Chapter 576: 《The Poverty Disease》

Combining the film with reality, in the eyes of the audience, Cheng Yong's small team was certainly not in the wrong.

Although they were making a profit at the beginning, the selling price was still cheaper than the Genuine Medicine.

Later on, they were even selling the Medicine at a loss.

Si Hui and the priest were both actively contacting fellow patients, doing their part.

Cheng Yong went to prison, and Huang Mao even paid the price with his life.

Even the Fake Medicine peddler Zhang Zhanglin, because he did not give up Cheng Yong during the interrogation process, caused the audience to forgive him to a certain extent.

As for the Police, someone like Cao Bin simply threw in the towel, stating that he could not handle this case and was willing to accept any punishment.

And according to the Police's position, everything they did was also a matter of duty.

Many ordinary audience members, after thinking it over, would naturally feel that the biggest villain was the pharmaceutical company!

But now, looking at the reports from official media and the popular science articles from marketing accounts, reason told them that the pharmaceutical company... didn't seem to be wrong either?

The cost of research and development for Medicine by pharmaceutical companies is a staggering figure.

Moreover, according to the general environment and the specific nature of this industry, many big investors are unwilling to pour money into it.

The risk is too great!

Drug research and development is very likely a bottomless pit.

You do not know when it will produce results, or what kind of results it will produce.

There are even few people studying in this field, and sometimes the number decreases year by year; talent is also scarce.

And some drug research and development is not even a matter of a few years, but requires the efforts of several generations.

In the eyes of investors, if I invest money in this kind of project, it is better to invest in other projects; why bother?

Indeed, there are still many people on the internet who persist in scolding pharmaceutical companies; regardless of anything else, they just scold.

"Money, money, money! All you know is money!"

"Hah, disgusting!"

"Treating human lives as business, regarding human lives as blades of grass!"

But if you think about it rationally, if you consider future development?

If a pharmaceutical company cannot recoup its costs, then what about new projects?

How should this industry develop?

What about other fields that have not yet had a breakthrough, and diseases that cannot yet be cured?

And looking at it from another angle, was it the Imitation Medicine that saved these people?

If there were no Genuine Medicine, where would the Imitation Medicine come from?

This involves too, too much, making people feel more of a headache and more distressed in their hearts the more they think about it.

Article after article, report after report, from different angles and different aspects, "whitewash" the pharmaceutical companies.

And the result this brings is a suffocating silence.

The terrifying thing about this film is—no one is wrong!

Suddenly, a classic line from it surfaced in the minds of countless people.

When watching the film, they were shocked by this line.

Now, after learning more and more, the shock in their hearts is actually deepening!

This line is what the Fake Medicine peddler Zhang Zhanglin said to Cheng Yong:

"【There is only one kind of disease in this world—the poverty disease!】"

A god-tier line!

For many people, even though it had been several days since they finished watching the film, and even though it was the scorching summer, they suddenly felt a chill in their hearts!

Because everyone's position was not wrong, it made many audience members feel more and more that this film was incredibly stunning; it was filmed perfectly!

Many people's evaluation of "Dying to Survive" in their hearts was actually climbing step by step!

"I thought I understood it, but actually I didn't!"

"This film is so Ox!"

Many netizens even posted evaluations online: "Huaxia is scarce of such films, and Huaxia also needs such films!"

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The current status of the film industry on Blue Star is similar to that on Earth.

Netizens mostly criticize, and very few people praise.

Look at foreign films; either the special effects are stunning and the quality is incredibly high, or they have great depth, profoundly reflecting social problems and even promoting social development.

And look at you all, what kind of trash are you filming!

But the sudden emergence of "Dying to Survive" seems to have made some things different.

Many people really find it hard to imagine that such a work actually came from the hands of a young person who hasn't even reached the age of 30, and it was his first live-action film!

"What else is there that Luo Mo cannot do?"

"What else is there that Luo Mo cannot do well?"

And on August 4th, multiple official media outlets began to act in unison, praising the film "Dying to Survive" extensively.

Originally, because of the 【Hundred Billion Box Office Plan】, major official media outlets would report on these films.

However, some of the wording they used this time was completely different from when they reported on those previous films.

They praised it too hard, they praised it with too much effort!

Among them, a well-known official media outlet even specifically interviewed Luo Mo.

The content of the interview was not much, totaling only three questions.

For the first two questions, Luo Mo gave relatively simple answers, appearing as if he didn't intend to chat much.

For instance, about losing weight drastically for this film.

He just replied with three words: "It was necessary."

But his response to the third question made many people's eyes light up, and also left many industry insiders lost in deep thought.

The state media asked: "Currently, everyone on the internet is saying that the terrifying thing about this film is that no one is wrong! In this regard, I would like to ask what kind of thinking you based this type of creation on when writing the script."

Upon hearing this question, Luo Mo pondered for a moment, then answered it using a famous quote by Hegel from Earth.

"True tragedy does not arise between Kindness and Evil, but between two dilemmas."

Once this sentence was out, it made many ordinary netizens feel even more uncomfortable, as if they had been stabbed by Luo Mo again from mid-air.

——"He just wants to torture me!"

——"He just wants to stab me!"

Blade-Blade Luo, hand rises and blade falls, you have no heart!

Yet for screenwriters, directors, and others in the industry, this sentence made them fall into thought; many people directly liked it, or even reposted it, feeling it was of great benefit!

"Not between Kindness and Evil, but between dilemmas... Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!"

"It feels like a sudden awakening; I've suddenly grasped many creative concepts!"

"I've grasped it! I've figured it out!"

"Hearing this one sentence from him feels more useful than watching a hundred high-rated films!"

We've been lectured again, we've been taught a lesson by him again!

Many people haven't even fully digested and absorbed the lesson of the previous 【Large-scale Preview】.

Good heavens, you just casually accepted an interview, and you've actually taught us another lesson in creative concepts, filming techniques, and more!

No wonder, no wonder he can write such a profound script!

Various factors combined, causing the single-day box office of "Dying to Survive" on August 4th to hit a new high, reaching a staggering 294 million!

Many people feel that this is still not the limit for the single-day box office of "Dying to Survive"!

Breaking 300 million in a single day is almost a certainty.

For this kind of subject matter, a film that recounts social issues and makes people feel incomparably uncomfortable while watching, to actually be able to achieve such a terrifying box office!

Let me ask: who said that film depth and film box office cannot coexist?

I, Luo Mo, am the first to disagree!

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August 5th, Shanghai, sunny.

Luo Mo pulled back the curtains, letting the sunlight shine in, his mood pleasant.

The weather and the box office are actually linked; like on rainy days, many people aren't willing to go out.

Xu Chujing looked at the Back Shadow of Luo Mo standing in front of the window, a smile appearing on her face.

"He seems to have filled out a bit again," she said in her heart.

After Luo Mo finished filming the character Lv Shouyi, he no longer needed to maintain his drastically thin state, so his physique and appearance were slowly returning.

The whole person looked much healthier, and his energy and spirit were fuller.

He was very relaxed now.

"The military order I made in front of Section Chief Zhong of the Review Department can be said to have been completed," Luo Mo said in his heart.

Under the influence of Wang Rong, the box office figure he mentioned in front of Zhong Lin was 800 million.

And look, he finished it easily in just a few days!

Moreover, the number of people stirring up trouble about "Dying to Survive" on the internet these past few days has decreased.

Because this group of people discovered that this film is a bit hard to manipulate.

The more you fan the flames, the more it produces the opposite effect.

The fire of hostility toward the film didn't ignite, but the fire of the box office is Burning fiercely instead.

Although Luo Mo doesn't care about the remarks of some people, it is an eyesore to look at, affecting his mood.

But by the afternoon, Luo Mo received another call from the studio.

After hanging up the phone, he had one thought: "They will never give up on the idea of destroying me!"

"What's wrong? Did something happen again?" Xu Chujing asked with concern.

"I thought the people stirring up trouble had stopped, but I didn't expect them to be thinking of new tricks," Luo Mo gave a bitter smile.

He has too many arch-enemies, and because he isn't very "gregarious," he often "infringes" on the interests of many people.

Luo Mo is too lazy to investigate exactly who is causing trouble behind his back; he is afraid... there are too many people, and he can't investigate them all.

He just needs to slap their faces.

For example, right now.

Luo Mo picked up his phone and showed Xu Chujing some screenshots sent by studio employees.

"Look, ever since that line 【There is only one disease in this world—poverty】 became popular, they started having new ideas and new tactics; look at these comments," Luo Mo said.

Xu Chujing read a few lines casually.

"So if I'm poor, I deserve to die!"

"Because I'm poor and can't afford Medicine, even if there is cheap Imitation Medicine, they won't let me take it, they want me to die!"

"There are still people praising this film; it's clearly morally corrupt, it's just nakedly telling you: poor people deserve to die!"

The more Xu Chujing read, the more her brows furrowed.

"What kind of talk is this!" she said.

"Is it wrong for us to point out certain social issues?"

"We expanded the influence, we expanded the attention, and now it's become having distorted values?"

This is just like how some righteous reporters get cyberbullied; their duty It Is Clearly to speak out, yet some people will accuse them of being unable to solve the root of the problem.

Luo Mo smiled and said, "The tactic of these people is: whoever points out the problem, then the problem was brought about by them; regardless of what is said, this person is also guilty."

Xu Chujing looked at him and said, "You're still laughing! You can actually still laugh!"

Luo Mo gently patted her and said, "It's fine, wait a little longer."

According to the ending of the original film *Dying to Survive* on Earth, after Cheng Yong is released from prison, it is Cao Bin, who used to look down on him, who comes to pick him up.

In this part of the Drama, Cao Bin says to Cheng Yong, "Don't touch Fake Medicine anymore, nobody buys that stuff now, Genuine Medicine is covered by medical insurance, nobody takes India Medicine anymore."

But in the Blue Star version of *Dying to Survive*, Luo Mo did not film this line.

As mentioned before, the subtitles and news at the end of the Blue Star version of *Medicine God* are also different from those on Earth.

So, why would they be different?

And why didn't Luo Mo film this line?

At this very moment, Luo Mo put down his phone, his heart completely calm.

He was waiting.

"Let the bullets fly for a while longer."

(End of this chapter)