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A few years later, when talking about the movie "Seven Swordsmen and the Devil", or the audience who watched the movie, what will be their evaluation of the movie?

bad movie.

Definitely a bad movie.

There are a long list of shortcomings.

For example, the scene layout is crude, the props are extremely rough, the actors' acting skills are poor, various gangs fall out, and the plot is bloody and embarrassing.

In short, this is a bad movie that will make future audiences feel pissed and unable to accept it.

But once the movie came out, the sensational effect it caused will be talked about in the next hundred years. It is believed that this movie created an era.

An era of cultural prosperity.

In the history of the development of the film industry, this is a beginning and a tall milestone.

In all later movies, whether it is lines, plots, storyboards, or story rhythms, the shadow of "Seven Swordsmen: Fighting Evils" can be seen more or less.

In the context of that time, this movie was a legend that created history and a classic that countless works imitated and paid homage to!

So, what is the story of "Seven Swords Down the Mountain to Fight the Evil Demon"?

It is said that a long time ago, evil cultivators were rampant in the world. There lived an immortal on a mountain called "Kunlun". The immortal adopted seven highly gifted disciples. When the immortal saw the rampant evil cultivators in the world, he killed mortals wantonly. Then he sent seven disciples down the mountain to kill evil spirits and protect the safety of mortals.

Because the seven disciples are all good at using swords, they are called "Seven Swords".

After the Seven Swords came down from the mountain, they quickly fought against all kinds of powerful evil cultivators, but none of them were the opponents of the Seven Swords. The Seven Swords were so powerful that they fought all the way into the evil cultivators' lair, but were unfortunately ambushed. Four of the Seven Swordsmen died heroically, and the remaining With three sword blows, he tried his best to kill the demon, and the turbid air of the world was swept away, and Haoran's righteousness returned to his place.

At the end of the movie, San Jian carries Si Jian's ashes on his back, returning to Kunlun under the desolate sunset... It is a long-lasting aftertaste.

From the script and story alone, this movie is indeed very exciting, and there is not much fault to be found.

It is precisely because of this that when Zhou Ming took this movie and premiered it within the Jinmu Department, it caused great excitement.

Even the actors who participated in the filming had their eyes wide open and felt unbelievable.

Muttering to himself: Is this a story they filmed?

"Wonderful, it's so wonderful!" Some students watched with excitement and clapped their hands!

"Those evil cultivators are so abominable. They should be killed. They all deserve to be killed!" There are also students who have a strong sense of empathy and hate the evil cultivators in the movie and gnash their teeth.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuujouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

"I will become a person like Seven Swords in the future, learn powerful martial arts, and wipe out the evil spirits in the world!"

"Classmate Chen En, your performance as Sun Moon Sword is so brilliant. I admire you so much. Please sign your autograph for me."

"Classmate Zhang Yu, can I make friends with you? I like the girl Yuanying you played so much. Can we invite you to have dinner together?" Several female classmates walked up to Zhang Yu, very shyly. Zhang Yu was quite flattered when she proposed to make friends with her. She smiled and said yes, and several female classmates jumped up for joy.

All the actors, even those who played the villains, have gained a large number of fans. Each of them is surrounded by several to dozens of people, asking for autographs or making friends. Each one of them has become a big star.

Zhou Ming, the chief director who completed the script, props, shooting, post-editing and other work, was forgotten in the corner.

Since he was not involved in the acting, no one but him could fill the "director" position.

So even if he had the urge to go up and perform, he still had to stay in front of the camera.

However, he was not in a depressed mood, but was very pleased.

Full of confidence!

Just from the extraordinary reception of this premiere held by the Kaneki family, we can conclude that the movie "Seven Swordsmen Fighting Evils" will definitely be a great success!

So he expanded his film screenings.

He held three consecutive large-scale screening events in the academy's largest indoor auditorium, which can accommodate 10,000 people.

Due to insufficient publicity, only about 8,000 students attended the first event.

During the second screening the next day, the school auditorium was full, with more than 16,000 people crammed into it, fully doubling the number.

During the third screening, the auditorium had to restrict entry to students because more than 10,000 students who missed the first two screenings were waiting inside 24 hours a day without food or drink, so only 8,000 more people could be accommodated.

Within the college, "Seven Swordsmen Down the Mountain to Fight Evil" caused a huge sensation and even attracted the attention of the college leaders and professors. These leaders and professors also obtained hundreds of tickets to attend the third screening.

"It's so wonderful, so beautiful!"

"This... is indescribable and beyond comparison. I have never seen such a story in my life."

"It's beautiful, so beautiful!"

"That student did this? A genius, a genius with unparalleled power!"

"Zhou Yuan, was it invented by Zhou Yuan again? From the Lingyuan wave telegraph, to the Lingyuan typewriter, to this movie... he brings us surprises time and time again!"

"This student Zhou Yuan not only has extremely high cultivation, he is also the star of invention at Daxian Academy. It takes decades for Daxian Academy to recruit such a genius."

"This Zhou Yuan is the lucky star of our Daxian College. The college will definitely be proud of him in the future."

The leaders of the college spoke highly of him, praised him vigorously, and even gave him an additional 50,000 college contribution points as a precaution, for fear that other colleges would snatch him away.

In addition, the commercial value of "movie" related equipment is also being targeted by all businessmen with a keen sense of smell.

Every day, dozens or hundreds of businessmen squat at the door of Zhou Ming's residence, offering sky-high prices to acquire his invention patents for film-related equipment.

A businessman offered 1.5 billion spiritual coins.

He was immediately outbid by another businessman who offered 2 billion.

"3 billion! 3 billion spiritual coins!"

"3.5 billion, payable in five years!"

"4 billion, paid in ten years!"

"5 billion, payable in fifteen years!"

The highest bidder actually reached an eye-popping five billion!

Zhou Ming was surprised by this businessman's handiwork.

Speaking of invention patents for film-related equipment, are they really that valuable?

good.

That's how valuable it is.

Even if a businessman offered 10 billion to buy out the patent, Zhou Ming would not sell it.

Why?

Because making movies is so profitable!

In fact, in the first few months of filming, Zhou Ming invested 50 million spiritual coins. After buying a piece of land in the city, he asked the construction team to build a large indoor cinema with 12,000 seats inside. It can accommodate up to 12,000 moviegoers.

There are also some drink and snack stalls in the theater, where viewers can eat snacks while watching the movie... which is also a major source of income.

After the theater was completed at the end of May, the first movie in the history of Wancheng Kingdom, "Seven Swordsmen Come Down to Fight Evil Demons", was moved to this theater for screening.

There are one screening every three hours, eight screenings per day.

As for the ticket price...it's 10 spirit coins per person, which is not very expensive.

There is an even better natural phenomenon: in many areas of Lingyuan Continent, there is basically no night. There are only a few dark days a year, and the rest are almost all during the day. Therefore, movies cannot be shown in the open air and can only be watched indoors.

This means that large-scale piracy is unlikely to occur for many years to come.

If you want to see a movie, you have to pay.

Because there are very few nights, people's work and rest schedules are not fixed, and there is no unified biological clock, theaters can operate continuously 24 hours a day.

45 million spirit coins.

In just one month, Zhou Ming earned so much from just one movie and one theater.

Some people may shout that this is impossible, because no matter how you calculate, it is impossible to earn so much.

But there was no way. Zhou Ming did earn 45 million. In one month, he basically made back all the investment in building the theater.

The movie-watching frenzy triggered by "Seven Swordsmen: Fighting Evils" in Zhenlin City is unimaginable. Not only were the theaters full, but they were even overloaded by half. The rated theater capacity of 12,000 people was often filled with 16,000 or 10,000 people. Eight thousand people.

Multiplied by the frequency of eight screenings per day and the income from snacks and drinks...the monthly income is 45 million spirit coins, creating a profit myth.

And this movie-watching craze will at least last for a long time.

Because of the movie "Seven Swords", many viewers never get tired of watching it. Three, four, and five viewings are very common, and ten and twenty viewings are not uncommon. Zhenlin City has a population of more than 20 million. If the average per capita If one person watches the movie once, that’s a box office of 200 million spirit coins.

How about extending it to the entire Wancheng Kingdom?

That's unimaginable.

Therefore, Zhou Ming still holds the film patent in his own hands and is reluctant to sell it.

Then they approached the college to cooperate. It provided the technology and held 50% of the shares. The college provided factory construction funds and talent support, as well as patent protection and long-term management, and held the other 50% of the shares.

The two parties have cooperated strongly to develop the film culture industry.

At this time, someone will probably complain about Zhou Ming's stupidity. He actually gave half of the patents worth tens of billions to the college. Is there something wrong with his brain?

In fact, any product that involves huge interests, if it is not protected by a strong organization and clings to it, will only cause disaster, and will either be forcibly taken away or maliciously copied... No matter how strong his personal strength is, he will not be able to stop it. A pack of wolves, tigers and leopards cannot live together.

Only by seeking cooperation from strong institutions can interests be well protected.

Moreover, he only needs to provide technology, and he does not need to worry about production, management, rights protection, etc.

So when Zhou Ming proposed cooperation, the college leaders were overjoyed and immediately signed a cooperation agreement.

In addition, Zhou Ming did not forget those friends and classmates who participated in the filming of the movie "Seven Swords". He took out 30 million spiritual coins from the box office revenue and rewarded each of them with 1 million in the name of "remuneration". They were so surprised that they all declined.

In the end, Zhou Ming let them accept it, because compared with the total box office of "Seven Swords" that exceeded 10 billion spiritual coins a few years later, a mere million was really a drop in the bucket and not worth mentioning.