Coquettish Rebirth

The Chinese Overseas Students Association in the United States and Canada began to organize international students to watch Cheng Long's "Who Am I Remake".Although it has been organized before, but now, after they saw that DreamWorks had another lottery for Cheng Long's "Who Am I Remake", many people began to understand that this movie wanted to hit the box office or something , So the senior management of the International Students Association directly contacted DreamWorks, and then, they directly launched such an activity of organizing movie watching.Although the United States can take care of prize sales, it can't take care of the group viewing of movies by foreign students, right?There are no group purchases or discounts here, it's just that everyone makes a reservation to watch a movie together.

It is easy to understand that the international students support Cheng Long.After the US bombed the Chinese embassy, ​​to be honest, many people were quite aggrieved.This matter in this age is different from that of later generations.In later generations, it may be due to various propaganda reasons, the progress of the times, or the only child. Anyway, more people choose to find reasons to justify themselves.For example, for things like boycotting Japanese products, there is a famous saying on the Internet in later generations-don’t buy any computers with Japanese capacitors if you have the ability!And those who are not so boycotting Japanese products due to various reasons are relatively criticizing those who call for a boycott of Japanese products as enemies.

But it is different in this era. Even if the international students themselves are studying in the United States, their mood is relatively complicated. It is a bit like the banner hung by the School of Computer Science of Peking University-"Boycott American goods, except computers".On the one hand, they want to make a living and make a better future for themselves.But at the same time, I also subconsciously want to be patriotic and stand on the same front with the country.

Before, there wasn't much they could do.Although they are patriotic, just like the students in the computer department of Peking University, they cannot be patriotic to the point of ruining their future.But they are not going to say that they will find reasons for themselves all at once.Then they got into a fight with the patriots, saying that since there is no way to get rid of the United States, then don't boycott the United States at all.They are very contradictory. On the one hand, they are in the United States, relying on American education to improve their own standards. On the other hand, they are also counting on the middle class or even a higher standard of living in the United States in the future-to put it bluntly, in this era How many of them were able to give up their superior life in foreign countries and return to China?After all, opportunities at home and abroad are different in this era!It is not yet the time when it is difficult to find such excellent jobs in foreign countries. This year is just before the bursting of the Internet bubble in the United States, and the new economy is booming.It seems that there are many different positions in a messy era.

So, they want to oppose the United States, but because of their jobs and personal future, they cannot.And after Cheng Long entered Hollywood with a high profile and made a "Who Am I Remake" was released.This is where the foreign students suddenly found a place where they can subtly display their patriotic enthusiasm and anti-American enthusiasm - that is to support Cheng Long!It's like Jia Hongjian's troll post on the Sherlock Holmes forum.It is said that Cheng Long is a man, and other Hollywood superstars are women.So as long as you support Cheng Long to get a good box office, does that mean you support Cheng Long to defeat the Hollywood superstar?Is it to some extent, supporting China to defeat the United States?

Although this kind of thinking is quite funny on a certain level, a bit like Ah Q's self-deceiving spiritual victory method, but it has to be said that at least it is the only way in front of patriotic overseas students.For this kind of path, many international students have chosen to support it, even to some of them, it seems that they are more patriotic if they watch Cheng Long’s movies more times, as if they are more patriotic than those who watch less Love China even more!

With the support of these foreign students. The box office of "Who Am I Remake" went against the trend for a while.Originally, the box office results were only 200 to 300 million per week, but the film and television has achieved a result of just over 500 million for two or three consecutive weeks!The 200 million box office increase in the middle, based on an average of one person watching it twice, means that 20 people have watched it again!And this kind of result, that is, the box office of "Who Am I Remake" successfully reached a box office height of 15 million after [-] weeks of release!

"Hung-chien! Our box office has exceeded 15 million dollars!" Spielberg excitedly took the faxed report and ran all the way to Jia Hongjian's office and shouted.At that time, Jia Hongjian hadn't reacted yet. Ye Jing jumped up and snatched the report to take a look, and then hurriedly showed it to Jia Hongjian with a smile on her face: "Hongjian, it's really over 20 million!" Looking at the report, it is true that the box office has just exceeded 3000 million, and it was completed in the 3000th week of its release.If it is expected to be released for more than 1000 weeks, how can it reach the level of [-] million?Even if [-] million cannot be reached, [-] million is still possible, right?

Jia Hongjian was thinking about the overall box office here, when he saw Ye Jing let out a sigh of relief, "Hmph! I knew that shit test screening was not reliable at all! Those audiences didn't I know how to appreciate it!" While talking, Ye Jing snorted coldly, as if the audience who participated in the preview screening were not optimistic about Ye Jing herself, and now she obviously felt like she had slapped the other party in the face and then felt elated! [

To be honest, Jia Hongjian felt quite strange at this time - to be honest, he really didn't feel any elation, and he even felt that reaching such a score of over [-] million seemed quite ordinary?Previously, the box office was suppressed by "Star Wars Episode [-]", and then "The Matrix" grabbed the box office. At the same time, there was not enough publicity, and the final score was not so high that even Jia Hongjian was surprised.Compared to the industry in China where money can be made no matter what you do, why does investing in such a movie in Hollywood always make Jia Hongjian feel that there is not much room for effort, and the results are so mediocre?Why is Ye Jing so happy with such a result?

At this moment, Spielberg also said excitedly, "That's right! Hung-chien, you know that although I hoped that the audience at the preview screenings would behave incorrectly, Hollywood relies on the system of preview screenings." It’s too deep. Unless other film companies are very optimistic about their films, they are unlikely to operate like us. Originally, I followed the industry rules and wanted to get one ticket. At that time, I thought the box office was about five 6000 million is sky-high, but who would have thought that the box office could exceed [-] million. This can almost be included in Hollywood movie textbooks as a case study!"

ha?How did Spielberg say that?Shit... Is it difficult to get [-] million dollars?Why does Jia Hongjian feel that whether it is "The Bourne" or "Rush Hour" is in the early [-] million dollars, and he, a reborn person, has mixed so many things and ideas into it, it seems that he should do more than others in history. A better grade is considered a success, right?Now it looks like it might be the same as the historical results. Is this considered a success?

At this point, Jia Hongjian really couldn't hold back, and he really asked—"Why do you think this is success? Why do I feel that the box office of over [-] million is everywhere? Why do I feel that this should be a very ordinary Results?" Who knows that just after he finished asking, Spielberg's eyes widened, "What? The $[-] million box office is everywhere? Where did you hear this? It's nonsense! You Do you know how many movies are produced in the United States every year? Do you know the average box office of these movies? Do you know how many movies have a box office of over [-] million dollars each year? Do you know what level the movies with a box office of over [-] million dollars are? Is it?"

Having said this, Spielberg didn't give Jia Hongjian a chance to respond, and he directly gave the answer—"A total of nearly 98 films were produced in 600. Then you know how many films have won awards in total." Hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office? There are only 28 films! In other words, there is a 20 in 19 chance of getting hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office! If our movie has 19 competitors as soon as it is produced, then we are already our own The champion of the group! Do you understand? All the other [-] films have been eliminated, and only we have entered the [-] million yuan club!"

then.Spielberg seems not to give up until he reverses Jia Hongjian's outlook on the world, values ​​and life. "Do you know the movie Deep Impact? This movie was released on May 5 last year. What is their story about? It's about a group of astronomers discovering that a comet is rushing towards the earth, and the earth is facing doomsday... this sounds Does it look similar to Bruce Willis's "Peerless Catastrophe"? The result is that the theme and the story collide! Such a Paramount film invested 8 million U.S. dollars in production, and it is even more expensive than Bruce Willis' " "Peerless Catastrophe" was released 7000 months ahead of schedule. Do you know how much it was for the premiere? 2 million US dollars! Much higher than ours! At that time, people at Paramount always thought that the movie would break through 4100 million box office in the end, but when it arrived In the end, the film only got a North American box office of 13 billion! How much did we invest? Almost half of others, and our box office was almost the same as others! Similarly, like "Batman and Robin" in 97, directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger played the villain "Iceman" and George Clooney played Batman. With an investment of 125 billion US dollars, such a hot Batman movie premiered at 4280 million at the box office. At that time, everyone thought it must be over [-] million. ..."

"How was the result?" Ye Jing and Jia Hongjian asked at the same time.

"As a result, their box office was only 700 million US dollars, and they didn't even earn back their investment! It's about the same as our current box office!" Spielberg was really angry when he said this, "Although you are the producer of this film, although it is starring Cheng Long, although it uses some new technology. But I mean to offend, are you two well-known to Hollywood movie audiences? You two are not good at all. It’s just a layman, just a newcomer who has never heard of the name, okay! An Asian face like Cheng Long, he can’t speak English well, and he has an accent. Although there are some big stars, but the guest appearance time of each of them is less than 3 minutes And the jokes that have not adapted to the American land, although there are jokes that can be laughed out, but it is not American enough, not localized enough! At the same time, the protagonist is an Asian face that cannot be brought in by others. You, the producer, have no experience before , even though there are desperate stunts in this movie, how many shocking visual effects are there? Apart from Cheng Long's desperate efforts and a sub-time, what else can be used as a gimmick?"

When Spielberg arrived at this time, his anger was a little bit down, but he was still quite blunt-"So what I mean is, you don't have any film experience before, you can come up with a few good ideas, you can come up with a script outline , can help design a new shooting technology, this is already a genius in the film industry that no one else dares to think about, okay! Which other directors have not started watching movies since they were young, and which ones have not watched three or four thousand movies? Then you have to learn all kinds of theoretical knowledge and market knowledge to become a teacher? You have already humiliated more than 80% of professional film producers and directors by easily reaching the box office of [-] million, okay? They have worked hard for decades After studying it, it’s not as good as you, a genius in business management, who can hit the head with his interest. If you can get [-] million box office or more casually like this, will everyone else “suicide”?”

Hmm...According to Spielberg...it seems that Jia Hongjian has already done a great job?Hiss... Why didn't Jia Hongjian feel it himself?

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