Chapter 558: Substitute for the Dead Ghost
It's a question that comes with its own pitfalls, and once Layla affirms his problem, she's guaranteed that immediately a bunch of people will call her arrogant, and a bunch of Star Wars fans will be wielding their lightsabers against her.
"Box office isn't the only measure of a movie's quality. Because of the genre, it's not surprising that some good movies don't have a good box office. And I think it's unfair to compare movies from different eras. Leila didn't give the reporters time to ask any more questions, and they talked about the money.
"For example, special effects. For commercial films, the weight of special effects has become heavier and heavier. For example, our special effects company, basically a large percentage of the money made from the film will be invested in the research and development of new technologies. "Star Wars Prequel" is a movie released in 1999, and the viewing effect brought by special effects at that time was far from comparable to what it is now. I believe that if director Lucas continues to make a sequel, the audience will be able to see more exciting special effects. β
She said a lot, and seeing that she still had the meaning to continue, the reporters were so frightened that the reporters finally found a breakthrough and asked the question while she was breathing.
"So Director Moran, do you think your film is inferior to Lucas's?"
Louise secretly hated those reporters who were afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and she had to pull out something if she had nothing to do. Who doesn't know how fanatical George Lucas's fans are? If she had to compete at this time, whether Layla answered yes or no, it wouldn't do her any good.
She tries to take Leila back to the office, but is stopped by a smile.
"Director Lucas is a great director, he created Star Wars, he created the symbol of an era. If I had to compare his films to me, I would only find them funny. It's like putting an apple tree and a pear tree together, and you have to compare which of the two trees has sweeter fruit. It's all a completely different kind of thing, so how can you compare it clearly?"
Having said that, the reporters didn't want to ask any more, so they took out the two record-breaking records of this movie.
"This time you broke two screening records in a row, the highest opening day box office and the fastest film to reach 100 million box office, do you hope to break more records?"
"Of course I'm happy to break the record, but I didn't think about whether I could continue to break the record. Leila narrowed her eyes, and she was starting to get a little tired of the reporters' pestering, so she simply changed the subject: "Speaking of box office, can anyone tell me how much Catwoman is at the box office?"
The data reporters remembered it best, and immediately someone said: "As of yesterday, it was 39 million." β
"Oh~~" Leila deliberately dragged out her voice, and then smiled meaningfully at the camera: "It seems to be good, I'm really glad that Director Joseph didn't make our children's bad movie." β
Joseph, who was watching the live interview in front of the TV, swept the things on the table with a grim face: "Damn it! next time! I will definitely beat you next time!"
Of course, the reporters knew the meaning of Leila's words, Joseph rejected "Harry Potter" and sprayed the old owner wildly, and then ran to the crew of "Catwoman", I don't know how many people waited to see Leila's jokes.
As a result, Leila at that time did not refute it, and did not cry, but silently took over the director's position and rushed to the UK to make the movie in person. Seeing the current situation, if you still think that she was not angry at the time, it would be too naΓ―ve, and look at the time when she deliberately put the release of the two movies together, you can know that she is simply holding the heart of crushing the other party to start the war.
At this time, she brought it up again, and anyone could guess how bad Director Joseph's mood would be.
Leila deliberately brought Joseph out to talk about it, in order to find a substitute for the dead to keep the reporter from pestering her. And she did it very successfully, and the reporters also had a strong interest in the loser than interviewing Leila, the winner, who wouldn't want to beat the Reservoir Dogs?
So the reporters left Leila's company and went around looking for Joseph to follow him for an interview.
Joseph's tragedy is that he is blocked out of his house, and he lives in an apartment instead of a mansion like Leila. All the money he bought before was invested in his own movies, so that he could make a fortune and at the same time get some safe right to speak.
It can be seen that he was really optimistic about the movie at the beginning, and he never thought that he would lose money.
However, now the results are ......
"Director Joseph, did you regret abandoning the film's directorship when you lost to Moran's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone?" a reporter broke through the layers and grabbed the opportunity to ask the first question.
Joseph's face couldn't be darker, what the hell is this? Didn't he slap him in the face? But there are so many neighbors around his house watching, what kind of face will he have to walk out of the house in the future?
"I don't understand what you're talking about. He straightened his face: "When did I lose Catwoman?"
Reporters like people who are holding on to such a death, and only when they open up the bottom of him can they have a better hype effect!
"If you don't lose, how can you explain that two movies are released at the same time, but "Catwoman" only has a quarter of the box office of the other party?"
"The box office is not the standard for judging whether a movie is good or not!" Joseph couldn't hear others say that his movie was bad, and waved his fist at the reporters excitedly: "My film is art! How can it be measured by the box office!"
The reporters almost burst out laughing when they heard his words, and a commercial film that couldn't be more commercial dared to use the word art to describe it. I'm afraid only he can say such brainless words, but they like it very much!
"Do you really think Catwoman is an art film?" a reporter amusedly asked everyone's doubts.
"Of course!" Joseph glared at him angrily, "My film was made with all my energy, and every frame of the film is full of my passion for film. I put all the insights in my life into the movie, what is it if it is not art?"
"So you really don't feel sorry for Harry Potter at all, if you were to shoot it, you would have broken the record one after another, right?"
The reporter's words pierced Joseph's heart like an arrow. God knows how difficult it was for him to forget about this time in the past two days. If time could go back, he wouldn't have discarded that movie. As the reporter said, if he came to shoot, the record-breaking and praised things would all be his!
It's a pity that there is no "if" in this world, the fact is that he abandoned the work that should have allowed him to reach the sky in one step, and chose a film that made him unable to lift his head.
Now no amount of regret is useless, all he can do is to maintain his last self-esteem.