In response to people's speculation, the media on the side of Universal Company also responded. Gladiator was their blockbuster film this year, and people are now rumoring that other movies are better than theirs, which Universal cannot tolerate.

At this time, the media close to Universal pointed out that the box office of a movie is not only in North America, but also in Europe, Asia and other markets. As an epic movie, Gladiator is able to attract people from different cultures, races, and languages to watch, and the story of Infernal Affairs, too many places need lines, and it is difficult for this movie to challenge the strength of the gladiator at the global box office.

There is some truth in their words. However, this has nothing to do with epic, simply put, action movies are more popular worldwide, which is an indisputable fact, not to mention gladiators, even Mission Impossible 2 is also a big hit worldwide. To say that the global box office of this movie can surpass Infernal Affairs, people still agree with it.

The movie of wits depends on the grasp of the lines. When translated between different languages, many of the original lines are lost. In contrast, hand-to-hand combat is a hard thing, and there is no difference on a global scale, and these things are more acceptable.

For example, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which was released in July this year, can be said to be an astonishingly high box office. That movie is not about explaining the lines and structure, the beautiful scenery and wonderful fights are the box office guarantees.

There is basically nothing wrong with that. However, when Universal said this at this time, many people were a little surprised: Could it be. Now Universal already thinks that the North American box office is not comparable to Levy's movies?

The North American box office of 180 million is not low, and it is not easy to surpass it. Even if that movie is a movie where several stars shine at the same time. A box office of 200 million is also a difficult thing, why is Universal afraid of it?

"The popularity of Infernal Morality, in addition to the movie itself, the arrangement of the schedule is also an important aspect. Infernal Affairs, which was released in August, did not pose any threat to any of the films released during the same time period. This is also where he has a more advantage than the gladiators. ”

It didn't take long for the media to find out why: Universal's sense that its films couldn't compete with Levy was largely due to Universal's box office battle against Infernal Affairs. After the first week, it was already a failure.

At the same time as the release of Infernal Affairs, two other films were also released together: among them, Meet the Father-in-law is Ben Stiller's new film, as the top three Hollywood comedians. Although he does not have the identity of Jim Carrey as the king of comedy. However, his box office appeal is not weak at all. Universal also wanted to use his name to dilute the influence of Levy's films.

At the same time, they also contacted the company and asked the company to launch their comedy film Scream at the same time. The film was written by Anna. The movie starring Faris is mainly a spoof film based on ridiculing other movies. Neither of these movies has much connotation, but. It's all pretty good comedy made, the idea of Universal. Obviously, the hope is to use two comedies to create an atmosphere in which the comedy market is very hot: if the month is all about comedies and people want to watch some light-hearted and funny movies, then how can Levy's gangster films be good?

Gangster movies are violent, tragic, and satire, but there is no comedy. If you can rely on successful comedy movies to create a schedule with cheerful movies as the main focus, then a gangster film that doesn't fit in will naturally not be welcomed.

It's also a good option to play comedy at the same time to create momentum and suppress Levy's films.

It's a good idea, but where they fail is that Ben Stiller's film apparently didn't receive too good reviews. After the first week, his film grossed only 25 million - not too bad, but it was definitely a failure among the films of the week.

The vast majority of comedies don't have any reputation. These movies are filmed to sell money, such a conflict between father-in-law and son-in-law, and movies that use people's names as jokes, are originally quite old-fashioned movies, and if such movies want to be brilliant, they can only rely on the characters and jokes in the movie. It's a shame that the film didn't do it.

Ben Stiller's own comedy was okay, but he had hoped to find De Niro, who played with him, to act in Levy's films, so he had to find someone else. There are no excellent interactive actors, which makes the overall standard of the movie drop a lot, and after the broadcast, the movie did not achieve the expected effect, and the box office in the first week was unfavorable, which basically determined that the box office of the movie was a failure.

"In the movie "Meet My Father-in-law", Ben Stiller plays exactly like a liar, and his father-in-law is completely played as an old man. Such an old man makes people can't see any laughs, and the movie is quite a failure. ”

The media's evaluation of this film can be said to be quite mean and merciless. The casting failure ruined the film, and after the box office failure in the first week, the film was basically determined to have made more money out of the box office.

At the same time, Dimen's spoof comedy movie Screaming and Screaming played well, and got a box office of more than 30 million, which can be said to occupy a large part of the market share.

It's a pity that the film doesn't have the effect that the world expects, forming a trend - the film is completely spoof-based, although it can be said to be completely funny, but for all kinds of spoofs, the plot itself lacks coherence. Although the story is full of jokes, there is not even a formed story. People do go to see this movie, but after watching it, what is the movie about? What does this story look like? People can't even retell it. The whole movie is more like a collection of jokes than a complete movie.

"The Waynes brothers have proven their talent and that they still need to be honed."

Although the evaluation of the media is polite. However, those who have seen this movie know it very well. What they really want to say is this: In this film, the two black directors embody the eclectic imagination of black people, but also the weakness of black directors who lack overall control. They can shoot some amazing scenes, but the black directors can't connect them together - it's a bit racist, but the black people don't have a lot of control. This has to be admitted.

Such a movie can become a joke for a while, but a movie that forgets the plot when you walk out of the cinema. How is it possible to form a trend?

In contrast, Levy's film, after it was broadcast, immediately became a trend. After the movie. A lot of plot in the movie. It's all been discussed over and over again: the hidden meaning of the repetition of dates, the hidden meaning of the elevator in the movie, the rooftop, the wind chimes, the muzzle, the connotation of these things, the performance of another undercover agent on the policeman's side in the movie, the details of the love between the two male protagonists. These seemingly subtle things are all taken seriously.

After a movie is played. Only by being mentioned repeatedly can a trend be formed. Some directors such as Nolan like to use weird editing methods to make people think and discuss, and some directors such as Lynch like to use dreams and psychology to make people reminisce, and Levy's movies have always liked to use these details to make people evocative, and this one is no exception.

's own movies have not been able to affect the popularity of each other's movies, on the contrary, because of the infernal morality, it shows the shortcomings of these two comedies. The box office war launched by himself lost at the box office, not to mention word of mouth, and even the attempt to unite with other companies to set off waves was a failure. It can be said that the battle for the box office launched by Universal has been a complete failure since the first week.

In a sense, this also fulfills Levy's declaration: his films will be the undisputed strongest once they are made.

With such a defeat in front of them, it is not surprising that they would say the words of voluntary admit. After all, this August, there are no movies that can pose a threat to Levy, and when Gladiator aired, it encountered Mission Impossible 2.

"Actually, the most surprising thing is that Universal is not saying that our box office will be inferior to them at this time. It's that at this time, when they open their mouths to defend their films, they are not saying that their films are better, but emphasizing that their films are epic films - didn't they pay attention to themselves, and their statements were already tantamount to saying that their films were inferior to us in details? ”

Levy had a different view of these fights. After seeing Universal's words, Levy immediately sensed that something was wrong.

They say that Levy's movies win by details and lines, and that translation into other languages will be discounted, so isn't it tantamount to admitting that their films don't matter if they are translated into other languages in these aspects, it is equivalent to admitting that their movie lines are not good?

"But the problem is that their movies are really not good."

Clark's words answered directly: It is true that Gladiator is a big investment movie, but it is indeed not very good in terms of characters and plot: a simple and crude conspiracy, the protagonist who is a lover of his family, flying in trouble, revenge, although it is claimed to be an epic film, but in fact it is the Roman version of the American dream, it can be said that it is a production product of an assembly line commercial film, and the two words epic are ruined, and there is no comparison with Levy's movie.

If there is no very good work, relying on their own investment, this movie can still be shouted epic, but now, in front of Infernal Affairs, how can they fight?

It's strange that they don't admit defeat. For example, what is the point of still emphasizing that the global box office is better?

"I'm just sighing, I can't imagine that gladiators can admit defeat so easily...... It's so easy. ”

Levy shook his head, remembering that the film was the best Oscar of the year. And now, in front of Levy, the gladiators have already surrendered on their knees, admitting that they are inferior at the box office and artistically.

This year, I said that I would sweep the whole year, and now it seems that I can definitely do what I say. When a good movie is in hand, in the face of other competition, you can definitely destroy it. (To be continued......)