When Chris Gardner and his son walk to the Golden Gate Bridge while telling jokes on the big screen, the 120-minute movie is all over. Cheerful songs play, detailed cast and crew roll from bottom to top, and in the background are changing static images of Chris Gardner officially going to work, he and his son are moving into a new house, and he buys his son a whole set of Captain America dolls...... Each one is a bright smile and a face full of happiness.

As the film ended, the auditorium buzzed with the audience's conversation, but no one left their seats, and the audience did not get up and leave until the big screen showed the flame movie logo, and then the trailers of other movies began to play.

"This movie is so good! It's amazing, I always thought it was going to be a bad movie...... "A pair of young friends walked down the aisle, and when they heard him say this, the other nodded in agreement: "Well, when it comes out on DVD, I'm going to buy a set......!"

Listening to these compliments, Rachel smiled, happy and excited about the success of the movie, she took out her phone from her handbag and typed a text message "Jan, the movie is very exciting, congratulations! Romantic Moth!" At this time, she heard the couple next to her get up and talk at the same time, Jennifer said in a happy tone, "See, Martin? Is this a bad movie?"

Martin still seemed very unconvinced, and said: "Actually, this movie is very boring, I almost fell asleep, there are no big scenes, no beautiful women, the most beautiful is actually the hippie girl." As he spoke, he said disdainfully: "Jennifer, what are you happy about? I am your boyfriend, not Wang Yang." And you can't be his girlfriend, his current girlfriend is too hot, and the next girlfriend will only be hotter......" Jennifer laughed, "So what? I love Magic Young, I love Magic Young! Wow, you're jealous?"

The two of them walked towards the door of the screening room, their voices getting quieter and quieter, the smile on Rachel's face had long since faded, she looked at the text on the phone screen expressionlessly, and only deleted the line "romantic moth" for a long time, and pressed the send button. Rachel felt a pang of discomfort in her heart and let out a long breath, she shouldn't have seen this movie, she really couldn't have access to this information anymore...... However, the promotional event for "Youth Musical" 2 is about to start, and she will see Jessica again and hear "Yang, Yang, Yang" again...... Rachel sat in her seat for a long time, watched one trailer after another on the big screen, suddenly sighed, stood up and left.

In Los Angeles, in the Thermo Screening Electromechanical Theater, Wang Yang and other film creators stood on the stage in front of the big screen to thank the audience who came to attend the premiere. Will Smith smiled into the microphone and said, "Hey, thank you, thank you! I'm not bad at acting, can I take a golden sour plum?" There was a chuckle from the audience, and Will laughed, "But guys, I want to say that 'When Happiness Knocks' is the best movie of my acting career, and when I was shooting, I was completely involved in the role, and I called my son's name, not Terry, and would say 'Christopher, Christopher'." Amid the laughter of the audience and the creators, he exclaimed, "It's all thanks to one person! You guessed it, yes." He looked at Wang Yang next to him and said with a smile: "He is our director!"

The audience immediately applauded, Wang Yang also applauded with a smile, and Will Smith said mysteriously: "I have to tell some secrets, at the beginning of the director's invitation, I said 'no', I can't take any more risks, but why am I standing here now, in addition to a good script, there are also a few long letters." I've never seen anyone do that, and he'd send a long handwritten letter every few days, 'Trust me, Will, it's going to be a good movie, I can do it!' and I believed him. ”

"Now everyone says, did he do it?" Will Smith asked with a smile, and the applause in the audience immediately turned thunderous, and some people chanted "The movie is great!" Will nodded and smiled, "Yes, the movie is great." After a few days of filming on the set, I didn't have to worry. He's a good director, with convincing explanations, who knows how to get your emotions and is almost demanding...... But thank God, he has a good temper. The crowd laughed again, and Will shouted, "Come, guys, let's give him a round of applause!"

Everyone at the Conceptual Seat stood up, clapping vigorously and shouting loudly. Wang Yang opened his hand and hugged Will Smith together, and said with a smile: "Will, thank you! Thank you for your trust!" Will Smith patted Wang Yang on the back and said, "Man, I thank you, this movie makes me full of confidence in acting again, I can win the Oscar, can't I?"

The creators on stage also applauded non-stop, with Valley Pfister, Margaret, Jenn Kezmelik, ...... Jada Pinkett, Terry Smith...... Everyone was smiling happily and enjoying the common joy. Jessica, who was standing in the front row of the audience, clapped her palms and looked at Wang Yang who was hugging Will Smith with a sweet smile, she said in her heart: "Yang, I love you!"

After the premiere, the main creator of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", family members and friends went to a hotel for a dinner party, on the way to the hotel, leaning on the soft car seat cushion, Wang Yang checked the text messages on his mobile phone, all of which were sent by friends, Zachary, Michael Pitt, and Joshua who attended the premiere...... And Tom Welling and others in other cities, Natalie Portman sent the word "good", and Rachel...... He opened the text message and silently read the content: "Jan, the movie is very exciting, congratulations!" He smiled slightly and replied, "Thank you, Rachel, you really should have come to the premiere, good night." Once he had sent it, he continued to look at the next text message.

"Jan, guess what those media reviews are going to write? They all said you were crazy. Jessica next to her looked full of interest and said with relief: "They saw it tonight, who is crazy!" Wang Yang replied to the text message while smiling and said to her: "Jessica, I'm crazy!" The promotion of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" has just finished being busy, but the summer vacation is coming soon, and I am going to shoot "Juno" again, oh! The rest time is only a few days......

The next day, media reports and film reviews took a big turn in their attitudes towards "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", at first they thought that Wang Yang was crazy and predicted that it would likely be a bad movie, and Will Smith made a stupid choice again...... But now no one talks about it, as if it never happened. In the stacks of newspapers at the newsstand, the headline on the entertainment section of the Los Angeles Times was so prominent: "Happiness Comes, Magic Continues!"

This film review report occupies almost a page, and it gives a full picture of what makes the film surprising: "This is another masterpiece of Amazing Young, and after watching this movie, I don't think anyone will say that he is a 'baby director' anymore, except to describe his age." This movie is so simple and so profound, it has no complicated story, no complicated character relationships, only a father and son, telling a warm and touching story. ”

"Its footage is full of Wang Yang's film film style, bright and sunny, the film's smooth and natural structure, 120 minutes of layered progression, bringing the legend of Chris Gardner to life without delay, the lively voice-over to make the characters more three-dimensional, the appropriate soundtrack, and excellent editing, all of which are impossible not to praise. In the past, I was worried about whether a 20-year-old director could grasp the plot biopic, whether he could restore the sense of the times in the 80s? The answer is that it is so good, it is full of sincere emotions, the love and warmth between father and son, the persistence of dreams and happiness, and the insistence on dignity...... The 20-year-old director grasped it, and he simply told it, but it made a deep impression. ”

After a barrage of praise, the Los Angeles Times concluded by commenting on his directing ability: "He's no longer in the category of 'teen film director,' he surpasses a lot of 'old guys' in their 30s and 40s, and this movie speaks for itself." ”

In terms of Will Smith's performance, the film review said: "It's hard, it's hard to believe that Will Smith just got the worst actor in the golden sour plum, is that really what happened? In this movie, Will Smith has changed all the previous screen images, he is haggard and vicissitudes, a middle-aged man who is running for a living all day long; A man with a bit of humor, the part where he cries silently in the toilet of the subway station is one of the best movie clips of the year, and Wonder Young is right, his performance is at the level of the Oscar for Best Actor. ”

Finally, the Los Angeles Times summed it up: "Do you have a dream? Do you want to be happy? Then try to make it happen! That's what When Happiness Knocks on the Door." ”

Newsstand and many other newspapers were also amazed, with a one-sentence review in USA Weekend saying, "The movie is warm and moving, and the performances of the two leading actors are real and believable!" The headline of the Movie Newspaper, which had previously questioned whether Wang Yang was crazy, was "Another miracle!" After some comments, they concluded: "There is no doubt that 'When Happiness Knocks' is a masterpiece, it is one of the best films of the year so far, it is a miracle that it came from the hand of a 20-year-old director." ”

The San Francisco Chronicle was proud and satisfied, and in the report, titled "Young, Well Done!" they praised the film's portrayal of San Francisco in the '80s: "Want to see what the San Francisco Bay Area was like in 1981? He was full of praise for Wang Yang, and commented in the tone of "his own people": "This Bay Area kid is worthy of the pride of San Francisco, worthy of the pride of the Bay Area, and obviously in the future, he will bring us greater honor, just like Clint Eastwood did." ”

Kevin Thomas, the film critic of "Ghost Shadow Record" and "Youth Musical", still didn't say anything good this time, he seemed to be on the right side with Wang Yang, maybe in this way, the entertainment tabloid was more willing to publish his film reviews, this time he commented: "This movie is ridiculous, the little director ridiculously wants to instill his views to the audience, the views are not wrong, but the way is so contrived and disgusting; ”

But fans who watched this movie are obviously in the camp of "this is a good movie", and the rating of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" on the IMDB website is currently as high as 8.5, although with the increase in the number of votes in the future, the score will decline normally, but as a drama biopic, it gets 8.5 points, which can be said to be the label of an Oscar-level classic movie. Compared with the 6.8 points of "Ghost Shadow" and the 6.5 points of "Youth Singing and Dance", "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" has won more respect.

On Sunday the 21st, in the afternoon, the Flame Movie got the box office figures for the first day of its premiere, with 3,050 theaters and a ticket price of $6.5 per ticket, with a total of $13.68 million on the 20th and another $15.64 million on the 21st. At the end of the weekend, cinema attendance also dropped sharply as usual, and after six days of screening, "When Happiness Knocks" ended its first week of campaign, receiving a total of 42.1581 million box office!

That number puts it at the top of the North American box office charts for the week of May 19-25, and it's the first film by Wang Yang to win the weekly box office in its first week of screening, and it comes after losing Friday. In second place is the animated blockbuster "Dinosaurs," which cost $127 million, which also showed its first week of screening, receiving $40.698 million in 3,257 theaters.

As a family cartoon, and with emotion as the main selling point, "Dinosaur" is the most conflicting with "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" in terms of market positioning, but this week, in terms of choosing which movie to watch, quite a few families have made up their minds with their fathers, and their decision is "When Happiness Knocks on the Door". In third place, it was "Gladiator", which was screened for the third week, which received a box office of 23.548 million, which was also affected to a certain extent. Looking at this list, many commenting media laughed and said, "Magical Young has once again beaten the 'big' movie!"

"Following the 70 million cost of "Saving Private Ryan" and the 115 million cost of "Star Wars - Phantom Crisis", the 127 million cost of "Dinosaurs" has become the latest victim. The editor of Yahoo Entertainment joked: "If Wonder Young makes a movie that costs more than 100 million, will he be beaten by the other little guys? But now the question is, is there any director in Hollywood who is the 'little guy' in front of him?"

The production cost of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" is 32 million, the publicity cost is 25 million, plus 3 million expenses such as copy transportation, the total cost is exactly 60 million. If you don't take into account the peripheral income such as DVDs, if you only count theatrical screenings, it will have to receive at least 140 million at the box office to recover its costs. For this, Flame Movie and Wang Yang are not worried, judging from the current momentum, it is certain that the box office will reach 100 million, and it will inevitably be profitable.

However, it seems that the situation of "Youth Musical" is going to be repeated, and the throne of the weekly box office champion is about to be given to others before it is hot. Because in the new week, two action blockbusters are about to be released, and the most threatening thing is not "Shanghai Noon", but Paramount's investment of 125 million and the opening of 3653 theaters, directed by John Woo and starring Tom Cruise "Mission Impossible 2", whether it is the popularity of the series or Tom Cruise's box office appeal, this blockbuster is menacing.

But this week, the light of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" covered the entire film industry, and Wang Yang's popularity once again soared, reaching an unprecedented peak.

In the latest issue of the Chicago Sun, Wang Yang's "die-hard fan" and famous film critic Roger Albert once again "defected", and his belated film critic did not choose to stick to the previous "golden sour plum" theory, but changed his praise: "I want to apologize for the previous prediction, this wonder boy is not hot-headed, not rushed, in his new work, what I see is sincerity, all magic." ”

"After watching "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", I still feel like a sunshine, but the difference is that this time the sunshine makes me cry. It's unbelievable, and Wonder Young scared me out again, and I can't find any words to describe my surprise, but it's true, it's an Oscar-caliber movie! I thought, maybe Wonder Young can get the youngest Oscar for Best Director? Oh, no, maybe! I'm sure he's going to win the Oscar for Best Director in the future, maybe, just not next year. ”

"I'm really looking forward to his 'Juno,' which he's supposed to be coming out this Christmas, is that going to be an ordinary romantic love story? He wrote self-deprecatingly: "And if Magic Young makes a movie a month, I won't say he's hot-headed, I poor old fellow." ”

Finally, the patent that belongs to Roger Ebert, which can only be seen in his film reviews, is that he tagged "When Happiness Knocks" "two-thumbs-up!"

This film review has been supported by many fans, especially his phrase "the best director of the future", for which Yahoo also conducted a poll "Do you think Wang Yang will break the record for the youngest winner of the 'Oscar for Best Director'?" (held by 32-year-old Norman Taurrog) 74% of people chose yes, 26% chose no.

And in a sub-survey, "How old do you think he will break?", 15% chose "21-24", 36% chose "25-28", and 49% chose "29-32".

(To be continued)