Chapter 47: Opportunistic

In fact, Mark admires Mel a lot, you can say that he has ideals and passions, can make great sacrifices for art, from a human point of view, he is free and successful, and it is just a personal opinion that he doesn't like Jews, but as a celebrity, he also has the consequences of influence and dissemination, and the wealth of grass people's labor in the world today is occupied and squandered by hidden rich families (so many of them are Jewish families), which is not without reason, but unfortunately it is said that the Jews of the six major companies account for a lot, and these powerful people will of course use their power, wealth and influence to suppress Mel, so the tragedy was born, a genius filmmaker, no longer has to do anything, what is even more tragic is that it stifled the birth of a good movie, so in reality, it was a failure, and it paid the price for its own special words, deeds and opinions, in this sense, it was a failure.

This guy can be called a talented filmmaker, at the age of 39, he won the Oscar for Best Director and Best Actor with "Braveheart", it is said that in order to make the movie "The Passion of the Christ", he said to reporters: "This "Passion of the Christ" I have been preparing for at least ten years, and deep down in my heart, I desperately want to tell the story of this biographical religion in the form of a film, which is what I have always believed, everyone will have their own beliefs, and it is great to be able to do something for their beliefs. “

Mel made this film, from preparation, manuscript to script, to fundraising, shooting, post-production, and striving for distribution, for this film he directed, he undoubtedly paid immeasurable efforts.

However, as a person who has been in Hollywood for more than 20 years, he will not know who Hollywood is in the world, nor will he not know the taboo here, and deliberately poke the scar, which is called not dying and not dying.

"The Passion of the Christ" does not have a dominant star in Hollywood, and the dialogue is in the language of the characters of the film's era, Aramaic of the Jews and Latin of the Romans, although it will be accompanied by English subtitles, but for Hollywood, this practice is simply unreasonable, and people began to feel fear, and the source of fear was not the fear of Gibson's mouth of "facts", but the so-called so-called Gibson once funded a traditional Catholic church independent of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles"Traditional Catholicism" refers to the movement that split from the church to resist the Second Vatican Council, whose goal was to "purge the Jews who killed Jesus."

This makes people question his approach, especially since he has a father who believes in Nazism, although in order not to repeat the mistakes of Martin Scorsese, Mel Gibson first showed the film to religious authorities to make sure that it did not violate the doctrine and was faithful to the Bible, but the "Passion of the Christ" film once again provoked a debate between Catholics and Jews during the audition, and many Jews were even accused of being anti-Semitic.

Mel's bloody depiction of Jesus' betrayal and suffering, which provoked an unprecedented culture war in Hollywood's history, is still a trial despite unanimous opposition from religious figures, and IMDB has shown that the film is "full of errors and grotesque" comments, which shows how controversial "The Passion of the Christ" is.

And Mel is not to be outdone, he personally and his team launched the promotion of the film and launched a polemic with people, he always insisted that as a director, he has the freedom and right to create, he has repeatedly claimed: "The Passion of the Christ is very historical, Christ did not condemn them for being betrayed by the Jews, because we believe that the sin of all mankind is the root cause of Christ's suffering, we are all responsible, "The Passion of the Christ" is a story about love, Christ becomes a man, we become murderers, " The Passion of the Christ is the greatest heroic story of all time, the greatest adventure story, and the greatest love story. ”

And Monica Bellucci, who became famous for her cameo in "The Matrix 2 Reloaded", also publicly claimed: "The Passion of the Christ brings the audience first and foremost a visually beautiful movie, as an actor, I like controversial things, but I don't understand why this movie was controversial from the beginning, it is not an anti-Semitic film, it is undeniable that it was the Romans who killed Jesus Christ, not the Jews." "She is the heroine of this film.

Mark watched the propaganda of this product jumping up and down in newspapers and television and other media, if he was not driven by profit, he would not believe it, and in the case of insufficient propaganda funds, the controversy between religion and culture that he provoked easily made this film attract the attention of countless people, and it was easy to achieve the goal by pulling out thousands of pounds in four or two.

Mark knows that since its release, "The Passion of the Christ" has been a huge hit around the world, exceeding 200 million in more than 20 days and returning to the top of the box office during Easter, and finally won 370 million at the box office, creating a miracle in the North American film market, and in the United States, it ranks eighth among the highest-grossing films in film history, and is likely to replace "Spider-Man" as the sixth most profitable film in film history. "Because Mel M. J Pusen only invested 30 million US dollars for the film.

So Mark thinks that he provoked the controversy is a propaganda tactic to go sideways, he has gained fame and fortune, but the Jews are not easy to mess with, they can't suppress the audience from entering the cinema, but they can make the film company stop investing in his films, and can also suppress his company's stock and related industries, starring Jim Kazevi starring in such a super box office movie, but it will go downhill, but it will not get any good roles.

Before the release of this movie, it caused a huge controversy, and those who had a heart were prepared for it, "Fifty First Loves", "Wild Sand Horse", "Barber Shop 2", "Ice Miracle" before and after, but they could not form an effective block, and those super blockbusters, due to huge investment, were unwilling to release in advance, causing huge losses, resulting in a situation where the "Passion of the Christ" family dominated.

As the so-called poor family thinks of a good wife, the country is in trouble and thinks of a good general, if there is a blockbuster movie at this time to come forward and complete the sniper mission, it will definitely make some people look at it differently, and his road in Hollywood will be wider in the future, Mark is speculative, ready to face the king of R-rated comedies against the king of R-rated dramas, and compete with each other.

Directed by Todd Phillips and co-created by Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, The Hangover not only became the biggest dark horse in the summer of 2009, but also set a new record for R-rated comedies, with The Hangover becoming the highest-grossing R-rated comedy in film history with $238.2 million, replacing the previous 25-year record holder "Beverly Hills Super Detective" With a total box office of 234.8 million, the film has been attracting a large number of audiences since its release for six weeks, and only narrowly won by more than 4 million.

And "The Passion of the Christ" in North America 370 million is also better than "The Hangover" of 230 million, Mark wants to see whether it is a lose-lose situation or a win-win situation under the simultaneous tearing of two large and small cost films, and see how far this so-called: "film focusing on art" has gone under powerful sniping.

This is opportunistic, and it can even be said to be flattering to the powerful, but it is the only way to get on the rise, and the green light all the way in the future, Sophia is a famous family among Jews, although she no longer believes in Judaism, or Christianity, but this movie will also cause her unhappiness, I believe that the appearance of "The Hangover" will cause her favor, in the name of sniping "The Passion of the Christ" loan, I believe that the payment request will be happily approved.

This is a multi-pronged effort, with Beimi's work of breaking through 200 million US dollars, who would dare to say that he has no hair on his mouth, is not good at work, and is not qualified to be in charge of Gotham Town?

These things involve too many things, it is inconvenient for Mark to reveal them one by one, even if he says now that the most popular superstar in Hollywood will be suppressed in a year or two and there is no drama to film, he will not believe that Mel is not a star, he has his own production company, his influence and connections are huge, and when he divorced a few years later, he said that he had a net worth of 900 million US dollars, and in Hollywood, there are few people with such a solid background.

Tom just felt that Mark's heart was too big, and "Chainsaw" had not yet been released, so he began to plan to get a third movie, and it was a movie with such a big investment.

Mark chatted at Tom's house for more than an hour before leaving, and now Tom is a bit of a bridge between him and Kevin, and both parties trust Tom, which is very important.

Now Mark is a little ambitious, he is now gradually gaining a firm foothold, and he also knows that he has a backer, a backstage, if it were someone else, with such a backstage, he would have done something big a long time ago.

After making up some shots, Mark announced that the movie was finished, and officially closed the film, according to the agreement, they held a big finale party to celebrate, Mark repeatedly claimed that he would give out red envelopes, but they all knew that it was after "This Man is from Earth" was divided, and now Mark doesn't have much money, anyway, it's not enough to send red envelopes.

Of course, he is not as tight as when he filmed "This Man is from Earth", and even the money for holding a small party has to be funded by Donald, his balance has more than 500,000, and more than 300,000 is the budget for the later stage of production, and he still has more than 200,000 working capital, which can be called abundant, so he has a relatively large celebration party, friends at work and personally, gathering together, singing and dancing, which is conducive to expanding contacts and deepening feelings.

Mark actually doesn't think much of the party culture of the American people, and it's a waste of money, but what he knows is that this is a place where you have to celebrate with a cannon and break everywhere, and it is a big sin not to celebrate when the movie is finished, and it will be labeled as a miserly one.