Due to its relatively success as a stage play, "Hairspray" does not lack an audience base, and Embassy Pictures has also done a lot of work in publicity and promotion.

For example, play the John Waters card as well as possible.

As the recognized "garbage pope" in the North American film industry, John Vorster is also somewhat well-known among fans, especially "Pink Firebird", which is a typical example of the more forbidden fans become, the more curious they are.

The song and dance film directed by "The Pink Firebird" still attracted the attention of many passers-by and audiences.

Those who don't know about the "Hairspray" revue will be very curious, "Pink Firebird" and "Hairspray" style do not match at all.

Ronan originally agreed to the project of "Hairspray", first, the stage play itself has considerable influence, second, the song and dance film is in a short period of revival, and the investment of 20 million US dollars is not high.

But if you really want to say how optimistic you are about this film, it is not to say, Ronan does not remember any information related to "Hairspray" at all.

During the internal test screening of "Hairspray", it was unexpectedly exciting for Ronan, and he scored nine points directly.

Of course, these nine points are measured from the perspective of the commercial market, and basically have nothing to do with the artistic considerations of the film itself.

The theme of the film is in line with the growing demand for black equality, and the beautiful singing and dancing scenes and bloody singing and dancing will not make the film look heavy, but will make the audience fully experience the joy.

Once blacks were slaves in the United States, the racial problem still exists, but it is no longer the same.

In the sixties of the last century, the anti-apartheid movement was vigorous, and in that rebellious era, countless movements were staged, which have an impact to this day.

The setting that the heroine is a fat person is also unique, fat is considered ugly, and the topic of women is always inseparable from weight loss, even if most women are healthy and well-proportioned.

Another point that cannot be ignored is that the acting skills of the heroine Adele may be average, but the proportion of singing and dancing in the film is extremely high, which is just conducive to Adele's professional singer level.

The plot or something, in fact, has been diluted to a certain extent in front of the song and dance, to be precise, "Hairspray" is a large-scale MTV with twenty songs connected in series, and the song and dance performances of the starring groups, including Adele, have played a very high level.

Adele's several singing paragraphs were even more overwhelming, adding a lot to the film.

Singing and dancing is a big meal, and the other scenes as accessories are also very well done.

Flower shirts, Elvis heads, evening dresses studded with sequins, brainless princess dresses, America in the 60s, the inexhaustible treasures of the so-called fashionistas.

As a song and dance film, it must pay first attention to ornamentation, so "Hairspray" is extremely clever to downplay the authenticity of the plot, and the authenticity of some sensitive topics involved, such as "obesity" and "race", has also been alleviated.

Originally, this kind of commercial song and dance film was lively, and it made the audience feel sour, so why bother.

The final film can be said to have exceeded the expectations of many people in Relativity Entertainment, including Ronan, and it is believed that this film can achieve good results in the North American film market in March.

Although he did not attend the premiere of "Hairspray", Ronan has been following the market dynamics of this film.

The story of "Hairspray" is anything but new, looking at the desegregation movement through the eyes of a white chubby chick who dreams of stardom and blends it into a light-hearted environment.

Moreover, the film is full of ideas about aesthetic beauty, and Adele's chubby girl, a character who seems to be doomed, finally wins the TV draft and helps a black girl win a championship that has historically only been achieved by white people.

This ending is also very much in line with the needs of the general trend of society.

"Hairspray" is not a poop-pee-fart comedy, and there is almost no deliberately funny content in the film, but the film is like a machine that is forever making smiles, and will make the audience's mouth crack from beginning to end.

Even if someone has no interest in the story of the film, the songs and dances of the film can be enjoyed again and again.

Naturally, Hairspray was a success that exceeded expectations.

On the first day of its release in North America, the film received $14.33 million in 3,780 theaters, which surprised many people.

The best thing about "Hairspray" is that while taking equal rights as the theme, it dilutes the heaviness with song and dance, making people feel more joyful.

Movies are not a good medicine and can't help people with anything.

However, movies can be used as a kind of spiritual support, and sometimes they can become a kind of spiritual food to fill the audience's empty spiritual world.

Good movies don't have to be soothing, but popular movies can make people happy, and "Hairspray" undoubtedly belongs to the latter.

In the first three days of the first weekend in North America, "Hairspray" earned $34.69 million in 3,780 theaters, beating "Sniper Life and Death", which opened in the same weekend, and won the weekly champion of the North American box office list.

The latter was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, and despite the involvement of Mark Wahlberg, it still ended up with most failed sniper movies in recent years, with only $14.25 million in the opening weekend in North America.

Compared with the film's production investment of up to $65 million, Paramount Pictures has a long way to go if it wants to recoup its costs.

In recent years, movies such as snipers and air combat, similar to war epics, have mostly ended in failure, and few have succeeded.

The war films, which were once popular in the 90s, had an overall market response that was not even as good as the song and dance films that were briefly revived.

In the first weekend of its release in North America, the box office revenue of "Hairspray" has exceeded the production cost, which has also brought a big surprise to Relativity Entertainment.

The film was a box office hit, and in some ways gave John Waters confidence, and he took a friend he had met in Europe and shared his hobby to find the office of Ronan, the building of the Theory of Relativity.

In the reception room on the top floor of the building, John Waters introduced the two sides: "Tom, this is Mr. Ronan Anderson, the owner of Relativity Entertainment. Mr. Anderson, this is Tom Hicks, a director, screenwriter and producer from the Netherlands. ”

The man's name was unfamiliar, and Ronan shook hands with him and looked at him.

Tom Hicks looked to be in his mid-thirties in a beige casual suit and a matching cowboy hat.

"Hello, Mr. Anderson. Tom Hicks was polite: "It's an honor to meet you." ”

Ronan nodded with a polite smile, beckoned the two to sit down, and asked, "Is Director Hicks just coming to North America, or has he been working hard in Hollywood?" ”

Tom Hicks hurriedly replied: "Just came here at the beginning of this year. He glanced at John Waters and said, "John and I met in Europe two years ago, and our common interests made us good friends, John always wanted me to come to Hollywood for development, and I finally made up my mind to come over this year." ”

John Waters added: "There's a lot of competition in Hollywood, but there's also a lot of opportunity. ”

Ronan doesn't know much about European directors, but he also knows that as long as they are not those paranoid art directors, many people still hope to come to Hollywood for development.

If nothing else, the funding for a film in Europe alone can take years to raise.

There are even examples of well-known European directors who spent 20 years raising funds from father to son in order to make art films.

Such a directorial spirit is worthy of respect, but the resulting film lacks an audience.

John Waters then said, "Mr. Anderson, Tom came to Hollywood from Holland this time and brought a script that he wrote. ”

Tom Hicks opened his briefcase and pulled out the document bag: "I really wanted to have the opportunity to make a movie about the script. ”

Ronan nodded slightly and said, "Can I read the script first." ”

John Waters gave Tom Hicks a look, who opened the file bag, took out the bound script copy, and handed it to Ronan with both hands.

Ronan was also polite, and took a quick look.

This stack of manuscripts is not only a sub-draft of the script, but also a few concept sketches on the top, which are simple sketches, not particularly clear, but you can also see the outline of a human body lying on the ground.

Tom Hicks duly said, "It's a horror genre. ”

Ronan looked at the sketch and frowned slightly, the three figures on the sketch were lying on the ground, tightly connected, and the face of the person behind him seemed to be attached to the butt of the person in front of him.

He takes the sketch aside and reads the script that follows, and the plot begins with the journey of a typical American brain-dead youth in the second year of secondary school, where two American girls drive across Europe on a trip and then meet a crazy surgeon.

The retired surgeon is best at performing segmentation surgery on conjoined babies, but this time, he is going to do the exact opposite of what he wants to do with three "patients", including the two girls, which is to "connect" them together through an unusually horrific operation.

He plans to pass through the circulatory and digestive systems inside their body cavities, and then stitch their bodies one by one, in order to realize his crazy and sick so-called "lifelong dream" - a human centipede!

Once Ronan watched the first part of this series, because the film is famous in some ways, and he also knew that he had filmed a trilogy, but he had not seen the last two again.

In the usual style and style of Western horror films, the sequel is certainly more absurd and disgusting than the first.

There are only three human centipedes in the first part, how can there be more than ten or twenty people in the next two parts, right?

Ronan glanced up at Tom Hicks and then at John Waters.

The latter single-handedly filmed and produced "Pink Firebird", although the latter does not know him, but at present, it is estimated that he is the author of "Human Centipede".

It can only be said that even though they are separated by an Atlantic, these two have a lot in common.

"Human centipedes?" Ronan said softly.

Tom Hicks chimed in: "Actually, I'm going to name this project 'Human Centipede'. ”