Forty media outlets gave a comprehensive media rating of 78 for "Hard Candy", which is not strictly speaking, this score is not high, it is not comparable to "Murder with a Knife", it is only one point higher than "Sin City", and this is not a commercial film, this is a work of art, so the score seems to announce that it has no chance to win the awards season. But no one should forget www.biquge.info this is a thriller movie, and critics have always been more demanding and strict in the genre.

In film history, the famous thriller movies have low overall media reviews, "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural", 64 points; "The Shining", sixty-one points; "The Exorcist", eighty-two points; "Alien", eighty-three points. Mainly because the core theme of thriller and horror movies is fright, and it is difficult to dig into human nature and the theme while creating a fear effect, let alone the completeness of the story and characters. Among them, "The Psychic Sixth Sense" and "The Exorcist" are two of only four thriller and horror works in film history that have been nominated for the Oscar for Best Film Criticism.

It is worth mentioning that many film critics have compared "fruit hard candy" to "A Clockwork Orange", and the latter's media comprehensive evaluation is 78 points.

It can be seen that "fruit hard candy" has an important position in the minds of professional film critics, especially considering the average effect of the two extreme reactions, the final media comprehensive evaluation can still reach 78 points, which is really impressive. This also makes people realize that the love-hate combination of sneaky reviews such as "The New Yorker" and "Chicago Tribune" is not only not a discount on the quality of the film, but also a direct evidence of the film's excellence.

As a result, the box office of "Fruit Hard Candy" once again became the focus of attention.

Over the course of three days, this unique production earned $1.05 million at the box office, rocketing into the top 15 of the weekend box office and ranking 14th, the only one in the top 50 of this week's list to still be in the single digits. What's even more incredible is that the single-hall box office of 150,000 has once again blinded everyone's eyes.

For the first time, two theaters were launched, with a single box office of 168,000; Seven theaters in the next week, with a single box office of 150,000. With such an excellent box office performance, there is no need to say anything at all, just a set of data, you can clearly feel the degree of enthusiasm since the release of "Fruit Hard Candy", especially the "hungry marketing" of Chaos Pictures, coupled with the fanning of the media comprehensive reviews and the hot comments of netizens, which has made this work a well-deserved king of focus in the past two weeks.

Even "Saw 2", which won the weekend box office with 30 million this week, is overshadowed. You know, this work only invested a low cost of four million dollars, swept 30 million in its opening weekend, and the level of profitability was breathtaking, which really pushed this thriller series to the public, and Lionsgate, the production and distribution company, also appeared in front of North American audiences for the first time. However, compared to "Fruit Hard Candy", "Saw 2" is still difficult to match.

With the promotion of the two-week screening, the discussion of "Fruit Hard Candy" began to spread, and more and more viewers joined the discussion, including the news media who were not willing to be lonely and expressed their opinions, and it seemed that all doubts had been cleared.

Behind the excellent script of "Good Night, Good Luck", Lance can be said to be the biggest contributor, not only because of the first draft of the script circulating on the Internet, which confirmed that this version of the script is the closest to the final release; is also because the solid and profound skills of "Fruit Hard Candy" can be clearly felt in the dialogue lines, and the neatness and fullness of the characters are even more impressive. As a screenwriter, after "City of God" and "Murder by Knife", Lance once again proved his ability.

The unsolved case of "Good Night, Good Luck" seems to have finally settled, but no one is willing to mention this work at this moment, not only because Lance almost refused to mention it in public, a reporter asked Lance relevant questions after the screening of "Hard Fruit Candy", but Lance changed the topic and avoided replying, it can be seen that on the surface a reconciliation was reached, but in private the friendship between Lance and George could never go back; And because such an excellent work has been involved in a plagiarism scandal, how fanatical people are for George's praise, and how turbulent the humiliation and shame are now, it seems that mentioning this work only makes me more embarrassed.

Unconsciously, "fruit hard candy" has replaced "good night, good luck" and has become the focus of people's attention recently. As for "good night, good luck", the thick dust slowly falls, gradually disappearing into the hustle and bustle of Hollywood, and when it will see the light of day, no one can know.

On the other hand, "Mad Max 4" has surfaced again. "Hard Candy" is not just a sword, it can be said to break the speculation and plans of all Hollywood genres, and it is born in a diametrically opposite attitude, but the depth of this work is one step closer to the crime trilogy, which makes people wonder if "Mad Max 4" will be rejuvenated in Lance's lens, presenting a maverick masterpiece in a way that is contrary to the "day after tomorrow", and then bringing unparalleled shock?

Just a week ago, people were questioning how Lance's choice of "Mad Max 4" looked like an irrational and crazy decision; But now, people are starting to hesitate, is that really the case? Lance, who seems to be on the edge of his personality and repeatedly makes amazing adventures, is always able to fight back forcefully with practical actions, such as "City of God", "Murder with a Knife", "Sin City", "Hard Candy", and ...... "Mad Max 4"?

The "fruit hard candy" that is in the limelight has made those definite remarks begin to waver, not only because of the frenzy of the media comprehensive reviews, not only because of the miracle of the box office of the single theater the next week, but also because the audience's enthusiasm for this movie is exceeding the media's expectations step by step.

IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes have been hotly discussed, with the former scoring more than 3,000 people, and the latter having as many as 169 mass media reviews—this is actually an achievement achieved after screening in just seven theaters, even compared to the opening weekend of summer blockbusters, and more importantly, the results are very gratifying.

IMDB's score has come to 8:3, and it has broken into the top 100 of the 250 classics list in film history, which is also the third time that Lance's directing work has reached such a height after "City of God" and "City of Sin", although it is said that with the increase in the number of ratings, the score is bound to change, but the current position of 89 still causes a lot of noise, especially considering the love-hate nature of this work, which is even more rare.

The freshness of Rotten Tomatoes has also reached 74 percent, and the mass media score has reached 7.2 out of 10, which is almost the same as the comprehensive evaluation of the media; The popcorn index reached a staggering 84 percent, which is a huge surprise, and after such a torturous viewing of the movie, so many viewers actually thought the work was worth watching and gave recommendations, even exceeding the popcorn index after the premiere weekend of "Sin City"!

As for the theater scores, at present, when there are only seven theaters screened, the data does not have much reference value, so it has not been announced for the time being, but the landmark theater said that from the current statistics, the audience's reaction information is basically consistent with the media and netizens.

From any point of view, this hateful but beloved work shines proudly. This involuntarily reminds people of Lance himself. "You can only avoid falling in love with him if you are completely disgusted with him." This is a comment from the New York Times, Lance is always like this, people grit their teeth with hatred, but no one can refuse him, knowing that it is a nightmare, but still willingly throwing himself into it.

That's true of Reims, and so is the "hard fruit candy".

The box office performance of "Hard Candy" in the following week also proved this, not only the weekend box office performance, but also the excellent midweek box office performance became the most important supporting evidence, this cult work has reached the cumulative box office of 2.8 million US dollars in two weeks, and the film has successfully recovered its costs before the expansion has even begun, and will officially enter the profit stage next week.

Although the investment cost of "fruit hard candy" is only 900,000 yuan, with the blessing of the name "Lancelot-Strello", the recovery cost is not a problem at all; But within the two-week screening time frame, the movie has actually accomplished this feat, which is not only shocking, but can even be called a myth.

People always complain that "Fruit Hard Candy" will be Lance's worst box office performance so far, and they are worried that this work will be a turning point for Hurt Zhongyong; But at this time, people suddenly found that "Fruit Hard Candy" is likely to become Lance's work with the highest rate of return so far, recovering costs during the screening period, and achieving a profit explosion during the expansion period, with the current enthusiasm of film critics, audiences, and netizens, it seems that the North American box office of 20 million is not any problem at all, and such profitability is really staggering.

What's more, as an experimental film, without any ambitions, the attention of the awards season involuntarily shifted, and once again, Lance became the focus of the academy judges! (To be continued.) )