It's hard to believe that by the end of the third week of October, there were only four professional film critics' reviews of "Hard Candy" from The New Yorker, The Chicago Sun, The Wall Street Journal, and Film Critics. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Wall Street Journal, 100 points, "As a film, the director is wonderful, the script is profound, the cinematography is special, and the acting is ...... Wonderful! Totally the best show of 2005! 'Hard Fruit Candy' is a real cinematic feast, not from the visual, but from the heart. It was a torture. ”

"Film Review", 100 points, "This is an almost indelible work, psychological thriller, criminal fear, human criticism, and at the same time bitter and unusually unbearable, utterly mentally tortured." But, it's worth every minute of it! ”

This is the first batch of reviews of "Hard Fruit Candy", but the four media reviews have created an incredible four perfect scores, in other words, an average score of 100 points, which is the first round of media feedback on the movie. Compared with the "100 points" swiping praise, people are even more surprised that the "attention" is so low, and only four media outlets commented, is this experimental film really not cared about by the media?

In response, Javier Ulliel of The New York Times wrote an article on his personal blog, "Enthusiastic New Yorkers, when did Landmark Cinema also become Broadway?" ”

The joking article was full of jokes from Javier, who said that "hard fruit candy" was hard to get a ticket for, and he waited in line for three hours and still couldn't get a ticket; Then the relationship found Lance himself, but unfortunately, even Lance did not have a movie ticket, and the most ridiculous thing is that "Michael Fassbender and Alan Page have not been able to see the finished film now". What's even more exaggerated is that someone offered $300 for a scalper ticket, but no one wanted to sell it!

In the end, Javier said that he would also like to see the work for the first time, and even be able to write his own viewing article, but unfortunately, it seems that he will have to wait any longer.

This blog post answers the doubts of netizens in a sense, and it seems that it is not easy for film critics and reporters to watch "Fruit Hard Candy" for the first time. Looking at the scene of "fruit hard candy" being hard to find, people are really a little crying and laughing. As an independent art film, such a grand occasion can definitely be called incredible, but when people see the box office data of the first week of "Hard Candy", it is not surprising.

The single-hall box office is a very special set of data, often used to measure the reputation of small-scale test screenings of works, on the list of film history, Disney's cartoons are the king of the single-hall box office, because they always put their works in Disneyland, just one or two theaters, but they can burst out with amazing single-hall box office energy.

At present, the title of the box office champion of a single theater in film history belongs to "The Lion King", this work created a single box office of 790,000 in 1994 with two theaters, and no one has been able to break it until 2015. In addition, the box office of Disney animated films has repeatedly created 200,000 excellent results, and as of 2005, the top ten on the film history list belong to Disney, and all of them are cartoons.

Excluding cartoons, the single-theater box office champion for live-action films was "Madame Peron" in 1996 with $97,000, ranking 11th on the overall list. It can be seen that the single-hall box office of live-action movies is almost impossible to compete with cartoons, and at present, the single-hall data of any live-action movie has crossed the threshold of 100,000, let alone the 200,000 single-hall of Disney cartoons, and the gap is very obvious.

Although it is said that the excellence of the box office of a single theater does not represent the excellence of the movie, nor does it represent the excellence of the future trend of the box office, it is no exaggeration to say that the box office of a single theater represents people's attention to this movie, and there is direct feedback. This is undoubtedly crucial for a work of art.

"Fruit Hard Candy" created countless topics during the screening, first the news of "Mad Max 4" leaked out, and then the plagiarism of "Good Night, Good Luck" came strongly, and then the supply of "Fruit Hard Candy" at the screening was in short supply, it seems that all signs are showing that this work is bound to bring surprises, but people did not expect that the historical moment will come quietly!

"Fruit Hard Candy" was screened in two theaters, and achieved a box office of $336,000 in three days over the weekend, in fact, this result only occupied the thirtieth place in the North American weekend box office list this week, which is not worth mentioning at all, but it triggered an exclamation from more than 80 mainstream media in North America, "History, created!" ”

The box office of a single hall is 168,000!

What does this mean? This means that the two landmark theaters are open for 24 hours a day, but demand is still in short supply - after all, the landmark theater is not a movie theater inside Disneyland, and the number of audiences varies greatly; This means that the so-called "hard to find a ticket" is not a joke, but it is really impossible to buy any tickets, and the audience's enthusiasm for watching the movie has reached an unprecedented height; This means that the popularity of "hard fruit candy" among veteran movie lovers has reached an all-time high.

168,000, a full 168,000 US dollars of single-hall box office data, amazed the entire North American market! This is not only the first live-action film in film history to exceed 100,000 in a single theater box office, but also the first live-action work in film history to break the monopoly of Disney animated films on the single-theater box office charts.

The unbeatable Disney cartoon monopoly has been broken! This is definitely a sensational news in North America, and this historical record was actually created by "Hard Candy", such an experimental film, such a cult film, and more importantly, such a film with almost no publicity! History, just like that, was born unexpectedly!

It is only now that netizens have a partial sense of reality, Javier's ridicule on the blog is real, only four professional film reviews are also real, the noise at the entrance of the landmark theater is also real, and the enthusiasm of fans in the autumn file is also real.

Unexpected, but not unexpected.

Before "Hard Candy", Lance had already set many historical records, "City of God" broke the monopoly of "Lord of the Rings 3" and took three little gold figures, and this is only Lance's debut/deed novel; The North American box office of three consecutive works exceeded 200 million, which is still a height that no one can reach so far; The 100% success rate of the four works led Chaos Pictures to become a second-tier film company by itself; Not to mention Tom Cruise breaking two decades of shackles and standing on the podium at the Academy's awards ceremony...... It can be said that every time Reims releases a work, it means not only quality assurance, but also another step forward in history.

But even so, "Fruit Hard Candy" actually achieved a single hall of 168,000, which is still incredible. This data can definitely be called a huge victory at any time and on any work; And when it is put together with a work like "Fruit Hard Candy", the horror created is even more ferocious. It is no exaggeration to say that "Fruit Hard Candy" gave all doubters the loudest slap in the face with the strong gesture of rewriting history with the outbreak of the box office of a single museum.

Before "Mad Max 4" raised doubts, people had a lot of doubts about the work "Fruit Hard Candy", no one understood why Lance chose such a work, and no one hoped for this work, due to the ultra-low investment in the movie, even people were stingy with their own criticism, and even the voice of decline was reluctant to comment too much. You can clearly feel that the "fruit hard candy" has been ignored.

But now, the movie has given the most violent, strong, and refreshing counterattack with the most direct, real, and profound single-hall box office data.

Compared to the film's investment of only $900,000, the results of the two theaters in the first week have already recovered one-third of the cost, and this work may not be able to create a box office miracle, but there is no doubt that this work is about to enter the ranks of achieving profitability, once again continuing the fine tradition of Chaos Pictures must produce high-quality products.

However, no one knows what the box office trend of "Hard Fruit Candy" will be, because even the acclaimed Roger, Lawrence and others also think that watching this movie is a challenge and a torture, can such a movie really win the love of the audience after the expansion?

Many works were beautiful during the screening, but after the expansion, the results were dismal. This is the case with "Atlantis: The Lost Empire", which has just been surpassed by "Fruit Hard Candy" on the list of single-theater box office history, with a single-theater box office of 160,000 in the first week of screening, but in the end the North American box office was only 80 million. What's more, "Fruit Hard Candy" is not a commercial movie, just a work of art, and it is also a cult work with a unique style and a painful movie, and the future is still unpredictable.

However, one thing is for sure, in the fourth week of October, "Fruit Hard Candy" was screened in seven theaters for the second week, which still triggered an unimaginable movie-watching frenzy, four landmark theaters in New York and three landmark theaters in Los Angeles are ushering in unprecedented noise and prosperity, from two to seven, it seems that the audience's enthusiasm has not only not weakened, but has become more and more arrogant. (To be continued.) )