The movie of the Investiture of the Gods was basically based on the Investiture of the Gods novel, but the Daqian scriptwriters had an idea, which was to unite the Avengers universe and the Investiture of the Gods universe in the future.
They believed that there would be a huge market for a movie like "The Investiture of the Gods vs. the Avengers".
This was not just an idea in their minds, but something that was actually being implemented. The professional scriptwriters of the Daqian have begun to leave interfaces in the plot of the Investiture of the Gods and the Avengers.
For example, in the Investiture of the Gods movie series, the six Saints were changed to seven Saints. In addition to Nuwa, the Three Pure Ones, Zhunti, and Jie Yin, there was a mysterious Saint that was not mentioned.
In the Avengers movie series, many characters also expressed that some disasters did not dare to go to Asia, as if there was something terrible in Asia.
According to the scriptwriters' plan, they wanted to arrange a Saint for the West, but this Saint was sealed and needed to be unsealed. The story of the Investiture of the Gods and the Avengers would revolve around the unsealing of this Saint.
In order to make this foreshadowing more long-term and natural, in "Investiture of the Gods 1", the movie used the mouth of Taiyi Zhenren to say such a line, "In fact, there is an extremely terrifying Saint in the West, who was sealed by the three teachers. If he is unsealed, I am afraid it will be a terrible disaster!"
This line sounded very normal, it was just an ambush for the seventh Saint, and this foreshadowing was buried very deep, even the identity of this Saint was not revealed. After ordinary people heard it, at most, there would be a suspense in their hearts, and they would not consider anything else at all.
However, there were some people who quickly made an unusual discovery.
"Who is the Sealed Saint? A Vicious Plan! " This article first appeared in the New York Times, and the writer of this article was a famous film critic and analyst, who said in this article.
He watched the entire Investiture of the Gods movie series and found that the so-called Saints were actually the leaders of various East Asian sects.
For example, the Three Pure Ones were the leaders of Taoism.
Nuwa was the leader of the traditional ancestor worship of Hua Xia.
And Zhunti and Jie Yin were the leaders of Buddhism.
Then the question was, the remaining seventh Saint, according to this routine, should also be a religious leader, and he could only be the leader of the two major religions, the Green Religion and the Bishop.
At this point, the film critic was furious.
First of all, why was there no Taoism among the three major religions in the world, but Taoism had three Saints?
There were also two Buddhists, but the remaining two religions only had one Saint. This was blatant discrimination. It was the discrimination of the Hua Xia and Daqian movies against Westerners and Western religions.
Also, if the two religions only had one Saint, wouldn't that be sowing discord between the two religions and making their believers hostile to each other?
Finally, the great Emperor X was invincible. Emperor X created the world and he should be the most powerful existence. Any so-called saint should crawl at the feet of Emperor X and not be on equal footing with him.
In short, the Daqian's "Investiture of the Gods" series was a movie that insulted Western beliefs. It was a vicious knife. Whoever liked such a movie was not worthy of being a Westerner!
At the same time, the film critic began to call for everyone to come out and boycott the Daqian movie. He wanted the movie to be banned immediately, and at the same time, severely punished the Daqian.
With the publication of this article, it was almost a re-enactment of the story from a year ago. All the offline media began to make a fuss. Hundreds of articles analyzed and condemned the Daqian movie from various angles. They tried their best to exaggerate that it was a movie that slandered beliefs.
In the Western world, you could jump off a building, kill people, and shoot people, but you could never insult their beliefs. Otherwise, it would be a war-level provocation. So soon, many angry people began to hurl insults at the Daqian movie.
This time, the Daqian movie reacted quickly. The CEO of the Daqian movie, Jon Landau, urgently issued a statement saying that the seventh Saint mentioned in the movie "Investiture of the Gods" was not a real religious god, nor was it involved with any religion. It was a completely fictional existence.
The Daqian movie has always loved and respected people with beliefs all over the world, and has always maintained high respect and reverence for the Great Gods. We have absolutely no intention of slandering any existence.
In the end, Jon Landau helplessly said that no one could judge that the Daqian movie had insulted anyone just based on a line that did not identify any identity. This was a groundless accusation, and it was also something that the Daqian could not bear.
This statement was written very well, and the attitude was also very good, but the offline media turned a blind eye to it and still tried their best to exaggerate and slander the Daqian movie.
Of course, the Internet was immediately controlled, and a large number of clarification articles were posted. Many netizens expressed their understanding and reprimanded the film critics for making groundless accusations.
But it was useless. Just like Rector Morgan could not influence the Internet, the Daqian could not influence the Western offline media.
And after about a year of thinking, Rector Morgan also became enlightened. He found that he could not fight with the Daqian in public opinion. Instead, they should fight each other and seize the offline media's publicity.
After all, more than half of the world's people had no access to the Internet. They could only get news through the real media.
And these people were generally conservative. They would not easily go to the streets to protest for some reason, which led to the previous incident. It felt like the Daqian had won in public opinion, but in fact, it was because the silent majority remained silent, and young people liked to make trouble in the streets, which made Rector Morgan fail.
But this time, Rector Morgan found a way to mobilize these silent majority, because the more conservative and old-fashioned people were, the more they could not accept their beliefs being insulted. This was their G-spot, and they would fight for their beliefs!
Sure enough, Rector Morgan won this time. When these silent majority saw that their beliefs were despised like this, all kinds of protests broke out, and they were more intense than ever before.
Soon, the major movie theaters all over the world announced that they would stop screening "Investiture of the Gods 1" and take it down as soon as possible.
It had only been a week since the release of the movie.
In the end, the movie "Investiture of the Gods 1", which was supposed to have a box office of at least 600 million USD in a certain country, only earned less than 200 million USD in a certain country.
At the same time, the results of the global release were also affected. Almost all parts of the world except for Asia were stopped.
And this also became one of the few Daqian movies that lost money. Because the production cost was huge, it required more than 200 million USD at the box office to recover. Including the share, the Daqian had to have a box office of 400 million USD in the preliminaries, so the Daqian lost a lot.
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