Chapter 265: Seeing a Movie Makes Me Want to Throw Up

The films were still in theaters, and online public opinion kept roasting every movie, cursing the actors for performing a load of crap, with no sign of stopping.

Wangyi kept spamming about Liu Tianxian and still mocking Fa Ge for his bad film.

"Cold War" seemed to come out of nowhere, taking 15.35 million on its first day, and during the National Day holiday it even jumped past twenty million.

Just like that, it became the current box-office champion of the National Day slot.

Nothing else — other films could barely break ten million in a single day, yet this commercial film that imitated Hong Kong cinema had a rating of 7.6.

The actors' performances were all on point.

The critics said it like this: "The plot is tight and thrilling, the showdown between the two leads is thoroughly satisfying, one of the rare good films — though of course the story is still a bit clichéd."

"The newcomer Jade Rabbit walked the old hand's path, yet led the old hand into a dead end."

The meaning is that Hong Kong films are getting worse and worse, while the newcomer actually shoots better.

Zhang Songwen also rode this film to another burst of fame, and people began to notice his acting.

Only because going up against Liang Jiafei, he didn't fall behind — on the contrary, he made people feel his performance was solid. That's the height that comes from comparison.

Everyone knows Liang Jiafei — the Thousand-Face Best Actor.

And Zhang Songwen only began to rise these past two years. His earlier film "Seattle" made people feel the movie was decent, with fairly fresh content.

But no one paid attention to his acting, and he didn't break out of the role. After that, "Big Shot" was once again overshadowed by the Principal.

A villain has to be more outstanding than the hero, because the villain can act with abandon, while the hero must restrain himself — the image has to be righteous.

So there wasn't much room for him to show off.

But this time, going head-to-head with Liang Jiafei in the film was a real surprise to everyone — turns out the guy's acting is seriously impressive.

Audience review: "Zhang Songwen's acting is delicate and full of passion. In the film he comes across as steady and magnanimous, and when facing Liang Jiafei his presence is in no way weaker than the other's. He performed brilliantly."

This film can be said to have given Zhang Songwen a huge space to show what he could do. After all those years, after all that buildup, people finally noticed his professional ability.

Before, watching him you just didn't break out of the role — he wasn't this outstanding.

On a special interview program, Zhang Songwen and Liang Jiafei were sharing some fun stories from acting.

The host asked Zhang Songwen: when you got this role, were there any difficulties?

"To tell the truth, there weren't any difficulties. At the time it was General Manager Chen, and the Principal, who handed the script straight to me and said let me play one of the leads, and also said I'd be acting opposite Teacher Liang.

When I heard that, I went 'Ah'."

When Zhang Songwen got to this part, he looked very surprised — he told it with such vivid expression and feeling.

The host listened with great interest.

Liang Jiafei, sitting beside him, wore glasses and gave a kindly "heh-heh" smile, then cut in: "Why did you have such a big reaction when you heard my name?"

"I grew up watching your films. When I was very young you were already Best Actor, so I felt enormous pressure," Zhang Songwen said.

"I also didn't expect you could act this well," Liang Jiafei said with a smile.

The two went on flattering each other like that, then shared a few more stories from filming, and that was that.

Just as "Cold War" was in its hot run and public opinion was in an uproar, Liu Tianxian posted a Weibo that added more fuel to the fire: {I took some time to look at my friends' discussions, and I'm very grateful for everyone's concern.

Teacher Zhang Songwen and Teacher Liang Jiafei are both outstanding actors and have always been role models for me to learn from. I think "Cold War" will also be a good film. Good thing I'm almost wrapped on mine — I've already made plans to go see it with friends. }

This Weibo didn't mention "Bronze Sparrow Terrace" even once, yet it landed a heavy blow on that film — and on Fa Ge.

Everyone knew "Bronze Sparrow Terrace" and "Cold War" were releasing at the same time, and recently Fa Ge had even mocked Liu Tianxian.

The two sides were also in a flame war. For Liu Tianxian to post on Weibo at this moment praising Zhang Songwen and Liang Jiafei as good actors — the implication was that Fa Ge was not a good actor.

Saying "Cold War" is a good film and that she's waiting to wrap so she can go see it — the meaning was that "Bronze Sparrow Terrace" is a stinker, and she won't watch it!

It's no wonder people read into it that way — because Liu Tianxian also said she had been following the public discourse, and had seen her fans' staunch support.

Can't blame the Wangyi for overthinking — it's just too obvious, okay?

"Hahaha, Liu Tianxian claps back without a single dirty word."

"Our Tianxian has a temper too — love it, love it!"

"My wife's had too much to drink. This Weibo isn't aimed at anyone, please don't read yourselves into it."

"Xixi, I've already bought my movie ticket, just waiting for you."

"Please @ Fa Ge to come out and say something!"

"That old bastard is just playing dead — before release he was yapping about everything, after release he's nowhere to be seen. His face changes faster than flipping a book."

"Support Xixi — that old thing just looks down on Neidi people."

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Liu Tianxian's Weibo stirred up quite a storm — it was basically starting a war — and Wangyi were shouting at Fa Ge one after another.

But Fa Ge didn't take the bait. The old fox knew the game — at a time like this, if he came out and said even one word, he'd be handing them publicity and getting ripped apart as a target.

Right now he was already getting roasted hard enough because of his bad film. The movie's mission was already done — no need to keep being that target.