While Jude and Kate are discussing the details of the performance of "The Seven Deadly Sins," the media is discussing another of his works.

Although Sharon Stone's agent successfully pointed the finger at the upcoming "Two Big Smoking Guns", all of this is actually going according to Jude's pre-set "script".

The American media can't find any major news during this time, and a film that earned 17 million pounds in the UK has naturally become an excellent subject, especially the film has been full of twists and turns from the start of filming to its release, starring Winnie Jones's two beatings, and director Jude was busy falling in love during the filming of the film, these news have been re-taken out by major newspapers and hyped up.

Given that the film has been released in the UK, a lot of information is already available, because Armond Kyle, president of the New York Film Critics Association, who "grudges" against Jude for "This Man from Earth" last time, even went to the UK to see the film, and then wrote a review for the film in the New York Times before it was released in the US.

"After counting Jude Locke's past experiences, it is not difficult to find the extremes of his character, he was liked by most people when he was a child star, and his popularity was not even lost to the Hollywood A-list stars at the time, but as an adult, he was depraved and indulgent, and the bad situation formed a stark contrast with before, although after being sent to prison recently, he began to reflect on his life and decided to change his career to directing, but the flaws in his character have not been corrected, so in his current two movies, We can all see this tendency to go to extremes. ”

"This "Man from Earth" is good in terms of script creativity, and the one-shot shooting technique is also commendable, but the entire plot of the film can be said to be only content without structure, in order to pursue the creativity of the film and cooperate with the shooting of one shot, the narrative structure that the movie should have was completely abandoned by Jude. And in "Two Big Smoking Guns", Jude may have been too eager to reverse the impression left by the previous film, so he went from one extreme to the other. In his upcoming new work, we can see that the content of the film has basically been completely abandoned by him, a story that is too simple to be simple, but the plot structure is so complex that it can be dazzling, although I have to admit that this structural design is very ingenious, when the film also loses the depth of content it should have, I have to say that this is a regrettable thing. ”

Reading this, Kate couldn't help but put down the newspaper and glanced at Jude, who was sitting opposite and buttering the bread.

"What do you think of this review?"

"I remember telling you the story between me and Armond." Jude sandwiched two slices of bread and stuffed them into his mouth, and said as he ate: "In order to maintain a fair reputation, he will not directly say that my film is bad, but will only say that you are not good enough from some places that can barely be regarded as shortcomings, such as "This Man is from Earth", I only had $20,000 in my hand at the time, and the money was spent on a few shots of a movie with a more complex structure." Besides, "Two Big Smoking Guns", the structure itself is already very complicated, if the plot content is designed to be very profound, if this movie is guaranteed to be understood by the audience? At the end of the day, these reviews will only see what they want to see, and they won't think about other issues. ”

Kate nodded thoughtfully, it is true that the director's perspective on the problem is completely different from that of film critics, and these guys can find something to say anyway.

When the plot is deep, they will say that they are not friendly enough to the audience, and if the plot is simple, they will complain that the depth is not enough, in short, as Jude said, this is a bunch of guys who have no position.

"What about the movie review I read earlier? It's the one that compares "Two Big Smoking Guns" and "Pulp Fiction" side by side. Kate continued to ask.

Jude took out a tissue and wiped his mouth, "This score is two situations, if this film review is related to the recent film promotion of New Line, then the author's purpose should simply be to use the fame of "Pulp Fiction" to promote "Two Big Smoking Guns", but if this film is written by some people with ulterior motives, then their final idea may be to use "Pulp Fiction" to fight "Two Big Smoking Guns", after all, the former's classic has been recognized by everyone, and he has just won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Two Smoking Guns" is placed in the same position as "Pulp Fiction", which will definitely make some fans who like "Pulp Fiction" feel dissatisfied. ”

In fact, it is a simple "killing", touting the movie as good and increasing the audience's expectations, and if the film does not meet expectations, the audience will be disappointed, and even the evaluation of the film will become lower.

The Hollywood film critics circle is not as peaceful as it seems on the surface, and all kinds of murderous motives are hidden behind the scenes, and what you see with your eyes may not be the truth.

"Is this a serious problem?" Kate asked worriedly.

Although the box office share of "Two Big Smoking Guns" in the UK is enough for the producers to recover their costs, and with the later home video market, New Line will definitely make a lot of money, but the film's performance in North America is also important, revenue is one thing, and more importantly, it will determine whether Jude can successfully be accepted by the mainstream Hollywood film industry.

Jude took the hot milk out of the oven and poured a glass in front of Kate.

"It can be a bit of a hassle for some films, but it's basically negligible for 'Two Smoking Guns', I don't dare to say that my film is more artistically than Quentin's 'Pulp Fiction', but it's definitely better than 'Pulp Fiction' in terms of commercial entertainment, and although the narrative of the two films is somewhat similar, those who want to put the two films up against each other will definitely be disappointed in the end, because they are two completely different films."

The same discussion arose not only at Jude and Kate's breakfast table, but also at an internal working meeting of CinemaScore, where they were once again commissioned by New Line to make a forecast for the North American box office of "Smoking Guns", an important reference for predicting the box office of similar films in North America, and CinemaScore's selection of "Pulp Fiction" this time was also the reference object.

In particular, the chairman of the company, Ed Mintz, personally attended the premiere of "Two Smoking Guns" in London, when he gave a rating of A after watching the film, which is exactly the same rating he gave at the premiere of "Pulp Fiction" before.

The two films do have a lot of similarities, the same small-budget production, the same bold innovation in narrative structure, the difference is that "Two Smoking Guns" is cheaper to make, and the actors are not as well-known as the leading actors in "Pulp Fiction", but in terms of the watchability of the movie, Ed Mintz is actually more inclined to "Two Smoking Guns".

He believes that this film will create a new small-budget miracle!