Of course, there are a lot of cold water, and many people pointed out that "The Undertaker" was only released on 7 screens, and the Chinese audience alone was enough to make the movie full, so this kind of achievement is not worth showing off. [Full text reading]

When Gu Xiaofan saw such a report, he was dismissive, and just said to York, the distribution manager in charge of distribution: "Don't expand too much in the second week, just show it on 150 screens." ”

York was stunned when he heard this, thinking that originally we only planned to expand to 70 screens, but it would be better for you to go up to 150 screens...... He also said not to expand too much......

However, York didn't refute it, just said okay, after all, Gu Xiaofan paid for publicity, and Lionsgate just cooperated, even if the box office was not good, they had nothing to lose.

After Gu Xiaofan determined the number of screens in the second week, he was wondering if he could see the results in a week just by relying on the support of Chinese audiences.

In the second week, it was screened on 150 screens, and Lionsgate was somewhat apprehensive, and the original intention of "The Undertaker" was only for a niche group of people who love art films, and they thought that the large-scale release might not necessarily be good.

Just when Lionsgate's distribution department was still discussing whether 150 screens was too much, as soon as the box office figures for the second week came out, they were jaw-dropping again, and the data they received was simply unbelievable, 150 screens, and a box office of $10.75 million!

This means that when "The Undertaker" was released on 150 screens, a single screen still reached more than $10,000 a day!

The publishers inside Lionsgate were scared.

And when this news spread to China, it was like a fried pot, you must know that although this week's $10 million is not too amazing, it is already the best box office for domestic films in the United States this year!

This result has squeezed into the tenth place in the weekly box office list in North America, and even squeezed out the equally highly rated literary film "Seven Pounds".

In addition to Gu Xiaofan being very calm, inside Shangying, He Tiejun and others were already stunned, they didn't expect that Gu Xiaofan's literary film would perform so well at the box office in North America, which is already 70 million yuan......

And looking at the momentum, a single screen has almost reached a 90% attendance rate, "The Undertaker" is not just a momentary limelight, but also an increasingly fierce trend, it is hard to imagine why a literary film will achieve such a good box office.

At this moment, even the Big Six Hollywood players felt a little caught off guard, they didn't expect that a movie that had been suppressed by them without sound could burst out with such energy.

You must know that this is an oriental theme that is completely unfamiliar to American audiences, the undertaker? I'm afraid the Americans haven't even heard of it.

Where did they think that within Catholicism and Christianity in the United States, they already have great respect for this film and have developed great enthusiasm.

What they didn't expect was that this movie greatly attracted the religious crowd, and many church priests and nuns organized the congregation to watch it.

In the United States, the burial of the deceased is carried out by the clergy of the church in cooperation with the funeral company.

But in this commercial society, the United States is less and less concerned about the burial, and many funeral companies are extremely rude in the treatment of the dead, which also causes the dissatisfaction of the church clergy.

But the priests and nuns did not know how to demand that funeral companies everywhere should treat the deceased in this way, and there was neither a law nor a guideline.

But as soon as "The Undertaker" came out, the clergy suddenly realized, it turns out that the process of burial can be so beautiful and artistic? With such a sense of ceremony, the whole process is full of warmth and sacredness. ：

This is completely in line with the process of going to heaven after the death of a Christian person, and now the priests do not find the answer in the Bible, but it is actually in the Eastern culture.

On the cover of the North American Catholic Weekly Journal, Archbishop Robert Fein personally wrote the headline:

"The sense of ritual of the clergy, the Chinese in "The Undertaker" are gentle with the world." In a long article calling on the clergy across the country to watch the film, the archbishop reprinted a letter from a congregation.

"In this film, Kobayashi, who has a cowardly personality and is always timid, is also accused of 'making money from the dead' when he walks into the home of the deceased. But when his hands gently grasped the hands of the deceased, caressed their cheeks and foreheads, wiped their bodies, put on stockings for the grandmother, combed the hair of his son, and lit lipstick for his wife, the bereaved people knew that they had entrusted the people they loved most to someone they could trust.

It reminds me of my father, who passed away when I was a child, my father was bedridden for ten years, and for the last three years, he lay there with tubes all over his body, being carried around and turned around, and I was a priest, but there was nothing I could do about it.

It was only 13 years old, and I always hoped that people could treat him gently, but you know that you can't do anything, you are not a doctor, not a nurse, not a clergyman, God has made us not to pick on others, but in this world, roughness is the way most ordinary people treat others, we are treated roughly, and then we are rough with others, it seems to have become a cycle, most people have become numb and unconscious. So, in a world where even the living cannot be treated gently, let alone respect for the dead.?

Although Kobayashi in the film is not a priest, he is as kind as a child, gentle and can treat everyone equally and equally, no matter how they die.

There is such a gentle person in my heart, what a rare treasure in this cold world.

While watching the movie, I cried and thought that if it was my father, it would be great if I could also ask Kobayashi to help, gently hold his hand, and walk the last road. On the poster of "The Undertaker", there is a sentence that says: the, gift, ofthe, last, memories.

And my last memory of my father is the memory of so many rough and greedy faces, which is so bad that I rarely remember it. How lucky I am to meet someone like Kobayashi. It illuminates the memories of the living and is indeed a gift from God.

As an American, I live in a world where everyone treats each other roughly, and Jesus Base can't wash away the sins of this land.

Although I will eventually return to God's arms, in this life where I have never been treated gently, there is still the softest part of my heart, which grows in the body of the person I love. The people I have loved so much, how I hope that you can be treated gently by this world, even when you are gone, you can have a pair of hands and hold each other gently......

I hope that all the clergy in the United States can be like Li Xiaolin in "The Undertaker", and treat everyone who has passed away gently, instead of leaving without dignity at the end like my father. ”