Chapter 575: Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!

A short comment was enough to garner likes from countless netizens.

Yes, there were indeed no overly stunning visual effects in Medicine God.

However, you can simply see the human heart!

You can simply see the radiance of human nature!

Could this also be considered a kind of alternative special effect?

The netizens' retorts actually sparked more interest in this film among many onlookers.

Quite a few people were thinking, should they go to the cinema to find out for themselves?

You must know that due to the support of the Hundred Billion Box Office Plan, the decryption keys for films like Medicine God were extended by one month.

In other words, the theatrical release time alone lasted for two months.

Even if it sold its online streaming rights to video platforms the moment it left theaters, that would still be two months later.

Are you sure you can hold out?

On the other hand, many video platforms on Blue Star now do not let audiences watch for free after spending a large sum of money to buy a film.

There will be a paid period.

The price for the paid period ranges from 2 to 6 yuan.

Only after this paid period passes can member users watch it for free; as for non-member users... don't even think about it!

Xu Chujing looked at the retorts from the netizens one by one and only felt that the netizens were indeed talented.

"Sure enough, as long as you film your work properly, the audience who truly likes it will protect it with all their heart," Xu Chujing couldn't help but sigh.

If you treat the audience like fools, the audience will treat you like an idiot.

If you film your work seriously and produce high-quality work, everyone will naturally protect you.

For many viewers, the visual effects of blockbuster films are indeed very stunning.

Like the recently released Undersea Lost City, it is a high-standard overseas blockbuster.

However, the shock brought by Medicine God comes from the depths of the heart!

We aren't here to praise one and step on the other, nor are we here to rank them.

But regardless, this film is at least a film worth watching!

Many provocative remarks even stirred up a "rebellious psychology" in some people.

Many people directly posted their ticket stubs or pixelated purchase records in the comment section.

Of course, there were also some careless people who didn't even pixelate them and posted their purchase records and ticket collection codes online...

The opening day box office of Medicine God was not significantly affected; it remained firmly in the top spot of the real-time box office chart, maintaining an extremely wide gap from the second place.

By 3:30 in the afternoon, the opening box office of I Am Not Medicine God had already exceeded 200 million.

However, since many viewers had bought tickets for the evening in advance, the subsequent growth rate began to slow down gradually.

Yet even so, it helped Luo Mo break another record.

He became the first newcomer director of live-action films to have an opening day box office exceed the 200 million mark.

For this reason, a studio employee specifically called to ask: "Boss, should we promote this on a large scale?"

Luo Mo pondered for a moment and said: "Forget it, just post a celebration Poster; there's no need to make a big fuss."

In his view, this was merely a small step forward.

Due to the continued popularity of I Am Not Medicine God, the media dug up the matter of Luo Mo's drastic weight loss and hyped it up all over again.

Previously, after he sang "A Young China" at the Youth Day, this matter had hung on the Hot Search list for several days; now, it suddenly surged onto the Weibo Hot Search list again.

Many netizens left comments underneath one after another.

"Can the entertainment industry please start working as hard as Luo Mo's standard?"

"Can young stars please learn from this properly?"

"It's killing me, he already has great acting skills and is still so meticulous; look at those who rely on cutout editing, it's truly speechless."

In an instant, he seemed to have become a benchmark in the film industry.

The studio employee called again to consult Luo Mo on whether to seize this opportunity to promote it extensively.

Luo Mo thought about it and felt it was better to forget it.

He couldn't afford to lose face like that.

After hanging out with that group of powerhouse actors from the National Theatre of China for a long time, everyone was too familiar with each other in private.

Not to mention anything else, just take the old master Luo Chun.

When he was 60 years old, he filmed a historical drama and performed a scene where he was being punished, pouring cold water on himself in the middle of winter.

To achieve the best performance effect, he poured a full 11 buckets.

And then there's Zhou Tong; when filming a police and gangster movie, he went to the sewers for location shooting and fell right in during a chase scene.

Originally, this matter was truly both heartbreaking and funny, but what really made Luo Mo think he was an Ox and a ruthless person was that he even asked the director to add a scene where he was pressed into the sewer by gangsters, filming until he almost suffocated.

Well, a kind of alternative "breaking the jar because it's already cracked," practice makes perfect...

For an Actor, making sacrifices for a role is the most basic thing.

You shouldn't compare yourself to others just because they are too rotten.

That is meaningless and will instead lower your own requirements.

A day passed in a flash.

The final opening day box office result for I Am Not Medicine God on August 2nd was 247 million yuan!

In other words, its total box office reached a terrifying 450 million!

This caused many viewers who had disliked Director Fang Jie during the "Director Show" to start going under her Weibo posts to mock her.

In this variety show, many people could feel that this woman spoke in a sarcastic and snide manner, and was particularly targeting Luo Mo.

Of course, some people went to mock her purely because they were disgusted by "Puberty," which she directed, feeling that it subverted their values.

"Are you there, Director Fang? 'Dying to Survive' has hit 450 million!"

"Director Fang, the box office for 'Dying to Survive' is about to catch up to 'Puberty'!"

"Let me make a prediction: after two days of official release, 'Dying to Survive' will narrowly beat 'Puberty' at the box office."

"Don't talk about money, it's tacky! Let's talk about movie ratings, shall we?"

"Fang Jie: Luo Mo's film still cannot convince me."

"Hahaha, can you stop quoting famous sayings?"

Quite a few silly netizens even took screenshots of Fang Jie to make memes, with the caption: You cannot convince me.

This angered Fang Jie so much that she directly closed the comment function on her Weibo; only people who followed each other could leave comments under her posts.

And for industry insiders, the most dumbfounding thing was not the box office of "Dying to Survive."

Because the massive success during the advance screenings had already proven that this was a phenomenal hit.

What left everyone stunned was the rating of this movie on various platforms!

On so many platforms, the ratings had almost not slipped at all.

Only on 【Petal】, it slipped by 0.1 points, becoming 9.1.

This left the expert panels of major ticketing apps unable to figure out how to estimate the box office for this movie for a while.

Everyone was unsure what level its final results would reach.

As for the major cinema chains, they were also actively increasing the screening slots for "Dying to Survive."

They cut whatever they could from other movies and added it all to "Dying to Survive."

There was no helping it; who told them that it had captured 60% of today's total national box office with only a thirty-something percent screening rate!

Your movies, whether in terms of seat occupancy or word-of-mouth feedback, were far behind "Dying to Survive."

In the same Cinema, showing your movie versus showing "Dying to Survive" resulted in completely different earnings!

This caused the screening rate for "Dying to Survive" to rise to 40%.

Tian Ou's "Car King 2" was one of the targets whose screening slots were heavily cut.

This caused the single-day box office of "Car King 2" to fall below the 10 million mark; from here on out, there probably wouldn't be much hope for it.

Of course, right now, no one was even paying attention to the box office of Director Tian Ou's new work.

After seeing a grand spectacle, looking at it again, one no longer felt there was anything remarkable about it.

By August 3rd, due to the further increase in screening slots and the continued fermentation of word-of-mouth, the single-day box office of "Dying to Survive" grew to 281 million.

In other words, it had indeed only been officially released for two days before it crushed Director Fang Jie's "Puberty."

This was a very face-losing matter, and the onlookers only wanted to say—well done!

And as of now, the number of viewers who had already watched "Dying to Survive" had reached a significant amount.

Among this group of people, a portion were heatedly discussing, or rather, arguing, online every day.

The volume of discussion for movies that reflect social issues is always astonishing.

After many people cried watching the movie, they also needed a channel to vent.

To the point that... several pharmaceutical companies were targeted!

The comment sections on the official Weibo accounts of several pharmaceutical companies surged, and private messages also began to skyrocket!

Many netizens directly started flaming, questioning these pharmaceutical companies why they priced life-saving medicine so high!

"How much does the cost of one bottle of your medicine actually come to? Aren't you afraid of going to hell for earning this kind of money?"

"Truly speechless, thousands or even tens of thousands per bottle, how are you not ashamed?"

"Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda!"

"Heh, an industry involving human life, yet it's a profiteering industry."

"Is the money earned by drinking human blood spent happily?"

"Doesn't your conscience hurt?"

The Weibo managers of the major pharmaceutical companies were merely wage earners working at the pharmaceutical companies.

Such Weibo accounts naturally could not be managed by the top brass themselves.

These wage earners, who made a few thousand in salary a month, had never seen such a grand scene.

One by one, they were all stunned!

"Hiss, is it this scary?"

"I'm just a poor wage earner!"

"Holy crap, holy crap!"

In the end, even some official media were alarmed and had to step in to control the situation, publishing some related articles. After all, people wouldn't just scold the pharmaceutical companies alone; they would scold that-which-shall-not-be-named along with them—those who know, know.

Many marketing accounts, seeing there was a hot topic to latch onto, also successively published some popular science articles.

Among them, there were those introducing the current status of the drug research and development industry.

There were also those explaining the costs.

Opening the comment section, one could often see similar comments.

"【The cost of one pill of your medicine might only be a few cents or a few dimes, why is it sold so expensively?

Hello, you are talking about the cost of the second pill; the cost of the first one was several billion.】"

This caused many angry netizens, after thinking rationally, to suddenly fall into silence.

This kind of silence was the most uncomfortable and the most heart-wrenching.

"Even the Medicine enterprises, could it be that they are not wrong either?"

"Then, who exactly is in the wrong!"

(PS: First update.)

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