Chapter 680: Who Do You Want to Be the Protagonist?
On the first weekend of August, Marvel Pictures held a grand premiere of "Hulk" at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, the second official production of the Marvel Phase 1 Universe Project after "Captain America", and the various cosplayers who are currently confirmed to appear in the Marvel movie gathered in Los Angeles.
The brain and commander of the Avengers, Captain America, is played by Ryan; Scarlett? Johnson will continue her path as a Black Widow; Robert Jr.? Downey's Iron Man will come out next year; Samuel? Jackson's Nick? Before Fury's mobilization, he would always go around playing soy sauce; Black Widow's blue-faced confidante is also determined to be by the nameless Jeremy? Rayner starred; Wolverine Logan, the reddden of the X-Men, may also join the team.
Of course, the protagonist of this movie is the Hulk, Mark who has worked hard in Hollywood for many years but has achieved nothing? Ruffalo, holding Kate? Beckinsale appeared on the red carpet with the latter as the heroine of the film.
After walking into the theater foyer and exchanging a few words with the people who came over, Ryan found the unusually conspicuous Taylor, who had slipped in through the side door and was leading a little girl.
"Lily, you're so beautiful today." Ryan gently rubbed the little girl's hair.
Lily? Mo? Sim seemed to have some objections to his action messing up his hair, but unlike Taylor when she was a child, she still greeted politely, "Hello, godfather." ”
"Lily, you have to learn to say no!" Taylor brought out Ryan's words.
"But...... But......" the little girl paused for a moment before she could come up with something appropriate to express, "I think this is a way for the godfather to express his affection. ”
Ryan crouched down and helped Lily sort out the somewhat crooked princess hairpin, then looked at Taylor, "When did you come back?" ”
"Last night." Taylor took Ryan's job, "I came back a little late and didn't call you. We met Scarlett again this morning, and we went to find Kate, and I became Lily's babysitter. ”
"Thank you, sister." Lily seemed very well-behaved.
The film is rated PG-13, and after entering the halls of the theater, Taylor returns Lily to Kate? Beckinsale, converging Scarlett? Johnson, sitting next to Ryan, before the movie starts, the two girls keep muttering, intimate seems to have endless words. It didn't stop until the movie started.
Compared with Ang Lee's somewhat literary "Hulk" in his previous life, this is an out-and-out popcorn movie, from the characters to the plot to the theme, there is no obscurity and complexity, and it seems unusually simple.
There is no need for such a film to pay attention to too many humanist feelings and investigate the deep-seated social reasons behind it, but to pay more attention to the requirements of action scenes, especially inheriting the consistent level of action and special effects of amazing superhero movies, Hulk's three action scenes are handled with their own merits, and each time it is more violent and lasting.
Mark? Ruffalo offers motion capture, albeit with some minor flaws. However, compared to the Hulk starring Ang Lee himself in his previous life, it is better, and it can be regarded as okay to deal with existing movies.
There is nothing to surprise about. The film seems to be well-behaved, like all the heroes in the surprise movie, even if it is misunderstood, the Hulk Hulk will fight for the greater America. Thus transforming an angry man into a superhero.
Of course, there are easter eggs at the end of the film, little Robert? Downey as Tony? Stark's personable appearance. It's not a big surprise.
Disney's promotion of "Iron Man" has been launched for a long time, and as time goes by, the surprising "Avengers" plan is not a secret in the eyes of veteran fans.
It's clear that the next superhero movie has to be Iron Man.
Hulk is an important member of the Avengers, its movies are actually not easy to shoot, few people will like characters who are easy to rage and can't control themselves, even if there are many fans of comics, but comics and movies are completely different carriers, and the audience of movies is relatively small.
This is most directly reflected in the box office, the box office performance of "Hulk" in the first three days is definitely the lowest surprise hero movie in recent years, and even Paramount's "Fantastic Four" is not as good, only getting $55.41 million at the North American box office.
The market reacted to Amazement, especially Ryan's predictions, and their goal was simple, to recoup the cost as much as possible through the later operation of Guò, and for at least fifteen years, there would be no more solitary Hulk movies, and Hulk would only appear on the screen with other superheroes.
A total of $150 million was invested in the film, and if you include the Australian government's tax rebate and the cost of partial payment and product placement offset, the actual total cost is only a little more than $100 million, and it is not particularly difficult to recover the cost.
Thankfully, there were no particularly strong competitors in August, and the film's second-week box office remained close to $40 million, which in some ways was a poor performance thanks to Sony-Columbia Pictures' top-secret flight, which was released this week.
Sony Entertainment's $135 million aerial popcorn didn't please critics or audiences, and with just over $13 million at the box office in its first three days, it was another blockbuster commercial film doomed to fail miserably after "Heavenly Dynasty" this year.
The "Spider-Man" series, which has no life-saving Sony Columbia Pictures in the present world, has been swaying like a tightrope in recent years, and may fall into the abyss like MGM at any time, and even the performance of Sony Entertainment as a whole is declining.
Sony has long lost the magic of the last century, and its audio-visual industry is the best performing of all divisions compared to the plummeting electronics.
However, these have nothing to do with Ryan, presumably with the Japanese government, and Sony is not so easy to get into the quagmire.
Now he is sitting in front of the computer in the recreation room, relaxing with Taylor, and the way to relax is to play games.
"I feel stressed at times."
While waiting for the characters to land, Taylor said to him, "It's hard to relax, and I don't want to go crazy in a nightclub like those depraved guys, so I'll have to figure it out myself." ”
"So you chose to play the game?" Ryan didn't mean to blame.
"Just play when you're stressed." Taylor's hydrangea stood in the ironforge castle, and then formed a team of elven hunters with long ears who appeared next to him, and then continued, "Put all your energy into the game world for a while, and don't think about real things, and the tense nerves will gradually relax, and the pressure will disappear unconsciously." ”
"Sounds like a good idea." Ryan called out the settings interface, set a few shortcuts according to the way he played last time, and then opened the equipment bar, vaguely remembering that these purple equipment in his previous life seemed to be the product of high-end copies, and couldn't help asking, "Is this what you collected?" ”
"Where do I have time to gather equipment?" Taylor shook his head slowly, "This is what I called to ask Mr. Adhan, and by the way, he also told me not to sue anyone, Ryan, and you don't tell other players in the game." ”
"Honey, I'm not stupid." Isn't it smashing the signboard of your own company to sue others?
"Wow, the guild organized to fight the black dragon." Taylor stared at the chat for a moment and said, "Let's go too." ”
These two characters only joined this guild a few days ago, and they are relatively unfamiliar, but after seeing the equipment of the two, the leader of the copy group immediately organized this pair of unreliable guys into a large team of forty people.
"Let's go, let's go!" Taylor turned to Ryan's screen and asked, "Do you know how to get around?" ”
Seeing Ryan shaking her head, she immediately snatched the mouse, and flew to the port of Minahir with the hunter with long ears, just as a ship came over and got on the boat again, and then hurried to the lair of the black dragon princess with a hydrangea.
"That's right."
After getting off the boat, Hydrangea rode a horse in front, and the hunter with long ears followed on a tiger, and Taylor asked in the team channel, "Aren't you writing a script for Warcraft?" Is it done? ”
"Nope."
Ryan didn't bother to type when he could speak, "The outline of the trilogy is complete, and the script for the first part has been written a lot, but it still needs to be revised. ”
"Script? What script? ”
Hydrangea had apparently caught the attention of the others just now, and immediately a dwarf thief asked, "Warcraft's script?" Is the hunter a playwright? ”
"Ah......h
The dwarf thief seems to know a lot, and he typed very serious words, "I tell you that the copyright of the Warcraft series is in Ryan's hands, do you know who Ryan is?" He is the creator of this world, and if you adapt it indiscriminately, it will be infringed! So, don't think about messy things. ”
The hunter with long ears remained silent, and Hydrangea asked on the team's channel, "What do you think will happen if this series is adapted into a movie?" ”
"We've been waiting." The human warriors on the team also spoke, "This is definitely the best online game ever made, Ryan's novel has created a whole new world, and we would love to see a movie version of the Warcraft series." ”
"yes, yes......" said someone else's words in the team's channel.
"If it is adapted......"
Taylor had a lot of fun with this kind of game that didn't reveal his identity, and Hydrangea continued, "Who do you want to be the main character?" ”
The crowd was not far from Theramore, and Taylor continued to tap on the keyboard, "I personally like Gianna?" Prodmoore. ”
"What do I like Anduin? Lothar ......"
"Muradin? Copperbeard ......"
"Or Alsace? Minecil suits. ”
In this way, Ryan's hunter followed the hydrangea all the way into the Black Dragon Valley, and at the door of Onexia's lair, he met a tribal team. (To be continued......)