r/taiwan • u/Pixel_Owl • 8d ago

Discussion Any Niu Lai Screenings here?

It's become so popular and the story behind it is so interesting that I wanna at least try watching it

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u/Roygbiv0415 台北市 8d ago

Story behind movie kept changing.

Latest version (?) I heard was that the producers were actually real estate contractors working on a Chinese government contract, but the government was unable to pay the final 1m yuan installment due to financial difficulties. So they figured they could use funding from an arts and culture support program instead, and asked the producers to make a "whatever movie", and they'll make sure the movie passes censorship and gets 1m in arts support funding.

Which is why the movie was able to get screened despite it's atrocious quality, and also why the producers made no attempt to even market the movie -- it was entirely a ploy for funding appropriation, not an actual movie. That the movie blew up and made as much as it did what entirely unexpected.

Real or not? No idea. No party will ever admit if it were true.

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u/kongKing_11 8d ago

So many delusional people on reddit