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Answering the phone, Murphy went straight to the point, "Bill, are the statistics out?" ”

"Miramax just sent me that," Bill Rothes, knowing what Murphy was concerned about, hurriedly said, "Two thousand advance screenings, Sin City got $4.12 million at the box office." ”

"Not bad!" Murphy nodded, unable to suppress the excitement in his tone, "Very good!" ”

Bill Rothes on the other side also burst into a hearty laugh, and he was obviously in a very good mood.

Such advance box office figures, no matter how you look at it, can be described as very successful.

After a few more words with Bill Rothes about the movie and the troubles he and Gal Gadot might have in the ensuing, Murphy hung up, stood up and stretched out a long stretch to get a good night's sleep tonight.

With no work and publicity assignments scheduled on Friday, Murphy slept until eight o'clock the next morning, and after washing up, he took out his phone and looked at it, which contained a text message from Gal Gadot at seven o'clock, telling him that she had gone to training and that she should not call again in the morning, and at the same time told him to have breakfast.

Murphy went downstairs, rarely went into the kitchen, fried two eggs for himself, found leftover toast bread and baked bacon from yesterday morning, and made a homemade sandwich, plus the milk in the fridge, and a hearty breakfast.

After picking up the latest newspaper from the mailbox outside the house, and serving a porcelain plate with milk and homemade sandwiches, Murphy went straight to the study on the second floor, sat behind the large desk, turned on the computer, and planned to read the latest news about Sin City on the Internet while eating breakfast.

He first went to Yahoo Entertainment, and the headline on the front page of Yahoo Entertainment was the film "Sin City", and what Murphy didn't expect was that Yahoo Entertainment put a picture of him and Gal Gadot walking hand in hand on the red carpet in a very prominent position.

"Miramax's second blockbuster of the year, Sin City, premiered yesterday, and Hollywood director Murphy Stanton walked the red carpet with his girlfriend!"

Murphy knew that the first film was "Kill Bill," perhaps influenced by him, and the film was released in North America earlier this year.

There is a related news headline under the picture, Murphy just glanced at it, closed the web page, and continued to look down the page of Yahoo Entertainment, you can see a lot of gossip news titles such as 'Shocking: Murphy Stanton's girlfriend is Miss Universe Israel', but he didn't mean to click on it, these gossip news are naturally extremely exaggerated, how to attract attention and how to write.

The tabloid stuff can't be taken too seriously, especially the person concerned, otherwise vomiting three liters of blood a day is not enough.

Compared with his own gossip, Murphy attaches more importance to the influence of online public opinion on the film, and Yahoo Entertainment's column has a pretty good review of "Sin City".

"Murphy Stanton has created a film unlike any other, Sin City is extremely stylish but also delicately artistic, with insolent characters dotted with loneliness and tenderness."

"The maverick young director Murphy Stanton, dedicated to us a rare comic book adaptation, maybe the uniqueness of the film style is greater than the significance of the content, but can not ignore the very emotional factors in the film, last night in advance many people after watching this film after the rock-like pleasure, after the hearty venting, there are a few traces of heart-warming emotions, subtlely entangled in the heart, I believe that after watching a few more times, the audience will experience the really heart-warming factor conveyed by Murphy Stanton, And this film has been praised as a generation of cult classics. ”

The influence of Internet media among the public is increasing, and the impact of online reviews on the market prospects of a film is also increasing, and the praise of Yahoo Entertainment is also conducive to the promotion of the film later.

However, the Internet is not only a place for professional media to speak out, but also ordinary movie fans can share their feelings on the Internet.

Murphy turned off Yahoo Entertainment, opened IMDB, found "Sin City", clicked on the relevant links, and the first thing that appeared was the IMDB score, perhaps because there were fewer viewers in advance and it was the relationship between lovers of this type of film, and now the score is scary, as much as 9.3 points!

Drag the page down, and the comment bar will be full of praise!

"It's stunningly beautiful, and from the first second I look at it, the combination of black and white is so clever that I can't take my eyes off the screen. About deformed sin, about deformed love, and Robert Downey Jr.'s good performance makes me desperate. ”

"Spooky, bloody, unique, black hymn!"

"Each of the three stories carries a temperature. The first story is ambiguous lukewarm, the second is the summoning of a touch of red and enthusiastic body temperature in the endless darkness and confusion, and the third is the only story that makes me laugh and adrenaline-rushing, is the fiery boiling, and every ketone body is so irritating in the night! ”

Without exception, these people gave the film a score of nine and ten points.

Of course, there are also people who are not fans of this type of movie, but the evaluation is also pertinent.

"In fact, the picture is quite cool, and it is also very visually impactful, and the style is so extreme, it will definitely make those who like it very much, and those who dislike it, after all, it is easy for people to ignore or cover up the flaws of the substance, I have a neutral attitude towards such a comic movie, because it is indeed good enough to look good and gorgeous, but it is not my favorite type."

"Cool is cool, dazzling is cool, the story is really great, there are some faint little connections between several stories, and the form of expression used by Murphy Stanton is also very tense, the whole film shuttles through the gray light and shadow, and every time you see blood, it can give people a sense of sensory stimulation. But it's a pity that the things behind the story are not fully conveyed, and it may also be because of the subject matter, not my own dish. ”

Even if you don't like it very much, you basically give a passing score of 6 or more.

However, in the entire comment column, there are basically comments like "the most shocking movie".

There were also some praises for the actors, and Murphy's insistence on Jessica Alba was universally acclaimed.

"What a cool picture, a violent and bloody erotic plot, it makes people's blood run high, Jessica Alba's body and beauty are at their peak!"

"Jessica Alba amazed me!"

Murphy dragged the page back on, found that his name was also a link, moved the mouse and clicked lightly, and his IMDB column appeared.

"It turns out that IMDB still has this function!"

He used to be not good at English, and he rarely paid attention to English websites, and now he hasn't paid much attention to IMDB before.

After flipping through his IMDB column for a while, Murphy discovered that there was also a discussion group of his die-hard fans, and their latest comments were all sin city fanatics.

"It's definitely going to be a cult classic!"

"Murphy has taken color contrast to the extreme, and this aspect is absolutely unprecedented!"

"It's comparable to the Pulp Fiction classics!"

"Simple and crude! Murphy's consistent style, the culmination of violent aesthetics! Brush it up three times! ”

No matter how you look at it, these are his die-hard supporters.

Like all directors, with the accumulation of the first three films, Murphy has also gained his own fans.

This discussion group is not a mess, there is even its own management lady, Murphy saw a post made by the leader of a comment group, the post has a direct connection with "Sin City", the team leader named "Daisy Murphy" introduced several highlights of the film.

"Number one, Jessica Alba is so sexy and glamorous that even as a woman, I drool. Second, Murphy's use of color is extremely expressive, and the yellow blood of the yellow mongrel is really disgusting. Thirdly, the character shape of the yellow mongrel is also very unique, and I think it is so cool. Fourth, Godie's red dress is really beautiful in black and white tones! Fifth, Sienna Miller's blue eyes are too seductive. Sixth, Muffle's styling is really cool. Seventh, Seth Rogen, who played Muffer, also played it vividly. Eighth, the girls in the old city are all too attractive. Ninth, the bullet passed through the head, blood splattered, and the shot of hitting the policewoman could not be more beautiful. Tenth, the black and white silhouette that appears many times is so beautiful......"

"Daisy......

The name seems to be somewhat familiar, Murphy thought about it, but still didn't have a specific impression, and he didn't care, whether in the United States or the United Kingdom, Daisy is a very common name, and you can find a lot of them in every city.

After looking at the Internet for a while, what I can see is basically good news, Miramax's public relations and publicity ability is undoubted, Murphy knows very well that some of the praise and positive news on the Internet must be a masterpiece of the water army.

As he said before, the trolls are not something mysterious, and as early as the release of "Blair the Witch", Hollywood had a precedent for the widespread use of online trolls.

How could Hollywood studios ignore this kind of low-cost and inexpensive way to guide public opinion on the Internet?

Closing the page, Murphy remembered that he hadn't eaten breakfast, and after eating his homemade sandwich and drinking milk, he flipped through today's newspaper.

Murphy subscribed to almost all of the widely circulated newspapers in Los Angeles, and as the largest film to be released this weekend, "Sin City" was naturally the focus of the entertainment section of these newspapers.

Newspapers have published reviews of Sin City in their entertainment columns.

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times commented, "This is not only a comic book adaptation, Murphy Stanton gives life to comic books, but also beats "chicken blood". ”

He gave the film 10 points directly!

The New York Magazine critic also confessed to Sin City in an almost insane way, "I love this masterpiece by Murphy Stanton. Or, in another way, I love it! I love it! I love it! (To be continued.) )