"Friends of Yangcun, it is undeniable that the graphics of "Superman 2" are very stunning, but can you please give a little help to "Infernal Affairs"? "Infernal Affairs" needs your help!"

""Infernal Affairs" suffered unfair treatment! Not only was it sniped by "Superman 2", but it was also suppressed by major theaters and peers!"

"This is the evidence we have collected in major cities these days. There are videos and recordings..."

""Infernal Affairs" is now in its darkest moment! We can accept that "Infernal Affairs" does not top the Chinese box office list, and we can also accept its failure. However, we cannot accept that it was bullied and ended up being canceled early. This

What a shame!”

"..."

Early morning on February 22nd.

The Chinese film industry is still in turmoil.

More and more evidence points to the fact that "Night Walker" is stealing the box office of "Infernal Affairs" in various seemingly "reasonable" ways.

The stolen box office numbers were very vague at first, ranging from about three million to five million per day, but as more and more data became clear, the number of stolen box office numbers became more and more detailed.

August 13th: Box office of 1.2 million!

August 14: Box office 1.7 million!

August 15th: The day "Superman 2" was released, with a box office of 2.1 million!

August 16: Box office 2.3 million!

…

August 20: Box office of 6 million!

When the astonishing data were presented to all netizens, they were extremely shocked.

But then, many people began to feel enlightened!

"The popularity of "Infernal Affairs" on the Internet is itself the popularity of a blockbuster classic movie. How could the box office be completely wiped out by "Superman 2"? This is completely unreasonable!"

"No wonder the box office is so bad. It turns out that the box office was stolen. Oh my god, wasn't the underwear of the movie "Night Walker" taken out? The daily box office of "Night Walker" without stealing the box office is only a few million?"

"After being released for so many days, it is reasonable to have a daily box office of several million..."Night Walker" is not as popular as "Infernal Affairs" on the Internet. It suddenly turned against the wind in the later period, and the box office skyrocketed every day. This is treating all fans as

What a fool!"

"This is so dark. People like Zhou Yang are stealing box office! Isn't it worse for other small directors? No wonder there are only so many directors in the Chinese film industry, and they all got "killed"!

"

"That's for sure..."

Three o'clock in the morning.

On major movie websites, Weibo, and major portal websites, the discussion about this vicious box office theft incident has not diminished, but has become more and more lively.

Click on the homepage of each major website, and the title of the homepage must be ""Infernal Affairs" steals the box office!" and other news reports.

Although some media tried to use other headlines to cool down the matter, they failed in the end. Zhou Yang's fans from all over the world did not want to let the matter cool down at all. Instead, more people rushed in to increase the heat.

The higher.

[Many theater chains deny their behind-the-scenes operations, saying they are under the orders of temporary workers!]

[The culprit of the incident is directed at Zhao Sicheng, the former director of the China Directors Guild!]

[Zhao Sicheng’s attitude was extremely arrogant. When questioned, he once threatened: “Do you have the guts to come and arrest me or extradite me? Have I broken the law? I have a US green card, what do you have?”]

【……】

Four fifteen in the morning.

When Zhao Sicheng's arrogant voice was exposed on the Internet, netizens were in disbelief at first, and then got excited and scolded Zhao Sicheng bloody on the Internet.

"Fuck you! Traitor!"

"Depend on!"

"What a fucking beast, traitor!"

“All the household registration books are gone!”

All kinds of unpleasant comments were flooded under the headlines of major Weibo, which once paralyzed Weibo.

As soon as Weibo officials saw that this matter was getting out of hand, they immediately banned countless accounts. However, the staff found that no matter how they blocked the situation, the number of curses increased, so they finally gave up and let it go.

This thing is fermenting!

"I'm afraid this matter will be upgraded to an industry incident or a social incident!"

The person in charge of the Weibo official muttered to himself after seeing this incident.

Once the anger of movie fans is ignited, it will be difficult to extinguish it for a while.

Movie fans who had nowhere to vent tried their best to find an outlet related to Zhao Sicheng, but they discovered that Zhao Sicheng's Weibo IP address itself was located in the United States, and Zhao Sicheng's family members, including some relatives, seemed to have premeditated the incident.

I went through the denaturalization procedures a year ago and moved to the United States long ago.

Fans who had nowhere to vent could only rush to the official Weibo of the China Film Association and curse.

The staff of the China Film Association could only post a clarification on Weibo, but they were still scolded by a group of angry fans.

It’s half past five in the morning!

The scolding subsided a little, and everyone's attention was attracted by another popular article.

"The fact that "Superman 2" is coming to China is aimed at "Infernal Affairs"."

"Whether it is from the film schedule, from the publicity when the movie is released, from the box office and popularity, "Infernal Affairs" is being targeted in every aspect."

"On the surface, this is a box office war, but on a deeper level, this is a premeditated culture war!"

"I wonder if you have noticed that many things around us have begun to be Westernized? Do you have a subconscious feeling that some European, American and Western things are good things, while our own things are bad things?

"

"On the one hand, we are really not up to par, and we will be beaten if we fall behind. On the other hand, haven't we thought that there is a pair of invisible hands grabbing our habits and hobbies, diverting our attention, and then, we see

Everything we see is what they want us to see, and what we hear is what they want us to hear?"

"..."

An article titled "A brief discussion of cultural invasion from "Infernal Affairs", China today and China more than a hundred years ago..." was posted on the homepage of China Weibo.

The author of the article is Zheng Changhong, a master’s student in the History Department of Yenching University.

This article captured everyone's attention as soon as it was published, making angry fans suddenly realize it, and then became even more furious.

The article uses the controversy between "Infernal Affairs" and "Superman 2" to highlight the differences and commonalities between China more than a hundred years ago and China today, and uses the filming schedule of "Superman 2" and Zhao Sicheng's arrogant attitude to reveal

It removes the veil of "culture war" and explains from a very objective perspective the plunder of Chinese culture and the import of ideology by Western culture...

In the past, when such articles appeared, no one paid much attention to them, and they were even regarded as alarmist.

However, when the "Infernal Affairs" incident emerged, this article woke up countless Chinese movie fans, feeling both sad and shocked.

Immediately afterwards, emotions were ignited like a flame, and just when there was nowhere to vent...

"The older generation of directors suppress the younger generation of directors!"

"Director Zhou and I have experienced such treatment before!"

"Some directors of the older generation have one hand covering the sky. You must follow the path they have set. Otherwise, they will suppress you."

"Do you still remember those directors who were banned? They used to be talented, but now, they have fallen into decline to some extent?"

"It's rotten, it's rotten, it's rotten to the core!"

At seven o'clock in the morning, Feng Kai posted a complaint titled "Does Chinese Film Have a Future?" on his personal Weibo!

The complaint is full of questions, almost like tearing one's skin apart, targeting the China Directors Association, and even went so far as to aggressively post the real names of some directors on Weibo.

The article was shocking and made movie fans wide-eyed. Fans who had already calmed down became angry again and rushed into the Weibo of the China Film Association again.

In just a few minutes, the Weibo account of the China Film Association was paralyzed, and eventually had to temporarily suspend reviews.

"Friends are here and there is good wine.

If the jackal comes

It was greeted with shotguns..."

August 22nd at 8:30 in the morning.

During the commercial break just after the first screening of "Superman 2", Grandma Zhang Xia's singing "My Motherland" appeared.

The song is an advertisement for Baoli mobile phone that cost nearly 20 million. However, except for the words Baoli mobile phone on the upper left corner of the advertisement, there are no pictures or videos about the mobile phone. Only Grandma Zhang Xia sings "My Motherland".

"The last few lyrics of "That Year of the Rabbit" and some classic scenes of "That Rabbit".

The movie fans sitting in the screening room were stunned for a while after hearing "My Motherland"...

Later, some movie fans stood up consciously.

Although it is no longer possible to refund tickets at this time, "Superman 2", which had once sold out the movie theaters, suddenly lost nearly a quarter of its fans when it was officially released.

The ticket windows and screening halls of "Infernal Affairs" were full, just like the grand premiere of "Infernal Affairs"!
To be continued...