"Hey, Thomas, you should exercise more, now you're too fat to look good."

An old woman who was knitting a sweater said helplessly to the big fat man sitting on the edge of the sofa holding a bucket of popcorn and munching wildly, but unfortunately the big fat man obviously didn't listen to the words.

I saw Thomas looking at the TV in front of him and casually replied: "Got it, Mom, I'll go to exercise after watching TV." ”

"Your sport?" The old woman pulled the ball of yarn and continued, "Is it sleeping again? ”

“……”

Thomas is an ordinary trader on the Chicago Board of Trade, because the Chicago Board of Trade is one of the largest exchanges in the United States, so the work of traders is extremely stressful, so many traders have different ways to decompress.

For example, Thomas's method of decompression is to eat and watch movies, and as a result, he eats himself alive and becomes a big fat man.

As for his other method of decompression, it is obvious that it is not possible to help him decompress every day, and September and October in the United States are definitely the off-season for movies, and basically none of the top 50 movies at the box office will choose to be released in these two months. However, there was a Chinese movie last month, called "Tiaozi Story", which is very good, although he didn't remember many of the faces in it, but he remembered the big nose of the protagonist.

Yes, Thomas remembered Seilong's big nose......

This is the famous face blindness, just like many Chinese look at black people, basically think that all black people look the same. And many white people also have face blindness when they see yellow people, and it basically takes half a day to only tell who is who, and at this time Chenglong's huge nose is a great help to him.

Quietly in the house, Thomas put down the popcorn bucket in his hand, walked to the TV and tuned the channel to Chicago Public Broadcasting Station, which will play a movie review program called "at-the-movies", which is Thomas's favorite and the hottest movie review TV show in the United States.

And this TV show just scolded Shao Yifu's investment in "Blade Runner" four months ago......

"Click-"

Just as Thomas returned to the couch and picked up the bucket of popcorn to continue nibbling on, a fast, smooth opening time flashed on the TV, and "at-the-movies" finally began.

"Hey, hello audiences across the United States!" Roger, one of the show's hosts? Albert walked onto the stage with a small sticky note, shrugged his shoulders and continued: "Let's start a lonely week again, but it doesn't matter, we can watch the ladies and gentlemen wrestle." ”

"Haha-"

There was a burst of laughter from below the stage, and Albert teased Margaret Thatcher before raising his right hand and saying, "Oh, the bad news for everyone, Siskel sprained his right foot because of a fall, so this show is ......"

"Hey! Hey! Hey! ”

Gene, another host of "at-the-movies"? Siskel walked onto the stage wearing a primitive human animal skin suit, causing a lot of discussion and coaxing in the audience, only to see Siskel holding a big wooden stick and pointing at Albert and saying, "Hey, where am I hurt?" ”

"Oh! I'm sorry for the audience. ”

Ebert suddenly bowed to the camera and continued to sigh pretendedly: "Siskell is not injured in his right foot, but in his brain. ”

"Haha-"

There was another burst of laughter from the audience, and Siskel pretended to be angry and said, "Hey, don't laugh, be serious, I'm a caveman who has lived for fourteen thousand years now!" ”

“ok！ ok！ The ......" Albert raised his hands, shook his body and smiled: "Then you said that you are a caveman who has lived for fourteen thousand years, what evidence is there?" ”

"Oh no, I have no proof." Siskel threw away the big stick and covered his face and said in anguish.

"Hey, audience." Albert suddenly turned to the TV screen and asked with a straight face, "If you come across a caveman who says he has lived for 14,000 years, do you believe it or not?" ”

Thomas looked at the TV, clutching the popcorn in his hand and fell into deep thought, what if he really met such a person, believe it or not? But what does that have to do with the movie I'm going to review today......

"Last weekend, I watched a really amazing sci-fi movie, a house, a few sand ......," Ebert continued on stage.

"Oh, yes." Siskel interjected, "I introduced him to see it." ”

"Ahem-"

Albert snorted coldly and continued: "A house, three sofas, a dozen people, no spaceship, no ET, no lightsaber, talk talk talk, talk talk for 90 minutes, do you believe this is a science fiction movie?" ”

“……”

There was suddenly no sound under the stage, and even Thomas in front of the TV was stunned, how could this be possible, talking about a science fiction movie? Is there a movie like this in the world?

"I believe it!" Suddenly, a man raised his hand from below the stage.

"Forehead......" Albert was slightly stunned, and then asked, "This, this man, what is your name?" ”

"Robert."

“ok！ Robert. Ebert stretched out his right hand and gestured, and continued to ask, "Why do you believe?" ”

Robert shrugged his shoulders and said, "Because I saw it yesterday, the movie is wonderful!" ”

"Haha-"

Ebert looked embarrassed, but Siskel and the audience laughed loudly, only to see Siskel laughing and said, "Hey, Robert, I agree with you, the movie is really wonderful." ”

"Thank you!" Robert replied from under the stage.

Albert recovered and said, "OKOK! This movie is indeed wonderful, it reminds me of the "Twelve Angry Men" back then, the same single scene and the same conversation, the picture is monotonous, but it is very exciting, they give us a kind of ** to continue watching. Hey Siskel, what do you think of after watching this movie? ”

"What came to mind?" Siskel pondered for a moment before he said slowly: "The first thing this movie feels is thinking. After reading it, the first thing I thought about was if I met this person, would I choose to believe it or not? Maybe it's not a choice, completely negative or completely believing, the whole open-ended story brings very interesting thinking. ”

"Oh, yes." Albert shrugged his shoulders and continued: "If you have a friend who has lived together for more than ten years, and suddenly one day tells you that he is a caveman, and all kinds of questions and confusions you ask can be explained and even irrefutable, do you believe it or not? ”

"It's a small-budget film, and I heard that the investment is less than $20,000." Siskel also said slowly: "But when I saw the strange name of the movie outside the theater door, a strange ** drove me into the movie theater, and then, I was deeply shocked by this movie." I dare say that this movie is much more exciting than some science fiction movies that have invested nearly $30 million this year. ”

"There are no dazzling stunts and no gorgeous costumes, but the vastness of time and space it expresses makes my heart surge, a caveman, across an interval of 14,000 years, came to you, what is this? That's history! ”

"So, our movie recommendations for the week." Albert picked up the note in his hand and said, "I recommend this "This Man is from Earth" produced by Microsoft Times Studios, believe me, this movie will give you a different shock." ”

"Of course...... of course," Siskel suddenly interjected next to him, "Some of the religious histories in it are very strange, so I hope you will try not to lose control after reading it." ”

"Next, let's continue to talk about this year's summer movie review, you need to know ......"

……

In the quiet room, Thomas suddenly put down the popcorn bucket in his hand, struggled his fat body to get up from the sofa, stopped watching TV and turned around and walked out the door.

"Thomas, what are you going to do?" The old woman asked aloud.

Thomas, who had already opened the door, did not look back, but replied in a loud voice: "Oh, Mom, didn't you say it, I'm going to exercise!" ”

“……”

Closing the door, Thomas turned around and walked to the nearest theater, he had been aroused by the words of Albert and Siskel, and wanted to see what the magic of the film really was.

The first cinema: what? "This Man is from Earth"? No......

Second Cinema: What kind of movie is that? But sir, I can recommend you to watch Ann ......

Third Cinema: Sorry, this cinema is under renovation......

……

Poor big fat man Thomas, ran to five theaters in a row in the afternoon to find a theater to show "This Man is from Earth", although the weather was cool, but by the time he bought the movie ticket, his clothes were already soaked with sweat.

Fortunately, the number of people in the theater is still about sixty percent, and people don't have to cover their noses to sit with this big fat man covered in sweat.

As soon as the movie opened, I attracted Mr. Thomas, who was fat but still had a literary and artistic stuffiness, and watched the movie without blinking.

After the movie ended, Thomas only had one feeling - this director, this screenwriter, really amazing!

"This Man is from Earth" earned $1.18 million at the box office on the first day of its release, but this must be due to Li Xuanhu's fake tiger "Police Story".

As expected, the box office plummeted the next day, falling to $570,000, less than half of its premiere. Fortunately, this data stabilized on the third day, and the box office has remained above 500,000.

However, the reputation of this movie has been bullish all the way, except for a few religious people and people who really can't stand the plot of the movie from time to time to jump out and scold, many film critics and news media have given some praise to the content and directorial techniques of the film.

When it comes to religious issues, they can't boast about it......

Just a week after the release of "This Man from Earth", Li Xuan, who was far away in Hong Kong, was surprised to find that although the attendance rate of this movie did not rise against the market, it did not fall, and the box office even rose to more than 550,000 for several days.

As soon as the Chicago Public Broadcasting Television's "at-the-movies" was broadcast, the movie's attendance rate suddenly rose by a large level, and as a result, the box office of the movie remained above 900,000 every day for nearly a week, and this strange box office growth stopped after seven or eight days, and the box office began to slowly decline again, and even finally fell below 400,000.

As a result, when "This Man is from Earth" was painted, it got a box office of $19.53 million, which is not conspicuous among the blockbusters, and it is $10 million less than "Police Story".

But let's not forget that the cost of the film, less than twenty thousand dollars. Li Xuan made a net profit of nearly $8 million this time, excluding the filming costs, publicity costs and the donation costs promised to Mary!

Making movies in North America is really profitable, and Li Xuan's score for such a small film is higher than the box office of any film in Hong Kong.

No wonder Shao Yifu and Zou Wenhuai want to run to the United States all day long......

But do you think the potential of this movie will be tapped so quickly? The re-screening of videotapes and movies can also make money, and earn more, especially after Microsoft's senior executives were ranked on the world's richest list, Li Xuan made a lot of money by relying on the copyright of this movie.

According to the statistics of the American "Variety" magazine in 2004, Li Xuanguang made $170 million in the world with the film's videotape and DVD release, not to mention the money earned from the film's global screening, re-screening and TV broadcast.

In short, just when "The True Color of Heroes" was about to be completed, the news that Li Xuan made a lot of money in North America with "This Man is from Earth" finally came back to Hong Kong, which immediately triggered a wave of entertainment discussions in Hong Kong.

In this crisp autumn day, Hong Kong has also become hot. (To be continued.) )