Chapter 140: Impact of Billion
The movie "The Matrix 2" is more than two hours long. The visual images are super shocking and the plot twists are also amazing.

When Neo took the locksmith's key and opened the door of light, he finally saw the white-haired Matrix designer in the room where the walls were full of TVs playing Neo.

The designer said frankly that he had been waiting for Neo for a long time!

The current matrix is ​​actually the sixth version. The first two versions were designed to be perfect matrices.

But because humans have emotions, the system became unstable and eventually the first two versions collapsed.

No matter how perfect the design is, there will always be a small number of people who doubt the reality of the world, and then wake up and escape from the matrix to build human cities.

In order to make the system stable, designers allow defects or anomalies to exist in the system. When the anomalies accumulate to a large enough level, they will be upgraded to eliminate these accumulated anomalies.

Neo himself is actually an aggregate of system anomalies. When the anomalies accumulate to the point where the system may collapse, the savior will be summoned here and asked to choose to save humanity.

The human city was destroyed, and Neo rebuilt it with a small number of survivors.

In the predetermined selection process, Neo can either choose the door on the right, return to the source code, restart the system, and rebuild Zion.

Either choose the door on the left and return to the matrix, the system crashes, and humanity perishes.

But at this moment, Trinity went to the Matrix alone to save Neo, and was unfortunately shot and was about to fall to death.

Neo resolutely chose the door on the left, transformed into Superman and rushed out of the exploding building, rescuing Trinity who was shot and fell from the building at an astonishing speed.

Neo in the Matrix world is like a god. He took out the bullet from Trinity's body and performed a heart pacemaker operation on her with his bare hands, saving her life...

When the film ended, the audience was still shocked by the film's grand setting and stunning images.

This reversal was so unexpected. I originally thought that the ending would be Neo entering the core of the Matrix, eliminating the Designer, saving Zion, and saving humanity.

Little did they know that the purpose of the "savior"'s existence was just to "patch" the system.

I would never have thought of this before I walked into the cinema!
The shock of the guests and the audience lasted only a few seconds before they broke into warm applause.

The beautiful host came on stage and invited Jiang Heng to talk with the audience.

"Congratulations, Director Jiang, for making another great film. To be honest, before I came here, I thought that this film might not be as good as the first one. But I never expected that both the plot and the visual scenes would be completely upgraded.

In a series of movies, it is actually a low probability event that the second movie exceeds the first one. Can you tell the audience how you did it? "

Jiang Heng smiled and said to the beautiful host: "Read less rumors in tabloids in the future!" The audience burst into laughter.

Jiang Heng sighed, "Hearing you guys laughing like that, I know you've seen a lot of it!" The guests and the audience laughed again.

"There is indeed a rule in the film industry, that is, sequels tend to be bad. The reason is simple, because when the first film was made, no sequel was considered. Only after the film was released and sold well at the box office did they think of making a sequel.

As a result, when they tried to set the plot again, they found that they were limited by the settings of the first part, and it was not easy to make a sequel that could match the previous one.

This is not the case with The Matrix. In fact, the scripts for the trilogy were all written five years ago. The number of settings and stories to be told in each film were all calculated in advance.

This trilogy is three movies, but from the overall story point of view, it is actually one movie.

The first part is the beginning, and the second part is the development, so whether in terms of story setting or visual effects, the second part is far superior to the first one. I believe the same is true in terms of box office!"

After he finished speaking, there was silence for a few seconds, and then there was even more enthusiastic applause.

The guests’ first reaction was that Jiang Heng’s pretending was too successful this time.

The audience’s impression is that Director Jiang is awesome!

There are probably not many directors in the world who can write the script and shoot a trilogy as if it were one movie!

It would be fine if it was a low-cost feature film, but it turned out to be a special effects blockbuster with huge investment.

The final box office performance of this trilogy is likely to hit 2 billion US dollars. How much money will it make? Thinking of this moment, most men look at Jiang Heng with envy, and some girls fall in love with him.

During the question-and-answer session, a girl directly asked, "Director Jiang Heng, I heard that you have a girlfriend now. Is that true?"

"not at all!"

"Then choose me? Director Jiang, I really like you...!"

The girl was already very excited when she said this.

Jiang Heng could only reply in an official manner, "Thank you for your love and support. Please ask the staff to pass the microphone to the next audience member!"

"Hello, Director Jiang. Now that this movie is about to be released worldwide, I would like to ask what your box office expectations are?"

Jiang Heng smiled and said, "It's hard to say. My original expectation was only 700 to 800 million US dollars, but seeing how much everyone likes and supports it, I think it is possible to exceed 1 billion US dollars. I hope everyone will support it!"

As soon as these words came out, the audience exclaimed again, shouting, "Director Jiang, we support you!"

"Strike one billion!"

"Let's have a movie in China that grosses over 1 billion worldwide!"

"Long live Chinese-language films!"

"Director Jiang, I love you!"

……

Because there were too many people at the scene and there was no staff arranged to organize the speeches, people in the venue said all kinds of things.

In the end, it was basically the male audiences who shouted "Hit 1 billion", and the female audiences who shouted "Director Jiang, I love you".

Even girls like Tang Yan, Li Meiqi and others started shouting.

When reporters and photographers from CCTV Movie Channel and Dragon TV saw this scene, they couldn't stop laughing and took photos non-stop.

The interactive promotion lasted for a full hour before the audience left reluctantly.

The guests were naturally arranged to stay in the banquet hall of a nearby star-rated hotel.

"Congratulations, Director Jiang, the trilogy is now secure!"

During the break, Jiang Heng went to the bathroom and when he came out he met Li Meiqi who was waiting for him outside.

She was signed to Hong Kong Youteng Film Company. Her initial salary was average, but when Jiang Heng's company grew bigger and had more staff, he arranged a dedicated agent, assistant, and driver for her, so she had a dedicated team.

Thanks to the huge fame she gained from "The Matrix", Maggie Q has been doing quite well in recent years, filming movies both in Hong Kong and mainland China.

Although most of them are low-budget, fortunately, they basically feature female protagonists.

I also went to Hollywood to shoot two films.

Although the ranking is slightly lower, the advantage is that the pay is higher.

With the end of "The Matrix" trilogy, she felt that her development under Jiang Heng had basically come to an end.

Seeing that Jiang Heng signed a younger and prettier girl, and was quite caring towards Liu Tianxian, she felt that her position as the "number one sister" was no longer secure.

After a few pleasantries, Li Meiqi asked: "Am I going to be abandoned?"

(End of this chapter)