When the Quake family watched "Titanic" in the cinema, the hero and heroine of the movie, Johnny. Depp and Monica. Bellucci is also in another cinema. Also on the road was Johnny's fiancée, Lori. Allison, and Nicholas, a sworn friend. Cage.

For Wang Zi did not arrange a premiere, Johnny. Depp regretted that in order to understand the audience's reaction to his film for the first time, he brought a few friends in.

Monica had seen the entire film as early as the test screening and is now sitting in the screening room, her attention entirely on the audience around her.

"Titanic" began, and Wang Zijun changed the appearance time of the story to the 80s, not 1997. A salvage ship fishes out the portrait of the heroine Rose from the bottom of the sea, and then tells the story buried at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean through the mouth of the old Rose.

In the beginning, the reaction was not great. Quake is even in the mood to laugh with his girlfriend, but as the plot unfolds, their attention is focused on the screen.

The story is very cliché, a poor boy with some talents, who wins a ticket by gambling and boards a luxury cruise ship, meets a high-class daughter like a canary in a cage.

It can be said that the first hour of the whole movie can only be regarded as decent, and the only thing to see is the luxurious ship, the beautiful heroine and the realistic movie special effects.

Quake and his girlfriend are just ordinary students and don't have too high requirements for movies, and the blandness, fun, and warmth of the first third of "Titanic" are just right for them, just right for them to be a Christmas pastime.

And Steve, a film critic who also stayed in the cinema, didn't think so, he was very much looking forward to Wang Zijun's $200 million movie, but now he watched it for an hour, although the film is not bad, but there is nothing particularly outstanding.

I hope there will be surprises later! Steve thought that if the movie was just what it is now, then not to mention the box office of $1 billion, even 500 million would be enough.

In this case, the happiest person is naturally Godwin, a reporter for the Los Angeles Metropolis Daily. Since he made a bet with Wang Zijun, he has become famous all over the world, and the newspaper has raised his salary twice in a year in order to keep him.

If he wins again, Godwin will have another good time.

As the plot of the movie unfolds little by little, Johnny is in the screening room when Jack paints a nude portrait of Rose. Depp's expression began to become unnatural. Because his fiancée was next to him, and Monica, who appeared naked, was sitting on the other side of him.

Monica's face was reddish in the dimly lit screening room, her first appearance naked. Although the scene was cleared during the shooting, Monica still couldn't let go, and her skin was so nervous that she got goosebumps, and she had to take it off several times before finishing the shooting.

The hero and heroine are passionate in a car in the ship's warehouse, and many of the audience in the screening room let out ambiguous "oh" screams, and some couples even hugged each other and kissed.

Until the iceberg appeared, the warm picture that lasted for more than an hour finally ended.

Through the characters' dialogues, facial expressions, and various changes and hints in the soundtrack and the brightness of the picture, the atmosphere and rhythm of the whole film become tense, and this tension further affects the audience.

"Zachary's control of the tempo is more subtle and powerful." Steve sighed, already looking forward to the next episode.

Then, after the ship began to sink into the water, people reacted very differently when they were in danger. The ugliness and kindness of the surname are particularly prominent at this moment, which makes most of the audience begin to fall silent.

And the actor who was tortured in the cabin also made the audience worried. When Rose went through the hardships of cutting Jack's handcuffs with a fire axe, the audience in the major movie theaters finally cheered after a period of depression and tension.

But that was just the beginning, the bow of the ship began to sink and the passengers were in chaos. The designer of the big ship who felt guilty and did not want to escape, the captain who blamed himself and waited for death in the captain's room, the aristocratic lord who died a noble and dignified death, and the ordinary passengers who tried every possible way to get on the ship...... In the midst of the chaos, a few musicians were playing beautiful music on the deck in great peace, and when they should have escaped, a few of them turned back with their instruments when the sky burst into brilliant fireworks.

"Gentlemen, it has been a pleasure to work with you!" The violinist smiled and saluted his partners.

"Woo woo woo ......" is just such a very ordinary sentence, but the female surname in the theater couldn't help but cover her mouth and cry.

One end of the big ship begins to fall into the sea, and the huge hull breaks from it, and the process of breaking is so clearly presented in front of the audience that they are shocked to experience the disaster.

On the deck, which was about to capsize, the passengers knelt on the priest's hand, and pious prayers came from the priest's mouth. They are all going to die, but at the last moment of death, they have already forgotten everything and do not move their prayers, which is very different from the half-heartedness of the nobles who sing hymns in the luxurious auditorium soon after the film begins.

With the appearance of a very impactful picture, more and more audiences crying in major movie theaters, even some viewers with male surnames feel moist in their eyes and feel extremely uncomfortable.

When Jack gave up the only plank to Rose, and he lay on the board to hold Rose's hand, asking her to live strongly, some of the audience members who were still holding back tears finally burst into tears.

Quake's little girlfriend was sobbing in his arms, crying and looking at the big screen. Behind him, Quake's parents held each other's hands, both trembling slightly.

Except for the low sip, there was no other sound from the audience in the theater, they were so depressed and uncomfortable that they didn't have the heart to say anything.

No one thinks about the budget of this movie anymore, and no one cares about Wang Zijun's bet with reporters anymore, they only stay in the theater, praying that the hero and heroine will survive in the end.

But the reality is cruel, when the lifeboat returns, Rose calls Jack's name over and over again, but there is no response.

The audience knows that Jack is dead!

At the end of the film, the elderly Rose lies on the bed and gradually falls asleep. In her dream, the Titanic, which had long been decaying at the bottom of the sea, was as bright as new, and the passengers who had died in shipwrecked appeared in front of her vividly. Walking down the hall, she saw her Jack turn around and smile and reach out to her. Rose and Jack hugged each other, as she had been a girl, and the passengers smiled and applauded them...... In the dream, everything is so beautiful. Viewers with a little experience, when they see Rose's dream, the sadness and discomfort in their hearts are even stronger than seeing Jack's death.

The movie theater was already crying, and the song of "My Heart Remains" was sung. In the face of minutes-long subtitles, the audience was reluctant to get up and leave for a long time, and they were all immersed in the sad singing and the plot of the movie.

Steve stood up in despair, applauded with the rest of the audience, and was pushed out of the screening room by the crowd. He is in his fifties this year, and "Titanic" reminds him of his first love "Qingren" when he was a teenager, evoking memories that he has buried in his heart for many years.

After leaving the movie theater and being blown by the cold wind on the street, Steve came to his senses. A couple walked by him, and the girl was wiping tears and crying, and asked the boy, "I_jump, do_you_jump?"

The boy hugged the girl, nodded and said, "you_jump, I_jump!" ”

Steve wiped the corners of his moist eyes, took a taxi home, and wrote down the first line of his film review: "No matter how much "Titanic" box office is, Zachary must be rewritten first. The king brought a great movie to mankind......"

Outside the major movie theaters, there was a shocking scene, and crying audiences could be seen everywhere at the entrance of the theater.

People discussed the plot of the movie, scolded the villain Carl, scolded the indifferent passengers who refused to go back to save people, and finally simply scolded the director and screenwriter for letting Jack die.

The editors-in-chief of major entertainment publications were woken up in the middle of the night and listened to their subordinates describe the grand occasion of the release of "Titanic".

And to the delight of the major theater managers, the next morning, many audiences who were recommended by friends or wanted to watch it for the second time bought tickets to watch "Titanic".

Just the day after its release, "Titanic" caused a sensation, with people vying to recommend it to their loved ones or families to go into theaters together.

Hollywood's top publication, The Hollywood Reporter, no longer skimps on its praise, calling "Titanic" a "great and classic work".

And "Variety", which has never said much good things about Wang Zijun, also gave his own positive evaluation at this time: "Zachary has opened a new era of film. ”

The theaters were full for many days, which made major theaters continue to increase the canvas of "Titanic", and some small films were withdrawn in advance because of this.

Soon the first-week box office statistics were out, and the first-week box office in the United States reached as much as $35 million.

In the parallel space, the box office of the 97 version of "Titanic" was $28.6 million in the first week, compared to the box office of Wang Zijun's movie, which can be described as a great success.

Especially the difference in release time by more than ten years, you can't directly compare numbers with numbers. In 1997, night movie tickets in the United States were a little more than $7, and intermittent movies were about $3; And now in 1983, the ticket price of American movies was close to $5 for night screenings, and less than $2 for intervals.

In other words, the box office of "Titanic" in the first week, if converted to the ticket price in 1997, is at least more than 40 million US dollars.

The biggest reason for this situation is that the release time of the 97 version is in the spring file, and Wang Zijun is now released in the Christmas file, and more audiences come out to watch the movie during the holiday.

(To be continued)