The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 1363 Literary Male God
Focus Features' goal for the re-screening of "Eternal Love of Dreams" is very clear, which is to promote the film for the awards season. The main target audience is Hollywood insiders, hoping that the Academy judges will be able to go to the cinema to watch this film; but they did not expect that it would trigger a new wave of discussion among young literary and artistic people.

During the second screening that lasted a full six weeks, Focus Features only arranged more than 100 venues throughout North America, precisely targeting the target audience, and "Eternal Love of Dreams" once again earned an outstanding box office of 5 million US dollars. Not to mention Hollywood, even Focus Features itself found it hard to believe.

Thanks to this, the final North American box office of "Eternal Love" was fixed at 121 million US dollars.

An uproar!
There is another surprise after another surprise, and another shock after another shock. Just when people think they have adapted to the success of "The Light Inside", they did not expect that the shock could come further. Apart from once again sighing at Anson's appeal, they don't seem to know how to react.

However, the real surprise came from overseas markets.

Not in North America, but overseas.

Led by the UK and France markets, a view is gaining momentum:
Anson, the new artistic male god.

Everyone:? ? ?
Wait, who? Anson? Are we talking about the trophy idol? The one who was even shunned by the academy because of the trophy label?

Those enthusiastic fans nodded and gave an affirmative answer, it was him.

Indeed, vase is his label, and good looks are also his way of standing out; but if you think about it calmly, he has never been a typical vase idol.

There is no need to say much about "The Warmth of the Inner Heart" and "Elephant", which show Anson's understanding of different projects and different types of works; and "The Butterfly Effect" is not a typical commercial film, but a soft science fiction with some literary and artistic attributes.

In "Spider-Man", Anson plays an ordinary high school student who is excluded and ignored, and likes photography and nature; the same is true in "The Princess Diaries", a freak who plays in a band and lives out of the spotlight.

Strictly speaking, it is "Cat and Mouse Game" that best caters to mainstream aesthetics. Although this work won Anson his first Golden Globe nomination in his career, the role of Frank Abagnale is indeed a performance that fully demonstrates Anson's charm and best fits the image of a vase.

In other words, Anson has not deliberately chosen commercial or artistic films, but has been choosing roles to show his unique temperament as an actor and his charm in all aspects.

If this isn’t an artistic male god, then what is it?
Of course, this statement is a bit far-fetched, because in the early stage of Anson's career, he had no choice. He basically tried every role and did his best to grab the role. There was no room for pickyness. The interpretations surrounding those roles are more of a reverse deduction of the self-satisfaction of fanatical movie fans, and are not very credible.

Such statements have also caused a lot of complaints.

But it is undeniable that the three works in the past six months have indeed completed a triple jump, showing Anson's own aesthetic of the script, the role and the project, and showing his own actor's personality under the label of vase.

Worthy of praise.

Moreover, in Europe, the attitudes of fanatical moviegoers are slightly different from those in North America.

The Cannes Film Festival played a key role, and the tidbits and episodes passed on by word of mouth among senior fans spread comprehensively, allowing people to see Anson beyond the vase idol described by the media. This image also echoed with Anson at the preview at the Angelica Film Center, and finally collided with the literary and artistic work "The Light Inside" to create a chemical reaction and complete a crucial transformation. It is precisely because of this that the label of "artistic male god" spread like wildfire in Europe, sparked many discussions among fans, and eventually evolved into box office figures, showing people Anson's transformation in an intuitive way-

From a vase idol to an artistic male god, a gorgeous transformation.

After a wave of frenzied buying, "Eternal Love" was eventually released in 38 countries and regions around the world, setting a new record for Charlie Kaufman's works. This shows the change in the mentality of overseas distribution companies.

Among them, the United Kingdom became the largest overseas box office for "The Sun Is Shining", contributing a full 20 million US dollars in box office revenue, which aroused heated discussions in local media.

France, which followed closely behind, was not to be outdone, with a box office of 15 million US dollars, which was particularly impressive. Most importantly, as the largest box office market for overseas art films, major French film distribution companies have turned their attention to Anson, finally recognizing the fact that he also has appeal in the field of art films.

This is undoubtedly an important step.

In addition to the UK and France, Germany, Spain and Neon also brought surprises. The box office figures in these three markets all exceeded 6 million US dollars, which is an unimaginable performance for an art film.

In comparison, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind", directed by George Clooney and written by Charlie Kaufman, even won the Best Actor trophy at the Berlin Film Festival, but even so the film's overseas box office was only 17 million US dollars.

At this point, you can deeply feel the outstanding box office performance of "The Sun Is Shining".

In addition, the final cumulative box office in eight countries and regions including Italy, Argentina, Mexico, Norway, etc. all exceeded 3 million US dollars. It can be said that the film has blossomed across the board and this trend has swept the world in a mighty way.

In the end, the overseas box office of "Eternal Love" unexpectedly exceeded 80 million US dollars, sparking all-round heated discussions in the media with its shocking attitude.

In North America, Anson's influence has been rising steadily in the past few months. First, there was the collision between the Grammy and Oscars both inside and outside the venues, and then there was the traffic explosion of "Midnight of Summer" and "Another Ray of Light". The publicity and promotion outside the movie continued to lay the foundation for the film to achieve good results. In the end, the outbreak of "The Light of Being Wild" was not a surprise without a beginning or an end.

However, overseas, "Eternal Love" was not promoted as extensively as other commercial films, yet it still achieved such box office results. This is what really made people see Anson's current influence.

Precisely because of this, the $80 million in overseas markets was more impactful than the North American box office breaking the $100 million threshold, and it once again sparked heated discussions.

In the end, the global total box office of "Eternal Love" reached 2004 million US dollars. Such a miraculous performance became a beautiful landscape in , and it miraculously reproduced the glory of "When Harry Met Sally". A love movie full of literary and artistic atmosphere detonated the box office.

So, can "The Sunshine of the Sun" stand the test of time and become a classic as the New Yorker's review says? Or is this achievement just another successful case of commercial promotion and marketing, which will be completely forgotten in the long river of time after briefly creating a miracle in the market?

Only time will tell.

(End of this chapter)