Chapter 222: Unintentional Willow Planting

"Actually, there's no need to be too explicit about these things, because the eyes of the masses are discerning. Who is good and who is bad, the work is the only proof," Wu Jin laughed and performed a Tai Chi move.

Thinking of letting him be the scapegoat? Not a chance.

His words seemed not to name anyone or mention any specific person, yet they seemed to speak of many.

Come to think of it, isn't that just how the current Chinese mainland film and television circle is?

Sky-high salaries, sky-high investments, hiring a bunch of fresh meat traffic stars, putting together a bunch of big IPs, claiming to have been in preparation for many years, with explosive special effects, only to film something that ends up like shit.

In fact, many movie critics had already touched upon this issue before, and there were plenty of people who spoke more directly than Wu Jin.

If it weren't for the fact that the movie was about to be released and he didn't want to cause trouble, with Wu Jin's straightforward personality, he might have spoken his mind just like his predecessors.

But for now, it was better to be a bit more low-key.

And Dong Xue, not having received a satisfactory answer, went dormant again, putting on a smile: "By the way, where were we?"

"We were talking about the salaries of the male and female leads," Wu Jin didn't forget the things he wanted to say. "The greatest luck of this movie is being able to find so many high-quality and inexpensive actors. Whether it's Teacher Wu or little Qin, or Miss Luo Quan, they are all among the most excellent actors I have ever worked with."

"Without them, there would be no such movie."

Dong Xue was surprised: "As far as I know, this is Miss Luo Quan's first time filming, right? Is her performance so outstanding in her first entry into the industry?"

Wu Jin nodded: "Teacher Wu Hang actually has more say in this matter than I do."

Wu Hang took over the conversation and said: "That is really not just generally outstanding. I think Miss Luo Quan's acting is even better than many students who have just come out of professional institutions. Her talent is truly high!"

"I've been in the industry for nearly thirty years and have worked with many young actors. There really aren't many who act with as much spirit as Miss Luo Quan."

Dong Xue looked at Miss Luo Quan again: "Miss Luo Quan, two seniors have such high evaluations of you. How do you think you performed yourself?"

Miss Luo Quan thought for a moment and said: "Although everyone praised my performance as good while filming, perhaps on one hand, I really have talent, but a large part of it should also be encouraging me, a newcomer."

"Compared to several seniors and Qin Yi, I actually still have a lot of room for improvement."

"Very modest," Dong Xue praised, and continued: "Then, as a singer, the achievements you have made are obvious to all. You have achieved success both domestically and internationally. Will you consider developing in the film and television circle in the future?"

Miss Luo Quan nodded and said: "If there are scripts I'm interested in or good scripts, I will definitely consider them."

Next, Dong Xue asked many interesting things that happened when filming in Africa. Of course, there were also some pits dug for several guests, waiting for them to jump in.

Fortunately, Wu Jin and the others were not people who liked to hype. Most of the questions were answered truthfully, and there was no exaggeration, deliberately wanting to provoke any public opinion.

In short, for Dong Xue, this must be an unsatisfactory interview, because there were too few explosive points. Every guest was watertight, and she couldn't get a chance to lead the rhythm at all.

And for Wu Jin, the task of this program was considered completed, telling the audience what kind of story this was.

Of course, the specific effect that could be achieved still depends on the comments from the Internet and the public later.

Because it is an interview program, there are not many places that need to be edited, and it was broadcast the day after filming.

Originally, this program didn't get much attention on the Internet, and the main audience was also people over thirty.

But because of a few words from Dong Xue and Wu Jin on the program, this episode was on the hot search, hot search name:

"Sky-high salary!"

The content of the hot search is: the dialogue between Wu Jin and Dong Xue, in which Wu Jin mentioned that the current domestic fresh meat actors all have salaries of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, and they are not professional.

What's more interesting is that he didn't say from beginning to end who those fresh meat actors were, or, he accused all fresh meat actors and traffic stars.

And the comment area was also discussing it for a while:

"Sky-high salary? Except for the few heavenly kings and superstars in XG, whose salary can be so high?"

"I remember that Long Ge's salary for a Chinese movie was only a little over 100 million, right?"

"Including global box office share, it must be more than this number, but it is reasonable for his status to take 200 million."

"Excluding XG, and then removing male actors over thirty in the mainland, the highest salary this year is Lu Yanchao, 120 million RMB; the second highest is Su Xi, 100 million!"

"As for Jin Zihao and Zhao Yiming, who were in the same group before them, because they are filming variety shows, their income is less, but it is said that this variety show gave several mentors a notification fee of no less than 20 million, and the popularity it brought to them, you have seen it. After the variety show ends, their status should be only higher than the first two."

"Outrageous, no work, and dare to ask for an extra 100 million?!"

"Still have less knowledge. Male stars with more than 30 million fans on Weibo, especially those who have had big explosion TV dramas or variety shows in recent years, their salaries are basically starting at 50 million. The more popular they are recently, the higher the salary."

"But the problem is, with so much money, did you film any good movies?"

"According to my observation, no."

"Even if it is the second gathering place for fan circle girls, Douban, when giving movie ratings starring these fresh meats, they are not very high, and the average score does not exceed 4.9."

"I heard that Miss Luo Quan's salary for filming is only 100,000 US dollars, is it true?"

"True, Miss Luo Quan said it herself in the program, it is simply a cabbage price."

"It's more than a cabbage price. What's the difference between this and giving it away for free? Now any program, asking her to come and sing a song is more than this price!"

"Just showing up is more than this price! Opening a live broadcast on Bilibili, she can receive about one million in gift rewards after closing it. Don't even think about inviting her for less than this price!"

Undoubtedly, with the revelations in the comment area, Weibo netizens finally knew that the fees of these domestic traffic stars were so outrageous.

Acting for the first time and taking 100 million, and then what kind of things were filmed one by one!

As if it were a chain reaction, more and more negative news about traffic stars exploded one after another.

"A certain star plays big names on the set and refuses to eat boxed lunch!"

"A certain star takes two plays at the same time, and the lines are messed up."

"A certain star doesn't remember lines on the set, reciting one, two, three, four, five."

"A certain star temporarily increases the price, delaying the crew's filming process."

Revelations seemed to be the main theme of Weibo tonight. More than a dozen scandals about traffic stars occupied the hot search list.

Although there is not a single hot search that mentions who these stars are, countless detectives in the comment area directly analyze and reveal them. Anyway, they point the finger at the most popular ones in China.

Some are completely nonsense, while others are crooked.

However, regardless of whether those exposed stars have done these things, they issued statements in the first time of public opinion, and the content was surprisingly consistent:

A certain artist has always been conscientious since entering the industry, everyone who has worked with him/her has praised him/her, and the works are also widely acclaimed. Please stop groundless speculation about him/her, otherwise, a lawyer's letter will warn you.

It is roughly such a routine. Change the name and the work name, and the content is almost the same. I don't know if I thought so many stars were using the same public relations company.

Although they clarified and warned about the netizens' "speculation," no star mentioned half a word about the sky-high salary. As for why... because this matter can be easily checked. If you tell a lie, the Internet detectives will give a solid hammer when they turn around, and the consequences will be serious.

Although the clarification came out, the public opinion about the sky-high salary on the Internet has just begun.

I don't know which fan base started it. When they saw that their own stars were exposed to so many black materials, the first reaction was that they were targeted by competitors, thinking that these were deliberately smeared by fans of those people pretending to be insiders.

Afterward, they launched a counterattack.

The method is also very simple: treat them with their own way. How the opponent smears their brother, they use more vicious language to smear back.

In order to increase credibility, they even spared no effort to P pictures and forge, and this group opening also brought in other stars.

Then it was out of control. All fans started indiscriminate attacks to maintain their own brothers and sisters, regardless of whether those people were anti-fans or fishing. Click on the homepage to see who she liked recently or posted fan circle remarks, and directly started attacking the stars who were liked.

From the time the incident happened until noon the next day, the whole Weibo was the tearing of fans, involving more than 30 stars, including big names who have been famous for many years, and traffic stars who have been fierce recently.

As long as there are popular works recently, or popular variety shows, popular dramas, no one can escape.

To describe it in one sentence, it is "the whole Jin-Northwest is in a mess."

It is unclear whether this is everyone in danger or everyone carnival.

At first, it was just fans in the fan circle attacking each other.

But later, countless passersby also participated.

They have long been dissatisfied with the fan circle, and they are also envious and jealous of those glamorous and amazing stars. Now that they have caught such a good opportunity, they must vent it.

And Director Wu Jin, who got up in the morning to brush Weibo and wanted to see how the popularity of "Wolf Warrior 2" was, was directly stupid after seeing the status of Weibo and the ins and outs of the whole thing.

He originally just wanted to promote "Wolf Warrior 2," why did things become like this?

However, although the noise on Weibo was quite loud, it didn't seem to have any negative impact on "Wolf Warrior 2."

The biggest reason is that the actors of this movie are not traffic stars.

Qin Yi was indeed very popular, more popular than many small fresh meats now, but when he was popular, it seemed that there was no word for traffic stars, and now his age is not enough to be called small fresh meat, so he perfectly escaped this disaster.

And Miss Luo Quan, her popularity is very high, but she has always been famous for her works, and she doesn't get involved with traffic, fresh meat, etc.

And Miss Luo Quan is currently in the rising period of fan explosion, plus the two allies of Wen Xia and Lyon, no one dares to provoke her.

So she and Wen Xia were safe and sound in this storm.

Even because her salary of only 100,000 US dollars in "Wolf Warrior 2" was exposed, she also gained countless praises.

In general, "Wolf Warrior 2" became the second biggest winner in this storm caused by it.

And the first biggest one is naturally Weibo.

A night of chaos, Weibo doesn't know how much popularity and traffic it has earned. The hot search with the suffix "explosion" has almost never been broken. Even the stock price of Weibo has risen by a few points. The general manager of Weibo probably has a crooked smile.

With so much traffic to earn, Weibo official naturally wants to push the waves.

Under normal circumstances, when stars are exposed to large-scale black materials, they will contact Weibo and spend money to withdraw hot searches. Weibo official usually will not refuse, after all, this is also a large source of revenue.

But the situation today is a bit special. There are too many stars involved, and the benefits brought are too tempting, so even if many stars have wanted to spend money to withdraw hot searches, Weibo has no response.

It must be withdrawn. No matter what, those stars have to spend money to withdraw the hot searches that are unfavorable to their image.

But Weibo is not in a hurry. They want these hot searches to hang longer to maximize profits.

However, imagination is beautiful, but reality cannot develop according to the ideas of these black-hearted merchants.

As the largest media platform in China, GJ cannot let Weibo be full of these bad contents. After the chaos lasted for more than ten hours, GQT directly issued an article, criticizing the current entertainment industry status of China from various angles.

This includes fan circle terminology, fans' false remarks and insulting remarks, cyber violence, stars' abnormal salaries and appearance fees, malicious marketing, and intentional disturbance of public order.

This critical article almost covered every stain that the public can see in the entertainment industry, which can be regarded as venting a bad breath for the vast number of netizens.

Soon, the General Administration also issued a salary limit notice, mainly aimed at those traffic stars who have few works but have sky-high salaries.

Although it is not a ban, the issuance of this notice has a very obvious warning meaning. In the future, when fresh meats open prices, they have to weigh them.

And after the official issued these articles and notices one after another, Weibo also deleted all the tearing hot searches in the first time, and also carried out short-term bans on the accounts of many fan leaders, so that they could no longer take the lead in picking things up.

After the popularity dropped sharply, the tearing between stars and fans seemed to be suppressed, and everything seemed to come to an end temporarily.

But for Director Wu Jin, his good luck has just begun.

Or rather, the good luck of "Wolf Warrior 2" has just begun. ===== CHAPTER 223 =====