The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 524: A passion that ruins everything, right or wrong?
August 2007

The whole world is excited because Zhang Chen's new movie continues to hit the box office rankings.

Especially the Chinese fans.

For them, any movie shot by Zhang Chen would be a victory as long as it could enter the global box office rankings in film history.

Although, this movie is essentially a foreign language movie.

For many people, this is a flaw.

These include some Chinese and a small number of Westerners.

The former believes that Chinese directors should make Chinese-language films.

Only Chinese-language films that have left a mark in the history of world cinema are worthy of the pride of the Chinese people.

But more people believe that Zhang Chen is Chinese.

The films he shot should naturally be classified as Chinese films.

"It's funny. This movie is a Hollywood movie invested by Disney and shot in the United States."

"Some people even resorted to the method of psychological victory, without even considering that there are only a few Chinese people in this crew."

"Counting the director Zhang Chen, the supporting actor Liu Yifei, and Zhang Ziyi who only appeared for a few seconds, that's it, right?"

"It is impossible for Zhang Chen to transport all his domestic filming crew to the United States to shoot the film just because he is shooting this film himself."

"I would like to ask those of you who doubt the 'pedigree' of this movie to take a look at the ranking of the producers. Can't you see that Morning Light Entertainment is clearly ranked ahead of Disney?"

"Then why doesn't Zhang Chen make a Chinese-language movie? Why does he make an English-language movie for Disney?"

"To put it bluntly, they think that only English films can gain universal recognition internationally! Just like he opened up the market worldwide with English songs."

"After all, Zhang Chen himself feels that Chinese is not as influential as English internationally."

"Who told you that Chinese is as influential as English in the world?"

"More than a billion people around the world use Chinese, and English is not as good as Chinese."

"Funny! How many countries in the world use English as the official language? How many of the major box office markets for the movie use Chinese as the official language?"

"On one side is the big breeder, and on the other side is the Winning Ma Group. Big brother, stop laughing at the second brother."

"Just watch a movie. Zhang Chen is not a thief, but he cooperated with an internationally renowned production studio to shoot a movie, and you guys are making a fuss about it!"

As the box office of "La La Land" continues to rise, it seems to be dethroning "Titanic".

Now at the end of April, the film has grossed $14.14 billion.

At this rate, it is only a matter of time before the record is surpassed by Titanic, which has held the record for ten years.

But at this time, many people began to feel restless.

Self-esteem is a strange thing.

Some people will be very confident if they have this thing.

Some people will show low self-esteem.

There are now two camps on the Internet.

On one hand, there are Chinese people who think that Zhang Chen’s film should not be shot in English, because they think that this film, which is about to break the world box office history, should be a pure Chinese-language film.

Now this movie directed by a Chinese director is about to top the list, but it is an English movie, which makes them feel like they have eaten a dead fly.

The other party is also Chinese.

They think that since Zhang Chen is a Chinese director, the movie is in English.

But this is a movie written by Zhang Chen, invested by Zhang Chen, produced by Zhang Chen, and shot by Zhang Chen.

So this is a thoroughly Chinese film.

In addition to these two parties, overseas movie fans have also joined the melee.

"This is an English film co-produced by Lyon and Disney. This honor naturally belongs to us in the West!"

"That's right. The actors and the story background are all from the United States. How could it be from China?"

"When the world's film history is recorded in the future, the 'origin' of 'La La Land' must be recorded as 'Beautiful Country'."

"I supported him because he shot an English film in Lyon. If he shot a Chinese film, I wouldn't understand the subtitles."

"It's ridiculous that the Chinese people only realized now that this is a Hollywood movie from the United States?"

"Although I am neither Chinese nor American, I will say this to be fair. This movie is a pure Hollywood movie. The Chinese have gone too far."

"People say all day long that our country steals other people's things. It turns out that Chinese people don't need to steal, they just rob them openly?"

“This is a movie from the United States!”

“This is a Chinese movie!”

"Stop arguing. How about this movie belong to Great Britain? Our Queen likes Leon very much."

The vast majority of people overseas argue that the ownership of this film should belong to the United States.

Many people in other countries also support this view.

After all, in theory, this is a completely English movie.

But there is still a small group of Westerners who hold a different view.

"I have long said not to go to this movie. This is a movie made by a yellow monkey. I will never allow such a movie to step on Western movies and bully others."

This kind of remarks rarely appear, but they always come out to "speak fair words" when two parties are arguing fiercely.

For a while, the Internet was in chaos.

People who were arguing, trying to stop the fight, making sarcastic remarks, and just watching the fun filled the entire Facebook and Weibo platforms.

However, despite the quarrel between the two sides, the body was still honest enough to contribute a movie ticket.

After all, although the box office of this movie is enough now, the city where Zhang Chen will hold the concert has not yet been decided.

Especially when both sides started to talk about "Let's see who can contribute more box office to Zhang Chen", many people started to get excited.

However, Chinese movie fans were soon defeated.

Because they found that there was no comparison at all!
They saw from Tao Piaopiao that they could only earn 4000 million RMB a day in domestic box office for La La Land, which was already the limit.

But overseas, movie fans have come up with the concept of competing at the box office.

It can contribute more than 6000 million box office to "La La Land" in one day.

The most important thing is that there is an exchange rate difference between the two currency units.

Calculated in US dollars, China's box office revenue is only 700 million US dollars a day.

The United States alone can contribute more than 3000 million US dollars to the box office of "La La Land" in one day.

How does this compare?
"What do you think? You still say this movie is a Chinese movie, and we contributed to the box office. Do you have the nerve to say this is a Chinese movie?"

"So what? The film's director is from our country, and the primary investor is also from China, so this is a Chinese film."

"That's right, all the box office revenue from other countries is counted as yours. That's not fair!"

"Since you said this movie is from your country, at least China accounts for at least 30% of the box office contribution, right?"

"Yes, Hollywood movies account for at least 30% of the box office in the United States."

"The total box office of La La Land is about to reach 15 billion US dollars. You said this movie is from your country, so you should at least contribute more than 5 million US dollars to the box office, right?"

"If I'm not mistaken, the statistics on Tao Piao Piao show that the Chinese box office is less than 7000 million US dollars?"

"Le, my Chinese friends who said that La La Land is a Chinese film, you guys only support it verbally?"

At this moment, movie fans in the United States and many other countries were overjoyed.

It's so refreshing.

They feel that there is no need to discuss the "nationality" of the movie "La La Land" at all.

But recently many Chinese people have said online that this movie is the pride of their country.

Their country's films are about to top the world box office charts.

This made Western movie fans who were waiting for the box office record to be broken unable to sit still.

This scene, which witnessed the handover of the "king of new and old movies", was "tampered" by the Chinese into a drama of "Chinese movies topping the world".

How can I bear this?

After seeing the bloody statistics, Chinese movie fans felt deflated, like eggplants hit by frost.

How does this compare?
The film market in its own country contributed less than $100 million to the box office of "La La Land".

How can they still have the nerve to claim that this movie is from China?

"Where's Zhang Chen? Let him come out and talk!"

"Yes, this movie was shot by Zhang Chen, and the director is Zhang Chen, so he has the final say!"

"Let Zhang Chen tell me which country this movie belongs to!"

"Okay, let Leon come out and judge for himself!"

"Leon, speak up!"

The two parties argued endlessly and wanted Zhang Chen to come out as a referee.

Does Zhang Chen know?
Of course he didn't know.

He knew about this as soon as it happened.

At the beginning, Weibo and Facebook asked him whether he wanted to delete the relevant remarks.

But he still stopped this "stealing the bell while covering one's ears" behavior.

The Internet is so developed now.

There are more than just these two platforms for netizens to vent their emotions.

The two platforms banned the relevant speech, not to mention that it would not pass the test of public opinion.

The social platforms that are springing up like mushrooms after a rain and supported by other capitals can take advantage of this critical juncture to stir up a lot of trouble and pull Facebook and Weibo off the altar.

The behavior of "covering mouth" is one of the key criteria for contemporary netizens to judge their liking for a social platform.

Zhang Chen would never do anything that would destroy himself.

"Boss, what should we do now?"

Xue Yining also felt some pain.

This was more than she could handle.

Now the two sides are arguing fiercely.

If Zhang Chen publicly supports one side, he will inevitably offend the other side.

If he said that the movie was from Hollywood, Chinese movie fans' favorability towards Zhang Chen would definitely drop significantly.

If he said that this movie was made in China, it would disappoint American movie fans who contributed the vast majority of the box office revenue to this movie.

It will also make fans from other countries who are watching the fun doubt the word "fairness" attached to Zhang Chen's head.

This year marks the first time he has taken over the Grammy Awards.

If at this time people all over the world began to doubt his "fairness".

The series of consequences that would follow were definitely something Zhang Chen did not want to see.

By then, the difficulty of winning awards for Chinese songs will definitely rise to a much higher level.

It’s because Zhang Chen took sides in this incident.

When a Chinese song wins an award, singers and fans from other countries will definitely bring the matter up to today’s “La La Land nationality dispute”.

Do Chinese songs really win awards based on their performance?

Or is it because of Zhang Chen's "once again" taking sides?

This is not the result Zhang Chen wanted to see.

"Sometimes I feel happy about the enthusiasm of some people, but I also feel troubled by their enthusiasm."

Zhang Chen covered his forehead and sighed.

He could see even deeper into this matter.

On the surface, this is a dispute over the "nationality" of the movie "La La Land".

But secretly, it was a dispute over Zhang Chen's "nationality".

No matter which side he stands on, he will be automatically classified into the other camp by the other side.

To put it bluntly, someone wants Zhang Chen to make a choice in this matter.

Is it China or the United States?

The "war" between China and Wall Street just ended not long ago.

Now some people are eager to get the biggest beneficiaries of this war to start taking sides.

Zhang Chen anticipated the inevitability of this incident.

But the suddenness of this incident was not anticipated.

The reason why he had a headache was because of that group of passionate people.

This group of people are the easiest to get carried away.

However, they are also the easiest to be "incited".

Many times, only someone with ulterior motives can stir things up a little.

You can do earth-shaking things.

For some people, a certain banner is just a tool for them to make money.

They only care about how much money they get.

They only care about how many compliments they get from others: “Great job!”

They don't care how much they have disrupted the general layout.

Are they behaving right?
Correct.

But the timing of their actions was too coincidental.

The two protagonists in these two incidents were not good people.

But it is because the effect of waving a big banner is so great and the matter is too just.

Angry, frustrated, helpless.
Zhang Chen’s current feelings are exactly the same as those of some unknown people who made a lot of efforts in the past.

The key is that this thing cannot be said publicly.

When it comes to stance, it is absolutely necessary to be correct.

Although the impact of the incident he encountered may be less than that of the two incidents he remembered.

But this suffocating feeling was entirely borne by him alone.

Therefore, the helplessness in my heart is totally incomprehensible to others.

"Xiao Xue, why are some people so stupid?" Zhang Chen looked at the scenery outside the window absentmindedly.

To be honest, he didn't have a good way to deal with the matter this time.

Because no matter what you do, it's wrong.

If he stands with Chinese movie fans, he will lose 80 percent of the ground he has gained in the past decade.

This is equivalent to handing over the results of the battle that were just obtained some time ago and have not even warmed up yet to others.

If he stands with foreign movie fans, he will lose his rear base.

This would cause those who originally supported him to have a crisis of confidence in him, which would be tantamount to handing one's life over to his opponent.

It will also make the person who started this incident very happy.

I picked up for free a young man who has a lot of titles that dazzle outsiders, including the world's richest man, music genius, film genius, and world superstar.

It is no exaggeration to say that for some people, winning over Zhang Chen is equivalent to having twenty years of future world.

But he just wants to make some money, why is it so difficult?
(End of this chapter)