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On the Internet, fans of "Dark City" and fans of "Shawshank's Redemption" have already launched a battle of ratings without gunpowder. Both sides use IMDB as their position and frequently haunt each other’s area, using the one-star rating in their hands as Weapons, constantly attacking, calling for friends, tit-for-tat, and never backing down.

Although "Shawshank's Redemption" failed at the box office when it was released, countless sympathy after the Oscar loss was added, and the box office was still flat when it was released again. However, after being touted by the media and movie fans in the middle and late last century, it has become a masterpiece of IMDB. The Internet and TV broadcasts, as well as the rental of video tapes and DVDs, accumulated a large number of fans, and even formed many fan organizations headed by Christian Franklin.

Organized combat is much more powerful than a straggler-style attack!

Compared with "Shawshank's 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, and Mexico The professional black fan organizations under the Philippines are all involved in the battle group.

The past decade or so has been the period of Murphy's rapid rise. His fans are much younger than those of "Shawshank's Redemption", and the appeal established with more than a dozen films has made the range of supporters also More extensive.

In short, fans of "Shawshank's Redemption" gave "Dark City" low scores, and fans of Murphy and "Dark City" were also giving "Shawshank's Redemption" low scores.

However, in addition to the black fan organization and 20th Century Fox preparing to hype, Murphy, CAA and 20th Century Fox did not put too much effort on this, especially the more professional promotion team, did not directly participate in the war. .

With the current momentum of "Dark City", this little entanglement can't be held back at all. Twentieth Century Fox is more prepared to use it to create topics instead of directly participating. These disputes between movie fans It’s enough to have Murphy’s fans participating in the war.

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 Murphy's die-hard fans far exceed the fans of "Shawshank's Redemption", and the organization is more strict. The online scoring battle is bound to win without defeat.

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

The mutual harm between the two films is unavoidable. In just three days, even though many fans were scoring high scores for "Dark City", its IMDB score fell to 9.5 points.

Of course, "Shawshank's Redemption" dropped faster than "Dark City". In the same three days, the IMDB score of this film dropped by 0.2 points, from 9.2 points to 9.0 points!

"Shawshank's Redemption" not only dropped the scores of the two "Dark City", but also lost the runner-up position on the best film 250 list, and was surpassed by "The Godfather", from second to No. Three.

As the IMDB scores of the two films "Shawshank's Redemption" and "Dark City" are declining, their respective fanatics deliberately voted for their opponents with a large number of low-scores for the top spot. By Thursday, "Shawshank" The one-point vote for "The Redemption" has risen rapidly to nearly 7%, and the "Dark City" is not much better. The proportion of 1 point votes has reached nearly 4%, but it is as high as hundreds of thousands of ten points. Votes to ensure that the film steadily occupies the first place in the TOP250 ranking with 9.5 points.

Fans often act spontaneously and fanatically. The fans of the two films not only scoured each other's low scores, but also attacked in their respective comment areas, and even rose to the level of abuse.

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

After all, this is a scoring war that relies on the Internet and the number of users participating in the battle. In this regard, Murphy, who has become famous in the Internet era, is compared to the number of nostalgic fans of "Shawshank's Redemption". It’s too much, and the Internet has always been an active place for young people. Although Murphy’s fans are relatively older, the average age is much younger than "Shawshank's Redemption", even fans of "Shawshank's Redemption" There are many fanatics among them, and after all, they still cannot compete with the younger generation on the Internet.

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

At the same time, under the call of major fan organizations and the efforts of many fans, "Dark City" has stabilized after dropping to 9.4 points.

On the one hand, this is the effort of Murphy fans to get high scores. On the other hand, the effective score of IMDB has certain access rules. After consuming a large number of effective old users in the early stage, the fan group of "Shawshank's Redemption" is seriously lacking in stamina. , Began to appear unsustainable.

Watching "Shawshank's Redemption" drop from second to fifth place, the group of people headed by Christian Franklin was of course not reconciled.

As a result, fans of "Shawshank's Redemption" chose to expand the area of ​​the war. Some people pretended to be fans of Murphy and "Dark City" and began to attack other films in the top five 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 "Shawshank's Redemption", they also went to other film areas to pretend to be fans of "Shawshank's Redemption" and scoring low scores. Fans of other films Without subdividing, they have given low scores for "Shawshank's Redemption" and "The Dark City".

Although IMDB had frequent naval forces, the order was still good. Movie fans' behavior this time undoubtedly severely disrupted the order of IMDB, especially on the Internet, where people's self-control is worse, and it is commonplace to leave messages to attack and abuse each other.

These struggles even spread to many film and television forums and social networking sites. Even Murphy's official Twitter and Facebook accounts were not spared. A large number of offensive and abusive remarks appeared in his message box.

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

"In the previous MDB rankings, especially before the release of "Dark City", "Shawshank's Redemption" ranked first, "The Godfather" was second, and "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King" was third."

"Until one day, Murphy Stanton brought "Dark City" to the stage, like a bright shooting star across the sky, breaking the originally peaceful night sky, and countless sleeping fans opened their eyes, one after another. Looking at the sky, the gears of destiny began to turn."

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

"In order to defeat the invincible "Shawshank's Redemption", they used the IMDB website to score 10 points for "Dark City" and 1 point for "Shawshank's Redemption" in the rating section of the IMDB website around the clock, and "Shawshank's Redemption" "Fans are doing the same thing..."

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

Some tabloids feared that the world would not be chaotic, and began to take advantage of this incident. Fans who hyped Murphy and fans of "Shawshank's Redemption" went to war directly on the street, saying that the fans of both sides in Los Angeles wanted to divide the battle and maintain their respective supported films. Escalated from the Internet scolding wars to real social fights.

The tabloids are not completely distorting the facts. At an event in the North Hollywood area, there were indeed a few fans who acted because of the dispute between "Dark City" and "Shawshank's Redemption", but it was just a simple physical conflict. , By no means as serious as they said.

News like this was hyped up by tabloids and spread on the Internet. It is irrelevant to the "Shawshank's Redemption" that has been in theaters for more than a decade, but the "Dark City" that is being shown in theaters is more attractive. Gimmick.

Many movie lovers who didn’t care about the movie "Dark City" before, after seeing relevant news or reports, a considerable number of people will be curious about the extent to which "Dark City" is NB. Will cause such a big storm?

Curiosity tends to evolve into motivation, and many curious people have become the new consumer group of "Dark City" this weekend.

As a result, on the fourth weekend of its release in North America, the box office of "Dark City" fell less than 50% compared to last weekend, and received another 38.3 million US dollars, which beat the US$24 million opening of "Now You See Me". Group", achieved four consecutive championships in the North American box office list!

In addition to the large sums of dollar bills collected in the previous four working days, the North American box office of "Dark City" totaled $632.1 million, surpassing "Avengers"'s $623.35 million, making it the top of the North American box office. the third!

At the same time, the film continued to be shown in overseas regions, with the screening expanded to 124 countries and regions, and the global box office reached 1,762.87 million US dollars!

Similarly, "Dark City" has also completed the surpassing of "Avengers" on the global box office chart.

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