Chapter 45: The Miracle of the Cultists
Because of Alonso's sudden attack on God's brainless fan, the promotion and publicity of "Angels in the World" instantly achieved twice the result with half the effort.
This time it was not the Los Angeles Times that led the way for Caesar, but the Christian Science Monitor, hereinafter referred to as The Christian Newspaper.
In fact, Christ is not a newspaper for Christians, it is also for the general public, only more rigorous, more traditional, and even more conservative.
The basic spirit of the newspaper is that in addition to reporting domestic and international news, it also has a critical attitude towards homosexuality, psychotropic drugs, promiscuity, abortion, etc.
It has a great influence in the intellectual circles and the Republican camp in the United States, and is at least a relatively authoritative newspaper in the hearts of many intellectuals. Although it is clearly not as universally influential as the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times.
But the founder of Christ gave the newspaper the name Christian Science Monitor, and it would be a lie to say that it has nothing to do with religion.
After all, the United States is a commercial society, and it is impossible for you to expect an organization or party to send money to support a mouthpiece.
Light will preach and wash the floor, and the media without profitability is not existing.
So the Christian newspaper must be for the general public, not just Christians, even if it is only for the sake of circulation.
But Alonso's actions this time can be regarded as clubbing the lungs of "The Christ......
What does Alonso stand for? Vatican, Holy See.
Who was the founder of The Christ? A Protestant female pastor.
At the beginning, the British seceded from the Holy See, and the British king established the so-called imperial state religion, which is the so-called "Anglican Church" in China, but some British people were persecuted because of their belief in the Puritanism of the Reformers.
At that time, many people in England who left their homeland for the New World were mainly Puritans.
Some die-hard Catholic devotees slandered that "these people who went to the New World were in fact just a bunch of poor people and idle scoundrels, who talked about religion just to preserve their modest decency." ”
Of course, if things were really what Catholics say they are, America wouldn't have been a Puritan nation forever.
The founding spirit and mainstream values of the United States will not be dominated by the Puritan spirit.
The threat of Catholicism is the reason why the United States has always upheld religious freedom, and there is no crime of religion.
Why is The Christian so sensitive to Alonso?
Because in the eyes of the Puritans in the United States, both the Anglican Church and the Vatican had a history of persecution of the Puritans.
Alonso's public rant about putting Bea under investigation by the Holy See reminded American Puritans of the dark history of Catholicism that has been passed down from generation to generation since the Reformation.
It can be said that with a few simple words from Alonso, the mainstream society in the United States was easily stirred.
People have been in newspapers, on television, and even on the streets to make statements critical of Alonso and the Vatican.
And under the deliberate guidance of the Columbia Company's publicity department, the congregants organized themselves to go to the cinema to share the glory of the Lord.
Things finally got out of hand, out of everyone's grasp.
Bea's "divinity" performance made the devout believers feel the "brilliance of the Lord", and word of mouth made it inevitable to line up to enter the venue.
This is also due to the fact that the Internet era has not arrived, otherwise, this "angelic coercion incident" may not have fermented into something.
"Angels in the World", a light comedy like an adult fairy tale, created a miracle of small cost and high box office in September 1983.
It opened with 2,700 theaters, reached 70 million with lightning speed, killed "007 Brave Breaking the Explosion Party", and then soared into the sky, winning 270 million in two months of screening, and ousting the annual champion "Star Wars III: Revenge of the Knight" from the throne.
The biggest miracle of this film is the repetition of the movie-watching frenzy.
Christians want to see the "divinity" of angels, and fans are generally fans to see beautiful women.
In short, he never gets tired of watching it, just like when Caesar watched "Angels in the World" for the first time in his previous life, from the release to the next level, he spent every penny of pocket money on watching this movie.
You must know that Bea in her previous life did not have her current beauty, nor did she have the "divinity" of cheating now, which already made Caesar, a little boy who was just beginning to fall in love, think about it day and night.
One can imagine how ferocious Bea's attraction to the audience is in this life.
If you count the overseas box office, Caesar and Columbia can almost certainly count the money and cramp in their hands.
The investment of less than 10 million was given to director Kubrick, and Bea, who had neither fame nor experience at the time, had only an after-tax income of 1 million, which was still in Caesar's face.
There are even fewer male protagonists, only 700,000......
Caesar didn't ask for money, he signed a sharing agreement, only 10 percent.
This film Caesar is just to make Bea popular, and he is not ready to make a lot of money at all.
This film alone is enough for Bea to eat in Hollywood for a few years, and it is impossible to take on the film at this price in the future.
Many times, going viral is so fast and magical.
The praise throughout North America was overwhelming, and the voices of a very few film critics who were critical of the acting skills and scripts of the male and female protagonists were completely drowned out.
Caesar himself knows that this script is not a masterpiece at all, and in his previous life, this script was also written by the producer in order to make Bea popular, except for showing Bea's beauty, this script has nothing.
But after Bea in this life has been transformed by Caesar, she is so perfect and amazing that people can't find fault with it.
The so-called perfect woman with no dead ends at 360 degrees is Bea's current state.
All negative voices about Bea are masked and drowned out by praise. Even the movie itself is taken up a notch too high.
In this case, Bruce Willis is open in his eyes and happy in his heart. He now believed in Caesar completely.
In his mind, Caesar was a teenager who did many amazing things, but more on the level of games and music.
However, this time, Bea, it can be said that Willis watched Caesar pick her up.
The feeling that his dream was about to come true made him tremble with excitement in his dreams.
When Caesar handed over the finalized script of Max Payne's Death to Willis, Willis knew that his dream ship was about to sail.
At the same time, in addition to Fox and Columbia, the management of several other Hollywood giants almost everyone had a copy of "Max Payne"
In Hollywood now, everyone attaches great importance to Caesar.
Because people are surprised to find that Caesar has never failed since Garfield......
[Recently, because of the illness of my relatives, I can't do it if I want to calm down and write some details...... But you still have to be cheeky and ask for tickets and collections~]