Chapter 292 Movie-watching craze
Internet tycoons prefer "The Three-Body Problem", naturally not because they are attracted by the plot, and it has nothing to do with special effects.

The fundamental reason is that some of the concepts stated in the book are consistent with the rules of Internet business.

For example, the term "dimensionality reduction attack" which later became widely circulated means using one's own absolute advantages to place competitors in an environment where they cannot survive at all, thereby achieving strategic goals. It is a devastating blow from the attacker to the defender.

The attacks of the four-dimensional creatures mentioned in "The Three-Body Problem" on three-dimensional humans, or the attacks of three-dimensional humans on ants (two-dimensional creatures), are completely powerless to resist by the defenders, and the process is very short, and they are destroyed in an instant.

Of course, this is the content of the third part, but it is almost a true portrayal of the competition among Internet companies.

For example, high-frequency applications can quickly defeat low-frequency applications because the former have high user activity, which is incomparable to the latter. The most typical example is the Penguin Company's dominance over others with its high number of users and high activity of QQ.

Another example is the "survival philosophy", which is absolutely true in the Internet industry. The Matthew effect of "winner takes all" is too obvious. Basically, in a niche field, two or three giants can divide up the entire market.

Among these concepts, the most famous one at the moment, which is talked about and regarded as a classic by a number of Internet giants, is the "Dark Forest Law" described in the second part of "The Three-Body Problem".

Its basic theory is: "Any insignificant small civilization can quickly surpass itself through a technological explosion on a cosmic scale."

This point can be said to resonate with many Internet business leaders.

Since humans entered the Internet business era, industry giants have changed hands several times in just two or three decades.

In the United States, giants like Yahoo were quickly surpassed by Google, and Google was also facing a serious threat from Facebook.

In China, there were four major portals first, and then Baidu rose.

But Baidu, which once had the largest market value in China, quickly fell to the bottom among BAT, with its market value even less than half of the first two.

As the saying goes, business is like a battlefield, and the competition among Internet companies can be described as “rise and fall in an instant”!
The universe described in the book "The Three-Body Problem" is such a cruel and even dark universe, with a strong Darwinian color.

The ecosystem of Internet companies is actually basically the same, and what they advocate is "whoever has the stronger fist controls the order."

That is to say, only two volumes of "The Three-Body Problem" have been published so far. If people see the arrogant line in "The Three-Body Problem III" "What does it have to do with you if I destroy you?", I wonder how many Internet giants will applaud and take it as their motto.

Having written all this, how can they not promote "The Three-Body Problem"?

With such a group of influential "tap water" support, the box office performance of "The Three-Body Problem" naturally exploded. It took in 7131 million on the first day of its release, breaking the single-day box office record for domestic films and shocking the Chinese entertainment industry.

Various media outlets sent reporters to major cinemas to shoot footage to report on this grand event.

In Beijing, at the Wukesong store of China Film Red Cinema Chain, an old man was queuing in the crowd with a leisurely look.

The reporter stepped forward and said, "Hello, sir, can I interview you?"

"Yes, you say!"

"Excuse me, which movie do you want to watch when you come here to queue up?"

"Hey, of course you're talking about The Three-Body Problem. Could it be The Warlords?"

The reporter was stunned. He didn't expect the old man to praise and criticize others. If you talk like this, it will be very popular.

"Why do you say that?"

"Directors in Hong Kong don't know how to make historical dramas. They make up stories and I don't like them! The actors there are the same ones over and over again. It's boring to watch them!"

"So, when you watched The Three-Body Problem, did you prefer Director Jiang Heng's works?"

"I can't say I like them that much, but the main reason is that other directors' films aren't good either. They're so mysterious that I don't know what they're talking about after watching them for a long time. And they always scold the audience, saying that it's our fault if we can't understand them...!"

The retired old man in Beijing is very talkative once he starts talking, and he often says some shocking words, which make the reporter stunned.

In Hangzhou, local media went to a cinema near West Lake for an interview. The reporter randomly stopped a young man who looked gentle and refined. "Can I interview you?"

"Uh, sure!"

"May I ask what you do for a living?"

"programmer!"

"Where do you work?"

"Ali Company!"

"Oh, that's awesome!"

At this time, Ali had been listed in Hong Kong in 05 and was considered a well-known local company.

When the reporter asked why he came to watch the movie, the programmer replied that he had made an appointment with his girlfriend to watch a movie together in the evening, and of course Jiang Heng's blockbuster was the first choice.

When the reporter asked why, the programmer said, "Because Director Jiang's movies are always of a very high standard, very standard commercial movies, they don't make plots that are hard to understand, they really take the audience into consideration. I think this is something that many companies should learn from, they must take the needs of customers into consideration...!"

This guy also talked eloquently, which made the reporter wonder, is he really Ali's... programmer? Are all programmers so talkative?
Similar interview scenes took place in many cinemas in the mainland.

The content of the reports the next day was basically that "The Three-Body Problem" had triggered a viewing craze and tickets for the cinema were hard to get.

A few days later, there was news from Shanghai about a grandmother in her sixties queuing up to buy tickets for her grandson.

This is the third day that grandma has come to buy tickets, but she can’t buy one every time.

The reason is that her grandson is still in elementary school and missed the weekend when the movie was released, so if he wants to watch it on weekdays, he can only wait until the evening.

It's a pity that this movie is so popular that I can't buy it every time.

When the reporter asked her why she bought a ticket for her grandson, the old lady replied that she heard that the movie contained many scenes about the universe and galaxies, and she hoped to expand her grandson's interest in astronomy...!
It can be said that a lot of the film’s super high box office since its release was contributed by parents bringing their children to watch the movie.

The reason, of course, is because of the many scenes in the film about the Earth, Jupiter, the Sun, the solar system, comets, nebulae and other celestial bodies.

This is the first time in domestic films.

Many parents believe that this can cultivate their children's interest in science, and thus bring their children to watch the movie.

Due to a combination of many factors, the box office of "The Three-Body Problem" has experienced explosive growth, quickly breaking through 300 million, 500 million, and 700 million. Looking at this momentum, it will not be difficult to break through the 1 billion mark.

Under such box office dominance, the previously released "The Warlords" was instantly extinguished and didn't make any waves at all.

A few days before the release of The Three-Body Problem, China Film Corporation counted the box office of The Warlords and reported it to Chen Kexin.

Later on, I was too lazy to do it.

After all, no matter how you count it, it won’t increase much.

At Huayi Company, Wang Zhonglei, Feng Xiaogang and others were shocked and lucky, because initially, they had considered releasing "Assembly" during the Lunar New Year holiday, and had had heated discussions about how many days to put between the film and "The Three-Body Problem."

In the end, Feng Xiaogang felt that the risk of releasing the film during the Lunar New Year holiday was too great, so he finally decided to release "Assembly" during the Spring Festival holiday.

Now it seems that I have really escaped a disaster!

(End of this chapter)