918. Chapter 918 Game 918: Basketball Boom
Now if Li Xiaole's Heifan Studio temporarily monopolizes the 3D transformation business, he can set a standard for 3D transformation. He wants to tell future profiteers who come to the film industry to grab money, at least they should be as 3D as "2012" and "Titanic". They can only be considered 3D if they just use subtitles to be 3D. They can just go to the theater to make money if they throw an axe to scare people...
"Xiaole... I can do this, but you have to work harder on the promotion of "Slam Dunk"." Han Sanpin finally made up his mind to believe Li Xiaole's judgment, and finally patted him on the shoulder and emphasized: "If your domestic box office exceeded 1 billion this time, I'm afraid I'll be talking about it again and it wouldn't be possible to promote such a big thing."
"Don't worry, Uncle Han." Li Xiaole grinned and said, "This time he used the strongest animation theme in his mind, to let everyone see the power of 3D movies, and to establish a large enough stage for the movie's century war at the end of the year so that the three great movies, "The Legend of the Great Sage", "Avatar", and "Inception", can fully demonstrate their strength~~
So, in the next week, Han Sanpin began to meet with the heads of major theaters and began to discuss the comprehensive reform of 3D screens. In this difficult negotiation, all the heads of theaters were hesitant. They were half-believing and half-doubted about Li Xiaole's proposal. In their opinion, no matter how beautiful the description of the prospects was, it was not as convincing as the facts.
After all, whether you are willing or not depends on how far the box office of "Slam Dunk" can reach. The number of "billion" is everyone's psychological defense...
In this great film industry transformation in the future, ordinary audiences are not sure what impact the movie tickets they have on future Chinese films... They just continue to pour into theaters everywhere based on their preferences, while domestic filmmakers are nervously waiting for the final result^
After a month of broadcasting "Slam Dunk", the animated film finally showed a slow downward trend in the US box office. Although it is still hard to get tickets in 3D theaters, it has begun to be less popular in ordinary theaters than before.
However, the situation in China is a bit different. "Slam Dunk" seems to be 2D. The 3D screen makes all viewers crazy. People are not only excited for those realistic 3D images, but the animation brings them inner touch. Among them, one of the "your favorite movie characters" votes, "Slam Dunk" actually has three virtual characters in the top ten at the same time. Mitsui even surpassed Jack in "Titanic" with 780,600 votes, James Bond in "007", and Tony Stark in "Iron Man", and became the most popular movie characters. There are many great actors and characters, all of which have become the defeated players of these three virtual characters.
The reply from the netizen "Lonely Night" below represents the voice of most people: "Actually, I am not casting these roles, but casting them for those who used to be my youth. The slam dunk has brought me too much touch. I really hope to return to the day when I sweated heavily on the high school basketball court."
The famous film critic "Gongsun Long" also lamented on his blog: "Slam Dunk is really a unique work. It makes people instantly return to the passionate youthful time. Let's take a look at our current cartoons in China. Only those "Happy and Big Big Wolf" children's animations are popular all over the country, as well as those "Golden Armored Warriors" and what are the children watching? They can only watch those Taiwanese campus idol dramas, but it's not that there is anything bad about idol dramas... Only those who are light and love, it's hard to imagine how these children learn to be a man when they grow up.
"Slam Dunk" is different. In the campus of this story, it is no longer the emotional entanglements of those handsome men and beautiful women who have just started to fall in love, but a true portrayal of adolescent teenagers with distinct personalities and their own shortcomings. Each of them grows up in basketball, and they work hard to live without wasting their youth. I think this is the story that adolescent young people should read..."
Perhaps seeing the love of the animation "Slam Dunk" online, many social experts expressed different opinions on it. Zeng Xingke, a sociology professor from Renmin University, seriously judged the movie in a TV interview program:
"Recently, almost all students in our school are discussing a Japanese movie called "Slam Dunk". I couldn't help but be influenced by them to understand it. However, after watching it, I felt that this movie really had no meaning and didn't understand why young people like to watch such stories.
As a student, the duty is first of all, not anything else. Look at the Japanese high school students in the film. They don’t focus on their studies all day long, but instead play basketball all day long. What’s the final outcome? They have not won the championship, and they may not be professional basketball players in the future. So can they rely on basketball to support their families? Can playing basketball contribute to the country’s economic development? Isn’t this wasted three years of youth?
Why has Japan developed so slowly in the past decade? I think it is because of the wrong guidance of animation culture, and they have formed the so-called "home culture" that makes young people's minds regress. Therefore, we must learn from the lessons and correctly guide the values of young people~~ I think the relevant departments should ban this film and transfer their young ideas to learning~!"
Before this interview, no one had ever heard of Professor Zeng Xingke. On Youku, when the report was put on the homepage, the slam dunk fan angrily checked his information. The two sons of the famous professor were both studying in the United States, so they became even more angry. The Renmin University website forum was instantly stomped on the angry slam dunk fan.
"What's this surname Zeng? Chinese education is good? Do you send your son to the United States? Don't you accept the correct values here?" "Scum who praises the exam-oriented education! What does home culture have to do with Slam Dunk masters? Are you brain sick??" "Yaya, oh, oh!! It's these experts and professors who are shouting that our children don't have Japanese animations now! Force them to watch the brain-dead "Meteor Garden"! By the way, "Meteor Garden" has also been banned by them~!"
These abuses are nothing. Some thoughtful netizens also found the photos in Professor Zeng’s previous reports and found that the watches he used were all famous watches of different styles. They directly collected the information photos and posted a post: "How much Rolex can a university professor buy for a salary~?"
This post was quickly reposted by Slam Dunk fans on various websites. Because this information had a serious negative impact on the image of Renmin University, the poor Professor Zeng was suspended by Renmin University before he could explain it. This made many experts who had previously published similar protests on Slam Dunk. The power of netizens is really terrible...
While "Slam Dunk" swept the summer vacation, a basketball craze also emerged across the country. Television reporters were looking for popular social topics, and "Slam Dunk" happened to become their target.
On the TV screen, in the "Jingshi Live" program of Chuzhe Economic Channel, a young female reporter reported on the outdoor basketball court of Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
"This year, like in previous years, Huazhong University of Science and Technology opened all outdoor basketball courts to the public during the summer vacation. However, compared with the empty venues under the scorching sun in previous years, the basketball courts are crowded with people at this moment. Not only are students staying on campus, but also many off-campus white-collar workers squeezed into these basketball courts after getting off work..."
At this time, the camera was aimed at the venue with five basketball hoops, which were filled with people playing games. Many of them were middle-aged men in their 30s. There were also many thin young people next to them holding basketballs and watching the lively scene on the court helplessly.
The female reporter stopped a student from Huazhong University of Science and Technology who was playing basketball on the sidelines and asked: "This classmate, why did you come to the basketball court in such hot weather?"
"Hey...didn't this be our buddies watching "Slam Dunk"? We all think playing basketball is cool and interesting, so we bought a Spalding basketball to play." The college student with the hairstyle "Mitsui Shou" said helplessly: "Originally, our brothers wanted to study hard, but there was no place here every evening... I cut all my hair for playing basketball... My hairstyle used to be like Ekin Cheng, alas~~ I wouldn't be so impulsive if I knew it. I had been leaving my hair for a year before I kept it..."
"Why can all these office workers play on it? Can't you play? Isn't this the stadium of your school?" the heroine asked curiously.
"This... the basketball court has the rules of the basketball court... We just need the venue and play 3-on-3, and we can only play if we win... We are afraid of being injured, so we don't fight with them..." The male classmate obviously lacked confidence.
The screen was cut back to the director's room, and the male host said with a serious look on his face: "What is the school's opinion on this?"
As soon as the picture turned, the interview video of an old principal wearing glasses was cut into. The old principal kept smiling bitterly:
"Our Huazhong University of Science and Technology has always been open to the public. In principle, it is not prohibited for off-campus people to eat in the campus cafeteria and even participate in various activities. It has never squeezed the students' activity space. However, for some reason, there have been more people in the society who gather in school basketball after get off work. They are not unemployed vagrants, and many of them are white-collar workers in nearby offices. I really don't understand why they have the energy to participate in such intense sports activities."
The camera turned to the head of a property group of a school. The person with a fat face looked very excited and shouted angrily: "So many people play basketball on the court, and the basket breaks every two days, and the venue is often trampled, which greatly increases our maintenance costs. We don't have to ask anyone to take responsibility for this extra cost!"
Of course, Chuzhe TV did not advertise "Slam Dunk", but reported a group problem in major universities in recent months. That is, many white-collar workers in their 30s flocked to the university's open-air courts to play basketball during the summer vacation, causing friction with college students for the venue, and even several collective fights. Many universities closed the school gates and prohibited people from entering.
Chapter completed!