When a bunch of 2D fans logged into their Xin Man Net accounts today and clicked on the site's trending list out of habit, without exception, their eyes were drawn to the video at number one, whose title was absurdly long!
What the heck?
A video with such a ridiculous title had made it onto the trending list?
But when curious users clicked on it, many were instantly drawn into the video by the uploader's witty narration.
[As everyone knows, Teacher Zhao Qinyin's I Can Hear the Sea is now playing in theaters nationwide. It's been out for just two weeks, and its box office has already come close to 1.4 billion, ranking fifty-eighth on the Dragon Kingdom's all-time box office list.]
[That's right, you heard me. Though a box office of 1.4 billion might not seem all that impressive to movie fans, in reality, only five films released in the Dragon Kingdom last year reached that figure. The top four films on the Dragon Kingdom's box office list each grossed over five billion, but the fifth-place film didn't even reach four billion.]
The first part seemed like a bunch of pointless rambling, but it was actually an introduction to the state of the Dragon Kingdom's film industry!
A phenomenal film like Spirited Away could gross as much as 8.4 billion, but for an ordinary film, even five hundred million at the box office counted as a modest hit! And a film like I Can Hear the Sea, which would probably break two billion, might not come along even once a year!
And with two films under her belt, Zhao Qinyin was all but guaranteed a place in the Dragon Kingdom's top thirty films of all time. That was incredible!
[All right, that's enough about I Can Hear the Sea's