Chapter 725: The Big Hit

With a grateful heart, never give up, never give up, happiness will come knocking on the door.

Therefore, the song that best matches "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" is the training divine comedy "Grateful Heart".

As a result, countless training or marketing teams, and even MLM armies, will take "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" as a compulsory course in the future.

Of course, once in the hearts of many people, this film simply stinks.

The completely different encounters of "When Happiness Knocks" on the other side of the Pacific Ocean are simply a typical portrayal of the film's deep social environment.

This film also has the treatment of "Grateful Heart", and after doing this bowl of poisonous chicken soup, life will go on.

It's a pity that the song "Grateful Heart" is not suitable for the North American market, otherwise it would be a perfect match to do the theme song of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door".

The premiere, from the audience to film critics to media reporters, all poured a belly of chicken soup.

Fortunately, in this era, chicken soup is still delicious, and many so-called training experts who can only pour chicken soup are also popular.

"When Happiness Knocks on the Door" unsurprisingly won a lot of praise.

In EMA Score's on-site survey of premiere audiences, the average score of a film is "A+".

Others, from the media to film critics, are unanimously praised.

Having said that, the average viewer may say anything, but with the current social situation, the media and film critics will definitely support a black film.

Moreover, "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" is indeed very good, which is not only politically correct, but also in line with mainstream social aesthetics.

Chris Gardner's success lies in New York.

The black stockbroker, who moved the company to New York after a successful start-up in Chicago, has generally gone well on Wall Street, which is typical of the American dream.

The so-called American dream, of course, is not happiness knocking on the door, but knocking on the door of the happy house with a dead face, until happiness comes to open the door.

As for the film being inspirational for the sake of inspiration, chicken soup for the sake of chicken soup, in front of Will Smith's complexion, it doesn't matter at all.

In the current social situation, coupled with Will Smith's proactive performance, his performance in "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" has also been unanimously recognized.

"The Hollywood Reporter" praised "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" as a new appearance for Will Smith, whose mentality has undergone a metamorphosis and completed the sublimation of his acting skills.

Entertainment Weekly believes that Will Smith's performance is very real and believable for obvious reasons.

Even film critics, who have always disliked Will Smith, unanimously agreed: Will Smith finally gave an online performance, which is very good!

Frankly speaking, this is also the explosion of Willsmith's acting skills, and from the current point of view, he interprets an ordinary and ordinary story deeply and touchingly.

No matter what the future holds, for this era, this is a very inspirational and positive movie, which can give people strength!

The praise from film critics and Hollywood industry media was very favorable to Will Smith for the award.

Most importantly, Will Smith also took advantage of the situation to stand on the commanding heights of political correctness.

As we enter the new millennium, no one can underestimate how determined Hollywood is to comfort the black community.

Some things, in fact, are not so complicated to say, just like Ronan and Will Smith have always been friends, there are too many Oscar judges, and more or less have good black friends.

"Another movie, the response was also good. ”

In his office at the Relativity Building, Garcia said to Ronan: "'Crash' is very well received in the media, and I think we can increase our PR efforts, after all, all the rights to this film have been bought out by us." ”

"Yes, we still have to keep the budget under control, we only have one goal, the best picture, and the rest doesn't matter," Ronan said. ”

David Villa continued: "Paul Haggis has contacted us several times to ask about our plans to challenge for the best director. ”

Ronan said directly: "You can sign up, but don't scatter the resources." ”

How can an unqualified director like Paul Haggis compete with Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood?

Garcia said: "The current situation is the best opportunity for us, Embassy Pictures has never won the most important four Oscars, and this time we are very hopeful that one or two will come back." ”

Ronan echoed: "Such a social environment is very difficult to encounter in the future. ”

I'm afraid it will take a few more years for Relativity Entertainment to effectively take advantage of the social environment situation to win the prize.

The Atlanta police have already given God an assist, and there's no reason not to go all out and compete for both awards.

"When Happiness Knocks on the Door" Needless to say, the market performance will not be bad.

A film like "Crash", without an Oscar award, may be profitable, but the profit margin will not be very large.

This kind of film, no matter how fierce it is, it is not easy for the audience to buy tickets in the theater and watch it patiently.

Of course, there are also relatively niche groups that like this type of film.

To be honest, some viewers also feel that they are more suitable for watching movies independently, especially scanning dishes, because they can't stand the mood of girls piling up a lot of small food next to them and then relish the popcorn mood.

In any case, movies are generally used for entertainment.

In the comments, it is not that no one mentioned the problems of "Crash", and the famous film critic Roger Albert criticized that this film purifies, magnifies, and lists all race-related issues, and then begins to preach bluntly, too hard, too hard, and too heavy.

This is, after all, the first feature film directed by Paul Haggis.

Even geniuses like Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg, the first feature film had all sorts of flaws.

Again, "Crash" is a reflection of racial issues and conflicts, but Paul Haggis is ultimately white and inevitably comes from his own perspective.

The film has a very American white-left thinking, facing immigrants and migrant workers with a messianic attitude, the so-called liberal democracy needs to have a premise, if skin color is a simple and crude division criterion, then influence and discourse power become more powerful division rules.

This is certainly not a bad thing, because the film is both about racial equality and naturally starting from a white mindset.

What really determines the Oscar is precisely a large number of white middle-aged and elderly players.

At one time, many people on the other side of the Pacific thought that Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" lost to "Crash" very unfairly, and in terms of film quality and directing level, "Brokeback Mountain" seemed to be better than "Crash".

But after all, it is the group of white middle-aged and elderly contestants who are deciding the awards, and it is not surprising that a film like "Crash", which conforms to their aesthetics and reflects the reality of American society, can win in the end, let alone an upset.

This weekend, "Crash" continued to be screened, but the single-theater box office slipped to a little more than $20,000.

"When Happiness Knocks on the Door" ushered in a double harvest at the word-of-mouth box office.

The film opened three days in the opening weekend and slashed $48.65 million in North America, easily topping the North American box office charts.

EMA Score predicts that the film's North American box office will be around $200 million, based on word of mouth.

The film will not be released overseas for the time being, and will wait for the preliminary results of the Oscar awards.

However, this typical American-style chicken soup is definitely not as good as North America's overseas results.

Another Oscar-seeded film, "The Aviator," expanded to nearly 2,000 theaters that weekend, and the response was not very good, with an average of just over $4,000 per theater and $8.63 million at the weekend box office.

"The Aviator" cost a whopping $110 million to make, and it will be very difficult to recoup the cost if it does not make a heavyweight gain in the Oscar nomination list.

Martin Scorsese gave up the gangster films he was good at, and the biographical films specially tailored for the Oscars were not very good from the beginning.

As for Leonardo, he may have fainted when he was young, but he was not a fool.

"Honey, you've promised ......"

In the luxurious restaurant, Gisele Bonson looked at Leonardo across the table: "As long as we win the Oscar for Best Actor, we will have a wedding." ”

She waited for so long, and some time ago finally waited for this promise, and her heart was full of joy: "Do we have to make some preparations in advance? The Oscars are not long left." ”

Leonardo was reading a newspaper with long paragraphs about the various protests sparked by the events in Atlanta.

Seeing that Leonardo was absent-minded, Gisele Bonchen couldn't help but pick up a spoon and knock on the plate, making a crisp sound.

"We're probably going to have to wait a while. Leonardo said.

Giselle Bonchen immediately became anxious: "Why?"

The man refused to deliver on his promises time and time again, and Gisele Bonchen's patience was running out.

Leonardo picked up the glass of water and took a big sip, not very emotional: "With the current situation, I can't win the award." He still cares a lot about Gisele Bonchen, and explained simply: "Now, black people all over the United States are engaged in sports, and most people sympathize with them, including Hollywood, there are several black actors who are currently applying for the Oscar for Best Actor, and the academy may express its support for black people." ”

"How can they do this?" Gisele Bonson unconsciously provided a voice: "This is the Oscar, the highest award in the American film industry, how can you judge the award in this way?"

Leonardo managed to divert Gisele Bonchen's attention and said: "No way, Hollywood is always like this, the best actor may not win awards." ”

Gisele Bonson asked, "Who has the better chance of winning the prize?"

Leonardo thought for a moment and said, "It's hard to say, but among black actors, Will Smith has the greatest advantage." ”

Thinking of Will Smith, Leonardo remembered the investor of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", which was Relativity Entertainment, which is said to have been finalized by Ronan Anderson himself.

Leonardo looked at Giselle Bonson and felt that it was not a bad thing that he didn't win Best Actor this year.

As for the promises made to Gisele Bonchen, there are more promises that have not been fulfilled anyway, and it is not bad this time.