Accidents, accidents, and accidents! Unpopular, unpopular, still unpopular!

This is perhaps the best description of the North American film market in the first week of May. More than 200 media members attended the premiere of "The Day After Tomorrow", thinking that it was just a routine, and released official news such as "the official premiere of 'The Day After Tomorrow'", "the 2004 summer season has been brought forward to May", and "Dennis Quaid leads two rising stars in summer blockbusters", and the matter is over. But after the premiere, the reporters found out that this was definitely not a routine, on the contrary, the continuous explosion points were enough to make almost any journalist ecstatic!

Even putting aside the ultra-high-level opening box office of $84 million, there are many explosions that can be discussed in the media.

"American Weekly" locked its eyes on the scandal, "Abandon old love, meet new love, when old love and new love get together......" with such a title, with a very interesting picture, Lance and Keira Knightley stood in front of the interview, and Jessica Alba just passed behind the two people and walked to the back row, but the focus was locked on Lance and Kayla, so that the scene behind was a little blurry, and it looked like Jessica had left the scene.

Even if you don't need any superfluous words, the reader reading this article will naturally be guided into a story of wind/flowers/snow/moon.

In a detailed article, "Us Weekly" was instead cautious, describing in detail the previous affair between Lance and Jessica, and then describing the interaction between Lance and Kayla at the premiere - "When the reporter asked Lancelot and Kayla if they were dating, Lancelot looked at Kayla gently and considerately, 'I think this question should be answered by the lady.'" Kayla looked a little panicked, shy and exasperated in denying the reporter's speculation. ”

It can be seen that "USA Weekly" is not lying or distorting the facts, but real professionals can deduce the guiding content from their words, such as "gentle and considerate", such as "shy and irritated". These adjectives are subjective understanding, and they can often guide the reader invisibly.

At the same time, "USA Weekly" also used a phrase similar to "When Jessica appeared on the scene, everyone was speculating about the identity of this beauty." The director handed over the task of introduction to the host Allen to deal with, and it seemed to be at ease" sentence to contrast.

In fact, they weren't wrong, because that's what happened at the premiere, but "American Weekly" is hinting at it. Lance ignores Jessica's existence and consciously avoids suspicion. Subsequent articles also hinted many times that in public, Lance has always avoided getting along with Jessica and has always been inseparable from Kayla, while Jessica, who is alone, is a little lonely.

Reading the entire article, even Lance himself cannot say that "American Weekly" is talking nonsense, on the contrary, "American Weekly" really described the situation at the premiere as truthfully as possible; But. This content is not objective, and this is also a very delicate tendencies in news reporting, and in this article, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion: Lance began to abandon the chaos, Kayla intervened in a third party, and Jessica was tragically abandoned.

A vigorous love triangle drama has made its debut!

Scandals are the most eye-catching hot topic in Hollywood, and the love and hatred between the three handsome men and beauties has become the best topic for people to talk about after dinner, especially Lance, Jessica and Kayla actually appeared on the same occasion. And one of them may also be a "third party", even if it is not, it is the appearance of an ex-girlfriend and a current girlfriend at the same time, which is comparable to a Colombian soap opera!

After the publication of this issue of the magazine "American Weekly". immediately became the focus of attention, and the gossip tabloids began to follow and report one after another, not only taking out every move of the three people at the premiere to analyze, but even the old yellow calendar of Sundance was turned out, and it seemed that if the evidence of "Lance's cheating" was not revealed, it would definitely not stop.

Objectively speaking. Lance and Jessica could not be regarded as the eye-catching figures of the paparazzi before, even Kayla, who rose strongly within a year, was not within the scope of the paparazzi's close tracking, but in the blink of an eye, with the popularity of the "day after tomorrow" box office, the three of them immediately had a lot of tails behind them, and they really experienced "Hollywood life".

However, compared with the scandal, the biggest breaking point of the premiere of "The Day After Tomorrow" is someone else.

"Brad, Brad, Lance said at the premiere last Friday that if he was the casting director, he would never have chosen you to play Achilles." The reporters surrounding Brad Pitt were at least in double digits, all the flashes were aimed at him from all angles, tilting down frantically, and the sharp and shrill sound made Brad stop his rapid departure and look back at the reporters.

The reporters standing around Brad are all good at sowing discord, they finally waited for Brad, and naturally they would not give up lightly, and Brian Barlow can definitely be called a master, he noticed Brad's paused footsteps for the first time, so he raised his voice and said, "Lance thinks that if your fame does not match your strength, it will become a burden to the crew, and even affect the screenwriter's control of the plot trend." ”

Lance did say so, but the taste was different, and now after Brian said it, the gunpowder smell of the whole discourse became thicker, and Brad suddenly sneered, "This is also the reason why he can't become a 'Troy' screenwriter, a really good screenwriter knows how to use actors, how to interpret characters, as a screenwriter, he is really not very good at how to tap the potential of actors, isn't he?" After saying that, Brad raised his right hand, made a "two" gesture, and then nodded his chin slightly, the subtext was really clear.

"City of God" was originally a group drama, the real protagonist is the City of God, and all the actors can only be regarded as supporting roles; "The Day After Tomorrow" is a popcorn blockbuster, and visual effects are the protagonists, which is why the crew chose Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Alba.

Brad is satirizing Lance for not knowing how to use actors, and as a screenwriter, he is incompetent. This is really a serious accusation, because it was only less than three months ago that Lance relied on "City of God" to get the best adapted screenplay. Brad's remark was suggesting that Lance was not worthy of his name, and that he was even complaining about the other losers for the best adapted screenplay. The smell of gunpowder suddenly began to escalate!

Brad's understatement also dealt Lance a fatal blow between talking and laughing. He was never as vase as he looked, or he wouldn't have been George Clooney's best friend, and people were always fooled by his sexual/sexy looks.

After successfully provoking Brad once, Brian is obviously still reluctant to give up lightly, because Brad has not really been provoked yet, and the topic is still not hot enough. Brian swept his gaze, but he didn't see the reporter sent by the Los Angeles Times, which was not normal, too abnormal. Although the "Los Angeles Times" does not pay much attention to these gossip news, it does not mean that they do not eat the fireworks of the world, Brian went around in a circle, but did not come up with a reason.

What Brian didn't know was that the Los Angeles Times was supportive of Troy. The so-called supportive position does not mean that they will ignore the quality of "Troy" and say good things unconditionally, but when the quality of the film is bad, they will use euphemism to find other bright spots, and retain hope while criticizing; When the quality of the film is excellent, they don't hesitate to give it praise. Strictly speaking, this has nothing to do with the newspaper's position, but more of an unspoken rule played by veteran journalists and veteran film critics, and Cliff Robinson's close relationship with Warner Bros. and Diorama Pictures played an important role.

However, Brian was just confused, and the lack of head-to-head competition from the Los Angeles Times was a good thing for him, so he continued to press, "What do you think about Lance's thought that 'Troy' would be a disaster at the box office?" ”

This sentence immediately stung Brad.

In fact, after entering the 21st century, Brad has not been able to show enough appeal at the box office for a long time, "stealing and abducting" is applauded but not popular, and the North American box office is only 30 million US dollars; "Dangerous Lover" with Julia Roberts, "Spy Game" with Robert Redford, and the animated film "Sinbad Seven Seas Legends" dubbed for DreamWorks all suffered double failures at the box office and word of mouth; The only "Ocean's Eleven" that has won a lot of attention is a group drama.

In other words, Brad is now a top superstar, but in the past four years, he has not been able to show enough box office appeal. In fact, Brad and George are in the same predicament, which is why George has recently begun to try to seek breakthroughs in directing, writing, and acting, because they both know that Hollywood is difficult to last, and they must continue to have good works, otherwise they will soon be forgotten.

"Troy" is the product of this situation, this work is Brad's epic commercial masterpiece alone, and he is not only looking forward to more breakthroughs in word-of-mouth, but more importantly, he must prove his appeal at the box office. It can be said that "Troy" is a work for him that is better than a qiē at the box office. If the film fails at the box office, he will also face a painful transition - he really lacks more confidence in his acting skills.

So, Brad is sensitive. Brad and Lance have no personal vendettas, but he doesn't like Lance for no particular reason, just instinctive/instinctive disgust, including a brief encounter on Oscar night, and he doesn't like Lance's attitude; Including the way George usually mentions Lance, he doesn't like Lance's arrogance. This may just be a subconscious resistance, but at this moment, it has succeeded in angering Brad.

"Very well, we'll see you this week!" Brad stared at the reporter's camera, gritting his teeth. (To be continued.) )

PS: Today's third update, today is Peyton Manning's 40th birthday, pay tribute to this recently retired legend, plus more present! Never say goodbye.