Chapter 119: Prosperity Falls
Wang Jie finally completed the production of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" ten days before the Spring Festival in 1989, and the film was also scheduled to be released on February 2.
The premiere of the film was scheduled for the Great Hall of the Holy Citizens in Los Angeles, USA, which was also the venue for the 61st Academy Awards a little more than a month later. Wang Jie's women were all present at the premiere, of course, they all sat at the back of the auditorium except for Sophie Marceau, this time they were dragged by Sophie Marceau, on the one hand, to show off to the sisters, on the other hand, this film is really very interesting, everyone should be leisure.
Shirley Lansing and Sophie Marceau took the production team of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" to be interviewed by nearly 100 media from all over the world, Wang Jie did not attend the premiere, and the reporters are used to it, who made Wang Jie both a super director and a top rich man.
After the logo of Luen Mei Pictures, the film was officially screened.
At the beginning, Wang Jie and Sophie Marceau were sitting in a room, both of them smiling a little awkwardly.
Wang Jie was the first to speak to the camera: "Okay, I'll say it first." Actually, we don't use it at all, we've been married for 5 years......"
"It's been 6 years!" interrupted Sophie Marceau, who was nearby.
"We've been married for five or six years," Wang Jie continued, "and the reason why I'm here today is like doing an annual inspection of the car, checking the engine, and having the opportunity to change the oil......
Sophie Marceau laughed on the side, "Yes." ”
Voiceover: "Alright, let's get started." If the score is 10, how would you rate each other's feelings?"
"8 points. ”
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"Tell me about how you have sex every week. ”
"Do you want to score this too?"
"No, just say it's okay to do it a few times a week. ”
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"How did you meet?"
"In Italy. ”
"Rome, 5 years ago. ”
"It's 6 years. ”
"Well, it was five or six years ago. ”
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Planner, screenwriter and director: Wang Jie.
Assistant Director: Yuan Kui.
Executive Director: Wu Baige.
Starring: William Rothschild King, Sophie Marceau.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston.
Special performance: Yulia Tymoshenko.
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When the subtitles appeared, many viewers at the scene reacted that it was the couple who were seeing a psychiatrist just now.
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston don't have many scenes, and they are looking down and chatting about something at this time, and they seem to be enthusiastic. A large number of stars such as Nicolas Cage and Keanu Reeves all came to watch the movie today. However, except for Sophie Marceau, the heroine, Wang Jie's other women sat in the back, and they didn't want to cause any accidents and gossip to the media.
The casual audience in the back was watching the movie with relish, while the critics were holding pens and recalling and thinking about what had just happened. Hollywood's current action movies are still straightforward, and more than ninety percent of the films are fought as soon as they come up, relying on three punches and two kicks to kill a small role to highlight the extraordinary skills of the protagonist.
I have to say that the way "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" appears is very special, it is actually a couple who are seeing a psychiatrist and want to solve the conflict in their marriage.
Albert watched it with great interest, hoping that the film would surprise him. To be honest, Wang Jie's films have become more and more commercial in recent years, although they are still of top quality, but except for the last "Rain Man", Albert can no longer find the feeling of watching movies before.
In fact, Wang Jie has always been like that, he likes to indulge in commercial movies, but Albert's appetite has been raised.
At the same time, in a theater at Xiangjiang DreamWorks, another talented female writer and film critic, Yi Shu, felt that the beginning of the film made her eyes shine, and a few sentences of dialogue had already highlighted the couple's marital problems, which she had always paid attention to. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was released simultaneously worldwide.
As soon as the picture turns, armed robbers appear on the streets of Rome, a large number of police officers chase and arrest them all over the city, and finally two policemen come to the hotel lobby where the male protagonist is.
The hero and heroine met unexpectedly, and the next storyline is very old-fashioned, but the handsome men and beautiful women, coupled with pretense and humor, are enough to meet the audience's viewing needs.
Especially the intimate scene between the two, when Sophie Marceau appeared on the screen in sexy underwear, a burst of coaxing suddenly broke out in the auditorium. Although it only stayed for a second, Sophie Marceau's seductive figure still feasted the eyes of male audiences.
According to the publicity of the movie, this is a popular urban action movie directed and acted by Wang Jie.
However, film critics and audiences were very speechless to find that the next ten minutes or so were talking about the daily life of the male and female protagonists, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a marriage love drama!
However, the people who can buy tickets to watch the movie premiere are all loyal fans of Wang Jie or Sophie Marceau, and they actually like this kind of plot progress.
"Hahaha......"
There was another burst of laughter in the auditorium, but it was Sophie Marceau who took it upon herself to change the curtains at home in the film, and then said to Wang Jie: "If you don't like it, you can replace it." ”
Wang Jie said without backing: "Okay, replace it, I don't like it." ”
Sophie Marceau glanced at Wang Jie and said calmly, "You will get used to it." ”
"Hahaha......" Yishu laughed happily in the Xiangjiang DreamWorks Cinema, and even forgot to record the experience of watching the movie. She has never been married, and she is both yearning and afraid of married life, so she likes this kind of plot that shows small family conflicts very much.
The audience didn't laugh for long, and the action scenes came with the hero and heroine. is not like the fight scenes of several minutes in other action movies, whether it is Wang Jie or Sophie Marceau, they are all killed in an instant, this is almost a real battle, and it is completely different from other movies that can't be killed for half a day.
"That's the killer, one hit kills. ”
"Sophie Marceau's action of jumping off the stairs just now was so cool. ”
"I think she's sexier when she's wearing a tight leather jacket and a whip. ”
“……”
"Oh my God!"
"Oh, God!"
"What's that? rocket artillery?"
"It's a single missile!"
Suddenly, the auditorium began to be lively, and I saw Wang Jie on the big screen carrying the "Stinger" transmitter, aiming at the wooden house where Sophie Marceau was, and launching it with a "whoosh".
"Boom!" a wooden house was blown apart, and the flames of the explosion made the audience's blood boil.
Now it has only been a few years since the second-generation individual air defense director "Stinger" in the United States achieved mass production, and what appears in the film is just an empty shell of a special imitation, and such a powerful high-tech modern weapon can only be described as cool.
The life plot that was still plain and interesting just now climaxed after turning into an action scene, and in the intense action scene, there is also a little humor to spice it up.
Due to the different times, Wang Jie had to change some plot details, so that things that were too high-tech did not appear.
"Hahaha......"
Another burst of laughter rang out, and Albert had to admit the success of the film, except for the fight scene named Jack Cheng in Xiangjiang, there were few fight scenes in action movies that made people laugh while watching.
The battle between the male and female protagonists in their own home is a classic, Wang Jie has not changed much, but the final battle has changed a lot, mainly because it looks too fake and LOW in the original film.
After the re-design of the action, the performance of the hero and heroine in the decisive battle is very suitable for their identity as killers. With tacit understanding and steady shots, relying on skills and resourcefulness to kill all opponents, this is much more exciting than shooting a few shapes in the original film.
Designing action scenes is the strength of Hong Kong filmmakers.
When the film ended, the auditorium erupted in applause for several minutes, which showed the audience's love for this movie.
In this issue of the Hollywood Times, Roger Albert wrote: "As a fashion action film, 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' is eye-catching. It doesn't have lengthy punches and kicks, and in fact, apart from the crucial two action scenes, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" rarely has physical contact fights, and basically uses firearms to solve the fight. So to be precise, this is not a pure action movie, but closer to the style of Hollywood family ethics dramas.
The biggest feature of the film is that it is close to reality, obviously this is a story about a killer who is far away from us, but through the description of the life of the hero and heroine, it will make the audience feel very real, as if it happened around us......"
Xiang Jiang Yishu's article in "Ming Pao Weekly" has a completely different angle: "I like the dialogue in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" very much, I have always regarded this movie as a marriage ethics drama, which is much more moving than muscles and bullets. There are two lines in it that explain marriage very vividly.
Smith Lee said: 'There's a lot of distance between us, and it's getting bigger and bigger, and we're gradually not talking to each other anymore, what is that?'
The psychiatrist replied: This is marriage.
The screenwriter of this film is director William, perhaps this is his understanding of marriage, and it also explains why he has been in constant scandals but has not broken out any fixed female companions......"
The film reviews of Albert and Xiangjiang's Yishu are all praise, but they interpret the style of the film from different angles. Some media also have more direct publicity comments, that is, nakedly praising Wang Jie's muscle lines and Sophie Marceau's sexy figure, which made some viewers run for these two points.
On the first day of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", although adults need to go to work and can't watch the movie during the day, the theater is still crowded with college students who have taken winter break. After the white-collar workers got off work, there was a long queue outside the ticket window of the theater, and all the tickets for the night show had been sold at seven o'clock in the evening, and the fans who came late could only return disappointed.
From mid-February to early May, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was released in theaters for more than three months, and finally reached more than $250 million at the global box office.
This is another successful work of Wang Jie, Sophie Marceau's glamorous and sexy appeal has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people after the film was released, and some media have begun to call it "the most delicate rose in France" and "the love of a French man".
Most of the media also praised the film.
"There is no doubt about the quality of director William's work, and now the most important thing everyone wants to know now is not whether William's film will be a blockbuster, but when his film will break the global box office mark of one billion dollars. —Los Angeles Daily News.
The couple is bombarded in their living room with heavy weapons, and the audience is stunned and laughed, and William's films always give people a sense of freshness. —HSD Post.
"The whole story is absurd, bizarre and humorous, and many of the lines in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" are full of deep dialogue, which is a rare action movie with brains. - Hollywood Today.
Major Hollywood film and television companies have approached the popular Sophie Marceau, hoping that she can participate in their own company's films, but all of these have been rejected by Sophie Marceau.
When the prosperity finally ends, Sophie Marceau believes that only the life that accompanies Wang Jie is eternal.