Made in Hollywood

"what do you think?"

Walking out of the theater, Jane Lauder put on her sunglasses and asked Ivanka Trump, "Do you like this movie?"

"It's okay." Ivanka took out the sunglasses from her bag and put them on her face, saying, "But it's not as good as you said."

Jane Lauder nodded in approval, "There is still a significant gap between this film and The Matrix, but it's only a small cost..."

She thought for a moment, "The rhythm of the first half is a little different from Duke's style, and the shootout scene in the back is a typical Duke Rosenberg movie."

"So, the film feels a little weird." Jane Lauder added, "There are some differences in the style before and after."

Ivanka came over and took her arm, "Let's not talk about movies, let's go shopping on Fifth Avenue."

"OK."

It's not far from Fifth Avenue, and the two walked towards it on foot. Jane Lauder asked again, "Where are you going this summer? Do you still want to work part-time?"

"Yeah, but I don't want to be a model anymore." Ivanka Trump said, "I haven't figured out what to do right now. It's not easy to find a place where the salary is higher and where you can learn to exercise."

"I heard Erin mention it." Jane Lauder thought of something, "New Zealand is looking for an intern, you can go and have a look."

In the relatively cold spring season, especially the weekend after the Oscars, although there are enough films released, the production cost, let alone more than 10 million US dollars, is more than 6 million US dollars.

This is the coldest schedule in the North American film market. "One Hundred Thousand Fires" basically has no heavyweight competitors, and various distribution companies will not invest a lot of resources in this schedule.

As the only film with real popularity in the same period, it is still the highest investment film. "One Hundred Thousand Fires" inevitably became the focus of comments.

On the print media the next day, there were many reviews of the film.

As a film critic who watched the film for the first time, Richard Chris certainly would not miss the opportunity to comment.

"The shootout in the last forty minutes of the film has the style of "Pirates of Fire" back then, even more intense and lasted, but compared to "Pirates of Fire", the details and the indescribably slow rhythm are described in detail. . "One Hundred Thousand Fires" is more like a shoddy summer popcorn, which has an inseparable relationship with director Duke Rosenberg."

"With his ability, he can completely turn this sensational theme into a film that deeply explores human nature and social issues. It's not impossible to have a gunfight, but it can be done in one stroke, and there is no need to last for such a long time. He destroyed a film. Can cast classic themes!"

The summer season can be said to be the time when film critics have the worst sense of existence. In recent years, these film critics have simply turned a blind eye to Duke's films released in the summer season. Now they have seen a relatively mediocre small production. All natural firepower.

"Why didn't he just cancel all the foreshadowing in the front, and go straight to shooting the gunfight in the back? For Duke Rosenberg, his films don't need plots at all, just superficial gunfights and explosions are enough. "

—Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter.

"The three-line narrative structure in the front is eye-catching. Especially the film's description of family and family is a rare and detailed emotion in Duke Rosenberg's films. But as soon as the shooting scene in the back appeared, the whole film was It was ruined, the shootout was just too long, and the noise made it hard to sit still in the theater."

--Kenneth Turan, "Los Angeles Times".

"This is an adaptation that is seriously inconsistent with the facts. It neither shows human nature nor explores the deep-seated issues behind the incident, and the family and feelings in it are only superficial, just like Duke Rowe Like the explosion under Schenberg's camera, it's just sensational for the sake of sensationalism."

—Ann Hodina, The Washington Post.

"Is this a professional evaluation?"

On Saturday morning, Duke was sitting in Wellington's living room drinking morning tea, putting his faxes aside indifferently and asking Tina Fey, who was sitting in front of the computer, "Anything else?"

Tina Fey turned to look at Duke, and pointed to a website on the monitor, "A website related to movie reviews, which was just established last year, collects professional reviews from movie critics in the media, using Rotten Tomatoes and Fresh Tomatoes. The way to express the rating of the film..."

Duke became interested after hearing it, "Is there "One Hundred Thousand Fires"?"

"Yes." Tina Fei turned back and said, "I'm afraid the results will disappoint you. The website has collected 54 professional film reviews, with a bad review rate of over 60%. The Rotten Tomatoes Index of "100,000 Fire" is Rotten, only fifty-four percent fresh."

"Low enough."

Duke muttered, picked up his teacup, took a sip, and asked, "Is this the only one on the website?"

"There is another item that is rated by ordinary audiences."

Tina Fey looked at it for a while, then changed her tone, "Congratulations, Duke, on the popcorn index, which represents the popularity of ordinary audiences, the current index of 'One Hundred Thousand Fires' is 81%."

"not bad."

This is an experimental film, and Duke did not have the idea that the audience will be overwhelmed with praise. "It was better than I expected."

The film has only been released for more than a day now, and the number of people who see the film in North America is limited. Most of the people who can go to the theater to watch "One Hundred Thousand Fire" at the first time are also his supporters or hidden supporters. It's just a normal situation for the film to pay for the bill and get a high score.

Ratings decrease as the number of viewers increases.

As for the Rotten Tomatoes index, which represents professional reputation, Duke is too lazy to take a second look. It is not obvious now. As the reputation of Rotten Tomatoes increases, after another ten years, compared with IMDB, it can affect the scores of many viewers. The Rotten Tomatoes Index is simply tasteless. There are often many rotten films that represent extremely poor professional reputation. The Popcorn Index behind Rotten Tomatoes Freshness is extremely high, and the relative market response is also very good.

Just like in the future, no one will use the words of professional film critics or film critics to measure the market prospects of a film, the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes only represents the opinions of a small group of only a few hundred people in North America, and no commercial film will be stupid enough to take rotten seriously. Freshness of tomatoes.

Later the development of the website also proved. Relatively speaking, the IMDB score, which is more aimed at the audience, has a much greater impact than the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes, which has simply become a tasteless rib that no one cares about.

To put it mildly, after more than ten years, let alone the big six companies, even those small film studios will not take the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes seriously. Rotten Tomatoes itself has been on the verge of bankruptcy several times.

The fax machine rang again, and Tina Fey stood up and walked over to pick up the faxed document.

"Statistics?" Duke asked.

Compared to those vain ratings and evaluations, this is the focus of his attention.

"It's data faxed from Warner Bros."

After working together for so long, Tina Fey also knew what Duke valued, and immediately said, "In a sample survey of 50,000 ordinary viewers. The positive rate was 79 percent, and the overall audience rating was A-."

She looked up and looked here, Duke's face was normal, nothing unusual.

Tina Fey remembered very well that this was the worst audience reputation of any Duke film on its first day. It was also the first time that the audience's praise was below 80% on the first day.

"Continue?" Duke said calmly, "What about other aspects?"

"On the first day of its release in North America, 2,200 theaters received $4.21 million, with an average of $1,913 for a single theater."

same. Outside of Duke's first film, "Speed ​​of Life", it was also the worst opening box office hit.

"It's okay." Duke leaned back on the sofa and said with a smile, "It's not as bad as I thought."

Hearing this, Tina Fey rolled her eyes. It is also a little strange that Duke has always been confident, but this film is an exception.

"Any other statistics?" Duke asked again.

Tina Fey looked at it and said, "Warner Bros. has counted the two parts of the film that the audience does not like and the most popular from the audience."

She lowered her head, looked at the fax document and said, "More than 90 percent of the audience surveyed thought the slow rhythm of the film was their most unbearable flaw. More than 92 percent thought the shootout was very well designed. It's great, it lasts long enough and it's hot enough, and the realistic shootout at the end is their favorite part."

This was expected by Duke. If the film was made as the film critics said, maybe they would give a good review, but they would lose the vast majority of the audience, and they really made the film according to the tastes of the film critics. be successful?

Don't be kidding, the failure may be even bigger, the most typical example is the former Wachowskis.

The classicism and realistic gunfights have indeed declined, but such films can only use gunfights as a weapon to attract audiences. As for the fast pace, Duke has never thought of shooting films at a lukewarm rhythm.

Maybe Duke can't make any guarantees about what kind of movie will be a big hit, but he's pretty sure that if the rhythm of "Hundred Thousand Fires" is as drowsy as "The Wire", even if the film relies on him on the first day The appeal of the film, the box office will not be too bad, but it will definitely shrink significantly on the second or third day.

No director is willing to make a film by himself, and throw it on the market and only get a bunch of empty praise from film critics, but in fact it is a loser.

The most typical is "The Wire" a few years ago. Michael Mann's film received numerous professional acclaim, but it was a big hit at the North American box office. The shootout in the film was indeed well received by the audience, but the lengthy foreshadowing and warm water The rhythm is simply unbearable.

That was a few years ago, and now the pace of life is much faster than it was a few years ago.

Even if Duke deliberately accelerated the narrative rhythm of "One Hundred Thousand Fires", in the statistics faxed by Warner Bros., most viewers still think the rhythm is slow.

The future is an era where fast-paced movies can shine. (To be continued ~^~)

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