Chapter 188: Asian Sister Wang Xianxian

The next day, various film reviews about *My Sassy Girl* had appeared in the entertainment sections of major newspapers:

"Wu Yu breaks tradition, the unique *Sassy Girl*"

"Half is an angel, half is a devil — *My Sassy Girl*"

"Wang Zuxian turns into a sassy girl, funny and moving to heal the soul!"

"Wu Yu creates a beautiful love fairy tale, a realistic version of the toad and the sassy swan!"

"Ten highlights of *My Sassy Girl*: one girlfriend, two styles, three scripts, four tenderness."

In fact, everyone hasn't seen love comedies. For example, Feng Xiaogang's *Be There or Be Square* last year was a very typical love comedy. Two small people attracted each other and finally came together.

But the female leads in love movies in the past were traditional types or gentle or knowledgeable. For example, the female lead Rose in *Titanic* was a wealthy lady, and the main rhythm in the movie was basically driven by the male lead or driven by the male lead.

And this time *My Sassy Girl* broke this traditional routine, designing the movie as "weak man and strong woman", and the development of the movie was driven by the sassy girl, which undoubtedly aroused many people's interest. The whole film, whether it was funny or sensational, was arranged very delicately, and it didn't feel deliberate or embarrassing at all. The segments where Canon sounded several times and *I Believe* left a very deep impression on people.

This kind of movie with both novelty and very high quality made the audience cry and laugh in the cinema, and finally could harvest a complete ending, which was naturally a word-of-mouth explosion. Those who had watched it crazily recommended it to the people around them.

"I tell you, it's really super good-looking, Wang Zuxian is really too cute!"

"Really, it's funny and moving, and this time it's not a tragedy. There are also stars like Zhao Yazhi and Guo Da guest starring!"

"To say that shooting love films, you have to look at Wu Yu's. One *Christmas Rose* tragedy, one *My Sassy Girl* comedy, both moved people!"

"Me too, I was going to laugh to death at the beginning, and cried like a dog at the end! I almost thought Wu Dao was going to give a tragedy again!"

"Hey hey, what constellation are they both? I think the female lead is Leo, relatively strong and active, good at sports, the male lead is Taurus, honest, kind..."

As the topic of *My Sassy Girl* swept the streets and alleys, when people around you were discussing and you couldn't get in, even those who didn't want to watch or wanted to wait for pirated versions had the idea of entering the cinema to buy tickets.

As the highlight of this year, after *My Sassy Girl* was released, Shanghai Film boss Zhu Yongde personally sat in town to coordinate the distribution in the Yangtze River Delta region.

He kept calling to ask about the attendance in various places. The tickets in Magic City were sold out, and the average attendance in big cities like Jinling, Gusu, and Hangzhou was also over 90%. This situation made him sigh repeatedly in his heart. Currently, the only person who can make the audience have the desire to buy tickets to enter the cinema is Wu Yu!

Although Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige were also sought after after returning from brushing awards, unfortunately, both of their movies were on the literary path, which was not very friendly to the general public. Or rather, the films they shot, the main target group was the so-called "elite molecules with taste and artistic aesthetics."

How much art do ordinary people care about? Most ordinary people come to watch movies to have fun, or to have a sensory and spiritual enjoyment, and most literary films obviously can't bring such intuitive stimulation or emotional resonance.

Wu Yu is different. He can shoot *Don't Want to Grow Up*, a movie with artistic connotation, and also shoot sensational commercial films like *My Sassy Girl*, *Christmas Rose*, and *My Brothers and Sisters*. It is precisely because of the movies like *My Brothers and Sisters* and *Christmas Rose* that some people think are vulgar but the common people love to see, that there will be a situation where everyone rushes to the cinema to watch *My Sassy Girl* after it is released. Because the common people know that Wu Dao's movies are understandable and interesting!

The next day, under the constant urging of Old Zhu, he asked the people below to summarize the first-day box office in the Yangtze River Delta region. When he looked at the final added number, he was excited, and even his fatigue was swept away: 4.55 million!

According to the situation that the Yangtze River Delta region accounts for about one-third of the national total box office, the national first-day box office should be more than 12 million!

This is a good result that hasn't appeared for several years!

In fact, it was not beyond Old Zhu's expectation. After summarizing the data with China Film and Miracle Film and Television, the Friday box office was 12.88 million, the Saturday box office was 15.93 million, and the Sunday box office was 11.43 million.

"*My Sassy Girl* first weekend 3-day box office broke 40 million!"

On Monday, *China Film News* directly used this headline as the front page headline, further detonating everyone's emotions and pushing more people into the cinema.

Wang Zuxian stayed in Magic City and Beijing for a few days on the mainland, and then flew directly to Korea to run publicity. She hadn't been to Korea, but she came here in 93 to participate in a variety show. Although the fans here were enthusiastic at that time, they weren't as crazy as they are now!

This time, as soon as she got off the plane, she was surrounded. The reporters were crazy and kept squeezing towards her. If it weren't for wearing sunglasses, her eyes would have been blinded by the camera flash.

"Wang Zuxian! *My Sassy Girl* has caused an unprecedented viewing craze in Korea. What are your feelings?"

"Miss Wang Zuxian, welcome to Great Korea. Are you the same as in the movie?"

"Miss Wang Zuxian, you are currently being crazily pursued by our young people in Great Korea. Do you think girls should be more savage?"

"Wang Zuxian, I love you!"

Under the siege of these reporters and fans, Wang Zuxian was really unable to move, and couldn't get out of the airport. Finally, the Korean airport specifically sent security personnel to escort her to get out of trouble.

After getting into the car that picked her up, Wang Zuxian breathed a sigh of relief, patted her chest and said: "I didn't expect the fans in Korea to be so enthusiastic, it scared me~"

The staff who picked her up bowed and said: "I'm really sorry, Miss Wang Zuxian, we didn't arrange it well, let you be frightened! You don't know, *My Sassy Girl* has been popular all over Korea since it was released a week ago. The newspaper said that you alone influenced the mate selection view of all the younger generation in Korea!"

Wang Zuxian covered her mouth and laughed: "Where is it so exaggerated~"

"No, we have no lies! Now many girls in Korea are learning from you, turning into sassy girls, taking the savage route."

"Really? Then I'm really honored~" Wang Zuxian made a pleasant laugh, not realizing how much influence she brought this time.

Korea has always been a country with a heavy atmosphere of male superiority and female inferiority. The impact brought by the release of *My Sassy Girl* this time is naturally very large.

A girl shouted at her boyfriend: "Hey, didn't we agree to send me flowers in public at school today? Why did you go back on your word!"

The boy explained aggrievedly: "I get very nervous as soon as I arrive in such a public place, my legs can't move, let's forget it!"

"Humph! Do you like me or not? If you love me enough, how can you not overcome nervousness?!"

"Of course I like you, but this kind of request is really too difficult!"

The girl hugged her arms, and then glared at her boyfriend dissatisfiedly and said: "Okay, to prove your love, let's change shoes today!"

The boy looked down at the high heels his girlfriend was wearing, which were at least 5 cm, and his face changed color: "How is this possible?!"

"Why not? Qian Niu can do it, why can't you?"

The boy held his girlfriend's hand and said: "Can you stop making trouble? Let's go shopping well, I'll treat you to a big meal!"

The girl threw his hand away: "This won't work, that won't work, it's just not loving me enough!"

The boy also had a gloomy face. He had really had enough this week. He was dating well, but suddenly he was treated as a sandbag, forced to drink difficult things, forced to accompany her to drink, etc. Now he even had to wear high heels!

He also broke out directly:

"Ashiba! Who do you think you are? Do you think you are Wang Zuxian? Are you as beautiful as her? Are you as cute as her? If you were as beautiful as Wang Zuxian, I would be willing to kneel down and kiss your toes!

And Wang Zuxian suffered emotional injury, and her ex-boyfriend died, so she became like this. Do you also have an ex-boyfriend who died? If you have one, go find him! Damn it!"

After the boy finished speaking, he didn't care about this unreasonable dead woman, and walked away without looking back, leaving the girl crying and screaming on the spot.

Similar scenes happened more than once. In Korea, many girls imitated Wang Zuxian and made similar requests after watching the movie. Some boys were moved and brainwashed by the movie, and did it with full power. For example, they were forced to recite the "Ten Principles of Boyfriend". Now this paragraph is widely circulated, no less than the paragraph "Once there was a sincere love..." in *A Chinese Odyssey*.

On the street, there was more than one person wearing high heels to accompany his girlfriend shopping, which made many people sigh.

Korea also did a street survey, and more than 80% of men said they wanted a cute girlfriend like Wang Zuxian, even if it was a bit savage, it didn't matter.

Of course, a small part naturally broke up, some broke up directly, and extreme ones even fought each other. However, Wu Yu could only helplessly express that he was only responsible for bringing moving, how you get along is your own business, this pot is not carried!

It is undeniable that *My Sassy Girl* really directly brought a significant impact on the current mode of men and women getting along.

Not only in mainland China and Korea, *My Sassy Girl* was released simultaneously in several major countries and regions in Asia this time, the time difference was no more than two days, avoiding the influence of pirated versions to the greatest extent. With the appeal of Wu Yu and Wang Zuxian joined forces and promotion, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Neon, and Singapore were all popular, directly setting off a savage trend sweeping across Asia.

Wang Zuxian hadn't left Korea yet, and she already knew from her agent that hundreds of advertisers from all over the world had come to her, luxury goods, clothing, shoes, shampoo, sanitary napkins, walkmans, air conditioners, etc., everything. Among them, there were first-line big brands like Adidas and Nike who wanted her to endorse women's sports shoes. After all, she had the cute appearance of changing shoes with the male lead in the movie, and Sony invited her to endorse the walkman, etc...

So don't look at the fact that she only took 3 million for shooting *My Sassy Girl*, but the advertising effect after this, earning dozens of times is easy!

To say that this wave of savage trend, the biggest beneficiary is naturally Wang Zuxian. She had quite a few representative works before and had extremely high popularity in Asia, but the semi-retired state in the past few years made people feel that she was going downhill. But now, relying on the image of a sassy girl, she swept across Asia and was directly crowned as the Asian Sister!

Then there is the newcomer in the film industry, Xu Zheng. Relying on the role of Qian Niu, he had a certain popularity in the whole of Asia. Even if he didn't become a top Asian star like Wang Zuxian, he was famous all over the world. He also received many advertising invitations, which was far from Wang Zuxian, but enough to make him rich overnight.

And the third person to eat this wave of dividends is the singer Li Jian!

Last year, after *Christmas Rose*, Li Jian already had quite a bit of popularity in China. This time, with *I Believe* appearing in the movie and becoming popular several times, his fame also rose, and the momentum was approaching Sun Nan, making Nan Ge, who self-proclaimed "Mainland Brother", feel a great increase in crisis!

Wu Yu was in Los Angeles at this time, just finished a publicity program about *The Sixth Sense* with Bruce Willis, Jennifer Connelly, and the child actor, and received a call from Han Sanping in the backstage:

"Wu Dao, congratulations! *My Sassy Girl* broke 100 million in half a month after its release!"

"Hahaha, President Han, congratulations, congratulations~"

Wu Yu smiled faintly. Hearing this news wasn't too unexpected. The first weekend 3 days broke 40 million, 10 days 75 million, and now breaking 100 million in half a month was reasonable.

After the movie came out, there were constant praises. Naturally, there were many people blowing him as a director. However, if you say how much *My Sassy Girl* added to him, it might not be. It can only be said that it made Wu Yu's Chinese box office results look better.

After all, Wu Yu had already had a box office of over 100 million in China with *Christmas Rose*. If *My Sassy Girl* wants to break through again, it must break 200 million, but this is obviously unlikely. The current domestic box office potential is placed here. Even if the love movie is popular, it is impossible to break through 200 million in the current background. 150 million is hanging, after all, high-definition pirated versions have come out.

On the contrary, in the Asian region, Wu Yu's box office appeal and influence have gone up a level, consolidated his position, and let more Asian movie fans have a deeper impression of him.

The current Wu Yu holds the Berlin Golden Bear, and has had the good results of two Hollywood movies breaking 100 million. Small progress doesn't improve him much.

If you want to advance your influence, it is box office and awards. In terms of awards, it is to win an Oscar; in terms of box office, either Chinese films break 300 million or even break *Titanic*'s 360 million, and regain the throne of Chinese film champion, or it is another Hollywood movie with explosive box office that shocks people.

And right now there is such an opportunity, *The Sixth Sense* which is about to be released in North America! ===== CHAPTER 189 =====