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Chapter 186: Hollywood's first Chinese blockbuster

Chapter 186: Hollywood's first Chinese blockbuster

"Shakespeare's Love History" is more about the analysis of the characters and the criticism of the society at that time, and even reflects the situation of today's society. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The most obvious thing about info is the social status of the nv people, although the nv people are the emperor, but the social status of the nv people is not much different from the commodity, and the father of the nv protagonist is to exchange her and five thousand pounds for a colony. There is also the casting of the drama, which is very similar to Leslie Cheung's "Farewell My Concubine", NV people are not allowed to go on stage, and looking behind it through this incident, it can also be seen that there are many similarities with "Farewell My Concubine".

In ancient Chinese society, the social consensus was that Fu Taoist people could not throw their heads away, and in Britain there was also a saying of "Shu NV", which restricted the freedom of NVXING. And "Shakespeare's Love History" is a performance on stage through the protagonist of the NV, which is to express the courage to challenge irrational social phenomena.

But to be honest, in the eyes of Westerners, this love is very long, but it still has a fatal flaw, or rather, the artist's feelings will always suppress Li Xing. What did Shakespeare do when he was uninspired? It's very simple, go to the Fengyue place and look for it on the belly of the NV people. In Jiāo, the protagonist of the NV, he hides the reality that he has a wife, and although he is emotionally comforted in the end, he can't be together after all, as in "Romeo and Juliet". In this respect, he failed two people, his wife and the NV protagonist.

Yes, làng manga is precious, but what is needed behind làng manga is a sense of responsibility, and it is clear that Shakespeare's love history does not highlight this. If you compare the contrasting views on love in "Shakespeare in Love" and "Million Dollar Baby", there is no doubt that the former is certainly more desirable, but the latter is what people really want.

The response to the film was very good, and it won $28 million in the first three days of release, which is already very high for a romance film, after all, it is not a mainstream movie. And this week, "Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasty 2" finally defeated "Million Dollar Baby" and successfully topped the box office list. won 52 million US dollars in the United States, and the total domestic box office has exceeded 100 million, as high as 105 million US dollars. Moreover, it was also released overseas this week, and the box office snatching was just as crazy, taking $74 million. The total global box office is as high as $179 million. Compared with "Shakespeare's Love History", which is also an investment of 80 million US dollars, "Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties 2" is obviously much stronger in its ability to grab the box office.

"Million Dollar Baby" has entered the previous madness, although the box office has declined, but the decline is not exaggerated, in the fifth week of release, it can still win 48 million US dollars in the United States, which shows people's love for it, and the local box office has reached 388 million US dollars, and will break the 400 million mark at any time.

The overseas box office also declined, but in the fourth week of overseas release, its ability to grab the box office still surpassed that of "Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasty 2", winning another $85 million, and the total overseas box office has reached $443 million. The global box office totaled $831 million. As soon as this box office came out, it already indicated that it would surpass "My Regiment Leader, My Regiment" at the box office and break Liang Xiǎolong's own record.

"Million Dollar Baby" has been five weeks, and the time has entered the middle of November, and the new year will soon be coming, and people are unconsciously discussing next year's Oscars, because the nominees will be determined at the end of December. This topic is also being discussed in the Liang Xiǎo Dragon family, and this year Rachel, Jessica, and Sophie are missing out on Oss, and the central point is Liang Xiǎo Dragon.

In Liang Xiǎolong's memory, the 71st Oscars should be the weirdest year, basically surrounded by the three films "Life is Beautiful", "Shakespeare's Love History" and "Saving Private Ryan". But now there is naturally another change, "Million Dollar Baby" will definitely be shortlisted, but in the competition with these three films, it is also unknown who will win.

Among them, "Beautiful Life" is the same as last year's "My Captain, My Group", both are foreign-language films, produced in Italy, and were released in Italy last year, and were only introduced to the United States this year, so they can still participate in the Oscar competition. Liang Xiǎo Long remembers that in his previous life, this film won seven Oscars, and finally won three Xiǎo Golden People, which is already a very good result for a foreign language film.

The story of "Life is Beautiful" is the same as "Saving Private Ryan", which revolves around World War II, but its story is not a battlefield, but a depiction of ordinary people to further highlight the war. The story takes place in the aftermath of the Second World War, which envelops the whole of Italy.

Guido is a seemingly clumsy young Jew, but kind-hearted and optimistic. He is full of beautiful yearning for life. He and his friend Filucho drove a broken car from the countryside to the town of Arezzo Xiǎo, and his wish was to open his own bookstore in Xiǎo Town and live a comfortable life without any disputes. Passing by a barn tower, Dora, a beautiful young girl, suddenly falls into his arms from the tower, which turns out to have a wasp's nest, and the wasps often harass the local residents. Dora wanted to rid the people of the harm and burned the wasp's nest, but was stung by the wasp. Guido immediately became fond of her and warmly treated her wounds, and as a token of gratitude, Dora sent Guido some jiji eggs and watched him go away meaningfully.

In cloudy Italy, the Nazi reactionary forces were growing stronger, Mussolini pursued a hard-line policy of racial discrimination, and Guido's application to open a bookstore was repeatedly blocked and delayed for a long time because of his Jewish ancestry. His friend Firucho's job has also been unsettled for a long time. During this period, Guido was forced to work as a waiter in a restaurant, and he won the love of customers with his sincere, simple, warm and thoughtful service attitude, including Dr. Lee, who likes to guess riddles, and expressed his respect for Guido's brilliant mind and sincere attitude.

Once when Guido was filling out the application, he inadvertently smashed a pot of huā on the head of the signatory (Rudolph), and the signatory (Rudolph) went to chase Guido, and Guido bumped into Dora around a corner, and the two met again and ignited the flame of love in Guido's heart. He wastes no time in confessing his affection to Dora.

Dora was a teacher at a certain school, and one day the inspector from Rome wanted to inspect the school, and when Guido learned about it, he pretended to be the inspector and came to Dora's school to inspect it. The principal warmly receives him, and in order to please Dora and get Dora's attention, Guidoso Xing jumps on the podium to show off his talent as a comedian, causing the students to laugh and the principal and teachers jaw-dropping.

When Guido learns that Dora and her boyfriend Rudolph are going to the theater to see an opera, he also buys a ticket to go, and Guido, who is sitting downstairs, keeps staring intently at Dora in the box upstairs. At first, Dora didn't care about Guido's hard work, but because Dora hated Rudolph, she often spent time with Guido. Rudolph wishfully hosts an engagement party with Dora. The party happened to be held at the hotel where Guido was located. Guido cleverly frees Dora from Rudolph's entanglement, thus winning her heart. Dora fell out with her parents, ran away from home, and married Guido.

After the marriage, good things followed, Guido's dream bookstore opened, and they had a well-behaved and lovely son, Schopenhauer. Guido often plays games with his son when he has nothing to do, and the family lives happily. But a few years later, on Schopenhauer's fifth birthday, the Nazis took Guido's uncle, Guido, and son Schopenhauer and forcibly sent them to a Jewish concentration camp. When Dora and Schopenhauer's grandmother return home in high spirits, only to see that the building is empty and the house is turned into a mess, Dora understands what is happening in front of her. Although she is not of Jewish descent, she insists on going to the concentration camp with Guido and her son, and Dora is imprisoned in NV, and Guido does not want to let her son's young Xiǎo's soul henceforth be miserable. In the brutal concentration camp, Guido tries his best to get in touch with his wife in the NV prison and report to Dora that he is safe, and on the other hand, he wants to protect and take care of the young Joshua, who coaxes his son that he is playing a game, and those who follow the rules of the game will eventually get a real tank home with a score of 1000. The naïve and inquisitive son believed Guido's words, how he wanted a tank, and Joshua endured hunger, fear, loneliness, and all the harsh circumstances. Guido used the game to keep his son's childlike innocence unharmed.

Guido is optimistically doing the dirty work while making up the lies of the game. He also survived because of Dr. Lee's help.

Originally, all the xiǎo children were to be killed in the bath, and Joshua unknowingly escaped from the bath (he didn't like bathing very much). Then, his father Guido asked him to hun among the German children and warned him not to speak, saying that this was the key to scoring points, but in fact, he was afraid that he would be recognized because of his accent.

When the liberation came, and the Nazis were about to flee late one night, Guido hid his son in an iron cabinet and told Joshua not to come out, otherwise he would not get the tank. He planned to take advantage of Luàn to go to the NV prison to find his wife Dora, but unfortunately he was discovered by the Nazis, and when the Nazis escorted Guido past Joshua's iron cabinet, he also walked optimistically and stride, suggesting that his son should not come out, but soon a gunshot was heard, and Guido, who had endured the ordeal, died tragically at the gunpoint of the German Nazis.

When it was dawn, Joshua climbed out of the iron cabinet and stood in the courtyard, when a real tank rumbled in front of him, and an American soldier got out of it and carried him onto the tank. Finally, Joshua is reunited with Dora's mother and son.

"It's really a very bāng work, especially the director's choice of story background is very clever and profound." Speaking of this film, Rachel also expressed her opinion, in the choice of background, Italian director Roberto. Bernini was very clever not to adopt a panoramic warrior, but to choose the experiences of several ordinary people and an ordinary family to reflect the social situation at the time. Secondly, even if it chooses the experience of ordinary people and ordinary families, it does not fall into the cliché of exaggerating the deep suffering in the war, but makes the xiǎo characters appear funny and amused, so that the sad state of mind at the end will naturally appear.

"Indeed, if you don't pay attention to it, you will feel that this is a romantic comedy." Liang Xiǎo Long also laughed, the film is bright and smooth from beginning to end, and it does not create a dull and depressing feeling for the audience in sè color. Especially in the first half of the film, before the protagonist is imprisoned in a concentration camp, you even ignore the context of the war and feel like it's a romantic comedy.

"The title of the film is also very bāng, and it feels very sincere." Sophie also put forward her own opinion, the words "beautiful life" and war are almost a pair of natural paradoxes, at first glance, you will feel that the four words of beautiful life are a kind of irony of the content of the story. In fact, although there is a lot of suffering in the film, the bravery, strength, and responsibility of the protagonist make his life different, so this title should be very sincere and sincere.

Led by Liang Xiǎo Long, the four of them evaluated the four films "Million Dollar Baby", "Saving Private Ryan", "Shakespeare's Love History" and "Life is Beautiful", and even took out the CDs of the four films to play them live and make detailed comparisons in all aspects. Of course, their discussion was not objective, because there were preconceived notions that "Million Dollar Baby" would win in every way.

The family's words are not credible, and the competition for the four films still has to be given to the Oscar judges in the end. And the box office of the new week has also come out, after all, "Million Dollar Baby" has been released for six weeks, and the gap in the box office is relatively large, almost halved, with only $26 million in the United States, but even so, the local box office has exceeded 400 million, as high as $414 million.

The gap in the overseas box office is also relatively large, only $58 million, but it also broke through the 500 million mark, as high as $501 million. The total global box office has reached $915 million, and there is no problem in breaking the billion mark, and it will also become the third Hollywood film to break the billion mark at the box office.

And "Million Dollar Baby" also caused a very strange phenomenon, the watch in the film has almost become synonymous with popularity, especially for Everbright teenagers, if they don't have a watch in their hands, it is almost equivalent to breaking away from the pop circle and becoming synonymous with backwardness. I don't dare to say that everyone has a watch, as well as clothes and soundtracks, but at least one in five teenagers has a point, and it can be said that you can see it almost everywhere on the street. Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun, New York Times...... and other major newspapers have also reported on this situation, and made estimates that after the commercial development of "Million Dollar Baby" in all aspects, the profits that can be obtained will definitely exceed the income of "Titanic". Among them, the Los Angeles Times even named this phenomenon: the epidemic in the economic crisis.

At the beginning of the new week, there is a very peculiar phenomenon in Hollywood, many people are discussing a film that has not yet been released, so what is the film that makes people look forward to it so much? This has to say that the situation in Hollywood in the past few years, since Liang Xiǎo Long stepped into Hollywood, there was first a gust of kung fu wind, "Police and Thieves" and "Black Fist" were box office hits, making people further remember Chinese kung fu. After that, there were Chinese-themed films in Hollywood, "Terracotta Warriors", "Immortal War Spirit", "Sui and Tang Heroes", "My Regiment Leader, My Regiment", "Sui and Tang Heroes 2", which were big hits at the box office, and Chinese-themed films have been completely accepted by American audiences and world audiences.

However, there is a very strange phenomenon, these Chinese-themed films are all made in Hollywood, why can't we see Chinese-themed films shot by Chinese film companies? It is generally believed that China's film industry is still in its infancy, and all aspects of the facilities are very imperfect, especially the special effects technology, which is almost in its infancy, and it is difficult to shoot films that can enter the United States.

This is not false, even if China Film was established in advance, but the development of the film takes time, if it were not for the drive of Liang Xiǎo Long, China Film won the release rights of several blockbusters in China in a row, and the development of China Film would be slower.

But today, that record is about to be broken, and post-production of "Hero" has been completed and will be distributed in the United States by Yan Huang Films.

"Looking forward to it" Liang Xiǎo Long sighed lightly, it was this film that kicked off the Chinese blockbuster back then, and now it has come out in advance, can it also kick off the Chinese blockbuster? One of the key factors in this is the box office, if the response is strong enough and enough funds can be recovered, China Film is naturally willing to spend a lot of money to create more blockbusters, and more filmmakers will throw money into blockbusters.

"Hero" has two premieres, first in China, after all, it is a self-created film, and if it is released in the United States now, it will be too bloody. As soon as the domestic premiere ended, the crew got on a plane and flew to the United States, where the premiere will be held at the Los Angeles hotel.

"Director Zhang, welcome, you can take the first step with a domestic movie." Liang Xiǎo Long attaches great importance to this film, so when he received Karl's notice, he immediately decided to come to pick up the film in person, which can be regarded as expressing his respect for Zhang Yimou, the first brother in the Chinese director industry.

"It should be the captain, you should take everyone out of the first step." Although Zhang Yimou is very confident in his films, he has to admit that it is Liang Xiǎo Long who leads Chinese-themed films out of China. Looking at the Chinese-themed films produced by Hollywood in the past two years, the box office can only be looked up to. At the same time, I have to admit that the level of Hollywood screenwriters is at least two grades higher than that of China.

Indeed, the script has always been the biggest weakness of the Chinese film industry, even in 2010, the special effects technology has been relatively mature, but it still can't make a good blockbuster, the lack of director ability in this regard is certainly a factor, but the level of the screenwriter is indeed too low, otherwise it would not have made so many bad movies. Of course, the most important thing is the censorship system of films, if Chinese films will completely decline in the future, it will definitely die from that dogmatic censorship system.

But none of that matters, the important thing is that the first step has been taken. Moreover, Jet Li now has a certain influence in Hollywood, with a lot of films, the film is about to be released, and many movies have rushed to the premiere scene. There are also a lot of media reporters who want to see how different there is between Chinese blockbusters produced in China and Chinese blockbusters produced by Hollywood.

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