You must know that the popular writer Jin He Zai's version of "The Legend of Wukong" completely blackened the heavenly court and the immortals, and set them up as the biggest conspirators in the world of Supo, while Li Xiaole's adaptation seems to be relatively neutral, using a completely different way to show Sun Wukong, and the ending can even be said to be open, which allows everyone to have all kinds of imagination, and in the end, the plot of the movie is very reasonable in that direction.

When Li Xiaole accepted everyone's congratulations, Todd Hardy came over and shook his hand excitedly and said: "Director Li, I'm very happy, you can use the film to criticize your country's system and advocate democracy and freedom, which is really admirable." ”

And Todd Hardy just finished praising it, California Governor Swarzenegger squeezed through the crowd, came over a little helplessly and shook his head and patted Li Xiaole's shoulder, persuading him: "Director Li, you are a world-class director, how can you use movies to satirize the US government?" Anything that has to do with politics is very bad for films, and what you have to shoot in the future must stay in California, otherwise in other states, I'm afraid that those Republican state governments will embarrass you. ”

Han Sanpin, who was next to him, was also confused when he heard it, and asked Li Xiaole curiously next to him: "Is the Heavenly Palace in your movie alluding to the government of that country?" "He was very afraid that Li Xiaole was politically incorrect, which was very dangerous.

"Wu Chengen is satirizing which government, and I am alluding to which government." Li Xiaole said with a chic smile.

Han Sanpin was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then laughed and hugged Li Xiaole's shoulder: "Well said, don't care about him so much, a movie is a movie, let those people guess for themselves." ”

The prefaces of various editions of Journey to the West published by the People's Publishing House in China all say: "This novel is an exposure and criticism of the ugly feudal social reality." ”

In the final analysis, no matter who thinks that they are right, they all think that they are right, and others are evil, whether it is autocracy, democracy, or even Islamic fanatics, they will think that they should be Sun Wukong, and Heavenly Court is their ugly opponent.

But these are all conjectures in the eyes of artists who are transparent to human nature, they all just want to find their own sense of identity in the subject matter of the movie, and great works often show people to see through these false illusions of struggle, so that people can finally reconcile, whether it is the heavenly court or the demon clan, after a big war, can they come up with a peaceful and beneficial way to coexist? That's what people should think about.

The havoc in the Heavenly Palace of "The Legend of the Great Sage" is not the end of the story, but the beginning~~

Saying goodbye to the hustle and bustle, Li Xiaole sat in the car home, Lei Ting and Ha Zhiyuan sat on his left side, both of them were already asleep unconsciously leaning on his shoulder, they were too tired during this time, Li Xiaole heard Ha Zhiyuan muttering in his dream: "Wukong...... Wukong...... Come back. But Lei Ting gritted her teeth in her dream and said: "Little bastard......" couldn't help caressing their hair, and she closed her eyes and slowly fell asleep.

In the dream, he floated in mid-air, like the Monkey King During the swim, he met many people, the one who used to squat in the corner and helpless himself, the old father in "Life Remote Control", and Xu Sanduo in the Seventh Company of Gang...... and Zhang Mazi who was wiping a gun in the train......

In the end, he went through various images, and vaguely saw a white-haired old man in ancient costume, who was standing on the wooden table in front of the candle, writing a book with a brush bundle, and the name of Sun Wukong on it, the old man smiled and took his hand over, and the two talked together at night with candles.

"Wow!!" "Scared~!" In his sleep, Li Xiaole was suddenly awakened by two screams, sat up suddenly, looked at Ha Zhiyuan who was wiping saliva next to him, and Lei Ting who was caressing his chest in shock, and asked curiously: "What's the matter, you have nightmares?" ”

"I dreamed of Wu Chengen just now!" The two were shocked and said in unison.

"Ah...... Did you dream about it too? Li Xiaole was stunned when he heard this.

The three of them looked at each other for a long time, and when they saw the other two scaring and stupid looks, they suddenly felt very funny, and they couldn't help but laugh out loud~~

"I just came back from the midnight scene of the theater, and today is really enjoyable, "The Legend of the Great Sage" is simply amazing~!" "You must go and see "Avatar", and I guarantee that after you watch it, you will feel that the previous movies are weak." "I just finished watching Inception and I dare say it's the best film of the year!! There is no one!! ”

On this snowy Christmas, every fan who returned home was the first to express their joy online, because they all felt like they had seen the best movie of the century.

Looking at the ratings for "The Legend of the Great Sage", "Avatar" and "Inception", now all the pages are full of bright red tomatoes, and the three movies have received more than 200 film reviews, and the public freshness is 96, 95, and 97 respectively, which can be described as equal, and the fans of the three major directors can't wait to announce the victory of their idols.

"Nolan won this time in "Inception", and I don't think there is any suspense."

"Those who haven't seen Avatar yet probably won't understand how epoch-making this movie is, and I suggest that everyone should go and see this movie and then rate the other two movies, James Cameron is the real god of cinema."

"I guarantee that as long as you are a movie fan, after watching "The Legend of the Great Sage", you will have a feeling of 'hearing the Tao, and you can die at night', because Li Xiaole has indeed made a movie that you can die without regrets after watching it!"

Looking at the box office on the first day, the three films, "The Legend of the Great Sage" were unveiled in 3,452 theaters in North America, with an average of about $21,150 per theater, and received a premiere box office of about $71 million. "Avatar" is 71.54 million, and "Inception" is 69.87 million US dollars, these three movie data are unprecedented and broke the highest world premiere record in the history of "non-sequel movies" at the same time!

And the power of these three film groups also made the single-day box office sum of the top 10 on the North American unification list exceed the 300 million mark for the first time! broke the single-day record of 2.5 billion for the top 10 box office totals of 2.5 billion when they were released at the same time in the summer of this year.

On the opening day, it seemed that the three were evenly matched, all of them had huge box office potential, and the critics only watched one of them on the first day, and they all gave their respective reviews of the movies to great praise, and in the case that almost everyone did not watch all three movies, there has been a wave of rating votes on the Internet about who is the final winner of this "Battle of the Three Kings", and fans from all sides can be described as entangled.

In North America and Europe, the support of the three directors is equal, but once this vote is expanded to the world, the voting results are all one-sided, and Li Xiaole's support will get at least 70% or more, which makes many European and American film critics very helpless.

It's like after Yao Ming logs in the NBA, as long as it is an All-Star Game vote, he will lead all the way, because there are too many people in the Chinese......

However, for the final box office of the three films, many authoritative film critics still gave their own predictions, whether there is no doubt that "The Legend of the Great Sage" is the highest premiere box office among all Li Xiaole's films, many critics who have not seen this movie have given a forecast of "at least 400 million box office in North America and 700 million in the world." ”

For the other two films, film critics have roughly given this similar evaluation, but now everyone has not figured out the situation, and it belongs to the stage of blind people touching elephants.

Of course, this prediction is quite conservative, and there are still many people who still think that these three movies have the potential to win one billion at the global box office, but in the end there are different opinions on who will come out on top, most people who have not watched "The Legend of the Great Sage" are very optimistic about "Avatar" and "Inception", the reason is very simple, because these two movies may be James Cameron, and Nolan's best works, and "The Legend of the Great Sage" is also very good, but after all, it is a Chinese theme, and there is a bottleneck in the world's predominantly white film world.

You must know that this is different from the different characteristics of "Youth Pi" against "The Dark Knight", from the perspective of the subject matter, "The Legend of the Great Sage" and "Avatar" and even "Inception" are all real A-level mainstream blockbusters, and they are real head-on shocks, in this case, Li Xiaole must be slightly unfavorable.

Fred and Charlie, the presidents of the British Council, who were guests at Todd Hardy's house, also asked their old friends about this question: "Hardy, do you think it is possible that any of these three movies will be able to make a billion dollars at the global box office?" ”

"Billion?" Todd Hardy shook his head with a complicated expression, and took a deep breath: "I think there is a good chance that there will be the first $2 billion movie in the world this time......"

"$2 billion? Haha, I haven't seen Hardy in years, you really have a sense of humor. Fred laughed, in his opinion, although the momentum of the three movies this time is fierce, but to break the Titanic's global 18. The miracle of 3.5 billion is not so possible.

Todd Hardy, who has information about theaters around the world, shook his head and remained silent......

On the surface, it seems that the limited 3D version of the theater still accounts for about 85% of the ticket sales, and the final average opening figure of the three films is 70 million US dollars, and the world premiere revenue of more than 200 million yuan is still in the annals of history......

But everyone forgot...... This year is the coldest Christmas in the world in years. This week, the East Coast, the richest part of the United States, and much of Europe were hit by a violent cold spell, which paralyzed the transportation network and entered an extraordinary situation, which greatly affected the box office results of the three films......

So, these are just tepid foreplays, and the climax of the money grab is still to come......