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Jessica was still chatting with the little Gilbert fan next to her, who was also a girl named Lisa.

"I watched the midnight show yesterday and brought my boyfriend to watch it today. The movie is really great. I think it's better than The Dark Knight."

Jessica asked, "I read online that the villain is very scary. Who is he?"

"I won't tell you, he appears at the beginning of the film. I personally think he is the strongest villain in the series."

"More powerful than the Joker?"

"He can beat ten clowns."

In fact, in the comics, Bane is played by the Joker.

But Gilbert Jr. did not join the Joker in the movie, because if he added the Joker, it would have been "Arkham City" instead of "The Dark Knight Rises".

Lisa continued to talk excitedly with Jessica: "My boyfriend and I both met through Gilbert Jr.'s movie. Did you guys meet too?"

Jessica shook her head: "No, we met at a party, but Charlie didn't seem to like watching Little Gilbert's movies."

"How can that be done?"

Lisa's words made Charlie very unhappy: "Without common interests, how can we have common topics?"

"Yeah, so I brought him to see this movie, and I hope he likes it."

Charlie curled his lips. There was no way he would like little Gilbert's movies!
Having said that, Charlie still decided to take a good look at "The Dark Knight Rises" and then find various flaws to criticize in order to make Jessica come to her senses.

Who knew that once he looked at it, he would be drawn into it.

Jessica was watching Charlie on the big screen, and saw that he even forgot to hold her hand and was concentrating on watching the movie, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth involuntarily.

See, I told you that anyone who watches carefully will be attracted by Gilbert Jr.'s movies.

Although this statement is a bit absolute, Charlie was indeed attracted to "The Dark Knight Rises" without even realizing it.

Even the action of looking for shortcomings turned into looking for advantages, because he couldn't find many shortcomings, and the few that were there were minor flaws that were not worth mentioning.

But as a famous director once said, no movie can stand up to analysis. If you analyze each of them separately, they are all mediocre.

But Charlie didn't really hate Little Gilbert. He just disliked those extreme Little Gilbert fans. Influenced by these extreme fans, he had never watched Little Gilbert's movies seriously.

But this time, when he seriously watched Gilbert Jr.'s movies, he immediately understood why so many people liked his movies.

Charlie hasn't seen the much-hyped "The Dark Knight," but that didn't stop him from watching "The Dark Knight Rises."

Gilbert Jr. is definitely a master in controlling the rhythm, the graphics are also very high-end, the choreography of the action scenes is sharp but not chaotic, and the final war between the citizen police and the Bain Group looks so exciting.

In the words of a university psychology professor: Little Gilbert has mastered the human heart. He plays with the audience in the palm of his hand, and the audience is willing to be ruled by him.

Jessica didn't have so many complicated thoughts. She just thought the movie was good and she also saw the villain that Lisa mentioned.

It turned out to be Adam Shamrock, the person he hated so much. In this movie, Adam Shamrock still played a villain and looked so arrogant.

Poor Dwayne Johnson, his name doesn't deserve to be known by beautiful Jessica.

After watching it, Jessica and Lisa exchanged social media accounts and followed each other.

"How was it, Charlie? Was the movie good?" Jessica asked with a smile.

Charlie is not the kind of person who would say things in a tough way. He nodded and said, "Yes, whether it's the smooth narrative rhythm, the exciting action scenes, or the strong emotional impact, they are all top-notch."

"Has this changed your opinion of Gilbert Jr.'s movies?" Jessica continued to ask.

What Jessica likes about Charlie is that, unlike other boys with high hormone levels and stubborn words, he will admit and correct his opinions when he realizes they are wrong.

In this age where everyone is stubborn and unwilling to admit their mistakes, this quality of his makes Jessica feel excellent. Charlie nodded: "I admit that I was a little biased against his movies before, it was my fault. But I also want to point out that I don't like the behavior of those extreme fans."

Jessica pouted and held Charlie's arm with both hands, shaking it left and right: "I'm not one of those extreme fans. I'm a rational fan."

"Yeah, I saw that a long time ago."

Charlie asked Jessica: "We should have dinner next. What are we going to do after dinner?"

"Let's go to the movies! Didn't you say you wanted to watch a romance?"

"A romance movie? Forget it, let's just watch The Dark Knight Rises again!"

"Hehe, I'll listen to you."

From the perspective of Gilbert Jr.'s fans, Charlie was lucky to meet Jessica.

This doesn't mean that Jessica is beautiful and has a good figure, but that he can put aside his prejudices and watch Gilbert Jr.'s movies seriously, and then get hooked.

But for most of Little Gilbert's haters, they are not so lucky.

In the fiercely competitive battlefield of the summer season, although there is no movie competing with "The Dark Knight Rises" in the same period, it does not mean that other film companies will be able to let "The Dark Knight Rises" pass safely in the first week.

During the release of the film, the Internet trolls were everywhere, stirring up quarrels between Gilbert's fans and haters. The extreme behavior of both sides also affected the choices of passers-by.

In fact, this is not an isolated case. With the rapid development of the Internet today, any blockbuster movie will face the same public opinion environment.

White pieces and black pieces, fools and passers-by, all kinds of melee are dizzying to watch.

If you don't have your own judgment, it's easy to be led by people with ulterior motives without even realizing it.

These negative effects of public opinion can affect the box office performance of "The Dark Knight Rises" to a certain extent, but it is limited. And to be honest, there are no other blockbusters to choose from in the same period.

Most passers-by who look at the theater's release schedule will choose "The Dark Knight Rises".

After so many years of development, Hollywood has actually reached a bottleneck period. The biggest reason is that the North American market has reached its ceiling.

No matter how much it expands, the entire North American market will still have a limited number of viewers and growth will be limited.

At this time, overseas markets become particularly critical, especially the rapidly growing Chinese market, which is gradually being paid attention to by Hollywood.

At the same time, big Hollywood companies also began to look for new profit channels, and Gilbert Jr. and Disney went the furthest in this regard.

From online video copyrights to the authorization of surrounding online stores and the layout of streaming media platforms, these are all attempts made by major Hollywood companies to seek new profit points.

Of course, even if Hollywood encounters a bottleneck period, it is still the center of the world's film industry.

Many so-called film experts now believe that Hollywood's mature business model is a restriction on creativity. Blockbusters, big productions, sequels and the so-called movie universe completely stifle the space for innovative films.

But these film experts deliberately ignore one essential fact, that is, these innovative films are stifled not because of the choice of the film companies but because of the choice of the market.

It is the audience who kills these innovative films. Because the audience does not like to watch them, innovative films are rarely seen in the film market.

If the audience likes to watch an innovative movie, the talented filmmakers in Hollywood will come up with countless innovative movies with all kinds of fantastic ideas.

But the reality is that the scripts of these innovative films are lying in the film script libraries of major companies, gathering dust, with no chance of being put into filming.

So this makes Gilbert Jr. particularly special, because he is one of the few Hollywood directors who dares to innovate and still achieve success, perhaps the only one.

When it comes to "The Dark Knight Rises", how many directors dare to break away from the traditional narrative of superhero movies and instead adopt a group portrait perspective?
After watching The Dark Knight Rises twice with Jessica, Charlie had the above questions and wrote this summary of Gilbert Jr.'s film and Hollywood.

Soon, this article became a hot search and was praised by the official website of Xianggua Film Studio. (End of this chapter)