Chapter 698: American Pie
"I feel ...... Cold. β
With the first words behind the recovery man, Captain Barbossa fell.
After that, the pirates who were no longer undead were naturally suppressed.
However, Jack, who is also a pirate, did not run away.
- He was sentenced to death by hanging.
Of course, as companions on Jack's adventures all the way, Will and Elizabeth didn't give up on him.
They orchestrated a rescue.
Will tries to save Jack and elopes with Elizabeth.
However, surrounded by the Royal Navy that dotted the harbor, they were unsuccessful.
But their emotions moved Brigadier General Norrington.
The Commodore is finally willing to be an adult, giving up Elizabeth and making her a couple with Will.
As for Jack, he also took the opportunity to escape.
The captain returned to the Black Pearl, holding his compass that would guide him to his desired destination, and began a new journey......
"That's a pretty good story!"
Even though I've seen it once at the preview screening, Kenneth Turan still enjoys watching it.
On the one hand, after Charlotte sped up the early narrative pace, strengthened the special effects scenes, and optimized the soundtrack, "Pirates of the Caribbean" has indeed become more beautiful.
On the other hand, on the second viewing, Kenneth also found more details.
As a commercial film that is essentially a popcorn movie, Charlotte has added a lot of details to "Pirates of the Caribbean" -
Just like Captain Jack once mentioned the famous ghost ship "The Flying Dutchman", and hated octopuses very much......
Kenneth, who was second brushed, noticed these details and guessed what seemed to be hidden in them-
"Maybe it's some clues from the sequel?"
Kenneth guessed.
Of course, even if these details are completely ignored, "Pirates of the Caribbean" is still a very interesting story that first-time viewers will not fail to understand.
However, those who are careful enough, or who know more about the history of piracy in the Age of Discovery, will find more interesting details.
ββThese contents are enough to support their second or even third brushes.
"That's Charlotte Booth's style!"
Kenneth sighed as he savored it.
"Although this guy basically only makes commercial films, he always does the details very well, and tries his best to get interested audiences to watch it a second or even a third time. In addition, there are always some wonderful scenes in his movies that make people's blood boil and want to watch them several times......
Anyway, even counting the preview screening, Kenneth Turan has already seen it twice, but he still plans to buy another ticket for a while and watch it a third time.
And the box office of Charlotte's movies is piled up bit by bit......
In fact, there are not a few people who think the same way as Kenneth Turan.
Most of them just came out of the screening hall and rushed to the ticket office, ready to buy a second movie ticket.
Of course, there are also some "smart people" who have the idea of just mixing in and watching it again......
This is related to the cinema screening habits in the United States -
In order to reduce the time of sorting out after the screening of some popular movies, they tend to show them continuously, sometimes without carefully checking the tickets in the hands of the audience at all.
In this way, some "smart people" have the opportunity to take advantage.
- They just don't go out of the cinema screening area, and then turn back and find an empty spot to watch another show.
Of course, theater operators in the United States are not unaware of this.
But on the one hand, this is not a phenomenon that is easy to govern, just like credit card theft and piracy.
In particular, in the United States, small town movie theaters except for a few major cities tend to have regular audiences, and operators are generally reluctant to offend them by increasing their scrutiny too much.
What's more, if you want to strengthen inspections without reducing the efficiency of screenings, it means increasing manpower - in the United States, where labor is very expensive, if the theater is operating mediocrely, it is likely to outweigh the losses.
And on the other hand, even if some viewers can spend money to watch a movie in the cinema for a day with just one payment, the cinema is just as profitable.
INTERVIEWER Unlike movie theaters in China, which are always paired with shopping malls and in fact often act as a tool for shopping malls to attract customers, in the United States, because of their relative size and sparse population, many movie theaters exist independently.
This means that many times viewers can only buy food and water in the cinema.
Therefore, even if the audience does not spend money to watch the movie, as long as they stay in the movie theater for a long time, they will eventually contribute to the movie theater's income.
After all, you can go out all day and watch a movie all the time, but you can't go without food and water.
In fact, considering that the price of movie tickets in the United States, which is only less than five dollars, which is quite cheap, and has not changed much in decades, the majority of the income of many movie theaters is not actually movie tickets at all, but food, water and other peripheral income.
- A good movie is actually just a tool for American cinema to attract customers.
It's not unreasonable to say that these movie theaters are movie restaurants.
- Although the restaurant only serves a few kinds of food, such as popcorn.
Of course, when some special movies are released, the income of some other "peripherals" will also be very good-
Just like when youth comedies such as "American Pie" were released, the sales of the full set of Ann in the movie theater were very good.
After all, out of the 100 life challenges that young Americans want to complete, a movie theater is an old option.
If you have this kind of idea, if you are watching some movies that are easy to make people want to move, it will naturally be a thunderstorm......
That's why many movie theaters in the U.S. are located next to hotels......
In short, movie theaters in the United States don't just live on movie tickets.
In fact, some shrewd bosses will also launch package tickets during the off-season, deliberately encouraging audiences to watch it for a few dollars a day.
- They will earn it back by selling food and water.
Of course, this is all relative.
From the perspective of capital's pursuit of profit, there is still no cinema that wants the audience to watch this kind of overlord movie.
However, when it comes to "Pirates of the Caribbean" or Charlotte's movie, the situation is different -
Since "Guillotine Valley", Charlotte's films have always been popular in the North American film market, especially in the first two weeks of release, often in a state of fullness.
In this case, it is more difficult to watch the Overlord movie -
After all, the audience who entered the back would not let you occupy his place easily.
This is especially true of the midnight premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean 1" -
Because of Charlotte's exaggerated past achievements and Disney's vigorous publicity, most movie theaters had 100% attendance at midnight after the film's release.
- And that's when Pirates of the Caribbean premiered with more than 3,000 screens.
As a result, the midnight box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean 1" exceeded $18 million, directly jumping to the first midnight box office in North American film history, which is a normal thing......