Chapter 368: Cultural Symbols

After "The Chronicles of Narnia" won the North American weekly box office from December 23-29, it was New Year's Eve Week December 30–January 5, and 2005 was about to end. "Little Sunshine Beauty" has entered its 8th week of release, and in the previous two weeks, its box office had exceeded 1. 500 million:

"Little Sunshine Beauty" - 16th place - week 6 - 1096 (-1105) - 1,677 - 1,837,992 - 151,192,724 - 6 - DreamWorks

"Little Sunshine Beauty" - 21st place - week 7β€”β€”β€” 514 (-582) - 1,230 - 632, 220 - 151,824,944 - 6 - DreamWorks

On the occasion of the New Year, LMS has also begun to land in some markets such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, etc., and most of them will be painted during the Oscar fever in February-March next year.

On BOM and other box office statistics websites, the 2005 North American box office annual ranking (as of 12-29) has been released!

Ranking – Films – Distributors – Total Box Office – Production Costs (millions)

1 - Star Wars Prequel 3 - Fox - 380, 270, 577β€”β€”β€”113

2 - Harry Potter 4 - Warner - 269,447,715β€”β€”β€”150

3 – War of the Worlds – Paramount – 234, 280, 354β€”β€”β€”132

4 - "Wedding Aoke" - New Line β€”β€”β€” 209,187,827β€”β€”β€”40

5 – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Warner – 206,459,076 – 150

6 – "Batman: Time to War" – Warner – 205, 343, 774 – 150

7 – Madagascar – DreamWorks – 193,595,521 β€”β€”?

8 – The Chronicles of Narnia – Beauville – 191, 991, 322 – 180

9β€”Mr. and Mrs. Smithβ€”Foxβ€”186,336,279β€”110

10 – "Enemy of Love" – Sony – 179,495,555β€”β€”β€”70

11 β€” "The Longest Yard" β€” Paramount β€” 158, 119, 460 β€” 82

12 – Fantastic Four – Fox – 154,696,080 – 100

13 – Little Sunshine Beauty – DreamWorks – 151,824,944 – 6

14β€”King Kongβ€”β€”β€”β€” Global β€”β€”β€” 142,732,900β€”207

15β€”"Videotaple of the Exorcism" – Lionsgateβ€”β€”β€” 142,341,986β€”0. 45

There is still a huge upside for Chronicles of Narnia and King Kong, and the final rankings will change, with LMS moving up to 12th or even 11th place, and TET sitting firmly in 15th place.

In the annual Top 15, Ye Wei alone accounted for two films, only one! Although none of them entered the Top 10, if you count the director's personal North American box office total this year, his 294,166,930 temporarily ranks second, and it should be second in the end.

Because the just-released "Munich Tragedy" is not as expected, the agency predicts that it can only collect 40 million to 50 million, so Spielberg's total amount will not go up to 2. 900 million.

1st place: George Lucas, 2nd place: Ye Wei, 3rd place: Steven Spielberg

The average age of the three is 45. 6 years old, Luska is 61 years old, Spielberg is 59 years old, and Ye Wei is 17 years old, and the average production cost of the three of their 5 movies is 64.29 million, Spielberg used 202 million, Luska used 113 million, and Ye Wei used 6.45 million.

If the cost of LMS has moisture, because Hanks + Roberts is worth 50 million, 1. 500 million is an explosion with a qiΔ“ condition, then TET is a complete madness, a shocking work and an incredible business miracle that has made pseudo-documentaries officially enter the house.

Miracles always happen in horror films, from "Little Flower of Horror" to "Blair the Witch" and even "Jaws". TET is not unprecedented, but there is something that will come after it.

Both movies, although both have dead people, one comedy, laughing dead, and one horror film, scaring people to death.

It's so diametrically opposed!

Is VIY a genius? How many geniuses are there?

In addition to the box office, there is also the youngest Golden Globe Award for Best Director nomination, and there is a high probability that he will be nominated for an Oscar, because in the past half a month, LMS has appeared at the Film Critics Association Awards all over the United States, advancing to almost one QiΔ“ Top 10 films of the year, as long as Ye Wei can be shortlisted for the Directors Guild Award, it will be stable, and it will be announced on January 12 next year.

Whether there are nominations or not, some situations have been decided, and various rankings such as "Vanity Fair", "People", "Empire", etc., tell this qiΔ“:

Top 100 Most Influential, Top 100 Power List, Top 10 New Generation Power List, Top 50 Most Handsome Men, Best Talent of the Year, Best Director Under 20......

I don't know what Ye Wei's current plus/minus Q score is, but it will definitely not be less than 20 points anymore, and it won't fall much for a long time. - VIY has just announced that it will make three films in 2006, which has attracted a lot of attention.

What a VIY year! When I read the annual summary of these magazines, websites, etc., fans and fans are really emotional and shocked, Ye Wei made a stunning appearance in 2004, and in 2005, he showed his skills, making the world pay attention to it, watching a genius bad boy rise.

For a long time, despite this, just because of Ye Wei's age and ethnicity, he has always been greatly despised, as if he is nothing remarkable, but the summary shows that he is really powerful.

Director, producer, screenwriter, actor, proficient in everything, involved in everything, and has been running a column in the film section of the Los Angeles Times for almost two years, has one of the hottest celebrity blogs on the Internet, and one of the hottest personal channels on YouTube.

Top 50 Most Handsome Men, Top 20 Most Handsome Teenage Male Stars, and so on lists say that VIY is very handsome, not the kind of handsome who is handsome in the director, but handsome in the little white face and model, he is almost 18 years old, the more handsome he gets, the taller he is, his face is sunny and heroic, and there are some bad ones.

Previously, during the LMS promotion period, Ye Wei's blockbusters for various magazines were definitely treasured by female fans.

No wonder there is a fan voice saying that Ye Wei is a major essence in human history.

A new idol has inexorably swept the world, talent, appearance, personality, age, wealth, even if Ye Wei is Asian-Asian boys are burdened with too many unfair stereotypes and discriminatory prejudices, and have become popular among girls of all ethnicities.

Some mainstream media have more than once editorials about why Ye Wei is charming, because he dares to break stereotypes and can do it, some people say that Asian boys are not humorous, and some people say that Asian boys are not cool, unmanly, can not exercise, cannot socialize, and cannot chase girls...... All failed on him.

Handsome is not Ye Wei's killer feature, many people are more handsome than him, and fans who like him prefer his inside, just as when Yunik Kuhler didn't have a single photo, he still had a large group of CULT fans. VIY's most handsome thing is his words and deeds.

Yahoo ingeniously made a Top 10 personal quote of Ye Wei this year, commenting "VIY, so humorous, cool, talented, and wild":

[1β€”" I saw one or two corpses, heads floating in the wind, cut in half, mouths open. β€”quoting a line from "The Butcher" in response to the sudden exorcism controversy

2β€”"Yes, I was in a coma for a short while, and I woke up when the nurse gave me the injection, and I was given my 'Brave Child' sticker. - LMS's statement after accidentally falling off a cliff and being seriously injured on the eve of filming

3 - "Star Wars Prequel 3 is a bad movie that makes you desperately scold after watching it, the color of the lightsaber is wrong, the shape of R2D2 is outdated, everyone is like a nightgown pie, and Natalie Portman plays too badly...... I just hope that George Lucas will be scolded and unconvinced, and then make it three more parts. - VIY said the film review

4β€”"At least 10 million people will hear, F-word-MPAA!F-word-MPAA!F-word-MPAA!"β€”The LMS Rating Storm will speak

5β€”"I don't want to forget how I messed things up, because I still like this mess after all." Because, we screwed up. β€”a statement of the failure of the appeal against the LMS rating

6β€”"It's time to introduce me." I'm the talented, handsome wedding god. - Yunik Kueller quoted the lines of "The Wedding is Coming" to announce that he is Ye Wei

7β€”"It can make me cold in the summer and hot in the winter, and that's the charm of the movie, like a cold." β€”Excerpt from VIY

8β€” "We don't start work on the weekend, after all, we have to participate in the Oscars." β€”answering Jon Stewart about the LMS's dream lineup while guest on The Daily Show

9β€”"I'm sorry, guys. Regarding the North American box office estimate of "Little Sunshine Beauty", it turns out that I was really wrong, I apologize to everyone, I was wrong. - LMS box office breakthrough 1. An apology statement after the 300 million box office declaration

10β€”"Don't bother me! Die, Hollywood." "- After the great success of LMS, it rejected all the major studio film contracts due to a dispute over the final cutting rights."

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No matter how many Q branches there are, in fact, Ye Wei is already a cultural symbol.

After the boom of "The Wedding is Coming" last summer, Ye Wei gradually calmed down, but in the second half of this year, with the start of LMS promotion, the announcement of dual identities, and the explosion of LMS release, his name appeared in a large number of TV news reports, entertainment programs, talk shows, and dramas.

"What do you think you are?genius or VIY or something?" said Charlie Harper, the protagonist of the hit sitcom "Two and a Half Heroes", complaining about his nephew Jack.

"Sue you, I'm Yunik Kuller, the one who made "The Exorcism Video". A suspect in the popular suspense comedy "Detective Amon" said.

"You went to see Ye Wei's movie, but you didn't call me!?", "You are dressed like Ye Wei in "Marriage is Coming" today, a sexy little. "That boy is really very spicy and super talented, I wonder if he is Ye Wei. "There are many shoujo dramas with such dialogues.

Not only does he appear in the lines, Ye Wei appears in the famous "South Park"!

Only idols, widely known by the public, popular among young people, and controversial themselves, will be targeted. Because this is a spoof of irony, the audience is not familiar with the words of the spoofed person, how interesting is it. This is South Park Season 9, Episode 14, "Movie-Genius-VIY", which aired on the Comedy Central Channel on December 7th.

The character's name is Vigor-Ivan-yes, a typical South Park cut-out look, a teenage Asian boy, black hair, big eyes that are not typical of Asian Americans, wearing a gray director's beret, a red jacket with VIY printed on the chest, and black pants.

One day, a young man VIY came to South Park Town, said to be a distant relative of the fake Chinese Liu Jin, who raised money in the town in the name of making a movie, and cleverly said that many residents, including Stan and other four children, and promised to sleep with a few girls in the role, and then ran away with all the money.

The Stan Four, trying to recover their money, look for him, and find him in Hollywood. Unexpectedly, VIY actually got out of Hollywood, became a big star and a tycoon, and was still impacting the Oscars, he said that Hollywood people are all stupid, and he didn't know how to get out of it. The four of them demanded that he return the investment, but VIY gave them some DVDs, saying that the money had been turned into a movie, and that they had lost all their money if they didn't make any money.

But VIY lives in a Beverly Hills mansion and has a room of luxury cars, and the Stan four continue to ask for money, and VIY calls a group of teenage fans to pay them back for their sexual services. However, the girls tied up all four of them under the pretext of playing sex-torture and threw them into the sea.

Stan and the others are rescued by the fisherman, and Kenny dies again. Determined to get revenge, the trio takes the DVD to the MPAA to denounce VIY's movie, which is full of violence, eroticism, and swearing, and Kenny has been victimized by it. The MPAA SENT AGENTS TO ARREST VIY and put him in jail, where a large group of independent filmmakers were still being held.

The MPAA members, who swallowed all of VIY's movies, possessions, and teenage fans, begin to divide the spoils, and stage a bloody killing and erotic show in front of the three Stans, and finally all die due to infighting. The three Stan take the money back to town. In the end, VIY used his ingenuity to successfully escape from prison, but in fact, he found that the prison door was not locked, and he left the prison without knowing where to go, but said that he must take revenge.

This episode has a whopping 2.46 million viewers, and the results are already among the best in this season, with high ratings, and it has also received an enthusiastic response from fans of "South Park", calling on the producers to let VIY appear more, anyway, he will not lack news, this is only half a month later, and violence hurts people.

Ye Wei, who was spoofed miserably, was not angry or ignored, and quoted the classic line of "Terminator" on his blog at the time, "I will be back!" humorously.

NOT ONLY IN VARIOUS EPISODES, VIY ALSO APPEARS IN SOME BLACK RAP MUSIC, AND HIS SURNAME YEAH GIVES MUSICIANS ROOM TO PLAY. Some people wrote songs to Ye Wei, all of whom are not well-known female singers, and Katie Hudson, who has released a gospel album of the same name, wrote a song "Younger-Boy".

The lyrics tell the story of a young girl who falls in love with a boy who is younger than herself, and the boy is unique, talented, and inspiring, but the other party is younger, and the girl hesitates.

The single was posted on YouTube and received quite a hit.

In order to express their love for Ye Wei, some people wrote songs, some recorded confessions, talks, praises and other videos and uploaded them to YouTube, and some people tattooed his Chinese and English names, VIY, avatars and other tattoos on his body, and then posted them on the Internet. In these moves, there are both boys and girls, and it is not only girls who like VIY.

Although Ye Wei is still and will still suffer a lot of contempt and hostility, before he knows it, a cultural icon of the new era is already there and has entered 2006.