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Chapter 656

Well-known film critic from Sohu.com: "As a sci-fi brain-burning film, this film is indeed novel enough that if you are a fan, you will probably have the urge to walk out of the theater ten times in the first ten minutes. You don't even have time to remember the names of the characters because of the jumping topics and trivial conversations. You will be confused by their gossip and love affairs. Then you will start to curse the masters who recommended this film online in your heart, saying that they are all pretending to be stupid. What kind of art-like death is this!"

"After watching it, I was naturally hooked. And the weird thing is, in order to clear my mind, I started to watch the movie a second, third, and even fourth time. Especially when I rewatched the first 15 minutes that I had watched casually before, I always felt like I had seen this movie before, not yesterday, not a week ago, but several months ago."

“Thinking about the fact that Director Wang wrote this script in Hollywood, I immediately understood.”

"Next, I will briefly analyze the time travel from the perspective of the protagonist Sun Li."

"The conversations that people have at the table and before the meal actually reveal some important details. They are not insignificant."

"In the kitchen, Sun Li met with Liu Yan, Deng Chao, and Chen Hao. The topics at this time included the comet, Sun Li's cell phone with a broken screen, and the dried flower decorations that Sun Li bought from the store."

"Then at the dinner table, the first suspicious point appeared. Zhao Liying's occupation and the TV series that Deng Chao had starred in. Zhao Liying had obviously not seen the others for a while, but they were familiar with each other. However, everyone else here thought that she was a yoga teacher, but she claimed to be working in Silicon Valley. Then Deng Chao played a major role in the TV series that Zhao Liying liked, but Zhao Liying seemed to be completely unable to recognize him, just like she didn't see Deng Chao in the version she saw. Although others also expressed surprise that Zhao Liying couldn't recognize Deng Chao, the topic was still brought up."

"In fact, there is reason to suspect that Zhao Liying herself has traveled through a dimension and was brought to the party by Yang Wei in this dimension."

"The first power outage brought about the first movement of people. Jiang Wu and Yang Wei went to the only house with light. When they came back, Jiang Wu was injured, and Yang Wei brought back an unfamiliar box. At first, Yang Wei thought that Jiang Wu had put the box down, but Jiang Wu said that he had never touched the box. This is the first time that the audience can confirm that there is a distortion of time and space in the film."

"After opening the box, everyone found their own photos with red numbers on the back, and a table tennis racket placed next to the photos. All eight people were present at the time and witnessed this strange box."

"When everyone was discussing the route taken by Jiang Wu and Yang Wei and the noise outside the main perspective house, things began to take shape. That is, it might be Jiang Wu and Yang Wei in another dimension who caused the noise outside the main perspective house."

"And the note left on the door further confirms the existence of time and space distortion."

"So four more people wanted to witness whether there was another self. They were Sun Li, Zhao Liying, Chen Kun, and Deng Chao. The trip of these four people allowed them to see exactly the same self. The only difference was that they were holding blue fluorescent sticks, while the other four selves were holding red fluorescent sticks. When this detail came out, Jiang Wu and Yang Wei, who were the first to return to the house, exchanged glances. In fact, these two people were not the first two to go out to look for the light in the house, because these two people were holding red fluorescent sticks. So they decisively fled with the only knowledge and information they had, that is, the book and the photo, ready to find the space that belonged to them."

"When the four of them left, Chen Hao disappeared. When the seven of them were discussing what to do with their other selves and how to get along with each other, we know that Chen Hao was sleeping during this period. It was not until Deng Chao woke Chen Hao up and brought her back to the discussion site."

"Speaking of this, I have to mention that I have always felt that Chen Hao might have been replaced during his sleep."

"At this time, Deng Chao was about to steal the book from another dimension. He told Chen Kun and went out to do it. When he came back and claimed that he had been gone for about 45 minutes, Chen Kun was surprised because in this house, Deng Chao disappeared for between five and ten minutes. There was a time distortion here. The time inside and outside the house was not parallel, but had a sequence."

"At the same time, the incident in the room that was suspected of Liu Yan taking LSD was just clarified and settled, but Sun Li noticed something incredible. Liu Yan and Chen Xu had a conversation that was exactly the same as the one at the beginning of the film, about the small dried flower decoration. So Sun Li felt vaguely that she was in another space, not the house she left for the first time tonight."

"So far, the other three people who came back with Sun Li, Chen Kun, Deng Chao, and Zhao Liying, have traveled through time. Among them, Zhao Liying has traveled through time for the second time."

"Then there was another power outage, and then there was a suspected car smashing incident, so the people in the house decided to go and see what was going on. This time, six people left the house: Deng Chao, Chen Xu, Zhao Liying, Liu Yan, Sun Li, and Chen Kun. While everyone was checking Jiang Wu's car that had been smashed, Sun Li went to check her own car and took off a ring. At the same time, she met Chen Kun. However, after a conversation, both parties realized that they did not belong to the same space. So in a panic, Sun Li returned to the house and tentatively mentioned the ring in front of Chen Kun in the house, thus confirming that the Chen Kun she had just met by the car was indeed Chen Kun from another space."

"Next, Jiang Wu and Yang Wei, who were suspected to be the first group to go missing, came back. They were wearing different Band-Aids, but they were holding the same colored glow sticks as the people in the house. So the others thought they were the first two people to go out. But a closer look revealed that this was not necessarily the case. There were only two colors of glow sticks in the house, and the people in each space randomly chose the same color. Through probability calculation, the probability of choosing blue glow sticks in any two spaces is 25%, so it is obviously not enough to just consider the glow sticks. Furthermore, Sun Li has already confirmed that the four of them had traveled through time, so it is even more difficult to confirm that these two people were the two people who went missing in the first house."

"The verification of the time of the note proved that there are indeed multiple spaces, because there are two notes in the space where Jiang Wu and Yang Wei went to the wrong place, and there are also two in the main space where Sun Li is. However, Jiang Wu, who is here, claims that he has never sent out a note. So the note stuck in front of the other party's door can only be in the third space."

"Everyone discussed marking the house together, using sieves and randomly selected items to form combinations. When taking out the boxes, Sun Li found that the box Chen Cao took out was exactly the same as the box Yang Wei brought back the second time he appeared."

"At this time, Chen Xu himself did not seem to notice it. This may be a bit ambiguous, because according to the later plot, there is a box in each space, and it is very likely that it is the same box. So when this box appears again, everyone except Sun Li should be surprised."

"When marking, Jiang Wu proposed the idea of ​​adding additional items, and Sun Li remembered the ping-pong paddle in the box she had seen first. Strangely, Yang Wei did not react at all, and neither did anyone else, as if they had forgotten that they had seen a box containing ping-pong paddles and photos. At this point, it should have occurred to them that Sun Li had met another Chen Kun by the car alone, and that the house she returned to might not be the same house she had left. Everything had become distorted."

"The subsequent digital verification incident confirmed the uneasiness that Sun Li had been hiding in her heart for a long time..."

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As various confusing and mysterious film reviews and descriptions of the film appeared on the Internet, many netizens who had not watched "The Night the Comet Came" were piqued during the May Day holiday.

Coupled with the endless praises and flattery, many people were lured to buy tickets and go to the cinema.

In fact, when it comes to controlling comments, Wang Shu has to call Director Chen a senior.

When “The Promise” was released that year, it received rave reviews, until the end when it could no longer be controlled and the box office plummeted.

But even so, "The Promise", a film that director Chen repeatedly said no one would be able to understand within ten years, still achieved extremely high box office.

"The Night the Comet Came" directed by Wang Shu had a Douban score of at least 8.6 in the original timeline, which is not something that "The Promise" with a Douban score of only 5.5 can compare to.

The score is 5.5, not even passing.

Rated 8.6, it is an excellent film after all.

Therefore, even though Yikeshu Company and China Film Distribution are also controlling reviews through some means, they will not backfire in the end.

It is said that real gold fears no fire.

Although "The Night the Comet Came" is not very artistic, its setting is very interesting and can give the audience a very novel feeling.

As the saying goes, it's about seeing something new and bizarre, and the novel setting alone makes it worth the price of the ticket.

Moreover, although this film is a low-budget one, it has the same gimmicks as Hollywood films. This gimmick can make domestic audiences proud, and then even if they don’t understand it, they will pretend to understand it and brag about it.

After all, when Hollywood makes similar films, why do European and American audiences understand them? !
Now that Wang Shu is making this kind of film in the country, if domestic audiences can't understand it, wouldn't they be stupider than Europeans and Americans?
This is not possible!

Because of this sentiment, there appeared a group of people who did not understand the film but pretended to understand it and boasted about "The Night the Comet Came".

Also, boasting about "The Night the Comet Came" indirectly shows that domestic films are no worse than Hollywood films, which makes many people feel proud.

So much so that many people who have not seen "The Night the Comet Came" are also bragging about this film...

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On May 5, "The Night the Comet Came" had a box office of 3 million yuan.

June 5, 4W.

June 5, 5W.

June 5, 6W.

June 5, 7W.

On May 5, the Hollywood blockbuster Marvel superhero movie "Iron Man 7" landed in mainland theaters.

The box office of "The Night the Comet Came" was affected and began to shrink.

It is inevitable that this situation will occur.

After all, "The Night the Comet Came" is a film that requires one to use one's brain to understand. Initially, it achieved extremely high box office thanks to various gimmicks, publicity, and Wang Shu's reputation.

When this wave of heat passes, it will eventually end.

The emergence of "Iron Man 2" only accelerated the pace.

For most audiences, they prefer to watch brainless popcorn blockbusters like "Iron Man 2" rather than brain-burning movies like "The Night the Comet Came".

Of course, "The Night the Comet Came" was only affected by "Iron Man 2", which does not mean that it will never recover.

In the original timeline, on September 2010, 9, "Inception" directed by Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio was released in China and achieved a box office of 1 million yuan.

Although Nolan is an internationally renowned director and Leo is well-known in China for "Titanic", "Inception" is ultimately a foreign language film.

Even a foreign language film like "Inception" achieved a box office of 2010 million yuan in domestic theaters in 4.56. It doesn't make sense that a domestic film with a lot of hype, "The Night the Comet Came", only stopped at or million yuan at the box office.

In fact, Wang Shu had thought about moving the movie "Inception" before, but later realized that it was not feasible, so he gave up.

It's not feasible, not because he can't shoot it, but because of other reasons.

Although "Inception" started filming in July 2009, Nolan had already come up with the idea for this story when he was 7 years old.

In 2009, when Nolan started filming this movie, he made it clear in an interview with reporters that he had written the first draft of the script seven or eight years ago, and it could be traced back even further, to when he was 16 years old.

This shows that the first draft of the script for "Inception" already existed around 2001.

And as Nolan polished the script, the script of "Inception" became more and more mature.

Therefore, if Wang Shu brings Inception to the big screen, Nolan will look at the script in his hand and ask in confusion: "Dude, where did you get your script? Why is it exactly the same as the one I have?"

Therefore, if "Inception" was brought to the big screen after 2000, it would directly clash with Nolan's script and would not be feasible at all.

There will be a lot of fun then.

In addition, the investment in "Inception" was as high as 1.6 million US dollars.

If it was made in China in 2000, even if the budget was cut in half and an investment of 8000 million US dollars was made to make Inception, the cost would not be recovered at all given the domestic box office of over 2000 million RMB in 1.

Under such circumstances, there will definitely be no one willing to invest money to make this movie.

If you want to make the movie "Inception" before the year 2000, before Nolan finishes the script, you have to go to Hollywood.

Only by targeting the global market can Hollywood recover its costs and even make a profit.

Beyond that, it's simply not feasible.

It’s not that Wang Shu doesn’t want to shoot this classic, but he simply can’t catch up!
(End of this chapter)