At twelve o'clock in the evening, real-time box office data:
"Crazy Stone" grossed 81 million on its first day.
"No Way Out" grossed 20 million yuan on the day of its release, and its cumulative box office revenue reached 200 million yuan.
In the end, "Crazy Stone" failed to surpass the first-day box office of "The End of the Road".
However, its extremely high reputation still attracted the attention of many people, and many people were interested in this low-budget film.
Especially the high score of 8.3 on Hudou surprised those who were not optimistic about the movie before.
Many memes about this movie appeared on the Internet and began to spread rapidly.
For example, the catchphrase of high-end Hong Kong thief Mike: "I'll give you a lung!" quickly became the most popular Internet term.
Some people even made an emoticon package based on the scene in the film where Hong Sanshi was hung in the air by a short rope and shouted in grief and anger: "I'll kill you!"
Overnight, Hong Sanshi's emoticons became popular all over the Internet.
In WeChat and QQ groups, you can barely chat for two or three sentences before someone says, "I'm gonna give you a hard time!"
With the super-fast spread of the Internet, this sentence has become the most popular meme in recent times. People who have seen the movie will smile knowingly when they see such emoticons.
People who haven't seen the movie found that their chat tools were dominated by this meme overnight, so they would curiously ask their friends and netizens where this meme came from.
When they learned that this was a meme from a movie called "Crazy Stone", many people bought tickets and went to the cinema out of curiosity.
Then, I became a new fan of this movie.
The high reputation and the spread of popular memes caused the box office of "Crazy Stone" to soar.
At twelve o'clock in the evening on June 2nd, the box office for the day exceeded 100 million yuan, and the cumulative box office reached 180 million yuan.
On the same day, under the influence of poor reputation, the box office of "The End of the Road" hit a new low of less than 20 million yuan, and the cumulative box office was 210 million yuan, only about 20 million yuan ahead of "Crazy Stone".
On June 3rd, the crew of "Crazy Stone" came to the mountain city for a roadshow promotion, and was enthusiastically sought after by the mountain city audience. The scene was packed with people, comparable to a concert of superstars.
On the same day, the crew of "No Way Out" held a film viewing at Kyoto University, and the college students at the scene directly raised various sharp questions.
For example, why did they choose Zhang Xuyuan, whose acting skills are not good, as the leading role? Was the director manipulated by capital?
The film is said to have an investment of 400 million yuan. How much of the money was actually used in the production of the film? Did the actors' salaries take up too much of the production costs?
Someone also asked the director a poignant question: "Compared to 'Crazy Stone', which only cost three million, what do you think is the difference between your film and 'Crazy Stone'?"
Perhaps the director's mentality was disturbed by the sluggish box office and poor reputation in the past two days, and he actually answered directly:
"Don't compare our big production with that cheesy little movie!"
This sentence quickly became a hot topic and caused an uproar on the entire Internet.
Many netizens directly started to spray:
“Whether a movie is good or not has nothing to do with the size of the production, but everything to do with its sincerity!”
"You're mocking others to their faces for being low-budget, but they made nearly 200 million at the box office with a budget of 3 million, and you only made 200 million with a budget of 400 million. How can you be so ashamed?"
"Why don't film and television companies just stop making movies and just throw money at it. Whoever spends the most wins!"
"Sincerity and good acting are called vulgar, but what do you call abusing young actors and insulting the audience's intelligence?"
Then, a famous film critic named Cheng Kuan published a review of Crazy Stone after watching it:
"A triumph of a work by ordinary people: the film is full of the local flavor of the mountain town and is a rare good film.
Today's film industry seems to have fallen into a misunderstanding, thinking that as long as the investment is large and the actors have high traffic, it means the movie is good.
In fact, Crazy Stone has a good script, new ideas and is down-to-earth, making the whole work interesting and fascinating.
It does not require hundreds of millions of dollars to shoot those grand scenes, but it can still touch people's hearts!
This shows that audience demands have evolved. What we want is not investment, special effects, or traffic, but a truly good story."
In fact, Cheng Kuan also went to the cinema to watch "No Way Out" as soon as it was released, but he was very disappointed. He wrote a fierce film review at the time, criticizing "No Way Out" severely.
Especially the protagonist Zhang Xuyuan, who was criticized from head to toe.
This made Zhang Xuyuan and Shenxin Entertainment very angry, and both sides sent him a lawyer's letter of warning.
However, Cheng Kuan is not a pushover and is not afraid of anything. He even had an argument with Shenxin Entertainment online.
He originally had no intention of using "Crazy Stone" to fight back against Zhang Xuyuan and Shen Xin. He was just following the professional ethics of a film critic to watch every film released and make an objective and fair evaluation of it.
But after watching "Crazy Stone", Cheng Kuan was completely amazed.
As soon as he got home, he wrote this film review with great enthusiasm. Not only was the whole article full of praise for "Crazy Stone", but he also used it to bring up "No Way Out" again and criticize its corpse.
This happened shortly after the director of "No Way Out" made the shocking statement "low-budget films are not worthy of being compared with us", and Cheng Kuan's film review seemed to be responding on behalf of Ai Yao Studio.
As a result, "Low-budget productions are not worthy of comparing with us" and "A good story is more important than a big production" ranked first and second in the hot searches respectively.
At the same time, the top five hot searches also include content related to "Crazy Stone".
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