Chapter 97: The Hangover VS The Passion of the Christ

After Valentine's Day, Mark stepped up the promotion of "The Hangover", with overwhelming advertisements on TV and newspapers, as the biggest dark horse of the year, a small Chengtai work without superstars, and a box office of 63 million US dollars in the first week, which is full of legend and topicality in itself, and it is not surprising that Warner is trying its best to promote it, and it is not surprising that the media fans are self-fans.

The actors' publicity is no longer limited to Tundi or California, they have appeared all over the country, causing a sensation everywhere they go, and Warner TV has produced a special "The Hangover" to follow the story, as well as the interesting facts on the set of "The Hangover".

MM and Warner did their best to hype up the project, keep it topical, and use every means to promote it, as Mark, who became popular all over the country with "The Hangover", appeared in the four major talk shows in one week, and his popularity was so high that it was not much different from Peter the Great who swept the country in "The Lord of the Rings", and even Peter the Great half-jokingly said: "Fortunately, "The Hangover" is not a work competing for the awards season, otherwise everyone would be under a lot of pressure." ”

It's just a modest joke, "The Lord of the Rings" has accumulated a huge number of fans and popularity around the world, maybe only the "Harry Potter" series can be compared, but everyone is in the same Warner line, and it doesn't hurt to praise each other.

There are also reports on TV that there have been eleven cases in China who had a stomachache from laughing because of watching "The Hangover" and had to call an ambulance, and Mark responded: "It's my fault, the crew will pay for the medical bills for these people." ”

It can be said that they used all methods to promote it, and they also succeeded in convincing more movie theaters to join the screening, and in the continuous popularity, "The Hangover" lived up to expectations and won the box office of 58 million US dollars, and continued to win the championship with a drop of less than 10%, but this news is not the most shocking and shocking.

The most shocking thing is that "The Passion of the Christ", which has all the characteristics of a big fight, actually won 57 million US dollars, only a slight disadvantage of 1 million US dollars, and won the runner-up, nearly half more than the third place "Lord of the Rings 3", of course, the latter has been released for eight weeks, and Beimi has exceeded 280 million.

This is a sensation in Hollywood, a sensation in the entertainment industry, this is a well-deserved dark horse, it can be said that under the siege of the Jedi counterattack broke through, won the premiere box office of 57 million US knives, it can be said that to win such a result, even if it is the runner-up, no one dares to say that it is not, compared with "The Hangover" has the support of the media group and enjoys various resource advantages, it has almost no professional publicity, all on quality, all on beer, and it is out of the encirclement.

The mainstream media were dumbfounded by the astonishing news, while the tabloids and the Internet were furious, with many viewers seeing it as a challenge to the authority of media conglomerates, like an independent film challenging a big studio, a symbol of freedom in the United States.

J Pusen was ecstatic and said to the reporters: "The audience is knowledgeable, and the lovely, fair and great audience gave "The Passion of the Christ" a fair evaluation. ”

Mark barricaded reporters at the MM door, and they asked him what he thought about the matter, and Mark said, "I defeated it, it's that simple!" Mark was relieved, not the appalling 80 million US dollars, and I had just defeated it, so I could give an account to the relevant parties.

As for the asymmetrical platform and unfair disputes, he won't care anymore, "The Passion of the Christ" is also a work that will leave a history of photography, and he can be regarded as having completed the task.

For all this, those Jewish bigwigs are panicked, and under such strong suppression, "The Passion of the Christ" has broken through, representing the rise of anti-Semitic forces, and there are too many Jews who are unhappy with Jews all over the world, and these sensitive Jewish bigwigs are uneasy, and they lose their temper with the Jewish bigwigs who are mixed up in Hollywood, and they are scolding bloody.

Only Barry can straighten his waist in front of these big guys, he said: "This film has been suppressed in all aspects, even in the extreme case of the high-definition version of the movie leaking out, it can be achieved like this, you can imagine, without these suppression and "The Hangover", it will explode with amazing energy, we estimate that it will be no less than 80 million dollars, Warner did what he should do." ”

The Jewish boss who presided over the meeting agreed with Barry's statement, saying, "Barry has a very big picture, he did what he did as a Jew, but what about the others? You don't have anything but money in your eyes, and I'm going to put that in the report, and I'll report it to the mentors as it is, and I have to see you doing things." ”

No one else dared to keep silent about this, and adopted a tacit attitude.

"The Passion of the Christ" is indeed against the sky, during the Valentine's Day file that focuses on love and romance, a movie that focuses on bloody violence actually won such an amazing box office, and the media and reviews said they couldn't understand it.

J Pusen, a man who once conquered people's hearts with "Braveheart" but was subject to the controversy that subverted history because of this, directed "The Passion of the Christ" this time, once again received more criticism from people around the world, accusing it of being anti-Semitic, and at the same time, the evaluation of the film is roughly as follows: bloody, violent, terrifying, cruel.

The language of this film uses obscure Aramaic, Latin and Hebrew, the subtitles are in English, and the dialogues of the characters are in the original words of the Bible.

This film truly records the entire process from the beginning of Christ Jesus' prayer on the Mount of Olives to the final crucifixion for twelve hours, interspersed with scenes such as the Last Supper and the previous ministry, this extremely familiar plot that has been repeatedly read in the New Testament of the Bible, is magnified by the director with the lens, and becomes so real that it is so cruel that people are shocked, the Lord came to the world to save people's suffering and sins, but died because of human ignorance and sin, the audience is all stunned, tears are blurred.

The story begins one night, Jesus (played by James Caviezer) was betrayed by Judas to the Romans, Jesus was awakened in the dark blue night, shocked, disappointed, and then calmly, tolerant, silently tied his hands and was captured, when the Romans tied Jesus' hands and feet with iron chains and escorted him to the sentencing ground, crowds of Jews poured out, they threw stones at Jesus and spitted, crazy people, after the Romans announced that Jesus was hanged, the crowd cheered.

Jesus staggered through the streets of Jerusalem carrying a heavy wooden cross, and from time to time he fell to the ground, and the citizens flocked to him even more frantically, venting their unbridled ignorance and resentment. At the end of the crowd, Maria (Monica Bellucci) looks painfully at the crucifixion-bearing Jesus, scarred and bloodstained as she slowly walks to the hillside where the hangings were carried out, her eyes full of despair.

Holy water flowed down from the cracks in his hands, the sand and stones turned into dust in the wind, the hammer was raised high, and a hammer struck on the cross, and Jesus, wearing a crown of thorns, silently endured the last agony before death, and the long iron nail pierced the left wrist, the long iron nail pierced the right wrist, the long iron nail pierced the left ankle, the long iron nail struck the ankle of the right foot, and the blood flowed out of the nail hole, flowing through the bloody skin, dripping into the dirt, and every drop shook the sky.

Dark clouds rolled in the sky, swallowing every white crevice, a line of tears slipped from the corners of the eyes of the Virgin Mary (Maya Morgensteadt), a face of deep sorrow, and there was silence on the hillside, and the song in the language that had disappeared swirled around every grain of air here.

There is no doubt that this is an excellent and shocking masterpiece, although the media group suppresses and shields it, the audience's eyes are bright, and they will not pay for a bad movie because of the media group's praise, nor will they miss a good movie because of their suppression.

This week, there were more smears and bad reviews of "The Passion of the Christ" in the media, and such amazing results were achieved, and the number of theaters released did not increase, but decreased, on the grounds that many movies suddenly blocked this week and joined the screening ranks, and the Oscars were still in a week.

But this year, there are two small Cheng Tai movies, the dragon fights the tiger, both movies are 30 million US knife production cost of the movie, in this production cost of more than 100 million today, can only be regarded as a small cost work, but now the two small Cheng Tai works, but set off a monstrous wave that hundreds of millions of big productions can't set off, super hot topicality, exploding beer has triggered a craze for watching movies, the audience has lined up to buy tickets, walk into the cinema, and enjoy this phenomenal masterpiece, this kind of lively phenomenon, only when the summer super blockbuster is released, there will be a scene, the theater operators are smiling crookedly。

Heath, David, Zack, Scarlett, Rachel, Rachel, Liang Jiahui, Mason, etc. are all popular and popular, especially impressive is Hiss's Phil, David's cowardly dentist Stu, funny fat Zack, Scarlett who is as hot as a meat bullet, and Rachel, an elegant lady, is in Liang Jiaxi's "Asia's No. 1 beautiful buttocks" It is also officially recognized by Beimi, and it deserves its name, and its film schedule is also super high all the way, with an overwhelming advantage, and the momentum of that family is enviable.

And "The Passion of the Christ" is still in the tabloids, the Internet and self-media are upside down, but they can't be recognized and reported by the mainstream media, but the box office results are also unstoppable, and the scene is full on weekdays, the only thing that can match it is "The Hangover", but "The Hangover" is an absolutely dominant condition to fight against it, and Hollywood is a sensation when the results come out.