Chapter 689

"CIA? Are you sure the CIA took Samuel?"

After receiving a call from Shi Hao, Mai Xiaoyu couldn't believe his ears.

Samuel spent money to organize blacks to take to the streets to protest against this man from earth, which was directed by him in order to expand the publicity and influence of the film.

The film "this man comes from the earth", produced by Meng Ren and released by Hualong film, was released in North America in mid July.

This film is not the kind of film full of excitement and emotion, which is easy for the audience to get cool. Due to the soft science fiction and the promotion of pure dialogue, the plot is slightly dull. Although the speculation in Cannes in May and June was very lively, the box office has been tepid since its release in North America.

300 screens were released at the same time, with a box office of more than 2 million at the first weekend, and the average single screen recorded less than $8000 at the weekend.

This achievement is quite good for domestic films distributed overseas.

Considering the production and publicity cost of the film and the division of American cinemas, the box office performance of more than 2 million at the first weekend can ensure that Mengren and Hualong film can easily recover all investment costs and profits through the box office.

Considering the video market, the expected return on investment of this film with an investment of tens of thousands of dollars may be quite amazing.

But Mai Xiaoyu was not satisfied.

The United States is the world's film industry. Black people demonstrate to boycott films. It is a good publicity gimmick that the media will not miss.

As for news reports, it doesn't matter whether they are praised or belittled. What we want is fame and popularity!

Some media went online and said that the film was a conspiracy of Chinese people, which just fooled some curious Americans into the cinema to buy tickets and watch movies and contribute to the box office.

The second is the opposition between white and black Americans.

Just as it has always advertised democracy and freedom, the United States has always advertised that there is no racial discrimination in the country, but the blind can see the opposition between whites and blacks.

American traditional culture believes that only inferior and vulnerable nationalities don't care about blood, so there is a drop of blood principle of "famous".

According to this principle: for whites, as long as their ancestors have a little non white blood, you are not white; For blacks, as long as you have a little black blood, you are black.

Eric Hoddle, the former Attorney General of the United States, is the first black to take up this position. Even in a high position, he had to warn his 17-year-old child not to go out late at night, because he didn't know what would happen if he met the police.

Because you are black, in front of the white police, "my father is Li Gang" doesn't work well.

"Black" and "white" are clear!

This is America.

A commodity, from cars to toys, that blacks buy and use more, may lose white customers; In a school, the proportion of black students is too high, which is likely to lead to the collective transfer of white students; If a newly opened community is pre sold to several blacks, it may be protested by the pre purchased whites.

This is good. There are still some extreme whites in the United States.

Samuel organized a black demonstration to protest against the boycott of the film "this man comes from the earth", which may lead these white Americans to go to the cinema to watch the film, and then spontaneously publicize the film. In Amway, a circle of white friends, he advocated the ideology and connotation of the film, and used a sarcastic tone to prove that blacks are born with low IQ.

Uh... Do you think no white people would do that?

Money makes the devil grind!

Mai Xiaoyu can buy blacks, and Shi Hao can find someone to buy whites!

In fact, Hualong film only dredged some American media, and Shi Hao didn't buy white people.

The opposition between black and white in the United States is rising, and shooting incidents between different skin colors occur frequently. Is it a big deal for extremist whites to ridicule and humiliate blacks through a film?

The white people who do that are spontaneous, otherwise the small black parade on the scale of 100 people can be watched by the CIA?

In addition to the above two points, one thing is very important - Christianity is flourishing in the United States.

There are many Christian denominations in the United States, including Catholicism, Baptist Church, Methodism, Lutheran Church, Presbyterian Church, and non sectarian Christians. No matter how different the doctrines of various Christian schools are, there is one thing in common, that is, Christ Jesus.

This film is in line with the American spirit of "doubting everything". You can doubt whether it is history, biology or religious belief. But after watching the film, Christians will be affected more or less.

Heresy!

Satan!

devil!

Oriental conspiracy!

Want to subvert our religious culture!

At first, similar tones spread only on a small scale.

However, Samuel took the lead in organizing a parade, thought that the film was blasphemous against Christ and called for a boycott of the film.

No one knows which Christian sect the more than 100 blacks in the parade belong to, but others have done so. As a devout believer, if you don't say anything, are you still willing to face the Lord?

The voice of Christians was heard in the American religious media.

At this moment, Christian sects put aside their past grievances and denounced this heretical film from China.

The question is, do you have to go to the cinema before you denounce?

It's best to find the logical loopholes in the film, pierce the heresy in public and safeguard the glory of Jesus.

But the logical loopholes in the film are hard to find. If you can't find them once, do you have to watch more?

Therefore, Mai Xiaoyu's asking Samuel to hire black people to march is definitely a highly cost-effective publicity method of "more", "faster", "better" and "saving".

But——

Things are out of control!

Like Cannes in May and June, it's out of control again!

There are more and more voices of "Chinese threat theory" in the media; The antagonism between whites and blacks is rising gradually; Christian sects claim "religious conspiracy"; The 20-year-old media of professional black China in Europe is rising again

Because of a film and a small parade of more than 100 blacks, this summer vacation, the American film world was a little chaotic, but it was not a little chaotic in the United States. Demonstrations broke out in many places.

Extreme whites organized a parade, believing that their attitude towards the film showed the existence of black groups and lowered the pressure of the greater United States of America.

Blacks organized demonstrations to protest against white racial discrimination and demand to improve their treatment.

Christian sects organize parades to spread the gospel of the Lord and eliminate the negative impact of heretical films.

Mexican American organizations marched and shouted for naturalization and asked the U.S. government to recognize their legal U.S. citizenship.

Animal protection associations organize parades, gay and lesbian organizations, environmental protection organizations and anti war organizations... Many groups took the opportunity to organize parades to claim their rights and interests and ask for solutions.

Most of the demonstrations have nothing to do with the film, but this chaos comes from a film - "this man comes from the earth".

Can Movies be so powerful?

Don't be kidding!

They are all old drivers. Who doesn't know who!

Only when it is linked to politics will it cause Sao chaos!

In this situation, can the CIA not intervene?

CIA is one of the three major intelligence agencies in the United States. In the American intelligence system, it is the only independent intelligence department, which shows the importance of the agency in the United States.

The involvement of the CIA also shows the importance the United States attaches to this matter.

American officials have sent notes to the Chinese Embassy in the United States, but they don't pay enough attention to it?

However, the Chinese Embassy in the United States said that we do not understand.

You said "this man is from Earth"?

That's a movie.

Movies without borders!

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Every time Samuel organizes a parade, Mai Xiaoyu asks Shi Hao to send someone to supervise.

No way, the irreconcilable contradiction between black and white, the responsibility is not entirely on the white, and the black themselves have problems.

For example, the laziness of black people at the bottom, NIMA's money collection parade, and she can sneak to smoke big hemp halfway through. Isn't that lazy?

When the CIA showed their documents to take Samuel away, the people sent by Shi Hao saw it clearly and took photos!

After listening to Shi Hao's story quietly, Mai Xiaoyu smacked his mouth: "I wipe, is this being shot again?"

That's not true!

Anything, once linked to politics, is easy to get out of control.

This was the case in Cannes, and this time it was obviously someone... Er, it should be said that there were external forces who made things bigger by fishing in troubled waters through the "this man comes from Earth" and the way of demonstration and publicity proposed by Mai Xiaoyu!

I said, why hasn't this man from Earth been reported in China

Mai Xiaoyu doesn't care what the purpose of those forces is.

Out of control, out of control, not out of control; Be a gunman, just be a gunman. Anyway, it's OK when the box office comes up!

Since Samuel began to organize black demonstrations and protests, the box office of this man from earth has risen all the way. By the end of July, it had been released for more than two weeks, with more than 1300 screens, and the box office has exceeded $50 million.

At this rate, it should not be a problem for the North American box office to exceed 100 million when the film goes offline.

As for the others... It's the United States. Does chaos have half a dime to do with him?

Mai Xiaoyu doesn't care, Shi Hao can't. Hualong film is an American company founded by Chinese people!

"Mr. Mai, what do you do next? Do you want to stop?"

Huh?

Mai Xiaoyu frowned, meditated for half a minute, and said, "why do you stop? Someone took me as a gun. I don't want to make more money at the box office, it won't be a loss."

"It's too chaotic now. It's seriously out of your plan. Even the CIA is involved."

Sure enough!

Mai Xiaoyu had a judgment in his heart: "I just want to make more money at the box office. I didn't expect things to develop to the present level. I also want to stop, but stop now. Doesn't it just mean that our motivation is impure?"

"What do you mean?"

"Go on. It doesn't matter if Samuel is captured by the CIA. I can find someone else. I can't refuse if someone insists on taking my boat. I can't even charge for the ticket? In this way, when the box office exceeds 80 million, I'll stop."

At the end of the call, Shi Hao looked at the two white men in front of him and shrugged: "you heard that we are the most innocent in this matter. It's just a propaganda means of the film, and the consequences are not what we want."

"It doesn't matter if you're innocent. We CIA will investigate ourselves."

"Please help yourself. But I suggest you first understand the background of our Hualong film industry, and don't think that we Hualong film industry will bear the blame for your incompetence."

"Are you threatening?"

"No, it's a reminder."

After the CIA left, Shi Hao breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Mai Xiaoyu quickly understood his hint. At the same time, he wondered whether his background would be the relevant domestic departments?

At the same time, Mai Xiaoyu also lamented: there are so many political hooligans