From May to August of 2000, "The Lord of the Rings III: The Return of the King" finally created a miracle with a global total box office of 2.021 billion US dollars, which was twice the total box office of the other world.
What made many people sigh was that "The Lord of the Rings III: The Return of the King" still did not break the global box office record set by "Titanic". This record may be difficult to be broken in 10 years.
At the end of August, "The Lord of the Rings III: The Return of the King" quietly ended. Another movie carefully prepared by the Daqian, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Yellow Turban Rebellion" seamlessly began to be released worldwide.
For this movie, the Daqian originally planned to release it worldwide. However, because of the censorship problem in the United States, it was finally released in Hua Xia and Fusang. The United States delayed the release by five days.
This movie was also a work of countless painstaking efforts and energy of the Daqian film industry. Not to mention the shooting, the total investment of the six movies was as high as 1.2 billion US dollars, which was an unprecedented huge investment in the world.
Secondly, in terms of publicity, from the beginning of the movie, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Yellow Turban Rebellion" had begun all over the world, and a month before the release, all kinds of publicity reached the peak and extreme.
First of all, more than 100 million US dollars of publicity funds were spent on the global market, so that the various United States media and magazines that were not interested in Hua Xia movies, as well as various film critics, praised this movie, saying that it was the best Hua Xia movie in history.
Then, there were various pre-screenings of the movie, inviting filmmakers and audiences from all over the world to try it in advance. The result was also very good. It was said that the average score of the pre-screenings was as high as 9.6, which was the same score as "Titanic". Therefore, there was no doubt that the audience all over the world was looking forward to this movie.
Then, on September 1, the movie was released in Hua Xia and Fusang at the same time.
As soon as the movie was released, it directly made history in the two countries. Among them, Hua Xia broke the record of 100 million US dollars on the first day of the movie. In history, this record was delayed until 2014, when it was broken by "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven".
In the end, this world achieved it in the year 2000.
First of all, it was naturally because "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was too famous in China. All the cast of the TV version had returned, and there was also a global investment of 1.2 billion USD in special effects and real war scenes. Furthermore, Daqian Entertainment had a huge influence in the entertainment industry, so almost all the stars were helping to promote this movie.
However, the most important thing was that the GDP of Hua Xia in this world in 2000 had already reached the GDP of the other world in 2006. The national film industry also recovered in advance. There were four or five large companies investing in cinema chains, so the number of movie screens began to rise.
With all these advantages added together, this was the first movie in the history of Hua Xia to break the 100 million US dollars on the first day of the movie.
On the other hand, Fusang's first-day box office also broke the 100 million US dollars mark. After all, the popularity of the Three Kingdoms in Fusang was not inferior to the popularity of the Warring States period. The Daqian Entertainment also had a huge influence in Fusang, and the Japanese version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms TV series was very popular. With all these factors combined, the Fusangpeople were surprised to find that the first movie in their history to break the 1 billion US dollars on the first day of the movie was actually a foreign movie.
However, what happened next was beyond everyone's expectations.
In Hua Xia, ever since the box office broke the 100 million mark on the first day, no other movie broke the 100 million mark. Then, the box office began to decline very quickly. Finally, on the fifth day, the single-day box office was only 30 million RMB, and the total box office was less than 300 million RMB. According to the experience of industry insiders, the final box office result could only be about 500 million RMB.
Of course, this was already history for Hua Xia movies. 500 million RMB box office was enough to become the champion of Hua Xia movies. The overall champion was Titanic with a total box office of 800 million RMB.
This result was definitely not shameful at all. In fact, it was something that could be explained. However, what worried many of the thousands of people out there was that the reviews within the country were all negative.
[The worst movie ever made.]
[Adaptation is not nonsense. I don't admit that this is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.]
[The invasion of western culture gave birth to this yellow-skinned, white-boned Romance of the Three Kingdoms.]
News reports such as these were incessant. According to the Daqian Entertainment's own investigation, many Hua Xia people were also very dissatisfied with this movie. The reason was very simple. As the headlines of these three news reports said, this movie was too different from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel, for example, the Oath of the Peach Garden that everyone was familiar with, did not start with the Oath of the Peach Garden. Instead, it created a plot where Liu Bei retreated from the Yellow Turban before starting with the Oath of the Peach Garden. This made many people feel very uncomfortable when they read it.
In addition, there were many adaptations that were not originally in the original work. Among them, the one that caused the most disgust among the audience was the final battle of Guangzong.
As the final battle, the battle of Guangzong was really a bit unexpected.
Not only did Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Jian become good friends in the battle of Guangzong, but they also vowed to support the Han Dynasty together. They had a lot of interactions. Zhang Jiao, who had already died of illness, was still alive in the final battle.
Moreover, he really knew some f * cking sorcery. He could cast beans to become soldiers, spray water to become fire, control corpses, and even make things like heavenly thunder. It was completely a battle of magic.
There was also the appearance of Lu Bu at the end. He could be said to be like a god. It made the audience feel that they had never seen the Romance of the Three Kingdoms before. Naturally, they were very dissatisfied with the movie and felt that the movie ruined the original work.
Also, the movie described the Yellow Turban Army as very cruel. They killed people, destroyed families, and killed people for fun. It simply did not look like something a human would do. Was this still a rebel army?
This kind of feeling was very normal. After all, all the adaptations of famous novels in the future would receive similar criticism.
However, Boss Jia felt very wronged. In fact, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Yellow Turban Army only had one chapter. It was obviously not enough to make a movie with one chapter. It needed to be made up for by the plot.
Secondly, if you watched the movie with the original work, you would find that the movie did not actually delete the original work. The content of the original work was basically restored in the movie.
For example, the Oath of the Peach Garden at the beginning of the movie, followed by the battle between Cheng Yuanzhi and Deng Mao, followed by Lu Zhi and saving Dong Zhuo's life, and the final battle of burning Guangzong and killing Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao. These were all scenes from the original novel, and they were all presented without missing a single detail.
The movie only filled in these thin scenes with a lot of plot.
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