Chapter 306: Miracles

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There was a lot of sobbing in the cinema screening room, and there were even more emotional cries of excitement, and most of the audience members who were not seated looked at the big screen sadly, only to see James Caviezer, who played Jesus, brutally crucified by the Romans, and it was the "Passion of the Christ" that was being screened. In the atmosphere of mourning, the terrible violence was even more sensational, and the believers could not help but weep bitterly as if they had witnessed the scene of Jesus' crucifixion: "Lord, please forgive us for our sins. "Merciful Lord, Lord......"

In a seat in the middle of the audience, although Jessica was not crying a torrential rain, her nose was red, tears kept pouring out of her eyes, and her voice trembled and murmured: "Oh God, it's terrible, how can it, oh don't ......" Wang Yang hugged her tightly in his arms, holding a tissue in his hand and gently wiping her tears, his heart was also uncomfortable, he was not a Christian, but looking at such violent and murderous scenes and stories, anyone could not stand it.

From its release on February 20 to the new weekend of April 30, "The Passion of the Christ" has been in theaters for ten weeks, collecting 365 million at the box office in North America, surpassing "District 9" to become the latest highest-grossing R-rated film, and it has swept nearly $600 million at the global box office in Shanghai. For a film with a production cost of 30 million, there is no doubt that it is very commercially successful, and this is not counting the optimistic post-sales expected. But using Jesus to make a movie, the money is not so easy to make.

As we all know, Jesus was betrayed and betrayed by the Jews and killed, and the Jewish group plays an important role in Hollywood and the American business community; second, the disputes between various religious groups and Jewish teams will bring great pressure, so almost all film companies have come to the conclusion that there is no need to push themselves to the forefront in order to make such a small amount of money, and really offend many people, and in turn damage their own interests.

So Mel Gibson, the producer and director of "The Passion of the Christ", sought film companies everywhere to distribute it, and ran into walls everywhere, and even Lionsgate and Flame, who have always been "how bold people are, how high the box office is", shook their heads, and no one did not admit that they really did not dare to ask for this money! Unless you want the company to struggle in the future, you must know that it is not only a commercial business; as far as film production itself is concerned, many legendary and excellent producers, directors, actors, etc. are all Jews, so why bother?

In particular, flame movies have been dissatisfied because of the suspicion of "eating alone", and sometimes it is necessary to give DVD and VHS distribution rights to large companies to do it, in exchange for resources, early pregnancy of young girls, abortion is allowed, homosexuality is allowed, and religion is not.

Big companies don't dare, big independent companies don't dare ...... It was not easy for Mel Gibson to find Newmarket to take over, and like the nature of Flame Films, it is also an unlisted privately owned independent production and distribution company, founded by producer William Tell and Chris Ball in 1994, and in recent years has invested in the production of "Fragments of Memory" (later sold to Flame), "Illusion of Death" (later sold to Flame), distributed "The Devil" and other films, and it won 3,006 open theaters for "The Passion of the Christ".

In fact, Flame Films is playing the idea of Newmarket, and Wang Yang, Mark Snenter and other high-level executives have discussed the plan to acquire it, not to get "The Passion of the Christ" for the curve, but to add nearly 300 more films to the Flame Film and Television Library. Unlike the thousands of film distribution rights of "The Adventures of Vegetable Baby", many of Newmarket's 300 films are classics, and the ones that stood out at the Oscars this year include "Whale Rider" and "The Witch".

And the flame movie, which operates according to the long-tail theory and receives actual money in hand, has always taken the position: whether it is classic or tattered, eat as much as you want.

But the problem is that Newmarket is well-run and financially healthy, and has not even taken the step of going public to raise funds, and William Tell and Chris Ball are still ambitious, and they have been overshadowed by the flames, so the flames' acquisition intentions seem to have some way to go.

Although it has been released for many months, Wang Yang and Jessica came to the theater to watch "The Passion of Christ" for the first time, and consciously avoided it because they didn't want to affect the happy mood of the wedding honeymoon. The film has already caused huge social controversy, a 57-year-old woman in Wicht, Kansas, died of a heart attack due to overexcitement, and a 43-year-old pastor in Brazil died of a heart attack.

But there was also a wave of Jewish protests outside the theater, with several Jewish groups protesting the film's "anti-Semitic" content and orientation: "Emotionally, if anyone is on the verge of hating Jews, then this film will push you across the line." Some Jewish demonstrators dressed in concentration camp uniforms gathered in New York's Times Square to protest, and an ultra-conservative Israeli politician even said that "Mel Gibson should be tried." Countless Jewish viewers called The Passion of the Christ rubbish.

The huge success of "Juno" after its release a few years ago caused a wave of early pregnancies among teenagers, and it was criticized and accused of being the "culprit" by all sides, and the resistance to the release of "The Passion of the Christ" and social controversy also indicate the treatment faced by "Brokeback Mountain", which is "neither high nor low".

"Woo...... Don't!!ah......" In the dimly lit bedroom, Jessica, who had been awakened from a nightmare, was covered in cold sweat and had a dull face, and breathed heavily: "Whew, Whew...... "How could this be, she had such a dream? Could this be a supernatural revelation from the Lord to her? Tonight after reading "The Passion of the Christ" came back, before going to bed she read the Bible for a while and made a confession, and then ...... Why did Jesus appear like this, and what does this revelation mean...... Wang Yang was so shocked by her that he woke up from his sleep, blinked his sleepy eyes, and asked, "Sweetheart, what's wrong?" Jessica shook his shoulder nervously and said, "Baby, I had a terrible dream, I think it may be a special revelation from the Lord." Hearing her voice so frightened and panicked, Wang Yang suddenly woke up, hugged her and comforted: "No, don't think so much, it's just an ordinary nightmare." ”

"I don't know......" Jessica frowned in confusion, she suddenly broke free, turned on the bedside lamp with a click, picked up a thick copy of the Old Testament that had not yet been placed on the cabinet, and flipped to the part of the Great Prophets, and said blankly, "Where, where...... Here and here, Daniel chapter 7: In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream......"

"Hey, don't scare yourself!" Wang Yang hurriedly interrupted her, snatched the Bible and snapped it back and put it back, knowing that this was probably the residual effect of the waking up stage, it was like waking up and feeling that an idea in the dream just now was particularly good, but after a while, he would find that it didn't know what to say at all. He said seriously: "Your dream is not a supernatural revelation, you are not Daniel, just Jessica! Even if the Lord has revealed it to you, it is not about you as a person, it is about this country, this world. ”

"Is this world going to be destroyed?" Jessica asked suspiciously, as she seemed to feel some sense. Looking at her cute appearance with a confused look in her eyes, frowning and raising an eyebrow and hanging down, Wang Yang really couldn't help but want to laugh and shrugged his shoulders: "I don't know, if you know who the Mayans are, you can ask them about their attitude towards the end of the world in 2012." Jessica exclaimed, "What?!...... The end of the world in 2012?

"No, it's just a good movie subject. Didn't we say the end of the world in 1999, and then the end of the world in 2000...... Jesse, what are you dreaming about?" Wang Yang got serious and patted her bitter face a little harder. Jessica was photographed completely sober and recalled: "I don't remember the specifics, it was that there was a great flood all over the world, and there was Noah's Ark on the sea, but we were in the sea...... I was also scattered by the waves, and then I died. ”

Jessica fell into Wang Yang's arms depressedly, he stared at her with a frown for a while, and said, "Let me try to analyze why you have this dream? First of all, we watched "The Passion of Christ" tonight, and you think that it is terrible to torture Jesus like this, and everyone is guilty; and then you read the "Bible" again, have you read the Apocalypse part of the New Testament?" Seeing that she glanced at the bedside table and nodded, Wang Yang continued: "Finally, you may think of "Titanic" Jack and Ruth, we just watched it when we reunited, didn't we? So we had this dream, and unfortunately it wasn't a revelation. ”

"Seems so......" Jessica smiled as she thought about it, her head digging into his chest, "Oh, it's just a normal dream." Pulling her to lie down again, Wang Yang comforted: "Don't think about "The Passion of the Christ", those things are history now. Jessica snorted and said softly, "It's sad." Jan, come with me to church for a mass tomorrow. Wang Yang agreed: "Of course." Jessica smiled and said, "Tell me a story to put me to sleep!" Tell me about the Mayans, the end of the world in 2012?" Wang Yang smiled: "OK, Mexicans want Chinese to talk about Mayans." ”

Jessica interjected, "I think it's one of the indigenous tribes, I don't really know, I'm a Yankee who grew up in California, but I have a Texas accent." LOOKING AT HER PLAYFUL LOOK OF "I'M SMART", WANG YANG ROLLED HIS EYES ANGRILY: "WELL, HOMEBOY!"

Outside the United States, Yankees are collectively referred to as Yankees, while Southerners in the United States are called Northerners Yankees, and Northerners are called Southerners Rednecks.

In recent years, Hollywood has been blowing a whirlwind of "Australian gangs" and "New Zealand gangs", Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Heath Ledger, Naomi Watts and others, but there are also magazines pointing out the "southern whirlwind", including Texan-born Renee Zellweger, Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, Jennifer Garner and others. JESSICA, WHO LIVED IN MISSISSIPPI AND TEXAS AS A CHILD AND KNOWS A SOUTHERNER ACCENT, IS NOT CLASSIFIED AS A "TEXAS GANG" BECAUSE SHE WAS BORN IN POMONA, CALIFORNIA, AND HAS LIVED IN LOS ANGELES SINCE SHE WAS 9 YEARS OLD.

WANG YANG, A THIRD-GENERATION IMMIGRANT WHO WAS BORN IN SAN FRANCISCO, GREW UP STEADILY, AND WAS ADMITTED TO THE PRESTIGIOUS CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY USC, IS A MORE HOMEBOY, SO LIN YIBIN IS EASIER TO WORK HARD IN HOLLYWOOD THAN WEN ZIREN, AND IS MORE TOUTED AFTER SUCCESS;

"As far as I'm concerned, anyway, there is a saying that Mayans and Chinese have the same origin. To put it simply, you also know that the Maya were a tribe of Indians who previously inhabited Central America and Mexico. Wang Yang told while coaxing the child to sleep and caressing her hair, Jessica said softly: "Yes, then what?" Looking at her clear eyes, Wang Yang continued to smile and said: "The Mayans have a calendar called the solar calendar, and they divide the year into 18 months, and each month ...... 20 days, which is very, very close to the accuracy of the calendar we use now, I forgot the exact number. Interestingly, this calendar calculates the spring equinox of sowing and the autumn equinox of harvest, which is actually the same as the spring and autumn equinox of the Chinese lunar calendar......

April 30th is the beginning of the tenth week of the release of "The Passion of the Christ", and it is also the opening day of large-scale new films such as "Mean Girl", "God's Gift", and "The Law of Attraction";

Time stepped into May, and in a blink of an eye, "Firefly" has been filming for more than a month, in this new week, the crew ushered in the appearance of "Blue Glove" Heath Ledger, his appearance made Robert Downey Jr. quite speechless, could it be that the battle for genius on the set was lost like this!? Alan Page and Michael Pitt couldn't stop praising them, and they were even more energetic in acting, even if they lost in the end, they were convinced.

Heath Ledger's performance was really scary, amazing, and as soon as Wang Yang shouted "Action", he flashed like an electric shock and became a completely different person, Blue Glove. On the surface, it seems to be Ennis's taciturn character, but the blue gloves who don't talk much are absolutely confident, and his silence is not due to poor communication or low self-esteem, but because he doesn't need to explain nonsense, and efficiency is paramount. Confident silence, sometimes fanatical, insane, and gentle in Sven, such a contradictory combination is almost perfectly played out by Heath Ledger.

"Thank you. "The Flame Movie Studio, in the hotel room set, is filming the "Clean-up" of the Blue Glove, and he wants to kill all the civilians who have come into contact with Reva. From the corridor to the room, the film crew had changed the set and camera position several times, and at this time, Wang Yang, Vare-Pfister and others were doing the work of monitoring the camera and manipulating the machine as always. Heath-Ledger, with several cameras on him, calmly walks step by step towards a middle-aged white man who is trembling with frightened fists and retreating.

"RUN!" the middle-aged man shouted, and several family members behind him fled in panic, including Chloe Moretz, who was wearing a white dress and holding a large rag doll in her hands. The middle-aged man desperately pounced on the mysterious executioner in a big black trench coat, but Heath-Ledger easily dodged it sideways, his blue-gloved left hand grabbed his shoulder, and his right hand smashed a few punches into his face quickly and without much force, and the man immediately let out a muffled scream: "Ahhh

Heath Ledger grabbed him with his left hand, leaned against the vase table behind him, and made a "fluffy" sound, he gritted his teeth and added a punch to the man, saying very hard: "Thank you." In the continuous CUT and Action, he has different expressions throughout the killing process, the corners of his mouth are slightly upturned when he kills the security guard, and his tone is mysterious "Thank you", and the killing of the passing waiter shows his dimples, and the tone of satisfaction is "Thank you...... Like a madman and not a madman, Wang Yang is very satisfied that Heath Ledger has a lot of subtle movements and changes in his demeanor, and his facial expressions and body movements will not be separated during the performance, this is an overall performance, and these wonderful performances are rich close-up materials, and they are also what he needs and requires.

The fingers of his right hand, which had just been killed, moved slowly and rhythmically, and under the tracking of the camera, Heath Ledger suddenly quickened his pace and ran away, grabbed the middle-aged white woman in the corridor and fled to the bedroom, and punched him quickly: "Thank you." Then there was Tevo Duke-Moretz, who stood at the bedroom door, screaming a tragic "Ahhβ€”β€”!h Heath-Ledger let out a soft snort, grabbing him against the edge of the door without pause, and punching, "Thank you." ”

The camera has shifted to the bedroom set, and the front is shooting at the door, only to see Heath Ledger's face slowly poking out from the edge of the quiet corridor door, he glanced into the bedroom, and it seems that what he saw was not a film crew but a cute little girl who was scared to the ground, he smiled slightly, pulled his gloves and strode in: "Hello." ”

"Why did you invite Blatter-Ledger to play the Blue Glove in the first place?" On the first day of Heath Ledger's official start of filming, Vary-Pfister asked Wang Yang very puzzled, and Joss Whedon said: "Heath Ledger's performance is simply a miracle!" Now looking at Heath's chilling demeanor and listening to this hello full of friendly tone, Wang Yang can only shrug his shoulders, this guy is indeed a miracle, why invited Blatter Pitt?" I don't know. ”

"CUT! WOW, THAT'S GOOD!" WANG YANG SHOUTED TO STOP THE CAMERA, THEN LAUGHED UNCONTROLLABLY, WALKED TO HEATH LEDGER IN FRONT OF HIM WITH OPEN HANDS, AND PRAISED WITH A SMILE: "HEATH, THAT'S GREAT! YOU HAVE COMPARED ME TO THE COMPLETION OF AN ACTING GENIUS!" HEATH-HEATH SHOOK HIS FIST AND TOUCHED HIS SHOULDER, PUNCHED HIM IN THE BACK WITH THE OTHER HAND, AND SAID ROUGHLY: "Thank you!" Seeing this scene, Varay First and other film crew members couldn't help laughing.

"Chloe, Chloeβ€”"

The next rivalry between Blue Glove and Little Girl is the only scene of Chloe Moretz in "Firefly", and it is also one of the most crucial scenes of the film.

(To be continued)