Coquettish Rebirth

After about a week or so, there are more and more people watching Nolan’s movie. Although it’s not a full show, the number of people now is more than the half-time audience. It’s almost here. Three-quarters of the auditorium can be filled.This can be said to have achieved the best results that non-prime time movies can achieve!And such a result made the theaters start to change their attitude one by one, and began to try to arrange one or two shows of this movie to the prime time one by one.

At the same time, on the personal website of the Sherlock Holmes website, a user named Sen Duwang created a personal webpage called "Rotten Tomatoes", and gave a good evaluation of this movie.Such a personal webpage established by Sen-Duwang is relatively well-known in the circle of American movie fans, because this Duwang buddy introduces information and news of various movies on the website, and at the same time gives some movies score.Scoring is all about scoring, he is quite objective, and at the same time left a small vote for other movie fans to rate.

Among the series of movies released in this non-prime time period, Nolan's "Memento" really got a good score-this score is based on a kind of "The show is not well acted, so the audience will go to The concept of "throwing rotten tomatoes on stage", but in the overall score, it is based on the "freshness" of tomatoes to evaluate the quality of a movie.In other words, if the freshness is particularly high, it proves that everyone thinks the movie is good, so throw fresh tomatoes on it and let the "actors" take it home and cook. What if the movie is bad.Then what everyone throws is Rotten Tomatoes.

And how fresh is "Memento" on Rotten Tomatoes?There are 98 in total!In other words, at least among the audience who have watched it so far, there are quite a lot of people who gave "Memento" a high score or even a full score!And the result of such a vote not only impressed other audiences at once, not only whetted their appetite, but also made many film critics interested-in fact, not every film critic I watch all the films that have just been released, and not every small-produced film.After seeing the high freshness of this movie on Rotten Tomatoes, some film critics who wrote columns on the traditional media suddenly became interested, and then, the traditional media began to appear about "Memento" film reviews up.

就像是《洛杉矶日报》里的一片影评就是这么写的——“在这个没有大片的时间段里，也许你可以在周末花50美元看5场电影来打发时间。不过这5部电影可能都是烂片。烂到你看到一半就不想看的地步。我建议你把这50美元用来看5边《记忆碎片》，它简直可以改变你对自身以及世界的看法……”

This film critic's evaluation of the entire plot of the movie is just this one paragraph, it can even be said to be just two sentences, and the rest are all compliments to Nolan himself.Overall, this film critic is quite upright.At least not as a spoiler party.At least it is still vaguely described.Come to fool the audience into the cinema-after all, such a movie is playing with Hitchcock's suspense style, and what it is playing is an idea!If the idea is broken, then the movie will be mediocre.After all, if it is narrated in order, the movie itself is definitely not as shocking as all the truth revealed in the finale!

Such positive movie reviews really attracted the audience to the cinema, and the box office of "Memory Fragments" was really rising all the way.Unlike other movies, the box office of the opening weekend of "Memento" is not very good, it is about 200 million US dollars. Generally speaking, even if the quality is not bad, this is at most 400 million. Even if the box office of the general bad movie is very good in the first premiere, it may plunge in the future!Maybe the box office in the second week is only one-tenth of the first week!

Under such circumstances, the theater managers also understood that although this movie is not a big hit, it is not a movie with a box office of 500 million as they imagined. At least it seems that there should be no problem hitting 1000 million!So all of a sudden, there are more and more movie theaters showing "Memento".For example, in the past, the big cinema companies only allowed a very small number of cinemas to play it, but now, they have started to order copies in large quantities, which is ready to be screened on a large scale!

"This film will definitely pay back, and we can make money!" DreamWorks executive manager Katzenberg asserted.Dreamworks makes money by relying on agency distribution. No matter what, the better the performance of the other party is, the more money we can make here!Relatively speaking, Jia Hongjian paid more attention to recruiting talents, and felt that even if his grades were poor, as long as he could win over Nolan, it would be fine.But for an elite talent like Katzenberg, he is more happy to see the company make money!Because the company can make money, it can become the second Disney one day earlier!He is holding his breath to fight with Disney!Back then he was clearly able to be the boss of Disney, but the board of directors still looked down on him, thinking that his operational ability was not good!That's why he betrayed Disney and came out to get DreamWorks with Spielberg and others!He just wants to prove himself!

Jia Hongjian understood this very well, so he didn't plan to persuade Katzenberg anything. After all, even if he has selfish intentions, selfish intentions are also good for the company.Being obsessed doesn't mean you will go crazy. For example, the reason why Jordan has six championships is because he is very obsessed with the concept of winning.It is because of his persistence and even paranoia that he is able to play games despite acute gastroenteritis and lead the team to victory!

Katzenberg is like this, and Nolan is very excited at this time.Originally, I heard that Spielberg had high expectations for his film. I heard that Lao Si even thought that his film could have a box office of 1000 million to 2000 million. Nolan was a little bit unbelievable at first.But who knows that looking at the appearance in front of him, it might be possible to reach 1000 million!At this time, he was really excited, and he really found a way to be confident!To be honest, when Jia Hongjian showed him a film project with an investment of [-] million US dollars at the beginning, although Nolan had been actively fighting for it, he was also beating his heart!It's just that he hid this kind of drumming in his heart and didn't say it out!

In any case, Nolan is only 30 after all. After all, he has never directed a movie that was actually released to the public before, and he has never made any money. Stop messing around?Who will ask him to make movies in the future?And now look at it again?He can get a box office of 500 million for a film with an investment of 1000 million, so that investors can make a lot of money!Even a simple analogy, can a movie with an investment of [-] million US dollars get a box office of [-] million US dollars?This will definitely make investors earn a lot of money!Then Nolan's fame will increase, and he will have more and more opportunities to make blockbuster films in the future!

That's right!Although Nolan is very talented, and he even has the style of Hitchcock, who is also British, but he doesn't particularly like making literary films, but prefers commercial films!Why?Because he likes to see the amazed expressions of the audience!And the more audiences he sees, the more comfortable he will be, and he will have a sense of accomplishment!For him, he doesn't have such a strong obsession with which one to make, whether it's a literary film or a commercial film.But after this "Memory Fragments", it is obvious that literary films are not easy to attract audiences!If it is very attractive, it must be a commercial film!He likes to see the expressions of admiration from the audience, and he likes to see a lot of admiration expressions from the audience. Obviously, making commercial films like this is the easiest way to get the most audiences!

With this joy and desire, he threw himself into the editing activity.For the next period of time, this Nolan simply worked hard, eating and drinking all day long in the editing room, at most he went home, took a shower and changed clothes, and even bought a sleeping bag. Put the sleeping bag in the editing room and sleep directly.After working like this for two weeks, he actually showed Jia Hongjian a simple edited sample or crude film!

Although such a simple edited sample sounds like a small project, it is actually cut out from a 3000-meter-long film. The amount of work is also huge!When Nolan took the edited film back to the printing factory to develop into a copy, and then took it to DreamWorks' small screening hall to show it to Jia Hongjian and Spielberg, the black eye of this buddy Really like a panda!

Jia Hongjian looked at Nolan in front of him, and felt really sorry for this guy—Nolan's hair was greasy at the moment, and it looked like he hadn't washed his hair for two or three days, and his shirt was wrinkled, looking It's just that I haven't changed it for a few days and have been wearing it all the time.Then, the lush hair growth genes of the European and American races made Nolan, who had no beard before, now look like a bearded man in the Middle East. That's really a beard!Plus this buddy's dark circles... It's like a different person!It was as if Nolan had been tortured in prison for two weeks!

"Hey buddy, are you alright? You...how did you make yourself like this?" Jia Hongjian hurriedly asked with concern at that time. "It's okay, it's okay, I'll go home and take a shower and shave after I'm finished, let's take a look at the sample first! Mr. Jia, come and see if I can edit like this..." Nolan took care of the film by himself Take it out of the metal box and install it in the projector... (to be continued...)