Political correctness is a topic that never lacks attention abroad.
Women's rights, race, gender, and all kinds of freedoms, as long as you use them casually, you can occupy the commanding heights of public opinion and incite people's emotions.
However, in an era when political correctness is abused, just inciting emotions is no longer useful. You have to have content.
This is the case with "The Little Mermaid". They just told the movie that it was politically correct and cast a black man as the lead, but they didn't consider whether the casting was reasonable or not, and the plot was also changed into garbage.
The final shot will definitely be a hit.
After all, shouting slogans online and offline is free and can even make money. But if you want me to go to the cinema to support this kind of thing, it will cost me real money. We are not fools. Who will be taken advantage of?
And "Barbie" has set a very good example. It not only promotes political correctness, but also has enough excellent content to support it. There are no problems with the selection of materials, plot, and actors. If it does not sell well at the box office, then there is something wrong.
After all, politically correct movies, like China’s main theme, are extremely easy to trigger a movie-watching wave.
Luo Quan has tasted similar sweetness before, and he couldn't be more right with "Forrest Gump", which ended up earning a billion dollars at the box office.
As a literary and artistic film, this is already a pretty good result, not to mention that it won so many awards at the Oscar ceremony later.
Judging from the current momentum, "Barbie" seems to be following the old path of "Forrest Gump". It is certain to win awards, and it will even surpass it at the box office.
And after realizing the threat of "Prehistoric", the investors of "Barbie" began to increase their investment in promoting the film, and began to promote the threat theory of "Prehistoric".
The so-called "Prehistoric" threat theory is actually all kinds of distortion of facts and exaggeration.
These people believe that if "Prehistoric" is released, it will greatly impact the field of Hollywood's special effects movies and even destroy the mature production line of the blockbuster industry.
This kind of alarmist talk is still very popular in the United States. After all, the quality of the special effects of "Prehistoric" is blindingly obvious, and it is indeed second to none in the world.
The good boy who has always occupied the world's number one position in this area will indeed feel a sense of crisis after losing his technological lead.
However, more choices are actually a good thing for consumers, because this kind of competition allows manufacturers to focus on developing newer and better technologies and reducing originally unreasonable prices, instead of spending all their energy thinking about how to make better products. Monopoly, and a battle of wits and courage with consumers.
Therefore, as many people in Hollywood support the threat theory of "Prehistoric" as there are people who oppose it.
Capital will not lie. What they hate most is being elevated to a particularly high level by certain ideological things, which ultimately leads to no business.
Anyone with a discerning eye knows how much profit it will bring to the introduction of "Prehistoric". In the United States alone, there are a huge number of fans waiting for it with money. Now if you say it is a threat, then is it 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 refused to give in to each other and controlled their respective media and trolls online to attack.
Those on Luo Quan's side are mainly Universal and Netflix. After all, these companies have a lot of cooperation and friendship.
As for "Barbie", although we don't know who specifically incited the comments attacking "Prehistoric", the company behind "Barbie" is Warner, and you can get the answer after a little thought.
It is worth mentioning that although Luo Quan collaborated with Warner once, she rejected all subsequent cooperation requests from Warner.
On the one hand, she didn't have time, and on the other hand, these people actually wanted her to shoot the new Batman and be a supporting role for the new guy they wanted to praise.
It's said that the movie can be adapted casually, but no matter how much Batman edits it, what tricks can he make up?
It can't be changed to a character with two parents and a beautiful childhood. Then the main line of the story is not a battle of wits and courage with the evil forces of Gotham, but a romance with the female clown.
After listening to Warner's hint, Luo Quan seemed to be interested in filming like this.
If you really do this, you will really become a clown.
I couldn't do this, so I refused.
Not long after, it was announced that "Prehistoric" would be released in North America, which had to be distributed and promoted by a local company. Luo Quan looked for Universal, which had a better relationship, and Warner was rejected again.
Facts have proved that it is very difficult to have both sides. When she was still young, Luo Quan thought that she could be liked by everyone. Later she discovered that this was simply her wishful thinking.
At least Warner is not ready to pretend anymore.
They are enemies in the same industry, and their competition with Universal is huge. If she can keep making movies for Warner, they can still get along happily.
But now not only does she no longer make movies, she also wants to compete with Warner's own movies.
Everyone knows how quickly capital can change its attitude. If core interests are violated, there will inevitably be a corresponding counterattack. Therefore, it is not surprising that the current situation will occur.
However, there is no good solution. After all, "The Great Desolation" is a foreign film. If you are really slapped with a label, you will be banned at the request of the ban. There is no way.
The good news is that, thanks to Torion, Luo Quan still has a pretty good reputation among black Americans.
So for the time being, no one has come forward to criticize her in this regard, so the wave of opposition caused by "Barbie" has not caused irreparable damage to "Prehistoric".
There is no need to make any changes to the plan to release the film three days later, and maybe the box office will increase slightly due to the heavy traffic these days.
This is how it is in the current Internet age. You are not afraid of being blacklisted by the whole Internet. Being blacklisted by the whole Internet means that you are very popular. What you are afraid of is that there are not even people who want to blackmail you. The scariest thing is that no one cares about you.
"Prehistoric" is now very popular, which translates into real box office. It is foreseeable that it will make a lot of money in North America.
Although the operation of "Barbie" has a tendency to be self-defeating, some domestic comments are indeed quite disappointing.
It's okay for foreigners to criticize "The Wilderness". After all, there is a conflict of interest. The better "The Wilderness" box office is in North America, the worse the box office of other commercial blockbusters will be. It is normal to be attacked by peers.
But the Chinese also followed suit and scolded "Prehistoric", saying that this movie was a benefit for Chinese movie fans who had not seen a good movie. It was mediocre abroad and promoted feudal superstition. It was simply a shame and was thrown in front of the whole world.
This unfounded sense of shame of the mother culture is a major reason why these people attack "Prehistoric".
In fact, sometimes Luo Quan really hopes that these people are paid to do things by the navy, but unfortunately, these people have no big interest relationship with "Prehistoric" or even the domestic and foreign film industry, and they are just cursing because they are not like.
Moreover, these people not only cursed at home, but even went to Twitter to apologize on behalf of the Chinese people, feeling ashamed and apologetic that "Prehistoric" exported such dross abroad.
On the contrary, this has disturbed a bunch of American fans of "Prehistoric". It is obvious that foreigners like them really like Chinese Mythology and wait and look forward to watching the movie every day.
As a result, a group of Chinese people came over to apologize for no reason, saying that these myths had polluted their eyes.
But the key point is that they are all voluntary and enjoy it.
This is the weirdest thing about this.
"I think you should be more confident in your own culture. Ancient mythology is very popular abroad, especially in the United States. You should learn more about this."
Many foreigners communicate with these banana people sincerely, but very few can get a reply.
Fortunately, these banana people are not the only ones who know how to circumvent the Chinese wall. Many righteous netizens also often surf the Internet. The hot trends on Twitter can be seen at a glance.
Because this thing was so outrageous and funny, many people brought the faces of these banana people back to China.
In fact, this situation often happened before.
But at that time, banana people generally did not go to the Internet to criticize, but published various articles in China to deceive their own people.
This kind of argument is most commonly seen in magazines such as "Reader" and "Yilin".
Many people watched these with gusto when they were young. Later, when they grew up and broadened their horizons, they realized that much of the content on them was nonsense.
At that time, they were bullying the public because they had no way to understand foreign countries. In addition, I was not economically developed and could not support myself, so there were quite a few people who believed the nonsense in these magazines.
As the Internet became more and more developed and all aspects developed better and better, people suddenly discovered that China had actually been the world's leading level in many aspects many years ago.
As for the content touted in those magazines, most of it is just fabricated.
So now, the rhetoric of disparaging China and promoting foreign affairs is no longer popular.
However, in fields such as movies and mobile phones, there is still a lot of market for this argument.
Originally, these people could still belittle the backward domestic technology from time to time and maintain a sense of superiority.
But with the appearance of "Prehistoric", this sense of superiority was suddenly shattered.
In the past, this group of people often ridiculed the "five-cent" special effects of Wandering Earth, and said that the Chinese method of saving the world was simply terrible, and that foreigners had to do heroism.
The cold reception Wandering Earth received abroad also made this group of people even more arrogant.
"Look, let's just say that no one sees this kind of thing abroad. Only those of you who have never tasted good food will think how awesome it is. It's really just looking at the sky from the bottom of a well."
Before the advent of prehistoric times, these remarks were quite common.
However, after "Prehistoric" appeared, they found that the so-called special effects technology had been surpassed, and it was so explosive that no one was left.
For now, there is no film at home or abroad that can compare with the special effects of "The Wilderness". Whether it is the quality of the special effects or the duration of the special effects, "The Wilderness" has reached a level that is beyond the reach of its peers.
What’s even more sad is that “Prehistoric” is not even about science fiction this time, and there is no foreigner at all.
It is Chinese culture, a wave of extremely pure export to foreign countries, based entirely on ability, without any tricks.
This means that the things these banana people usually look down upon the most have achieved great success in the hometown of their dreams.
The gap, humiliation, and anxiety caused by this situation made all banana people anxious.
This is simply more defense-breaking than after they watched Wolf Warrior 2.
They can also say that Wolf Warrior 2 is for Chinese people to amuse themselves, and it would make people laugh if they pull it out.
But how to attack Honghuang? There is no reason at all, because foreigners are now very fond of this new mythology from China, and the movie is about to explode at the box office.
In desperation, these banana talents made one after another "classic" remarks.
And after being moved back to China and becoming a hot search topic, he was naturally ridiculed by netizens.
A few irritable old men even threatened to open the boxes of these idiots to see who they were and what they looked like in reality.
Under normal circumstances, Luo Quan is very opposed to human flesh and unboxing.
After all, it is not illegal for netizens to curse each other on the Internet, and the virtual world has given people a lower moral bottom line for language.
So as long as he doesn't scold himself too much, Luo Quan will usually stop his fans from opening the box.
But this time, Luo Quan did not stop everyone's behavior.
There is even a more radical idea in my heart, which is that the identities of these people should be exposed.
Of course, ideas are just ideas, and if you say it out loud, it will be like inciting fans to bully amateurs online. The last person who did this has already cooled down, and Luo Quan will not make the same mistake.
But after all, my film has been attacked, and a response is necessary.
After spending about five minutes searching for words, Luo Quan published a short article:
"Actually, from the beginning, my box office expectations for "The Prehistoric" were very satisfied if it reached 4 billion.
But it turns out that as long as you pay enough attention and the quality of the movie is good enough, movie fans can fully support greater expectations.
What is even more surprising is that not only domestically, but also abroad, there is an extremely high level of acceptance of prehistoric.
This shows that cultural appreciation has no national boundaries. 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 enemies attack, the more it means I am doing the right thing.
Since it is the right thing to do, is there any need for hesitation or fear?
I previously expected the total box office of the movie to be 5 billion, but now it seems that it is still conservative. The quality of the movie should be 10 billion!
Now that I have decided to do something, I will do my best.
Some people may think that the box office of 10 billion is fanciful, but after strict and meticulous market research, this is a completely achievable figure.
Of course, I won’t 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! "
(End of chapter)
