1291 Wont It Scare Someone to Death? (1/2)
”Hence, the quality of a film is still decided by us professional filmmakers. The audience? The box office sales? Those are all inaccurate. Some with good box office sales probably even bought those sales. Director Zhang, everyone in the industry knows what was going on with the box office sales for your film, Fighting Hero.
”It's all because someone framed you. If not for that person who purposely created trouble and pulled some tricks, your box office sales would surely have been higher. Of course, your original box office sales are already very high. It already broke the records of the country's box office sales,” Liang Chengbing said.
Despite Greedy Wolf Operation and Red Tiger competing with him, the box office sales of Fighting Hero was actually quite good.
But because the box office sales of Greedy Wolf Operation and Red Tiger surpassed each other one after the other, it gave the domestic public unrealistic expectations for the box office sales of Fighting Hero.
They were made to feel that box office sales below one billion yuan was trashy and that 20 or 30 billion worth of ticket sales were considered the norm.
But what was the reality?
Up until now, Greedy Wolf Operation and Red Tiger were the only two films that achieved such high rates.
Furthermore, Lu Man had acted in both of these films.
Thinking about it made Liang Chengbing's stomach hurt.
”If not for Lu Man messing things up, the box office sales would surely have been higher.” Liang Chengbing just straightforwardly mentioned her name now. ”The box office sales for the film had been so good on the first day.
”However, it's fortunate that the judges judge based on the film itself rather than on the box office sales. To be honest, your film has to be watched quite a few times for its deeper meaning to be understood. If you watch it only two times, there will always be some details that would be left out. I myself at least watched it quite a few times,” Liang Chengbing said. ”I can tell how much effort you've put into this film.”
Liang Chengbing pretended to feel sorry for him and sighed. ”Aye, it's such a pity.”
What he meant was that, if not for Lu Man, with the high box office sales and the awards from the film festival, his film would have gained more recognition.
However, because of Lu Man, no one bothered to watch the film that Zhang Lun produced with hard work and effort.
No one cared about Zhang Lun's efforts at all.