we watched "Hard Candy", we both watched it at 2x speed. After finishing it quickly, we ignored each other.
kindness.
They each started writing film reviews.
Gu Tianqi wrote this film review in a long format of 3,452 words.
At the beginning of the post, Gu Tianqi first talked about Han Rong and sexual harassment.
That is, 90 percent of sexual harassment in life comes from acquaintances. This acquaintance may be your boss, your friend, your classmate, or even your relative. Because most sexual harassment by acquaintances will make people embarrassed to speak out, and even blame themselves afterwards for giving the other party the wrong signal?
In fact, it is not only the victims who think so, the public opinion environment is also like this. They say that you are sexually harassed because you are good-looking, you are sexually harassed because you are wearing too little, and how could others harass you if you are not flirty.
etc.
Others think: "It's not me who wants to sexually harass, it's the other party who seduced me."
In short, any sexual harassment rights protection case is extremely difficult, and some people may even be subjected to slut-shaming, or even be charged with extortion. Often, after defending against sexual harassment rights, one will basically have to go through another round of hard work.
This is why more and more people involved in sexual harassment incidents choose to remain silent.
What’s more important is that there is often no evidence of sexual harassment.
For example, if the other person touches your hand unconsciously, or holds your hand to talk to you, and you say it is sexual harassment, firstly, people will think you are overreacting. Secondly, how can you judge whether the other person really wants to harass you?
Who would believe you if you turned around and said it was sexual harassment?
Look at Han Wei, he has rich experience and wide network of contacts. The profession of photographer itself allows for extensive social interaction, not to mention that he is also a web movie director. With all these identities, I am afraid that even adult women would be deceived by him, let alone young girls.
When I was watching this online movie, I initially thought that Han Wei might just have the intention but not the courage to do it.
Of course, I still find this kind of talk disgusting, but you can't say they have criminal tendencies.
For this reason, when I watched the early plot of "Hard Candy", I always thought that Han Wei might have been wronged.
Isn't this just like what Han Wei said, he is just a person with a little bit of evil intention but not the courage to do it.
But when Li Mei opened the safe and saw countless naked photos, and Han Wei's sophistry on the roof at the end, all proved that this was the murderer.
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In this film review, Gu Tianqi stands on the side of women and objectively analyzes Han Wei in "Hard Candy".
In life, we see people who are polite, well-spoken, and seemingly harmless, but they may actually be full of evildoers behind their backs.
So, we should teach our children that the world is beautiful, but at the same time, the world also has a lot of garbage and we should stay away from garbage.
Compared with Gu Tianqi's post, Feng Ling's post is more radical.
Feng Ling expressed his opinion with the title "'Hard Candy' is a rare revenge-filled movie in recent years."
That's right.
Feng Ling believes that although "Hard Candy" is a small-scale online movie, it can be considered a qualified movie in terms of the script and the actors' acting skills, and is even not inferior to some so-called blockbusters.
In movies, the script is king.
Although Feng Ling is an amateur film critic, she also knows this truth.
In her post, she not only praised "Hard Candy", but also said that she had a reputation as a foresight and that Mr. Yu Xiaoshu's works never disappoint.
Then the focus was on the revenge method of "Hard Candy".
At first, Feng Ling thought it was castration. Think about it, what punishment could be more important than castration?
But he didn't expect that the castration was fake, and Feng Ling just wanted to torture Han Wei.
At the last moment, Han Wei put on a rope and prepared to commit suicide. At this time, Feng Ling thought that suicide would be the end of it.
The result is still the same routine.
Han Wei is not dead.
What Li Mei wanted was for everything Han Wei did to be exposed in front of his ex-girlfriend Han Yanan.
For Han Wei, the greatest punishment would be to make him socially dead.
It would be too easy for him to just kill him.
But to be honest, almost everyone thinks that Han Wei should be castrated.
Castration is the way to go.
On Douhu, in addition to the film reviews by Gu Tianqi and Feng Ling, there are many other film reviews filling the movie section.
“Hard Candy is a web drama you won’t regret watching.”
"The strongest loli is born - "Hard Candy"."
"Hard Candy can be organized for everyone to watch.
“Hard Candy has taken on the responsibility of being a web drama.”
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On Douhu, 70 percent of people gave a positive review to "Hard Candy".
That’s right, only 70 percent.
Because not everyone agrees with the approach in Hard Candy.
"What nonsense is this? This little Loli is a pervert. Does she have any evidence? She just made a direct label?"
"I think what Han Wei said is right. Li Mei should see a psychiatrist. Don't forget, she said in the end that she doesn't care about the truth."
"Isn't this a private trial? What qualifications does Li Mei have to do this?"
"It's too cruel. Don't criminals have human rights?"
"We all commit crimes. Do we all have to be subjected to this kind of private trial?"
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Basically all of these criticisms gave negative reviews.
They think this movie is garbage, the plot is unrealistic, the actors are idiotic, and it's just a hype movie.
But the reality is that it’s bullshit.
Discussions on Douhu are quite extreme, with people praising the ones they like to the sky and criticizing the ones they dislike to the ground.
Of course, Hard Candy itself is extremely controversial.
For those who like movies, want to discuss movies, or even have a strong desire to express themselves, everyone wants to compete with each other on Douhu.
Since ancient times, there has been no first in literature and no second in martial arts.
There are clearly two major camps on Douhu, and both sides dislike each other.
One says the other is a virgin bitch, and the other says the other is a dangerous person.
The first batch of viewers gave two completely different reviews.
If there is only one-sided praise or one-sided criticism, then I'm afraid other people won't be extremely interested.
But not now.
Now these are two completely different voices, and many people think that they should also take a look at it.
There's nothing wrong with this.
Let’s put it this way, the audience’s curiosity is still extremely high.
What was the worst pornographic movie ever? Many viewers went to watch it just to see how bad it was.
Who can you talk to about this?
Of course, there will no longer be any market for bad movies on the planet. As a result, some directors talk about how hard they work and how good the special effects are when they are trying to gain sympathy, but the audience does not appreciate it.
Isn't it like that with "The Order of the Samurai"? The director kept playing the victim, as if the conclusion was that the audience was not good, but in fact it was not only because of the bad script, but I heard that there were some problems with the actors.
That was something that happened on Earth and had nothing to do with the current situation on Yuanxing. At this time, there was a third voice in the discussion of "Hard Candy".
That's music.
At the beginning of "Hard Candy", Li Mei and Han Wei sang three songs when they were on a date in "Gardenia Blossoms". One was "Gardenia Blossoms", and the other two were "I Crossed the Ocean to See You" and "Courage".
In addition, the one at Han Wei’s house is “The Most Romantic Thing”.
Needless to say, the song "Gardenia Blossoms" is something that some people have already heard at the launch conference, but it is not available online at the moment, and neither is "The Most Romantic Thing".
According to "Hard Candy", we can know that Xin Xin is Lou Zi, so the question is, is this song "The Most Romantic Thing" a new song?
This is another group of people's discussion.
Of course, a good song does not mean a good drama. Since ancient times, bad movies have produced great songs, so these songs are just icing on the cake. After all, the script must be strong to make good work.
Not only on Douhu, but also on social platforms, countless people recommended "Hard Candy", and the comment section of Yu Xiaoshu's latest updates was flooded.
"Teacher Yu is awesome, this online movie is really addictive."
"Haha, Teacher Yu is great, you're amazing. I'm impressed."
“There is a talent upstairs”
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Not to mention Yu Xiaoshu’s comment section, many people in the circle of friends are also spontaneously recommending it.
"Hard Candy" benefited from the operation of Liu Qianqian, who is stupid, rich, and has little work and a good life, so the promotion of this online movie is quite good, but many people were not interested in it at the beginning. After all, who is interested in online movies? ?
But many people actually saw that so many people were promoting it spontaneously, which is a different story.
If the government spends money on promotion, it won't be credible. If a big V promotes it, that's probably a waste of money. But now it's promoted by tap water, so the reputation should be good. At least it might be worth a look.
While the good reputation of the first wave of audiences was still being discussed, the second wave of audiences began to arrive.
The next day, at 8:15 in the morning, Zhang Qing came to the big data department of Kunlang Video early. At this time, the other staff members of the entire data department had not yet come to work, and only Lao Cao was there.
Zhang Qing hurriedly said to Lao Cao, the person in charge of monitoring in the data department: "How is it? How is it?"
"What how?"
Lao Cao looked at Zhang Qing and asked in some surprise.
"What's going on? Didn't I ask you to keep an eye on the broadcast data of Hard Candy early in the morning?"
Zhang Qing asked anxiously: "What's the data like now?"
"Hey, Zhang Qing, you are not a novice. You should know that the data of online movies are usually not available until 24 hours later. Besides, this is a relatively unknown online movie called "Hard Candy". Do you think its data can be that good?"
Lao Cao shook his head slightly and said, "It's not exclusive to us. It's a movie on the Internet that's available on four platforms. How good can it be?"
"You don't know, Lao Cao, but I watched it on Douhu. This online movie received rave reviews on Douhu, and many people in WeChat Moments were promoting it."
Zhang Qing said hurriedly, "I wonder how it has been 12 hours now. Let's see if the number of views can exceed 10,000."
"Breaking ten thousand??"
Lao Cao shook his head and laughed: "How is that possible? You should know what it means for an online movie to have over 10,000 hits."
If the actual number of clicks is 5 yuan, then 10,000 views and clicks would be 50,000 yuan. If 4 companies simultaneously have over 10,000 views and clicks, that would be 200,000 yuan, not counting some advertising revenue.
Generally, if an online movie gets 10,000 hits in 12 hours, it is likely to get 50,000 hits in 24 hours, and may even get more purchases later on.
Online movies are so miserable. If an online movie exceeds 10,000 viewers in the first 12 hours and it is not exclusive, it is already quite good.
"Lao Cao, stop talking nonsense and take a look."
Zhang Qing said with some annoyance.
Of course he knew that it would be difficult for "Hard Candy" to reach over 10,000 views in 12 hours, but what if?
What's more, the screenwriter of this online drama is Yu Xiaoshu.
There is also a lot of discussion online nowadays.
Over 10,000? ?
It shouldn't be a big problem.
"Look, we are not impatient."
Lao Cao turned on the data monitoring and looked at the data of "Hard Candy" in a daze.
"One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand..."
Thinking he might have seen it wrong, Lao Cao counted carefully and muttered to himself, "Impossible, this is impossible, is there something wrong with the system?"
That's right.
There must be something wrong with the system.
As he spoke, Lao Cao picked up his phone and called the person in charge of system maintenance: "Xiao Cheng, what's going on? Why is there a problem with the system?"
Xiao Cheng, who received the call, was confused: "I just checked the backend system and there is no problem."
"no problem??"
Lao Cao suddenly raised his voice a bit: "Then how come the number of views of "Hard Candy" has reached 700,000???"
Xiao Cheng said, "You mean Hard Candy? A large number of users suddenly bought this online movie at 11pm last night. I checked the IDs and found that these are real purchases, not fake tickets from the film production company."
Now, because of the monitoring of various big data, if someone cheats in votes, it will be impossible to conceal it.
Besides, no film producer is stupid enough to cheat on the box office now.
If there are no bugs, then it is the real result.
700,000? ? ?
After Lao Cao hung up the phone, he looked at Zhang Qing and said, "This world is too crazy."
Zhang Qing had already come over when Lao Cao was calling. He was completely stunned at this moment.
A low-budget online movie with only two actors became a huge hit???
The most important thing is that it exploded so thoroughly.
It's simply brutal.
"What's going on? Lao Cao, why has this world gone crazy?"
"Yeah, Lao Cao, what are you doing?"
Gradually, other people in the office also came to work. After hearing what Lao Cao said later, everyone asked with some confusion.
"You guys... come and take a look."
Lao Cao pointed at the data monitor and said.
"The online movie "Hard Candy" has 700,000 views??"
"Oh my god, this breaks the record."
"How... is this possible???"
"An online movie has received over 700,000 hits in just 12 hours. This world is really crazy."
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Looking at the other colleagues' inexplicable shock, Lao Cao said with a trembling voice: "Have you forgotten the data of the other three video websites? This "Hard Candy" is broadcast on four websites at the same time."
Hiss!!
As soon as he finished speaking, the other colleagues took a deep breath.
If the other three video websites are this terrible, then wouldn't "Hard Candy" be a big success? ?
"Quick, Lao Cao, quickly check the data of the other three video websites."
Zhang Qing reacted and said, "Even if the other three companies are delayed, the first eight hours are definitely available."
Without Zhang Qing's instruction, Lao Cao had already opened the three video websites, Xingyao, MiLi and Xiaoma Entertainment, in turn.
Xingyao Video: 540,000 views, 8,765 comments, 4,321 comments.
MiLi Video: 480,000 views, 9,723 comments, 5,498 comments.
Xiaoma Video: 160,000 views, 1,892 comments, 400 comments.
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By looking at the number of views and clicks of "Hard Candy" on the other three video websites, everyone can also know who is the father and who is the younger brother.
Obviously, because Kunlang Video has huge traffic, "Hard Candy" has the largest number of views and clicks on Kunlang Video, and the number of views and clicks on Xiaoma Video proves that the younger brother is the younger brother.
After 12 hours on the air, the total number of views and clicks of "Hard Candy" on the four video websites reached 1.88 million. This was because there were delays in the background of the other three video websites, and the number of views and clicks basically exceeded 2 million.
One click costs 5 yuan, how much does 2 million views cost? ?
10 million!!!
The box office on the first day was as high as 10 million. No, with the advertising revenue and other miscellaneous items included, it might be as high as 12 million.
fire! fire! fire!
Zhang Qing's eyes turned red. He almost ran to the office of the boss in charge of the online movie, and said to him, "Boss, I suggest that we increase the publicity of "Hard Candy" immediately. It should be at least SSS-level, no, directly king-level publicity."
Regret it.
Zhang Qing was really regretting it at this time. He actually had confidence in Yu Xiaoshu, otherwise he would not have gone to Yu Xiaoshu in advance to promote the product.
But who could have imagined that?
He still underestimated Yu Xiaoshu, and even more so, he underestimated the movie "Hard Candy".
Damn it.
If he knew that "Hard Candy" had such high achievements, he would have asked Yu Xiaoshu to sign an exclusive contract with Kunlang Video even if he had to call him "Dad".
Now, it's too late to say this and it's meaningless.
Then Zhang Qing must take the opportunity to publicize before other opponents can react.
Everyone knows that the next movie "Hard Candy" will be a huge hit.
The boss of Kunlang Video's online movie department looked at Zhang Qing and said, "Okay."
At any time, money is the most important thing.
At the same time.
Pony Entertainment.
"Boss Wang, this, this 'Hard Candy' is going to be a success."
Xu Qing from the Internet Department said excitedly: "The total number of views on all major platforms will soon exceed 2 million. We must increase publicity."
"Two million???"
Wang Fei said in disbelief: "How is this possible?"
"Mr. Wang, look."
Xu Qing handed the tablet over directly: "This is the data of the four video websites. Due to the delay in the background, there are only 1.4 million now, but I believe that once the data is corrected, there will definitely be 2 million."
"How come our Xiaoma Entertainment has so few views?"
Wang Fei looked at the data and said with some disappointment.
“That much??”
Xu Qing almost shouted, "Boss Wang, these 160,000 hits have set a new record for online movies. You heard me right. It's not our Xiaoma Entertainment, it's the record for the entire online movie."
How miserable online movies were before, and how awesome "Hard Candy" is now.
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(End of this chapter)
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