As a very common entertainment activity in life, Americans are also very mature in their movie-watching mentality, and they will only choose to watch movies based on their personal hobbies and movie reputation. The key factor in the success or failure of a movie at the box office www.biquge.info is always the quality of the film, which has little to do with whether the production budget is huge, which is also the reason why films such as "Cleopatra" and "Heaven's Gate" many years ago to "Cut Throat Island" and "Future Water World" in recent years, although they spent a jaw-dropping production budget, they still suffered box office fiascos.

Before the release of "Titanic", although there was no shortage of positive reviews, the media's almost one-sided singing about the film's box office prospects subtly created a potential impression in the public's mind that this is another expensive bad film like "Future Water World".

The $1.56 million midnight show started at a third of last month's "Mission Impossible 2" and not even Paramount's "Star Trek: First Contact" a week ago. There is no doubt that the tepid pre-release word-of-mouth and the long duration of the movie have deterred most interested audiences from braving the bitter cold of winter to spend three hours in a midnight movie theater.

However, the next day, although there was no earth-shattering reversal in the media's criticism of "Titanic", audiences interested in the movie gradually began to enter the cinema.

Manhattan, New York.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Simon Peck lined up at the ticket office of the Paris cinema on 58th Street, near the Parque de l'Central, listening to the crowd around him whispering about the latest film.

Simon Peck wasn't a movie fan, and he didn't even like to watch movies that much, or rather, he didn't have that time. As a professional elite who has just jumped to Lehman Brothers as a financial analyst, he was born in a low-income family in the United States in order to get rid of the poor life he once had, and has devoted almost all his energy to his studies and work over the years, even at this time, because of his study experience at Columbia Business School, he is still burdened with more than $30,000 in student loans from the bank.

However, after jumping from the original private investment company and getting the $68,000 annual job at Lehman Brothers, the pressure on him has finally been reduced over the years, and a few months ago he was introduced by a friend, and he also had a good girlfriend named Charlotte Davis, who was pulled over by this girlfriend who likes to watch movies today.

When it was his turn, Simon Peck handed over the change, asked the conductor for a movie ticket for "Titanic", and turned to walk towards his girlfriend who was waving his hand.

"Hey, baby, I just heard people say that this movie doesn't seem to be very good, and it's too long, it's going to take three hours," Simon Peck said with a hint of persuasion as he waved his ticket to Charlotte, who was holding two buckets of popcorn.

Charlotte Davis is also not a fan of disaster movies, but who made this a film that Eric Williams strongly supported.

Once that chance encounter was the deepest secret of Charlotte and her best friend Alice, and neither girl easily told others. However, because of that chance encounter that year, the two of them will always subconsciously pay attention to Eric's various movements in Hollywood, and will also subconsciously support the films that Eric values, and, so far, she has not been disappointed, so once in a while, it can be regarded as a different experience.

During the Christmas holidays, Alice returns to Colorado to spend Christmas with her parents, and Charlotte has to watch the movie with her new boyfriend.

At this time, listening to Simon Peck's words, Charlotte rolled her eyes slightly, with a smile on the corner of her mouth, and asked, "So, what movie do you think we should watch?"

Simon Peck subconsciously opened his mouth, but did not say the name of any movie for a while, Charlotte knew that her new boyfriend was almost a movie idiot, hehe laughed, ignored his embarrassed appearance, stuffed a bucket of popcorn into his arms, and said, "Okay, let's go in, let's start quickly." ”

Although it was prime time, and it was the first day of the release of "Titanic", however, the screening hall still seemed a little deserted, and the screening hall that could accommodate a hundred people ended up sitting less than half, Charlotte took her movie idiot boyfriend to choose a seat and sat down, and the surrounding audience was talking softly, and they could also hear a couple of middle school students in the front row complaining to her boyfriend that she shouldn't have chosen this movie, and the boy seemed to be "The Terminator" A die-hard fan of the series, who talked to the girl, said that he was just supporting his idol.

Charlotte can think that most of the audience in the screening hall at this time chose this movie either to support a big director like Cameron, or because of the film's $215 million investment, or purely because of the overwhelming publicity of fireflies, perhaps, less than one-third of the audience is really interested in the film.

Most movie theaters will have a trailer of about 15 minutes before the feature film is shown. But perhaps considering the long duration of "Titanic" itself, the trailer this time is only five minutes, and the animated logo of the firefly film girl releasing fireflies soon appeared on the screen.

The movie begins with treasure hunter Brock Lovett's treasure hunt expedition to the Titanic, and most viewers are the first to realize that the film uses flashbacks.

Westerners generally have a very strong treasure hunting complex, so this plot did not cause too many people to resent it, and most of the people in the screening room watched it with relish, and almost no one felt that this plot seemed redundant or anything like that.

The gray-haired old Rose appeared on the treasure hunt ship, recalling the dusty past, and when the Titanic's body appeared in the port of Southampton, England, everyone let out a faint exclamation.

Simon Peck, who didn't report any expectations, but just spent time with his girlfriend, couldn't help straightening his back at this time, and said in surprise: "Is this true, it's so surprising, I don't know how it was done." ”

Charlotte was very satisfied with Simon Peck's reaction, and explained with a smile: "It is said that James Cameron completely restored the model of the Titanic on the set of the movie according to the ratio of one to one. ”

Looking at the busy scene of Southampton port perfectly restored by James Cameron on the screen, Simon Peck couldn't help but shake his head and sigh: "No wonder it will cost 215 million US dollars, this money is enough to build a real giant cruise ship." ”

In the next hour, Jack and Rose meet, know each other, and fall in love, the film shows all aspects of the Titanic from the perspective of the two protagonists, the luxury, arrogance, ignorance, and hypocrisy of the first-class aristocrats, and the simplicity, cheerfulness, humor, and optimism of the low-level commoners.

As a veteran movie fan, Charlotte can feel that the emotional drama between Jack and Rose is a little jerky, and many of the plot dialogues in the first half seem completely unnecessary, but with the beautiful scene of Jack and Rose 'flying' on the bow of the boat, and the ensuing crew member on the watchtower after nightfall shouts 'Iceberg, is ahead', the impatience in most people's hearts disappears again, silently waiting for the disaster to come.

Perhaps, no one has noticed that after the film's meticulous depiction of the passengers of all classes on the Titanic, their emotions have been unconsciously controlled by this big ship, knowing that the sinking is inevitable and the disaster will inevitably occur, some viewers still subconsciously look forward to some impossible miracles.

The miracle didn't happen after all.

After hitting the iceberg, the Titanic began to enter the water and entered the countdown to sinking.

The first-class passengers began to evacuate, the civilians in the lower class were abandoned, and the goodness and tolerance, ugliness and despicability of human nature, at this moment of disaster, were shown naked in front of everyone.

If the plot of the sinking of the big ship is still just touching everyone's hearts, the last 20 minutes of the movie will completely turn on the tear-jerking mode.

Listening to Jack's words of encouragement to Rose to live bravely, until she closed her eyes and could no longer speak, and finally sank quietly into the abyss, everyone in the screening room felt a heart-rending pain in their hearts, and this heart-wrenching feeling did not dissipate even after Rose was rescued.

Charlotte had obviously heard a faint sobbing sound in the screening room, and she herself felt tears flowing from the corners of her eyes, wiped them a few times, but couldn't wipe them off, and her body subconsciously leaned towards her boyfriend next to her.

Simon Peck didn't speak, his eyes were red, and he stretched out an arm and quietly hugged his girlfriend.

Until the old Rose returned to the year in a dream, the music at the end of the film sounded, and everyone's emotions did not ease.

After three hours, if it were any other film, perhaps the first reaction of most viewers would have been to get up and leave the cinema in a hurry when the end credits were rising, but this time, no one got up, everyone sat quietly in their seats, and let Celine Dion's weeping and heavenly singing echo in the theater.

Leaving the screening room, the time was already eleven o'clock, the hall of the Paris cinema was still brightly lit, Charlotte leaned softly on Simon Peck, the two hugged each other and walked out, casually looked around, and found that there were many couples with red eyes like them, this situation touched some of Charlotte's nerves, so she couldn't help but pull the corners of her mouth and smile, and then, she began to worry again.

Originally, she didn't have any expectations for "Titanic", but just wanted to purely support the movies that Eric valued, but at this time, she realized that the media that criticized "Titanic" before were simply talking nonsense, although there are some flaws, but there is no doubt that this is a very good movie, and it definitely shouldn't be treated in the cold now, and it should never be.

Making up her mind, Simon Peck drove her back to her apartment in Midtown, although her boyfriend had some expectation in his eyes, Charlotte still refused her boyfriend's wish to stay overnight tonight, and sent her boyfriend away with a gentle word, Charlotte returned to her apartment, picked up the cordless phone and dialed the phone of her good friend Alice, who was in Colorado's hometown, and turned on the computer in the living room.

"Hey, Alice, have you gone to see Titanic?" The phone was connected, Charlotte was operating the computer mouse, while getting straight to the point, and said a few words over there, Charlotte couldn't wait: "No, you must watch this movie, definitely, this is definitely a great movie, do you remember the New York Times's comment on "Titanic" some time ago, I can tell you with great certainty now that this is indeed a masterpiece comparable to "Gone with the Wind". ”

The two exchanged and hung up the phone, and Charlotte's eyes turned to the computer screen, and she had opened the discussion area of the Yahoo Forum dedicated to "Titanic".

At this time, the discussion area is also hot, unlike the media who unanimously expressed their decline without even watching the film, most of the people in the Yahoo "Titanic" discussion area are viewers who have watched the film, and the reactions of this group of people are more real and intuitive.

"Oh my God, I actually cried for such a bloody movie, oh my God, this shouldn't be true. ”

"Rose is so beautiful, why haven't I heard of this actress named Rachel Weisz, do you know what movies she has acted in?"

"The ending song is so good, and, have you noticed, that song was written by Eric Williams himself. ”

"I've bought tickets for tomorrow night and I'm going to watch it again. ”

"The shot of Jack and Rose standing at the bow of the boat is so dreamy, I really want to collect such a poster, I wonder if the fireflies will come out like this in the future, well, maybe I can sneak in with my camera next time and take a picture. ”

"Take two shots, give me one. ”

"Take three shots, give me one. ”

"Take four shots, give me one. ”

“……”

Charlotte browsed the posts on the page, she was also impressed by the beautiful shot of Jack and Rose flying on the bow of the boat, noticed the above theme, so she tapped into it, looked at the neat replies below, couldn't help but smile, looked at the number of replies and playfully typed out a few words on the keyboard: "Take a hundred and nine, give me one." ”

Exiting the topic and returning to the main page, Charlotte roughly skimmed through the posts on the previous pages, most of them praised "Titanic", and some posts criticizing the film caused a one-sided crusade from fans.

After sorting out her thoughts a little, Charlotte hit the development post page and began to consider her own viewing feelings, although she did not have the talent to write film reviews, but at this time, she still wanted more people to know how good this movie is, and no one should miss it.

"Before watching the film, I also had doubts about the three-hour length of the film, and I didn't understand why Firefly would let James Cameron make a commercial blockbuster like this. ”

"However, at this point, I suddenly understood a lot of things, every minute of this movie is indispensable, and although the shipwreck scene is only a third of the whole movie, James Cameron has created a kind of perfection for us." You're there's the atmosphere, through more than an hour of panoramic display of the scenery of various characters on the ship after the Titanic, will bring us back to the epic giant ship of the year, and unconsciously immersed in it, so when the disaster comes, we will also experience the life and death and joys and sorrows of all the characters in the film more delicately and profoundly, which is why many people will be deeply moved after watching the film. ”

The disaster scene in the second half of the film is even more impressive, Jack's simple and sincere farewell is tear-jerking, and Rose's eyes looking at the sky are even more distressing. ”

"The handsome Leonardo DiCaprio and the beautiful Rachel Weisz gave us very wonderful performances, they are both very good actors, especially the natural aristocratic temperament of Rachel Weisz, which makes people wonder if she was originally from an English aristocratic family. ”

"Finally, the song, 'My Heart Forever', Celine Dion's natural singing voice is intoxicating, and I even think that Eric Williams is only for this song to spare no effort to support James Cameron's squandering budget to create a perfect, sad dream. ”

"I can't give more praise for this film, I just sincerely hope that everyone will give up the prejudice that the media has caused this film before, go into the cinema, and believe me, you will definitely not be disappointed. ”

After checking the general, clicking to send the post out, Charlotte refreshed it a few times, and a series of echoing replies soon appeared under the topic.

At this time, the entire United States, after watching "Titanic", was deeply fascinated by it and couldn't wait to recommend it to others, Charlotte was far from the only one.

With the large-scale release of "Titanic", a large number of North American media no longer grasped the topic of the film's high budget, but turned its attention to the quality of the film itself.

While the movie was spread by word of mouth among fans who had watched it, the word-of-mouth of the movie also began to pick up.

"First of all, I want to admit that I went to this film with a strong bias, and I always felt that Hollywood had gone crazy with investing in big-budget films. Although I still hold this view after watching this movie, I have to say that James Cameron is really a genius, "Titanic" is almost harsh in the details of the perfect restoration of everything about this giant ship, and brings us a deep and tragic love story. ”

"The so-called tragedy is to break the perfect thing to show people, James Cameron spent three hours to do this vividly, but at the same time, he did not take away all our hopes, in the film, the details of the life of the elderly Rose, those photos, the tank of goldfish, are showing us her deep love for life. ”

“……”

Long Island, in Southampton Manor.

Eric ignored the various changes in the outside world's attitude towards "Titanic" and spent the upcoming Christmas with the woman and the children with peace of mind.

It's just that on the white clipboard in the study, there is an extra number every day.

19th: $1,560,000 (midnight session)

No. 20: $8.65 million.

No. 21: $9.67 million.

No. 22: $9.3 million.

In the first three days of the opening weekend, "Titanic" accumulated a total of $29.18 million at the box office. (To be continued.) )