Chapter 1225

Political correctness is a topic that never lacks attention abroad.

Feminism, race, gender, all kinds of freedom; as long as any one of them is taken out, it can allow you to occupy the commanding heights of public opinion and incite people's emotions.

However, in an era where political correctness is abused, just inciting emotions is no longer useful; you must have content.

"The Little Mermaid" is like this; it just tells people that this movie is politically correct, finding a black person to be the lead, but completely ignoring whether the casting is reasonable, including the plot being magically changed into garbage.

The final result is bound to be a flop.

After all, shouting slogans online and offline doesn't cost money, and can even make money, but if you want me to go to the cinema to support this kind of thing, that requires real money. Everyone is not a fool; who would be a 'big head' (sucker)?

And "Barbie" set a very good example, both promoting political correctness and having sufficiently outstanding content to support it. The selection of materials, plot, and actors all have no problems. If the box office doesn't sell well, then there must be a ghost.

After all, political correctness movies, like China's mainstream themes, belong to the kind that are extremely easy to set off a wave of viewing.

Miss Luo Quan had tasted similar sweetness before; "Forrest Gump" couldn't be more correct, and in the end, it also harvested a box office of 1 billion US dollars.

As an art film, this is already a quite good result, not to mention that it won so many awards at the later Oscar ceremony.

From the current momentum, "Barbie" seems to have the intention of following the old path of "Forrest Gump". Winning awards is certain, and the box office is even better.

And after noticing the threat of "Flood", the investors of "Barbie" began to increase their investment in the movie's promotion and began to promote the "Flood" threat theory.

The so-called "Flood" threat theory is actually various distortions of facts and exaggerations.

These people believe that if "Flood" is released, it will greatly impact Hollywood's special effects movie field, and even destroy the mature blockbuster industrial production line.

This kind of alarmist language still has a market in the United States. After all, the special effects quality of "Flood" is visible to the blind, and it is indeed the best in the world at present.

The 'good children' who have always occupied the world's number one throne in this regard will indeed feel some sense of crisis after losing their technological lead.

However, more choices are actually a good thing for consumers, because this kind of competition can allow manufacturers to focus on researching and developing newer and better technologies and lowering originally unreasonable prices, instead of spending all their energy thinking about how to better monopolize and play 'wits and courage' with consumers.

So, there are as many people who oppose the "Flood" threat theory as there are Hollywood claims supporting it.

Capital will not lie. What they hate most is being raised to a particularly high height by some ideological things, eventually leading to no business to do.

Introducing "Flood", people with discerning eyes know how much profit it will bring. Just in the United States, there are a huge number of fans waiting with money in their hands. Now you say it has a threat, so it has a threat?

I just want to say that it has unlimited potential and can bring huge business opportunities and jobs.

The two groups of people refused to give in to each other, controlling their respective media and 'water armies' on the internet to attack.

Those standing on Miss Luo Quan's side are mainly Universal and Netflix. After all, these companies cooperate more and have a friendship.

And on the "Barbie" side, although it is not known who specifically incited the remarks attacking "Flood", the company behind "Barbie" is Warner, and one can get the answer after a little thought.

It is worth mentioning that although Miss Luo Quan cooperated with Warner once, all the subsequent cooperation requests made by Warner were pushed away by her.

On one hand, she had no time; on the other hand, these people actually wanted her to film the new Batman and play a supporting role for the newcomer they wanted to promote.

It is said that the movie can be adapted at will, but no matter how you adapt Batman, what kind of tricks can you come up with?

You can't change it to a persona where parents are both alive and childhood is beautiful, and then the main storyline is not about fighting wits and courage with Gotham's evil forces, but about falling in love with the female Joker.

Miss Luo Quan listened to the hints from Warner, and it seemed they really had the intention of filming it like that.

If you really do it like that, then you really become a joker.

This matter couldn't be done, so she refused it flatly.

Not long after, "Flood" announced that it was going to land in North America. This had to find a local company for distribution and promotion. Miss Luo Quan chose Universal, which had a better relationship, and Warner was rejected again.

Facts have proven that wanting to be 'left and right' (accommodating everyone) is a very difficult thing. When she was young, Miss Luo Quan thought she could make everyone like her, but later she found that this was simply her own wishful thinking.

At least Warner was not prepared to pretend anymore.

Peers are enemies. Their competition with Universal was already great. If she could keep filming movies for Warner, they could still get along happily.

But now she not only doesn't film movies, but also wants to compete on the same stage with Warner's own movies.

Everyone understands the speed of capital's face-changing. If core interests are infringed, they will inevitably make corresponding counterattacks, so the current situation is not surprising at all.

However, there is no particularly good way. After all, "Flood" is a foreign movie. If it is really labeled, it can be banned if they say so, and there is no way at all.

The good news is that thanks to Lyon, Miss Luo Quan's reputation in the American black circle is quite good.

So for the time being, no one has been critical of her in this regard, so the wave of opposition set off by "Barbie" did not cause irreparable damage to "Flood".

The plan to be released in three days does not need to be changed at all, and maybe the box office will even increase slightly because of the 'black traffic' these days.

The internet era is just like this. Don't be afraid of being 'blacked' by the whole internet; being 'blacked' by the whole internet means your popularity is quite high. What you should be afraid of is that there is no one to 'black' you. Being ignored is the most terrifying thing.

"Flood" is now highly popular, which translates into solid box office. Making big money in North America is already a foreseeable thing.

Although "Barbie"'s operation has a trend of being counterproductive, some domestic comments also look quite annoying.

It's fine for foreigners to scold "Flood", after all, there are conflicts of interest. The better the box office of "Flood" in North America, the worse the box office of other commercial blockbusters will be. Being attacked by peers is a very normal thing.

But the Chinese also followed suit and scolded "Flood", saying that this movie just enjoyed the welfare of Chinese fans who hadn't seen good movies, that it was mediocre abroad, and that it promoted feudal superstition, which was simply losing face to the whole world.

This kind of groundless sense of shame about the mother culture is a major reason why these people attack "Flood".

Actually, sometimes Miss Luo Quan really hopes that these people are 'water armies' paid to do things, but unfortunately, these people don't have much interest relationship with "Flood" or even the domestic and foreign film industry. They scold simply because they don't like it.

And these people not only scold domestically, but even have to go to Twitter to apologize on behalf of the Chinese, feeling ashamed and apologetic that "Flood" exported such dross abroad.

This instead made a group of American "Flood" fans confused. Clearly, these foreigners quite like Chinese mythology and are waiting and looking forward to watching the movie every day.

As a result, a group of Chinese people ran over inexplicably to apologize, saying that these myths polluted their eyes.

But the key is, they are all voluntary and enjoying it.

This is the most bizarre part of this matter.

"I think you should be more confident in your own culture. Flood mythology is very popular abroad, especially in the United States. You should learn more about this point."

Many foreigners sincerely communicated with these 'banana people', but very few got a reply.

Fortunately, it's not just these 'banana people' who can climb over the wall domestically. Many righteous netizens also often surf the internet on foreign websites, and the hot trends on Twitter can be seen at a glance.

Because this matter is too absurd and too ridiculous, many people have transported the faces of these 'banana people' back to the country.

Actually, this situation also appeared frequently in the past.

However, at that time, 'banana people' generally wouldn't go to foreign websites to scold, but would publish various articles domestically to fool their own people.

The most common magazines with this kind of rhetoric were magazines like "Reader" and "Yi Lin".

Many people read these with great interest when they were young, but later when they grew up and their horizons broadened, they realized that much of the content on them was nonsense.

At that time, they bullied the public for not having ways to understand foreign countries, plus their own economy was not developed and their waists couldn't stand up straight, so there were quite a lot of people who believed the nonsense of these magazines.

And as the internet became more and more developed and all aspects developed better and better, people suddenly realized that China was actually at the world-leading level in many aspects many years ago.

As for the content praised in those magazines, most of them were just fabricated.

So until now, the rhetoric of 'belittling China and praising the foreign' is no longer popular.

However, in fields like movies and mobile phones, this rhetoric still has quite a market.

Originally, these people could occasionally belittle domestic backward technology and maintain a sense of superiority.

But with the appearance of "Flood", this sense of superiority was shattered all at once.

In the past, this group of people didn't mock the 'five-cent' special effects of "The Wandering Earth", and even said that the routine of Chinese people saving the world was simply rotten, and that heroism had to be left to foreigners.

And the cold reception of "The Wandering Earth" abroad also made this group of people even more arrogant.

"Look, I said this kind of thing is not watched abroad at all. Only you people who haven't eaten anything good would think it's awesome. It's truly 'sitting in a well and watching the sky'."

Before the appearance of "Flood", these remarks were quite common.

However, after "Flood" appeared, they found that the so-called special effects technology had been surpassed, and it was the kind that was blown to pieces.

As far as the current situation is concerned, there is no movie's special effects domestically or abroad that can be compared with "Flood". Whether it is special effects quality or special effects duration, "Flood" has reached a level that peers can only look up to.

What makes people even sadder is that "Flood" this time is not even a science fiction theme, and there is not a single foreigner at all.

It is Chinese culture, an incomparably pure output to foreign countries, relying entirely on ability, without any shortcuts.

This means that the things these 'banana people' usually look down on the most have achieved huge success in the hometown of their dreams.

The gap, humiliation, and anxiety brought about by such a situation made all 'banana people' anxious.

This is simply more defense-breaking than when they watched "Wolf Warrior 2" at the beginning.

For "Wolf Warrior 2", they could still say that this was Chinese people entertaining themselves, and it made people feel ridiculous when taken out.

But how to attack "Flood"? There is no reason to be found at all, because foreigners now like this new adaptation of Chinese mythology very much, and the movie box office is about to explode.

In a hurry, these 'banana people' issued one 'classic' remark after another.

And after being transported back to the country and hitting the hot search, they naturally encountered another round of mockery from netizens.

A few irritable brothers even threatened to 'box' these stupid people to see what kind of identity and face these people have in reality.

Under normal circumstances, Miss Luo Quan is very opposed to human flesh and boxing behaviors.

After all, on the internet, netizens scolding each other is not illegal, and the virtual world has given people a lower language moral bottom line.

So as long as they don't scold her too excessively, Miss Luo Quan generally prevents her fans from boxing.

But this time, Miss Luo Quan didn't stop everyone's behavior.

She even had a more radical idea in her heart, feeling that the identities of these people should be exposed.

Of course, ideas are ideas. If she really said it, it would become inciting fans to cyber-bully ordinary people. The last person who did this has already cooled down, and Miss Luo Quan won't make the same mistake.

But no matter what, it was her own movie that was attacked, so a response is necessary.

Taking about five minutes to prepare the language and wording, Miss Luo Quan published a short article:

"Actually, at first, my box office expectation for 'Flood' was that I would be very satisfied if it reached 4 billion."

"But facts have proven that as long as you are attentive enough and the movie quality is outstanding enough, fans can fully support greater expectations."

What is even more surprising is that not only domestically, but also abroad, there is an extremely high acceptance of the Flood.

This shows that cultural appreciation has no borders. The key is to find the right positioning and translate and output it in a way that the public likes.

Although there are many attackers now, the more the enemy attacks, the more it shows that I did the right thing.

Since it is the right thing, do you still need to hesitate or fear?

The total box office I expected for the movie before was 5 billion. Now it seems that it was still conservative. With the quality of the Flood, it should reach 10 billion!"

Since I decided to do it, I have to do the best.

10 billion box office, maybe some people think it's whimsical, but after strict and meticulous market research, this is a number that can be fully achieved.

Of course, I won't beg everyone here. I will only speak with my work.

Good works will never lack an audience, and the Flood is obviously better than most people imagine!"