Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 386
In order to create momentum for "Home Alone", Universal began to show its power in publicity.

Langmeyer ordered the publicity department to take turns promoting the film at major bus stations, magazines, newspapers, and TV stations before the movie was released.

Even he himself went on a TV talk show to promote the movie.

"You mean Mr. Lin Daoqiu made a comedy movie about an American family? A Xiangjiang guy? My God, this is crazy."

On a talk show, after the host heard Langmeyer introduce the movie "Home Alone", he looked at Langmeyer in horror, as if he was looking at an alien monster .

Many audience members laughed out loud after listening to the host's words. It seemed that they all thought this was an incredible thing.

Langmeyer looked at each other with embarrassment. Originally, he appeared on this talk show in person today to help promote "Home Alone", but now it seems that they can't accept this fact.

Even the host used a pair of exaggerated body movements and pretended to be a bad Chinglish to complain about this drama.

"Guys, welcome to Home Alone, this movie is definitely a comedy, because I promise you can't even understand what the people are saying, so you can only laugh in the theater, haha... ..."

After the host finished speaking, he wanted to laugh, and the audience around him also laughed together. They hadn't even seen the movie, but they had already made a conclusion.

Langmeyer frowned and didn't seem very happy. If this wasn't a TV show, he might have already got up and left.

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"I swear, I won't be on this show again in the future."

Langmeyer looked very angry. He felt that the other party didn't respect the movie "Home Alone" at all, but took the movie as a joke.

Lin Daoqiu was sitting next to Langmeyer, and he watched the whole process of the video.

Originally, Langmeyer wanted to arrange for Lin Daoqiu to appear on this talk show with him, but Lin Daoqiu refused.

Looking at it now, Langmeyer felt that Lin Daoqiu's decision was simply great. If he had been on the show with him just now, he would definitely have humiliated the other party.

"You don't need to be so angry, after all, they haven't seen the movie, so it doesn't really matter what they say now."

Compared to Lang Mayer, Lin Daoqiu looked calmer.

In fact, if it were an American filming, the host would definitely not look at it with such a discriminatory attitude, but would seriously discuss the film, and maybe even praise it wildly.

But because Lin Daoqiu is Chinese, the other party didn't think that Lin Daoqiu could make a pure American comedy.

"I didn't expect you to be quite calm. It seems that I should learn more from you."

Lang Mayer did not expect Lin Daoqiu to be surprisingly calm. You must know that the other party is so much younger than him. From this point of view, Lang Mayer feels that he is not as good as Lin Daoqiu.

"The reason why I am calm is because I have confidence in this movie, so they want to watch a good movie and want to see me get embarrassed, but it doesn't matter, all doubts will pass after the movie is released."

Lin Daoqiu's words made Lang Mayer nod repeatedly. If he hadn't watched "Home Alone", Lang Mayer would never agree with what Lin Daoqiu said.

And this is the beginning of the bad things. I don't know who disclosed the shooting details of "Home Alone" to the media.

The next day, "Pioneer Film News" was the first to publish about the unhuman situation in "Home Alone".

"This movie is a comedy filmed by Mr. Lin Daoqiulin, who won the North American box office last year. According to the information disclosed by insiders, the production cost of this movie is 500 million US dollars, and it only took one month. Just finished filming the entire movie, which is the most outrageous thing I've heard so far this year."

Many film critics began to belittle the film in the newspapers before they had seen "Home Alone".

Almost all film critics and writers are centered around the fact that "Home Alone" only has a short shooting time of one month, and Lin Daoqiu wrote a comedy movie about an American family from a Chinese perspective. Make a fuss.

All of a sudden, anyone who usually pays attention to movie information already knows about the movie "Home Alone", but most of them watch it with a mocking attitude.

Even later, those guys don't seem to know how to write an article without belittling the movie "Home Alone".

"Check it out for me right away to find out who leaked this information to the media."

Naturally, Lin Daoqiu would not reveal these details, so the problem must lie with the crew or the Universal people.

"Forget it, it's useless to check these things at this time."

Although Lin Daoqiu didn't know who leaked these things, it seemed that he was still sitting on the Diaoyutai. It seemed that he was not affected by these recent newspaper articles.

Langmeyer didn't even know how Lin Daoqiu could bear it. He could find articles about "Home Alone" in newspapers almost every day, but there wasn't even a single good article in it.

"If it continues like this, I worry that the box office of this movie will be bad by then."

Langmeyer is very worried that if this kind of public opinion is formed, it will definitely greatly affect the audience's willingness to enter the venue, which is definitely not a good thing for "Home Alone".

But when Langmeyer finished speaking, Lin Daoqiu just smiled and said something that made Langmeye feel strange.

"In this case, let's just push the boat along."

Langmeyer didn't understand what it meant to push the boat along the way, but it seemed that Lin Daoqiu had already thought of a solution to this matter.

"What are you going to do?" Langmeyer hurriedly asked.

You must know that in the face of this overwhelming wave of belittling at this time, ordinary filmmakers may have already been frightened, and may even choose to shrink back.

But Lin Daoqiu was different. On the contrary, he felt that the other party was doing this to help him promote the movie. Since they liked it so much, he might as well use his tricks and sell them with a negative review.

"You spend some money to get people to say more bad things about "Home Alone" in the newspaper, and make this movie worse, the more outrageous the better."

After Langmeyer listened to Lin Daoqiu's words, he froze in place. He never expected that the other party would come up with such a bad idea.

"Okay, there's no need to make these jokes with me at this time. I'll ask the publicity department to spend some money on more advertisements. I must reverse this trend of public opinion that is not good for "Home Alone."

After Langmeyer finished speaking, he picked up the phone to call someone from the Propaganda Department, but just as he picked up the phone, Lin Daoqiu reached out and pressed the end button.

"You didn't hear me wrong, and I didn't say it wrong, just do what I said."

Looking at Lin Daoqiu's convincing expression, Langmeyer wondered if there was something wrong with his eyes. If he really did what Lin Daoqiu said, wouldn't the movie "Home Alone" be To be completely destroyed?
(End of this chapter)