In the Hong Kong entertainment industry at this time, there are both compensation and requests, which one can not sell Yang Lin's face? Therefore, when Shi Nansheng took Yang Lin's compensation contract and walked door to door, Zhou Yanfa's film contract within three months was postponed.

Just wait for Zhou Yan to find the two dramas in his hand, all the filming will be completed, and "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" will be officially launched.

Yang Lin was in Hong Kong, preparing for the filming of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", but he didn't expect that on the other side of the distant Pacific Ocean, a "wave of family affection" was being set off. When this trend finally came to an end, even Yang Lin himself didn't believe that there would be such an influence.

Twentieth Century Fox is a Hollywood giant. But in the high-risk industry of film, both the giant and the grassroots face the same risk: hitting the streets. In this industry, making money is indeed fast, but it is not slow when it is unlucky. A movie with an investment of more than $40 million, "Happy Postman", is very serious. After a month of release, the box office plummeted, and in the fourth week, when the box office was only a little more than $300,000, all the theaters jointly filmed.

The film schedule of the theater is planned and planned, and this one is drawn in advance, so the later ones will be progressive. However, due to the overly optimistic box office estimate of "Happy Postman" in advance, there was a long gap between the film and the latter after the film was drawn.

Not all movies can be produced half a year in advance and waiting for release. Therefore, many theaters in North America, at this time, there is a fault. Generally speaking, if this gap is too long. They won't put the movies that are in the back of the queue and just pick them up for release. Because in this way, all the film scheduling plans that follow. All mean that there is going to be change.

According to the usual practice, once such a situation occurs, the theater chain will contact some directors with guaranteed box office, or movies by big-name actors, and temporarily cut the queue and arrange for release.

is very lucky, and has already relied on two movies, "Ghost Love" and "Die Hard". Yang Lin, who established his status in Hollywood, got this unexpected surprise with his new work. "Central Station" has been arranged for release by many theaters.

However, it is different from when "Die Hard" was released, when almost all the cinemas were released at the same time. This time. Faced with such a movie, with a production cost of less than four million, many people hesitated. Even if it is boldly released, it will only arrange a few screens.

This movie, the production is too "shabby", the content is too "bland", and everyone has no confidence.

As a result, 1050 cinemas. 1,800 big screens, this is the result of "Grand Central Station" when it was released. Compared with Yang Lin's worth at this time. It seemed a little shabby, but Yang Lin didn't care. You must know that this is several times stronger than the results of this movie when it was released in history.

When he made this movie, he didn't plan to make money. It can only be regarded as a game work, a unique tribute to the things that I liked in my previous life.

It is also a deep memory of that life journey.

However, what everyone can't imagine is that "Grand Central Station" has simply become a remake of "The Love of People and Ghosts".

At the beginning, almost all the people who watched this movie were fans of Yang Lin. They are either infatuated with poignant and loyal love because of "Ghost Love", or because of "Die Hard", they are intoxicated by the fierce and majestic action performance, so they highly respect Yang Lin and regard him as an idol. They don't even care what Yang Lin shoots. As long as he took it, then you have to watch it.

With an indifferent mood, they stepped into the theater, but the performance of "Central Station" had a thorough baptism of their souls.

The story of a thousand miles to find his father, as well as the story of self-search and loss, has been performed countless times. However, these clichéd episodes have been given a deeper meaning by this movie.

"It touches your heart and talks to your brain".

I don't know which commentator said this sentence after watching the movie. However, it goes to the heart and hits the nail on the head.

One of the deepest highlights of this movie is its connotation. The name "Grand Central Station" is simply the finishing touch of the whole movie.

Life may be like this station, bustling, mixed, and people coming and going. Our lives are destined to be filled with a lot of passers-by and a lot of sparks. Everyone's life is like a line, and every time people meet, there will be one more intersection point. And every encounter is a precious memory, the most precious and shining thing in life.

The most touching thing about the film is its ending. Dora took Joshua through a lot of hardships to find his brother. Late that night, Dora put on the dress Joshua bought for her, put on the lipstick, and left in Joshua's most beautiful image. In the light of the morning sun shone on Joshua, Dora had departed. The tight piano music at the end, and the scene with Joshua running after Dora's car, also became an eternity. From time to time, the camera switches between the tear-stained faces of the two.

After a happy day of tiredness, the photo of the two was the only thing they missed. No matter how reluctant she was, Dora was gone.

'Will you forget me'

'Never!'

'How do you know'

This casual remark is destined to become a lifelong commitment. And both of them held a small lookout and looked inside with tears in their eyes, which made people cry. The casual encounter collided with such a beautiful spark. As Dora sat on the bumpy return car, trembling and proud, she wrote in a letter to Joshua: 'Don't forget that when you get into the truck later, when you have the wheel in your hands, it was Dora who first taught you to drive a truck.'

It's not a comedy, it's not a tragedy, it's a simple story, it can even be said to be as plain as water, but it can open the softest part of people's hearts.

Dora helped Joshua find a home and a home, but the greater significance was that Dora had regained the meaning of her life. Along the way, Dora and Joshua have undergone baptism after baptism, and the two have gone through an extraordinary journey from hating each other to trusting each other. Dora redeemed Joshua and allowed Joshua to find a home, Joshua let her soul find the other side, and Joshua redeemed Dora. Dora is gone before dawn, and they have all completed their spiritual journey, learning to miss, learning to remember, learning how to love and believe. —The New York Times

"I have to say, this is a very touching movie. It even changed some of my previous prejudices about movies. Originally, I thought that no matter how fancy the appearance of a movie is, its first purpose is to make money. All plots are in the service of making money. So all kinds of lengthy kiss scenes and emotional scenes are flying all over the sky. In recent years, there have been many Hollywood movies like this. But since I finished watching Grand Central Station, my thinking has changed a lot: there are often many movies that are extremely meaningful. They give us a blow to the head when we get carried away with our material life, and pick up all the things we have neglected the most. Just like this film, two people who meet in Pingshui, some people who are very ordinary and ordinary, have such a touching story of intertwined family and friendship." - World Film News

"We have to admit it, and we have to be surprised: that talented man from Hong Kong has conquered Hollywood, and now, he is a talented man in Hollywood. A plain, but absolutely extraordinary story, interpreted by his unique technique and magical perspective, is deeply touching and intriguing. There is no lingering compassion of "People and Ghosts", and there is no bloody passion of "Die Hard", but "Central Station" is more like a totem, a symbol, which not only makes us curious: What is that Hong Kong kid, his style? Where is his limit? He has long stood at the pinnacle of his peers, and even if you look at the whole of Hollywood, he is one of the best directors. In the future, what kind of miracle will he perform? ”

- Los Angeles Daily News

The propaganda of the media and the reputation of the audience are like magical yeast, slowly fermenting, slowly brewing, and slowly exploding. Eventually, it became monstrous and irresistible.

In the first week of its premiere, 1,050 theaters, 1,800 screens, 70 percent attendance, and $2.3 million at the box office.

In the second week, 1,320 theaters, 2,200 big screens, 82 percent attendance, and $4.8 million at the box office.

In the third week, 2,300 theaters, 3,350 big screens, 95 percent attendance, and $9 million at the box office.

Fourth week, $11.2 million.

Fifth week, $12.4 million.

Week 6,

It's not a tsunami, it's a storm. At a time when the storm was still brewing in the far South Pacific, no one noticed it. But when it swept in with a violent storm, everyone was dumbfounded. watched blankly, how this "little movie" with a production fee of four million was indomitable, destroying everything, how it swept the United States, and interpreted the legend.

"If Central Station is one of the best movies in the world, this statement is too exaggerated, and everyone has a different experience when watching the movie. But one thing is for sure, "Grand Central Station" is a good movie, one of the real and worthy of collection. This movie, unlike the current European and American commercial films, is full of fighting scenes, without gorgeous stunt shots, and what is promoted is not the individual heroism of a single person, but a real picture of life, a dirty station, a dilapidated train, a noisy crowd, a snobbish trader, realistic, and poignant. However, it is such a theme, a story, but it deduces a journey of the soul. I have to say that Yang Lin, the magical Oriental boy and the 'Hong Kong genius', has a heart of God. He was able to find a wonderful common ground between Eastern and Western cultures: family affection, or love. ”

Siskel and Ebert Film Review. (To be continued......)