Chapter 1204

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As the film with the largest investment this year, *Honghuang: Opening of Heaven and Earth* had many people suggest that Miss Luo Quan hold advance screenings before its release, and then adjust the promotional strategy based on audience feedback.

So-called advance screenings are small-scale releases in certain regions.

If the box office is a hit and the reviews are good, it goes straight to a nationwide release.

If the effect of the advance screenings is poor, it is naturally delayed, and then adjustments are made.

However, Miss Luo Quan did not choose this discriminatory release method; she was still very confident in *Honghuang*, and if it was going to be released, it would definitely be a nationwide simultaneous launch.

For film fans who truly like *Honghuang*, this is definitely good news; rounding up, it's equivalent to saving them the cost of two plane tickets.

Of course, because Miss Luo Quan rejected the advance screening proposal at the first opportunity, no one even knew about this matter.

On the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, *Honghuang* was officially released.

During this period, most office workers and students were basically already on holiday.

Because the next day was the Mid-Autumn Festival, as long as they weren't being forced to work by black-hearted capitalists, they could basically sleep until they woke up naturally.

However, compared to sleeping, people were more concerned with entertainment projects before going to sleep.

Binge-watching dramas, playing games, scrolling through Douyin, or going straight to the cinema to stay up late and watch *Honghuang*.

It was also fortunate that *Honghuang 1* had a runtime of just over two hours, which wasn't particularly long; if they took a longer nap during the day, they could still manage to watch it with full concentration.

If it were a super-long film like *The Wandering Earth 2* that lasted three hours, I'm afraid it would be hard to keep one's eyes open by the end.

As one of the most anticipated blockbusters this year, after *Honghuang* was released, the thresholds of cinemas in major first-tier cities were almost trampled down.

People's enthusiasm for watching the film was truly too high, and for no other reason than the line Luo Si promoted on Douyin: "The special effects in *Honghuang* are stronger than all the blockbusters I've seen in Hollywood right now; purely in terms of visual effects, I am willing to call it the world's number one."

Just this one sentence, relying on his volume of tens of millions of fans across the entire internet, directly aroused the curiosity of countless film fans.

If it were just an ordinary internet celebrity with ten million fans saying such things, that would be one thing, but the key is that Luo Si is an Oscar-winning actor; although he is young, his status in Hollywood is really not low.

Since an actor who has seen countless films in Hollywood evaluates *Honghuang* this way, it shows that the special effects of this film are indeed leading the world.

Just this one advantage is already worth everyone walking into the cinema to find out for themselves.

As for why Luo Si could so accurately find the public's G-spot and incite their enthusiasm for watching the film, it was mainly because he likes to observe and think.

In fields where we are clearly inferior to foreign countries, such as music, film, games, and even abstract concepts like local cultural output, as long as a foreigner shoots a video and offers a little praise, they can obtain huge traffic in Huaxia.

In her older sister's words, this is called "kissing up," or a lack of cultural self-confidence.

If it were just purely watching or giving a like, that would be one thing, but the key is that some people in the comments section still behave abnormally obsequiously, and it is this type of person that her older sister mocks.

It is precisely because of a lack of self-confidence that they are even more eager to obtain recognition from abroad.

For example, if you say a certain singer's song is very good, invite a few foreign vocal teachers to take a look, and after watching, they casually express some complimentary remarks, it can bring netizens a feeling of "sharing the honor."

It is precisely because domestic music development is not as good as foreign music that as soon as foreigners recognize it, a corresponding sense of pride can be generated, while completely ignoring that these foreigners don't even understand Chinese, nor do they know what kind of culture the lyrics contain; they are just purely praising the singer's vocal skills.

A singer with good vocal skills sings everything well, and it doesn't have much to do with whether it's a Chinese song or not.

So this kind of flattery actually doesn't have much significance.

But if a foreigner posts a video saying Huaxia table tennis is so amazing and simply invincible, then the situation is completely different.

Huaxia table tennis has been lonely and undefeated for so many years; it's only right that it's amazing, and everyone can calmly accept the flattery of foreigners.

Because it is a fact, there is no need to think that this is flattery deliberately carried out by foreigners for the sake of traffic.

Returning to the film, what needs to be faced squarely is that there is a certain degree of gap between Huaxia's current film level and foreign countries, especially Hollywood.

So if a Huaxia actor can win some kind of award abroad, it can often cause a sensation or attract attention domestically.

And for a foreigner like Luo Si to flatter Huaxia's films, the high probability is that it is for traffic, or to put it more bluntly, for money.

However, here I have to say "however."

Miss Luo Quan's films need to be separated from Huaxia's films.

Because before her, no one in Huaxia could make films like her, nor had anyone achieved the highest honors at both the director and actor levels like she had.

The overall poor performance of Chinese-language films has nothing to do with her personally.

And what Luo Si is truly flattering is *Honghuang*, which was filmed by Miss Luo Quan as an individual.

Her omnipotent older sister created special effects that lead all Hollywood blockbusters; this is not flattery he made to obtain traffic, but a completely objective and fair evaluation.

The above is a summary of the original words Luo Si said during his live stream.

The cause was that he praised the special effects of *Honghuang* as the best in the world, and was told by the barrage that he was doing it for traffic and coming to harvest the cheap pride of his countrymen again.

At that time, he spent half an hour analyzing where this cheap pride came from, and at the same time argued why his promoting his older sister this way was not harvesting cheap pride.

Simply put, when you are holding your nose and praising something that isn't that good, you are definitely doing it for traffic or other benefits, and this kind of behavior, which is similar to lying, is indeed not very clever.

But when you are describing a fact, then you shouldn't be blamed.

Especially when those watching the video don't know how good this thing is, and he points it out, this is even more worthy of being called "immeasurable merit."

"So you often ask me to compare Chinese rap and American rap; what is there to comment on? There is absolutely no comparability at all. If I were like those bloggers who blindly hype things up and praise a few Chinese rappers who you think are pretty good, that would be harvesting your cheap pride.

Including myself, apart from the technique of the mouth, the creative side is also at a middle-to-lower level in the United States. If it weren't for the songs my older sister wrote for me, I definitely wouldn't have reached my current status."

These were all Luo Si's original words during the live stream; he originally thought that after finishing, he would be scolded more or less, but he didn't expect countless fans to say he was "real," and even the rap circle praised him for being very "real."

Several big shots posted on Weibo expressing that they should face the gap existing between the two circles squarely; only by seeing the gap can one know that one should progress.

Overnight, Luo Si became the spokesperson for being "real," and Miss Luo Quan was numb after seeing it.

"If I said it like you, I'd be sprayed onto the hot search for sure, and a hat of 'worshipping foreign things and fawning over foreign powers' would be slapped right on me," Miss Luo Quan said to Luo Si like this.

It was precisely through such logical and rigorous reasoning and argumentation that Luo Si's praise for *Honghuang* became highly credible, rather than the brainless flattery naturally made by a younger brother for his older sister's film.

The power of example is infinite, and it is the same in the entertainment industry.

As one of the hottest streamers on Douyin at the moment, the film tickets his one sentence can bring can only be described as terrifying.

Although it is impossible to specifically calculate how many fans he made determined to watch *Honghuang*, a box office of one hundred million is estimated to have been achieved.

And all the fans who stayed up late to watch the film on the premiere night were not let down.

Just as Luo Si said, they harvested the most shocking visual feast of their lives.

After putting on 3D glasses, all the grandeur that Miss Luo Quan applied to this film came straight to them, creating a feeling of being immersed in the scene.

This feeling is definitely not something that can be obtained just by watching mobile phone videos.

They saw the great Father God Pangu, his magnificent body fighting fiercely with the Chaos Demon God while standing between heaven and earth.

They saw the fallen Pangu transform into Kunlun, Buzhou, the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, the Four Seas, and all the running beasts and flying birds in the world.

They saw the immortal-qi-shrouded cultivators and demons fight to the death; this battle changed the color of heaven and earth, and even the Honghuang was about to collapse.

In the end, like all cliché popcorn movies, justice achieved victory.

However, cliché is cliché, but this is also the result that the vast majority of people are willing to see.

The plot of *Honghuang: Opening of Heaven and Earth* doesn't have that many brain-burning twists; the main line is very clear: Pangu opens the heavens, and then the righteous Dao and the evil Demon fight for control of heaven and earth.

In the end, the Dao achieved victory, and the first great tribulation after the opening of the heavens finally ended under the condition that hundreds of millions of innate creatures were almost extinct.

At the end of the film, the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin became the protagonists between heaven and earth, and the next great tribulation, the Dragon-Han Tribulation, was also brewing.

Although the film finished playing, the film fans didn't leave immediately.

Some were shocked by these special effects they had only seen once in their lives, and for a moment didn't know what to say or do, just taking out their phones to record a video of the scene, wanting to share this experience with netizens.

Others were looking forward to whether the film had any Easter eggs or something; after all, the neighboring Marvel Universe has Easter eggs in almost every film, which counts as a preview for the next film.

After waiting for about a minute of credits, the film's Easter egg really appeared, but the content wasn't a preview for the next one, but some behind-the-scenes footage of the film set.

This content suddenly made the film fans very disappointed, but thinking that Miss Luo Quan had already told the plot outline of Honghuang, how it develops next really doesn't need Easter eggs to let everyone guess.

Just playing the credits is meaningless, so Miss Luo Quan cut the behind-the-scenes footage into it.

Of course, most film fans have no interest in this.

But for the main content of the film, after watching it, there wasn't one who didn't praise it.

"Consistent with what Miss Luo Quan said, the special effects of this film are the world's number one, I don't accept any rebuttal."

"The picture is so real that when those Honghuang Demon Gods appeared, I instinctively dodged backward; it was simply scary enough."

"I said long ago that Miss Luo Quan's commercial films are absolutely nothing to worry about; if this film doesn't win the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, that can only mean the Oscar judges are blind!"

"After watching Honghuang, and then thinking about the five-cent special effects of domestic blockbusters, I feel embarrassed; clearly, as long as one is willing to spend money, one can film good effects, so why is it that what is served up in the end is often garbage?"

"Special effects, costumes, makeup, props, and acting are all online; because it's a commercial film, the slightly thin script is absolutely not a shortcoming."

"Shortcoming? I even think it's an advantage! Too many commercial films want to forcibly add some thinking and values into the plot; I just like this kind of pure, traditional 'justice triumphs over evil' plot!"

"I understand the logic, so the Demon Ancestor Luo Hou is just finished like that? Clearly he was so handsome."

"Probably not, but there are still Yuanshi and Tongtian; the scenes of these fellow apprentices are too interesting; they never stopped bickering when together, and as soon as Senior Brother Taishang spoke, they became good babies again; it made me laugh to death."

"One thing to say, Director Luo's aesthetics are really good; almost all are handsome men and beautiful women, and their acting skills are all quite online."

"The main thing is that the current 'little fresh meats' don't have the looks, let alone the strength; Wang Xiaoning and Qiao Enjun were also 'fresh meats' back then, but both their looks and strength were good; how are they like these current ones."

"It is said that there are more handsome men and beautiful women in the next one; I don't know if the rumors are true."

"Ahhhhh, I already can't help but want to watch the second one; no, wait until I wake up and then go for a second viewing!"

"I also want a second viewing; such a good-looking film, just watching it once, I can't finish all the details at all."

"Is it really that good-looking? I don't trust this type of film very much; I've been pitted too many times before."

"Believe me, *Honghuang* is absolutely worth watching; it can be called the best commercial blockbuster in recent years."

"A film that isn't a loss after watching; I think it has epoch-making significance in the field of special effects."

"The most critical thing is that there are no 'little fresh meats' or 'little princesses' who brought capital into the crew; the acting skills of the whole cast are online, the viewing experience is really too good, and the various sceneries inside are also beautiful beyond words."

"It gives me the feeling of seeing *Avatar* for the first time back then; those are scenes that can only be seen in dreams."

"Strongly recommend!"

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Along with the praise from film fans, there was also the box office and Douban rating half a day after the film's release.

First is the box office for the first day of release; although only half a day had passed, the total box office had already broken six hundred million.

This hadn't even reached the peak time period.

According to predictions, the first-day box office of *Honghuang* should finally be around one billion RMB; just like its name, it is indeed an achievement like opening heaven and earth.

As for the Douban rating, more than 30,000 people gave a high score of 8.5.

For a domestic special effects blockbuster, this score is really too high, somewhat exceeding the standard.

In the past, for this type of film, being able to reach 7 points was already quite good.

*Honghuang* has undoubtedly created another piece of history.