Theorod's vacation on Tortola Island and his encounter with Christian Bale were already in the second week of "Fight Club" release, and the news at this time did not spread around the world as fast as it did in the 21st century, so Theorod did not know the reaction to "Fight Club" in the United States in the second week.

Many media outlets, as well as Theolod fans, saw this as a blessing and a consolation for him, because he would not be affected by the flood of film reviews and the shocking box office.

At least that's what they think, after all, in the second week, the reaction to "Fight Club" gradually turned a shocking reversal, and many people regarded it as the Waterloo of the previous week's box office winner.

Why? Perhaps it's more intuitive to use data as an explanation.

Last week, "Fight Club", which was released in 2,876 theaters, sold 31.58 million at the box office in three days, which is equivalent to a box office of more than 10 million in one day, and the attendance rate almost reached more than 75%.

On the first day of the week, it was also broadcast in 2,876 theaters, and the box office at the end of the day was only a little over 9 million. If you take out the 9 million single-day box office and look at it separately, maybe this number is still relatively good, and most movies can't dream of receiving 9 million box office in one day.

However, if you compare the 9 million results with the previous three days, it is a bit unsightly. Under normal circumstances, a movie's weekly box office performance will be parabolic, with the first two weeks, or the first three weeks, rising gratifyingly, and then gradually declining. Even if the box office on the first day of the second week did not rise, it had to be at least the same as the previous week. The result? "Fight Club" did not rise, but fell by 1 million.

What's more, this is still when the film company made half of the cost in three days after seeing the box office hit in the first week, so it expanded by 300 theaters in the second week, and 3,176 theaters were screened!

Seeing this result, most people, including the producers, didn't take it to heart. They waved their hands indifferently and comforted themselves: it's okay, it's okay, it's a Monday, not a weekend, of course there are fewer people watching movies, and 9 million is also a good number, isn't it? The occasional ups and downs in the box office are nothing, and they will definitely rise back the next day!

They never dreamed that the next day, instead of rising back, the box office would fall again! Reduced to 6.23 million! In one day, nearly 3 million box office evaporated in an instant! This is not over, the box office broke through a new low again on the third day, becoming 4.38 million!

If the producers were indifferent to the 1 million missing on the first day, then the next deflated ball and the rapidly decreasing box office made them have to face up to this reality - "Fight Club" dramatically hit Waterloo after winning the first game!

This left them completely dumbfounded by the cult movie fans who supported Fight Club. What's going on? In the first three days, the growth was gratifying, and it went straight to the sky, which made people flutter, but in the next three days, they fell off the cliff and fell to pieces? No, didn't the audience like the movie in the first week?

At this time, the suppressed opposition was finally able to "see the light of day", and they celebrated with their crowns, almost holding a loudspeaker and shouting all over the world: How is it? We're right! "Fight Club" is a garbage movie that is not nutritious and deliberately showcased! You used to worship so badly that you suppressed our "exhortations", why are you silent now? The data speaks for itself, and the truth is always in the hands of a few!

After a sample survey of the audience who had watched "Fight Club", the "Los Angeles Times" gave this explanation: "Last week's hit thriller movie "Fight Club" suffered a dramatic Waterloo this week, and this newspaper interviewed some random viewers for such a big leap at the box office, and finally found the reason. ”

It is understood that more than 70% of the audience who watched "Fight Club" last week were fans of cult movies or starring in them, some of them were to support David Fincher, and some of them bought movie tickets specifically for Theo Rod Lecht or Edward Norton. In a way, Twentieth Century Fox's propaganda work is very good, or Lecht has once again exerted his 'magic', as a guarantee of the quality of his acting skills, he has made many ordinary audiences willing to pay to go to the cinema to experience it. ”

However, this phenomenon did not last long, and the subject matter and filming methods of "Fight Club" were destined to satisfy the appetite of a very small part of the population. Despite David Fincher's suspense-making approach, despite its innovative approach, and despite the efforts of many cult fans to sell to the general public around them, people will get tired of it as soon as this trendy sense of setting dies when Fight Club enters public life. ”

"Men thought they could see great fights, but the action scenes in the film were too few to deserve the film's name; The women thought they would see the charm of the two men, Lecht and Norton, but it hurt their hearts to see Lechte, who was bruised and swollen and covered in blood. ”

And some similar comments have gradually increased-

"I couldn't understand the movie, but I didn't want to watch it a second time. I mean, Theorod has good acting and Edward has good acting, but this movie struck me as too dull. IMDB netizen Elena 1980.

"Aside from a brief moment at the end when I was taken aback by who Taylor was, I didn't understand what David Fincher was trying to say." IMDB netizens in Toronto.

"My buddies recommended this movie to me one after another, and I went to watch it because the two leading actors were acting skills. Now I'm a little confused, why do many critics say that this movie is good? I think I'll have to watch their film and analyze it. ”

"Waste of time."

“……”

Seeing the reversal of the evaluation, at this time, Sean Thorpe was finally able to jump out and let out a vicious breath. He took out the vicious vision and literacy of a professional film critic and criticized it: "After the incredible three-day box office last week, and the box office data trend that has finally returned to the normal trend in the past few days, I want to say that I finally have the opportunity to tear off the sugar coating wrapped by some film critics for a wider group of ordinary audiences, so that the public can correctly understand "Fight Club", instead of being misled by others." Maybe a lot of people like it, but by no means I am included. ”

"I don't know if you have noticed such a pattern, that is, Theolod Recht's movie characters are particularly fond of pretending to be knowledgeable, whether it is Allen who is clever at the beginning, or the bunny boy who pretends to be a bystander, or John who 'I know everything I have for God and God', Kevin, they seem to be able to give the audience an illusion of 'character complexity'. The same goes for Taylor here, who even sells this flaunting to the top. ”

"To that, I want to say, Taylor, Lecht, you're overdoing it. Pretending to be clever once in a while can really add points to the character, but when the character makes the audience think throughout, it becomes a kind of boredom. What's more, until the end, the film failed to meet the minimum standard of serving the general public - telling a story clearly. ”

"This cannot fail to mention David Fincher. Finch does have extraordinary suspense shaping skills, but he uses his ability too hard to tell stories and impose philosophical propositions, and the consequence of using too much force is that when the audience is still thinking about the plot of the movie in a daze, when they look up, the movie is over. Making Edward Norton the narrator of the whole film is a clever trick on Fincher's part, but unfortunately this cleverness is of the same nature as Theorod's disguised depth, and he makes the whole story too verbose and trivial. ”

"But, I have to admit that this is a very good MTV commercial, yes, that's right, a commercial, a 139-minute commercial, and Twentieth Century Fox should have let Fight Club compete for the Moby Advertising Award, not for the Venice International Film Festival."

"Finch thought a 'non-mainstream' film would get a tidal wave of acclaim, but no matter how deep and mysterious he and his co-stars made the film seem, it didn't change that it was a horrific story with no sense of accountability, but in some ways it did fit the 'thriller' qualify, and I don't think there was any point in a film that advocated violence and anarchism."

As soon as Shawn Thorpe's film review came out, it completely became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and for a while, the evaluation of "Fight Club" plummeted, and many film critics came out to support Shawn Thorpe, including some film critics who wrote praise or maintained a neutral attitude with the crowd at the beginning.

Sean became the most popular popular film critic, and he was happy to find that he had finally made it through, and he finally saw the day when Theolod was unlucky - he often stood by the river without getting his shoes wet, and when he stepped into Hollywood, he was destined to have the experience of acting in bad movies, and this is the best time to beat the water dogs.

I heard that Ms. Cyan Chafen, one of the producers of "Fight Club" and who originally chose Theolod to play Taylor, regretted her decision very much at the moment, and she thought that maybe if Brad Pitt had been used instead of Theorod at the beginning, this situation might not have happened at this moment.

What's more, at this moment, that Lecht doesn't know which remote island to stay on, and he can't defend himself when he's not in the country, even God is on his side Sean Thorpe! Maybe that kid chose to go abroad for a vacation at this time, because he met a field like today, and ran out to hide from the limelight.

Doesn't he only have one animation dubbing job now? Very well, according to the trend of "Fight Club", Theolod Lecht will not be able to get any good jobs in the next year or even longer! Sean Thorpe thought about it and came to this conclusion - the reason why Theolod has not received a live-action movie until now is because he realizes that his acting skills have exhausted his acting skills in the bottleneck period, so he is timidly avoiding them, otherwise according to his workaholic character, how can he be willing not to act in movies for so long? At this time in previous years, he had finished acting in a movie!

If Herman knew what Sean Thorpe thought, he probably wouldn't hesitate to smear this guy in the face - I heard you're complaining about his patients for thinking he's acting too little? He even thinks he's acting too much! According to his temper, this damn clown dubbing shouldn't be answered, shouldn't be answered!

But now it's not a question of what Herman thinks, but what Marshall thinks. When he saw the release version of "Fight Club" for the first time, he realized that this may be a film that will not be accepted by the public in a short period of time, and it can achieve unexpectedly good results in the premiere because of the reputation of the director and the star, especially his reputation of Theorod, but reputation does not mean everything, and three days later, Cinderella was beaten back to its original state.

So Theorod, who was about to arrive in Puerto Rico, received a call from Marshall. Before, because he was still at sea, he couldn't get through to call him, and at the moment his yacht was almost eight kilometers away from the port of Puerto Rico, and the mobile phone had a signal, and Marshall finally found him, but Marshall didn't expect that when his works and acting skills were denied, Theolod would react like this-

"Well, and then what?"

‘…… What do you mean by "um, then what"?! Theolod Lecht, do you understand what is going on? ’

"Got it, isn't it just that the general public is finally reacting and realizing that they don't like Fight Club? To be honest, they took a bit of a long time to react. Theolod held his phone in one hand and the helm in the other, like a business giant talking leisurely about business.

His voice was so leisurely that Marshall listened to it as if it had wounded cotton in a circle, and it hurt him very much: 'So, you knew it would be like this?' ’

"When I acted in this movie, I knew that they wouldn't like it for a short time, and it was for a few people. And I, when I'm just interpreting Taylor, try to make them 'dislike' Taylor and this movie even more, because I like Taylor and Fight Club like that. ”

‘…… What about your acting skills? I'm sure you always have something to say, if you don't want to come back early, if you have anything to say, I can convey it to you. ’

"Questioning acting?" Theorod raised an eyebrow and replied with a simple tone word from Marshall, "Oh." ”

This tone word is full of the master's disdain and arrogance, Marshall thought that Theorod could respond a few words tactfully, but he didn't expect the other party to just snort extremely arrogantly, as if he was too lazy to deal with those jumping clowns, this response directly made Marshall choke enough - although Theorod was sarcastic about those who questioned him, but why did he feel that he was also ridiculed by him?

Seriously, after facing the gentle and warm male Theolod for a long time, he almost forgot how proud and self-respecting this child is.

"Well, my dear Mr. agent, don't worry, you have to know how much they don't like Fight Club today, and how much they will love this movie in the future. Besides, even if they don't like it, what does it matter to me? I just like it. ”

Marshall, who was on the same team as Theorod, felt like he had been hit hard when he heard this.

Theolod hung up leisurely, picked up his champagne glass and toasted very cheerfully, he didn't think the call was anything special, but the others didn't seem to think so. Given that the sea was quite quiet, and the yacht was not very large, Theolod had listened to what he had just said, and as soon as he finished drinking champagne, he looked up and saw the whole ship staring at him with embarrassed expressions.

“what？ Oh, sorry, forgot to say rs. Theolod picked up the empty glass and gestured.

“…… At least you've piqued my interest in going to the cinema to see Fight Club right now. Bell smiled to lighten the mood. 166 Reading Network