May 1st was supposed to be a day of holiday and fishing.
But in the film industry, everyone feels very grim.
Lu Jian's movie is not just a box office hit.
The clues conveyed behind this movie are surprising.
On the famous role-playing website Do You Understand?, under the question of how to evaluate "The Madman's Mouth", several hot replies have been updated.
[Filmmaker A Ping]: I retract my previous comment. "The Mouth of a Madman" is a breakthrough for the field of horror movies, and even for domestic movies. Its content is not limited to the work.
, it even extends beyond the work. This method of combining reality and fiction and blurring the boundaries is very novel. It can be said that the whole movie-watching experience reaches its peak in the last paragraph of the reveal.
To be honest, I am a little curious now, are we really living in a novel, and are we just characters in the novel, subject to manipulation?
[My name is Teacher Zhao]: I think there are only a few people who can rationally evaluate this movie now. Most people are still in the chaos where their brains seem to have been stirred. Think about it carefully. Now with a movie
Another movie that shocked us and changed our cognition, Lu Jian, is very similar to the novelist in the movie. After watching this movie, I really thought about the possibility of myself being a fictional character.
Of course, if this is the plot of a novel, then maybe Lu Jian is the absolute protagonist of this plot, and I am just a shameless sidekick who flatters him.
[Dark Blue Melancholy: My face hurts a bit. I originally thought that according to the normal production speed, it would take at least two years for Lu Jian’s movie to be seen. I didn’t expect it to be released in half a year. Did this guy secretly save more than a dozen movies?
, one film after another. This doesn’t give other directors a way to survive. Some people shoot well and fast. How can others beat him? It’s unreasonable!]
However, more people are actually still stuck in the shock of the movie.
In movies before Lu Jian, the discussion of the fourth wall was very shallow. In most movies, the actors ignored the audience and completely immersed themselves in the world view of the movie. The relevant movie themes did not let people know.
The audience felt that this was "acted".
But in "In the Mouth of a Madman", the interaction between the novelist and the protagonists, and the main plot of the movie, clearly break the fourth wall of the horror story in the movie, connecting reality and fantasy. The audience can think that,
This movie is the story of the novel "In the Mouth of a Madman". The novelist is outside the story. It can also be considered that the novelist is also part of the story. This is a movie that tells how the novel is completed.
This can easily lead to a thought, that is, are the audience watching the movie again characters in an incident called "The Mouth of a Madman"? Is the world we live in real?
When Bai Qiquan came back from watching the premiere, he was completely confused.
He woke up very early today and barely slept last night. His dreams were all about those scenes of spiders crawling all over people's bodies, men in suits turning their heads, and vicious dogs with tentacles on their heads exploding.
When he woke up in the morning, Bai Qiquan rubbed his eyes.
He suddenly saw a man in a suit standing in his dormitory.
Hearing Bai Qiquan's movements, the other party turned his head.
"Fuck!"
Bai Qiquan sat up as if he had been electrocuted, his head almost hitting the wall. A trembling sensation swept through his body, and he even felt that his hands and feet were twitching.
"What are you doing? It's like seeing a ghost."
The man in the suit asked.
Only then did Bai Qiquan realize that this was his roommate.
"You, what are you doing wearing a suit?"
He asked with a trembling voice.
"Oh, I didn't find an internship before, but I went for an interview today, so I got a suit."
The roommate laughed.
"oh......"
Only then did Bai Qiquan feel relieved.
Then I fell into that inexplicable sadness again.
"You think, is it possible that we are just a member of the book and the whole world is fictional?"
He suddenly asked his roommate.
"ah?"
The other party didn't understand and asked a question instead.
"Forget it, you don't understand."
Bai Qiquan shook his head.
He now felt like the scientist who was the first to understand the heliocentric theory. Everyone else was still in ignorance, and he was the only one who had glimpsed the truth.
He lay on the bed, picked up his mobile phone, and searched for knowledge about the end of the universe, the end of time, and the destruction of the earth.
"You know what?"
Bai Qiquan asked his roommate again.
"Know what?"
My roommate didn’t understand again.
"The sun will expand into a red giant in five billion years. At that time, the earth will be completely engulfed and human civilization will be destroyed!"
Bai Qiquan said seriously.
"Oh, five billion years, that's still very early."
The roommate suddenly felt that Bai Qiquan had some serious illness.
"Are you really okay? Do you want to go see the school doctor?"
"It's okay, I'm okay..."
Bai Qiquan waved his hand, lay down again, and searched for some thought experiments such as brain in a vat, ship of Theseus, etc., and became melancholy again.
This situation continued throughout the night.
Several buddies in the dormitory set a fixed black time and approached Bai Qiquan to play a few games. After he knelt down five times in a row, he forgot about the destruction of the universe, the end of time, and the brain in a vat.
"Damn it, I won't go to bed until I win a game today!"
Bai Qiquan clicked the mouse and opened the next one.
Then he stayed up all night for another day.
...
On May 1, the box office of "In the Mouth of a Madman" reached 1.7 billion, setting a domestic first-day box office record for a horror movie.
Moreover, with the continuation of the holidays and the fermentation of word-of-mouth, its box office is still rising.
On the second day, the box office of "In the Mouth of a Madman" reached 200 million, and on the third day, the number became 250 million. This is a rare case where the box office continues to rise despite sufficient early publicity.
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It is worth mentioning that before this, the domestic box office of a military-themed movie exceeded 5 billion, and the total box office of the starring actor exceeded 8 billion.
Now, according to data calculations, the box office of Lu Jian's "The Madman's Mouth" is likely to exceed 3 billion and reach 4 billion. Added together with "The Crying", he will almost become the top five directors and directors in the domestic box office.
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Under such circumstances, mainstream media also began to pursue the hot topic of Lu Jian.
At the end of the Golden Week, after Lu Jian's "The Mouth of a Madman" received a box office of 1 billion, he received a call.
The other party was the person in charge of the program team of Shonan TV Station, and invited Lu Jian to participate in an interview program to talk about his creative experience.