"The Wedding is Coming", 1053 North American theaters, fully released!

From Los Angeles to New York, Seattle to Miami, Chicago to Houston...... Like the stars in the sky, it lights up the entire map of North America.

Of course Ye Wei is happy, according to the trend box office to break through 10 million, it is no problem, this is so wonderful that it is like a dream, which makes him a little fluttery. He thought that he should be wary of this feeling and be happy, but don't be arrogant, don't become an arrogant and vulgar "star", but he is really not an ordinary earthling, it's okay, he will always be the "stinky boy" scolded by his grandfather.

He will always be a movie fan, making movies is breathing, watching movies is eating, and if you don't watch it, you will starve to death.

On Saturday night on the 19th, Ye Wei drove alone to the "Landmark Cinema" on Pico Avenue in the Rancho Park District.

This is a popular multiplex cinema, where mainstream commercial films, independent films, and foreign literary films are released, and "The Wedding is Coming" also has a screen here. He's here for "Happiness Terminal", which was painted online yesterday.

On the poster wall in the theater lobby are posters of the films, Tom Hanks, dressed in a brown suit, standing there with his suitcase, the alert appearance of the Harry Potter trio, and Ye Weifei kicking the cake at the wedding scene......

"Just watch "The Wedding is Coming". A young couple picked for a while and decided, "The Daily Show a few days ago had this Ye Wei, a very interesting guy." ”

Isn't it cool? Ye Wei, who was just behind the two of them, muttered, they didn't notice him, and he didn't make a sound, when he noticed a very special poster, with a lot of elements on it, poor pencil drawings, a few freak guys, and in the middle was a high school student with a brown coat on his shoulders, Napoleon-Dynamite ("Napoleon").

He looked at the poster and thought it was funny, and immediately became very interested, movie night!

When Ye Wei came to a ticket window and queued up to buy tickets, and heard a few teenagers in front of the row say, "Give me tickets for "The Wedding is Coming", he really seemed to be invisible, and no one in the audience who came and went in a hurry noticed him. Suddenly, the phone vibrated with a text message, and he took it out to see what Christine Stewart was sending from: "What are you doing?"

Recently, this girl has been sending a text message from time to time, and she can be regarded as a friend, so he will reply when he is free, and casually press a few times: "Watch a movie in the theater." ”

"What movie?"

"Happiness Terminal". ”

"Is it pretty?"

"I haven't seen it yet, I'm queuing up to buy tickets...... Got it. ”

"You're watching it yourself?"

"Yes, it's fun to watch it yourself, and I don't like to be distracted from watching movies. ”

Ye Wei bought a ticket, put away his mobile phone, and went to the theater of "Happiness Terminal".

......

Two and a half hours later, after 21:30 in the evening, Ye Wei returned to the ticket hall with a smile, of course it was a good movie!

Although there are no surprises, and there is still a bit of a "last-minute rescue" technique, Spielberg tells the story smoothly, makes the ordinary full of warmth and touching, and the old-fashioned happy ending can still make people excited, which is really a master. And Hanks acted really well, the so-called handy is like that.

If "Cat and Mouse Game" is a dashing and handsome prodigal son, "Happiness Terminal" is a country chin carrying a sack of sweet potatoes.

Not everyone will like Tu Abo, anyway, he is very enjoyable to watch, and his desire to lobby Hanks to play "Richard" is getting stronger and stronger, this is the most suitable candidate!

Queuing up again to buy a ticket for "Napoleon", Ye Wei was about to enter, the mobile phone text message vibrate, and he looked like Christine sent more than two hours ago: "What are you doing?" He replied to her again with a text message that had been sent: "Watch a movie in the theater." ”

"Still watching?

"Napoleon the Great". ”

"Haven't heard of it. ”

"Its poster is very good, not to mention, I watch the movie. ”

Ye Wei came to the theater of "The Great Napoleon" and found a good seat in the middle to sit down, and the attendance rate around was quite good, and there were more than half of the people seated.

Soon the movie opened, and after the clever opening of the list of people, not long after the feature film began, the laughter of the audience continued to sound in the screening hall, and Ye Wei was also laughing again and again, generating a wave of excitement to see a good movie, and I earned it tonight!

He gradually became completely engrossed, burst into laughter from time to time, looked at it and had many feelings, and in the ** paragraph, in the student union president election speech, in order to help his friend Pedro canvass votes, Napoleon unexpectedly appeared on the stage, danced disco alone in front of the whole school, and broke out!

"Dance! I don't have much to do but dance! I dance when I'm in a bad mood!"

With the singing of "Canned-Heat", the entire theater also burst into excited cheers, and Ye Wei was already applauding and shouting-

This freakin'idiot film is awesome!

......

"Napoleon the Great" is a 100-point film.

This is Ye Wei's most sincere viewing experience, there are too many things that impress him, especially the **paragraphs, which are similar to the ** script of "Little Sunshine Beauty", and its most charming thing is the unique cult flavor it shows, so that its simple structure is not a problem, but better tells the group of characters, the ordinary and great story.

Truth be told, although not in the same genre, "Napoleon the Big" brings him more pleasure than "Happiness Terminal".

And he did absorb nutrients from them, and his experience was a little more, and his ability to keep it a little higher.

That's why it's important to watch movies, not only for fun, but also for growth, and the more you watch, the better you understand what movies are.

It was early in the morning when he returned home, and before going to bed, Ye Wei habitually opened websites such as Rotten Tomatoes and browsed the evaluation of the two films, and was immediately surprised, was there any mistake!

The freshness of "Happiness Terminal" is only 52% for the time being, and 19 of the 40 well-known film reviews are bad, and the reviews below the passing line are below. There are only a few reasons why it is bad, old-fashioned, far-fetched, and Hollywood-style sentimentality...... Probably this is called not satisfying the appetite of the film critics.

It is not difficult to understand that Spielberg partnered with Hanks! The quality of "Happiness Terminal" disappointed them, and when the critics were disappointed, they could scold everything.

Roger Albert gave 3 though. 5/4 star review, "A sweet and sophisticated comedy." The old man was obviously enjoying it, too.

"I'll just say it!" Ye Wei laughed to himself, and checked the evaluation of "The Great Man Napoleon" again, his eyes widened, is there a mistake!!

The freshness is only 61%, and 11 of the 27 well-known film reviews are called rotten for the time being, and it is very controversial in the evaluation community......

And Albert gave 1. 5/4 star bad reviews, Ye Wei couldn't help but look at his complete movie review.

"We laugh when we watch such comedies, generally for two reasons, because we get a sense of superiority from them, or because we sympathize with or like them. I don't really like audiences who laugh anymore, that's why Adam Sandler's comedy makes me want to vomit (I know most people laugh because they like him) In Napoleon's case, I definitely don't like him, but the film doesn't try to make him likable, in fact, it doesn't even want to be a comedy. It tells his story, like we should laugh because we see the humor of the film's silly pretenses. ”

"Such a comedy" means to take stupidity for fun, because it's not a spoof, what's the point of creating a bunch of clumsy and bad freaks and then laughing at their clumsiness?

That's Albert's point, and the review concludes, "I was told that the film used to get a lot of laughs at the Sundance Film Festival, but the Sundance audience just cared about whether it was cool or not." ”

"No, no, Roger, I don't agree with you this time. ”

Ye Wei shook his head, this is not the case at all, superiority, sympathy? Albert did not understand the taste of "Napoleon the Great Man"! Why? Is it because the old man did not have this kind of confusion when he was a student, or he has always been high above and is an insulator with "Napoleon", so he has not been able to taste its self-deprecation?

He read the applauded movie reviews a few more times, and felt that none of them were to the point! He couldn't help but think of writing a movie review himself, and he hadn't handed in next week's column anyway.

That's it!

I also have to mention "Happiness Terminal", whether it is polite or anything, and I have to send complimentary text messages to Hanks and Spielberg in private, which the big names have sent him before! And he really likes it.

"What are you doing?"

Ye Wei was about to start writing, Christine sent another text message, oh my God, is she crazy!

"Sleeping!"

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As June 18-20 passed, "The Wedding Is Coming" hit the weekend box office charts!

The "Los Angeles Times" movie edition of "viy said" published a new issue of the article, and readers were surprised to find that this is the first film review since viy opened the column:

We are all fools in our youth - Author: Ye Wei

When I went to the theater on the weekend, I watched two good comedies in a row, one is "Happiness Terminal", which is very sweet, warm and inspirational, and its portrayal of cultural conflict is also thought-provoking.

The other is "Napoleon the Great", which is very interesting and I want to talk more about it because it gives me a great sense of youth.

The story takes place in an uncharted and ordinary town, where a cast of characters who are almost all abnormal freaks, such as Napoleon, a stupid-looking high school student, who is the main character, another freak, a skinny otaku who is addicted to online dating (and also uses his grandmother's money to play pay phones), his grandmother is a crazy old woman who still plays desert motorcycles, his uncle is an adult loser who lives forever in the 80s (his youth) and does not want to face the adult losers of the present, his friend Pedro is an equally sluggish newcomer who wants to become the president of the student council, and his sweetheart is Debe, a chubby girl who works hard to save for college tuitionHis pet is a picky eater.

One day, my grandmother was injured in a motorcycle accident and had to recuperate, my uncle came to take care of the two Napoleonic brothers, Napoleon was going to prepare the female companions for the ball, and then Pedro was going to run for the presidency, and a lot of things happened, and it always made a mess, until the campaign speech, Napoleon had an amazing explosion.

He has won romance, applause and life through guò hard work and courage to show himself, but he has not changed, he is still the napoleon-dynamite.

The film is full of self-deprecating humor, and I laughed out loud because I always found myself in Napoleon.

In youth, everyone has a clumsy side, we are afraid of something, and we crave something. We want to do whatever we want and do whatever we want, but often we don't really know what we want to do. We're confused, we feel out of place in the world, everyone else looks cool, everyone else looks idiots.

Maybe we are usually inconspicuous, but when we are brave enough to explode, we will be heroes, and every little person can actually be a big person, nothing remarkable!

Its paintings of the world are exaggerated, and it is this exaggerated way that brings sincere emotions and the changes of the times.

In "Unprovoked Resistance", James Dean yells "I don't know what else to do, maybe except to die", what an angry portrayal of youth. Today, we are still angry, but we have learned to laugh at ourselves and look at our own stupidity with a smile.

Napoleon, this freak, idiot, and uniquely imposing man.

You don't have to sympathize with him, you don't have to worship him, because he is us, we are all fools in our youth, and what we want is a girl who will play rope ball with you.

......

As soon as this film review came out, the vast majority of columnists and fans had not seen "Napoleon the Great", which is currently only a test screening in 18 theaters, but they can all feel the self-deprecation that Ye Wei said from the text, and the young people are even more interested.

The phrase "we are all fools in our youth" resonates with everyone, "every little person can actually be a big person, nothing is a big deal" inspires people's hearts, which is really great.

Such a unique Ye Wei, such a wise Ye Wei! Calling him a "teen star" is more and more inappropriate, Lindsay Lohan can write only a prodigy.

"Jared! Jared, you better come and see this!"

Salt Lake City, Utah.

On the same morning, in the living room of the house, looking at today's "Los Angeles Times", Jerusa Hess, who had just turned 24, cried out in surprise, and her husband, Jared Hess, who was almost 25 years old, ran from the kitchen in confusion, his eyes blinking under his black-rimmed glasses, and his hands rubbing his hands on the yellow apron, "What's wrong?"

"Look at it. Jerusa laughed and gave him the newspaper in her hand, and Jared read it......

The two are both graduates of Brigham Young University's film school, met and fell in love and married in college, and their nine-minute graduation short film "Peluca" was critically acclaimed, winning both awards and with the support of Fox Searchlight and Paramount Film Fund, "Peluca" was made into a feature film "Napoleon" for $400,000.

In addition to being a co-writer, Jerusa also worked as a costume designer, and the director was Jared.

The entire online and offline team is very young, and they have received a lot of help from all aspects, so the shooting is very smooth. The distribution has also been smooth along the way, with Sundance being well received earlier this year, and now it has been in theaters for more than a week, and the box office is very good, and it is expected to be expanded to a small-scale release.

It's just that the film critics have mixed reviews, which makes the husband and wife very depressed, how can they become teasing nerds?

"He understands, he understands us!" Jared was also pleasantly surprised when he looked at this movie review at this time, "viy understands us!" Jerosa nodded: "He said it so well." ”

"Looking back on their stupidity with a smile", this is exactly the original intention of their filming "Napoleon", "ordinary people can explode", is the soul they want to give to the film. It's not a fool freak, it's not a way to make the audience superior to amuse!

viy, of course the two know, since watching his short film "Angel Dance", they have always paid attention to this 16-year-old genius boy, and I also watched "The Wedding is Coming" a few days ago, which is great!

They are all newcomers in the film industry, and the film can be said to be released at the same time, but they are very different from Ye Wei Cheng Dù, who receives attention from the outside world, and it is simply one heaven and one place. So their feelings about Ye Wei are a bit "complicated", they both appreciate and admire, and they also have a competitive spirit.

Now viy is suddenly writing a film review in his column praising them, and defending them with a thumbs up from Roger Albert and others that it is "self-deprecating humor", although he doesn't say it explicitly, but the whole article is clearly saying "I don't agree with Albert", which is ......!

The two looked at each other a few times, and they both saw each other's gratitude and admiration, and the viy who had just been evaluated by Albert as great made such a sound, how could it not be a dynamite!

"We also had to write a review for 'The Wedding is Coming.' Jared had an idea, and Jerosa agreed, "That's right, just tell us how we really feel." ”

Their film reviews aren't so powerful to put in any columns, just on their official websites and blogs, and although there isn't much traffic yet, it's there.

......

Ye Wei and Roger Albert "fought"!

In the week of the large-scale release of "The Wedding is Coming", because of a film called "The Big Man Napoleon", Albert issued a film review on the 18th, criticizing the film for joking about freaks, but Ye Wei refuted it in the column on the 21st, praising the film for its youthful shadow.

As we all know, the old and the young are still in the "honeymoon period", and suddenly their opinions are completely different!

This makes media fans feel very interesting, if Albert is old, or has never been a freak, so he failed to feel the "sincere emotion", it is also possible, because Albert was the editor of the local newspaper when he was in high school, and the school's man of the hour, but what about Ye Wei?

Ye Wei's background, growth, achievements in the same period and other aspects are worse than Albert, like him, a Harvard-Westlake student, a prodigy, and a man of the hour, who should be in the same mood as Albert "sympathizing with Napoleon", but he seems to really understand, and he also wrote a self-deprecating article on his blog, saying some stupid things he has done, including buying a "telepathic device" at a flea market and almost electrocuting himself, like Napoleon's uncle bought a time machine and electrocuted himself and Napoleon half to death.

"You all say I'm a genius, but I'm a freak idiot. ”

viy's strong recommendation really made his fans curious, and there were theaters around to see it, and many of his classmates and friends went to see it, what about Harvard-Westlake, Lev, Bard, and they were so happy.

Ye Wei is paying attention to "The Great Man Napoleon", but others are paying attention to him, and the whole United States and the world are paying attention!

When June 18-24 came to an end, a new box office miracle was born!

People give them a thumbs up, defending them by saying that it is "self-deprecating humor", although he does not say it explicitly, but the whole article is clearly saying "I disagree with Albert", which is ......!

The two looked at each other a few times, and they both saw each other's gratitude and admiration, and the viy who had just been evaluated by Albert as great made such a sound, how could it not be a dynamite!

"We also had to write a review for 'The Wedding is Coming.' Jared had an idea, and Jerosa agreed, "That's right, just tell us how we really feel." ”

Their film reviews aren't so powerful to put in any columns, just on their official websites and blogs, and although there isn't much traffic yet, it's there.

......

Ye Wei and Roger Albert "fought"!

In the week of the large-scale release of "The Wedding is Coming", because of a film called "The Big Man Napoleon", Albert issued a film review on the 18th, criticizing the film for joking about freaks, but Ye Wei refuted it in the column on the 21st, praising the film for its youthful shadow.

As we all know, the old and the young are still in the "honeymoon period", and suddenly their opinions are completely different!

This makes media fans feel very interesting, if Albert is old, or has never been a freak, so he failed to feel the "sincere emotion", it is also possible, because Albert was the editor of the local newspaper when he was in high school, and the school's man of the hour, but what about Ye Wei?

Ye Wei's background, growth, achievements in the same period and other aspects are worse than Albert, like him, a Harvard-Westlake student, a prodigy, and a man of the hour, who should be in the same mood as Albert "sympathizing with Napoleon", but he seems to really understand, and he also wrote a self-deprecating article on his blog, saying some stupid things he has done, including buying a "telepathic device" at a flea market and almost electrocuting himself, like Napoleon's uncle bought a time machine and electrocuted himself and Napoleon half to death.

"You all say I'm a genius, but I'm a freak idiot. ”

viy's strong recommendation really made his fans curious, and there were theaters around to see it, and many of his classmates and friends went to see it, what about Harvard-Westlake, Lev, Bard, and they were so happy.

Ye Wei is paying attention to "The Great Man Napoleon", but others are paying attention to him, and the whole United States and the world are paying attention!

When June 18-24 came to an end, a new box office miracle was born!