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Chapter 1055: Polarization (Two in One)

"In an interview with the main creators of "Deep Sea", Tian Xiaopeng said: No one else needs to make the same mistake I made in seven years!"

"The press conference for The Wandering Earth 2 was held, with director Guo Fan and starring actors Wu Jing, Li Xuejian, Liu Dehua, and Wang Zhizi in attendance."

"The film "Man Jiang Hong" directed by Zhang Yimou released a new character poster, with the entire cast performing 'killing eyes'."

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With the poor performance of "Avatar 2", all the major movie companies have started to do all kinds of publicity and preheating, including the upcoming Spring Festival period.

As two blockbuster films of the Spring Festival, "The Wandering Earth 2" and "Man Jiang Hong" naturally attracted much attention.

However, what has attracted the most attention of movie fans recently is "Deep Sea", which will be released at the end of the month. Although it is a non-commercial work, its various dreamy colors have attracted the attention of many people, and they all want to find out.

After Li Mu dealt with some matters related to the Asian Games, he quickly returned to the imperial capital.

The main reason is for "Go Where the Wind Is". After all, as the male lead, before the premiere, he didn't even participate in any program, didn't even do an interview, and just showed up. That's a bit unreasonable. After all, the copyrights of the network and satellite TV stations were sold to others.

Although people from Tencent Video and CCTV won’t say anything, it doesn’t hurt to participate if you have time.

Moreover, in the interview with the male and female protagonists, only Liu Yifei participated in the end, so he was really just a bystander.

"Shall we go to the premiere of 'Deep Sea' the day after tomorrow? How about bringing Xiao Baozi along?"

At home, Liu Yifei leaned on Li Mu's back, with her hands hanging freely in front of Li Mu's chest, and asked with a faint smile.

"Okay, but you have to be careful with little buns."

It is still possible to take the little one to watch "Deep Sea". Li Mu has no objection to this, mainly because the premiere will also have some media issues.

"It's okay, let's be secretive and not walk the red carpet. We'll just watch the movie premiere. Don't sit too close to the front. Sit in the normal guest seats at the back. No one should be able to notice us." Liu Yifei seemed to have thought about it a long time ago.

"Okay, but I'll still ask someone to greet the media here to avoid unnecessary trouble." Li Mu nodded slightly, but still planned to make some preparations in advance.

The main reason is that the media cameras sometimes move around randomly, and you cannot guarantee that there won’t be some accidental situations.

The little bun is still too young, and there is no need for him to appear in the public eye.

The next day, Li Mu and Liu Yifei went to Tencent Video for a simple interview. In fact, it was just about some interesting things during the filming and some opinions on the pastoral healing theme of the TV series. The two of them easily handled it.

But Liu Yifei was very happy on the way back.

"Amu, do you think the fans will laugh at you after the show airs?"

"It's all your fault. You speak without restraint. Can't you cover up for me?" Li Mu's lips curled up slightly, and it was obvious that he found the interview just now a little funny.

However, he doesn't care at all about Liu Yifei always "discrediting" him.

“I’m really looking forward to it. I wonder if the editing will be particularly funny.”

"Just don't cut it randomly, or I'll sue it."

"Don't be like this!" Liu Yifei couldn't help but pat Li Mu's right shoulder when she heard that.

"Be careful, be careful, you are driving"

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December 12th is Laba Festival, and the day of the premiere of "Deep Sea".

The box office decline of "Avatar 2" has been fully revealed. After the box office exceeded 15 billion, it had no stamina, which was similar to the previous industry predictions. The final box office was only around billion.

At this time, the premiere of "Deep Sea" became the focus of attention in the industry.

Many people in the industry are looking forward to the word of mouth after the premiere.

In the evening, Li Mu and Liu Yifei brought little Baozi and walked into the premiere hall through another door instead of walking on the red carpet.

"Mom, there are so many cameras." Sitting in his seat, the little boy looked curiously at the media cameras in front of him, then looked around and said excitedly.

"Yeah, yeah, don't talk loudly while watching the movie later, okay?" Liu Yifei reminded again.

"Yeah, I know." The little boy's short legs were dangling in his seat, and he was still very curious when looking around.

Some guests nearby naturally knew that it was Li Mu and his friends, but seeing Li Mu and his friends like this, they also knew that they planned to watch the movie in a low-key manner, so they nodded and smiled as a gesture, and did not come over specially to cause trouble.

After all, everyone who understands understands.

"Brother Ming, look, is that Li Mu and Liu Yifei? Should we give them a shot? That seems to be their daughter."

A media reporter patted the man named Mingge on the shoulder and motioned him to turn around.

"It's him, but don't take pictures. When you need to shoot materials, be careful to avoid him." The man didn't even raise his head and continued to adjust the machine.

"Why?"

"Why do you say that? Mengying Media has informed us. You just need to do as they say. The boss wants to protect his daughter. Just be careful."

"Hey, she looks so cute, it would be a shame not to take a couple of pictures of her."

"Stop meowing and get to work!"

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Li Mu and his companions arrived quite late. Soon, Tian Xiaopeng took several main creative staff members to the stage to introduce Deep Sea, which had been in production since The Return of the Great Sage. It was no exaggeration to say that it took seven years to sharpen a sword.

Tian Xiaopeng, who started out as an animated film director, is not a talkative person. After a brief introduction, this fantasy animation began.

"Deep Sea" is not very commercial, but it is extremely literary. It projects everyone who has felt lonely and powerless in their youth into a fairy tale world in an extremely romantic and gorgeous way.

Behind each dazzling frame is a child’s beautiful dream.

Xiao Baozi didn’t like the gray real world line at the beginning very much, but he liked the other colorful fantasy world line very much.

Deep Sea Hotel, the hotel is filled with all kinds of things, noisy, dazzling, crowded, complex, colorful, dreamy, cute anthropomorphic animals, unbalanced gravity, grumpy sea lion captain, cute otter brother, and a little unreliable Captain Nanhe
That is, after entering the Deep Sea Hotel, the film begins a narrative method that is similar to stream of consciousness, filling the screen with highly saturated colors, and the technological level of the production team begins to show.

"The colors are so rich." Liu Yifei couldn't help but exclaim.

At this time, some viewers were whispering below. The color perception was indeed amazing, but some viewers felt a little annoyed.

Because the visual experience at this time is like a display screen with information boxes constantly popping up, and every corner of the screen is filled with excess information.

"Amu, what kind of story is this?" Liu Yifei hasn't seen the end yet, but after seeing the so-called "depressed ghost" several times, she has started to have some bad associations.

"Just keep watching." Li Mu smiled slightly. It would be boring if he said it out loud. "Dad, that depressed guy is so annoying." The little kid tugged at Li Mu's clothes and pouted.

Li Mu smiled and patted the little bun's head, "So you have to be happy."

Li Mu's words to Xiao Baozi made Liu Yifei's eyes narrow slightly. She suddenly thought of something and looked at the screen in front of her.
Now we have reached the final stage of the movie, tearing apart all illusions and facing the real world.

All the audience have realized that the lively and crazy trip to the Deep Sea Hotel was just a fantasy of the girl when she fell into the water and was about to die.

This also explains the many illogical camera shakes, the influx of seawater, the drowning of people's laughter, and the discomfort that often accompanies the oversaturation of movie images; it's a struggle in the vast ocean.

Nanhe kept talking to Shenxiu in the sea, interspersed with telling his own story.

The experiences and obsessions of the two people are intertwined, becoming a fantasy colorful deep sea world.

"Is this the story Director Tian has wanted to tell for seven years?" Liu Yifei's eyes were slightly moist at this moment, and she had already empathized with the movie.

Li Mu smiled and nodded.

After the premiere, the audience gave warm applause, and after the interview, everyone gradually left.

Li Mu paused for a moment.

"Mr. Li, Mr. Liu!"

Tian Xiaopeng naturally knew that Li Mu was coming. Seeing that the media and the audience had left, he had nothing to worry about and shouted.

"You are the little baozi, right? I saw you a few years ago. Do you still remember me?" Tian Xiaopeng squatted down and asked.

The little boy's eyes widened, as if he was recalling something, and finally shook his head, "I don't remember, uncle!"

"Normal!" Tian Xiaopeng replied with a smile, "Did you like the movie just now?"

"I like it, it's so nice, so many animals are so cute!" Little Baozi said quickly, "But I don't like the ending. Why does he have to die? They are living well, isn't that good?"

"Forehead"

"You'll know later." Liu Yifei responded with a smile.

"I'm glad you like it. Here, this little item from the movie is for you."

What Tian Xiaopeng gave was a small gadget from the Deep Sea Hotel, which could be considered a model.

"Really!" The little boy's eyes lit up.

"That's still false."

"Thank you, uncle." The little boy's attention was immediately attracted after he took the object.

"Director Li, I feel like some people may not like it." Tian Xiaopeng stood up, a little worried.

We could still see something from the applause after the premiere.

"It's normal. This kind of emotionally charged movie is bound to polarize people. People who like it will think it's a masterpiece, but people who don't like it will find it boring and unable to empathize with it."

Li Mu had already prepared for this, "It is our duty as filmmakers to discuss such a heavy and sensitive topic on the big screen and let the audience hear this faint and almost silent voice.

Commercialization is just an expression to enrich people’s spirit, but movies should not be monotonous, don’t worry.”

"Fortunately, it was not released during the Spring Festival, as the topic would indeed be a bit heavy." At this moment, Tian Xiaopeng couldn't help but feel a little fortunate. If it was released during the Spring Festival, many people would be "daunted."

After all, no one wants to watch a movie with heavy topics during a happy holiday. It's unnecessary.

"By the way, I think this movie can try Berlin and submit it there. It should be able to be shortlisted for some categories, and let the world see our production level."

Li Mu suddenly thought of this while watching the movie. After all, it’s Berlin in March.

Moreover, it is currently only released in China, which fully meets the requirements.

"Then let's give it a try!" Tian Xiaopeng's eyes suddenly lit up. The main reason was that he had never thought too much about it before, and he didn't think that the movie could be included in the three major film festivals or something.

"I think it will work. It's hard to say about the main competition unit, but the other units are promising." Li Mu patted Tian Xiaopeng on the shoulder, "Submit it as soon as possible, the deadline is in February."

"OK, all right!"

"How could it really be polarizing? I think the story is very interesting and meaningful, how could it be polarizing?"

In the car, the little boy was holding the small gift given by Tian Xiaopeng and fell asleep in a daze.

Liu Yifei was a little curious.

"Why not?" Li Mu smiled faintly, "You think it's good because you can empathize with it, and people with delicate emotions can easily empathize with the characters. It is indeed easier to empathize with this movie, but it does not mean that everyone can empathize with it. Different people have different preferences."

"Won't the box office be bad then?"

"It shouldn't be the case. The publicity and production level are there, the story is also very good, and the imagination is enough. But if you want to compare it with Nezha, it definitely can't be compared."

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That night, after Li Mu returned home, various comments had already begun to spread, and the film was released at midnight that day. Li Mu estimated that he would be able to see comments from two groups of people when he woke up tomorrow.

Sure enough, the next day, two groups of people appeared in the movie.

"After watching it, I can only say it is a masterpiece. I cried my eyes out. I just hope that the long night will pass and the lonely child will be home. In the future, I can laugh or cry whenever I want."

"The pictures are beautiful, even stunning, but I just think the story is a bit boring. I don't know why, but my friend cried a lot."

"I really didn't understand it. I fell asleep before I was halfway through!"

"It's a touching movie. Tears blurred my eyes at the end. I hope there will be more Nanhe in real life. I hope the original families can give their children more warmth and care."

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At this time, Tian Xiaopeng was also refreshing the comments of movie fans. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw the good ones. But when he saw the not-so-good ones, his expression became slightly solemn, and finally he sighed.

"It's really the polarization that Director Li talked about. Fortunately, the reputation is not bad, so I don't think the company will lose money."

Because "Avatar 2" was not very impressive and there were no other movies that could compete at the box office during the Lunar New Year period, major theaters gave enough screenings to "Deep Blue", which directly accounted for 40% of the screenings on the first day. For a non-commercial blockbuster and slightly literary animated film, this is definitely an excess.

Fortunately, the box office of "Deep Sea" on the first day was also quite good, directly earning over 1.8 million yuan, which is still very impressive.

Li Mu was also very satisfied with the first-day box office, as it was much higher than the original version. Of course, the original version had less than 2% of the screenings due to the competition from "The Wandering Earth 9" and "Man Jiang Hong" during the Spring Festival.

On the other hand, Tian Xiaopeng also breathed a sigh of relief. The first-day box office has laid a solid foundation for the film.
(End of this chapter)