The movie's title was chosen by Yin Weilin; it's called "The Boy Who Abandoned the World."
The film's introduction is simple, but the scenery and some animal battle scenes shown in the trailer that was released before the Lunar New Year have attracted the attention of some veteran movie fans and some seasoned filmmakers.
The general public decides whether to watch a movie based on its genre, marketing, and actors. However, seasoned moviegoers look at the things behind the scenes, such as the production company, the technology used, and the quality of the trailer.
Those fellow filmmakers read even more, studying storyboards, production company personnel, film technology, and shooting techniques.
The film "The Boy Who Abandoned the World" puzzled and intrigued them.
If this were a low-budget film from a small film company, they wouldn't be so interested, but this is the first film Yin Weilin has invested in since his world-shaking marriage proposal.
Yin Weilin's companies have been investing in films, but this is the film that Yin Weilin personally oversaw, so they have to take it seriously.
Yin Weilin's fame was indeed the best publicity for "The Boy Who Abandoned the World." He didn't even need a team to promote it; those people diligently began analyzing and studying the promotional video, raising some points of doubt in it.
First, some people have already determined that the scenery in the film is the same as that in the documentary "The World You Don't Know." Although it wasn't specifically advertised, anyone who has seen the documentary will definitely be able to tell once it's shown.
The world you don't know already has a certain audience base and has once sparked a lot of debate, discussing the authenticity of the content shown in the documentary and whether it is special effects.
It wasn't until Yin Weilin's company released the third season of "The World You Don't Know" that it was revealed to the public that the content in the documentary was all special effects.
Now that the interior scenery of "The Boy Who Abandoned the World" is the same as that of "The World You Don't Know," it means that it already has a certain audience base, and it will definitely become widely known once it is broadcast.
Only the team that helped Yin Weilin with the editing knew that it wasn't special effects at all; the boss had simply given them the finished product to edit. They even speculated that the animals in it were real.
However, the editing team members all signed confidentiality agreements. Although they had their own thoughts, they wisely refrained from speaking out and dared not.
"The Boy Who Abandoned the World" was released without much fanfare.
There are two comedies, a star-studded drama, and a fantasy film during the Lunar New Year season. We won't talk about the other smaller films. Apart from these, "The Boy Who Abandoned the World" is the most anticipated. Although the number of people anticipating it online is not the highest, its anticipation level is the highest.
On the first day of its release, Chen Yang and his group went to see it, but they had already seen it; they were just there to boost the box office.
Before the first screening was even over, the Douban rating had already risen to 8.8, which is almost on par with some classic films.
Nowadays, people are becoming more and more selective about the movies they watch. Although bad movies often make a profit, it's very difficult to get good reviews.
It is quite remarkable that "The Boy Who Abandoned the World" was able to achieve a score of nearly nine points.
Furthermore, after its premiere, the film's popularity not only didn't decrease but actually increased, with box office revenue on the second day even doubling that of the first day, and it received overwhelmingly positive reviews online. Most viewers recommended it to their friends, and the fact that "The Boy Who Abandoned the World" borrowed scenes from "The World You Don't Know" also became widely known.
The film tells the story of a boy who was secretly trained to be an assassin and forced to undergo various experiments. He and a wolf were abandoned in the wild and wandered together.
The opening sequence transitions through comics, background music, and text. Then, the scene abruptly shifts to a vast grassland where a thin boy, draped in animal skins and wearing a mask, lurks in the grass. He suddenly pounces on a deer, pins it to the ground by the neck, and then smashes a huge rock down on it.
Then, a black bear suddenly rushed out of the forest, roaring as it pounced towards them. Just as the boy was about to be pounced on, a majestic wolf pounced out and actually began to fight the black bear.
The fight between the two animals was very detailed; every movement, even every hair, could be seen. The wolf skillfully dodged the black bear's attacks, and its strength seemed immense, managing to withstand the black bear's weight and tear at it while rolling and biting on the ground.
After fighting for a while, the black bear ran away, and the boy and the wolf dragged the deer back to the front of a makeshift camp.
What follows is nothing more than the various animals and beautiful scenery the boy and the wolf encounter: tigers, leopards, giant bears, saber-toothed tigers, wolf packs, mammoths, and so on. They cross snow-capped mountains and cultivate with a strange ape-like creature raised by a high monk; they traverse deserts, struggling to find water; they set foot on the ocean, dancing with whales and dolphins, and surviving on islands; they cross grasslands, battling lions, and living in dreamlike caves.
These contents are not particularly original, but they are too real, so real that there is not a single flaw. Attentive viewers can even find the tiny bits of flesh between the saber-toothed tiger's teeth and see the marks of past injuries on the mammoth.
When did special effects become so amazing?
If it weren't for the numerous extinct animals, creatures like the legendary Yeti, and various breathtakingly beautiful yet unheard-of places, these viewers would truly believe that all the animals in the film were real.
While typical special effects can create stunning scenery, they often lack a sense of realism. The wonders of nature are difficult for special effects to replicate, yet "The Boy Who Abandoned the World" manages to make the special effects completely invisible.
Even the scene where the protagonist, after growing up, uproots a large tree and fights a tiger doesn't seem like special effects; the realism is too strong.
"Even just for the scenery in the movie, it's worth watching."
"Perfect special effects, the battle scenes are incredibly realistic! Tell me, did the director travel back tens of thousands of years to capture real saber-toothed tigers for this film?!"
"This is amazing! Ah, the water, the light, it's so beautiful! Where was it filmed? I have to go there!!"
"This is special effects, holy crap, it's incredibly powerful."
"The protagonist is so handsome! His survival skills are comparable to Bear Grylls and Ed Stafford, no, in the story the protagonist should be even stronger. But why is he wearing a mask? That's so unfair! I want to see his face! He barely has any lines, that's too much!!"
The internet was flooded with praise, and the box office was soaring, which made Chen Yang's heart race.
You should know that their filming costs were practically zero. Apart from the money spent on the camera equipment, they didn't spend a single penny in real life, and all they got from the box office was pure profit.
It seems I've accidentally made several hundred million more...
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