It should be said that in terms of box office, "The Matrix 2: Reloaded" is not the opponent of "Inception" at all.

Even compared to Charlotte's original world, the quality of the film is just as good, and even the first box office is slightly higher than that. But in the end, this is still a movie that did not break 100 million at the box office in the first week in North America.

— although it's very close.

In contrast, Charlotte's "Inception" not only easily broke 100 million at the box office in the first week, but the box office trend curve after that was still very good-

Even, "The Matrix 2: Reloaded" did not suppress "Inception" even if it took advantage of the premiere week.

——This commercial blockbuster, which is considered by the industry to be a partial breakthrough in the 3D technology of Yiguoyan, is still at the top of the box office ranking of North American Film Week in the second week of its release, and it does not give "The Matrix 2" a chance at all, but it makes the Wachowski brothers, who are transforming into the Wachowski siblings, want to cry without tears.

In fact, the Wachowski brothers have long given up on competing with "Inception" at the box office.

- They are arrogant, but they are not stupid.

It's just that "The Matrix 2" is also a commercial production, and "The Matrix 2" has the natural advantage of a sequel, but the box office in the first week can't beat the next week......

Anyway, less than half of 2003 has passed, and many film critics feel that eighty percent of this year's North American annual movie box office champion is going to fall into Charlotte Booth's arms again.

As for the equally excellent and box office "The Matrix 2: Reloaded", it can only be said that it was born at an inopportune time.

Who made it happen to run into Charlotte's Inception?

Since 1995, Charlotte Booth has dominated the annual box office charts in North America.

Although there was also a counterattack of "Titanic" during this period, it was not a normal phenomenon after all.

Just as there is only one Charlotte Booth in Hollywood, there is only one James Cameron in Hollywood.

Compared with Charlotte's high speed of one movie a year, the CD time of "King of the World" Cameron is too long.

- In particular, this guy has a habit of bouncing tickets and overspending budgets.

Such a Cameron, in the eyes of Hollywood investors, is not a top quality stock, although it will not be impossible to get money when you want to make a movie, it will never be smooth sailing.

- Who made the bad deeds of the "king of the world" shine?

Speculating in real estate to become a landlord, speculating in stocks to become a shareholder, there are still some fixed assets left waiting to be turned over, but once the investment in Cameron's movie is trapped, it is difficult to solve it without being squeezed out of the last bit of money in the purse.

- When filming "Titanic", Fox was almost forced to go bankrupt by this great god, and a group of executives even said things like "going to sell fart stocks......

Therefore, even though Charlotte has not surpassed Cameron at the highest box office of a single film, in the hearts of many industry insiders who know the inside story of Hollywood, he has long been a well-deserved first commercial director.

In this case, everyone still has certain psychological expectations for the box office performance of "Inception" to comprehensively overwhelm "The Matrix 2".

However, with the release of the two films, the "Inception" series has gradually gained the upper hand in terms of audience and even professional critics' word-of-mouth, which is unexpected by the Wachowski brothers and many die-hard supporters of the "Matrix" series.

Even to Charlotte's own surprise-

He originally thought that the two should be equal in terms of word of mouth.

After all, in his original time and space, "Inception" and "The Matrix" series are frequent visitors to the top 10 classic movies on the IMDB website, and sometimes the "Matrix" series will have a slight advantage.

- And in this time and space, "Inception", which he carried over, in turn, pressed "The Matrix 2" under him......

"Could it be that bringing the movie forward by seven years really brings such a big advantage?"

Charlotte was a little puzzled.

Charlize, in contrast, is more of a bystander.

"According to you, there must be a time advantage, or a technical advantage - even if you say that you are just a porter of the movie, you are very good at achieving the effect of a phenomenal film seven years later under the current technical conditions. ”

And such a movie, in the face of the movies of this era, will naturally have an advantage in special effects and graphics, not to mention the strange 3D technology you have tinkered with, these alone are enough to add points to "Inception" - not to mention, in a sense, "Inception" and "The Matrix" series are actually about the same theme. ”

"Is there a difference between reality and consciousness?"

Charlotte nodded,

"So the audience will always subconsciously compare the two, and because of the advantages of "Inception" in other aspects, even with everyone's evaluation of this movie, it will suddenly surpass "The Matrix 2"?"

"One step fast, one step at a time, the strong are always strong - the Matthew effect in the film market, you should know better than me, right?"

Charlize said with a smile,

"What's more, in my opinion, "Inception", which can tell the story clearly in simple terms, is indeed better than the nonsense "The Matrix 2"!"

"Even if you say so......"

Charlotte scratched her head,

"But after you say that, I kind of understand that the opponent of "Inception" is not the entire "Matrix" series, but only "The Matrix 2: Reloaded", ......"

If it is the complete "Matrix" series to "Inception", excluding the influence of some technical and time factors, it can indeed be said that each has its own merits.

But "The Matrix 2: Reloaded", as one of the trilogy, is neither the beginning nor the middle of the end, and it is a little insufficient to see "Inception" with a complete story system, simple explanation, and full of suspense.

- It is not surprising that there is such a result now.

In fact, it is a person like Charlotte who is affected by the perception of the original time and space that is so entangled in this outcome.

Others, even the die-hard supporters of the "Matrix" series, and even the Wachowski brothers themselves, are willing to gamble and lose after seeing the perverted reputation and box office results of "Inception".

- After all, they can't deny that Inception is a good movie.

And losing your own movie to a classic good movie is better than losing to some unnutritious garbage commercial films.

What's more, although "The Matrix 2" lost to "Inception" in terms of word-of-mouth and box office, this does not mean that this movie is a loss.

On the contrary, the two movies "The Matrix 2" and "Inception" teamed up, and suddenly detonated the summer file of 2003 -

These two heavyweight commercial blockbusters pushed the total box office of North American films around Memorial Day in May to a rather exaggerated level.

In this case, even if "The Matrix 2" loses to "Inception", it still achieves quite good box office results relative to itself.

It can be said that although there is a winner or a loser in the competition between these two heavyweight commercial blockbusters on the same stage, from the perspective of box office results, the two are win-win.

Of course, it's not without losers -

Wang Laoji competed with Jia Duobao, and the result was that he was dead, which is still very common in the business field.

- The other films released at the same time as these two heavyweight blockbusters are all in the range of losers.

However, as the co-publisher of "The Matrix 2: Reloaded" and "Inception", Warner does not have to worry about these things.

"The North American box office of "Inception" should exceed $600 million this time!"

In Warner's studio, Charles Rowan looked at the box office report in his hand, both surprised and taken for granted.

- This is a Charlotte Booth movie!

"This kind of achievement can already catch up with "Titanic" in previous years, I don't know how far the global box office of this film can reach?"

However, in any case, Warner can make a lot of money through the movie "Inception".

And this made Charles Rowan further realize the value of Charlotte.

"Originally, Charlotte's next filming of "21 Points" and "Amazing Demon Thieves" was not intended to be paid special attention to because it was a small project, but now it seems that it ......."

In fact, Charles Rowan is not the only one who has similar ideas, and the most obvious change is Natalie Portman-

Originally, although this future black swan attached great importance to these two projects, it still kept its hands after all.

For example, going to the New York premiere of "The Matrix 2" is a normal entertainment industry blow, but the shrewd Jewish girl is not without the idea of taking the opportunity to curry favor with the Wachowski brothers in order to gain an advantage in the competition for their future film roles.

However, now Natalie can't care about these anymore-

The increasingly exaggerated box office results of "Inception" finally made the Long Island girl realize what kind of opportunity she was getting, and she went all out.

It's just that how to prepare for the relevant roles in advance makes Natalie a little nerve-wracking-

You must know that whether it is "Decisive 21 Points" or "Shocking Demon Thieves", the heroines in it are not the type of characters that Natalie was good at in the past.

Even if she got the original book of "Decisive 21 Points" and thought about it carefully, she still felt a little unable to grasp it.

And Charlotte's previous sentence "I need the real you, the black you" made Natalie go crazy every time she thought about it......

"Would you like to find the time to "consult" Mr. Director in private?"

Natalie had this idea in her mind.

- It's a normal thing for Hollywood actresses, and so is Natalie.

However, thinking of the feeling of being completely suppressed in the face of the other party, Natalie's heart was weak again......