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Chapter 795 The Difference Between East and West Immortal Realms

In fact, it can be seen from the lines that Boss Huang persuaded the director that Boss Huang himself did not count on the box office of this movie.

The reason is very simple, because the story of this movie itself really has no box office basis.

The story of Misty Journey was born a few years ago, and it cannot be said to be a household name in China, let alone have any influence abroad.Not to mention that the story itself is still a fairy tale divorced from reality, and the core of the story is the connotation of cultivating immortality. It is basically impossible for foreigners to understand such a story, which has no cultural foundation at all.

To give a simple example, let’s take the mythological traditions of the East and the West.

Not to mention the Chinese cultivating immortals, they pay attention to the cultivation from the inside to the outside. Through continuous cultivation of the body and soul, one can finally have extraordinary power. As long as one has perseverance, perseverance and understanding, one can get Become a fairy.

But Western mythology can basically be summed up in two words "blood"

That's right, the entire Western mythology system is based on the theory of blood. Your father is a god, and you are a god. If your father is not a god, he will only be an enslaved mortal for the rest of his life.

Take Western gods as an example, whether it is Nordic mythology, Greek mythology, or the heaven of JD, they are all based on blood.The gods in Nordic mythology and Greek mythology are all born of a main god, and only the direct blood of the main god can become a god. There has never been a myth that any mortal can become a god.

Even if there is, it is only after becoming a god that he checks the background and finds that he is the illegitimate son of a stallion god with half of the blood on his body, so he can become a god.

The mythology taught by JD is similar. Although the gods are no longer based on the theory of blood, the gods are all created, because there is only one god in the whole world, and the remaining existences with the power of gods are all created by gods. created.

As for human beings becoming gods, please, human beings are just lambs, pets of gods, you are the greatest luck to be able to go to heaven, but you still want to be gods, this is a proper heresy, you must be burned to death.

Well, in fact, humans in the West can also practice, but after practicing, they become witches and will be burned to death by the holy fire.

Looking at the gods in the heavenly court of oriental mythology, the origin of Sanqing is unknown, so it is not counted as the evolution of the law of the great way.

The Jade Emperor, the lord of the Heavenly Court, named Zhang Bairen, passed the test of tens of thousands of catastrophes, and finally became the Jade Emperor from a mortal.

The four great celestial masters, all of them were born as commoners, practiced Taoism in the world, and finally became celestial masters by virtue of their own efforts.

Tota Li Tianwang is also a mortal. Although he is somewhat honored by his own son, it can't be regarded as a theory of blood.

All in all, if you look up the list of gods in the heavens, you will find that more than half of the gods in the heavens are mortals.

Either because of his own hard work, he became an immortal, or he made great contributions in the world, and then became an immortal because of it.All in all, these gods came from cultivation.

If you don't count these systems that exist in mythological novels, but look at the superhero systems that are closer to reality, that is, the superhero universes such as the Marvel Universe and the DC Universe, the heroes there are various, but they The origin of superpowers can often be attributed to several sources.

Among them, the origin of the most is still the theory of blood. The most commonly used is the son of a certain god, such as Thor, Star Lord, Aquaman, Superman, Wonder Woman, etc. These are all abilities obtained by blood.

The second is the theory of technology, that is, relying on technology to obtain abilities, such as Iron Man, such as Ant-Man, such as Cyborg.

The last is the theory of variation, which is commonly known as the poor people relying on mutation, mutating through various magical opportunities, and gaining superpowers.Such as Captain America, such as Spiderman, Hulk, Flash, Fantastic Four and so on.

Among these superheroes, there are very few who simply rely on their own cultivation and do not rely on any external forces to transform from a mortal to a superhero.

Of course, it's not that they became superheroes without relying on practice at all, such as Despair and Doctor Strange, these two obtained extraordinary abilities entirely by practice.

But when you look at the origins of the two heroes, the frustration itself is of Chinese origin, and the strength comes from the ancient Chinese martial arts.Although Doctor Strange is a Westerner, his power comes from the Ancient One Mage from the East.

That is to say, in the subconscious of Westerners, only Easterners would want to obtain magical power through cultivation, and Westerners themselves can only rely on blood, technology, or mutation.

You see, this artificial formation of fixed thinking.

Uh, it’s getting farther and farther. I said so much above, I want to tell you that most ordinary Western people can’t understand the concept of Chinese immortals. In their consciousness, there is no ordinary person to rely on. The idea that one can become a superhero by practicing hard, can only passively wait for one day to be bitten by something, or to be struck by lightning, or to be shot by radiation, and then become a superhero.

Under this kind of consciousness, it is basically impossible for the movie of Piao Miao Journey to sell well in the United States. This is the reason why there is no basis for box office. Boss Huang knows this very well.

Then the question came, since Boss Huang knew it very well, why did he spend another cost to produce three movies?
First of all, this kind of tossing doesn't actually cost much. After all, there are a lot of scenes in TV dramas, which actually cost tens of millions of dollars more. It should be able to earn back through the movie box office.

Secondly, it is a start for one's own cultural export business.

After all, among the five small goals that Boss Huang set at the beginning, one of them is to make Chinese culture a popular culture all over the world, so as to achieve the goal of cultural invasion.

Then all of this must have a beginning, and this beginning must be beautiful, and the movie version of Misty Journey is the best choice.Although it is impossible for these films to cause a sensation in the United States from the very beginning, with the excellent scripts and production of these three films, it will definitely be able to attract a group of Americans in the market to become diehard fans of this film.

And with the diehard fans of this movie, it will be able to gradually spread the influence of Eastern culture in the West, and finally form a huge Xianxia universe.

There are many such successful cases, such as Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

At the beginning, Lord of the Rings did not have any mass base in China, but because of the three movies, Chinese people more or less understood the world of Middle-earth.

The same is true for Harry Potter, making countless Chinese people try to find that magical four and three-quarters platform.

This also directly led to the fact that before 2010, the entire online novels were basically the world of Western fantasy novels.The protagonists of the novel basically come to a different world, then enter the magic academy to learn magic, and finally become the god of law or the saint of law, raising their hands to destroy the world with a forbidden spell.

It wasn't until later that Xianxia novels worked hard to grow by relying on their local advantages.

But until 2022, how many people are familiar with the superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe on the Internet, and the movies and novels derived from the Marvel Universe are also very popular among readers. All in all, the invasion of Western culture in China is very important. Very successful.

So our Boss Huang has followed suit. No matter how successful these films are in the market, at least we have to push these three films to the US market, and then slowly ferment them over time. The boss believes that the story that happened in China in another world can also happen in the western world.

Closer to home, since Boss Huang himself knows that his films cannot have too many markets, so American filmmakers themselves are also very clear, so although "Misty Journey 1" was released, there are not many films scheduled.

Of course, because Boss Huang deliberately chose a non-golden schedule, there is no special effects blockbuster to compete with, and in terms of special effects alone, "Misty Journey" can be called the strongest movie special effects in history, so the film schedule is not too big. Few, at least every movie theater has at least one theater showing "Gone with the Wind 1" at every time period

But the side effect of this schedule is that there are not many viewers who are willing to watch movies, just like China's movie schedule in September. The lively summer vacation is over, and the students are forced to go back to class. Large-scale festivals, whether it's Qixi Festival or Valentine's Day, are also out of reach. Naturally, the audience will chat with each other throughout September.

But even so, Boss Huang did not save money on publicity. The advertisements on various movie media have not been interrupted, and various TV news have also spent money on it. There is also a wave of publicity campaigns on the Internet in order to be able to compete with Lord of the Rings. Comparable oriental myths and legendary movies, as well as gimmicks such as the world's strongest special effects movie to promote.

Therefore, the situation on the first day of the movie's release was so-so. The total box office was around 500 million US dollars. Based on the ticket price of 10-20 US dollars, about 40 people entered the cinema to watch this time's movie.

And this day happened to be the day when the national finals of "Caiwei Fashion Apprentice" was broadcast.At the same time, there are still nearly two months before the TV series "Misty Journey" is broadcast in China.

Well, "Missing Journey" has been scheduled to be broadcast on the first day of the Lunar New Year in 2005, but the first broadcast platform is no longer a big platform like CCTV or Hunan Satellite TV, but the unknown Jiangxi Satellite TV. The reason is very simple , Jiangxi Provincial Satellite TV is crazy about the money. They spent a total of 5 million yuan to buy the first season of "Gone with the Wind", which is a total of 12 episodes of the premiere rights.

This is really a waste of money. Jiangxi Satellite TV is basically a small and transparent existence in China. Its biggest move in TV dramas was the premiere of "Love Apartment 1" that year.

But this is not Gan Satellite TV’s discerning heroes, but this sitcom was bought by no one at the time. It was the director who found Gan Satellite TV through his relationship, and bought half-buy, half-free for the premiere.

However, it was precisely because Gan Provincial Satellite TV was unknown at the time that this TV series, which itself could become a hit, did not go out of the circle at the time.It wasn't until the Internet spread began that the iPartment finally caught fire.

However, the Jiangxi Satellite TV in this world somehow has the courage to give it a go. Their newly appointed director watched the sample of "Misty Journey" at the film selection meeting, and at the final auction It was a blockbuster last time, and directly called out a price of 5 million yuan, suppressing both CCTV and Hunan Satellite TV.

Then they took out all the advertising revenue for the whole year, and even borrowed from the bank, and finally collected [-] million yuan, paid the fee, and got the premiere rights of the first season of "Misty Journey". There are exclusive broadcast rights for about three months.

But on the other hand, even if they get 5 million, it still doesn't even count as a fraction of the production cost of "Gone with the Wind"!After all, Boss Huang spent a total of nearly one billion US dollars for this TV series!

(End of this chapter)