Chapter 209
The premiere was held the night before and the movie was officially released at 12 midnight the next morning.
The release of An Li was no different from the other Huaxia movies. At most, they would be released domestically one day earlier, then released simultaneously all over the world. This was a convenience for the Huaxia people. Everyone expected it but even at the midnight session, An Li's sessions were full!
Many people booked movie tickets and at the cinema early. Before the movie began, they saw that many famous film critics and journalist editors were constantly recommending it. These audiences were already waiting and now they hurried to see the movie.
After watching the movie, most people left the cinema with tears in their eyes and memorable moments.
Some people were shocked by the reversal of the movie's plot. Some people were saddened by the helplessness of the protagonists' fate. Some people were shocked by the beautiful and fine video effects. Some people thought this movie had a large impact on the meaning of their lives.
All in all, after the release of the movie at midnight, An Li's score on Huaxia's biggest movie review site, Douban, reached a high score of 9.7! This was after tens of thousands of people left a review!
Many of them said that they reason why they gave a 9 instead of a perfect score was because the beauty in this movie was too terrible. Look at the leads Fang Liangxiu and Xiao Biqing, their beauty was ruined! Look at Bai Xiu played by Ming Yu. He died early yet he looked old when dying!
It could be called beauty past one's prime but they exposed the truth so clearly!
It was also with the beautiful male god Fang, movie queen Xiao and Ming Xiaoyu!
In just one day of release in Huaxia's major theatres, An Li won an excellent audience score! After one day, the national box office was as high as 600 million! It suddenly broke through the 400 million that was Xi Yizong's best movie result and far exceeded it!
On the second day, An Li was released in more than 30 countries including the United States, Britain, France, Japan, South Korea and Canada! The box office swiftly increased as an unimaginable speed. Even Xu Yizong couldn't help his eyes widening once the statistics of the global box office came out.
1.4 billion!
This number was naturally in yuan. But in just two days, the global box office was as high as 2 billion. This really surpassed all his movies in the past!
As you know, the entertainment industry was quite prosperous in this world. Many people liked to go out to watch movies, especially in Huaxia and the United States. The bustling entertainment industry made these countries have a leisurely life. Watching movies was the first choice for many people.
However, even if the entertainment industry was so prosperous, the record of '2 billion global box office in two days' was something that no one could believe. This was after only one day of global release. What if it was a few days?
Sure enough, An Li's box office reached 3.5 billion in three days.
5.5. billion for four days!
8 billion for seven days!
……
Once it was the end of February, this Huaxia costume martial arts movie had a total of 12 billion global office after less than two weeks of release!
This number was still climbing because the high praise made many viewers watch it two or three times. The fans who originally didn't care about An Li were now curious to see what type of movie it was.
Once March 3rd arrived, An Li had a total global box office of 15 billion, officially becoming 10th on the world's highest box office list!
It must be mentioned here that among the top 10, Xu Yizong's commercial action movie was ranked fourth and there were five Huaxia movies on the list. Now An Li had squeezed out an American moving, making it six Huaxia movies in the top 10!
And among these top 10, only An Li was an ancient costume movie!
What did this mean? This meant that An Li was making a record!
As we all knew, modern movies and future movies were always the most popular among the audience, regardless of country. It was because every country in the world had different cultural traditions. Even Huaxia itself had differences in cultures between regions.
In the case of cultural differences, it was really hard to let other countries accept the history and culture of a certain country.
For new countries like the United States, which only had 200 years of history, they naturally didn't have any so-called ancient movies. Huaxia had a ~5000 year history and would release a lot of ancient movies every year, proclaiming their martial arts, history, traditional crafts and other culture aspects.
Generally speaking, these movies did very well at the box office in Huaxia. But once out of Huaxia, the box office would experience a great dive because foreigners didn't understand the Huaxia history and culture!
The situation had somewhat improved in recent decades. More and more foreigners started to study Huaxia's traditional culture. The more they studied, the more they felt that Huaxia was a great country and that what they knew was a drop in the bucket.
This was obvious. Even the Huaxia people couldn't study all of their rich and splendid cultural history. It was because there was too much ╮（╯▽╰）╭
In any case, movies were a good way to research some of Huaxia's cultural elements. Just as scholars spread the Huaxia culture they studied in the West, many foreigners were curious about this mysterious and ancient country. Therefore, there was a rise in popularity of ancient Huaxia movies at the end of the last century.
However, the blowup of An Li was really unique!
First, it was because An Li was really very sincere. Whether it was the beautiful images or the elegant music, it was enough to attract the attention of these foreigners, making it a beautiful treasure that highlighted the culture of Huaxia.
Second, there were the popular bonuses of Xu Yizong, Fang Liangxiu, Xiao Biqing and Ming Yu.
Xu Yizong's name had long been known to many Westerners. Fang Liangxiu had been nominated for a foreign movie award at the end of last year and attracted the attention of many people. Xiao Biqing was the youngest Asian actress to win an Oscar!
As for Ming Xiaoyu…
The incident with Mudley and Andrew made Westerners familiar with the name 'Ming Yu!'
After all these reason, there was another very important factor that affected Westerners' perceptions of An Li.
Director Xu insisted that dubbing wasn't allowed! They must use the original Huaxia sound! No clips were allowed!
If the people were speaking English, French, Japanese, Korean… could this be called a Huaxia martial arts movie?
He didn't insist for many poems and songs that couldn't be understood. However, the charm of the people speaking couldn't be expression in any language.
Even if you didn't understand, feel this type of mood! The beauty of language lay in the fact that just listening to it could have an unforgettable feeling.
The trend of An Li was crazily sweeping the world! The movie was originally scheduled to be released in the Spring Festival in February. But this time, Director Xu deliberately released it early by a few days in order to make it in time for the Golden Bear Awards nominations!
Ming Xiaoyu didn't expect to receive a nomination for Best Newcomer.
This incident really surprised Ming Yu because he knew that in the movie, his acting was only ordinary and wasn't very good. If there were any scenes that were good, it was the scenes shot after Jiang Kaiyang departed.
Then how did he get nominated for Best Newcomer at the Golden Bear Awards?
For this question, Director Xu answered it. "Ming Xiaoyu, your luck is really good! In the movies released in the same period, An Li's box office and word of mouth are the highest. Therefore, the organizing committee looked at this and gave a bit more face to our crew. At the same time, the new supporting roles in the movies… there are no more than 10. It is obvious that out of 8 or 9 people, you would get one of the five nominations.
This was probably the so-called dog poop…
Of course, a nomination was a nomination. Ming Xiaoyu believed that it was impossible for him to win the award. It was because the strength of the other four nominees really surpassed him! He was still quite good compared to the other four people who weren't nominated.
This time, Ming Yu appeared as a supporting role in a high box office movie and even got the nomination for the Golden Bear Award!
Who should be the happiest? Was it Ming Xiaoyu or Xi Ze? No, it must be the fans!!
Before the release of An Li, Ming Xiaoyu's fans made up their minds. No matter what the movie was like, they must do their best to support their small mushroom's first movie!
Ming Yu's acting… cough, they all knew. Jiang Kaiyang said that Ming Yu NG 16 times and this incident was acknowledged by the cast.
Therefore, the mushroom fans in the cinema were in a sad mood as they prepared to see a miserable mushroom. However, once they saw Bai Xiu's appearance, they were so amazed that their mouths dropped open and they couldn't speak!
【 Ahhhhhh! This is my mushroom? Is this really my mushroom?!! 】
【 I thought that mushroom's best acting was shown in the trailer! Bai Xiu is so handsome ahhhh! Mushroom is simply too beautiful!!! I was sitting in the front row and every time Mushroom appeared, I almost couldn't hold back from licking the screen! 】
【 Bai Xiu is really poor QAQ. Mushroom, Bai Xiu, the beginning is so hot and then later he is so pitiful, oh… 】
【 Beautiful ahhhh!!! 】
……
How many supermodels appeared in the top 10 global box office movie?
Only one, his name was Ming Yu.
How many supermodels were currently endorsing one of the top five global luxury brands in the world?
Naturally, there were only five and one of them was Ming Yu!
When the first world supermodel rankings for 2018 was released, Ming Xiaoyu's fans were confident as they opened the World Supermodels Organization's website.
However!
They might've been prepared but once they saw this list, they were still stunned and wide-eyed. They couldn't recover their souls for a long time!
Chapter 210
『 The world's male supermodel rankings:
Xi Ze, Kelson Eddie, Luo Cheng, Ming Yu, Harriman Owen…
Zhao Huicheng, Loft Sonler, Harry Bernard…
Otto Lisen, Wei Zhang, Koji Kobayashi, Lee Sunjae, Fulake Eddie. 』
Looking at it the first time, um, Ming Xiaoyu was fourth…
Looking at it the second time, Ming Xiaoyu was still fourth…
The third time, fourth time, fifth time… nth time!
【 QAQ Mushroom is really fourth! He is really fourth! I'm not dreaming, how can this be… the 16th rank suddenly jumped 12 places to become 4th! Yes, I must be dreaming. Come and wake me up!! 】
【 Everyone be calm, let's calm down! Let's take a quick look again. Is Ming Xiaoyu fourth… hey, he really is fourth!!! T^T He is actually fourth! He is really fourth! I previously thought that Ming Xiaoyu would only be ninth! This is the first time I'm so happy to lose ahhhh!!! 】
【 How can Ming Xiaoyu be so good QAQ. How can he be so great? I am so happy for the first time!! I can't stand it. I have to go downstairs and run 100 laps in a circle ahhhhhhhh!!!! 100 laps!!! 】……
Once the list was officially released, all the fashion lovers around the world were shocked.
A familiar name was in fourth place!
Not third or fifth, but fourth!
The name was so familiar. It appeared in countless Western newspapers, the cast of the recent Huaxia movie An Li and now it appeared again in front of thousands of fashion people!
A year and a half ago, there were only a few million people in the world who knew this name.
However, now the owner of this name shot to fourth in the world supermodel rankings with irresistible force! He suppressed the veteran supermodel Harriman Owen and was second only to Xi Ze, Kelson and Luo Cheng!
What was this result?
He just became a supermodel and immediately got the 42nd place!
What was this result?
The second time on the rankings, he directly entered the 16th place and surpassed Luo Cheng's record!
What was this result?
Everyone knew that seven years ago, Xi Ze debuted with the high-end Ji and Ya show. The next month, Xi Ze became a supermodel. After three months, he soared to 29th on the rankings. After another three months, he directly became the world's 5th rank male supermodel!
After that, it was a long seven years at the top.
Countless people hated the world's top ranked supermodel and wanted to pull him down from the throne. However, even the most beautiful male supermodel in 50 years, Adenes Clark had no countermeasures against this man. The people in the World Supermodels Organization knew that the gap in scores between Xi Ze and Adenes Clark was really too big.
Xi Ze was the chief designer of the world's number one luxury brand Ji and Ya and was also its global spokesperson! Just these two identities made him a mountain that the male supermodels found extremely hard to climb.
Now Ming Yu might've gotten fourth on his third time on the rankings and Xi Ze was fifth on his second time. In face, everyone knew that it was unfair to compare Ming Yu's achievements to Xi Ze.
Was Ming Yu a designer?
No.
As a model, he was able to reach the fifth place during his third time on the rankings. This shocked everyone around the world!
Yes, no one compared Ming Yu to Luo Cheng or Kelson. It was because the speed of this youth's progress had already left these people far behind. For example, Luo Cheng first appeared at the 43th rank and then he rose to 25th his second time, which was far worse than Ming Yu's 16th.
If this was before the announcement of the relationship between Xi Ze and Ming Yu, some people might think that Ming Yu's fans were too arrogant to dare compare Ming Yu to Xi Ze.
But now people all over the world knew that these two top supermodels were lovers.
One was ranked first in the world and the other was fourth in the world.
This was an unparalleled result in this world, making them the best match!
Fans had a saying that absolutely wasn't wrong: These two people are excellent. Only the other person is worthy!
『 42→ 16→ 4 』.
Within one hour of the world supermodel rankings, the global fans didn't even notice the female list as they started to discuss Ming Yu's ranking.
Some people expressed their blessings towards Ming Yu while others expressed envy. The people who gave blessings were looking forward to seeing if Ming Yu could make another big leap forward and do even more amazing feats. The jealous people ridiculed him and spoke bluntly, saying it was only due to An Li's huge results.
There was soon the rebuttal of mushroom fans.
【 He has become the global spokesperson of Yizhi in December 2017, the world's fourth ranked luxury brand. The number of visitors on his official website has reached its peak of 47 million in January this year! By the way, Yizhi changed the homepage of their official website to Ming Yu's photo. 】
【 On the world's largest movie review site 'Douban', there are currently a total of 310,000 short comments and 50,00 long comments on An Li. When searching with keywords, there are 40,000 short reviews and 3,000 long comments which directly contain the name Bai Xiu. There are nearly 10,000 short comments and 800 long comments which directly have 'Ming Yu.' By the way, An Li currently only has 214 long comments below 6 stars, all of which were from Westerners who couldn't understand the plot. 】
【 As of March 2018, Ming Yu has been on the cover of Muse twice, Suyi twice, Edith once and Bartlett once. Ming Yu has served as the cover of all the world's top five fashion magazines. By the way, the only male supermodels who achieved this before the age of 20 and hasn't yet retired is Xi Ze, Adenes, Kelson, Luo Cheng, Harriman and Ming Yu. 】……
By the way, by the way, by the way…
Countless 'by the way' appeared on the social media accounts of Ming Xiaoyu's fans. Fans used a peaceful tone to tell the story of their mushroom, using the most common words to state his achievements.
Every 'by the way' was calm but contained infinite happiness.
It might sound easy to be on the cover of the top five fashion magazines in the world, but one had to know that the photos for Edith, Elektra and Bartlett were taken two months ago.
During this time, he shot the global promotions and advertisements for Yizhi, prepared for the Yizhi March high-end show, while also flying to France, Italy and the United States to shoot these covers.
These were top magazines and their requirements for their models were quite high. It wasn't easy to shoot these covers.
These achievements were all the result of Ming Yu sacrificing his rest time. He was very good and talented, but he never worked less than others. He actually worked more than other people?
There was a saying in Ming Xiaoyu's fan circles.
『 In the 365 days in a year, Small Mushroom will be struggling for 350 of them. 』
This figure was a big exaggerated but in fact, Ming Yu probably got no more than two months of rest in a year, this including Saturdays and Sundays.
Out of 365 days, he worked hard for 300 days. If he wasn't on a job, the youth would immerse himself in the atmosphere of work and constantly improve himself.
Therefore, he always performed easily when working and achieved excellent results. Many people thought that 'Ming Yu is very easy. You just have to put a design or have him casually pose.' The designers and photographers kept praising him.
But in fact, do you know how much effort he put into it behind the scenes?
There was no need to mention the accumulation of hard work in his previous life. It was impossible for the Ming Yu of this life to rise at such a fast speed with just talent.
The fashion industry of this world was too prosperous. In the process of appreciating it, Ming Yu constantly enriched himself. Therefore, he rose to his present height and won the attention and praise of the global people.
Due to the calm response of the fans, the words of the sunspots gradually decreased. It wasn't that they didn't want to blacken Ming Yu. They just found that they really couldn't refute these achievements.
The achievements were all there. Even if the sunspots wanted to ignore them, they wouldn't disappear.
The excitement of the world's fashion lovers wasn't over. Many Western fans already looking at Ming Yu started to pay attention to this youth.
Ming Yu's global ranking of 16th allowed them to calm down, since there were 15 people in front of Ming Yu. There were only three people left in front of Ming Yu and the youngest of the three was three years older than him! There was only one non-Huaxia supermodel left…
Wait a minute?
How did Adenes disappear?!!! ∑（っ °Д °；）っ!!!
After being shocked fora full half an hour by Ming Yu's amazing achievements, someone noticed that the female supermodels list was issued at the same time as the male list. On this list, everyone saw that the first place name was familiar.
Adenes Clark.
The global fashion enthusiasts, "…?＿?"
Hey, what should they say? Congratulations on finally reaching the top…
What was this? Why did Adenis suddenly become a female supermodel?
Many people were speechless regarding the World Supermodels Organization. Adenes had only had the sex change surgery a month ago. The organization changed the gender of the model so quickly!
But after this incident, some fans also said: 【 If Adenes was still there, Ming Yu would only be at the 5th rank. This is the same as Xi Ze's second ranking, it isn't a big deal. 】
But there were more fashion lovers who said: 【 The world supermodel rankings is very different from when Xi Ze first entered it. If you are going to bring up Adenes moving to the female list, then you have to think about this seven year gap as well. 】 This little thing didn't cause too much of a splash and people started to pay attention to another matter.
『 Ming Yu is the fastest rising male supermodel after Xi Ze. Can he break the stagnant situation where Xi Ze is dominating the world's first place? 』