Chapter 1254: If You Want to Compete, Compete for First Place

Political correctness is a topic that will never lack attention abroad.

Women's rights, race, gender, and all kinds of freedom, as long as you take any of them out, you can occupy the commanding heights of public opinion and incite people's emotions.

However, in an era where political correctness is abused, it is no longer useful to incite emotions. You must have content.

"The Little Mermaid" is like this. It only tells this movie that it is politically correct and finds black people as the leading actors, but does not consider whether the casting is reasonable at all, including the plot is changed into garbage.

In the end, it will inevitably be a flop.

After all, shouting slogans online and offline does not cost money, and can even make money, but if you want me to go to the cinema to support this kind of thing, it will cost real money. Everyone is not a fool, who will be a sucker?

"Barbie" has set a very good example. It not only promotes political correctness, but also has enough excellent content to support it. The selection of materials, plots, and actors are all fine. It would be strange if the box office is not good.

After all, politically correct movies, like the main theme of China, are extremely easy to set off a wave of movie watching.

Luoquan had tasted similar sweetness before. "Forrest Gump" was the most correct, and it finally earned a box office of one billion US dollars.

As an art film, this is already a very good result, not to mention that it won so many awards at the Oscars ceremony.

Judging from the current momentum, "Barbie" seems to be following the old path of "Forrest Gump". It is certain to win awards, and the box office is even better than that.

And after realizing the threat of "The Great Desolation", the investors of "Barbie" began to increase the investment in the promotion of the film and began to promote the threat theory of "The Great Desolation".

The so-called threat theory of "The Great Desolation" is actually a variety of distortions and exaggerations.

These people believe that if "The Great Desolation" is released, it will greatly impact the field of special effects movies in Hollywood, and even destroy the mature blockbuster industry production line.

This kind of alarmist words still have a market in the United States. After all, the quality of special effects of "The Great Desolation" is blindingly obvious, and it is indeed the best in the world.

The good kid who had always occupied the world's first throne in this area will indeed feel some sense of crisis after losing the technological lead.

However, more choices are actually good for consumers, because this kind of competition can allow manufacturers to focus on developing newer and better technologies and reducing the original unreasonable prices, rather than spending all their energy thinking about how to better monopolize and compete with consumers.

So there are as many people who oppose the threat theory of "Honghuang" as there are people in Hollywood.

Capital will not lie. What they hate most is being raised to a very high level by certain ideological things, which will eventually lead to no business.

The introduction of "Honghuang" will bring huge profits to everyone with a discerning eye. There are a huge number of fans in the United States alone who are looking forward to it with money. Now you say it is a threat, then it is a threat?

I just want to say that it has unlimited potential and can bring huge business opportunities and jobs.

The two groups of people did not give in to each other, and controlled their own media and water army to attack online.

Those who stood on Luoquan's side were mainly Universal and Netflix. After all, these companies have cooperated more and have friendships.

As for Barbie, although we don't know who specifically instigated the attack on "The Great Desolation", the company behind "Barbie" is Warner, and a little thought will reveal the answer.

It is worth mentioning that although Luo Quan had worked with Warner once, she rejected all the cooperation requests made by Warner afterwards.

On the one hand, she was not free, and on the other hand, these people actually wanted her to shoot the new Batman to match the newcomer they wanted to promote.

They said that the movie could be adapted casually, but what kind of tricks could Batman come up with no matter how they adapted it?

It can't be changed to a character with both parents and a beautiful childhood, and the main storyline is not a battle of wits and courage with the evil forces of Gotham, but a love affair with the female clown.

Luo Quan listened to the hint from Warner, and it seemed that there was really some intention to shoot it this way.

If it really did that, then it would really become a clown.

This thing can't be done, so it was rejected outright.

Not long after, "The Great Desolation" announced that it would be launched in North America, and it had to find a local company to distribute and promote it. Luo Quan found Universal, which had a better relationship, and Warner was rejected again.

Facts have proved that it is very difficult to have the best of both worlds. When she was young, Luo Quan thought she could make everyone like her, but later she found out that this was just her wishful thinking.

At least Warner is not going to pretend anymore.

People in the same industry are enemies. They have always been in great competition with Universal. If she could continue to make movies for Warner, they could still get along happily.

But now she not only stops making movies, but also competes with Warner's own movies.

Those who know how fast capital changes its face know that when its core interests are violated, it will inevitably make a corresponding counterattack, so it is not surprising that this situation will occur.

However, there is no better way. After all, "Honghuang" is a foreign movie. If it is really labeled, it will be banned, and there is no way to do it.

The good news is that, thanks to Torrion, Luo Quan still has a very good reputation in the black circle in the United States.

So for the time being, no one has taken this aspect too seriously, so the wave of opposition caused by "Barbie" has not caused irreparable damage to "Honghuang".

The plan to release the film three days later does not need any changes, and the box office may even increase slightly due to the black traffic these days.

This is the case in the Internet era now. We are not afraid of you being blacked out by the whole network. If you are blacked out by the whole network, it means that you are very popular. What we are afraid of is that there are no people who black you out. No one cares about you, which is the most terrifying thing.

"Honghuang" is now very popular, which means real box office. It is foreseeable that it will make a lot of money in North America.

Although the operation of "Barbie" has some self-defeating trends, some domestic comments are really distressing.

It's okay for foreigners to criticize "Honghuang". After all, there are conflicts of interest. The better the box office of "Honghuang" in North America, the worse the box office of other commercial blockbusters will be. It is normal to be attacked by peers.

But Chinese people also followed suit to criticize "Honghuang", saying that this movie is just a benefit for Chinese movie fans who have not seen good movies. It is mediocre abroad, and it promotes feudal superstition, which is simply embarrassing in front of the whole world.

This unfounded sense of shame for the mother culture is a major reason why these people attack "Honghuang".

In fact, Luoquan sometimes really hopes that these people are paid water army, but unfortunately, these people have no significant interest in "Honghuang" or even the domestic and foreign film industry, and they are cursing simply because they don't like it.

Moreover, these people not only curse in China, but also apologize on Twitter on behalf of the Chinese people, feeling ashamed and sorry for "Honghuang" exporting such dregs abroad.

This has confused a group of American "Honghuang" fans, who obviously like Chinese mythology and look forward to watching the movie every day.

As a result, a group of Chinese people came to apologize inexplicably, saying that these myths polluted their eyes.

But the key is that they are all voluntary and enjoy it.

This is the weirdest part of this matter.

"I think you should be more confident in your own culture. Honghuang mythology is very popular abroad, especially in the United States. You should learn more about this."

Many foreigners sincerely communicated with these banana people, but few received replies.

Fortunately, there are more people in China who can climb over the firewall than these banana people. Many righteous netizens often surf the Internet and can see the hot trends on Twitter at a glance.

Because this matter is too outrageous and too funny, many people have brought the faces of these banana people back to China.

In fact, this situation has often occurred in the past.

But at that time, banana people generally did not go to the Internet to curse, but published various articles in China to fool their own people.

The most common magazines to see this kind of argument are "Readers" and "Yilin".

Many people read these with relish when they were young, but later when they grew up and broadened their horizons, they found that much of the content on them was nonsense.

At that time, they bullied the public for not having a way to understand foreign countries, and their own economy was not developed, so they could not stand up straight, so there were quite a lot of people who believed the nonsense of these magazines.

As the Internet becomes more and more developed, and all aspects are developing better and better, people suddenly realize that China has been the world leader in many aspects for many years.

As for the content touted in those magazines, most of them are just fabricated.

So now, the remarks that belittle China and praise foreign countries are no longer popular.

However, in the fields of movies and mobile phones, this kind of argument still has a lot of market.

Originally, these people could still belittle the backward technology in China from time to time and maintain a sense of superiority.

But with the emergence of "Honghuang", this sense of superiority was shattered in an instant.

In the past, this group of people often ridiculed the "50-cent" special effects of The Wandering Earth, and said that the routine of the Chinese saving the world was simply rotten, and the heroism had to be done by foreigners.

And the cold reception of The Wandering Earth abroad also made this group of people more arrogant.

"Look, no one in foreign countries watches this kind of thing. Only those of you who have never tasted good food will think it is so awesome. It is really a case of sitting in a well and looking at the sky."

Before the emergence of "Honghuang", these remarks were quite common.

However, after the emergence of "Honghuang", they found that the so-called special effects technology had been surpassed, and it was the kind that was blown away to the point of nothing left.

For now, no movie in China or abroad can compare with "Honghuang" in terms of special effects. Whether it is the quality of special effects or the duration of special effects, "Honghuang" has reached a level that its peers can't even match.

What's even more sad is that "Honghuang" is not even about science fiction this time, and there is no foreigner at all.

It is a wave of pure output of Chinese culture to foreign countries, which is completely based on ability, without any tricks.

This means that the things that these banana people usually look down on have achieved great success in their hometown of dreams.

The gap, humiliation, and anxiety brought about by such a situation made all banana people anxious.

This is even more broken than when they watched Wolf Warrior 2.

They can say that Wolf Warrior 2 is a Chinese entertainment, and it is funny even if it is pulled out.

But how can Honghuang attack? There is no reason at all, because foreigners now like this new version of the Chinese myth very much, and the box office of the movie is about to explode.

In a hurry, these banana talents made one "classic" statement after another.

After being brought back to China and becoming a hot topic, it was naturally ridiculed by netizens.

Some irritable guys even threatened to open the boxes of these idiots to see what their identities and faces are in reality.

In general, Luoquan is very opposed to human flesh and opening boxes.

After all, it is not illegal for netizens to curse each other online, and the virtual world has given people a lower moral bottom line for language.

So as long as they don't curse themselves too much, Luoquan will generally stop his fans from opening the boxes.

However, this time, Luoquan did not stop everyone's behavior.

There is even a more radical idea in his heart, thinking that the identities of these people should be exposed.

Of course, ideas are ideas, and if you really say it out loud, it will become inciting fans to cyberbully amateurs. The last person who did this has been completely ruined, and Luoquan will not make the same mistake.

But anyway, his movie has been attacked, and a response is necessary.

After spending about five minutes to find the right words, Luo Quan published a short article:

“In fact, at the beginning, my expectation for the box office of “Hong Huang” was that it would be very satisfied if it reached 4 billion.

But the facts have proved that as long as it is attentive enough and the quality of the film is good enough, the fans can fully support greater expectations.

What is even more surprising is that not only in China, but also abroad, there is an extremely high acceptance of “Hong Huang”.

This shows that cultural appreciation has no borders. The key is to find the right position and translate and output it in a way that the public likes.

Although there are many people attacking now, the more the enemy attacks , the more I think I did the right thing.

Since it is the right thing, why hesitate or fear?

I expected the total box office of the movie to be 5 billion before, but now it seems conservative. The quality of Honghuang should be over 10 billion!

Since I have decided to do it, I will do my best.

Ten billion box office may be considered unrealistic by some people, but after rigorous and careful market research, it is a figure that can be achieved.

Of course, I will not beg you here, I will only speak with my works.

Good works will never lack audiences, and Honghuang is obviously better than most people imagine! "