72_72291 "Today" and "Good Morning America" are the most competitive opponents of American morning news programs, but this time in the "Independence Day" craze, they are half a position behind Fox TV's "Good Day Live", and they are robbed of countless style by their opponents. This is a difficult fact for NBC and ABC to accept.

However, being able to dominate the top two in the ratings for more than ten years, these two shows are obviously not so easy to beat. After witnessing the frenzy of 10,000 people watching movies in the first week of "Independence Day", the two programs reacted immediately.

NBC's Today approached veteran film critic Rick Goun, who works for The Daily News. groen), which allowed him to comment on "Independence Day" during the morning news program. In the course of the interview, Rick repeatedly and strongly said, "A work like 'Independence Day' is definitely a serious step backwards for the film industry, it should be thrown into the storage room and accumulate dust like the 'future water world', and it should never see the light of day." ”

Obviously, Rick has a deep hatred for "Independence Day", and he has no intention of hiding it. However, what is intriguing is that NBC TV station is thinking when choosing guests? Is it because NBC TV also doesn't like Independence Day, or is there another reason?

One thing to refer to is that the annual Golden Globes are broadcast by NBC TV, and one of the central issues in the power struggle between Marjana Brericon and Michael Russell within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is whether NBC TV should continue to broadcast the Golden Globes.

Perhaps, NBC TV's choice of position this time can give a glimpse of some insider information that no one in the circle knows for the time being.

Rick also did not live up to the trust of NBC TV, in the morning news, he was extremely sharp, "such a work has been sought after by the market, which is undoubtedly bad news for the Hollywood film industry, which almost marks that excellent films will be eroded by Wall Street's money offensive, and the future art will only be reduced to a pile of copper stench, which is disgusting!" ”

Later, Rick pointed the finger at Hugo, "After the great success, he was obviously carried away, and the choice of such an empty and boring film as 'Independence Day' was entirely because of money." A salary of 20 million can make him stand out, but it is not for him to ruin Miè Hollywood movies. If he doesn't know how to shoulder the corresponding responsibilities, then he will be the first pest to corrode the foundations of Hollywood movies. ”

"Today" devoted 30 minutes to the morning news program to this topic, and the interaction between Rick and the host was full of sparks and excitement. At the same time, Good Morning America, its strongest competitor, responded with its own by inviting the chief film critic of The New York Times, Armond Camby.

If you know anything about the history of film criticism, Armond can be said to be a representative of the conservative faction, he once looked down on Hugo in every way, and believed that Wall Street was devouring the charm of film art step by step. Armond's views are also widely considered to be out of step with the times, and he will soon be eliminated from the competition, just as he did after the release of "Male and Female".

However, "Schindler's List" became a turning point, after which Amund seemed to finally come to his senses, gradually kept up with the times, and once again became the chief film critic of the "New York Times", and has a significant influence among professional film critics throughout the East Coast. In stark contrast to the previous ones, Ammond was full of praise for Hugo, and this time seems to be no exception.

"If someone wants to talk to me about the future of cinema, then I'll think he's crazy." Armond's opening line seems to mean something and makes people laugh, "What makes the movie so fascinating is its richness and infinite possibilities." It is undeniable that film is accepted by everyone as an art form, but we should not forget that the reason why film was loved by so many people at the beginning of its birth is because it appeared as a kind of spiritual food, in other words, it was used to entertain the public. ”

As one of the most prestigious film critics on the East Coast, Armond is naturally not a veteran of the Daily News' Rick, and the background and precipitation of the age can be seen everywhere when he talks, "Therefore, movies should indeed have artistic standards, which is also the significance of the countless award ceremonies and film critics' associations every year." But in addition to works of art, movies should not be separated from the masses, because without the response of the audience, no one appreciates even the best works, and can only pile up dust in the storeroom. So, we still need commercial films, the kind of works that can bring simple joy. Only by persevering on the road of exploring how to balance art and commerce can we truly carry forward the film, and pure art and pure business are both stupid. ”

"That's why I love Independence Day, although the story structure of this movie is relatively simple, but the film realizes the picture of people's imagination in the most direct way, which is also the meaning of the original birth of the movie: to realize the fantasies and dreams that we can't realize." Independence Day's use of VFX is undoubtedly shocking, and it also gives more people with dreams of the opportunity, maybe I can't prove the existence of the time machine, but I can also fulfill this dream in the movie. Amond's remarks were strongly supported by the host.

Interestingly, ABC broadcasts the Oscars every year, and Hugo won his first Best Actor at the Oscars not long ago. The surprisingly delicate relationship between ABC and NBC is indeed worth pondering.

"Today" and "Good Morning America" represent two mainstream views in the film industry today, and at the same time, they also visualize the competition between the two shows on the current situation of Hollywood as a whole. This face-to-face direct competition, Tong Guò TV, Tong Guò, the two most high-profile morning news programs, broadcast throughout the United States, also put the boiling debate in the print media in front of all audiences, which also means that this revolution. Life has vigorously moved to an irretrievable height.

In the competition between "Today" and "Good Morning America", the former held the top spot in the ratings of morning news programs for more than a decade, and this situation continued until the late eighties, when "Good Morning America" rose strongly, replacing "Today" as the most popular morning news program.

However, since the second half of 1995, Joan Langdon, the host of "Good Morning America." Lunden) began to demand a reduction in workload, and since 1987, "Good Morning America" has been beating "Today" in ratings on a regular basis, and it has gradually moved from homeopathy to instability.

For most of the past year, "Today" has had the absolute upper hand, while "Good Morning America" has been suppressed, and Yiqiē seems to have returned to the pre-1987 state. But this time the Hollywood topic controversy was unexpected but reasonable, and "Good Morning America" once again held the advantage in its hands.

The episode of "Good Morning America," where Armond was a special guest, collided head-on with Rick's main firepower, and "Good Morning America" attracted 6.7 million viewers, the highest ratings since 1995. Although "Today" also achieved a good result of 6.2 million, it fell far behind its competitors and lost this important showdown.

The competition between these two morning news programs can also be seen as a microcosm of the factional struggle of the entire Hollywood, and the result of this ratings competition can also be seen as a projection of the current trend of the entire American film industry - relying on the strong performance of "Independence Day" in the first week, the high-investment, high-return supporters are rising in momentum and are gradually seizing the initiative.

In the second week of July, after Independence Day grossed an incredible $116 million in its first week, as many as 237 print media outlets across the United States reported on the feat, and even more exaggeratedly, as many as 103 television programs specifically mentioned Independence Day more than 500 times in a week, not to mention thousands of times on radio programs.

In other words, the entire North American continent is talking about this phenomenal film, whether you like it or hate it, but there's no denying that it's creating an unparalleled craze for conversation, just as it was when "vulgarity" came out, and this time it's about the future of commercial cinema that has sparked a much broader and more lively discussion.

Supported by such a hot momentum, the second batch of film reviews on "Independence Day" was as many as 49 - including many reviews from non-professional and non-national newspapers, of course - which also brought the two rounds of film reviews on "Independence Day" to a terrible 80 articles, although there were many non-professional opinions, but it is still possible to see how hot the film is today.

Under the bombardment of two rounds of film criticism, the media comprehensive evaluation of "Independence Day" fell rapidly, from 83 points in the first week to 70 points, and the decline was very strict, but aside from the entire decline, 70 points is still an exceptionally good score for commercial films, not as good as "life and death", but far higher than "Terminator 2", "Jurassic Park" and "True Lies".

From this detail, it can be seen that the overall trend in Hollywood is still to dominate with the praise of "Independence Day". After 70 minutes of the media comprehensive evaluation, the theater score was finally released, and after the blowout box office response in the first week, the number of people participating in the theater score evaluation also hit a new high, which also made the "B" score obtained by "Independence Day" more convincing, which coincided with the media comprehensive evaluation, and truly and accurately reflected the current reaction of the entire market to the film.

Under the double affirmation of the media comprehensive evaluation and the theater score, the box office table of the second week of "Independence Day" has become the focus of everyone's attention