Made in Hollywood

The bright sunlight fell on a mansion in the suburbs of Chicago, illuminating the exquisite garden. Roger Albert sat alone at the small table in the garden, enjoying morning tea. Several servants hid out of the garden early. It seems that sitting there is not the most famous film critic in the United States, but a monster who chooses to eat.

Everyone else hid, only Steler, the butler, would walk to the small garden from time to time to have a look, but never stepped into it and disturbed the owner here.

From 1995 to the present, they have also adapted to this situation.

The man sitting in the garden, when facing the media is generous and cheerful, and seems to be just a well-mannered critic, but Stiller, who has served him for many years, knows very well that his own filmmaker's heart is not much bigger than the eye of a needle.

When did this situation start to evolve? Stiller recalled for a while, and finally remembered - Duke? Rosenberg's "Independence Day"!

He remembers when Roger delivered his most blistering attack, and then the target of the attack was the most successful at the box office to date.

Since then, the feud between the two has been settled, and most of the time, Roger is completely incapable of that director's summer film. No matter how violently he criticizes, the audience still buys the film and basically ignores him. film review.

It also made Stiller realize that the people he served were not as terrifyingly influential as he imagined.

One can be regarded as an exception, "Saving Private Ryan" because of the scandal that Mel Gibson broke out, made Duke Rosenberg a favorite for the best director of the Oscar, but the final result was Tim Robbins. Upset, Roger must have done a lot of work in private.

It seems that this is also Roger's only victory.

In recent years, Duke Rosenberg has released a movie at a rate of almost one per year. Roger gave bad reviews and low scores without exception, but the audience ignored his reviews and went into the theater to buy tickets one after another, creating Duke Rosenberg's continuous glory.

It's just that Roger has a small temperament, but he is still very conceited, and always likes to collect various data on Duke Rosenberg's films as soon as possible. He can imagine how he will react to those data that can brighten the eyes of the blind.

Gradually, the servants summed up their experience, in order to avoid becoming a punching bag, they simply hide away at that special time period.

"Why, why is this necessary?"

thought here. Stiller couldn't help shaking his head, even if he could see clearly, the film critics have weakened, especially the influence of the summer season, which has almost dropped to the lowest level in history.

A literary critic. Is it possible to win against a director who is more focused on commercialization in the summer? Why bother?

If it was another director, maybe he was so slammed by Roger and the film critics, maybe it would be over. But Duke Rosenberg's power is not something that critics can shake.

Served Roger Albert for so many years. Stiller sees some things quite clearly. The right to speak of public opinion is indeed in the hands of a few people. The problem is that it will not be in the hands of film critics. What if Roger can unite all film critics in North America?

A maximum of 400 people. In fact, it can't affect the groups of major media groups. How can you fight a director who has tens of millions of movie fans in the United States and is a major shareholder of Warner Bros.?

It's not that Stiller didn't persuade him, but unfortunately, since he won the Pulitzer Prize, he has been unable to listen to other people's rebuttals.

Just, are these worth it?

Last year, Roger Albert had just undergone thyroid cancer surgery, and Stiller was very suspicious. It had something to do with the fact that there was a time every year when he couldn't let out his anger.

The statistics of every Duke Rosenberg movie delivered to him, in Stiller's view, was like a letter of desperation sent by Satan.

Some things, Stiller can persuade once or twice, but can't keep persuading, he is just a housekeeper after all.

Looking at Roger Albert in the garden again, Stiller shook his head and chose to leave temporarily.

On the small dining table in the garden, breakfast and morning tea were placed quietly, without traces of touching. A copy of yesterday's "Chicago Sun" and a copy of today's statistics were placed on Roger Albert's table at the same time. before.

"Chicago Sun" opened one side is his column yesterday, which is mainly for "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" film review.

"The film does show us some beautiful scenery, but it can't hide the long and boring plot. If you sit in the theater and watch it for an hour at most, you will feel drowsy. This adaptation is too far from people's expectations. , the protests of book fans are not unreasonable..."

Seeing his own comments, looking at the 6.2-point rating, and looking at the film's first-day box office figures, Roger Albert felt that this was a mockery of himself!

He just criticized "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" in his column, and even without Duke Rosenberg's personal shot, he returned a resounding slap in the face with today's freshly released crew statistics.

"On the first day, the audience of the theater received 94% praise, and the overall rating was A+!"

Perhaps these are nothing to the arrogant film critics. In their inherent views, the public must be vulgar, but the most important thing for a commercial film is that he is dismissive on the surface, in fact, he wants to influence in his dreams. The data obtained are so dazzling and dazzling!

"$27.11 million!"

This is the first day of box office for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring!

Seeing this number, no matter how conceited Roger Albert is, he understands that the influence of him, the so-called most authoritative film critic in North America, on ordinary movie fans is already too low to be any lower.

What can they do in the summer, other than messing around with academic awards during awards season?

Roger Albert suddenly felt a burst of tightness in his chest, he immediately remembered his condition, and quickly adjusted his breathing to calm down. Although he had cancer, he didn't want to die, at least before Duke Rosenberg was finished. He can't die!

The film critic has been reduced to today, and his income has dropped by nearly half compared with the previous years, all because of him!

It was this young director who didn't follow the rules of film critics and stepped on the film critic's cake, so that the whole of Hollywood discovered that film critics are actually strong outsiders.

Since they have moved their interests, they have to pay the price. Before he pays enough price, he must not fall!

His breathing gradually calmed down, and Roger Albert's eyes became brighter and brighter. Maybe he couldn't snipe each other in the summer or in business, but as long as he was still alive, that guy wouldn't even want to touch the best director statuette!

He swears!

No matter how much Roger Albert swore and swore, it couldn't stop Duke from moving forward unswervingly and toward more success.

The success of a director comes from the accumulation of successful works.

What needs to be successful now is undoubtedly The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

On Sunday afternoon, Duke led the entire Fellowship of the Ring expedition to the Santa Monica Commerce Plaza, and also kicked off the crew's promotional tour in North America, Gandalf, Aragorn, Frodo, Legolas and Love. Many characters such as King Long also appeared one after another.

Especially when Orlando Bloom, who played Legolas, appeared in front of the fans, the girls who had seen the film rushed up almost frantically, waiting for the security to rescue Bloom from a group of female perverts. At the time, his hair turned into a bird's nest, his casual jacket was torn open several times, and the zipper of the small door of his jeans was directly torn...

"Orlando, you're a big star now."

Hiding in the lounge at the Santa Monica Plaza, Billy Boyd was still joking, "Look at those girls, if you're looking for a girlfriend, I think everyone's going to jump in."

"Don't talk about me, you are also a star now." Orlando Bloom directly counterattacked, "If you stand up and hook your hands, there must be a lot of female fans willing to accompany you tonight."

"Did you say so, Duke?" he turned to Duke.

Duke nodded and said to everyone, "Guys, enjoy the ride."

"Yeah, it's been a fantastic journey!" Elijah Wood was the youngest and the most emotional. "I fired Martin Bob and insisted on auditioning. It was right! I won the first place in my life. first and second one-day box office champion."

It's no secret that Elijah Wood fired his agent for Frodo's audition. Everyone laughed when he heard this.

"I'm not kidding, I'm serious!" Elijah Wood stood up from the chair and said seriously, "Our single-day box office on Friday was $27.11 million! What about yesterday and Saturday... …”

Gerald Butler, who never likes to joke, took over, "$32.24 million!"

Elijah Wood looked at everyone in the lounge next to each other. "You know what this means? This is the second one-day box office winner in my life, but what about everyone?"

What this means, everyone knows!

The oldest Ian McLean in the lounge said the answer, "We! All of us! Together we have created the highest single-day box office in North American film history since the birth of the movie! We have created a new record!"

"Yes, we are record-makers!"

Except for Duke, who had been laughing, everyone else burst into cheers.

This is a memorable number and a record that will be remembered. Those who created the record will be written in the history of the film industry in North America and even the world!

They do have the right to be proud and excited!

The North American promotional tour of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" starts from the Santa Monica Commercial Plaza. Duke will lead the entire crew from west to east, pushing through the famous big cities in the United States, trying to converge as much as possible. box office figures. (To be continued ~^~)