"Yes, there's a poster that says, 'Losers play slots, big winners play blackjacks.'" Because if you want to win money in the casino, you will always lose playing slots. ”

In the elegant interview room of "Entertainment Weekly", Wang Yang and Wu Yanzu were both dressed in blazers and jeans, sitting on the sofa to accept this propaganda interview. Interview reporter Chrissy Ritchie nodded with a smile while taking notes, and listened to Wang Yang on the other side continue: "Making this movie has taught me a lot about gambling, and it may be a little troublesome for me to say this, and Las Vegas will not let me go." ”

Chriss-Ritchie suddenly smiled, looked at the big director with a serious face, and said with a smile: "I heard that the casinos in Vegas are very civilized. Wu Yanzu also smiled and said, "I know something, Yang, there will be nothing wrong." Wang Yang spread his hands and smiled: "You misunderstood what I meant, I mean being blacklisted by Las Vegas." ”

"Actually, I don't need to say, everyone knows that it is very difficult to make a slot machine spit out money, almost impossible, only a very slight chance, but everyone thinks that they are the lucky ones, and they always have the luck psychology of 'try it once', or in order to find excitement ......" Wang Yang said and paused, and said with a smile: "21 points are different, in the right case of dealing, it has a set of winning skills." Card counting takes it away from mere gambling and gives players a chance to succeed. ”

Chrissy Ritchie hummed and asked, "What made you choose to shoot this story?

"I definitely have something I want to say, but it doesn't have to be the traditional routines, maybe you know it when you see it. And the reason......" Wang Yang remembered the trip to Las Vegas at the beginning of last year, and couldn't help but smile: "You know that Tom Welling got married last year, and we gave him a farewell bachelorette party in Vegas, and then I played 21 in the casino that night and won a lot. ”

Thinking of the madness of that day, Wang Yang couldn't help but laugh again, looked at Chrissy with an interested face, and said with a smile: "I was drunk at that time, and I thought I was counting cards, because I just watched Ben Mozridge's "The Capture of Las Vegas" not long ago. If you don't know how to count cards and don't have a professional team, there is no difference between playing 21 and slots. ”

"So in the movie, everyone will see and know what the 21 card counting is all about, and I promise that it will be absolutely professional and operable. ”

Wang Yang laughed a few times, which is also a promotional selling point of the movie, of course, in the end, it is only possible for talented people to learn. He continued, "After that party, I wanted to make two Las Vegas themes, MIT-21-TEAM was the second. ”

"You know it's based on a true story, legendary, unbelievable, cool...... It's very interesting!" Wang Yanglian said a few words of praise, nodded and smiled: "So looking at that book, I said that's it, I'm going to shoot it!" Later, I contacted Ben and Jeff Ma, and the whole story and details were slowly established. He turned his head to look at Wu Yanzu and said, "Jeff is incredible! He is like a living calculator. ”

Wu Yanzu nodded, and also remembered some memories on the set, and continued: "Jeff has a nickname called 'Intel Chip', and during the shooting, he taught me how to count cards, which is amazing." He opened his mouth and made a surprised expression, very emotional: "I can't keep up with his thinking speed at all, it's an admirable coolness." It's not easy to put it on a show, and Jan 'CUT, NO-GOOD!' all day long."

"Then I'm a little surprised. Chriss-Ritchie shook her blonde hair slightly, raised her ballpoint pen to indicate that it was not a question and answer, and said, "In school, Asian and especially Chinese math are the best. When it comes to such ethnic topics, she smiles sincerely without malice, and laughs in a funny tone: "Every time I met a new Asian friend at school, I would say, 'Don't laugh at my math!'"

Wang Yang and Wu Yanzu both laughed, her good conversation skills did not displease them, and this is a fact, it can be said that Jeff Ma, a mathematical genius, is very "convincing on the screen". Good at math is one of the main labels for Asians in this country, as well as being proficient in a musical instrument (violin or piano), singing karaoke, Chinese kung fu, and running a restaurant at home...... Labels such as stereotype, lack of individuality, and conformism are hated and confused by most Asians. Lin Yibin hated it, Ma Kaiwen hated it, and Wu Yanzu hated it...... Wang Yang also hated him very much, and he hated others to evaluate him like this since he was a child. He has Chinese blood in his body, and those values such as diligence and family are indelible and indelible in his bones, but he is definitely not a rigid and sluggish person, so he wonders why he is sometimes impulsive and desperate? That is, since he was a child, he did not want to be such a model robot image of Chinese.

Rebellion and maturity are the "things I want to say" that he doesn't write about in "MIT-21-TEAM".

"Actually, I had the opportunity to be a mathematician, but I had a headache when I saw the numbers and symbols. ”

Seeing Wang Yang's very serious appearance, Chriss-Ritchie suddenly smiled, and Wu Yanzu shrugged his shoulders and said, "I haven't been reading material since I was a child. Chriss-Ritchie smiled and nodded, stopping the ethnic conversation, putting the pen back on the paper, and asked with a smile, "Young, what do you think of this movie yourself, and what do you expect from it?" ”

"I know. Wang Yang's eyes were full of confidence, if he hadn't become a shrimp worm man, then this movie would definitely be a success! Give fans more assurances, after all, his guarantee has not lost his credibility until now! Thinking of this, Wang Yang did not have the slightest Chinese modesty, and said with a smile: "OK, let's make it clear! I believe that "MIT-21-TEAM" will set a new record in the genre, we can, it will do it!"

Chriss-Ritchie's eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but sigh, this sentence doubled the value of the entire interview! For fear that he would not admit it, she didn't ask a question, and let this question have room for editors, and asked with a smile: "Jan, we know that "The Devil Wears Prada" just finished last month, Rachel is the heroine of your first film, Jessica is the second, and Natalie and "Juno", all three of them have starred in your new film this year. ”

She smiled and asked, "Who do you think is better in your films?

"This question ......" Wang Yang raised his eyebrows with a smile, changed his sitting posture and touched his chin, looked at the female reporter with a smile, and said: "It's all good! Can't you answer like this? One is my girlfriend and two good friends, and it is difficult for me to make a comment that makes everyone happy." Wu Yanzu smiled, and Chriss-Ritchie quipped herself: "That's good! They are happy, and I am not happy." ”

"Natalie is a very smart person. Thinking about her on-set performance and personality, Wang Yang replied truthfully: "She is very smart and unique, her comprehension ability is very high, she can always draw inferences, and you will have a great sense of security when you hand over the role to her." And then Rachel is also very smart, she's very low-key, humble and kind, she knows very well what you need that character to do and often have some thoughts that make you feel 'GOOD!'......"

A sweet face gradually appeared in front of his eyes, and under the stroke of Chrissy's ballpoint pen, he continued to smile: "Jessica is also very smart and hardworking, she is the pistachio on the set, and she has a charm that brings joy and happiness to everyone, just like an angel." ”

"Hmm. Chriss-Ritchie nodded slightly, finished the record, and quickly asked the next question.

Released on July 11, "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" was not unanimously praised by the film critics, and the freshness of well-known film critics on Rotten Tomatoes was only 66%, but 86% of the audience liked it showed its great popularity, and the North American box office has been close to 200 million, and the appraiser predicts that it will receive 500 million-600 million global box office, and this series will inevitably become a new cash cow for Disney.

"Fallen from the Sky" is not so lucky, with 17% freshness and 54% likes indicating how bad it is, and its North American box office forecast is only between 50 or 60 million.

"Jedi Men 2" directed by Michael Bay and starring Will Smith was released as scheduled on the 18th, and immediately caused a lot ......of criticism from the film critics, with a 23% freshness, tired, noisy, and sick, Jon Thomson of the Washington Post said: "After "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", Will Smith went back to the pathetic old path and performed some clumsy performances that were not touching in the slightest. One of Rotten Tomatoes' one-sentence comments was "two and a half hours of explosions and stupid banter." ”

However, the audience likes "Explosive Shell" very much, with a liking of up to 80%, and exciting voices abound, it can be said that "Jedi Men 2" has completely exhausted the visual stimulation of this summer, which also makes it embark on a box office trend of recovering 130 million costs.

On the 25th, "Very Little Spy 3", "Pentium Age" and "Tomb Raider 2" were released, and on August 1st, in addition to "MIT-21-TEAM", "American Pie 3", there was also the action comedy "Mandarin Duck Kidnapper". It's a new head-to-head battleground, with three action comedies, a campus R-rated comedy, and a historical sports film, while MIT-21-TEAM is a drama/comedy.

The enemy that it encounters the most is "American Pie 3", this campus movie series was called a high school campus revival work together with "Youth Musical", from the summer of 1999 to today, the trilogy is finally coming to an end, and it just happened to meet Wang Yang. Numerous media outlets have called it a "belated fight." "The weekly box office champion from August 1st to 7th also has a little more suspense.

But the focus of many media and fans is not on this head-to-head battle, not on "American Pie 3", "Mandarin Duck Kidnapper", and "Very Little Spy 3...... and so on, especially when the latest issue of "Entertainment Weekly" hit the shelves, they were even more excited to find the topic, and immediately there was an astonishing gossip argument: "Amazing Jan declared war on Steven Spielberg!"

After "MIT-21-TEAM" surfaced, it was not favored by the media because of the unflattering real genre of "Las Vegas + Liar + Gambling", plus a Chinese male protagonist.

Later, "The Hangover", which was released on Christmas schedule, strongly proved that Las Vegas, a desert oasis city, has no worse ability to attract money than Paris, with a North American box office of 320 million and a global box office of 617 million, which is proud of the box office list of the "Las Vegas" theme, and the star-studded "Ocean's Eleven" directed by Steven Soderbergh can only rank far second with an excellent score of 183 million in North America and 450 million worldwide.

This is a successful pathfinder and attack, and the crazy hilarious laughter of "The Hangover" has skyrocketed the confidence of fans and audiences in "MIT-21-TEAM", and then finally came to the release period, and it was the turn of scammers and gambling.

Now on the box office list of the "liar" theme, the champion is also adapted from a true story, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, and Christopher Walken, "Get Away with Impunity", the same PG-13 rating, drama/comedy classification, and a different production cost of 52 million.

The final box office of "Impunity" was 164 million in North America and 352 million worldwide. Next on the list is the world's 183 million "Gambler Ma Huali", 090 million "White People Can't Jump", and 98 million "Bao Finger Project...... According to the logical thinking of the gossip media, the meaning of this sentence is naturally "to beat "Impunity" from the box office record!" At the beginning, some gossip media put forward the showdown topic of "Fantastic Young and Spielberg are going to face off in the air", and now Wang Yang's confident expectation seems to be responding.

"Wang Yang can't wait to challenge Spielberg's status? He's ridiculous!" On the Internet, in the comments of this gossip news, many netizens expressed their opinions, challenging the status is just an exaggeration, but few people are optimistic about this "breaking the record", look at the cast, the actor Daniel Wu and Leonardo DiCaprio, who is Daniel Wu?

Morrison-C's message said: "It seems that the Oscars have made him smug and stupid, and a trophy will not guarantee a box office of 352 million! Amy replied retortively, "Fantastic Young doesn't mean that at all, it's just that the boring media is misinterpreting, I've seen too much." ”

"Records are meant to be broken!" Catherine was very supportive, writing: "I like the confidence of Wonder Young so much, because we can, so we dare to say that! Anyway, I've already bought advance tickets, don't you want to see it?" Carlisle replied, "I bought it too, in fact, my circle of friends has been looking forward to this movie for a long time, and this story is cool when I hear it......"

Not only Wang Yang and Wu Yanzu were interviewed, but also the other leading actors of "MIT-21-TEAM", Natalie, Rachel and others also did interviews and reports on popular magazines in big newspapers, some urban tabloids, and websites, depending on their popularity and popularity.

"It was an unforgettable experience, a great opportunity, and I learned a lot by working with a group of great people. Filming under a director who is only a year older than you, it's really amazing and relaxing, and I don't feel any pressure at all, 'What about the director? I haven't seen him on set for so long.' 'We had a lot of laughter on set every day, it was fun, and Jan and Natalie always had those funny jokes. ”

In an exclusive interview with the Chicago City Journal, Alexis Bledell replied, "What did it mean to you to be in this movie?" and talked about the relationship with Joshua Alba because of this movie, Alexis said: "He is a very hardworking and goal-oriented person, which makes me feel very good, and our relationship is very stable now." ”

"I'm so disappointed!I'm so disappointed!I'm so disappointed!I'm so disappointed......"

In the spacious and warm living room, Joshua sat on the sofa with a depressed face, holding the remote control and pressing it constantly, switching channels aimlessly, and said angrily: "I really didn't expect him to rape! If he wants to have a one-night stand outside of marriage, how much does it cost to call a prostitute!?How much does it cost to go to a bar to pick up a girl?!

Joshua was outraged by Kobe Bryant's accusation of rape, a reality that many Lakers fans couldn't accept. Wang Yang was very surprised when he first learned the news, but he felt very pity, he shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'll wait for the outcome of this matter before making a judgment." But brother, welcome to the arms of the Warriors!

"Nope. Joshua waved his hand without spirit and said, "I will still be a Lakers fan in the future, but I am no longer a Kobe fan, even adultery is bad." He didn't think about it anymore, and suddenly laughed and said, "Yang, can't you really let me watch "MIT-21-TEAM" first?

"Not this time, wait until you're the producer. Wang Yang's face became serious as he spoke, and he said in a deep voice: "Joshua, I called you here today because I have a very, very important matter to ask you face-to-face...... I said you listen, you say I listen, that's all you know!?"

"Oh...... What is it? very, very important!?" Seeing him say so seriously, Joshua couldn't help but be very curious and excited, and quickly nodded: "I know, I know! Dude, I'm a person who can definitely keep secrets now!"

Wang Yang nodded solemnly, and looked left and right, there were no suspicious creatures! Although Jessica would not come back suddenly when she walked the dog in the park, it was better to be careful! He got up and walked to the back garden: "Follow me!" Joshua turned off the TV and quickly followed, and asked with a gossip smile: "Yang, I have seen news in the past two days that you have declared war on Steven Spielberg, is this true? What's going on?"

"I don't know, I don't know what's going on. Wang Yang's mind at this time was not on these gossips at all, and he replied casually: "But life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what the next one will be." 352 million box office, we can!OK......"

The two came to the garden while talking, sat down on the wooden chair by the plane tree, and made sure that everything around them was safe, Wang Yang leaned into Joshua's ear with a mysterious face, and muttered clearly about his marriage proposal, he smiled excitedly: "I'm going to finish the work of "MIT-21-TEAM", and I'll propose in September!

"You, you ......" Joshua looked dumbfounded, and said, "You, you, you want to ......"

"Shhhh——!h

"Oh my God! Yang, you're so ruthless...... Joshua suddenly covered his mouth in panic, and a muffled voice came out from between his fingers: "You can't do this! You can't......" Wang Yang urged: "Then you hurry up and help me!" Joshua scratched his head helplessly, and said unclearly: "But I don't know what style of engagement ring she likes?"

"Okay, then I'll also test Ali's attitude towards your marriage, right?" Wang Yang let out a burst of laughter, and suddenly said: "Let me think about whether she has mentioned it before! Does she like to have diamonds, gemstones, or all silver, and how ......big it is if there are diamonds?"

Joshua frowned and thought as if she saw countless rings flying around in front of her eyes, and her collection of various bridal magazines was as much as a garage, who knows!

(To be continued)