It was October 1st, National Day.
The whole country welcomed a ten-day golden holiday, and the happiest was undoubtedly the domestic tourism industry. The big cake worth hundreds of billions was really tempting, and it was really worth fighting for.
However, for people living in the city, there were few people who chose to travel during the National Day holiday. There were naturally many reasons. For example, they were too tired from work, so they should have a good rest during the holiday instead of going out. Moreover, during the National Day, the tourist attractions were full, and it would be crowded if they went out.
There were also people who didn't want to spend money. Nowadays, life was so stressful, especially for people living in big cities. The daily expenses were already hard enough, and they were reluctant to spend money on this.
But they couldn't just lie at home and sleep every day during the ten-day holiday, right? Calling a few friends to go out for a meal, listening to music in a bar, or watching a movie in the cinema had become the choice of many people during the holiday.
The domestic film market, because of the National Day holiday, ushered in a small peak after the summer vacation.
And there were many movies in the cinema, among which the most eye-catching was undoubtedly the domestic martial arts film "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" and the Hollywood action blockbuster "Ace Agent". The promotion of these two movies was vigorous. Although there was no tit-for-tat competition, the fierce competition was inevitable.
For many people, they would watch both movies. Anyway, the movie tickets were not very expensive now, and they could totally afford it. Naturally, there was no difficulty in choosing.
But for another group of people, they would seriously choose what they liked, and they might only watch one movie during the whole holiday. Of course, they would watch the best one, and they would be careful not to waste their money.
Then, it was really a problem for them to watch "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" or "Ace Agent".
First, "Ace Agent", a Hollywood action blockbuster with a big cast of big stars and a fierce and explosive trailer. It was a typical popcorn American movie, and it was undoubtedly a good choice for pastime.
But in recent years, Hollywood action movies showed a trend of decline. Now, the mainstream was dominated by manga, fantasy, science fiction, and animation. In the past, Hollywood's popular action scenes swept the domestic market, but now, the domestic audience was tired of watching them, and it was very difficult to have much interest.
Of course, for a Hollywood movie like this with such a huge investment, even if the theme and plot were old-fashioned, the special effects alone would be worth the ticket price. It would not be too much of a scam.
Looking at The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, it was also a blockbuster. Although it was a domestic blockbuster, the cast was undoubtedly very strong. Lu Chen, Chen Fei'er, Liu Gangsheng, Tan Hong, together with a group of old actors and new generation actors, was naturally attractive.
Judging from the trailer, posters and stills of The Smiling, The Proud Wanderer, it should be a sincere work, which was quite attractive.
However, the problem was that the martial arts movies that were released during the summer had really hurt many audiences. They had originally come to support domestic movies and martial arts movies, hoping to see exciting new genres of movies, so they had bought tickets to enter the cinema. In the end …
What the hell were those? Magical fantasy films with special effects, terrible plots, and celebrity shows that sold their faces. It was as deceptive as it could be. Watching such movies was a waste of hard-earned money.
People could not care less about paying tens of yuan, but they could not feel that their intelligence and feelings were insulted when they paid!
Therefore, the audience who had been fooled before had doubts about The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. As for the trailer and the stills, they wouldn't believe it easily. There were so many movies where the trailer was wonderful, but the actual movie was terrible!
In comparison, they would rather watch Hollywood blockbusters, which had no plot and special effects. At least, it would not be too bad.
Compared with these ordinary audiences who were wavering, Lu Chen's fans were undoubtedly much more determined.
The fans of celebrities could be roughly divided into five types. First, there were brainless fans, which were often more extreme in their words, which were easy to be criticized by celebrities. Of course, there were also self-deprecating fans.
Second, there were die-hard fans, which were the so-called "iron rice". They were essentially very similar to brainless fans, but their willpower and actions were stronger than brainless fans, and their team spirit was very strong. The main force of a celebrity's fan support group was die-hard fans, which could be regarded as the backbone of the fan group.
Then there were rational fans, which were actually the largest number of fans. Most fans of a real star were rational fans, who would not criticize or criticize their idol. They would support their idol's film and music works, but if their idol had any scandals, they would not unconditionally protect and support their idol like brainless fans and die-hard fans.
There were also passerby fans, which could be regarded as the potential supplement of rational fans and die-hard fans. For many celebrities, how to attract a large number of passerby fans, and then turn them into rational fans and die-hard fans was undoubtedly a very important job.
Finally, there were haters. To put it bluntly, they were haters, pretending to love a certain celebrity, and using the celebrity's name to humiliate other celebrities, to attract haters for this celebrity. Some of them were even high-end haters, which were the most troublesome.
The number of Lu Chen's fans in Waves Blog had already exceeded 100 million, reaching an astonishing number of 120 million, which was the number one fan list of Waves Blog.
Of course, the number of fans in this blog was definitely fake, because many fans were sockpuppets. Although he had never spent money to buy fans, according to the normal ratio, it was already very good if the number of really valuable fans could reach 20%.
Even 20% was a very shocking number, which was basically divided into die-hard fans, rational fans, and passerby fans, which became the cornerstone of Lu Chen's support group.
Lu Jiajun was the core representative of this group of fans. When "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" began to large-scale promotional leaflets, the fan support group with Lu Jiajun as the main force carried out continuous support activities, calling on the vast number of fans to support Lu Chen, and to book the movie tickets of "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer".
Nearly 50 million pre-sales results, most of which were created by them.
On October 1st, this kind of support activities reached its peak. The fan group launched a large-scale movie watching activity through a variety of online channels such as blogs, forums, Tieba, QQ groups, etc., with the intention that "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" could make a good start on the first day of screening, and even beat strong competitors.
"I have a ticket at 10 am, Hangzhou Xisha Cinema Hall 3, who wants to go with me? The more the merrier! "
"The coordinates are Shanghai, my girlfriend and I have booked tickets for the evening, supporting Lu Chen is non-negotiable!"
"Beijing Chang 'an Cinema, see you at 7 pm, Hall 1!"
"I'm in Shancheng …"
The popularity that Lu Chen had accumulated over the years was playing a huge role. At the same time, many people in the industry were also staring at the movie market on the first day of the National Day holiday, paying attention to the collision between "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" and "Ace Agent"!
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