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2007 box office hit

Looking around the world, even the younger generation of Chinese actors may not be able to recite the "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion". This gorgeously verbal prose has a strong ancient charm. A little too much is a hypocritical attitude, and a little lack thereof reveals the details. In the era of national entertainment, which actor has such a background and dares to challenge such a difficult problem?

Now, Renli is challenging.

Lan Li, who was sitting on the stage, was elegant and calm, and did not seem embarrassed or restrained by reciting ancient Chinese essays at all. The elegant atmosphere from the bottom of his heart completely shocked the audience, making people feel as if everything should be like this. Lan Li explained this matter.

"If you recite Shakespeare in public in the UK, then others will inevitably feel abnormal, but his words and emotions are truly beautiful things. We should learn to be grateful and proud. When you are sure to know what you are doing, your emotions will be integrated into the words and burst out with enough power to let others feel the touch, and this will not be abnormal."

"Similarly, the land of China also has a magnificent historical culture that is proud and proud. You should also show it confidently and pass on the brilliant art and culture in your own way. In the basic performance class, the core mystery of the first class is to abandon reserve and show yourself bravely. As long as you are willing to firmly believe in it, then this is not a strange thing."

The origin of the incident was that the host deliberately raised a challenge to Lan Li. The original intention was not to recite the "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion", but to form an intertextual relationship with the poetry recitation of the Sundance Film Festival at the beginning of the year, so that Lan Li could have the opportunity to show his literary background. By the way, she could also talk about Lan Li's understanding of Chinese culture.

But the direction of things caught people off guard.

Lan Li used his perspective and perspective to interpret poetry, and even gave his own insights into different aspects such as history, art, culture, etc., and truly recited the "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion". The round and moving voice and elegant and gentle tone made that parallel prose truly enjoy, as if you could see the unrestrained figures of the literati and poets in ancient times, which opened the eyes, and then you could see the magnificence and magnificence behind those articles.

Then, all the news media were in a panic.

Foreign media were amazed by Lan Li's literary literacy, while local media were amazed by Lan Li's language attainments, what else could Lan Li not do? Even the most difficult Chinese can be easily killed instantly! Or, what heights and limits can the connotation and heritage of hereditary aristocrats reach?

This should be the first non-Chinese actor in history to successfully recite parallel prose. In fact, even if it includes Chinese actors, it is probably the first time.

Surprise! Surprise! Panic! Sigh! Shocked!

The powerful impact force makes people a little unbearable. A "conspiracy theory" emerged on the Internet at the first time, believing that all of this was arranged early and prepared in advance to please the Chinese audience. All of it was just a publicity method arranged by the crew in advance! This is just a scam!

But this statement was instantly overwhelmed even if it was a conspiracy. Lan Li prepared a lot of work for a meeting, and this sincerity was amazing. Even if it was a conspiracy, Lan Li did recite the "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion", and this foundation would not be a lie; even if it was a conspiracy, it was an open and upright "conspiracy". Lan Li conquered the audience with his own performance. If it was a conspiracy, they welcomed other actors to participate at any time, for example,

"That Mr. Chris Wu, do you want to read aloud?"

"And that Mr. Lu, you are an authentic Chinese. You grew up in this land. Do you want to give it a try?"

"Those netizens who stand and speak without back pain, otherwise you can do something? Don't have Shakespeare, just 'Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng', you can try it yourself?"

Such voices began to emerge one after another, and swept through the strongest sweeps. The reality is that in the era of national entertainment, there are more and more grassroots stars, and the literary literacy of these artists is often worrying. Now young traffic and popular superstars who are active on the front line are just showing off their personality and do not have such ability at all, but Renli did it!

So, even if it is a conspiracy, so what?

According to common sense, those provocative voices should disappear and all shut up their mouths; but this is not the case on the social networking platform in China. Instead, those gangsters are getting more and more excited, and they all enter the brainless mode one by one, and they are squirting more and more:

"Only know how to kneel down and lick", "respecting foreign countries and fascinating foreign countries", "no shame", "domestic culture is ruined", "forcibly creating hot spots"... and so on.

There is no context and no reason. They just started cursing regardless of the situation, and then entered the "scholar meets soldiers" mode. Obviously, they can no longer understand it according to common sense. However, this time they were unable to create more waves. They were limited to a small group and talked to themselves. Judging from the overall trend, Lan Li easily won a city back, and even hardly won a city back.

The topic and video of "Ran Li Recitation'Preface to Tengwang Pavilion" created the biggest frenzy of the year in just one week. It was the hottest topic on major platforms. The comprehensive discussion index has easily exceeded 100 million, and it has undoubtedly become the biggest hot topic this summer, completely igniting the previously accumulated Internet wave.

Then, the cinema became the biggest winner, and "Interstellar" began to rise strongly in a rocket manner!

But the situation is somewhat different from what I imagined

Last year, "gravity" set a historical record in the Chinese market, with a score of about 300 million US dollars in 21 billion yuan. With its strong performance data, it became the biggest winner in the overseas box office market of movies, and further projected the attention of the whole world towards the emerging film market of China.

This year, "Interstellar" landed again, which is naturally highly anticipated. The three main creative staff of Lanli, Anne and Nolan personally landed in the Magic City for publicity, which also expressed Warner Brothers' firm confidence, but the actual situation deviated slightly from expectations, and had nothing to do with the ups and downs of the Internet, but was related to the "Inception"-style brain-burning.

The Chinese market lacks enough confidence in such brain-burning movies. In 2010, "Inception" chose to land in the Chinese market in September in the relatively off-season. The box office performance at the premiere weekend was mediocre. Finally, relying on its strong reputation to complete a counterattack, successfully gaining 400 million yuan in the Chinese market, which is a small surprise.

However, compared with visual effects blockbusters like "Avatar", the box office potential of science fiction brain-burning movies is still worrying. Even the mature North American market is like this, let alone the growing Chinese market? This also makes the local distribution companies in charge of distribution lack sufficient confidence. As for Renley? Even Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicholas Cage and Tom Cruise may not have star appeal in China, let alone the young Renley?

Most importantly, two weeks after the release of "Interstellar", it will usher in the strong impact of the annual "Transformers 4". In this land, the appeal of "Transformers" is definitely much stronger than that of Christopher Nolan and Renly Hall, and no one can underestimate it.

In addition, "Interstellar" also needs to face the attacks of other local movies during the same period, "Eavesdropping Storm 3", "Breakup Master", "Tiny Times 3" and "There will be no future". The next July is the Chinese local movie protection month, which also further compresses the box office growth space of "Interstellar".

Under various reasons, the overall momentum of the first week of the premiere of "Interstellar" was not optimistic. The screening rate of major theaters was only about 30%, which is not only far inferior to "Transformers 4", but also the screening rate of works such as "Amazing Spider-Man 2", "Guardians of the Galaxy", and "Godzilla". Compared with North American locals, the appeal of "Interstellar" is one level lower, completely behind popcorn visual effects blockbusters.

Then, all kinds of accidents arose, the ups and downs within 36 hours, and the turning point of the story made people overwhelmed. To some extent, the first wave of "boycott frenzy" still had a serious impact on attendance, which can be seen directly from the box office data:

Thirty million yuan!

"Interstellar" chose to be officially released on Wednesday. The single-day box office data for premiering on Wednesday is not 300 million yuan, but 30 million yuan. What is the data at the same time? You can see the huge gap by comparing horizontally:

Last year, "Georgetic" handed over 20 million yuan to create history in the midnight show alone, easily creating a historical record of the Chinese market; and then made a series of box office historical records such as premiere day and release day, swept 655 million yuan in just three days, breaking the highest local box office record of foreign language films held by "Avatar" in just two weeks of release.

The midnight data of "gravity" can almost be compared with the box office data of "Interstellar" premiere. This... what kind of magical data comparison is this?

But reality is really happening like this, which makes everyone fall into the eye.

Although every box office superstar has a Waterloo, and the first week of "Interstellar" in the North American market did not make a big big hit, this seems to be a natural result; but such a huge gap, even a plunge, still made everyone fall below their eyes, which once again proves:

The Chinese market does have infinite potential, but it has not yet been able to fully mature, and the box office of genre movies is still in a state of uncertainty. This is also the reason why Hollywood movies that came to promote have to outsource all the promotional distribution to local Chinese companies.

If this continues, the box office of China's "Interstellar" will be disappointing, but obviously, this market has brought surprises again.
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