Assassins, one of the oldest professions in human history.

This ancient industry is known to the vast majority of people, both in the East and in the West – although most people in modern times think it's just a legend.

The earliest professional assassins in China appeared during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Among them, the most famous is of course the four assassins who "die for the confidant", and the most famous of the four assassins is Jing Ke, who is "the wind is sluggish and the water is cold, and the strong man will never return"! And as soon as he thinks of Jing Ke, Sun Peng's mind will unconsciously pop up with an image of a crooked head holding a radio......

In the Western world, the Assassin appeared very early, dating back to the Bible, but the professional Assassin was much later, probably a product of the Crusades.

And what really made the Assassin profession brilliant was the modern film industry.

"For example, your movie League of Assassins!"

After discussing the topic of assassins, Sun Qicheng put down the cup in his hand, nodded and smiled: "It's an interesting setting, and it's also a qualified commercial movie!" But as you said, the Assassins are just an ancient profession, and they may have left their name in history, but they are ...... to history itself."

"You have to admit that it still works, right?"

"Well, maybe a little!"

Looking at Sun Peng, who had a serious face, Sun Qicheng frowned and said, "But for the long history, the role of assassins may have some impact in a short period of ten years, but in a period of one hundred years, three hundred years, or five hundred years, it is almost meaningless...... It's like the presidents of the United States who died because of assassinations, can they really affect the development process of that country? ”

"Uh......"

Rolling his eyes, Sun Peng did not continue to speak.

Well, he had to admit that a person's influence on history is limited after all, at least Lincoln's death certainly did not have much impact on American history.

"So ......"

Seeing that Sun Peng seemed to accept his argument, the uncle picked up the cup again, smiled at his nephew and said, "Tell me, why did you write such a script?" And give it the name "Hero"? Let's talk about ......"

……

Just when Sun Peng and Uncle were enjoying dinner and discussing their new script, it was the first day of the official release of "Truman's World".

Of course, it was actually the next day.

Although it is stated that the official release began at 0:00 last night, in fact, many movie theaters have arranged one in advance, about 9 o'clock to 10 o'clock. So when the time came to ten o'clock on Friday night, the movie had actually been on for a full 24 hours.

The box office figure is an astonishing 290 million Chinese coins!

The local box office in China is much worse than that of "League of Assassins", even with Liang Ren, the big brother in the film industry, and Lao Bai joining forces, but "League of Assassins" also has Lang Chen and Lin Lin, and even Xue Ligang, a new big guy, to support the scene!

And the box office is not as good as Sun Peng's new film, which is also reasonable.

In fact, whether it is the evaluation of the producers or the predictions of major film professional institutions, this is basically the result. There are even radical film critics who conclude that because Lao Bai, the director and screenwriter, is on the cusp of Lao Bai, the domestic box office will be at least half higher than that of "Truman's World"! If the latter performs even worse, maybe it will be doubled......

However, the situation is different overseas!

Perhaps because "League of Assassins" is a purely Chinese movie, while "Truman's World" was created by Hollywood, and even the important supporting actor is Fujiwara, the box office of this film directly surpassed "League of Assassins" in Europe, America and Japan - only in a few countries and regions such as Southeast Asia and South Korea, Sun Peng's films have not been able to do it.

In North America alone, under the promotion of Hollywood studios at no cost, the box office in the first weekend was 45 million US dollars, which is a big cut beyond "League of Assassins"! And on the major rating websites, "League of Assassins" is just a "masterpiece", but "Truman's World" has directly jumped into the ranks of "classics"!

So in order to make "League of Assassins" earn $100 million at the box office in North America, or even more, Lotus and the Forbidden City each spent another $5 million on publicity, just trying to capture the vane of the world film market, but those professional Hollywood box office forecasting agencies have adjusted the final box office of "Truman's World" to more than $250 million!

In other words, the North American box office of "Truman's World" is at least more than double that of "League of Assassins......

……

What does this mean? This shows that people prefer movies with depth! ”

Talking about the news he just saw, Uncle Sun Qicheng said excitedly: "Not only do people like it only by fighting and killing, but a good film like "Truman's World" will definitely have a higher box office!" ”

“……”

Seeing the uncle's excited appearance, Sun Peng's mouth twitched and he didn't speak.

The box office results were a bit of a surprise to him, but it seems reasonable when you think about it carefully - of course, it is definitely not the kind of "certainty" that Uncle said. In fact, as long as he thinks about it a little, Sun Peng can figure out the reason for this situation.

The influence accumulated by Liang Ren for more than ten years has really come into play!

There is no doubt that whether at home or abroad, people in the film industry seem to put Lao Bai and Liang Ren on the same level. Although the latter is more famous and older, with Lao Bai's amazing performance in the script and soundtrack in recent years, everyone's interest in investing in him surpasses that of Big Brother in the film industry!

But for ordinary fans, Liang Ren is still the number one person in the Chinese film industry.

And what is more important is the type of movie - although "Truman's World" is a drama, the core is Hollywood, and most of the actors and directors are Hollywood, and it is natural that the box office is high; Although "League of Assassins" is an action movie, and the core is also Hollywood, the actors and directors are all Chinese, and the cloak of the story is also the combination of Chinese martial arts culture and bullets and flying cars, which is a natural weakness!

So it's unfair to compare it with the overseas box office.

If you really want to compare, in fact, the domestic box office in China is relatively fairer. Other conditions are relatively balanced, perhaps the comparison of the first weekend box office numbers is the contrast between the attractiveness of commercial action films and feature films.

It's just that a layman like Uncle certainly won't understand.

So after seeing Sun Peng silent, the old man became more and more excited, and said urgently: "So, Xiaopeng, I don't think you need to worry too much at all!" The movie "Hero", my opinion is that it can be made more in-depth and show more of the complex side of human nature......"