Chapter 437: Kun virus rages again
"Use sacrifice to prove our courage; is there anything more terrifying than death? Is there anything more invincible than bullets..."
Xu Kun and Feng Xiaogang stood side by side on one side of the stage, listening to Huang Xiaoming and Deng Chao singing the theme of "Assembly" without any tacit understanding. It felt like the two of them were about to drop the microphones and start a passionate fight in the next second.
What’s even more ironic is that the song is called “Brothers”.
Now that I think about it, it’s a good thing that I turned down the position of lead singer, otherwise I would be stuck in the middle and embarrassed.
Xu Kun was daydreaming when Qin Lan from behind him suddenly pushed him. He looked up and saw that the two people on the stage had finished their clumsy performance.
He quickly adjusted his facial expression, and at the same time, he heard Feng Xiaogang taking a deep breath.
“Thank you Huang Xiaoming and Deng Chao for your wonderful performance. Next, let’s welcome the main creative staff of “Assembly”. Director Feng Xiaogang!”
Feng Xiaogang strode onto the stage, applauding and nodding to the audience.
The next people to be invited to the stage were producer Chen Guofu and chief producer Wang Zhonglei, and fourth was the deputy director and male lead supervisor Xu Kun.
However, he also enjoyed the greatest applause and cheers.
After the main creative staff came on stage one after another, Feng Xiaogang gave a moving speech on behalf of everyone, and then it was time for interactive questions.
The first few were obviously arranged by Huayi. The questions they asked cannot be said to be boring, but they can only be said to be too stereotyped.
Things gradually got chaotic afterwards. Some people grabbed the microphone to ask about Feng Xiaogang's poisoning incident, and some asked Wang Zhonglei who he thought was the number one star of Huayi.
Some people also asked Xu Kun how he predicted the US CD crisis.
"cough~"
Hearing this question, Xu Kun picked up the microphone with a serious face, cleared his throat, and then said: "Please don't ask anything that is not related to the movie. Thank you - next one!"
Although he said this, some people still asked some miscellaneous questions afterwards.
About half an hour later, the microphone was transferred from the media area to the audience.
As a result, the little girl who grabbed the microphone first stood up and burst into tears. After a while, she wiped her tears and shouted: "Brother Kun, thank you. If it weren't for you, our family would have gone bankrupt!"
As he said this, he bowed hard towards the stage, and his head almost touched the audience in the front row.
Everyone on the stage looked at each other in bewilderment, and only Xu Kun knew the truth about this - although this was not something he had deliberately arranged, he had already received news of it from LeTV in advance.
Xu Kun raised the microphone and said with a smile: "Is there anyone in your family who is investing in stocks? Since you didn't get stuck, you must have made some money. You should be happy if you made money."
The girl burst into laughter, then wiped her tears and said, "In mid-September, I saw you, Brother Kun, predicting that the stock market would collapse in the group chat, so I forced my father to sell his stocks. He was reluctant at first, but then I... He finally sold them on October 9rd, and the stock market crash happened a few days later!"
It turns out that I successfully escaped the top, no wonder I was so excited.
When she suddenly became confused in the middle of her words, Xu Kun knew that she would probably use the method of crying, making a fuss and then threatening to commit suicide.
The Aikuns who successfully saved their families from disaster basically did this, and those who were not resolute enough basically failed - after all, except for a few daughter-slaves, which gambler would easily give up the opportunity to speculate because of a word from his daughter's idol?
Xu Kun smiled and said, "Although I am very happy for you and your family, I still say that, please don't ask about things that are not related to the movie, thank you."
The girl wanted to say something, but the man next to her snatched the microphone away. The man said excitedly, "It's related, it's related, Director Xu, I am her father, and when the movie is officially released, I will bring all my relatives to the cinema to support your movie. At least they have to buy fifty... no, a hundred tickets!"
It seems that this person has made a lot of money. But it is normal, the tickets for the premiere are not cheap, and those who can buy tickets with their daughter must be rich.
After the man finished speaking, more than a dozen people stood up and responded, apparently having similar experiences.
This scene was also recorded by reporters on the scene and became the headline of the entertainment section the next day.
On December 12, "Assembly" was released nationwide.
On the day of its release, it broke the record just set by "Transformers" in China, and the box office in the first week reached a huge record of 9344 million, second only to the 9600 million record of "Curse of the Golden Flower" and surpassing the 8000 million box office of "The Warlords".
Although the plot has caused some controversy, the overall reputation is quite good, especially the Douban score remains high. Although it has not reached the level of foreign films getting one extra point, it has obviously received a certain degree of preferential treatment.
At the same time, new banners and slogans from fans of Kun appeared at the entrances of many cinemas across the country: Brother Kun, our whole family is here to watch a movie~!
According to media statistics, the Aikun fans from all over the country alone contributed more than 2000 million to the first week box office of "Assembly" - the first week box office of "Assembly" in the original time and space was 7000 million.
Although this is not a fan movie, Xu Kun's box office appeal has been demonstrated once again, so much so that the saying "Kun virus is rampant" has been brought up again.
Unlike "Lost on Journey", Xu Kun's performance this time also received great recognition. The vast majority of film critics and audiences believed that he created a flesh-and-blood tough guy image on the screen.
Especially the scene in the film where Guzidi uses his last artillery shell to fire against the enemy tank.
When Guzidi, covered in blood, slowly adjusted the muzzle of the gun in the midst of the artillery fire and pulled the fuse with a curse, many viewers said that they seemed to see boundless murderous intent and raging rage in Guzidi's eyes.
Some people even created a post on the forum to discuss whether this was some special effect.
So when Xu Kun went on roadshows in various places, he had to show the audience his little eye-changing tricks again and again through live screen projection, and each time he would win applause from the audience.
The praise for his acting skills was also rampant. Audiences and film critics generally believed that his acting skills surpassed those of Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming. Even Zhang Hanyu unconsciously seemed to be a little weaker when facing him.
However, the most discussed post about his acting skills on the Internet was not the scene where he fired the cannon, but the scene where Guzidi tried to dig out the remains of his comrades in the coal yard.
After watching the video, one netizen posted: "Brother Kun is really awesome. Even his coal-digging movements seem like they were specially practiced. As a coal-digger, I can't find any fault with him."
[Netizen A: You must be a new fan. Who among the old fans doesn’t know that Brother Kun is a professional coal miner? ]
[Netizen B: You must be a new fan. Old fans, who doesn’t know that Brother Kun likes to kill people in the mines? ]
[Netizen C: You must be a new fan. Who among the old fans doesn’t know that Brother Kun likes to send people back to their hometown? ]
[Netizen D: A new fan, right? Old fans, who doesn’t know that Kun Ge likes to explore the potential of actresses? ]
[Netizen E: You must be a new fan. Old fans, who doesn’t know that Kun Ge likes to play with the double swallow set the most? ]
[Netizen F: You must be a new fan. As an old fan, everyone knows...]
Various memes appeared one after another below, and Kun Ge’s scandals were endless. As the popularity of the movie continued to increase, this post had more than 2,000 layers of pages.
Until the 24th, the theme song of "Assembly" won an award at the 2007 MTV Awards - it was the awkward chorus at the beginning of this chapter.
When the crew went to the scene to promote the film, Deng Chao suddenly shouted when accepting the award: "Miss Sun, I love you, I want to put the trophy in your bathroom!"
Thanks to the complete exposure of the relationship, Xu Kun's popularity was temporarily overshadowed.
(End of this chapter)
