Chapter 81 A Bloody Murder Caused by a Steamed Bun
Chapter 81 81. A bloody murder caused by a steamed bun
Brother Hu is an internet expert. He likes to surf and post on Tianya, Chinese Online, and Mop when he is free. He occasionally makes some videos of complaints and puts them on a simple website he made for free download and reading.
In order to communicate with like-minded people, he also left his QQ number on the homepage of his website and set up a chat group.
However, he is not very active at ordinary times. In two years, there are only about twenty people in total. Until this day, suddenly a QQ nickname "Gu Ren Gui" applied to join the group. He agreed without thinking.
Then this person sent a message after joining the group:
For business cooperation, is it convenient for the group owner to add friends and chat privately?
To be honest, Brother Hu has never encountered such a request. Someone actually wants to find him for business cooperation? Could he be a liar?
But anyway, he is free, so he will see what he is up to. So when the other party sent a friend request, Brother Hu agreed directly.
Gu Ren Gui: [Excuse me, is this Brother Hu himself? ]
Hu replied: [Yes]
Gu Ren Gui: [It’s like this, I’m Li Feiyu, a salesperson in the marketing department of Weiguo Film Co., Ltd. This time I want to discuss a cooperation with you. Specifically, I want to advertise in the video you made to promote our company’s upcoming movie "Lost on Journey"]
Hu was confused. He didn’t expect that someone would actually ask him to advertise. You know, I did make seven or eight videos before, but the download volume was not very good.
Is there anyone who wants to advertise here? Can this make a profit?
Hu: [Are you sure? Did you find the wrong person?]
Gu Ren Gui: [Excuse me, did you make these videos?]
Then he saw that the other party sent him a few video file packages. He saw that the titles were indeed several videos he had made before.
Hu felt relieved a lot, at least the other party should not have found the wrong person, so he replied:
[Yes, it’s me]
Gu Ren Gui: [Then I didn’t find the wrong person. We do want to advertise in the video you made. Is it okay with you?]
Hu: [Then how do you plan to advertise? ]
Gurengui: [Specifically, at the beginning and end of your next three videos, our movie poster will appear, along with corresponding subtitles and voice broadcasts]
[Then there will be a line of small text slogans rolling below the main video, similar to the temporary news that news programs roll below]
[For example, at the beginning of the video, it will say that this video is exclusively sponsored by the movie "Lost on Journey" and will be screened nationwide on December 29. It is a hilarious audio-visual storm and a hilarious Spring Festival travel. At the same time, it will be accompanied by our movie poster]
[Of course, the ending is similar, for example, this video specially thanks "Lost on Journey" for its exclusive sponsorship, and then just run an advertisement at the end]
Brother Hu thought about it and felt that this request was not particularly excessive. Just hang a photo of a movie poster and add two slogans, which can be read in two or three seconds at most, and it will not basically affect the viewing experience of the main video.
So Brother Hu agreed: [If this is how to advertise, then I have no problem]
Gurengui: [Okay, then how do you plan to charge? ］
To be honest, no one has ever asked him to advertise, and Brother Hu didn't know how much to ask for a while. What if he asked too high, what if people didn't ask him to advertise anymore?
So Brother Hu thought about it and offered a price that he thought was a bit unfair:
[How about one thousand yuan?]
Old Friend Returns: [Okay, then please send me your contact information, and our company will send someone to call you to confirm the details later]
I didn't expect the other party to not bargain and agreed directly. This money comes too easily! Could it be a scam?
When he asked him to send his phone number, Brother Hu was a little hesitant, but then he thought, he is a man in his early 30s, he doesn't have anything, what can people cheat him of!
So Brother Hu hesitated for a moment, and finally sent his phone number.
As soon as the phone number was sent, a woman with a gentle voice called him, claiming to be a salesperson from Weiguo Films, and then verified the specific cooperation process with him in detail.
Finally, I added his contact information and left his address. I was going to sign a formal contract with him later, and I was going to give him two tickets for the advance screening of Lost on Journey.
After hanging up the phone, Hu was still very excited. I didn't expect that I could make money by tinkering with videos online!
Although it was only 1,000 yuan, it was a good start!
For a while, he was full of energy. After watching The Promise yesterday, he had an urge to make a video to complain about it. When he was surfing the Internet these two days, he found that many people had the same idea as him, which further strengthened his determination to make videos.
Originally, he was going to wait until the idea was ready before doing it, but at this moment, he was so happy that he immediately had ideas like a spring.
Forget it, no more procrastination, let's do it now!
So he turned on his computer, created a new document and wrote the title in Word:
A bloody case caused by a steamed bun
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This QQ with the vest of "Gu Ren Gui" is of course Wei Wu's small account.
Because he needed China Film to schedule a screening for him, in exchange, the promotion of the movie "Lost on Journey" was also handed over to China Film.
Of course, Wei Wu is not well-known now, and there are no stars with box office appeal in this movie.
Therefore, the China Film Group cannot put any effort into promoting the film. Basically, it is just a regular theater posting posters, etc., just a formality.
But it doesn't matter. He didn't expect the publicity there to have much effect, because he had already made plans and planned to bet on "A Murder Case Caused by a Steamed Bun" and use Internet hot spots to attract traffic and promote the film.
To know how popular "Steamed Buns" was back then, it is basically unimaginable by people who have not experienced that era!
Compared with the following "Jia Junpeng, your mother called you home for dinner" and the like, the influence is several orders of magnitude greater. It can even be said to be the originator of Internet pranks and even ghost videos.
To put it bluntly, the reason why "The Promise" is still talked about many years later has to do with this video.
Otherwise, if we say that great directors make bad movies, then Lao Mouzi also made "Legend of Three Guns", and no one mentioned it after a few years. But why does "The Promise" still have so many people talking about it on the Internet twenty years later?
If 3 million people had watched the movie "The Promise" that year, then the cumulative number of people who had watched the video "Steamed Buns" online was at least 5 to 10 times that number.
It took Brother Hu 10 days to create this 20-minute short film. Once it was published, it quickly became popular all over the Internet and became the most popular Internet event in 2005.
Many Lezi people have not even watched "The Promise", but they still spread the video spontaneously and forwarded it to each other using QQ, FTP and other tools. In a short period of time, the number of downloads of this video exceeded the number of views of "The Promise" .
About a week after this video was released, the amount of discussion and popularity about this video on the Internet has far surpassed the movie "The Promise" itself.
You must know that "The Promise" spent 100 million yuan on advertising and promotion, which was 100 million yuan in 2005!
This 100 million advertising fee, coupled with Director Chen's own fame and blessings accumulated over the years, can be converted into at least tens of millions of publicity expenses.
In other words, the popularity and traffic of Brother Hu’s video is equivalent to the publicity effect that can be achieved by spending hundreds of millions of yuan in advertising expenses.
But now Wei Wu only spent a mere 1,000 yuan to advertise in Brother Hu's video, which would at least save tens of millions in advertising fees.
Not to mention 1,000 yuan, even if you add 10,000 yuan to the end, to be honest, it is definitely worth the money!
At that time, Director Chen was originally planning to sue Brother Hu for infringement of the film's copyright (the video directly used many clips from the original film, and it was also a gun version), but because the matter itself was too big and the public opinion was fierce, the matter was finally dropped.
But because of this video, Director Chen was pulled down from the altar. Basically since then, Director Chen has struggled to maintain his reputation as a great director.
But to be honest, in most people's minds, I'm afraid they can no longer be compared with Zhang and Feng.
It's not like Wei Wu never thought about posting this video himself instead of Brother Hu.
But after careful consideration, I finally gave up. Although playing porcelain or even playing "The Promise" is indeed a shortcut to fame, but to be honest, he really doesn't need to rush so far.
After all, Director Chen almost sued Brother Hu in his previous life, and that was because the two of them had no actual conflict of interest.
In addition, public opinion was not good for him, and it was beneath his status to worry about everything, so he chose to break his teeth and swallow it.
If it were Wei Wu who posted this video, and someone sued him for infringing the copyright of his work, it would definitely be a sure thing.
When the time comes, if Wei Wu really wants to pay hundreds or tens of millions in compensation, wouldn't that be the end of the world?
Of course, since Wei Wu advertised in this video, Director Chen will definitely also bear a grudge against him, but there is no need to be so afraid.
After all, what’s wrong with me advertising normally? Besides, Wei Wu wasn't stupid, and he didn't just ask Brother Hu to advertise.
In fact, he found ten or twenty well-known video creators and invested money in advertising with them, so that they would not be so conspicuous.
Of course, even if Director Chen would hate him for this kind of thing, Wei Wu would not panic at all. After all, labor and management are also reborn with the system, so I'm afraid of him!
The failure of "The Promise" greatly damaged Poet Chen's vitality. To be honest, his reputation and status were not as good as before in all aspects!
To be honest, if Brother Hu hadn't stepped up to take the lead, Wei Wu would have even wanted to do it himself!
After all, as a newcomer, if he wants to gain attention and expand his reputation, the most convenient and quick way to get to the top is to become a great director.
Why does Wang Jing take out Star Master and scold him every time a movie is released? To put it bluntly, isn’t it just to gain eyeballs and promote the movie?
He doesn't even bother trying to compete with ordinary directors. His direct targets are the three major directors from the Mainland. However, among the three major directors, Poet Chen is relatively the one who has the best reputation.
After all, Zhang Yimou is a national master, and he is soft-handed in winning various awards. If Wei Wu touched him, he would be drowned by spittle.
And there was someone behind Feng Xiaogang. If he touched porcelain, he would have offended Huayi, which was the largest force in the Beijing circle. The consequences were not something that Wei Wu, who had small arms and legs, could bear.
Relatively speaking, Poet Chen was not as honorable as the Imperial Master, and the power behind him was not as good as Feng. Naturally, he was the best candidate for Wei Wu to increase his reputation.
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