Chapter 255: Ratings and excitement of works by great directors
The first to be affected is "Wuji" by poet Chen.

As a benchmark for bad movies in mainland China, everyone knows that "The Promise" is bad, but no one has a clear idea of ​​how bad it is.

Now Douban has given the answer.

In just one month, nearly 400,000 people participated in the rating of "The Promise", most of whom gave it one or two stars.

Of course there are five-star ratings, but they are very few, so the final overall rating is 3.2 points.

Douban's scoring mechanism is to give a comprehensive score when it detects that more than one thousand people have participated in the scoring of a work.

If it is detected that some internet trolls have deliberately inflated the scores, the system will choose not to announce the final comprehensive score temporarily and will decide whether to announce it after manual review.

However, after manual review and evaluation, even if it is published, it will be specifically marked with the words "cautious reference".

What’s a bit laughable is that the system detected malicious scoring of “The Promise” at the beginning, but after repeated verification by the management, it was found that this was a real score.

On the contrary, the few five-star reviews given seem to be deliberately fake.

Finally, after asking for instructions, the management staff announced the comprehensive score directly without making any changes.

"The Promise" also has the lowest rating among all the movies rated on Douban.

Netizens seemed to feel relieved and started to make jokes in the comment section under "The Promise", making "The Promise" the most popular movie on Douban at the moment.

Without exaggeration or understatement, "The Promise" is bad, but not necessarily to this extent, and it is definitely not the worst.

Over the decades of Chinese-language films, there have definitely been worse films than this one, so this rating is highly subjective.

But there’s nothing we can do about it, since “The Promise” is the most famous movie.

With the support of a famous director, huge investment, a strong cast, and the attention of everyone, it ended up being a garbage that the audience couldn't understand.

As the saying goes, the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment, and the audience vented all their grievances on "The Promise".

However, what is rather strange is that "The Promise" has the lowest score among all the movies on Douban, while Chen Shishi's other movie "Farewell My Concubine" has the highest score with 9.6 points.

One person took the top spots for both the highest-rated and lowest-rated movies on Douban.

In addition to "The Promise", another movie that was played to death by movie fans was Feng Kuzi's "The Banquet".

Maybe because it is closer in time, the situation of "Night Banquet" is slightly better than that of "The Promise".

"The Banquet" also had more than 4.4 people participating in the rating, and the final overall rating was points.

Another great director Zhang Yimou's film "House of Flying Daggers", which was criticized a lot by everyone, scored 5.3 points.

Obviously, in everyone's mind, "House of Flying Daggers" is not as bad as "The Promise" and "The Banquet".

But apart from "House of Flying Daggers", Zhang Yimou's other works have received good ratings.

"Hero" 6.5 points

"Red Cliff" 7.6 points

"Red Cliff" scored 8.1 points

As for the art films he shot before, none of them scored less than seven points, the highest being "To Live", with 9.2 points.

Apart from Chen Shishi and Zhang Yimou, the ratings of several of Liu Zhou's films are pretty good.

My Sassy Girl: 8.4 points

Only You 7.8 points

The Tuner: 8.7 points

"The Swordsman" 8.1 points

The highest score is "New World", with 9.1 points, which is on par with the first part of "Infernal Affairs" and is in the top of the overall list.

When Liu Zhou had free time, he also browsed the reformed Douban.com.

He doesn't care much about the ratings of domestic films. Liu Zhou mainly wants to experience the various functions of Douban.com.

The Sina team did put in a lot of effort, and Liu Zhou did not find much that needed improvement.

However, when Liu Zhou checked the reviews of foreign films, he found that they were generally higher than those of domestic films.

It seems that there are still quite a few so-called literary youths and public intellectuals active on the Internet in China.

Of course, it is not just because of these people. In the current international environment, many people find it difficult to think rationally because of their "inferiority complex".

What's more, ratings are inherently subjective, and the platform cannot restrict them for the sake of fairness.

At the same time, we have to admit that many classic foreign films are indeed excellent and worthy of high scores.

In addition to movies, several novels written by Liu Zhou also received good ratings.

Twinkle Twinkle Star 8.1 points

"Want to See You" 8.3 points

"Better Days" 8.6 points

There are eight parts of "Ghost Blows Out the Light", and each part has a score of more than eight points.

Of course, books are basically tied to a certain author, so fans have stronger subjective consciousness, and the fairness and value of the ratings are inevitably discounted.

However, this also indirectly shows that Liu Zhou's fans are still very loyal.

This can be seen not only from Douban ratings but also from sales. Guo Xiaosi and Han Han's novels are very popular now, but Liu Zhou's youth trilogy written ten years ago is also very popular.

Moreover, as Liu Zhou's fame and status grew, the sales of his novels also increased.

As for "Ghost Blows Out the Light", it goes without saying that although it has been completed for several years, it has always been a best-seller.

So Liu Zhou hasn't written novels for four or five years, but he still received tens of millions in royalties every year in recent years.

……

In early June, the post-production of "Room" was finally completed.

All in all, the post-production of this film took nearly two months, which was longer than the shooting time.

Liu Zhou spent a lot of energy on this award-winning movie.

Liu Zhou felt that he had tried his best, and if he still missed out on some awards, he could only say it was fate.

After the production of "Room" was completed, Liu Zhou also planned to take a break for a while and then think carefully about the next science fiction blockbuster to be filmed.

Just a few days after the release of "Room", the entertainment industry was very lively.

First of all, the project of "Battle of Guandu" was completely confirmed.

On June 5, Cheng Tian, ​​China Film Group and Emperor Entertainment Group jointly announced the launch of the project for "Battle of Guandu", which was claimed to be a domestically produced film with a budget of 50 million US dollars, making it the largest investment ever made by a Chinese film.

Not only that, the project team soon announced that Hong Kong director Wu Baige would serve as the chief director, and superstars such as Chow Yun-fat, Liang Chaowei, and Takeshi Kaneshiro would join the cast.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused a huge sensation in the entertainment industry.

Although everyone knows that "The Battle of Guandu" is a follow-up to "Red Cliff", the 50 million investment is most likely just a gimmick.

But it is undeniable that this is a huge production.

It seems that there have been many big productions in the mainland in recent years, but when you actually count them, there are only a few.

Therefore, almost every big production will attract the attention of a large number of artists and management companies in the circle.

However, this time, unlike "Red Cliff", most of the main cast of "Battle of Guandu" has been reserved for Hong Kong and Taiwan stars.

Liu Zhou also briefly asked Han Shanping about this, because after "Red Cliff", Han Shanping was no longer so obsessed with Hong Kong and Taiwan stars.

The result obtained from Han Shanping was that the main control of the project "Battle of Guandu" was in Cheng Tian's hands, and China Film only held a 20% share and was responsible for distribution in mainland China.

If that's the case, it's not surprising.

To be honest, Liu Zhou is still quite looking forward to it. He wonders if Wu Baige will be able to make a cute stand up this time.

Or maybe when Cao Cao burned Yuan Shao's Wuchao granary, in order to attract Yuan Shao's attention, which beautiful woman did Cao Cao arrange to become Yuan Shao's confidante?
There are still many exciting stories in the Battle of Guandu in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", such as Guan Yu beheading Yan Liang and Wen Chou, burning Wuchao, and Xu Chu killing Xu You in anger.

It depends on whether Wu Baige will shoot it. However, in Liu Zhou's opinion, given Wu Baige's vision, it is very likely that the film will end up being about two societies fighting over territory and showing off their horses and cutting each other's swords.

I don’t know if it was because they didn’t want Cheng Tian and Wu Kebo to take all the credit, but not long after “Battle of Guandu” was announced, Huayi also announced a new project.

The sensation caused by this project announced by Huayi is even greater than that of "The Battle of Guandu".

On June 8, Huayi announced the launch of "The Forbidden Kingdom", which will be co-starred by two kung fu superstars, Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

As soon as this news came out, it caused huge heated discussion not only within the circle but also among movie fans.

Jackie Chan and Jet Li are two of the most popular Chinese stars. They used to be inseparable, but now it is unexpected that the two of them would appear in the same movie together.

Regardless of anything else, the first time that the two Js are together is enough to guarantee huge attention for this movie.

Later, Huayi also announced more details. This "The Forbidden Kingdom" was jointly produced by Huayi and Hollywood Relativity Pictures and was planned to be released globally.

This means that if you take part in this movie, you can also break into Hollywood, and even if you can't break into Hollywood, you can at least become a familiar face there.

Don’t think this is flattering. Hollywood is just that attractive to Chinese actors right now.

Otherwise, Zhang Ziyi would not have stayed in Hollywood for the past two years without returning, even if she had no roles to play.

Even though Wu Baige failed in Hollywood, he was still very successful when he returned to the mainland because he had been successful in Hollywood.

So this also adds to the appeal of this movie.

There is no need to think about the male role, as the male lead is a foreigner. With Jackie Chan and Jet Li, there is only one Jade Border God of War left, and this role has also been decided to be played by Zou Zhaolong.

The only ones that haven't been decided yet are the female lead and the supporting actress.

These two roles also attracted scramble from almost all Chinese actresses, and Zhang Ziyi even came back from Hollywood specifically to get the role of the heroine in the movie.

Fan Xiaopang also rarely called Liu Zhou and asked him for help to see if he could help her get the role.

But Liu Zhou's words left her speechless:

"Do you think Huayi will give such an important role to someone who left Huayi?"

Liu Zhou didn't need to say anything more, Fat Fan also realized that he had no hope.

But she was not discouraged. She was no longer in a situation where she wanted to make a commercial film but could not. It was just a pity that she missed out on this blockbuster.

Just when Fan Xiaopang thought that the heroine of "The Forbidden Kingdom" would be won by his former rival Li Bingbing, he unexpectedly got only the role of a supporting actress.

And this was something she and her sister Li Xue worked hard to achieve.

As for the female lead, it fell to Liu Yifei, whom no one expected.

(End of this chapter)