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Chapter 585 Don't mention him in front of me! (Second more please subscribe)
"Recently, "Journey to the West - Conquering the Demons" is going strong. The box office on the first day of its release exceeded [-] million yuan, breaking the box office record on the first day of Chinese film history, and the topics and controversies about the movie have also followed. After seeing the word "Journey to the West", and When Zhou Xingchi was the director, many viewers thought it was a "family carnival" movie, and brought their families and children to the theater one after another. Unexpectedly, the horror scenes in the movie followed one after another, and the children were frightened to cry frequently. Filmmakers frequently called for the "movie classification system" and finally resonated among ordinary audiences."

"Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" has constant horror scenes

, the child cried loudly!
Recently, a family of three, Mr. Wang, a teacher from a middle school in Beijing, chose to watch Zhou Xingchi's new film on the afternoon of the [-]th day of the Lunar New Year.

Unexpectedly, only 11 minutes after entering the arena, a water monster jumped out of the water, opened its bloody mouth, and the 7-year-old child beside him cried "Wow".

Mr. Wang comforted the child for a long time, took off the 3D glasses for the child, and gave the child a piece of bread before comforting the child.

When the three hundred nursery rhymes appeared in the movie, the child laughed through his tears, but the good times did not last long. When the ferocious face of the pig appeared, the child actually vomited out everything he ate.In the theater that day, Mr. Shen was not the only one taking care of the children, but also heard the cries of other children frequently. "

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Wang Zhongjun looked at his laptop with a gloomy face, and clicked on one website after another, and similar news could be seen everywhere.

"Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" scares the crying children" has become a hot topic on Baidu, and it is now on the homepage of Baidu!
Several major portal websites also reported, almost the same content.

Either children in this place are frightened to cry watching movies, or children elsewhere are frightened.

It's not that Wang Zhongjun didn't think that Hantang Media would do negative marketing for "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons". Now that there are not enough films for the two films, everyone wants to drag the other into trouble.

Huayi's publicity department is already looking for flaws in "Hong Kong囧", and the specific plan will be released by this afternoon at the latest.

If they can do "囧囧 in Hong Kong", there is no reason for the other party to be silent, and Wang Zhongjun has been sending people to watch.

But I didn't expect the other party's action to come so fast, and it was ready in just one day to launch such a large-scale negative marketing.

Wang Zhongjun then flipped through Weibo, and there were hundreds of marketing accounts, all of which were angrily criticizing "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" for being too bloody and violent, as if Zhou Xingchi had turned a comedy into a horror movie.

On Weibo, a psychologist posted: "There are many scenes in the movie "Journey to the West" that are not suitable for children. According to my incomplete statistics, in the film, there are scenes of water monsters appearing, pigs' manes showing their true colors, blood spurting, and Monkey King's indiscriminate The blood-colored skin and the shape of the grinning mouth are full of violent and terrifying images, which will cause people to panic. Children under the age of 12 will feel seriously uncomfortable when watching it, and may even have subsequent physical and psychological reactions such as vomiting and nightmares. It's a 3D movie, the picture will be more realistic, here I suggest parents..."

A certain filmmaker: "In the 90s, many rotten domestic films claimed to be "not suitable for children" in order to cheat the box office and attract those curious teenagers!"

An educator: "Children's hearts are indestructible, and there is a way to get rich. Tao not only refers to methods, but also morality. It is called a comedy movie, and it is called a family movie, but there are a lot of bloody and terrifying scenes in the film. "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" "The film crew's approach is really unacceptable!"

A fan’s Weibo: “It’s hard to wait for Master Xing’s movie, I thought I could relax in the movie theater this Chinese New Year, but I’m sick of watching it.

Horrific dead bodies were roasted in the fireplace, the fish monster ate the human head with its mouth open, and the banshee cut off the human flesh bit by bit with a knife and fork and ate it...

These scenes really made me feel like I ate a poop. I’m here to watch a comedy movie, not a bloody horror movie, so I couldn’t even eat the New Year’s Eve dinner! "

Another movie fan: "It's really inappropriate for a comedy to be so gory. When watching a movie, there are two girls sitting next to her, and the child is only six or seven years old. Within 10 minutes of the opening, the child was scared to tears by the bloody scene. , I have to go out without 3D glasses, there are many parents with their children, the movie theater can’t live comfortably, the children can’t stop crying, it’s too bad!”

Weibo is now the largest social media in China, and it has become a habit for many people to browse Weibo every day, just like the first thing to do when turning on the computer is to hang up QQ.

It was the Spring Festival, and there were five hot searches on Weibo related to two movies.

The number one hot search is "Journey to the West, Conquering the Demons is too bloody to scare children into tears", which is very eye-catching.

Teachers, educators, parents... everywhere are criticizing this movie.

Some filmmakers and editors of entertainment magazines even talk about movie ratings.

He also described "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" as the same as those movies that lure minors with unsuitable scenes.

Wang Zhongjun now wants to point to his nose and ask, how could this be inappropriate for children?

The only exposed lens is the drifting of Quanguo.

But that's a man, not a beauty!
Some experts who specialize in Journey to the West even came out, vigorously denouncing "Journey to the West Conquer the Demons" by xjb for arbitrarily changing the classic, destroying the classic, calling on the audience to boycott the movie, and even threatening to have the country ban film and television companies from remaking the classic.

"Dream of Red Mansions" has red studies, and "Journey to the West" has no Western studies, but there are many experts and professors.

Basically, every time these masterpieces are remade, someone will jump out and scold their mothers.

In the 86 version of "Journey to the West", the famous artist Mr. Liu also said in an interview with reporters that since "Journey to the West" has the name of Journey to the West, it cannot be changed so wantonly. He said that the Monkey King in the movie is not the real Monkey King.

An hour ago, when Wang Zhongjun watched the news, there was no such negative news.

He never expected that in such a short period of one hour, the other party would become known to the entire Internet, and his actions were too fast, without giving him any time to react.

Wang Zhongjun immediately called the company, packed up and was ready to go out.

Seeing that he had just returned from exercising and was in a hurry to leave without taking a bath, Mrs. Wang hurriedly persuaded him.

"Dad, don't worry too much, it's just a little bit of negative news."

"What do you know, these negative news are enough to affect the subsequent box office trend!" Wang Zhongjun said with a bit of hatred.

The general negative news is of course indifferent, but "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" is a family comedy for the Spring Festival, and Zhou Xingchi's business card is also a comedy.

Once it is labeled as a horror movie, those audiences who come for Zhou Xingchi's name, as well as those who plan to take their families and children to the movies, will definitely have scruples.

There are not a few viewers who watch movies with their children during the Spring Festival. One child can affect the choices of several adults.

Seeing Wang Zhongjun was really anxious, Wang Fu also realized the seriousness of the matter, he said.

"Dad, this Tang An is very capable. I want to meet him, but he has already left Huayi when I return to China."

"Don't mention him in front of me."

When Tang An was mentioned, Wang Zhongjun was so angry that he completely forgot that he thought of him as "other people's child" just now to compare with his own son!

(End of this chapter)