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On the Internet, fans of "Dark City" and fans of "Shawshank Redemption" have already launched a rating war without gunpowder. The two sides use IMDB as a position, frequently appear in each other's area, and use their one-star ratings as a basis. Weapons, continue to attack, call friends and friends with each other, confront each other, and never back down.

Although "The Shawshank Redemption" failed disastrously at the box office when it was released, and the countless sympathies of Oscar's failure added to it, the box office was still mediocre when it was released again. Years of online and TV broadcasts, as well as videotape and DVD rentals, have accumulated a large number of fans, and even formed many fan organizations headed by Christian Franklin.

Organized combat is much more powerful than straggler attacks!

Compared with "The Shawshank Redemption", "Dark City" is not inferior here, led by Daisy's IMDB discussion group, plus the Murphy-Stanton Fan Association in many cities such as New York and Los Angeles, as well as Murphy. Fei's professional anti-fan organization has all joined the battle group.

The past decade or so has been the period of Murphy's rapid rise. His fans are far younger than the fans of "The Shawshank Redemption", and the appeal built up with more than ten films has made the range of supporters wider. more extensive.

In short, fans of "Shawshank Redemption" gave "Dark City" low marks, and Murphy and "Dark City" fans also gave "Shawshank Redemption" low marks.

However, apart from the anti-fan organization and 20th Century Fox preparing to hype, Murphy, CAA and 20th Century Fox did not put too much effort on it, especially the more professional promotion team, which did not directly participate in the battle .

With the current momentum of "Dark City", it is not something that can be held back by such a small entanglement. Twentieth Century Fox is more prepared to use this to create topics, rather than directly participating. These disputes come from fans , it is enough for Murphy's fans to join the battle.

Because they are not stupid at all, it may be difficult for outsiders to detect, but 20th Century Fox has its own quantitative assessment, knowing that the number of die-hard fans of Murphy far exceeds the number of fans of "The Shawshank Redemption", and the organization is more strict. There must be winners and losers in the online rating war.

The IMDB score battle between "Dark City" and "Shawshank's Redemption" is intensifying.

Mutual harm between the two films is unavoidable. In just three days, even though many fans were giving "Dark City" high marks, its IMDB score dropped to 9.5.

Of course, "The Shawshank Redemption" dropped faster than "Dark City". In the same three days, the IMDB score of this film directly dropped by 0.2 points.

From 9.2 points to 9.0 points!

"The Shawshank Redemption" not only lost the score of "Dark City" two films, but also lost the second place on the list of the best films 250, surpassed by "The Godfather", from the second place to the first place three.

When the IMDB scores of the two films "Shawshank Redemption" and "Dark City" are declining day by day, their respective fanatic fans deliberately voted a lot of low scores for their opponents in order to get the top position. On Thursday, "Shawshank" The 1-point votes for "The Redemption" quickly rose to nearly 7%, and "Dark City" was not much better, the proportion of 1-point votes reached nearly 4%, but it was as high as ten thousand votes to ensure that the film firmly occupies the first place in the TOP250 ranking with a score of 9.5.

Fans often behave spontaneously and fanatically. Fans of the two films not only exchanged low scores, but also started to attack each other in their comment areas, and even rose to the level of abuse.

For example, the fans of "The Shawshank Redemption" said angrily that the fans of "Dark City" are a group of brains who can't distinguish between good and evil, black and white!

After all, this is a scoring war relying on the Internet, and the number of users participating in the war determines the outcome. In this regard, Murphy, who became famous in the Internet age, is really compared to the number of nostalgic fans of "The Shawshank Redemption". There are too many, and the Internet is always an active place for young people. Although Murphy's fans are relatively older, the average age is much younger than that of "The Shawshank Redemption", even if the fans of "The Shawshank Redemption" There are many fanatics among them, but after all, they still cannot compete with the younger generation on the Internet.

In the next few days, the IMDB section of "The Shawshank Redemption" was almost captured by the tide of Murphy fans, and the score dropped from 9.0 points to 8.8 points, directly falling out of the top five of the TOP250 list!

At the same time, with the calls of major movie fan organizations and the efforts of many movie fans, "Dark City" stabilized after dropping to 9.4 points.

On the one hand, this is the effort of Murphy’s fans to get high scores. On the other hand, IMDB’s effective ratings have certain access rules. After consuming a large number of valid old users in the early stage, the fan base of "The Shawshank Redemption" seriously lacks stamina , began to appear unsustainable.

Watching "The Shawshank Redemption" drop from the second place to the fifth place, a group of people led by Christian Franklin are of course not reconciled.

As a result, fans of "Shawshank's Redemption" chose to expand the scope of the war. Some people pretended to be fans of Murphy and "Dark City" and began to attack other films in the top five of TOP250, such as "The Godfather" and "Twelve Angry Men". Films such as "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King" have become their targets.

In less than half a day, a large number of 1-point votes appeared in the ratings of these films.

Then, more fans joined in. While the fans of "Dark City" attacked "The Shawshank Redemption", they also went to other film areas to pretend to be fans of "The Shawshank Redemption" to score low. Fans of other films They didn't subdivide them, and gave low scores to "Shawshank's Redemption" and "Dark City".

Although IMDB used to be haunted by trolls, the order was relatively good. The behavior of movie fans this time has undoubtedly seriously damaged the order of IMDB, especially on the Internet. People's self-control is even worse.

These battles even spread to many film and television forums and social networking sites, and even Murphy's official Twitter and Facebook accounts were not spared, and a large number of attacks and insults appeared in his message column.

When the matter got to this point, it naturally attracted the attention of the media.

"In the previous MDB rankings, especially before the release of "Dark City", "The Shawshank Redemption" was first, "The Godfather" was second, and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" was third."

"Until one day, Murphy Stanton made his debut with "Dark City", like a bright shooting star across the sky, breaking the original tranquil night sky, countless sleeping movie fans opened their eyes and took Turn your eyes to the sky, and the gears of fate will start to rotate from here."

"For many movie fans in Hollywood and North America, Murphy Stanton was originally a god shining with black light. "Dark City" is like a new god created by the main god, attracting many believers. Absorbing a lot of beliefs, the fanatical believers vowed to push their gods to the top of the world."

"In order to defeat the invincible "Shawshank Redemption", they have been in the scoring column of the IMDB website around the clock, scoring 10 points for "Dark City" and 1 point for "Shawshank Redemption", and "Shawshank Redemption" "Fans are doing the same thing..."

The reports on the "Los Angeles Times" and "Hollywood Reporter" undoubtedly extended this Internet scoring war to the level of traditional media.

Some tabloids were even more afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and began to use this incident to hype the fans of Murphy and the fans of "The Shawshank Redemption" directly on the streets, saying that the fans of both sides in Los Angeles fought for points and defended the film they supported. From scolding wars on the Internet to fighting in real society.

The tabloids aren't totally distorting the truth either, at an event in the North Hollywood area, a few fans did get involved in the feud between Dark City and The Shawshank Redemption, but it was just a simple physical altercation , is by no means as serious as they say.

News like this was hyped up by the tabloids and spread around the Internet. It is irrelevant to "The Shawshank Redemption", which has been released for more than ten years, but "Dark City", which is currently being screened in theaters, is more attractive. gimmick.

Many movie lovers who didn't care about the film "Dark City" before, after seeing related news or reports, quite a few of them will be aroused curiosity. Will it cause such a big disturbance?

Curiosity often turns into motivation, and many curious people have become new consumers of "Dark City" this weekend.

Therefore, in the fourth weekend of its release in North America, the weekend box office of "Dark City" fell by less than 50% compared with last weekend, and it received another 38.3 million US dollars, surpassing "Now You See Me", which opened with 24 million US dollars. "Tuan", achieved four consecutive championships in the North American box office chart!

Including the large sums of dollars harvested in the previous four working days, "Dark City" has a cumulative North American box office of 632.1 million U.S. dollars, surpassing "The Avengers" at 623.35 million U.S. dollars and jumping to the top of the North American box office list. the third!

At the same time, the film continued to be popular in overseas regions, and the screening was expanded to 124 countries and regions, and the global box office reached 1.76287 billion US dollars!

Similarly, "Dark City" has surpassed "The Avengers" on the global box office list.

Whether it is in North America or looking at the world, the only two films ahead of "Dark City" in the box office list are "Titanic" and "Avatar".