Chapter 1102 "One Step Away" VS "Charlotte Troubles"(1/2)
The three teams arrived at the Olympic Sports Center in Hubei Province one after another.
After a slight dance and provocation, the test of the three schools' competition began.
100 students in each team will run 800 meters at the same time, and the last student in each team will ring the bell. The team with the least time will win.
At this time, it started raining in the sky, and it was getting heavier and heavier. The program team prepared raincoats for each student.
Not only are all students not afraid of the rain, but are excited and look forward to starting the run with the running men.
In order to prevent too many people from causing trouble, the three teams started running one after another.
The first one to run was the Deng Chao team, but it was impossible to run smoothly during the running process. Xiaohu, Chen Chichi and Sha Yi pulled a student from the Deng Chao team respectively, not allowing them to run, but allowing them to rest to delay time.
Finally, it was Deng Chao, Xue Qian and Wang Baobao ran over to drive away the three of them, and the three classmates were able to continue running.
In the end, the Deng Chao team's score was 6 minutes and 50 seconds.
The following Xiaodi team and Chen Hao team were also disturbed by competitors.
The final result of Xiaodi's team was 4 minutes and 56 seconds, while the final result of Chen Hao's team was 5 minutes and 56 seconds.
According to the three teams, they will receive overtime rewards of 90 seconds, 60 seconds and 30 seconds respectively.
Then, the third team went to the final name-tearing location, the Huaxia Wuhan Iron and Steel Museum!
This time, the name tag tearing is to alternately tear the name tag. When the first team attacks, the remaining two teams can only escape or hide, and cannot tear the attacking team back. When the time for the first team is up, the second team will start attacking, and the rules are the same.
And so on, if one person or one team is left in the end, the winner will be the champion university!
In the previous two tasks, Chen Hao and Xiao Di team received 150 seconds of overtime, Deng Chao team received 90 seconds, and the basic time was three minutes.
The name tag tear officially started, and the result was self-evident.
Jinsong, Chen Hao and Xiaohu team won.
Because Jin Song is indeed too strong, and Chen Hao's physical fitness is also extremely strong, other people can't stop Jin Song and Chen Hao from joining forces except for Deng Chao's slight battle, so there is no suspense at all.
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After December 2014, the mainland film market was in full swing.
In the first week of December, the love war drama "Taiping Wheel (Part 1)" directed by Wu Baige was first released, but it only won 110 million yuan in the first week, ranking second in the weekly box office rankings.
Although the film is called "Taiping Wheel", from the plot, the film actually has little to do with Taiping Wheel. At least the first half of the film released now is basically nothing about Taiping Wheel, but the sentient beings who lived hard in those years of troubled times.
The only connection they had with the Taiping Wheel was that some of them would board the Taiping Wheel—the big ship that was about to sink.
After watching the entire "Taiping Wheel (Part 1), it is just a mediocre record of life in troubled times.
After the first round of release, this drama that was quite expected by the industry and the film market was criticized by the media, critics and fans.
This is a totally mediocre work!
Although the lineup is strong, the quality is too poor, and in the end he is only ranked second in the weekly box office rankings.
At the top of the list is the youth-themed film "Soon of the Year", which has been popular in the film market in recent years. It won a box office of RMB 206 million in the first week, surpassing a number of celebrities and topped the top.
Then the film market ushered in shocking news, "One Step Away" was released a week ahead of schedule.
"One Step Away", which should have been released on the same day as Chen Hao's "Charlotte Troubles", was suddenly released a week earlier, which triggered a heated discussion in the media and the industry.
Many people's first reaction was that Jiang Wen was cowardly and was afraid of direct competition with Chen Hao, so they chose to upgrade.
But many industry insiders also said that this is a wise move. The two most anticipated films of the market are released on the same day, and it is basically impossible to promote each other. The biggest possibility is that both sides will suffer losses!
"One Step Away" upgrade can not only avoid such a battle between two tigers, but also be released in advance, seize the reputation market and seize the initiative in competition with "Charlotte's Troubles".
In any case, "One Step" has been confirmed to be officially released on December 11.
At the same time, "One Step Away" started online pre-sales on Maoyaner, Taopiao.com and other websites on November 1. Before it was released, the producer suddenly revealed that the pre-sales of the video were as high as 300 million yuan.
The producer excitedly said that there was no pressure on the box office of "One Step Away" to exceed "Let the Bullets Fly" by 600 million.
Jiang Wen even made a domineering statement that he would make this year's "Transformers 4" worth the target box office of 2 billion yuan!
This news once again triggered the film industry.
It has already brought the strong reputation of the masterpiece "Let the Bullets Fly", and with an investment of 300 million yuan, the lineup is strong, and a group of Jiang Wen's fans are constantly waving their flags and shouting. The expectations of "One Step Away" have long been full.
In addition, after experiencing censorship and "two-level comments", the attention and expectations of "One Step Away" can be said to have reached its peak.
It was under such circumstances that December 11th came, and "One Step Away" was officially released in major theaters in mainland China.
"One Step Away" has more than 66% of the national pre-scheduled films on the 11th, far breaking the record of 54.2% of the "Transformers 4". The golden game schedule was even more shocking, reaching 71.32%.
According to the data statistics of "micro-scheduling", the screening rate of the top ten ticket cities including the Imperial Capital, the Magic City, and Pengcheng has exceeded 6.
"One Step Away" has received unanimous support from south to north. Among them, some cities such as Tianjin, Tianfu Country, and Chang'an even scheduled more than 70%. Obviously, major theaters want to take advantage of this to make a big profit.
For the Chinese film market, as of the third quarter, the number of screens has reached 22,420 yuan, which means that the actual schedule of "One Step Away" on the 11th exceeded 13,000 yuan.
The previous record of "Transformers 4" was 54.2%, and "Let the Bullets Fly" once reached half of the "Statement" .
However, in terms of screening volume, "One Step Away" can almost reach about 5 times that of "Let the Bullets Fly", which is basically equivalent to the increase after the market screen expansion.
"One Step Away" not only breaks the record-breaking session, but also has an amazing pre-sale effect. It is still hard to get a ticket for more than 70% of the golden sessions.
As the exclusive sales platform of IMAX in One Step Away and the first online ticket purchase platform to conduct online seat selection for gold games, Guevara Life Network began exclusively selling its IMAX 00-hour seats on November 11.
More than 5,000 tickets were issued within 49 minutes, and 100 seats were locked per minute. The mainstream IMAX Cinema in the Magic City was instantly snatched away. The imperial capital CBD Wanda, Jiangcheng Han Street Wanda, Jinling Jianye Wanda and others were almost sold out.
As of the day of premiere on December 11, more than 40,000 tickets for the 00:00 have been sold out.
The "Online Seat Selection" Golden Field, launched on November 27, covers 300 cities across the country, with nearly 2,000 theaters and 600,000 seats for users to choose from, making it the earliest pre-sale model of seat selection in history.
"Transformers 4" had a box office record of 170 million on the first day, and "One Step" will also impact the single-day box office record of domestic films.
The pre-sale popularity of "One Step Away" shows that Jiang Wen has more fans among ordinary audiences.
As a result, "One Step Away" set a new record for 15.6 million domestic films with a box office of 17.85 million, and is only one step away from the record for 20.8 million movies in the history of "Transformers 4".
The first day of the film's box office was 89.06 million yuan, which failed to break the first day of "Interstellar", not to mention the first day of the film and television box office record of "Transformers 4".
On December 13, "One Step Away" won 103 million yuan in a single day, but it failed to break the domestic single-day highest box office record of 123 million yuan in Journey to the West, which is far from "Transformers 4".
"One Step Away" had a box office of 332 million yuan in the first week, which was even worse than the 340 million yuan in the first week of "Georgement".
It can be said that the first week of "One Step Away" was much beyond the expectations of the producers, theaters and the industry.
Originally, the pre-sale of 300 million yuan was chanted for the 2 billion box office, but in the first week it was only 332 million yuan, which was completely broken.
At the same time, since the official appearance of "One Step Away" on December 11, the Internet has given negative reviews one-sidedly, and the audience complained that "I can't understand what the movie is filming at all."
Jiang Wen's fans Shi Hang and other film critics lost their voices, with a score of only 6.2 on Douban (160,000 users participated), creating Jiang Wen's worst record.
The main reason why fans say that the film is not good is that they cannot understand it (including feeling nonsensical); the performance, the lines are exaggerated; the story goes one by one; it is like the Spring Festival Gala; it is not down-to-earth; the plot is clichéd; it is not sincere; and the expectations are disappointed.
A viewer with a strong opinion said, "It is strongly recommended that everyone not watch it. If the box office exceeds one billion, I think it is very unfavorable to the development of the Chinese film market, and it is 100 times worse than "Let the Bullets Fly".
Obviously, many movie fans came to the theater with the expectation of watching "Let the Bullets Fly", but "One Step Away" disappointed them.
The main keywords of audience evaluation are "not understandable". There is a vulgar comment that accurately summarizes the movie: "One Step Away" is a gorgeous piece of shit.
After the first week of the film's release, everyone realized that "One Step" was obviously a failure.
With Chen Hao's "Charlotte Troubles" coming to the next week, the box office of "One Step" will definitely be hit hard.
With such a bad reputation, the final box office won't be worth 2 billion, let's talk about it first surpassing "Let the Bullets Fly"!
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While "One Step Away" encountered a reputation crisis and box office failure, Chen Hao's new film "Charlotte's Troubles" was premiered at the Imperial Capital Haotian Cinema on December 15.
The premiere of "Charlotte's Troubles" has attracted great attention from the media and the industry.
In addition to this is Chen Hao's new film, it is also because this is Chen Hao's first attempt at domestic comedy, and it is also his first time playing in the New Year holiday.
In addition, the previously identified competitor "One Step Away" suffered a crushing defeat, and "Charlotte's Troubles", as the two major domestic films, naturally gained more attention.
"Charlotte's Troubles actually follow the routine of magical reality comedy, which can be called a "dream come true" story. This type of story as the core of the narrative context can be summarized into one sentence, which covers many elements of the movie.
The character's state, the character's motivation and desires, and the direction of the story are inseparable and highly unified.
This domestic comedy directed by Chen Hao for the first time retains the essence of the comedy in the theatrical version and has been expanded to create a lot of jokes. There is no doubt that this will be a comedy that makes you laugh!"
---Souhu Entertainment Report
"The emotions expressed in "Charlotte's Troubles" bring together unforgettable campus memories, young love memories, and true love that looks back suddenly. Through the plot after scene, the story theme of "love and dream" that brings positive energy will continue to deepen.
The audience will witness the time that we never forget in the hilarious and touching times, and will also seriously think about the value of life, the sense of happiness, and the meaning of success."
---Xinlang Net Review
"Charlotte and Stephen Chow have many similarities in many screen images, and his embarrassing situations often make the audience hope to "put themselves to death and live."
The film revolves around the incredible plot of Charlotte returning to the past, and after laughter, the work is settled at the safe level of "returning to reality".
The way Stephen Chow's comedy ends is usually sublimation, making the ending higher than the story or even out of the plot, allowing the audience to taste the metaphor.
If there is any regret in "Charlotte's Troubles", it is that its ending method is too "correct" and does not leave any room for fantasy for the audience who also wake up from their dreams.
In terms of lines, the movie version of "Charlotte's Troubles" has the natural advantages of the original drama, and the language is refined from daily life, with no lack of humor and wisdom.
"Charlotte's Troubles" is definitely worth watching, because in addition to the full range of jokes, it does touch the soft part of people's hearts!"
To be continued...