"At this time, I brought a Christmas gift, of course, the original script of this film that everyone will soon be able to enjoy in the movie, and I thought exactly the same, which is really a magical thing, but this thing really happened!"

"How did you come up with the idea of writing such a script?" Immediately, a reporter followed up with this question. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Actually, at first I just wanted to write a story about love, but when I was thinking about the plot, a very interesting story caught my attention. If everyone thinks that the plot of this film is fictional, then this idea must be very wrong. ”

In fact, this movie has a real story as a prototype reference, and in that year, Titani really staged a heart-wrenching "life and death love,!" Edward, an American, and Helen, a beautiful writer, fell in love at first sight when they were aboard the Titanic, and when the ship hit an iceberg and sank, Helen boarded the lifeboat, but Edward sank into the sea with the ship. Many years later, the love object of the two people's farewell was auctioned for 20,000 square meters, which also made this story come to light. Of course, this is not the original intention of Lin Mu's creation, this story was accidentally seen by Lin Mu in an digest later, and he felt that it was appropriate to use this story to explain the original intention of the creation of "Titanic".

It can be said that James Cameron's idea is a big background and thinks of a small story, while Lin Mu leads to a big background from the delicate plot, and the ideas of the two are the same, and finally merged into the film "Titanic".

The idea of creating a film at the beginning and then asking the director or producer to look forward to the future box office at the end is a common trick used in the American media. At the end of the press conference, a reporter finally asked Lin Mu such a question. In fact, not only the reporters present, but also the directors sitting next to Lin Mu, including director James Cameron, were very concerned about this result.

Under normal circumstances, Lin Mu's answer to this kind of question is either a refusal or a very vague answer. But in the few movies that Lin Mu gave a clear answer, his predictions were very accurate. Despite nearly two years of hard work, the final result is what matters to a film.

"This film" abandoned Lin Mu when he said that he still hesitated, "I believe that this will be a record-setting film, but everyone also needs to be patient, the birth of a miracle is often a very long process!" Lin Mu's first half of the sentence is very clear, he has high expectations for this film, but few people can really understand what he means in the second half of the sentence, including James and Cameron.

After the press conference of the new film, James Cameron stopped Lin Mu, "Lin, what kind of waiting and patience you said in your last sentence just now, why can't I understand what you are expressing at all?" It can be seen that James Cameron is still a little nervous, which can be seen from his concern for this small result.

"Old man, you can rest assured, I believe that this movie will not disappoint everyone, and it can bring you not only the box office, but also the honor you can't think of!" Lin Mu patted James Cameron on the shoulder, "If the film fails to break the record set by "Pirates of the Caribbean" in the first week of release, do you think it is possible for this film to surpass "Pirates of the Caribbean" at the total box office?" ”

"It's hard!" James Cameron spit out these two words with some difficulty, and Lin Mu's question made him have a very bad premonition.

"What if the film could be released in theaters for more than half a year?" Lin Mu then asked.

Zhan Mei Si Meilong shook her head, "Lin." Except for sci-fi films, no film can be released for more than three months! ”

"I mean what if!" Lin Mu emphasized the preconditions of this issue.

"Well, if it's as you say, then this film doesn't have any suspense over Pirates of the Caribbean!" James Mellon, though he said so, did not believe in the existence of such assumptions.

"That's right, I can say that the film won't have a blowout at the box office in its first week of release, but the film will be in theaters for longer than you think. How about we make a bet? Lin Mu began his "evil" deception scheme.

"Bet on what?" James Cameron had no idea that he had fallen into the trap of the woods.

"Just bet on the final box office of this film. I can conclude that this film will set a 10-year box office record, and if that movie surpasses it in the next 10 years, I'll lose! Lin Mu threw out his long-planned conditions.

"This result seems a little unfair to you. What if I lose? James Cameron looked at Lin Mu blankly.

"Then the decision on your investment in your films in the next ten years must be in my hands!" Lin Mu wants to use a fortune agreement to trap James Ben Mellon. Although he knew "Titanic" after that. James Cameron was silent for a long time.

The bet between the two turned out to be an "unfortunate" fact, and after the release of "Titanic", the box office in the first weekend was only 10,000 dollars for a pitiful knife. Despite already being the state champion at the North American box office. But such results are not convincing, and a film that has been expected so high by the producers and directors will suffer a waterloo at the box office in the first week of release, which is something that no one expected.

The dismal box office in the first week of the release of "Titani Fang" not only shook the confidence of many high-level executives who hated a spider, but also many media began to sneer at Lin Mu, after "Titanic", Lin Mu invested in two low-cost movies in a row, and in the eyes of some media, these two films are also worrying.

After the box office results of the first week were announced, James Cameron couldn't sit still, he expressed his concerns in a phone call with Lin Mu, and Lin Mu just comforted him lightly, and then he mentioned the bet between the two. "Anything can happen before the result is finalized, this is a movie like no other, I suggest you go overseas for a vacation, stay away from any news about Titanic, and after a month, you will find that the whole thing is not what you imagined!"

James Cameron naturally wouldn't go on vacation at this time, but a miracle happened: "Titanic" grossed $40,000 in the second week, and the voices of doubt began to choose silence; The third week approached billions of dollars, and all voices of doubt were gone; Then the film went through Christmas and New Year, and in the tenth week, the North American box office exceeded $200 million, and by this time, the film had won the box office for four consecutive weeks.

But "Titanic" obviously has no intention of ending this myth, in the first week, it still stands on the throne of the weekly box office champion, eleven weeks, the situation has not changed in any way, knowing that in the first week, it still firmly occupies the top of the weekly box office in North America. At this time, the North American region has attracted a total of tens of millions of box office revenues, which has set a new North American box office record.

In the 12th week, "Titanic" was the runner-up at the weekly box office; In 13 weeks, it moved down one place, but it still stood firmly in the top 3; It didn't fall off the list until week 14. It lasted up to half a year. The film has been screened for the longest time in North America, and its box office is even more indescribable to say that it is $2 billion worldwide.

During this period, Lin Mu went back to Hong Kong again, and after visiting the filming progress of the film "A Chinese Ghost Story: A Love in Another World", he stayed with his parents to spend a warm and peaceful Spring Festival. The release frenzy of "Titanic" has swept the entire Abyss, and the news about this film can often be seen in the Hong Kong media, exclamation and emotion, which is the most commonly used word in the Hong Kong media. At the same time, Lin Mu is also very concerned about the release of the film in the mainland, in Hong Kong. He has easier access to first-hand statistics.

After the film "Titanic" landed in the Chinese market in the spring. At this time, it is in the hot screening. Lin Mu estimates that the total box office of the film should exceed the 360 million yuan in memory, a record that has been maintained in the Chinese film market for 10 years. Zhang Yimou's "A City Full of Golden Armor" reached a peak box office of 300 million yuan, and was once considered the most promising to surpass "Titanic", but in the end it was defeated. It wasn't until later that it was surpassed by the film "Transformers Comeback", also produced by Paramount, which had a mainland box office of 400 million yuan.

The Chinese mainland began to introduce "imported blockbusters." Although Chinese audiences have already exclaimed for "The End of the World" and "True Lies" before, it wasn't until "Titanic" appeared that everyone really understood what a "blockbuster" was. According to the market research and analysis report provided by Paramount afterwards, the ticket price of "Titanic" in mainland China is not cheap, but the movie theater is still full of audiences, and it is not only love that is deeply shocked, but also great humanity. This movie has also become an indelible memory for this generation of audiences, and even traces of youth.

It's a lingering memory for viewers in China, and for viewers in the U.S. "Titanic" is an unprecedented investment, with a bunch of accolades at the pinnacle, representing the advent of a cinematic blockbuster model.

At first, Lin Mu gave James Cameron a $5B shooting budget, but by the end of the year, the film's production cost increased to an unprecedented $1 billion. This made "Titanic" the most expensive movie at the time, and almost every square millimeter of Cameron's luxury film on the screen was piled up in dollars. The film's miraculous, unprecedented sold-out sellout made it a symbol of the end of the century in Hollywood. At that time, some media evaluated this film as the ultimate in similar films.

For such a miracle, the Oscar nomination equaled the odds held by "Comet Beauty", just as the towering box office does not refresh the name of the global box office champion, and there is no doubt that the film will also set a new award record at the upcoming Oscars in mid-March.

"Titanic" is not only a successful commercial film, but also a masterpiece that shows the level of contemporary computer development, with luxurious passenger ships and spectacular scenes all reflect James Mellon's ambition. He perfectly combined special effects and physical models in "Titanic". Create a spectacular backdrop. The production cost of $100 million in the film market before "Titanic" was already an astronomical amount, and when a movie can invest more than 100 million, the emergence and success of "Titanic" opened the era of Hollywood's large-scale investment and large-scale production.

With the Oscars approaching. Lin Mu found that except for a little time to care about Asia every day, the rest of the time was occupied by all kinds of social and social activities, and he had no leisure to do other things.

The frenzy in the film market during this period by the release of "Titanic" is in stark contrast to the further deteriorating economic situation in Asia. In the middle of last year, a financial turmoil also broke out in South Korea in East Asia, and the exchange rate of the Korean won against the US dollar fell to a record! "The South Korean government had to turn to the International Monetary Fund for help, and the crisis was temporarily controlled. But later, the exchange rate of the won against the dollar fell to freezing point.

The won crisis has also hit Japan's financial sector, which has a large amount of investment in South Korea. In the second half of the year, a series of banks and securities companies in Japan went bankrupt one after another. The financial turmoil in Southeast Asia evolved into the Asian financial crisis.

At the beginning of the year, Indonesia's financial turmoil resumed. In the face of the worst recession in history, the IMF's response to Indonesia has failed to produce the desired results. On February, the Indonesian government announced that it would implement a pegged exchange rate of the rupiah to the US dollar to stabilize the rupiah. This move was unanimously opposed by the International Monetary Fund, the United States, and the West Dang. The International Monetary Fund has threatened to withdraw its aid to Indonesia. Indonesia is in the midst of a major political and economic crisis.

But in the United States at this time, the economic turmoil across the ocean did not have much impact on the lives of ordinary Americans. People's eyes are more attracted to the upcoming Oscars. Despite having received a record-breaking fourteen nominations, James Cameron was not happy with the result, and a large part of his complaint was that the script written by Youlin did not receive an Oscar nomination this time. Although the script was signed by the screenwriter's studio, the main idea of the plot was completed by Lin Mu. In James Cameron's opinion, this is a good love story. And the film did earn enough tears from the audience. But Hollywood critics don't see it that way.